Chapter 76
"Oh my God, should we call the police?"
"Whose child is this? Has anyone lost a child?!"
"Quick, pull him out of the water! He seems to be still breathing!"
Amidst waves of noise, everyone worked together to lift a person out of the creek. Luo Jingyao frowned as she looked at the growing crowd in front of her. She turned her head, said a few words to the shop assistant, and then trotted over.
She managed to squeeze to the front of the crowd fairly smoothly. She saw someone trying to press the chest of the thin figure lying on the ground. Perhaps because he had no experience, his hands were hesitant and hesitant to use any force.
"Let me do it!" Luo Jingyao saw the boy's face clearly and stepped forward despite her pounding heart. "I've been trained in this area."
After hearing what she said, the eldest brother who was kneeling on the ground suddenly felt as if he had been pardoned and quickly stepped aside.
Luo Jingyao found the right position, pressed down quickly 30 times with both hands, and assisted with two artificial respirations. After only two cycles, the boy lying there tilted his head and spit out a little water, and let out a broken groan.
The crowd first burst into enthusiastic cheers, and then engaged in another round of dispute over whether they should call 120 or 110.
The boy on the ground seemed to regain some consciousness and forced his eyes open a crack.
Luo Jingyao used her cold and slightly trembling right hand to dial the number she had written down at the Qingshan Rescue Association last night, and her left hand gently stroked the boy's wet head.
"Hello? The child you lost yesterday has been found. He's now..."
It took her considerable effort to describe the location. Fortunately, the people at the Qingshan Rescue Association were particularly familiar with the surrounding terrain; otherwise, they wouldn't have understood. After all, there were at least eight out of ten campsites in Black Wind Mountain, and it was easy to get lost if you weren't careful.
At this moment, Luo Jingyao seemed to understand what the driver said. In such a complicated environment, the rescue association was indeed much faster than police cars and ambulances.
Sure enough, in less than ten minutes, the people from the Qingshan Rescue Association arrived here accurately.
The leader was Brother Li, the man in the raincoat, followed by Achao and several unfamiliar volunteers.
After pushing through the crowd, Brother Li immediately leaned over to check on the boy. However, Ah Chao walked straight to Luo Jingyao and said gratefully, "Miss, thank you so much."
"It has nothing to do with me. It was someone who was camping here who first found the child in the creek. I don't know how he got here." She didn't dare to take credit for it, but was extremely grateful that she had taken a look at the boy's photo.
This place is neither far nor near from the Qingshan Rescue Association. In addition, the whole road is uphill and winding. It is hard to imagine how much suffering this child has endured in the wind and rain.
"Anyway, thanks to everyone!" Achao bowed to everyone around him one by one, and then he and his companions lifted the boy onto the stretcher they brought.
"He choked on water and passed out. I performed two sets of cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him. You'd better observe whether he is feeling unwell so that you can send him to the hospital in time." Luo Jingyao said a few words with concern.
"Okay, we have a professional doctor in our association. We will give him a full body check-up when we get back." Achao responded, and soon several people carried the boy away.
Luo Jingyao didn't look away until the association volunteers' backs were completely out of sight. She then slowly returned to the shade of the tree.
"Wow, Sister Luo, you are so cool!" When the shop assistant saw her come back, her eyes sparkled and her face showed admiration.
After all, she had done a good deed and helped save someone, so Luo Jingyao's agitated emotions soon subsided.
After the two of them finished all the food they had ordered, they played by the stream for a while. When the sun began to set, they pulled the cart back to the B&B.
I checked out of the hotel smoothly. I should be able to catch the last short-distance bus back to the city by returning to the Black Wind Mountain Scenic Area at this time.
So the proprietress enthusiastically helped them call the same van from yesterday, and the driver was also very helpful and successfully sent the two people to the designated station before the bus departed.
After happily ending the two-day and one-night city tour, Luo Jingyao returned home alone after safely sending the shop assistant back to her residence.
Although she was physically tired, she did not sleep well that night. The faces of two different children kept appearing in her dreams, so she got up early the next day.
After opening the balcony window, Luo Jingyao let the cold autumn wind brush across her cheeks. The sudden inhalation of cold air into her chest made her wake up instantly.
After thinking about it, she picked up her phone and sent a message to the shop assistant saying that she would continue to have a day off, then turned and went into the bathroom to wash up.
When Luo Jingyao went out, it was still dark outside. She first went to the nearby morning market to buy a lot of fresh fruits, and then called an online taxi on the side of the road.
At around nine o'clock in the morning, the online taxi stopped on the winding mountain road outside the Qingshan Rescue Association.
Even after Luo Jingyao got off the car, the driver was still complaining in front that he had lost money on this order. He didn't expect the winding mountain road to be so difficult to drive on.
Just as she was thinking about whether to give her first bad review in her life on the online ride-hailing platform, a man came out from the two-story building in the courtyard. It was Ah Chao, whom she had met twice before.
"It looked like you to me in the room." Ah Chao waved enthusiastically, quickly stepped forward to take the several large bags of fruit from her hands, and asked a little embarrassedly: "I don't know how to address you yet?"
"My last name is Luo, you can just call me Xiao Luo." Luo Jingyao followed him into the yard and unexpectedly found that in front of several bungalows on the west side, there were several children sitting on small benches eating milk biscuits.
Achao followed her gaze and introduced them, "They were all recently rescued by our association. Some were abandoned at the foot of the mountain, and some were simply left directly at the entrance of the association."
"It's the same reason why we often see sick cats and dogs at the entrance of the pet hospital. I can only say that the parents of these children still have some conscience and know that if they leave them here, at least they can survive."
"We have contacted all the major welfare institutions in the city. As long as there is space there to accept people, we will send them there."
At this point, Ah Chao picked up the fruit in his hand and blinked: "On behalf of the elderly and children in the association, I would like to thank Comrade Xiao Luo for his kindness."
Luo Jingyao waved her hand embarrassedly: "I came here today mainly to see the child, because I was not sure if I hurt him during the CPR yesterday..."
"Are you talking about Xiaozhe? He's resting in the room over there and hasn't gotten up yet. I'll take you there right now." Achao put the fruit on the cement in front of the door and walked towards the bungalow on the west side while speaking.
Seeing this, Luo Jingyao quickly stopped the man and said, "Let's wait until he wakes up. Do you accept donations from the public?"
"Yes!" Ah Chao's eyes lit up at the words, his bronze skin gleaming with an unknown light in the sun. "Our association does have a few regular companies contributing funds to maintain its daily operations, and we occasionally accept private commissions to carry out rescue work. But the actual situation is that you can see it with your own eyes. If we don't accept donations from kind-hearted people, it will not be easy to feed dozens of mouths."
"It's not much money, just consider it a token of my appreciation." Luo Jingyao took out a stack of hundred-yuan bills from her pocket.
However, Achao did not accept the money directly. Instead, he took her into an office on the first floor of the small building and handed the money to a lady who was said to be in charge of finances in the association.
Her generous donation attracted many people from the association to come and watch. Several people, led by the man in the raincoat, Brother Li, bowed repeatedly to express their gratitude.
Having never experienced such a scene before, Luo Jingyao could only bow to them with a little fear.
Finally, the little girl who had brought hot water to passers-by who were sheltering from the rain that night came forward, smiled and stopped the group's ridiculous behavior, and pulled her away.
"Sister Luo, can you stay here for lunch?"
As the two of them were leaving the office, the young woman invited them in the hallway. Perhaps sensing she was about to refuse, she quickly cut them short: "It's tradition. Every donor has to eat here. At the very least, they want to know where and how the money is spent."
"Oh..." Luo Jingyao nodded and agreed.
They had already arrived at the familiar lobby. Through the glass door in front of them, the little girl raised her hand and pointed to the house on the east side. "That's where the people who live are all rescued adults. There aren't many of them, usually around five or six."
Because adults are independent natural persons, they can come and go as they please. Most of the time, they are homeless people who come here to beg for food and will leave after staying for a few days at most.
If they encounter someone who is too elderly, the association will also help contact welfare and nursing homes to take them away.
"Most of the people living on the west side are children and teenagers. There are currently nine people including Xiaozhe." The little girl said, making an inviting gesture towards the stairs behind her.
Guessing that this was also a necessary procedure for donors, Luo Jingyao no longer resisted and followed the other party up to visit the second floor.
In addition to several staff dormitories, the room opposite the stairs is the infirmary, and next to it is a very large and visually spacious activity room.
"When the weather is not so good, the rescued people can come here to watch TV and play mahjong, and volunteers can also play games with the children." After she finished speaking, the little girl gestured with her eyes to her to look at the walls around her.
Red banners were hung at the highest point of the wall, and the stacked layers were quite shocking at first glance.
"Oh, by the way, on this wall are photos of some of the people who were rescued in the past and the association staff." The little girl walked to another wall again and continued to introduce in a cheerful tone.
"This job must bring a lot of happiness, right?" Looking at the smiling faces on the wall, Luo Jingyao's eyes unconsciously showed a hint of smile.
"Of course!" the other person chirped back, "What a pity I've only been here for over three months and haven't had time to hang my picture on the wall yet."
As she walked past one photo after another, Luo Jingyao's eyelids suddenly twitched. She stood there in a daze for two seconds and then went back to the previous photo.
Looking at the pair of big eyes with distinct black and white in the photo, she opened her mouth and found it difficult to breathe.
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