"Old Duan, Old Duan, look quickly, is there a person floating in the river?"
"Oh, it's true!"
Duan Jiaxing, a member of the Heishui Brigade, and his wife Wang Zhaodi had just returned from their eldest sister Duan Jiamei's home, more than 20 miles away. Their eldest brother-in-law died of illness, and the two went to help with the funeral.
It was almost evening when we reached a river behind the brigade.
Wang Zhaodi had good eyesight and was the first to notice a person floating in the middle of the river. She was so shocked that she immediately asked Duan Jiaxing to look.
Duan Jiaxing walked closer to take a look, and after confirming that it was indeed a person, he immediately went down to the river bank without saying a word, took off his old Liberation shoes, and jumped into the river with a "splash" to save the person.
"Old Duan, be careful!"
Wang Zhaodi knew that Duan Jiaxing was always enthusiastic and had learned to swim when he was young, so she did not stop him. She just followed him down to the river bank and gave him some caring advice.
Although Duan Jiaxing is nearly fifty years old, he works in the fields all year round and is a good earner of work points in the family, so he is still in good physical condition.
After swimming for a while, he reached the middle of the river and pulled the person in the water to the bank. Wang Zhaodi immediately went over to lend a hand, and together they carefully lowered the person down.
"Oh, what a pretty girl!"
Although he had good physical strength, pulling someone out of the water was still a strenuous task.
Duan Jiaxing slumped down next to the rescued girl, took a deep breath, and then stretched out a finger to feel the breath coming out of the girl's nose.
"It seems... she's still breathing a little! Zhaodi, press her chest hard and help her expel the river water she swallowed!"
"oh oh!"
Wang Zhaodi was looking at the girl's face. When she heard Duan Jiaxing's words, she immediately half-knelt beside the girl, folded her hands and pressed her chest hard.
"Old Duan, she vomited some!"
"Keep pressing for a while. I think this girl has probably swallowed quite a bit of river water!"
"Why!"
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
"Wake up, wake up! Girl, how do you feel?"
Seeing that the girl finally woke up, Wang Zhaodi and Duan Jiaxing finally breathed a sigh of relief, and asked in unison with concern.
Shen Xiaobei woke up slowly with an uncomfortable cough after his throat was choked by water.
As soon as I woke up, I saw two unfamiliar but kind and simple faces, and two pairs of concerned eyes.
She couldn't help but feel warm in her heart.
However, before he could answer the two of them, a large amount of memories flooded into Shen Xiaobei’s mind.
She really traveled through time!
She traveled to a parallel time and space in 1972, and became the body of a female educated youth with the same name and surname as her, who went to the Baiju Brigade next to the Heishui Brigade.
The original owner is 19 years old this year. Like her, she lost her mother at a young age.
However, less than a year after the original owner's mother died, the original owner's father remarried.
The stepmother gave birth to a daughter and a son, making up the Chinese character "好" (good). From then on, the daughter born to the ex-wife seemed redundant in this family...
I sorted out the original owner's memories and calmed down his chaotic emotions.
Shen Xiaobei asked weakly, “Uncle, aunt, you saved me?”
"Yes, my daughter, have you encountered some difficult situation and are you feeling depressed?"
"Auntie, I'm telling you, you're still young and handsome, and you have a lot of good days ahead of you! Don't try to commit suicide and ruin yourself, okay?"
"What if we hadn't discovered her today, or if our old Duan couldn't swim, wouldn't your wonderful daughter be gone? How sad would your family be!"
Wang Zhaodi was a very compassionate woman, and she especially couldn't bear to see the elderly and children suffer. In her eyes, the 19-year-old original owner was just a child.
She had heard of girls of the original owner's age who had committed suicide by jumping into the river or drinking pesticides because they were unable to think straight.
So I couldn't help but hurriedly enlighten the original owner, so that she wouldn't do the same thing again.
Well……
The original owner was not so depressed as to commit suicide!
But he was in a very bad mood. He was walking along the river to relax. When he came to a patch of water plants, he saw two green oval objects floating on the water plants, which looked like duck eggs.
Duck eggs are a delicacy in the countryside nowadays, and the original owner hasn't had any meat for a while.
He was a little hungry, so he picked up a branch from the shore and used it as a stick to try to pry up the two duck eggs.
As a result, after fiddling with it for a long time, she failed to get the duck egg over and accidentally fell into the river.
She couldn't swim and the river was quite deep.
As soon as she choked on the water, her mind went blank. After struggling for a while, she lost consciousness.
He lost his life just to pick up two duck eggs.
When Shen Xiaobei thought about this embarrassing thing for the original owner, he felt embarrassed and his heart was very sour.
If some of the educated youth who lived with the original owner knew about this, she would definitely become the butt of their ridicule.
Therefore, this embarrassing incident today should only be known to heaven and earth, the original owner and her, and it must not be known to anyone else.
Therefore, Shen Xiaobei had to tell a little lie for the original owner.
"Thank you for your concern and for saving my life, but you misunderstood me. I didn't commit suicide. I was washing clothes by the river when I suddenly felt dizzy and accidentally fell into the river. I can't swim, and then I was washed here by the river."
"Oh, it turned out that I fell into the river accidentally! I thought—"
"Look at you, you're so impatient! You didn't even ask the girl first, but you already said a lot!"
"Yes, yes, look at me—"
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