Chapter 115 Going out to pick up fish
“Woo~woo~woo~”
Sirens blared throughout the city.
[Tsunami is coming, tsunami is coming, everyone evacuate to higher places, everyone evacuate to higher places! ]
[The tsunami is expected to arrive in three minutes. It is expected to arrive in three minutes! Everyone evacuate to higher ground! Everyone evacuate to higher ground! ]
Patrol cars were shouting on the streets, risking their lives.
There are people shopping in the streets and malls.
After hearing the alarm, everyone was like ants on a hot pan.
For a moment, I didn't know where to run and could only turn around in circles in a panic.
Three minutes, it was obviously too late to run home.
I ran to the top of the mall, but the building only had 6 floors.
No one will forget the tsunami that happened a few months ago!
Huge waves hundreds of meters high swooped down.
After the tsunami, the water level reached more than ten stories high.
What can the 6th floor block?
When all the other people at home heard the alarm, they no longer cared about the poisonous fog outside and carefully dismantled the doors and windows that had been repaired.
So as to avoid being destroyed by tsunamis again.
All edible food in the house, as well as things that are afraid of getting wet, are put into bags and placed high up.
The alarm continues to sound.
Han Ying was at home, cleaning the empty disposable lunch boxes.
When he heard the alarm, his hand paused for a moment, but he quickly continued what he was doing.
The scale of this tsunami was very small, and it would be more accurate to say that it was the backflow of seawater.
Waves of not-so-high magnitude lasted for more than an hour, and after the tsunami stopped, the water level remained at more than three meters.
The water level was not very high.
But this tsunami came suddenly and the warning time was short, so many people on the street did not have time to find shelter.
This tsunami was of considerable magnitude, and the death toll was no less than that of the previous tsunami.
But because the tsunami was not large in scale, the damage to supplies and buildings was not much.
After the tsunami, officials became busy again.
There were corpses floating on the water.
Now, under the guidance of the soldiers, the volunteers are able to salvage the bodies without batting an eyelid.
Human beings are incredibly adaptable.
From the very beginning, I would have nightmares and feel terrified when I saw the corpse.
Until now, they can still salvage corpses, strip off their protective clothing, and find their belongings without batting an eyelid.
These changes took just over four months.
The authorities are worried that this tsunami will cause the toxic fog, which has already dissipated a lot, to become thick again.
After all, the poisonous fog started only after the first tsunami.
So people were warned not to go out unless necessary and to stay at home as much as possible.
However, the tsunami has passed for several days, and the poisonous fog does not seem to be thickening again.
Seeing this result, many people put on protective clothing and came out.
Because of the seawater backflow this time, many people found a large number of fish in the water.
Many people are worried that sharks or fish such as piranhas will appear in the water again.
Therefore, although people drool at the sight of the fish in the water, few dare to actually catch them.
But the official soon came out to make a statement.
The water level is only over three meters. The possibility of large fish appearing at such a water level is very small, but piranhas cannot be ruled out.
Since it was unlikely that sharks would appear, many people bravely formed groups to go out fishing.
The official shopping channels have also started selling fish in the past few days, with a 2-pound portion of fish costing 150 yuan.
And there is no guarantee that 2 jin is a whole fish. It may be a piece of fish, or more than one fish, but the portion should be sufficient.
The most important thing is that there is no limit on the purchase.
It seems that the authorities must have caught a lot of fish this time, otherwise they would not be so generous as to not impose purchase restrictions.
Although it was a rare occasion where there was no limit on food purchases, not many people actually bought food.
Because there are plenty of fish in the water outside, many people can catch seven or eight fish with one cast of the net.
Doesn’t this smell better than the ones you buy with money?
But Han Ying did buy a lot.
Because she still has money.
Before the rainstorm, after Han Ying bought the two small villas in the space, she had about 22 million left.
Later, during the week she lived in the small building in Changfu Village, Han Ying paid about 3 million yuan to several vegetable, seafood, and meat vendors.
That week, she spent nearly 1 million yuan on buying things online, and also spent tens of thousands of yuan on paying salaries to the people there.
So when she moved into Yuefu Jiangnan, Han Ying still had nearly 18 million left.
In the four or five months before and after the tsunami, Han Ying spent more than 1 million yuan.
However, when the government repurchased gasoline before, she made about 80,000 yuan from selling gasoline.
After deducting the 16 million, she will have a big use for it later. Now Han Ying still has more than 200,000 yuan in her hands that must be spent.
Because this money will completely lose its purchasing power soon after the poisonous fog dissipates.
Therefore, with more than a month of poisonous fog left, Han Ying must spend the more than 200,000 yuan.
In the small group on the 27th floor, Wu Tingfang asked Han Ying and Lu Yuan if they wanted to go fishing.
Han Ying said she would not go, as she had no shortage of fish to eat and had bought a lot from official channels.
Lu Yuan went with them.
In the evening, Wu Tingfang and Lu Yuan each brought two big fish.
Han Ying did not refuse and each of them gave back two cans of fruit as an exchange.
This time, the water level receded on the 10th day after the second tsunami.
On the day when the fish were completely cleared, many people carried buckets, wore protective clothing, and went to the streets to pick up fish.
Han Ying also went out.
She wore protective clothing, carried a bucket, and went out with Lei Minghu and his wife, and Lu Yuan to pick up fish.
Everyone carried a bucket and they really did pick up water.
Han Ying saw many people carrying full buckets of fish and heading home, and they could come back and pick up another bucket after they went back.
It doesn’t matter if you can’t finish eating the fish you pick up, you can make them into dried fish, salted fish, smoked fish, cured fish, etc.
Food is so expensive nowadays, only a fool would not want something for free.
Most of the bigger fish had been picked up. Han Ying and her friends arrived late, so they could only pick up some smaller ones.
It wasn’t really that late, the water level receded in the middle of the night, and they came down around eight in the morning.
It can be seen that other people came down to pick up the fish at a certain time.
Many fish smaller than the palm of a hand were struggling in the small puddle. Han Ying could catch two or three with just one scoop using a long-handled stainless steel colander.
In the flower beds that have died and only a pile of dead branches are left, you can often find some big fish stuck in there that others have not picked up.
In less than an hour, Han Ying's bucket was full of fish.
Lu Yuan and the others were in the same situation as her, their buckets were already full of fish.
They really didn't expect the harvest to be so big, so they only brought one bucket.
Fortunately, Han Ying always brings a backpack when she goes out, so she took off her backpack and took out a bundle of vest-style plastic bags from it.
Lu Yuan and Lei Minghu each got five.
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