Chapter Ninety-Four: The Struggle of Human Nature
I hope that I will be able to return from the fishing field today, if that is the case, I can have a good meal at the old village chief's house at noon, and the old village chief said that in two days at most, the whole village will be busy, because the fishing ground will be harvested at that time.
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No matter from which point of view, my expectations are just very bland expectations, but God has the ability to make such bland expectations fall short!
The boat whirls in the water, the wind blows fiercely in the sky, the rain pours down, and the water is still churning with foam like boiling water, this is the cruel reality!
I couldn't figure out why the sunny day was suddenly like this, and I was so flustered on the boat.
At this time, the situation on the shore was not much better, the crowd began to be noisy and panicked, I saw my parents in the wind and rain, and my two sisters shouted at me on the shore, and my heart was desolate for a while, I don't want to die, I want to live, I still have a lot to do.
I didn't honor my parents, I didn't marry a wife and have children, I didn't think of this, my eyes were hot, I desperately wanted to row the boat to the shore, but in this wind and rain, the boat didn't listen to the call.
"Don't row indiscriminately, let the boat go down the water."
The old village chief's voice sounded at the right time, and at this time, he was still worried about everyone.
Hearing the words of the old village chief, I felt a little more relieved, and I didn't mess with the boat anymore, not only me, everyone was not so flustered, after all, for a long time in the village, everyone had formed a kind of dependence on the old village chief.
As if in response to this, after the old village chief shouted a few times, the wind and rain turned out to be much smaller, the water surface was much calmer, and the boat could be rowed smoothly, everyone was relaxed, I wiped the rain on my face, and happily picked up the oars, ready to row back to shore.
But at this moment, on the surface of the water over there, a big wave suddenly arose, rushing towards us at a high speed, what was that?
Everyone's eyes widened in horror, not knowing what was hiding beneath the waves.
Suddenly someone knelt down on the shore, and I saw that it was the old priest of the village, and I could not hear it clearly because of the distance, but I could only faintly hear something like the river god was angry.
These words made everyone's hearts even more flustered, and I don't know who started it, everyone began to desperately, rowing towards the shore with all their might, and I was one of them, especially when I saw my father, who was already standing in the water, almost submerged in the water, and I was even more anxious.
However, compared to the rest of the village, my rowing skills were not very good, and I soon fell behind.
The old village chief slowed down again, and began to push everyone with the oars in his hand, and with this thrust, the rowing boat was indeed much smoother, and I quickly caught up with everyone.
I glanced at the old village chief gratefully, and continued to row forward, without worrying 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 after a while, he rowed to the front.
Everyone is scrambling to row forward, the wave is heavy in everyone's heart, it is so heavy, originally looking at the river bank not far away, but at this time it looks so far away, far away from the distance between life and death.
The people on the shore are shouting hoarsely, calling for their relatives to hurry up, and so is my family, and at this time the relatives on the shore have become the biggest force for people to explode.
It's just the old village chief, I don't know why, I look at his back a little desolate, he has always been quite lonely, everyone knows that in the village, he has almost no relatives except for a distant nephew.
I felt some sympathy for the old village chief in my heart, but I was stunned again, and I quickly stopped thinking about it, but struggled to row forward.
In fact, at this time, who doesn't have a little selfish thoughts?
It's like two people being chased by a tiger at the same time, and if you can't outrun the tiger, you can outrun the other person and win the chance to survive.
It is impossible for the river god to eat all the people, and only those who are left behind will 'suffer', who doesn't understand this truth?
Even I understand!
I want to live, I can't bear my family, gradually, I see that the eyes of the people around me are not so friendly, in the face of life and death, the former villagers have been demarcated as competitors.
Is this wrong?
I do not know!
All I know is 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's wrong?
Then I heard the old village chief shouting, "Help me, take a hand, my boat is leaking." ”
My heart tightened, why did the old village chief's boat leak at this time?
Isn't this a clear indication that you will die?
I swallowed, glad my boat hadn't leaked at this time.
Next, I saw the old village chief asking for help, but the surrounding boats rowed by one by one, but no one paid attention to the old village chief, my heart hurt, to be honest, the old village chief is a good person, I can't bear to see him like this, but I am also about to row next to the old village chief, what am I going to do?
This kind of small boat, adding one person up, will inevitably affect the speed, and saving him is equivalent to two people dying together!
But before I could row next to the old chief, I saw that the old chief's boat was about to sink.
How fast did the ship sink?
Before I could think about it, the water surface that was originally uncalm because of the waves suddenly rose up again, which directly overturned the old village chief's already crumbling boat.
The old village chief fell into the water!
I don't want to admit that although I sympathize with the old village chief, I don't have the courage to save him, because I don't have the consciousness to die myself and then save others.
Maybe the old village chief is the one chosen by the river god, right?
And it's better to die one than two, right?
I'm still so young!
Maybe the old village chief is already so old, he thinks like this, I feel a little better, as if I also feel that I have found a strong reason for myself, and I can support my position of not saving the old village chief.
At this time, on the shore, people were a little silent, no one shouted to save the old village chief, I glanced at my family, they were a little ashamed to bow their heads, and they were also silent, yes, there are relatives, of course, I hope that my relatives are safe, and I don't want my relatives to die.
If you don't have relatives, it's hard to speak because of a somewhat subtle and complicated position.
After all, they are all villagers and know each other, if you rashly call someone to save them, then who will also be killed, who will be on the head?
People's minds are sometimes so complicated, because they are complicated, they will not purely judge the right and wrong of a thing, this is the sadness of human nature, and I myself am also sad.
The boat was moving rapidly, and I saw a scene that made me angry and angry, and I saw someone raise their oars and hit the old chief's hand, and someone shouted not to overturn my boat.
My heart ached again, I turned my head to look to the side, I thought to myself, I must not do anything, just push away, just push the old village chief away!
Thinking like this, I continued to paddle forward, but intentionally or unintentionally I was avoiding there, I didn't want to get involved, I couldn't stop others, but I couldn't change my selfishness, I sympathized with the old village chief, but what should I do?
But escaping is often not the solution to things, and my boat finally rowed in front of the old village chief, and I don't know why, whether it was out of my nature, I slowed down the boat intentionally or unintentionally.
At this moment, the old village chief's hands that had been smashed and deformed were on the side of my boat, looking at those hands, my heart throbbed for a while, are those people crazy?
He's our old village chief!
Even if you don't save it, why smash an old man like this?
I had already made the decision not to do anything, just push the old village chief away, after all, his hand was already like this, I guess it was just on the side of the boat, and I couldn't really catch it.
I raised my oars and tried to push the old village chief away, knowing that his nephew was still behind, and that his nephew could save him.
However, at that moment, I couldn't do anything, I saw the eyes of the old village chief, who wanted to live so much, was so reluctant, and 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, and the message from that eye is straight to the bottom of your heart.
I suddenly had a feeling that my face was red and hot, did the old village chief know that I would not save him?
Am I really not saving?
In front of my eyes, I thought of the scene when I was a child and wanted to be a combat hero, the contempt for the bad guys when I was a child, the act of righteousness and courage that I once longed for, I remembered that the old village chief happily asked me to go to his house for dinner, and remembered his enthusiasm to help everyone, did I deserve such a result?
Should?
!
If a kind person like the old village chief is like this, what if I fall into the water?
Everybody does the same to me, what do I think?
If the whole village is in trouble, what should we think if the people from other villages do this to us?
We're human!
!
Not a cold-blooded and ruthless animal!
Save, save him!
Even if I die, I'm better off living than guilty!
I stretched out my hands, grabbed the old chief's arm, and lifted him onto the boat.