Author: I'm Red

The golden rays of sunset scattered on the river surface. Li Geng stood by the river naked, looking at Xu Rong, who appeared like fish in the river, eager to try but was terrified.

The river surface is about thirty meters wide. As it is close to the grassland, the gates are opened upstream to release water. The green river water is silent, firm and slowly flows into the distance.

At one moment, Xu Rong's traces suddenly disappeared from the river surface. After about ten seconds, they suddenly appeared not far away from several people. He shook the water droplets on his hair and smiled and said to Li Geng: "There is no water heater at home. If you don't wash it, you can only carry the bucket of water by yourself."

Li Geng swallowed his saliva. He could swim, but he had never swam in such a wide wild river, especially looking at the slow but irresistible river water, it was even more terrifying.

Behind Li Geng was a camera, and behind the camera was a tall man and a thin girl.

Xu Rong slowly swam in front of the three of them against the current, and his eyes passed by Li Geng and looked at the middle-aged man wearing glasses and shirt beside the camera: "Teacher Zhu, in such a hot day, don't you come down to play for a while?"

The middle-aged man who he called Teacher Zhu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "No, I don't know how to swim very well."

The female reporter next to Teacher Zhu was weak by Xu Rong's calves. When he saw Xu Rong approaching, he advised: "Teacher Xu, why don't we go back? It's too dangerous to swim in the river."

Xu Rong stood in the water. As soon as the water reached his waist, he gestured with his hands and said, "It's not deep. I have been swimming in this river since the fifth grade of elementary school. Every summer after school, I will play here for half an hour, and I will wait until my hair is dry."

"Here." He said, raising his chin in the direction of about two or three hundred meters upstream, "Aren't those guys too?"

The middle-aged man called Teacher Zhu looked at Li Geng's feet as if he had roots and kindly reminded: "Teacher Li, you'd better not go down. It's easy to catch a cold when swimming in particularly hot weather."

"Ah, is it true?" Li Genru received a general amnesty and quickly picked up the shirt next to her and put it on her body.

Seeing that Li Geng was cowardly, Xu Rong stopped forcing him. He was about to get ashore, but seemed to have thought of something. He looked at Zhu Guangquan on the shore and asked, "Does Teacher Zhu still record it?"

"What's the matter?"

Xu Rong smiled and said, "I'll do an experiment."

As he said, his figure suddenly jumped upwards and swam upstream. After swimming about fifty meters, he turned to the heart of the river and turned breaststroke into backstroke.

After swimming for a few seconds, he suddenly stopped moving his arms and legs, as if he was lying on a recliner, pillowing his hands behind his head, and his right leg was raised on his left knee.

At this time, Xu Rong stopped and quickly sank in the camera's display.

"Teacher Xu?"

While the female reporter shouted, Zhu Guangquan took off his shirt, shoes, and pants in one go, and jumped into the water with a "bang" to prepare to catch people.

"Teacher Zhu, wait a moment, look!" As soon as Zhu Guangquan fell into the water, Li Geng's incredible voice immediately came.

Then, he saw the most unforgettable scene in his life.

Xu Rong put his hands behind his head and his right leg on his left leg. He lay on the water like an immortal in the story, slowly floating on the water.

"Damn!"

Even though Zhu Guangquan was knowledgeable, he couldn't help but widen his eyes at this moment. If this happened in the Dead Sea with extremely high salt content, it would be very common.

But this is a small river in Henan Province that may not even have a name, and Xu Rong's body fat content is not high and does not have the conditions for natural floating.

The three of them were strangely silent, their eyes seemed to be tied to Xu Rong, and they slowly moved with him.

When he arrived, Xu Rong turned around and swam to Zhu Guangquan, looked at the female reporter on the shore, and asked, "Have you recorded it all?"

"Record, record it." The female reporter stared at him blankly. At this moment, some mysterious rumors about Xu Rong that she had heard of at some time appeared in her mind.

Zhu Guangquan was quite surprised when he heard Xu Rong's breathing. Xu Rong was hired by Zhongchuan, not only in his innovation in performance theory.

With his basic skills, emotional intelligence, and literary literacy, if he is willing, he can immediately change careers and become a professional host.

However, Xu Rong did not do vigorous exercise, but was breathing heavily at this time. It was obvious that the "floating" of fifty meters just now was also a heavy burden for him.

In other words, Xu Rong's leisurely floating just now requires superb skills.

He asked curiously: "Teacher Xu, how did you do it?"

Xu Rong explained: "The effect of "filling the balloon with water is naturally different from throwing half of the air and half of the water into the water."

Zhu Guangquan understood the principle and said, "I'll try it too."

He also started with a backstroke and took a long breath. He imitated Xu Rong and prepared to put his hands behind his head. However, before he could do it, his arms quickly sank as soon as they stretched out from the water surface.

Fortunately, he is not bad at water. He knows that he must not open his mouth or inhale when drowning. He turns over and stands up again, and looks at Xu Rong more curiously: "Teacher Xu, why can't I do it?"

"It's not just a matter of inhaling. You've recorded the video. You'll know when you go back and take a look." Xu Rong looked at Zhu Guangquan with a smile. He remembered that this guy said he didn't know how to swim, but those who dared to step down from the wild water all had their confidence in their own technology to the point of expanding.

He pointed at the bridge about a thousand meters away from the two of them: "Teacher Zhu, we've all come down anyway, let's see who will get to the bridge first?"

Zhu Guangquan glanced at the female reporter on the shore and said with a smile: "It's boring to compete just by yourself, we have to make a bet."

"What bet?"

"It's the next recording. I hope you can cooperate a little bit." Zhu Guangquan finally expressed the helplessness of recording for one day.

Xu Rong's discooperation made him feel that the job was even more difficult than he thought.

When choosing who to be the reporter, the station took a lot of effort. Xu Rong was not an easy person to deal with.

Xu Rong either bypassed the topic or remained silent for questions he didn't want to answer. Although he had only been together for three days, this was the most difficult interview with Zhu Guangquan since he worked at CCTV.

Seeing Zhu Guangquansheng's appearance, Xu Rong felt a bad premonition in his heart.

"Why, Teacher Xu is afraid of losing?"

"Haha, come here."

“Prepare, start.”

Li Geng and the female reporter looked at the two of them like two white lines, and a huge part popped out in the blink of an eye, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Why did these two people suddenly compete in the game?

After about five or six minutes, an electric car slowly drove over. Xiao Zhang got out of the car, looked at Li Geng, the female reporter and the clothes on the shore, and asked, "Where is Teacher Xu and Teacher Zhu?"

Li Geng pointed to the two heads that were vaguely visible on the river in the distance and said, "Hey, who will they swim to that bridge first?"

“Beter than swimming?”

Xiao Zhang frowned when he heard this. Teacher Xu had a lively side, but under normal circumstances, he would never show it to outsiders.

After a while, when the three of them looked at Xu Rong and Zhu Guangquan in the distance, wearing shorts and trotting along the river bank towards their direction, they were stunned.

Li Geng subconsciously looked at the female reporter, but the female reporter was holding a camera with excitement at this time, photographing the two people along the river bank.

Xiao Zhang pointed at the river and lifted two figures like thieves, and asked uncertainly: "Teacher Wang, do you also want to take pictures?"

"Of course, we have to record the side of the master as a 'master', but we have to record the side of the master as a 'human'." The female reporter didn't look at Li Geng and Xiao Zhang from beginning to end, and said excitedly, "What else can better reflect Teacher Xu's side of the 'human' than now?!"

"By the way, sister-in-law, why are you here?"

"Call you to have a meal!"

After dinner, everyone in the yard swept a palm-leaf fan to drive away the flying mosquitoes and flies.

Zhu Guangquan took a bite of the melon that Wang Yaqin had just cut and asked, "Teacher Xu, I remember you graduated in 2009. You were 22 years old at that time, but you took a year off after your senior year. Did you skip the grade?"

“Swishy.”

Xu Rong sat on the stool, grinding a sickle and said, "That's not. There is no kindergarten in the countryside, only half a year, also called preschool. I was four years old when I was in the first half of the grade, but I only went to school for three days in total."

"Hahaha."

"What about it later?"

Xu Rong reached out and took some water from the basin and sprinkled it on the whetstone, saying, "It's okay in 992, I was sent to school for the second time, which are the broken tiled houses I pointed to you before."

"It's almost done."

Xu Rong reached out and tried the knife, then said, "It's actually much better now. At that time, we didn't have the electricity. Every night, adults would sit on the street and sing in verbal words. Children usually go to the wheat field to play hide-and-seek or wrestle."

“Swishy.”

The sounds of sickles and whetstones complemented the quiet night, and Xu Rong whispered: "It is rare to see such a quiet night in the city,"

Zhu Guangquan keenly realized that Xu Rong always avoided certain topics intentionally or unintentionally. He stopped shaking the palm-leaf fan and asked: "Teacher Xu, your childhood seems to be not very happy?"

Xiao Zhang wanted to speak but stopped.

Xu Rong was silent. After a while, he said: "The students in elementary school are actually children from the four villages in front and back. Everyone knows that I am a wild child without a father or mother, and no one plays with me."

"Actually, this is fine. I couldn't understand it at that time. I didn't offend them, but they always couldn't get along with me."

"Can't you get through?" The female reporter looked at him in confusion.

Xu Rong still grinded his sickle seriously and said, "They like to scold me very much, but I can't retaliate, otherwise a group of people will hit me together. This is why I dropped out of school for the first time. It's not unpleasant, but it's not pleasant either."

"These people are good or bad."

Xu Rong shook his head and said, "What do they know? In fact, the main reason is that we are too poor. The countryside and farmers have been praised by literati for two thousand years. All the beautiful words such as simplicity and kindness are imposed on them, but in fact, they are all deceitful."

Zhu Guangquan understood the meaning behind Xu Rong's words and took advantage of the situation to reveal the topic: "What about it later?"

"Later." Xu Rong suddenly raised his head and said with a smile, "Later I was afraid of them. When they beat them, they would never dare to show any bad things again. Although they scolded me behind their backs, no one dared to say a word of bad words in front of me."

Zhu Guangquan listened to Xu Rong's relaxed tone, although it was a hot summer day, he couldn't help but shivered.

What a familiar scene!

Isn’t this a true portrayal of his in today’s film and television industry?!

In the entertainment industry, Xu Rong has been "first" for many years and has blocked many people's way of wealth, but the reality is that no matter how he curses him to death, no one says bad things about him in public.
To be continued...