MTL - Fight the Giants-Chapter 23 storm in the middle of the night

  Chapter 23 Midnight Wind and Rain Invasion

   So a few more days passed.

  Huo Xi was busy getting into the net with Huo Erhuai, selling fish, selling crabs, and making bald butter.

  Thinking that there is also a lot of bald butter at home, Huo Xi thought about going to the market to find out the price.

   Don’t let the family do so much with confidence, but in the end they can’t sell it at a high price, and it’s a waste of hard work. Before going to bed, Huo Xi and Yang Fu discussed where to sell these bald butters, and after an agreement, they collapsed and fell asleep.

  Sleep until midnight, feel cold, get up in a daze to find a quilt. As soon as it was covered, I wanted to lie down and continue to sleep, when I heard the sound of water droplets hitting the roof of the boat.

   After listening carefully, it turned out to be raining.

   "Father, mother, it's raining."

   Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai listened, stood up, listened, and said: "It's okay, it's just raining, don't be afraid. Dad just repaired the boat a few days ago, it won't leak, Xi'er can rest easy."

  Huo Xi thinks so, they have been living on the water for ten years, what has not been seen? It's just raining. Didn't you see that Yang Fu didn't even get up?

   Then rest assured to sleep.

  Mr. Yang and Huo Erhuai got up and put the important things at the bow and stern back into the cabin, and then continued to sleep.

   Who knew, in the middle of the night, the whole ship shook.

   Hearing it again, there was a commotion outside: "Get up, get up! The wind is blowing, and the rain is falling!"

  Huo Xi sat up with a grunt.

  Half awake, she saw Yang pull open the curtain and said anxiously: "Xi'er, Fu'er, get up quickly! It's raining heavily."

  Huo Xi was still in a daze, but Yang Fu had already got up quickly, without even caring about putting on his clothes, he hurried out of the cabin, and went to fasten his boat with Huo Erhuai.

  Huo Xi didn't know what to do, and Yang Shi suddenly stuffed Huo Nian into her arms: "Xi'er, hold Nian'er, stay in the boat. Don't be afraid."

  Seeing that Mrs. Yang also left the cabin, Huo Xi hugged Huo Nian tightly and looked towards the bow and stern.

  At this time, the windbreak mast light at the bow of the ship was shaking violently in the wind and rain, and the hull seemed to be swinging. Huo Xi felt like he was swinging on a swing, and his head began to feel dizzy.

   After a while, it became even more swaying, and I couldn't sit still. Huo Nian was also woken up, maybe he didn't sleep enough, so he began to cry.

  Huo Xi tightly grasped the horizontal board of the cabin's inner wall with one hand, hugged him with the other hand, and tucked him between his legs.

  Outside, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, rolling over the water surface, there was a whimpering sound, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, slapping on the roof of the boat, crackling like a straight hit on it. Huo Xi glanced at the top of the boat from time to time, for fear of missing it.

  The rain from the bow and stern splashed in and splashed into the cabin, Huo Xi tightly held Huo Nian in front of him.

  She had never seen such a scene, she was a little scared, and looked at Huo Nian from time to time.

   "Xi'er, come, put on the coir raincoat quickly. Wrap Nian'er in the coir raincoat. Don't get wet." Yang came in, pulled her up, and put her on the coir raincoat.

  The boat shook violently, and the two almost couldn't stand. Huo Nian cried and reached out to Yang Shi. While putting on Huo Xi's coir raincoat, Yang coaxed him: "Nian'er is good, mother will hug Nian'er later, be good."

  Dressed Huo Xi, Yang helped her sit down, wrapped the bed pillow with an oilcloth, opened the deck, and stuffed it inside. The sleeping mat is also stuffed in.

   After plugging and covering the deck, Mrs. Yang hurried out again.

   After a while, Yang Fu and Huo Erhuai also ran in one after another, took the small mud stove outside and other things back to the cabin, and put them in the bilge.

  Huo Xi stared blankly, unable to help, anxious in her heart. The boat shook violently, and Huo Nian couldn't help crying. She was sitting in the cabin, holding Nian'er in her arms.

   After a while, Yang Shi came in again, took Huo Nian, wrapped it in a coir raincoat, and pulled Huo Xi out.

   "It's raining heavily, we can't stay on the boat, we have to go ashore."

  Huo Xi grabbed her coir raincoat tightly, staggered and walked out with her.

   "Xi'er, give me your hand!"

  Yang Fu, wearing a coir raincoat, with raindrops all over his face, reached out to her on the bank. Huo Erhuai set up a gangplank at the stern, picked up Yang Shi and Nian'er one by one, and she was also pulled ashore by Yang Fu.

  When I got to the shore, I found that people who stopped the boat together one after another carried their things onto the shore.

  Yang Fu took her and Yang Shi to the tarpaulin tent set up on the shore. Huo Xi looked around, and found that many people had set up oilcloths in an orderly manner, and it was obvious that they often encountered such situations.

   breathed a sigh of relief.

   Looking again, Huo Erhuai put away the gangway and boarded the boat again, and rowed the boat to stop with everyone's boat. All the boatmen at the ferry put the boats close together one by one, fastened them two by two, and formed a line horizontally and vertically.

  When the wind blows, the river surface swells, rolling up layers of waves, all the boats are close together, swaying with the wind and rain, the swaying range is not small, but it is fastened firmly and does not capsize.

  The dark sky seemed to have a gap, and the rain was pouring down.

  The wind rolled up the tarpaulin tent, rattling, and the rain hit it, making a loud noise. Huo Xi couldn't stop watching, worried that the tarpaulin would be smashed in the next second. Fortunately, it was set up in a triangular shape, so there would be no water accumulation. The rainwater trickled down the sides, and water quickly accumulated around the tent.

  Huo Xi looked at the boat tied together outside, and only then did he understand why everyone parked the boat in one place at night.

  It is when the wind and rain come, everyone helps each other, and the wind and rain depend on each other. If it is a single boat, it will capsize long ago.

  And with so many people, even if a boat is capsized, as long as the boat does not sink, everyone will work together to turn the boat over again. It can also reduce some losses.

   Otherwise, how can we say that people live in groups? Sometimes it's hard to go it alone.

   At this moment in the tent, Huo Nian fell into Yang's arms, cried for a while, smelled the familiar fragrance of milk, and fell asleep again. It was tightly wrapped by Yang's, so it could not be soaked by wind and rain.

   And Huo Xi and the others, let alone sleeping, have nowhere to sit. Just standing in the tarpaulin tent, the ground is covered with a puddle of water, which has reached the ankle.

  Huo Erhuai brought in two fishing boxes, turned them upside down on the ground, and helped Yang Shi and Huo Xi to sit on them.

  Huo Xi flicked his feet and fell into the water.

  Yang Fu was standing next to Huo Xi, but suddenly remembered the bald butter in the cabin, and ran out again.

   "What are you doing? Come back!"

   Yang raised his voice to call him, but he didn't turn his head. Through the rain curtain, Yang Fu jumped onto the stern of someone else's boat.

   "Fu'er, what are you doing!" Huo Erhuai got out of the tent and shouted at him. Seeing that he was blown by the wind and couldn't even stand still, he was impatient and chased after him.

   "Brother-in-law, the rain is getting heavier and heavier. I want to carry the bald butter outside." He replied loudly, found his own boat, and got into the cabin.

  Huo Erhuai wanted to say that the cabin was wrapped in tarpaulin, but he saw the wind outside was getting stronger and stronger. This was the first rain since autumn, and even with such a strong wind, the boat couldn't be tied down. Also started to worry.

  The members of the bald Butter’s family had torn their fingers apart to get such precious things. If they were overturned by the wind and thrown into the river, he would feel distressed to death.

   Without saying much, he followed behind and entered the cabin. The two worked together to get up the deck, and together with Yang Fu, they wrapped the bald butter wrapped in layers into their clothes, and then wrapped them into the coir raincoat, and they ran out with each other.

  The boat was blown by the wind and supported by huge waves, shaking constantly. Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu held each other tightly, but still slipped several times. Yang Shi and Huo Xi watched from afar, worried, fearing that they would fall into the river.

   It doesn’t matter if you fall into it, they are good at water, but the bald butter is really bald yellow water.

  Seeing that the two of them landed ashore despite all kinds of difficulties and dangers. Yang let out a long breath.

   "Yang Fu, what is important, you have to brave the wind and rain to get it!" Qian Sanduo and others asked. This is really life-threatening.

   "My mother-in-law!" Yang Fu replied loudly.

   "Huh? Hahaha..." Qian Xiaoxia laughed loudly, stomping his feet in the water, splashing water all over his body.

  The fishermen who frowned and hid from the wind and rain laughed when they heard it, "Oh, it's Yang Fu's mother-in-law, so I can't feed the river god. If you can't marry a wife, you will be single, haha..."

   "Yang Fu, how much have you saved? Let me know if you don't have enough, and the big guys will lend you some. I can't let you have no money to marry a wife."

  Everyone laughed while joking.

  Mr. Yang glared at Yang Fu, and then smiled. If it wasn't for hugging Huo Nian, she would have wanted to beat him up. Ghosts and ghosts.

  Huo Xi looked at him with a smile, and Yang Fu was standing next to her holding a box of bald butter tightly, winking at her, and also giggling.

  (end of this chapter)