After six days of lively activities, Mazu's birthday came to an end. In the past few days, the fishing boats in their village had not even left the sea. Everyone stayed in the village to watch the show, and it was rare to rest for several days.
It wasn’t until today after dinner that any fishing boats sailed out at night.
Ye Yaodong crossed his legs, blowing the sea breeze, and nibbling the brown sugar cake sent by the village committee in the afternoon. It was soft, sweet and quite delicious.
Those people were very generous. They gave him 1/8 of a big plate of brown sugar cake. Ah Qing cut it into five or six pieces and brought two pieces to him on the boat. Let him and his father take one piece each. Eat it for breakfast.
After he finished eating, he licked his fingers again, then wiped them on 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 coming soon?"
His father is better at this job, his father is more experienced, and he still has to learn some things from his father.
"Let's drive to the place first. I don't know if we can get close to the area around the island? Are the people from the border defense brigade still there?"
"They should be there. It's only been a day. How could they be evacuated so quickly? If they were evacuated, I would probably be able to sail the boat. Yesterday, we were reminded not to go to the island area. Let's go farther away first and take a look. , if no one drives us away, we will still be active in the surrounding area."
It's a bit difficult to change fishing places, it's too troublesome.
Father Ye doesn't really want to change places. After all, they are all familiar with each other, and no one should be near that area recently.
"Then don't get too close and take a look first."
Unexpectedly, when they got a little closer, they realized that this was just their wild guess.
It's midnight or early in the morning, and people haven't gone to work yet. Where do they come from?
No ghosts were seen.
"As long as no one chases us away, you go and get a ladle of sea water, and I will dock the boat near the reef. A few days ago, I encountered a boat on Luzhou Island and left the shrimp pot here, but I didn't take it back. We happened to take advantage of the fact that the border guards were not around, so we collected them quickly to avoid being unable to collect them again during the day.”
"I don't know if it has been so many days. Has it been hit by the waves? Has it been caught by the reef below? Can it still be recovered?"
"Just go and take a look and you will know. If you get caught by the reef, I will go into the water again."
Ye Yaodong was actually a little bit ready to make a move. Seeing that after the Qingming Festival, the weather was getting warmer. Recently, the temperature had risen to the point where he could wear short-sleeves during the day. It was only cooler in the morning and evening. He wanted to go into the water and take a look.
The weather was not hot enough at this time. If he took the initiative to go down, his father would definitely object, but if the shrimp pot was hooked by the reef below, then there would be a legitimate reason to go into the water.
After a year of recuperation, the abalone on the reef below should have grown a lot, right?
There are definitely a lot of little green dragons, and I caught them all some time ago.
As soon as he thought about it, he looked forward to it again. No wonder diving activities would be so popular in the future. Even after he went into the water a few times, he looked forward to going back again.
Not to mention diving activities, I don’t know how many people are attracted by just going to the sea. The main thing is that there are rewards.
I'll collect the shrimp pots later. When I come back tomorrow, I can also bring all the ground pots and put them down together, and catch more small green dragons and sea cucumbers. When the weather gets hot, I can go into the water without fear of hanging on the bottom.
Ye Yaodong took the water scoop to the side of the boat and picked up a scoop, which was only about a kilogram. He tried slapping the water scoop with his hand, and then looked carefully, but saw nothing.
"Come on, Dad, I'm not good at studying and can't do this. I took several pictures but didn't see anything. I wonder if it's not time yet."
Father Ye slowly rowed the boat towards the reef until he saw a familiar buoy on the sea. He felt relieved. He didn't expect that it had not been washed away after so many days.
He deliberately lowered the anchor before walking towards Ye Yaodong.
"The shrimp pots are still there. It's okay. I guess the weather has been nice these days and there haven't been any storms."
Ye Yaodong also glanced at the sea, "It's good to be here, at least I can release it a few more times."
He handed the water ladle to his father again, "I just tried it and didn't see anything. Please give it a try."
"I didn't see it. It shouldn't be the time yet. It's still early and it's not the end of the month yet."
"Look, maybe I can't get this. Just try. It's only a few days before the end of the month. It could be earlier or later."
"Um."
Father Ye, like Ye Yaodong, hit the water ladle with his hand and knocked it down several times, but he saw nothing in the water ladle.
"It's not time yet. Let's take a look at it when we go to sea in two days."
Tap the container lightly with your hand. If you can see 2 to 5 light spots emitted by noctiluca 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 the time hasn't come yet.
"Okay, let's try again tomorrow when we go out to sea. If we go out to sea in the next few days, we will try it out. When we first went out to sea at night, we saw light spots everywhere on the nearby sea. It felt like we hadn't gone to sea for a few days. It seemed like There are more fishing boats again.”
Ye Yaodong also gave up fighting. He thought that maybe when the sky was dark, he could go to the island to see if there were any squid.
Before they started fishing last year, they found a lot of squid stranded on the island, and a bunch of seabirds were fighting for them. Even so, he remembered that they still picked up 200 kilograms.
"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, you don't have to worry about them anyway, let's fish here. If my mother has nothing to do during the day, I can ask her to go to the mountain to chop some firewood tomorrow. Prepare in advance so that the flood season doesn't come at once. Let's go It will take another day or two to chop the wood.”
"Ask her tomorrow. If she is busy, ask Aqing to take care of the child to her and take her to work. You can also ask Aqing to chop wood on the mountain."
"Or you can wait two days and take a look first."
While talking, Ye Yaodong went to pick up the anchor, and then moved the boat closer to the buoy.
Since the shrimp pots have been confiscated for so many days, the fish and shrimps in them are probably almost dead.
However, at least the shrimp pots are still there, and the green hills are still there, so there is no need to worry about running out of firewood. Once they are collected, they can be put down again to continue fishing.
He pulled the buoy up and pulled it. He felt relieved that he didn't feel any resistance, but at the same time he was a little disappointed. If it hung on the bottom, he would be able to go into the water at dawn.
Pity.
Father Ye was lucky, "It's good that I didn't hang myself up."
"I guess all the fish and shrimp are dead. Let's pull it up and take a look." He said as he collected it.
Father Ye was helping with a flashlight and watching him put the shrimp pots away.
I saw that there was a large bag of fish and shrimp in the fish collection bag at the bottom of the shrimp pot. They were densely packed and quite heavy...
"Ah, lobster, is it dead?" Father Ye looked at it carefully and found that it was really motionless, "What a pity."
"Pour it out first. There should be some alive. Wait for a while and pick it up when you have free time. Pick out the fresh ones and leave the stale ones back to feed the dogs. I don't know if the geese are in place."
It would be good to raise more poultry. These fish and shrimps in the sea will also have a place to digest, and the fish and shrimps in the sea will be saved from being thrown back into the sea. They are not alive and small. If they are thrown into the sea, they can be raised.
A large bag of goods was poured into the basket, and only the top few shrimps were still jumping there. The heads of some shrimps on the surface were black, and two small green dragons were motionless. My father was heartbroken.
He grabbed the two little green dragons and took a look, and found that one was no longer fresh, while the other looked like it had just died and was still fresh.
"The freshness of this one is not bad. You can keep it and eat it yourself. It won't be worth the price if it's dead."
"Catch these two and put them in the bucket next to you. We will collect all the shrimp pots later, and then we can pick them. We also need to pick the shrimps in this basket. We can keep the good ones and sell them."
It was expected and nothing to be disappointed about.
It is best not to keep the shrimps in the shrimp pot for more than two days, otherwise the shrimps will lack oxygen and suffocate to death, and the same goes for the lobsters.
Many times, this kind of shrimp pot is put out in the morning and collected at night. No matter how late it is, it can only be put out today and collected tomorrow.
This time it was really left there for many days. Damn it, Luzhou Island, you deserved to be caught.
Father Ye nodded, "Collect yours, collect them all first, and then pick them slowly later when you finish collecting them and go to trawl the net."
Ye Yaodong threw the shrimp pot aside and continued to collect another one. The second shrimp pot also had a lot of quantity. It looked like there were seven or eight kilograms in the fish collection bag. There were fish and shrimps. In the past five or six days, it looked like there were too many shrimps in it. No less catches.
It's a pity to have such a large amount. He estimates that when he collects them all, he will be able to collect a hundred catties of shrimps and a lot of miscellaneous fish, all worth dozens of dollars.
Father Ye watched his shrimp pots being collected one after another. The basket at his feet was getting fuller and fuller, and he felt more and more distressed.
"There are so many, I don't know how many kilograms of fresh ones I can pick out. I just looked at the fish and most of them are smelly. I don't think there are many shrimps left. I don't have many chickens and ducks at home, so I probably won't be able to eat them all." "
"If you can't eat it, then leave it alone. We'll use longlines as bait tomorrow. Are you afraid that you can't digest it? Didn't Mom go buy geese today?"
"Isn't this a pity? It's all money."
"It's a pity when you think about the boat we got for free. I also have another boat at a low price, and I made a lot of money."
Father Ye chuckled twice, "That's okay if you think so."
"Originally, at least there are two lobsters that are still alive and two that are dead, but they are still fresh. Don't let the children eat them. We adults can just eat them."
"Well, there are three sea cucumbers that are also good and can be sold for a lot of money. Let's bring in the ground cage tomorrow."
"I think so too. There is a shrimp pot stuck in the reef below. I also want to check it out in the next two days. When the temperature is high during the day, I will go down to search for it and collect it. At least I can put it out again. Don't waste it and start again. It costs several dollars to make one.”
"Wait for two days first, the temperature will be higher, otherwise it will be easy to catch a cold."
He knew his father would say that.
