After being reminded by me, Li Ge woke up and pushed my wheelchair and turned around to go to the river. In a hurry I saw Chu Xiaoxiao’s face that could barely hold in her laughter.
Li Ge pushed half of the wheelchair to the outside of the river bank, deliberately scaring me.
I grabbed Li Ge’s arm with my backhand, then crunched on the ground with the foot I could move, while grabbing the armrest of the wheelchair and jerking it around, the wheel sweeping into Li Ge’s leg.
A dandy like him, with a weak and floating lower back, couldn’t even stand up, and with a bend in his knee, he flew violently into the river.
“Ah~ grunge grunge grunge.”
Li Ge flapped desperately at the splash and struggled, not having reacted at this time to how he had fallen into the water.
Chu Xiaoxiao deliberately said, “Aiya, Li Ge, I told you not to mess around. Look, how dangerous it is, you’ve fallen into the water. Luckily Zhang Chao is fine. You guys, don’t be reckless.”
I had seen fishing enforcement, but I had never seen such a straight hook from Chu Xiaoxiao.
But even with such a straight hook, these guys actually fell for it.
Those guys saw Li Ge fall down, but they couldn’t figure out how Li Ge could fall down lightly.
“Damn, it’s a bit evil. You got lucky with your little word? Give me a go down.”
A man sneered and came up to push me, and I did as I was told, and in the twinkling of an eye, he too fell off.
“AHHH!!!”
He struggled even worse than Liege.
It was the middle of winter, the middle of winter, and they were underdressed, so they couldn’t bear to fall into the cold, biting water.
Both men’s faces were purple from the cold water, which could induce hypothermia. Although the two men would have been useful, how could they have climbed up the river bank, which was more than a metre high?
I smiled and looked at the one remaining man and said, “You guys want to push me too otherwise?”
“You, you ……” the man shivered, his lips were white with fear, his legs were trembling, and he looked at me like I was an evil spirit.
Chu Xiaoxiao laughed, “We what ah? They all fell into the water and are freezing to death, so hurry up and get them up. That Li Ge is the mayor’s son, if he dies you can’t afford to pay for it.”
Li Ge was so cold that they could hardly move and shouted, “Wu Kang, save us up.”
“Ahhhhhhhhh!!!”
Several of us were dumbfounded, instead of saving Li Ge, Wu Kang screamed and turned to flee. In a flash, he ran out of sight. With this speed, I guess he could have won a place in the Olympics.
Li Ge and his friends were so surprised to see the man running away that they wanted to curse, but they were probably too frozen to do so.
“Zhang Chao, you, you save me.”
Li Ge peeled at the embankment and asked for help.
Another man echoed, “Yes, please help us, we’re, we’re freezing to death.”
Li Ge’s voice was shivering from the cold and he looked like he was really dying.
I sat in the wheelchair and laughed, “But with these legs, I can’t touch the water. Xiao Xiao, a girl, can’t save you two either. Look, there’s a step up there, it’s only about five or six hundred metres, you can swim there yourselves.”
They were freezing, so they couldn’t swim there. They felt freezing as they swam there.
“Don’t, don’t, Zhang Chao, or you can call the police for us.” Li Ge said with a smile.
Chu Xiaoxiao sneered, “Li Ge, are you really playing people for fools, or are you retarded? You just pushed Zhang Chao into the river, and now we want us to save you, you think everyone under the sky is your mother, everyone has to spoil you.”
“You guys ……” Li Ge froze.
I also helped Chu Xiaoxiao and stood up, probing down to look at them condescendingly.
“Didn’t think so, we knew from the beginning to the end what you guys wanted. Your idea is all over your face now, isn’t it just to see me limp and try to trick me? Li Ge, do you have a goldfish brain, have you forgotten so quickly about the beating you gave your dad two days ago?”
“Zhang Chao, I was wrong, you, you save me.”
Li Ge’s colleague wiped a handful of water from his face and scolded, “So you knew long ago that he was not to be messed with, then you still went to mess with him, are you crazy? You made your own death, and you dragged me down with you.”
“You’re still talking about me? I didn’t ask you to push, did I? You pushed yourself.”
“Fine Li Ge, damn it, pretend I don’t have you as a friend.”
“Stop it now and find a way to get up there first. You begged him too, you pushed too.”
His colleague looked at Li Ge with a look of stupidity, then wiped his face, struggled in the water and took off his suit jacket and shoes, then dove into the water with a jerk and swam away in the standard butterfly position.
To Li Ge’s dumbfounded surprise, he swam to shore.
He was in no hurry to leave, fighting his way towards us, and Chu Xiaoxiao, thinking he wanted to retaliate, blocked him.
He held out a wet hand at me.
“Dude, I’m Zhou Ding, I offended you earlier, but I apologise for not fighting.”
Seriously, he confused me with that one.
It was the first time I had ever seen someone so clueless, who really thought that this kind of thing could just go away with an apology.
I didn’t shake his hand, but I also forgot to say no.
He was so thick-skinned that he reached over and grabbed my hand and waved it twice.
“You’re too kind, don’t bother with me. I’m too cold, so I’ll go first.”
Li Ge slumped over and shouted, “Zhou Ding, give me a hand and pull me up.”
Zhou Ding pooh-poohed him, then turned to me and said, “This grandson is a fool, don’t spare him.”
After saying that, he turned his head and also left, walking even faster than that Wu Kang just now.
Chu Xiaoxiao and I laughed so hard that our stomachs hurt.
This was far more comical than we could have imagined.
Li Ge was in the water and wanted to curse, his eyes were red with anger and his face was frozen white, the look was really ridiculous.
“Geez Li Ge, your friend can swim, can’t you swim yourself?”
Li Ge said with a sobbing voice, “I beg you, help me up, I’m not a good swimmer.”
“Tsk, what did you say before. Aren’t you an all-rounder in reading and sports? Can’t swim this little distance?”
I’m not going to feel sorry for him, because this guy doesn’t deserve it.
I’m not a small-minded person, and I try not to take things personally. But Li Ge had repeatedly come after me, and his father had brought him to the house to apologise for his injuries and beaten his head as swollen as a pig’s head, but this grandson hadn’t learned his lesson.
Then don’t blame me for not forgiving him.
