Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside

Zhou Guoan used his barely trimmed nails to firmly hold onto the ice around him, delaying the time for him to sink to the bottom and be washed away by the current, while his legs tossed vigorously, he opened his throat and started screaming.

"Help. Help."

Zhou Guoan's desperate screams were finally heard by the children playing nearby, but it was also due to his laziness that he didn't want to go far, so that the children could hear his cry for help.

Tie Dan was the first to hear the sound. He greeted everyone and started looking for the source of the sound, and soon found Zhou Guoan struggling in the ice cave. Tie Dan crawled down and took a look, then started yelling .

"I know this person. I met him when I went to play with Big Brother Han. He is an educated youth in our village. He seems to be called something."

At this time, a slightly older child named Er Zhuzi interrupted Tie Dan's words and began to ask everyone to save others.

"Whatever his name is, it's important to save people now, Er Ya, hurry back to the village and call someone, and the others will untie the rope on the sledge and let him catch it."

Erya ran to the village as fast as she could, and the other children also started to untie the rope on the sledge. At this time, Tie Dan said in a muffled voice.

"Brother Zhuzi, it's good to give him the rope, but we can't hold it on this smooth ice, so don't drag us down again."

"Then see if the rope is long enough. If it is long enough, tie it to a tree by the river. Go to the two of you to find if there is a stick longer than the ice cave nearby. If not, let's tie the rope to the stick first."

When Zhou Guoan heard the voice from above, he immediately felt that he was saved, and his hands that could not hold on became stronger again.

However, after a long period of pulling the rope for pulling the sledge, it is very difficult to untie the knot. In order to save others, some children even started to bite the knot of the rope with their teeth. bleed.

But at this time, they were all busy reconnecting the ropes to save people, and they didn't pay attention to their own situation at all.

At this time, the adults were all staying in the house, and there was no one on the street at all.

So as soon as Erya entered the village, she began to shout, and the adults quickly came out of the house. After learning about the situation, some ran directly to the river, and some went to the captain and the village chief with a flexible mind, so that They use loudspeakers to inform everyone that it is not easy to find people under the ice holes, and it is hard to say that there are fewer people going there.

Some people ran towards Han Li, thinking that if they were caught, the educated youth would have a better chance of surviving with the hygienist by his side.

When Han Li was turning over the herbs in the pot with his hands, a villager broke in.

"Han educated youth, a male educated youth fell into the ice hole, you should go and have a look."

As soon as Han Li heard the news, he took the medicine pot off the stove and followed the villager outside, and only remembered to ask after he got out of the street.

"Which educated youth fell into the ice hole?"

"I don't know, it was Erya and his children who heard the shouts when they were playing on the ice, and ran back to report the news before they had time to see who they were."

When Han Li was about to reach the entrance of the village, Captain Liang's voice came out from the loudspeaker.

"Hey, hello, an educated youth in our village fell into the hole, young and old who are idle at home, hurry up to the river to help..."

When Han Li and the others ran to the river, there were already many people surrounded on the ice.

On top of the ice cave is a tree trunk dragged from nowhere, and a rope is tied to the trunk to hang into the ice cave.

Zhou Guoqing wrapped his own rope around his body, and also wrapped his hand a few times, but the person is not moving now, fluttering with the river, it is not whether he is dead or alive now. .

Hearing the chatter of the children around him, Han Li realized that Zhou Guoan had disappeared several times in the water, and later he swam back to the ice cave by himself, but when the rope was put inside, he put his arms After the rope is wrapped, it will not move.

In this situation, he didn't know if it was tied up, and everyone didn't dare to pull it up, for fear that if they pulled the rope, the rope would fall away and the person would disappear.

As for why the adults didn't go down to save people, it may be that older people think more. You must know that the section from the ice hole to the water surface is more than one meter deep. This height may not be a big deal in normal times, but in this kind of The circumstances were enough to kill a man.

Therefore, if there is no extra rope tied to oneself, no one dares to jump into the ice cave to save people, not to mention that the river below is still flowing, and a careless person can be washed away. It's a dead end.

And now, just a few days after April 9th, it is the coldest period here. The current temperature is probably minus 20 to 30 degrees, and the cold wind is fierce and biting. Shivering from the cold, jumping into the river to save people in this situation is no joke.

The most important thing is that although the river water did not overflow Zhou Guoan's mouth and nose, he did not move and did not know if he was drowned.

While listening to the villagers' discussions, Han Li began to move his body slowly. He wanted to keep his body in the best condition. He would not take any risks without the rope, but he planned to go down to save people when the rope came.

Soon Han Li saw Village Chief Zhao and Captain Liang running over with a group of people, several of whom were holding ropes.

Han Li took off the cap on his head and the scarf around his neck, and began to untie the opening of his coat. He wanted his body to gradually adapt to the outside temperature.

Village head Zhao and Captain Liang looked at Zhou Guoan's situation in the ice cave, and they knew that the villagers were right in not going down to save people. Just as they were about to choose who should go into the water, they saw that Han Li had already put away his coat and the little padded jacket inside. The mouth was untied.

"Han Li, what are you doing unbuttoning your clothes? Do you still want to go into the water to save people?"

"You're messing around."

Han Li could hear the maintenance in their accusation, and still smiled and explained his reasons.

"The village chief and the captain, I am young and strong, and my water skills are not bad. It is the most suitable for me to go into the water in this situation. I am saying that there are so many people with a rope. I will be fine."

These two looked at Han Li with firm eyes. In front of so many villagers, they couldn't force Han Li to go into the water and replace them with people from their own village. In that case, their prestige for many years would be completely ruined, so they could only turn around. Let the villagers check the rope carefully, and ask people to collect firewood and light the fire.

"You have to pay attention later, if it doesn't feel right, we will pull you out immediately."

"Well, I will definitely pay attention."

After Han Li finished speaking, he accelerated the speed of moving his body, and threw his coat to the others first.

Because he had already seen many women and educated youths in the village walking this way, including the Yun family sisters and He Mi and the others.

If Han Li didn't get into the water before they arrived, he might be delayed for a while.

Next, Han Li took off his jacket, cotton trousers, and cotton shoes. Every time he took off one piece, he would quickly punch a few times to move his body.

Finally, when there was only one big underpants left on his whole body, Village Chief Zhao stepped forward to tie a rope around Han Li's waist, then patted him on the shoulder and said.

"We don't know what's going on with Zhou Guoan now, but you must be careful to protect yourself."

Han Li nodded with a smile, made a cheering gesture with his right hand, and slid into the ice hole before Yun Yingying and the others squeezed in.