Chapter 42: Drowning a Child
Every year in the summer, there will be so many days of successive rain, the sky does not clear, if more than a week's time rain continues, it will cause the water level of the Busan River and the downstream river soars, the nearby villages will rush to organize people to build a dam at the mouth of the river embankment, every day and every night there will be a special child of the people in the embankment from time to time to patrol, to prevent the water level to go over the embankment and enter the village.
After the old bastard was burned to death that night, it started to drizzle.
After a day of continuous, intermittent drizzle, the next day it turned to moderate rain, which fell all morning, then turned to light rain in the afternoon, and in the evening, the rain stopped.
Unexpectedly, it rained lightly again on the third day.
People in the village thought that this year's cloudy days had started early, and it looked like it would rain for a few more days, and the village had already begun to arrange for people to prepare for the construction of dams and berms.
In those days, there was very little television, and the weather forecasts on the radio were basically not very accurate, so few people would listen to them or watch them. Most of the weather forecasts were guesses by the village elders based on their experience.
On the fourth day after the village brigade had prepared the sacks of mud for the dam, the weather cleared up.
The village people breathed a sigh of relief, a false alarm.
Originally, my brother and I have discussed, in accordance with the habit of the previous days, continue every day to the embankment to sneak, see where there are small children bathing, will be guarded next to the child staring, to prevent drowning children drowning events, but next to the three days of rain, we will be three days of leisure. After all, on a rainy day, there are no children who would foolishly go to the river to bathe, even if there are people who would go to the river to take a bath in the intervals when the rain stops occasionally, to remove the slime on their bodies due to the hot and humid weather, it is adults, children will not go.
After the weather cleared, the temperature in the air rose again. Hot summer, and catch three days of rain, the air in the hot and humid let a person irritable, let a person on fire, even if sitting in the house, is also a sweat, sticky, uncomfortable.
So inside the river, again lively, bathing began to more.
And our brothers and sisters, in my repeated calls and almost forced to rush under the pressure, had to endure the heat of the summer, every afternoon will go to the embankment slipped, patrolling.
Fortunately, the girls will not be as crazy as the boys play, secretly behind the back of the adults to run to the river to bathe, otherwise, our brothers really worried about how to look after the girls it.
In the heat of the day, we slipped on the embankment for a while, will be drilled into the shade of the cool, or jumped into the river to take a bath, but also quite a pleasant life, than up in the home but also comfortable.
Time passes very quickly, in the blink of an eye another three or four days have passed.
A few days, the river bathing children are quite a lot, and there is a trend of increasing, but there has not been a drowning incident, and even a little bit of danger did not occur.
I have been hanging that heart, but also gradually put down, think Hu Lao Si, well, including me, are a little too sensitive and overly concerned. The old bastard spirit has been burned to death by us, definitely burned to death.
However, although so, a few brothers and sisters but no one is willing to go home to rest, every day after lunch, as if accustomed to it, will gather up to run to the riverbank to sneak, either under the shade of a tree to cool off, or run to the river to bathe.
There are three reasons, one is that my heart is still more or less worried; secondly, the home is really hot, it is better to run out to the riverbank under the shade of the tree cool, and from time to time you can also jump into the river to take a cool bath; thirdly, …… I think that is the brothers have to run to the riverbank on the river side of the children guarding those children bathing the important reason, we all want to be a hero, all want to make the village of the village of the children to take a bath, and the children will not be able to take a bath. I want to be a hero, all want to let the village people praise.
I don't know from whose mouth was the first to reveal the word, we brothers caught the old bastard spirit, that is, the headless ghost with a lamp, this matter spread in the village. Villagers have learned that the old Wang Bajing is the culprit of the annual drowning of small children in the river, the old Wang Bajing was captured alive by us, and then burned to death in Hu Laoshi's house with the Three-Madness Fire, that the river will be safe, there will be no more children drowning things happen.
The village people once again began to praise us a few young people, good words spread throughout the village, and even the village people as long as they see us a few, will smile and welcome, do not wait for us to open their mouths, will be the first to open their mouths to greet ……
Not to mention whether they will praise us in front of our face, just that absolutely friendly smile on the face, is enough to let us these young people who are used to doing bad things, feel incomparable honor, double face.
Really, we grew up so big, in the village has always been doubly despised by the villagers and behind the back of the key object of abuse, although very few people dare to accuse us face to face, but we know that a few people, and in the past this is also proud of. But now we have learned to do well, feel that the good thing is the most honorable and dignified thing.
So our brothers and sisters more and more feel the need to this summer more in the river around and around, if the river and then a few children drowning things, a few of us and then save so many children, that we have more face in the village, that will definitely let all the villagers do plaques for us to do the banner.
In our few secretly happy time, the villagers also gradually relaxed on the children's custody, they are careless up, think the river is no longer a bastard spirit, the children will not drown again, the river is safe.
So the river bathing children more and more, and small children bathing time, not only in the afternoon, the past two days, and even children will run to the river in the morning to bathe, adults do not care about ah, such a hot day, would have been the age of love to play, these small boys will endure the heat to stay at home face obediently do not go to the river to bathe in it?
It is in this case, the accident happened, or rather, not accident, but sooner or later have to happen things, happened.
That morning at eleven o'clock, I and a few buddies from the riverbank around a circle back, it is time to eat lunch.
Although the river there are a bunch of children in the bath, but a few of us did not expect something to happen, so many children, and, again, this is a few days, did not happen anything ah.
But just a few people walked to the riverbank, just turned the corner to the village not a few steps, far from the river came from a group of children's cries of alarm, the sound of distress, accompanied by the extreme panic caused by the loud cries.
Several of us were stunned for a moment, I was the first to react, turning my head toward the place where the children were bathing.
My brothers and sisters reacted and hurriedly followed me towards the river.
At the place where we often bathed, there were thirteen or fourteen small children running from the river to the grass along the riverbank. When we were walking back, they were still happily playing in the river, and among them, there were three or four children from neighboring villages.
Now they all ran to the riverbank, shouting and crying.
Inside the river, in the deep water, two children were struggling to grab the other two children and drag them towards the river bank, the two children who were grabbed were helplessly fluttering in the water, their heads sometimes lifted out, sometimes submerged in the water. And the two rescuing children, seems to be nearly exhausted as if the strength, swimming speed is getting slower and slower …… the most dangerous is that the two rescued children, because of drowning panic, coupled with the instinct to survive, prompted them to tightly grasp the arms of the two children who rescued them, as if the two rescuing children are also in the exhaustion of their strength. The two rescuing children also after the strength is exhausted, the body can not help but sink to the water.
The river bank in the bushes standing in the gang of children are scared screaming and crying, but froze no one dared to go down to save people, after all, they are still young are some small children ah.
Looking at this scene, my foot speed faster and faster, while running fast at the same time, unlocked the belt, rushed to the river when I almost within a second to pants down, belt out of the hands, and then a fierce poof into the water, fast to the children out of the matter beside the swim.
Immediately after, followed by a few of my buddies also jumped down, with the fastest speed to the deep water.
By the way, when the two children drowned, there were two other bold children who made the first move to save them, and bought a certain amount of time, and now although the two rescuing children also sank into the water, but we seven or eight young people rushed over in the shortest possible time, jumped into the water, and saved up these four children, there is still hope, hope is great.
But it was not to be, and what none of us expected in the rush and panic was that the river boiled over.
Just like the last time, the surface of the water churned, big waves lifted, that section of deep water, as bloomed in the cradle in general, the surface of the water north and south swaying, the whole section of the river river gully and even the riverbanks on both sides, seem to be a huge force to sway back and forth, so that we are in the water one by one as a loss of direction and power of the canoe, futilely swimming, but never reach the destination close at hand, can not reach our The goal.
I was at the front of the pack, and when a huge wave lifted high and slammed me head-on, smashing me, who was swimming hard, below the surface of the water, my head was knocked out of my head. Although I almost did not stop, struggling to surface, continue to swim forward with all the strength, but my heart is like this boiling water, waves, tossing, a strong sense of crisis straight to my head, a bad feeling in a flash filled my mind, crisis – four ah!
Also in that instant, I thought of the old bastard spirit, this doggone thing, we were tricked by it, deceived, not only us, and all the villagers ……
Chen Jin swam past me, and a few other buddies rushed up against the tumbling waves.
Another wave hit, the brothers were all smashed and rushed backwards for more than two meters, but none of them stopped, once the wave passed, the brothers pounced again.
I was slightly stunned for a moment, did not and other buddies as forward, but a fierce rooted down, diving towards the bottom of the water.
In this case, if hard to rush forward, it will only be futile to consume our strength, in the water, we can not resist that old Wang Bajing's evil magic, it can turn the river, but we can only rely on a brute force to rush, to hard to resist …… And what I want to do is, dive into the water, find that old Wang Bajing, as long as it is against it, dry As long as it is up, it will be distracted and I fight, so that the water calm down, at least, will not focus on targeting my buddies, will not block my buddies to save people.
It's a matter of life and death. We can't afford to waste time.
The surface of the water boiled unceasingly, big waves rolling, a moment of peace, but when I dove into the water more than a meter deep, even if I closed my eyes, I can feel, the water flow is calm, and the lively on the surface of the water is very different.
With the feeling, I swam quickly to the deep water, my right hand, still tightly clutching the belt, I know, this time I may at any time with that old bastard spirit encounter, this encounter, then there will not be the slightest hesitation, immediately into the fight.
Although under the water, I closed my eyes, but I'm not afraid, because I have a Wuzui leather belt in my hand, and the belt at this time, just as before, in the sense of the presence of evil, the belt exudes a stream of indescribable energy from my right hand spread throughout the body, so that you feel clear in the mind, so that you feel comfortable on your body, so that you are not afraid, give you incomparable self-confidence! ……
When it was too late, I was diving underwater at an extremely fast speed, and was sticking to the ground using both hands to pull the mud and sand forward, the speed can be said to be the fastest but, and this has an advantage, it will enable me to know whether I have reached the deep water or not.
With a sudden sinking of my hands, I realized that I had reached deep water, which was the huge pit at the bottom of the river.
I didn't stop, as soon as I touched the edge of the deep pit, my whole body plunged headlong downward, swimming downward and moving forward at the same time, while my limbs began to expand drastically. I hoped to come across the four children who had sunk, even if it was one of them ……
Suddenly, my right foot touched a soft thing that was struggling slightly, I immediately felt that it was a human arm, rolled over under the water, twisted my body, my left hand flew and grabbed the arm that was still swinging slightly and feebly in the water, and then I kicked the water hard with both feet, dragging that child towards the surface.
With a crash, the sound of water in my ears, I surfaced, and at the same time, my right hand pushed so that the child's head could also be exposed to the surface, I hope that he could hurry to breathe air.
The surface of the water is still boiling, rolling, a few meters away, a few buddies are still struggling to this side of the swim, they hit the surface of the water, facing the waves, again and again to do a fearless impact. On the riverbank, a dozen or so teenage kids were looking at this side in horror, and two of them were running up the riverbank, they were going to the village to call out to someone.
I yelled, "Hurry! Swim from below, dive, dive!" The boiling and tumbling river made a loud clattering sound that muffled my voice.
I hesitated, not knowing whether to send the child in my hand to the shore first, or just wait for the brothers to come flying over, whether I should drag this child from the surface of the water, ride the waves and swim over, or dive into the water and swim toward the shore …… The child who was being held up by my left hand pulling hard, although his head had already floated out of the water, the Although he is still slightly doing a feeble struggle, but his face has become pale, bloodless, his chest, there is no rise and fall, the pressure is not fucking breathe ah!
If we take him to the shore first, what about here? There are three children under the river! How long would it take to go back and forth?
After a slight hesitation, no more than two seconds, I immediately dragged the kid along the waves and swam towards the shore. I can't save all four of them at the same time!
All the waves, the water, were meeting my buddies with a fierce rush, which made my swimming direction into a smooth water, and the force of the water was very strong, which also made me swim effortlessly, and at an exceptionally fast speed.
In a matter of moments, rather than swimming a few meters, I was being swept out into deeper water.
I pushed the child in my hand to Yao Jing, "Yao Jing, hurry up and get this child to the shore! Hurry!"
Yao Jing hurriedly reached out and grabbed the child, twisting his head and swimming quickly towards the shore. I turned my head and shouted, "Brothers, quick, dive under the water! Quickly!" After shouting, without waiting for my brothers to agree, I had already plunged down more than a meter deep and swam quickly towards the deep water.
I just swam to the edge of the deep water area, touching the river bottom of the mud and sand feel in front of the pit, I felt the water under the water also began to boil up, crazy to the shore impact, good thing is that at this time I have entered the pit, the force of the water current did not push me back.
Even so, my heart still thumped, screamed bad, probably a few brothers all submerged underwater, resulting in the old bastard spirit also had to change the strategic square, the water from underwater began to start blocking, so that my buddies simply can not rush over.
I heart that anxious ah on fire ah! Fuck it old Wang Bajing eight times the ancestors ah me! How am I supposed to save the remaining three kids? Do I really have to save them one by one, send them out, and then come back to save them? How much time would that take? Every child I save is not for me to pick up, it's a little bit of groping and searching in the darkness where I can't see my fingers!
Although the full-bodied anger makes me angry almost immediately to catch that old Wang Bajing big fight, but in my heart, but think can never run into that old Wang Bajing, first let me save the children, without the old Wang Bajing looking for me, I will certainly come back to find the old Wang Bajing to do a fight …… now absolutely not ah.
A moment, can not delay, a delay, perhaps that is a life is gone ah!
Heart of these chaotic ideas a hard to jump out, but I do not have the slightest pause, with the fastest speed to dive to the bottom of the pit, and then stick to the bottom of the mud and sand groping, the two legs are also wide open, expect to hurry to touch the human limbs.
My hands felt, grasped, and plowed in the mud and sand, and my body moved rapidly against the bottom of the river.
Suddenly, the back of my hand touched something soft, which whooshed forward and shrunk a little, and I was delighted, as long as the person was still moving.
But when I hurriedly reached out and touched it, I was so shocked that I almost opened my mouth, grandma, it was hard, hard shell!
The old bastard spirit!
In that instant I am sure that this is the old wangbaoshen was I touched, I was surprised at the same time, the right hand belt immediately in the water swung over, the resistance of the water, as if the speed slowed down a lot of many, let me dry anxious no way, the belt almost do not make the force ah!
In a hurry, I even opened my eyes underwater, so I did not think of is that underwater is not what I imagined in the dark, although dim light, but within close range, or can vaguely see something ……
Huge dark Wang Bao shell, under the water slowly turned his head, pointed big Wang Bao head right on my face, my body suspended in the water under a foot above the high place, just happened to the tip of the nose and the tip of the old Wang Bao's nose on the right.
The old bastard immediately opened its big mouth, revealing two rows of neat white teeth, and it was obvious that it wanted to bite me.
Instead of swinging my belt, I made a fist with my right hand and quickly smashed it into the old bastard's mouth, I wanted to beat it up, I couldn't wait to knock its nose out of shape with one fist.
Then a coincidental scene appeared, the old Wang Bajie opened his mouth to bite my nose, and my fist just happened to hit over, very "accurate" into the old Wang Bajie's wide-open mouth.
As soon as my fist entered the old bastard's mouth, I screamed, "No good!" My wrist will be bitten off by the old bastard!
I want to shrink my hand, but the old Wang Bastard's mouth has already quickly bitten down.
Just when I just felt a pain in the wrist, the old Wang Bastard suddenly opened his mouth to spit out my hand, I wondered ah, but I immediately understood how it was, it turned out that my right hand is still clutched in the belt it, the old Wang Bastard bite my hand, while the belt just stuck in the corners of both sides of its lips, it is afraid, or may be the pain, right? Open your mouth to spit out, and the body wants to back up to escape.
The problem is …… it spit outward, my fist was forced to retreat outward, but it did not come out, my fist was stuck between its upper and lower teeth.
When the old bastard spirit opened his mouth wide and wanted to spit out my fist, it was already too late, I came back to my senses, oh, want to bite the small master's fist you bite, want to spit out you can spit it? I'm sorry, it's already in there. If I don't choke you to death, I'm not going to pull my fist out!
I left hand to support the ground, make a pivot pull, the body forward, to keep up with the retreating old bastard spirit, the right fist violently and into its mouth into a cut, I can even feel it in the throat around the meat clamped my fist, soft, a little bit of a prickly feeling, and …… belt seems to be in its mouth when the opening quivered, in my hands! Swelling, like a heart beating and.
The old wangbajing angry, want to bite me can mouth bite can not go down, there are wuzi leather made belt in the mouth, it pain, pain, want to get rid of open me, my fist spit out, but I tightly chased it froze not to let it spit it out, but instead the fist is still a hard to its voice stuffed.
All around the water boiling up, spinning up, a whirlpool around my body around the distance of the rotation, a strand of force from the whirlpool sent out, hit my naked body, even as if there are many small hands in my body viciously wringing my flesh like.
But I was fighting with it, grandma, the more it played with its life, the more it showed that it was in danger now, it was in pain, so I just had to spend time with it! Despite the intense pain coming from all over my body, pain I shivered, pain in the corner of my eyes are out of tears, but I just die pestering the old bastard spirit, my right fist is to follow it, dead stuffed in its mouth, let it out of the spit, I was a strong reverse reverse into!
My left hand on the ground kept scratching and scratching, supporting my body with the old Wang Bajin's movement and movement, let it struggle, swinging ……
Just in my gradually by the water under those small whirlpools hit some numbness, even the feeling of pain are not so obvious when, my heart has felt that this time surely defeated the old Wang Bajie when …… I suddenly saw a group of white things, my heart trembled, the body was the old Wang Bajie flung two times, a to that group of white things Heel, I finally see clearly, is the two children naked body.
I had a jolt and hurriedly retracted my hand, boy, we have to save people first!
The old wangbaoshen also happen to make a strong spit out of my hand, now I shrink outward, it spit outward, the surrounding vortex and make a strong twisting me dragged me backward, hula series of sounds, I can not help but fall back underwater more than a meter away.
The whirlpool disappeared in a moment, the water in front of me swirled up a cloudy silt, I swung my arms forward, not to fight with the old Wang Bajing, just to find the two children.
Old Wang Bajing disappeared, the two children are still lying there softly, I hurriedly swam to the front, one hand grabbed a child's arm, dragging the two children toward the surface of the water.
Wow! I rushed out of the water, breathing heavily, looking around, Chen Jin and Xue Zhigang had already rushed to the front, the boiling river had begun to gradually stabilize, a few other buddies also swam over quickly. Not far away from the riverbank, rushed down six or seven village adults, they ran to the river and jumped down without even being able to take off their clothes.
"Quick, drag these two kids up, I'll get the other one!" I pushed the two kids towards a couple buddies, Xue Zhigang and Guo Chao both grabbed one each and twisted their heads to swim towards the riverbank.
Chen Jin and Liu Bin had already plunged down with a jerk, feeling their way under the water.
I also did not hesitate to turn over and dive into the water.
More people swam to the deep water area, and then stabbed down to the bottom of the water.
The water that had already smoothed out, once again boiled, but this time it was not the evil thing that was at work, but …… many of us were groping underwater, searching for it, and there was still a child who had not been saved.
We eight young people, plus twelve adults who came one after another later, all jumped into the river, drilled down to touch for a while, then floated up to exhale two big breaths, and then dive down, then come up, go down ……
On the riverbank, on the embankment, gathered more villagers, four children's parents, also rushed to.
Has not been fished out of the child's parents and grandparents, was a lot of people tightly pulled, hold, they cried and shouted to jump into the river to look for children ……
Unfortunately, when the last child was found, more than an hour had passed since he sank under the water.
It was found more than twenty meters downstream, half of his body was plunged into the silt, fished out, soaked all white, his stomach filled with water, bulging and swollen, his mouth and water plants and silt, nostrils and ears, also drilled into a lot of mud and sand ……
It is already hopeless.