Chapter 493 Extra 3: Yan Zi is rescued late at night
In April 1985, the weather was getting warmer. Although the new year's shallow sea fishing season had arrived, the sea was not lively at night.
Old lady Cai Gui could be sure that her wooden boat was the only boat on the entire sea.
The lonely boat was surrounded by the fragmented light of the sea in the moonlight. She was not nervous because the night was too quiet, but felt at ease instead.
This was not the first time she had sailed alone across the South China Sea at night over the years, and she had long been accustomed to it.
If there were a lot of people on the sea, she would be worried. No one was there, which was just right.
In fact, that was exactly why she chose to travel at night.
It takes dozens or even hundreds of years for black ambergris to transform into white ambergris, which is worth more than a million dollars. It is an extremely long process. However, she has a way to shorten this natural process.
Usually, most of the ambergris found by the islanders are common black and gray ambergris, and the top-quality white ambergris is extremely rare. Of course, Gui Po knows how important her skill is to the entire Ambergris Island.
But she needs a lot of other materials as assistance, among which bird's nest can play a subtle role in the whitening process of ambergris.
For many years, she would take a long boat ride to the sea area of Yanghai City. Then she would choose to go to a place called "Longjuling" at night. There was an island there, and there were many bird's nests in the caves, and she would come to collect them every spring.
The advantage of choosing to pick it at night is obvious. No one will discover it, and the secret of the bird's nest cave can be kept.
But for some reason, someone got to the cave first last year.
She didn't hold out much hope this year, but strangely, when she entered the cave tonight, she found that the bird's nest showed no signs of having been touched this year.
It was already the middle of the night, and her boat was loaded with a large bag of white bird's nests, and she was planning to return to Ambergris Island, thousands of miles away.
We returned home with a full load under the cover of night and were in a pretty good mood.
She didn't know which specific sea area she was passing through at the moment, she only knew that it belonged to Yanghai City in a broad sense.
Suddenly, there was a hint of sobbing amid the sound of the waves breaking. At the first moment, Grandma Gui thought it was the sound made by the "singing" spotted pigfish in the water.
What followed was two consecutive cries of "Help!" It was a woman's voice, weak and trembling, but Gui Po believed that her hearing had always been amazing and she would not have heard it wrong.
Not only did she have excellent hearing, her eyesight was also good. She looked around and soon found a mass of something on the water, drifting with the waves and slowly drifting towards her boat. Maybe because it was soaked and wet, the thing was brighter than the surrounding fine waves in the moonlight.
At first glance, it looks like a slender cocoon emitting silky light in the moonlight, swaying and moving with the waves.
"Save me, please...save me!"
The closer she got, the clearer the sound became. She saw clearly that it was a woman, holding a thick wooden stake tightly in her arms.
Needless to say, the reason why the ship did not sink at sea was of course thanks to this wooden stake.
After only a second of hesitation, Gui Po quickly picked up a long bamboo pole from the boat. She had prepared quite a few tools on the boat to collect bird's nests, including ropes, bamboo poles, and wooden sticks.
She moved the boat closer to the woman and extended the bamboo pole over to her, allowing the woman to continue holding the wooden stake tightly with one hand and free up her other hand to hold the bamboo pole tightly.
The woman kept shaking, but fortunately she was getting closer and closer to her boat, and finally she managed to hold the bamboo pole tightly and was pulled onto the boat.
The woman who had just been pulled onto the boat might have been nervous and scared, or might have been exhausted, and she was unable to stand up for a moment, and was half lying on her boat. But she still tried to raise her face, and her teeth chattered as she said thank you to her.
But Grandma Gui was stunned.
Although the moonlight and the ship's lights were not that bright; although the body that had just been rescued from the sea was soaked like a drowned rat, with disheveled hair and looked extremely miserable.
But Grandma Gui was still shocked. She seldom saw someone in such a miserable state with such a pretty and beautiful face.
Grandma Gui hurried to the cabin to get a blanket and asked the girl to wipe the water off her body. Grandma Gui originally wanted to wrap herself with the blanket because she was worried that it would be cold at night, but the temperature at night was not bad these days, so she didn't use it.
After drying her, Grandma Gui took out the clothes she had originally planned to keep as spare parts and asked the girl to change into them.
Mrs. Gui herself is not fat, but the clothes appear loose on the girl, which shows that the girl is quite slim and thin.
If she wasn't so thin, the thick wooden stake might not have been able to bear her weight, preventing her from sinking into the sea.
"Girl, what happened to you? How could you fall into the sea in the middle of the night? Are you fishing on the boat with your family? Are you drifting far? I'll take you back to the shore."
When Grandma Gui saw that the girl was pretty and well-behaved, she naturally felt more distressed and asked.
"No, grandma, please don't send me back! I ran away from home!" Yan Zi's words were sweet, but the anxiety and nervousness in her eyes were all revealed.
"You escaped?" Grandma Gui paused for a moment, "Then your family must have done something wrong! Did they force you to do something? It's okay. If you feel sad, just tell grandma!"
Gui Po's simple and refreshing words, "Tell grandma," made the girl burst into tears and started talking.
It was as if the silver-haired old woman in front of her was really her own grandmother, and she cried and told her the whole story.
The girl told Gui Po that her last name was Yao and her nickname was Yan Zi. After being locked up by her parents tonight, she took advantage of the situation and stole the household registration booklet. She originally wanted to escape and wait for her lover to come back from Shenpeng in two days, so that they could get a marriage certificate together.
He escaped in such a hurry that he accidentally slipped off the embankment and fell into the sea.
There was an oyster farm below the seawall, with many oyster stakes. She choked on the water, but luckily she grabbed an oyster stake immediately and tried to climb back to the shore with the help of the oyster stake nailed in the water.
Unexpectedly, the oyster pile was not very stable after being soaked in the sea for too long. After shaking a few times, it fell off from the root and became a floating wood across the water.
She was carried away from the shore by the tide, drifting farther and farther. Although she did not sink by relying on the oyster piles, she had completely lost hope of returning to the shore. Until just now, she saw Gui Po's boat.
"Grandma, I can't go back to Wanfan Town. Ah Cai just went to Shenpeng to find us a job, and he won't be back for two days. I want to hide on your ship for two days. After these two days, he will be back. Grandma, can you please send me to the Pomfret Village in Chaoyang Town? I plan to get the marriage certificate with him and go to Shenpeng together right away!"
After telling the whole story, Yan Zi begged Gui Po.
Unexpectedly, Gui Po's previously kind expression turned gloomy. She looked at her and answered the question irrelevantly:
"Yanzi, tell me again, what is that man's name?!"
"Acai? Deng Zhaocai!" Yan Zi asked in confusion.
"No, I'm not asking for your man's name. Tell me the name of the man who wants to force you to be his woman!" said Grandma Gui seriously.
"Ah? You're talking about Ruan Jingcheng!" Yan Zi reacted.
"Snow Egret Hotel, Ruan Jingcheng! There's no doubt about it, it's him, it's actually him, he's really not a good guy!" Grandma Gui said hatefully.
"Grandma, do you know Ruan Jingcheng?" Yan Zi was a little surprised and asked hurriedly.
"It's not just acquaintance! I have a very important relative, and I have a very special relationship with him! Unfortunately, my descendant is no longer with us, and he left in an unclear way. Ruan Jingcheng returned to China after my relative passed away. I knew from the beginning that Ruan Jingcheng was not a good person, but unfortunately, my descendant didn't listen to my advice at that time!"
Yan Zi saw that Gui Po's voice was a little bit angry and she didn't know what to say for a moment.
After thinking about it, he angrily cursed: "It turns out that he has done a lot of bad things a long time ago. He has harmed many people now. It was because I never agreed to him that he forced me in various ways. I heard that many waiters and receptionists in the hotel have been harmed by him!"
Grandma Gui nodded: "This person has a lot of bad intentions, it's not easy to deal with him!"
He turned to look at Yan Zi and decided for her: "It will be difficult if he is the one who wants to deal with you. Even if you run back to the shore alive now, as long as he is still here, he will definitely find a new way to force you out.
It seems like your falling into the sea this time is actually a good thing. Your family and Ruan Jingcheng all thought you were dead, so they naturally wouldn't try to force you.
Grandma will make this decision for you. Don't show up for now. Stay hidden for a while!"
"But," Yan Zi panicked, "Acai thought I really drowned in the sea and he would be so sad! He is still waiting for me to come back!"
"That's only a short-term pain. Do you want to go back to the shore and be forced out by Ruan Jingcheng next time, or are you willing to endure it for a while and stay with your Ah Cai for a long time in the future? Leave Ruan Jingcheng's affairs to grandma. Half of the reason I came to Yanghai this time was also related to Ruan Jingcheng.
I won't let you wait too long. The day Ruan Jingcheng dies, that will be the day you can stay with that Ah Cai for a long time. When that day comes, I will naturally send someone to the Chaoyang Town Pomwang Village you just mentioned, and bring Ah Cai to you!"
"But I...and my grandma..." Yan Zi thought again that if her grandma thought she was really dead, she would be sad for a long time.
"If something happens to you again when you go back this time, it will really make your grandma sad. To accomplish something, you can't take so many things into consideration. Yan Zi, you must know this!" Grandma Gui said decisively.
In fact, Yan Zi was not persuaded later.
She was on the boat and had no control over her whereabouts. She was taken by Gui Po to a very far away place, an island.
Later she found out that it was called Ambergris Island.
From that day on, hundreds of people on the island knew that Grandma Gui had a granddaughter. Although everyone knew that she was not her biological granddaughter, she was not much different from her biological granddaughter.
By the time 1985 turned to 1987, Swallow had been on the island for two years.
Just last month, Gui Po specifically told Yan Zi that both the revenge of Gui Po's relative and Yan Zi had been avenged.
From now on, Yan Zi can meet A Cai and live with him without any worries.
She asked Yan Zi to write something as a hint so that she could ask someone to go to Changwang Village to inquire and find Ah Cai.
Yan Zi thought about it for a while, and then wrote four words on the letter paper: Seaweed buns...
(End of this chapter)
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