The timing was very good. When the second net was pulled up, there was no doubt that this time the entire net was mostly skinned fish, more than 200 kilograms, with only a small portion of miscellaneous fish, shrimps and crabs, and some horse mackerel.
It’s a heavy weight, but fortunately we have a net lifting machine.
"Wow, this net is much heavier than the previous one with the mackerel, and there are so many of them."
"This is the benefit of encountering a school of fish. You can catch a lot of fish with one net, which is better than catching some groceries."
As they talked, the two men poured out the goods and then packed up the fishing nets.
"Let me clean up this place. Go collect the trap. I don't know if it will get stuck again."
"It's okay. If it gets stuck, just go back into the water. It will take a while to pick all of these. You can do whatever you want. Otherwise, cook something to eat first."
He was also a little hungry. It was already noon. If he ate a full meal before going into the water, he would have more energy.
Otherwise, he was afraid that he would be busy and would not have time to eat.
"what time is it?"
"It's half past eleven."
Upon hearing this, Ye's father dropped the work in his hands and went to cook noodles first.
Ye Yaodong also slowed down the speed and moved the boat closer to the buoy around the reef. Before, they would lower the boat in the early morning and pull it up in the afternoon. Now that there is a day, the harvest should be a little better.
With great anticipation, he pulled up the trap and looked at the 4-5 sea cucumbers, several small green dragons, and quite a few squids, small fish and shrimps inside. He was very satisfied, but he still had to leave it there for a day or two to get a good harvest.
After pouring the goods into the bamboo basket, he continued to collect and squeeze them, making sure not a single one was left empty. In addition to sea cucumbers and small blue dragons, there were quite a lot of squids.
Father Ye couldn't help but run over to see the harvest, forgetting to put down the small pot lid in his hand. "There are quite a lot of goods. It's good to keep it for a day or two. There are quite a lot of squids here."
"They should all come here to lay eggs."
Ye Yaodong continued to pull it back, but found that he couldn't pull it anymore. "Oh? It's stuck again. I guess it was hit by the waves again."
"How many more?"
"There are four more."
"The noodles are ready. Eat them first before going down. You'll have more energy."
He nodded.
Even his mother had never eaten what his father cooked. He was so lucky. It was so salty, but he still ate it. But there was really a need to ask.
Otherwise, the food is either too salty, too sweet, or tasteless all day long. After such a long time, there has been no improvement. This is definitely not an accident.
"Dad, can't you tell the difference between sugar and salt?"
"How can I not tell the difference? The salt grains are so big, and I'm not blind. I put crabs in there today and didn't wash them, so they're a little salty. In the past, the boat was rocking, so I couldn't put them in accurately, and sometimes I would pour too much. You can just eat it as it is, or you'll have to cook for me in the future."
"Fine."
After he had eaten and drunk his fill, he took off his clothes, put on his equipment, briefly stretched his limbs, then jumped into the water and dived straight into the sea.
His original plan was to find the trap first, and then find some time to look for sea cucumbers and dig for abalone, but when he was halfway through the dive he saw a school of squid.
It's a school of squids!
Ye Yaodong widened his eyes, stopped diving and stayed where he was. He saw groups of squids swimming towards him in the water in the distance.
He excitedly flapped his flippers and swam towards the school of squids, but found that they were swimming very fast. Before he could flap his flippers a few times, the squids that were still some distance away were almost in front of him.
Just as he was about to move aside, a cloud of black ink in the shape of smoke enveloped him, like a "smoke bomb", instantly obscuring his vision.
He swam to the side in shock, unable to see, and bumped into several squids without warning. The ink around him became even thicker, and groups of squids released smoke bombs together. You can imagine...
Squids can usually release five or six smoke bombs in a row for more than ten minutes, and can turn 5,000 liters of water black within 5 minutes.
When Ye Yaodong realized that moving to the side was futile, he dived downwards and thus avoided the thick smoke and ink.
Looking up from below, he could see a particularly obvious mass of black fog that was constantly spreading and diluting. The squids were also swimming forward, with only a few swimming downwards.
He remembered that the ovipositor he had dropped earlier was nearby, so he was not in a hurry to float up. This group of squids were obviously migrating to lay eggs, so there was no need to waste time and there was no need to chase them. He had to go down first to find the trap and bring it up.
If it was just one trap, it wouldn't matter. The key is that there are still a lot of goods inside, and there are several connected to it. It won't take much time to find and rescue them.
He watched the black fog gradually dilute, the surrounding sea water become clear again, and the squid swim away, then he continued to dive.
Although he did not surface immediately, his mind was no longer on the seabed. As soon as he came down, he swam directly towards the reef below. At one glance, he saw the trap that was stuck again.
In order to prevent the trap behind him from getting stuck, he rescued it and simply swam along the other end of the trap.
If he were asked to go to the bottom of the sea to find sea cucumbers and catch small green dragons now, he definitely wouldn't have the patience. It would be better for him to get the trap and float up directly.
Following the line at the other end of the trap, he swam forward with his flippers flapping, and saw that there were indeed quite a few squids gathered around the coral reefs, and there were also a lot of squid eggs hanging on the coral reefs in the shape of strings or piles, like sea grapes.
He swam along and looked around. The squids that had laid eggs did not die immediately, but stayed around the coral reefs. He only looked at them a few more times, and two of the three traps at the back were stuck.
He could only follow closely, luckily he found it all the way here.
Just as he took the last trap out of the hooked gap and put it on the muddy seabed nearby, he found that there were many black triangular objects inserted in the muddy seabed around this place.
The light on the seabed was not good, and there was no sun today. It rained yesterday, and it was cloudy today, so the view on the seabed was not that clear, so he squatted down on purpose.
Damn it! Jiang Yao!
Scallops!
Only after taking a closer look did he recognize that the black clam was a Jiang Yao.
There is a saying along the coast: sea cucumber, abalone, and Jiangyao clams.
Don’t be fooled by the large size of this scallop stuck in the seabed. In fact, after prying it open, you can only get the stigma meat the size of a fingertip. This stigma meat is called adductor muscle, also known as diced scallop. After drying, it becomes dried scallop.
Um...Jiang Luo is also called Jiang Yao.
In ancient times, it was a treasure presented as tribute to the royal family. Although it can be bought everywhere in supermarkets now, large scallops are still expensive.
Because not all milk is called Truensu, and not all scallops are called Yaozhu!
But abalone is a large scallop, the larger the more expensive it is.
Dried scallops are just a dried product of miscellaneous scallops. Only the dried scallops that are sun-dried are worthy of being called scallops. Most of the other dried scallops sold on the market are made from the adductor muscles of cheap miscellaneous scallops.
Dried scallops are often used by merchants in the market to impersonate scallops. Although the taste and nutritional value of the two are not much different, when eating seafood products, what people compare is the word "big"!
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but show his joy when he saw so many Jianglu gathered in groups on the seabed, as if it were a stone forest on the seabed.
When alive, barnacles are planted on the seafloor, with their heads facing upwards so that they can open their shells to catch food. Once they settle down, they never move again.
The shells of these barnacles are covered with growths, like monuments.
He first plucked the largest one in sight. It was wide at the top and pointed at the bottom, and looked very similar to Dancai, but it was much larger than Dancai, more than 20 centimeters long. He weighed it and it weighed about one kilogram.
Maybe it was because no one had been there, the size was much bigger than the ones he had seen in his previous life. The ones he had seen before were only a dozen centimeters long and weighed about 4 to 5 taels each.
I didn’t expect that there would be so many barnacles standing on the seabed not far away. The seabed is really magical.
He had been wandering around the reef before, just to find sea cucumbers and abalone. He didn't have extra time to wander around, and his heart was not that wild. He didn't expect to find a trap today and get such an unexpected harvest. He was so happy that tears almost flowed from the corners of his mouth.
But time is tight now, and it will take a long time to come down, which is not the time for him to dig.
When the newly untied ground trap beside him was pulled up, he also pulled out a few and put them in the net bag, and hurriedly followed them up.
When he was surfacing, he encountered a school of squids again. This time he didn't dare to wait there and watch, for fear of being trapped in the smoke bomb again, and his snorkeling time was up.
When he avoided the squids and rushed to the surface, he saw that he was a little far away from the fishing boat.
Usually he would dock at a fixed location and then go into the water. Every time he reached the seabed, he would not be far away from the reef. When he surfaced, he would usually be around fishing boats.
Fortunately, he was good at swimming. After floating to the surface and resting for a while, he swam directly towards the fishing boat.
But at this time he also discovered that his father seemed to be casting a net. He avoided the direction where the fishing net was cast and swam quickly over.
When his father was pulling up the net, he also swam to the side of the boat, "Squid?"
"Yes, you come up first."
As soon as Ye Yaodong got on the boat, he didn't even bother to tell his father that he had found a group of squids on the seabed, and took the lead in helping him pull up the squids in the net.
"Fuck, it's quite heavy!"
Father Ye said happily: "When you went into the water earlier, a group of squids swam over. We were not prepared at first, and when I took the fishing net and prepared to cast it, they had already swam over."
"You had such a long tube hanging down there, and I didn't dare to sail. I could only watch them swim away. Fortunately, I had just pulled up the trap when another group of them came. I had my net close at hand, so I caught them just in time."
As he spoke, he untied the fishing net.
A bunch of squids were scattered on the deck, some of them were pitch black, and were stained by their own smoke bombs in the process of being pulled up.
Ye Yaodong picked up a squid and touched it, and found that its stomach was full of rice. He said happily: "Let's go to the branch where the eggs are attached later, we will definitely catch more."