Chapter 63: Saving People (Continued)

"Wenguang, hold on to the stick and don't let go." The child's mother pushed the child's back and asked him to hold on to the stick tightly.

The child was already shivering with cold, and after listening to his mother's instructions, he held the stick tightly with his hands.

Li Shengli pushed hard on the ice, and the people in the water also pushed hard, and the child was pushed onto the ice in an instant.

Other enthusiastic onlookers on the ice quickly pulled the child away from the ice hole. Some of them who were wearing warm clothes took off their cotton jackets and put them on the child.

Then Li Shengli and others pulled the other four people out of the water.

As soon as these people got ashore, their teeth were chattering from the cold and their lips turned purple.

Some of the people lying on the ice had their clothes wet, especially Li Shengli, who was at the front.

Enthusiastic people around took off their cotton jackets and put them on the four people. At this moment, a policeman came over behind a man on a bicycle. It was someone who called the police when they were fighting earlier.

When the police saw the situation, they found that the people who were fighting had disappeared and the person who fell into the water was shivering from the cold.

In this situation, there was no need to worry about the fighters who had already disappeared. Several policemen decided to send them to the hospital first, especially since there was a child among them.

When he saw the police coming and wanting to send the man to the hospital, Li Shengli felt that the matter was over. It would have been fine if this had not happened, but he would have felt bad if he had done nothing after it happened.

Li Shengli shook his cotton jacket to shake off the snow and ice on it. At this time, the couple who fell into the water came to Li Shengli shivering and enduring the cold.

"Comrade, what's your name? Thank you so much today." The leading man said to Li Shengli gratefully, "If it weren't for you, the three of us would have died here."

"You're being polite." Li Shengli held out his hand, looking nonchalant. He was only thinking about saving people at the time, so he didn't care about so many things. "You guys should go back and change clothes. It's so cold, especially for children. It's best to go to the hospital for a checkup."

"Comrade, we haven't thanked you properly yet." The man shook Li Shengli's hand and said.

"My name is Li Shengli, this is enough to express my gratitude. If you want to thank someone, you should thank the two brothers in front. They fell into the water to save you. What I did is nothing." Li Shengli felt the man's body temperature again, and his hands were cold.

"Okay, hurry up and change your clothes and go to the hospital." Li Shengli was afraid that the man would freeze to death if he didn't leave.

The man expressed his gratitude to Lee Seung-ri again and was sent to the hospital by the police at the urging of the police and others.

Seeing that the five people were sent to the hospital by the police, Li Shengli prepared to take his fishing rod and bucket back to the courtyard. His clothes were a little wet, so he had to go back and change, otherwise he would easily catch a cold.

Li Shengli returned to his bicycle and checked that his fishing rod and bucket were still there. Fortunately, the things were still there and he was prepared for losing them.

After packing up his things, Li Shengli didn't dare to ride his bike, so he pushed the bike back to the courtyard.

"Hey, what happened?" Li Shengli returned to the courtyard. People in the courtyard saw that Li Shengli was wet all over. Some people asked him with concern, while others gloated over his misfortune.

"He probably fell into the water." Jia Zhang and a few other aunts were chatting with the third aunt in the front yard. Seeing Li Shengli soaking wet, Jia Zhang said with glee.

Li Shengli glanced at Jia Zhang with his eyes slanted, and ignored him. Jia Zhang was just gloating this time. The mouth grew on someone else and didn't scold him. Li Shengli had no reason to get angry, so it was more important to go back and change clothes.

When he got home, Li Shengli first used tongs to pick up two pieces of honeycomb coal from the rack under the eaves and lit a fire. He took off his wet clothes and got into bed. After the fire was lit, Li Shengli put on dry clothes. Then he put the wet clothes next to the stove to dry, poured himself a glass of water from the bottle, held it in both hands, and sipped it slowly.

"Have you heard? Someone fell into the water in Shichahai today." The aunties in the yard were gossiping.

Listening to the aunt's voice in the yard, Li Shengli thought that gossip spread very quickly.

"You think the person who fell into the water is Lee Seung-ri?" An old lady remembered that Lee Seung-ri came back wet today.

"I don't think so. If he fell into the water, his pants wouldn't be so dry." Another middle-aged woman remembered how Li Shengli looked when he came back today.

"Why not drown him?" Jia Zhang muttered softly.

In this courtyard, there was Li Shengli and Xu Damao. They refused to help the Jia family even if they had money. Jia Zhang was a little hostile to them and couldn't bear to see them living such a good life.

"Do you think that Lee Seung-ri came back so wet this afternoon because he saved someone?" The auntie didn't think too badly of people.

"No way? Just Li Shengli? Will he go to save people?" The third aunt might have been taught by Yan Bugui to believe that others will not do good things unless they benefit from it.

The several middle-aged women chatting around seemed to be shocked by what the third aunt said.

Yes, everyone in the compound knew Yan Bugui's temper. If someone fell there, Yan Bugui would carry him to the hospital as long as it would be beneficial. If it wouldn't be beneficial, Yan Bugui would at most help him call for help.

After a while, the topic was passed over and everyone treated it as gossip. No one thought that Lee Seung-ri did it.

On the second night, Li Shengli was resting at home when Director Wang from the subdistrict office came to visit him.

"Yan Bugui, take me to Li Shengli's house first, and then go and inform the people in the yard. I have something to announce." Director Wang walked into the yard with a smile on his face.

"Director Wang, what's the matter?" Yan Bugui was a little surprised. There was no policy at the moment.

"That's good news. Go call someone first." Director Wang kept it a secret.

"Okay, I'll take you to Li Shengli's house first." Yan Bugui saw a smile on Director Wang's face and knew it was not a bad thing.

"Director, this is the one." Yan Bugui said as he walked forward and knocked on the door. "Shengli, Shengli, are you home? Open the door."

"Uncle, what's the matter?" Li Shengli had just finished his meal.

"Director Wang came to see you for something." Yan Bugui moved aside, revealing Director Wang behind him.

"Director Wang, what do you want to talk to me about?" Li Shengli and Director Wang are familiar with each other. "Director, can you recommend a job for me?"

"If you want to live, I will find you one next time. This time I came to see you for something." Director Wang looked at Li Shengli and became more and more satisfied.

Director Wang, today I received a notification from the police that someone on the street under my management had bravely saved someone, and the person who was saved wrote a letter of thanks, which was a recognition for her as the director of the street office. It showed that she managed the street well.

(End of this chapter)