The woman screamed the boy's name heartbreakingly and was about to run down the slope, but was hugged tightly by her man who came over following the sound.
Below the mountain path where the boy rolled down was a turbulent river. The flood had already merged with the river, and the water level was extremely terrifying.
Yu Jiao and a dozen others had just left the river, but they were not far from where the boy fell. It was almost dawn and they could already see things vaguely.
Seeing this scene, Yu Jiao wanted to break free from Yu Qizhe's hand to save people.
Yu Qizhe had expected this and held her hand tightly, refusing to let go.
"Yu Qizhe, I have to go save people, please let me go." Yu Jiao looked at him and said anxiously, "The child is too young. If he falls into the water, the flood will swallow him directly."
While he was saying this, the child had already fallen into the water. The current was very strong and it caught the boy and carried him towards a deeper whirlpool. The boy had no strength to struggle.
Seeing this, Yu Jiao couldn't help but yelled anxiously, "Yu Qizhe, let go! If I watch him die, I won't be at peace every day and night when I think of him!"
Yu Qizhe looked at Yu Jiao's anxious expression and hesitated as he loosened the strength in his hands. In essence, he and Yu Jiao were not the same kind of people. He was selfish and cold-blooded by nature, but Yu Jiao was different.
Noticing that Yu Qizhe's hand had loosened, Yu Jiao did not hesitate at all. She took a deep breath and jumped into the rushing water.
The water flow was too strong. As soon as Yu Jiao fell into the water, she was swept into the rushing river. She waved her arms vigorously, and swam towards the boy against the pressure of the water flow.
On the river, Yu Qizhe looked at Yu Jiao who was constantly submerged and floating up. His mind went blank. He no longer thought about weighing the pros and cons, and did not care about the consequences. He put the old woman down on his back and jumped into the river without hesitation.
The water flow pushed Yu Jiao to the boy's side, but a small whirlpool formed here, which was more violent than the previous one.
The boy had been submerged in the water and was sinking. Yu Jiao held her breath and dived down. She struggled to grab one of the boy's hands and pulled him toward the surface of the water.
But she was a woman after all, she was too weak and her body weight was not enough.
Although the boy was pulled out of the water, both of them were soon sucked into the whirlpool.
At this moment, a hand supported Yu Jiao's waist and pulled the two of them towards the outside of the whirlpool.
When Yu Jiao saw that it was Yu Qizhe, she hugged the boy with one hand, paddled her arms and legs hard, and swam along with Yu Qizhe.
People on the mountain path were all watching this scene in the river nervously, especially the boy's parents. The woman had forgotten to cry. Her heart was in her throat, and she stared at the figures of the three people in the river with anxiety.
The water flow in the whirlpool was too difficult to escape. The three of them swam a few steps before being sucked back in. Yu Jiao was already a little exhausted.
She took a few deep breaths and her expression became more determined. She did not believe in fate, but only in herself and believed that man could conquer nature. Even at the last moment, she would not give up.
However, if the three of them continued to remain in this stalemate, they would be dragged down by the current and completely exhausted.
"I'm good at swimming, you take him away first." Yu Jiao pushed the boy in her arms towards Yu Qizhe.
She can hold her breath in the water, so even if she is sucked into a whirlpool, she can hold her breath for a while. The three of them can't waste their time here.
Yu Qizhe pulled the boy over, but did not let go of Yu Jiao's hand. He said to the almost dying boy with a cold expression, "If you want to live, hold my neck tightly, otherwise I won't save you."
The boy's instinct for survival made him stretch out his arms and hug Yu Qizhe's neck tightly.
Yu Jiao said in a hoarse voice, "Yu Qizhe, take him away first, you two should be able to leave this vortex." She was too heavy.
The wet hair stuck to her cheeks in a messy manner. At this moment, Yu Qizhe, who had lost his usual elegance and composure, looked extremely determined. He grabbed Yu Jiao's hand with such force that he almost pinched it into her bones.
"Let's go together. I won't leave you alone."
Yu Jiao looked at him, feeling uncontrollably moved. Just as she opened her mouth to speak, a wave of water rushed over and she was choked by several mouthfuls of water, which made her start coughing.
If Yu Qizhe hadn't held her tightly, she would have been almost sucked into the center of the vortex.
"Please let me go and go quickly. Are we going to die here together?" Yu Jiao felt that the water around her was becoming more and more restraining. Her body was sinking downwards. She wanted to break free from Yu Qizhe's hand.
"I will never let you go, even if... we die together." Yu Qizhe held her up with all his strength. His arms were already somewhat stiff and numb. He smiled and said, "I am willing to die with you."
"Are you stupid? You can still survive. You go first, go first." Yu Jiao shouted at him with a sour nose.
Yu Qizhe pursed his lips and said nothing. He held Yu Jiao's hand tightly, as tight as steel, and showed with his actions that he would never leave Yu Jiao alone.
At the Xiangyuan River embankment in Tanzhou, the torrential rain never stopped, and the hundreds of people who were building the embankment also never stopped. They dug mud and sand, filled the embankment, and kept reinforcing the embankment. Although the embankment had been raised to ten meters, the iron chains that fastened the embankment were insufficient, and the ropes used later were not strong enough, so the embankment could be washed away at any time, and no one left the embankment.
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