I hope to come back from inspecting the fishery smoothly today. If so, I can have a good meal at the old village chief's house at noon. The old village chief said that in two days at most, the whole village will be busy, because the fishery is in That’s when it was harvested.
When you think about having a good meal and harvesting fish, you will feel how wonderful life is.
No matter from which angle you look at it, my expectations are just mediocre expectations, but God has the ability to make even such mediocre expectations come to nothing!
The boat was spinning in the water, the wind was strong, the rain was pouring, and the water was boiling with foam like boiling water. This is the cruel reality!
I couldn't figure out why a sunny day suddenly turned into this. I was so panicked on the boat.
At this time, the situation on the shore was not much better. The crowd started to be noisy and panicked. I saw my parents in the wind and rain, and my two sisters shouted to me on the shore. I felt desolate in my heart. I didn’t want to die, I wanted to live. , I still have a lot of things to do.
I didn't honor my parents, I didn't marry a wife and have children, I didn't... Thinking of these, my eyes got hot, and I desperately wanted to row the boat to the shore, but in this wind and rain, the boat didn't obey the orders. .
"Don't row the boat carelessly, let the boat follow the water." The old village chief's voice sounded at the right time. At this time, he was still worried about everyone.
Hearing the words of the old village chief, I felt a little more at ease and stopped messing around with the boat. Not only me, but everyone was no longer so panicked. After all, for a long time, everyone in the village had formed a dependence on the old village chief. psychology.
As if in response to these words, after the old village chief shouted a few times, the wind and rain became much lighter, the water surface became much calmer, and we could row smoothly. Everyone was relaxed. I wiped the rain off my face. He also happily picked up the oar and prepared to row back to the shore.
But at this moment, a big wave suddenly rose on the water over there and rushed towards us. What was that? Everyone opened their eyes in horror, wondering what was hidden under that big wave.
Suddenly someone knelt down on the bank. I saw that it was the old priest in the village. Because I was far away, I couldn't hear clearly. I could only faintly hear something like the river god was angry.
These words made everyone even more panicked. I don’t know who started it. Everyone started rowing hard and rowing towards the shore with all their strength. I was also one of them, especially when I saw that I was already standing in the water. I was even more anxious because my father's feet were almost submerged in the water.
But compared with other people in the village, my rowing skills were not very good, and I soon fell behind.
It was the old village chief again. He slowed down and started pushing everyone with the paddle in his hand. With this push, rowing the boat went much more smoothly. I quickly caught up with everyone. .
I glanced at the old village chief gratefully and continued rowing forward. I didn’t have to worry too much about the old village chief. After all, his rowing skills were the best in the village.
Sure enough, the old village chief quickly caught up and rowed to the front in a short while.
Everyone is scrambling to row forward, and the wave weighs heavily on everyone's heart. It is so heavy. The river bank that was not far away now seems so far away, so far away that it is life-threatening. distance from death.
The people on the shore were shouting at the top of their lungs, calling for their relatives to hurry up, and so did my family. At this time, the relatives on the shore became the biggest force for people to explode.
It's just the old village chief. I don't know why, but I looked at his back a little desolately. He has always been lonely. Everyone knows that in the village, except for a distant nephew, he has almost no relatives.
I felt some sympathy for the old village chief, but just for a moment, I was left behind again. I quickly stopped thinking about it and rowed forward with all my strength.
In fact, who doesn’t have any selfish thoughts at this time? It's like two people being chased by a tiger at the same time. If they can't outrun the tiger, they can outrun the other person and still have a chance of survival.
It is impossible for the River God to eat all the people. Only those who are left behind will suffer. Who doesn't understand this truth? Even I understand!
I wanted to live, but I couldn't bear to leave my family. Gradually, the eyes of the people around me became less friendly. In the face of life and death, my former fellow villagers were actually classified as competitors.
Is this wrong? I don't know! I just know that I really don't want to die.
Just when everyone was scrambling, the old village chief suddenly stopped. Although I was rowing hard, I still noticed this scene. What happened
Then, I heard the old village chief shouting: "Help me, lend a hand, my boat is leaking."
My heart tightened, why did the old village chief's boat leak at this time? Isn't it obvious that he will die? I swallowed, thankful that my boat didn't leak at this time.
Next, I saw the old village chief asking for help, but the boats around him were passing by one by one, but no one paid attention to the old village chief. My heart ached. To be honest, the old village chief was a good man. Seeing him like this , I can’t bear it, but... ..
I am almost rowing next to the old village chief. What should I do? In such a small boat, if one person is added to the boat, the speed will inevitably be affected. Saving him will mean that both of them die together!
But before I could row to the side of the old village chief, I saw that the old village chief's boat was almost sinking. How big of a hole was it? The ship sank so quickly
I didn’t have time to think too much. The water surface was originally unstable because of the waves, but suddenly another big wave arose, directly overturning the old village chief’s already shaky boat.
The old village chief fell into the water!
My heart tightened again, and I didn't even look over there. I didn't want to admit that although I sympathized with the old village chief, I didn't have the courage to save him because I didn't have the consciousness to die myself and save others.
Maybe the old village chief is the one chosen by the river god? And it’s better to die alone than two people, right? I'm still so young! Maybe the old village chief is already so old, he... .
Thinking about it this way, I felt a little better, as if I had found a strong reason for myself to support my stance of not saving the old village chief.
At this time, people were a little silent on the shore. No one shouted a word to save the old village chief. I glanced at my family. They lowered their heads in shame and were also silent. Yes, those who have relatives, of course hope for their relatives. Peaceful, I don’t want my loved ones to die.
It is difficult to talk to those who have no relatives due to some subtle and complicated positions.
After all, they are all fellow villagers and they all know each other. If someone is called to rescue rashly, then everyone will be killed, and who will be blamed
People's minds are sometimes so complicated. Because of their complexity, they cannot purely judge the right or wrong of a thing. This is the tragedy of human nature, and I am just as sad as myself.
As the boat rowed, I saw a scene that made me angry and my blood boiled up. I saw someone raising the oar and hitting the old village chief's hand, and someone yelling not to capsize my boat.
My heart ached again, and I turned my head and looked aside. I thought to myself, I will not do anything, just push away, just push the old village chief away!
Thinking like this, I continued to row forward, but consciously or unconsciously I was avoiding that side. I didn't want to get involved. I couldn't stop others, but I couldn't change my own selfishness. I sympathized with the old village chief, but I should How to do it
But escaping is often not the solution to problems. My boat finally reached the old village chief. I don’t know why, whether it was out of nature or not, I slowed down the boat intentionally or unintentionally.
At this moment, the old village chief's hands, which had been smashed and deformed, were placed on the side of my boat. Looking at those hands, my heart ached. Are those people crazy? He is our old village chief! Even if you don't save him, why smash an old man into this state
I had already made up my mind not to take action, but to push the old village chief away. After all, his hand was already in this condition, and he probably just held it against the side of the boat and could not really grab it with force.
I raised the oar and wanted to push the old village chief away. I knew his nephew was still behind him. His nephew could save him.
However, at that moment, I couldn't make a move. I saw the old village chief's eyes, he wanted to survive so much, he was so reluctant to give up, and he was so sad and desperate.
At some point, you can't look into the eyes of such a person, it will become a nightmare that you will never forget for the rest of your life. The information revealed in those eyes goes straight to the bottom of your heart.
I suddenly felt like my face was red and hot. Did the old village chief know that I wouldn't save him? Am I really not going to save you
Before my eyes appeared the scene of me clamoring to be a fighting hero as a child, the instinctive disdain for bad guys as a child, and the act of bravery that I once longed for... .
I remembered the old village chief happily asking me to go to his house for dinner, and his eagerness to help everyone. Did he deserve such a result? Should? !
If a kind-hearted person like the old village chief is like this, what if I fall into the water? Everyone treats me like this, what do I think? If the whole village is in trouble and people from other villages treat us like this, what should we think
We are human beings! ! Not a cold-blooded animal!
Save, save him! Even if I die, it is better than living with guilt! I stretched out my hands, grabbed the old village chief's arm, and lifted him onto the boat.