More than two minutes passed, and no teammates came up. The other soldier suddenly became a little anxious.
"Why hasn't Ah San come up yet? I'll go down and take a look."
"Asan? Uh... maybe we can wait and see?"
"Can you do it? Forget it, I'll go down..."
"Hey, it's loose..."
Ye Yaodong tried to pull up the fishing line, and there was no obstacle, he pulled it out of the water in an instant. Then, a person floated up to the surface of the water with a splash.
"Come up quickly, thank you for your hard work..."
He and another person each stretched out a hand and pulled the person up.
"Thank you very much. If you don't come up, your teammates will jump down."
"It's all right. The hook got caught in the lock of a big box."
"Is there really a shipwreck underneath? Tsk, tsk, tsk, there are boxes one after another. The museum is going to make a fortune. I wonder how much money they can help apply for approval to build the temple?"
Ye Yaodong just muttered a few words and didn't expect them to answer.
Who knew that the man named Asan who jumped into the water would take out two things from his pocket.
"Scallops?" He was surprised.
Ah San smiled and said, "When I went into the water, I saw it running on the seabed. It was shaking and stumbling. It looked quite cute, so I picked it up and put it in my pocket."
"Wow, it's quite big. What does it look like when it runs?"
"Uh...how can I describe it? It's like a toddler running."
Ye Yaodong took it and weighed it in his hand for a few times. He felt a little regretful. With these people around, it would be difficult for him to dive down.
"Why didn't you pick up a few more? There are only two, only enough for two bites, not enough to share." said another soldier.
"I'm trying to find where the hook is. I don't have time to look for scallops. It's good enough if I can just pick up two." Ah San said bluntly, "Why don't you jump in and pick up a few more? I see there are quite a lot at the bottom of the sea."
"Then I'll go down and get some too."
We are all young people in our early 20s, so how can we not love to have fun
Ye Yaodong watched another person jump down for a bite of food, and he also became eager to try.
"It makes me curious and I want to jump down."
"You should just go fishing."
Ye Yaodong put the bait back on the hook with a look of regret. He could only fish for his own fish. The good fish in the seabed were hidden deep. He was just a normal person.
Forget it, let’s go fishing!
Afraid of hooking something and getting stuck on the bottom, he stopped swinging the line around and slid the hook and stone down the side of the boat. Then he waited quietly, keeping the line straight.
If the fishing line is loose, it will not be able to receive the signal of fish biting the hook well, let alone pull the line at the right time to fish.
After straightening the fishing line, he swung it from time to time to make the bait float on the seabed to attract fish.
I don't know if it was luck, but as soon as the fish hook was put down, I felt a shaking sensation on the fishing line, my fingers felt a continuous numbness, and the pulling was strong and the feeling was particularly clear.
He promptly pulled the line towards his body and tried to pull it again. He felt that he had caught a fish. However, this fish should not be underestimated. As soon as he sensed that the fish had taken the bait, he felt a strong pulling force on the line in his hand, and the fish on the hook was trying to escape in the opposite direction.
Ye Yaodong held the wooden stick with one hand and used the other hand to roll the fishing line onto his palm, pulling it tightly to prevent the fish from biting the hook and escaping.
Now he rolled the line tightly and pulled it for a while, then loosened it a little, and then quickly reeled it in again. Just here, there was a splash on the sea, and the soldier who had jumped down came up.
When his clothes floated to the surface, he wiped the water stains on his face and said excitedly: "Oh my god, the fish on your hook is so big."
"Really? Did you see it? What kind of fish?" Asan asked excitedly.
"It's exactly the same as the big fish that Adong caught before."
Ye Yaodong was instantly surprised, "Another red snapper! I'm so lucky today!"
"It's about the same size. You're pretty lucky. Better luck than your father."
"I told you to let me do it, watch me pull up this big fish..."
Ah San reached out to help him take the scallops that he was holding tightly in his hand, and pulled him up, saying, "How many scallops did you pick up?"
"I didn't count, but my pockets were full. A lot of them fell out when I came up. I watched them run away right under my nose. It's a pity that I didn't bring a net bag, otherwise I could have picked up more."
"You should have told me earlier. I have a net bag on my boat," Ye Yaodong said distractedly while playing with the fish. "You jumped so fast in front of me. I wanted to tell you that it would be too late to bring a net bag with you."
"Do you have net bags on your boat? Net bags for fruit?"
"It's about the same, the hole you put it in is just a little different."
"Oh, I should have brought a net bag with me." As he spoke, he took out the scallops that were stuffed in his pocket and threw them into the basket beside him. There were quite a few of them, about a dozen or so.
"From the sound of it, there are quite a few." Ye Yaodong was curious about how many he had picked up. He turned his head distractedly to take a look, "They are all quite big!"
"Xiao Gaozi, let's go down together after we have rested enough. Bring your net bag with you. We will have company and can pick up more."
"Okay."
One is 'Long Aotian', one is 'Indian Asan', and one is Xiao Gaozi. Now Ye Yaodong roughly knows what their names are.
He walked the fish back and forth until it was exhausted and stopped resisting, then he pulled it ashore in one fell swoop.
"Wow, wow, wow, it's been pulled up. Your line is really good. You caught two big fish, and the fish didn't bite or tear it apart."
"You're lucky. If it gets bitten off, there's no fun. Can you help me get the hook and hook it up?"
The two of them pushed and shoved each other, scrambling to grab the hook, and finally it fell into Asan's hands.
A big fish was hooked and thrown onto the deck. Ye Yaodong didn't bother to take care of it and took the lead in untangling the fishing line wrapped around his hands.
When he stepped forward with the knife, he found something wrong.
"How can this be called a red snapper? It's clearly a snapper!" He said as he patted the fish's body with the back of a knife.
Ah San and Xiao Gaozi were both confused. "Doesn't it look the same as the one you caught before?"
"How are they the same? They just look alike. Look at the scales on them, they are all messy, some big and some small. The scales of the red snapper just now were all the same size, very uniform. That's the biggest difference between them. I was so happy for nothing, I thought I had caught another red snapper."
The hamachi has black eyeshadow on the outside and a yellow band on its body that runs from head to tail.
The octopus is oblong in shape, slightly flattened laterally, with a round belly. The back of the fish is gray-blue or olive, sometimes with pink pearly luster.
If you don't look carefully, it's easy to confuse the two.
"Is that so? But we all feel the same way..."
“So you’re not from the seaside.”
“Then does this fish have no value?”
"It's not bad. It's this big, and it weighs more than ten kilograms. It's just not as big as the octopus, but it's good to be able to catch this fish. The taste of the octopus is better, and the fishy smell is lighter. The texture of the hamachi is slightly worse, and the fishy smell is stronger."
"There are so many fish in this sea, and many of them look similar. How can we tell them apart so clearly? I guess only you fishermen can distinguish them carefully."
“Who made us rely on this for a living? We can generally recognize and distinguish the fish that often come ashore. But it is difficult to identify those that do not often come ashore and hide in the sea.” Ye Yaodong said as he bled the big fish.
Although it is not as big as the red snapper, it is bigger in size and is definitely better than small fish. It is not as good as the best, but better than the worst.
This hamachi not only looks like octopus, but when you cut it open, the meat inside is somewhat similar to cod.
Some unscrupulous merchants often slice up hamachi and sell it as silver cod because hamachi is cheap, while the price of silver cod is seven or eight times that of hamachi. Sometimes you must not be greedy for cheapness.
Things like seafood basically require you to pay for the quality. It is difficult to get good stuff at a low price. The sellers are not fools, who doesn't want to make money
There is also a kind of fish called oil fish, which looks and cut into meat more like silver cod, and is also often used to impersonate silver cod.
This oily fish is very rich in fat, but it cannot be absorbed by the human body. Eating this fish can easily cause digestive symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting.
Especially some parents like to buy cod as complementary food for their children. You really have to choose carefully and not be greedy for cheapness.
This kind of oily fish is even worse, while the oily fish is slightly better. There are really many merchants who only care about profits and not quality.
After Ye Yaodong drained the blood of the hamachi, he took it into the cabin, put it in a basket with the red snapper in front, and covered it with a torn piece of clothing.
Fortunately, he was smart and was willing to spend money to put a piece of black woven mesh cloth on the roof of the boat to absorb heat, so the sun would not shine directly into the cabin and the temperature of the small cabin could be lower.
However, I'd better buy some ice and put it on the boat tomorrow to keep it fresher. I forgot about it when I got on the boat today.
He took another look at the bucket of fish he had caught. Most of them were very fresh. Some of the fish even had a hole pierced in their skin and the air was let out, but they were still able to swim around in the bucket.
The valuable ones among these are sold, and the cheap ones can be used to make two bowls. This will be the dinner dishes, and there will be scallops as a snack.
Looking at the tangled fishing line, he felt a headache again, but it was not so troublesome with the two soldiers helping him to sort it out.
When it was almost dusk, two soldiers asked him to borrow a net bag, and they went into the water together to pick up scallops. He felt a little envious when he saw them.
Not to mention picking up scallops, even if there is nothing else, it is quite comfortable to soak in the water and swim around in this hot weather.
I don't know if there are still scallops for him to fish out after those people have taken away all the goods from the bottom of the sunken ship.
Looking at the scallops in the basket next to him, it's not time for dinner yet, but he already has vermicelli and garlic scallops in his mind, sprinkle some chopped green onions and scallion oil, and sauté them~