As they kept catching fish, the young men were in high spirits. They watched with great interest and cheered excitedly when they saw good fish or big fish.
They actually became familiar with each other in just a few steps.
"Adong, does my big sea bream need to be bled?"
"Let them go. I'll bleed all the fish you caught."
At first, he saw only those yellow chicken fish, so it didn't matter whether they were bled or not. He also thought they would go back after fishing for a while, so it didn't matter if they were not bled, so he didn't remind them.
Looking at their enthusiasm now, they may not return for a while. Since they have already bled, let's bleed them all. This way, they will be fresher when they come ashore.
"Thank you for your help..."
"Oh my god... Grouper, grouper, I finally caught a decent one!"
A young man didn't swear much, but after hearing people around him saying "f*ck" all night, he learned to swear...
His companions laughed and teased him, "You are so lucky, you actually caught a grouper!"
"What kind of grouper is this?"
"How would I know? I've only eaten it cooked and only seen it served on the table." He excitedly reeled in his fishing rod, took the fish off, and looked at Ye Yaodong, "What kind of grouper is this?"
"Honeycomb grouper, right? It's light brown with dark brown honeycomb-shaped spots all over its body. It likes to hunt at night and is quite common." Ye Yaodong turned over the fish and identified it carefully before speaking.
That night, he just identified fish for them. Whenever they caught a fish they didn't recognize, they would ask him. They only knew a few common ones.
"Ah? It's quite common? I thought it was some rare grouper." The young man's face was full of disappointment, as he had been looking forward to it.
"It's OK. It's still a grouper after all. It's much better than a yellowtail fish."
"All right… "
Ye Yaodong looked at the full buckets behind them and guessed that they should return too.
They all have snotty noses while sucking, but he can still hold on until now. I am really impressed. He really is getting more and more addicted to fishing. He doesn't even know what time it is now, and he is too embarrassed to ask.
He touched the fried dough cake in his pocket and found it was already cold. The oil stains had seeped through the newspaper and onto his pocket. He touched his hands and found them all greasy. He didn't know if he would be scolded if he changed his clothes for his wife to wash tomorrow.
"Haha~"
"You have a cold?"
"What time is it? It's already 10 o'clock. Do you want to go back?"
Listening to their words, Ye Yaodong felt relieved, but he finally had to go back. It felt good to come out and experience it, but no one could stand being on the deck in the cold wind for several hours.
After all, it is not summer now, but autumn. The sea is cooler and the wind is stronger than on land in the morning and evening. If the wind continues, he will have a runny nose.
Fatty, Xiaoxiao, and Zheng felt a little regretful and whispered, "Are we going back now?"
"You feel like you haven't seen enough?"
“I feel like I can still catch a lot of fish…”
Ye Yaodong looked at them speechlessly, "Don't you want to go home and sleep early?"
"Why sleep? It's okay for young people to stay up all night."
"I was just a little hungry. I only had a plain pancake with a fried pancake for dinner."
The young people nearby were also saying they were hungry, so it was a good opportunity to take the fish back for processing and have a good meal in the evening.
"Then let's go back."
"Will we come again after the old man's birthday?"
"I will go home after my birthday..."
After confirming the return trip, Ye Yaodong stopped standing and sat on the ground. His feet were a little sore after watching and standing for the whole night.
Others followed his example and sat on the ground.
"Is Dongzi going to collect traps at sea tomorrow?"
"Well, I was supposed to collect them today, but I ended up going fishing."
"Then let's go fishing together tomorrow?"
The fat man frowned and said unwillingly: "You guys are going fishing tomorrow? If I had known this, I shouldn't have agreed to help out in the kitchen of Hongsheng tomorrow afternoon."
"Didn't you want to go this afternoon, so Dongzi asked for you?"
"Who knew you were going fishing tomorrow? Fishing must be important!"
"Fuck! Do your job!"
…
After they put away their fishing rods, the yacht started to return and moved.
The young people were very happy around their spoils, discussing how to cook and eat them after they got home.
Ye Yaodong was also thinking about what to do with his five-jin yellow pomfret. He felt it would be a bit awkward to sell it to them, not to mention that they had already caught so many fish.
Forget it, I’ll ask Wang Maoquan for some more ice later and give it to Acai tomorrow.
After sailing for about an hour, the yacht returned to the Hairun Pier.
Ye Yaodong and four other men helped them carry two large plastic baskets of goods to the back door of the hotel and handed them to Wang Maoquan.
Wang Mao was stunned that the young master and his men could catch so many fish in just a few hours.
He happily gave them the reward, but before Ye Yaodong could say anything, Hong Wenle took the initiative to say, "Give me more."
"Ah? That's enough already, do you want more?"
"Give more when I tell you to."
Wang Maoquan glanced at Ye Yaodong and the others, clenched the banknotes in his hands, and reluctantly took out two one-yuan bills from each of them and gave them to them.
"Thank you very much. Could you give me some ice? The fish in the bucket has been left overnight, and I'm afraid it won't be fresh anymore."
Hong Wenle and the others were still surrounding the two baskets of fish. He turned his head and said, "Are you going to take the fish home to eat? If you want to sell it, keep it with you and let Wang Maoquan give it to you at the market price. If you have any good stuff in the future, you can send it over."
Ye Yaodong's eyes lit up when he heard this. This was his initiative, and he didn't force it on him.
"Thank you very much."
As for what good goods will be delivered in the future, it depends on the situation. After all, it is too troublesome. If it is not a good thing, it will be more convenient to receive it at the dock.
He got another ten dollars and put it into his pocket happily.
"Thank you very much. We will go back first. Goodbye."
After saying hello, the four of them walked back.
It was already past 11 o'clock at night, and the streets were empty, with no one there except the four of them.
"Dongzi made a lot of money on this trip. He earned wages, fish and became a familiar face."
"Yes, and I also went on a yacht and gained a lot of experience."
"It's not bad... Actually, I just sold one more fish than you guys. Stop talking nonsense and hurry up. It's 12 o'clock soon and I'll scare you to death."
"Fuck~" The fat man jumped three feet high in shock. If Dongzi hadn't said it, he wouldn't have paid attention. "Don't scare me."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, "Coward!"
"Hurry up."
"Damn, I didn't think anything of it and didn't pay much attention to it. But now that you've said that, my hair stands on end. I remember when I was a kid living in the mountains, I got up in the middle of the night to pee through the back door..."
"Can you stop talking? Let's go..."
"I won't tell you how upset I was. I'm telling you, when I saw the graveyard across the street... mmmmmm~~"
"Shut up! I'll beat you up if you keep talking..."
…
The four of them talked and laughed as they walked. The distance that was originally quite long did not seem that far now that they had company.
Seeing the village entrance in sight, they all quickened their pace, said hello to each other, and went back to their homes accompanied by the barking of wild dogs along the way.
Ye Yaodong trotted back to his doorstep and saw the red lanterns hanging at the door swaying in the wind. A smile appeared on his face again.
He pushed the door, and after making sure it was bolted, he went around to the window of his own room on the side. Before he could knock on the window, a small sound came from inside the room.
"Is Adong back?"
"It's me. I'm back."
"I'll open the door for you."
Ye Yaodong went around to the main door and waited. After a while, the lights in the house came on, and then the door opened. Lin Xiuqing was standing there in a vest and shorts for sleeping.
He hurried into the house and closed the door to prevent the wind from blowing on her.
"Did I wake you up, or did you not sleep at all? Why didn't you put on an extra piece of clothing?"
"It's not cold in the house, and there's a quilt to cover you when you sleep."
Ye Yaodong took off his coat and put it on her shoulders, then he put his arm around her shoulders and walked towards the table, "Are you awake?"
"Yeah, I couldn't sleep."
"Is it because I didn't come back that you couldn't sleep?"
Lin Xiuqing turned her head away and asked evasively, "Why did you come back so late? It's almost 12 o'clock."
"Well, it took a while to walk back."
After pushing her to sit on the chair, Ye Yaodong touched the pocket of her coat, took out the pancakes and oil cakes that filled her pockets and put them on the table, then took out two boxes of maltose from another pocket.
Lin Xiuqing watched him take things out like a magic trick and stared at him, "Did you really buy it and put it in your pocket? The two children refused to sleep at night and said they wanted to wait for you to come back. I had to coax them for a long time, and finally they fell asleep because they were too sleepy to bear it anymore."
"Well, the two of them were hugging my thighs and looking at me eagerly like that. How could I break my promise to them? It just so happens that I made a lot of money today, so it's not in vain to stay so late at night."
"Just give him a beating, why spoil him?"
"Did you beat them at night?"
Lin Xiuqing was suddenly speechless.
He smiled and continued to feel his trouser pocket, wanting to take out the money he earned that night to give her, but he unexpectedly touched two beads. Then he remembered that he had forgotten the oyster pearls during the day.
I was in a hurry at that time and didn't take out the money completely, so I missed something. No wonder I always felt like something was missing.
Ye Yaodong put the money on the table and two pearls in her palm, "This is the 17 yuan I earned tonight, and these two pearls were accidentally dug out from oysters when I was fishing in the sea during the day."
Lin Xiuqing widened her eyes, not caring about why he earned 17 yuan in one night. She just stared at the two pearls in her palms, not knowing how to react.
You can dig pearls out of oysters? She had never heard of it.
"It's true! I was in such a hurry at noon that I forgot to take it out when I searched my pocket. I just remembered it when I touched it just now."
“Can pearls really be found inside oysters?”
"There is a certain possibility with all shellfish, it's just a matter of probability. I have never seen anyone find pearls in live oysters, but I have heard of it many years ago."
I saw it on the news.
Lin Xiuqing held a pearl in one hand and held both hands high up to look at it under the light. This feeling was even more unbelievable to her than opening a Melo pearl.
"How much can this sell for?"
"I don't know. Just keep it! After all, it's something I opened myself. I can use it to make a pair of pearl earrings to wear later, and it can also be kept as a souvenir."
She smiled and glanced at him in reproach, "I work every day, why would I wear pearl earrings? Only the wives of wealthy families wear them."
"We will be rich in the future."
"How rich do you have to be to be able to afford it..."
Although she said this, she was actually very happy in her heart that their family now had pearls.
She held both pearls in her palms, rubbing them and playing with them. Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something and stood up in surprise.
"There's another bag at the back!"
Ye Yaodong grabbed her arm, supported her, frowned and said, "Why are you so surprised? Leave the bag in the backyard there and I'll open it with you tomorrow."
"Can we dig out pearls from that bag as well?"
"It's possible. My younger sister also dug one, and Fatty also got one. Maybe the terrain of the island is not good, and no one has visited it for many years. The oysters have grown for many years, and some of them have produced pearls."
She smiled and said, "I found a treasure."
"Put it away, put it together with the Melo Pearls, and see if you can open it again tomorrow."
She smiled and nodded, then turned around and saw the money on the table, "Oh, right, didn't you say you were invited to go out to sea? How did you make so much money?"
"Those young men didn't know anything. I showed them how to catch a fish, and they gave it to me. It was a 5-jin yellow pomfret. They didn't know how to bleed a deep-sea fish, either. We handled it well for them, and they gave me a little more money."
"very nice!"
"Well, a little bit adds up to a lot. There will be many places where we will need money in the future."
She glanced at him sideways, "You know that too? I thought you didn't know, buying this and that all day long."
"I don't want to make a loss to anyone, but I can't make a loss to you and the child. The purpose of making money is to improve life. Okay, let's not talk about this. It's the middle of the night. Are you hungry? Eat quickly and go to bed after eating. I bought extra, one for each person."
As he spoke, Ye Yaodong picked up the fried cake on the table and handed it to her. It would not be crispy when it was cold, but it was still very fragrant since it was fried after all.
She put it back on the table and said, "You must be hungry, right? You went out without having dinner. I'll cook you some noodles. This fried cake will be perfect to go with porridge tomorrow morning."
He sighed in his heart, grabbed her hand, and said sincerely and seriously: "Don't be so frugal, you should eat it, eat it, don't save it for breakfast, the pile of shelled ones we dug up yesterday will be enough to eat for a long time after drying."
"No, I just think it's too greasy to eat this late at night. I'm afraid it will make me feel sick."
"Okay, then cook more noodles and eat them together. I'll help you and go to the backyard to pick vegetables."
She smiled and nodded.
It is not tiring for a man and a woman to work together, one makes the fire while the other cooks noodles.
The couple, without letting their child know, quietly and peacefully ate a meal of noodles. In the past, when their children were around, every meal was like a battle.