Chapter 067 The Typhoon is Coming
"typhoon?"
“It happens every year!”
"It will only be a few days, and I will definitely continue to live here." Chen Jue raised his head and responded, continuing to sip the vermicelli in the bowl.
Typhoons are commonplace for residents in coastal areas of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong. They come every year, and mostly in summer and autumn.
When Chen Jue was in school, every time school started in the second half of the year, classes would be suspended for a few days due to typhoons.
The damage caused by typhoons is still very strong. If the wind speed reaches above level 12 and it makes landfall head-on, it can easily tear apart some weak old buildings.
When he was a child, the old house in Chen Village was hit by a tornado caused by a super typhoon of level 16 or above. Most of the tiles on the roof were blown away, most of the house was soaked, and the whole family was soaked. It can be said that this left a deep impression on Chen Jue.
Moreover, when a typhoon comes, many places will have no water or electricity, and the food in supermarkets and vegetable markets will be looted, even the shelves of instant noodles will be cleared out! The purpose is to store a few more days of food at home to get through the typhoon weather safely.
Of course, there are always a few heresies on the instant noodle shelves in supermarkets, such as the mushroom stewed chicken flavor that is always left and no one wants to buy it.
Veteran fishermen like Uncle Yu are also extremely sensitive to typhoon weather because it affects the risks of going out to sea for fishing.
Whenever a typhoon comes, fishing boats out at sea basically have to return to port to take shelter, or run to distant sea areas to avoid the typhoon's route to avoid being affected by the typhoon.
Chen Jue refilled the pot with noodles twice. While eating, he opened his phone and searched the Internet for the typhoon's path. It was expected to make landfall nearby, but since it had just formed, the specific path was only a prediction. He would have to wait three or four days until the typhoon really approached to know its final landing location.
"It's probably just a small typhoon. Just keep practicing."
"At worst, I can just stay in the room and continue practicing martial arts during the days when the typhoon comes." Chen Jue thought so, but before that, he had to ask the uncle of the B&B to help him buy more food to store first.
Chen Jue's appetite is now so huge that one meal is equivalent to the appetite of three or four adults. Eating too much will consume more food.
If the typhoon makes landfall, the vegetable market will basically not be open for a few days before and after. If the refrigerator is out of stock at that time, Chen Jue will go hungry.
So after finishing his noodles, Chen Jue scanned the payment code of the B&B auntie and transferred one thousand yuan for food expenses. He told Uncle Yu a few words about his favorite foods and asked him to prepare some when he was free. Then he went back to his room to continue practicing.
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Because he gets up early and has a regular work and rest schedule, Chen Jue now spends much more time on daily activities than when he was working in Hangzhou.
Before, I would sleep until 8 o'clock, get up quickly, and rush to punch in for work. My lifestyle was extremely irregular.
Sometimes I just finished eating the breakfast I bought at the company, and I had only worked for less than two hours in the morning, but it was already past 11 o'clock. The taste of breakfast was still in my mouth, and I discussed with my colleagues what flavor of fast food rice, spicy hot pot, or a mess of hamburgers and cola to order for lunch.
Because it takes some time from the time you place an order for takeout to its delivery, and noon is the peak dining time for office workers, the delivery guys can't keep up with the pace, and if you don't place an order early, you'll have to wait until 1pm for lunch.
It’s not like now, where we have to wake up at 5 o’clock every day and have lunch at 12 o’clock, which is a full 6 hours of activity time!
Moreover, the meals they eat every day are nutritionally balanced, healthy and delicious home-cooked seafood dishes. Such a comparison naturally makes Chen Jue feel more energetic and vigorous every day.
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After returning to the small villa where he was staying, Chen Jue first sat and browsed his phone for half an hour, checking the major news and his circle of friends. After breakfast was finished, he began to practice Yi Jin Jing to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, thus relieving the fatigue he felt after the early morning diving practice.
From then on until 12 noon, I watched documentaries while working on my proficiency in the Thirteen Taibao's horizontal training.
This hard skill is very effective in building muscle, strengthening bones and toughening skin. It is also reflected in the panel attributes that strength, agility and stamina go hand in hand. Therefore, Chen Jue pays special attention to practicing this skill.
It was not until lunch time that the auntie from the homestay came over and called for lunch. Chen Jue stopped practicing, wiped the sweat off his face, and went over to have a free lunch.
At the dinner table, Uncle Yu brought up the typhoon again, saying that because of the typhoon, his eldest son, who had gone out to sea for deep-sea fishing, was already on his way back and would probably be home in the evening.
Besides, his son is only a few years older than Chen Jue, and people of the same age may be able to communicate with each other. Uncle Yu wanted to introduce his son to Chen Jue.
In Uncle Yu's opinion, Chen Jue, a young man who is rich, has free time, has outstanding temperament, and was lucky enough to catch a wild yellow croaker and sold it for more than 100,000 yuan, is definitely a person with good fortune in life, and he must introduce him to his son.
Most of the old fishermen on the seaside are superstitious. Just like most of the fishermen like to wear a thick gold necklace around their necks. It is not to show off their wealth, but they believe that wearing gold when going out to sea can ward off evil spirits.
By making more friends with people like Chen Jue who are lucky and well-connected, you can also gain some good luck.
Otherwise, Uncle Yu would not have invited Chen Jue, a outsider, to his house for dinner every day. This shows that he no longer treats Chen Jue as an outsider.
Chen Jue naturally couldn't see through the little tricks in Uncle Yu's mind, so he had lunch with the old couple normally. After a full meal to replenish the energy consumed in the morning's practice, he went back to his room to take a nap.
He got up in the afternoon and continued to practice the Thirteen Taibao horizontal exercises, and also worked out with dumbbells. As his strength had increased a lot, Chen Jue added plates to the dumbbells, and was able to maintain a dumbbell weight of 125KG.
According to his speculation, if one wants to get the 200KG dumbbell in its complete form, one must raise the strength attribute to above 3.
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After practicing for an entire afternoon, I gained a lot. In the evening, I did not go to Uncle Yu's house for dinner. Instead, I ran to the county town to have a big meal before the typhoon came.
He planned to try home-cooked meals and restaurant seafood in turn to avoid getting bored after living on the island for too long.
After dinner, I bought two large bottles of rice wine and a bag of old ginger in the county town, which I would prepare for stewing fish maw when I got back.
When he took a taxi back to the B&B, dinner had been almost digested and it was completely dark outside. Chen Jue changed into swimming trunks and diving goggles, and in the sound of the sobbing sea breeze, he once again carried the stone ball down to the rocky coast of the back cliff and continued his diving practice without fail.
Just less than ten minutes after Chen Jue dived, a white fishing speedboat suddenly came hurtling along the water, cutting through the waves. On the speedboat sat several young men, talking and laughing. They had been out at sea for more than half a month, and they were all looking forward to stopping the speedboat at the village pier and returning home to report safety.
However, when the speedboat passed by the back cliff where Chen Jue was diving, the young man who was steering the boat suddenly exclaimed in surprise. He found that there was an extremely conspicuous red dot on the sonar display of the control panel that was searching for fish.
"It's so late, is there anyone still diving nearby?"
