Ye Yaodong looked at the snakes in the distance, stroked his chin, and said thoughtfully: "With so many sea snakes gathered together, we will definitely be able to catch a few on our hooks."
Xiao Xiao stared at him, "Good fellow, you're still thinking about it?"
"You can take a few home and make medicinal wine. We seaside people tend to have rheumatism as we age, so making some sea snake wine would be good."
“That’s true.”
The two men also began to look forward to it. It didn't matter if there were too many, they wouldn't be able to handle it. But as long as there weren't a lot of alive ones caught at once, they wouldn't be afraid. They could just hang a few on the hooks and kill them one by one before pulling them onto the boat. It wouldn't have any impact.
No one knew when this group of sea snakes would disperse. Ye Yaodong took out a palm-sized, cold rice cake wrapped in newspaper from his pocket. It still smelled quite fragrant. He stared at the sea and took a big bite.
The two people next to him smelled the fragrance, turned their heads in unison, and asked in unison: "Why do you still have rice cakes to eat?"
He said proudly: "My wife loves me and was afraid that I would be hungry at sea, so she bought two rice cakes yesterday and fried them this morning for me to eat on the boat at noon."
The two of them frowned so hard that they could almost pinch a fly to death. They looked at him with contempt, as if he thought everyone had a wife.
But why didn’t their wives prepare anything for them
Damn, can’t I even be better than my wife
Ye Yaodong felt that the cold rice cake in his hand was more fragrant, so he chewed it more vigorously and ate it in big mouthfuls with smacking sounds.
The two people next to him looked even hungrier, and their eyes were like knives that might cut him fiercely, but Ye Yaodong pretended not to see anything and looked even more complacent.
"Ah, snake, snake~"
Xiaoxiao suddenly jumped up in fear, pointing at the sea in front of him and screaming. Ye Yaodong was so scared that his hands shook, and he immediately stepped back, almost losing his grip on the rice cake in his hand.
But in the end, nothing happened, and the two guys next to me were slapping their thighs and laughing.
Ye Yaodong was so angry that he trembled!
"You're so mean, you almost scared me to death!"
“Hahaha~”
Still laughing
Bad friends, cut off ties!
Ah Zheng couldn't help but said cheerfully, "I was shocked."
Xiao Xiao was very proud, "There are tens of thousands of snakes gathered there in the distance, and you are still eating so happily. I thought you were not afraid anymore."
"Fuck it, damn it, get away from me."
Ye Yaodong glared at him, stuffed the remaining rice cake into his mouth in a few bites, and didn't try to tempt them anymore. It was too much of a fool!
“Haha~”
With so many sea snakes gathered together, there were estimated to be 20,000 to 30,000 of them. No one dared to work at this time. The fishing boats on the sea also gathered there to watch, and several nearby boats were even discussing the situation.
After a while, the snakes gradually dispersed and dived deep into the water.
But the seabirds in the air were reluctant to leave and were still flapping their wings in the air. As soon as they finished digesting the food, they swooped down to pick up another one. Basically, all the seabirds in the air had one in their mouths that they had not yet eaten.
Because most of them were full, they held the fish in their mouths so they could eat them later. Some sea eagles even had one or two fish in their claws.
The ships gathered on the sea did not leave, but stayed nearby, reluctant to leave.
It seemed that there would be new things to talk about in the village at night. Fortunately, when his boat was dragged by the manta ray yesterday, there were few boats on the surrounding sea and it was only for a short time. He didn't want to become the topic of conversation among others. If the rumors spread, people might say that he had caught several several-meter-long manta rays and became rich again.
Whose family doesn’t have a few stupid relatives
The way to make money is to keep a low profile.
The fishing boats hovered in the sea for a long time, and only after they found that the blue-ringed sea snakes would not gather again did they reluctantly return to their respective sea areas.
They were afraid, but also wanted to see it, and were reluctant to leave, and the same was true for Ye Yaodong and the other two!
After waiting for a long time, the three of them looked at each other.
"Let's go and get to work. See if we can get a few fish on the hook."
"Add a few more!"
After saying this, Ye Yaodong also rowed the boat to find his buoy.
People have their ups and downs, but once luck comes, it cannot be stopped.
When he reeled in the first hook, he saw the blue-ringed sea snake struggling hard, its tail curled and twisted constantly, which was a bit scary.
He was actually quite afraid of snakes, and this sea snake was actually very poisonous, but he was afraid but he still had to catch it. How could he not want to catch it now that it had been hooked? He was originally hoping to catch a few more to soak in medicinal wine.
He was not in a hurry to catch the snake, as he needed a container to put it in. He first poured a bucket full of fish into the boat, then freed up the bucket to prepare to put the sea snake in.
The blue-ringed sea snake struggled and twisted on the water, creating small waves. Ye Yaodong picked it up with a grin and a look of disgust, holding a pair of scissors in his other hand.
He straightened his body, stood further away, stretched out his hand and aimed the snake at the bucket. Without waiting for the hook to be unhooked, he simply cut off its head with a single click.
The snake's blood spurted out and splashed all over the deck, but fortunately he was far away and was not splashed.
A sea snake without its head cannot be sold for money. Only a living blue-ringed sea snake is valuable. However, he doesn't have the ability to catch a living one. He is afraid of snakes. Removing the hook is a big problem. If he is bitten by accident, he will be ruined.
Anyway, he wasn't going to sell it for money, so it would be safer to just remove the head.
Ye Yaodong was holding the branch line far away in his hand. The snake head hanging on the hook was still opening its mouth, waiting to bite someone at any time.
He had heard too much news in his previous life. A snake head without a body could still explode and bite people if thrown aside.
The snake in the bucket was still wriggling and tangling, which looked a bit scary, and there was blood everywhere in the bucket.
After waiting for a while, the snake head on the hook did not move. He put the hook into the sea and shook it again, but saw that the snake head was still active and moved twice.
Damn, luckily he was very alert, so he simply cut the fishing line and threw away the fish hook. He would go home and fix it, otherwise if the fish struggled to survive and took a bite, it would be a waste of time.
The next few fish hooks were empty, probably because they were scared by the blue-ringed sea snake and all the nearby fish ran away.
He continued to slide the boat forward and pulled in a few more branch lines. Fortunately, he was still able to catch a few yellow croakers.
At this time, he pulled the fishing line and used the buoyancy of the sea water to pull up another manta ray. After yesterday's experience, he reached out and grabbed the nose of the manta ray without any martial ethics, pulled it ashore, cut off its tail and threw it back into the sea. This one was not very big, only about eight pounds, so it was easily pulled ashore.
Immediately afterwards, the next hook was actually another blue-ringed sea snake.
He followed the same method, cut off the head, then put the line back into the sea and cut off the branch line with scissors. He saw the snake head struggling and swimming in the sea, which frightened him a little. It was still so active even after its head and tail were separated. The bucket next to it was also banging from the struggle.
Scary!
I remembered the news I saw in my previous life, where someone used live sea snakes to make wine, saying that live ones had stronger medicinal properties. After soaking for a year or two, when the wine was opened, the snake suddenly jumped out and bit the person severely.
I heard that the wine was not filled enough and there was still a little distance from the bottle mouth. The sea snake kept its head above the water, so it remained active and could suddenly attack and hurt people when the bottle was opened.
You are really asking for death. Can't you still make wine after you die
Anyway, he cherishes his life very much. It is difficult to have a second chance in life, and the experiences in his previous life remind him to cherish it.
He reeled in the lines one after another, but there were mostly empty hooks. A fish would be caught after several hooks had passed. Ye Yaodong felt that he had suffered a great loss. He had even used a sea centipede as bait. If he had known earlier, he would have fried it and eaten it yesterday. What a waste!
But when he received the fish at the back, he suddenly didn't feel like he was at a loss anymore. The bait with the sea centipede actually caught sea snakes one or two meters long. The 200 fish hooks at the back caught twice as many sea snakes as the 300 at the front!
When he received the next one, the bucket was almost full, so he had to pour out all the fish in the other bucket to free up the bucket to continue filling it with sea snakes!
Although he had caught a lot of blue-ringed sea snakes, he still didn't dare to catch them alive. Each one was one or two meters long, and if thrown into a bucket, they could still explode and injure people. Life was at stake.
By the time he had collected all the fish hooks, the two buckets were bursting with densely packed blue-ringed sea snakes, with black rings around their bodies. Even people without trypophobia would feel their scalp tingling when seeing them.
Ye Yaodong was the same, he was filled with disgust. This was much more disgusting than conger eels. Several of them fell off the boat because when their heads were cut off, they kept struggling and twisting, and fell out of the almost full bucket.
There were two full buckets lying across the middle of the boat, and he felt pressured to go over and catch a few small fish. It was almost three o'clock, and he was hesitating whether to just return.
Looking into the distance, Zheng Xiaoxiao seemed to be still reeling in the line. After thinking about it, he decided to row the boat over to take a look. He didn't know how many blue-ringed sea snakes they had caught.
On the way over, he encountered several fishing boats returning to the shore. Seeing his two buckets full of snakes, they were surprised and asked him how he caught so many. Everyone also got a few, but not as much as he did.
Ye Yaodong directly said that the fish were caught with longline fishing. He felt that longline fishing was indeed better than other fishing nets. There was only one point that made it worthy of praise: it only caught big fish and not small fish. Other fishing nets caught both large and small fish in one net, and its efficiency was particularly high.
Longline fishing has a history of hundreds of years and has been widely used in surrounding villages. Sustainable development is particularly friendly to the ocean and there is nothing to hide.
The sea is so big and vast that he can’t catch all the fish.
After saying hello, he didn't care what others thought and rowed the boat directly towards Zheng Xiaoxiao and the others.
They were also surprised to see two barrels full of sea snakes on his boat.
"Fuck, Dongzi, your luck today is like diarrhea, you can't stop it!"
Ye Yaodong's head was suddenly filled with black lines...
"Can you fucking talk?"