Although they are not piled up like a hill, their beach area is not small, and the number of them forming a coastline is also very considerable. No wonder his mother came over excitedly and dug them all up.
In this era, the fishing volume of scallops was small. Only in the future would people gradually cultivate them and the output would increase.
It is rare to see scallops on their beach every day, not to mention that like today, they have washed up into a coastline, which is simply spectacular.
You can pick up a bunch of them just by picking them up.
Whether they are valuable or not is another matter. Large quantities are also valuable. For example, starfish are very cheap, but there are many of them. It is quite impressive to pick up a few pieces a day. It is better than working for a day. It is not so easy to make money these days.
What's more, these scallops are quite valuable.
No wonder there are no good products left at the door. If you didn’t pick them up in time, it’s one thing to be swept back into the sea by the waves. Maybe it’s also possible that these shells built a small embankment, and the terrain gets higher as you go to the shore, blocking them back.
The aftermath of many tides reduced the amount of fish washed up.
Because the beach has been washed by sea water all year round, a lot of sand, silt and various stones have accumulated on the coast. When piled up, the terrain becomes higher and sloped as it goes toward the shore.
After Ye Yaodong was surprised, he looked for his father and mother. He saw his father and mother standing diagonally across from him with their buttocks sticking out, struggling to scoop up the shells on the shore into the dust bag in front of him with both hands. After a while,
The dustbin was full, and she immediately poured it into the basket.
So does everyone else.
Everyone wanted to take advantage of the early dawn and the villagers had not come to the beach to watch the tide, so they could hug each other and go back, without even bothering to pick and choose.
Ye Yaodong squatted down next to his mother and looked at all kinds of shells, but scallops were the most numerous.
Some of these scallops have meat, and some are just shells. Many other shells are also just shells. The same is true for juvenile scallops, not all of them have meat.
I don’t know how much of the handful of beans his mother hugged was empty, but at this moment, how could anyone have time to sort out which ones had meat and which ones didn’t?
You can only put everything back as much as possible first. What you put back is yours. The same goes for taking it back and slowly sorting it after everything is put back.
He also saw a lot of scallops dancing in the water, following the rolling waves and escaping to the sea.
Although I have seen it while diving on the bottom of the sea before, it is still very funny when I look at it again. Now there are still a group of scallops running away into the sea.
Although the typhoon passed, the tide was still strong, and those scallops that returned to the sea disappeared after a while.
"What are you looking at? Quickly help install it, and then you can pick it up slowly after everything is put back. If you wait a little longer, the whole village will come."
There was an octopus that happened to be washed up by the waves. Ye Yaodong ran over and grabbed it. His arm was immediately wrapped around it, and there was a conch next to his feet.
He picked them all up and then said: "I'll go back and get the dustpan and gloves."
There are only two bamboo dustpans in the house and a dustpan for sweeping the floor and holding garbage. The dustpans were made by ourselves and used to hold sand, earth and gravel when we built the house. After the house was built, the family divided them into two, and his father and mother each took them.
If someone comes out to pretend, he can only go back and get the struggle.
I was so anxious when I just came out that I forgot to wear gloves. The edges of these shells are very sharp. If you are not careful, your hands will be cut and bleed, so you must wear gloves for protection.
"I told you a lot of scallops before, but it took me a long time to run out, and I didn't bring anything with me. I had to wait for others to tell me everything. How old are you..."
Ye Yaodong has become accustomed to his wife always finding faults and nagging about everything, just running back as if she didn't hear anything.
He was woken up from his sleep early in the morning. How could he react so quickly and think so thoroughly? What's more, seeing is believing. He had never seen it before, so how could he know what to bring?
When he ran back, Lin Xiuqing was also running out wearing a raincoat. Ye Yaodong quickly reminded her to bring gloves and tools, and the two ran back again.
When the couple ran to the beach, a few people from the village also walked in twos and threes to the beach to see if the waves were big and to see if there was anything to pick up. After they found someone loading shells at the edge of the tide, they immediately
I ran to my house and asked someone to get some things to pack.
Lin Xiuqing's eyes lit up when she saw the long arc line made of shells on the beach.
"So many? In the past few years, they were all scattered. We had to wait for the tide to recede before the number would increase, but there were not as many as today. They all washed up on the shore."
"Just pick it up. Who can say for sure when there is a typhoon? There were strong winds and waves yesterday."
"Is there any meat?"
"Look there!" Ye Yaodong pointed at the scallops that were escaping in the sea water. "They are running away like this. Do you think there is any meat in them?"
Lin Xiuqing's eyes widened, and she saw many scallops swimming rapidly in the turbid water in the shallows, following the waves of the tide as they ran toward the sea, running very fast and neatly.
It's like it has legs.
If Ye Yaodong hadn't pointed it out to her, she wouldn't have even noticed that the sea water was too yellow and too turbid.
She asked in surprise: "This scallop can still run?"
"Of course."
Otherwise, why would the company that raises scallops raise them every year and lose blood every year, only to tell everyone at the time of harvest that the scallops are gone?
"Hurry and pick it up, there will be more people soon. Be careful, just squat behind the shell and don't move forward."
"Why."
Lin Xiuqing was so excited that she quickly squatted down to get the bucket, stretched out her hands to insert into the pile of shells, and then pulled hard into her arms. It felt so good to fill a bucket in just a few clicks.
"What would you do if you don't have a bucket..."
As soon as she filled a bucket and poured it into the basket, she wanted to turn around and ask him, how could he fill it without a bucket?
I saw him inserting a stick in the shallow water, and he also picked up a stone and knocked it there to insert the stick deeper. It was strange.
"What are you doing?"
"Just pretend, you'll find out later."
After Ye Yaodong inserted a stick next to it, he ran forward and inserted another stick, and then moved forward and inserted a third stick.
The distance between the three points is about seven or eight meters, and the spread diameter of these two nets is only about ten meters.
Mother Ye turned around and saw it and scolded again, "I asked you to do some work. What are you doing running around? I didn't see that there are several people coming to the shore. Are you still running there and playing? You can't do anything.
I'm counting on you. I've been here for a long time and I haven't seen you pick up two..."
"You're fishing for yours, what are you talking about?"
Ye Yaodong was busy with himself. He had always turned a deaf ear to his mother's words, which went in one ear and out the other. He had heard them too much and was disgusted with them.
After planting the bamboo in the shallow water, he moved the water a little further to plant the bamboo in the sea. The bamboo in the sea must be planted deeper.
Although the typhoon had passed and the waves were not as violent, the water was still full and he did not dare to go too far.
After a while of banging and beating, he tied the fishing nets he had just brought out and threw them on the shore and fixed them on wooden sticks to prevent them from being washed away by the waves.
Lin Xiuqing had been paying attention to his actions, and was even more surprised when she saw that he actually spread a fishing net in the sea and lowered it.
When he came back and wanted to get the bamboo after using the sticks, she quickly asked again: "What are you doing?"
"you guess!"
"I forgot to ask you just now, where did those two fishing nets come from? I didn't see them during the day yesterday. Didn't you just bring the ground cage back to wash?"
"Landa and Zhou Laoer next door were using their fishing nets to catch people yesterday. Later, they sent their family members back in a hurry and didn't bother to take the fishing nets back. My father and I were afraid of being washed away by the waves, so we took them back to the yard first and planned to take them back today.
Take it over again."
Unexpectedly, the waves brought all kinds of shellfish ashore. When he was about to go back to get the bucket, he saw the fishing net in the corner of the yard, and he had an idea and brought it over, along with some sticks and bamboos.
"Then why did you put the fishing net underneath?"
As soon as she finished asking, Lin Xiuqing thought of the scene of the scallop escaping just now, reacted quickly, and opened her mouth in an O shape in surprise.
Then he continued: "Are you going to lay out the scallops?"
"My dear, this thing can run away even if it doesn't have legs. Just lay a net and let it fall into the trap. The sea side is a little higher and it won't be able to get out after it crashes into it."
She looked at him in surprise, "That will save trouble..."
"It saves trouble, that is, you can only net the first few meters, and there are also those that accidentally enter from the side, and those that come up with the waves. The number will not be very large, but we can ensure that most of them are meaty."
It can't compare to how fast they put it into the dustpan, but fortunately, the nets are mostly live and meaty scallops, and you can also catch some fish, shrimps and crabs washed in by the waves.
"That's okay. It'll be easy to watch and won't be troublesome."
"Um."
The main thing is that he doesn't need to worry about opening the net. When everyone has picked up almost everything, he can just put the net away.
He drew the gourd in the same way and spread another net aside.
The waves came up one after another. Even though the typhoon had passed, the waves had not receded and were still surging. He was right on the shore, but it was a bit difficult to set up the net, so it took some effort to tie it up.
Thinking that there were four rows of floor cage nets at home, he ran home to push them again.
Fortunately, he had piled it on the cart without moving it after washing it two days ago, so that it could take a fresh water bath without the hassle of moving it around at this critical moment.
He pushed the ground cages to the beach on a trolley, then moved them down one by one, preparing to place them horizontally on the beach, connect them head to tail, and secure them with anchors. Lin Xiuqing saw this and helped him move the ground cages.
"I'll take care of it. Don't get too close. There are still waves. Just load the shells on the shore."
"Oh well."
Thanks to the leader who rewarded me with "unsatisfactory grades in high school". I originally planned to update it tonight, but the second chapter was polished repeatedly and delayed for a long time, so I can only schedule an update tomorrow.
Chapter completed!