Chapter 62 Rescue
After visiting the temple fair, Li Shengli rode his bicycle back to the courtyard.

After returning to the courtyard, Li Shengli took out the key and opened the door of his house.

Everyone was asleep at this moment, the yard was quiet, and the lights were off in Yan Bugui's house opposite. Li Shengli wondered if Yan Jiecheng and his friends had returned.

After entering the house, Li Shengli opened the coal stove and took a look. The fire that he had put out before leaving in the afternoon had not been completely extinguished. Li Shengli used tongs to pick up two pieces of honeycomb coal from the shelf under the eaves at the door, and went back to the house to replace the extinguished honeycomb coal in the stove.

When the fire gradually grew bigger, Li Shengli put the kettle on the stove, boiled water and started to wash his face and feet.

Just when Li Shengli was getting ready to go to bed, there was a noise coming from Yan Bugui's house next door. Li Shengli opened the curtains and looked outside. It was the four children from the Yan family next door who had returned, and they didn't seem to be carrying anything in their hands.

These four people are really good at shopping. They don’t have much spare money, so I wonder what they went shopping for.

The next day was the second day of the Chinese New Year, and everyone started visiting relatives. Li Shengli's family had fled here, and they didn't have many relatives or acquaintances nearby.

Li Shengli felt quite bored being alone at home. Looking at other big families in the yard having fun together, Li Shengli felt a little envious.

In the afternoon, Li Shengli came back after strolling outside. Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e had just returned from Lou Xiao'e's parents' home, carrying large and small bags of things in their hands.

"Xu Damao, where are you coming back from?" Yan Bugui said enviously as he looked at what Xu Damao was holding in his hand.

"We just came back from Ezi's parents' home." Xu Damao looked proud. He said hello to Yan Bugui and walked towards the backyard.

Along the way, everyone playing in the yard looked at Xu Damao and Lou Xiaoe with envy.

"Hey, did you see that? Lou Xiao'e is indeed a lady from a wealthy family. She brought back so many good things just from a trip back to her parents' home." An old lady sitting in the middle courtyard and chatting was filled with envy when she saw the things Xu Damao and his wife were holding in their hands.

Everyone was discussing this matter for the entire afternoon.

Xu Damao even wished that others would envy him. After all, it was a great achievement for him to be able to marry Lou Xiao'e.

It's the third day of spring break. Li Shengli is really bored today, so he plans to go to Shichahai to see if anyone is winter fishing.

Li Shengli got up early in the morning and went out to exercise as usual. When he returned home, he boiled water, brushed his teeth and washed his face.

After washing up, he made some breakfast. Since there was no other conditions at the moment, Li Shengli fried a dish and ate some steamed buns and cornmeal porridge.

After breakfast, Li Shengli put on his cotton jacket, wrapped his scarf around his neck twice, tightly, and put on cotton gloves on his hands.

He took out his fishing rod and homemade bait from the corner of the house, and took his small bucket from outside the door and hung them on the handlebars of the bicycle. If he wanted to go fishing in winter, he had to drill holes with an iron chisel. There were management personnel in front of Shichahai who had these things.

After getting his bicycle ready, he turned around and locked his door. Then Yan Bugui, who lived next door, came out of his house.

"Uncle, are you going fishing?" Li Shengli asked vaguely while wearing a scarf.

"No, that's not necessary. Someone is coming to visit my house these two days." Yan Bugui waved his hand and refused with a smile. When someone comes to visit, they must bring some good things.

"Okay, then I'll leave first." Li Shengli nodded. Given the personality of his third uncle Yan Bugui, he wondered if this relationship of relatives could be maintained?
Riding a bicycle, Li Shengli quickly arrived at Shichahai. The ice had not thawed yet, and there were many people skating on the ice.

Shichahai is managed by someone. Li Shengli found a place for winter fishing. Some people nearby had already started winter fishing. He borrowed a drilling tool, drilled a hole in the ice, and started fishing.

With the homemade bait, it was relatively easy for Lee Seung-ri to fish. Not long after, there were two palm-sized fish in the small bucket next to Lee Seung-ri.

While fishing, he heard a noise coming from the skating rink not far away. Li Shengli looked over curiously and saw two groups of young men dressed in fashionable clothes confronting each other. Li Shengli thought that these young men were at the peak of their powers, but he didn't know what the reason was this time.

When the people at the skating rink saw that there was something exciting to watch, they all stopped and gathered together from a distance, watching the two gangs in the center of the rink.

No one knew who started the fight first, but the two groups soon started fighting each other. When the people around saw the two groups starting to fight, they left one after another, for fear of being dragged into the fight.

After the two groups of people started fighting, someone quickly went to call the police. When the people fighting heard someone calling the police, they shouted loudly, and the group of people scattered. If they fought outside and were caught by the police, it would be very embarrassing. The children of the compound all care about face.

As this group of people dispersed, people who were relaxing nearby were also dispersed.

It was impossible to catch any fish because of this group of people's disturbance. Li Shengli packed up his fishing rod and prepared to go home.

I don’t know if it was because of the fight, but a couple of parents took their children and avoided the skating rink.

"Hey, people over there, don't go there anymore. The ice over there is thinner." An old man who was fishing nearby saw the family of three walking towards the thin ice and shouted hurriedly.

When the parents heard the noise, they quickly called out to their child, but the child didn't understand what was going on and ran two steps on the ice.

There was a cracking sound, and the ice surface began to crack.

Not hearing any movement, the people nearby hurriedly told them to stop, as it would be very dangerous to move after the ice surface cracked.

Some people went to find a rope, some went to find a stick. Before the people who were looking for a rope came back, the ice suddenly cracked, and all three of them fell into the water.

Fortunately, the two adults could swim and dragged the child into the water. The two adults wanted to push the child onto the ice, but because the ice was too slippery, they failed to get ashore after several attempts.

Li Shengli was a little far away, and when he arrived, someone had already started trying to rescue them.

One person held a long stick and asked two adults to hold the children and hold the stick.

However, because the ice was too slippery, even the man with the stick was pulled down. The others were stunned when they saw this situation, and some of them, relying on their greater strength, came closer and tried to reach out and pull the man up.

However, because the person who fell into the water first flapped his wings hard, the ice surface near the hole was wet. This person walked over and grabbed the stick, but before he could exert force, a force came from the other end of the stick. The person in the water came up, but this person slid over and knocked the person on the ice down again.

Li Shengli saw that this was not going to work, so he turned into the Calabash Brothers and saved his grandfather, one person at a time. He looked around and saw that everyone noticed the situation here and came over.

"Everyone listen to me." Li Shengli shouted loudly. Someone must make a decision now. If things go on like this, the people in the water will either be drowned or frozen to death.

"Everyone lie down on the ice, and each person grabs the feet of the person in front of him." Li Shengli knew a little about rescue methods on ice, and quickly told everyone to grab each other and form a human ladder.

"Yes, yes, yes. This way you can exert your strength on the ice." said an older and more experienced person.

Li Shengli was the first to lie down and grab the long wooden stick stretched out by the man in the water.

When the other rescuers saw Li Shengli giving a demonstration, they also lay down. If you look from the sky, you will see a human bridge of different colors appearing on the ice.

"Pull the child up first." Because the two adults could swim, Li Shengli asked the person who fell into the water to pull the child up first.

(End of this chapter)