In the middle of winter, the lake in the park is covered with thick ice. There are already many people wearing skates, paddling ice cars, chasing and playing on the lake.
Zhou Tianxing and others also ran to the lake and looked at the people playing above, feeling very envious.
There was an ice truck seller by the lake, and Zhou Tianlei went there and bought two.
It is a simple wooden ice cart with metal slide rails on both sides. Each cart is equipped with two ice picks and a drawstring.
Zhou Tianlei helped them install it on the ice. Tianxing and Zhou Yang pulled a car and ran out first.
Seeing her brother running away, Qing'er jumped up anxiously, "Dad, hurry up, I want to play too."
After Zhou Tianlei installed it and Qing'er sat up, Cheng Xiang volunteered to pull Qing'er and run.
Zhou Tianlei looked at her worriedly: "Is it okay?"
Cheng Xiang said confidently: "Okay, I've played with it before."
Winter skating is a joy exclusively for northerners. When I was a child and lived in the countryside with my grandma and grandpa, in the winter after college, my grandpa would make a simple sledge and pull her to play in the snow.
Later, when I was in elementary school, I was picked up by my mother and went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It was a place where the snow melted immediately when it fell on the ground, let alone the ice.
Later, when I went to college, I chose the north for the heating. I also went skating with my classmates in the winter.
It's just that she was the one caught in the middle and helped to walk. Her classmates said she was both good and fun-loving.
How could I miss this great opportunity?
Cheng Xiang excitedly pulled up the rope and carefully moved forward a few steps. Fortunately, he was able to control his pace.
Zhou Tianlei followed her, protected her for a few steps, and told him some essentials. She pushed him away confidently: "I know, I know."
Qing'er was sitting on the ice cart, wearing a pink ear protection hat Cheng Xiang knitted for her, and small gloves with shoulder straps on her hands. She clapped her hands excitedly: "Mom, come on."
Cheng Xiang slowly moved forward, pulling Qing'er's ice cart forward.
It was very smooth, so I became more courageous and my pace gradually increased.
Qing'er felt the speed getting faster and faster from behind and shouted excitedly.
Zhou Tianlei looked at Cheng Xiang's cheerful childlike expression, with a slight smile on his face.
Cold, decisive, cunning, charming, arrogant, and still childlike at this moment, which one is the real her?
Or maybe it's not her.
Zhou Tianlei looked at her back with sweetness in his heart, but also a little uneasy.
Suddenly, Cheng Xiang heard a scream of pain, pulling him back from his thoughts.
Sure enough, Cheng Xiang threw it away, with his feet in the air and his butt hitting the ice hard.
Zhou Tianlei ran over in a hurry.
Cheng Xiang lay on the ice, feeling as if his butt had been smashed and groaning in pain.
Qing'er squatted beside her and shouted anxiously: "Mom, how are you? Are you okay?"
Zhou Tianlei ran over and said, "How are you? Are you okay?" He said while trying to help her up.
Cheng Xiang hugged his neck and stood up slowly. People playing next to him all looked over.
It was really a shame. Cheng Xiang buried his face in Zhou Tianlei's clothes in embarrassment and cried aggrievedly: "My butt hurts."
Zhou Tianlei couldn't help but stretched out his hand and rubbed her butt gently: "Can you still leave?"
Cheng Xiang hid in his arms and shook his head.
Zhou Tianlei bent down and picked her up, slowly walking towards the lake.
Cheng Xiang hugged his neck tightly and groaned, "Be careful, don't throw me out."
Zhou Tianlei smiled sullenly, lowered his head and whispered in his ear: "You are really good and fun-loving."
Cheng Xiang beat him angrily, while Qing'er followed them, pulling his own ice cart, clicking along.
Walking to the lake, Zhou Tianlei carefully put her on the stool and asked softly: "How are you? Are you feeling better?"
"It hurts." Cheng Xiang curled his lips and muttered. Not only did it hurt, but the embarrassment of falling onto his back was even worse than the pain.
Zhou Tianlei chuckled: "I'll rub it for you."
Cheng Xiang shook his head. Letting a man rub his buttocks in public, even if it was his own husband, was enough for others to watch. Forget it.
Zhou Tianlei took her into his arms and said softly: "I'll take a look at her when I go home and apply some medicine."
As he was talking, a cry for help came from the distance, yes, he was about to save someone again.
"Someone fell into the ice hole." Someone shouted in the distance.
Zhou Tianlei frowned and wanted to say to Cheng: "Call the children back and wait here."
After saying that, he hurried over there.
Cheng Xiang ignored the pain in his butt and called Tian Xing and Zhou Yang back.
When the ice breaks, I am afraid that the cracks will spread quickly. People who are playing on the ice rush back to the shore.
Cheng Xiang was worried about Zhou Tianlei and asked Zhou Tianxing to look at the child while he ran in that direction.
A piece of broken ice appeared on the ice not far away. When Zhou Tianlei arrived, the child had fallen in and was splashing in the water.
Zhou Tianlei took off his coat and shouted to the child in the water: "Don't move around, hold on to the ice, pump the water with your feet, and keep floating."
The child looks about ten years old. Although he is in a panic, he can understand the instructions.
Zhou Tianlei climbed onto the ice and crawled slowly over.
The child held onto the ice tightly and said in a trembling voice: "Help, help me."
After Zhou Tianlei moved to the ice cave, he reached out and grabbed the boy's arm, and said quietly to the boy: "Slap your feet on the water to float yourself up, and follow my strength to climb up the ice. Do you understand?"
The boy cried and nodded, doing as he was told.
Zhou Tianlei took the child's arm and used the strength of his upper body to pull him up little by little.
People on the shore looked on in horror. Even the boy's mother, who had been crying, stopped and looked nervously at the ice.
Cheng Xiang bit his lip, grabbed his collar, and watched Zhou Tianlei's every move.
Just as the child slowly climbed up, the ice surface where Zhou Tianlei was lying suddenly broke, and he fell into the water with the child.
"Zhou Tianlei." Cheng Xiang shouted in panic from the shore.
The child's mother cried again: "Nannan, help, help."
The child fell into the water and drank some water. His body became colder and colder, almost stiff.
Zhou Tianlei held the child in the water, peeled off the broken ice with one hand, found the ice again, and used all his strength to send the child onto the ice.
At this time, the park management staff and other gay men who were watching found some ropes and came over.
Someone slowly crawled over. When he climbed to the ice cave, most of the child's body had been pushed to the ice by Zhou Tianlei.
The man tied the rope under the child's armpit, and the people on the shore pulled the rope together and slowly dragged the child out of the ice.
Zhou Tianlei was still in the water at this time. He tried to climb up on the ice, but there were already cracks in the surrounding ice.
It broke with just a little force, and the man who rescued him before retreated in panic.
Cheng Xiang stamped his feet anxiously on the shore: "Zhou Tianlei, Zhou Tianlei."
He asked the people around him for help, but the ice broke again and again, and the onlookers were scared and did not dare to go over.
"He just saved someone else..." Cheng Xiang yelled angrily and suddenly stopped. He was the one who saved it voluntarily, so why should he morally kidnap others?
Cheng wanted to pick up the rope from the ground and take off his shoes. There was a voice in his head that said, no one is worth risking his life, but there was a voice in his heart that said, he cannot die.
Just die, Cheng Xiang thought, and walked onto the ice with the rope.
Suddenly a figure rushed over, snatched the rope from his hand, ran quickly onto the ice, quickly got down and crawled forward.
"Tian Xing?" It was Tian Xing. Cheng Xiang felt his heart jumped into his throat. He was about to die. It was a sin for both brothers to drown here.
Tian Xing was seen crawling all the way over, and Zhou Tianlei was floating in the water with a calm expression, watching Tian Xing crawling all the way over.
Tianxing was light in weight and put less pressure on the ice, so he climbed all the way to the ice cave.
Throwing the rope to his brother, Zhou Tianlei passed the rope through his armpit, tied a knot, glanced at Zhou Tianxing, and said in a deep voice: "Go back."
Zhou Tianxing didn't say any nonsense and slowly retreated as he was told.
On the shore, Cheng Xiang and the others quickly picked up the rope and pulled hard.
Even Zhou Yang and Qing'er were pulling the rope hard and crying for daddy.
Cheng Xiang endured the panic, held his breath, and held the rope tightly with both hands. The biting wind and the rough hemp rope made him feel neither cold nor pain.
I just want to get the man back.
Zhou Tianlei hit the water with his feet to let himself float, stretched his arms, climbed to the ice, and slowly climbed out of the water with the power of the rope.
Everyone on the shore worked together to pull him out of the water. After Zhou Tianlei reached the ice, he crawled all the way back to the shore.
Seeing him land on the shore, everyone onlookers breathed a sigh of relief.
The boy's mother came over and thanked him profusely, because the child had also soaked in ice water, so Zhou Tianlei asked her to take the child home quickly.
Cheng Xiang looked at him. He was already soaked through, and there were ice particles on his sweater. He clenched his fists, his face was a little pale, and he seemed to be in good condition.
It's just that Cheng Xiang couldn't see his face at this time, it was almost bloodless, and his body wrapped in cotton clothes was trembling slightly.
Zhou Yang and Zhou Qing hugged him while crying. He rubbed the child's head, looked up at Cheng Xiang, smiled lightly at her, and whispered, "It's okay."
Cheng thought about how he felt at this moment. He really wanted to go up and slap him. What kind of heroism was he trying to show off? What will happen if your child dies? What should I do with my brother? what should I do?
She took a deep breath and calmed down: "If you get wet, you will catch a cold." After saying this, she found that her voice was trembling.
Zhou Tianlei heard the strangeness in her voice, and his heart tightened. He wanted to reach out and touch her face to comfort her, but he was afraid that the cold hands would freeze her, so he curled his lips at her: "It's okay, you know I also take a shower at home. Those who take a bath are not afraid of the cold."
Cheng Xiang calmed down and thought quickly: "No, my body can't bear it. This is not far from grandma's house. Let's go there."
He couldn't help but refuse, so he took him and the child, hurriedly got in the car, and drove all the way to his grandma's house.
Grandpa and grandma got up early today to greet their friends and comrades who came to pay New Year's greetings. Now, with free time, the two of them were sitting on the sofa, warming the stove and taking a nap.
Suddenly I heard the door being knocked open. I woke up and looked out.
Seeing Cheng Xiang's family walking in, the child had tears on his face. Cheng Xiang was holding Zhou Tianlei's arm, with a worried look on his face. Zhou Tianlei was even more worried, his face was pale, and there seemed to be ice particles on his short hair.
"I'm going to die. What's going on?" Grandma hurriedly greeted her.
When grandpa, uncle and aunt heard grandma's shouting, they all came out in a hurry.
Seeing the appearance of their family, they were quickly brought into the house.
"What's going on?" Grandma asked anxiously.
Cheng thought: "Grandma will tell you in detail later. Hurry up and boil some hot water and let him take a dip."
"Okay," grandma responded,
"I'll go, I'll heat it," my aunt quickly walked to the kitchen to boil water.
Cheng wanted to take Zhou Tianlei to the heater and wrapped him in a thick blanket.
Although Zhou Tianlei kept saying: "It's okay, it's really okay."
Cheng Xiang glared at him angrily, while Zhou Tianlei smiled helplessly and wrapped himself up obediently.
Uncle and grandpa also echoed anxiously: "Wrap it up, wrap it up, don't freeze."
"Think about it, what happened to this Chinese New Year?" Grandma looked at Cheng Xiang angrily, wondering if this girl was some kind of monster that caused her grandson-in-law to be like this.
Cheng Xiang briefly explained the matter.
Everyone was shocked and sighed.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's not a joke to fall into the ice hole in winter." Grandma patted her heart and said fearfully.
"Fortunately, Tianlei is strong and knows some self-rescue knowledge. Otherwise, he would not be able to save others and he would be in danger." The uncle adjusted his glasses and said: "There have been reports abroad that someone fell into an ice cave and came to the rescue. The person was dragged down by the person who fell into the water, floated away with the current, could not find the exit, and died."
"It's so scary. The water is so cold and the weather is so cold. Even if you soak in it for a while, you'll be frozen." Grandma brought a cup of hot tea to Zhou Tianlei: "Don't act like a hero in the future. Protecting yourself is the most important thing."
Zhou Tianlei took the water and smiled at his grandmother.
Grandpa said on the side: "What are you talking about? It is a glorious thing to save people bravely. Tianlei is a veteran. If something like this happens, who else will he do? What does this mean? In North Korea back then, Changjin Lake, our soldiers were frozen into ice sculptures, and..."
When grandpa heard that he was going to talk about the almanac again, grandma glanced at her and grandpa quickly shut up.
At this time, my aunt came over and said: "Think about it, the water is boiled, let Tianlei take a dip quickly."
Cheng Xiang couldn't care less and dragged Zhou Tianlei into the bathroom.
The tub was filled with steam and hot water.
"Bubble." Cheng Xiang said with a livid face.
Zhou Tianlei looked at her and knew that she was still angry. He scratched his brow with his fingers and whispered in a helpless voice: "Think about it..."
"Wash quickly." Cheng Xiang said with a cold face, turned around and left the bathroom.
Zhou Tianlei looked helplessly at the closed door and swallowed what he had not finished.
I began to slowly take off my clothes, soaking them in cold water. They were already freezing all the way here.
When I was walking outside just now, my skin was sore from the freezing stiff clothes, but it slowly melted away a little after entering the house.
He had done cold-resistant training in the army before and had always maintained the habit of taking cold showers, so the cold was not scary to him.
Compared with the cold water, what was more terrifying was Cheng Xiang's cold face.
