After rescuing the people ashore, Bao Guowei collapsed on the ground.
People on the surrounding docks gathered around and took a closer look, including the two stewards that Bao Guowei met this morning.
I saw them looking panicked and overwhelmed.
"She fainted... fainted!"
"Quickly, lift her up, put her on your shoulders, head down, and shake out the muddy water in her stomach!"
Then, the man who spoke immediately called a dock worker, and when he was about to carry the person on his shoulders, Bao Guowei became anxious, how could he let them mess around here, and struggled to shout: "Don't move! This will kill her." of!"
Having said that, Bao Guowei felt a trace of strength in his body, stood up quickly, walked towards the drowning man and took a look, only to realize that he was indeed a foreigner, but actually a woman! No wonder it didn't take much effort to rescue the person just now.
I saw this foreign woman, blond and blue-eyed, with a slender figure and a face that was very in line with Oriental aesthetics.
To be honest, he might have expected to meet the foreigner Bao Guowei, but meeting a foreign woman on a pier full of men really surprised him.
Bao Guowei no longer thought about it, he knew that saving people should be the first priority.
He first removed the weeds, phlegm, mucus, etc. from her mouth and nose with his hands.
I also saw a foreign woman wearing a foreign-style cheongsam. After being soaked by water, the light blue cheongsam stuck tightly to her skin, outlining her gifted curves.
Bao Guowei checked her and unbuttoned her without saying a word, revealing a few inches of snow-white skin.
"You kid, what do you want to do!" A shout came from the crowd.
"Ha!" As soon as the button was unbuttoned, the foreign woman took a deep breath and scolded the man. Seeing this, he immediately shut up.
Bao Guowei turned her mouth, nose and body to one side, slowly pressed her abdomen and waist, and slowly spit out the water accumulated in her abdomen.
After working for a while, there was only a sound of "oh woo", and the foreign woman spit out a mouthful of river water, coughing and coughing.
Everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief and asked what was going on.
"How do you feel?" Bao Guowei asked calmly in English.
In a daze, the foreign woman nodded and said: "It's better...ahem."
"Breathe slowly now. You were temporarily deprived of oxygen just now. It's normal to feel tired, but don't think about falling asleep. Think of more impressive things to keep yourself awake..."
People around him were chattering, and Bao Guowei raised his voice.
He knew that now he had to keep her sane at all times.
Bao Guowei has been a talker since he was a child. He talked nonsense and rambled on. He introduced his name and said how awesome he was in Shuixiang Town and how he had been to Jingkou.
But gradually, more and more people came, and many people came who did not belong to the dock, or perhaps to be precise, people who did not belong to Shuixiang Town.
In Bao Guowei's original memory, the clothes those people wore were only worn by wealthy and powerful parents from foreign schools.
These people gathered around the foreign woman. They did not understand English. When they heard Bao Guowei's words, they thought he was reciting Buddhist sutras for salvation or something. This was for the dead, and they immediately felt unlucky.
"Go away, why are you causing so much trouble!"
Just as he was talking, Bao Guowei was unknowingly pushed by a big hand, pushing Bao Guowei aside.
He leaned against the fence on one side and vaguely heard, "What are you doing! If anything happens, can you bear the responsibility?!"
Bao Guowei knew that these people came deliberately to compete for performance. He wanted to continue to seize the opportunity, but those people pushed him away.
He wanted to go further and see the situation of foreign women, but he didn't have much strength left.
The cold wind at night made Bao Guowei shiver. He wanted to find his cotton robe, but he forgot where he took it off.
He slumped on the ground, his eyelids getting heavier and heavier. Bao Guowei finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell asleep.
…
When Bao Guowei woke up again, he was awakened by sparks from a match that burned his arm.
"Where am I?" He was still struggling to get up while his mind was still awake.
He immediately recalled rescuing people at the dock, but in the end he didn't even know their names.
Thinking about it again, the details of the original rescue were a bit blurry, but the delicate face became clearer and clearer in my mind. It was indeed an appearance that was very in line with Eastern aesthetics.
"Hey! No, where's my money? Where's my wages?"
Bao Guowei suddenly remembered that the dock would give him wages after the day's work was completed, but because he saved people, not to mention fainting, he didn't even know how to ask for wages now!
He slapped his thigh hard, feeling regretful.
for a long time.
"Alas." Bao Guowei sighed helplessly and calmed down.
"Hey! This is..."
He had been distracted just now, but now he wanted to examine the surrounding environment, looked around, and finally saw clearly where this was.
Isn't this your own home?
It's just that now the door has been covered with two broken boards, and a rotten iron basin has been used to light a fire in the middle.
Bao Guowei was pleasantly surprised, thinking that Lao Bao was back, and wanted to call "Dad", but his voice was so hoarse that he couldn't make a sound.
"Swelling."
The covering board was opened. Bao Guowei took a look and saw only a pair of extremely long and thin legs. When he looked up, his face was blocked by the eaves of the door.
"It's not Lao Bao." Bao Guowei was shocked.
The man bent his waist and walked into the room with difficulty. Bao Guowei took a look and saw, wasn't this the tall man who carried the pig that day?
Just when he was confused, the tall man said: "Guowei, are you awake?!"
Bao Guowei nodded and asked, "Do you recognize me?"
"Ah?" The tall man was stunned, "Are you out of your mind? You don't even recognize me. I am the tall man! Gao Sheng's son."
Only then did Bao Guowei remember.
It turns out that Gao Sheng, like Lao Bao, is an old man working in the Qin Mansion, and he is a footman who follows Young Master Biao. When Bao Guowei went to school, he also borrowed money.
And the tall man in front of him is Gao Sheng's eldest son. Don't tell me, Tall Man is really his real name.
Originally, Tall Man's real name was not this, but because he had grown very tall since he was young, others called him Tall Man, so he no longer used his real name when calling him.
Even Bao Guowei, a childhood friend, has forgotten his real name.
He only remembered playing with the tall man when he was a child. Bao Guowei was one year older than him, but he was a head and a half taller than Bao Guowei.
However, later, Bao Guowei went to a foreign school, and they never met again.
I only heard that the tall man didn't go to school and didn't want to stay in the country, so he looked for work in the town. Unexpectedly, he went to the dock to work as a laborer.
Although the tall man has grown taller, his nutrition cannot keep up, and his whole body is slender.
Bao Guowei felt a little intolerable. These days, there are few sources of protein and people only eat carbohydrates. How come you are so tall? To grow so tall, you must be sick.
"What's wrong? Are you stupid?" The tall man smiled and waved his hand at Bao Guowei.
"Nothing." Bao Guowei shook his head.
"Remember me, right? I thought you went to a foreign school and hung out with those young masters and ladies for a long time, so you completely forgot about me." The tall man said with a naive smile.
"You're from a foreign school, don't make fun of me. I'm really living in poverty now! Look!" Bao Guowei pointed to the empty door panel, "There's not even a door."
Regarding Bao Guowei's self-deprecation, the tall man didn't have any strange thoughts and continued to ask: "Why do you go to work at the dock? It's tiring and impersonal there."
"Then why did you go to the dock to work?" Bao Guowei asked.
The tall man scratched his head, showed a somewhat unnatural smile, and said naively: "It must be because you want to make money! Don't tell me that working at the dock requires hardship and anger!"
"I don't care if I'm angry or not, but I've been working for a damn day, and now I don't even know how to get paid!" Bao Guowei was so angry that he just wanted to curse.
"What! You didn't get your wages? The people working in the dock are all slippery. If you don't get it on the same day, they won't accept it the next day!" The tall man became anxious upon hearing this.
"Holy shit!" Bao Guowei's eyes widened, "It's so damn dark!"
"You don't know, you saved people at the pier, and the drowning people were sent to the hospital. But no one took care of the people who saved them. You were lying there at the fence, naked. If I hadn't finished work early, I would have seen you. You, I’m afraid you’ll freeze to death there!”
The tall man took the dried cotton robe from the fire rack and handed it to Bao Guowei: "Don't think so much, it's important to save your life. You will put on your cotton robe later. The quilt you are covering now is mine." Yes, it’s not that I’m stingy, it’s just that if you cover me, I won’t have a quilt at night!”
Bao Guowei smiled. This tall man looked dull and childlike, but he had a good heart.
He was very grateful, but he also felt the cruelty of the world more and more. He inexplicably thought of Kong Yiji in Lu Xun's novel. According to the boy in the store, he also froze to death without anyone caring about him in the winter.
Bao Guowei put on his cotton robe and warmed himself by the fire. He felt much warmer. Although the wind was blowing, the cold was not particularly serious.
Although it hurts to have no wages, I feel a lot warmer in my heart now.
"Lao Bao, Lao Bao, it's the Chinese New Year, why are you hiding here so that I can find you easily?"
Suddenly there was a muddy sound outside the door.
Bao Guowei walked quickly to the door and looked out through the large gap in the wooden planks.
He has a big horse face, a red scab on his scalp, and all his hair has fallen out. He has a big head and a small body, and he looks like a horse face in the underworld.
The tall man also came over to take a look, and was surprised.
Isn't this Chen San Lezi?
