"how do you know?"
"I know a lot more. Eat it quickly. It tastes good with the soup. It tastes no worse than Xiao Qinglong."
Ye Yaodong peeled one and handed it directly to her mouth, and then said: "Have you opened the three coconut snails in the bucket? There is also a wolf tooth eel. Kill it for me later and stew it with wine tonight to help you produce milk."
Lin Xiuqing looked at the meat that was so close to her and simply opened her mouth and took it in.
"I was wondering why the eel in the bucket looks so fierce? I was almost bitten when I took the shrimp just now. I can just sell it for money. I have a lot of milk and it's swollen every day. Why else do I need to produce milk?"
"I plan to leave those three coconut snails aside until tomorrow. We have enough food for today. The weather is hot now. If I pick out the snail meat and leave it to fry tomorrow, it won't be fresh. So, should I leave it to tomorrow?"
Ye Yaodong nodded. It was impossible for every coconut snail to produce Melo pearls. It was already a great fortune to get one, so he was not in a hurry.
"Eat more to replenish milk. The child is still young and eats little. As he grows older, he will eat more. How about this meat and scallion oil? Is it delicious?"
"Yeah, like a lobster."
Ye Chenghu looked at his father, then at his mother. He bit the banana and said eagerly, "I want to eat one too. Dad, peel one for me."
"What are you peeling? You're six years old. Do you need someone to peel something for you to eat? It's already been cut in half. It's open. You can just dig it out and it will come out. Don't you know how to do it? If you need someone to teach you how to eat, what's the point of eating?"
Ye Chenghu's eyes widened, "You peeled it for my mother and put it in her mouth."
"Your mother is your mother. Come and eat. It's been a long time and your bowl of rice is still fine. What are you still looking at? Who are you counting on? Should I help you eat the meal?"
Ye Chenghu pursed his lips, resigned himself to his fate and peeled a shell. He dug out the hole with a sharp knife, bit it with his mouth, and the whole meat came out.
"Isn't this going to happen?"
After Lin Xiuqing took the crabs out of the pot, she took off her apron and sat down. She peeled one for her youngest son and said with a smile, "The meat is quite delicious. Come and eat it."
Ye Chenghu's mouth was so thick that pork could hang from it. "Peel it for Yangyang, not for me."
"How old are you? How old is he? I can't even stop your mouth from eating. You're so long-winded. Eat faster."
Ye Chenghu hummed and continued eating.
Ye Yaodong took a crab and peeled it. Seeing the red paste inside, he handed it to Lin Xiuqing and said casually, "Didn't I say to stir-fry spicy crabs..."
"Don't be so long-winded. It's good to have something to eat. My cooking skills are limited. If you want to eat it, you can cook it yourself next time. It's too troublesome to eat it with the shell on."
Seafood is only convenient when it is cooked. Just scoop it out of the water, or steam it and dip it in soy sauce and vinegar. It is troublesome to eat. Those with shells need a lot of time to peel, and there is not much meat.
"It's good enough to have something to eat, why do you complain about the trouble? In the past, many people had no food to eat and ran to the beach just to have a bite to eat. I heard that my grandfather even begged for food to get here."
"Yeah... I know, I know. I know your ancestors were poor peasants for eight generations. You are so glorious. Come eat quickly."
Ye Yaodong felt that her attitude was a bit perfunctory and raised his eyebrows, "Hmm? Comrade Lin Xiuqing, your attitude is not good... My grandfather is also your grandfather... Um..."
Lin Xiuqing had just peeled a shrimp fillet and was originally going to give it to her eldest son to prevent him from whining, but when she heard Ye Yaodong nagging, she stuffed it directly into his mouth.
"Eat your meal! Aren't you tired from going out to sea? Why are you talking so much nonsense? If you're still talking nonsense, finish your meal and go to sleep."
"It's rare that I'm in a good mood today. I wanted to say a few more words, but you treated me like this."
"Did you find any money?"
"That's about right. I played a trick on the troublemaker."
The abalone and sea cucumbers that Xiaoxiao and Azheng dug up were sold for nearly 80 yuan, and he got one-third of it, which was more than 20 yuan.
"There's so much going on at sea these days?"
"It's nothing, not a big deal." He briefly recounted what happened at sea when he came back.
"Why are you still haunting me? Then change your location tomorrow and don't go there."
"I know what's going on..."
Suddenly, a baby cried and Lin Xiuqing put down her meal immediately after finishing half of it.
"I'll go and hold her, I'll go and hold her, you eat your meal." Ye Yaodong reacted faster than her.
He hadn't seen his child for a whole day and he missed him a lot.
She stopped crying as soon as he was held in his arms, and he felt very happy.
Lin Xiuqing followed in, "Did you poop or are you hungry?"
"No, my butt isn't wet...ah..."
As soon as he finished saying that his butt was not wet, his big palm became wet.
"Let me do it, you go wash your hands and eat!" Lin Xiuqing took the child from him.
"This guy is really generous. He gave me a big gift right after he came back."
"It's good that I didn't give you gold."
"yue~"
At around two o'clock in the morning, as soon as Ye Yaodong sailed away from the shore, his father started burning talismans again.
He said helplessly: "Why are you burning this again?"
"What do you know? You were lucky yesterday. What if you run into it again? Go around three times to get rid of the bad luck, stay safe, and increase your luck. You will gain a lot today."
Ye Yaodong stood there indifferently, letting his father manipulate him, "It's hard to say what luck is."
"It's hard to say, but burning two pieces of talisman paper will be better. For example, your uncle Lin, I heard that the oar broke as soon as he went out to sea a few days ago. The next day, the fishing net broke again. On the third day, the machine broke again. Everything went wrong. On the fourth day, he burned a few pieces of talisman paper and everything went smoothly."
"Ah? Then he was delayed for three days, and suffered a lot of losses."
"Isn't it? I just heard about it in the evening. Sometimes luck is hard to predict. You have to believe what you should believe."
He nodded. The old man knew a lot. He had lost the inheritance in his previous life, and no one taught him or told him these things.
Although I have heard some mysterious things from others, who knows if they are true or not? Or are they just bragging and exaggeration
After the talisman paper in his hand was burned to ashes and floated into the sea, Father Ye walked towards Ye Yaodong and said, "I'll drive, you go and put up the bait."
When Ye Yaodong saw the three full baskets of fish, he sighed inwardly and rolled up his sleeves resignedly. The thing about longline fishing is that it is more troublesome, as he has to organize the fishing line and hang so many baits.
Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua have always stayed in a fixed place to fish, which is the sea area that Ye's father often went to when he first took them out to sea. After all, they are more familiar with the surrounding area.
Moreover, the offshore fishing areas are formed slowly. Wherever people often fish, that place is almost their "responsibility field", and a tacit understanding is gradually formed.
When Ye Yaodong arrived, it was still pitch dark. There were two small round lights flashing in the surrounding sea. He didn't know whose boat it was, or whether his elder and second brothers were among them.
When he set out, he had already seen that his eldest brother and second brother's carts were gone at the door.
They make money much more diligently than he does.
After his father drove the boat around the surrounding sea for a full circle and checked whether anyone was setting out nets nearby, he slowed down the speed after everything was settled and he also started to set out fishing hooks.
When the sun was high in the sky and it was almost noon, they had dragged two nets before they saw Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua's boat. They were also pulling up the nets, and the two boats were not far away.
Ye Yaodong picked up the simple red flag on the boat, waved it at them, and then sailed closer to them.
Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua also discovered them.
"Dad? Uh... Dongzi?"
Ye Yaopeng called out uncertainly, then looked at the logo on the hull, and saw his father was there, only then was he certain that it was his brother.
Ye Yaodong's head was wrapped tightly, how could he recognize it? I don't know why it was wrapped like this, can you see it
"Why are you here today?"
Ye Yaodong said casually, "Let's try our luck at another location. Have you caught two nets?"
"Yes, once we get this net in, we'll go get the squids. So why don't you come here today to catch the squids in the sea?"
"No more fishing. There wasn't much yesterday. I caught only about 100 kilograms in the whole afternoon. There will definitely be even less today. I plan to drag the net."
"That's fine. We just pulled in two nets and both were quite good. There were quite a few mackerel and black mullet."
"Then you guys go about your business."
Father Ye also warned, "If there are fewer squids today, go trawling and don't waste time."
"We know that and that's what we planned."
"Then you can do whatever you want."
After saying hello, they went about their own business, since they were all in the same sea anyway.
After Ye Yaodong put down the fishing net, he went to pick out the catch that he had pulled up earlier. In addition to the mostly fish such as mackerel and black mullet, there were also about ten pounds of squid, as well as other miscellaneous fish, shrimps and crabs.
In fact, we can catch a lot of fish in spring. After a whole winter of rest, the fish have become active again. It’s just that the heavy rain has delayed things.
He picked out all the squids separately. They had eaten squids every two or three days during this period and they had had enough. He planned to keep some small ones for drying as squid jerky. The first net had caught seven or eight kilograms, so he put them all together.
Anyway, we have caught a lot of fish during this period, so it’s okay to leave some to dry in the sun.
After being dried into squid jerky, it is easy to preserve. The rainy season and typhoon season are coming soon, and even if you don’t go out to sea for a few days, you don’t have to worry about not having seafood to eat.
After picking everything up, he was free again. He propped his chin up and looked at the sea, feeling a little bored.
At this moment, a fish happened to jump out of the water on the sea in the distance. He just took a look and didn't take it seriously. The fishing boat was also moving slowly and left the fish behind him.
But after a while, he saw fish jumping out of the water one after another. They looked quite big and he suddenly became restless again. Wasn't this obviously tempting him
To him, big fish are much more tempting than women.
But the trawling was still in progress. After thinking for a while, he went to look in the cabin again, but he only found a fishing line with a hook on it.
He casually picked up a small wooden stick and rolled the fishing line around it. "I can only fish with such a primitive hand line."
It’s all his father’s fault. He was fishing and breaking his fishing rod. He said he would make him a new one, but he never did. The old man doesn’t keep his word.
He came out with the coiled fishing line and hook, grunting. He saw fish jumping out of the water from time to time. He thought to himself that it was a good thing that he had caught some small fish and shrimps in the trawl net before, which could be used as bait, as all the bait he brought out to sea at night had been used up.
But when he took a small fish as long as his middle finger and put it on the bait, the sea suddenly boiled.
He opened his mouth in surprise, and the boat that Ye's father was sailing on also stopped.