Wang Tianxiao and Wang Tianyi followed the sound and found Cao Hong supporting the limp Cao Daneng with both hands.
"How is he?" Wang Tianxiao asked hurriedly.
"I don't know, there's been no sound."
"Get the person up there first, then we'll see."
Wang Tianxiao and Wang Tianyi helped Cao Hong drag Cao Daneng into the alley and place him next to Cao Shuang.
At this point, Cao Shuang was out of danger, but he was still in a daze and it seemed that he would not sober up anytime soon.
It's true that fools sometimes have good luck.
Wang Daxiao laid Cao Daneng flat on the ground and discovered that the old man wasn't wearing pants.
I remember he had some kind of blood pressure problem. I wonder if he fainted in the water while squatting down to use the toilet.
Sure enough, when I touched his nose, his breath was cold.
An ominous premonition welled up in his heart.
He hurriedly unbuttoned Cao Daneng's clothes and put his ear to his heart, but still couldn't hear the slightest sound of his heart beating.
He was stunned.
That's impossible.
This person... how could he be dead now?
He clearly died in his past life after developing Alzheimer's disease and falling into a pit-like courtyard.
He still has more than a decade before he dies.
They didn't drown.
How is my father?
Cao Hong, that idiot, still doesn't realize that his tone has changed, as if he's asking what to eat for dinner.
In the darkness, Wang Tianxiao shook his head at Wang Tianyi, stood up and said, "Let's go down and check on Qiaodan."
"Ah, my father..."
Wang Tianxiao remained silent.
People always have to learn to grow up gradually.
Perhaps, this is the night Cao Hong grew up.
We still haven't found Guai Guai Qiao Dan. We don't know if she's down there. If she is, I guess she's probably in grave danger.
At this water level, given her size, there's definitely no way to save her.
Sure enough, the two continued searching everywhere, even the tofu shop, but still found nothing.
There was no sign of her at all.
"Could it be that they fell into a seepage pit?" Wang Tianxiao wiped the rain off his face and asked worriedly.
“I don’t know, let’s go to the next one,” Wang Tianxiao shook his head. “This is how it is here. The rest is beyond our control. We’re not a professional rescue team. Life and death are in the hands of fate. If that’s the case, then we can only bear it ourselves.”
"All right."
The two walked up to the pit courtyard, where Cao Hong was still shaking his father.
On one side was Wang Tianxin, who was bowing his head and not saying a word.
"Let's go, Tianxin, let's go to Liuda's house."
Wang Tianxiao called out to his youngest brother.
Wang Tianxin must already know what happened here, which is why he was feeling a bit down.
Perhaps it was the death of his father that reminded him of himself.
He had never met his father. From the moment he became aware of things, his father was a fictional figure living in the lives of his mother and older siblings.
He could only recreate the image of his own father by looking at other people's fathers.
Otherwise, it's really hard to tell anything from just one black and white photo.
He followed silently behind his two older brothers, glancing back at Cao Hong every now and then.
Then, following his two older brothers, he left the Cao family home.
At that moment, the sixteen-year-old boy also learned a lot.
He suddenly realized that with his father gone, his second brother had silently raised him little by little, shouldering many responsibilities that should have been borne by their father. He must have had a very hard time.
My second brother is only twenty-six years old this year.
He quickened his pace, keeping close to his second brother, and looked at him from the side.
The sky was slowly brightening, and one could vaguely make out the outline of the second brother. In the light rain, his eyes seemed to pierce through the rain curtain, looking into the distance.
There was no sign of them stopping.
Wang Tianxin thought of the generals who went to war in the storybooks, and his brother seemed to have that kind of temperament now.
It made him feel exceptionally safe.
It felt as if following him meant you could freely venture into dangerous places.
The other family the three were about to visit was a cousin from their clan.
He was the sixth child in the large family, so the younger members of the clan called him Uncle Six.
Uncle Liu has four daughters and one son. The daughters are all married, but the son is still young, only one or two years older than Wang Xiaozhu.
In this situation, it would probably be very difficult.
When the three arrived, they found that Uncle Liu's younger brother was already in the pit courtyard.
But there was no sign of Uncle Six and Aunt Six.
"Doggy, where are your parents?"
"They're still down there, Second Brother."
"What are you still doing down there? The water's so high!"
"The mule won't come up."
"A mule?!"
Wang Tianxiao then remembered that his sixth uncle's family owned a mule.
He was about to say, "If the mule won't come up, then the person should come up first! Is the mule's life more important than a person's life?"
But the words stuck in his throat and he didn't say them.
This kind of talk doesn't quite taste like minced meat anymore.
A mule can sell for several hundred dollars, which is all of Uncle Liu's family's assets. If the mule is injured, their family will be back to square one.
This is practically their lifeline; how could they bear to part with it?
well.
"Tianxin, you stay up here with Gouwa. Tianyi, you come down with me. No matter what, get the two old people up here first. As for the mule, we'll try if we can, but if we can't, then forget about it."
"good."
Looking down into the foggy alley, Wang Tianxiao took a deep breath and, along with his brothers, began to grope their way down.
The alleyways in Uncle Liu's pit-style courtyard were much steeper than those in Wang Tianxiao's house.
The construction of such alleyways still depends on the specific terrain.
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