Chapter 810: Natural Disasters

When they heard the knock on the door, it was accurately said that it was a knock on the door. At first, Xiao Liuying and grandma thought it was blown by the wind, but after listening carefully, it was not, because someone was calling them outside.

Grandma asked Xiao Liuying to wait on the bed, and opened the door by wading through the knee-high water.

As soon as the door was opened, deeper water poured in, almost knocking grandma down, but fortunately a strong arm supported her.

It was Liu Ying's parents who came back in the pouring rain without even opening an umbrella, because it was meaningless to open an umbrella.

They didn't say much, just said a short two words transfer.

Grandma didn't ask any more questions, and immediately handed them the valuables that had been waterproofed, and went to lead Xiao Liuying by herself.

Mother waded into the house, brought commonly used medicines, and emergency food such as instant noodles.

"What about the clownfish?" Xiao Liuying asked as she looked back at the fish tank while being carried on her father's back.

The candle was blown out after opening the door, and the fish tank was so dark that nothing could be seen clearly.

But no one answered her, and now no one cares about the clownfish.

The mother's flashlight was shaking, and when she glanced over the fish tank occasionally, something flickered in the fish tank, and Xiao Liuying felt that it was the eyes of the clownfish, staring at her.

As soon as she went out, she was completely chilled by the storm. The heat accumulated in her body hadn't dissipated yet, and she was very uncomfortable with the cold on the outside and hot on the inside.

All the villagers are moving with their families, to high places, and to safe places.

There are no roads in the village, and there are rivers as far as the eye can see, and the water can almost reach the thighs of adults.

There are all kinds of debris in the muddy water, including dead poultry, broken trees floating on the water, and even small boats moving. The boatman uses his oars to avoid obstacles in the water, sitting on the boat with dull eyes family.

At this time, grandma hadn't forgotten to lock the door, fearing that the house would be burglarized after the water receded, so she moved all the household appliances away.

On the traffic arteries, the village cadres organized the villagers to transfer with a hoarse voice.

The nearby garrison had also arrived, driving the speedboat to evacuate the villagers, and dark green figures were swaying everywhere.

Xiao Liuying's father drove the speedboat from the fishing ground,

She didn't like to take this speedboat because the smell of rotten fish and rotten shrimp was so strong that she could smell it even in the pouring rain.

"The clownfish is still at home." She said it again after getting on the speedboat, and the cold rainwater poured into her mouth as soon as she opened her mouth.

Perhaps it was because the sound of the rain was too loud, and the loudspeaker of the village cadres was too loud, and the parents didn't seem to hear her question, or maybe they heard it and felt that there was no need to answer it.

Grandma held up an umbrella with her skinny hands to cover Xiao Liuying from the heavy rain, but it was only heavy rain outside and light rain inside the umbrella.

"It's okay, grandma will buy it for you later." Grandma said, as if she had sentenced the clownfish to death.

Her father launched the speedboat and took the family out of the village. Xiao Liuying kept staring at the family house until she could no longer see it.

After the typhoon, the accumulated water in the village receded within a day or two, and it took another two or three days to clear the trees and debris blocking the road, including burning and burying the dead poultry and livestock everywhere to avoid spreading the plague.

The family and other villagers lived in disaster relief tents for several days before returning to their former home.

Some villagers' houses were washed away, so they could only continue to live in disaster relief tents, waiting for the village committee to build temporary housing.

The house of Xiao Liuying's family is still relatively strong, and it survived the typhoon safely, but it left a circle of obvious watermarks on the wall, showing where the highest water level once reached.

The fish tank was out of place, lying quietly on the ground, but intact.

Because the highest point of the water level has passed the center of gravity of the fish tank, the fish tank drifted away from its original position.

Not only the fish tank, but almost none of the cabinets, tables, beds, furniture, etc. are still in place, as if a grand party was held when the owner was not at home.

There is still more than half of the water in the fish tank, which is very cloudy and moss has grown.

Xiao Liuying used fish to scoop it up many times, but there were neither clownfish nor sea anemones in the fish tank, not even their dead bodies.

"They have already swam back to the sea along the water." Grandma smiled on her wrinkled face, "It's the Dragon King who came to pick them up."

Grandma is comforting her, telling her not to be sad.

Xiao Liuying believed it was true, but she still wanted to cry, because the clownfish was her partner, and she saved them from death, even the Dragon Lord had no right to take them away.

In fact, somewhere in her heart, she felt that the clown fish should be dead. All the poultry and livestock in the village died in the typhoon, and many fish bigger than them died, floating on the water with their bellies turned upside down. How could they survive? down?

The following days were very busy, and every household was rebuilding their homes and trying their best to make up for the losses caused by the typhoon.

When she was free for a while, grandma wanted to buy two more clownfish for Xiao Liuying, but she refused.

She remembered how helpless she was at that time, and she couldn't protect the clownfish. Even if she bought another clownfish, they would still leave her when the next typhoon came.

The parents' fishing ground suffered heavy losses in the typhoon. Together, the two decided to sell the fishing ground and change their careers.

At the end of the summer, she left the small fishing village with her parents and went to a nearby city to seek refuge with relatives, where she went to elementary school by the way.

Grandma was reluctant to leave her hometown for many years, and stayed in the small fishing village, nominally guarding the ancestral house. After hearing that Xiao Liuying left, she played mahjong again.

After Xiao Liuying went to elementary school, she knew that the clownfish were probably dead, because the rainwater and stagnant water are fresh water, and even if they escaped from the fish tank at the last moment, they could not swim back to the sea safely.

She also went back occasionally during the winter and summer vacations, but she became a little strange to her grandma, and those short and happy days are gone forever.

Later, grandma died of illness.

After burying her grandma, her parents sold the old house in the village and bid farewell to the past, and Xiao Liuying never returned to that small fishing village.

On that windy and stormy typhoon day, I sat on the bed with my grandma raising my feet, watching the stagnant water rising continuously, and the dark fish tank, as well as the faint reflection in the fish tank before I left, but it was like a never-fading It was firmly imprinted in her mind like a film.

After Liu Ying finished speaking, she was still immersed in the past.

In the beginning, everyone would interject a few words, and Qin An, who was carrying the camera, would even make fun of her, but then they all listened quietly to her narration.

In the dimly lit aquarium, looking at the white-filmed clownfish in the quarantine tank, everyone seems to have returned to more than 20 years ago, and carefully experienced Xiao Liuying's helpless mood at that time. In the face of the disaster, only she cares about the partners in the fish tank.