Ye Yaodong had only been in the new house for a while when he heard the sound of a horn, which was broadcasting precautions on typhoon days from far away and reminding the fishermen how to take safe precautions.
He walked out from the back of the house and saw someone riding a bicycle not far away. There was a speaker in the basket on the front of the bicycle, playing something.
Secretary Chen is quite efficient and made arrangements early in the morning!
After listening to the loudspeaker playing in the village on a loop and then heading away to the dock, he felt relieved. After all, he had done his best. As for the result? He would just leave it to fate!
The typhoon came suddenly. It was sunny in the morning, but it was cloudy and windy in the afternoon. The big tree at the door was swaying left and right and falling down because of the wind.
It was not until night that the rain began to pour down. Ye Yaodong and his wife had not slept well to begin with, so they got up when they heard the noise outside and the sound of water dripping in the house.
I pulled the wires and found that there was a power outage.
He had no choice but to light the candle that had been prepared long ago at the bedside and go outside to get a basin to collect rain water.
Lin Xiuqing was a little worried about the new house. "With such strong winds, we can't go to the new house to check it out, and we don't know if it will leak."
"It doesn't matter. We can give it a try during this typhoon. If it leaks, we can ask the bricklayer to fix it. After all, it's a new job, so he must fix it for us."
"Um."
Not knowing how long the impact of the typhoon would last, the two sat on the bed all night without sleeping.
After daybreak, they walked out of the room and went to the main hall. The whole family sat at the table doing nothing. It was still windy outside and they couldn't go anywhere. They could only wait for the typhoon to pass.
I guess it was around 8:30 in the morning when the wind started to weaken and wasn't as strong, but the rain was still heavy.
At noon, when the wind and rain had weakened, Father Ye put on his raincoat and went out. He wanted to go to the dock to see how big the waves were and where they had flooded. Would they flood the new house? Would it have a big impact on the village
There was only one straw raincoat in the house, and Father Ye wore it. The others had no choice but to wait at home.
As a result, Ye's father was gone for two hours, and when he came back, the rain had almost stopped.
"The new home is fine, the tide can't hit it. But some people in the village took a chance and didn't sail their boats to a safe harbor. As a result, they were either washed away or torn to pieces by the waves, with the wooden planks floating on the sea. I heard that two people risked their lives to sail together in the middle of the night, but they haven't returned yet. The waves are big now, and they can't sail out to look for it. The shore is in chaos now."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this.
Ye's mother quickly asked, "The loudspeakers in the village were still broadcasting yesterday. How could they be so careless?"
"Who knows? We treat our broken boat like a treasure and are afraid of losing it, but those people are still hoping for the best."
Ye Yaodong frowned. Two people? It was really fate!
After the rain stopped outside, the villagers all ran out. People all over the village were talking about this matter. They said that losing the boat was a small matter, but losing lives meant losing everything.
Those two families lived next door to each other, and I heard they had already started crying...
Ye Yaodong was also strolling in the village, hearing all kinds of discussions. When he reached the central road of the village, he saw everyone looking at two people walking down the hill from the village entrance as if they had seen ghosts.
"Ah, Da Zhuang and Chen Shan are alive and well and are back?"
“It really is!”
"I am so blessed, may Mazu bless me!"
"Why did you come back just now? Your family members are so worried. If you don't come back soon, they will set up a mourning hall."
"Ah?" The two were so shocked that they quickly ran back.
The curious villagers also followed them. No one knew how they got back yet, so how could they miss out on some gossip
Ye Yaodong also followed curiously and found out after eavesdropping at their door.
It turned out that the wind was too strong at night, beyond their expectations. They were worried about leaving the boat at the dock, so they agreed to go sailing together so they could have company.
Who knew that the wind and waves at sea were several times stronger than those on the shore? They had great difficulty in driving the boat into the safe harbor. The wind and rain were so strong at night that it seemed to blow the two of them away. The two had no way to get on the boat and could only spend the night on the boat and go ashore when the wind and rain subsided.
After listening to the whole story, Ye Yaodong left and went home.
Of course it would be best if nothing happened, just consider it as a good deed. Who knows if his rebirth is the result of his good fortune from his previous life
The news soon spread throughout the village, and everyone said that it was thanks to Mazu's blessing that the two of them were able to return safely.
Secretary Chen also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he listened to Ye Yaodong's suggestion the day before and played the loudspeaker in the village in a loop before pressing it at the pier. Many villagers who heard it temporarily took a boat to dock that afternoon, avoiding loss of life. Only a few people suffered property loss.
His impression of Ye Yaodong improved a little.
As soon as Ye Yaodong got home, he sorted out the ground trap nets. He made a few more in the past few days and planned to wait and see tomorrow. If the waves are not too big, he will release them.
Lin Xiuqing squatted beside him and asked in a negotiating manner: "The typhoon has stopped, shall we go back to my mother's house tomorrow?"
"No hurry. When the waves are not so big tomorrow, I will put out the traps. There will be more goods after the typhoon. I will collect some goods the day after tomorrow. Then I will have seafood to bring back to you."
She smiled and said, "We already took so much last time. There are still two cans of food in the cupboard. Let's just buy some mooncakes..."
"Last time was last time. This time I'll go over to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, so let's prepare more. Buy some mooncakes and pig's feet. I'll also catch some seafood and bring it over. If I prepare it nicely, it will make you look good and I'll hear a few good words from you."
After all, this was his first time visiting her parents' home after his rebirth, and he felt guilty about his past life, so of course he had to prepare more.
"All right."
Of course she was happy that he valued her family.
In the past, she had used her own pocket money to prepare the expenses, but he never cared and rarely showed up. Most of the time, she went back to her parents' home alone, leaving early and returning late, and she was not allowed to stay overnight.
The next morning, when the waves were smaller, he and his father went to the safe harbor and sailed back.
After docking at the pier, he went home to get the trap, but on the shore he saw that the beach was full of villagers from his village and the neighboring village, all of them happily carrying buckets to go fishing.
He felt a little regretful that he had to go out to sea to set traps and didn't have time to go with everyone else. Otherwise, he really wanted to go to the beach to take a look, there must be a lot of catch to pick up.
I still have a large bucket of clams that I picked up a few days ago that I haven’t eaten yet. Fortunately, they are kept in sea water and won’t go bad.
I don’t know if there are any treasures on the beach today, and what his wife can pick up.