The underwater search was long and desperate.
Lin Shanshan watched Fu Jingchuan and everyone floating in the water, but there was still no news from Shiyang, and she was almost overwhelmed by fear and despair.
This is in the water, not in the mountains or on other land. There is still time for people to search.
People can't last long in the water.
The search and rescue crowd had already dispersed to look downstream.
The police also rushed over after receiving the call and participated in the search and rescue.
The search and rescue work started from the point where Shiyang fell into the water along the lower reaches of the river to the main river channel, and then to the sea entrance not far away, but nothing was found.
Despair enveloped everyone.
Whether it fell into a concrete pillar or was washed into the sea, there was absolutely no chance of survival.
But no one dared to speak out.
No one dared to raise this possibility.
The wind and rain gradually stopped.
The sky in the east has turned fish belly white, until it slowly becomes brighter.
The logistics support staff have helped bring dry clothes for everyone else who went into the water to change into, except Fu Jingchuan.
Fu Jingchuan seemed to have lost his mind, numbly and persistently going into the water to find people again and again.
But the late winter nights were cold and biting, and the cold air that had just moved south gave birth to this icy cold.
At dawn, whether it was the complete exhaustion of physical strength or the despair of not being able to find anyone, it took away the last bit of energy from him. After searching again to no avail, Fu Jingchuan's tall body shook heavily for a few times. , the person suddenly lost consciousness completely, passed out, and was rushed to the hospital in a hurry.
Fu Wujun also followed and stayed on the river bank all night.
But he couldn't persuade Fu Jingchuan.
Fu Jingchuan's sudden collapse made him completely panicked, and he hurriedly followed the ambulance to the hospital.
Lin Shanshan was sitting on her knees on the bank, already crying so hard that she was so choked that she couldn't say a word.
Ke Chen felt equally uncomfortable and panicked.
He took off his coat and put it on Lin Shanshan's shoulders, choking and telling her: "No news is good news, Shiyang will be fine."
But the weakness in his tone couldn't convince even himself.
This is water, not land.
If you can't find anyone on land, there are other possibilities for survival, but you can't find anyone in the water...
He didn't dare to think about it.
Lin Shanshan didn't respond. She was so out of breath from crying that she couldn't make a sound at all. She could only look at the river in despair as it gradually became calmer.
The police search has expanded to the downstream estuary.
Sister Gao on the side also had red eyes, holding back tears again and again.
The eyes of Tongtong held in her arms had long been swollen into walnut eyes. Although he was no longer crying hoarsely like last night, there were still tears in his eyes, and his eyes were frightened and confused.
She was still young and didn't know what all this meant, but the fear and confusion in her eyes made Ke Chen on the side feel even more sad.
"Uncle Kechen, where is my mother?"
Seeing that someone was finally looking at her, Tongtong asked him blankly but in a low voice, with a hint of timidity in her tone.
That fearful and cautious tone instantly brought tears to Ke Chen's eyes.
He was not someone who shed tears easily, but looking at Tongtong's carefully hidden anxiety, thinking about Shiyang who might be gone, and thinking about Fu Jingchuan who had lost consciousness, tears still came out uncontrollably.
He stretched out his hand towards her, barely gave her a smile, and told her in a hoarse voice: "Tongtong's mother is busy with work."
"Then..." Tongtong hesitated and looked at Ke Chen carefully, "When will my mother finish her work? She said she would take me to play with my father today."
Ke Chen's throat suddenly choked and he was completely speechless.
Lin Shanshan on the side was crying even more out of breath.
Tongtong didn't know what she said wrong. She looked at Lin Shanshan and Ke Chen anxiously, and her two small hands hanging in front of her were tightly entwined unconsciously.
She looked around with some fear.
All around are messy and unfamiliar construction sites.
Although she didn't recognize this as a construction site, she knew it wasn't called a hotel.
She remembered that her mother called her last night and promised her that she would wait for her at the hotel so that she could see her mother when she woke up.
She and her mother had hooked up, no, they had high-fived each other.
Tongtong remembered that she couldn't hook her mother's finger, and her father taught her to high-five her mother.
But she didn't sleep last night, so she couldn't see her mother yet.
She looked around anxiously, looked at Ke Chen eagerly, and asked him in a low voice: "Uncle, can I go back to the hotel?"
"Of course." Ke Chen tried his best to smile at her, "Uncle will send Tongtong, godmother and aunt back to the hotel now."
After speaking, he turned to Lin Shanshan, who was still kneeling on the ground and crying, and said softly to her: "Go back to the hotel and have a rest first. I am here. I will call you when there is news."
Lin Shanshan just kept shaking her head, tears rolling down from her eyes, and what came out of her mouth were hoarse sobs.
Tongtong was also affected by her crying, and tears rolled down her eyes, but she still said to Lin Shanshan seriously: "Godmother, mother said, I can see my mother when I wake up. You go back with me and go to bed." OK?"
Lin Shanshan cried even louder, unable to control her emotions at all.
Ke Chen stepped forward to help her stand up and whispered in her ear: "Take Tongtong back to rest first. She hasn't slept all night. The child can't bear it."
Lin Shanshan reluctantly nodded.
Ke Chen sent them to the hotel in the town closest to the construction site.
Tongtong probably longed to see Shiyang in her heart. As soon as she returned to the hotel room, she didn't even need anyone to rush her. She obediently took off her coat, climbed into bed, pulled the quilt, got under the quilt and lay down on her back.
The little baby she was holding in her hands never let go.
"Good night godmother, good night aunt, good night uncle Kechen."
She obediently said goodnight to everyone in the room, hugged her little baby tightly, and immediately closed her eyes.
She was extremely well-behaved and cherished sleeping as a ritual.
A ritual to fulfill the promise she made with her mother.
Her young mind may be extremely convinced that as long as she has a good sleep as agreed with her mother, she will be able to see her mother as she wishes when she wakes up.
Lin Shanshan's emotions had calmed down a little on the way back, but when she saw Tongtong like this, tears broke through the dam again and surged out.
Ke Chen's eyes were also very wet and red. He patted Lin Shanshan's back and comforted her silently.
He returned to the scene of the accident.
The search and rescue work is still going on, and the work of removing the foundation pillars is also continuing in an intense and orderly manner.
The beams and columns that had always failed to be poured in before were only half-way through this time, but they were unexpectedly solid.
Such anomalies and the missing Shiyang made the workers at the scene feel intensely uneasy.
After Ke Chen learned about the search and rescue progress from the police at the scene, he hurried to the hospital.
As soon as they entered the ward, they saw Fu Wujun standing guard in front of the hospital bed, with a haggard face. There was a cold breakfast in front of the table, and he hadn't eaten a bite.
Fu Jingchuan's face and lips were pale on the bed. Although he was still unconscious, his eyebrows were tightly locked, as if he was trapped in a nightmare.
"How is Mr. Fu?"
Ke Chen lowered his voice and asked Fu Wujun.
Fu Wujun shook his head anxiously: "I don't know."
"The doctor said that he was immersed in ice water for a long time. The physical load was too great and the mental shock was too great, so he couldn't hold on and passed out." Fu Wujun added hoarsely, "Maybe the body has activated its self-protection mechanism. If this continues, he will I really want to..."
He didn't dare to say any more.
In the nearly thirty years since they were both father and son, he has never seen such an out-of-control and crazy Fu Jingchuan.
He didn't dare to think deeply about what Fu Jingchuan would be like when he woke up.
Ke Chen glanced at him, hesitated, and finally asked: "Director Fu, what happened last night?"
"At once……"
Fu Wujun thought of the thrilling experience last night, of Shiyang holding him up when he was about to fall, and of rescuing the worker who looked tall and frail. He thought of the moment when her little body was knocked out of the railing, and his throat choked uncontrollably. Choked.
Ke Chen saw his Adam's apple rolling, but he said nothing, just looked at him silently, waiting for him to speak.
But the brief silence was broken by the sudden ringing of his cell phone.
Ke Chen picked up the phone and looked at it. The call was from his assistant.
"I'm going to take a call first."
Ke Chen said, picked up the phone, walked outside the ward, and picked it up.
"Mr. Ke, something happened. It suddenly broke out on the Internet that someone in our Guofeng Resort project was using pile driving to advance the progress of the project."
As soon as the call was connected, the assistant's urgent voice rang in his ears, "Now the whole Internet is in a commotion, and the public relations department doesn't know exactly what is going on at the construction site. No one answered the phone when I contacted the construction site, so the call was made to the president. Yes, I would like to ask you first how to deal with this matter?"
Ke Chen's face tightened and he calmed down: "You ask the public relations department to suppress the public opinion first and keep an eye on it. I'll see what the situation is first."
Assistant: "Okay."
Ke Chen hung up the phone and quickly opened Weibo and the website.
Terms such as "Pile driving", "Huichen Group" and "Huichen Group is suspected of driving piles" have become hot searches.
Ke Chen dragged the page with his fingertips and glanced at it quickly. Before he could finish reading, he heard Fu Wujun's surprised voice: "Jingchuan, you're awake."
Ke Chen quickly turned around and entered the room. At a glance, he saw Fu Jingchuan suddenly sitting up on the hospital bed. As if he suddenly woke up, but also as if he was not fully awake, he lifted the quilt and got up from the bed. He calmly ordered Ke Chen:
"You ask Shiyang to come over."
