Chapter 339 The Fish is Coming
Chapter 339 The Fish is Coming
Li Changle leaned against the carriage board and thought about something. Suddenly, Li Changqing's voice came from the front, "Ah Le, grab your weapons, there are people blocking the road ahead."
"Okay!" Li Changle picked up the rifle beside him, Chen Yongwei picked up the wooden stick, stood on the bamboo basket and looked ahead.
About 100 to 200 meters away from the tractor, five strong young men were standing in a row in the middle of the dirt road, staring at this side eagerly.
The speed at which the tractor climbed the hill was no different from that of an old ox pulling a cart, and it was swaying closer and closer to the people standing in the middle of the road.
Li Changle and Li Changqing saw that the young man in the middle was carrying a homemade rifle, and the others were holding wooden sticks as thick as their wrists. They quickly pulled the safety pins and were ready.
As long as those people dare to rush up to steal things, knock them down first.
Li Changqing held his gun and shouted at the men, "Brothers, please make way. Bullets don't have eyes. If you take another step forward, don't blame us for being rude."
"Ah Qing, don't waste your time talking to them!"
Before Li Changle finished speaking, he pulled the trigger in front of the few people. With a "bang", the crisp sound of gunfire echoed in the mountains and forests.
Several people who were running towards the tractor suddenly stopped with an emergency brake.
When several people saw Li Changqing holding a shotgun on the dashboard, and two people standing on the carriage with rifles aiming at them from above, they were all stunned.
For a moment, it was a bit confusing. Who was robbing whom?
Li Changle pointed his rifle at the men and said in a deep voice, "Fuck you, you dare to rob with a gun? I'll shoot you to death, but it will be in vain!"
Li Changqing also roared: "Come on if you have the guts. Let's see which is faster, your homemade rifle or my hunting rifle."
At this time, a minibus drove over from the opposite direction, honking its horn at the group. The driver leaned over and shouted, "Standing in the middle of the road, you're looking for death!"
A few young men came to their senses and ran away, rushing far away, faster than rabbits.
Li Changqing put down his gun, released the brake, stepped on the accelerator and quickly drove down the mountain. He then turned his head and looked at the two men, "A Le, guns are still powerful!"
Li Changle got out of the car and sat next to him. "I bought it at a high price just to deal with these thieves."
"When I save up enough money and pay you back, I'll buy you a gun to protect myself so I don't have to be so nervous every time I walk here."
"Now the car is yours, and you can earn money quickly by transporting endless cargo every day."
"My father-in-law asked Ping to collect seafood and sell it at the school. All the money I earned went to her to collect the seafood. I should be able to recover by next month."
"Just wait until she's on the road."
"Alas!" Li Changqing sighed, "My father-in-law is fine, but my mother-in-law is really troublesome. Ah Ping is spoiled by her."
"I heard about this from Uncle Dong. If you have any questions, go to him. I think your mother-in-law is quite afraid of him."
"That's right. Every time my mother-in-law instigates trouble, as long as I tell my father-in-law, she will immediately behave herself."
The road condition was good after going down the mountain and the car went fast. Just after eight o'clock, the tractor arrived outside the shop. There were already three or four customers in the dry goods store choosing dried fish.
When Zhou's mother heard the sound of the tractor's engine, she turned around and saw Li Changle jumping down. She greeted them with a smile and was busy loading and weighing goods for customers with a thin woman.
Li Changle got out of the car and took out the seahorses, sea cucumbers, fish, shrimps, and blue crabs that she brought for Zhou's mother and the Yan family. "Mother, let's move the goods in and go to the school to deliver them."
"Okay, you keep some of the jellyfish heads, shrimps, and dried cuttlefish in the shop, and move the rest to the warehouse in the backyard. Pile them there and I'll slowly restock them myself."
"Okay!" Li Changle brought the bucket and bamboo basket to the backyard and put them away. Chen Yongwei and Li Changqing came in carrying the bamboo baskets.
"A Le, should we put it in the same room as last time?" Li Changqing asked.
"Yes, it's that room!" Li Changle pushed the door open and entered the room. He moved the stacked bamboo baskets outside and sorted and stacked the bamboo baskets and oilcloth bags filled with goods.
The three of them were busy for more than half an hour before they moved all the goods in the shop into the warehouse. During this time, Zhou's mother was busy cutting shredded pork, cabbage, and shrimps and stir-frying rice cakes for the three of them.
Li Changle wiped her greasy mouth and said, "Mother, when you have time, give those things to the Yan family. You can keep the things in the net bag and the bamboo basket for yourself."
Mother Zhou looked at them and said angrily, "What are you doing with these precious things?"
"They are all caught by ourselves. Don't be reluctant to eat them and leave them there. I will bring them to you next time after you finish them."
"Don't send it next time. We haven't eaten what Anan brought back last time!" Zhou's mother said, looking at him worriedly, "I heard on the radio that there will be thunderstorms. Are you ready?"
"Don't worry, everything is ready..." Li Changle told her about the gains from this voyage and the matter of buying a shop.
Seeing that they made so much money in one go, Zhou's mother was happy but also worried, and reminded them, "Be careful when you go out to sea. If you find that there is something wrong with the weather, you must return to the ship as soon as possible, understand?"
"I know!" Li Changle consoled her and said, "We still have to hurry back. We won't come back after delivering the goods to the school. You should also be careful when a thunderstorm comes."
"We're fine here, you just have to be careful at the beach." Mother Zhou said and went back to the house to give him the business money for this period.
In just over a week, we sold fifteen hundred yuan. When things were going well, we could sell more than three hundred yuan, and when things were not so good, we could still sell more than a hundred yuan.
This time, we sent 200 kilograms of jellyfish skin to the school. There were more than 800 kilograms of dried eels, dried cuttlefish, and sea bream, which was worth nearly 2,000 yuan.
Li Changle and the other two delivered the dried fish to the school, paid the bill, and headed back without delaying for a moment.
The empty truck was moving much faster and soon reached the foot of the mountain. The tractor, emitting black smoke, swayed and reached the top of the mountain again.
When they saw the village ahead, the three of them were anxious.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei held their guns and sat upright on a bamboo basket, looking vigilantly at both sides of the road. It was not until they went down the mountain that they felt relieved.
It was already past one o'clock when they arrived at Tuxia Bridge. The three hungry people had a bowl of noodles in the town and continued on their way back.
When the tractor left Pan Town and approached the seaside, the clouds in the sky looked like they were dyed with cuttlefish ink. They were dark and dense, like a curtain ready to be opened at any time, and the thunderstorm was the actors ready to perform on stage.
When they arrived at the old house, Li Changle and Chen Yongwei unloaded the bamboo basket, gave the fare to Li Changqing, closed the door and walked towards Nanshan.
As soon as they left the alley, a strong wind blew up, dark clouds rolled in the sky, strong winds howled, and the mud and sand on the ground were blown up into the sky in swirling shapes. The two men put their hands in front of their foreheads and ran quickly towards Nanshan.
When they reached the Nanshan intersection, Chen Yongwei grabbed him and pointed at the sky in horror, "Brother, look, what is that?"
Li Changle looked in the direction he pointed, only to see a huge, funnel-shaped black cloud column extending from below the dark clouds. "Fuck! A dragon sucking water!"
The two men ran forward hurriedly, passed the windbreak and reached the beach, only to see that the black cloud column had reached the sea surface, and a dragon-like water column was spinning, rushing straight into the sky from the sea surface.
As the water column moves and rotates, you can clearly see that the water column becomes thicker and thicker, and rotates rapidly towards Baisha Island.
Li Changle looked at the giant water column on the sea and felt that the scene before the end of the world in science fiction movies was not as shocking as this one.
A waterspout, also known as a seaspout or waterspout, is a tornado that occasionally appears over warm water. Its upper end is connected to the thundercloud, and the lower end extends directly to the water surface to form a water column.
The water column rotates and moves at the same time, and the water rises from the water surface to the sky in the form of a vortex around the axis.
A rapidly rotating waterspout is as dangerous as a tornado. Its internal wind speed can exceed 200 kilometers per hour. Like a tornado on land, it can suck ships and seawater into the air.
Li Changle had also encountered a water dragon at sea in his previous life. Two fishing boats that failed to avoid it were overturned, and the cabins were flooded and sinking. The attacked fishermen had no choice but to climb onto the tops of the battlements and the bows of the boats that were exposed above the water to wait for rescue.
That time they rescued more than a dozen fishermen, but the captain of the boat he was working on also suffered a lot of losses.
The scale of that water dragon was not as big as this time. Two fishing boats were overturned and sank in the open sea.
This time it happened near the coast. Fortunately, a storm warning was issued in advance and all ships returned to port to take shelter from the wind. Otherwise, we don’t know how many ships would have been attacked.
Chen Yongwei looked at the funnel-shaped black cloud column and felt a chill rising from the bottom of his heart. The veins on his hands that tightly grasped the tree trunk bulged, and he said in a trembling voice: "Brother, look, it's heading towards Baisha Island."
Li Changle nodded thankfully, "It's better to go to Baisha Island. It's far from the village. If we land there, the loss for everyone will be less."
Chen Yongwei thought so too, and after thinking about it, he said, "Is this what the old people used to talk about dragons?"
"That's not true!" Uncle Li and his three brothers, as well as old man Jin and his son, arrived at some point in time.
"I've seen it in the old days. The dragon's head was in the clouds, and you could only see the dragon's tail swaying below the clouds." Old Man Jin sounded as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
Father Li looked at the black water column with a frown on his face and sighed, "Alas, I don't know whether it is a good omen or a bad omen?"
Brother Li hurriedly comforted him, "Dad, we saw the fairy mountain by the sea the day before yesterday, nothing will happen."
Father Li nodded and patted Old Man Jin, "Old Jin, let's go! The heavy rain is coming soon."
When the few people turned around and ran towards Nanshan Valley through the windbreak, more than ten minutes had passed since they discovered the dragon sucking water.
When I ran to the intersection, the wind was getting stronger and stronger. Several small trees were blown to and fro, and people were also blown to the point of being unstable.
Several people supported each other and ran into Nanshan Valley. There was a loud "click" sound, a silver dragon was dancing in the sky, and strong winds brought heavy rain to pour down.
The eldest and second brothers helped their father walk up the steps quickly. Li Xiaozhou, who was standing at the door, pointed outside and shouted, "Dad, the fish are in the water! The fish are in the water!"
"Ah?" Li Changle and Chen Yongwei, who were following behind, were stunned for a moment, and suddenly saw something falling in front of them with the rain.
Looking down, he saw a palm-sized pomfret jumping in the dam. He touched his head and said, "Shit! Fortunately it didn't hit me on the head."
Chen Yongwei was stunned for a moment, then he pointed at the fish on the ground and shouted excitedly, "Oh my God, there are fish..."
"Ah, the fish are really coming!"
"Hurry up and run to the steps. It would be terrible if you get hit by a big fish."
Li Changle pulled him and ran to the eaves, where they saw a large number of fish falling from the sky with the heavy rain.
(End of this chapter)