After just two days of diligent work out at sea, a cold front unexpectedly arrived on the third day, sending temperatures down again.
As he slept that night, Ye Yaodong could hear the wind rattling the doors and windows with loud bangs, howling outside.
He pulled the quilt tighter around himself and tugged it over his wife and daughter beside him, but for a moment, he could not feel the baby.
He reached farther into the bed and felt around several times, finding only empty space. He hurriedly sat up, but the room was pitch-black, so he could only search the bed with his hands.
"What are you doing? Aren't you tired this late at night? It's already the middle of the night..."
Ye Yaodong: "???"
"I'm looking for the baby!"
"Huh? The baby?" Lin Xiuqing was bewildered for a moment. She reached out and felt around beside her, then sat up too when she found nothing.
"Where did she roll off to? This child won't even stay still in her sleep. Ever since she learned to roll over, she's been just like her two brothers, rolling around nonstop. We have to search everywhere for her at night."
"She rolls all over the place during the day, and we search everywhere at night. Those two have us searching everywhere during the day and roll all over the place at night."
"Where did she go to sleep..."
The couple muttered as they felt around the bed, searching almost the entire mattress before finally finding the baby at the gap in the railing at the foot of the bed.
One of her feet had already slipped out and was dangling over the edge, while her upper body and her other leg were still curled facedown on the bed.
"How did she end