Ye Yaodong stood on the shore and watched for a while. The waves kept coming up, then going back, and then coming up again. They looked bigger than at night.
Many people in the village ran to the shore to watch early in the morning, and some ran to the outside of the dock to watch. They were discussing in groups of three or four whether another typhoon was coming.
Ye Yaopeng, Ye Yaohua, and the neighbors next door were also watching the waves.
“It seems like there haven’t been any typhoons this year…”
"They have been here, and it was reported in the newspapers, but they didn't pass by here. They went to Guangdong Province, so we were not affected."
It was only published afterwards, and it was in a small spot in the corner. He almost had to use a magnifying glass to find it.
"Then how can we say it has been here if it hasn't passed by us? This time it must be a typhoon." said Landa next to him.
"It should be. The wind started blowing yesterday afternoon. I wonder if it will have an impact on us this time?"
"It will definitely have an impact. The waves are rolling over there. I just don't know if it will pass by us. Is the typhoon strong?"
Ye Yaodong thought about the encounter with the big whale shark yesterday. He was so nervous and his mood was so fluctuating that he came back without even reeling in the longline. Now the longline and the trap are still on the sea.
Now that a typhoon was about to hit, he would have to go out to sea to collect the longlines and traps, and to be on the safe side he would have to sail the boat to a safe harbor.
He turned to look at his eldest and second brothers, "When are you going to sail the boat to the safe harbor?"
The two hesitated for a moment, and Ye Yaopeng said, "We are not sure whether a typhoon is coming. We plan to wait and see. If the wind and waves are still strong in the evening, it will not be too late for us to drive to a safe harbor."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "I have to go out to sea to collect the nets. Didn't Dad come this morning?"
"He went to look outside the dock and should come in soon."
"oh."
Ye Yaodong thought about it and decided to go into the house to tell Lin Xiuqing that he was planning to go out to sea now to collect the traps and longline fishing. The longer he delayed, the stronger the wind and waves would be, and the more dangerous it would be. Who knows when the typhoon will come
At this moment, he saw that there were already a few boats floating on the sea, probably going out to collect the nets.
Lin Xiuqing followed him worriedly, and sent him to the door. She also looked at the sea in the distance and said, "Then you should be careful, go early and come back early, don't delay too long."
"Well, nothing unexpected, come back for lunch at noon."
After Ye Yaodong said this, he walked straight out of the dock.
The fishing net was broken, and his mother didn't have time to come and fix it yesterday. He had originally planned to collect the longline fishing today and try fishing with the seal fish. Anyway, he couldn't use a trawl net, so he could only continue to keep the fish with Ah Cai and take it out to sea in a few days.
At this time, Ye's father was discussing today's wind and waves with everyone outside the dock. Everyone said that a typhoon was definitely coming. Although the sun was shining brightly today and it didn't rain, the wind and waves outside the dock were much stronger than those in front of their new home.
He planned to go in and ask Dongzi to go out and collect the nets while the boat could still withstand the wind and waves, and at the same time ask the eldest and second brothers to moor the boat in a safe harbor.
The two met by chance and hit it off immediately. Ye's father went out with him first, and Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua just had to ask someone to remind them.
The trap nets were just along the shore, so Ye Yaodong went to collect the traps first. There were only four rows in total, and they were collected quickly.
There are a lot of catches in this season. Spring and summer are the spawning seasons for many seafood species. In addition, the waves are big, so the four rows of traps are full. Several nets were blown, and we caught more than 30 kilograms of swimming crabs, at least half of which are red-roe.
Both father and son were very happy and were looking forward to the longline catch they would be fishing for soon.
What they didn't expect was that when they just collected the longline fishing line, a huge creature suddenly emerged from the sea in the distance. Even Ye's father was surprised when he saw it.
"Dongzi, Dongzi..."
Ye Yaodong had just caught a bomb fish weighing more than ten kilograms. He was happy that there was a big fish in the strong wind and waves, and was planning to ask his father to take over the hook. When he went to bleed the fish, he heard his father shouting in surprise and patting his shoulder.
"What? Wait for me to get this bomb fish off first, you reel it in, and I'll let it go..."
"No, the whale shark from yesterday..."
"Ah!" Ye Yaodong turned his head in surprise, "Fuck, why is it still here and not in the deep sea?"
Father Ye stared at the fish that was gradually swimming towards them without blinking, and he was also puzzled.
“Is it because of the typhoon?”
"Is it really possible? Maybe it lost its direction? Oh my god, it's lucky that it's big enough that no ship near the coast can catch it."
"It's swimming over here..."
"Don't worry about it for now. Let's reel in our line. Maybe it's just passing by, or it can't find the way and is wandering around."
"What a pity, those people from the newspaper have already left. If they had followed us out to sea today, we would have been able to take clear photos."
"No way, it's not fate." Ye Yaodong handed the hook in his hand to his father, "You take it first, I'll go bleed this bomb fish, this fish is the biggest one I caught today."
"Isn't there a bigger one over there? You don't even need to catch it. It might come over here soon as it knows the way well."
I didn't expect his dad would tell jokes, they're really cold...
But, speak of Cao Cao and he will appear.
The fish really swam over slowly after a while...
Considering that the two men and the fish had some friendship, the father and son did not turn around and run away immediately this time, but waited calmly where they were and continued to reel in the line.
Because of the wind and waves yesterday, the probability of catching an empty hook when longline fishing today was reduced by half. They just collected two baskets of hooks and two baskets of fish, one of which was full of turbot weighing one or two pounds. The two were very busy and only had a little time to look at the whale shark swimming over.
Ye Yaodong glanced at the rather rich harvest beside him, and felt a little nervous. Could this fish come here to beg for food? He couldn't afford such a big fish. He returned empty-handed yesterday, and the fishing net was damaged, which was already a big loss.
But fortunately, the fish only circled the boat a few times and did not come close, then swam to the side again.
They watched it swim towards the reef, and then they looked away, not taking it seriously and continued to happily reel in the line.
Just when they had almost collected all the hooks and only had a dozen or so left, it swam over again and kept hovering around the fishing boat.
Initially, the father and son didn't want to care about it, but after they finished collecting all the lines, they saw that it was still swaying around and was reluctant to leave. Father Ye asked hesitantly, "Is there something wrong again?"
"No? You don't have a fishing net on you, and you don't look good? You didn't come closer with your mouth open, either?"
He didn't intend to feed her even if she came over!
These are his two-day harvest, he can’t let it go at a low price.
With its size, it may not be full even if you feed it everything.
"Then let's just sail away?"
"Let's go? Start the diesel engine, drive away and see how it reacts. If it doesn't react, we can just leave."
Father Ye nodded and said, "I'm going to drive the boat, you keep an eye on it."
Unexpectedly, to the surprise of the father and son, when their boat was about to leave, the whale shark swam to the bow and blocked their way.
Mr. Ye didn't understand why and changed direction, but it was blocked again.
"What is it doing?"
"You won't let us go?" Ye Yaodong was also puzzled and shouted at it, "Brother, what are you doing?"
How could the whale shark possibly respond to it
Just continue to wander around the fishing boat.
The father and son scratched their heads for a while, but couldn't figure out what it was doing.
Ye Yaodong tried to control the boat again to see if he could move forward. This time the boat did not block the way and was swimming ahead.
"Hey? What's going on?"
Father Ye looked at the direction it was swinging and said hesitantly, "It just came from this direction, right?"
“Are you leading the way?”
"All animals have spirits. Didn't you say that its brain is equivalent to that of a seven or eight-year-old child?"
"Yes, maybe he is really leading the way. Let's follow him to see what's going on..."
Whale sharks are truly highly ranked in terms of intelligence.