Chapter 2: Unexpected Encounters

"Ah, Dad, come and see, there seems to be a person in the water!" Just when Ye Qiuli slowly floated close to the small wooden boat that was moving slowly with the rolling of the waves, one of the people on the wooden boat also spotted him at the same time, and couldn't help but exclaim loudly on the spot.

Listening to the delicate and crisp shout, it was obviously from the mouth of a cardamom girl, and it was not as low as the average adult figure. Looking closely, the person who exclaimed in surprise was the person standing at the bow of the boat and rocking the oars to push the wooden boat forward, and his body was obviously much smaller than the other person.

This girl, not very old, only fifteen or sixteen years old, with a petite and delicate body, with a flower-like face, but also looks youthful and invincible, full of vitality, not at all like the daughter of an ordinary big family is delicate and weak, weak and weak.

At this time, she was wearing a pale green linen dress, standing barefoot on the edge of the oars, constantly shaking the oars to propel the boat forward, and the skin of her face, which was often exposed to the wind and sun, was a little rough, although it was covered with fine beads of sweat, but it did not affect her in any way.

"Well, what's wrong? What's going on?" Hearing the exclamation of the boat-rocking girl, the tall man at the stern of the wooden boat who was packing up the fishing nets didn't have time to care about the big and small sea fish that were jumping around, so he hurriedly asked, and then quickly threw away the work he was doing, and quickly crossed a distance of several meters between three steps and two steps, and came to the boat-rocking girl for the first time, scanning the surrounding environment with blazing eyes.

This man was about thirty or forty years old, tall and sturdy, and although he looked like a poor fisherman's vulgar dress, there was another simple and pure temperament in his expression, which seemed to make people feel good and willing to be close.

From the name blurted out by the girl rocking the boat in front, it can also be clearly known that the two people are a father and daughter living by the sea, and they are working together to go fishing at this time.

At this time, hearing his daughter's exclamation, the middle-aged fisherman was scanning the sea environment around the wooden boat with a concerned face, and photographed some unexpected dangerous situations in it, causing some unbearable threats or injuries to the two of them.

"There is a man in the sea, and he is floating in front of us, and he does not know whether he is alive or dead, and he has not moved for a long time!" Hearing her father's concerned inquiry, the boat-rocking girl who had exclaimed loudly before quickly calmed down and replied succinctly.

"Someone, where?" Hearing his daughter's answer, the middle-aged fisherman did not have the slightest doubt, and after a brief comfort, he immediately asked again. He often went out to sea to fish, although this kind of thing was not encountered frequently, but occasionally encountered one or two, but he was not too surprised and surprised, after simply understanding the problem, he quickly focused his attention on the key points.

"Right there, it's a man dressed in red!" Without making the middle-aged fisherman wait any longer, as soon as his inquiry fell, the rocking girl immediately stretched out her hand and directed her gaze to a looming red figure in the sea ahead.

That place, from the location of their fishing boat, is still hundreds of kilometers away, if you don't look carefully, it's really hard to notice anything unusual in it, coupled with the influence of the constant surging small waves, it can have a great impact on people's vision, without a clear goal, even if the average person looks in that direction, they may not be able to find the abnormality.

"It's really a person, and I don't know what happened to the accident that drifted to such a distant place with the waves. Guided by the girl rocking the boat, he looked at it carefully, and the middle-aged fisherman couldn't help but nod slightly to confirm, indicating that he already knew.

"Then what should we do now, do you want to take a boat over and have a look?" After learning from her father that the red figure she accidentally found was indeed a person floating on the sea, the girl in green couldn't help but whisper again.

After confirming that the red figure was indeed a person who had fallen into the sea, she couldn't help but feel some compassion in her heart, and wanted to go further to confirm it and see if there was still a chance for that person to be rescued.

Although she was afraid that a corpse would suddenly appear in front of her, but out of the urging of her own kind thoughts, she couldn't help but want to step forward to check it, and the feeling of dilemma really made the girl in green feel unspeakably entangled and troubled.

"Let's go over and take a look, in case that person is still saved, we can't just miss it. Looking at his daughter's tangled face, how could the middle-aged fisherman not know what she was thinking, immediately, he did not hesitate at all, and made up his mind to drive the boat to check on the spot to see if there was any room for rescue of the red figure.

As a father, he still has a certain understanding of his daughter's temperament when he gets along day and night. After she encounters this kind of thing by nature, she will definitely not turn a blind eye, stand by and watch, and if she does not lend a helping hand, she will feel uneasy about her conscience for a long time in the future.

Therefore, in order for his daughter not to be unnecessarily condemned by his conscience, he did not hesitate at all, and immediately made up his mind to intervene in this matter and see whether the red figure was alive or dead.

If the man was still alive, they would do their best to save him from losing his life completely, and if he was dead, he was prepared to take some time to find a place to bury him, so that he might be buried in the belly of the fish, so that he would not end up dead in the belly of the fish.

This kind of thing, people who often go to sea may still encounter it, and the specific way to deal with it has already formed a fixed pattern, at this time, the middle-aged fisherman only dealt with this matter according to the established customs, but there were not too many messy ideas.

"Then we'll sail over now. Seeing that her father had made up her mind, the green-clothed girl didn't bother with it anymore, and when she let go of the fear in her heart, she stretched out her hand and shook the oars, and slowly drove the boat towards where Ye Qiuli was.

"Okay, you start slowly, and then I'll go full speed when I've collected all the nets in the sea. After making up his mind, the middle-aged fisherman did not pause, and even though he said that he had assigned the tasks of the two of them, he made the necessary preparations for the next exploration and rescue operations.

After saying this, he did not waste a moment of time, and even if he quickly returned to the stern of the wooden boat, and collected all the fishing nets that had been cast into the sea before section by section, he did not care about the damage that his actions might cause.

Those sea fish can't run anywhere if they are temporarily placed in the sea, and if they have time later, they can naturally come and catch them again, but the red figure that has been floating in the sea may not be able to last long, and Ruyi died completely because of the untimely rescue, which would be a pity.

"Let's go over and have a look. After neatly putting away the fishing nets dragged at the back of the fishing boat and putting away all the fishing tools, the middle-aged fisherman did not hesitate, when he strode to the green-clothed girl, reached out and took the oars in her hand, and rowed with all his might.

The strength of an adult male is naturally not comparable to that of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old cardamom girl, after the middle-aged fisherman personally took action, the speed of the entire small wooden boat immediately increased by an amplitude visible to the naked eye, and after a while, it rode the wind and waves towards Ye Qiuli's location.

With the greatest force to push the wooden boat under their feet forward, it only took more than ten minutes before and after, and the father and daughter had already approached the floating sea area of Ye Qiuli. Disturbed by human activities, the small fish and shrimp, large and small seabirds that have been swimming around him can't help but be shaken, and in just a few seconds, they quickly swim to a place tens or hundreds of meters away, and no longer make the slightest stop around it.

"Bring me the bamboo pole from the boat, and I'll see if this person responds first. Slowly driving the boat to Ye Qiuli's vicinity, the middle-aged fisherman did not act rashly, but first ordered the green-clothed girl to take a long-pole penny used to support the boat, and stabbed Ye Qiuli a few times slightly.

"Wow!Wow!" Disturbed by external forces, Ye Qiuli's body couldn't help but drift out a few meters slightly, and the distance from the wooden boat was also slightly more original than before. The sound of his body churning the water, although very slight, managed to reach the ears of the two of them.

"There was no reaction, and I don't know if this man is completely dead. He pushed Ye Qiuli several times in a row, but he didn't find any reaction from him, and the middle-aged fisherman couldn't help but be slightly suspicious, not knowing whether he was dead or alive now.

"I don't think I'm dead yet, looking at this person's complexion and skin, it looks like a normal living person, and there is no paleness and swelling of a drowned person at all. As soon as the middle-aged fisherman's whispering to himself ended, the green-clothed girl next to him quickly spoke.

As a person who lives on the edge of the sea and often sails out to sea to fish, although she has not seen many such scenes, she still has a certain understanding of the salient characteristics of drowning death, at this time, no matter how she looks, she can't see that Ye Qiuli has the characteristics of drowning death.

"Indeed, it does not look like this man has drowned, or has been immersed in the sea for a long time, and if nothing else, he must not have really died. Hearing the question of the girl in green, the middle-aged fisherman couldn't help but nod slightly, which was regarded as approving her judgment.

At this time, the various characteristics displayed on Ye Qiuli's body did not look like what a dead person should have, but there was not much difference from a living person at all, if it weren't for his situation being amazing, he wouldn't have been ignored at all, even if he was mistaken for being in a deep sleep, it was not impossible. It's really hard to understand all of that weird situation.