Chen Yang held onto the pole tightly, and several women helped. Pulling someone from the water was no small matter; two lives were at stake.
"Da Ni, San Ni, hurry and help pull the pole, Tie Tou, my son."
Chen Yang looked up. A woman was kneeling by the river, her hand outstretched, dragging the pole, her body almost in the water.
Isn't this Chun Yan, Shen Guang Lin's wife? Shen Guang Lin himself had been swept away by the flood while repairing the river embankment back then.
It was hard on this woman, raising three children alone and struggling to survive.
The father died in the water, and the son still dared to play in it. This brat. Chen Yang looked at the bamboo pole. Fortunately, Shen Er Meng had already grabbed Shen Tie Tou and pulled him onto the pole.
This brat finally knew fear. He held on for dear life. Shen Er Meng also paused for a breath, holding the pole.
He had been dragged down by this kid earlier and swallowed a few mouthfuls of water. It was a good thing Chen Yang threw down this bamboo pole, otherwise, he might have been pulled down by this child.
"Tie Tou, Er Meng, hold on tight, we're pulling you up."
Chen Yang pulled the bamboo pole towards the shore. Other men had also rescued children. They were pulling, and when they were close to the shore, they grabbed Shen Tie Tou, and with the combined effort of several people, they finally pulled him ashore.
Shen Er Meng was also pulled up shortly after. The young man collapsed on the ground, gasping for air. He was exhausted. If Chen Yang hadn't thrown the bamboo pole in time, he would have been in grave danger today.
"Quick, get the child to spit out water."
"Hurry and turn this child over and carry him on your back to spit out water, quickly."
Just then, another child was rescued. However, this child was no longer moving, his face a mottled blue-purple.
An experienced elder immediately instructed a young man to arch his back, place the child prone on his back, and quickly pat his back.
"Gack!"
After several attempts to clear his airway, the boy immediately vomited a large amount of water. Even after pressing several times, water spilled all over the ground, but the child still didn't wake up.
"Do artificial respiration, quickly, help him breathe, he might have drowned."
"Check if the child's nose and mouth are filled with water weeds. If it's blocked, he can't breathe. Clean it quickly, unbutton his shirt so it's not too tight."
"Clean and do artificial respiration, breathe into his mouth."
Chen Yang watched anxiously. He didn't have much experience, only vaguely remembering some first aid knowledge from TV.
He said this and ran over. The child's father was also scared silly, looking at his blue-purple child, a man weighing over a hundred pounds, unable to stand and collapsing on the ground.
Chen Yang opened the child's mouth. Indeed, there were water weeds inside. He quickly picked them out with his finger. He also checked his nose, which was also full of mud and sand. He quickly cleaned it.
Then he pinched the child's nose and began to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
After seven or eight breaths, Chen Yang himself was almost out of breath. Only then did he see the child's chest rise and fall.
"Cough, cough."
The boy coughed a few times, vomited more water, and his complexion finally recovered a little.
Chen Yang lay on the ground, panting heavily without any regard for his appearance. He had finally saved him. This was a living human life. Fortunately, fortunately.
There were no more people in the river. All the dozen or so children had been rescued.
It was this boy who had been choking on water all along. Others went to pull him, and that's when the accident happened.
Chen Yang glanced at the boy's feet. There were water weeds tangled around them. He was probably dragged down while swimming. In his panic, the more he struggled, the more he choked, and the more he choked, the more he panicked.
In the water, if you panic, even a good swimmer will drown. The more you struggle, the faster you die. Fortunately, the adults discovered it in time and rescued them.
The dozen or so children were all held by their parents, who were also terrified.
Who hadn't been scared by their parents with stories of water ghosts and water monkeys when they were young, warning them not to go near the river?
Perhaps the memory of this incident would become a lifelong psychological shadow for these kids.
However, it only lasted for a while. The parents who had been holding their children began to spank their bottoms.
Especially Chun Yan, Shen Guang Lin's wife. It was indeed not easy for a woman to raise three children, and Shen Tie Tou was her only son, whom she cherished even more.
The more she doted on him normally, the harder she hit him now.
Shen Er Meng, lying nearby, watched Chun Yan spanking her child and almost rolled with laughter.
The children were all fine. After the scare, it was only natural to teach them a lesson with a spanking. Everyone was waiting for this show.
The cries of children could be heard one after another. The adults didn't stop them. If the adults hadn't arrived in time today, Shen Guo Bao's eldest son, Shen Dong Gen, might have lost his life.
Look at the marks on his ankle. This was a water ghost pulling him, wasn't it? This boy would never be able to go near the water again. Once a person had been pulled by a water ghost and had such marks,
they were bound to have an accident if they went into the water again.
"Yang Zi, if it wasn't for you today, my son would have lost his life. I, Shen Guo Bao, don't know how to repay you. My wife and I will kowtow to you first."
"From now on, if you ever need me, Yang Zi, you only need to say the word, and I'll blink my eyes. If I don't, I'm not human."
Chen Yang was watching the scene when Shen Guo Bao, holding his wife, suddenly knelt before him and then kowtowed heavily. Su Dan Novel Network.
Chen Yang quickly tried to help them up, but he couldn't budge them. This man and his wife were extremely sincere, and their kowtows were so heavy.
"Yang Zi, don't stop us. Saving a life is worth a kowtow."
The old village head, Shen Fu Guo, had also rushed over from the village office. Seeing this, he immediately told Chen Yang to accept the礼.
Chen Yang had no choice but to accept the kowtow. The parents of the other children also thanked the men who had rescued them. Although the water ghost hadn't targeted their children,
they were all in the water. In a panic, who could guarantee that an accident wouldn't happen?
Zhao Chun Yan also pulled Tie Tou and was about to kowtow to Shen Er Meng, startling the young man into quickly getting up to help her.
Shen Er Meng was the second son of Shen Lai Fu's family. The two families lived not far apart. In the past, Shen Lai Fu's family had lived a hard life. After all, there were seven or eight children in the family, plus two elders upstairs. They didn't know where to get enough to eat every day.
Zhao Chun Yan, a widow raising children, also had a hard life. Shen Er Meng's sisters often followed Zhao Chun Yan to the fields to cut wild vegetables and boil them to eat. The two families were very familiar with each other.
It was only after Shen Lai Fu caught fish with Chen Yang that they made some money and their lives improved slightly. Later, Chen Yang had him help with the fish sales, and they earned even more.
However, even though their lives had improved, Shen Er Meng and Zhao Chun Yan's families' relationship hadn't grown distant. The children from Zhao Chun Yan's family often ran to their house, and this young man would secretly slip them extra food.
"Sister-in-law, what kind of relationship do we have? There's no need."
Shen Er Meng's face flushed. Zhao Chun Yan had fallen into the water while saving the child. She was wearing only one dress in the summer, and it was now clinging to her, revealing glimpses of her skin. The boy's eyes were glued to her.
He was a growing youth, seventeen or eighteen years old, an age of fiery passion. Marriages were early in the countryside. At his age, he should have been married long ago.
But because Shen Lai Fu's family was too poor, no one thought highly of them, which caused him to be delayed. Now, the young man would occasionally glance at Zhao Chun Yan, but he didn't dare to look too much.
Zhao Chun Yan hadn't noticed. After all, in her eyes, Shen Er Meng was just a child. She was already twenty-five or twenty-six. When she got married, Shen Er Meng was just a child.