Chapter 6 Guarding the River and Waiting for Drowning

"Saving a person's life, the merit is immeasurable, and it is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter."

After a night of understanding, Li Xuan had the most intuitive feeling of this sentence.

However, there is some difference between the words he realized and this sentence, that is: "Saving people's lives has a lot of merit, and it can build a corner of the pagoda."

Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda has a total of eight corners and eight faces. He remembered that there was an idiom called "eight-sided exquisite", which may be the reason why this pagoda is called Linglong Pagoda.

Li Xuan saved one person, and this pagoda has one more wall. If you want to finish building the remaining seven walls, you have to save seven people. Li Xuan calculated, seven people is really not too many, if you need to save one hundred and eighty, you may not be able to save so many in your life. But after all the calculations, Li Xuan was still a little disappointed. Although there are not many people, he has only saved one person when he has grown so big, and he is still his tablemate Zhao Bing. If he hadn't gone to take a bath by himself, and it happened that Zhao Bing slipped in the water again, then no one had been saved.

But the difficulties could not overwhelm our tenacious and persistent classmate Li Xuan. He brought his cousin and follower to discuss a plan to save people.

When Song Zhong heard that Li Xuan was going to do something good to save people's lives, he couldn't help laughing. "Boss Li Xuan, you're too funny, aren't you?

"Don't worry about it, help me figure it out. Otherwise, I won't give you a pheasant to eat in the future. ”

"Okay, okay, then I have to think about it!" As soon as he heard that Li Xuan didn't give him meat to eat, it was more uncomfortable than killing him. There is a good saying, "You can't eat a fat man in one bite, but a fat man eats it in one bite!"

"Boss Li Xuan, I heard the cross talk on the radio and said that if there are difficulties, you have to go up, and if you don't have difficulties, you have to go up if you don't have difficulties. If we want to save people, then find a place with a lot of dead people and wait to go, we can always meet people looking for death. ”

"Well, go and ask me about it, and see where there are many dead. ”

A day later, the little brothers met again, and Song Zhong reported the collected information to Li Xuan.

"Boss Li Xuan, the errand you gave me is not very good! I went to someone else's house and asked where there were dead people, but no one else looked at me with a good face, and some scolded me for getting out. ”

"Less nonsense, who made your name sound unlucky. Let's talk about what's going on. ”

"I heard Zhang Erpang, the head of the eastern part of the village, say that there are a lot of serious patients in hospitals in big cities, and people can die almost every day. ”

"No, we don't know how to heal, we can't go to the hospital to save people!"

"I heard Uncle Wang from the west of the village say that there are many cars on the main roads in the city, and a few people are killed and injured by cars every year, so you have to pay attention if you go out. He also said that our countryside is good, there are no cars, and it is safe. ”

"Talk about the point, don't say the useless. Li Xuan listened a little impatiently, "The dead people on the road are too accidental, I can't go to the side of the road every day to eat ashes." ”

"I heard Li Er, the head of the south of the village, say that there are often accidents in small coal mines, and if you are not careful, someone will be injured. If there is a collapse, many people will die at one time. The last time he worked in the small coal mine had an accident, fortunately he caught a cold that day and didn't go down the mine, otherwise he would have died. Now he no longer dares to go to work in the coal mines. ”

"That's not going to work, I can't go to the coal mine to stay, can I?"

"I heard from the little dog in the north of the village that people in the city love to engage in objects, and there are a lot of people who are out of love, and they either drink medicine or jump off the building after falling out of love, and there are also those who throw themselves into the river, anyway, there are quite a lot of suicides. ”

"This is even worse, how can I know who is out of love and who is not?"

"Then I also heard my grandfather say that the lower reaches of the Yushu River are connected to the Mudan River, where the water is deep and there are many swimmers, and several people drown every year. It is said that there are drowned ghosts in the river, and several stand-ins are caught every year. ”

"Your grandfather, oh no, it's my grandfather who knows how to engage in feudal superstition, we have been swimming in the Elm River for ten years, how can there be any drowned ghosts?"

"However, this Mu Danjiang is good, and it feels a bit funny. ”

Song Zhong didn't understand for a while, "What are you talking about?"

"I said that there should be no problem in going to Mudanjiang to save people?"

"I'm going with you too, I heard that Mudan City is fun, and I haven't been there yet. ”

"You keep me at home honestly, and help your uncle herd cattle when he's fine. With a wave of his hand, Li Xuan handed over the important task of herding cattle to Song Zhong, and prepared to go to Mudan City to save people.

Through a comparative analysis of the collected information, Li Xuan found that there are many people who die in big cities, especially by the river, some swim and drown, some fall into the water, and some commit suicide and die by throwing themselves into the river. And most of the people who died were in the summer, and they were concentrated in the two months of summer vacation.

Li Xuan thought for a while, now that the summer vacation has just passed for less than a month, and there is still a little more than a month to go, if he goes to the river to guard, maybe he can really get together enough 7 people to save himself.

Li Xuan is an activist and decided to leave for the city recently. Yushu Village is more than 30 kilometers away from the county seat and more than 70 kilometers away from the city. There is no bus in the village, but you can take the train to the township and get to the city in more than two hours. It happened that his aunt's family lived in the city, so he told his parents that he was going to see his aunt and her husband, and also to see the world in the city.

You can't go to my aunt's house empty-handed. In the past two days, Li Xuan has been busy, going up the mountain to pick mushrooms, catching pheasants, and making up a lot of gifts for his aunt. Subsequently, Li Xuan said goodbye to his parents and embarked on a journey to save people.

After walking more than four miles, I arrived at the Yushu Township Railway Station, and spent one yuan and two dimes to buy a train ticket to Mudan City. After taking the train for more than two hours, at about 11 o'clock at noon, Li Xuan asked five or six people according to the address written by his father, and finally found his aunt's house. The aunt and the aunt both work in a department store, which is a good unit in Jiangcheng City, and the unit is also divided into a two-bedroom building.

When I arrived at my aunt's house, my aunt and my aunt-in-law had just come home from work. My cousin is now in his first year of high school, and he is at home during the summer vacation.

The aunt's family was very happy to see Li Xuan coming. wanted to keep Li Xuan here for a few more days, and let his cousin accompany him. This is exactly what Li Xuan wants.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Xuan asked his cousin to accompany him to the Mudan River. The river is fifty or sixty meters wide, and it is not known how deep the water is. "Cousin, how deep is the deepest part of this river?" Cousin's answer was not very reliable, "I don't know, I guess it must be four or five meters deep, right?"

Due to the hot weather, there are really a lot of people in Daqingbian, about sixty or seventy people are swimming in the river, many of them are old people and children, and there are also many people bathing in the shallow water of the river.

Walking a short distance forward, Li Xuan found that there was a large notice sign erected by the river, "The water depth is dangerous, swimming is prohibited." Li Xuan is very strange, it is written here that swimming is prohibited, why are there so many people swimming?

Li Xuan saw a man in his forties who had just swam ashore, so he hurriedly ran over, "Uncle, there are so many swimmers here, doesn't that sign say that the water depth is dangerous and swimming is prohibited?"

The middle-aged uncle said: "The weather is too hot, and I can't stand the heat if I don't swim for a while." Those who know how to swim in the water are never afraid of the depth of the water, and it is only when the water is deep that it is comfortable. ”

"And are there any drowning here?"

"Why not, the day before yesterday, there was a kid who swam with leg cramps, but unfortunately he swam too far and we didn't save him. His parents were sad when they came, and they cried all afternoon! It was all because the weather was too hot. ”

Li Xuan heard that he had drowned the person before yesterday, and he was very annoyed, he knew that he would have come two days earlier, but now he can only wait slowly.

This afternoon, Li Xuan was wandering around the riverside, but no one was drowning, so there was no way for him to be in a hurry. He remembered that Mr. Zhao had told an idiom story called "Waiting for the Rabbit", which was similar to his current situation.

"Yes, I'm just going to wait by the river. Didn't others say that they often walk by the river, how can there be anyone who doesn't get their shoes wet? Blind cats can still meet dead mice, I don't believe it, there are so many swimmers, not one of them drowned. ”

If Li Xuan's idea was known to swimmers, he would have to be beaten.