There were quite a few fish surrounding the entire hull of the boat. The family didn't pick them up for a while before they straightened up and beat their backs, and then bent down to pick them up again.
Ye Yaodong started picking it up from outside. After all, the tide would rise soon. It would be a pity if the tide was pushed back into the sea by the sea water.
After picking up a full basket, he pulled the bamboo basket forward, carried it on the boat with his father, and then picked up an empty basket again.
The family of four were completely selfless when picking up, and they were so happy that they had long forgotten what happened before.
By the time they had picked up almost all the fish around the boat, the tide was rising little by little.
Ye's father suffered from rheumatism for several days and did not dare to walk too far. Seeing that he had almost picked up, Ye Yaodong asked his father to get on the boat and pile up the baskets of husband and wife fish, leaving a little bit behind.
They just pick it up.
An hour passed until all the fish were wiped out, and everyone's backs could no longer straighten.
After the last basket of goods was loaded onto the boat, Ye Yaodong twisted his waist and sighed, "This is all hard-earned money..."
"Otherwise, do you think it's so easy to make money? It's been pretty good these past few years. You see, in the past few years, when we were eating from a big pot, we didn't even think about making money. Then everything was collective."
"Yes, life is much better now", Father Ye also agreed, "I think back then..."
"Don't think about the past..." Ye Yaodong interrupted his father's reminiscing about the past. How could he have time to listen now?
"The tide is coming up. Let's carry all the shellfish we just dug onto the boat. Otherwise, the water level will be too full later and it will be difficult to move them, and it will be even harder to walk on the rocks."
"Yes, yes, let's move it onto the boat first."
Ye Mu said with some pity: "It seems it's still early, should I go dig some more?"
"It's getting late, it's past two o'clock. I have to collect a longline and a sticky net later. It will be four or five o'clock when I finish collecting, so it's almost time."
"It's so fast. I feel like I didn't do much today..."
"Isn't your waist sore? Isn't your back hurt?" Ye Yaodong looked at his mother holding her waist with one hand and still saying that she didn't do anything today?
The boat is almost full, and you still say you haven’t done anything?
The older generation are really capable!
"A little bit, I just feel like time flies by very quickly."
"Isn't that right? When there is work to do, doesn't time pass by very quickly?"
After Ye Yaodong waited for his father to pile up all the goods in the corner, they got off the boat and moved them together. Ye's mother and Ye Huimei were waiting on the boat and offered help.
After getting everything on board, they rested for a while. After the tide rose a little, the boat was barely able to sail out.
The longline fishing did not catch anything special, it was still the bottom fish, but a lot of palm-length nine-segmented shrimps stuck to the net, which made Ye Huimei very happy.
Among the common seafood these days, nine-section shrimps are relatively expensive, especially for such a big size. There are about twelve shrimps per pound, and they cost several yuan per pound.
This net caught seven or eight kilograms of shrimp. Nine-section shrimps will die immediately when they land. They commit suicide and are the most temperate shrimps.
After entering the water, it will spit out secretions and kill itself, so that those who like to try new things will not get involved. It is quite heroic and heroic.
But they are about to dock, and they will die if they die, it will not affect them.
Ye Yaodong shook the nine-section shrimp in the basket and said with a smile: "You happen to be engaged tomorrow, so you can stay and serve it."
Ye Huimei's cheeks flushed a little shyly, but she remained silent.
The appearance now is much more pleasing to the eye. When he was on the island before, he had always been pale.
Mother Ye also nodded, "I'll pick it up later and save some goods. Anyway, they are my own things."
It’s another day of returning home with a full load. Couple fish are not very rare in this era. Fishermen can occasionally catch a few in their nets, but the boats are full of them, which attracts the curious eyes of many villagers.
When they got off the boat, everyone gathered around and asked, "Where did you catch so many fish? Aren't these things only available in summer?"
"How many baskets are there in these? I see that your boats are stacked, and every basket is full..."
"Recently, they are all about toad fish and flounder. This fish is rare, but so many have been caught..."
Mother Ye smiled and said as she carried her away: "It swam up on its own and circled around our boat in piles. They were also stacked one on top of the other in pairs. We all held on to it for a long time until our waists were broken."
It’s broken, I don’t know where so many of them came from, I’m exhausted from picking them up…”
Ye Yaodong raised the other side without saying a word, "Just fuck Versailles..."
He had never eaten this thing before, so he kept a few to try out, and weighed all the others.
Twelve baskets weighed 667 kilograms after weighing. At that time, they were not expensive at only 2 cents per kilogram, but they were sold for more than 100 yuan. There were also longline and trawl goods, which together also sold for nearly 200 yuan.
He kept the few conches and cat's-eye snails he picked up, planning to take them back and eat them himself.
When Lin Xiuqing saw the couple fish he brought back, she didn't know where to start. "How do I get this? I've never killed one before."
"I'll just come."
I have never eaten it, but I still know how to kill him.
Remove the meat without the shell, then wash the removed meat and chop it into small pieces with a knife, not too small.
After telling Lin Xiuqing to stir-fry, he didn't care. He only knew how to eat, not how to cook, so division of labor and cooperation were good.
However, it should be noted that the adult couple fish are not poisonous, but the juvenile horseshoe crab is poisonous. The juvenile horseshoe crab is also called the ghost horseshoe crab, and its entire body is poisonous.
Fortunately, they captured all the adults and released the useless ones.
Afraid of worrying Lin Xiuqing and fearing to scare her, Ye Yaodong didn't mention anything about meeting a drifter at sea when he came back, nor did he buy pearl powder to eat. He thought it was over and didn't take it to heart, and there was no need to eat pearls.
The powder soothes the mind.
But he didn't expect that he would have a nightmare at night. In the dream, his face was so swollen that his facial features could not be seen clearly, and that face was so familiar. It was clearly what he looked like when he was old.
He woke up from his dream instantly and sat up directly.
He felt that he should be thinking about it during the day and dreaming about it at night. An unintentional association in his mind during the day actually made him have this dream. It was so terrible. Did he collect the body for himself? Let the self in the previous life bless the self in this life.
?
"What's wrong?" Lin Xiuqing felt the movement beside her and sat up.
"It's nothing, I just had a nightmare."
"What kind of nightmare? You're such an old man, and you still react so badly to nightmares." Lin Xiuqing patted his chest soothingly, "It's okay, it's just a dream. Go to sleep quickly, my little sister is getting engaged tomorrow."
Ye Yaodong grabbed her hand and said, "Well, go to sleep."
"What nightmare are you having?"
"I'll scare you to death if I say it. It's better not to listen and go to sleep quickly."
At this time, Ye Chengyang also turned over and groaned. Ye Yaodong quickly picked him up and said, "Good boy... I need to hold you to pee..."
After working for a while, he temporarily put the nightmare behind him. He felt a little at ease holding his wife, and he couldn't help but put his hand on her lower abdomen, which was already slightly bulging when she was lying flat.
After Lin Xiu woke up, she suddenly couldn't sleep. "It's the second day of the Lunar New Year tomorrow, and the Chinese New Year will be in less than a month. We should prepare New Year's gifts and go back to send New Year's greetings to my parents."
"Well, okay, after my little sister gets engaged, you can decide whether to go before the winter solstice or after the winter solstice. It doesn't matter. I won't go to sea before the New Year. I have to take a break for the New Year. I'm free."
"It's pretty much the same. There's no guarantee of good weather in the coming days. It's almost the Chinese New Year and I'm busy. After sending off the New Year, I still have to wash the house and go to the market to prepare New Year's goods."
"We don't need to wash our house, right? We just moved in not long ago."
"Well, we don't need to wash our house. We just need to wipe the glass and tidy up the things. The old house will definitely need to be washed. I'll go over and help when the time comes."
"I don't need you, just take care of the kids."
In the dark night, Lin Xiuqing turned her head and looked at his profile, her mouth raised. He had really changed a lot in the past six months.
"A Dong..."
"Um?"
Lin Xiuqing turned her body sideways, put one foot on his waist, stretched out her arms to hug his waist, and rubbed her head on his shoulder.
"What's wrong?"
"nothing!"
"It's not like you're so proactive? Have you thought about it?"
"No……"
He turned his body sideways and straightened her down, "Stop pressing your belly, I'll do it..."
"Going to bed, it's midnight..."
Ye Yaodong was just teasing her with his mean words.
He put one hand into the hem of her clothes, lingering on her body, and then caressed her slightly swollen belly, "How many months have it been?"
"You have the nerve to ask how you became a father when you didn't know for months."
"Don't you women know this kind of thing well? Who is still counting the months all day long? Isn't it okay if I know it's my own seed?"
Lin Xiuqing pinched the soft flesh on his waist, "Whose can it be if it's not yours?"
"Hiss~ Aren't you being so arrogant...I even said I knew it was my own seed, but you still pinched me..."
"Then tell me how old my belly is?"
"How can I guess this?"
His wife was so spoiled by him that she even asked him questions, but he didn't bother to remember.
After thinking about it in my mind, it seemed that I was conceived in August according to the Gregorian calendar, so it should be now, "5 months?"
"A little over 5 months."
"That's right, it's mine! Hiss~ It's mine~ That's right~ Hiss~ Let it go~ Let it go~"
It felt like my flesh had rotated 90 degrees, and there were definitely two bruises on my waist. I was so spoiled by him that I pinched him out of habit.
Lin Xiuqing glared at him angrily and kicked him, "Sleep! Go to bed, don't touch me!"
"Hey...how can I say that I fell out of favor..."
Chapter completed!