Shit, they’ve known each other for a few days, but they haven’t spent much time together. He hasn’t asked their names, and he rarely hears them calling each other’s names. He really didn’t know there was a Long Aotian among them
He was really shocked, even more shocked than when he saw the round-axis crab!
Seeing that 'Long Aotian' crawling over excitedly, he also chuckled and followed.
This name is very important and cannot be chosen randomly, for fear of having unreliable parents, which would really make people laugh at you.
When he walked over, he didn't even look at the round-axis crab, but looked at the 'Long Aotian'.
"Uh, brother, is your last name Long?"
"Ah?" Long Aotian looked at him in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"Haha, I'm just curious, just asking! I've known each other for many days, but I still don't seem to know your names."
"Oh, my last name is Lin, not Long. My name is Lin Aotian. My clan name is Ao. Half of the people in our village have the last name Lin. I am quite senior. Some old men in the village even call me uncle..."
“Hehe, hehe…” Ye Yaodong laughed awkwardly. It turned out that his name was not Long Aotian. Why did he feel a little inexplicably regretful
Suddenly, the sense of humor was reduced by two points.
But then again, the surnames in Baisha Village are quite mixed, because they are all outsiders who fled here during the famine years and settled here. There are very few local people who have lived here for generations.
Lu Xun once said that there are no roads in the world, but when more people walk on it, it becomes a road.
The same is true for a village. When more people live there, it becomes a village.
There is no shortage of food at the seaside.
"Adong, bring your fire tongs over here and catch this crab. This one is so big that it will definitely sell for a lot of money." Captain Chen said excitedly while squatting there.
"Don't waste your time. This crab is worthless. No one wants it. Even if you give it to someone to eat, they will still think it is dirty."
"Ah? No way, it's so big!"
Ye Yaodong also squatted down. "This is the seaside. I know more crabs than you know women. This one is called a round-axle crab. It's disgusting. Someone in our village caught it before and cooked it, but it smelled fishy inside."
"When you open the shell, it's extremely black, even blacker than the mud on the beach. The crab gills are also black. When you open it, you can see tiny black dots all over. They are the corpses of the cooked insects."
"The lid behind its butt is black when you open it. No one can eat it. And its meat is not white. Normal crab meat is white and smells fresh, but the meat inside is white with black. And a little yellowish? Yes, yellowish, beige? It's about that color, you can imagine it."
Captain Chen looked regretful, "Isn't that a pity? Can't you just clean such a big crab before cooking it?"
Ye Yaodong spread his hands, "I don't want it anymore. If you feel it's a pity, then go ahead and catch it. Try washing it after you catch it. I guarantee you'll give up immediately."
"Okay, let's catch it and take a look. There's nothing to lose anyway, and a crab won't take up much space."
Seeing that he was excited to use the tongs to catch the crab, Ye Yaodong quickly stopped him and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? Now that you've caught it, where are you going to put it? In the bucket? Isn't your bucket supposed to hold those shellfish? When my dad's boat comes over, we can just grab it out of the hole when we get on the boat. It can't run away. It lives in the hole anyway."
"OK."
It was a rare sight to find a big crab. Even though Ye Yaodong said that the crab was dirty and not suitable for eating, Captain Chen still took it very seriously. Every time he went over to empty the bucket full of shellfish, he would take a look to make sure it was still there.
Even though he found a few small yellow croakers afterwards, he could not forget this big crab.
After digging for a while, Ye Yaodong straightened up and pounded his waist. He felt that the sun exposure was not so bad. After all, the sea breeze was strong on the island, so it was not particularly hot. But his waist could not take it. It was very tiring to be bent all the time.
From time to time he straightened up and looked left and right, forward and backward. When he looked back, he was lucky enough to see an octopus that had just been washed by the waves.
I guess the waves hit it against the rocks, and it was stunned for a moment. It didn't react, and was still wandering there, not swimming into the sea.
Seeing the opportunity, Ye Yaodong carefully climbed down to the reef below with a hand net. While the octopus was still waving its tentacles and playing there, he scooped it up in one go.
Although its IQ is equivalent to that of a five or six-year-old child, it cannot save it from being caught, but its reaction is very quick.
Once it is scooped into the hand net, it uses the power of its eight tentacles to crawl towards the opening of the net.
Ye Yaodong didn't give it any chance. Seeing that it was about to crawl out of the opening, he grabbed it and put it in an empty sack.
After a while, another blue crab floated up in the water. He was about to put the sack on it, but he casually turned his head to look at the sea again, saw the blue crab, and had to go back.
There was no doubt that this blue crab became his prey.
This is hundreds of times better than the round-axis crab. The meat is tender and fragrant, and the nutritional value is extremely high.
When he was about to go up, the waves hit another black sea bream, but he was a beat slow to react. The black sea bream was very agile, and after being washed over, it instantly swam back into the sea, leaving him empty-handed.
Ye Yaodong decided not to leave this time. He planned to stand here for a while and look around. He didn't know how much goods he had missed when he didn't pay attention before.
He just stood there and no seafood was washed over by the waves.
"Fuck, are you kidding me?"
He cursed and simply bent down to dig in this area to avoid crawling around.
But he actually caught a few blue crabs and stone crabs, as well as seven or eight small fish, which made the two soldiers extremely envious. After discovering this, they even borrowed his hand to use the net and exchanged positions with him.
He didn't care anyway. He didn't want to go to the beach every other day. There was a beach right in front of his house, but he never went there when he was free, unless he was going to call his kids to eat.
Just when the two soldiers were having fun, Ye's father came over in a boat. When Ye Yaodong saw them from afar, he stopped moving, sat on the reef and smoked two cigarettes. He put out his cigarettes after the boat got closer and carried the sack onto the boat.
"Hey hey hey... and my round-axle crab..."
I didn’t expect that even after catching so many fish in the sea, Captain Chen was still thinking about the round-axis crab.
"Go get it yourself." Ye Yaodong carried the bag he was carrying onto the boat without even turning his head. It was really too heavy, so Ye's father and two other soldiers also stood by the side of the boat to help carry it.
"What's a round-axle crab? Why did you bring that thing here? It's so dirty. It's not as good as 'love'."
"Captain Chen found it and thought it would be a shame not to catch it because it was so big. He didn't believe in evil and wanted to catch it and wash it."
"If it can be washed clean, why would no one eat it? Come up first, the noodles are already cooked. You can continue after you finish eating. I'll go down later."
"Hmm? Are you sure? No more fishing?"
Father Ye said gloomily, "It was useless to fish. We only caught a few black mullet weighing about one jin, and a stone nine. The other two PLA soldiers were lucky. Each of them caught a black porgy weighing more than two jin."
"I told you, I'll have to go after all," Ye Yaodong said, feeling somewhat proud, but also somewhat worried. "Be careful when you go down to the reef, stand on a flat surface, don't look around, and pay attention to your feet."
"Need I tell you? You're the one looking around, right?"
You can't blame him for usually liking to talk back; it's hard for him not to talk back when talking to his dad.
He kept his mouth shut and helped the other two carry the goods on their shoulders to Ye's father and the others, and then they went on board to eat together.
Father Ye looked at the three round-axis crabs in Captain Chen's bucket and couldn't help but tell him again how dirty these crabs were.
That’s right, there were three of them. Two of them were hiding inside and were discovered by Captain Chen, so he captured them all together.
Captain Chen smiled and said, "I'll be free after I get back anyway, so I might as well clean it up. It would be a shame if I didn't catch such a big one."
"Well, take a look. Since you've already caught it, you can take it back and have a look. Just treat it as satisfying your curiosity."
Ye Yaodong looked at his watch. It was only 12:30. He felt that time passed very slowly in the morning. Although it was tiring to cast the nets as usual, it was work to do and not boring. Money was his motivation.
Now just pray that the salvage team comes tomorrow so he can be freed.
After simply eating some noodles that someone cooked for him, he continued to work.
After watching his father steadily prying the reef, he felt relieved to drive the boat away and return to the location of the shipwreck.
It’s just that he had just put down the fishing hook and the stone, and he didn’t know what the fishing hook was hooked on. Just when he was about to pull the fishing line tighter to feel the fish taking the bait later, he felt that it seemed a little too tight
He thought it was his illusion, and tried to grab the fishing line and shake it a few times to make the fish move, but found that the hook was still motionless
"Is the fishhook stuck in the bottom? Shit!"
"Hanging at the bottom?"
"It's stuck at the bottom. It's stuck at the bottom."
How could he go into the water in front of them? But there was still a long afternoon.
"I'll just go down and take a look for you."
"How can this be so embarrassing?"
Although he thought so in his heart... Anyway, they can dive to a depth of more than ten meters...
"It's okay. We didn't go into the water today or yesterday anyway."
A soldier said this and then stretched his muscles a little before jumping down, then dived down along the fishing line. The fishing line turned transparent when it went into the sea. This was for the purpose of hiding. Otherwise, if the color was too obvious, the fish would see it and would not take the bait.
The soldier had to follow the fishing line down, otherwise it would be difficult to find it at the bottom. It was just a small line and the seabed was so vast that he might not be able to find it even if he was blind.
The two people on the shore were looking at the sea expectantly. Ye Yaodong pulled the fishing line from time to time, but there was no sign of looseness. It was unknown whether he had found it or not.