kingnovel Chapter 1904 Why bother?
Chapter 1904 Why bother?
An hour later, the search and rescue team was ready to go.
Sister-in-law Pan gave them her earnest advice.
"Please, you must bring my husband Lao Pan and Yongzi back."
"They were all good people, they never did anything wrong, they didn't deserve this, please."
"If you can bring them back, I will kowtow to you and erect a longevity tablet for you."
……
The trembling sobs were heartbreaking, bringing tears to the eyes of all who heard them, and leaving one with a deep sense of sorrow.
Caibao walked over, took her hand, and said, "Auntie, tell them to look to the north."
Those nearby burst out laughing: "You little brat, do you even know which way is east, west, south, or north? And you're giving directions to others to find someone."
Caibao looked at him confidently: "Of course I know. North is up, south is down, west is left, and east is right. I can also use stars, the moon, and the sun to determine direction, and I can also look at big trees, moss, and ant nests."
She knows quite a lot.
The man's mocking smile deepened: "We want to go to the sea? Do you think there are trees, moss, or ants? What a fool."
Treasure Bucket put his hands on his hips and said, "You're the idiot, your whole family are idiots. Of course you use a compass to navigate at sea, don't you have one?"
man:……
Holy crap! Where did this little girl come from? She's got such a sharp tongue, she's got a death wish! But he didn't dare to argue back, he just muttered, "Only a fool would believe this little girl."
Caibao looked at Sister-in-law Pan: "Auntie, if you believe me, I'll look to the north; if you don't, then forget it."
Her father had said not to force others, and she remembered that.
After hesitating for a while, Sister-in-law Pan said to her brother from her maternal family in the search and rescue team, "Brother, please pay attention to the north side when you are searching."
Her brother didn't say anything, but nodded.
So the search and rescue team set off.
Zheng Shou remained silent throughout. After everyone left, he patted Cai Bao's head and said, "Why bother?"
He noticed it the day before yesterday: Pan Jianguo and Pan Ruoyong's faces were covered in dark black marks, a sign of impending doom.
But he didn't say.
Fortune tellers don't readily discuss life and death; this is a rule passed down from their ancestors. They pretend they don't know what they see.
But Caibao's heart is too kind, and it's hard to tell whether that's good or bad.
Caibao looked up at him and said, "Grandpa, you ate the fish and shrimp that Brother Ruoyong gave you."
Zheng Shou:......
Never mind, never mind what I said.
*
In the afternoon, Pan Jianguo and his son were rescued.
They were a mess, covered in injuries. Pan Jianguo had a broken left hand, but fortunately Pan Ruoyong only had superficial injuries; although they looked serious, they weren't broken.
When the father and son returned, they were pale and dazed, as if they had suffered a great shock. Pan Jianguo, in particular, was in very poor condition, running a high fever and delirious.
As soon as they got back to the village, they rushed them to the hospital.
Pan Ruoyong didn't go; he insisted on going to see Caibao.
What a coincidence! Among the crowd of onlookers was the person he wanted to see.
Upon seeing the treasure, his previously lifeless eyes instantly lit up with a bright light, and his lips trembled with excitement.
"Sister Caibao!"
He immediately knelt down before the treasure, thumping his head three times: "Thank you for saving my son and my life!"
The villagers were in an uproar.
What happened? Weren't they saved by the search and rescue team? What does this kid have to do with it?
She spent the whole day running around the village with a bunch of people, collecting a ton of seafood, without worrying about the rescue at all. And then, Pan Ruoyong came back and knelt down before her. Is he crazy? Did he soak his brain in seawater all night and ruin it?
Not to mention the villagers, even the rescuers didn't look too good.
But Pan Ruoyong didn't care. He carefully pulled out a bunch of sticky stuff from his inner pocket, which looked like mortar.
His eyes instantly turned red. "Last night, my dad and I almost died."
On their way back in the afternoon, they unexpectedly discovered a group of reefs covered with barnacles, densely packed with them, including many goose barnacles, which were valuable and worth a lot of money.
If they harvest all of it, they'll earn more than they would from a week of hard fishing.
The Pan family father and son could not resist the temptation.
They need to support their daughter's education, save money to repair their ancestral home, and find a wife for their son when he gets older. There are many places where money is needed, and they cannot resist the temptation of money.
The father and son gritted their teeth and went up the reef. There were so many rocks! They couldn't collect them all, no matter how hard they tried. And the more they collected, the more addictive it became. Later, they realized that the densely packed reef island, which they could never finish collecting, was like a sweet trap laced with poison.
People are unaware of time and changes in their surroundings when they are harvesting. By the time they realize it, it is already late, and a strong wind with howling waves comes in, lifting their boat and slamming it against the rocks, causing the earth to shake.
When the waves crashed in, they finally came to their senses. Pan Ruoyong looked at the towering waves, and only one thought crossed his mind: It's over. He and his son were going to die here today.
Those delicious and expensive goose barnacles are hooks cast by the devil; they foolishly took the bait and are going to die.
Suddenly, he felt a burning sensation on his chest. For some reason, he instinctively rushed to his father's side, and the two of them rolled around on the ground, then miraculously rolled into a rocky cave.
Outside, a fierce storm raged, and towering waves crashed against the shore. Water kept pouring into the cave, and if it were to flood, they would surely perish. The vast, dark sea was filled with enormous waves, and there was no way to escape.
The father and son huddled together in the seawater, trying to keep warm, but their hearts were filled with despair.
The boat has probably been washed away somewhere, and even if it is found, it will likely be damaged and unusable.
One phone was lost, another was ruined by water, and we can't contact the outside world or get a signal.
Once the sea submerges this reef, it will be their death.
So desperate.
For the first time, Pan Ruoyong's young life was threatened by death.
From night to day, when they swam out of the cave at dawn, their hearts sank completely.
Surrounded by seawater, the rocky beach had been submerged down to just this hole, but the hole was already two-thirds submerged. They had to work very hard to climb the rock face to keep themselves from sinking.
The seawater was so cold that their teeth were chattering.
His eyes, when he looked into his father's eyes, were filled with despair.
They didn't know how much longer they could hold on, especially since their father had broken his arm when he fell into the hole and only had one hand to use.
He not only had to support himself, but also his father, so that he could stand on his knees.
With tears in his eyes, his father told him not to worry about him and to conserve his strength, otherwise neither of them would survive if things continued like this.
Pan Ruoyong did not agree.
If he can't bring his father home, he'll never forgive himself for the rest of his life.
Just hang in there a little longer, just a little longer and it will be alright.
"Heaven helped them roll into this hole, so it will surely let them live," Pan Ruoyong kept telling himself.