Chapter 42: Ti Bei

It was drizzling in the sky, dark clouds were covered with darkness, and the sea in the distance was dark and revealed that it was unknown.

Xue Song walked on the beach wearing a straw raincoat and a straw hat. After crossing the mountain, he walked for two days before he arrived at the beach. Not far ahead, there was a relatively large port where he could take a boat back to the East Country.

"Jiji...Jijiji..." A faint bird cry came, and Xue Song looked around the empty beach and felt a little strange.

"Where did it come from? Under your feet?" Xue Song carefully identified the source of the sound. He found that the sound came from among the shells scattered on the beach. He lowered his body and picked up a piece and looked at it.

A creature that looked like a bird shrank into the shell, and its small beak pecked at Xue Song's fingers. Seeing that Xue Song didn't respond, he hid deeper into the shell.

"This is 'Chebei'? Wouldn't that mean..."

Xue Song recognized the creature in the shell and put it back on the ground. This is a insect that only lives on the sea. It is white all over, looks like a sparrow, and its tail is indeed like bean sprouts. There is only one situation where they will come to the shore, that is, they sense that the disaster in the sea is about to happen.

Looking at the squeaking beads shrank in the shells around him, Xue Song couldn't help but feel a little headache. In this way, he would not be able to go out to sea soon. Because he didn't know what kind of disaster would happen, he looked at the small fishing village not far away and rushed there.

When he arrived at the fishing village, the weather had already begun to clear up, as if the rain clouds just now had never existed.

Xue Song put away his hat and stood on the cliff and looked at the sea. There was a group of people busying near the sea. There was a fenced fishing ground around him, which should be the farmers in the village.

"Pu, pu..." There was a sound of footsteps behind him. A little girl walked over with a bamboo basket on her head. Xue Song looked back and found that there was a family living on the edge of the cliff.

A man dressed in a fisherman was watching the little girl walk towards the village.

"May I ask, can I say a few words?" Xue Song shouted to the middle-aged man.

"Who are you?"

The middle-aged man then noticed Xue Song. He asked as he looked at Xue Song's weird appearance.

"The passing insect master, there are bad omens in the sea here. I think it's better to notify you." Xue Song said, looking at the rolling sea surface.

"A bad omen?" The middle-aged man was very confused.

"Well, it's a bad omen. I don't know what will happen now, but disasters will definitely happen in the near future. Finally, I inform the whole village to be prepared." Xue Song nodded.

"I protect my own life. The village is a village and has nothing to do with me." Sakichi turned his head and said indifferently.

"Well, the relationship with the village is not very good." Xue Song scratched his chin and thought, suddenly he saw the man walking down the cliff in panic, where several little girls gathered around.

Mina walked home with the food exchanged from the village. She looked at the empty beach and was a little moved.

My father didn't like her to communicate with the people in the village. When she saw other children in the village playing by the beach, she always hid. She would only come to the beach to step on the water and pick up shells when there was no one in the afternoon.

Yesterday, when she was picking up shells by the beach, she met a gentle sister, who was the daughter of the village ship owner, named Shima. Shima took her to find many beautiful shells and taught her to listen to the sound of the sea from the shells.

Putting the food aside in a clean place, Mina rolled up her pants and stepped on it in the water.

Walking barefoot on the beach, the bright shells were shining brightly in the sun, emitting an attractive light. Mina gently picked up one and put it in the palm of her palm.

"So beautiful, will there be a sound of waves?" She raised the shell and looked at the sun for a while, and then put it in her ears excitedly.

"Jiji..."

The bird's cry came into Mina's ears, which made her a little surprised. Why are there bird's crying in the shell?

Suddenly, a dizziness came, making Mina unable to control her body and sit aside.

"Minai, Mina..." When Shima and two friends came to play on the beach, she suddenly saw Mina sitting alone on the ground. She didn't know what was going on and couldn't wake up, so she kept shaking Mina's body, wanting to wake up.

"What's wrong with you? Jing was dazed, is it okay?" Mina looked at Shima, who looked worried in front of her and returned to her senses.

"I just..." She wanted to tell Shima about the sound of the birds in the shell just now, but found that there was no sound and she couldn't make a sound. She opened her mouth wide and was a little panicked, dancing and trying to express something.

"Do you want me to take you home?" Shima asked with concern as he looked at the little panicked friend.

Mina wanted to explain something, but she couldn't make any sound.

Xue Song followed the panicked man to the beach.

"What are you doing? When you go back, why are you just disobedient?" Sakito stretched out his hand and pulled the little girl and walked back. "And he even talked to the girl, and he said he was not allowed to talk to the girl anymore!"

Shima stood there as she listened to Mina's father's voice coming from the wind, while Mina kept opening her mouth to say something, but she couldn't make a sound. She was so anxious that she kept crying.

"Have you heard the cry of Beike?" Xue Song asked. The little girl's symptoms seemed to be affected by the crying Bei. Sagi turned around in surprise. He was still wondering why the child kept not talking.

Mina touched her neck and looked at Xue Song and nodded, tears still hanging on her eyes.

Several people returned to Saki's house.

"It is said that the cry of shells is actually the insects living in it. This insect is called the medieval bird or the crow. It usually lives on the sea. Once you notice an abnormality on the sea, you will come to the shore and hide in the shells and wait for the disaster to pass."

Xue Song sat at the door and explained to the father and daughter,

"And they will make a faint bird cry, calling their companions to come to the land. If they hear their cries in their ears, people will forget how to make a sound, but don't worry, as long as they listen to people's words every day, they will soon remember them."

"Is that true..." Hearing Xue Song's words, the father and daughter let go of their hearts and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I will let you do whatever you want, and I will not spare you..." Listening to Saki's daughter's voice inside, Xue Song stood up, and he had to go to the village to inform him.

"Don't worry about these small things anymore. The problem is a disaster. I'll go to the village and you guys are careful."

"Ah, thank you..." Saji pulled his daughter to the door and wanted Xue Song to thank him.

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The sun was about to set, and the fishermen dragged the boat back to the shore and packed their tools.

"Will disasters happen in the sea? What kind of disasters? Is it a tsunami? Or is it a typhoon coming?"

"All these have happened, so it's better to be prepared!" After Xue Song brought the news, the fishermen discussed it in a slight manner.

"We are always ready every time, and we don't know what will happen every time we go to sea. We always act as careful as possible. Thank you for your advice, but there is nothing special to do." said a tall middle-aged man. He was the ship owner in the village and most of the fishermen were making a living under his hands.

"That's good." Xue Song replied after taking a sip of wine. He was going to investigate again in the evening.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!