Chapter 232: Across the River
After this incident, Tao Tao behaved for almost a month. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In October, the weather on the Loess Plateau gradually began to get colder.
The leaves began to wither and yellow, and when the wind blew, they fell all over the ground.
After a month of good behavior, Taotao's rebellious personality began to be active again.
Taotao, who went to junior high school, has begun to grow taller.
He, along with Fan Wei and Pi Dong, were no longer satisfied with playing around the neighborhood and began to hike.
They even waded across the Yanhe River to the mountains opposite, drilling train holes, climbing high-voltage power towers, climbing abandoned bridge piers, and entering unfinished buildings.
On this day, Dongmei and her mother were busy in the kitchen until ten o'clock in the evening, basically finishing the day's work.
When she walked into the balcony, she found that Taotao had not come back yet.
Dongmei asked Nana, who had already slept, and said, "Nana, did you see that your brother has returned?" “
Nana had just fallen asleep when she was woken up by her mother, and she was very unhappy and said, "I didn't see you." “
"Where's this kid? “
Dongmei muttered to herself as she untied her apron around her waist.
Dongmei's mother came out of the kitchen, stretched her waist and said, "It's ten o'clock now, Taotao hasn't come back yet?"
Dongmei said: "Yes, I don't know where this kid has gone." “
Dongmei's mother said: "Otherwise, you go out and look for it, the child is so young after all." “
Dongmei said: "Don't be in a hurry, wait a while, if you don't come back at half past ten, then I'll go out to find him." “
After finishing speaking, Dongmei began to wash.
She figured out, what's the matter, Taotao will be back at half past ten at the latest.
So she was going to wash up first, and when Taotao came back, she went to sleep.
However, Dongmei waited until half past ten, and still did not see Taotao come back.
Dongmei was in a hurry, like the last time Wei Guo disappeared, Dongmei's heart began to panic.
After putting on a coat, she went out with a flashlight.
Dongmei searched all over the courtyard of the base, and even the Cultural Palace, the activity center for the elderly, and the kindergarten where the former Wei Guo was hiding, but still did not find Taotao.
Dongmei originally wanted to go to Taotao's homeroom teacher, Teacher Li's house, and ask Teacher Li to mobilize the security guards in the school to help find the child, but after thinking about it, at this point in time, it is really unreasonable to trouble Teacher Li again.
So, Dongmei was alone and continued to search.
She came to the river below the base, and halfway along the embankment, shouting Taotao's name loudly.
In autumn, the Yanhe River changes a lot, and the water flow is very shallow and slow, but in the blink of an eye, it will become turbulent and dangerous.
Taotao, Pi Dong, and Fan Wei crossed the river when the Yan River was not rising.
But when they came back in the afternoon, they found that the Yanhe River had risen, not only very deep, but also very fast.
They can't get over it even if they think about it.
The three of them had no choice but to find the shallowest beach nearby, wait for the river to go down, and then wade over.
Dongmei walked along the embankment and never saw the shadow of the waves.
Dongmei couldn't help but be scared, she knew that Wei Guo had repeatedly told herself that she should take good care of her children when she was doing business.
But now, Taotao has disappeared for no reason?
Dongmei looked at the turbulent river in front of her, and couldn't help but be afraid, anxious, and afraid......
She was worried that Tao Tao and his classmates went to swim in the river and drowned in the river?
However, it was already October, the weather was much colder, and the river was frozen, so they couldn't go down for a swim.
Dongmei was worried again, they went to play in the train tunnel opposite, and accidentally got hung up by the train, and the consequences were unimaginable.
Helplessness and fear haunted Dongmei's heart.
She thought that if something happened to Taotao, she would not be able to live.
I am like this, I get up early every day to do business and live a thrifty life every day, for what, not for the sake of the children, in order to raise the children to adults, in order to create a better living environment for the children.
Seeing that there was no one around, Dongmei cried anxiously.
She wiped away her tears as she continued along the embankment.
Just when Dongmei was about to collapse, suddenly, a flashlight not far away shone on.
A glimmer of light in the darkness made Dongmei's nervous and anxious mood suddenly stunned.
Before she could open her mouth to call the other party, the other party spoke first, and it was a woman.
I saw that the woman spoke a pure Yulin dialect in northern Shaanxi: "Dongmei, what are you doing?"
By the light of the flashlight, Dongmei saw that the other party was Fan Wei's mother.
Dongmei was overjoyed and said, "I'm looking for a child, what about you?"
Fan Wei's mother obviously took longer than Dongmei to look for her, her clothes were wet, she said: "You are looking for the child, I am also looking for the child? “
Hearing that Fan Wei's mother was looking for Fan Wei, Dongmei said: "I'm also looking for Cui Tao, he must have gone out with your Fan Wei, and he hasn't come back yet." “
"yes, let's hurry up and find it, or something will happen and we'll be finished. “
"Yes, the fathers of the children are all working in the mountains, and we, the housewives, if we lose the children, they will come back and eat us. “
As she spoke, the two mothers quickened their pace along the embankment and walked forward.
They plan to walk all the way down the river embankment to the county seat to see if they can find two children.
When the two women walked together at night, Dongmei's mood also changed from despair just now to a glimmer of hope.
She thought in her heart, when she found Taotao in a while, no matter what, she would have to beat him up, otherwise, it would be difficult to solve the hatred in her heart.
At the same time, Dongmei also sighed, why is Taotao, a child, more and more disobedient the longer he grows, and the more ignorant he gets?
When he was in elementary school, he was very well-behaved and very considerate, but now that he has grown up, how did he become so rebellious, and he didn't understand his hard work at all, let alone help himself.
Don't he know how much pain he will bring to those who look for him if he does not return in the middle of the night?
And Fan Wei's mother next to her also scolded angrily all the way in her mouth.
It's about to reach the county seat.
The two women, who had been shouting along the road, suddenly heard an echo on the other side of the river.
Dongmei hurriedly stopped and said to the other side of the river: "Cui Tao, is it Cui Tao?"
"Mom, it's me, I'm Cui Tao. “
"Fan Wei, is it Fan Wei?"
"Mom, it's me, I'm Fan Wei. “
Hearing that their mother was coming to look for them, Tao Tao and Fan Wei, who were trapped on the opposite bank by the river, hurriedly stood up.
Pi Dong also stood up, he looked forward to his mother, like Tao Tao and Fan Wei's mother, to come and look for him.
However, after listening for a long time, he found that his mother did not come.
Taotao said loudly to Dongmei: "Mom, we came to the river to play, and when we came back, the river was swollen and we were blocked." “
After making sure that the two children were safe and sound, Dongmei and Fan Wei's mother were relieved.
Dongmei said: "Since the water has risen, then you should wait, don't force yourself to cross the river, be careful of being washed away by the water." “
Fan Wei's mother also said: "That's it, wait and see." “
So, on this side of the river, sat Dongmei and Fan Wei's mother, and on the other side of the river, sat Fan Wei, Taotao and Pi Dong.
Several people looked at each other across the river, expecting the river to come down so that they could follow their mother home.