Chapter Five Hundred and Fortieth Five: Save People
It was a hot July day, and not only the children of the village were playing along the river, but also children from other villages were swimming in the water upstream, usually without the company of adults.
Rural areas are no better than cities. People don't have so much time to play with their children. They are busy with crops in the fields, and they can't control them. There is no family whose children are running all over the mountains and plains.
After swimming in the water for a while, the two cameramen were exhausted. After landing, they took up water to wash the ground. Panting, they sat down to rest. After a while, they found pants and put them on, holding a cigarette happily in their mouths.
Looking at the children playing in the water, the camera puffed out cigarettes and chuckled: "It's great to be young. When we were young, we were just like them. Now it's hard to swim even 100 meters."
"That's right!" Pointing to his big belly, another man sighed: "As I get older, I work overtime and stay up late every day, how can I still be healthy?"
There is very little time for rest in their line of work. It is common to record programs until midnight. The busier they are during the New Year and the holidays.
However, after all the hard work, the salary is still very considerable. It is more than 10,000 after tax. Most of it is sent home to my wife and children who are studying. I keep a little for myself, and my life goes by like this.
It's hard work, but watching your children grow up step by step makes it worth it no matter how hard it is.
"Come up quickly! Come up!"
While the two were talking, a shout suddenly came from upstream. When they turned around, they saw a few barefoot children waving and shouting along the way. They were very excited, but it was hard to hear what they were saying.
"Water! The water is rising!"
The child ran closer, the camera heard it clearly, his face changed, and he said to Fang Jing in the river: "Get ashore quickly, the upstream gate has opened!"
Hearing the gate opening, Fang Jing's heart sank. He turned around and swam quickly to the shore. As he swam, he shouted to Qian and the other children, "Come ashore, the gate has opened."
Fang Jing, who grew up in a small rural village, certainly knows what opening a gate means. The river water will rise on rainy days, and sometimes it will fall. In order to irrigate farmland, people sometimes build cement on both sides of the river, and use thick wooden boards in the middle to block part of the water.
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The purpose of this is to avoid running out of water during drought, but sometimes when it rains and there is too much water, the gate will be opened and some of the water will be released.
For such a big river, once the gates are opened, it will be like a flood. Even cattle can be washed down, let alone people.
Within a few seconds, Fang Jing quickly came ashore, and other children also ran up in panic.
The waves were turbulent in the distance, and the naked eye could see that murky water was mixed into the originally clear river, mixed with aquatic plants and branches.
Fang Jing said angrily: "Who the hell put the water in so many children can't see it?"
"It should be very far upstream." The cameraman's hand holding the cigarette trembled slightly, and he said solemnly: "This river is very long, several kilometers long. They can't always send people to guard along the river, and they can't do it."
"Perhaps I came to see it before and saw no one before going up to open the gate. But we came later and didn't even know about this."
"Fortunately, we were notified early, otherwise I don't know how many of these kids would have made it."
With a pale face, Ye Qingyang opened his mouth wide and pointed upstream, "There are people in the water!"
brush!
Fang Jing and others turned around, and sure enough, a child in the water was washed away by the strong water, and several children on the shore ran after him. They didn't dare to get down even after thinking about it, their faces were full of worry.
A few dozen meters away, an old man was squatting to fish. He was squatting in the grass and could not be seen from Fang Jing and others. The child seemed to have seen a savior and shouted to the old man.
"Old man, your fishing rod! Fishing rod!!"
"oh!!"
The old man stood up, lifted the fishing rod with his wrist and took it into his hand. As if facing a formidable enemy, he picked up the small horse on the ground and stepped back without even asking for the fish bag.
Fuck!
Fang Jing and others were shocked and couldn't help but want to yell. This old guy called him a dog and asked him to use his fishing rod to save people. He put away his fishing rod and ran away.
In such a big water, people can easily be washed away. If someone on the shore extends a fishing rod to someone in the river, they can easily pull them out.
"It's too late!"
Fang Jing turned to the camera and said, "I'll go down to rescue people. You notify the medical team of the program team..."
Every variety show is equipped with medical staff, which is a standard feature of Xiangnan Satellite TV. Fang Jing saw it when he came.
"I……"
Before the camera could start, Fang Jing jumped down with a splash. As soon as he landed, he felt his body being washed away by the water. Fortunately, he grabbed the hand of the man in the river.
This is a little boy with a blue mouth and pale face. He has fallen into a coma. Even if the fishing rod just reached his hand, he could not pull it.
The shore is seven or eight meters wide, and it is impossible to swim in such a big water. Fang Jing did not swim to the shore blindly, but let the water go towards him and paddled in the water with one hand.
Adjust the direction and slowly move towards the shore.
"Old Zhang, go into the water and fetch Fang Jing, this kid can't hold it anymore."
"Okay, I'll go there first and you can act accordingly."
A group of people ran along the river bank, and the two cameras discussed a solution in the blink of an eye. Everyone was good swimmers, so as long as they didn't waste their energy, it wouldn't be a problem to carry them in the water for ten or twenty minutes.
They didn't doubt Fang Jing's water quality, but they were afraid that the child wouldn't be able to hold on, and they didn't know how long it had been since he rushed from above.
"thump!"
When Fang Jing was washed away for more than a hundred meters, the camera fell into the water. He was carrying a tripod for filming. He jumped suddenly and threw himself forward. In an instant, he was three or four meters away, and the tripod was extended to Fang Jing.
Holding the stand and struggling to pull the person over, Fang Jing took the video of the child, "Here I go, give me a push, and I'll go ashore and pull you."
Fang Jing was now too far away from the shore where Ye Qingyang was standing and couldn't swim across. He could only swim to the right. The right side was more than two meters away from him and he couldn't swim by himself. He needed someone to push him and use the water to rush over.
"good!"
Holding the child with one hand, the cameraman held the stand and pushed Fang Jing, sending him out instantly.
Holding the bracket, Jing grabbed the water plants on the shore and climbed up after two seconds. Without taking a break, Sayazi ran with the people in the river. The current was so strong that people were swept away seventy or eighty meters in less than a minute.
Holding the child in his arms, the human body in the river lost too much energy and disappeared for a few seconds in the middle of the journey. He had filled his stomach with an unknown amount of water and his eyes were red.
Seizing the opportunity, he sprinted to the turn in front, entered the water with Fang Jing, grabbed the bank with one hand, and held the support with the other hand to send it into the river.
At the critical moment, the cameraman grabbed the support, and Fang Jing tried his best to pull the person up. On the other side, Ye Qingyang and others breathed a sigh of relief.
These days, there are too many cases of people going into the water to rescue others and getting themselves involved, which may result in two lives.
After some cardiopulmonary resuscitation and artificial respiration, the child vomited profusely and then slowly opened his eyes.
"call!"
Fang Jing and the camera looked at each other, and the two chuckled lightly, lying on the ground without wanting to move, letting their chests rise and fall.
Both of them had used up a lot of energy, especially Fang Jing, who had been swimming in the water before and jumped in to save people without much rest.
More than ten minutes later, a group of people came over, including medical staff and Huang Lei. They were so frightened after receiving the call that they came over desperately.