Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes at Xiao Gaozi. He said, "The clear are clear, and the turbid are turbid. He is a serious man!"
There were clanging sounds coming from the bamboo baskets. There was a bamboo basket between each of them, and the parabolas were thrown high into the air.
Especially when I heard that the other three who were not married had been single for 23 or 24 years, their hand speeds were even faster, and they could throw it even with their eyes closed.
There is strength in numbers. More than a dozen people were there helping to carry the load, and the job was done just as it got dark.
Ye's mother asked each family to take some home and eat them while they are fresh. Even if they are not washed, they can be kept for two or three days without going bad.
I also asked A-Qing to take a few more baskets and put more in each, as there were workers working at her house and the food would be consumed faster.
She asked Ye's father to lift the rest onto a cart and push it to the beach to wash. It was high tide, so they didn't have to go too far to wash.
There are too many today. If we need to carry water for washing, I don’t know how many loads we will have to carry. The well is not that close. The old house has a well at the back door, which was dug by Ye Yaodong’s grandfather when he built the house. It is more convenient. It is not so convenient here. We have to go to the village to fetch water.
In line with the principle of saving water and staying close by, Ye's mother carried the baby to the beach to wash it. Her three daughters-in-law also came to help, as did three PLA soldiers.
As for the other one, it was of course Captain Chen who was left. He was fiddling with the round-axle crab he caught, using a brush to scrub its shell and legs.
Ye Yaodong kindly gave him a pair of scissors. You can pry open the cover behind his butt and take a look. It will definitely open your eyes.
"Really?"
Captain Chen opened the back cover of the phone out of disbelief. After just one look, he was disgusted. It was completely covered in black with no other colors.
“So dirty…”
"Come closer and smell it." Ye Yaodong watched him tinkering with it leisurely and gave him some suggestions.
"Forget it. I can imagine it."
But he still didn't give up, so he cut off its back cover and started rubbing its back again.
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "Open the front cover and take a look. If you want to wash it, wash it thoroughly."
"good."
He responded readily, but when he opened the front cover of the round-axis crab, he blamed himself for having such good eyesight and even more so for not listening to others' advice.
Listen to advice and eat your fill!
This is the truth!
I learned a lesson instantly.
I saw that the crab gills were also black, not white like other crabs.
If it were just that, it would be fine, but the key point was that just as Ye Yaodong said during the day, the crab's gills were covered with dense black dots, and they were moving. No one knew what kind of insects they were, but he could see them clearly with the orange light coming from the room.
Ye Yaodong also looked disgusted, frowning and baring his teeth, and uttered a sound, with the tail of the sound fluctuating and drawn out.
"Are you dead set now? Do you still dare to eat it?"
"Forget it, throw this one away and let the other two go."
"Would you like to see the meat inside again?"
"I won't watch it anymore. It's really too dirty. I thought you guys just caught some dirtier ones, so no one eats them. Just opening one is so disgusting. I'd better go wash the scallops."
"Although there are not many people in our village, we have tried everything when we were hungry during those years. We have caught crabs before, but basically threw them all away. Listen to other people's advice more in the future!" Ye Yaodong patted him on the shoulder after he said this.
Then the snails that were picked out for sale were sent outside the dock. When they came back, Ye's mother and the others had already washed the radish and clams.
Only these two types are difficult to open, and need to be washed, boiled, and then the meat is scooped out. The shells of other types are easy to pry open, so you can directly dig them out and boil and dry them, saving you the trouble of washing them for a long time.
Each person got two scallops, but it was already late and Lin Xiuqing didn't want to bother, so she just blanched them all with soy sauce and vinegar. Ye Yaodong kept saying it was a waste of food, but he just blanched them and ate them.
"It's good enough to have something to eat, but you're still complaining about it. You're becoming more and more picky. We've been busy until so late, so hurry up and finish eating. Who's still messing around? From now on, just make whatever you want to eat yourself. I can't make it for you."
"Isn't this teaching you how to make delicious food? By the way, when you went to the village committee today, what did Secretary Chen say?"
Lin Xiuqing said as she peeled some dan cai for the child, "Secretary Chen said that if I'm busy, I can go back to work in a few months. Anyway, the job is reserved for me and it won't change."
"That's fine. Mom is too high-profile. Let's be low-key. Luckily we didn't tell her."
His father is not a talkative person. Tell his father when you go there later so that he won't go around shouting that Aqing also goes to work at the village committee.
After dinner, he went to the old house and made fishing lines and fish hooks with his father. Since there were no fish hooks at home, they went to a small shop to buy some.
Even though this is a village, there are still two small shops selling a wide range of items, including daily necessities and fishing gear and boat supplies that are most needed by people living by the sea.
There are also some other small shops, such as pharmacies, clinics, and grocery stores. Where there is demand, there will of course be corresponding commodity trading. Although the village is not a big village, it is not small either, with about five or six hundred households.
It is also very simple to just make a fish hook and a fishing line. Tie one end of the fishing line tightly to a wooden stick or bamboo piece. This is the most common thing you have at home. After winding the line to the length you need, hang a stone on it and secure it, and finally tie the hook.
If necessary, you can also add a bamboo pole, but it is more troublesome to carry. This kind of hand line is easy to carry. You can just throw a bunch of fishing line sticks into the bucket and rush to the fishing spot.
The feel is also obvious, and you can clearly sense whether the fish has taken the bait.
The father and son made fifteen in a row before stopping. It was a simple task that didn't take long.
"Are you ready? If you are, drink a bowl of mung bean soup before you go back. Remember to bring a bucket of mung bean soup to the boat tomorrow to cool you down. Don't get a heat stroke. Several PLA comrades came here and they all got tanned in just a few days." The old lady smiled amiably.
After everyone moved out, there haven't been so many people living in the house, but it still looks lively, especially because the young men look energetic and the old lady likes them very much.
Captain Chen smiled and said, "What's wrong with men being darker?"
Ye Yaodong: Why don't you try to blow the sea breeze for a few decades? I guarantee you will be like my father.
The next day, the village committee did not tell him that he didn't need to go, so they went to the sea to check the scene as usual, to the same place and the same sea.
It’s just one more row of hand line fishing!
Ye Yaodong hammered a row of nails on the edge of the boat, fixed the fishing lines to the nails, then hung baits on them and put them into the water, busying himself one by one.
The others each had a fishing line in their hands, and they all looked at him curiously while fishing.
Father Ye was also puzzled. Where did he get so many tricks? He had no idea what was in his mind all day long. He was just thinking about these unconventional ways that no one had ever done before, but he just wanted to try them.
"Can you do this, Dongzi?"
"I don't know. I've never fished like this before. Let's give it a try. I'm free anyway. Judging from the frequency of catching fish yesterday, the catch wasn't that fast. It should be okay?" Ye Yaodong said as he hung the fishhook on his ear.
"If you catch fish at the same time, pull them at the same time to make sure they don't get tangled or mixed up."
"Why do you have to pull them all at once? Can't you pull them one by one? And aren't these hooks spaced apart? It should be ok if they are tied in knots. It's okay, just give it a try. If you don't have time to pull it up and the fish runs away, then forget it."
"It doesn't matter to you. You can do whatever you want..."
Ye Yaodong shrugged. He didn't expect his father to do anything anyway.
While he was still hanging the bait, Captain Chen was the first to get excited, "Yes, yes... I feel a strong vibration on my hand, there must be a fish..."
Captain Chen pulled a few times and felt the fish was struggling very hard and biting fiercely, but it did not run away with the hook in its mouth, so it was not difficult to pull it up. He used the reel in his hand to quickly reel in the fishing line and pulled it up.
Everyone's attention was attracted by him, and a small fish with brown patterns was lifted into the air with a splash of water.
Father Ye said happily: "Hey? It's a tench. This fish can be..."
"It seems a little small..."
Ye Yaodong also said: "This fish is originally this big. Your fish is relatively large. The fish meat is very delicate, delicious and chewy."
"Is that so? That's good..." Captain Chen happily untied it from the fishhook and put it into the bucket.
With him, after the first one caught the fish, others also caught fish one after another. One person caught a pike, and the other two also caught a tench.
Father Ye also caught a bluefin bream. No matter whether the fish was good or bad, it was worth being happy about the harvest.
Everyone caught a fish, some even caught two, but Ye Yaodong was the only one who showed no movement. After he hung the bait, he felt this line and that line, but didn't feel any vibration.
"What's going on?" He leaned over and put his arms under the fishing lines to pad them. Three fishing lines were hanging directly on his left arm.
He wanted to sense it, but unexpectedly, two of them vibrated suddenly, and shook violently, moving forward and backward.
"Fuck, if they don't make a sound, then they'll be amazing. Two of them came at once. Is this a double whammy?"
He was caught off guard and was thrown into a panic, not knowing which line to pull.
"Dad, please give the fishing line to Captain Chen and the others to help hold it. Come over and help me collect one first. Two of them are shaking together."
Upon hearing this, Father Ye hurriedly handed the fishing line in his hand to Captain Chen next to him, then ran over to help him collect it, muttering to himself.
"I told you that you would be too busy to handle all this. Look, you can't collect just two of them at once..."
"Aren't you afraid it will run away? That's why I called you. Otherwise, you can just collect them one by one..."
"You're just being stubborn... wait and see, all three lines will shake at the same time, then all four lines will tremble at the same time, how are you going to stop it?"
"How could you be so easily hooked?"
Unexpectedly, just as he finished speaking and had just reeled in half of the fishing line, the four lines next to him actually shook together. Two of the fishing lines were still being pulled and stretched at a 45-degree angle. The fish below were biting the hook and preparing to escape.
"Damn it, Dad, you've been very kind today! Hurry up, reel in the line... Don't let them get away..."