Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph
In Zhengzhou on July 20, the torrential rain was so heavy that a black car stopped in the water, instantly becoming a "lonely boat".
Rain is about to flood the roof of the car.
At this time, the three grandchildren were trapped in the car, and only the wiper was still swinging, as if sending a distress signal.
At the moment of danger, strangers kept swimming hard, some brought hammers, some brought buckets, and some people kept smashing car windows with kitchen knives... A total of 11 men, when the flood was about to inundate the three grandchildren, invariably carried out a reverse "rush".
The rain was still falling, and the hammer was falling down one after another.
Finally the window was broken, and the people were pulled out one by one. This group of mortals, and heroes, after wrapping their children in raincoats and carefully placing them in a large blue vat, relay escorted the blue "Noah's Ark" out of danger.
He couldn't swim and was the first to rush to the side of the car
At 17:20 on the same day, a car stopped at the intersection of Chuangye Road and Puhui Road in Zhengdong New District, and knee-deep water continued to pour into the car.
A kilometer away, Yu Ting (pseudonym) is experiencing the most painful moment of her life. In the car were her mother and two children who had just been picked up from kindergarten.
"It was raining all the time that day, my mother went to the kindergarten early to pick up the children, and halfway through the car, it was washed away by the water and stopped in the middle of the road, and the fire was extinguished." Yu Ting said that her mother had tried to open the car door, tried several times without success, she waved outside the car, but there were more than 20 meters from the nearest shop, and no one could see her.
At about 17:25, Yu Ting received her mother's first call: the car was trapped in the middle of the road and had entered the water. She rushed out, and it was raining heavily outside that she had never seen before, and the water on the road was close to a meter deep. "All the police calls were busy and I had to be calm to get them out." Yu Ting said she asked her mother to say the exact location and observe the surrounding situation.
As far as the eye can see, there is only one convenience store, one hotel and one noodle shop. Yu Ting immediately opened the network to find the contact information of the convenience store where the incident occurred, but no one answered twice. Subsequently, she immediately sent a circle of friends, hoping that someone nearby could rush over to help.
At 17:30, Lu Lianlian, a convenience store owner who was rescuing goods in another store, saw two missed calls on his mobile phone and immediately called back, and an anxious voice came from the opposite side: "My mother and two children are trapped in the car in front of your store, and they can't open the car door." It's a black car, I can't rush over now, please help save people! "Rest assured, I'll arrange someone right away."
At 17:34, Li Kunpeng received a phone call: "There is a car at the intersection, someone is in the car, go quickly." ”
Li Kunpeng.
The call was from the Lu Alliance. Li Kunpeng, 32, is a staff member at a nearby hotel who is transferring computers at the hotel reception. After hanging up the phone, Li Kunpeng rushed out without even thinking about holding a kitchen knife next to him.
He forgot he couldn't swim.
When he saw the car, the water had already passed li Kunpeng's chest, and he tried to tilt his head to the highest level to avoid the rain from pouring into his mouth, but on the way to the side of the car, he still choked on several sips of water.
On the other side, Yu Ting dialed her mother's phone over and over again:
"Where's the water?" To the neck of the foot. Is anyone coming? No. ”
"Where's the water?" To the waist. Is anyone coming? No. ”
……
"Someone's coming!" At about 17:40, Yu Ting learned from her mother's phone that someone had arrived.
Li Kunpeng, who struggled to wade through the neckless water and could not swim, was the first to arrive at the scene.
Rescue "Lonely Boat"
More people came from all directions
The water was almost out of the roof.
Climbing to the roof of the car, through the skylight, Li Kunpeng saw an aunt in the car waving constantly, and there were two children next to it, with their heads tilted close to the roof.
Li Kunpeng quickly used a kitchen knife to cut the window of the car, but failed to cut it. Seeing that people were coming from all around, he shouted, "Come here with a hammer!"
Wang Zhilei, 17, heard the shouts and rushed into the water. At a height of 1.83 meters, he grabbed the kitchen knife and smashed it several times, but he still could not smash the glass. At this time, Lou Yanzhe, a security guard patrolling not far away, was rushing to the side of the car with a hammer, and his colleague Fan Xiaoliang took off his shirt and followed.
That hour, Zhengzhou received more rainfall than China's land-hourly rainfall.
That hour, students, teachers, noodle shop owners, property security guards, unknown passers-by... More and more people are coming from all directions, in the opposite direction.
Yin Longfei, the owner of a nearby hotel, pounced on it with a large blue bucket, which was originally used to wash linen, and he couldn't swim, he wanted to swim with the help of a bucket to save people; Wang Shenzhen, a 24-year-old young man working in a nearby bar, and his colleague Feng Jinchao found a bundle of fire ropes and rushed in the direction of the car; the child's dance teacher, Chen Yangyang, saw Yu Ting's circle of friends and also got off from the nearest subway station to the scene of the incident.
Wang Shenzhen.
The water level in the car is getting higher and higher, and the people are gathering more and more.
Li Xiang, the owner of the noodle shop who heard the cry for help, did not have time to think much, and rushed over with the sledgehammer in the store. At this time, Lou Yanzhe had rushed to the front of the car, Li Kunpeng took the hammer and smashed the skylight, Li Xiang climbed on the roof, chiseled a small hole in the side window, and then used his hands to rip open the glass.
Noodle shop owner Li Xiang. Courtesy of the respondent
At 17:43, the window was finally broken. When they pulled the boy out, the child shouted cold, and Lou Yanzhe took off his raincoat and wrapped him up in the blue bucket that Yin Longfei had brought and escorted him to safety.
Yin Longfei.
In the video recorded by netizens, a total of 11 men before and after, when the flood was about to inundate the three grandchildren, invariably carried out a reverse "rush", and finally all three were rescued.
"If there really is Noah's Ark in this world, I think it is." Netizen Yang Junjiang said.
He is a mortal and a hero
This is a "lone boat" rescue full of calmness, wisdom, fearlessness, courage and love.
Before the rescuers arrived, because of the hurry, Yu Ting dialed the lu alliance again, and the reply was: "You don't have to worry about this." ”
After learning more about the situation, she realized the weight of this sentence:
In the process of breaking the glass with his hand, Li Xiang's hand was scratched, and the tendon of the little thumb of the entire right hand was broken in half;
Li Xiang's hand was scratched. Courtesy of respondents
On the way to the rescue, Chen Yangyang risked his life to swim for a long time, and his bag and mobile phone were all lost;
Only one of the three computers at the Li Kunpeng Hotel was transferred...
"Anyone will rush up." Afterwards, they almost all said so.
"What did they really think, what kind of power did they have that made them rush up without fear of life and death?" This question, she thought about for a long time.
Later, she learned that Lou Yanzhe and Fan Xiaoliang were veterans, and they said that saving people from danger was the duty of soldiers; Wang Zhilei, who had dreamed of being a soldier since childhood, hoped to sign up for the army after turning 18.
Lou Yanzhe.
The mother's composure and calmness also surprised Yu Ting. "I couldn't hear her panic on the phone." Yu Ting said that she was afraid of affecting my emotions and that of my children. Afterwards, Yu Ting learned that while waiting for rescue, her mother had been holding up her two children and telling them that she was now doing the "Flood Adventure" game.
Afterwards, Yu Ting took the child to visit the injured Li Xiang, whose right hand was still wrapped in thick gauze. "The first thing he said to my son was to ask him if he was afraid, and my son said he wasn't afraid. He said that a man should be like this, and when he grows up, he should also be a brave person. ”
Now, Yu Ting has been busy making pennants, contacting hospitals for injured people, and counting everyone's losses, and she wants to do her best to make compensation.
On July 25, Li Kunpeng updated a circle of friends: prepare something for the hard-working sanitation uncles and aunts. In the picture, dozens of sanitation workers surround Li Kunpeng, each receiving a box of water and instant noodles. "Now everyone calls me Brother Kitchen Knife." In the interview, Li Kunpeng said with embarrassment that he has now set up a "kitchen knife brother love rescue station" in front of the hotel to provide temporary assistance to those in need.
"I will tell my children that there is such a group of people near Chuangye Road and Puhui Road in zhengzhou's eastern district: Lu Lianhe's supermarket has been open for two or three years, on the right is Yin Longfei's Xinzhikai Hotel, on the left is Li Kunpeng's Guanxu Kester Hotel, Li Xiang is the owner of a nearby scissor noodle shop, Lou Yanzhe and Fan Xiaoliang are property security guards, Wang Shenzhen and Feng Jinchao work in the bar are also nearby, there is Wang Zhilei who hopes to join the army, handsome street dance teacher Chen Yangyang and an unknown passerby, they are mortals and heroes." Yu Ting said.
Feng Jinchao.
"You don't have to worry about it." Until now, Yu Ting is still warmed by this sentence.