Chapter 23 torrent

This small river has several floods every year; every year there are bad news that someone is drowned in the flood; the bad news is as violent as the flood. The small river is indeed small, and it does not appear on the provincial map, but it winds majesticly on the county map, and it seems to be more vivid than the Yellow River and Yangtze River on the national map.In any case, the creek is always there.In the dry season of summer, the trickle of water shows all kinds of charm and tenderness.The men rushed from the hot fields to the river, took off their shorts, and threw the smelly sweat and heat into the cool river, feeling refreshed and happy.The women carried a basket of dirty clothes that the whole family took off, washed them in the water, and beat them on the stones.Both men and women are close to the river, to the water.

When the rain continues and the streams of thousands of ravines converge into the small river, the small river suddenly becomes ferocious and ferocious, its face is completely changed, the yellow soup is surging, the waves are pushing and the waves are pushing, roaring, rushing from left to right, the momentum is quite scary .There are also people who are good at water and are not afraid of water, but take advantage of the opportunity of floods to make a fortune, and they are very active at this time.A tree, a rafter, or a plank floated down from upstream, and they jumped into the water, bobbing on the waves, and made such fortunes as wood for building houses, which made those who were not accustomed to water jealous.However, there are also people who lost their horses and lost their lives.This kind of water generally does not cause too much loss, because it comes slowly and rises slowly, and everyone is on guard.The most frightening thing is the sudden flash flood, which is a sudden torrential rain in the mountains, while the sun is red on the plain, and people come and go in the river without any precautions. He became the drowning ghost of this small river.

Lao Li from the power supply bureau suffered this setback. Lao Li was supposed to be young, only in his thirties, and the country people called all the officials and family members "Lao Mou", which was regarded as respect.Lao Li crossed the river from the north bank of the river, collected the electricity bills of several villages, and then pushed his bicycle across the north bank to return to the county before dark to meet his wife and children.There is a bag of watermelons on the rear rack of his bicycle, and fresh vegetables such as garlic and peppers are contained in the net bags hanging on the front of the bicycle, all of which are gifts from self-employed farmers in the village.He has been running this route for several years, and he knows everyone well. In any village he enters, cadres and villagers know him, greet him warmly, and are willing to give him some local products.He walked across the hot sandy beach and came to the water's edge, wearing plastic sandals, so he didn't have to take off his shoes, and pushed his bicycle through the water.The water is very clear and shallow, only half of the wheel is buried, and the current is very narrow, so it takes less than five minutes to wade across.He set up his bicycle, took off his trousers, his vest, and only put on a pair of underpants, then he got into the water with a plop, washed, swam, and felt as comfortable as a fairy.If he hadn't seen a woman washing clothes down the river, he would have stripped naked and gone into the water.

Lao Li lay in the water, letting the cool water slide over his chest, as if thousands of soft palms were caressing him.He was resting on a river rock, looking at the blue sky, a few wisps of white clouds, like smoke like silk, like gauze like cicada wings, curling up leisurely, in vain aroused a feeling of joy.Suddenly, he heard a strange sound, which seemed to be a dull rumbling sound coming from the earth, and it seemed to come from the sky.I didn't care much when I first heard it, and mistakenly thought it was the echo of an airplane flying over the original slopes on both sides of the river from a distance.After a while, the buzzing sound became louder and louder, like thousands of troops galloping across the wasteland, and suddenly turned into a roar.He suddenly felt a kind of terror and a tremor in his heart, so he jumped up from the water, looked up and down, and saw a few people running like rabbits running for their lives on the upper and lower beaches; God, a piece of yellow soup, wrapped in a cloud of fog, is rushing down.He didn't care about dressing, he pushed the car and ran away.The soft sand on the beach was like mud, and he couldn't ride a bicycle, and it was so far away from the embankment on the other side, so he was very anxious.Seeing the roar and the fog getting closer, a gust of cold wind pierced through the chest.He threw the car away, threw his hands away, and ran like hell... Just when Lao Li was only three or two meters away from the river embankment, the yellow soup and the fog swallowed him up and carried him away. Bullets.

In an instant, Lao Li lost all consciousness, no joy or pain, and the fear and panic when running were all over at that moment. Fire and water are merciless!Ruthless fire and water! Old Li is finished, and he is finished in his early thirties.If he hadn't been greedy for that bend of clear water that is so charming and tender, he would have pushed his cart up to the river embankment on the north bank early, not only would he not be able to finish it, but he could have stood on the embankment and watched the water rise and the river collapse, watching the sudden burst of rage Xiao He is as charming and tender as a young daughter-in-law who wakes up.However, he is finished after all, leaving thousands of regrets to the acquaintances or strangers on the river bank to chew on in the future.

But Lao Li didn't finish it. Lao Li met a benefactor who saved his life.Villagers in Hejia Village, three miles away from the place where Lao Li's accident happened, rescued Lao Li. Hejia Village is close to a small river, and there are many people in the villagers who love to make money.Whenever the river surged, some young people with good water quality rushed to the embankment, and wanted to fish for the wood floating down.Of course, young people are eager to win, and they want to take this opportunity to show their skills and compete with each other.This time, instead of making foreign money, they brought in a dead man.

Thirty-year-old villager He Lengwa was the first to spot the drowning person and jumped into the river first.Leng Wa was counted as a white strip in the water in Hejia Village, and a man in the village, with broad arms and thin waist, arms like apes. The fundamentals of dog paddle swimming in a creek.He saw a head floating down from the upper reaches at a glance, Youhu sank again, and in an instant he saw an arm again, Leng Wa jumped into the water.Following Leng Wa's entry into the water, Plop Plop jumped into three or four young people, all of whom were good swimmers from Hejia Village.One after the other, they rushed straight to the center of the river.

The four people surrounded, pushed, pulled, and finally pulled the drowning person ashore. The villagers watching the fun touched their noses and were all frustrated: "The ball is dead! The ball is dead!" An experienced old man said that the death may be a fake death, and that a rescue might bring him back to life.So he called over the boy who was grazing cattle nearby.Pull a yellow ox, help the person who fell into the water onto the back of the ox, put it on the back of the ox, press the bulging belly on the back of the ox, and let the cowherd boy lead the ox around the river embankment.

As the child walks, so does the scalper.The person who fell into the water suddenly spit out big puddles of yellow mud soup with a clatter, and the stench was overflowing.The old man supported his feet and ordered the child to continue walking around with the cow.The cow-herding boy held his nose and yelled that the stench was unbearable, and he still led the cow.The person who fell into the water vomited again, and this time the vomited food, minced meat and vegetable crumbs were even more stinky.The cow herding doll dropped the reins and ran away.As soon as the ox ran, the person who fell into the water fell from the back of the ox, and even snorted, which proved that he was indeed still alive and that it was not over.

The villagers all gathered around, saying that this person was fatal. Some people laughed and said that Leng Wa should be on the radio, should be on the newspaper, and should receive a bonus for saving herself and saving others. The old man turned the drowning man over, his face seemed to be covered with black soil, it was scary, suddenly his eyelids rolled, the eyeballs rolled, and then closed again.At this moment, someone recognized the man who fell into the water as Lao Li, who was collecting electricity bills, and shouted: "Ah! How did you rescue this donkey?" "How did this dog get rescued?"

"What are you doing to save this guy? Rescue him before harming others?" So, the old man stopped.He had already picked up a pile of dry grass and branches, took out matches, and wanted to light a fire to warm up the heat. He heard that it was Lao Li from the donkey day who charged the electricity bill, so he put the drawn matches back into the box. As a result, Leng Wa suddenly became gloomy.He was the first to spot the drowning man, and he was the first to jump into the water to catch the drowning man. He was being respected and praised by the villagers of Hejia Village. Some people even said that he should be praised by broadcasting and publishing newspapers. So great.He picked up a man whom the villagers of Hejia Village loathed and even hated, and even his heroic deeds lost their luster.This situation is just like what you saved is not a person but a mouse... Think about it, will people still respect you? The old man, who has always shown compassion, pouted his gray beard, stood up from beside Lao Li in disappointment, lit the tobacco pot with a match, smoked the pipe, and said in disappointment, "I thought we saved... Personally! Who would have guessed it wasn't..." A group of people—the men on the river embankment in Hejia Village, the old and the young, and the cowherd dolls, now all put their hands in their hands, looking at Lao Li like a dead fish or a dead worm, talking a lot: "The donkey day was flooded today, God has eyes!" "God really has eyes! Look at the deceitful deception of donkey day! It's unforgivable!" "Lengwa doesn't jitter, he only knows how to go down the river to catch people, what can he catch!" Leng Wa didn't say a word from the beginning to the end.When people said that he should be on the radio, be published in the newspaper and get a bonus, he was just complacent, showing his ability to save people from such a fierce river.Now, he was dejectedly listening to everyone's complaints, and suddenly became annoyed. He grabbed the man's arm and grabbed the man's ankle. With a roar, he lifted Lao Li and threw him into the river. Everyone was shocked.What a cold baby!Cold bear! The old man panicked: "Leng baby, what are you doing?" Leng Wa: "Where did he come from and where will he go back?" The old man: "If you don't save people, you don't save them. If you save people and then throw them into the river, it's tantamount to killing people!" Leng Wa panicked again, cursing: "Damn it! It's neither saving nor throwing, what should I do?" Old man: "Go and fish it up!" Leng Wa jumped into the water again. Fortunately, there is a stone dam on the bank, and the water flow is swirling, but the flow speed is extremely slow.Leng Wa jumped into the water and pulled Lao Li up again.Lao Li's belly was swollen and filled with muddy soup and turbid water. The old man called the cowherd boy again. The cattle-herding boy brings the cattle. Lao Li was put on the back of a yellow ox again, wandered around, vomited again, and was smelly again. Everyone laughed because of this. Everyone is happy. "Spit up donkey day! Spit out all the unintentional food that we have eaten and drank in the past few years!" "This donkey day loves to eat! He loves to eat and take everything that grows in our fields, on trees, and in pens! Good! This time it's called donkey day's spit light!" Lao Li was lying on the grass by the embankment, struggling to open his eyes, and seemed to have initially recovered his hearing. He struggled to support the ground with his arms, sat up, suddenly climbed down, and said inarticulately: "Men from the township party... …I'm not human……" "You are... the king of electricity." "You are an electric tiger!" "You are Electric-Wolf!" Lao Li crawled on the ground, crying. At this time, the old man was moved with compassion, squatted down, struck a match, lit the firewood, and a flame rose to roast the shivering old Li, and said mockingly: "Old Li! You used to be too heartless. Think about it, that year when we were threshing wheat, you cut off the electricity, and the threshing machine stopped working immediately. Now every household has to take turns threshing wheat, and you are bullying the farmers of Quanhejia Village..." "You warmed him up!" "Throw the ass in the water!" It was too late to say it, and then soon, Leng Wa grabbed Lao Li's hands, and a young man next to him grabbed Lao Li's feet and lifted him from the grass. With one or two yells, Lao Li went back into the river again. Everyone laughed and had fun on the shore, watching Lao Li scurry about in the water, scrambling and planing. Leng Wa jumped into the water again and pulled Lao Li up again. Lao Li filled his stomach with water again; was carried on the back of the ox again; spit out the yellow soup again; struggled and moaned on the grass and rolled his eyes again. Everyone laughed happily.People who love to talk naughty and sarcastic, now have the opportunity to show their skills.People who don't like to talk, even good people, even though they don't say anything, they feel very happy in their hearts.Everyone is angry.This old Li, who has a tool bag on his buttocks and a ledger in his pocket, used to be more powerful than the governor or the emperor. No one dares to mess with cadres and villagers.Now, this electric tyrant, electric tiger, electric wolf, is being tortured half to death by the flood, and he is grateful to them.He fell into their hands, and God has eyes! The boys made a fuss again: "Throw the donkey's day into the river and fill it with yellow soup!" Old Li instinctively hugged the old man's leg, not letting go. This time the old man was in a hurry: "Could it be that - won't electricity be used in the future?" There are not many words, it all depends on the lack of ideas.The old man's words immediately stunned the people present.Everyone seemed to wake up suddenly from the happy situation of the quick talk.Now that Leng Wa saved Lao Li, Lao Li will be in charge of the power supply work in Hejia Village in the future; if Leng Wa does not save him and let the flood wash him into the sea without a trace, he can count on the County Electricity Management Bureau to send another Good electrician is here.Lao Li didn't die and still took care of their electricity.Lao Li is still a living electric bully, electric tiger, electric wolf! Several villagers knelt down to gather around the fire and bake it for Lao Li.Several helped Lao Li wipe off the dirt on his body and face, expressing their remorse for the disrespectful behavior just now.Some people grumbled and complained that Lengwa was too cold, since they were rescued, they shouldn't be thrown into the water over and over again... Leng Wa suddenly spat on the ground, and said coldly: "I'm going to use cows to grind wheat, use stone mills to grind flour, use kerosene to light lamps, so I don't need electricity. Let's see if he can kill me with electric wolves, electric tigers, and electric overlords." ?” He spat, turned and left. Everyone was busy saving Lao Li. Lao Li was already weak, limp and exhausted.He heard all the discussions of these people, and felt all the care and assistance from the villagers of Hejia Village to him now.The fire of busy hands and hot people, but the heart is very cold. These people are still afraid of him...