Ye Yaodong smiled and shook the sack. "We need your help. It will be easier if you use the sack to carry the items. You can directly carry them to the shore. I will have to sift through them again after I finish picking them up."
Xiao Xiao asked as she picked them up: "When did you find this? You've already picked up almost a boatload of them."
"In the morning, I thought that the fish and shrimp in the traps would die after being left in the sea for several days, so I thought I could go out and see if I could get the fish in the traps. I didn't expect to see so many starfish eating here."
"Damn, this densely packed area is really fucking crowded..."
"Hurry up and pick them up. Although this stuff is extremely cheap, there is not enough of it. I picked it up for free. I can take it home to dry it or soak it in wine..."
Ye's mother and the others nearby were also happily discussing, "This thing appeared once many years ago. At that time, all the sand clams on the entire beach were eaten by them. When the tide receded and the beach was exposed, except for the starfish, the rest were empty shells."
Sister Ye also said excitedly: "I remember that when I was a girl, my whole family came out to pick up..."
"Not just the whole family, the whole village is picking up the trash on the beach..." Mrs. Ye said as she picked up the trash nimbly. In just a short while, she had already picked up half a bag and was grinning from ear to ear.
"Live by the sea, eat by the sea. These strange things appear on the beach from time to time. Who knows when these things will appear again?" Father Ye smiled and shook the sack, then bent down to pick them up again.
The whole family was happily talking about...
Before long, each of their sacks was about 70% full, and then they helped each other carry what they had picked up to shore.
Ye Yaodong had been picking up trash for the entire morning, and his efficiency had slowed down a lot. After picking up trash for a while, he stood up and twisted his waist and neck to relieve the pain.
After looking around, the sea water seemed to have receded to the bottom and the water level on the reef had dropped a little. Most of the nearby reefs were exposed, and the starfish on the surface had been picked up by everyone. Only those in the distance that were covered by the sea water had not yet been waded over to pick up.
The water level on the beach was only up to the calves, but Ye's mother, who was quick with her hands and feet, had already leaned over to pick it up in the water.
At this time, Ye Yaodong felt something was wrong. Where was his second sister-in-law
He looked towards the shore, only to see his sister-in-law sorting out the sack, looking into the distance and then quickly running back inside...
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He didn't believe that the two of them went to the toilet!
He raised his head, and before he could even look away, he heard a noise coming from the shore. Within two minutes, a group of men, women, and children ran into his field of vision...
Ye Ersao ran in front and led the way. Looking at the group of people on the reef who were looking up at her, she urged the people behind her to hurry up without caring, and then she climbed down first.
Mother Ye stared at her angrily, "What's wrong with you?"
"Ah? Haha, mother, I just don't want to think about so many starfish. We don't know when we will pick them up. My mother's family is not an outsider, so I will run back and ask my family to come and pick them up together." Ye Ersao smiled apologetically, "I just saw my eldest sister-in-law also went back to ask her family to come and pick them up."
Mother Ye looked at her in-laws coming down from the shore, and she didn't know what to say, so she had to put on a smile and greet them...
Less than five minutes later, another group of people appeared on the shore...
This time it’s Mrs. Ye’s family.
Then, within ten minutes, another large group of people appeared on the shore. This time, they were the family members of their sister-in-law’s family…
Another half hour later, the pier reefs were already full of people...
Ye Yaodong looked speechlessly at the people around him who were sticking their butts out and stretching their hands. Fortunately, he had been picking up things for the whole morning.
"Adong?"
He heard someone calling him, and looked toward the shore, only to see his wife holding a lunch box and waving at him.
Suddenly, tears of emotion flowed down his face. It was his wife who loved him and knew that he was hungry and had no food to eat, so she came out to bring him food.
It just so happened that the sack in his hand was full, and he had long ago temporarily covered the half boat of starfish behind him with the sacks, just to hide it a little bit so as not to be too conspicuous and attract envy.
Although it can't be covered too tightly, at least it's not that conspicuous.
He closed the mouth of the sack, pinched it, then carried it on his shoulder and walked up.
"Have you eaten? You ran out, where are the two children?"
"I was waiting for you to eat, but you didn't come back. Mom hurried back from the dock and told me you were picking up starfish, so I quickly fed them both. After they finished eating, I sent them to the old house for the old lady to watch for a while, and then I came to bring you food."
"Well, I'm hungry too."
He put a sack of starfish next to his cart, and took off his raincoat and put it on the cart. The rain had stopped by then.
Then he took the lunch box from her hand and started eating quickly with Kuaizi, drinking tea while eating, to finish the meal quickly.
There were more and more people at the dock, all of them were villagers who had heard the news.
There were no secrets in the village. They were all relatives, and the news spread from one person to ten people, and from ten to a hundred. It was less than an hour since his family came, and most of the people in the village had come out, and people from the neighboring village had even come after hearing the news.
He ate all the food in the lunch box and handed it to Lin Xiuqing. He looked around and said, "There are people everywhere here now. You can help watch over it for a while. My family members are picking up the food downstairs. Don't let others take it away just as you bring it up."
Anyway, it's not suitable for her as a pregnant woman to go down, and she would definitely not be able to sit still if she went back.
"good."
"The boat below is covered with a sack. The starfish on the boat were all picked up by me. Be careful when you look here to make sure no one steals them."
There are people everywhere in the water now, so it's inevitable that some people will try to take advantage of the situation. He can't always watch by the side of the boat, so there will always be times when he doesn't see them.
Lin Xiuqing nodded, "Okay, I'll keep an eye on it."
Ye Yaodong patted her head with satisfaction, picked up another sack and walked away.
He felt like he had nowhere to stand. There were people everywhere. Many of them had their trouser legs rolled up to their thighs and their sleeves rolled up to their shoulders. They waded through the water barefoot and fished their hands in the sea water. They didn't feel cold at all and were talking to the people around them with excitement on their faces.
Therefore, people living by the sea are more likely to suffer from rheumatism and arthritis. The older generation likes to drink various kinds of medicinal liquor to eliminate rheumatism.
This starfish is also suitable for making medicinal wine. The middle-aged old man nearby was chatting there, saying that he would keep it after picking it up and dry it to make medicinal wine. He also said that he had a bad stomach and eating starfish could improve it...
Ye Yaodong looked around and found that there were no starfish on the surrounding stone walls unless he went outside the tide.
As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. The villagers were like a swarm of locusts, leaving no one behind.
He had no choice but to follow the others' lead, rolled up his sleeves and started fishing in the water. Fortunately, it wasn't very cold there.
The number of starfish in the diving area was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The villagers slowly moved out of the tide with their butts sticking out. Some of them even picked up some octopuses, conches and various fish washed in by the sea water.
As soon as everyone picked up a good item, they shouted happily and grabbed it in their hands, and the enthusiasm of others became even higher when they saw this.
"Ah~ I found this!"
"Alpaca, I picked it up, I even caught its tentacles..."
"I caught it too. I was the first one to see it and rush over..."
"Get lost, I was the first one to get it, you were a step slower, it's not whoever sees it first gets it, everyone has seen this red seal..."
"Fuck you, I saw it first..."
A middle-aged woman, holding a large octopus by its tentacles, was arguing with another middle-aged man, who was also holding the octopus. Neither of them would give in.
This big octopus looked quite large, probably weighing more than three pounds. It was caught in the air by the two men, and its other tentacles were moving around, waving at the arms that were wrapped around them.
When the villagers nearby heard the noise, they all turned to look over. The families of the two men also quickly put down their work, gathered around and started arguing.
The men from both families rolled up their sleeves, spitting and shoving each other...
The women were also there cursing at each other, saying that each other was immoral...
Seeing that a war was about to break out, the villagers who were familiar with each other stepped forward to help mediate and mediate peace, but the two families were still pulling at the big red seal, and neither was willing to let go.
My hands were covered with mucus, so I switched hands and continued to hold on tightly...
Just when everyone was watching the excitement, Lin Xiuqing shouted on the shore, "Adong, Adong, someone stole the starfish on our boat..."
Ye Yaodong turned his head and saw a middle-aged man taking advantage of the situation, grabbing starfish from the boat and putting them into his sack.
He was so angry that his eyes glared. He happened to be not far away, so he rushed over with the sack and punched him, "Fuck you, I worked hard to pick up the things all morning, and you dared to steal from me."
The middle-aged man was punched and rushed over angrily to fight with Ye Yaodong.
But he was punched by Ye's father who also rushed over, "You f*cking Zhang Laoliu actually took advantage of the chaos to steal, I can't kill you..."
"What are you doing? What are you doing? Someone is beating someone up~ Come quickly, eldest, second, third, fourth brother, your father has been beaten up... What right do you have to beat someone up? What right do you have to beat someone up? Don't think that we are afraid of you just because you have a large family..."
A middle-aged woman who was dark, thin, and had sesame spots all over her face rushed over, and while speaking, she pushed Ye's father with both hands and used her head to push him against his stomach.
Father Ye was somewhat restrained by the woman's pressure. He couldn't push her away and could only retreat in the water. Just then, Mother Ye rushed over, grabbed her short hair, pulled her head open, and cursed.
"You're f*cking crazy about men? In broad daylight, with so many people watching, you're trying to get your head into my man's arms. You're such a shameless bitch. You're old, but you're still so flirty. Don't you even look at the flies all over your face? How can you be so shameless..."
The middle-aged woman's face flushed with anger. She glared at Ye's mother fiercely and stretched out her hand to scratch her face. "You old woman who spews shit all over your mouth, who cares about your old man..."
"You don't want it, why do you crawl into his arms? She's so ugly, but she's actually quite coquettish. No wonder she can give birth to a litter..."
Mother Ye is not one to shy away from trouble. Whenever someone comes to her door to provoke her, she always scolds them back first and then asks the reason. She has eight brothers and sisters, and they all live in the same village!
The villagers watched the dramatic scenes on both sides, and they felt that their eyes were almost not enough to watch. Before the previous scene was over, fighting had already started here. Looking back at the other side, fists had also started to fight...