SWNOVELXO Chapter 141
"Ayang, how did you get here?" He Xijun asked after resting for a while with her hands on her hips. "It was raining a lot and the yard was flooded. I asked you to check if the flower seeds I just planted were useless and if they needed to be replanted. I also wanted to see if you need any help." "Okay, let's go to your house now?" He Xijun said and was about to go out. Chu Yang said, "Don't worry. I see that your pig pen hasn't been repaired yet. I'll help you fix it first. It won't be too late to go later." He Xijun's pig pen was built in the corner of the backyard, with two walls made of red bricks and a shed made of colored steel tiles on the top. It was windy yesterday and a big gap was blown out of the colored steel tile shed, so it had to be removed and replaced with a new one. It wasn't difficult, but you had to climb up and down, and the roof was quite high. He Xijun is a typical southern girl, only 1.6 meters tall, so she is a little incapable of doing this.
"How can I be embarrassed about that?"
"What's there to be embarrassed about? At most, you can treat me to a drink some other day. Sister He, you won't be reluctant to have a drink." Chu Yang laughed and teased.
"That can't be done. Sister He can still afford a drink."
After that, He Xijun stopped being pretentious and cooperated with Chu Yang, and the two of them started working together.
It is said that men and women work together and work is not tiring.
With the concerted efforts of the two, the new tiles were soon laid.
In order to prevent it from being blown away by the wind again, Chu Yang also specially used iron wire to tie it to the wooden pillar.
After finishing this one, there is another one.
He Xijun took the flower seeds, and the two returned to Chu Yang's yard and continued to work.
After replenishing the flower seeds, Chu Yang asked He Xijun to have dinner at home, but this time she said she would not agree, and left the yard without looking back with the kelp.
After the guests left, the brother and sister had a casual dinner. Each of them fried two sea fishes and paired them with pickled cabbage. It was a delicious meal.
"Brother, do you want to eat?"
After cleaning up the dishes, Chu Xi washed two yellow raw tomatoes with a little green on the bottom and handed one to him.
Chu Yang took it and took a bite.
"Hiss..."
A mask of pain suddenly appeared on his face.
"Where did this come from? Why is it so sour?"
"Grandma Sun gave it to us. The wind yesterday blew over the tomato trees she planted, and she gave us a lot."
Chu Xi was not afraid of the sourness, and he was clacking like a hamster.
"No wonder."
Chu Yang stuffed the bitten tomato into Chu Xi's hand and went out for a walk.
In the evening, the signal on the island finally returned to normal. Not only can we make calls, but we can also surf the Internet.
Chu Yang opened Baidu to check what the smelly rocks he saw during the day were.
As a result, when he opened the website, all the news reports about yesterday's storm:
"Yesterday afternoon, Typhoon Butterfly crossed the Wanzai Pier Channel..."
"Affected by the typhoon, Putian, Quancheng, Chaoshan and other areas experienced short-term heavy rainfall, with the maximum wind speed reaching level nine..."
"Li**, deputy commander-in-chief of the State Flood Control Headquarters and director of the Metropolitan Water Conservancy Supervision (Water Conservancy), requires that we pay close attention to the development of the typhoon, implement targeted measures to prevent rainstorms and floods, and organize post-disaster rescue in a timely manner..."
"[Build barriers to face dangers and unite as one to resist wind and rain] China News Service, Quanzhou, August 8th...From investigating hidden dangers and resettlement to emergency rescue, many places in Fujian Province were busy and orderly, united to fight against the typhoon attack, and wrote a thrilling record of the typhoon prevention and resistance campaign."
Chu Yang then realized that yesterday's typhoon had just passed by Kinmen, 50 kilometers away, no wonder there was such a big noise.
And it was not the eight-level gale he imagined, but a nine-level gale.
Quancheng was not the worst affected. The worst hit was Ludao. Many billboards and telephone poles were blown down. The economic losses were at least hundreds of millions, and there were missing people.
"The island is still not safe. This time it just brushed past. What if it lands here directly next time?"
Chu Yang felt more and more anxious. Maybe he should really buy a house in the city.
At least in the future, when a typhoon hits, he can hide in the city in advance, so as not to be blown into a mess on the island.
After reading the news, Chu Yang asked Baidu and Tieba (Baidu Tieba was launched in 2003 and was very popular in 2007). Finally, under the guidance of a group of Internet masters, he finally came to a conclusion.
That smelly stone might be the legendary "ambergris".
In order to verify the authenticity, Chu Yang actually scraped a little with a knife and put it on a lighter to roast.
Don't tell me, this thing smells so bad when it's wet, but it smells really good after being burned, with a hint of sweetness. Chu Yang thinks the specific smell is a bit like lychee wood.
His favorite food in his previous life wasCrispy roast duck is grilled with litchi wood charcoal, so it tastes very familiar.
"Is it really ambergris?"
Chu Yang checked the price of ambergris on the Internet again, and found a variety of things, ranging from three to five hundred to tens of thousands per gram.
"Fuck, it's so expensive."
Even if it is calculated based on the cheapest three hundred per gram, the scraped point just now is at least three to five grams, isn't that thousands of yuan?
Chu Yang now wants to slap his hand, let you itch.
Now, a 998 Thai massage set meal was burned to ashes.
However, Chu Yang is not sure whether it is real ambergris, so he can only seek help from professionals when the time comes.
And the most professional person he knows is Professor Zhu.
Zhu Ming: ... Is it my turn to come on stage?
The night after the typhoon was calm.
Looking out through the window, you can see the stars hanging in the night sky, shining like diamonds on a black evening dress.
Such a quiet night is perfect for sleeping, so Chu Yang slept until dawn.
When he got up, the sun was already halfway up.
Fortunately, there was no rush today, so it was okay.
"Brother, do you think I can wear this dress?"
Because she had to go to the city today, Chu Xi changed into her newly bought skirt early, a white puffy skirt, and a goose yellow lapel sweater on the upper body, which looked a bit ladylike.
"Yes, it looks good, just like a little princess." Chu Yang smiled and stroked her head.
"Well~ it's just a little dark, like an Indonesian little princess~." He added in his heart.
Chu Xi was praised by the brother, and she was so happy that two dimples appeared on her cheeks.
Of course, he didn't know the words that Chu Yang didn't say, otherwise she could show her two little tiger teeth and let the brother know what pain is.
Chu Yang came out with a bowl of millet porridge, and saw Sun Qingjun was already busy in the yard.
He squatted by the fish pond with a quilt in front of him.
In front of him, there were five foam boxes lined up in a row, four of which were covered and only one was still open.
Chu Yang saw that they were filled with ice cubes.
After a while, Sun Qingjun opened the quilt, and inside was a yellow croaker that had just been suffocated to death, golden and shining in the sun.
"Tsk tsk tsk, it's really inhumane." Chu Yang said with a smile while drinking porridge.
Sun Qingjun ignored him and lowered his head to stuff the yellow croaker into the foam box.
When Chu Yang finished eating and changed into clean clothes, Sun Qingjun had just loaded the yellow croaker into the car, and then the three of them set off together.