Yan Bubu hurried down the pitch black street.
He was reluctant to direct his flashlight to either side, afraid of seeing more dead people in the ruins. Still, he had to look along the way if he wanted to find a pharmacy.
This part of the street was in even worse condition. There was wreckage everywhere. He had to hold the flashlight in his mouth and climb over those small hills.
“I’m a…Binunu. A little chubby…Binunu…”
His hands were slick with cold sweat, making it difficult to hold the flashlight. Yan Bubu quietly sang to gather his courage, sweeping that white beam of light over those broken windows and cold brick walls.
The light occasionally swept over exposed limbs fro m under the debris. One of the bodies was somehow stuck in an upright position, staring at Yan Bubu from the still standing door frame.
Yan Bubu’s voice cut off abruptly for a few seconds before he quickly moved the flashlight away and whimpered.
He stood there and took several deep breaths before he dragged his shaky legs forward.
A few moments later, the song that was out of tune due to his wavering voice resumed.
“…Binunu’s not s-scared of the dead. Looking for medicine, Binunu…”
The beam of light paused on half a billboard on the street. Yan Bubu stopped dead in his tracks.
Although all the buildings were collapsed and the street had changed, he recognized this sign with candy painted on it. His mother had brought him to this store before. If he climbed over the pile of rocks in front of him, there should be a pharmacy on the right.
Yan Bubu’s spirits were lifted. He quickened his pace, only to freeze again when he reached the rocks.
Both sides of the rock pile had exposed steel and concrete slabs stacked very high. He couldn’t possibly climb over them. The only usable passage, however, had a body lying face down there.
If he wanted to pass through, he had to step over that corpse.
Yan Bubu’s feet took a step back. He hesitated for a moment before taking a step forward.
Then back again, then forward.
Finally, he didn’t take a step back. He huffed and marched over to the corpse.
There was a large hole in its neck. It looked like a solidified black circle under the artificial light of the flashlight.
Yan Bubu was so scared. He really wanted to turn around and leave, running all the way back to the young master. But what scared him even more was the young master dying just like that because he didn’t have medicine and going to heaven.
Although it must be very lively up there right now, Yan Bubu didn’t want everyone going and leaving him all alone.
He couldn’t make his mother stay, so he had to make sure the young master did.
“H-hello, may I step on you for a moment? Oh right, you can’t talk right now.” Yan Bubu asked in a trembling voice. He looked around before whispering, “Then don’t be angry. I really don’t have another way to get through here.”
A gust of wind blew, rustling some plastic bags on the ground. A cat that had survived sat nearby, its pupils glowing.
“Kitty, come stay with me awhile, okay?” Yan Bubu pleaded.
The cat got up lazily and left without looking back.
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Finally passing through the pile of rocks, Yan Bubu breathed heavily and continued on his way. His feet were fast but his body was stiff. He ended up tripping over a rock and fell heavily to the ground. The flashlight rolled away.
It took him half a day to catch his breath, but he didn’t immediately get up. He lay there motionlessly.
A gust of wind swept away a quiet whimper, “Mommy…”
In the end, Yan Bubu managed to get up, pick up the flashlight and limp towards the pharmacy.
There were several stores in this section of the street. The ruins were filled with people looting. Yan Bubu was even more ecstatic to discover the pharmacy had not collapsed. The door was even wide open!
He went to the door and saw an adult inside with a flashlight. He was scooping all the medicine bottles on the shelf into a cart.
“Uncle.”
The man whipped around to shine his flashlight on Yan Bubu. He was visibly relieved to see that it was a child.
Yan Bubu was blinded by the flashlight, but he still asked expectantly, “Uncle, are you a doctor?”
The man ignored him and turned to continue grabbing the medicine.
“Uncle, are you a doctor? My big brother is sick.”
The man didn’t even look back. “I’m not.”
Disappointment surfaced in Yan Bubu’s eyes, but he continued, “Then can you give me a little bit of medicine?”
“Shoo, shoo. Go somewhere else instead of here.” The man chided.
Yan Bubu cowered, but the sick Feng Chen made him continue, “Uncle, can you give me some medicine? My big brother is very sick.”
The man finally turned around and tossed two bottles from the cart at him. “Fine, fine. Take this and leave.”
Yan Bubu scrambled for the medicine and left after saying thanks.
He didn’t go back immediately, instead walking across the street.
There was a bakery across the street from this pharmacy that baked delicious bread. He wanted to see if there was anything left. If only he could find a bun or two.
Not only did you need to take medicine when you’re sick, you had to eat to get better sooner.
The bakery had collapsed already. He picked at the rocks until he finally found some bread sealed in a clear plastic bag. It was a little crushed.
“Ha!” Yan Bubu happily picked up the bread and blew the dust off the wrapper.
A hand reached over and snatched it away.
Yan Bubu blankly looked over to see a fat boy, taller than him, turning to leave with the bread in his arms.
“What are you doing? I found that.” Yan Bubu rushed over to grab the bread, but he was much smaller than the fat boy and stumbled back after a shove. He fell on his butt to the ground.
“I’m obviously the one who found it.” The fat boy was about to leave when Yan Bubu shouted at him indignantly and charged, headbutting him in the back.
The bread flew through the air and landed on the rubble while the fat boy lost his balance and fell to the ground. His knee slammed hard into a rock, making him wail loudly.
“What’s going on here?” A woman hurried over and helped the fat boy up.
The fat boy cried and pointed at Yan Bubu, “He hit me and stole my bread.”
“I didn’t hit him or steal!” Yan Bubu protested.
The woman glanced at the bread on the ground and said aggressively, “My son never hits anyone! Don’t think I didn’t see you grabbing his bread and hitting him.”
“I didn’t! I found that bread first.” Yan Bubu pouted and squatted down to pick up the bread.
Yet the woman came over and barked, “Stop! Give it back to my son.”
Yan Bubu clutched the bread to his chest. He curled into a ball when the woman reached over to grab it. In retaliation, the woman went to twist his arm.
The piercing pain coming from his arm made Yan Bubu bite her wrist.
“Ah!” The woman shrieked, shrinking back and yelling angrily, “How dare you bite me? You mannerless urchin! How dare you bite me?!”
Yan Bubu clutched the bread without say a word, stubbornly protecting it and not getting up.
The people nearby started looking this way. The woman was too embarrassed in the end to continue fighting over bread. She angrily turned around and pulled the fat boy away, grumbling, “Keep that damn bread. We don’t want it anyway. Your father just found half a bag of flour, so I’ll make dumplings for you later. Don’t bother with this kind of fatherless bastard child.”
The fat boy was still reluctant to part with the bread as the woman dragged him away. He kept looking back.
Yan Bubu crouched motionlessly until the woman’s indignant voice disappeared around a corner. Only then did he slowly stand up.
On the way back, thunder suddenly roared in the sky. Then it started to rain. The rain from the dark and heavy canopy washed away the dust. Muddy water soon accmulated everywhere.
The light of the flashlight couldn’t pierce the rain. Yan Bubu stumbled his way back, falling every now and then and tumbling around like a muddy monkey.
He wasn’t as afraid of the dead as he was before. After apologizing to that corpse again for stepping over it, he went to find a few cardboard boxes nearby to cover it with.
The burning store was about to be doused by the rain, emitting a thick black smoke. When he hurried past, he spotted Feng Chen leaning against the ruined wall from a distance. The teen’s figure was illuminated by the embers, sometimes bright, sometimes dark.
Feng Chen wasn’t tall, and sleep made his head hang low. Still, Yan Bubu only needed to look at him from afar for all the panic in his heart to dissipate. He suddenly wasn’t so afraid.
He ran through the puddles to Feng Chen. The area around the teen was also drenched by the rain. His wet hair hung down, covering his forehead.
“Young Master, Young Master.” Yan Bubu called out between pants.
Feng Chen didn’t respond. His face was alarmingly pale. Yan Bubu subconsciously held his breath as he slowly poked the teen’s shoulder.
The clothes under his finger were ice cold from the rain. Yan Bubu was becoming more and more frightened.
Yet Feng Chen twitched at this moment and raised his head slightly. He looked at him with half-lidded eyes.
Because of the fever, Feng Chen eyes were bloodshot. His dark hair hung down between his eyebrows, his rain-soaked cheeks pale as a sheet.
But Yan Bubu’s heart finally calmed down. His eyes burned a bit as he dug out the medicine bottles from his chest pocket. “Young Master, I’ve found medicine for you. Take it and get all better.”
Boom!
Snow white lightning illuminated heaven and earth as thunder rumbled in their ears. Yan Bubu shivered with fear, the medicine bottles falling back into his pocket.
“Maybe, maybe it’s better to find a place to hide from the rain first.”
Yan Bubu saw an intact bus station on the way earlier. They could take shelter there.
He went to get the backpack first, but it was so heavy that he ended falling onto his back like a turtle, tumbling several times.
He could only put it down and go to help Feng Chen. “Let’s not soak here. Let’s go over there.”
Feng Chen was semi-conscious as he was helped forward, with most of his weight on Yan Bubu. The child’s body leaned to the side under the weight. He had to use all his strength to hold on. His tiny neck strained, veins bulging out.
In the heavy rain, the two moved wobbled forward by the faint light of the nearby fire.
Yan Bubu couldn’t see much due to the rain. His hands weren’t free either, so he had to shake his head like a puppy to get rid of the rain on his face.
Finally arriving at the bus station, Yan Bubu helped Feng Chen sit on the bench before he ran back into the rain to get the backpack and cloth bag.
When he returned to the bus station, he saw Feng Chen had woken up a bit. The teen was leaning back in his seat looking at him. Seeing this, Yan Bubu forgot about the rain pouring on his heat and went to take out the medicine bottles.
Although the temperature wasn’t too low these days, the rain-soaked clothes against his body were still ice cold. His teeth clattered as he said, “Y-Young Master, take some m-medicine.”
Feng Chen stared at the medicine bottles for a moment before slowly turning to the mud splattered, soaking wet Yan Bubu. His lips silently opened and closed.
Yan Bubu twisted the lid open and poured a pill out, mumbling under his breath, “H-how many did I take when I was sick last time? It s-seemed to be, to be one big white one, two small white ones and one small yellow one. But, but this one is long? I-it’s about the same size as the big white one, so p-probably one will do…”
He brought the medicine and water to Feng Chen’s mouth. “Your fever will go away after you take this. Y-you’ll be all better.”
Feng Chen glanced again at the medicine bottles beside him again. The labels were very clear. One bottle contained an antacid and the other vitamin C.
“It’s not bitter. Just, just tilt your head back. See, like this. One gulp and it’s gone.”
When Yan Bubu saw that Feng Chen didn’t open his mouth, he thought the teen was scared of it being bitter. He comforted him while craning his head back to teach him how to take medicine.
Feng Chen looked down at the medicine by his mouth, and the hand holding the cap of the bottle.
The child’s hands that were originally very fair and tender, with four nooks on the back, were trembling now. There was mud under the nails and the knuckles bore bloody scratches.
“Say ah–” Yan Bubu looked at him expectantly and opened his own mouth.
Feng Chen’s eyelashes trembled. His mouth opened a sliver. Yan Bubu quickly stuffed the medicine inside and fed him water. “Quick, drink some water to wash it down. Don’t spit it out.”
When Feng Chen finished taking the medicine, Yan Bubu put the bottles into the backpack and squatted in front of Feng Chen again, observing him intently. “Are you feeling better now?”
Feng Chen nodded barely imperceptibly.
I don’t know why am I reading this book, because I really love kids and I will cry all the way
Thank you for your translation 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Poor child.. 😢
What is Binunu ???
bubu 😭😭😭 he’s only six 😭😭😭 im crying
AH SUCH AN ANGEL I CAN’T
So sweet and so brave and… Thanks for the update ❤️
Brave little Bubu!
Thank you for the chapter! 💚🥺🤍🥺💚🥺🤍🥺
That bastard couldn’t even give the poor kid some decent medicine? He hoarded the whole pharmacy, couldn’t he spare a single bottle of pain or fever medicine? What a jerk…
And that woman hurting and insulting a little child over a piece of bread, that’s the kind of people who would get karma eventually.
Bubu is too precious 🥺
Thanks for the translations~🌸
I imagine that guy hoarding everything so that he can be the sole supplier of medicine thereafter… Did everyone just de facto said apocalypse albeit only being a major earthquake?
Bubu is only six😭 a baby😭😭 he’s too precious 😭😭😭
OUR BABY BUBU OH MY GOSH
Feng Chen, hold on! 😭
I’m sobbing 😭😭😭
I really shouldn’t be reading this but I need to see at least some happiness for them 💖