Chapter 18: Drowning
The weather is sweltering as if to steam people like, even the fan fan out of the wind, are hot; the sun is also more poisonous, as if to their own backyards and pulled a few wagons of coal, after the full strength, so more sparingly the burning heat.
Afternoon in the village, quiet like two or three o'clock in the morning like, not a bit of movement. People are in the house, fan lying on the cool mat, the family has a better condition of the electric fan, is the electric fan open desperately fan, do not mind wasting the electricity bill. Everyone doesn't even bother to talk anymore, and it takes a lot of effort to say a word, which leads to sweating. In fact, it was already sweaty itself.
A few of us scurried down to the river after lunch and jumped in for a dip to escape the heat.
The whole body soaked in the cool river water, head exposed, a few people talking and laughing, face and head of the water feel has been dried up, then tie a jolt up, again wet. That kind of feeling, not to mention how comfortable, especially in such a hot summer.
I felt that the sun was so angry with us that it was going to explode, and it was spreading its heat even more angrily, as if it wanted to boil the river and dry it out. ……
Not only us, but also many adults were bathing in the river, all of them were really too hot to bear and came to the river to relieve themselves. In addition, it is from seven or eight years old to teenagers, all ages of small children have, all flocked to the river inside, how the river inside there are seventy or eighty people, right?
Dozens of meters of the river, full of naked people, adults or constantly rubbing the mud on the body, or soaking in the water inside the joke. Children play, play, in the water hide-and-seek, learn to swim, or swim to the river's edge of the grass to touch the fish and shrimp ……
There is no wind, the clear sky, that originally had a white cloud, are dispersed by the hot sunshine, fled without a trace. The only thing left in the blue sky is the dazzling sun, wantonly trying its best to spread its heat, tormenting all living things on the ground.
The weeds on the banks of the river, the original green vertical leaves are sickly, on the river bank and the river side of the branches of various trees, are also listless. It is that the robin, are afraid of the heat as if, hiding in the luxuriant branches and leaves, quietly resting, no longer "hot dead, hot dead" call.
Everything seems to be so peaceful, so peaceful, simply do not see any danger coming.
However, people do not know, in the cool river water below, the crisis is lurking ……
Probably because of the large number of people, and there are so many uncles, big brothers right in front of the child, so those children play more and more excited, but also become a lot of bold. They forgot the elders' advice these days, forgetting the legend of water ghosts inside the river …… This group of children in the shallow water play play, feel not too much, began to slowly to the deep water area a little closer.
There are a few older adults now small children close to the deep water, so pull open the voice yelled a few times, will be those children to call back. Soon, however, the children swam toward the deep water again, as if there was something there that attracted them, and if they didn't go there to play, it was as if they had lost their favorite toys.
The children began to swim to the deep water again, and while they were swimming, they were having a water fight.
Where I come from, children usually learn to swim from the age of seven or eight, and adults usually teach their children to swim when they bathe in the river. As for the reason, the first is because of the guarding of the river it, small children if you can not swim, will let people laugh at is a dry duck; Secondly, sixty-three years of the flood, so that most of the village passed through the people have palpitations, think guarding of the river bank, every year will be subjected to the threat of flooding, the children must learn to swim from a young age, once the water, then all can save themselves ah.
So these children's swimming skills want to be quite good, they play out of the pattern is also more, definitely not inferior to us these big children.
This time, the adults did not call back to the small children, perhaps not now it, or, not too concerned about, think anyway, so many people here, what danger can there be? Even if there is a danger, the distance is not far, but also in time to rescue. So they let the kids swim towards the deep water.
Swimming in front of a few thirteen or fourteen year old children, they seem to be in a race, as if, vigorously fluttering arms and legs, the water surface was their countless waves, out of the clattering whirring sound. Not far away, some children in the excited slap the water shouting for their strength.
The four children who were one or two years younger than the children swimming in the race, probably because they wanted to show off their skills, or because they felt that they were even stronger than those children, right? They had followed the kids and stopped when they got to the deep end, just cheering them on. Now they can't stand it, so the four kids guessed each other, and then said something, and then swam to the deep water, the degree of fast, even faster than the front of the children older than them to swim faster.
At this time, we have been in the water for a long time, fingers and belly have become wrinkled, thinking that the shore. So a few people went to the shore together, standing naked under a big tree to cool off.
Chang Yunliang and Xue Zhigang two people put their pants on, Xue Zhigang said, "Damn, such a hot day, walk from here to home, all over the body and sticky, really do not know whether to go back or do not go back ……."
"Then you live in the River God Temple, here is closer to the river, hehehe." Chen Jin said while wearing his pants.
"Well, I think it's appropriate, this temple was originally built for the king to live." I said with a smile.
Xue Zhigang angrily cursed, "Yinle, you're the bastard."
The brothers laughed, causing the people bathing in the river to look this way.
Just at this moment, the four small children over there who were following the others to swim to the deep water suddenly screamed in terror:
"Ya, something is dragging me, quickly pull me!"
"I can't swim anymore ……"
"There's a water ghost, there's a water ghost."
"Help ah ……"
Hearing the shouts, several of us immediately turned our heads and reacted at the first opportunity, running down the river bank toward the place where they had the trouble.
I did not wear clothes because of the reason, ran in the forefront, rushed to the edge of the river in the deep water area, feet a wrong, threw the slippers on the bank, the whole person a fierce on the down, into the water, I do not care to float up to catch their breath, hold their breath to the fastest degree to the center of the deep water area to swim. Behind me, a few buddies also poof poof poof poof into the water, anxious to this side of the swim.
Under the water, I suddenly thought of that damnable old bastard spirit, I even raised the alert ready to cope with the rolling waves and the huge impact of the waves.
I was about to swim to the place where the kids were in trouble, so I surfaced, shook my head, took a deep breath, and observed the situation. Now this time there is not like the previous two times the water boiling and rolling, big waves up to crash. The surface of the water was as calm as ever, and the surface of the river flowed slowly.
Those four small children, only two of the surface of the water, and are struggling, fluttering the surface of the water, the other two children have disappeared, presumably already sunk to the bottom of the water. Has swum through the deep water area of a few slightly larger children also to this side of the child struggling to swim over, just look at their appearance, is really not useful, I hurriedly shouted: "Hey, you do not come over, hurry up to the shore! Fuck!" I thought that these children can not help. Shouted, I a fierce tie down, to save the two children who have sunk, as for the two children who are struggling, hand over to my a few buddies, they have swum over.
What I didn't expect was that when I dived underwater and felt toward the bottom of this deep water pit, and when I was about to reach the bottom of the water, I suddenly realized that this time, the water underneath was exceptionally chaotic, and it could be said that it was purely because all the water was crashing against each other, hitting each other, and the chaos was so confusing that it made one's head spin. Even in the underwater eyes closed, can feel those water flow chaotic rushing, and rushing force is very big, big let me in the following is difficult to stabilize the body, big to let me all over the body pain!
I thought bad food, this time it must be that old bastard spirit again, it didn't block us from above this time, but chose to be underwater. I hold my breath, try my best to keep my body no longer swaying in the turbulence of the haphazard collision, slowly get down, let the body close to the bottom of the river, both hands and feet are inserted into the loose mud and sand, and then the arms are wide open, the legs are wide open, try to keep their own limbs to the largest possible area, and then groping under the water to move forward slowly. This would give me the best chance of reaching the drowning child.
Just when I was under the rapids, close to the bottom of the river groping forward, suddenly received a blow to the head, hit me dizzy, starry-eyed, as if someone with an iron bar ruthlessly smashed in my head, the pain of my gurgling out a series of children's bubbles, at the same time, drank two mouthfuls of muddy river water. My body involuntarily broke away from the mud and sand at the bottom of the river, and was swiftly floated towards the surface of the river by the torrential current.
Immediately afterward, my right foot seemed to have been bitten by something, and a heartbreaking pain came from the wound that had just healed. My mouth opened wide in pain, and I took in several more mouthfuls of river water. I hurriedly waved my arms and fluttered my legs to break free, but the thing biting my right foot was very strong, I could not break free. I was terrified, son of a bitch old bastard essence dare to bite me, I, I …… I heart that regret ah, hate ah, just now in a hurry, I forgot to bring my that rely on life rely on rampant belt ah!
At this time, I swung my arm touched a person's hand, hastily backhand grabbed the other wrist, pulling hard. The other person was pulled by me, have been my fluttering struggling body to drive, immediately understand my crisis, struggling to pull me to swim to the top.
I tightly tugged his wrist do not dare to let go, he struggled to pull me upward, the thing below biting my ankles and not let go, but also dragged downward vigorously.
At this time I have been detached from the rapids rushing under the water, the heart also gradually in the initial panic calm down. It occurred to me that most people who save drowning people end up being drowned, often because the drowning person's desire to survive and instincts prompted him to desperately dragged into the rescuer, making it inconvenient for the rescuer to swim, and in the end, exhausted, drowned.
This thought flashed in my mind, I quickly let go of the man's wrist. But the man didn't let go of me, and was still pulling me upward with all his might. I hurriedly stretched out my left leg to my right ankle, and kicked hard at the thing that bit me, I kicked, kicked as hard as I could!
The man who saved me simply came upside down, head down and pulled my wrist with both hands, his leg upwards out of the water, fluttering violently.
I realized afterwards that it was Chen Jin who was saving me, when I grabbed him in a panic, he immediately realized that it was me who was in a crisis, because I was the only one who dived under the water first, and before he dived down, there were no other adults down yet. So as soon as he touched that thick wrist, he was sure it was me.
At that time, he grabbed me and pulled upwards, even when I let go of his hand, he still refused to let go and desperately pulled upwards. Later, he felt that he couldn't pull any more, and had the bright idea that his head was facing downwards and his feet were facing upwards, so that his feet could be exposed to the surface of the water and flutter. The people on the surface of the water would see his fluttering feet and realize that there was danger here, and they would rush over to help him pull me along.
This proved to be the smartest thing he could do, and the adults bathing in the river swam over when they heard the children's cries for help. They either joined my buddies in rescuing the two small children who were still struggling to the shore, or they dived under the water to feel for the children who had sunk and disappeared.
By the time Chen Jin saved me, several more adults had already dived under the water. And the people on the surface of the water saw Chen Jin's feet very violently flopping on the surface of the water, head down feet up was already very abnormal, plus itself out of the drowning. My buddies and a few adults swam over, either diving down to help pull or pulling on top.
I felt a sudden increase in the pulling force at my wrists, and at the same time my left foot kicked hard several times at the thing that was biting me, and as soon as the force loosened from below, the force increased from above, and I was pulled out of the water.
Just surfaced, I opened my mouth to breathe recklessly, but I felt a sharp pain in my chest, the pain I even have no strength to breathe, the buzzing inside my head, the pain in my chest exploded like a pain, my eyes were dark, and my body was weak.
Then I felt several people dragging me towards the shore.
I felt the friction between my legs and waist and the water and grass on the bank, and realized that I was being dragged up the bank. I wanted to warn them to be careful of the old bastard spirit under the river, this bastard is fierce. But I didn't have the strength to speak, I couldn't even open my eyes, my chest cavity was already in pain.
Soon, I felt someone turn my body upside down, then my stomach was pushed against something, someone pressed hard on my back a few times, I couldn't help but wow and vomit. Then I was turned over and laid flat on the soft wet grass, someone was pressing on my chest, someone simply pinched my mouth open and then a mouth that smelled like smoke came close to mine, a strong rush of air rushed into my mouth, into my windpipe and propped up my lungs, another sharp pain.
A few breaths of air rushed in before I was pinched hard again in the middle of my manhood, and I could feel the nails sinking deep inside my flesh.
"Ah!" I cried out in pain, and felt that my chest cavity seemed to explode all of a sudden, and the suffocating feeling that seemed to be about to explode was vented cleanly. I sat up violently and vomited in a big gulp, and after vomiting out so many messy and dirty things one after another, I dry-heaved a few more times, and then breathed in a big gulp.
My eyes lit up, and my vision returned. I saw Chen Jin squatting in front of me with a joyful smile on his nervous expression, he was wet, his head pursed in front of his forehead, shouting at me with his mouth wide open, but I couldn't hear a sound.
Chang Yunliang also squatted in front of me, the two adults in the village stood next to look at me, also opened their mouths to say something. I still can't hear, I can't hear anything, my ears are quiet, quiet, there seems to be a little bit of buzzing sound, a thin faint chattering.
I was terrified, damn if the water had soaked inside my ears and I was deaf, wasn't it? I shook my head vigorously, anxiously, frowning, I stared, I was going crazy, how could I be deaf? I fought my way to my feet, ignoring the pain in my ankle and not wanting to look at it, I just got up and bounced my head sideways, a few times on the left side of my head and a few times on the right side of my head.
The sharp pain in my ankle and the exhaustion in my body finally knocked me down again, and I went limp as Chen Jin rushed to hold me up.
I closed my eyes in agony, feeling tears streaming out. I thought in my heart: damn, really no talent, this day even cried, in front of the buddies to lose their share!
Chen Jin was shaking me, Chang Yunliang also crouched down to push me, I opened my eyes and saw the two of them tense, saw the two of them open their mouths seemingly shouting something.
In both ears, a hot liquid was felt flowing out almost simultaneously. In that split second, I heard Chen Jin's shout, "Yinle, Yinle, what the hell is wrong with you? Can't you hear me?"
Chang Yunliang was also shouting, "Yinle, don't be afraid, don't be tight, don't be tight, walk, let's hurry to the hospital ……."
In the distance, inside the river came clattering and hollering sound of water, from time to time, someone shouted: "Here it is here, from this down ……"
"Quickly, come up, come on come on give me a hand to drag it up, hurry up! Send to the hospital ……"
I turned my head and saw the Xue Zhigang and Liu Bin stood naked on the river bank, pouting his buttocks are dragging up a small child's body, the river water two adults are holding that child's body upward push.
A dozen meters below the deep water, several adults in the water holding up a child swimming toward the shore. Guo, Chang Hanqiang, Yao Jing followed behind.
The riverbank was filled with adults and children.
Chen Jin and Chang Yunliang were still shaking me and shouting at me. I took a few sharp breaths, and after I felt that my chest didn't hurt as much, I laboriously raised my arm to block it, and said hoarsely, "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, I'm okay."
A sharp pain came from the neck of my right foot, I rushed to look at it, worrying in my heart, that was a place that had just healed. Don't let the old bastard spirit bite your foot off.
Effortlessly move the right foot, the pain is even worse, but the good thing is, the foot did not fall off, but around the neck of the foot swollen circle, as if in the neck of the foot wrapped around the circle of flesh as thick as three or four centimeters, red yellow, yellow with red blood.
I spat, sizzled and sucked in cool air, endured the severe pain and cursed, "Fuck, almost didn't bite my foot off ……"
Chen Jin and Chang Yunliang saw that I was fine, then no longer ride my words, the two people got up to the river to help the two rescued children to the grass on the bank. A group of adults and children gathered in a circle. Someone inside was resuscitating the two children.
A noise came from the mouth of the riverbank, the village people had already heard the news, a large group of men and women, young and old, poured over from the mouth of the riverbank, running to this side.
Women, small daughters-in-law and old ladies especially the most noisy, shouting the name of their children, shouting in the sadness of the mournful, penetrating the clouds, piercing through the river, so that the river current, more turbulent, out of clattering holla sound, seems to be also for the children in danger and grief, wailing ……
This side of the two children surrounded in front of the children in distress, heard the shouts of the adults in the family, they are all messy yes, turn their heads to meet the adults in the family ran over. Their panic and fear were only completely revealed at this time, loudly calling out for their parents and grandmothers, crying and shouting loudly.
Seeing their own children in good order, those women and old ladies are relieved and happy to cry ah, embracing the child kiss ah……
The two children who were rescued, their parents now their children did not run out like other children in the sound of the call, then completely panicked, madly rushed into the crowd around the two children rescued.
Chang Zhishu also came running, shouting loudly, ordering people not to mess, do not make trouble, nothing to hurry back, do not add to the chaos here …….
A tractor muttered with thick black smoke appeared at the mouth of the embankment, turned left and rushed up the embankment, and then parked on the embankment facing here, the driver shouted downward: "Quickly, get the child up, pull to the hospital in the town of the pier to go… …… "
The people down below who were busy rescuing the child came to their senses and hurriedly picked up the child and ran to the riverbank. Everyone else followed, yelling and screaming at the top of their lungs. There are urging, there is a force, there is the heart anxious, there is to console the parents of the child …… and the parents of the child's crying choking sound, mournful shouting the child's name.
Tractor burst burst of black smoke, carrying two drowning so far unconscious children, as well as the child's parents and Chang Zhishu, turning the corner to the town of the pier hurriedly sailed away.
A few of my buddies also followed the crowd rushed to the riverbank, watching from afar the tractor disappeared in the village after the corner, only then remembered that I was still sitting on the grass near the river, and I am still wounded. Brothers hurriedly ran down the riverbank again, help me up to the village to go ……