Ye Yaodong ate a big bowl of pumpkin porridge sprinkled with sugar without any other dishes.
All the dishes at the banquet yesterday were eaten up, with nothing left. It was a rare opportunity for everyone to have good food, so they ate to their heart's content. There was basically no delicious food left, as most of the dishes were finished.
The tables, chairs, benches and bowls were all rented. After cleaning up yesterday, Ye's father pushed them over on a cart to return them. There was nothing for him to do today. He just had to close the net and go back to his hometown to settle the accounts.
After he finished eating the pumpkin porridge, he told Lin Xiuqing to just stay at home and look after the children, not to walk around, and to wait until he came back to fetch water.
Although she had always done the work of fetching water and chopping wood while she was pregnant in her previous life and nothing happened, but it is better to be safe than sorry, as many things have changed in this life.
"I know. I'm not a three-year-old child. I will be careful. You can go without worry." Lin Xiuqing handed him the bucket he usually loaded goods with with a smile and urged him to go out.
Ye Yaodong nodded, took the bucket and left the new home, but paused at the door. He looked up at the big red lantern hanging at the door and felt full of energy again.
He turned and strode out, walking along the beach towards the shore.
As expected, the new home is close, and the journey to the pier is shortened by half.
Early in the morning, the pier was bustling with villagers coming and going. Their new home was on the beach, and no voices could be heard in the village this morning. It was quiet.
After comparing, I suddenly realized that living by the beach, the probability of his wife being discovered pregnant is much lower. It was really a wise decision to choose this place!
After greeting the people he knew at the dock, he untied the rope and got on his own small wooden boat, then pushed it open with a bamboo pole and continued towards the sea to start today's work.
A new day, a new beginning.
He now has 50 traps, which can be placed in 5 rows.
He pulled up the trap with hope, only to find it was empty again
"Fuck, my dog's stuff got stolen again, damn XXX..."
Ye Yaodong looked around at the sea and cursed angrily. He had been robbed again.
"Don't let me catch you, you bastard. If I catch you, I'll beat you so hard that your parents won't recognize you. Damn it, your net is stolen every other day."
He was furious early in the morning. He was originally in a good mood, but now he was pissed off.
He cursed as he poured out the small fish and shrimps that were in there, and also threw a few puffer fish back into the sea.
Last time he brought a bucket back and said he was going to kill and dry it, and he almost got beaten by his father again, saying he had never eaten anything...
Of course, they don’t understand how delicious puffer fish is because they have never eaten it.
He repeatedly assured him that he would take care of it, but no one believed him and he was condemned by the whole family. Even the old lady was so nervous that she kept emphasizing to him that he could not eat it.
He had to give up...
In fact, he used to be idle on the big ship, and he really did a lot of things...
With a depressed mood, he pulled up the second net. This time he felt relieved because nothing was stolen in this net and there were still a few orchid crabs.
After all the fishing nets were confiscated, my depressed mood was relieved. Fortunately, only one net was stolen, so today's harvest was also good.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, crabs are fat and roe-filled, especially red crabs. With only five rows of earth dragons, he caught five red crabs and three blue crabs.
It’s a pity that one of the red crabs had a broken leg, and the new leg that grew out was only very small, so it couldn’t be sold at a high price. It would be a good idea to take it home and eat it, so that the two children can grow stronger.
Before, when there were so many people in the family, we would leave some good things for home, and each person could only have a sip of soup. Now that it has been divided, my wife and children can have a few more bites.
Ye Yaodong has always been generous when it comes to food. No matter how poor he is, he will never go without food. Health is the most important thing. The two children only grew to a little over 1.7 meters in their previous life. Although people in the south are generally short, they are both 1.8 meters tall. They must be malnourished, otherwise they would not be so short.
Just as he was about to push the boat out a little further and catch a few more fish, he saw someone not far away shouting at him, "Adong?"
He looked up in confusion. It was his eldest brother's friend, Chen Yongfeng, who also set traps. "Huh? What for?"
Chen Yongfeng rowed his boat closer. He also had a small wooden boat. "Have you finished collecting the traps?"
"I've collected them all. What are you doing? Have you also been robbed of your net?"
"Yeah, fuck it, I don't know which bastard XXX... stole three rows of my cages. It was okay a few days ago, only one row was stolen, but today all three rows are gone. I'm so pissed off."
Hearing that three rows of his clothes had been stolen, Ye Yaodong felt relieved, at least only one row had been stolen.
Most people have this mentality. As long as there are people who are worse off than me, I will feel comforted.
But he still cursed along, "Yeah, it must be someone in the village who did it. He steals nets every other day. If he's found, he'll be beaten to death."
"My brother's Korean internet was also stolen yesterday. They have been very aggressive recently, stealing internet every other day."
Ye Yaodong frowned, "There's no way to catch it. We can't just float on the sea and watch it all day long?"
"That's why it's so troublesome. Who has the time to wait on the sea? Besides, there are so many ships coming and going on the sea. Who knows who stole it?"
Ye Yaodong thought so too, which was why he was depressed.
"Forget it, forget it. I just came over to ask and see. There are still quite a lot of people whose internet has been stolen. I'll go back first." Chen Yongfeng just saw an acquaintance, so he came over to complain, and then he planned to go back.
After he left, Ye Yaodong was thinking in his heart, there were a lot of people coming and going at their dock during the day, and the people who stole the nets would not carry the goods ashore so openly, unless they had their own boat and were also setting nets. In that case, there was no way to catch them unless they were caught red-handed.
No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't find a solution. He shook his head and decided to give up. He shouldn't waste time and go fishing first as he had to rush home for lunch soon.
He rowed the boat and randomly found a place with no buoys nearby, but saw a small island not far away and quite close.
Considering that today is the 27th day of the lunar calendar and the first day of the new year is just a few days away, why not go over and take a look around
Thinking this in his mind, he took action and rowed the boat over.
I saw that the reef area around this small island was steep. It was currently high tide, and the sea breeze pushed the waves to continuously hit the reefs, splashing large pieces of water.
He walked around the island and found a scorpion-shaped reef on the east side. When the waves were not hitting, a little sand was temporarily exposed underneath, but it was quickly filled up by the tide. A red seal was pushed up by the sea water, stranded for a while, and then immediately returned to the sea, which made him itchy.
Okay, this is the point!
We will reach the island from Scorpion Reef on the first day of the lunar new year. We don't need to wait until the first day of the lunar new year, as the beach will be exposed when the tide recedes.
He saw the densely growing water spinach, Buddha's hand, barnacles, etc. on the reefs. He also saw very large juvenile clams in the Scorpion Reef, and guessed that they were wild oysters, not marine mussels.
There is an essential difference between sea oysters and raw oysters, but it is easy for laymen to confuse them, and unscrupulous vendors may sell sea oysters as raw oysters to the ignorant public.
After checking the spots, he contentedly drove the boat out to sea, stopped on the sea not far from the island, and took out his precious broken fishing rod.