Chapter 42 Race against time
If Jiang Peng and the others were a step too late, the consequences would be disastrous.
Of course Jiang Yitong and the woman also saw this scene.
Jiang Yitong also frowned. Fortunately, Jiang Peng acted quickly, otherwise it would have been really dangerous.
When the woman saw her house being washed away, she knelt down in front of Jiang Peng and said loudly: "Thank you, thank you. Thanks to you, otherwise, otherwise I and my children..."
Before the woman could finish speaking, Jiang Peng quickly pulled her up.
"Sister, what are you doing? You are asking me to shorten my life. Sit down quickly and hold the child tightly." Jiang Peng helped the woman and asked her to sit up, and said anxiously: "We are all neighbors, no
It needs to be this way.”
"Are you Mr. Jiang who lives at Uncle Le's house?" the woman seemed to recognize Jiang Peng and asked.
Jiang Peng nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, I am a tenant living in Uncle Le's house."
The woman looked at Jiang Yitong again, suddenly patted her head and said, "You are Lawyer Jiang, right?"
Jiang Yitong was stunned for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses, covered his mouth, smiled, and nodded.
"I saw the video you took. Thank you so much this time." The woman hugged the child and thanked her.
"You're welcome, eldest sister, how old is your child?" Jiang Yitong asked, pointing to the child in the woman's arms.
"He is only two and a half years old. The father of the child is not at home today. The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and it is even flooded to the second floor. There is no phone signal, and there is no electricity. If not..."
Seeing that the woman was about to start again, Jiang Peng shook his head with a wry smile and interrupted: "Sister, take a good rest. Yitong, keep shouting to see if there is anyone else."
Jiang Peng said as he drove the yacht and continued to look at both sides of the street.
Jiang Yitong nodded, picked up the loudspeaker, and continued shouting.
After walking for a while, Jiang Peng caught a glimpse of light in a corner not far away from the corner of his eye.
"There seems to be someone over there." Jiang Peng pointed to the direction he saw and shouted to Jiang Yitong.
Jiang Yitong immediately shouted over there: "This is the search and rescue team. If anyone is there, please use the flashlight to get back to us."
Jiang Peng and Jiang Yitong immediately saw the flickering light.
Jiang Peng raised his headlight and looked over, and immediately saw a man on the roof of the second floor.
Jiang Peng drove the speedboat over and found that the terrain here was relatively low and the second floor was almost half flooded, so the man stood on the roof.
"Liu Laogen?" The light shone on the man's face, and Jiang Peng immediately recognized the man as Liu Laogen, who was selling vegetables in the wet market.
"Mr. Jiang?" Liu Laogen also recognized Jiang Peng.
Chinatown is so big and there is only one vegetable market. Jiang Peng has been familiar with the vegetables for so many years.
"I thought it was the search and rescue team, but I didn't expect it was you." Liu Laogen said, holding an umbrella.
"Come on board, I'll take you to a safe place." Jiang Peng pointed to the speedboat.
"Good guy, I really belong to you." Liu Laogen pointed to the speedboat under Jiang Peng and gave a thumbs up. "I have long seen that you are a pure man. From now on, I will give you half price for groceries."
"Haha, thank you very much. Come down quickly." Jiang Peng said with a smile.
"Wait a minute, I'm going to call my wife and children." Liu Laogen pointed behind him and shouted at the top of his voice: "Someone is coming to save us, come quickly."
After a while, a middle-aged woman and a teenage boy appeared on the roof.
"Children come first." Jiang Peng pointed at the little boy.
"Yiyao, you jump first, Uncle Jiang will take over from below.
You." Liu Laogen shouted to the little boy.
The distance between the roof and the speedboat is not high, less than half a meter, but after all, he is a child, so he is a little scared.
"What did daddy teach you? Don't you want to be a man? Don't you dare to jump from this height?"
After listening to Liu Laogen's words, the little boy gritted his teeth, no longer hesitated, and jumped down.
Jiang Peng hugged the little boy firmly and said with a smile, "Your name is Liu Yiyao?"
The little boy nodded.
"Awesome, you are such a man!" Jiang Peng encouraged.
The little boy's face immediately showed an expression of joy.
Next up was Liu Laogen’s wife, who also went very smoothly.
But when Liu Laogen jumped down, a wave suddenly hit him and knocked the speedboat away.
With a "plop", Liu Laogen fell into the water.
"Oops!" Jiang Peng shouted, without hesitation, he turned over and jumped into the fast river.
"Jiang Peng!" Jiang Yitong watched Jiang Peng jump into the river and almost jumped in too. Fortunately, at the last moment, reason defeated emotion.
"Dad!" "Husband!" the little boy and the woman screamed and immediately lay down next to the speedboat.
"Be careful!" Jiang Yitong quickly grabbed the two of them to prevent them from jumping into the water.
Although Jiang Yitong was also anxious, she couldn't show it at this time. If she collapsed first, the Liu family and their son would definitely not be able to hold on.
"What to do, what to do?" Although Jiang Yitong was calm on the surface, he was already panicking inside. Jiang Peng hadn't come out for so long. Did something unexpected happen to him? If so, Jiang Yitong didn't dare to think about it anymore.
"Don't worry." Jiang Yitong held back tears and comforted the mother and son. At the same time, he ran to the stern of the speedboat, controlled the headlights, and began to look for traces of Jiang Peng.
Heavy rain fell, the wind howled, and time passed by. Jiang Yitong's heart became colder and colder.
Surrounded by turbulent rivers, Jiang Peng's shadow was nowhere to be seen.
"Lawyer Jiang, Mr. Jiang Peng, he must be fine." The woman who had just been rescued came to Jiang Yitong with her child in her arms and comforted her.
Jiang Yitong didn't stop moving his hands, frowned slightly, and used the light to search for Jiang Peng's traces.
"I'm fine, eldest sister, please calm down their emotions." Jiang Yitong looked at Liu Laogen's wife and son.
The woman nodded, walked over to the restless two people, and spoke words of comfort.
"I'm here!" In the wind and rain, a faint familiar voice suddenly came to Jiang Yitong's ears.
Hearing this sound, Jiang Yitong felt as if he was being electrocuted, and immediately turned the headlight in that direction.
Not far away, in the turbulent river, Jiang Peng held Liu Laogen with one hand and fiddled with the river water with the other hand. Although the river water was turbulent, Jiang Peng's body was still stable, and Jiang Yitong suddenly looked happy.
"It's Jiang Peng! It's Jiang Peng!" Jiang Yitong shouted excitedly. Suddenly something occurred to him. He leaned down and took out a bundle of safety ropes from the boat. He picked up the horn and shouted loudly: "Jiang Peng, grab the rope.
I'll pull you over."
The river was too fast, and Jiang Peng, holding the man in his arms, could not swim in front of the speedboat with his own strength, so he had to think of other ways.
Jiang Yitong wanted to use a rope to pull Jiang Peng over, because she couldn't drive a speedboat, and she didn't dare to drive it either. After all, there were women and children on the boat. If she was not careful, the consequences would be disastrous.
Jiang Yitong tied a rope end to the safety rope, aimed in Jiang Peng's direction, and threw it hard.
"Go on." Jiang Yitong shouted, pointing the rope towards Jiang Peng's
Fly in the direction.
However, what Jiang Yitong didn't expect was that due to the force of the wind, the end of his rope was blown away by the strong wind in the air and could not be thrown to Jiang Peng's side.
"This..." Jiang Yitong's face turned pale as he looked at the end of the rope that had fallen into the river and quickly pulled the rope back.
Taking a deep breath, Jiang Yitong tried again, but just like before, the end of the rope was blown away by the wind in the air and could not be thrown to Jiang Peng's side.
Jiang Yitong was almost crying. She retracted the rope again. She hated that she was so weak that she couldn't even throw a small rope to Jiang Peng. Seeing Jiang Peng being carried further and further away by the river, she was extremely anxious.
"Harpoon, use harpoon!" On the other side, Jiang Peng was also in a critical situation. Liu Laogen's water resistance was not good, and he had problems with his legs and feet, so he couldn't exert his strength in the water.
Jiang Peng can float on the water now only because of the dark blue jacket on his body. Without this clothes, Jiang Peng would have sunk to the bottom of the water long ago.
When Jiang Peng was young, his family was in pretty good shape, of course before the financial crisis.
Jiang Peng's father is the head chef of a restaurant. He is very skilled and earns a high salary.
Jiang Peng's father paid for nearly two-thirds of the money for the wedding house purchased when Jiang Peng and Li Wenxue got married.
Although life after marriage was somewhat tight, that was because Jiang Peng couldn't bear to ask his father for money. After all, he already had a family and started a business, so it was really unreasonable to ask his old father for money.
Jiang Peng has been a very fond of sports since he was a child. He likes all kinds of sports, otherwise he would not practice free fighting.
Before Jiang Peng got married, his father supported whatever sports he wanted to play.
Of course, aside from free fighting, Jiang Peng's favorite thing is all kinds of extreme sports.
Skydiving, mountaintop skiing, sea surfing, sand cross country, I like it all.
However, after he married Li Wenxue, Jiang Peng gradually played less and less extreme sports because it was too dangerous and Li Wenxue objected.
He prefers ordinary sports. Of course, he will occasionally play secretly, as long as Li Wenxue doesn't discover him.
After the financial crisis, Jiang Peng's family was broken up and he never came into contact with extreme sports again.
And this dark blue jacket is Jiang Peng's only favorite piece of equipment left.
It is not only waterproof, oil-proof, snow-proof, windproof, but also has a buffering effect.
It has an air cushion of its own, which can be quickly inflated when it falls into the water and turns into a life jacket.
It was also because of this piece of clothing that Jiang Peng was able to protect Liu Laogen from falling into the water.
However, although he could float on the water, it did not mean that Jiang Peng could carry Liu Laogen and swim against the river water to the speedboat.
Jiang Peng also saw Jiang Yitong's movements. In the wind and rain, Jiang Yitong, a girl, could not throw the rope like this even if she was exhausted. So Jiang Peng shouted to Jiang Yitong and asked her to tie a harpoon on the rope.
With the blessing of things, the rope can be easily thrown away.
However, Jiang Yitong is still entangled in the rope. Jiang Peng doesn't have a speaker, and the sound is drowned in the wind and rain. Jiang Yitong can't hear clearly at all.
"Use a harpoon!" Jiang Peng got angry and said to Liu Laogen beside him: "Hold my body."
Liu Laogen nodded and hugged Jiang Peng's body.
Jiang Peng freed up his hands and started dancing under the light.
Jiang Yitong was unwilling to give in and tried again, trying to throw the rope to Jiang Peng, but failed again.
Chapter completed!