The tractor was driving slowly. Fortunately, none of their family members got motion sickness, and Lin Xiuqing didn't get motion sickness either.
According to her, this one in the belly is the easiest to worry about. There is no difference between being pregnant and not pregnant. The taste has not changed, and there is no feeling. It is not like the previous two children, which were so frustrating every day. Vomiting and loss of appetite.
It must be the daughter.
Both husband and wife are so convinced.
After sitting unsteadily for more than an hour, the tractor entered Baisha Village.
Ye Chenghu, who had been wilting and chirping all the way, suddenly became energetic again when he saw the familiar village. He quickly stretched his head and looked around to see if he knew any friends?
Seeing someone he knew, he excitedly greeted them: "I'm back from my grandma's house, and I'll come and play with you later."
He was really lucky. His grandmother's house was in the village, just a few steps away, but his grandmother's house had to be taken on a tractor...
Thinking about it, he felt happy. When he got home later, he could share with his friends how much fun his grandma's house was.
A son is like a father, and Ye Yaodong could tell by looking at his expression that this boy was happy. It would make him proud to ask for a tractor together.
This habit of showing off must be corrected.
The tractor delivered them directly to the doorstep, which saved a lot of trouble. It would have been better if his second sister-in-law didn't say harsh words.
Ye Yaodong moved things back and forth into the house without paying any attention to her. Only Lin Xiuqing chatted with her for a few words and then changed the subject.
"Are the starfish gone?"
"There hasn't been much in the past few days. No one has gone to the pier to pick it up. In the past few days, people have been struggling every day. Many people are scared. It just so happens that there hasn't been much in the past few days. Moreover, it's caught up with the neap tide and the tide has receded. If you don’t come down, no one will go.” Sister-in-law Ye said with a smile.
Neap tides refer to around the 7th and 22nd day of the lunar calendar. Since the influence of the sun and the moon on the earth's tides partially cancels, the resulting tidal height is also low and is called a neap tide.
This means that the tidal range between high and low tide is the smallest on this day, the water recedes less, and the water is still very deep when it reaches the bottom of the tide.
"It's okay if we don't have them anymore. Fighting every day makes me feel scary. They are all from the same village. You can't see them when you look up and you can't see them when they look down."
"Who said it wasn't? After you left, we didn't pick it up. We just looked at it on the shore."
Lin Xiuqing said a few words, sent the two children to play by themselves, and then went into the house to pack their things. Her mother had packed a lot of things for them, sacks after sacks.
After she opened all the sacks, she saw that at some point, there was actually a bag of sweet potatoes inside...
"Oh my God, I told her we had seeds at home, and she even packed a sack for us."
Ye Yaodong was also speechless. Was his mother-in-law afraid that they would have nothing to eat?
"Perhaps you knew it would be more convenient for us to just ask the tractor to send it back, so you temporarily carried an extra bag, right?"
Lin Xiuqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Then move this bag to the corner first, and that bag of pumpkins, my God, bring me everything..."
The couple muttered words while tidying up. It was really a sweet burden. This was all the love of the old man.
Ye Yaodong organized the things for her first. He went into the house and checked the house. There was nothing abnormal inside and outside. Only when the babies were still there did he feel relieved to help.
When they finished sorting out the pile of local goods, it was almost noon and they were about to start making lunch. Ye Yaodong took one of the two wild ducks he had just brought back to the old house to give them a taste.
The old lady saw it, but she took his hand, touched his arm, and then touched his belly, "Is it good to eat at your mother-in-law's house? Are you not used to eating food from the mountains over there?"
The old lady also treated him as a child.
"Fortunately, I brought some fish and dry goods over there. The river fresh food is also quite delicious. You don't have to worry about it, old man. Look, we also caught several wild ducks there, just in time for you to grind your teeth."
As Ye Yaodong said that, he handed the wild duck to his father and asked him to kill it.
Father Ye held the wild duck in his hand and weighed it, "It's too
It's thin, not as fat as domestic duck, and the meat is probably very thick. "
"It's quite delicious when stir-fried. Add some dried radish slices and more ginger. My mother-in-law makes it delicious when stir-fried like this. She didn't have any dried radish slices, so she went to my place to get them. She packed them for me. A big bag."
"It's calm today. Are you going to go to sea tonight?"
"Yes, after lunch, I will go collect the goods in the ground cage and get some bait. I haven't been there for a few days, so I don't know if there is a lot of goods."
"I guess it's a starfish again."
Although no one is picking them up outside the pier, it is because of the neap tide, which does not mean that the starfish are completely gone.
"Then let's exchange it with Ah Cai for some cheap fish and shrimp to use as bait. I'll go see if the sticky net made by the trustee is ready later. I can use it to test the water when I go out at night."
Father Ye nodded, "Well, yesterday I was drinking with your Uncle Lin and casually said that you were going to try using a sticky net. He said that he had a roller idle there and could lend it to you. It would save a lot of effort."
"Okay, that's good. We'll move to his place later. We can take the coal stove from the old house with us at night so we can have some hot food then."
"Um."
After Ye Yaodong finished talking to his father, he chatted a few words with the old lady, and then stopped by to see if the sticky net was ready.
Sticky nets are also called silk nets. They are usually woven with a relatively transparent and fine nylon thread, and are tied with lead pendants and floats. They are relatively invisible in the water. Once the fish swims to the net, it will be trapped because of the scales on its body. The head and body will get stuck in the mesh. The more you struggle, the tighter it becomes, making it difficult to escape.
Sticky nets are generally divided into four types, namely floating nets, sinking nets, single-layer fishing nets, and three-tail fishing nets.
The floating net has a larger float and a lighter lead weight, and is used to catch mid- and pelagic fish.
The sinking net has a smaller float and a heavier lead drop, and is used to catch mid- and low-level fish.
A single-layer fishing net has only one layer of mesh, with a float on top and a sinker on the bottom. The net is better concealed in the water.
The three-tail fishing net has two layers of large-eye outer net and one layer of small-eye inner net. The internal network is long and the external network is short. The net is in the water, the inner net is loose and the outer net is tight, the fishing effect is good and there is a chance to catch bigger fish.
Sticky nets are also divided into different sizes, and different air diameters catch fish of different sizes. Generally, they are calculated by fingers, which are divided into 2 fingers (the size of two fingers side by side), 3 fingers, 4 fingers, and 5 fingers. Generally, the size of 3-5 fingers is enough.
What Ye Yaodong asked people to make was a three-finger, three-tail fishing net. If you want to make it, make it better. Nowadays, the ocean resources are rich, and there are still many big fish on the bottom of the sea.
After taking a look, he found that it was ready, so he made an appointment to pick it up after dinner, and then went back without worries.
The only difference between sticky nets and gill nets is that gill nets have hooks, while sticky nets do not. The gill nets are particularly lethal, but there is no ban on them yet. He plans to try sticky nets first.
After walking around in a big circle, he was about to go home when he happened to hear his eldest son bragging with a group of little brats...
"You all don't know how high those wild ducks can fly... My dad is so awesome, he caught two of them at once with a bamboo basket..."
"My cousins also caught a big basket, saying there were eight of them. We quarreled one that night and stewed one. It was delicious..."
"I also have a big tortoise at home. I originally caught two, but my father stole one and ate it. The remaining one was the one I managed to save from my father..."
"You can go to my house and have a look later. There is another one as big as a washbasin. My dad said you can't catch it. It's a pity. Otherwise, I can let you have a look..."
"Actually, the tractor is not easy to sit on at all, and the buttocks keep bumping up and down..."
Ye Yaodong's head was full of black lines as he watched the boy gesticulating excitedly, frowning and walked over, picking up his collar.
"What are you talking about? You're so excited? You went home for dinner and you're still bragging here!"
"Dad, let me go, I'll go on my own..."
He struggled and twisted, but couldn't open it no matter what, and was dragged further and further away. He had no choice but to shout to his friends resignedly: "You guys will come to my house later to see the tortoise. My dad said it's called a turtle, but... fun
..."
I'm going to fuck this brat...
"Dad, please let go, stop dragging me, I'll go by myself..."
Ye Yaodong knocked him on the head, "Walk faster, I'll beat you up when I'm dragging you back, why are you talking so much? You keep talking, my brother is at home, he's running around looking at me."
"He was playing bastard alone at home. It was fine. I went out to play with my friends for a while and was about to go back."
"I didn't hold you back, are you willing to go back?"
They were chatting so happily that if he hadn't dragged him away, he would have talked until dark!
"I want to go back to eat. If you don't want to eat, I still have to eat."
After Ye Chenghu said this, he ran home, leaving only Ye Yaodong staring at his back, wondering where he learned this? Now I can say anything, and still say this!
He quickly chased after him, he was also hungry.
There was no boiled duck at noon. She ate it every day at her parents' house recently. Lin Xiuqing planned to keep it there for two days before killing it.
Ye Yaodong looked at the dried vegetables and fried celery on the table, dried abalone and steamed eggs, steamed dried fish, and clear radish soup. His appetite was whetted. The river delicacies were as delicious as river delicacies, and the seafood was as delicious as seafood. It was good to eat them interchangeably.
When the two children saw the steamed eggs, they both stood up happily and stretched out their hands with spoons. Lin Xiuqing supported the children and scolded them.
"Why are you making any noise? Sit down and I'll pretend for you..."
"Don't just focus on eating, why don't you pretend it to them?"
Ye Yaodong looked at the kuaizi he had just picked up. He hadn't even picked it up yet. Which eye saw him eating it?
He had no choice but to put down the kuaizi again, pick up a spoon to fill the two children with egg custard and dried abalone, and then pick up the kuaizi to eat.
"Do you have a lot of dried shellfish at home?"
"It's okay. It'll be fine for a month or two. You brought back quite a lot last month. You gave some to my parents, and there's about half left. What's wrong?"
"I think the two of them quite like the food. If it's almost gone, I'll go to the island and wander around again." Ye Yaodong said while eating sweet potatoes, his mind also wandering.
The sweet potatoes grown by my father-in-law are bright red and quite sweet when cooked. He thought that when he had time, he could collect the sweet potatoes at home. If there were a lot of them, it would be good to dry some dried sweet potatoes and give them to his wife and children as snacks.
"I guess all the nearby shellfish have been eaten by starfish, right? There should be no supply in the past few months."
"You can go farther away. Besides, if you still have something at home, don't worry. It's cold and windy from time to time, so you may not be able to catch the tide in time."
"It's enough to last until spring. We also have a lot of dried fish at home, and occasionally go out to sea to eat some fresh ones. The two of them don't have to choose. They can eat anything. Eggs are even better."
"When spring comes, let's see how many chicks Mom can hatch. If not enough, we can go to other people's homes to catch a few more. The eggs laid by our own chickens are more nutritious."
Lin Xiuqing smiled and nodded.
Their family has just built a stove, and there are no small animals in front of or behind the house. They are just waiting to catch more chickens to raise after spring.
