sjar Chapter 418 Shipwreck Salvage
Chapter 418 Shipwreck Salvage
"Hey? Yi-yi, what brings you home? Is something the matter?"
When Aunt Li returned with the wooden basin, she happened to see Xu Yiyi preparing to leave.
"It's nothing, I just came to bring you some fruit."
Xu Yiyi pointed to the vegetable basket under the eaves, which was full of oranges.
"You should keep this for your younger brothers! Why are you bringing it here?" Aunt Li grumbled as she stepped forward to return the basket to Xu Yiyi.
But the moment she turned around, Xu Yiyi slipped away.
By the time Aunt Li turned around, the person had already disappeared.
“Mother…Mother…”
Li Xiuying looked pained. Upon hearing Aunt Li's voice, she couldn't hold back any longer and lay on the bed howling incessantly.
"Are you trying to call back the soul so early in the morning?"
Aunt Li put down the tangerines and walked to the east wing.
"Ah... what happened? Did you move around too much? Why are you bleeding so much?"
Aunt Li muttered to herself as she entered the room. The pungent smell of blood was so strong it was almost overwhelming. Her gaze was fixed on the bed, where the glaring crimson had almost soaked through the entire mattress.
"Oh my god! Did you pull your wound out when you got out of bed?"
Aunt Li hurriedly went forward to grab a handkerchief and covered the wound.
"You wait here! I'll go to town and fetch a doctor."
As Aunt Li spoke, she hurriedly ran outside.
Li Xiuying clutched her wound, her face deathly pale, thinking to herself that Xu Yiyi was truly ruthless.
He actually tore open her wound with his bare hands.
The thought that such a large wound would likely leave a scar caused Li Xiuying to faint.
When she returned to Dapo, Xu Yiyi could hear the lively sounds from her home from afar.
With a hint of doubt on her face, she climbed up the slope.
"Yi-Yi is back!"
Someone exclaimed in surprise, and Xu Yi looked up to see several uncles and elders had come into the courtyard.
"Uncle Haisheng?"
Xu Yi looked at everyone with a questioning look in her eyes.
Before she could even open her mouth, Haisheng interrupted, "Yiyi, I know you're a good swimmer. We're going to salvage the ship that sank yesterday, could you come along?"
She paused for a moment. The shipwreck site from yesterday was in the waters near Guling Village, where the current was calm and there was no danger.
"Sure! That just so happens I'm going to go swimming today."
Xu Yiyi agreed without even thinking.
"When do we leave?" she asked calmly.
"I knew you were a righteous girl. Sanchuan has to go to the private school, right? You take the child to town first, and leave a little later."
Hai Sheng's eyes were filled with gratitude. The shipwreck site yesterday was quite deep, and most people couldn't hold their breath for that long.
We really needed Xu Yiyi's help to dive down and tie the cable.
"Big sister, Brother Anyang can take us there. We'll also take Wuyuan to the restaurant."
San Chuan packed up his book bag and came out of the house. Xu Anyang happened to arrive at the gate of the courtyard at that moment.
I was a little surprised to see so many people in the courtyard so early in the morning.
Then, with a gossipy look in his eyes, he looked at Xu Yiyi and smiled inexplicably.
What's wrong with you?
Xu Yi glanced at him with a look of disdain.
Unexpectedly, Xu Anyang gave her a thumbs up again.
"It's settled then! Let's go back and get ready."
Haisheng interrupted her eye contact with Xu Anyang at the right moment, and Xu Yi subconsciously smiled as she watched her uncles leave.
"Great! My dear Yi-yi!"
Xu Anyang suddenly spoke, clapping his hands, which startled Wu Yuan, who was nestled in San Chuan's arms.
"What's wrong now?"
Xu Yiyi sat down on the stone bench and moved the remaining half bowl of rice noodles from Sihai over to eat.
"Are you still pretending? Do you know who I just saw in the river?"
Xu Anyang walked over and patted him on the shoulder, his eyes smiling.
"Who?"
Xu Yiyi clicked her tongue and looked up at Xu Anyang with a hint of impatience.
Xu Anyang said, "Aunt Li!"
"Don't you know? Aunt Li went to the clinic to fetch a doctor for Li Xiuying."
Xu Anyang's tone carried a hint of schadenfreude: "I haven't even asked you yet, what did you do to her?"
Xu Yiyi sneered: "It's nothing much, just rubbing salt into her little wound, she'll have to suffer a bit."
She quickly finished eating the rice noodles in her bowl and went to rinse the bowl.
He then pulled out a stack of five-yuan urine rings from inside the house: "Here you go, Sister Sihai Gang."
After saying that, she picked up Wu Yuan and carried him away.
The little chubby boy had just finished eating and was full of energy, babbling away nonstop.
"Let's go! To the riverbed."
Xu Anyang bent down and scooped up the snowball, pulling it directly into his arms. The little kids chattered and walked towards the river.
"By the way, you absolutely mustn't tell Grandpa what I'm doing."
As Xu Yiyi untied the boat's mooring ropes, she suddenly spoke up. She had known since childhood that she had a bad temper and had no intention of changing it.
But I'm afraid that these close elders might needlessly add to their worries.
"Hey! You're afraid people will find out?"
After being glanced at by her, Xu Anyang chuckled dryly, "Heh, heh..."
"I know, I definitely won't tell."
Xu Anyang didn't dare to be frivolous; he patted his chest and made a promise.
Xu Yiyi then turned her gaze away and carried Wu Yuan onto the boat.
After safely delivering the three children to the town, Xu Yiyi hurriedly grabbed her fishing tools and went out.
"Seriously, am I really that unreliable in my sister Yi's eyes?"
Xu Anyang looked at Wu Yuan, who was being comforted and coaxed in Aunt Fu's arms, and sighed deeply.
"Isn't that obvious? Er'er is about the same age as you, right? She's a young girl but very thoughtful, unlike you, who treats her like a baby."
Old Lu didn't hold back in his criticism, and he still remembers it to this day.
This brat, carrying Wu Yuan on his back, casually tossed him over his shoulder, dislocating the child's shoulder.
Based on this alone, it's clear they don't trust him to bring several children alone.
Xu Anyang naturally thought of what had happened before, and lowered his head guiltily.
……
Xu Yiyi set off from the dock and happened to run into Uncle Haisheng's boat while passing Qinglongcha.
The group headed straight for the white clam beach.
Xu Yiyi stood barefoot on the side of the boat, the salty sea breeze ruffling her hair.
On the next boat, an uncle was also preparing to dive, his bronze back gleaming in the morning sun.
He slapped his muscles with both hands, making a loud sound.
"Tie the ropes up one by one."
Xu Yi smiled and tightened the knot around her waist even more.
They then took the rope handed to them by Haisheng and jumped down together.
Hey! What a beautiful day!
Hai Sheng lay on the boat and looked down; he didn't even need to put his head underwater to see the sunken ship clearly.
Xu Yiyi was the fastest, and swam to the location of the sunken ship by pulling on the cable.
She took on the most difficult task, diving to the bottom of the ship to thread the main cable through the iron ring.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen cables were tied to each of the iron rings on the hull.
One of the uncles raised his hand in greeting.
The people waiting on the sea surface began to pull them up directly.