1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Many fishermen really don’t understand international distress signals. Most of the time they just wave their clothes. If they are closer, they all rely on shouting.

Comrade Xiao Xu said this, Li Duoyu also saw the signal, three short, three long and three short, it is indeed the international rescue signal, that is, SOS.

But the signal only flashed for a while, and the light became darker and darker. It looked like the flashlight was out of power. Li Duoyu, who saw the signal, stopped the fishing boat.

 Director Liu from Coast Guard also came over and asked Li Duoyu some questions.

“Director Li, I heard from Captain Zhang that when you contacted the Matsu Island shore station, the other party said that the fishing boat had been lost for a long time, right?”

 Li Duoyu nodded: "Yes."

Liu Zhifeng frowned. The task given to him by his superiors was to find living people, and now he was roughly sure of it.

Those people on Dongjia Reef should be the missing fishermen of Mazu Island. This time, Shangfeng Town, including the entire Lianjiang County, did a very good job in wind and typhoon prevention, and there were no missing fishing boats.

 Coupled with the fact that the other party will send an international rescue signal, there is a high probability of it.

If it is true as Li Duoyu said, the other party has been out of contact for a long time, then for them, the danger will be much greater if the rescue is one day late.

For them, obeying orders is their bounden duty. Liu Zhifeng asked: "Director Li, can you be our guide and let us go to the reef for rescue?"

Li Duoyu frowned.

"now?"

 Liu Zhifeng said firmly: "Yes."

Li Duoyu hesitated for a moment, refused decisively, and looked at his watch: "Director Liu, the water level is very low now, and there are still eight hours until the next high tide. I also have a family, and I can't do it because of them." If they are from overseas provinces, we will risk their lives to save them.”

Hearing such an answer, it was expected. Liu Zhifeng tried to ask: "If we use your sampan to board the reef, what do you think the probability of success is."

Li Duoyu asked: "Are you familiar with this area?"

  “Not very familiar.”

Li Duoyu said very seriously: "Then your probability of success is only zero. If you forcefully board the reef in order to carry out the mission, then you can only soak in the sea water and wait for me to fish you out tomorrow."

When Li Duoyu said it, he emphasized the word "Lao" very hard, and Liu Zhifeng also understood what it meant.

 “Okay, we understand.”

Li Duoyu then asked: "Director Liu, do you want to continue to stay here, or go to our island first?"

 Liu Zhifeng struggled for a while.

 “Let’s go to your island first.”

 Liu Zhifeng didn't want to do this, but in the face of orders, he could only do his best. This was his duty.

The relationship with the overseas provinces has eased in the past two years, and the organizations on both sides have even begun dialogue. There are also many associations privately working together.

And he also heard that there are many veterans in the overseas provinces often marching and shouting to go home, and it is very likely that the two sides will be able to open navigation next year.

 In this context, when they heard that fishermen from overseas provinces had disappeared in their area, some leaders wanted to make this matter a success.

When leaving, Li Duoyu turned on several sets of lights in the direction of the bonfire to see if the other party knew about international rescue.

They should know that they have been discovered. Li Duoyu can only pray that the other party will have enough supplies to come to their rescue.

By the time the fishing boat returned to the dock, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Chen Jianghe had actually heard the news and had been waiting at the dock early.

What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that Liu Zhifeng and Chen Jianghe were also acquaintances, and they started chatting when they met.

Li Duoyu has been around for a long time, and his body has already been unable to bear it, so he stopped receiving them and handed them over to Company Commander Zhang and Party Secretary Chen.

　　Li Duoyu returned home and was so tired that he fell asleep on the sofa. In the middle of the night, he seemed to feel someone covering him with a quilt.

Although he was very tired, Li Duoyu woke up at almost four o'clock in the morning. After taking a few sips of warm water, he planned to go out.

And Zhou Xiaoying heard the swishing sound, walked down from the bedroom on the second floor with a flashlight, and asked softly: "What time is it, where are you going?"

Li Duoyu replied truthfully: "The fishermen from Matsu may be at Dongjia Reef. The tide has almost risen now. I'll go and see what's going on."

Hearing that he was going to Dongjia Reef again, Zhou Xiaoying frowned: "Didn't you drag the boat back last night? Why are you going out now?"

“Those missing Matsu fishermen are most likely on Tung Kia Reef. When the tide rises in the morning, we plan to go to Tung Kia Reef to have a look.”

Zhou Xiaoying’s brows furrowed even more tightly. After a moment of silence, she suddenly said, “Why don’t you stop being the village director?”

Li Duoyu sighed: "You think it's inappropriate, so they don't call me."

 Actually, Li Duoyu had thought before that he might as well stop being the village director, but later he discovered that it didn’t make much difference whether he was the village director or not. If something really happened, he would still come to you.

 After all, in this era, there are probably not many people who can freely enter and exit Dongjia Reef in this sea area.

　Most of the time, people are unable to help themselves. In the previous life, Li Duoyu was either worried about food and clothing or mortgage payments.

　　I completely don’t understand what “people can’t help but do when they are in the world”. Now that I have entered this circle, I finally understand a little bit.

 As long as you are in this network of relationships, there will be a pair of invisible hands pushing you forward.

People who haven’t reached that level really don’t understand, but Li Duoyu has just started and can already feel it.

 The relationship is so subtle. At present, the village director seems to be his identity, although his Minlong Food does better and makes more money.

 The amazing thing is that everyone seems to prefer calling him Director Li, and no one calls him Boss Li or anything like that.

 And Li Duoyu can also feel that when the other person calls him Director Li, he really thinks of him as someone in the same circle.

If he is not appropriate, the relationship with the big leader is very likely to be severed. Li Duoyu knows very well that the leader values ​​his identity as a leader in getting rich, not the person himself.

 Li Duoyu said softly: "Go to bed quickly."

 Zhou Xiaoying puffed out her cheeks: “Can’t sleep.”

 “He’s gone.”

When Li Duoyu came to the pier with a flashlight, he found that there were quite a lot of people. It was only one day after the typhoon and the fishermen started fishing again.

 After all, during the period after a typhoon, there will be an especially large number of big fish in the offshore. It is not unreasonable that the bigger the storm is, the more expensive the fish will be.

 After a typhoon, the ocean currents will change, and fish schools prefer to gather. If you go fishing at this time, once the fish are caught in the net, there will be a whole school.

There are also typhoons that stir up water bodies and bottom organisms will rise. When the time comes, those big fish will also rise in order to hunt for food.

 In short, the period after the typhoon is definitely a good time for fishing. If you are lucky, you can catch fish species that you cannot usually catch.

Lao Yang Restaurant also opened early, but there were so many people in uniform sitting inside that the local fishermen did not dare to go in to eat. After Li Duoyu arrived, Zhang Erhu and Director Liu quickly greeted him: "Duoyu, come here for breakfast."

 Director Liu and the others looked tired. Judging from the situation, they probably didn't have a good rest last night.

 After Li Duoyu came over, he directly ordered a large bowl of porridge, an egg and a fried dough stick.

 They were in a hurry to set off.

Before setting off, Li Duoyu checked the weather. Unexpectedly, the typhoon was still raging the day before yesterday. Early this morning, the weather became calm. The night sky was also very bright, and he could even see a bright Milky Way.

Li Duoyu drove a fishing boat and towed a sampan to Dongjia Reef again.

At the pier, some fishermen couldn't help but started talking when they saw Li Duoyu taking the patrolmen out to sea.

Zhao Xiaoliu, who was helping others to fish, cursed: "Director Li has been shouting that he won't help, and he has gone to sea twice this night."

 Some fishermen said:

 “It’s not like we’ve already found someone, right?”

“I heard from Xiao Chao that the person is probably at Dongjia Reef.”

 “Why is it that ghost place again?”

“Speaking of which, it’s really evil. It’s not like the time has come and he wants to find a scapegoat again. This Liu Mazi has only been gone for a long time.”

“Well, I heard someone said that it was the Zhao brothers who were the first to find them, and they happened to be rescued by Director Li, and that’s how Liu Mazi happened.”

“I think it’s better not to save them. If we really save them, they will definitely find someone next time, and maybe they will be even worse than last time.”

"Let Liu Mazi's family go to Dongjia Reef to perform rituals."

 “Damn it, don’t talk about such horrible things in the middle of the night, okay?”

When they said this, many fishermen couldn't help but shiver down their spines. One fisherman said: "I originally wanted to go fishing nearby, but now I don't dare to go."

By the time Li Duoyu’s fishing boat arrived at Dongjia Reef, the tide had almost risen. It was also safest to go to the island at high tide.

Li Duoyu parked the fishing boat at a safe location, and then, almost until the belly of Dongfang fish turned white, he changed to a small sampan.

As before, Li Duoyu only brought Chen Wenchao with him, but not Director Liu and Company Commander Zhang.

 The two of them were quite familiar with this area, and they quickly avoided the reef below and landed on Dongjia Reef.

Perhaps because of the typhoon we just experienced, the number of seabirds on Dongjia Reef has obviously dropped sharply. There used to be a lot of eggs to pick up, but now there is not even a single one.

Tungjia Reef is only relatively large in the part in the sea, and the part exposed out of the sea is really not particularly big.

If someone is really here, there is no need to think about it. The person must be in the natural air-raid shelter.

Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao went straight to the air-raid shelter. Just as he had guessed, there was a small fire burning slightly there.

 It smells very strong when burned, and it feels like the smell of shit. If you guessed it correctly, they are burning dried bird **** that has accumulated over time.

Li Duoyu did not approach the cave entrance rashly, but shouted from outside: "Luo Shuigan."

Just after shouting twice, there was movement immediately. Two people came out of the cave, one of whom was older and the other was relatively younger.

 The two of them looked very haggard and very thin, but when they saw someone coming to them, they were so excited that their whole bodies were trembling.

The old man’s lips were so dry that they were even bloodshot and trembled: “I am Luo Shuigen.”

Li Duoyu glanced at the two of them and asked, "Are you two the only ones?"

"No, there are four of us, and two are not in good health and are lying inside to rest."

Li Duoyu and Chen Wenchao took a look inside the cave and found that the conditions of the other two people were not very good, and could even be said to be very bad.

The old man said very worriedly: "They are my eldest son and second son-in-law. One has had diarrhea for many days and now has no strength to walk. The other had a recurring fever last night."

Li Duoyu took a quick look and found that one person was indeed still having a fever and was shivering from time to time, while the other one looked severely dehydrated.

The situation of both of them is very bad. Now they don't even have the energy to say hello to Li Duoyu and the others. If it is a day or two later, these two people may not be able to hold on.

Li Duoyu briefly looked around. There was everything on the ground, including oyster shells, fish bones, even bird feathers and egg shells, and even a big turtle shell. It felt like the four of them were on a desert island. Like survival.

 For a native islander, it is no problem to live in a place like Tung Kip Reef for a day or two.

 But as long as it lasts more than five days, there will definitely be a problem, and it will be a big problem.

Li Duoyu used to like watching wilderness survival columns, and the works on "Starving Virtue" were relatively realistic.

 Because in the end of survival in the wilderness, even if there is no shortage of food, your gastrointestinal rate will be the first to have problems.

Human beings are accustomed to eating cooked food. If food is not cooked and eaten casually, it may cause gastroenteritis, especially if it is something in the wild, which may also carry various viruses and bacteria.

Speaking of which, in the previous life, when Mr. Bei and Hungry Dehuo were fighting, there was really a group of young people who were not afraid of death and came to Tung Kip Reef to play on a deserted island to survive.

 It was only two days before the group was almost wiped out because they ate poisonous textured snails.

 Speaking of this, the eyes of the old man named Luo Shuigan couldn't help but turn red: "To be honest, if you hadn't come, we really wouldn't be able to hold on."

Li Duoyu said: "I found you last night. Even if I gave you a signal, the tide has gone out and we can't get to the island."

 “Thank you so much.

But at this point, Luo Shuigan asked curiously: "Little brother, how do you know my name?"

Li Duoyu replied truthfully: "Your ship just happened to float to our island. I saw a group photo in your captain's diary on the ship, and your name was written on the back."

Luo Shuigen was quite shocked. In fact, their fishing boat had been broken down here for several days. When the typhoon came, the cables and anchors of their fishing boat were immediately broken. He thought that the boat must have been lost, but unexpectedly he ran away. Went to move reinforcements.

Luo Shuigan knelt down and worshiped the sea on the spot: "It's really Mazu who bless me."

 “Thank you Mazu.”

 Next, Li Duoyu helped move the two people to the small sampan boat, and Li Duoyu learned about it after chatting with the old man.

It turned out that they had been trapped here for more than ten days, and they had been asking for help on the island for a long time. I don’t know how much dried bird droppings were burned, but no one found them.

And what devastated Luo Shuigan the most was that not even a fishing boat was seen during this period, which made them even begin to doubt whether they were still in this world.

After hearing this, Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly and could only say that they were very unlucky and happened to catch up with the kelp harvesting period.

The fishing boats in the nearby waters have all gone to collect kelp. Naturally, no fishing boats will come to fish near Dongjia Reef.

If it were any other time period, it would have been discovered long ago, and it would not take so long to survive on a deserted island. (End of chapter)