Ye Yaodong stood on the shore watching for a while. The waves kept washing in, retreating, then surging back again. They looked bigger than they had during the night.
Quite a few villagers had run down to the shore early that morning to look, while others had gone out to the pier. In twos and threes, they discussed whether another typhoon was coming.
Ye Yaopeng, Ye Yaohua, and the neighbors next door were watching the waves nearby too.
"It seems we haven't had any typhoons this year..."
"We have. It was in the papers. It just didn't pass through here. It headed toward Guangdong Province, so we weren't affected."
They had only printed it afterward, in a tiny space in a corner at that. He had nearly needed a magnifying glass to find it.
"If it didn't pass through here, how does that count? There's definitely a typhoon coming this time," Lan Da said beside them.
"Probably. The wind only picked up yesterday afternoon. Who knows if we'll be affected this time?"
"Of course we'll be affected. Look at those waves rolling out there. We just don't know whether it'll pass through here, or how strong it'll be."
Ye Yaodong remembered how encountering that enormous whale shark yesterday had left his nerves so tightly strung and his emotions swinging so wildly that he had come straight home without even hauling in his longline. His longline and fishing pots were still out at sea.
Now that a typhoon was coming, he would definitely have to go out to retrieve his longline and fishing pots. To be safe, he would also have to take the boat to the typhoon shelter.
He turned toward his eldest and second brothers. "When are you planning to take your boats to the typhoon shelter?"
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