Chapter 369 I used the "water-pushing method" to save the girl
Crook runs faster than me.
When I arrived, a crowd had formed. I squeezed in and saw a girl, about 17 or 18, lying on the beach, a man squeezing her breasts. A woman was wailing in a Chinese dialect.
Crook was on the phone. Probably calling the emergency number.
Tang Man stopped the man from pressing randomly. Almost everyone around was Chinese, so there was no need to guess, they were a tour group.
"Save her, save her, save her..."
The tour guide was a local guide, and she kept asking others for help in two languages.
Crook was on the phone the whole time, so I asked the guide, "Isn't there a medical station here?"
The tour guide shook his head. “No, the nearest hospital is 30 minutes away from Alona Coast.”
I couldn't even get a needle from the hotel in time. When a drowning person chokes on water, time is of the essence. Time, time, time. At this moment, I must act.
I had to establish my authority before I took action. So, I shouted, "I am a Chinese doctor. Everything is under my control."
The crying woman, probably the girl's mother, suddenly stopped crying. The man, probably the girl's father, stopped massaging and suddenly looked up at me.
"You, kneel on your knees, arch your back, and support yourself with your hands. Have a few people help you support yourself."
The man immediately knelt down and hunched his back.
I pointed at another man. "Come, lift her up. Put her across his back, head down. Tang Man, lie down and suck hard into her mouth to clear the water from her mouth and throat."
Tang Man lay down facing the girl and kept sucking on her mouth.
"Tang Man, get out immediately."
I started pressing the girl's back.
Everyone understands that it is through squeezing, letting the man's back press against the girl's abdomen, to drain the water accumulated in the abdominal cavity.
Someone was afraid that the man could not hold on, so he got under him to help him.
This oldest method is very popular in my hometown. Whenever someone is drowning, they bring a large pot, turn it upside down on the ground, then lift the person onto the pot, put their head down, and squeeze hard to make the drowning person vomit out the water in their stomach.
Since there was no pot, the girl’s father had to act as the pot.
I squeezed and pressed, squeezed and pressed, squeezed and pressed. My head wasn't sweating, but cold sweat. Because, at most, two rounds, 24 squeezes each time. If the girl still didn't vomit by the 48th squeeze, it was a sure thing.
The first round, nothing happened. The second round began.
One, two, three, four... I counted the numbers in my mouth, my heart pounding.
Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen… I was getting more and more nervous.
Twenty, twenty-one.
"Wow!" The girl spit out her first mouthful of water, and I speed up. Two, two, two, three. Two, four, two, five.
Wow—the girl spit out another mouthful of water.
Two-five, two-six, two-seven, two-eight, twenty-nine.
Wow, wow, wow—water came out of the girl's mouth like a fountain.
"Come, some people, lift the girl up and lay her on her back. Tang Man, perform CPR."
Tang Man took over from me and pressed the girl's abdomen.
Then, breathe mouth to mouth.
At that moment, an emergency boat landed on the shore. I said to Tang Man, "The next step is up to you. I don't speak the language."
The girl, her parents, and the local guide were too busy to care about me. Several people helped lift her onto the emergency boat. I collapsed on the beach, exhausted, gasping for breath.
Suddenly, a tourist rushed out from the crowd, knelt down before me, and kowtowed. I didn't have the strength to help her up, so I said to her, "Get up."
With tears streaming down her face, she said, "Thank you, sir... I am... the girl's aunt. Thank you. I'll kowtow to you again."
Crook gestured for us to go, and we moved forward, Phil holding our clothes and our phones.
The girl's aunt came over and said, "Sir, where are you from and what is your name?"
I said, "We are all Chinese. Standing up for what is right is our virtue. You can go back."
We walked straight towards the resort hotel in front.
It was not easy for the woman to chase him anymore. After all, she was unfamiliar with the place and was afraid that she would get lost if she walked too far.
Crook raised his thumb and said something. Then he made a gesture of scrubbing his body. I understood what he meant, that I should go back and take a shower as soon as possible.
After getting in the car, they took me all the way to the hotel entrance and said goodbye with their hands clasped together.
I took a nice bath.
At this moment, the phone rang. It was my brother-in-law. He complained, "Why don't you answer my calls?"
I explained to him that I had gone to rescue someone. After I told him what had happened, he said, "I called you over ten times during dinner in front of my mother, but you didn't answer. Call back now."
I called Xiaolin and she started crying as soon as she heard my voice.
I exaggeratedly comforted her: "Don't worry, I have bodyguards when I travel here."
She stopped crying and could be heard running and calling for her mother.
My mother answered the phone, and the first thing she said was, "Is he okay?"
"I'm fine."
"Then why didn't you answer the phone?"
I also told him how Crook invited me to go out to sea, and when I got ashore I saw a Chinese man drowning, and how he saved the man by using the old-fashioned method of pushing water.
My mother finally let out a long sigh and said after a long while, "You can't make enough money. You might as well come back. Home is so nice."
"Can I call you every day from now on?"
"What's the point of calling? Come back."
I gave a wry smile and said, "Even if he can't come back, he still has a life. I want to cure his illness."
My mother was silent for a long time, then sighed and handed the phone to my father. My father talked to me for a while and then handed the phone to Xiaolin.
Xiao Lin said, "Mom is worried. Today it's Lao Xiao who's here, tomorrow it's Shi Ge, and the day after tomorrow it's Bai Ming who's here. Mom thinks something happened to you, and they're here to comfort you. Every time she pulls on someone's sleeve and asks, 'Is Shanhong okay?' She asks three or four times in ten minutes of sitting down."
"I'll be back as soon as possible. Don't worry, I'm fine here."
Xiaolin said he talked for about ten minutes before hanging up.
I suddenly thought that the constant flow of these people coming to my house was really making my parents uneasy, so I decided to send Xiaolin a photo every day.
Tang Man called. She said, "Teacher Wan, I just got back. The girl is in the hospital. It's nothing serious, but her parents are worried. She probably won't be discharged until tomorrow morning."
"How did you get back?"
"Phil picked me up."
I said, "Then you should have a good rest."
"The girl's parents left my phone number and yours. They said they'd thank you later. The girl's mother said they wouldn't be coming tomorrow, and that their friends living on the island would cross the sea and meet up there."
"Okay, take a break."
After hanging up the phone, I felt very tired, so I hung up the bedside phone and went to sleep.
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