The closer he got, the more frightened he felt. This river was a flowing water, and the cold came late this year, so the river surface had just frozen. Tian Cai looked at the thickness of the ice from the side of the hole he had smashed. It was only about ten centimeters near the shore, and the ice would become thinner as he got closer to the center of the river.
Her right eyelid kept twitching. Tian Cai called out to a few half-grown children who were slipping on the ice to come down. "Hurry up and get down! All of you! The ice isn't solid yet. It would be dangerous if you fell!"
The children were all at an age where cats and dogs hated each other. One of them, who looked unfamiliar and was about ten years old, deliberately angered Tian Cai when he heard her say that. "I won't go down, I won't go down. My mother doesn't care about me, so who do you think you are? If you meddle in other people's business again, I'll beat you up!"
Tian Cai was so angry that she wanted to drag the boy over and beat him up, but she looked at the thin ice and didn't dare to go up, for fear that her weight would crush the ice. So she called out to a few kids she knew, "Shuanzi, Gousheng, Douhua, all of you hurry up and get down! The ice is too thin. If you fall down, you'll all be frozen into popsicles! Come down quickly!"
"Popsicle hahaha!"
"Ha ha ha ha"
These children had all gone to see Dr. Tian Cai for treatment, and they all liked her very much. With the pills prescribed by Dr. Tian, they no longer had to go to the clinic for injections, and they were willing to listen to her. So they came down from the river laughing and joking. Their idea was simple: to wait for Tian Cai to go home and then go back up.
How could Tian Cai not know what these children were thinking? She grabbed all three of them and dragged them away from the river. When they were a little further away, she asked the children, "Whose children are the remaining two? Whoever tells me will get a candy pill as a reward."
"I know, I know!"
"I know!"
Tian Cai pointed at Shuanzi and replied, "You say."
"The one in red is Mr. Hu's grandson. He came back with his mother to visit relatives."
Tian Cai then pointed at Gou Sheng and asked the other child who had just argued with her, "Whose child is he?"
"He is from Li Dasheng's family!"
Tian Cai nodded thoughtfully. Li Dasheng, isn't that the guy at the village head who beats his wife every day? It seems that the child is not much better than his father. He always shouts for fighting and killing.
Douhua was so anxious because she didn't get the chance to answer the question. Tian Cai patted her head soothingly and said, "Douhua, can you help Sister Tian notify their family later? Tell them that Sister Tian said the river is too dangerous and asked them to take the child back."
She used to call herself Aunt Tian, but the children's parents asked them to call her Sister.
Seeing Douhua nodded, Tian Cai took out a bottle of digestive pills from his pocket and gave one to each of them. The main ingredient of the pill was hawthorn, which was sour and sweet and very appetizing. She usually ate it as a snack.
Just after she had distributed candy to the little ones, Luo Xiuyan came calling her from the backyard of Tian Cai's house, saying that Zhang Defa asked her to come over.
It just so happened that Tian Cai also wanted to talk to the captain about the ice problem, so he hurriedly chased the children to find Li Dasheng and the Hu family. Shuanzi and Gousheng were both seven or eight years old, and Douhua was younger, but they could still explain anything.
Tian Cai greeted them again when she left, but the two children were having fun and ignored her.
She trotted all the way to the captain's house, only to find out that it was Gao Huijuan who was looking for her.
"Aunt Gao, is there anything you want me to do? Where is my Uncle Zhang?" Tian Cai hadn't seen Zhang Defa since she entered the yard, and she felt a little anxious.
"Maybe he went to the brigade headquarters. He's busy these days. You can go find him later," Gao Huijuan said, pulling Tian Cai to the kang in the inner room and pointing at a woman who was feeling unwell. "My sister-in-law Xiaoju has been feeling a little unwell lately. I want you to take a look at her."
Tian Cai nodded at her. The woman blushed and quietly hid behind Gao Huijuan. She felt that it was a little difficult to talk about her illness.
Tian Cai had something on her mind and wanted to make a quick decision, but seeing how hesitant she was, she was afraid it wouldn't be done for a while. "Sister-in-law Xiaoju, I have something urgent to tell the captain. Is tonight convenient for you? How about you come to my place tonight and I'll take a good look at you?"
Sister Xiaoju knew that she was a shy person and was afraid that they would think she was shirking responsibility, so she explained the situation by the river. Only then did the two of them realize that Tian Cai really had something to do.
"Then I'll go to the brigade headquarters with you. Your Uncle Zhang should be there!" After understanding what happened, Gao Huijuan no longer cared about Xiaoju's illness. She quickly pulled Tian Cai to the brigade headquarters, secretly cursing these unreasonable parents in her heart. If something really happened to the child, her family would not have a peaceful New Year.
As soon as the two arrived at the brigade headquarters, they ran into Zhang Defa who had come out to use the toilet. After Tian Cai told him the situation, Zhang Defa's face darkened and he called several people who were in the brigade headquarters to go to the river.
The reason why Tian Cai insisted on finding Zhang Defa was that, on the one hand, he was the team leader and had always been very prestigious in the village. The children were influenced by their parents and were afraid of him. On the other hand, no one was allowed to go on the ice and he, the team leader, had to give the order.
As a special police officer, swimming is a necessary skill for Tian Cai, but Tian Cai is not good at it. The 200-meter swimming in the physical fitness test that year needed to be completed within six minutes, and she just barely passed.
As soon as they turned around Tian Cai's yard, they saw the child in red clothes lying on the ice from a distance. The other child was nowhere to be found. Then, from their sight, the child in red clothes suddenly disappeared.
"Not good!" Tian Cai was the first to run towards the river. The situation she was most worried about had happened. "Hurry up and save them!"
Zhang Defa and his men chased closely after her, running in the direction where the boy in red clothes had just fallen.
The river was full of running water, and the current was neither too strong nor too weak. Tian Cai ran directly to the ice surface about fifty meters downstream from the falling point. Now she didn't care whether she could swim or not. She picked up a stone from the side and threw it at the ice surface.
After a few consecutive hits, a long, rectangular hole was created. The spot she had chosen was a water outlet. If she wanted to drift down, she would definitely have to pass through here. At this moment, she heard people ahead, scattered and staring at the ice, shouting, "It's drifting down, it's drifting down, go stop it from below!"
Tian Cai didn't even raise his head and shouted to the front, "I'm here!"
As soon as the red color appeared in his sight, he quickly grabbed it, lifted it up with force, and threw it to the person waiting nearby.
Yan Xudong hugged the cold child. The child fell in later and was still conscious, but had choked on water. Zhang Defa held him upside down and patted him. The child coughed a few times and then burst into tears.
The mother of the child who was called over by Shuanzi was so scared that she knelt down on the spot. This was her family's roots. If anything happened here, she would have to go with them. For a while, the mother and child cried one after another.
After throwing the first one, Tian Cai didn't dare to be distracted. He continued to stare at the flowing water, secretly praying that the child would not sink to the bottom.
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