Chapter 33 Section thirty-two
It took Yang Chi several hours to untie the rope. The fruit knife was too small, and he couldn't pick it up with his back tied, and couldn't exert his strength.For a while he almost lost his patience, felt that the whole world owed him, and just wanted to kill him head on.Then he stood up, with the knife in his backhand, and hopped to the farmhouse gate, slipping the blade through the crack where it stuck.He put his tailbone against the handle of the knife, and repeatedly sharpened the rope on his wrist on the blade. Several times, the blade cut through the flesh, and he didn't stop.The water had already flooded the farmhouse.He let go of the knife, jumped to the wallet, picked it up in his mouth and placed it on the straw.The water level seems to be rising very fast, and the rain is too heavy. It seems that some place is releasing water.Yang Chi remembered that Xiao Su said that a dike break was terrible, and he had to climb up the roof or a tree and tie himself tightly to a big log.Yang Chi went back to the gate to grind the rope again, when suddenly his hand loosened, blood poured from his shoulder into his arm, his fingertips were hot and numb.Immediately afterwards, he cut the rope on his feet with a fruit knife, jumped a few times on the spot, and let himself move.The dirt road has disappeared, the muddy water is vast, and the floating objects on the surface of the water gradually increase, slowly flowing towards the east.Knowing that he couldn't go, Yang Chi found a wooden ladder, set it up, pocketed his ticket holder and fruit knife, and climbed up to the roof of the farmhouse. On the pitched roof he felt the tiles vibrate.The farmhouse is a brick and wood structure that doesn't look like it's going to fall down anytime soon.He put away the ladder, sat on the roof ridge, took off his shirt and wrung dry the wound binding his right wrist.The rain fell on the body, and a strong wind swept the water.Yang Chi felt very exciting, yes, it was amazing.He stood up very carefully, straightened his body on the ridge of the roof, spread his arms to keep his balance, and shouted: "Zhu Kang, old Bao, fuck you, you want to kill me. I can't kill you—" Guang He screamed a few more times with his arms stretched out. After venting, he looked around and saw the woods in the south, and a submerged village in the north. You can see many two-story houses, which shows that the local farmers are still rich.In the poorest places he has ever been to, farmers used adobe to build houses, which melted when they encountered water. Yang Chi had seen the town after the flood receded, with mud, drowned animals and settled garbage everywhere.The front and back doors of every house are left open to let the water pass through the house so that the house will not be washed away.The door panel was removed, and it was hung horizontally on the beam with a thick rope, and the pig stayed on the door panel.People came down from the mountain one after another, calmly cleaning up their homes.People don't seem to care about the floods, and some places are flooded this time of year.People like to gather by the river to watch the trees and dead pigs and cows in the rapids. Those who are brave can use a hook to salvage driftwood in the water, which is a small fortune.People are even happy to see the bridge collapsed and people washed away, and they happily help the old and the young to evacuate until the flood reaches their homes.Floods are like a drama that begins and ends, as it has been for thousands of years.When he stood on the roof of the farmhouse and saw the vast flood, he felt for a moment that it was not a disaster, but the flow of time, filled with the faces of countless people. Yang Chi was lying on the ridge of the roof, wondering if he had lost his mind, but he actually read history from the monotonous surface of the water.He opened his eyes and looked at the sky, the sky was iron-gray, and there were many faces floating there, all of them were people he knew.The Duobi Group headed by Minister Bao, and the Lover Group headed by Dai Dai.He suddenly felt relaxed. Although he didn't escape from death, at least he escaped disaster.This is the most tedious moment, waiting for death, if only there is a game console.He couldn't help but sang Yue opera, which was taught by his senior sister Shaoxing, and it was mainly used to describe the corrupt and boring university life.He hasn't sung it for a long time, but he still remembers the words: I was elated for a while, and then I was really hungry.At that time, he never thought that he would starve on the roof for two days and two nights. At night he was still sleeping on the roof, and the rain was still falling.Of course he didn't dream, as the saying goes in the Western saying "guerrillas don't dream", he slept too lightly, his mind was full of floods, in fact it was full of floods, but he couldn't see anything in the dark night.At dawn the next day, he stood up and took a deep breath. The water flooded the gate of the farmhouse, and he could wash his feet sitting on the eaves.Only half of the forest in the distance is left, and I thought it was a bush from a distance.In the village on the other side, the buildings have also become sparse, and most of them are submerged in the water.At this time, the flood seemed to be flowing slowly, but there were big waves, the wind was blowing from the southeast, and the rain stopped.Everything on the water, furniture, fences, straw, was still.After a while, he saw a dead pig stretched out, floating on the water like an inflatable toy.Here's everything we saw that morning. He felt that the roof was like a raft, trying to take him somewhere.The roof is stationary, of course, but it floats through some very peculiar times and spaces.When he was in college, he often climbed to the roof of the dormitory with his senior sister Shaoxing, watching the stars on summer nights, watching them all night, and sometimes taking advantage of no one to have sex or something, and then waiting for the dawn together with their arms around their shoulders, feeling clear-minded, like a god I am comforting myself.When it came to this, he thought, God is really desperate to use this method to clear the minds of countless victims, soldiers, small cadres on the embankment, and him, a pesticide dealer who strayed into the depths of the flood.Then he thought, not necessarily, some people are not clear-minded, such as Minister Bao and Zhu Kang, let them die again, they will still be the same as before, and they can't change.Thinking of this, he felt that he did not have a clear mind, and he failed the good intentions of nature. This afternoon, the water potential seemed to recede a little, and the clouds began to become colorful, with curves and light and shade. Sparkling, not so cloudy.Yang Chi had never admired clouds so carefully before, if it wasn't for hunger and thirst, he would rather stay on the roof for a while longer.When twilight fell, the sunset did not have time to appear, and everything sank into the solid darkness again. He felt very sorry, and also felt a little fear. He didn't know if he could still see the sun tomorrow. On this black raft, he Will it go crazy. Another day passed.In the morning, he was woken up by the crowing of a group of ducks, and someone shouted to him: "Hey, are you still alive?" Yang Chi opened his eyes and sat up, only to see a girl sitting in the bathtub, holding a clothespin in her hand. The pole acts as a pole, watching him from the water not far away, and a group of ducks are circling around the bathtub.Yang Chi asked feebly, "Where are you from?" The girl pointed to the village.Yang Chi said, "Is there anyone else in the village?" The girl said, "There are still seven or eight old people and children trapped on the second floor." Yang Chi said: "What are you doing here?" The girl said: "We have binoculars and saw you on the roof. My grandma said that if you stay there any longer you will die. Let me bring you some food." Chi said: "Thank you very much, take the risk, don't fall into the water." The girl said: "It doesn't matter, I can swim, the water has receded. I guess the assault boat of the armed police will come today. Our place is low. If there is a flood, it will be flooded, and the armed police will definitely find this place." Yang Chi said, "Don't explain, just give me something to eat!" The girl rowed the bathtub close to the roof, gave Yang Chi a water bottle, and gave him a pack of biscuits.Yang Chi swallowed it all, and said to the girl, "Do you have anything to eat?" The girl said, "There is more. Do you have enough?" Yang Chi said, "I want to light a fire and roast a duck. The girl said, "Hey, you are so mean. Let me give you a salted duck egg." As she spoke, she took out a salted duck egg from her pocket and handed it to Yang Chi.Yang Chi said: "You are really a good person. I am a pesticide seller. I can give you a lot of pesticides if you want them in the future." The girl said, "I don't want pesticides. My family raises ducks and hates pesticides the most." Yang Chi swallowed Duck said: "Yes, pesticides are the most annoying, and I don't even want to sell pesticides." The girl rowed away in the tub.Yang Chi thought to himself, this girl is so cute, it is beyond cute to describe, but holy, like a god of revelation.But this god actually raises ducks and sits in the bathtub. What does that mean?Later, I thought, I seemed to have promised God that I would no longer sell pesticides, and that was the deal.If he can get out alive, he will never be exposed to pesticides in this life. That afternoon, Yang Chi heard the roar of the motor of the assault boat, and four armed police soldiers came driving the boat.Yang Chi stood up tremblingly, waved to them, crossed his arms and swung vigorously, accidentally fell off the roof, fell into the water and took a few sips.A young soldier wearing a life jacket jumped into the water to catch Yang Chi without hesitation. Yang Chi, who could swim, floated up by himself, vomited a mouthful of dirty water, and said to the armed police soldiers, "There are still people in the village over there." Said: "The lifeboat has already passed by, let's go back first." Yang Chi said: "Let's go there too, there are still many people on board." The original intention was to see the girl raising ducks again.The soldiers comforted him and said, "Don't worry, we'll send you to the ambulance station for inspection first. You drank water just now, and you'll get dysentery." Yang Chi thought, fuck it, it's over.Asked again how far the disaster was, the young soldier said sadly: The gap is closed, and some of our comrades died. On the Zodiac, Yang Chi was wrapped in the raincoat given to him by the soldiers, and suddenly felt very cold, trembling and speechless.No one spoke.After a while he took out the wallet in his trouser pocket, opened it, poured out the water, and saw Dai Dai in the photo.In the two days and two nights on the roof, he didn't see a picture of the child once, and felt terrified, as if he would lose her immediately if he saw it.Now he opened the wallet, knowing very well that the child was gone.He said to Dai Dai: I really don't know how to explain it to you, please recite it.