Peerless Beauty – Chapter 84
by Little PandaChild
Want to adopt a child?
The sound of dripping water lingered near the ears, and after coming out of the bathing vehicle, Lu Yinxi’s ears were still flushed red.
There is no blow dryer here, so hair dries naturally.
At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the night wind is dry and hot.
After Jian Qing cut her hair short, it dried quickly. Lu Yinxi stood in a windy spot, with her long hair still dripping water, like a little cat soaked by rain.
Jian Qing took a towel and helped her wipe the ends of her hair.
Lu Yinxi mumbled to herself, “Should I also cut my hair short?”
“Either is fine.” The hair is her own, and Jian Qing did not interfere. After a pause, she added, “When I cut it short, it was because it was inconvenient to bathe.”
The implication being, now with the field shower vehicle, although itβs still not as convenient as at home, at least the bathing issue can be resolved, so there is no need to cut it short.
Lu Yinxi flicked her hair and imagined, “If I cut it short, maybe I’ll look quite handsome.”
Jian Qing turned her shoulder to look at her face shape, smiled slightly, and said nothing.
A standard goose-egg face, delicate and clear, slender and gentle beauty, on television would be the type where a woman disguised as a man would be recognized at a glance.
Lu Yinxi asked, “Why are you laughing? Are you mocking me?”
Jian Qing gently pinched her nose, turned her back, and continued to wipe her hair.
Lu Yinxi was still muttering: “Your beautiful long hair could be sold for a lot of money, what a pityβ¦ even when cut short, it doesn’t qualify as handsome, maybe it’s not short enoughβ¦ I read online that when two women are together, there is something called T and P, who do you think is T and who is P between us? I am a P, I am a fart, that sounds too funny, I donβt want to be, you take it⦔1
Chattering away while laughing to herself.
Laughing so much that her shoulders shook.
Laughter is probably contagious, seeing her laugh, Jian Qingβs lips curled up, silently smiling along.
Lu Yinxi turned around, grabbed Jian Qing’s hair ends, compared them, and said: “By next year, I wonder if it can grow to the same length as before?”
She really liked Jian Qing’s original long hair, which felt like silky, icy smoothness to touch, very pleasant.
Jian Qing softly said, “Weβll see next year.”
Lu Yinxi responded with a hmm sound.
She only lost her long hair, but many people here have lost their relatives.
Thousands of disaster victims have been transported here, countless broken families live here, and from time to time, you can hear bursts of painful crying. The broadcast in the square continuously plays notices seeking relatives.
Many people stay in the stuffy tents, sitting on beds pieced together with bedding, with dazed expressions and blank gazes.
The two of them strolled around the camp once, and Lu Yinxi looked at the vehicles being disinfected in the distance and said, “This place will soon not be able to accommodate so many people. Once there are too many people, epidemic prevention becomes difficult.”
“Follow-up will transfer them back,” Jian Qing said, tossing a towel to Lu Yinxi, “Wipe yourself, someone is coming, I need to return to the hospital.”
Every time a batch of disaster victims is sent over, doctors must be on standby, ready for orders.
Some people whose surface expression is normal and who seem to have no external injuries are actually hit by wood or stones, causing internal injuries. They feel no physical problem initially, but after a few days, they experience severe pain.
The field hospital here is equipped with a laboratory department and a CT room, with equipment to support them in conducting auxiliary examinations.
More than ten days have passed, and now the hope for survival of people under the ruins is slim; the weather is hot, and the decomposition level of the deceased bodies is high. To prevent an epidemic, some townships have already started city lockdowns, with rescue teams, medical teams, and disaster victims all evacuated, leaving only the epidemic prevention team. Discovered bodies are buried and disinfected on-site, and chemical defense soldiers have also flown several helicopters to carry out aerial disinfection.
The news network is emerging with various touching stories: paratroopers parachuting from high altitudes; teachers using their bodies to protect students; and mothers in their last moments prostrate on the ground breastfeeding the infants in their armsβ¦
Lu Yinxi watched through the screen, tears dropping down.
Jian Qing came back, saw her holding the phone and crying, and with a look of disdain, stuffed a milk candy into her mouth.
Neither of them spoke, quietly enjoying the evening breeze, looking at everything in front of them.
At night, when they embraced to sleep, Lu Yinxi no longer minded the heat, and instead of stealing a kiss on Jian Qing’s forehead, she kissed her soft, icy lips.
She savored that gentle kiss and the electric touch, and the white skin and enchanting tattoo in the steam lingered in her mind.
Jian Qing, even in sleep, would furrow her brow, as if frightened, and suddenly hold her tight.
The next day, Lu Yinxi asked Jian Qing what she dreamed of last night. Jian Qing was unwilling to say, only staring at Lu Yinxi and tentatively asking, “What plans do you have for the future?”
She remembered that Lu Yinxi wanted to leave her.
These people, one by one, would all leave her.
Sooner or later, she must think of a way to keep people by her side, forever unable to leave her.
Lu Yinxi rubbed her nose bridge, like an obedient student reporting her schedule to a teacher: “July and August are summer vacation, I can do some part-time work at the film and television city, and I can also work as a model. In September, I need to return to school for classes.”
In this world, she is still 20 years old and still studying.
“Don’t you want to go abroad to play?”
Lu Yinxi shook her head: “I don’t want to anymore.”
Jian Qing is not willing to go with her, and going alone doesn’t mean much.
Having received the answer, Jian Qing didn’t say anything more, rubbed Lu Yinxi’s head, and went to the ward to patrol the patients.
Post-disaster work involves rescue, prevention, and reconstruction.
Preventing suicide is a key task in the psychological field.
Mental health experts gradually stationed at resettlement sites, not only carrying out psychological intervention for disaster victims but also talking to personnel from rescue and medical teams.
Many members of the first batch of the medical team witnessed the tragic scenes upon entering the disaster area, experiencing sleep disorders and helpless negative cognition. They accepted psychological intervention, went to the psychological consultation room for counseling, and sometimes everyone would gather to chat, play mahjong, and learn embroidery.
Jian Qing never went; she was not willing to be in contact with too many people, habitually silent, and during leisure time, she only wanted to stay with Lu Yinxi.
Lu Yinxi vaguely guessed that she had some psychological trauma, not a new wound, but an old scar that hadn’t fully healed, which this disaster had uncovered.
In the real world, there had also been a major earthquake, and 3 to 5 months after the shock, there was a small peak in suicides.
Jian Qing’s current traumas might have some subtle influence on her future suicidal behavior.
While Lu Yinxi speculated, she also felt heartache, her heart like it was in an oil pan, turning and tormenting.
Post-disaster stress responses can be recovered by most people through self-adjustment, but if recovery doesn’t occur within a month, professional treatment is needed.
The current psychological interventions in the disaster area, including disaster education, team counseling, and individual counseling, are part of the three-level post-disaster intervention prevention behavior.
For those unwilling to accept intervention, silent companionship is the best comfort.
Companionship provides a sense of security.
Jian Qing was unwilling to accept psychological intervention, so during leisure time, Lu Yinxi kept her by her side, playing games with the students.
She played the mother hen, protecting the students, while Jian Qing acted as the old eagle, catching them.
Jian Qing was also willing to accompany her in these childish little games.
One day while playing games, the two of them met the little girl who had been raising a cat a few nights before.
The little girl was only seven years old and had lost many relatives in the earthquake, leaving her with only a grand-aunt and a 3-month-old sister.
Perhaps because of their connection that night, the little girl was willing to be close to the two of them and pulled them into her tent to see her sister.
The little girl said, “My sister is 3 months old, and grand-aunt’s health has never been good. She feels she can’t take care of us for much longer and wants to give my sister to kind people for adoption.”
Lu Yinxi looked at the swaddled baby and reached out to hold her small hand.
The 3-month-old baby still had a grasp reflex; if you touched her small palm with a finger, she would curl her little fingers to grasp it, sticking out her tongue and looking at people with bright eyes.
Jian Qing guessed the little girl’s thoughts and straightforwardly refused, saying, “We can help you publish this message and find some kind people willing to adopt, but we currently do not plan to adopt a child.”
The little girl lowered her eyelashes, appearing somewhat disappointed.
She felt that these two big sisters helped her treat the little cat and are good people; she wanted to give her sister to good people to raise.
Lu Yinxi touched her head.
She was only seven years old, supposed to be a carefree child, but now she was forced to consider how to arrange for her own sister.
Lu Yinxi squatted down and said to her: βThe government will have arrangements later. This is a very important and serious matter. In the future, you cannot casually pull someone over and say you hope they will adopt your sister; this needs to go through many complex procedures.β
A seven-year-old child still cannot quite understand the meaning of procedures.
Jian Qing directly told her: βYou may meet bad people.β
Only then did she slightly understand some.
After the disaster, many orphans who lost both parents emerged, and how to settle these orphans is the governmentβs responsibility.
Out of the tent, Jian Qing suddenly asked Lu Yinxi: βDo you want to adopt a child?β
Lu Yinxi was startled, then shook her head and firmly said: βI do not want to.β
She cannot even see through her own future fate, so how can she be responsible for another life?
She is not even willing to raise cats or dogs, and if she hadn’t met Jian Qing, she wouldn’t want to develop feelings for anyone.
Jian Qing said lightly, “I might not really like raising children.”
She has no love, no empathy, can’t teach children anything, and cannot be responsible for a life.
Lu Yinxi smiled and said, “Then let’s not raise them.”
Their families are not considered harmonious or beautiful, and their parents are not considered perfect, dutiful, responsible, or good parents.
What their parents gave them was a scarred childhood. They spent many years repairing and healing those scars, then met each other and slowly licked each other’s wounds.
Perhaps in this world, many people never thought about how to be good parents before becoming parents.
In the evening, Jian Qing suddenly received a phone call from Fu Yuan, the voice on the other end was somewhat hurried: “Doctor Jian, Aunt Ruan has been saying she feels dizzy recently, and after arranging a check-up, I found it might be a brain aneurysm. Just as I was about to call you, she fell and caused a coma. Now we are on the way to transfer hospitals, can you see if you can rush back?”
The author has something to say:
It’s one o’clock again, ah, even though I woke up early today and went cycling outside. Healthy and regular, how did I still finish writing at 1 o’clockβ¦?
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