Chapter 218: What Is the Most Meaningful Life?
Most of the houses were submerged by the floods, and the village was flooded except for some of the taller buildings and tiled houses.
This puts high demands on assault boat piloting.
You can't be fast, or if you hit a building or a telephone pole under the water, or even any debris, it will cause the boat to be wrecked and killed.
Fortunately, Jiang Wenying was familiar with this area, and pointed the assault boat along the road in the original village and slowly drove into the village.
Suddenly, solemnly saw a Mi-171 helicopter hovering in the sky in the distance, and vaguely saw orange life jackets stacked together falling from the cabin.
"Look there!" solemnly pointed his hand and said loudly: "Where there is a helicopter hovering, someone must have been found trapped!" ”
"That's right!"
Seeing the helicopter, the big guys started to get excited.
Huang Hanrui hurriedly ordered Qin Yanming to drive the boat towards the position of the helicopter.
From afar, Jiang Wenying began to shout: "That's the home of my grandfathers!" That's their house! ”
Everyone was stunned, but they didn't expect that this was actually the residence of several of her grandfathers who Jiang Wenying nagged on the boat last night.
The helicopter saw the assault boat and knew that the trapped people here would soon be rescued, so it tapped the nose of the plane and flew away in the other direction.
They must now hurry up and start searching the entire Pai Chau flood area, marking the coordinates where people are trapped and sending the news back to the search and rescue forces on the ground.
A small two-story brick building gradually appeared in sight, and there seemed to be several figures on the roof.
"Grandpa! Second grandfather! Three grandpa! ”
Jiang Wenying excitedly stood up in the assault boat and waved towards the roof.
When the people on the roof saw Jiang Wenying, they also began to shout.
"Is it Yingzi?!"
"It's really her!"
"We're here! Come and save us! ”
There looked like there were five or six people on the roof.
Jiang Wenying said excitedly to Zhuang Yan: "These are my grandfathers, Jiang Jude, Jiang Jucai and Jiang Jubao. ”
These three names are three brothers at first sound.
The boat approached, and Huang Hanrui threw the nylon rope on the boat over and let the people on the roof pull it.
"Come one by one, don't be in a hurry! How many of you have here!? ”
"Six!" Someone answered.
"No!" One of the old men in his seventies stretched out his hand and waited for the man to look, "Who said there were only six?" It's seven! ”
"Second uncle!" The person who was glared at looked to be in his fifties, and said with a bitter face, "That's not a human, it's a pig." ”
"It's a pig! But this is my lifeline, and I have been raising it for two years! The old man was very stubborn, "This pig must be taken away, if you don't take it away, I won't leave, I'll accompany it!" ”
Jiang Wenying stood on the side of the boat, patted his thigh and said, "Ouch, hey! I said second grandfather, when is it, you still care about your pig!? It would be nice if people could be saved! Hurry up and get on the boat, okay, just when I beg you, don't be tough! ”
The old man Jiang Jucai said unrelentingly: "You don't want anything else, the pig must be taken away!" ”
Huang Hanrui looked at his assault boat and thought to himself that the big fat pig was at least more than two hundred catties, which weighed the weight of the two of them.
Originally, the load of the ship was not enough, and only five people could be on board, so if you take a little risk, squeeze it, and take advantage of the current when the current is not too urgent, you may be able to do it.
You can bring a big fat pig of more than 200 catties......
This ship is going to capsize.
The Jiang family on the roof and Jiang Wenying on the boat had a lot of words, but they still didn't accept Jiang Jucai.
In such a grind, time will be delayed.
solemnly felt that it was probably not possible to rely on persuasion.
The old people are like children, and there are some unreasonable things.
He had an idea in his heart and wanted to discuss it with Wang Datong, but when he turned around, he found that Wang Datong was also looking at him.
The eyes of the two of them met, and they already had a clear understanding and nodded to each other.
solemnly said to Jiang Wenying: "Eldest sister, we can't afford to spend time, your second grandfather is probably unconvinced." ”
Jiang Wenying's face flushed, and she felt that it was really embarrassing for her second grandfather to make a fuss at such a time.
So he quickly apologized: "Big brother, I'm really sorry." ”
turned around and said to two of the men in their fifties: "Two uncles, you put the second master on the boat, and now many people are trapped waiting for the boat to save their lives, we can't make such a fuss!" ”
The two uncles hurriedly left and right, and reached out to set up Jiang Jucai.
Jiang Jucai sat down on the ground and began to shout, refusing to get on the boat.
Seeing this situation, Huang Hanrui hurriedly warned: "Be careful, don't fall into the water!" ”
"Don't pull it!" With a solemn shout, he looked at everyone and said, "My comrades and I went up to the roof, the three grandfathers got on the boat first, we and the other two uncles are waiting here, you send people off, come back and pick us up!" ”
"But ......" Jiang Wenying remembered that Zhuang Yan and Wang Datong had been soaking in the water for two hours, and they had just escaped, because their grandfather actually ......
"No, no." solemnly walked to the side of the boat, climbed onto the roof, and Wang Datong then went up.
The two of them helped Jiang Wenying's two uncles to send the three old men onto the boat, and then worked together to push the big fat pig of more than 200 catties into the assault boat.
"Alright, we'll wait here."
The assault boat began to slowly turn around.
Jiang Wenying stood on the side of the boat, looking at the two soldiers who were soaked and had scars all over their hands, and suddenly covered their mouths with their hands.
She was afraid that she couldn't help but cry on the spot.
The second grandfather, Jiang Jucai, stroked his big fat pig, raised his head and waved towards Zhuang Yan and Wang Datong with a smile.
"Thank you! Thank you! ”
Zhuang Yan and Wang Datong glanced at each other again, and could only smile bitterly.
Wang Datong said: "You say...... Aren't we the first rescue force in the world to save even domestic animals? ”
Zhuang Zhuang couldn't help but smile and said, "I don't know either." ”
This time, he gave up the ship seat to others again, and Zhuang Yan and Wang Datong did not encounter danger like before.
After a night of raging, the flood has gradually quieted down.
It rained overnight and stopped.
The morning light illuminates the entire Paizhou, and as far as the eye can see, there is a Ze country.
Farmland is gone......
The house is gone......
The crops are gone......
The carcasses of domestic animals floated on the water......
Among them, there are also people's ......
Since 1954, this is the highest water level in the history of Yizhou Bay in recent decades.
Paizhou bends, and the water in Wuhan falls three feet three.
This is a folk proverb that has been circulating in the local area for I don't know how many years ago.
It is said that on the night of the Paizhou breach, the water level in Hankou dropped rapidly, and the flood control personnel in charge of monitoring were shocked because it was Hankou that burst the embankment.
In 1996, there was a serious flood here, when the people of Paizhou were transferred by the organization, but the embankment did not break that year.
Perhaps it was the transfer two years ago that came unharmed, leading to the paralysis of '98, which led to this heavy loss.
Sitting on the roof, solemnly looking at the vast flood area around him, he felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
More than half a year ago, I would never have thought that I would be sitting here today, let alone that I would appear here as a soldier to save people.
Although last night, after he and Wang Datong were swept away by the flood, there was a moment when they thought they were going to die.
That's right.
Those who serve as soldiers are also afraid of death.
Because people are not cats, they don't have nine lives, and everyone has only one head and one life.
Now, however, he did not feel fear at all, but rather a little anxious.
He wanted the assault boat to come back soon, so that he and Huang Hanrui could set off again and save people as soon as possible.
Saving people, this is something he never thought of before.
However, this is also what he feels most meaningful now.
What could be more rewarding than saving people?
When I was in high school, my solemn politics teacher once discussed with the students in class what kind of life is meaningful.
That time, he asked solemnly.
Zhuang Yan was not a good student back then, and he even deliberately went against the teacher, saying that it was the most meaningful to make money, and it was the most meaningful to be a business boss.
In fact, it is just solemn and deliberate.
When I was in class, the solemnity of the question actually didn't have any answer in my heart, so I just talked nonsense and dealt with the past.
He felt that he finally had an answer.
"Chase, I will always remember this day's ......," he said to himself.
Wang Datong asked, "What did you say?" ”
Zheng Zheng said: "I only know today what is the most meaningful thing to do in life." ”
Wang Datong frowned and asked, "What is the most meaningful?" ”
solemnly said: "Dare to fight for others once, can save others, this is the most meaningful thing." As long as you save someone once in your life, you will be proud in your life, right? ”