Chapter 42: Rescue
"Xiaosi..."
Lu Quan interrupted Lu Sheige's thoughts with an exclamation, "Please help me see if there is someone in the water?"
Following the direction of Lu Quan's finger, Lu Sheige squinted and looked into the distance.
The color of that area is slightly darker than that of the other areas. It is clearly a large area of water plants rippling at the bottom of the water. In the rolling water waves, what can it be if it is not a person?
Lu Sheige stood up abruptly and pointed to the swaying water plants: "Dad, this is a human being!"
There are no villages or towns around, and no human habitation. How could someone fall into the water here?
While Lu Xiangge struggled to help Lu Quan paddle towards the man, he was secretly worried as he didn't know how long the man had been floating in the water and whether he was dead or alive.
If it's alive, it's fine. If it's dead, should we fish it or not?
"Dad, is he dead?"
Seeing that he was almost to the man, Lu Xiangge looked at the man floating silently on the water, and couldn't help but grab Lu Quan's clothes as he prepared to go into the water, "Dad, if he dies..."
She wanted to say, if he died, wouldn't it be bad if they fished him out?
Unexpectedly, Lu Quan thought she was afraid, so he freed his hand and patted her little head comfortingly: "Xiaosi, don't be afraid."
Lu Sheige still grabbed Lu Quan's clothes tightly and did not dare to let go: "Dad, if he dies and we fish him out, will there be any trouble?"
"trouble?"
Lu Quan was a little confused as to what Lu Shege meant, "What trouble will there be?"
"Just...if he is a bad guy, or his family knows that we caught him, will they come to us and cause trouble?"
"Xiaosi, no matter he is dead or alive, we cannot ignore him just because we are afraid of trouble. This is the rule of sailors."
Lu Quan rarely looked down at Lu Shengge. He shook off Lu Shengge's hand, plunged into the water, and swam towards the people in the water.
Lu Sheige pursed her lips in grievance. She didn't say that she would not save him even if he died.
Wasn't she worried that she would get into trouble?
But thinking about it again, the fault is indeed hers, saving people is like putting out fire.
At this time, of course the first thing to do is to fish the person out, instead of wondering whether the person is dead or not.
Maybe he didn't die, because her hesitation actually cost this man's life.
Lu Quan was worthy of being a man who lived in the water. He was like a fish swimming in the water. He approached the man easily, grabbed the man's hair, turned him over, and passed his arm under his arm with one hand, dragging him along.
He swam towards the boat.
Lu Xiangge lay down on the side of the boat and helped Lu Quan drag him to the boat. Only then did he realize that this man was in his early thirties and had a slender figure. Even if he fell into the water for who knows how long, he could still tell that he had handsome features and bright eyes. He was not the ordinary person she usually saw.
farmer.
Lu Shege felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity with this man, as if he had seen him before somewhere.
She couldn't help it, and stared at the man's face twice more, but still didn't think about it, so she could only concentrate on helping Lu Quan drag him up.
The father and son finally managed to drag the person onto the boat. Lu Quan had no time to talk to Xiao Si, so he only used the method of rescuing people on the boat. He lifted the person's legs up and prepared to stand upside down and let the person spit out the lake water in his mouth.
"Dad, this won't work."
Lu Sheige hurriedly stopped him and asked Lu Quan to put the man down. Lu Quan watched with fear as Xiaosi hit the man on the shoulders hard, pinched the man's mouth and nose, and pulled out a small ball of waterweed from his mouth.
"Xiaosi, how did you know there was waterweed in his mouth?"
Lu Xiangge didn't bother to explain. He put the drowned man's face down, put his body on his legs, and slapped his back hard, trying to control the water in his chest and abdomen as much as possible.
It's a pity that others are weak, so they can only hand it over to Lu Quan and guide him step by step.
Lu Quan followed Lu Xiangge's instructions and slapped him several times, but no water came out. He couldn't help but panic and asked: "Xiaosi, is he dead?"
"You should still be able to breathe."
Lu Sheige knelt down, tested the man's breathing and pulse with her hand, and touched the carotid artery with her hand. Before Lu Quan could ask, she pulled open the man's clothes and lay down on him to feel it.
Is there any rise and fall in the chest?
Lu Quan's hands began to tremble: "Is he dead? Why do I feel that his heartbeat has stopped?"
Although Lu Quan didn't think much when he rescued the person, at this moment, when the person was rescued and lying silently on the board of the boat, Lu Quan was still very panicked.
"Dad, don't panic, just put him down first and do as I say."
Lu Xiangge didn't care about anything else. He turned the man's head to one side and taught Lu Quan how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation by compressing the chest. At the same time, he took out a handkerchief and put it on the man's face, preparing to give him artificial respiration.
"Xiaosi..."
Lu Quan could no longer be described as shocked at this moment. He stretched out his hand and pulled Lu Sheige over, who was bowing his head. "What are you doing?"
Even if he raised Xiaosi as his son, even if she was still a child now, this behavior was still unacceptable to him.
No matter how old the other party is, he is still a man.
No matter how young Xiao Si is, she is still a girl.
"Dad, I'm saving people."
Lu Shege was still about to lower her head, but Lu Quan held her tightly by the back of her collar and refused to let go: "You tell me what to do, and I'll do it."
He believed that Xiaosi had a way to save people, but he couldn't accept Xiaosi performing such a method on a man.
It was useless for Lu Sheige to worry and worry, so he could only temporarily instruct Lu Quan to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, apply pressure several times, and then give the other person two artificial respirations.
Time passed bit by bit, and sweat dripped down Lu Quan's face.
Just when Lu Xiangge was about to give up, he suddenly heard a man lying on the deck groan, tilted his head, and started spitting out water.
"It's done!"
Lu Quan was ecstatic and looked at Lu Xiaosi with burning eyes.
This strange method can actually save people. Just now, he knew that this person almost had no breath.
Now, he is alive!
The person is alive but has not woken up.
Lu Quan didn't dare to wait. He picked up the oars and rowed hard, hoping to get to Jiangjiaba as early as possible so that he could find a doctor for the man who fell into the water.
Along the way, Lu Quan didn't forget to talk about Lu Xiaosi's carelessness, how he could give mouth to mouth to a strange man. Not even a familiar man, not even a man, not even his biological father.
"Although Dad treats you as his son, you are still a girl. Remember next time, you must not act like this. Do you understand?"
"I understand."
"Also." Lu Quan was not satisfied with Lu Sheige's answer and continued to lecture, "Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. We sailors, as long as we don't tell him whether we don't know whether he is dead or not, he will be considered dead.
, as long as we see him, we should also fish him out and find a place to bury him. It is better for a person to be buried in the ground than for him to float in the water and be eaten by fish and shrimps. This is the rule of us boatmen.
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This was because she was dissatisfied with her hesitation before rescuing people, and now she was settling old scores.
Lu Xiaosi sat cross-legged on the deck, listening to Lu Quan's murmuring and whispering in response. She watched the chest of the man lying beside her rise and fall slightly, and her heart was filled with a touch of joy.
Chapter completed!