Chapter 060: Encountered a storm and stranded at sea

After two days of sailing, Lin Wanxia and her fleet were nowhere to be found, and all they could see was the vast sea.

She felt a little regretful. She

regretted messing with Zhao Tiezhu at sea.

She only wanted to take revenge on Zhao Tiezhu and didn't want to implicate an innocent person.

But she really didn't expect Zhao Tiezhu to be such a bad guy who would pass his losses on to other ships.

Either she had to pay the high management fee and go back with him, or she had to pay the management fee and go out to sea herself.

But Lin Wanxia was not a person who looked ahead and behind. Since things had come to this point and she had taken over the fleet, Zhao Tiezhu could not think of going back.

Lin Wanxia had asked other ship owners, and they said that this was the last trip of the year, and that they would have to pay the management fee for the next year when they went back.

With her around, Zhao Tiezhu won't be able to collect a penny in management fees in the future.

However, just after the grand oath was made, God became unhappy.

A strong wind blew up without any warning.

The bow of the ship suddenly tilted backwards, and the people on the ship fell to the ground one after another without warning.

When the wind started, Lin Wanxia was learning with Sun Dapeng in the cockpit.

On weekdays, when they went out to sea, the captain's big ship could sometimes have a frightening effect on some people with bad intentions.

But their fleet was made up of small and medium-sized long-distance fishing boats that just passed the passing line, and a large part of them were old wooden boats that could not withstand the bad weather.

Sun Dapeng's hand shook, and the compass fell to the floor. Because the boat was unstable, it was shaken here and there.

Sun Dapeng was so distressed that he didn't care if he would fall. He jumped over and tried to grab the compass.

As a result, the boat began to shake in the opposite direction again. Sun Dapeng watched the compass slide to the other side while brushing against his fingertips.

Lin Wanxia held the railing beside the cockpit wall with one hand, trying to maintain her balance while bending down to grab the restless compass that was related to everyone's life.

In today's backward technology, the compass is the navigation, map, and compass for fishermen at sea.

Lin Wanxia estimated the next direction of the compass like playing billiards and stretched out her hand in advance.

Fortunately, the boat did not go in the opposite direction this time, and she finally grabbed the compass.

"How come the wind suddenly starts to blow?" Lin Wanxia frowned.

Generally speaking, the wind will start from small to big, but this wind seems to be blowing from the flat ground, not the flat sea.

Sun Dapeng smiled bitterly, "Maybe it's because we are right in the eye of the storm."

He didn't understand either.

In fact, he has never encountered such a situation in all these years of sailing. It can only be said that Lin Wanxia is lucky. Fortunately,

the wind is getting stronger and stronger, but it is also getting more and more stable. It is not as fierce as the wind that suddenly blows from the flat ground.

Lin Wanxia held the railing and moved to the outside of the cockpit with difficulty. The sky was clear just now, but now it is a little cloudy.

"Oh no!" Lin Wanxia frowned, "There will be a storm."

The wind will not stop for a while, and it will get stronger and stronger.

After she finished speaking, she heard no response. She turned her head and saw Sun Dapeng staring at the compass in his hand with a face that looked like he wanted to cry but had no tears.

"What's wrong?"

Dapeng said with a bitter face: "Xia Xia, the compass is broken! What should we do?"

In the sea without any reference, the compass is the eyes of the fishermen.

"Don't panic." Lin Wanxia's heart also skipped a beat, but she forced herself to be calm and comforted Dapeng, "We don't have it, but other fishing boats still have it. It's the same if we borrow it."

Who knew that after he finished speaking, Dapeng's expression became even more painful, "But, we can't take it! You see, the other boats are now busy, and we can't swim over."

Lin Wanxia turned back.

As Dapeng said, all the boats were shaking, and they were more or less separated from each other.

At least it is not easy to deliver things from one ship to another.

Lin Wanxia sighed in her heart: talking on paper is just talking on paper, and it is nothing in practice.

Unfortunately, their fleet has no experienced captain to lead the team, nor does it have a powerful ship.

To put it bluntly, it is just a group of ragtag groups floating on the sea.

If you are not careful, someone will really lose their life.

Since ancient times, sailing is half of your life, and it is not a joke.

"You should find a way to reinforce the boat first." Lin Wanxia suggested, "I will figure out the rest."

This is not her boat, and she doesn't know where the tools are.

Dapeng has been following Lin Wanxia on the boat for a while, and he is very convinced of her, so he did it without saying a word.

I don't think about what a twenty-year-old girl who is going out to sea for the first time can do.

In fact, they haven't gone out to sea yet, they just left home.

Lin Wanxia first carefully recalled the ways to deal with bad weather that her grandpa taught her.

One of them is that in a situation like now, you should try to find a nearby island or reef to take shelter temporarily.

The sky is getting darker and darker. There is an endless sea in sight. There are no islands or reefs.

"Brother Dapeng, do you know any islands or reefs nearby? We can take a break here."

Dapeng thought for a moment and nodded, then shook his head, "I remember there is a small island nearby. But now the compass is broken, and I can't determine the exact location."

Lin Wanxia: "..."

This is really bad news.

"Ask the ship behind you if anyone remembers the location of the island or reef."

Normally, the ships can get close to each other and talk, but in this weather... yelling is useless.

However, she knew that the fishermen must have a way to communicate in this weather.

Dapeng responded, found two torches and lit them, using them as flags to signal other ships.

Lin Wanxia has always been a lone ranger and doesn't know flag language. She thought that if she survived this time, she would have to learn flag language.

Alas! Traveling back to the 1980s did not change the situation of having to learn a foreign language.

However, the flag language did not bring Lin Wanxia any surprises.

Everyone lost the ability to judge the direction.

On weekdays, everyone observes the sun, the North Pole or the direction of the water flow.

In this kind of weather, nothing can be expected.

Only an old fisherman said that the nearest island reef is about three nautical miles southwest.

But in this kind of weather, even a slight deviation from the direction at sea can be fatal.

Twenty-three ships, like duckweed floating on the sea, may be thrown into the sea at any time.

There is no experienced captain to lead the team, and everyone is a little panicked.

Such a strong wind can't stop the desperate wails of the fishermen.

In difficult situations, some people actively seek survival, some people passively wait for death, and some people vent their anger on others.

Just like Sun Dapeng's ship.

Sun Dapeng had been traveling with Lin Wanxia in the coastal waters before, leaving only one boatman to help. Now that he was going out to sea, he hired a few more boatmen temporarily.

Some of these boatmen followed Sun Dapeng around, fixing the mast, reinforcing the deck, etc.

Some hid aside, crying and muttering about what to do if their wives and children died.

Others cursed and complained.

"Can't you just pay the protection fee honestly? In order to save that little money, now you are trapped at sea, right?"