Lin Xiuqing was so angry that her face was puffed up, but when she saw him laughing, she felt a little bit unable to hold it back and started laughing too.
"Hurry up and get to work. After collecting these goods, you still have to sort out the traps. Later you have to roughly sort them by size. There is still a lot to do."
"Well, how many children?"
"I don't know where he ran off to. The ground is still wet. Maybe he was playing at someone's house next door?"
"Go get them all to help with the work. They've had a summer break and their minds have been playing around. Let them do more work so they can focus and stop them from hanging around other people's houses all day."
"Okay, I'll run back and shout."
Ye Yaodong fiddled with the basket she had just picked. There were quite a lot of small sugar shrimps in it. It was the breeding season, and these sugar shrimps had seeds of various colors on their abdomens, red and purple.
He picked up a few and threw them into another empty bucket, then went back to collecting the traps.
Before he could pull the net together, he heard voices coming from all directions: "I'm coming, I'm coming, wait for me."
"Wow, we can finally go to the beach."
"Uncle San, are we going to have another big fight today?"
"What are we going to catch, or what are we going to pick up?"
Everyone was eager to get into the water, and as soon as they ran to the beach, they kicked their feet and threw their slippers aside.
Ye Yaodong turned around and looked at them speechlessly, "Put on your shoes. I asked you to help, not to play. Pick up the goods on the cart for me."
"ah?"
"Shouldn't we get some goods?"
"Others are picking up stranded seafood on the beach..."
"Others are others. Can't you see I'm collecting the nets? Your Third Aunt is too busy, so you can help her sort them out. The tide has just receded a little bit, so there's nothing to pick up. I'll bring you here tomorrow when the tide recedes."
"Oh well… "
"Be more active. The canned food and rice cakes in the morning were not eaten in vain. And the canned food and biscuits yesterday... Shit, you ate a lot of my food." Ye Yaodong glared, "Hurry up and work, or I won't help you hide your private money tomorrow."
"We'll help right away."
Everyone suddenly became active again and gathered around the bamboo basket. However, there were too many people and it was a bit inconvenient to just stand there, as some of them couldn't reach it.
Ye Yaodong took down everything on the cart and helped them pour all the goods in the baskets onto the cart. This made it convenient for them to pick out the goods as they gathered around the two sides of the cart, and it also made it easier for him to unload the goods after collecting the nets.
This trap net is indeed a wise and convenient method. After being thrown into the sea for about a day and a half, there is quite a lot of stuff in it when it is pulled up.
Each net caught about five to six or seven pounds of scallops, and other miscellaneous fish, shrimps and crabs were also swept in by the waves. There were more catches than before in the near sea.
But there was nothing he could do. The waves were still big and he couldn't sail out to cast the net now.
After collecting a row of traps, as soon as the last net was dumped out, Lin Xiuqing quickly grabbed two sea cucumbers. She was so happy that her face was full of smiles and she shouted excitedly: "Adong, there are two sea cucumbers!"
Ye Yaodong was also very happy, "This net was so good that we were able to catch two sea cucumbers."
"Well, hurry up and continue collecting. The kids are picking pretty fast."
He glanced at the cart piled high with scallops and was very satisfied. This row of traps had collected about 60 kilograms of scallops, and after removing some shells and scallops, there should be about 50 kilograms.
Some villagers who were picking up leftovers on the shore were looking at the adults and children who were busy gathering around them. Ye Yaodong was collecting the nets there, and from time to time someone would come over to take a look and say a few words.
Everyone is very envious.
"You guys have collected a lot, the whole family has joined in..."
"There are still a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs... These can be sold for a lot of money..."
"You're really smart. You put the trap down so early..."
“How many nets did it take to collect this much?”
"There are so many nets in the sea, you can sell them for a lot of money..."
"I heard that you delivered the goods to the city yesterday and sold them for a good price. I heard that one pound was more than 30 cents... The dock is so unscrupulous that they actually charged 20 cents..."
Ye Yaodong was closing in his net. So many people were coming and going, and he kept responding perfunctorily with "hmm" and "ah" with a smile. People knew he was busy, so some just glanced at him and left, while others just stayed a little longer and said a few more words.
But now someone actually said this, so he had to refute it.
"Not all of them are more than 30 cents. There are many in the market that sell for less than 20 cents. It's just because we picked them carefully and didn't mix anything else, so we can sell them at a higher price. Acai's prices are quite fair. I'm going to send these goods to him later."
"Uh... Hehe~ I see, there are also more than 20 cents in the market?"
"Of course, you get what you pay for..."
The man said a few words, then felt that he had made a fool of himself and left. Ye Yaodong pouted.
It’s true. When I send it over later, I have to negotiate the price with Acai and do him a favor.
After he had collected two rows one after another, his father and second brother finally arrived.
"I came here at noon to ask you when you were going to collect the traps, but Qing said you were sleeping. How many have you collected?"
"Half, there are still two rows left, it will be quick to collect them all."
"How many scallops have been collected?" Father Ye said as he walked towards the cart. When he got closer, he saw that the scallops were piled up on the board like a mountain. It seemed like a large number. There were also some fish, shrimps and crabs.
"You only have two rows? You collected so much in two rows? It must be over a hundred pounds."
"It's about a hundred pounds, right? We can't weigh it now. We'll take it back and pick it out later. We'll know when we send it to the dock."
"Send it to the dock?" Ye Yaohua couldn't help but say, "Aren't you going to send it to the city? The price in the city is so high."
"Brother, are you kidding me? If I collect all of them, it will only be 200 kilograms at most. If I send this amount to the city, won't I lose money? I have to pay for the round-trip fare and the stall fee. It's such a hassle."
"Oh, yes, yes... I didn't think it through. I just thought that you sold it at a high price at night. It's not worth making a trip to the city for such a small amount of goods. It's too much trouble." Ye Yaohua smiled awkwardly.
Father Ye said helplessly, "Last night I specifically asked you and the boss if you wanted to go? You said the line was already half full, so you didn't bother. Forget it, let's not talk about it. Next time we come across something good or a large quantity, we'll send it to the city."
"Why!"
Father Ye smiled and changed the subject, "You kids are really diligent today. You even came to help."
"The mouth is soft when eating from someone else's mouth, and the hand is obliged when taking from someone else's mouth. We ate the canned food given by our third uncle in the morning, and we have to help him with work in the afternoon." Ye Chenghai said honestly.
"You're aware! It seems my feeding wasn't in vain."
"Selling popsicles~Selling popsicles~"
Suddenly, there was a sound of someone selling popsicles near their house. The sound of waves beside their ears was not very clear, but as long as it was someone selling food, how could these children not have sensitive ears
Their eyes were brighter than the stars in the sky, and they kept shouting, "Popsicles! The popsicle seller is here..."
"The popsicle seller is here..."
Suddenly, one by one, some called dad "daddy", some called mom "mom", some called grandpa "grandpa", and they looked at him with extremely longing eyes, and their purpose was self-evident.
Of course, as a grandfather, Ye's father was the first to take out money. He counted the people, gave each of them five cents, and let them buy popsicles first. Then he went to Ye Yaodong to help him collect the traps.
Ye Yaohua was the same. Since they had come all the way here, of course he helped to collect the goods. He was also very curious about how much Dongzi's four rows of traps could collect.
He increasingly felt that Dongzi's brain was working particularly well after he became diligent. He also felt that he seemed to be particularly lucky now. Everything he did seemed to be successful and everything he did seemed to go smoothly.
I was thinking to myself, maybe I can listen to him more in the future, or just follow him in doing whatever he does, to see if I can get some luck
For example, this time when I went to the city, I really regretted missing it. I wish I had caught up yesterday.
I wonder if he would follow in his footsteps if he knew that Ye Yaodong bought a shop in the wholesale market
Ye Yaohua was thinking this as he pulled the net up. When the net was pulled up, he saw that there seemed to be two different fish in it.
He leaned forward to take a look and was instantly surprised, "Dad, Dongzi, there are two sweetfish in here."
The two were collecting the net in their hands and had no time to go over to take a look. They could only shout at him to collect it first, and then they quickly pulled up the net in their hands.
After Ye Yaohua pulled up the net, he brought it to the side of the cart, untied the fish bag and poured out the fish.
Two long and slightly flat fish slid out from inside. Their backs were dark blue with a little yellow in some places, their bellies were silvery white, and their fins were all light yellow.
Lin Xiuqing curiously grabbed the fish in her hand and asked, "What kind of fish is this? I don't think I've seen it before... Hey, it smells a bit good?"
Ye Yaohua smiled so hard that his teeth were not visible. He picked up another one and said, "This is a sweetfish, a fish with its own body fragrance. In ancient times, it was a tribute."
"Really?" She sniffed it again in surprise, "It seems to smell quite good, a light and refreshing fragrance, magical."
Ye Yaodong and his father also happened to have collected a net and ran over at this time.
"It really is sweetfish. I smell it... it smells quite nice... it tastes like watermelon..."
"What watermelon flavor?"
As soon as the children, led by Ye Chenghai, smelled the taste of watermelon, they quickly ran over with their popsicles in hand and licked them a few times.
"What watermelon flavor..."
"How come you have such sharp ears?" Ye Yaodong said unhappily.
"It's a must, what watermelon flavor are you talking about?"
No one paid any attention to him.
Father Ye also took it in his hand and smelled it, "What a pity, there are only two, and the total weight is less than half a pound."
“It would be great if it could be sold for money.”
"Put them in a bucket first, and then send them to the dock to ask how much these two sweetfish are worth."
"Second brother is very lucky. You just caught two sweetfish in your net."
Ye Yaohua smiled innocently, "It's already inside, it doesn't matter who pulls it."
"That's not necessarily true."
Seeing these children still peeking around, Ye Yaodong imitated the adults and sniffed around, then patted two of them on the head.
"Eat quickly, and then get back to work. You haven't done much work, but you keep eating."
"If you want the cow to run, you have to let it eat grass!"
"I know a lot. I talk about it in a lot of ways. Be careful of diarrhea at night."
"No way."
After saying a few words, Ye Yaodong ignored them and continued to collect the net. There were only a few left, so he quickly collected them all.