I swam hard towards the guitar that was about to sink, but the guitar drifted further and further along the flow of the water waves.

The thick clothes in winter were completely soaked in water, which caused me a huge burden. Coupled with the stimulation of the cold lake, I felt that my physical strength was getting less and less, so I choked several times in a row, but there was always a hidden force in my heart supporting me, making me panting and chasing to pursue the guitar.

Jian Wei's vague voice came from the shore, but I couldn't hear it in the sound of the wind and waves. I used all my strength to hold on to the sinking guitar. In the midst of ecstasy, I suddenly exhaled my strength and choked several mouthfuls of water again. At this time, I finally felt scared and developed a strong desire to survive.

I used all my last strength to swim towards the shore, but my calf was spasming due to the extreme cold. I was anxious and panicked. For the first time, I felt that death was so close to me.

At this time, Jian Wei on the shore suddenly took off her coat and sweater, and jumped into the river with only a thin base shirt. She swam towards me with all her might...

"Zhaoyang, you hold on, you must hold on!"

The strong desire to survive made me kick my legs and pounce on the water with my hands so that I would not sink. Jian Wei finally swam to me. She crawled under my armpit to hold me, and then the two of them swam to the river bank together.

...

The cold wind blew by, and Jian Wei and I fell to the ground exhausted and coughed violently. We were constantly dripping water to the ground. The same was true for the guitar. The water was connected in a line and dripped down the strings. Then three water traces gathered together, as if we were flowing back into the river with countless pasts between us.

Jian Wei's lips were pale and her whole body was trembling. I used the last strength to climb to the place where the down jacket was placed, then folded it back and put the clothes on her body, then took out my cell phone from the down jacket's pocket and prepared to call the first aid number, because I was afraid that Jian Wei would not be able to resist the invasion of the wet and cold.

Jian Wei snatched the phone from me and shook her head at me, asking with a sob: "Why do you do this?...Why did you try your best to get this guitar back?"

"I'm very scared and regretful now... But I didn't have time to think too much at that time, because watching the guitar sink into the river, it was like I was about to bury it deep at the bottom of the river. This was completely out of instinctive reaction... I had to do it!"

Jian Wei looked at me with a complicated expression. I couldn't tell whether the tears or rivers fell from her face at this moment, but the twitching at the corner of her mouth was indeed real. She wanted to speak but stopped several times, but she still couldn't say it.

I was so cold that I was about to collapse. Jian Wei put the down jacket back on me, then took back her unwet sweater and coat from the grass, took off her base shirt that was wet by the river in front of me, and changed into a dry sweater and coat.

She looked at the guitar that was still dripping and asked me: "Zhaoyang, is this... guitar still useful?"

I shook my head and said, "It's basically scrapped... and scrap it if it's scrapped."

Jian Wei stared at the guitar in a daze and didn't say anything for a long time.

I picked up the guitar from the ground and said to Jian Wei, "If I had to completely ruin this guitar, I would like to find a time when I was away. After all, I have been with me for so many years..."

Jian Wei took the guitar from me, lowered her head in front of me for the first time, and whispered to me: "I understand what you mean...I'll send you back."

"Need not."

"It's hard to get a taxi here. If you stay like this, you will definitely catch a cold."

I looked up at the road where there were few cars passing by, and finally nodded.

...

Jian Wei turned the temperature of the air conditioner in the car to a very high level, but we were still trembling coldly, especially in the river. I spent a longer time, but I was still grateful that I had saved at least two lives, because in that extremely dangerous situation, I had no doubt that I and Jian Wei would sink in the bottomless moat because of lack of physical strength.

The car that was driving along the way quickly drove to the community where I lived. Just as Jian Wei was about to drive the car into the community, I suddenly saw Mi Cai's Q7 turning into the community before us, and immediately asked Jian Wei to stop the car on the side of the road.

Before getting off the bus, Jian Wei said to me, "Zhaoyang, go back and change your clothes quickly, don't catch a cold!"

"Well, so do you."

Jian Wei nodded, and after I closed the car door for her, she started the car and left.

I walked into the community and sat in a deserted garden. Even though I was so cold that my teeth were trembling, I didn't want to go back to the house because I didn't know how to explain the water traces to Mi Cai.

The phone rang again, and I didn't have to look at it and knew it was called by Mi Cai. I answered the phone just when the ringtone was about to end, but I didn't speak first, for fear that my vibrato would reveal the filling.

"Zhaoyang, where are you?"

I turned my mind and said to Mi Cai: "I'm drinking at Fang Yuan's house!"

"Yeah?"

"Well... I won't tell you for now."

"Zhaoyang..."

I heard something wrong in Mi Cai's tone, and asked with some anxiety: "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"

"Where are you now? Can you tell me the truth?"

I held the last chance and replied, "Didn't you say that you are at Fangyuan's house?"

"...Did you forget that all the middle and senior executives of Zhuomei went to my uncle's birthday party today?...I left early. Where did Fang Yuan be now?"

I was stunned and secretly called myself careless. Finally, I said to Mi Cai: "...In the community, I'll go up now."

Micai hung up the phone.

...

I walked towards the entrance of the corridor nervously, but found that Mi Cai had gone downstairs. She was standing at the entrance of the corridor waiting for me. I walked towards her with a tough bullet.

She looked at me who was wet all over and asked, "Zhaoyang, what's wrong with you?"

I still kept smiling and said, "I was accidentally sprayed by a sprinkler truck on the road. It's so unlucky!"

Mi Cai finally showed her former distrust on her face. She frowned and said to me, "Does there have to be deceit between us?"

I gritted my teeth and acted like she was willing to slaughter her and refused to speak, but I was trembling with cold.

Mi Cai sighed: "Go back and change your clothes first!"

I nodded, and although I was eager to change my clothes, I still walked behind Mi Cai.

As soon as I entered the room, I immediately ran into the bathroom, took off all my wet clothes, returned to my room in my bathrobe, changed into my underwear, turned on the air conditioner and wrapped myself in the quilt, but I was still trembling.

Mi Cai walked into my room, poured a cup of hot water and handed it to me. Although she was in a bad mood, she still said with concern: "I'll take you to the hospital."

"No need to be so troublesome, I'll take it over later."

Mi Cai looked at me and asked for a long time: "Tell me, are you so unhappy and go to the river?"

As soon as I said this, I sprayed out the hot water that I had not had time to drink. After choking for a long time, I looked at her incredibly and said, "Do I go to jump into the river?"

Mi Cai nodded: "As for you, you have had a criminal record!"

I suddenly remembered the fact that I called Mi Cai to stop me from jumping into the river a long time ago. She said it was true. I really had a criminal record.
Chapter completed!