Chapter 482: After the typhoon passes, there will be good goods

In the evening, they continued eating and drinking at home.

The evening family banquet had no outsiders.

Wu An, Gu Anran and the old lady, the elder brother and sister-in-law, the whole Mei family, Father, Lao Meng, plus A Qing and Li Juan.

Originally they planned to set a whole table.

But as they called out, one table couldn't seat everyone, so they split into a men's table and a women-and-children table.

The food and drink were already prepared.

They were the two tables left over from lunch.

This family banquet was organized by Wu An; he went around drinking with anyone who drank with him, refusing none.

Mei Yueqin said a couple of sentences.

Wu An should nod when he should, drink when he should; drinking a lot at home is no big deal.

When he drank too much he didn't act crazy and bother people; he just lay down and slept.

Gu Anran didn't stop him, but whenever he paused his drinking, she frantically poured him warm water.

Drinking lots of water can speed up alcohol excretion.

There were many people in the family; the only child was Mei Xiaoxiao, who is young but talks a lot.

He also likes to cause trouble.

Holding a bottle of orange with pulp, he ran to the men's table, sat down and wanted to drink with Wu An.

Wu An drank alcohol; he and the orange pulp drink.

They came, they were here.

After making a round, when Mei Xiaoxiao left, she had drunk most of a bottle of orange pulp drink, hiccuping from being full.

The little kid said he'd drunk a lot.

He didn't know whether he'd drunk or not; anyway Wu An and them had drunk quite a bit.

……

The next morning.

Wu An woke from his hangover, picked up the water cup beside him, drank it all in one gulp, listened to the wind outside, and leaned against the headboard to collect himself.

The room door creaked as someone pushed it open.

Wu An turned his head and saw it was Gu Anran.

Wu An stared: 'How are you here?'

Gu Anran asked: 'How do you feel?'

Wu An felt not bad; although hungover, after waking he didn't feel too awful, thinking good liquor is different, it doesn't torment people.

Looking at Gu Anran's concerned face, he frowned and said: 'I feel awful.'

Gu Anran walked over, supported him, and said: 'Lie down first.'

I'll make you a cup of honey water.

Drink it, then sleep a bit.

Wu An then pulled Gu Anran to sit down, tilted his head, rested it on her leg, and said: 'This is comfortable.'

Gu Anran gave him a sideways glance and said: 'We're at home.'

Wu An asked: 'You didn't leave yesterday?'

Gu Anran said: 'You pulled me and wouldn't let me go; that little kid also said he's afraid to sleep alone.'

I had no choice but to stay with you.

This morning the typhoon came; I wanted to leave but couldn't.

Wu An looked up: 'Then hurry up and rest.'

Gu Anran pressed his head down and said: 'No need.'

The sister-in-law has already made breakfast; after eating I'll sleep again.

……

Hall.

Wu Ping was going to call Wu An.

Mei Yueqin stopped him: 'Where are you going? Let the young couple stay a bit longer.'

Wu Ping: 'This…'

Just as they were speaking, Gu Anran and Wu An walked out.

After breakfast.

Gu Anran went to sleep.

Wu An had planned to go back to sleep too, but Mei Yueqin ordered him to reinforce the house.

The wind and rain were strong, and water pooled heavily in the courtyard.

He was busy for half a day.

He didn't even eat a proper lunch.

Only in the evening did the typhoon finally leave.

The next morning.

It was already a peaceful scene; Wu An had breakfast and went to the dock, where fishing boats were already heading out.

A Qing followed, asking: 'Brother, are we really not going out to sea?'

Wu An nodded: 'Tomorrow is the festival.'

Wait until after the festival to go out to sea.

A Qing scratched his head: "Then should we just rest?"

Wu An watched the large group heading out to sea, thinking about how he had been going out day and night to fish lately, and it had been a long time since he'd gone out to sea; suddenly he felt like it: "Let's go out to sea."

"When a typhoon passes, there must be good spoils."

Upon arriving here, he finally remembered to check the system.

These past few days have been busy, he hasn't gone out to sea, and he only checks the system when he remembers to.

Recently, the luck value the system gives isn't much, always around 200.

He opened the system.

Luck Value: 900 (330)

Wu An froze.

How did his luck value limit increase so much after just one nap!

The system is dead.

No explanation at all.

Hu An could only guess, perhaps because the white butterfly clams and ambergris were both painstakingly picked up from the sea.

After selling them, the system acknowledged his effort and sharply raised the luck value limit.

Wu An also couldn't be bothered to think further.

The increase in his luck value limit is an unexpected blessing.

Wu An told A Qing to go home and summon Aunt Juan.

A Qing said: "My mom already went out to sea, didn't bring her phone, so we can't reach her."

Wu An said: "Alright."

"Then come with me."

They returned home.

His sister-in-law wasn't home either; she had also gone out to sea.

Father went to the village committee to work before dawn; although the typhoon didn't make direct landfall, it still affected the area, the village suffered some impact, but fortunately there were no casualties.

Only the elder brother was at home.

Seeing Wu Ping reading a book, Wu An shouted: "Elder brother, still reading that nonsense? Come on, let's go out to sea together."

Wu Ping put down the book: "I'm coming too?"

Wu An: "You don't want to?"

Wu An shook his head: "I'd like to, but I don't know how to go out to sea."

After saying that, he gave an embarrassed laugh, but the seaside folks don't know how to go out to sea; he's often been gossiped about by the villagers.

Wu An froze.

Indeed, his sister-in-law has protected his elder brother too well.

Actually, it's not just his elder brother.

He is also.

He's lazy and ignorant.

Previously, it was his sister-in-law who held up the family.

Even though he now earns money and the household life has improved, his sister-in-law remains just as busy as before.

Carrying the gear for going out to sea.

He greeted Lao Meng, then headed west all the way, passing Lao Wu's old house, where the construction crew had already started work.

Wu An didn't bother.

It's all taken care of.

Once the money is in place, there's nothing to worry about.

The construction company had specially assigned a supervisor to guard the site; seeing Wu An approach, he hurried over to greet him.

Wu An chatted with him.

His family isn't local; they are migrant workers from elsewhere.

Wu An told him that if they run into any trouble in the village, they should let him know anytime.

After a moment, A Qing urged him twice.

Wu An didn't delay further, came to the seaside, where it was a sea of people.

The seafood on the beach is so plentiful you don't need to dig; just reach out and pick it up.

There are shrimp, crabs, fish, sea snails, plenty of octopus; many kids chase after the octopus to play, having a great time.

Wu An didn't linger, taking A Qing and his elder brother straight to the tidal flats.

A Qing asked: "Shall we go catch blue crabs and crab tigers?"

Wu An casually said: "Either is fine."

"Let's go farther this trip."

"Catch whatever we encounter."

Tomorrow is the festival; if we prepare some of the seafood we caught ourselves, wouldn't that be wonderful?

There are also not a few people on the tidal flats; seeing Wu An and A Qing, they all followed along.

A Qing seeing so many people following, felt somewhat annoyed.

Wu An walked in front; they're all from the same village, so whoever wants to follow can follow.

Previously he might have still cared a bit, but now he won't; after all, he's also a second-generation villager.

One needs to have breadth of vision.

Moreover, these people following along—without the Luck Value boost, their harvest would also be quite limited.

The villagers who followed along greeted enthusiastically; seeing Wu An walk far off, some people quietly teased Wu Ping.

They said Wu Ping is a teacher at school, but on this tidal flat they could be his teachers.

Tell Wu Ping not to stand on ceremony—ask anything he doesn't understand.

Wu Ping gave an awkward smile; since they were just joking, he didn't want to turn sour.

After walking about two kilometers inland, the crowd thinned considerably—only four or five people remained following.

Wu An casually pointed and said, "Fine, let's dig around here."

He glanced over.

There are quite a few holes.

They come in various sizes.

Wu An scratched his head: "A An, how do we dig this?"