July 20, 1980
Qingfeng Village, Xipu Commune, Yuezhou District, Zhijiang Province
This is the hottest season of the year. Under the scorching sun, the ground temperature can even reach over 50 degrees, which can make people's skin peel off. Even the cicadas' calls in the trees become weak.
The fields outside Qingfeng Village were full of farmers busy harvesting rice, a scene that had never happened in previous years.
In the past, when people went out to work in the fields, they would have to be urged by the team leader again and again, and they would never go to the fields during the hottest noon.
This year is the first year since the introduction of the household contract responsibility system in Yuezhou area. It has broken the "big pot" system and boosted the villagers' enthusiasm for work to an unprecedented high.
The strong laborers were reluctant to go home for lunch at noon, so the elderly people at home prepared meals and brought them to the fields.
At this time, a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old was seen staggering along the river bank on his way home.
He had been harvesting rice in his own fields for the whole morning and was now tired, hungry, and seemed to have a little heatstroke. He looked in very poor condition.
Chen Guolin, who was not far away, looked at the thin figure worriedly, sighed, and buried his head in harvesting rice, preparing to help this poor little nephew after harvesting several acres of rice at home.
The young man was walking dazed on the edge of a field by the river when he suddenly found a black carp swimming on the water near the shore. He touched his empty belly and decided to try to catch a fish. So he found a big rock and prepared to smash the black carp to death.
As a result, he lost his balance and accidentally fell into the river.
Probably because he hadn't eaten, had low blood sugar, and suffered from heatstroke, the young man struggled on the water for a few times, and then slowly became motionless.
Chen Guolin had a bad premonition, always feeling that something was going to happen today, so when he looked up again, he found that the young man who had just been by the river was gone.
The strong feeling of uneasiness made him run to the river quickly, and he saw that the young man was already floating on the water without any struggle.
"Oh no! Bingkun's second son has fallen into the river! Wife, go get help!"
Chen Guolin shouted for help and jumped into the river to save people. When Guolin's wife heard this, her heart jumped out of her chest. She immediately shouted at the villagers in the distance:
"Oh no! Bingkun's second child fell into the river."
The villagers in the distance rushed over to rescue the people. The men jumped into the river one after another, and the women also gathered around. Grandma San was so anxious that she jumped up and down:
"Mrs. Guolin, what happened? Why did Bingkun's second son jump into the river?"
Mrs. Guo Lin was stunned for a moment. She didn't say jumping into the river, she just said falling into the water. Forget it, falling into the water and jumping into the river are almost the same anyway. The most important thing now is to rescue the person.
The men immediately pulled the man out of the water. Chen Guolin yelled at the women beside him.
"Someone of you go and inform the captain and Uncle Wang, saving people is the most important thing."
Grandma cried and wailed, "Oh, such a good boy, how could he be gone just like that? How could this family be so unlucky? The father died not long ago, and the son jumped into the river and died. What a miserable family."
The onlookers were anxious. No matter whether the person was dead or not, they had to save him. So Guo Lin's wife hurried to the second team to find Uncle Awang, the only person in the village who knew some medical skills. Jin Mu's wife usually ran the fastest and was asked to notify the team leader.
So Jin Musao ran while shouting to the villagers in the fields beside the road:
"Hurry up and save him! Bingkun's second son has committed suicide by jumping into the river! Hurry up and save him! Bingkun's second son has committed suicide by jumping into the river!"
Hearing that there was some excitement, the villagers, whether they were kind-hearted or just passing by, put down their sickles and straightened up. They saw Chen Guolin in the distance carrying a young man on his back, jumping and running towards the village, followed by a large group of villagers, some crying and some shouting.
The whole Qingfeng Village was in an uproar.
On July 20, 2020, Chen Xia, a surgeon at Jiangzhou People's Hospital, was fishing.
Chen Xia is 38 years old. He is a "salted fish type" doctor in the hospital and does not have many goals in his work.
He grew up in a well-off family. His parents and brothers and sisters were all medical workers. Everything went smoothly for him both during his student days and after graduation. The only thing that made him depressed was that his relationship with his wife was not very good.
The reason was that Chen Xia's wife had an induced abortion due to fetal malformation when she was young and she didn't want to have another child. Chen Xia was a person who loved children very much, so the couple always quarreled about whether to have children.
As they quarreled, their feelings became weaker and weaker. They were just one step away from a complete outburst. I guess divorce is not far away.
Chen Xia had another fight with his wife this morning. Feeling depressed, he picked up his fishing gear and drove to the Zhijiang River to fish. Even though he was sweating all over from the sun, he was unwilling to go home to enjoy the air conditioning and face his wife who was becoming more and more unfamiliar to him.
Suddenly, the fishing line became taut and a fish was caught. Chen Xia excitedly lifted the fishing rod:
"Wow, it's heavy, big fish, hi."
Chen Xia was fishing alone in the sun at noon, but he accidentally slipped on the grass by the river and fell into the river. Chen Xia, who was usually a good swimmer, felt a strong suction force at the bottom of the river trying to pull him to the bottom.
He couldn't break free from this strange suction force no matter what he did. As he spent more and more time in the water, the last thought in his mind before he lost consciousness was:
"Fuck! I'm doomed! I've run into a water monkey! I'm the first doctor to drown at Jiangzhou People's Hospital..."
The camera returns to Qingfeng Village in 1980.
Under the shade of the trees at the Qingfeng Brigade Headquarters, half of the village gathered together. Chen Yigen, the village party secretary and production brigade leader, smoked a cigarette and looked at Awang with depression while he was saving people.
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