Just about ten days after confinement, Father Lin and Mother Lin came to visit me, bringing some clothes and chickens, eggs, longevity noodles, red dates and longan and other maternal food that had been prepared in advance.
They were no longer the first ones, and they were not in such a hurry. They finished their work at home and prepared their things before coming over.
Mother Lin hugged the child with a smile, "Fortunately, you are already your third child. I wish you were born quickly and safely. I thought Adong would send you back after the new year."
"He is thinking about the beginning of spring. Our family will start picking tea again. It is too busy, so don't cause trouble to you. Moreover, our location is remote, right by the beach. If there is any movement, it is easy to get on the boat and go to the town.
Or go somewhere to stay for a day or two and then come back."
Father Lin also nodded, "That's right. We spent the whole last month on the mountain. We went up the mountain before dawn at four o'clock in the morning and came back in the evening. No one could take care of us when we were gone."
"Stop talking about this, just give birth."
"What's your cousin's name? Her face is so fleshy, it's almost hanging down..." My eldest nephew Lin Guangyuan also came over to play today and stretched his neck to watch.
Mother Lin glared at him angrily, "You can't say that."
"It's called Ye Xiaoxi." Ye Chenghu shouted from the side.
"Call Xiaojiu!" Ye Chengyang shouted not to be outdone.
Lin Xiuqing said with a smile: "The fortune teller said that she lacked everything, and she could be named randomly. A Dong said that the names of the little ones all contained water, so just call them Xiaoxi. There were three in the family, and she was among them.
She is the ninth among the cousins, so the younger ones call her Xiaojiu."
Jiu Mei, Jiu Mei, beautiful sister...
When Ye Yaodong heard some naughty boys calling her Jiu Mei two days ago, the melody of this song couldn't help but come to mind, and she thought it was pretty good...
Call me whatever you want.
"Then after you give birth, who will take care of you? Your mother-in-law no longer lives with you."
"She stays here during the day to take care of the washing, washing and cooking. She doesn't go back until dark at night. At night, it's A Dong who gets up and works."
Mother Lin was surprised for a moment, and then she couldn't stop the smile in her eyes, "Did A Dong change the diaper? Haha, he is getting better and better. Thank you for your hard work. He had to get up several times during the night."
Father Lin: "Didn't he go to sea at night?"
"No, he just goes to clean the cage every other day during the day, and brings back some fish and shrimps for me to breastfeed. I said I could change my diapers myself, but he refused."
When Lin Xiuqing talked about this, her face was filled with happiness. She didn't expect that he could do it to this extent.
Although he hated changing diapers to death every time, whenever Xiaojiu cried, he would get up immediately and touch her to see if she had peed or was hungry.
When he gave birth to his two sons, he had never been so concerned.
"It's a good time for you to give birth. You can have seafood to eat."
Looking at her daughter's fair and tender face, Lin Xiuqing also smiled and said: "Yes, there is fish soup every day now, which is much better than when he gave birth to his two brothers."
Ye Yaodong stayed with them in the room, listened to what they said for a while, and then went out.
A group of children at the door agreed to dig clams and pick crabs on the beach.
He also looked up at the beach to make sure the tide had receded, and then went to the village to call for help.
His boat had been soaked in the sea for a long time, and there were a bunch of spat and barnacles growing under the boat. In the past few days, when he sailed out to pull out the cage, he felt a serious draft.
In the vast sea, the most indispensable thing is microorganisms and resident animals.
In particular, there is a kind of organism called barnacles, which can attach to natural rocks, docks and dams, ship buoys, seawater pipelines, and can also attach to living creatures such as blue whales and sea turtles.
Regardless of the size of a ship that has been sailing on the sea for a long time, the bottom of the ship will be covered with barnacles, spat, mussels, etc. The longer they are not cleaned, the more and bigger they will grow.
They will increase the draft of the ship, increase the resistance of the ship's navigation, slow down the speed of the ship, and increase the fuel consumption of the ship. Therefore, every ship needs to be cleaned regularly.
When he came back from collecting the ground cage in the morning, he would dock the boat on the beach. When the tide receded, it would be stranded on the beach.
It just so happened that his father-in-law and mother-in-law were here today. He scraped the bottom of the boat to get some fresh oysters and mussels to take back to them.
He called a group of young men he knew well and a few cousins ​​to go to the beach with a few bundles of rope. They had to turn the boat over first.
A group of kids were excitedly picking up stranded seafood on the beach. When they saw Ye Yaodong bringing a group of people over, they all gathered around.
"Third uncle, why are you here? Are you also going to go fishing?"
"Third Uncle, look, we caught several crabs and picked up a lot of snails and clams..."
"I have another fish here..."
"I have sea urchins and starfish here..."
A group of children carried their little baskets as if they were offering treasures, wanting to show them to him.
Ye Yaodong smiled and reassured, "Okay, okay, go pick it up again, and I will call you for help later."
"What do you want to do, Third Uncle?"
"We are going to turn the ship over and clean the bottom of the ship. We will ask you to help us pick it up later."
"Okay, okay~"
Some people are playing, but what should they do wrong?
They all followed them towards the ship and stopped running around.
"Stay far away, don't get in the way, go and wait on the side."
After Ye Yaodong sent several children aside, he climbed onto the boat and tied up the ropes. Amid the excited shouts of the children, the boat was also erected by a group of young adults.
"Ah ah ah, there are so many mussels under the boat."
"And barnacles..."
"So many! Wow~"
As soon as they saw the boat being erected, they couldn't wait to run over excitedly and were about to get under the boat on the spot. Ye Yaodong immediately stopped them.
"Let's all go together. I didn't say you can get close, but none of you can get close, otherwise you will be crushed into a pulp later. Are you afraid?"
They immediately dispersed again.
After he was reborn, he was a little more patient with these children and would think of taking them to play no matter what.
After the boat stood firmly on its side, he expressed his thanks to a group of people. After they left, he took out the sack from his pocket, shook it, and then greeted the children excitedly.
"Come on, come on, I'll shovel it, and you guys will help pick it up in the sack later."
"Okay, okay..."
There were a bunch of shells growing densely under the boat, including everything. Large and small mussels grew in patches, and there were also green ones, but they were not as delicious as the black and purple ones.
There are also barnacles that look like small craters, oyster spats growing inside, and useless shells.
There was no red paint on the bottom of his boat, and the shells he knocked off were all edible.
The bottom of the ship is usually painted with a special red paint. This paint can drive away or kill the creatures attached to the bottom of the ship.
In order to prevent these shells and bugs from adhering to the bottom of the ship and to reduce the corrosion of the hull by sea water, paint containing toxic substances, such as copper oxide, mercury oxide and iron oxide, is applied to the bottom of the hull below the waterline.
These toxic substances mixed into the paint are all red, so the bottoms of the ships are red.
Seafood is adsorbed on this layer of paint and is generally inedible.
A boat like his is not painted with this kind of paint.
Ye Yaodong held a large shovel in his hand, looked at a small piece of densely grown mussels, and scraped hard against the bottom of the boat, and instantly a large string of mussels fell out.
People rushed to the small door on the side, "I'll come...I'll come..."
"Uncle Third, please shovel more..."
"Okay, you guys step back first, I will shovel down a little more, and you can pick it up slowly, otherwise it will hit you."
These guys are all gathered around. It's not easy for him to use it. If he shovels it, he will hit them on the head.
"Then hurry up."
"I know, it's so embarrassing..."
These mussels are not big in size, but the green ones are larger. They are all called mussels, and they are called mussels in the market. When you shovel hard, another piece falls off.
He shoveled it piece by piece, and dropped a bunch of them on the beach. His hands were a little sore, so he stopped and asked a few children to pick them up first.
He took out two more sacks from his pocket and shook them. The bottom of the boat was so densely packed, how could one be enough?
"Be careful and don't cut your hands. The edges of these shells are very sharp."
"Don't worry..."
"Sister-in-law, it's so fun here. There are so many things to pick up on the beach..."
"Is it fun? I've asked you to come and play with us a long time ago. Who told you to never come?"
"They didn't take me with them. They said I had to take the long way..."
"Ah? You came here on foot, why don't you take a tractor, even though that tractor is not easy to ride on at all..."
Ye Chenghu started talking again and again, why the tractor was bumpy... why it was hard to sit on... and he said that there was dust in his nostrils...
It made Ye Chenghai want to hit him a few times, "You can pull him down. Others can't sit down even if they want to. They can only rely on two legs. I haven't even sat down yet..."
Ye Yaodong picked it up and said, "If you think it's fun, stay here for a few days. Eat and sleep with your two cousins, and let them take you to play at the beach for a few days."
People at the seaside think the mountains are fun, but people in the mountains think the seaside is fun!
"Okay, okay... then, uncle, please help me... ah, there are bugs... so many bugs... Are there earthworms on the beach too?"
Ye Yaodong looked up and saw several bugs on the beach in front of him, which were as long as intestines and were squirming there.
"It's a sandworm! It's not an earthworm. Where did the earthworms come from on the beach?"
Others also discovered that many densely packed sandworms suddenly appeared on the beach around them.
"Like earthworms, it seems."
"So many..."
"There are some over there too..."
"There are also..."
"Ah ah... it's so disgusting..." Several girls looked at the densely packed sandworms, and they all screamed how disgusting they were.
"Hey, what's disgusting? Have you never played with earthworms? Catch them quickly..." Ye Chenghai shouted excitedly.
The other boys were also very excited. They felt nauseous and were afraid to catch bugs, but they did catch bugs for fun.
Ye Yaodong also shook the sack excitedly, "Take this to pack!"
Fortunately, he was thoughtful and brought a few extra sacks.
Chapter completed!