As Lin Wei's swimming lessons were put on the agenda, time had already entered August.
Lin Wei has never liked August very much. One reason is that it is too hot. People in rural areas often talk about the dog days, which refers to the period from mid-July to mid-August. Lin Wei feels that the beginning of August is the most difficult period.
The second reason is that it is busy. The double harvest season starts in late July and lasts until late August. During the busiest days, all the men, women, and children in the team have to go out. Even after those few days, the adults in the family had no time to rest. All the housework fell on her. She had to squeeze out time to do the laundry, cooking, raising chickens and ducks, and doing homework.
The situation got a little better after getting married, but once she joined the army, she had that dream, and Lin Wei was so uneasy during those few days in August.
Especially on the morning of August 1, Zong Shao suddenly remembered before going to the military camp and said, "There may be a typhoon in the next few days. You should be careful at home and it's best not to go out."
Lin Wei was still half asleep, but she woke up instantly after hearing these words: "Typhoon? When?"
"In the next few days, not sure when," seeing Lin Wei's worried eyes, Zong Shao sat down beside the bed and said, "Don't worry, I heard that this typhoon is not big, even if it comes ashore it will only be windy and rainy, you will be fine if you stay at home. Besides, the situation at sea changes rapidly, maybe the typhoon will change direction before it comes ashore."
In fact, Lin Wei knew that nothing would happen during this typhoon. In the original book, she died during a typhoon next year.
And from the current clues, we can only be sure that she died on that day, but we are not sure what the specific cause of death was and whether it was related to the typhoon.
It was for this reason that Lin Wei did not tell Zong Shao immediately that she wanted to go back to Shicheng after arriving on the island.
If she was not destined to die, and already knew her future, she might have been able to change her fate on the island. On the contrary, if she was destined to die, she might not be able to change anything even if she returned to Stone City.
Although Lin Wei was clear about it intellectually, when she learned that a typhoon was coming, her heart couldn't help but skip a beat and she felt a little scared.
She grabbed Zong Shao's hand, looked up and asked, "Will you go out these few days?"
Seeing her uneasiness, Zong Shao touched her hair and said softly, "No, it's risky to go out to sea during a typhoon."
Lin Wei asked again: "What about at night? Will you come back?"
Although officers like Zong Shao who have family members accompanying them can go home at night, there must be leaders in the camp every day, so he has to take turns on duty every three or four days.
Calculating the time, Zong Shao will be on duty tomorrow night.
Zong Shao hesitated for a moment and said, "I will switch shifts with Lao Zhou and come back in the evenings these few days."
Lin Wei breathed a sigh of relief: "Yeah."
…
Zong Shao had just told Lin Wei about asking Zhou Jianhai to take over his shift when he came out of his house and saw him. Thinking that today is the best day, he stopped him.
After hearing this, Zhou Jianhai asked, "Why do we have to change shifts suddenly?" It's not that he didn't want to change shifts, he was just wondering. He and Zong Shao have worked together for so many years, but he has never encountered a situation like this.
Zong Shao explained, "Doesn't this mean that a typhoon is coming? Weiwei and the children have just arrived on the island. If they encounter a typhoon, they might be scared if I'm not here."
"Is your sister-in-law afraid of typhoons? Not really, right?" Zhou Jianhai said, touching his chin.
The two families lived in front and behind each other, and the daughters-in-law were close to each other. Zhou Jianhai and Lin Wei also had frequent contacts. He knew her well and knew that although this girl looked weak, she was actually a tough person at heart.
Say she is afraid of typhoons? Zhou Jianhai really didn't believe it.
He looked up at Zong Shao and asked jokingly, "It's not your wife who's scared, but you're worried that she's scared, right?"
Zong Shao didn't answer, he just said: "Just tell me if you are willing to change."
The more Zong Shao avoided the question, the more Zhou Jianhai felt that he had guessed the truth. He smiled and said, "Switch, of course I'm willing to switch. My sister-in-law just came to the island and has never experienced a typhoon. She may be scared."
When I got home that night, I told my wife about it: "You said that Lao Zong, although he seems to be unromantic, actually cares a lot about his wife."
Deng Xiangyun said after hearing this: "How dare you say that he doesn't understand romance? In my opinion, you are not as good as him."
"Looking at Zong Shao's cold look, am I not as good as him?" Zhou Jianhai couldn't believe it, pointing at his nose and asked, "Wife, are your eyes okay?" As he said that, he moved closer to look into Deng Xiangyun's eyes.
Deng Xiangyun slapped him away and said, "What's wrong with being cold? He's not like that to his family. To be honest, Deputy Battalion Commander Zong is just cold on the outside but warm on the inside. In my opinion, he's much better than those guys who are obviously married but still flirt with young girls."
Zhou Jianhai felt something was wrong: "Wife, there is something else behind your words."
Deng Xiangyun turned her head to look at him: "Oh? What do you think I am hiding behind my words?"
Zhou Jianhai suddenly shuddered, raised his watch and said loyally: "Wife, I never flirt with little girls. In front of other women, I am cold as ice and don't pay any attention to them."
Hearing that he was getting more and more out of line, Deng Xiangyun chuckled: "Okay, I didn't say anything about you."
"Who are you talking about? Can I listen?" Zhou Jianhai leaned close to his wife's ear and asked.
"You want to know who does what?"
Actually, Zhou Jianhai was just curious, but he knew his wife would not respond to him if he said that, so he said seriously: "After knowing who it is, I can keep my distance from such people and learn from their mistakes, right?"
"It's okay, you don't know anyone."
Although Zhou Jianhai is always smiling and seems a bit unstable, he is still very reliable in his lifestyle.
Outsiders always think that with Deng Xiangyun's background, if someone was willing to give up his future to marry her, she should nod without hesitation. But in fact, Deng Xiangyun nodded only after a difficult ideological struggle.
He has sacrificed so much for her, and everything is fine when the love is strong, but when the love fades, he may regret it and even feel that she owes him, and she will not be able to hold her head up in the marriage because of this.
She didn't want to live that kind of life, so she hesitated.
But in the end she chose to believe in his character, so she made up her mind to take the gamble this time.
From the looks of it now, she made the right bet. He had a hard time these years, but he never showed any regret in front of her, so she believed in him.
Zhou Jianhai was very happy that his wife believed in him, so he didn't ask any more questions. But he thought there was one thing that had to be made clear: "Although Lao Zong is worse than those guys who flirt with little girls as you said, he is definitely not as good as me in loving his wife."
After saying his conclusion, Zhou Jianhai explained appropriately: "This time, I agreed to swap shifts with him because of our friendship over the years and because his wife had just joined the army and had never seen a typhoon. If there is a typhoon next time, I will definitely not be so easy to talk to, because I also have to come back to sleep with you, my wife."
"I'm not afraid of typhoons. I can sleep even if you don't come back." How could a girl who grew up by the sea be afraid of typhoons?
Zhou Jianhai readily said, "It is I who need my wife to accompany me."
A faint smile broke out on Deng Xiangyun's face. Old shígG Dujia
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August 2nd was exactly one year to the day since Lin Wei’s accident in the original novel.
Lin Wei and her two children had just finished breakfast. When they were washing dishes, they saw the sky getting darker. Someone shouted from the family quarters: "A typhoon is coming. Hurry up and collect the clothes and close the windows!"
Lin Wei suddenly came to her senses, quickly washed the dishes and put them in the kitchen, then climbed up to the kitchen and brought the clothes that were almost dry into the house.
Then I closed the kitchen window and locked the door. I saw Mingming and Ruirui playing outside in the yard. I hurriedly shouted to them, "The typhoon is coming. Come back quickly!"
After shouting, Lin Wei went to move the dining table and stools. When the two brothers came back and saw this, they also helped to move two stools into the house and followed their mother to close the windows one by one.
As soon as she closed the window of the master bedroom on the second floor, Lin Wei saw heavy rain pouring down, crackling on the glass. Because the window was not completely closed, cold raindrops poured in with the wind, and Lin Wei's body was instantly wet, and water quickly accumulated on the ground.
Lin Wei quickly closed the remaining half of the window and turned around to close the window at the back.
The wind was blowing from the sea, and the rain was not blowing in from behind. But as soon as she closed the window, Lin Wei remembered that the pot of mandarin duck jasmine that she had transplanted a while ago was still on the balcony, so she hurriedly opened the back door to move the flowers.
Although the wind was blowing from the front to the back, the balcony was extended, and as soon as Lin Wei went out, she was drenched to the bone.
But two petals of the flower in the pot were knocked off by the rain, and the stem of one flower was broken. If it is not moved in, it may not survive this typhoon.
Lin Wei made up her mind and rushed out to hug the flowerpot.
The flowerpot was actually an enamel basin used for washing face. It was a bit heavy even when empty, not to mention that it was filled with so much soil. After Lin Wei took it down, she bent over and had to put the flowerpot on the ground.
"Mother!"
The two brothers who followed her out of the main house saw that she was soaking wet and wanted to walk out. Lin Wei saw them out of the corner of her eye and quickly shouted, "Don't come out!"
The two children stopped and did not move forward.
Lin Wei bent over and dragged the flower pot in, then closed the door to the balcony and sat cross-legged on the ground.
Too tired to move.
Mingming walked up to Lin Wei, wiped the rain off her face with his hands and said, "Mom, you are all wet."
Lin Wei hummed, looked up and asked, "Can you two go down and get me a towel?"
The two children agreed immediately and went downstairs one after another.
After they left, Lin Wei reached out and propped up the flower with a broken stem, making it stand upright. But this is obviously futile. Although it can stand up again with the help of external force, the flower stem has been broken and there is no chance to grow again.
Lin Wei was just thinking when she heard footsteps downstairs. After a while, two children came up with towels.
Lin Wei thanked him, raised her head, covered her face with the towel, wiped the water off her face, and rubbed her wet hair a little.
When she lowered her head, she saw Mingming Ruirui squatting in front of her with the flower pot. Ruirui reached out and held the flower with a broken stem. She looked up and said, "Mom, is it dying?"
Although Lin Wei was the main person who took care of the two mandarin duck jasmines after they were transplanted, the two brothers also liked them very much and would open the back door to take a look at them every day.
Ruirui is more sensitive, so she felt sad when she saw the flowers being broken.
Lin Wei touched the little fellow's head and consoled him, "As long as the rhizome is fine, the flower won't die. This flower is at most its limbs, and now it's broken. After a period of rest, it will grow new flowers. As for this flower..."
Lin Wei reached out and plucked the flower completely, saying, "We can keep it in water, so it can live a few more days."
Ruirui immediately said, "Then I'll go get some water."
Lin Wei hurriedly pulled Rui Rui back: "It's raining heavily outside, let's go out later."
Ruirui turned her head, walked through the door and window of the second bedroom, saw the wind and rain outside, said "Okay", and squatted back down.
Lin Wei had rested enough, so she handed the flowers to Ruirui, pushed the flowerpot to the wall, stood up and said to the two children, "Mom is going to take a shower, you go back to your room and rest for a while, don't run around, okay?"
"I know! It's raining so hard outside, we won't run around." Mingming felt that he was not stupid and his mother was worrying about him for nothing. "Go take a shower and don't worry about us!" After saying that, she took her brother back to the room.
Lin Wei shook her head helplessly, went back to the house to find a skirt, and went downstairs to take a shower.
The faucet was outside and there was no tank in the bathroom to store cold water, so when Lin Wei said she was taking a bath, she was actually just wiping her body with hot water. Of course I couldn’t wash my hair, so I could only dry it as much as possible with a towel and wait for the rain to stop before taking a good shower.
Although it was just a scrub, after changing into dry clothes, Lin Wei felt much more comfortable and her mood improved a lot.
But her good mood only lasted until noon. As time passed, the wind outside became stronger and stronger, and the windows upstairs and downstairs, front and back, were all rattling.
What was even more frightening was that because of the white mist on the windows and the wind and rain blocking her view, Lin Wei had no idea what was going on outside.
She and her two children seemed to be trapped on an isolated island.
Lin Wei was in a low mood, and the two children were not much better. They were actually a little excited when it first started raining. They had never seen such heavy rain and found it very novel.
But as time went by, the novelty gradually faded, and he nestled in Lin Wei's arms and asked, "Mom, when will the rain stop?"
Lin Wei had heard before that during a typhoon it could rain heavily for several days, and she was not sure when the rain would stop. But she thought for a moment and said, "It's been raining all morning. It should stop soon. Do you want to sleep with your brother? Maybe it will stop when you wake up."
It was really boring to sit in the room, and Mingming was a little sleepy, so he yawned and said, "Okay, Mom, do you want to sleep with me?"
Lin Wei hummed and said, "You go to sleep first, and mom will sleep later."
Mingming said "oh", slid down, lay down and fell asleep soon.
Lin Wei couldn't sleep, so she sat there for a while, then got out of bed and walked to the window. She looked at the foggy window and fell into deep thought.
When the typhoon first hit, she was indeed a little scared, especially when she found that she couldn't see what was happening outside, she felt very uncertain.
But now, looking at the window glass in front of her that was shaking but not shattered, Lin Wei gradually calmed down.
The location of each military port is carefully selected, and the troops will also have measures to deal with typhoons. If a typhoon lands here, they will definitely evacuate the crowd urgently.
Like this time, we just informed everyone in advance that there was a typhoon and asked them not to go out, which means the typhoon will not land here. So even though it is windy and rainy outside, as long as you hide in the house, you will be fine.
Therefore, in the original book, she definitely did not die because of the typhoon accident.
She would die, either because of something, such as going out in a rainstorm, or because of something that happened at home.
It is easy to avoid the former. She just needs to stay at home obediently like she did today. For the latter, she could only be extra careful. If it really didn't work, she could just prepare food and drinks in advance, lie in bed that day, and not go anywhere!
You wouldn't choke to death on the water, would you?
It was still windy and rainy outside, but after thinking things through, Lin Wei finally saw the light.
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