"You guys, don't be careless on a cloudy day." The owner walked back with a heavy bundle of fishing nets on his back, still wondering what the plague would do to the village.

"Yes, I see," the fishermen replied, and then they began to talk.

"Even if we are told not to be careless, the work on a cloudy day is just fish farming." A young man looked at the shipowner who was far away, and said helplessly, "Alas, I still prefer the feeling of going to sea." ”

"Don't say that, the shipowner is also for our good, if the breeding is done well, we people don't have to take risks to make a living, and that kind of tragedy won't happen!" An older fisherman said to the young man as he packed up the tools on the boat.

"Tragedy? What's up? The guy standing on the side scratched his head and asked, how could he not remember what had happened.

"Ten years ago, on the owner's boat, there was a shellfish girl who was eaten by a shark, and before she could be pulled up, the whole sea was dyed red, there was no way..."

"Oh, that's it! It's miserable..."

"The husband of the shellfish picker then quit his job, moved to the edge of the cliff, and fished with his daughter for a living, and his mood is not difficult to understand, the shipowner first saved his daughter-in-law..."

"Still, if I were to do the same, I might do the same."

"Yes, the shipowner has been farming since then, and I know what it feels like, and this kind of thing is uncomfortable."

Xue Song, who was standing on the side, listened to the exchange of fishermen and looked at the place where Shaji's family was,

"Accident? Strange had to be willing to communicate with the villagers. He shook his head, this kind of thing had to be solved by themselves.

"You're back, Daddy." Shima watched her father, who was washing his feet, come over and say hello, and she sat next to him and told him about what had happened today.

"Well, I met Mui Ne at the beach today, but Muina's father asked her not to talk to me, why is that?"

"I'm sorry..."The middle-aged man suddenly fell silent when he heard his daughter's words, he touched his daughter's head, "It's not your fault, don't take it to heart, I'll take care of it." ”

"Hmm."

Looking at his well-behaved daughter, the middle-aged man remembered what happened at the beginning, and he felt a little guilty, which had tormented him for a long time, and his former friends had also parted ways.

Although it is normal for people to make such a decision, looking at the appearance of Shaji's family, the man still can't let go, and his daughter's problem is also a little difficult for him to face.

"It's time." The middle-aged man thought that the aquaculture industry had done well over the years, and there was no need to take risks as before, and it was too dangerous for Shaji's father and daughter to go to sea to fish, so he wanted to find a time to talk to Shaji.

When he was injured in the leg, he stayed at home to take care of his one-year-old daughter, and entrusted his wife to him to take care of, but when they went out to collect shellfish, they ran into a shark and did not have time to pull his wife up.

After packing up the relics of Shaji's wife, he took the family to Shaji's house to beg for forgiveness.

"If I were on the boat, I wouldn't be like this..."

"Shayoshi, at that time... I really can't help it..."

"No way? Yes, I shouldn't have given my daughter-in-law's life to someone else, you can go! ”

Listening to Shaji's words, the man kneeling on the ground clenched his fists, but he couldn't say anything. Over the years, he has vigorously developed the breeding industry just because he doesn't want such a thing to happen again, and he hopes to give Shaji's family and the people in the village a stable career.

Now, taking advantage of the calamity mentioned by the insect master, it is time to persuade Shaji to join them, so that their father and daughter do not have to risk going to sea.

The beach was getting noisier and noisier, and the cries of the shells were numerous, and they were still calling for their companions to come to land. Xue Song put the suitcase aside, sat cross-legged on the ground, his mind was close to the water vein, and used the hidden river to float his consciousness out of his body to the sea.

When a wave hit, the boat kept shaking, and Mina jumped into the water with a long rope tied to her, and she wanted to dive to the bottom to collect shellfish, she took out a knife and pried off the shellfish attached to the reef one by one, filled the net and returned to the boat.

"That girl is amazing! Yin Yin is still so small. ”

"Yes, she's always been in the water to collect shellfish on behalf of her mother, but she's actually quite pitiful..."

Hearing the fishermen's discussions, the shipowner looked at the father and daughter of Shaji not far away, and was silent.

"What's wrong?" When he came back, he was processing shellfish and prying the shellfish, and he looked at his daughter's dancing appearance with some doubts, and he looked in the direction of his daughter's finger.

"That's—" Shaji's eyes widened, and it was a pearl the size of a quail egg, crystal clear.

He stood up and took the pearl back into the house, and began to rummage through the cabinets, and when he saw the small purple-red sachet in his hand, he could not help but tremble a little, which his wife had left behind.

Placing the pearl in it, Sayoshi summoned his daughter, and he tied the bag with a long thin string and put it around Mina's neck.

"I am not allowed to say anything about this matter, even if I have any strengths and weaknesses, as long as I have this, I can get through it." Looking at his daughter, who was still unable to speak, Shaji asked, "No one will protect you, your own life must be protected by yourself..."

Mina clenched the sachet in her hand and lowered her head.

In the evening, the sound of clattering footsteps came,

"What people!"

Shaji looked back at the door, where a tall figure stood outside.

"It's me, I have something to say to you." The shipowner stood in the doorway, his shadow reflected in the dim sun on the curtain,

"There is an insect master who said that there will be disasters in the sea in the near future, so you should be careful."

"You're not qualified to say that!" Shaji's faint words came from the room.

"I said, do you know what will happen? You're the best at discovering the sea in the mutant village," the shipowner ignored Shayoshi's sarcasm.

"Who knows..."

"Sha Jiyo, there has never been an accident at sea in the village in the past ten years,"

The shipowner lowered his head and said slowly, and then he raised his head suddenly as if he had made up his mind,

"In the future, I won't let anyone die in front of my eyes, can you come back to the village to help me?"

"Now that fish farming has finally improved, everyone can live with peace of mind," thinking of the happy days in the future, the shipowner gradually smiled a little,

"You and your daughter are fishing alone, and one day something will happen, do you hope that? Something happened, what should Mina do? ”

"I know very well what you are, the most unforgivable thing you can not forgive is not only me but also yourself, don't blame yourself anymore, you have more important things to do, if you think about your daughter's future, come back..."

The shipowner stood outside the door and tried to persuade him that he wanted the Saji family to return to the village, and that he wanted to make it up to them.

Shaji listened to the shipowner's words, a little silent, his eyes lowered, and his fists clenched.

"I'll come back again, be careful yourselves." The owner did not hear the movement in the house, took a deep breath, and turned away.

The bright moon hung in the sky like a jade plate, and the sound of the waves could not suppress the cries of the shellfish, and the chirping was very lively.

Xue Song looked at the little crab washed ashore by the waves and was waving its pincers towards him, suddenly, the birds around him stopped, he stood up and threw the pressed little crab back into the sea, looked at the shells around him, and the shells stopped shouting and shrank into the deepest part of the shell.

In the quiet courtyard, the sound of crickets came from time to time, and Xue Song came to the shipowner's house and knocked on the door to inform the importance of the matter.

"Got it, just in case, I'll let everyone take refuge on the cliff..."

The gong sounded, and the young and strong young men scurried around to gather the villagers, far from the cliff by the sea, and the father and daughter of Shaji were also woken up, and stood on the edge of the cliff in their pajamas and looked at the sea.

The sky in the distance has begun to whiten, and the sea surface has begun to flicker incessantly, it is the white fish belly!

"Fish... So many dead..."

"It's... Red tide..."

A large expanse of red came from afar, and all the fish in their path turned up to the surface of the water, floating and sinking on the surface of the sea as red as blood.

"How... In this way..."

Looking at the tragic situation in the farm, the shipowner could no longer support himself, and fell to his knees, his face full of chagrin.

"No matter how you escape, is it all in vain? "The farming that has just improved, the hope of the village, how does it make him face the fishermen who are begging for a living under him, and he promises to lead them to a good life."

"There is no way to do this kind of thing..."Shaji looked at the red tide in the distance, and clenched his daughter's hand, he trembled a little, looking at the red red tide reminded him of the sea that his wife had dyed red on the day of the accident.

"At the time, too... There's no way..."

He closed his eyes and lowered his head, listening to the suppressed sobs of the shipowner, unable to bear to look at them anymore.

"The red tide has finally passed!"

"Yes, but in this case, the breeding is over."

"Forget it, start from scratch and go fishing."

"Yes."

The fishermen chatted and cleaned up the dead fish in the pond. The shipowner did not stop there, he had already organized his team, ready to go to sea to fish first and start again.

"Hasn't the voice been restored?" Xue Song looked at the kneeling side, Chu Chu pitifully Mina asked, it had been several days, and she still hadn't been able to make a sound.

Mina looked at Xue Song and nodded, Xue Song bowed.

"I think it's better for her to listen to more people." He looked at Shayoshi, who was weaving a bamboo basket, and said that if he stayed alone with his father every day, it would take a long time for Mina to get better. "Well, then, I'll take my leave."

The disaster had already happened, not a typhoon and a tsunami, the red tide had little impact on the port voyage, and he could continue on the road, this was also the first time he had seen the red tide, only that it was caused by algae.

He stepped on the sand and walked in the direction of the port.

The sound of the waves came, and not far away, fishermen were dragging their boats into the sea, ready to go out to fish.

Looking at the seashells scattered around him, he picked one up and looked at it.

The little shellfish was still hiding inside, looking at the outside world vividly.

"It's strange, the red tide has passed, and the worm hasn't returned to the sea, is it... The calamity has not yet passed? Xue Song looked at the rolling waves and couldn't help but think.

"Mina, follow me..."

Mina fetched a basin of water and was scrubbing her clothes when her father came up from behind and asked her to take Pearl with him to the village. Mina didn't think much of it, went back to the house, wiped her hands, picked up the small sachet and followed her father.

The owner of the boat was dragging the fishing boat in front of him and preparing to go to sea, and the fishermen were also pushing behind, and he was a little surprised to see the father and daughter walking over and stopped.

"Don't go out to sea yet, after the red tide, poisonous shellfish will appear...", said Sayoshi, looking at his childhood friend.

"That kind of thing rarely happens, you know, now you can only go to sea." With that, he dragged the boat back to the sea.

There are roughly three types of red tides, non-toxic, but because of too many of them, they cause a lack of oxygen in the seawater when they decompose, which will cause fish death, and there is a neurotoxin, which is also harmful to the human body, and the last is the red tide that clogs the gills of fish with algae chips and mechanical damage.

The villagers had heard of this kind of disaster before, and they were not too relieved.

"I also think it's better not to go yet." Xue Song walked over, "The evil omen hasn't disappeared yet. "The shell has not yet returned to the sea, and the plague continues.

"What do you want me to do?" Hearing the words of Sha Ji and Xue Song, the shipowner asked rhetorically, "Sha Ji, before the sea is restored to its original state, how will you make a living, and how will the people in the village live?" ”

Shaji looked at the tall man in front of him and patted his daughter on the shoulder. Mina took out the small sachet that hung around her neck and handed him over to the shipowner.

"Open it and take a look."

"Ah, this is..."

The shipowner looked at the pearl in his hand and was stunned.

"This is the pearl that Mui Ne picked, sell him, everyone will share it, although each person can't share much, but it can always subsidize the family." Shaji looked at the shipowner and said, he can't watch the villagers risk their lives, and the shipowner's attitude also makes him let go a lot, the most important thing is that now that his daughter has grown up, he wants his daughter to have a happy life.

"But, such a valuable thing," said the shipowner, holding the pearl in his hand, which was the personal belongings of the Shaji family, and he had no right to dispose of it.

"It's better than someone dying! In exchange, my daughter and I would like to take care of me. Shaji took his daughter and bowed to the landlord, he wanted to take his daughter back into the village, he had to do something, this pearl was sold, it would ensure the daily life of the village during the red tide, and it would also make the villagers owe him a favor, and no one would say anything about his career as a shipowner.

The owner looked at the scene in front of him, had mixed feelings, couldn't help crying, he covered his face and lowered his head, he was finally relieved.

On the one hand, Shaji forgave him and finally gave him the opportunity to compensate his father and daughter, on the other hand, he no longer had to risk his life to take the fishermen out to sea, and he didn't have to face his subordinates' families anymore, he really didn't want to see anyone die in front of him again.

"Well, of course...", the owner bent down at Shaji, thanking the Saji family for their efforts.

...

Since then, carcasses of seabirds suspected of eating shellfish have been seen on the nearby waterfront, but no one has been killed in the village from beginning to end.

On the beach, Mina and Shima were playing on the beach, and a shadow passed through, and countless white birds flew out of the shells scattered on the beach and flew towards the sea. Mina couldn't help but be a little stunned when she saw the scene in front of her.

"Muina-chan... Come on..."Hearing the call of her friends, Mina came back to her senses, "Here it is...", she greeted her friends and ran over. Sensing the end of the calamity, the shells are returning to their own lives, and she gradually blends into the village.

Xue Song on the other side had also sat on the big boat back to the East Country, and he was silent as he looked at the skills he had obtained from Cry Bei.

“... Gain the skill 'Sprout' to sense when something is about to happen. ...”