Chapter 36: Self-Help
Seeing that he is about to drown, it may be that under the stimulation of the extreme environment, people suddenly recall the knowledge of "how to save themselves from drowning" that they learned when they were doctors in their previous life, and the knowledge in those books clearly appears from their minds.
Self-rescue from drowning: First of all, you should stay calm, do not kick your hands and feet and struggle desperately, which can reduce the entanglement of aquatic plants and save physical strength. The correct way to save yourself is to hold your breath immediately after falling into the water, then relax your limbs and keep your back as much as possible so that your head is tilted back. As long as you don't struggle indiscriminately, the human body will not lose its balance in the water. Your nose and mouth will be the first to surface, ready to breathe and call for help. Try to inhale through your mouth and exhale through your nose when breathing to prevent choking. If you feel that you are physically exhausted after swimming for a long time, you can change to backstroke, and gently stroke with your hands and feet to make your mouth and nose float on the surface of the water.
(1) Self-rescue for those who do not know how to swim
(1) Don't get flustered after falling into the water, be sure to keep a clear head.
(2) Calmly put the top of your head back and your mouth upwards, and expose your mouth and nose to the surface of the water, and then you can breathe.
(3) Breathe shallowly, inhale deeply, and float your body on the surface as much as possible to wait for others to rescue.
(4) Remember: Do not raise your hands or struggle desperately, because this will easily make people sink.
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The body moved with his heart, Li Yangqing's body calmed down first than his brain, and he consciously acted according to the words of self-help, immediately held his breath, then relaxed his limbs, tilted his head back, tried his best to flatten his body, and slowly finally surfaced, kept his balance and his face came out of the water, and he could finally breathe.
In this way, Li Yangqing did not dare to relax, tried his best to control his body, groped around with both hands, and finally luckily grabbed a wooden board floating on the water, grabbed it tightly with both hands, opened his mouth and immediately gasped.
It was still raining heavily in the sky, Li Yangqing opened his eyes hard and looked around, it was all water and debris, he couldn't see people, and he could see the top of the mountain that was not submerged from a distance.
I don't know how long it took, Li Yangqing opened his eyes with difficulty, the rain fell into his eyes, the sky was already bright, and he could see the surrounding situation clearly, Lijia Village had been submerged, and he could see a few people floating on the water from a distance, but they were dead people, only the Qingzhou Mountain on the other side of the Sankou River could still see the shadow, and he didn't know how the family was.
Li Yangqing hugged the plank tightly, tried his upper body to lie on the plank, and used his last strength to climb up, and finally only his legs and feet were soaked in the water.
This plank is quite big, that is for the body of a child, adults want to lie down on it will be small, if you keep only grabbing it with both hands, you will eventually fall into the water because of the loss of strength, and there is no strength to float up the second time when you fall, Li Yang please understands very well in his heart, while he has the strength now, he has to climb up no matter what, so it is much easier to lie down.
By the way, the cloth bag on his back was still there, Li Yangqing took out one hand to put down a shoulder strap, slowly pulled the cloth bag into his arms, and pulled the drawstring tremblingly, fortunately, but the clothes and shoes were wet, and the tight cake wrapped in the oilcloth was still good, and he carefully opened a small opening of the oilcloth, revealing a corner of a piece of cake.
"Gollum." The stomach felt the presence of food and automatically made a physiological response, Li Yangqing couldn't completely open the oilcloth with one hand, so he could only use his mouth to directly nibble on the exposed corner of the cake.
The cake is a little hard, but for people who have been hungry for so long and soaked in water for so long, it is a delicacy in the world, and I can't wait to chew it, I don't care when I eat it, and when I eat it, I feel a burst of soreness in my cheeks.
Although I am not full yet, I can't eat anymore, I don't know how long I have to float, I always have to save some food, wrap the oilcloth with my hands again, tighten the drawstring, and carry it on my back again, I still have more food on the endless water than most people, Li Yangqing comforted himself.
After eating, his spirit was much better, and he had time to think about the next thing, Li Yangqing thought of his family, they had a bamboo raft, and if they were lucky, they should be able to get through this difficulty, which was much better than his own situation.
Thinking that the Li family may still be alive, as long as he does not give up and works hard to save his life, there will always be a day when he can reunite with his family, Li Yangqing opened his mouth like a fool and let out a laugh of "hey, hey, hey, hey, ......hey", and regardless of whether the rain will enter his mouth, he should replenish water, which is better than drinking this turbid river water, and I don't know how many bacteria there are in it.
Looking at the surrounding waters, I can roughly guess that it is still in the range of the Sankou River, after all, there is still a little bit of it on the top of the mountain in Lijia Village, and I hope that someone in the village can escape to it.
The family is better than their own situation, there is a bamboo raft and food will definitely be able to live safely, as long as they get to the land, they can always find a way to meet, now what is needed is to be able to float to the place where the water is not submerged, people can not soak in the water for a long time, they will die.
The only place that can be seen in the eyes that has not been flooded is Qingzhou Mountain, which stretches for several miles, with lush vegetation, layers of cliffs, and no one in Liao, because it is too high and too steep, and it is not suitable for human habitation, of course, it is not excluded that there are several hunters, which is a good place for wild animals to grow.
If you want to go to Hongxia Town, there is no boat and no direction, it is even more impossible to rely on this wooden plank, Li Yangqing is small and small, and he does not have the ability to row over, and Hongxia Town is definitely not better than Lijia Village, it must also be submerged, Gyeongju Mountain is a choice that cannot be chosen, anyway, soaking in water is also death, and if you want to die, you will die on land, what if you get there, what if you are lucky enough to come back to life? Li Yangqing thought about the next path in his heart.
Kick up your legs hard, row to the target, to overcome the resistance of the water, it is still raining, the difficulty is too great, rowing for a long time, finally have a little distance, pick up a wooden stick floating on the water, just use it as an oar! It's better than using your feet.
Grabbing the board with one hand, paddling with the other, swinging his legs in the water, the wooden board finally had a little speed, rowing and rowing, seeing a big wooden basin in the distance floating towards this side, Li Yangqing was excited, definitely, must catch this wooden basin, his feet have been soaked in the water for so long, they have become swollen and wrinkled, and if he continues, these feet will be wasted, with this wooden basin, his feet no longer have to soak in the water.
After Li Yangqing supported his upper half with both hands, he changed from lying down to sitting on the wooden plank, soaking his legs in the water, no longer lying down, and grasping the wooden stick with both hands, which was very dangerous, and if he was unstable, he would fall into the water again.
Seeing that the wooden basin floated to the front, he quickly stretched out the wooden stick to the wooden basin, turned it to the wooden board, and finally pulled the wooden basin in front of him, grabbed it with one hand, at this time the body was tilted, and the wooden board shook for a while, "Ah" Li Yangqing involuntarily cried out, he was frightened, his body exploded with potential, and the hand that grabbed the wooden stick grabbed the wooden board under him, and stabilized the inclined and shaking body, Li Yangqing broke out in a cold sweat, and shouted "so dangerous" in his heart.
Stabilizing his figure, Li Yangqing looked at the big wooden basin he was holding in his hand, there were several clothes in it, it should be the basin for washing clothes in whose house, for Li Yangqing's ten-year-old figure, this basin was enough.
Take out the two long pants inside and connect them, quite long can make a rope, tie the wooden basin, wooden plank and wooden stick together, support the wooden basin with both hands, slowly get up and sit in the basin, a while, until the wooden basin is somewhat stable, and the feet are slowly stretched into it.
That's it, your feet finally don't have to soak in the water, and then pull out a piece of clothing in a wooden basin, dry the water with your hands, and when the raincoat is draped over your head, you can get a little less rain.
If you can find a few more branches, you will definitely be able to hold it up and use it as a canopy, Li Yangqing thought happily in his heart, pulled out the wooden stick, and continued to paddle, now it is more effortless, and when you are tired, you can rest and row again.
"Help, help! Anyone? Li Yangqing sat in the wooden basin and saw a person standing on the top of a tree not far away, with his neck stretched out and screaming, his voice was already a little hoarse, probably for a long time.
Li Yangqing drew the wooden basin closer to the front, only to see that on the tree was a girl who was much stronger than her peers, her body was wet from the rain, a dress that could not be seen was crumpled and crumpled on her body, her long hair was scattered on her face, covering most of her face, and she looked like a water ghost coming out of the water from a distance, which was very scary.
The woman also found Li Yangqing, her voice suddenly raised a lot, and she shouted to Li Yangqing excitedly: "Girl, little girl, can you save me, I will repay you as a cow and a horse in the future, please, woo woo woo ......." ”
Li Yangqing then slashed towards the front of the tree, looked up at the woman on the tree and said, "Yes, but I only have one plank for you to use." ”
Hearing Li Yangqing's reply, the woman stopped crying, raised her hand and stroked her face with her sleeve, and brushed the hair on her face behind her head.
"Thank you, my name is Sun Liya, I am fifteen years old this year, I am from Sunjia Village, When there was a big flood, I ...... My dad and stepmom ran away with my brother at night, so they left me behind. Fortunately, I had a lot of strength since I was a child, bigger than any boy of the same age, and I climbed to the highest tree in the village to avoid being flooded. ”
Li Yangqing looked at this woman who was five feet tall (one meter seven) and weighed about one hundred and fifty pounds.
"You cut a few branches with your hands and give them to me, and then you can use them for paddling, and then slowly go into the water and grab this board, you know?"
After listening to Li Yangqing's words, "Click, click" a few times, Qiu Liya broke the branch at once, and handed the branch to Li Yangqing's hand with some embarrassment, Li Yangqing took it, tied it to the wooden board first, and hugged the tree with both hands first, so as not to let the wooden basin drift away when Sun Liya came down, "You can come down, slow down!" ”
Sun Liya slowly slid down from the tree, her body entered the water, first grabbed the plank with one hand, and then let go of the tree with the other hand and grabbed the plank again, and sat on both sides of the plank with her legs, the plank sank with her movements, but fortunately, the plank was big enough, and gradually floated up, after Sun Liya stabilized her body, "Here, this branch will be used as an oar!" You sit on a wooden board and paddle. ”
Sun Liya took the branch and thanked him again, "Thank you so much, what's your name?" Without you, I can only wait for death, you are my savior, I will do whatever you tell me to do in the future, hehe! After speaking, he used his strength to row the branches, not a person with great strength, Li Yangqing rowed the wooden plank that did not move far for a long time, and Sun Liya walked forward with the wooden basin for a while.