Volume 1 The Journey to the Avenue is also the World for the Public Chapter 001 A Lonely Boy
To tell the story of Pu Tongren, we have to start before he got the anti-heaven system, when he was just a teenager.
Pu Tongren's childhood was not happy, and his father was imprisoned for theft a few years ago, and he lost his breadwinner, which made the whole family lose their vitality at once.
The mother fell ill angrily, and the grandmother was so anxious that she broke her leg all at once. The whole family seems to be in a quagmire all of a sudden, but life has to go on, and the mother, as the wife of a criminal, is not easy to live alone with her children.
The gossip in the village is everywhere, and there is never a shortage of boring people in this world, who are angry and laughing, and take the suffering of others as their own laughing material.
Since then, Pu Tongren's life has only been lonely, and it was a long time ago that he was loved by his parents like other people's children, but it seems that there is a lot less trouble. For example, his mother didn't have much energy to manage Pu Tongren's life, so Pu Tongren was always alone, eating alone, living alone, no friends wanted to be close to him, he seemed to be a forgotten person in the world, no one wanted to look at him more, and he didn't have much intersection with other people.
Maybe people are destined to be lonely, they are all independent lives, they are irrelevant, there is no need to let others like them, and there is no need to deliberately please others, so it can be regarded as free and easy.
Today, Pu Tongren suddenly found that the bicycle broke down on the way home from school, which made him very anxious, and some classmates on the same road asked Pu Tongren if he wanted to help, but Pu Tongren refused.
He didn't need their help, because Pu Tongren had long been accustomed to being alone, and the world of a person was exceptionally pure, even if he occasionally felt lonely.
Accustomed to loneliness, he feels that people don't need too many relationships with each other, and everyone is an independent individual and doesn't need too many ties.
When he walked to the Nanfeng Reservoir at the edge of the village, he suddenly heard the voice of someone talking, and he could hear the voice of Zhou Darong, who seemed to be in the same class.
Pu Tongren put his bicycle aside and ran to the reservoir to check, and found that it was Li Xiaofei swimming in the reservoir.
And Zhou Darong sat on the embankment of the reservoir and looked very happy, he was not good at water, so he could only watch Li Xiaofei swim in the reservoir.
The Nanfeng Reservoir here is the largest reservoir around, every summer, the reservoir storage capacity increases, there are people of different ages to swim in the river, every year there are stories about the drowning of rural teenagers, generally parents do not allow their children to play here, I didn't expect Zhou Darong to come to swim secretly.
The water surface of the Nanfeng Reservoir here is about twenty or thirty meters wide, because there are many fish and shrimp in it, and it soon became a paradise for children to play in the water and chase fish and swim, the water depth is about two or three meters, but the ground under the reservoir is not flat, and the depth is far more than the average height, which can completely submerge these teenagers.
Seeing Pu Tongren on the shore, Zhou Darong shouted to him: "Don't you know how to swim too? Let's come down and swim together, the weather is so hot, and the water is comfortable." ”
Pu Tongren waved his hand and said to him, "I won't swim, by the way, have you finished your homework?"
"What kind of homework are you doing, just go and copy the squad leader tomorrow. Zhou Darong said nonchalantly.
Li Xiaofei, who was swimming in the river, suddenly said: "Da Rong, the squad leader has taken sick leave and will not come tomorrow." ”
"How I don't ....... When Zhou Darong heard that there was no place to copy the homework, he was a little excited, his feet slipped, and he fell into the reservoir all of a sudden.
"Help, save me......" Zhou Darong choked on the river and struggled.
Li Xiaofei suddenly panicked and wanted to swim over to save Zhou Darong, but stopped halfway through. His feet seemed to be entangled in the aquatic weeds underneath, and he also had a slight cramping feeling, and he couldn't move for a while. Li Xiaofei could only intermittently say to Pu Tongren: "You, you quickly find a way to save Zhou Darong......"
Originally, he could still help Zhou Darong, but he didn't expect that he would be in trouble.
The water in the reservoir is generally very deep and does not flow, and in summer, the temperature at the top is much higher than the temperature below, and people swim in the reservoir, the temperature of the body is different, and if you dive, you will continue to experience cold and warm changes, and it is easy to cramp.
Of course, Pu Tongren can not save him, because he is just an ordinary person, and his water nature is not very good, saving him may get him into trouble, and Zhou Darong's mother Aunt Cuihua is not a good character, she once counted Pu Tongren as a thief's child, misunderstood Pu Tongren for stealing his family's money, and told everyone in the village to be careful of him.
But in the end, the truth of the matter was revealed, and it turned out that Zhou Darong secretly took out the money to play games.
Even so, Aunt Cuihua didn't come to apologize or anything, in her opinion, Pu Tongren's father was a thief, and his son was destined to be the same as his father in the future.
Zhou Darong kept calling for help, but there was no one around, no one came at all, and after a moment of hesitation, Pu Tongren quickly made a decision, he chose to resolutely jump off the reservoir.
Pu Tongren couldn't watch someone else's life pass away, even if it was just a stranger who died in front of him, it was painful, let alone his own classmates.
At this moment, the upper layer of the reservoir is warm, but the lower layer is very cold, and there are many aquatic plants below, Zhou Darong fell into it, and the more he struggled, the deeper the water sank.
Pu Tongren wanted to get close to Zhou Darong little by little and dragged him back to the shore, but Zhou Darong was too fat, Pu Tongren dragged it very hard, and Zhou Darong also dragged Pu Tongren's clothes hard when he struggled, and the two struggled in the water, Pu Tongren struggled with all his strength to pull Zhou Darong to a place near the bank of the reservoir, where the water was a little shallower.
However, because the embankment of the reservoir was too high and Zhou Tairong was heavy, Pu Tongren could not lift Zhou Tairong up after several attempts.
Pu Tongren was a little out of strength, he only felt that his hands and feet were cold, he might die here today, Pu Tongren thought in his heart, as a child of sinners, maybe only in this way can he wash away his sins.
Pu Tongren began to try to float himself, thinking that as long as he floated, at least he wouldn't drown.
He began to try to make himself forget all the memories of swimming, forget everything, empty everything, and use various methods to make himself float and fight for a chance to live.
At this time, Li Xiaofei's voice came from behind him, "Pu Tongren, I'm fine, let's push Zhou Darong up together." ”
Fortunately, Li Xiaofei relieved himself at this time, tore off the aquatic weeds that were wrapped around him, and hurriedly came over to help pull Zhou Darong, and the two worked together to push Zhou Darong up.
Zhou Darong was dragged ashore like a sack, and in the process Zhou Darong felt like a shot put, and after spitting out a large mouthful of water on the shore, he gradually regained consciousness, only feeling weak and weak.
Pu Tongren also felt like he was walking back from the ghost gate, Li Xiaofei said to Pu Tongren: "Are you okay, do you want me to help you tell your family." ”
Pu Tongren knew that there was no one at home at all now, his grandmother was at his uncle's house, his mother was working outside, and he would come home very late, Pu Tongren said to Zhou Xiaofei: "You send Zhou Darong home first, I'll rest here for a while, by the way, don't tell my family about today's incident." ”
After speaking, Pu Tongren only felt weak, and lay on the grass and watched the sunset in the sky. The clouds in the distance were dyed red by the setting sun, as if they were burning, and Pu Tongren closed his eyes, letting the wind take away the excess water from his clothes, and slowly recovering his strength.
When Pu Tongren woke up, it was already very dark, and he quickly got up, Pu Tongren found his bicycle and pushed it home.