Qi Mengmeng frowned. She remembered that there was an old couple on the boat just now. How come there was no one on the boat in just a few minutes?
She called Gu Guizhi and asked him to look in the direction of the boat.
Although Gu Guizhi's attention was always on Lei Lei, he did see two people on the boat just now. He had a bad feeling in his heart and rowed the boat towards the boat.
Nearing the direction of the boat, Qi Mengmeng spotted two old people struggling underwater. She quickly pointed them out to Gu Guizhi and was about to jump into the water.
Gu Guizhi grabbed her and said quickly, "I'll go."
As soon as Qi Mengmeng stretched out her hand, he jumped into the water, swam over quickly, and grabbed the old lady closest to him. The old lady tried to struggle, but he dragged her to the side of the boat.
Qi Mengmeng helped Gu Guizhi pull the old lady onto the boat. Gu Guizhi turned around to save the old man. The old lady struggled to continue jumping into the lake, but Qi Mengmeng quickly grabbed her.
"What are you doing? I just rescued you."
"I, don't stop me, let me die." The old lady struggled hard but had no strength.
"If you want to jump, wait until we leave, so as not to implicate us." Qi Mengmeng grabbed her angrily, "This boat is so small, if you keep shaking, we will all fall off, and my son is still on the boat."
The old lady saw that Qi Mengmeng was angry, then looked at Lei Lei who was looking at her curiously, and her lips moved but no sound came out.
Qi Mengmeng saw from the corner of her eye that she stopped struggling and her attention returned to Gu Guizhi in the lake.
Gu Guizhi had already dragged the old man onto the boat, but the old man had fallen into a coma.
"Old Jiang, Old Jiang..." The old lady crawled over, threw herself on the old man and started shouting.
Gu Guizhi had already started first aid for the old man. Two minutes later, the old man spat out a mouthful of water and opened his eyes.
The old lady cried a little louder: "Old Jiang, Old Jiang..."
The old man looked around, grinned a little, and looked at Gu Guizhi: "Young man, you saved me?"
"Yes." Gu Guizhi wrung the water off his clothes and nodded.
The old man wanted to get up, and Qi Mengmeng helped him up.
The old man leaned against the old lady, his face full of sorrow: "You saved me, but I'm afraid it will get you into trouble?"
"What?" Qi Mengmeng frowned. Is it wrong to save people now?
"I will be sent down in the next two days. If anyone knows that you saved me, I'm afraid it will be bad for you. Just put us down and leave quickly."
The old man finished speaking in a low voice, breathing softly.
Gu Guizhi and Qi Mengmeng looked at each other, and Gu Guizhi asked, "What do you do for a living?"
Nowadays, there are still many innocent people among those who are sent down.
"My wife and I are both teachers at Jingcheng University. We were previously students sent abroad by the state. They said I have overseas connections."
There was anger and unwillingness in the old man's voice.
"I was wrongly accused, and my only daughter was asked by her in-laws to cut off ties with us. We old couple don't want to live anymore, so we just want to die."
The old lady wiped her tears and said, "How could we do something that would let our country down? How could we do that?"
There was deep helplessness in Qi Mengmeng's eyes, but her ability was limited. The most she could do was to provide the two with some food, and nothing else.
"Old man, it's better to live a miserable life than to die. No one knows what the future will be like. You may feel that being sent down to the countryside is hard today, but maybe you will be rehabilitated in a few years."
Qi Mengmeng couldn't tell the other person that all he had to do was hold on for a few years.
"Grandpa, not all places where we are sent down are miserable. Some of the team leaders and village party secretaries down there are pretty good."
Gu Guizhi also advised, "If you die, it won't be a big deal."
"My grandfather said that there is hope only when people are alive." Lei Lei suddenly said, tilting his head.
Qi Mengmeng touched Lei Lei's head and nodded: "Leilei is right."
The old man looked at the three people, sighed, and for a moment he no longer had the thought of committing suicide.
This person wanted to commit suicide because of a strong impulse. When the impulse passed, the idea of ​​committing suicide faded a lot.
The old lady suddenly sneezed, and Qi Mengmeng said to Gu Guizhi, "Let's go ashore first, otherwise both of us will get sick from the cold."
Although the weather now is not cold, they are in the middle of the lake and there is a breeze blowing from time to time. In addition, the two old people are soaked. If this continues, they are likely to catch a cold.
Seeing that the two elderly men were relatively calm, Gu Guizhi rowed towards the shore.
Several people went ashore and handed the boat to the staff at the rowing department.
The staff frowned as they looked at the two elderly people who were soaked all over.
Qi Mengmeng explained: "Two elderly people accidentally fell into the lake. We rescued them, but they no longer have the strength to row the boat. The boat is in the middle of the lake, so we'd like to trouble you to row it back."
The staff member was a little unhappy, but the two old people looked so pitiful, and he was afraid that they would hold him responsible, so he could only nod.
Qi Mengmeng took out a few candies from her bag and handed them to the staff member, asking him to borrow some hot water.
The staff member's expression looked much better and he found an unused cup and poured a cup of hot water.
Qi Mengmeng handed the hot water to the old lady: "Drink some hot water to warm yourself up first."
The old lady thanked Qi Mengmeng and asked the old man to hold the cup with her.
The two old men drank the hot water in the cup one sip each.
Qi Mengmeng thanked the staff, returned the cup, and the few of them left together.
Gu Guizhi asked the two old people where they lived, as he wanted to send them back home.
The old man looked at Gu Guizhi and shook his head: "No, it would be bad for you if people saw you with us."
But Gu Guizhi was a soldier and very upright, and Qi Mengmeng felt that no one here knew them, so the two of them unanimously decided to send the two old people back.
Indeed, the two old men were dressed simply, had kind faces and good eyes, and did not look like bad people.
The old man saw that the two men really wanted to send them off, so he didn't insist on refusing them. He just asked them to follow behind them and not get too close to them.
Gu Guizhi and his friends followed the two old people and sent them back home.
What Qi Mengmeng didn't expect was that the two old people lived in a small house next to the public toilet near the park.
Watching the two old people walk into the hut, Qi Mengmeng and Gu Guizhi wanted to leave, but the old lady appeared at the door again. She looked around and saw that there was no one around, so she waved at them quickly.
Qi Mengmeng looked around and pulled Gu Guizhi into the cabin.
The hut is only about ten square meters. Because it is next to the public toilet, the smell is not pleasant, but it is relatively clean inside and things are neatly arranged.
When the old lady saw them coming in, she took out a box about half a foot long and handed it to Qi Mengmeng: "You saved us, and we have nothing to repay you. We can't keep this thing anyway, so consider it as a thank you gift."
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