At eight o'clock, the sky was covered by thick clouds and turned dark. The rain was like a pig overturning a pot, and it didn't stop for a moment.
At nine o'clock, I saw from the shed a man running quickly along the riverbank with a flashlight, shouting:
"My sheep, my sheep, please don't drown!"
Sun Zongyuan and his dozen men hurriedly donned straw raincoats and ran to the bridge, lanterns in hand. Twelve of them filled the ten-meter-long bridge. Shining his flashlight upstream, Sun Zongyuan spotted a white goat floating down the river with its head tilted up. He shouted,
"Attention, try to rescue the sheep!"
At this time, the water surface and the bridge surface were still more than one meter apart, and people could not catch the sheep at all. Sun Zongyuan said:
"Tie the rope around me, I'm going down, everyone hold on to me and don't let go!"
Everyone hurriedly tied ropes around Sun Zongyuan and another young man's waists, and pulled them down. As soon as they touched the water, they were swept down more than three meters, emerging from the other side of the bridge. Sun Zongyuan wiped the water off his face and saw the sheep approaching him, quickly grabbing its head with both hands. The young man also went over and tightly grasped one of the sheep's legs. The ten people on the bridge pulled together, and Sun Zongyuan and the other man, holding the sheep, were dragged from the lower end of the bridge to the upper part. The sheep chasers also came over, and several people first pulled the sheep up by its legs, then pulled the two men up. Suddenly, several people sat down on the bridge, slumped together, not caring about the raindrops hitting them.
Several people hurriedly sent Sun Zongyu to the village committee office, found some wood and lit it to warm Sun Zongyu's body. Seeing that there were no women nearby, Sun Zongyu ran outside in his underwear to take a bath. He found a basin, filled it with half a basin of rainwater, put his taken-off clothes in the basin, rubbed them a few times, wrung them dry, and put them on the back of a chair next to the brazier. He then drank two bowls of ginger soup, and his body felt a little warmer.
One person was left behind to look after the two of them, while the others returned to the shack and continued to watch the two banks of the river.
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