PDLP Chapter 405 The Wronged Bear
Chapter 405 The Wronged Bear
Xu Anyang was scolded and lowered his head, not daring to utter another word.
"The waves are a bit too big today," he muttered, his brow furrowed.
Xu Yiyi didn't say anything. When the boat reached the vicinity of Eagle Reef, the sun came out again.
"Go to the east side."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Anyang immediately changed direction and hurried to catch up with the other clansmen.
"There doesn't look like much there!"
Xu Anyang gripped the right oar and looked out at the sea, while the other clansmen also dispersed to look.
"The waters from the island to Eagle Reef are calm, and there is virtually no possibility of an accident."
Although Xu Yiyi couldn't compare to her uncles who were out at sea year-round, she still managed to get a good understanding of the waters surrounding Wanghai Island.
Knowing there was nothing there, the group prepared to go around to Qinglongcha.
Suddenly I heard a noise coming from behind.
They saw Xu Zhengci and Xu Ming rowing a small boat toward them.
"So? Did you find anything?"
Upon seeing their figures, Xu Zhengci quickened his pace to catch up. After all, they were from the same clan, so he naturally couldn't just stand by and do nothing.
So, at Grandpa Xu's suggestion, the two of them rushed back from town.
"Nothing found yet, let's head towards Qinglongcha first..."
Xu Yiyi and Xu Anyang were closest to each other, but neither of them spoke up until the other clansmen finally spoke.
"You have absolutely no manners!"
Xu Ming glanced at the two men and then rowed the boat in front of them.
The two fell behind once again.
……
After crossing Qinglongcha, the group arrived at Baihatan and finally saw something.
"Is this a fishing net?"
Xu Yiyi suddenly stood up. "It's a fishing net!"
Upon hearing her words, Xu Anyang quickly rowed the boat forward, and Xu Yiyi bent down to retrieve the fishing net.
"It's still good."
This means it wasn't thrown away.
"There aren't any reefs in this area!"
Xu Anyang looked puzzled, and the other clansmen also noticed that a lot of things were scattered in the water.
Baiha Beach is very close to Guling Village. The sea here is extremely gentle, and as far as the eye can see, there is only a vast expanse of blue.
The water rippled lazily, rising and falling gently, without any sign of surging.
The sea was as calm as a pane of glass.
"How about we go into the water and take a look?"
Xu Anyang had just opened his mouth when an uncle nimbly jumped off the boat.
The group waited on the boat, and less than a quarter of an hour later, the uncle popped his head out.
"It's too murky down there, I can't see clearly."
The uncle said helplessly, "In the past, when the weather was good, the seawater was very clear, and the sunlight could shine directly into the deep water."
The fine sand on the seabed is golden yellow, soft and clean, just like freshly ground corn flour, spread out extremely evenly.
Uncle's breath-holding ability couldn't sustain him any longer as he continued diving.
"I come."
Xu Yiyi raised her arm, and only then did everyone remember that Xu Yiyi and Xu Anyang, those two little brats, had also come along.
"Tie a rope around you, and if anything happens, just start shaking the rope."
Xu Yiyi is a good swimmer, as everyone in the clan knows, but protective measures still need to be taken.
She obediently listened to her uncle and tied the rope around her waist before jumping into the water with a splash.
Curious, Xu Anyang lay on the boat and buried his face in the water.
It really is quite cloudy!
He had been here before, and on a clear day he could see fish in the water from the boat, but now he couldn't see anything.
"You little brat, sit down properly."
Just as he continued to peer down, someone grabbed him by the collar and pulled him up.
"I told you to stay on the island, but you insisted on coming along."
Xu Anyang pouted and obediently sat on the boat.
As Xu Yiyi opened her eyes underwater, she subconsciously frowned, her gaze unable to penetrate more than ten feet.
"How did the water here become like this?"
Xu Yiyi murmured to herself as she struggled to dive deeper.
A moment later, a huge, silent black shadow appeared.
Her heart tightened suddenly. She skillfully reached onto the deck, her slender body shrinking as she slipped into the cabin.
It was pitch black and you couldn't see anything.
She grumbled impatiently, and when she reached the bottom of the hold, she found there was still some fish left.
Several harpoons and machetes lay scattered on the ground.
There was no one there.
She understood, and got out of the boat, swimming upstream toward the dim light.
"They're up, they're up."
……
"Come on up first."
The uncle on the small boat reached out and pulled Xu Yiyi aboard. "How is it? Did you find anything?"
……
"Yes! Isn't it...down there...?"
Xu Yi coughed several times: "The boat is down there, but there's no one there."
"Isn't Guling Village nearby? Let's go take a look over there."
Judging from the situation below, the person should be fine.
"Let's go! Let's go to Guling Village."
The group changed direction and headed towards Guling Village.
"Put this on quickly, aren't you cold?"
Xu Anyang spoke with concern, handing over the spare clothes that Xu Yiyi had placed on the boat.
"It's nothing. I've been too cold to go in the water these past few days, but I just swam around in the water and it didn't feel so cold anymore."
Xu Anyang glanced at her and said, "I would have believed it if your lips weren't so white."
No sooner had he finished speaking than his large, flat head was tapped again.
"What's wrong?" Xu Anyang scratched his head and said aggrievedly, "That's how it is. Your skin wasn't that fair before you went into the water. You were deathly pale as soon as you came out."
After saying that, he didn't forget to try and find an ally.
"Uncle, am I right?"
That's true.
Xu Yiyi cleared her throat and pulled her clothes tighter around herself.
"Haisheng? Is it Haisheng?"
Suddenly a shout rang out, and Xu Yiyi and Xu Anyang quickly stood up to look.
More than a dozen figures were spotted at the foot of a cliff near Guling Village.
"Here! We're here..."
Hai Sheng seemed to wake up from a dream. From the time the boat took on water at dawn until they swam here, the group of people seemed to be having a nightmare.
On the rocky beach below the cliff, a group of people lay haphazardly together, huddling for warmth.
"It's Haisheng! It really is Haisheng, and he's still alive."
The lead ship let out a cheer, and seven or eight small boats joined it.
The person lying on the ground had lips that had turned a horrifying bluish-purple, and skin that had been soaked in seawater that was wrinkled and white, and was so cold that it didn't look like a living person.
In a daze, they took me onto the boat.
"Waaaah... You've finally arrived! I thought I was going to die somewhere."
Haisheng was the first to react, and he sat on the boat and burst into tears.
Xu Yiyi quickly draped the clothes she was wearing over him.
Xu Anyang, who was sitting at the stern waiting for someone to cry, curiously poked his head out and asked, "Uncle Haisheng, what exactly is going on?"
"It ran aground near Eagle Reef."
Hai Sheng was furious; he was immediately rebuked as soon as he finished speaking.
The uncle holding the oar said irritably, "You ran aground and didn't even come back? You have the nerve to say that."
Seeing that they were freezing, they quickly took off their own clothes.
"We continued because we were afraid of delaying our earnings, even after the check-up revealed nothing was wrong."
Hai Sheng was filled with regret. "If I had known it would turn out like this, I should have turned back then. What a pity for my ship! My ship!"
This boat is one of the few large boats in the village; it was bought by more than a dozen households pooling their money together.
Now they haven't made any money, and they've even lost their boat.
"You still have to say that? If it weren't for Yi Yi and An Yang noticing something was wrong and going back to the island to call for help, if we had delayed any longer, you might have lost your lives."
Haisheng couldn't help but cry again when he heard this.
"Yi-yi! Uncle Hai-sheng, I'm really sorry to have delayed your business again."
Xu Yiyi and Xu Anyang exchanged a glance: "It's alright, as long as you're alright. I'll buy some more at the dock when we get back to town."
Hearing her words, Haisheng cried even louder.
The crying was loud, like a bear that had suffered a great injustice, dark and tall.
When the boat entered the river, the people on the shore were stunned by the noise.
In an instant, cries rose and fell, startling the birds into flight.
"Uncle Haisheng, don't cry, Aunt Afan has fainted again..."
Xu Yi had sharp eyes and immediately noticed that A Fan had fainted.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Haisheng shouted even louder, his broad shoulders trembling, tears and snot streaming down his face, which he didn't bother to wipe away.
"You little bastard, I was worried something had happened when you cried like that..."
Uncle finally breathed a sigh of relief. These people looked so disheveled, but at least they had escaped with their lives.
There were more than ten men on the boat, and Haisheng cried.
She cried all the way home.
Xu Yiyi and Xu Anyang exchanged a glance, then pursed their lips and forced them down, trying to forcefully push back the upturned corners of their mouths.
"Uncle Haisheng's emotions are a bit too much!"
She couldn't help but sigh, lagging behind the crowd, and they only parted ways at the fork in the road to go home.