Chapter 111
Jing Tian sat on a cold bench quietly. She was both familiar and unfamiliar with this place. Half a year ago, she had sat on the same bench in this lab alone quietly reading the book she liked.
Half a year later, she still sat here, but the difference was that she was no longer waiting for the class bell to ring, instead, she was a participant here waiting to do a test that could cause instant death.
“Number 5, please get ready.”
Jing Tian closed the diary, a slight yellow tint old photo accidentally slipped off the book and dropped to the ground. She bent over her skinny body to pick it up, and gently moved her fingers across the photo to touch those familiar faces as if she had gone back to those old days. She smiled when her fingers stopped at a young boy’s face.
She calmly put the photo back into the book, held it in her arms, and then walked straight towards that cold door. Behind that door, several indifferent eyes were looking at her.
Jing Tian calmly walked through the door and said, “let’s start it.”
“Bang!”
The waiting room’s door was kicked open.
“Stop pushing!”
“Why are you pushing!”
“Fuck you, do you know how to queue!”
“What’s a big deal? We are all neighbors, why so violent…”
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Chu Han bowed her head down in the queue. Her eyes were bleary, and she was holding a chipped bowl in her hands. There was some dark material inside the bowl, and it was swinging from left to right while she was being pushed by the overcrowded crowd.
Her health was not always good, plus she started to cough recently, it made her strength even weaker. Sometimes, she even coughed up phlegm and blood. But she still wanted to squeeze towards the front of the queue. Even though she was pushed away by the people who were much stronger than her, she still wanted to get back into the queue.
“Sister Han, hold my hand, hold it tightly,” Liu Sanjie was not from the local. She was married to a guy from this city. Because of the cultural difference and her forthright character, when she just came to the city, she offended a lot of people, and a lot of women in the neighborhood liked to say bad things about her. She was gradually excluded from the neighborhood at that time.
Chu Han was an amiable person. It was because of her lovely personality, they became best friends.
Liu Sanjia was a tall and muscular woman, sometimes she could even have a fight with a man. Her original name was Liu Yi. Liu Sanjie was her nickname, but since everyone called her nickname all the time, everyone gradually forgot about her real name.
If it wasn’t her help, Chu Han, who was extremely weak at the moment, wouldn’t have been able to get into the crowd to get any food that was distributed only once in a while.
“Young man, have mercy, please, can I have one more ladle, my son is sick, he could not get up, can I get one for him?” Chu Han begged.
Everyone could only have one ladle. It was not even enough for one person, let alone to be shared between two. Her daughter went missing today, she was extremely worried, but she could not afford to miss the time for the food distribution.
She was sick, worried, tired, and desperate. All the feelings were mixed together and numbed her senses. The only thing she knew was that she still had a son, who needed her to look after.