Ye Yaodong explained that he would remit the money after hanging up the phone, and asked Ah Qing to pay attention to any remittance slips received in the next two days and go get the money.

After he finished speaking, he asked other boatmen to continue making calls while he went to the counter nearby.

After completing all the formalities, he went to pay the phone bill.

The next day, he carefully carried the money and made another remittance. Only a few thousand yuan was left with him, and he felt at ease.

Wages were paid out one after another yesterday, except for the people on the Harvest who have not come back. Now there is not much money left on hand, waiting to continue to accumulate.

If it weren't for the chaos here, the houses are now in dilapidated condition, there is no property rights, and the land is not easy to buy. It is impossible for him to stay here for a long time. There is no one to show him the house, and there is no official relationship. He directly

It’s much better to buy a house or land with cash.

Alas, the time has not come yet, it is still 1986, so we can only accumulate it first.

He stood at the door of the post office and looked at the street outside. He didn't know when it had rained, and the ground was wet.

Seeing that the rain was not heavy, he hurriedly ran home.

Pedestrians on the road were in a hurry, running everywhere to take shelter from the rain.

The rain gradually became heavier, from light rain to heavy rain. By the time he ran home, he was already wet from head to toe, and his Jiefang shoes were already wet.

The sky also darkened. It was obviously morning, but it looked almost dark.

"Suddenly the rain became so heavy..."

"Yes, there was still a little sunshine in the morning, but it suddenly became dark."

"Oh, there's lightning..."

Ye Yaodong stood at the door and took off his wet clothes. He looked at the flash of lightning across the sky and said, "It looks like their fishing boat will have to come back as soon as they go out."

He was still thinking of sailing out to pick up fresh goods tomorrow, but he didn't know if it would have any impact. If a few boats didn't come back tomorrow, he would still have to sail out to pick up the goods.

Other fishing boats also returned as the rain became heavier at noon.

The next morning, he didn't wait for the Dongsheng to come back, so he sailed out to search for her. This time, he was able to contact her after driving far away.

After getting in touch, I found out that Father Ye and the others had been driving towards the East China Sea while working in the past day or two. They stopped moving after heavy rain.

The rain on the sea is similar to that on land, but the wind is not strong.

In addition to typhoons and cold weather in winter, the northwest wind will blow wildly. In fact, under normal circumstances, the wind on land is strong, but the wind on the sea is not necessarily strong. Sometimes the wind becomes lighter as you go outside.

Offshore fishing boats sometimes cannot withstand the wind and waves. When returning to port, large boats can often still operate in the open sea.

It was raining heavily at the moment, and although several boats could carry it, just in case, we still walked back while working, not daring to run too far, but we had no plans to dock immediately.

As Ye Yaodong drove by, he could also see many large ships still operating on the sea. Some workers were wearing raincoats, some were wearing nylon raincoats, and waterproof suits were busy on the deck.

He thought to himself that there were indeed many fishing boats on this side, and they seemed dense on the sea. Fishing boats could be seen intermittently along the way.

After he collected all the cargo from several ships and replenished them with ice, diesel, and fresh water, he told them to be careful and not to go too far. It was best to stay where they were two days ago.

A certain sea area is safer before returning.

The bills of goods sold a few days ago and the money sold are still in his hands, and they will calculate them together when they come back.

But just as they were returning, they saw a fishing boat waving a red flag on the sea.

Ye Yaodong didn't pay much attention at first, he just thought about the heavy rain and returned quickly.

But after taking a few more glances, he found that there seemed to be several people standing on the deck, each holding a flag of various colors and waving at them.

At this time, Chen Guodong also came and knocked on his window.

"Brother Dong, there seems to be something wrong with that boat. They are waving flags at us. Is there something wrong?"

Ye Yaodong slowed down a bit, picked up the telescope and took a look, only to find that they were all shouting with their mouths open, and because they were too far away, they couldn't hear the sound at all.

"It should be that boat asking for help. Let's get closer and take a look."

"Then they should have a radio station where they can call for help?"

"I don't know. Maybe something happened. Let's go and take a look."

He turned the fishing boat around and moved closer to the fishing boat drifting on the sea.

After getting closer, he also saw people on the fishing boat opposite waving happily.

Maybe something really happened, so I was really calling just now.

He stopped the ship only after he got close. The workers on the deck were already shouting to each other from a distance.

"Brother Dong, he said that their communication station was broken. I don't know if it was burned out due to the thunderstorm. I wanted to return directly, but halfway through the voyage, I seemed to have entered the Bagua array and couldn't move. I had to just follow it.

The waves are flying everywhere.”

"Boss, what is the Bagua array? Is there something wrong with the Feng Shui here?"

"Will we also enter..."

Ye Yaodong twitched the corner of his mouth, "Have you heard too many ghost stories? Since they are floating everywhere, it must not be the reason why they can't move here in the first place."

What did they ask each and every one of them? There was no reliable question.

"But they are calling the Bagua Array there, but from a distance, it's hard to speak clearly, and it's hard to hear clearly."

"It's still raining, and I still don't understand the language..."

"Yes, we still don't understand the language. It's hard for us to speak and hard for us to listen. How about we get closer?"

"Take a bamboo pole and hook it, get closer and ask."

"We are worried about fraud. The dock here is too chaotic. Who knows if this fishing boat is a scammer and is there to trap us."

Ye Yaodong thought about it and thought it made sense. Unexpectedly, everyone made progress.

"Let me ask."

He yelled at the other party, "Comrade, what's your problem?"

"The radio is broken..."

"The propeller...the fishing net underneath is hooked..."

"The propeller...can't move..."

The heavy rain fell in his ears, and the sound of waves and wind could not be heard. Ye Yaodong pricked up his ears and listened carefully for a long time. After identifying it, he roughly understood that these people must have indeed had a problem with their fishing boat.

While they were shouting and communicating, the other party's fishing boat was also swaying with the wind and waves, gradually moving away from them.

He looked at the fishing boat that was pushed further away by the wind and waves, so he had no choice but to sail again, narrow the distance again, and then asked someone to hook the other's boat, and then the two boats slowly came together.

But he was not at ease, so he asked again before he got completely close.

After looking at the fishing nets scattered on the other side's deck, various fishing tools and machinery, and the fish that had not yet been cleaned on the boat, I became convinced and got closer.

"Old comrade, what is the Bagua array you just talked about?"

"It's the fishing net array. The propeller is caught in the fishing net. It can't move and can't go back."

Ye Yaodong listened hard to understand, and couldn't help but complain that the speech was so different in every place, and the old people used to speak Mandarin with dialects, which made him listen for a long time.

"So the propeller got entangled in the fishing net, lost power and couldn't sail, and then your radio broke down again, so it was floating and couldn't go back, right?"

"Yes, yes, that's it. Please help us drag us back. I will definitely thank you."

"How long have you been floating?"

"Yesterday morning there was thunder and lightning, so I went back, but I almost got there halfway and got stuck in a fishing net. I can only float until now."

"Can't we drop anchor? Why are we still drifting with the wind and waves?"

"The anchor slipped and couldn't catch the bottom of the sea, so it could only float."

This explanation was quite reasonable, and most of his doubts were dispelled.

If the seabed is sloping, or is soft mud or sandy, then the anchor will not have enough grip to provide enough friction to keep the ship stable on the sea.

Ye Yao took another look at the size of their fishing boat and felt that his own boat was too difficult to pull. The opponent's boat was also 278 meters long and could bear a hundred tons of weight.

"Wait a minute, your boat is so big, I might not be able to pull it. I'll help you find a rescue boat."

"Okay, okay...it's troublesome..."

He asked his younger brothers to watch here first, keep hooking, and keep a distance while he went to the cockpit to contact rescue.

Fortunately, they had already returned more than half the way, and it was only more than an hour's flight from the shore.

After contacting the rescue ship, they stayed at sea to help and wait.

Without them watching here, the boat would have been knocked out of position by the waves again, and I wouldn't know where to look for it.

As the sky gradually darkened, the rain also slowly slowed down.

"Brother Dong, you've been waiting for two hours, it's already dark, why haven't you come yet?"

"It's so hard to wait. Should we go back first?"

"What's the rush? Since we've encountered it, we should get off, so just wait. It's already dark, and if their boat is just drifting around with the wind and waves, it will be very dangerous. Who knows when the wind and waves will get bigger?

Already."
To be continued...