Tomorrow is the 16th day of the lunar calendar. The tide will be high around 12:00 am and will remain high for more than an hour before starting to recede.
Ye Yaodong closed his eyes for a moment, and at about 1:30 he got up quietly.
He had tried to move as quietly as possible, but the creaking of the bed still woke Lin Xiuqing up. There was a crying baby next to her. She was a light sleeper, and would wake up to touch the child at the slightest noise.
But as soon as you heard the noise, you knew it wasn't made by a child.
From the rustling sound of him getting dressed, it didn't seem like he was going to the bathroom.
"Ah Dong? You're really taking Ah Yuan to go fishing in the sea at this late hour?"
"We'll go out for a walk and then be back. You can go to sleep."
He also wanted to see what he could gain at night.
"Ayuan really deserves a beating. He only thinks about playing. He doesn't have enough fun during the day and wants to go out at night."
"Don't blame him. I wanted to go too. I have nothing to do anyway."
"It's late at night and everyone is asleep, what are you doing?"
"Shh, don't wake the child. I'll be back soon. Quickly~" He said soothingly and quickly slipped away.
He had just opened the door and was about to go next door to call Lin Guangyuan when he saw the door in front of him also opened.
"Scared!" Lin Guangyuan patted his chest and whispered, "You scared me!"
"Hush, you're quite alert."
"I was half asleep the whole time, and when I heard the door open on your end, I quickly got up."
"Don't wake up the others. I'm going to pee first. You wait for me at the door."
"good."
As a result, when he finished peeing, there was another person at the door. He stared at the two people who were excitedly whispering, "When did you become so close?"
"Uncle San is not loyal. He takes Aunt San's nephew but not his own nephew!" Ye Chenghai complained.
"You're already out, aren't you? Go, the tide is starting to recede."
One was brought, and two were also brought. Fortunately, the other little ones were not woken up.
He had already put all the tools into the bucket before lying down. He habitually prepared everything he needed in advance, so now he could just pick them up and go without having to search for them again.
The two boys followed behind excitedly, "Uncle San, do you think there will be more goods at night than during the day?"
"have no idea!"
"Uncle, have you never been to the beach at night?"
"Don't you want to sleep? Do you think I'm free every day?"
"Aren't you free?"
Ye Chenghai interrupted, "My third uncle used to be very idle, but I don't know what happened to him in the past year. He suddenly became very active and worked hard. If his temperament wasn't the same as before, we would have thought he was possessed by a ghost..."
Say this in person without any hesitation, okay
Ye Yaodong said unhappily, "Shut your mouths. If you keep talking nonsense, don't go."
"Hey, it's a bit strange to be so quiet, why don't you talk?"
"Are you sure you can come out with me and get up for school tomorrow?"
"Do you think my mother is a vegetarian? You can definitely drag me up!"
Lin Guangyuan laughed out loud, "Just like my mother. Fortunately, I don't have to go to school anymore."
"You are the best. You don't have to go to school or go to the dock to carry goods. You can just play comfortably at home..."
"Who said that? I also want to help work in the fields..."
Ye Yaodong listened to them chatting with a pout. Each one was more useless than the other. It was undoubtedly a family trait.
"You are not allowed to go into the water for a while, understand?"
"knew."
As soon as they walked down the beach, Ye Yaodong gave each of them a bucket. The two shared a flashlight, while he himself wore a headlamp and held a sack, which suited him better and matched his temperament!
"Conch, conch... Uncle, what a big conch... It's rolling..."
Ye Yaodong also saw the conch that had just been brought up by the tide. It rolled back into the sea before it stopped. He trotted forward and stepped on it to stop it. He picked it up and threw it into Lin Guangyuan's bucket.
"It's a nice, big one. Let's look for it again. The tide is still receding. Just follow it slowly."
"Sea urchin, sea urchin... there are two..."
"Here...here...the tail of this fish is still moving. It's still alive. Hahaha..."
The two of them were picking up things as they walked, very excited, and there was a tinkling sound coming from the bucket.
Ye Yaodong also picked up a black sea bream, two large and one small silver pomfret, and some large clams.
When he came to a small pile of rubble, he shone his headlamp lightly and saw a bunch of stone crabs crawling around, with a few swimming crabs here and there.
The two teenagers following beside him also shone their flashlights back and forth, and said in surprise: "Ah, so many crabs~"
"Haha, I said let's go out at night~"
"There are many rocks here. When the tide goes out, seafood can easily get stuck on the rocks and run aground. Catch them quickly. Catch the big ones and leave the small ones. Be careful not to get your hands caught."
There were many clams stranded by rocks, as well as some small fish and shrimps. Ye Yaodong picked up everything he saw and put them into a sack.
All three of them were bent over, shining their flashlights back and forth, busy picking up all the miscellaneous goods in the small pile of rubble. Their buckets were almost one-third full.
"That's a lot. You have a great beach."
"It's okay. There aren't so many goods every day. It depends on the tide. You came at the right time." Although Ye Chenghai is not very old, he knows and understands what he should know. He is a seaside person.
Ye Yaodong also straightened up and rubbed it, then shook the sack, and the bottom layer was already fully covered.
He looked up again, swaying left and right to look around in the light of his headlamp. After finding nothing, he called two others to continue forward.
"Let's go, walk a little further. The tide is receding little by little. When it reaches the bottom, we will go back. It's almost done. Go back to bed early. You are all growing up. It's too late..."
Before he could finish his words, he stopped talking and was stunned.
He suddenly saw the sea water dozens of meters ahead glowing with light. It was a hazy light, just like the one on a luminous float that had no brightness at the end. It was a large circle with a diameter of dozens of meters.
Seeing him staring at the sea in a daze, the two boys followed his gaze and looked over.
"Aha? What's that? Uncle?"
"Isn't it Blue Tears again, Uncle San?"
"It shouldn't be. It doesn't look like it."
There are many things that can glow in the sea at night, such as fish eggs, red tide Noctiluca scintillans, fish, etc. At night, you can tell at a glance that this phenomenon is not blue tears.
The dim light grew brighter and brighter, surging onto the water surface, and seemed to be moving and spreading.
It lasted for about ten seconds, and the light gradually dispersed and then disappeared.
"Gone?"
"What is that? Your beach is so magical..." Lin Guangyuan was very curious, "What are blue tears?"
Ye Chenghai said perfunctorily: "It's the blue sea water, it looks beautiful at night..."
"Let's go forward and have a look." Ye Yaodong took the lead and took a step forward.
At this moment, they all discovered that there was something crawling towards the shore in the water not far away, and there were dense noises coming from all around.
There was a lot of noise, and it was pitch black all around. At a distance, I couldn't see clearly even with a flashlight.
"What is that? It sounds a bit strange..." It was Lin Guangyuan's first time to go out to the beach at night, and he felt a little numb when he heard the strange sound.
Ye Yaodong trotted forward a few steps and shone his headlamp at it. After taking a closer look, he saw that it was a crab.
"Fuck, so many crabs?"
There were stone crabs and swimming crabs all crawling out of the water towards the shore with the tide.
The two boys behind him also ran after him and were also surprised.
“Lots of crabs!”
Ye Yaodong was so happy that he took out a new sack from his pocket and handed it to them. "Quick, don't talk, hurry up and catch them. Damn, there are too many of them. They are so dense. I thought they were something else just now."
Crabs like to come ashore during high tide, but they always stay on the rocks close to the shore. It is rare to see them run directly to the shore like this.
The ocean is extremely vast, and humans have done very little exploration of it. There will always be magical things happening.
"Uncle San, how many sacks did you bring? Why do I see you always pull sacks out of your pockets? It's like a magic trick."
"What do you know? I'm being thorough. Sacks have many uses! Bring a few more to be prepared. Stop talking nonsense and catch them quickly."
The two boys didn't say anything more. They poured the contents of the barrel into the sack and then quickly grabbed it.
Ye Yaodong also threw the fire tongs aside. He thought it was too slow to grab the things with them, so he just squatted down and grabbed them faster with his hands.
As the tide receded, more and more crabs crawled onto the shore. The three people were so happy that they kept shouting, "There are so many crabs..."
"That's a lot! We should call them all up tonight. When will we catch them?"
"Catch as many as you can. I'll sell them tomorrow and use the money to buy you some delicious food as a reward."
"No, we should share one portion, Third Uncle, you can't be so stingy! We are not children anymore."
"Fuck, you still want a share. You're so brave to even think about it." Ye Yaodong said unhappily.
"Hehe~ Anyone who sees it gets a share!"
"Okay, I'll divide it into three parts tomorrow. Give the money from your part to your mother. I'll buy food for the little ones then. Don't eat any of it."
Ye Chenghai glared, "Why do you want to give it to my mother?"
"If you want to share the money, of course you have to give it to her."
"Can't you give it to me?"
"Of course not. Children can't have too much money."
"You are so cunning!"
"Hurry up and work. I'll buy you whatever you want to eat tomorrow."
Lin Guangyuan said: "My uncle-in-law uses food to trick people into working every day. Fortunately, I am not a child."
"You're going to be eating and staying at my place for the next few days, do you have the nerve to split the money?"
Lin Guangyuan pursed his lips, "Zhou Ba Pi!"
"My last name is Ye!"
"Oh, Ye Ba Pi!"
"Have you watched a lot of porn movies?"
"Humph, I can walk several miles to go to another village to watch a movie!"
"Stop talking nonsense and get back to work. I'll give you some pocket money tomorrow if you make some money."
The two boys complained but they still worked very hard. They actively caught the crabs and put them into the bucket, then poured them into the sack when it was half full.
It wasn't even May yet, and the night breeze was cool, but they were sweating.
"Uncle San, it seems like they are running into the sea again?"
"Catch it quickly~"