Chapter 49: Sinking Water
"Hurry up and put out the fire!" Zheng Yingci ordered.
Listening to this order, the heart of the servants who followed the Zheng family sank, Zheng Yingci has always had an excellent reputation, and it is normal for him and others to go over to fight fires and save people, but in this situation, they can't get close!
"No, Childe!" Seeing that their eyes were all turned around, a middle-aged man stood up, everyone else was an ordinary domestic servant, and he couldn't disobey the order, but he had served the Zheng family for twenty years, and he still had some face.
"Uncle Tian, why?" Zheng Yingci asked with a gloomy face when he heard this.
"Childe, just like this, the fire and the wind, once it passes, let alone connect the two ships directly, it will be stained with a little spark, and our ship will also follow in the footsteps of the boat. The middle-aged man pointed and said, everyone looked over, and saw that the painting boat was burning extremely vigorously, and from time to time there was a wind blowing the wreckage, spewing out more than ten meters with flames, and they couldn't help but nod their heads again and again.
The middle-aged man saw that Zheng Yingci's face was not good, and he knew that he would go early, and he would be far away, and he had no responsibility, but it was very close here, and Childe could not bear the reputation of not saving him when he saw death, with this reputation, no matter how good the article was, it was useless, and he said at the moment: "Even if Childe wants to save it, he can't save the boat, he can save the person who jumped into the water, it's too far from the shore, not to mention the person who can't water, even if he knows water, it's difficult to guarantee that he can swim to the shore." ”
This is reasonable, Chen Ziyi hurriedly said: "Brother Xian, you have a good loyal servant, these words are indeed golden and jade good words, the painting boat is very hot, and if you want to save people, you must save the people who jumped into the water." ”
With these words, Zheng Yingci nodded and responded: "Brother Chen, you are right, row the boat faster, and go around the painting boat to save people!"
"Yes!" the servant immediately put his heart in his stomach, rowed around and shouted to save people, and if he met someone, he stretched out a penny and pulled him up.
Because of the closeness, I could see more clearly, only to see a person rushing out of the painting boat!
This man was covered with fire, and he was not willing to die, and he struggled desperately to climb to the deck, and he was dying, but when he saw the painting boat, he didn't know where the strength came from, and he desperately stretched out his hand: "Save me, save me......"
But the painting boat couldn't get close at all, and in this hesitation, his body burned into a ball of fire, and the screams became sharp and low, and in the face of this tragic scene, Zheng Yingci closed his eyes.
Although Zheng Yingci has a good reputation and can be called kind, he calmed down, and now it is absolutely impossible to get close to the fireship in the heat wave.
Feeling that the heat wave was gradually subsiding and the ship was moving away, Zheng Yingci breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing this scene was really a serious test for his heart.
"Thank you Brother Zheng for your help. At this time, a scholar who had fallen into the water climbed up, his face was pale, his body was still trembling, and he came up to thank him.
Zheng Yingci looked at it, and still knew it, and he ridiculed Ye Buregret and one of his own children, who was also a chess player.
But this little thing, of course, is nothing, and hurriedly replied: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, anyone will ...... when they encounter this kind of thing."
"Childe, it's not good!" Another scream, Zheng Yingci secretly screamed that it was not good, turned around to look, and everything in front of him suddenly made his face pale.
I saw the wind on the lake, and suddenly it turned, and a painting boat, which had become a fire boat, broke off from the main body and quickly collided with the place where my boat was.
"Hurry! Hurry up!" Zheng Yingci was startled and drank.
But on the water, which is as easy to turn as on land?
What's even more strange is that the painting boat came by the wind and hit it very fast, but the Zheng family's boat, let the sailors operate desperately, seemed to be immovable, nailed to the lake.
Not to mention that in order to save people, the boat is very close, but it is only about ten meters.
The "boom" fireboat crashed into it heavily, not only that, but when it hit, the extremely hot sail wood on the opposite side flew up, and it fell heavily, only to hear a miserable scream, and a domestic servant was crushed by the fire.
The fire quickly strung together, and almost in the blink of an eye, the place where Zheng Yingci and Chen Ziyi were standing was already engulfed in flames.
Zheng Yingci and others, who ran towards the stern of the boat when they saw that the situation was not good, repeatedly ordered the family to put out the fire, and they were not idle, scooping the lake water with a wooden basin and splashing it on the fire on the deck.
However, there was nothing to stop the fire from spreading.
"Childe, jump down with the barrel!" "The family who jumped down first shouted: "I'll wait for the water, Childe jump quickly, keep you safe!"
Zheng Yingci didn't know water, and he was worried in his heart, but as the heat wave approached, he knew that if he didn't jump, he would die miserably, and Chen Ziyi knew water, so he didn't hesitate, hugged a wooden bucket, and jumped down.
"Jump, Virtuous Brother!"
Listening to the shouting, Zheng Yingci gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, hugged a wooden bucket, and jumped into the water with a pop.
I thought that someone in the family knew how to water, and if he jumped down, he would definitely take care of it, but when he jumped into the water, he suddenly felt a cold body, and then he felt a cold air burrowing into his bones.
"Oops!" A bad voice in his heart, Zheng Yingci didn't have time to shout, he felt that he had turned into a stone, he couldn't hold it with his hands, and he sank straight down.
Don't say it's waiting for others to save you, in this case, it's clear that you can't even float a little.
Is the water so cold in April?
With this thought in his mind, Zheng Yingci struggled desperately, but his foot hurt, and he actually cramped, and his heart suddenly felt cold, full of grief and indignation, could it be that he was going to die in this Panlong Lake? Just because of a sudden fire? What a ridiculous thing!
He is a carefully cultivated son of the Zheng family, and he has never been admitted to the exam, he has never been admitted to the Jinshi, he has never been an official in the court, he has not made a profit for the family, and he has never left a name in history, so he is going to die in this place and become a handful of white bones at the bottom of the lake?
The unwillingness in my heart can't stop my body from sinking.
Through the blurred light of the water, Zheng Yingci saw that someone had fallen into the water, and it seemed that he was swimming towards him, so he had some hope, and saw that this person snatched the wooden bucket he had originally held, and desperately swam elsewhere, not reaching out at all.
It's the child chess player he saved just now.
Before he had time to grieve, a burning wooden beam fell, and hit the man's head hard, half of his head was dented, sinking faster than himself, and the red scattered. ”
"Could it be the misfortune caused by this chess player?" At the moment of life and death, inexplicably, Zheng Yingci suddenly had this feeling, and a wry smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
The pain and suffocation made him almost immediately unconscious. But the faces of his parents who were looking forward to him seemed to appear again, Su Ziji, and the faces of many people he knew in the past appeared.
"No, I can't die here, I want to live!" Zheng Yingci, who had given up struggling, had a strong desire to survive and struggled again, and at this moment, he felt that the cramps were relieved, and he desperately wanted to surface at the moment, so he grabbed the wooden beam that had been burned in half, but had been extinguished by the water, and held on to it.
Then, Zheng Yingci, who even choked on a few mouthfuls of water, went dark in front of him and didn't know anything.
Almost at the same time, the boat far away is slowing down, the dark green lake is rippling, and there is a painting boat slowly cruising on the lake with songs and laughter in the distance, and you can hear the beautiful and graceful singing and singing, looking like a feast on the lake in a prosperous era.
Su Ziji couldn't help but feel relaxed, and felt a wave of tiredness coming, turned around to look, Ye Buregret also yawned, and said: "I didn't sleep well last night, no, I didn't fall asleep, let's make up for sleep." ”
He said a little louder: "Boat boss, get a fish, call us up at noon." ”
"Yes, Childe. The captain of the boat saw the smoke from a distance, but it seemed faint from this distance, so he was not even surprised, but responded.