They found a place to fill up their gas tank on the way and then went to a restaurant for dinner.
The couple entered the restaurant, and Li Yuzhu ordered four dishes and a soup, as well as a bottle of beer and a bottle of cola. She happily said, "We won't eat noodles, just vegetables and soup. I'm done sleeping, you drink the beer, go back to the car and sleep, I'll drive."
Dong Qing laughed and said, "You've never been this happy before."
Li Yuzhu smiled and said, "Of course I'm happy. My husband is so capable, I have no reason not to be happy."
After they finished eating, they returned to the car. Dongqing went to sleep, while Li Yuzhu drove them back.
Dong Qing lay down on his sleeper berth, while Li Yuzhu gripped the steering wheel. She said, "I never imagined making money could be so easy."
Dong Qing said, "Doing business is all about seizing the right opportunity. It was only a short time after the reform and opening up, and transportation conditions were extremely poor at that time. Most importantly, people's mindsets were not open-minded. They believed in making money but not being able to afford to lose it, and they were all willing to take risks to do business without the attitude of being debt-free. This caused the goods produced in our hometown to be unsellable, and there was an imbalance between the purchase and sale of porcelain here. People had money but couldn't buy goods. We were able to bring in large quantities of goods. How could we not make money?"
Before the reform and opening up, Dong Qing's approach was considered speculation and profiteering. He was a reformer who knew about the later development and the needs of various places. In those days, no one could see things so clearly. Everyone wanted to make money, but how many people had such audacity?
As Li Yuzhu drove into the middle of the night, Dong Qing woke up and said, "Yuzhu, pull the car over to the side of the road and I'll drive."
Li Yuzhu looked out the window. In the moonlight, a curved line of light shimmered on the ground. She said, "This must be a river. Let's get out and rest for a bit, and add some water to the car!"
The car had been running for hundreds of kilometers, and the water tank was constantly emitting hot steam; it should have been filled with water a long time ago.
Dong Qing said okay, and Li Yuzhu pulled over to the side of the road, turned off the engine, switched off the headlights, turned on the hazard lights, and then jumped off the tractor.
Dongqing and his wife got out of the car with a bucket of water, wanting to rest and get some fresh air. They locked the car door with the key and walked towards the river together.
The river here is not wide. Perhaps because of the recent heavy rain, the current is very rapid. Standing on the riverbank, you can clearly hear the rushing water. Under the moonlight, it splashes up layers of silver ripples, and the surface of the river shimmers with silver light.
Looking into the distance, it resembles a long, undulating dragon in the night, with the sleeping earth seemingly overlooking the tireless river.
The couple squatted down and washed their faces.
It was early autumn, and the river water wasn't that cold yet. Li Yuzhu took off her shoes and sat by the river to wash her feet.
The temperature in the driver's cab was quite high. After driving for so long, her feet were already covered in sweat. Soaking her feet in water felt so good. She said, "Honey, help me wash my feet. I don't want to go back to sleep in the car with smelly feet."
Dongqing said okay and squatted down to help his wife wash her feet.
Just then, Li Yuzhu, taking advantage of the moonlight, saw something rushing down the river from upstream. She said, "Yusheng's dad, look what's rushing down the river!"
Dong Qing was washing his wife's feet, head down, when he heard her words and looked upstream. A dark shadow appeared on the river, approaching from afar, then turned white. Dong Qing said, "It should be a person, and they're probably wearing white clothes."
As they spoke, the shadowy figure drew closer and closer. Taking advantage of the moonlight, Dong Qing finally saw that it was a person and hurriedly jumped into the water, pulling the person who was being swept away to the surface.
Dong Qing placed the person on the ground and looked at her. It turned out to be a woman. It was dark and he couldn't tell how old she was. She was completely unconscious and looked like a female corpse.
Li Yuzhu said, "She should be dead. What should we do? Let's call the police."
Dong Qing said, "Let's see if the person can be saved. If not, it's not too late to call the police."
Dong Qing laid the woman flat on the ground and pressed down hard on her chest with both hands.
Li Yuzhu asked, "Will this work?"
Dongqing said, "When my father was alive, he used this method to save a drowning person. The person survived. I once asked my father why he saved people this way, and he said: 'Drowning people are mainly suffering from oxygen deprivation due to water blocking their lungs, putting them in a near-death state. By pressing on their chest to expel the water, oxygen will naturally enter their bodies, and as long as they get oxygen, they can wake up.' I can only try this method and see if she can survive. If she doesn't, we'll have to call the police."
If someone dies in such a situation, you can't just leave the body behind and walk away, because you'll never be able to explain yourself if they find you later.
Of course, you could also push the female corpse back into the river and let her continue to drift downstream, wherever she ends up, so she won't be able to find herself. But that would be a moral issue.
From any perspective, neither of them would do that; they should face and solve the problems they encounter themselves.
Perhaps the woman shouldn't have died. Dongqing pressed on her chest for a long time and heard her cough once.
Li Yuzhu exclaimed with delight, "She's finally alive!"
Dongqing said, "It's autumn now, and she's been in the river for so long. We need to change her into dry clothes immediately. If she stays like this, she'll get sick even if she doesn't die."
Dongqing carried the woman on his back and had his wife carry the water buckets towards the road.
They arrived at the tractor. The truck carrying porcelain had nothing else but grass. Dongqing said to Li Yuzhu, "We need to warm her up immediately, otherwise she could freeze to death. Quickly get on the truck, throw some grass down, and start a fire to warm her up."
Li Yuzhu said okay, then climbed onto the truck bed and threw grass off the truck.
Dong Qing put the woman on the ground, hurriedly added water to the water tank, and then put a bucket of hot water from the bottom of the tank.
After relieving the woman's head and seeing that she was fully conscious, Dongqing took out a match and lit the straw his wife had thrown down. He said to her, "I can't help you anymore. I'll get her some of your clothes in the car. Help her take off her clothes and take a hot bath. As long as she gets rid of the cold, she'll be fine."
After Dong Qing finished speaking, he got into the car, found a set of Li Yuzhu's clothes, and handed them to his wife outside the car. He said, "Call me after you've showered and gotten dressed."
After Dong Qing finished speaking, he casually closed the car door and sat on the sleeper berth to wait.
The woman felt less cold lying by the fire, so Li Yuzhu took off her clothes.
As soon as Li Yuzhu took off her pants, she was stunned. The girl had a long iron chain wrapped around her leg. The chain wasn't thick; it was just a zipper on a chain. Many people use this kind of chain to tether their dogs at home.
The girl was wearing underwear, and her husband was unharmed after getting down. She called out, "Honey, why is there a chain on her leg? Come down and check!"
Dong Qing got off the bus with a flashlight, examined the girl's ankle, and said, "Someone must be restricting her freedom. We must unlock and remove the chains immediately."
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