When they heard a knock on the door, a slamming door to be exact, at first Yanagi and her grandmother thought it was blown by the wind, but when they heard it closely, it wasn't, because someone was still calling them outside.

Grandma asked Xiao Yanagi to wait in bed, and she waded through the water that was not up to her knees to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, the deeper water poured in from outside, almost knocking her grandmother down, but a strong arm held her back.

It was Liu Ying's parents who came back in the pouring rain, and they didn't even use an umbrella, because there was no point in using an umbrella at all.

They didn't say much, just two short words - transfer.

Grandma didn't ask much, and immediately handed them the valuables that had been waterproofed, and went to take Xiao Liu Ying herself.

The mother waded into the house, brought the usual medicines, and brought emergency food such as instant noodles.

"What about the clownfish?" asked Xiao Yanagi, who was carried on her father's back and looked back at the fish tank.

When the door opened, the candles were blown out, and the fish tank was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly.

However, no one answered her, and now no one cared about the clownfish.

The light of her mother's flashlight was shaking, and occasionally when she swept over the fish tank, something in the fish tank flashed, and Xiao Yanagi thought it was the eyes of a clownfish, staring at her.

As soon as she went out, she was drenched in the storm, and the heat accumulated in her body had not yet dissipated, and the whole person was cold on the outside and hot on the inside, which was very uncomfortable.

All the villagers are moving their families and mouths, moving to higher places, to safe places.

There were no roads in the village, and as far as the eye could see, the river was almost up to the thighs of adults.

The murky water was filled with all sorts of debris, including dead poultry, broken trees floating on the water, and even small boats moving, boatmen holding oars to avoid obstacles in the water, and glazed-eyed family members sitting on the boats.

At this time, my grandmother did not forget to lock the door, and she was afraid that the house would be burglarized after the water receded, so she moved all the household appliances.

On the main traffic road, the village cadres organized the villagers to move with a hoarse voice.

The nearby garrison had also arrived, driving speedboats to evacuate the villagers, and dark green figures were shaking everywhere.

Xiao Yanagi's father drove the speedboat to the fishing grounds, and she didn't like to ride this speedboat because the smell of stinky fish and rotten shrimp was so strong that she could smell it even in the pouring rain.

"The clownfish is still at home. After getting on the speedboat, she said it again, and her mouth was filled with cold rainwater.

Maybe it's because the rain is so loud and the village cadres' loudspeakers are so loud that her parents don't seem to hear her question, or maybe they don't feel the need to answer it.

Grandma held up an umbrella with her thin hand to cover Xiao Yanagi Ying from the rainstorm, but it was just a heavy rain outside, and a light rain fell inside the umbrella.

"It's okay, grandma will buy it for you later. Grandma said, seemingly sentencing the clownfish to death.

Her father started a speedboat and took the family out of the village, and Xiao Yanagi kept an eye on the family house until she could no longer see it.

After the typhoon, the water in the village subsided within a day or two, and it took another two or three days to clear the trees and debris blocking the road, including burning and burying the carcasses of poultry and livestock everywhere to prevent the spread of the plague.

The family and other villagers stayed in relief tents for several days before returning to their former home.

Some villagers' houses were washed away and they had to continue to live in relief tents while waiting for the village council to set up temporary housing.

The house was relatively sturdy and survived the typhoon, but it left a clear watermark on the wall, indicating where the water level had been reached.

The fish tank is not in place, lying quietly on the ground, but intact.

Because the highest point of the water level has already passed the center of gravity of the fish tank, the fish tank drifts away from its original position.

Not only the fish tank, but also the cabinets, tables, beds, furniture, etc., almost none of them remained in place, as if a grand party was held when the owner was not at home.

There was still half of the water left in the fish tank, which was very cloudy and had already grown moss.

Xiao Yanagi used the fish to copy it and fished it many times, but there were no clownfish, no anemones, not even their corpses.

"They've swam back to the sea with the water. Grandma's wrinkled face smiled, "It's the Dragon Lord who came to pick them up." ”

Grandma was comforting her and telling her not to be sad.

Xiao Yanagi Ying believed it, but she still wanted to cry, because the clownfish were her companions, and she saved them from death, and even the Dragon Lord had no right to take them away.

In fact, somewhere in her heart, she felt that the clownfish should be dead, all the poultry and livestock in the village died in the typhoon, and there were many fish bigger than them that died, floating on the water with their bellies turned over, how could they survive?

The days that followed were very busy, as families rebuilt their homes and tried to make up for the damage caused by the typhoon.

When she was a little more free, her grandmother wanted to buy two more clownfish for Xiao Yanagiying, but she refused.

She remembered how helpless she was at that time, she couldn't protect the clownfish, and even if she bought them again, they would still leave her the next time the typhoon came.

My parents' fishing farm suffered heavy losses in the typhoon, and the two of them decided to sell the fishery and change to something else.

At the end of the summer, she left the small fishing village with her parents and went to a nearby city to join relatives, where she attended primary school.

Grandma was reluctant to leave her hometown for many years, and stayed in the small fishing village, nominally to guard the ancestral home, and I heard that Xiao Yanagiying played mahjong again after leaving.

When Xiaoyanagi entered elementary school, she knew that clownfish were probably indeed dead, because the rain and stagnant water were freshwater, and even if they escaped from the fish tank at the last moment, they would not be able to swim back to the sea safely.

She occasionally went back during the winter and summer vacations, but she became a little alienated from her grandmother, and those short and happy days are gone.

Later, my grandmother died of illness.

After burying her grandmother, her parents sold the old house in the village and said goodbye to the past, and Xiao Liuying never returned to that small fishing village.

On that stormy typhoon day, she sat on the bed with her grandmother on her feet, watching the water rising, and the black fish tank, and the faint reflection in the fish tank before leaving, but it was firmly imprinted in her mind like a film that never fades.

After Liu Ying finished speaking, her emotions were still immersed in the past.

At first, everyone would interject two sentences, and Qin An, who was carrying the camera, would make fun of her a few words, but then they all listened to her quietly.

In the dimly lit aquarium, looking at the clownfish with a white membrane in the quarantine tank, everyone seems to have returned to more than 20 years ago, carefully experiencing Xiao Yanagiying's helpless mood at that time, in the face of a disaster that cannot be resisted by manpower, only she cares about her partner in the fish tank.