1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Li Duoyu, who was just about to soak his feet, saw Zhang Erhu hurriedly calling him, so he shouted: "Company Commander Zhang is here and the door is open. You can come in directly."

 When Zhang Erhu came, he was all wet and stood at the door without going into the hall.

Beside him stood a young man in uniform, who was equally wet. After seeing this uniform, Li Duoyu couldn't help but feel scared.

Three or four years ago, public officials wearing this uniform were definitely Li Duoyu’s nightmare. It should be said that they were the most feared and hated by all smugglers.

 The coast guard department did not exist before. It was established just to combat smuggling.

The young man in uniform greeted Li Duoyu immediately after seeing him: "Hello, Director Li, I am Xu Huaishan from the Coast Guard."

Li Duoyu quickly replied: "Hello, Comrade Xu."

Li Duoyu, who had just taken off his Jiefang shoes and was wearing flip-flops, asked with some confusion: "Captain Zhang, what happened to you? Why are you all wet?"

Zhang Erhu said anxiously: "That's right, I reported to my superiors about the search and rescue of Matsu fishermen, and then the Coast Guard sent a ship to search.

But the coast guard ship was not familiar with the area of ​​Tung Kip Reef. When we just arrived at Tung Kip Reef, the propeller seemed to be caught on something, and then it lost power and hit the rocks directly.

I came back on an emergency assault boat. The situation is quite dangerous now. You happen to have experience in rescuing people on Tung Kak Reef. Could you please help me? "

 After hearing this, Li Duoyu was a little speechless. Why did he feel so like Calabash Baby saving his grandpa?

The real owner has not been found yet, and those who are looking for him are also in danger.

Speaking of this cartoon, Li Duoyu remembers that it just started broadcasting this year. If the village gets electricity, Li Haoran and the others should be able to watch this excellent cartoon.

Li Duoyu glanced at his watch, frowned and said, "The tide has only receded halfway now, so it won't be easy to save it now."

Zhang Erhu said anxiously: "Why don't you go over and take a look first? The location where they hit the rocks is very bad. I'm worried that if the tide continues to ebb, the ship may..."

Zhang Erhu didn't say it out loud. After all, it was a big taboo for fishermen, but Li Duoyu understood it as soon as he heard it.

A ship that runs aground on rocks is not afraid of rising tides. What it fears most is that when the tide goes out, the unbalanced force will directly cause the ship to capsize.

Li Duoyu’s face became serious: “How many people are there on the coast guard ship?”

Comrade Xiao Xu on the side replied: "The emergency assault boat can only hold two people. Only Company Commander Zhang and I came back first. Now there are four people on the coast patrol boat."

Li Duoyu couldn't help but rub his temples. There were really too many things about the typhoon this time. To be honest, he was really tired.

He was just joking with Zhou Xiaoying just now. Now even if he turns on full automatic, Li Duoyu doesn't have the energy anymore.

Li Duoyu finally discovered it. Almost every time something happens in this sea area, after all, it is right at Dongjia Reef.

This place really needs to be publicized. Ships that are not familiar with this sea area really should not go here.

 Put a few more no-navigation buoys there to remind passing ships to go around.

But if he went to Dongjia Reef for rescue, he would not dare to go there alone, let alone at night.

Li Duoyu thought for a while and said: "Captain Zhang, go find Chen Wenchao first. If he is free, I will go with you."

"good."

Zhang Erhu was very excited when he heard this. If Li Duoyu could say such a thing, it meant he agreed.

 Chen Wenchao was his subordinate, and the boss asked him if he wanted to go.

 Would he not go?

 Speaking of which, he was the one who hired this cruise ship. Unfortunately, he was not familiar with the Tung Kip Reef. He had just led the patrol ship into that area and ran aground directly on the rocks, which made him feel a little guilty.

If he had come to Li Duoyu directly from the beginning, he would have been rescued by now.

 “I’ll go find Xiao Chao right now.”

As soon as Company Commander Zhang left, Li Duoyu took off his flip-flops and prepared to put on another pair of dry Jiefang shoes.

After Zhou Xiaoying saw it, she couldn't help but sigh, and her tone was a little tough: "First soak your feet, then drink the hot soup I made for you, and then go out to do things."

Li Duoyu chuckled: "I thought you wouldn't let me go out?"

 Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him: "If I don't let you go out, you will be obedient and not go out."

 Li Duoyu smiled.

 Zhou Xiaoying sighed helplessly and said: "Pay attention to safety, and when doing things, think more about me and Tutu."

“That’s for sure, do I look like the kind of person who takes life for granted? If I’m really in danger, I’ll run faster than anyone else.”

“It’s good to know that others have families, and you also have a family, so soak your feet first.”

Zhou Xiaoying did not object to Li Duoyu's rescue of people. On the contrary, she quite supported it. But when she thought that he was also in danger, she felt particularly resistant.

Li Duoyu simply soaked his feet and drank a bowl of hot soup brought by Zhou Xiaoying, and Chen Wenchao rushed to their house.

The four people took Li Duoyu’s fishing boat and towed a sampan with a diesel engine to Dongjia Reef.

 At the same time, Zhou Xiaoying carried the sacred basket to the Tianhou Palace to pay homage and pray to Mazu for their safety and success.

 In the past, Zhou Xiaoying didn't understand why A Niang always liked to pray and was so pious. Now she finally understood that it would be really difficult for the people on the shore to have no spiritual sustenance.

 …

After driving for almost half an hour, Li Duoyu arrived at the scene of the accident. From a distance, he could see a tin boat with its lights on.

He also sent a distress signal to his fishing boat, and Li Duoyu simply responded with a signal.

Considering that the coast patrol vessel seemed to have become entangled with something and lost power before running aground on the rocks, Li Duoyu asked again: "Comrade, did your coast patrol vessel lose power before running aground on the rocks?"

Xu Huaishan replied: "Yes, it felt like the propeller caught something, and then it was pushed to the rocks by the waves out of control."

 If this is the case, Li Duoyu would not dare to approach rashly even if he was familiar with Dongjia Reef.

 Instead, Chen Wenchao and Captain Zhang were first asked to go to the small sampan boat, and then they took a bamboo pole with a hook and stretched it into the sea to explore the way.

 The result was just as he had guessed, there was indeed something unclean in the nearby sea.

The sampan boat had not moved forward for a while, but Chen Wenchao’s bamboo pole stretched out into the sea was bent very much like a medium-sized fish.

Chen Wenchao quickly shouted: "Brother Yu, don't come over, my bamboo pole has caught something and it feels very heavy."

After hearing the sound, Li Duoyu immediately stopped the boat. At this time, Chen Wenchao also used force to pull the hooked thing out of the water. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a ball of kelp rope rolled together.

 After seeing this thing, the corner of Li Duoyu's mouth twitched. He saw that there were broken kelp hanging on the kelp rope, and he had roughly guessed where these kelp ropes came from.

Just when Chen Wenchao pulled up a kelp rope dozens of meters long, Company Commander Zhang on the side also hooked one. With so many kelp ropes, it’s no wonder that the propeller of the coast patrol ship was stuck directly after passing here.

Captain Zhang, who was pulling the kelp rope, couldn't help but cursed: "The people in Shangqi Village really succeed more than they succeed. They are collecting kelp, but if they don't collect it properly, the pile of kelp rope left in the sea is simply Disaster."

Company Commander Zhang was indeed right. After the typhoon, at least three fishing boats out in the nearby waters were caught by the kelp ropes in Shangqi Village.

Those boat bosses who were caught by the kelp ropes did not know how many times they greeted Shangqi Village that day.

After spending half an hour clearing the kelp ropes on the way forward, Li Duoyu came to the coast guard ship.

It is a coast patrol boat more than ten meters long and painted in white. To be honest, the coast patrol boat is a bit shabby, even worse than the fishing boat Li Duoyu.

The tide is low now, and Li Duoyu doesn’t dare to drive the fishing boat too close, under the illumination of the fishing boat’s searchlight.

Li Duoyu found that the current situation of this coast guard ship was really not very optimistic.

Since the bow of the boat hit the rocks first, the fishing boat is now at a 45-degree angle, and water seems to have entered the stern.

 You can see people on the boat constantly scooping water out. If the tide continues to recede, the boat will inevitably capsize.

Li Duoyu’s fishing boat anchored about fifty meters away from the coast guard ship.

Then they drove a small sampan, brought a four-centimeter-thick cable to the coast patrol ship, and threw one end of the cable directly to them.

“You have tied the rope to the strongest part of the stern, and now I can only force it out for you.”

After they were tied up, Li Duoyu said: "Just leave one person on the boat who can sail, and the rest will go to my boat."

Li Duoyu cannot guarantee whether the fishing boat will tilt at an angle when being towed.

After getting this group of comrades onto the fishing boat, Li Duoyu found that they were all soaked to the skin.

Possibly because they kept scooping water, several comrades came to the fishing boat and slumped down on the deck of the boat.

What surprised Li Duoyu was that he actually saw an old acquaintance among these comrades.

The middle-aged man who was one round older than him couldn't help but sigh with emotion after seeing Li Duoyu: "Duoyu, I haven't seen you for a long time. I didn't expect that one day I would be saved by you."

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly.

 “Hello, Director Liu.”

 In fact, they were quite familiar with the patrols who caught smugglers back then. The more active smugglers in the town were all listed on these patrols.

 The only thing left was to catch them at sea, and the names of Li Duoyu and Zhang Agui were on their arrest list.

After everything was ready, the fishing boat slowly retreated, preparing to start tugging. Just when the cable was about to be stretched, Li Duoyu asked everyone to evacuate the deck of the boat and hung a piece of cloth on the stretched cable.

The coast patrol boat that often rescues people did not expect that Li Duoyu was so professional. A comrade in their department was once hit by a broken cable, and several ribs were directly broken.

As the cable was straightened, the coast patrol vessel was slowly towed. Even at a distance of fifty or sixty meters, everyone could still clearly hear the harsh metal friction sound of the coast patrol vessel rubbing against the rocks.

 But when it is pulled back, the entire hull of the coast patrol ship presents a sixty-degree angle.

This sudden situation made everyone’s hearts pick up in their throats.

Coast patrol boats are specially designed, just like Li Duoyu’s fishing boats. The bows are relatively light, and the heaviest part of the body is the stern.

 It would indeed be irrational to start pulling from the stern, but there is no better way at the moment.

Li Duoyu could only grit his teeth, push the throttle of the fishing boat to the bottom, and drag the fishing boat off the reef as quickly as possible.

As long as the speed is fast enough, Li Duoyu can pull the coast patrol vessel out of the reef before the fishing boat capsizes.

As the fishing boats accompanying Li Duoyu emitted black smoke, the coast patrol boat that was about to capsize was successfully towed from the reef.

Now that the entire ship has floated without contacting the rocks, the comrades on patrol applauded Li Duoyu on the spot:

 “Awesome, really awesome.”

 “Thank you very much.”

 If it had been them just now, they really wouldn't have been as decisive as Li Duoyu.

Li Duoyu towed the coast patrol boat to a safe place. Director Liu and the others immediately boarded the coast patrol boat and anchored on the spot to check whether there was any water leakage in the hull.

 “Very good, no leaks.”

Although there was no water leakage, the iron boat was pulled down like this and had to be returned to the factory for repairs.

At present, the propeller of the coast patrol ship is still hung with a lot of kelp ropes. The engine can be started, but the propeller cannot turn at all.

Two comrades also tried to tie ropes and dive down to cut the kelp ropes, but they both failed.

 Chen Wenchao originally wanted to dive down to help cut, but if he did it, the probability of success would indeed increase a lot.

But Li Duoyu stopped him. After all, there are too many turbulences in places like Dongjia Reef, so there is no need to take this risk.

 Just tow their patrol boat back to Dandan Island, wait until daybreak, and then just use a long knife to cut it.

 Besides, he was tired enough today and really didn’t want to cause any more trouble.

While chatting with Director Liu, Li Duoyu learned that the reason why the coast patrol ship came to Dongjia Reef was because smoke was found on Dongjia Reef.

I just wanted to search and see if any of the fishermen from Matsu were up there.

This time, the superiors took the rescue mission very seriously, and even called them directly to tell them that they would do their best to help find the missing fishermen in Matsu.

 When he said this, Liu Zhifeng sighed helplessly: "We haven't found anyone, so we have to bother Director Li to come and rescue us."

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "That's right. When we have difficulties at sea, everyone helps each other. You usually save our fishing boats."

 But just when Li Duoyu was about to pull the coast patrol boat back, a comrade from the coast patrol saw a red light on Dongjia Reef.

At the same time, there was a weak light flashing at them. The comrade named Xu Huaishan looked at the light for a few times, and his face became serious.

 Three short, three long and three short.

“Director Liu, the other party is sending an internationally accepted distress signal.”

 After hearing this, everyone looked at each other in shock. The local fishermen most likely did not understand the international distress signal. (End of chapter)