Ye Yaodong followed it in a puzzled manner, wondering if they had misunderstood. He thought about it, then tentatively turned the boat around and headed back the way they had come.
Unexpectedly, the whale shark heard the noise, turned around, and then swam quickly to the fishing boat, blocking his way.
Oh my god, is he really that smart
"Does it really want us to follow it? Why do all the good things happen to me?"
Father Ye was really speechless. He had been a fisherman for decades, but this was the first time he encountered such a smart fish.
"Then follow and see what's going on."
They had no choice but to follow it. If they didn't, the fish would keep lingering around their boat.
"I'm really dependent on it..."
Ye Yaodong complained and had to turn the boat towards the reef. Only then did the fish swam forward again.
One fish, one boat, one in front, one behind.
The sea surface sparkled under the sunlight. If it weren't for the waves that were getting higher and higher, how could this weather look like a typhoon was coming
The father and son kept their eyes and ears open, paying close attention to the whale shark in front of them and surrounding them, wondering what it was going to do.
It was not until the fishing boat had followed the fish for five or six minutes and they saw the island getting closer and closer that they noticed there was a big fish on the beach over there!
Father Ye rubbed his eyes, thinking he was dazzled again, "A big fish is stranded?"
As he spoke, he took a few quick steps forward and lay down on the edge of the boat, trying to get closer and see more clearly.
Ye Yaodong also opened his mouth in surprise, "Stranded? What kind of fish is it? We can see it from such a distance, it looks like it's quite big, is it giving us a treat?"
"Drive faster, get closer and take a look at what kind of fish it is..."
He sped up the boat, overtook the whale shark, and moved towards the coast.
As the distance got closer, they found that the guy stranded on the beach had familiar patterns on his body.
Father Ye exclaimed, "There's another one? Holy shit? Is this true? Am I dazzled?"
Both the father and the son opened their eyes wide and looked at the beach ahead. They saw that the big guy lying there was almost gray-brown in color, with a few white spots and criss-crossing light-colored bands on it, which looked particularly obvious.
"Oh my god, the pattern is exactly the same. No wonder the whale shark in front of us has been hovering around our fishing boat. It turns out there is another one stranded here..."
The patterns on the whale shark's body are particularly easy to identify, and they can recognize it at a close look.
"It found a stranded fish here, so it came to find us and has been lingering around our ship."
"It's quite smart, but this one doesn't seem as big as the one in the sea." Ye Yaodong slowed down and stood at the edge of the boat to look over.
"Let's pull over and take a look..."
"It's low tide now, so we can only dock in the deep water nearby."
After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he looked behind the fishing boat again and found that the big whale shark was following closely behind it, right next to the fishing boat. He quickly handed the boat over to his father to drive.
"You drive it. The one at the back is so big, don't let it get stranded. I'll go and shout and see if I can stop it from moving forward."
As soon as his father took over the job of driving the boat, he immediately ran to the stern and shouted at the whale shark to stop it from moving forward, but it seemed like it didn't understand
Ye Yaodong shouted a few times, asking it to stop moving forward, but it turned a deaf ear to him and continued to follow the boat, letting the waves wash over its body.
"Fuck, animals are just animals. No matter how smart they are, they don't have brains. Aren't you afraid of being stranded and dying if you continue to move forward... If you weren't smart and we were destined to be together, we would still be protecting animals in a few years. I wouldn't care whether you lived or died."
He shouted twice like an idiot, but seeing that it was still following him, he cursed at it a few times and then ignored it.
Fortunately, it is a typhoon day and the waves are big. Even when the tide is out, the water level near the nearby reefs is still quite high. Only the exposed terrain of the small beach in front is higher.
Therefore, the whale shark might have been washed over there by the waves and stranded.
After Ye's father docked the boat, Ye Yaodong took a special look at the whale shark following behind the fishing boat and found that it was also swimming around in the sea not far away and was not following, so he felt relieved.
The father and son climbed up the reef, and then used their hands and feet to climb over the rocks one by one and reached the beach.
"Huh? Still alive?"
Ye Yaodong stood on the reef and saw the little whale shark's mouth opening and closing.
When we say it is small, it is actually relative to the one in the sea. In fact, it is about three or four meters long, which is not small at all.
But among whale sharks, its size is still that of a baby and it has not grown up yet.
A normal adult whale shark of seven or eight meters is not considered big, and there are also some that are more than ten meters long, such as the one currently on the seabed.
He jumped off the reef, and Ye's father followed closely, holding on to the reef and slowly moving down. As he got older, he couldn't jump from such a high place like the young ones, and it was easy to break a bone if he wasn't careful.
"Still alive?"
Ye Yaodong walked forward and said affirmatively: "He is still alive. I don't know how he got stranded here."
"It's probably because of the typhoon. The impact on the open sea is definitely greater than that on the nearshore sea, with strong winds and waves, so it lost its way and ran to the nearshore sea."
"That should be the case. That's why a big one popped up yesterday and a small one was stranded today."
The father and son walked around the fish, watching the tide wash up from time to time, and instantly understood why it was still alive and not killed by the sun.
The waves are huge and are sent up from time to time, which is equivalent to watering it. With the washing of sea water, it can barely breathe there and wait for them to come.
"Dongzi, what should we do now? This one doesn't look small, and I don't know if we can drag it... Yes! Drag it back and sell it! We can drag it back and sell it for money..." Father Ye thought it was feasible and his eyes lit up as he spoke.
"This one is so big, it will definitely sell for a lot of money. We can't handle the big one in the sea, but this one is smaller. The net machine should be able to drag it onto the boat, right? This one should not weigh more than a ton..."
Father Ye became more and more excited as he spoke, as if piles of money were waving at him.
Ye Yaodong was a little tempted, but, "I don't know if the big one in the sea is related to this one. What if it gets angry and flips our boat over? It was obvious that it wanted us to come and rescue this little whale shark just now."
"Besides, we don't have any fishing nets. The line of the hand-cast net is too thin, and we don't have enough manpower. We can't get it onto the boat, but it's possible to drag it into the sea."
"Yeah?" The smile on Ye's father's face froze. He almost forgot that Ye's mother hadn't repaired the fishing net yesterday. "Then we can't catch it?"
Father Ye was quite disappointed that his hopes were dashed. After all, the fish was so big, it must be worth a lot of money.
It was a pity for Ye Yaodong too. Who doesn’t want to catch big fish
If this one was dead, he would have to drag it back even if he had to think hard about it, but it was still alive...
Well, let’s just treat it as a protected animal for now, this will also comfort ourselves.
"Let's drag it back into the sea first. If it's alive, we'll release it and accumulate merit. If it's dead, we'll find a way to get it on board."
Father Ye had also seen the terrifying appearance of the big whale shark when it was angry. Some animals would protect their young. He said reluctantly, "Okay."
He tried pushing, but the little whale shark wouldn't budge.
Ye Yaodong also stepped forward to help push. The father and son tried their best but felt that they could not move the fish at all. There was clearly a little sea water underneath and they could use the buoyancy of the water, but the fish still lay firmly on the beach.
If its mouth had not opened and closed from time to time, moving slightly, they would have thought it was dead.
"No, Dongzi, I can't push it. There's nothing I can do. Why don't we wait for the tide to rise later? When the tide rises, it will naturally return to the sea."
"It probably won't be able to return even when the tide comes in. The water level isn't high here, and it'll take several hours. It might just get sunburned to death."
Who knows how long the little bit of seawater that comes up from time to time can last? It is large in size, and the water evaporates quickly when exposed to the sun.
"What do you think we should do? This thing looks like it weighs nearly a ton. It'll take eight or ten people to push it back into the sea."
Father Ye patted the body of the little whale shark. It was rare to see such a big body and it was still a baby.
Ye Yaodong thought about it and realized that it would be difficult for the two of them to push the whale shark back into the sea, so they had to seek help from external forces.
After thinking for a while, he said, "I'll go get a rope from the boat and tie up the whale shark. Then we'll drive the fishing boat over and use it to tow it to see if we can tow it into the sea."
Father Ye thought about it and felt that this method should be feasible.
"Give it a try! Try it out!"
"Come on, let it lie there for now. I'll get the rope and you go drive the boat."
"It's so troublesome, it's a waste of time, just ignore it."
"Don't worry about it. The fish has been following us. Let's do a good deed today! Who knows, it might just be wandering around the sea to see if there's a boat that can help it. It just happened to see us and came after us again."
Ye Yaodong is very open-minded. He catches those who can be caught and lets go of those who cannot be caught.
Father Ye was just speaking in anger and complaining a few words. He also saw the big fish asking for help just now.
The father and son used their hands and feet to carefully climb up the reef and return the same way.
After a long while, Ye Yaodong finally came over with a bundle of ropes on his back.
He looked left and right, wondering how to tie this up.
"Fuck, why do you have to be so big? It's hard to catch or tie you up. You're still a baby even though you're this big. If you tell others about it, people will laugh to death..."
"I can also say that I am a baby of just over 300 months old..."
Ye Yaodong took the rope and walked it around in a circle, muttering to himself as he pondered.
Ye's father, who happened to be wading across the water to help, heard it. He staggered and almost fell into the water.