I swam to the sinking guitar, but it drifted farther and farther with the flow of the water.

The thick winter clothes were completely soaked with water, which caused me a great burden, and coupled with the stimulation of the icy lake water, I felt that my body was becoming more and more exhausted, so that I choked on several mouthfuls of water, but there was always a hidden power in my heart to support me, so that I could not wait to catch the guitar.

Janeway's faint voice came from the shore, but I couldn't hear it in the wind, and I grabbed the sinking guitar with all my last strength, and I was in ecstasy, and suddenly I lost my strength and choked on several mouthfuls of water again, and at this time I finally felt scared, and then I had a strong desire to survive.

I swam to the shore with all my last strength, but my calves spasmed with the extreme cold, and I felt anxious and panicked, and for the first time I felt that death was so close to me.

At this time, Janeway on the shore suddenly took off her coat and sweater, and jumped into the river wearing only a thin undershirt, and she swam towards me with all her might......

"Zhaoyang, you hold on, you must hold on!"

The strong desire to survive made me kick my legs and pound the water with my hands to keep myself from sinking, and Janeway finally swam to my side, she got under my armpit and grabbed me, and then the two of them swam together to the riverbank.

……

The cold wind blew in gusts, and Janeway and I fell to the ground from exhaustion and coughed violently, dripping water on the ground, and so did the guitar, and the water dripped down the strings in a line, and then the three traces of water converged, as if flowing back into the river with the countless pasts between us.

Janeway's lips were white and trembling, and I used my last strength to crawl to the place where the down jacket was placed, then folded back and draped the clothes over her, and then took out my phone from the pocket of the down jacket, ready to call the emergency number, for fear that Janeway would not be able to resist the invasion of the wet cold.

Janeway snatched the phone from my hand and shook her head at me, choking up and asking, "Why are you doing this?" …… Why did you fight so hard to get this guitar back? ”

"I'm ...... now I am very scared and regret it...... But I didn't have time to think about it at the time, because watching the guitar sink into the river as if I was going to bury myself at the bottom of the river was completely instinctive...... Had to do it! ”

Janeway looked at me with a complicated face, I couldn't tell whether it was tears or river water that fell from her face at this moment, but the twitch at the corner of her mouth was really real, and she wanted to speak several times, but she still didn't say it.

I was about to collapse from the cold, and Janeway put her down jacket back on top of me, then retrieved her sweater and coat from the grass that were not wet, and took off the river-soaked base layer in front of me and replaced them with dry sweaters and coats.

She looked at the dripping guitar and asked, "Zhaoyang, this one...... Does the guitar still work? ”

I shook my head and said, "It's basically scrapped...... Scrap it and scrap it. ”

Janeway stared at the guitar for a long time without saying a word.

I picked up the guitar from the ground and said to Janeway, "If you have to completely scrap this guitar, find a time when I am away, after all, it has been with me for so many years......"

Janeway took the guitar from me, bowed her head in front of me for the first time, and whispered to me, "I see what you mean...... I'll send you back. ”

"No, you don't."

"It's hard to get a taxi here, and if you stay like this, you're going to catch a cold."

I looked up at the road where few cars were passing, and finally nodded.

……

Janeway turned up the air conditioner in the car to a very high temperature, but the two of us were still shivering with cold, especially in the river, and I stayed longer, but I was still thankful that at least two lives were recovered, because in that extremely dangerous situation, I had no doubt that Janeway and I would both sink in the bottomless moat because of our lack of body.

Just as Janeway was about to drive the car into the community, I suddenly saw Mi Cai's Q7 turn into the community before us, and immediately let Janeway pull over to the side of the road and stop the car.

Before getting out of the car, Jian Wei said to me: "Zhaoyang, go back and change your clothes quickly, don't catch a cold!" ”

"Well, you too."

Janeway nodded, and after I closed the door for her, she started the car and left.

I walked into the community and sat in a small garden that had been deserted, even if my teeth were so cold that my teeth were chattering, I didn't want to go back to the house, because I didn't know how to explain the water traces to Mi Cai.

The phone rang again, I didn't have to look to know it was Mi Cai calling, and when the ringtone was about to end, I answered the phone, but I didn't speak first, for fear that my trills would be exposed.

"Zhaoyang, where are you?"

My mind was in a hurry, and I said to Mi Cai, "In ...... Fang Yuan's family is drinking! ”

"Really?"

"Hmm...... I won't tell you yet. ”

"Zhaoyang ......"

I heard something wrong in Mi Cai's tone, and asked with some uneasiness, "What's wrong, is there anything else?" ”

"Where the hell are you now, will you be honest with me?"

I held on to the last luck and replied, "Didn't you say that you were in Fang Yuan's house?" ”

“…… Have you forgotten that all the middle and senior executives of Zhuomei went to my uncle's birthday dinner today? …… I left early, where do you say Fang Yuan is now? ”

I was dumbfounded, secretly called myself careless, and finally said to Mi Cai: "...... In the community, I'll go up. ”

Mi Cai hung up the phone.

……

I walked to the entrance of the corridor nervously, only to find that Mi Cai had already gone downstairs, she was standing at the entrance of the corridor waiting for me, and I walked towards her with a hard head.

She looked at me in surprise and asked, "Zhaoyang, what's wrong with you?" ”

I still laughed and said, "It's really unlucky to be accidentally sprayed by a sprinkler truck on the road!" ”

Mi Cai's face finally showed the distrust she had been, and she frowned at me and said, "Is there to be a deception between us?" ”

I gritted my teeth and put on a posture of not speaking even if she was slaughtered, but I shivered from the cold.

Mi Cai sighed: "Let's go back and change my clothes first!" ”

I nodded, desperate to change my clothes, but still walking behind Mi Cai.

As soon as I entered the house, I immediately ran into the bathroom, then took off all my wet clothes, put on my bathrobe and went back to my room, changed into underwear, turned on the air conditioner, and wrapped myself in the quilt, but still shivering.

Mi Cai walked into my room, poured a cup of hot water and handed it to me, although she was in a bad mood, she still said with concern: "I'll take you to the hospital." ”

"Don't be so troublesome, I'll carry it later."

Mi Cai looked at me and asked for a long time, "You sue me, do you want to go to the river?" ”

As soon as these words came out, I squirted out the hot water that I hadn't had time to drink, choked for a long time, and then looked at her incredulously and said, "Am I going to throw myself into the river?" ”

Mi Cai nodded: "As for it, you have a criminal record!" ”

I suddenly remembered that I had called Mi Cai to stop me from jumping into the river a long time ago, and she was right, I really had a criminal record.

In this way, I am so fragile!