Chapter 6 Rescue
There was no firewood or water in the house, and the torch was almost burned out. I couldn't wash myself, so I could only go to bed.
The wooden board was cold and hard. When Lin Qi woke up, the pain in her body became even more severe. Her thin little face was pale without a trace of blood.
It was dawn outside, and the sound of a rooster crowing could be heard not far away. Lin Qi stood up slowly, scratched her hair, and walked out carefully.
As soon as she stepped out of the door, she heard the sound of water splashing. She turned her head and saw Ming Kangjian carrying a bucket and pouring water into the water tank.
"Good morning." Ming Kangjian greeted.
"Good morning." Lin Qi walked towards him and asked, "Water, tank?"
"Are you asking about the water or the water tank?" Ming Kangjian did not show any impatience. Facing this beautiful and pitiful little fool, as a man, although he disliked her for being a burden to them, he could not feel disgusted with her.
It’s probably because men are visual animals and are naturally sympathetic to the weak.
"Ask both." Lin Qi said.
"We fetched water from the river. It is said to be spring water flowing down from the mountain. The water jar was bought from the team leader's house. The team leader's family just bought one the day before yesterday and hasn't used it yet. So they gave it to us when they saw that we didn't have one. The bucket also belongs to the team leader. We are just borrowing it and have to return it. The water is here, you can use it at will." After Ming Kangjian finished speaking, he carried the bucket and walked out again.
The water tank was very large, and Ming Kangjian only filled it halfway after carrying five buckets of water back and forth. After running five times, Jian Tongyi and two other male educated youths came out of the room.
"Thank you for your hard work." Jian Tongyi patted Ming Kangjian on the shoulder and took the bucket from him. "Take us where you get the water from and we'll carry the rest. But before I carry the water, I want to take a bath in the river first. Do you want to go?"
"Go, I'll go back and get my clothes."
"Take your toothbrush and toothpaste and brush your teeth over there."
Ming Kangjian and the other three returned to their rooms.
Lin Qi on the side was a little tempted, she also wanted to take a shower.
Fearing that she would be left behind because of her slow movements, Lin Qi mobilized her special powers to roam around her body, making her blocked body somewhat unblocked, and then she walked back to her room as fast as she could. She had to endure great pain during this process, but in order to take a shower, she gritted her teeth and endured it.
Bang!
Lin Qi's body hit the door with a loud noise, waking up Ma Guizhi and Gan Tian who were sleeping.
"So noisy!" Gan Tian rubbed her eyes and looked at Lin Qi at the door. "Little fool, what are you doing?"
"They are going to the river to take a bath!" Lin Qi's eagerness to take a bath made her speak more fluently.
After saying that, without waiting for Ma Guizhi and Gan Tian to react, Lin Qi went to the wooden board, picked up her schoolbag, and walked out in a panic.
Half an hour later, Ma Guizhi and Gan Tian each grabbed one of Lin Qi's arms and followed Ming Kangjian and the other three to the river.
It was already completely light at this time, and besides people fetching water, there were also people washing clothes at the riverside.
"Over there is where our villagers take a bath. Men go over there where the water is deeper, and women and children go over there where the water is shallower. There are rocks underneath these two places and it's slippery, so you'd better be careful." said the villager.
Ming Kangjian, Jian Yi and the other three went straight to the men's bathing area without saying anything. Ma Guizhi and Gan Tian looked at each other and also went to the shallow water area.
Ma Guizhi: "Did you bring a swimsuit?"
Gan Tian: "I didn't bring any. Put on your clothes and go downstairs, and wash them while you're at it."
Ma Guizhi: "That's fine. Since there are few people on the road now, let's move faster."
Gan Tian: "We can go faster, but there is still someone who is slow, so we can't go faster."
Lin Qi, who was staring at the river in a daze: "........"
The water was not deep, only reaching Lin Qi's waist and abdomen, and it was not easy to drown someone. Seeing this, Ma Guizhi and Gan Tian ignored her and started to clean themselves.
It was August or September, when the weather was hot. Even in the morning, the river water was cool and people didn't feel cold in the water. Instead, it washed away the heat of the night and was extremely comfortable.
Lin Qi sat down on a rock, letting most of her body soak in the water, letting the river water wash over her body, while holding the soap in one hand and rubbing it on her shoulder-length hair. She put the soap back on the shore until bubbles formed and concentrated on washing her head.
Lin's mother once told her to wash her hair carefully, otherwise she would get lice.
Lin Qi had never seen lice, but she suspected that the original owner had lice on his head, otherwise her mother would not have been so nervous when lice were mentioned.
Lin Qi bent down, rubbing her hands clumsily, her mind focused, so much so that after years of struggling in the apocalypse, she did not notice that there was a little boy in the middle of the river, rising and falling, struggling desperately.
"Someone fell into the water!"
An auntie who was washing clothes on the bank stood up and was about to go home. She accidentally saw a figure struggling in the middle of the river and shouted hurriedly, "Help! Someone fell into the water!"
The next second, people by the river looked up towards the center of the river.
"The water in the middle of the river is about three or four meters deep. Anyone who is good at swimming, go and save people. I'll go find a bamboo pole."
"I can't do that. I'll go get a bamboo raft."
"The riverbed is full of waterweeds. Is the child entangled in the waterweeds?"
"There are water plants. I don't dare go there. I can't save them."
"......"
People on the shore were talking about it, but no one went down to rescue them.
While the villagers were hesitating, Ming Kangjian and his companions had already swam towards the child.
The villagers breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this, but they also reminded them loudly, "There are water plants at the bottom of the river, be careful!"
The villagers' reminder was not too late, but Ming Kangjian and his companions were only focused on saving people. In addition, their bodies were immersed in the water, and the sound of the water was heard in their ears, so they did not hear the sound from the shore at all. They had just approached the child when they were entangled by the long grass.
It’s over!
Looking at the four male educated youth unable to move in the water, the villagers' faces turned pale.
These were educated youth from the city. Four of them died on the second day after arriving at their brigade. How would they explain this to the public?
"I brought a hemp rope. I'll go down to save people. You guys hold the rope." A thin boy with a rough hemp rope wrapped around his waist came to the river at some point.
Seeing the young man, everyone had complicated expressions.
"Okay, we'll grab the rope and you go save the people."
When Lin Qi looked up, the boy had already grabbed the rope and swam to the middle of the river, like a nimble fish, coming and going freely.
"Don't just stand there, hurry to the shore!" Ma Guizhi reminded the stunned Gan Tian with a pale face.
Gan Tian came back to her senses and looked like she was about to cry, "My legs are weak and I can't walk anymore."
Ma Guizhi was so disappointed that she said, "That's all the courage you have!"
The two of them supported each other and walked towards the shore, and no one remembered Lin Qi who was standing beside them.
"He was too small and not strong enough to pull those people up."
"Let him wrap the rope around those men!"
"Will he also get entangled in the weeds?"
"......"
The people on the shore looked anxious.
The boy didn't hear the conversation on the shore. He ignored the four educated youths and swam towards the boy who fell into the water first. The boy, who was already too weak to struggle, looked at the person who suddenly approached. His strong desire to survive cheered him up. He didn't know where he got the strength from, and suddenly pounced on the person who approached, and wrapped his hands around him tightly.
"Oh no, he's sinking too!"
"Don't just stand there, pull the rope!"
"Everyone, work together!"
The hemp rope was tied around the boy's waist, and the boy was holding the boy. When the people on the shore exerted force, the boy's brows instantly frowned and his face showed pain.
In addition, Ming Kangjian and others also found the hemp rope, and each of them grabbed this life-saving rope.
The rough and crude hemp rope broke with a bang as everyone on the shore pulled it together.
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