Hearing that someone was drowning, Li Youlan lost her interest in playing and hurriedly got out of the reed swamp, standing on the shore and looking in the direction pointed by a soldier.
Just three feet away from me, in the middle of the lake, I saw a person struggling in the water.
Li Youlan was kind-hearted and said without thinking: "General Wei, rescue that man quickly."
General Wei frowned: "There is no one in this wilderness, so you drowned here. Isn't it strange?"
"Oops! Human lives are at stake. What are you waiting for, General Wei? Hurry and save people!"
General Wei thought about it again and realized that it was nothing, so he immediately ordered to rescue the man.
These soldiers were all from the Jingzhou navy, and their water quality was quite good. One of them could quickly drag the drowning person to the shore.
Everyone gathered around, but Li Youlan was blocked outside.
General Wei said: "Second Miss, please go to the car to escape for the time being. After asking about this person's identity, it will not be too late for Miss to say goodbye."
Li Youlan clicked on the pictures and took Ping'er back to the car.
The soldier who came to rescue him said: "This guy has choked on a lot of water. If he can't cough it out, he will suffocate to death."
As he was talking, the dehydrated man started coughing and vomited a lot of water. After a long time, he took a breath and began to moan: "Don't save me...let me die..."
"Who are you?" someone asked.
The drowning man still says the same thing: "Don't save me...let me die..."
"Hey! This guy is not drowning, he is actively seeking death! If I had known better, I wouldn't have saved him."
"This guy looks fair and fair. He must be a scholar, right?"
"Are these docile pretty boys looking like jerks, looking for life and death at every turn? Isn't it annoying?"
"In the early months of March, I'm afraid he's not the only one seeking death and survival."
"Huh? Where do you mean this?"
"Don't you know? Chun Wei, release the list..."
"Oh I got it."
Everyone suddenly realized.
Scholars just can't stand the blow. After the spring exams held every three years, there are always many scholars who didn't win the exam and want to die.
This is not a rare thing, on the contrary, it has long been seen as strange in the market.
General Wei was puzzled: "But why did he seek death here?"
At this time, the scholar seemed to have regained consciousness, and someone asked: "What is your name?"
"Xia...Xia Hui."
"Next time? What's this name?" The soldiers couldn't help but laugh after hearing this. "You're a man of letters after all, so why did you have such a weird name?"
"Summer's summer, back and forth."
"Are you a scholar who came back from the capital?"
Xia Shang nodded.
"You didn't pass the exam, so you want to die?"
Xia Shang nodded again.
"Then why are you in Taihu?"
"I failed the exam in the spring, and all my thoughts were lost. On the way back home, I heard the news that my mother had died of illness. I...I...I studied hard for more than ten years in the cold window, in order to one day let my poor old mother enjoy it.
Qingfu, I didn't expect...my only hope is gone, what's the use of living? It's better to die!"
As he said that, he started crying again.
Although the soldiers couldn't stand the sour smell of the scholar, they felt comforted by seeing how pitiful the man was.
It didn't take long for the news to reach the car.
The plight of the "Xia Hui" young master can make all the soldiers sympathize with him. How can we not make the always kind-hearted girl Li Youlan feel pity?
"Ask Mr. Xia to come to the car. I have something to say."
Several soldiers were still comforting Xia Shang, and seemed to have calmed down a bit.
"Mr. Xia, come with me. My young lady wants to have a few words with you."
Xia Shang was soaked all over, and someone wrapped him in a thin quilt.
In the car opposite, two pairs of eyes looked through the car curtain, and saw a frail and sickly young man huddled in a ball, walking timidly, looking very pitiful.
Looking at his face again, it is not difficult to tell from the water marks that this young man is quite handsome and can be considered beautiful.
This added a bit of goodwill to Li Youlan's heart.
Ping'er said: "Miss, this young man is so good-looking, like a woman. It would be a pity to die."
"Hey!" Li Youlan sighed, "Why not?"
During the discussion, Xia Shang had already arrived in front of the car.
Li Youlan said: "Will Mr. Xia return to Xia?"
"The girl is polite."
"I think the name Young Master is a bit strange. I wonder if there is any deep meaning in it?"
"Returning to summer means returning in early summer. This is what my mother expected me to do in the spring of high school. When I came back in early summer, I had already announced the good news. I didn't expect that I would return first before summer came. I failed my mother's expectations and even if I died, I would not dare to see her again.
Na!"
"It's really unexpected that this name has such a connotation."
"Now that I have no worries and no hope, what else does it mean besides death? However, I still want to thank the girl for saving my life. Next time, I will definitely find a place where there is no one and give this world
A quiet time.”
Li Youlan was anxious after hearing this: "Young Master, you must not do it! How can a man talk about life and death lightly? Although the Young Master's mother has passed away, her sustenance for the Young Master is still there. She only wanted to let the Young Master go to high school. If the Young Master cannot fulfill her wish,
, how can you let your mother rest in peace?"
"How could I not know what the girl said? But now I have nothing, so how can I talk about revenge? I have no money and food to survive, and no relatives and friends to care about. Even if I die, no one will remember me. In this case, wouldn't it be more peaceful and free to die?
"
"Miss, this man has a good-looking life, but he is very irritating. Miss persuades him like this, but he still wants to die."
Li Youlan did not answer, but said to Xia Shang: "Mr. Xia, please wait."
Then he shouted: "General Wei, come here."
General Wei rushed to the car: "Second Miss, what are your orders?"
"Youlan has something to discuss with the general. Can you bring this person with you?"
General Wei was stunned: "Why did Miss say this?"
"He is so pitiful that I can't bear his death."
"This won't work! Miss Mojiangzhi is kind-hearted, but she can't bring an unknown person with her."
"Why is his identity unknown? Hasn't it been made very clear? And I don't think this appearance is a lie."
"If Miss takes pity on him, give him some money. I believe that with the money, he will get back on his feet."
"Youlan is afraid that even if he has money, he will not want to live. After we leave, he will seek death again, and he will not be so lucky."
"This... Miss, there are so many people in the world who are seeking death and survival, why should we care about this one?"
"But he happened to be seen by me. Since I saw him, I have to save him. Otherwise, how can I feel at ease?"
"Miss can save him for a while, but she can't save him forever."
"General, Youlan has already made a plan. This time he is going to Beijing to study. I don't have a book boy by my side yet, so why not let him be my book boy and study with him. This way, if I watch him all the way, he will not easily seek death.
In the future, he will untie the knot in his heart and let him leave. Wouldn't that be a good thing?" (To be continued)