Ruan Xi pulled Ruan Jie to the edge of the pool, squeezed into the crowd of onlookers, and saw two men in their twenties or thirties fishing something out of the pool. Not knowing what was going on, she turned around and asked the person next to her: "What's going on?"
The person next to him whispered, "A kid fell into the pool."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man in the pool fished out a little girl, and the people around him immediately shouted, "We got her, we got her."
Ruan Xi looked into the pool and saw that the little girl in the man's arms was soaking wet, dripping with water, and her whole body was limp. Before the man even stepped ashore, the little girl's mother came running over crying, shouting, "Xiao Yanzi!"
The man carried the little girl to the shore and gasped, "She's dead."
These words made everyone around them feel cold all over, as if they had fallen into an ice cave.
Ruan Xi subconsciously tightened his grip on Ruan Jie's wrist, and his nerves and breathing suddenly became tense.
The little girl's mother broke down instantly and cried loudly.
Someone nearby suggested, "Hurry up and get the water out of your stomach. Maybe you can still be saved."
This was a crude method. Upon hearing this, the man who was trying to rescue the girl hung the little girl upside down on his back and ran with her on his back.
Ruan Xi watched the man running with the little girl on his back, and suddenly remembered something.
She took the basket off her arm and stuffed it into Ruan Jie's hand, then turned around and rushed out.
By the time Ruan Jie realized what was happening, Ruan Xi had already run far away. She shouted at Ruan Xi's back, "Sister, where are you going?"
Ruan Xi heard it but did not stop to answer. This place was very close to Ling Yao's stilt house, so she ran to Ling Yao's house as fast as she could. When I got there, I happened to see Zhou Xueyun who had just returned home from work. She put down the sickle in her hand and the straw hat on her head in front of the door of the stilt house.
Ruan Xi ran up the stairs of the stilt house and grabbed Zhou Xueyun's wrist without saying a word. She pulled her down and said urgently, "Auntie, I need your help. It's too late. Come with me."
Zhou Xueyun was dragged away by her without knowing what was going on.
To be exact, running as fast as possible.
Only when she ran to the pool did she realize that Ruan Xi was pulling her to save someone.
Ruan Xi ran so fast that she was out of breath. Without a moment's hesitation, she ran directly to the man who was carrying the little girl and said to him, "Put her down quickly. It's useless for you to do this."
As she said that, she picked up the little girl and let her lie flat on the ground.
Zhou Xueyun did not hold her back. She knew what she meant, so she quickly bent her legs and knelt down beside the little girl. She found the position of her chest and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the little girl using professional gestures and postures.
The little girl's mother rushed over and yelled, "What are you doing?!"
Ruan Xi reached out and hugged her, panting and saying, "Auntie, you are saving her."
No one has ever seen such a method of rescue. Instead of pressing the belly to squeeze out the water, you press the chest. Will it work?
The people around didn't dare to interfere and just asked, "Is this okay?"
As soon as she finished asking, Zhou Xueyun pinched the little girl's chin and blew air into her mouth.
Ruan Xi hugged the little girl's mother and said, "If this method doesn't work, then the previous method will be even less effective. The baby fell into a coma because the water went into the lungs, not into the stomach. What's the point of controlling the water in the stomach? Besides, the water in the stomach has already been controlled out!"
She didn’t know how to perform CPR herself, or she would have done it herself.
She remembered that Ling Yao had told her before that his mother was a doctor in the hospital. It just so happened that the stilt house was close by, and if rescue efforts were carried out within the effective time, there was a great chance that the little girl could be saved.
The others didn't say anything after hearing what Ruan Xi said made sense.
After all, the water in the stomach has been controlled, but the baby still hasn't woken up, so I can only try other methods.
It is better to have a solution than to have no solution.
So the onlookers said, "Yanzi's mother, please let her try. All the water in Yanzi's stomach has been drained out, but she still won't wake up. There is no other way if you don't try. Please stop making trouble..."
Yanzi's mother had a mental breakdown and lost some of her rationality, but she could still understand what people were saying.
She didn't rush up again, but grabbed Ruan Xi's arm and cried, "Xiao Yanzi, why are you so disobedient!"
Ruan Xi's heart almost jumped out of her throat and she was very nervous.
She supported Yanzi's mother with difficulty, and watched with the people around her as Zhou Xueyun kneeled on the ground and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and artificial respiration on the little girl. She alternated between the two, almost without a break, and sweat slowly began to seep out of her head.
She did it for a long time, but Xiao Yanzi lay on the ground motionless.
Ruan Xi was so nervous that she even subconsciously held her breathing.
As time went on, some people thought that this little Yanzi could not be saved, and whispered: "I'm afraid she can't be saved."
Beads of sweat dropped from Zhou Xueyun's head like beans, but she did not give up because of these words. She continued to press Xiao Yanzi's heart and lungs, and then pinched her nose and blew air into her mouth.
She insisted on not giving up, and the people around her stopped saying discouraging words. They all frowned, looked heavy-faced and stopped talking.
Because the rescue took too long, even Yanzi's mother gave up. She let go of Ruanxi's arm and sat on the ground, pounding the ground and crying, "Little Yanzi, you are trying to kill me! You are trying to kill me!!"
As time passed, the onlookers began to shake their heads one after another.
The only one who did not waver at all from beginning to end was Zhou Xueyun, and she still did not stop saving people.
Not only was her forehead covered in sweat, but even the back of her clothes was soaked with sweat.
Ruan Xi silently estimated in her heart and felt that she had been doing it for more than ten minutes.
Her eyes couldn't help but slowly darken, as if someone had taken the breath away from her.
Then, just when she thought that the little girl was beyond help, she suddenly heard a "wow" and the little girl started crying under Zhou Xueyun's palm. The sound was so loud and rapid that it startled the onlookers so much that their breathing and heartbeats stopped for a moment.
In that instant, Ruan Xi not only heard himself breathe a sigh of relief, but also heard everyone around him breathe a sigh of relief. When she came to her senses, she raised her hand and touched herself, and found that she was crying.
There were more than one person beside her who was crying uncontrollably like her.
When Yanzi's mother heard the sound, she rolled and crawled to little Yanzi's side, picked her up and started crying: "You want to scare me to death, you want to scare me to death!"
Everyone present was happy, except Zhou Xueyun, who had used up all her strength. After she breathed a sigh of relief, she looked soft and tired. She didn't say anything, just stood up with her hands on the ground, brushed off the mud on her pants, and prepared to go home.
Before she could even walk away, Yanzi's mother suddenly pounced in front of her.
Yanzi's mother rushed over and knelt down in front of Zhou Xueyun, then kowtowed to her desperately, saying as she kowtowed: "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for saving my little Yanzi, thank you! Thank you!"
Zhou Xueyun looked panicked and hurriedly reached out to pull her, "Don't do this, stop it!"
Only after the onlookers went up to help pull Yanzi’s mother up did Zhou Xueyun breathe a sigh of relief.
Zhou Xueyun felt very uncomfortable. She looked at Yanzi's mother and said softly, "Don't be mean to the child. Go back and take good care of yourself."
After saying this, she stopped standing, turned around, pushed away the crowd of onlookers, lowered her head and hurried home.
Ruan Xi chased after her, ran up to her, looked at her and said, "Thank you."
Zhou Xueyun smiled at her without saying anything and went straight to the stilt house.
Ruan Xi stood there and watched her slowly walk away. After a moment, she turned around and went back to the pool. Yanzi's mother had already taken little Yanzi home. The others also dispersed for a while, and someone came up to praise Ruan Xi.
Others were also talking, talking about the dangerous moment just now, and were glad that Xiao Yanzi was saved.
Ruan Xi took the bamboo basket of rice ears from Ruan Jie, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, he survived."
Ruan Jie looked at her curiously: "How do you know that Ling Yao's mother would save people?"
As she spoke, she thought of the answer, "Oh, it must be Ling Yao who said it."
Ruan Xi smiled at her and slung the bamboo basket over her arm. "Let's go home and feed the pigs."
The two sisters then relaxed again and walked back home leisurely, carrying their baskets.
After arriving home, Ruan Jie and Liu Xinghua fed the pigs and cooked. Ruan Jie told Liu Xinghua about the thrilling and dangerous incident that she and Ruan Xi had just encountered. Liu Xinghua's eyes widened, she held her breath, and her heart was in a knot.
When she heard Xiao Yanzi cry out "Wow", she subconsciously followed Dada in breathing a sigh of relief.
After listening, she said, "So this child can't play near the water."
Ruan Jie continued: "She should remember the lesson this time."
Liu Xinghua breathed a sigh of relief again and said, "I didn't expect that Zhou Xueyun had this skill. She should be a doctor in the city, right? I haven't seen her interacting with anyone in all these years."
Ruan Xi nodded and said, "He's a doctor."
While the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren were talking and cooking, Ruan Changgui, Ruan Changsheng and Ruan Cuizhi came back together.
As soon as he got home, Ruan Zhigao said, "Did you hear that a child almost drowned in the pool?"
Ruan Jie said as she lit a fire: "We didn't just hear about it, we saw it with our own eyes."
Ruan Changsheng went into the house to get some water to drink. "Really? I heard that Ling Yao's mother was rescued. It took a long time to rescue her, right?"
Ruan Jie nodded and said, "Yes, she kept pressing Xiao Yanzi's chest and blowing air into her mouth. Everyone around said that there was no hope, but she just kept pressing until her head and body were all sweaty, and her clothes were soaked."
Nguyen Thuy Chi and Nguyen Chi Gao also sat down to drink water.
Ruan Zhigao took a sip of water and said, "This is a good deed, it is considered meritorious service, and deserves a reward."
Ruan Jie: "Then please write it down. You are the brigade secretary anyway."
Ruan Xi added: "There are also people who go into the water to rescue people."
Ruan Zhigao nodded and said, "We also need to ask the adults to take good care of their children and not let them play near the water. Especially when we were planting rice, there was water everywhere and the water in the pond was even deeper. There were more than one or two children who drowned."
The family sat in the house talking about this good deed. Ruan Zhigao planned to hold a commendation meeting in the village after the busy farming season was over. As he was speaking, he suddenly heard a thunderous roar from outside: "Ruan Changgui! Sun Xiaohui! Come out!"
Not knowing what was going on, Ruan Zhigao hurriedly stood up and led the way out.
Liu Xinghua, Ruan Cuizhi, Ruan Changsheng and Ruan Xi were also curious, so they followed him out of the house. Ruan Jie put a few more firewood under the stove and ran over to follow behind him, all wanting to see what was going on.
Ruan Changgui and Sun Xiaohui also came out, and the couple looked confused.
Everyone in a village knows each other, the only difference is whether they are familiar or not.
Sun Xiaohui and Ruan Changgui were just talking in the kitchen about how Xiao Yanzi almost drowned. When they came out and saw Yanzi's father and mother looking ferocious, they didn't know what was going on, so they just asked, "What happened?"
Yanzi's mother pinched her waist and said fiercely, "You ask me what's wrong? Ask your Ruan Yuehua!"
Ask Ruan Yuehua?
Sun Xiaohui said, "My Yuehua hasn't come back yet."
Just as he finished speaking, Ruan Yuejin's voice came from the main room, "He came back a long time ago and is hiding under the bed."
Hiding under the bed?
Sun Xiaohui realized that something was wrong and turned to look at Ruan Changgui.
Yanzi's father has already spoken, "My little Yanzi said that it was your Ruan Yuehua who pushed her into the pool! What is he thinking? He wants to kill my little Yanzi! If little Yanzi dies today, I want him to pay with his life!"
After hearing these words, Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua frowned and kept silent. As younger generations, Ruan Cuizhi, Ruan Changsheng, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie naturally kept quiet, and they also didn't want to meddle in Ruan Changgui's family's affairs.
Sun Xiaohui opened her mouth, but instead of picking Ruan Yuehua out to teach him a lesson, she said to Yanzi's father, "What do you mean it was our Yuehua who pushed it? Whoever saw it, it's what you say? Our Yuehua stayed at home today and didn't go out!"
Yanzi's mother gritted her teeth in anger and stared at Sun Xiaohui: "Sun Xiaohui, do you have any shame? My little Yanzi said it was Ruan Yuehua who pushed her. We also asked a few other kids who played together, and they also said it was!"
Sun Xiaohui refused to admit it: "Who knows if these kids are telling the truth? Don't I know what my child is like? My Yuehua is the most obedient and sensible child. He would never do something like what you said!"
Yanzi's mother was so angry that she pointed at Sun Xiaohui and said, "Call Ruan Yuehua out!"
Sun Xiaohui looked guilty and didn't dare to shout.
Ruan Changgui did not seem guilty. He turned around and went into the room. He took Ruan Yuehua out from under the bed, dragged him out and stood him outside the door. Then he looked at him and asked, "Tell me, did you push Xiao Yanzi?"
Ruan Yuehua looked terrified, mumbling, but after a moment he straightened his chest and said loudly, "I didn't do it! It wasn't me! They wronged me! It was Xiao Yanzi who slipped and fell down by herself!"
Yanzi's father was so angry at this family that he gritted his teeth, "Your mother said you didn't go out today, and you said it was us Yanzi who fell down by ourselves. Is there a single word of truth in your mouths? You don't want to admit it, right? You don't want to admit it?"
Ruan Yuehua still puffed out his chest and shouted: "No push means no push!"
Sun Xiaohui was now confident again, and looked at Yanzi's father and said, "You heard it, our Yuehua didn't push your Yanzi, so don't wrongly accuse a good person here. Since little Yanzi is fine, can't you just keep quiet?"
Yanzi's father was obviously very angry and almost lost his mind. He gritted his teeth and muttered: "Shut up... Shut up, right? I'll make your family quiet..."
He muttered to himself as he picked up a hoe from the wall and turned to go into the house.
Ruan Changgui saw that the situation was not good, so he went over to stop him and asked with a frown, "What are you going to do?"
Yanzi's father was taller than Ruan Changgui and stronger than Ye. He pushed him away and went straight into the house with a hoe. He smashed everything he saw in the kitchen, muttering angrily, "Shut up! I told you to shut up!"
Ruan Changgui didn't dare to stop him alone, so he turned around and shouted at Ruan Zhigao: "Dad, don't you care about it?"
Ruan Zhigao turned around and went into the house, saying, "I don't care about your family's affairs."
Ruan Changgui then called Ruan Changsheng, who was good at fighting, "Little Five!"
Ruan Changsheng snorted coldly, gave him a cold look, and followed Ruan Zhigao into the house.
When you need them, they are your father and your brother. When you don’t need them, they are outsiders and stinky dog shit. I wish I could step on them into the mud and compare them to a toilet. They are worse than those outsiders who just watch the fun!
Why are you calling dad and brother now? Isn’t he afraid that they will splash dirt all over his family of four?
Yanzi's father moved quickly. He went into the kitchen, smashed a few bowls, poked the bottom of Ruan Changgui's pot, and came out.
When he came, he had no intention of using violence, so he didn't even have a weapon in his hand. He came to Ruan Changgui and Sun Xiaohui to ask for an explanation. Their little Yanzi couldn't suffer in vain and have to go through this near-death experience in vain.
But who could have expected that Ruan Changgui's family would be so shameless.
Since they have no shame, there is no need to show them mercy.
Yanzi's father smashed the pots and pans to vent his anger, threw away the hoe and came out of the house, looked at Ruan Changgui and said: "Take good care of your Ruan Yuehua. I won't touch him today, but if he does it again, I will make him pay for it!"
After saying that, he took Yanzi's mother and left with a gloomy face, leaving Ruan Changgui's house in a mess.
Five minutes later, Ruan Changgui and Sun Xiaohui were sitting at the table in the main room, each looking uglier than the other.
Ruan Yuejin and Ruan Yuehua were sitting on the bed in the room.
Sun Xiaohui couldn't hold back her anger and scolded Ruan Yuejin: "If your brother is hiding under the bed, just let him hide. Why did you speak out? Now the pot has been smashed, the bowl is gone, and there is no food to eat!"
Ruan Changgui was more normal. He stared at Ruan Yuehua in the room and asked, "Did you push it or not?"
Ruan Yuehua sat on the edge of the bed, shaking his legs, and now he was silent again.
Ruan Changgui understood what was going on as soon as he saw it. He stood up with a dark face, went into the room and slapped Ruan Yuehua in the face. The slap was so hard that half of Ruan Yuehua's face turned red in an instant. Ruan Yuehua covered his face and cried like a pig being slaughtered.
Sun Xiaohui went over to hug Ruan Yuehua with a distressed look on her face, and said to Ruan Changgui, "What are you doing? He already said he didn't push it anymore."
Ruan Changgui was so angry that he almost died, "If you keep protecting him like this, you will hurt him sooner or later!"
Sun Xiaohui said: "What am I protecting? I didn't push it, that's all."
Ruan Changgui couldn't win the argument with Sun Xiaohui, so he came out and sat down at the table, looking at the pickled cabbage on the table with a rage.
The pots and bowls are gone, and there’s even no steamed buns at home. Let’s just starve!
In the side room, Ruan Zhigao's family acted as if nothing had happened and just sat down to eat their meal.
They didn't care or ask whether Ruan Changgui's family had food to eat.
After the family finished dinner, Liu Xinghua and Ruan Cuizhi were watching Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie washing the pots and bowls in the house when Ruan Yuehua ran over with half a red face and asked, "Grandma, do you have any more food?"
Liu Xinghua didn't even look at him: "Just eat some rice, I'll give you enough to eat!"
Ruan Yuehua: “…”
When Zhou Xueyun returned home after rescuing the man, Ling Yao was already making dinner.
His house was as quiet as usual. After dinner, the whole family was in the house. Ling Yao lit a lamp and read a book, Zhou Xueyun sat beside him doing needlework and mending clothes, shoes and socks, and Ling Zhiyuan was repairing tools and sharpening knives.
Ling Zhiyuan and Ling Yao didn’t know that Zhou Xueyun had saved someone, and Zhou Xueyun herself didn’t mention it, so no one said anything about it.
I went to bed as usual at night, got up when I heard the rooster crowed the next day, had breakfast, and went out to work.
Zhou Xueyun didn't take yesterday's incident to heart, but when she took the sickle to the field, she found that other people looked at her differently. Many people greeted her warmly when they saw her, and affectionately called her "Sister Zhou" or "Sister Zhou".
Zhou Xueyun was a little uncomfortable with this, but she still responded politely with a smile.
When she bent down with a sickle to cut rice, someone asked her in a very unfriendly manner: "Sister Zhou, when you were in the city, you were a doctor, right?"
Zhou Xueyun bent over and continued to cut rice, and replied politely: "Yes."
Someone else asked, "Why don't you say anything?"
Zhou Xueyun said in a gentle voice: "There's nothing worth talking about."
Things in the city are things in the city. Ever since she came here from the countryside, she has nothing to do with anything in the city. Because she was very cautious and on guard against people all the time, she had no intention of integrating into this village, so naturally she said nothing.
But this time, her act of saving people disrupted her repressed and peaceful life that had lasted for four years.
In addition to the many people who greeted her enthusiastically during the day with expressions full of respect, she returned home at night wearing a straw hat and holding a sickle. Just as she put down the straw hat and sickle and washed her hands and face, she heard someone outside the stilt house calling her: "Sister Zhou, are you home?"
Ling Yao was burning a fire behind the stove and didn't stick his head out to look.
Zhou Xueyun turned around and saw that it was the mother of the little girl she rescued yesterday.
In one hand, Yanzi's mother was holding a rooster that had been plucked out of its feathers by scalding water, and in the other hand, she was holding a small bamboo basket the size of a watermelon, which contained some clean eggs that were not contaminated by any dirt.
When she saw Zhou Xueyun, she walked up the stairs to Zhou Xueyun and said, "Sister Zhou, there are not many things in the countryside, so there is nothing to thank you for. I slaughtered a rooster for you, and there are some eggs. You can keep them for yourself."
Zhou Xueyun had never seen such a thing before, so she waved her hands and said no.
Yanzi's mother forced the things into her hands and continued, "You saved our Yanzi's life yesterday. We have nothing to repay you with. Just accept this little thing. Don't despise it."
Zhou Xueyun didn't dare to despise him, she just felt that what he had done was not worth all the things she gave him. Having lived in the countryside for several years, she naturally knew what this chicken and these eggs meant to the rural people.
So she still said, "It's just a small effort, it's really not necessary, just take it back and give it to the child."
Yanzi's mother stood in front of her and said, "Sister Zhou, you saved our Yanzi's life. If you don't take her in, our family will really not be able to eat or sleep. The chicken has been killed, so just cook it and let us feel at ease."
Zhou Xueyun looked at Yanzi's mother, struggled for a moment, and compromised: "How about this, I'll take the chicken, but you can take the eggs back, okay?"
If you are willing to accept a chicken, that's fine too. Yanzi's mother smiled and said, "Okay then, thank you, Sister Zhou."
Zhou Xueyun also smiled sincerely, "How about you stay and eat with us?"
Yanzi's mother turned around and left with the basket on her shoulder, "That won't work. My family is waiting for me to come back."
After saying that, she went down the wooden stairs and ran away, her steps very brisk.
Zhou Xueyun watched her walk away, couldn't help but smile, and took the chicken back into the house.
Ling Yao looked at the chicken in her hand and asked curiously, "Why are you giving us a chicken?"
Zhou Xueyun put the chicken on the chopping board, put on her apron, and replied, "Mom did a good thing."
When she picked up the knife to chop the chicken, she suddenly thought of something, turned to look at Ling Yao and said, "Yaoyao, go call Xixi over and ask her to come to our house for dinner tonight."
Ling Yao didn't react, "Which Xixi?"
Zhou Xueyun asked back: "What do you think?"
Ling Yao reacted, and his meal was almost ready.
After putting the last handful of firewood at the bottom of the stove, he stood up and said, "Then I'm going."
He turned around and disappeared out the door.
He ran all the way to Ruan's house, found Ruan Xi and said to her: "My mother asked you to come to my house for dinner today."
Ruan Xi was a little surprised: "Call me?" Zhou Xueyun?
Ling Yao nodded, "Yeah."
Ruan Xi laughed, "Is there anything delicious?"
Ling Yao nodded at her again, "Someone sent a rooster to my mother."
Ruan Xi was not such a greedy person, so she just smiled and said, "No need, we finally have some meat to eat at home, you and your family can just eat it, why should I go? I didn't contribute to what happened yesterday, it was all thanks to Auntie."
She naturally understood why Zhou Xueyun suddenly asked her to have dinner with him.
Ling Yao was curious, "What happened yesterday?"
Because of the busy farming season these past two days, Ruan Xi didn't take Ruan Jie to see Ling Yao.
He had no one to talk to, so naturally he knew very little.
Ruan Xi looked at him seriously and said, "Yesterday a little girl fell into the water and almost drowned. It was your mother who saved her."
Ling Yao reacted quickly, "You went to find my mother?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Yeah, I remember you said your mother is a doctor."
Ling Yao looked at her with pleading eyes, "Then come to my house for dinner. You know, my mother has never been close to others and has never invited anyone to my house. It's rare for her to ask for this, so let her be happy, okay? In all these years, I have never seen her as happy as she is today. She is really smiling, not pretending."
Ruan Xi looked at Ling Yao and felt an urge to go up and rub his head.
This kid is really cute, well-behaved and lovable.
So she nodded: "Okay!"
After saying that, she turned around and called to the room, "Grandma, can I go to Ling Yao's house for dinner tonight?"
Liu Xinghua stuck her head out of the kitchen, glanced at Ling Yao, and said directly: "You go."
"Walk."
Ruan Xi smiled and went to Ling Yao's house with him.
Ling Yao also smiled, and his smile was so lavish that it filled his entire face.
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