In that era, the villagers had to pick up water from the well outside the village. The village was drilled with a well from the southeast, southwest and northwest, and people fetched water nearby.
Most people in the village carry water in the morning and evening, in their spare time for collective labor or after school. At this time, on the small dirt road to the well, there were people carrying buckets of water, and there were endless people, which was a very scenic spot.
Senior sister was one level higher than me at that time and was in the second grade of junior high school. My house and hers are not far away, so of course I just ate water from a well. When I was carrying water, she and I often met, but I almost never spoke. In that era, it was considered strangers to meet male and female classmates.
It was an autumn afternoon and the weather was very good. The adults are still busy harvesting and planting in autumn, and they have no time to come to the well to fetch water. There are very few people beside the well platform, only me and my senior sister. We stood on one side, but we still didn't say hello to each other and used a well rope to fetch water. It is dry in autumn, the water level is very low, and it must be eight or nine meters away from the well platform, so it is much more difficult for us to get water than usual.
I quickly drew two buckets of water, but just as I bent down and was about to pick up the bucket, I heard my senior sister's scream and hurriedly looked back. My senior sister's face was flushed and tears were flowing out. I thought something big happened, and immediately put down my shoulders and turned around and asked my senior sister what was going on. My senior sister told me with a sad face that her bucket had been unhooked and fell into the well.
Seeing that this is the case, I felt relieved. This kind of thing happens often when fetching water, and it is nothing more than working hard to fish it out into the well. But if the barrel sinks to the bottom of the well, it is still very difficult to fish out. It takes a lot of effort to find a long bamboo pole, tie it with a claw hook, and go down to the well surface to fish it.
Fortunately, this time my senior sister's bucket did not sink and was still floating on the water. It would be less difficult to fish it out. At this time, there were only two of us by the well. It was a responsibility for me, a good boy, to get the bucket for me, and I decided to go down to the water to get the bucket for my senior sister.
It is not easy for me, who is still a teenager. The well wall was wet and smooth, and the place where I stepped on was limited, and I was not strong enough. Sure enough, as soon as I got a short distance, my feet slipped, and my whole body slipped out and fell down. The moment I fell to the well water, I felt the darkness in front of me, and a few sips of water were poured into my mouth, but I immediately instinctively arched my head out of the water. To be honest, I was not very scared at that time. On the contrary, the senior sister on the well platform was so scared that she shouted. I hurriedly whispered to the wellhead while stepping on the water, "I'm fine, please put down the well rope." I called it several times before my senior sister came to her senses, put down the well rope and lifted the bucket.
climbed up the well. Despite the effort, I climbed out of the well without any danger. In my impression, when I returned to Inoue in a mess, my senior sister didn't say anything polite to me. She just looked at me gratefully and then picked up the bucket and left.
As soon as my senior sister left, I was like a chicken and took water back home as if nothing had happened, and even my family didn't tell me. That night, I was having dinner, and my senior sister’s parents came to visit me with something. Now, the family realized that I had done something very dangerous in the afternoon. After listening to the adults' analysis there, I was scared and sweated. It turned out that it was so dangerous to get a bucket for my senior sister in the afternoon.
