Zhan Zhumen

Chapter 23

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 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, and finally fail to sell the price, and all the hard work will be in vain.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.

I slept until midnight, felt cold, and got 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."

When Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai heard this, they 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 thought so too, they had been living on the water for ten years, what hadn't they seen?It's just raining.Didn't you see that Yang Fu didn't even get up?

Then rest assured to sleep.

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

Unexpectedly, 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 it's raining heavily!"

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 thinking about putting on his clothes, he hurried out of the cabin, and went to tie up his boat with Huo Erhuai.

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

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

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

In less than a while, it swayed even more, 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 inner wall of the cabin with one hand, hugged him with the other hand, and tucked him between his legs. After coaxing him for a long time, he couldn't coax him well, he was so anxious.

Outside, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, rolling over the water, 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.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 on, 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."

After dressing Huo Xi, Yang helped her to 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, and took the small clay stove and stove outside 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 her 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!"

Wearing a coir raincoat, with raindrops all over his face, Yang Fu 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 had stopped the boat together had carried their things onto the shore one after another.

Yang Fu took her and Mrs. Yang 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.

relieved.

Looking again, Huo Erhuai put away the gangplank 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 blew, the river surged and rolled up layers of waves. All the boats were close together and swayed with the wind and rain. The swaying range was not small, but they were fastened firmly and did not capsize.

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

The wind rolled up the tarpaulin tent, making a loud noise, and the rain hit it with a loud noise. Huo Xi couldn't help 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.

When the wind and rain come, everyone will watch and help 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 overturned, 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 people live in groups?Sometimes it's hard to go it alone.

At this time, 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 had no place to sit, let alone sleep.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, put 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 called him loudly.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, then found his own boat, and got into the cabin.

Huo Erhuai wanted to say that the cabin was wrapped in tarpaulin, but when he saw the wind outside, it 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 few members of the bald Butter's family had their fingers hardened to get such precious things. If they were blown over 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 really turned into bald yellow water.

Seeing that the two of them landed on the shore 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.

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

Frowning to hide from the wind and rain, the fishermen also laughed when they heard it, "Oh, it's Yang Fu's mother-in-law, so I can't feed the river god. If I can't marry a mother-in-law, I 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 joked and laughed.

Yang Shi 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 smiling.

(End of this chapter)