After Reincarnating as the Dragon King, I Made a Fortune with Seafood – CH59

Chapter 59

It was Lu Ao’s first time performing CPR on someone, and he was extremely nervous.

With his strength, if he pressed too hard, he could crush them to death outright. If he pressed too lightly, he was afraid it would have no effect.

He was also afraid that while he was trying to save one person, he would not make it in time to save the other.

With no other choice, he could only press one with each hand and work on both of them at the same time.

He had no idea whether this last-resort method would really work.

Under all that strain, sweat broke out over Lu Ao’s body. It mixed with the seawater and streamed down his chest.

Fortunately, the situation was a little better than he had imagined.

Two minutes later, the boy recovered spontaneous breathing.

Five minutes later, the girl also began breathing on her own again.

Lu Ao did not know what their condition was and did not dare take any risks.

So he transformed into a dragon again and swam back at full speed to where he had left his phone. He grabbed it, called the police, and called emergency services.

While making the calls, he ran back to the reef. Carrying one on his back and holding the other in his arms, he brought them straight to the three-wheeled cart parked by the shore, stuffed them into the cargo bed, and drove all the way to town.

He drove fast. It only took him five minutes to reach town.

Everyone in town knew one another. As soon as they saw him rushing over in a panic and stopping directly in front of the town clinic, they quickly gathered around. “What happened?”

“I saw two people drowning when I was fishing just now!” Lu Ao said. “Go get the doctor. I gave them CPR just now, but I don’t know whether it worked.”

Some of the villagers who came to help hurried to call the doctor, while others helped carry the two people out of the cart bed.

After seeing the faces of the boy and girl lying in the cart, someone helping out cried out in shock, “Isn’t this Dawu’s Chenchen?!”

“It really is! Doesn’t Chenchen know how to swim?”

“Oh, what are we going to do? Hurry and call Dawu!”

“Is that girl Dawu’s son’s girlfriend?”

“Who cares who she is? Check if she’s still breathing first.”

“Yes, yes! She’s breathing! Where’s the doctor? Doctor, hurry!”

Very soon, the doctor from the town clinic came running out.

He checked their breathing at once, then said, “I can’t treat this here. Hurry and send them to the county hospital.”

“I already called for an ambulance.” Lu Ao panted. “Do they need any medicine?”

“They do, but a small clinic like mine doesn’t have it!” the doctor said hurriedly. “As long as they’re breathing, that’s good. Hurry and take them to the county.”

Everyone scrambled to find a car.

Lu Ao’s three-wheeled cart was relatively slow, so no one considered it.

The people searching for a car mainly looked toward Lin Dawu’s family. His family had a van.

Lin Dawu had just arrived in a panic.

He rushed into the clinic, shoved aside the people blocking the way, and stammered, “My—my, my son?! Is he all right?”

Seeing his frantic expression, and even that he had run so fast one of his shoes had fallen off, everyone hurried to comfort him. “He’s here, he’s here. Lu Ao saved him.”

Lin Dawu had no attention to spare for anything else. He rushed straight into the infusion room to see his son.

His son lay there unconscious, soaked all over. He still smelled of the sea, and his face felt wet and cold to the touch.

Lin Dawu’s heart went cold too. He turned and roared at the top of his lungs, “Doctor! Doctor!”

The doctor hurriedly said, “CPR has already been performed. Now hurry and send him to the county hospital to see what further treatment is needed.”

“To the county?!” Lin Dawu felt a wave of despair the moment he heard that. “It takes over two hours to get to the county. How can we make it in time?!”

“We can, we can. Hurry and prepare a car. Doesn’t your family have one?”

“We do, but it’s an old broken-down car!!!”

Lin Dawu turned and looked around. When he found Lu Ao, he rushed over and grabbed his hand. “Lu Ao, save my son. Hurry and make a call. Don’t you know that helicopter company or whatever? Get that helicopter. We’re not afraid of spending money!”

“I already called the county hospital. They’re driving an ambulance here now. We can drive out and meet them, and it should take a little over an hour to get them to the county.”

“If we take a helicopter, a little over an hour is enough to get them to Xinluzhou!” Lin Dawu gripped Lu Ao’s wrist so tightly it turned red. “We’re not going to the county. The county’s medical standards aren’t good. We’re going to Xinluzhou!”

Lu Ao looked at him and silently sighed. “Then I’ll call the rescue line.”

“Yes, call! I’m not afraid of spending money!”

While the two were speaking, Gui Yandan rushed in with her hair disheveled, calling for her son the moment she entered.

Everyone explained the situation again.

Gui Yandan collapsed beside the bed, completely at a loss. “Didn’t you do CPR? Why hasn’t he woken up yet? Huh?”

Seeing her face turn pale with fear, everyone tried to comfort her again.

Lu Ao had nearly become an old customer of the helicopter rescue company by now.

When the other side heard it was him, they only confirmed the information briefly before telling him they would immediately apply for the flight route and arrive within an hour.

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly loaded Lin Dawu’s son and the girl back into Lu Ao’s cart bed and rushed to Linwu Village’s grain-drying ground to wait for the helicopter.

The doctor also went along.

Everyone guessed that since the two still had not woken up, perhaps they had hit their heads when they fell into the sea.

They had already checked. Lin Dawu’s son did indeed have bruising and swelling on his head.

Lu Ao sat off to the side, worried that he might have pressed too hard during CPR just now and caused internal bleeding in both of them.

The crowd waited in a noisy, anxious mess.

The police soon arrived. Some stayed there to ask questions, while others went to investigate the place where the two had fallen into the water.

No one suspected Lu Ao. Everyone was just excited and worried, and gossip spread wildly for a while.

Before the sun had set, Song Zhou arrived even earlier than the helicopter.

The moment he arrived, he saw Lu Ao bare-chested in the middle of the crowd.

Lu Ao was surrounded by people, hunched over as he sat there. Each vertebra on his fair back stood out clearly, and his face was both tense and exhausted.

By evening, the mountain breeze had picked up, and the weather had turned cool.

Song Zhou saw that goosebumps had risen on his arms, yet no one had noticed. He needed a shirt.

Song Zhou stood still for two seconds, went back to get Lu Ao a T-shirt, then hurried over again and gently touched him with it.

Only when the shirt brushed against his cheek did Lu Ao realize he was not wearing a top. At Song Zhou’s touch, it was as if he had come back to life, suddenly feeling cold and hungry.

He quickly took the shirt and put it on, then turned and asked in a hoarse voice, “Why are you here?”

“You didn’t reply to my messages. I sensed you were here, so I came.” Song Zhou asked, “What happened?”

“I’m not too sure either. When I went to release the giant grouper fry, I heard someone calling for help. By the time I went over, the two of them were already floating in the sea.” Lu Ao said, “I pulled them out and gave them CPR. Now they’re going to Xinluzhou.”

Song Zhou went over to take a look, then comforted him. “They’ll be fine.”

“I hope so.” Lu Ao looked at those two young faces and felt terrible.

Neither of them had even graduated from university yet. They were still so young. If they were gone just like that, it would be too much of a pity.

The rescue helicopter arrived very soon.

Lu Ao and Lin Dawu boarded the helicopter together, taking the two young people to Xinluzhou for treatment.

The county hospital was extremely slow.

The helicopter was already almost at Xinluzhou when the county ambulance finally called to ask for their exact address.

Lu Ao told them the patients had already gone elsewhere for treatment and that he would pay the ambulance fee when he returned.

The people in the ambulance were very unhappy and grumbled for quite a while before hanging up.

The rescue helicopter arrived in Xinluzhou and landed directly on the helipad on the roof of the First Affiliated Hospital.

The doctors were already waiting.

As soon as the patients arrived, they were immediately sent for emergency treatment.

Lin Dawu’s son was preliminarily diagnosed with intracranial bleeding.

As for the girl, she had been deprived of oxygen for too long. Even though CPR had succeeded afterward, she still needed further treatment.

Lu Ao followed along to fill out the forms, pay the fees, and also found a way to obtain the girl’s contact information so he could contact her family.

When her family heard that their daughter had nearly died in another city, they became frantic. Thinking Lu Ao was from Lin Dawu’s family, they scolded him first, then threatened him while asking for the address before rushing over.

It was only past nine at night, when both young people’s conditions had finally stabilized, that Lu Ao, who was starving so badly his chest felt stuck to his back, had the chance to go outside and find something to eat.

Lin Dawu went with him. Now that he had come back to his senses, his heart was full of gratitude. No matter what, he insisted on treating Lu Ao to a meal.

“Lu Ao, today was all thanks to you. Otherwise, my wife and I wouldn’t even know what to do. You order.”

Lu Ao looked at the dark circles under his eyes that were almost hanging down to his mouth and sighed inwardly. “You really don’t have to be so polite.”

“I’m not being polite. Hurry and order.”

Lu Ao knew Lin Dawu had just paid a huge amount in medical expenses, so he did not order anything else. He only ordered two large pots of congee, five plates of fried rice noodles, and three small side dishes.

Lin Dawu had known Lu Ao for more than a day or two. As soon as he saw the dishes Lu Ao ordered, he knew Lu Ao wanted to help him save money, and another wave of gratitude rose in his heart.

“It’s fine. Don’t save on this. You still need to eat your fill.” Without allowing any argument, Lin Dawu took the menu and ordered another seven or eight dishes. “Come on, eat first. We’ll order more after you finish.”

Lu Ao did not know what to say. When the dishes came, he ate quietly.

After all the chaos that afternoon and evening, Lin Dawu had no strength left at all and did not speak either.

The news that Lin Dawu’s son, Lin Guanchen, was safe had already been sent back. His brothers, brothers-in-law, and other relatives were all on the way and would arrive in the latter half of the night.

Lin Dawu’s heart finally stopped panicking so much.

The girl’s family was also on the way. When they heard Lin Dawu report that she was safe and recovering well, and that there should not be any lasting effects, they finally breathed a sigh of relief, and their tone softened considerably.

After Lu Ao finished eating, he escorted Lin Dawu back to the hospital and stayed with him until the latter half of the night before leaving.

All the expenses that day had been paid by Lin Dawu, including the girl’s rescue and treatment fees.

Since hospitalization required payment in advance, he was afraid the money for saving the two children would not be enough, so he had withdrawn everything from his card when paying the fees. In a single night, he had spent over three hundred thousand.

Spending so much money all at once made his waist bend a little. Coupled with his haggard complexion, he looked as if he had aged ten years.

Lu Ao did not go back to a hotel to rest.

Song Zhou came specially to pick him up in the latter half of the night.

By the time the two returned home, it was already past five in the morning.

Lu Ao ate a little and washed up. Then he remembered all the things he had abandoned in a hurry on the beach and wanted to go fetch them before coming back to sleep.

Song Zhou held him down. “I’ll get them for you. Sleep.”

Pressed onto the bed, Lu Ao struggled a little and mumbled worriedly, “You don’t know where they are.”

“I know.” Song Zhou’s warm hand rested against his forehead. “Sleep peacefully. Later, I’ll feed the geese and water the vegetables for you. Don’t worry about it.”

“Aren’t you going to work?”

“No. I took leave today. Hurry and sleep. Stop talking.”

“All right.” Lu Ao had no worries left at all. He was so sleepy he could barely keep his eyes open. “Then I’ll sleep for a while and get up at noon. The scallops I bought are still outside. Let’s eat scallops for lunch.”

Song Zhou patted him through the quilt. “Sleep.”

Lu Ao still wanted to say something, but before the words could leave his mouth, deep sleep swept over him, and his consciousness quickly sank into darkness.