Back to the small fishing village in 1982

After six days of excitement, Mazu’s birthday came to an end. In the past few days, the fishing boats in their village were not willing to go out to sea. Everyone stayed in the village to watch the big show, and it was rare for them to rest for several days.

No fishing boats sailed out until the end of the feast today.

Ye Yaodong crossed his legs, blowing the sea breeze, gnawing on the brown sugar cake sent by the village committee in the afternoon, it was fluffy and sweet and quite delicious.

Those people were very generous. They gave him 1/8 of a big board of brown sugar cake. Ah Qing cut it into five or six pieces and brought him two pieces on board, so that he and his father could have one piece. Eat it for breakfast.

He licked his fingers again after eating, then wiped his body and stood up, walking towards his father.

"Would you like to take a ladle of water and see if the flood season is approaching?"

His father is better at this job, his father is more experienced, and he has to learn some things from his father.

"Go to the place first, and I don't know if the area around the island can still get close? Are the people from the border defense team still there?"

"It should be there. It's only been a day. Why did they evacuate so quickly? If we evacuate, I guess I can go to sail. Yesterday, we were reminded not to go to the island area. Let's stay a little farther away first. , if no one drives us away, we will still be active in the surrounding area.”

It's a bit difficult to change the place to fish again, it's too troublesome.

Father Ye didn't really want to change places, after all, they were very familiar with each other, and no one would approach that area recently.

"Then don't get too close, take a look first."

Unexpectedly, after getting a little closer, they realized that this was just their wild guessing.

In the middle of the night, early in the morning, people haven't gone to work yet, where did they come from?
No ghosts were seen.

"It's fine if no one drives us away. Go get a scoop of sea water, and I'll bring the boat to the area near the hidden reef. A few days ago, I ran into a boat on Luzhou Island and left the shrimp pot here, but I didn't take it back. Just as the frontier guards were away, we quickly collected them, lest we couldn’t collect them again during the day.”

"I don't know if so many days have passed, has it been destroyed by the waves? Has it been caught by the hidden reef below? Can it still be collected?"

"Go and have a look and you'll know. If I'm caught by a hidden reef, I'll go into the water again."

In fact, Ye Yaodong is still a little ready to move. Seeing that the weather is getting warmer after the Qingming Festival, and the temperature has risen to the point where he can wear short sleeves during the day, it’s just that it’s cooler in the morning and evening. He wants to go into the water and have a look.

The weather was not hot enough at this time, and if he took the initiative to go down, his father would definitely object, but if the shrimp pot was caught by the hidden reef below, then there was a valid reason to go into the water.

After a year of recuperation, the abalone on the reef below should have grown a lot again, right?
There are definitely a lot of little green dragons, and they were caught some time ago.

As soon as he thought about it, he looked forward to it again. No wonder diving activities will be so popular in the future, even after he went into the water a few times, he looked forward to going down again.

Not to mention diving activities, I don’t know how many people are yearning for just catching the sea, the main reason is that it is rewarding.

I will collect the shrimp cages later, and when I come back tomorrow, I can bring all the ground cages and put them down together, catch more small green dragons and sea cucumbers, and I can go into the water when the weather is hot, and I am not afraid of hanging to the bottom.

Ye Yaodong took the water ladle to the side of the boat and scooped it up, which weighed only about a catty. He tried to pat the water ladle with his hands, and then carefully observed it, but he didn't see anything.

"Come on dad, I'm not good at learning, so I can't do this. I took a few shots, but I didn't see anything. I wonder if it's not time yet."

Father Ye slowly sailed the boat, approaching the hidden reef, until he saw the familiar buoy on the sea, he felt relieved, he didn't expect that it had been so many days, and he hadn't been washed away.

He deliberately dropped the anchor before walking towards Ye Yaodong.

"The shrimp cage is still there. Fortunately, the weather is probably good these few days, and there will be no storms."

Ye Yaodong also glanced at the sea, "It's good that we are here, at least we can play it a few more times."

He handed the water ladle to his father again, "I tried it just now, but I didn't see anything. You can try it."

"I didn't see it, it shouldn't be time yet, it's still early, and it's not yet the end of the month."

"Look, maybe I can't get this. Try it. It's only a few days away from the end of the month. It's possible sooner or later."

"Ah."

Father Ye was also like Ye Yaodong, hitting the water ladle with his hands and knocking it down several times, but nothing was seen in the water ladle.

"It's not time yet, let's go to sea in two days and take a look."

Lightly tap the container with your hand. If you can see 2 to 5 light spots emitted by nocturnal insects on the water surface, it means that the squid flood season has begun. If the number of light spots reaches 10 to 15, it means that the squid flood season has arrived.

I didn't see anything, which means that the time has not yet come.

"Okay, let's try again tomorrow if we go to sea. If we come out in the next few days, we will try it. When we first went to sea at night, we saw light spots everywhere on the nearby sea. It felt like we hadn't been out to sea for a few days, as if There are more fishing boats."

Ye Yaodong also gave up on beating, he thought maybe when the sky was bright, he could go to the island to see if there were any squids to pick.

Before fishing started last year, they found a lot of squid stranded on the island, and a bunch of seabirds robbed them. Even so, he remembered that they still picked up 200 catties.

"Maybe. Some people who order fishing boats will rush to deliver the goods before the flood season so that they can catch up with the fishing."

"Well, I don't need to worry about others anyway, we'll just fish here. If my mother has nothing to do during the day, I'd better ask her to go to the mountain to chop some firewood tomorrow, and make preparations in advance, lest the flood season come as soon as it is said, let's go It will take a day or two to chop wood."

"Ask her tomorrow. If she's busy, ask Ah Qing to show her the child and let her take it to work. You can also ask Ah Qing to chop firewood on the mountain."

"Or wait a couple of days and take a look."

While talking, Ye Yaodong went to pull up the anchor, and then approached the boat to the buoy.

The shrimp pots have been confiscated for so many days, and the fish and shrimp inside are probably dead.

However, at least the shrimp pots are still there, and the green hills are still there. If you don’t worry about running out of firewood, you can put them down again to continue fishing.

He put the buoy up and pulled it. He was relieved that he didn't feel any resistance, but at the same time he was a little disappointed. If the bottom was hanging, he would be able to go into the water at dawn.

Pity.

Father Ye was thankful, "It's fine if you don't hang up."

"It is estimated that the fish and shrimp are all dead, let's take a look at it first." He said as he collected it.

Father Ye was helping with the flashlight, watching him put the shrimp cage up.

I saw a large bag of fish and shrimp in the fish collection bag at the bottom of the shrimp cage, which was densely packed and quite heavy...

"Ah, lobster, is it dead?" Father Ye took a careful look at it, and found that it was still motionless, "It's a pity."

"Pour it out first, there should be some live ones, pick it up when you have free time, pick out the fresh ones, keep the stale ones back to feed the dogs, I don't know if the geese are in place or not."

It would be good to raise more poultry, these fish and shrimps in the sea also have a place to digest, so that they are saved and dumped back into the sea.

A large bag of goods was poured into the basket, and only a few shrimps on the top were still jumping there. Some of the shrimp heads were black on the surface, and the two little green dragons were also motionless. Father is distressed to death.

He grabbed the two little green dragons and looked at them, and found that one was no longer fresh, and the other looked as if it had just died and was barely fresh.

"The freshness of this one is not bad. Keep it back and eat it yourself. If it dies, it won't be worth the price."

"Catch these two and put them in the bucket next to them. Afterwards, collect all the shrimp pots and pick them again. The shrimps in this basket have to be picked too, and the good ones can be kept for sale."

As expected, nothing to disappoint.

It is best not to keep the shrimp in the shrimp cage for more than two days, otherwise, if the time is too long, the shrimp will lack oxygen and suffocate, and the same is true for the lobster.

Most of the time, this kind of shrimp pots are put out in the morning and collected at night, and it is no later than today and collected tomorrow.

This time, it was really left there for many days. Damn Luzhou Island, it deserves to be caught.

Father Ye nodded, "You collect yours, first collect all of them, and then pick them out slowly when you finish collecting and go to trawling the net later."

Ye Yaodong threw the shrimp cage aside, and continued to accept another one. The second shrimp cage was also quite a lot. It looked like there were seven or eight catties in the fish collection bag. There were fish and shrimps. No less arrests.

It's a pity that the quantity is too large. He estimated that when all the fish are harvested, he can collect a hundred catties of shrimp and a lot of miscellaneous fish, which are worth tens of dollars.

Father Ye watched his shrimp baskets being collected one by one, the basket at his feet was getting fuller, and his heart ached more and more.

"There are so many, I don't know how many catties of fresh ones I can pick out. I just looked at the fish, and most of them are smelly. I guess there are not many shrimps left. There are not many chickens and ducks at home, and I probably can't eat them all. "

"If you can't eat it, then let it go. Let's use longline fishing as bait tomorrow. I'm afraid I won't be able to digest it? Didn't mother go to buy geese today?"

"Isn't it a pity? It's all money."

"Thinking about the boat we got for nothing, it's not a pity. I have another boat with a low price, and I lost my money."

Father Ye chuckled twice, "It's fine if you think so,"

"Originally, there are two lobsters that are still alive, and two dead ones, but they are still fresh. Don't give them to children, and we adults will eat them."

"Well, the three sea cucumbers are still good, and they can be sold for a lot of money. Let's bring in the ground cage tomorrow."

"That's what I thought too. There was a shrimp pot stuck in the reef below. I still wanted to take a look in the next two days. When the temperature was high during the day, I went down to look for it and collected it. At least I could put it away again. Don't waste it. Re- It costs a few bucks to make one."

"Wait for two days first, the temperature is higher, or you will catch a cold easily."

He knew his dad would say that.