He woke up on time at night, and looking at the three boys sleeping crookedly on the bed, he couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
Ye Chengyang was still lying there, sleeping with his butt sticking up, in the same unchanged posture.
Lin Guangyuan is so old, but he actually sleeps with his feet raised on the iron railing at the end of the bed
The head is under Ye Chengyang’s butt
Ye Chenghu was even more exaggerated, with both feet on the ground, but his upper body was still lying on the bed...
I don’t know how they sleep, how can three of them sleep like this
None of them covered themselves with blankets, and their sleeping positions were weirder than each other!
You won’t know until you see it, and you’ll be shocked when you see it. I don’t know how they slept last night. Is it like this too
It’s a pity that I don’t have a mobile phone, otherwise I could take a few pictures and let them look at them themselves tomorrow.
He simply carried Ye Chenghu up and laid him down. He heard him grunt and then turn over and roll inside. He didn't care about the other two people's postures. The night was still long and if they lay straight, they would move.
After covering them all with quilts, he walked out.
Generally, the rainfall will be more concentrated around the Grain Rain season. It did rain intermittently for a long time some time ago, and it has only been sunny for a few days this month.
Everyone took advantage of the good weather to go out to sea. This period of time was the time when hundreds of fish came ashore and the fish were fat and delicious.
Because they have accumulated a lot of nutrients in their bodies during the winter, and it is also the spawning period, so the fish are fat and firm at this time.
After Ye Yaodong put down the row of hooks, he put down the ground traps, and then dragged two nets. The harvest was very good, catching a large number of mackerel and swimming crabs, as well as other fish and shrimps.
With the help of the net-lifting machine, they have no effort in collecting the nets and can carry more cargo.
But he still wanted to catch sea cucumbers and abalone today. After dragging three nets, he called it a day and went to the reef. Father Ye didn't say much.
Abalone and sea cucumbers are much more valuable than these fish, and seeing that Dongzi was safe every time he went into the water, he felt much more relieved and was not too worried.
After Ye Yaodong put on all his diving equipment and snorkel, he headed straight to the bottom of the sea.
He didn't plan to collect the traps today. The time they were put out was too short and the harvest was very mediocre. The harvest from each trap was only a few. The number he had put out was very small in the first place, only one row.
He planned to wait until tomorrow to collect the traps. If the weather was bad, he could come back two or three days later to collect the traps. It wouldn't be a big problem as there were reefs nearby and the traps would get stuck there once they were put down. The chance of them being washed away by the waves was relatively small.
If he leaves it there for a day or two longer, he can catch more goods and avoid getting stuck there every day. He has to go to the water to find a trap first. Not only will there be less goods, but it will also delay things.
As soon as he got into the water, he found that there were many more fish and shrimps around than the previous few times he went into the water. It might be because there were reefs around and it was difficult to drag the net. At present, it seemed that more and more fish and shrimps were gathering, which was convenient for him. If he put up the traps for a day or two, the harvest should be good.
Today he didn't need to look for traps everywhere, as he had much more time. As usual, he ignored the fish and shrimps and went straight to the sea cucumbers on the seabed, planning to look for sea cucumbers first and catch a few small blue dragons. In the last ten minutes, he would dig some abalone to fill the net bag.
Ideals are great, and reality is powerful.
Sea cucumbers crawling on the seabed like snails are easy to find as long as they are not hiding in seaweed or seagrass.
They were lying there in all black and conspicuous, but there weren't many of them. He only found seven or eight after looking around, so he still had to dig among the seaweed and seaweed to find them.
Searching along the seaweed all the way, when he passed a small coral reef, he saw many long transparent things hanging on it, like bunches of grapes.
The corals on the surrounding coral reefs are shaped like branches and are colorful. From a close distance, they look like many lively and agile elves gathered together. They will dance together with the slightest flow of sea water, causing the series of "grapes" above to sway as well.
He stopped for a moment out of curiosity and examined them carefully. These bunches of things that looked like grapes seemed to be squid eggs
The material inside the transparent sphere is very clear. If you look closely, you can vaguely see tiny squids jumping little by little inside.
Coral reefs cannot be touched randomly. It takes a long time for them to form. There are living coral polyps in them. If you touch the coral on the seabed even slightly, the coral will die immediately. Some types of corals are poisonous.
Ye Yaodong has always been careful about his life and he never touches anything he doesn't recognize. Even after he identified that it was squid eggs hanging on it, he didn't move it.
Now that the eggs have been laid, of course we should let them hatch naturally.
At the same time, he was thinking in his mind that it seemed to be the squid spawning season now, and these squid eggs should not have been laid for long.
The squid fishing season is from the end of April to May, which is just the time for it to spawn!
Thinking this in his mind, he went to look for traps around and saw a few squids moving around in the trap closest to him. He was a little tempted, but now was not the time for him to think.
These traps can be collected tomorrow, so leave more nets.
A lot of time had been wasted looking for sea cucumbers and catching small blue dragons before, and now he had to dig abalone to fill the net bag.
He dug with familiarity, and when the pit was seven-tenths full, he would quickly float up, and his timing was perfect every time.
While Ye was in the water, his father used a coal stove to cook a pot of seafood noodles so that he could eat it when he got ashore.
I had been busy trawling the nets to pick up goods and had no time to prepare food and drinks.
After he got ashore, he poured all the catch from the net bag into the basket, and then said to Father Ye while eating noodles: "It seems that it is the squid fishing season recently. I saw some squid eggs on the coral reefs on the seabed."
Father Ye nodded and said, "It's almost the squid fishing season. Let's go back and get some branches to tie together and throw them on the seabed. We can catch more squids while the squid fishing season is here."
"Yeah, that's what I thought. I'll go to the mountain and cut some more branches when I get back."
Squids usually like to swim in the open sea. In late spring, they swim in groups to the near sea to lay eggs.
It likes to lay its eggs on coral reefs or tree branches, hanging them like bunches of grapes.
So they can bundle things like branches into bundles and throw them into the sea to lure squids to lay eggs. When schools of squids swim over to lay eggs, they will set up nets to catch them.
Ye's father is an old fisherman and knows better than him how to catch squids with branches. This is a traditional method. Ye Yaodong knows it but has never done it.
After he finished one bowl, he scooped up another. There were a lot of sword shrimps and mantis shrimps in it, which were very fresh. He even drank up the soup before putting the bowl down.
"These squids die after laying eggs. Let's go to the nearby island when the tide goes out at 3-4 o'clock."
Ye's father had no objection, as the third son was already a qualified fisherman.
After eating, Ye Yaodong rested for a while before diving into the water again. He repeated this three times before retrieving the hooks and taking a break. Diving is also a physical job.
Fortunately, there were people who could help and they took turns working. It was Ye's father who was busy collecting the hooks, and he was watching from the side.
This time they caught a lot of sandworms, and ended up reaping a lot of squids, black snappers, and a lot of horse mackerel.
Each of the mackerel weighs more than five or six kilograms and is very fat. Now is their spring breeding season.
When pulling a branch line from the back, Ye's father was struggling, so Ye Yaodong came forward with a hand-held net to help. It was a 20-pound horse mackerel, nearly one meter long, and it struggled violently when it came ashore.
Father Ye fought with it for a long time before pulling it to the side of the boat and scooping it up.
They were both very happy, "This one is big enough!"
"It can be sold at a good price."
"Let's get the last bit of the hook back and go to the reef and catch some more before we go back."
Father Ye hesitated and asked, "How about I go in the water later?"
"ah?"
"I'll replace you so you don't get overwhelmed."
My biological father is still the best, he is my biological son.
Ye Yaodong shook his head. "That's diving, not a joke. The deeper you go, the greater the air pressure. If you don't have someone to accompany you in the water, and you're not familiar with this, it will be dangerous. I'll go in, and you can stay on the shore."
"You knew it was dangerous, but you still jumped down. It took you so long to get down there. What a waste..."
"Yes, because I am sure." Ye Yaodong interrupted his father's muttering.
If you don't interrupt him, he can rant for a long time. I don't know if it's because he has lived with his mother for a long time, but sometimes they are exactly the same.
After collecting all the hooks, Ye Yaodong drove the boat towards the reef. However, when passing near the Oarfish Island, he saw many white unidentified objects on the beach from afar.
And as the waves receded, many white figures were brought onto the beach from the shallow water.
He has already regarded this place as his lucky island, and this sea area as his lucky sea.
Recalling his previous discovery, he turned the boat around and headed for the island.
"Those are squids, right?" Ye's father also saw it and guessed.
"should be."
Squids grow fast and can only live for about one or two years, dying after laying eggs.
It was low tide and the water level on the beach was very shallow, so he could only moor to the side. Then he and Ye's father got off the boat with their tools and prepared to wade toward the beach.
As soon as they entered the water, the father and son discovered that the white things around them that were surging with the tide were indeed squids. As the tide receded, they were stranded on the beach.
Ye Yaodong happily picked up the hand-held net and scooped up one to take a look. It was dark white in color. He smelled it and it had a faint fishy smell. Then he handed it to his father.
“Still fresh.”
Father Ye also smelled it and touched its belly. The meat was full and elastic, and the bone plate on its back was intact. He said happily, "Hurry up and pick it up. The tide is just going out."
"Let's go to the beach first. There are quite a few there."
The two men waded upstream, and Ye Yaodong handed one of the sacks in the bucket to his father as they walked.
“I feel like I can’t pick it up…”