Xiao Xiao's eyes widened, "You went all the way to the bottom of the sea to fish it out?"
“I saw it when I went into the water, so I picked some up.”
"No... I mean, if you just go into the water like this, how long will you have to hold your breath? How many trips back and forth will it take to dig this much?"
Ye Yaodong smiled but said nothing.
It's not that we don't tell them, but since it involves smuggling in Linji, we can't just make a fuss about it.
"Tsk, forget it. We can go in the water later. The weather is getting warmer. After we catch the squids, we can go for a swim in the sea to cool down."
He quickly reminded them, "Don't go too deep. The air pressure is strong underwater. You can look around the sea and there may be something there. There may also be something in the intertidal zone."
The intertidal zone refers to the coast between the highest tide level during spring tide and the lowest tide level during spring tide, that is, the area starting from the place submerged when the sea water reaches its highest level to the area exposed above the water when the tide reaches its lowest level.
The intertidal zone is also the main habitat for shellfish, where tides play a more important role than waves.
"Okay, let's try next time."
After getting ashore, Ye Yaodong gave each of them ten big ones to try. Each one weighed one kilogram, and some weighed more. He also kept a dozen small ones for himself.
"No, just give us a small one to try. Sell the big one. It will be worth more. We are not others."
"OK."
He went into the water five times and picked up nearly 300 kilograms of fish. The big ones should be worth about 15 cents, and the small ones are 10 cents per kilogram. Most of them are big, so he should be able to sell them for about 30 yuan, which is better than trawling.
But after the goods were dragged ashore, there were some discrepancies in the prices of the barnacles. A large one was only 1.2 cents, and it was said that the summer barnacles were not as good as the winter ones, and could not be sold for 1.5 cents. The small ones were only 8 cents.
Ye Yaodong thought about it and felt that it was normal. This thing is also seasonal, and the taste in summer is indeed incomparable to that in winter. It is normal that it cannot be sold at a high price.
Although it was a little lower than expected, it was still sold for 30 yuan, which is also pretty good.
As Ah Cai carried the goods to a corner, he said, "This stuff has to be dug in winter."
"Who's going to dig? You? Let's not talk about how deep the water is. Now that we've found it, we must pull it out now. Otherwise, what shall we do if we leave it in winter and someone else pulls it out?"
"That's right. If you pull it out now, it's still yours. But if you leave it until winter, you won't know whose it is."
"Has the price of squid dropped again today?" Ye Yaodong asked after looking at the receipt.
When I just got off the boat, I saw baskets of squid everywhere around me. Several purchasing points were also full. Recently, the squid have been increasing day by day, and the catch is only a small part.
"We lost two more points today."
"What about tomorrow?"
"That depends on tomorrow's market."
The person next to him yelled, "Are you guys done yet? If you are, please move aside. We are still waiting to be weighed... We are so tired, and we are still waiting here..."
"I want to ask you about the price of squid tomorrow. You don't want to know? You don't care?"
Ye Yaodong stepped aside as he spoke, and Ye's father and two brothers-in-law also helped to organize the baskets and drag them away.
"Even if we ask, we will still arrest him tomorrow. We will know tomorrow."
"At least I have an idea in my mind."
The person waiting nearby also took up the topic and said, "It's the peak season now. I guess we can only catch them for a few more days before they're gone."
"We'll fish as many days as we can. I hope it won't rain again so we can make more money. We've been counting on this for the first half of the year..."
"Yes, it's the rainy season and there will be typhoons. We will work one day and rest for several days..."
There was a lot of noise all around. After they put all the things on the cart, they pushed the cart out, shouting for people to make way as they walked.
When he was almost at the door of his house, he saw a group of people leaving his house, muttering that they would come back tomorrow.
He couldn't help but frown, and his face looked unhappy. This group of people, big and small, obviously came to his house to use the radio.
"What's going on? So many people are at our doorstep?" He quickened his pace.
"Come over and listen to the radio?" Father Ye said and hurried over pushing the cart.
As soon as he walked to the door, he saw the garbage thrown away casually. The ground was covered with melon seed shells, loquat peels, loquat pits, peach pits, plum pits, etc. It was dirty and messy everywhere. His face immediately turned black.
He walked straight in and said to his mother who was about to come out and sweep the floor with a broom, "Are there many people coming to our house today?"
"You guys are back," Ye's mother raised her head and said with a smile, "Everyone knows that you bought a radio, so they came to your house out of curiosity, and they have been listening to it until now."
"Aren't you very distressed? How come people heard it now?"
"I turned it off in the middle, but they just waited there after I turned it off. Then they told me that it would be more likely to break if it was turned on and off from time to time. I thought that we were all neighbors, and we turned on the radio to listen to it anyway, so it was okay for us to sit together and listen, and we could chat and kill time..."
Ye Yaodong was so upset when he heard this. When did his mother become so easy to talk to? Or was she flattered
"When they come over tomorrow, tell them that this radio consumes too much electricity. If they want to listen to it, each of them will have to pay for the electricity."
"Ah? We are from the same village, but we have to pay to listen to the radio together..."
"So what if they are just fellow villagers? Can fellow villagers just go to other people's houses and dump garbage? And it's so noisy, with so many people around, won't Qing and the child get some rest? What if the child gets frightened? I bought it to help the old lady pass the time, not to benefit the neighbors. It's okay for normal times, but now my wife and child are in confinement after giving birth."
When his mother finished her confinement and moved back to the old house, he didn't care. He invited all the villagers to come to her house and listen to her will.
Father Ye also agreed, "Too many people will cause a lot of noise and chaos. We already have quite a few family members. What if someone with dirty hands takes our things away? Don't let anyone come to our house tomorrow."
Upon hearing this, Ye's mother slapped her thigh and said, "Hey, young man, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed it, and I hadn't checked it out. Don't let anyone with dirty hands and feet run into the house."
She put the broom aside and quickly checked the house inside and out. She also opened the cabinets and was relieved to see that nothing seemed to be missing.
"It's okay. Nothing should be missing. They are all at the door. They just came in to drink some water because they were thirsty."
"Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be prepared for the worst. There's a woman who has just given birth and a child at home. Tell the villagers tomorrow that they need to rest and not make too much noise." Ye's father said in a deep voice.
"I understand." Ye's mother said in a low voice, and then continued to sweep the door with the broom.
Ye Yaodong and his father unloaded all the things from the cart and handed them to Ye's mother to deal with later when she was free, then went to wash their hands and eat.
But when Ye Yaodong was washing his hands, he found that the fake ambergris he had casually thrown into the pile of miscellaneous items at the back door was missing.
He had done this before just in case Li Laoer came to his senses and came to cause trouble for him. He would have something to shut him up and avoid losing everything.
Unexpectedly, he suddenly disappeared at this moment!
His brows were furrowed so tightly that they looked like they could pinch a fly to death.
Shaking his wet hands, he walked forward and rummaged through the two baskets of sundries, only to find that they were really gone.
So, it was really stolen
I still see it when I wash my hands after using the toilet in the morning.
Damn it!
You are too knowledgeable, aren’t you
I don’t know what expression he would have after finding out it was fake