When I heard the knock on the door, it was precisely the sound of smashing the door. At first, Xiao Liuying and her grandmother thought it was blown by the wind, but when they heard it carefully, it was not because someone was calling them outside.

Grandma asked Xiao Liuying to wait on the bed, and wade through the accumulated water that was not over her knees to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, deeper water from outside immediately rushed in, almost rushing down grandma, fortunately a strong arm held her.

It was Liu Ying's parents who came back in the pouring rain and didn't even have an umbrella because it was meaningless to hold an umbrella.

They didn't say much, they just said two brief words to transfer.

Grandma didn't ask any more questions, and immediately handed them the valuables that had been waterproofed and went to pull Xiao Liuying by herself.

My mother wades into the house with water, brings the commonly used medicines, and takes instant noodles and other emergency foods.

"What should I do with the clown fish?" Xiao Liuying was carried on her father's back and looked back at the fish tank and asked.

After the door was opened, the candle was blown out, and the fish tank was dark and there was no way to see anything.

However, no one answered her, and now no one cares about clownfish.

My mother's flashlight was shaking. When she occasionally swept across the fish tank, something flashed in the fish tank. Xiao Liuying felt that it was the clown fish's eyes and was staring at her.

As soon as she left the house, she was soaked in the storm that she felt cold. The heat accumulated in her body had not yet dissipated, and she felt very uncomfortable when she was cold outside and hot inside.

All villagers are moving to high places and safe places.

There is no road in the village, and the river is everywhere, and the water surface can almost cover the thighs of adults.

The turbid current was filled with all kinds of debris, including dead poultry, broken trees floating on the water, and even small boats were sailing. The boatman was holding his oars to avoid obstacles in the water, and the boat sat on the boat with his dull eyes.

At this time, my grandmother had not forgotten to lock the door, for fear that the water would recede and the house would be thieves, so she moved all the household appliances away.

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

The nearby garrison troops have also arrived, driving speedboats to evacuate the villagers, and dark green figures are shaking everywhere.

Xiao Liuying's father drove the speedboat in the fishing ground. She didn't like to ride this speedboat because the smell of smelly fish and rotten shrimps was very strong and could be smelled even in the pouring rain.

"The clown fish is still at home." After getting on the speedboat, she said again, and her mouth was filled with cold rain.

Perhaps it was because the rain sounded too loudly and the village cadres’ acoustic speakers were too loud, so their parents didn’t seem to hear her question, or maybe they heard it and felt that there was no need to answer.

Grandma held up an umbrella with her skinny hands to cover the heavy rain for Xiao Liuying, but it was just heavy rain outside and light raining in the umbrella.

"It's okay, grandma will buy it for you in the future." grandma said, as if she had sentenced the clownfish to death.

My father started the speedboat and drove the whole family to the outside of the village. Xiao Liuying kept staring at the house at home until she could no longer see it.

After the typhoon, the water in the village subsided within a day or two, and the trees and debris that blocked the road took another two or three days to clean up, including burning and burying the corpses of poultry and livestock everywhere to avoid spreading the plague.

Their family and other villagers lived in disaster relief tents for several days before returning to their former home.

Some villagers' houses were washed away and they could only continue to live in disaster relief tents and wait for the village committee to build temporary housing.

The house of Xiao Liuying's family is relatively sturdy. She survived the typhoon, but she left a circle of obvious watermarks on the walls, indicating the position where the highest point of the water level once reached.

The fish tank was not in its original position, lying quietly on the ground, but was intact.

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

Not only fish tanks, cabinets, tables, beds, furniture, etc., almost none of them remained in place, like opening a grand party while the owner was not at home.

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

Xiao Liuying used the fish to scoop it and fished it repeatedly. There were neither clown fish nor sea anemone in the fish tank, and there were not even their bodies.

"They have swam back to the sea along the water." Grandma's wrinkled face showed a smile, "It's the Dragon Prince who is here to pick them up."

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

Xiao Liuying believed it, but she still wanted to cry because the clownfish was her companion and she rescued them from death. Even the Dragon Prince had no right to take them away.

In fact, somewhere inside, she felt that clown fish should have died. All the poultry and livestock in the village died in the typhoon, and many fish that were bigger than them died. They were floating on the water with their belly. How could they survive?

The days that followed were very busy, and every household was rebuilding their homes and trying their best to make up for the losses caused by the typhoon.

After a little free time, grandma wanted to buy two more clown fish for Xiao Liuying, but she refused.

She remembered how helpless she was at that time. She could not protect clownfish like this. Even if she bought clownfish again, they would still leave her when the next typhoon came.

My parents' fishing ground suffered heavy losses in the typhoon. After a combination of the two, they decided to sell the fishing ground and change to another.

When the summer was about to end, she followed her parents to leave the fishing village, went to a nearby city to join relatives, and went to elementary school there.

Grandma was reluctant to leave her hometown, which she had been away from for many years, and stayed in a small fishing village, nominally guarding her ancestral home. She heard that Xiao Liuying played mahjong again after leaving.

After Xiao Liuying went to elementary school, she knew that the clown fish was probably dead because the rain and accumulated water were fresh water. Even if they escaped from the fish tank at the last moment, they could not swim back to the sea safely.

She occasionally went back during the winter and summer vacations, but she became a little unfamiliar with her grandmother, and the short and happy days were gone forever.

Later, my grandmother died of illness.

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

On that typhoon day with stormy typhoon, I sat on the bed with my grandmother holding her feet, watching the water keep rising, and the dark fish tank and the faint reflection in the fish tank before leaving, were firmly imprinted in her mind like never-fading film.

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

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

In the aquarium with dim light, looking at the clown fish with white films in the quarantine tank, everyone seemed to have returned to more than 20 years ago, carefully experiencing Xiao Liuying's helpless mood at that time. In the face of a disaster that human power could not resist, only she cared about her partners in the fish tank.
Chapter completed!