In recent years, the living standards of many families have improved, but not every household is willing to go fishing in the sea. Moreover, with the sun so strong, wouldn’t it be nice to make money by weaving fishing nets at home
Moreover, you can’t make money by fishing overseas, you can only earn enough to eat.
Ye Yaodong was walking towards home and saw only a few people carrying tools and buckets on the road.
As soon as I reached the turning, I saw several women from his family with their children, a large group of people.
"Are we going to the pier or the beach at the intersection?"
Lin Xiuqing stopped walking while holding her youngest son and answered him, "Mom said we should go to the pier. Some of your friends want to go fishing with you, and they are waiting at the door."
"Got it, you go first, I'll be there in a minute."
Ye Yaodong trotted towards home. Several of his friends were sitting with their legs crossed in the shade outside his door waiting for him. They watched him running towards them from afar and teased him a few times.
"You, our Dong Ge has become diligent. He even went to help weed in such hot weather?"
He stood in the shade of the tree, panting, and fanning himself with his hands. "Shouldn't I contribute to my own new home?"
Ah Zheng said righteously: "When will the construction start? If you need help, let us know and we will go and lend a hand."
"You don't do your own housework, but come to work for me. Your mother will beat you with a mallet!"
"No, my mother would only praise me for being diligent! Besides, we are brothers, and if anything happens in my family, you will lend a hand."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes and muttered to himself: A loving mother often spoils her child.
Forgot that I am also a loser!
"Okay, I'll call you when I need you. Do you have all the tools? Wait for me, I'll go into the house to get a hook and a bucket, and also a hat, it's too sunny."
"Hurry up, or they will be picked up by others."
"immediately!"
He ran in but couldn't find the hook, so he took a pair of fire tongs and ran out again in a hurry. The old lady was holding a bamboo tube and calling out behind him, "Dongzi, bring the tea."
He turned back and took the bamboo tube from the old lady, "Thank you, grandma. Go back now! Just sit inside or outside the door to enjoy the cool air. Don't go to the backyard. If the ground is wet, be careful because your feet may slip."
"Hey, good~"
"I'm leaving!"
A group of five people, each carrying a bucket filled with tools, walked excitedly towards the dock.
Xiao Xiao said excitedly, "It seems like we haven't gone to the ocean to play for two years."
Ah Zheng reminded, "It's more than that, isn't it? We haven't been there much since you guys got married one after another."
"It's okay, let's relive our old days today and walk quickly." Ye Yaodong was full of hope for his new life at this moment, and he seemed quite positive.
Seeing how fast he was, everyone quickened their pace to catch up.
When we arrived at the pier, there were already quite a lot of people on the beach below, young and old, and his family was the largest!
Moreover, the adults were distracted and yelling, not allowing the children to go out beyond the tide and only allowing them to play on the beach.
When Ye Yaodong's two sons saw him coming, they called out loudly, "Dad! Dad! Mom, Dad is here too!"
Lin Xiuqing looked up at the person who had arrived late. It was good that he hadn't teased her by the pillow last night. "Got it. You guys just play next to me and don't run around."
Mrs. Ye couldn't help but say, "Yaodong has been very diligent these past two days!"
"Who knows how long it can last? Maybe he hasn't come to the sea for a long time, so it might be new for the time being." Mrs. Ye pouted. She didn't believe that Ye Yaodong would become a good person all of a sudden. After all, it's hard to change one's nature!
"At least it seems to have been adjusted. It's not like before when I was always away from people."
"If he doesn't work harder and take more responsibility, who will support him after the family splits up?"
When Ye Yaodong approached, he also heard the discussion of his two sisters-in-law. He couldn't help but frowning. Women just talk too much!
"Dad, where are you going? Mom said not to go below the tide."
"I'm going to catch fish and crabs, you guys just play here and help dig for clams, but you're not allowed to follow me."
Several children stopped abruptly and could only watch him walk down. They also wanted to go down and play. If there were no adults around, they would have gone swimming. What a pity.
"Let's split up and see who catches more."
"Can!"
This kind of luck-seeking method of finding crabs, fish and shrimps is not as fast as Ye's mother and her friends digging clams, so few people take the time to look for them, except for the few of them who have nothing to do anyway.
Ye Yaodong also tasted the sweetness of catching two blue crabs yesterday, and now he walked directly towards the place where there were rocks around.
He moved a large rock with the tongs in his hand, and a surprise appeared as he expected, a big nine-segmented shrimp!
"Hey, I found a nine-segmented shrimp! This is the first prize!" He quickly picked up the still jumping nine-segmented shrimp and showed it to others.
Several people turned around and said, "We are lucky. We have caught something right after we came down, and it is a nine-segment shrimp!"
The nine-segment shrimp is large in size and has a beautiful appearance. It has deep and shallow horizontal lines on its body and a pattern on its tail. After being cooked, it has nine obvious white patterns. The meat is fresh and elastic, and is very popular. Ye Yaodong himself likes to eat it as well. He picked up a good start as soon as he came out and was very satisfied.
"I'm jealous, I want to catch a few more," Xiao Xiao was full of motivation and kicked a stone at the side. "Huh~ jumping fish? I didn't expect that I could get something just by kicking it casually."
"Oh, you all have gained something, and we can't fall behind. Let's go... let's go... act separately!"
Everyone originally had nothing to do and just wanted to join in the fun, but now their interest has been piqued.
After the tide recedes, the small fish and shrimps on the seabed are easily tripped by large and small rocks. Instead of returning to the sea with the tide, they just move around in the low-lying shallow water areas and mudflats around the reefs, and will not return to the sea until the next high tide.
Everyone is very experienced. When searching, they always look for it in low-lying areas with rocks and water.
Ye Yaodong felt that he was lucky. Just as he took two steps to the side, he saw two stone crabs hiding under a big rock.
"I caught two more. It's a pity they're not blue crabs, but it's better than nothing."
The stone crab has a brown carapace with red spots, and its claws are mostly bright red. It looks like a stone, and has a very thick shell. It likes to live on muddy and stone bottoms near the low tide line, or on the seabed with lush seaweed, and most often lurks under stones.
He used fire tongs to pick up two stone crabs hiding under a big rock and put them into the bucket, then moved to the side.
Now in the 1980s, the beach in their village has not been developed yet and is still in its original state. The resources in the sea are also extremely rich. After the tide goes out, you will basically not return empty-handed if you just walk around the beach.
As for how much you can harvest, that depends on the tide and your luck.