Ye Yaodong proudly took another red shrimp from the bucket and hung it on the hook, saying, "No more, just this hook and line. It was a few months ago when I was fishing at sea. My father said he would help me lift the hook, but he ended up breaking the fishing rod, leaving only the line and hook."
"If you are interested, I will find you some fish hooks and fishing lines when we get back tonight. I will also pick up some rocks and bring them on the boat. I will let you try it tomorrow."
"Okay, it's just right to help you supplement your household expenses, so that you can live a little better and not be so tight?"
Ye Yaodong: “…”
He was just casually complaining about his poverty and playing a pitiful role. He was really just saying it casually.
At this time, Ye's father also finished putting out the trap and ran over to take a look at the perch in the bucket.
"It's OK. It's worth three cents."
The corner of Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched, and his joy disappeared instantly. It was something to be happy about being able to catch some fish, but could his father not mention the price
Only three cents...
Although the price is not low, he always feels that it is cheaper than cabbage.
"I'll fish one more time, and then you can drive the boat over to the sunken ship. There are reefs formed by the sunken ship over there, and there are a lot of fish underneath."
"Okay, you hook this one first, and I'll let the boat move forward slowly."
"Um."
He pinched the line between his thumb and index finger, lifted the stone in a clockwise direction, and after rotating it two or three times, he threw it with force from the bottom to the upper side.
The fishing boat was moving along with the wind, and the ocean current was in the same direction, so it was just going in the right direction.
Father Ye was also muttering that the wind direction was pretty good today, and he also mentioned the word "smooth sailing".
"Comrade Ye Yaodong, you..."
"Just call me Ah Dong! It sounds weird to keep calling me Comrade Ye Yaodong."
"Okay, I think this seems to be quite easy. Why don't you make a few more and hang them on the side of the boat so that you can fish with several lines at the same time?"
Ye Yaodong nodded, "Of course I can, but I'm too busy. I'm not a professional fisherman, I'm a netter. If you hang a row of fish there and fish, the fish will run away if the line is not reeled in in time. What you said is actually the same as longline fishing. I have always combined longline fishing with trawling."
"But now we don't have a net, but we can make a line and hang it on the edge of the boat as you said, and the fishing efficiency will be higher."
Father Ye also agreed, "Let's bring a few hundred hooks here tomorrow. This place is not far from the shore. We can put them out today and collect them tomorrow. Although it will take too much bait, we can still catch some fish."
"That's fine. Anyway, I have to watch the place and can't drag the net. I have nothing to do anyway, so I'll just catch everything. Last year, I started to put out hooks around the coast and the harvest was pretty good... Hey, hey, hey... The fish are biting again and again... Today is really smooth sailing..."
His fingers were always holding the fishing line, and when he sensed a fish coming from the fishing line, his thumb immediately pressed the fishing line on his index finger and quickly pulled the line upwards. This was to pierce the fish, firmly sticking the fishhook into the fish's lip to prevent it from escaping and increase the chance of catching fish.
After he stabbed the fish, he felt that the fish had taken the bait. This trick was something he heard from someone chatting on the dock some time ago, otherwise he would not have known it.
Ye Yaodong happily picked up the wooden stick and started to reel in the line. The fish on the seabed tried to bite the hook and escape, and he pulled it hard. The stick in his hand was tilted, and the line tied on it ran out twice.
Fortunately, he held the stick tightly and was not pulled into the sea by the fish. It might also be because the fish below was not very big. If it was big, he might not be able to pull it up.
Ye's father couldn't help but help him pull the string as he watched from the side.
Ye Yaodong was pushed aside by him and took over the work, "Dad, you're itching to do it too, right?"
"I'm worried that your hands might be cut by the fishing line. Have you ever used your hands for a few days of work?"
"That's a lot. I've been doing this for a year, okay? Look at the calluses on my hands. If you want to play, just say so. Why are you using me as an excuse?"
"When you caught the fish, you should have felt the force of its struggle when you reeled it in. The line cut your hand."
Ye Yaodong wanted to laugh. It was lame for an old man like him to have to make excuses when he wanted to go fishing. But considering that there were so many people around, he didn't want to expose him.
He followed the soldiers, holding a short wooden stick in his hand, leaning half of his body over the side of the boat and looking at the sea with his head stretched out.
A dark fish just appeared on the water surface when Father Ye pulled it up with great effort and then dangled it in the air.
"What kind of fish is this?"
"It's oxtail."
The group of soldiers didn't recognize him, but the father and son recognized him immediately and said in unison.
Its appearance is very strange. It looks a bit like a crocodile, but it is called oxtail fish because its tail looks like a oxtail.
In fact, this fish has many names. Its scientific name is bighead carp. It is also called village chief fish, secretary fish, and dog leg fish.
I don't know why it's called that, just treat it as a joke.
It is a very common fish in our country and very cheap, but it is a high-end fish in Japan.
This fish tastes delicious, but its spines are extremely hard and poisonous. When cutting it off the hook, you must be careful not to get pricked by its spines.
Ye Yaodong handed the short wooden stick with the fishing line rolled up in his hand to his father, then carefully held the head of the mullet and took it off the hook. He wanted to throw it into the bucket, but it cunningly shook it off. He was afraid of being pricked by the fish, so he shrank his hand and it fell onto the deck.
Father Ye quickly reminded, "Be careful, don't get pricked by its thorns."
When the soldiers saw it fall onto the deck, they bent down and reached out to help catch it. Father Ye quickly stopped them, "Don't move, don't reach out, the thorns on its body are poisonous, very poisonous."
Ye Yaodong also said: "Yes, don't stretch out your hands. The spines on this fish are very poisonous. A single prick will cause serious consequences."
In his previous life, he had a friend who was in the fish business. He was pricked on the hand by this thing, but he didn't treat it in time. Later it got infected. There was no way to make an incision starting from the hand and going all the way to the elbow. It was very painful.
Ye Yaodong took a small hand scoop net from the side, placed it next to the oxtail fish and aimed it at it, then kicked it into the hand scoop net with his foot and then poured it into the bucket.
"Haha, the fish in this sea all look weird. You're amazing for being able to recognize and remember them all."
"I don't have the ability to recognize and remember all the fish in the sea. I can only recognize the common ones or the ones I have seen before. You probably only see this fish when it is served on the table. We see it often."
"No matter how dangerous it is to catch this fish, when there was nothing to eat in those years, people would still come online to eat it. It was good to have something to eat. This fish is actually quite tender. Just kill it first when you catch it and be careful."
Father Ye also said: "This fish cannot be sold at a high price. It is too cheap. Keep it for yourself to eat at night."
"Well, then you can leave it back and let mom cook it for Captain Chen and the others to taste."
"Thank you very much. If you can sell it, you can sell it. It doesn't matter to us."
"Of course. I only take the ones that are not worth money back to eat."
Captain Chen touched his nose and stopped talking.
Ye Yaodong snatched the stick from his father's hand and said, "I'll sort out the lines, and you go and drive the boat to the buoy where the shipwreck is on the seabed."
Father Ye looked at his empty hands, glanced at him, and then went to drive the boat.
It looks like this place is not far from there, but it takes seven or eight minutes to drive there. Sometimes, even though it looks close on the sea, when the boat actually drives there, it still feels like it takes some time.
This is called running to the mountain and the horse dies.
While his father was driving the boat, Ye Yaodong first rolled up the fishing line little by little. It was quite troublesome to reel in the line as the wind would blew it into a tangled mess, making it difficult to sort out and even tangled in some places.
Fortunately, his fishing line was relatively thick, so the knot was easier to untie.
When Father Ye got the fishing boat to a good position around the buoy, he also re-arranged the lines and put on the bait.
"Let's see if I can catch something good here. When we pulled up the bronze tripod that day, a blue grouper swam out from it. It was so delicious~"
After Ye Yaodong finished reciting the spell, he slowly put the fishing hook and the stone into the water. How to cast the hook always depends on his mood. He can cast it however he likes, as long as the stone doesn't hit his face.
"Hey, let me ask you something. The bronze and ceramic fragments they brought back the day before yesterday, have you figured out which dynasty they were from? Didn't they also bring back three boxes? What were in those three boxes? I'm quite curious."
While waiting for the fish to bite, Ye Yaodong was bored and looking for topics to talk about. He was still thinking about the three boxes that the group of people took away and wanted to know what was inside.
Captain Chen looked at the others and hesitated...
"Why can't I tell you about this? It's not a military secret. Aren't we going to put this in a museum for display? I'm not going to steal or rob it. I'm not going to risk my life."
"I heard it was from the Western Han Dynasty. Among the three boxes, two boxes contain jewelry and one box contains gold cakes. There are too many scattered jewelry. We have to take them back for research. The box of gold cakes has also been confirmed to be from the Western Han Dynasty."
"Oh my goodness..."
Is he going to get rich
Will it be more valuable if sold as an antique than as gold in the future
If it really doesn't work, he can just melt it down for a large sum of money.
Captain Chen added: "I heard from those people that the Western Han Dynasty can be called the most prosperous golden age."
"The emperor is already rich, and the whole country's strength is used to support his family. Damn, it's so cool." Being uneducated, he could only use "cool" to replace a string of adjectives.
Ye's father was so stunned by what he heard that he was completely dazed and couldn't help but stare at Ye Yaodong.
When we went out to sea the next day, I asked him what was in the box and whether he had opened it.
He just said it was nothing and asked the old man not to ask so many questions. He also felt it didn't matter, so he didn't say anything.
Turns out he made a fortune
This guy is really good at hiding things. He can hold back on revealing anything, be it gold, silver, jewellery or gold.
Father Ye held his heart tightly, wanting to yell a few times, so much money? His heart trembled and beat wildly.
If we go back into the water the next day and fish out all three boxes, it will be…
Oh, I can’t think about it anymore… I won’t be able to breathe if I think about him anymore…
It was impossible to fish at that time. When he went out to sea at night, it was still dark. When he returned, Dongzi deliberately came back early, but he didn't expect that there were boats lingering in that area.
I heard that there are people there all day long trying their luck to see if they can get something to sell to junk collectors, which can be worth a lot of money.
Father Ye comforted himself that having a box of treasures was enough, and even if this prodigal son didn't work, he wouldn't have to worry about the rest of his life.
Ye Yaodong also thought so. One should not be greedy. It was already a treasure to accidentally get a box of gold cakes!
But don't expect too much and don't hold all the treasures in your arms.
Captain Chen smiled and said, "In ancient times, except for the founding emperor of each dynasty, all other emperors were reincarnated."
Ye Yaodong vented his regretful emotions and slapped his thigh, "Oh, damn, I was reincarnated too late! No matter how hard I tried, I could only be reincarnated in the 1950s. I almost starved to death."
When the people on the boat heard what he said, they twitched their lips speechlessly.
Ye's father was interrupted by his words, feeling regretful. He said unhappily, "Go and fish for your fish! It's good enough that I didn't starve you to death then. Otherwise, if you were reincarnated again, you might be reincarnated into the mountains, and you wouldn't have the good life you have now."
"Oh, that's right. Reincarnation is also a skill. Live and cherish it! Your next life may not be as comfortable as this one."
“Hehe~”
"You're so noisy! You scared the fish away. You talk so much, but there's been no movement for so long."
"Oh, damn, why is there no movement?" Ye Yaodong finally reacted at this time.