It was not until it was completely dark that Ye's father finally arrived with a group of people.
When they saw Ye Ersao in the crowd, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, they didn't have to cook anymore. Cooking for two days had been very difficult for these grown men.
Ye Yaodong also looked at his second sister-in-law happily. He had never felt that his second sister-in-law was so kind. Anyway, it would be fine if one of the two sisters-in-law could come.
"Is the rice cooked? Did you cook too much?" Ye's father asked hurriedly.
"Yes, I cooked a big pot, which should be enough for ten people."
"That's good… "
Ye Yaodong counted the people who came, and there were a total of 8 people including his second sister-in-law. Two of them were his cousins from his uncle's family, and the other two middle-aged ones should be the ones called by Uncle Pei. A total of seven men and one woman.
"Isn't Guang here?"
"His wife is going to give birth in a month, and there is no one at home who can help. He dare not leave. If anything happens, he will have to rely on his mother-in-law."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no telling when we can catch the jellyfish, so he'd better stay at home and watch over it. Making money is important, but his wife and children are more important."
Father Pei smiled and nodded, "Yes, and there is another boat at home. Although it has been released, it still needs someone to pick up the goods. It is just right for him to stay at home to take care of it and pick up the goods at the same time."
Father Ye interrupted, "Okay, let's eat first and talk while we eat. After that, you still have to deal with those jellyfish. It's already quite late now."
While eating, Ye Yaodong found out that they had also arrived in the afternoon, but because they saw a lot of jellyfish on the sea, they couldn't wait to fish for them, so they were delayed for a long time.
Then I continued to ask on the boat, but couldn't find the village, so I had to go directly to the town to make a phone call.
Anyway, as long as we arrive safely, that's good.
Fortunately, there were four rooms in the educated youth center. Ye Yaohua and his second sister-in-law shared one, Pei's father and the three people he brought shared one, the two brothers, their father and Ye Yaosheng shared one, and the other four cousins shared one. Fortunately, they all had large bunk beds, so they could squeeze in.
Then two of them would take turns sleeping on the boat and watching it every night just in case.
After everything was arranged, we helped them process the jellyfish after dinner, and then everyone went to bed early.
The next day, without anyone calling us, everyone got up and washed up at around two o'clock in the morning.
Although they got up early, they were all very energetic, looking very determined and confident, and it seemed that they were ready to work hard at any time.
When they reached the shore, they attracted a lot of attention. People on the shore who had not yet boarded the boat all looked at them.
However, his elder brother and younger brothers were also puzzled when they saw the villagers. Why did they all have bruises and limping
"Do you have new friends?" Lu Hongwei asked curiously when he saw them coming over.
The people around also pricked up their ears.
"Yes, these are my brothers and cousins, they are all family. Are you all right? You went out to sea without an extra day's rest?"
"I feel much better after the injection. How can I rest? It is the flood season now. One day without going out to sea is a day of loss. Our whole family depends on this flood season to make more money."
"So you won the battle yesterday, right? Did you recover all the losses?"
"That's about right. We caught them off guard at first and managed to get all their stuff back. Later they went to the sea to call for help. The fight was pretty bad, but we fought and retreated at the same time and no one was seriously injured, so it's not a big problem. The two villages are right next to each other, so there are a lot of conflicts. I just don't know if they will come over to cause trouble after dawn today."
The fourth son of the Lu family also said, "It turns out that there are several large ships docked here. They are all yours. We were just wondering why there are suddenly several large ships on the shore."
"Is your village quite wealthy? How come there are three large ships so easily, and they are all from your family?"
"It's OK...right? It's OK. We have more big ships than you do. Our village is quite big, and there are also ships from the neighboring villages docking at our village. Let's get on the boat first and we'll talk later."
Ye Yaodong said it lightly, and seeing that everyone else had already boarded the boat, they didn't say much and hurried on board as well.
After they left, the people on the shore began whispering again, but everyone was in a hurry to go out to sea to fish, and no one had the time to stay there and gossip.
The two newly arrived boats were unfamiliar with the surroundings and also followed Ye Yaodong's boat, but kept a distance from each other.
Anyway, it's the fishing season and jellyfish are floating everywhere on the sea. If we fish together in this unfamiliar place, we can look after each other and avoid encountering unreasonable ones.
After all, they are all outsiders, so it is better for them to stick together. After all, the sea is a lawless place, whoever has the bigger fist has the final say, and having more people can also give you an advantage.
The resources around the coast are slightly less than those near the coast, and they didn’t set out nets, so they just used a hand-scoop net to specifically catch jellyfish.
At this time, Ye Yaodong couldn't help but feel sorry that he didn't bring his trap. Otherwise, he could have put up a trap and caught some seafood as dishes. The seafood he ate last night was caught by his eldest and second brothers.
However, he thought that he might be able to wait until an hour or two before returning to cast a net around the area. The time was short and the cargo was not much, so the net lifter should be able to pull it up.
In fact, sometimes the trawl net is not necessarily more efficient than the hand-scoop net that catches fish one by one.
Because it takes time to put down the net and organize the net. It takes more than ten to twenty minutes to put the net down, and the process of pulling the net up also takes half an hour. The distribution of jellyfish is also uneven. If the number is large and concentrated, it will be faster to use the fishing net directly.
All we can say is that both methods have advantages and disadvantages.
When they used nets to catch fish yesterday, they didn't always catch them, as they would run away.
Brother Ye and his friends next door also discovered that the fish had escaped while they were fishing. When the two boats got closer because of fishing, they asked.
"How can it run without eyes?"
"Yeah, Dongzi, you are familiar with this thing. Why did it run away when you got close to it? It doesn't look that easy to catch."
Ye Yaodong shouted, "When you want to fish, stop the boat in advance. Jellyfish have no eyes, but have you noticed that there are some small shrimps biting the jellyfish's heads, and there are shrimps on every jellyfish's head."
They took a closer look at the jellyfish on the sea surface and said, "Hey? There really is one..."
"The shrimp that bites the jellyfish's head serves as its eyes. If the shrimp escapes, it will follow."
Ye Yaopeng suddenly realized, "Is that so..."
"No wonder... Dongzi, you know so much?" Ye Yaohua said admiringly. He himself didn't realize that he was becoming more and more convinced of Ye Yaodong.
"The jellyfish walks with shrimps as its eyes. I heard this saying in the village yesterday. I figured it out after a little thought."
Father Ye also nodded, he also heard this.
The three boats kept a distance from each other and fished for their own purpose. Because they were fishing relatively far away, there were no small wooden boats or big ships around, so the situation was relatively calm.
Just as Ye Yaodong was moving forward with the wind, he found that there was suddenly a gray-green object floating on the sea in front of him. It seemed to be moving, but the speed was not fast.
He stretched his neck to look, but because he was some distance away, he couldn't see clearly, and the ripples on the water were shaking up and down, so he couldn't make out anything.
"Dad, let's drive the boat in that direction quickly. There seems to be something on the sea over there, but we can't tell what it is from the whole thing. Let's get closer and take a look."
Father Ye looked in the direction his finger pointed and found that the water seemed to be a different color, as if something was floating on it.
"OK."
The others who were processing jellyfish couldn't help but look up and look over.
"Hey? Could it be a school of fish?"
"Really?"
"Ah? I was just saying..."
"No... This looks like a school of fish, so large... Maybe we really did encounter a school of fish passing by..." Ye Yaosheng became a little excited as he spoke.
Ye Yaodong leaned against the side of the boat and was a little excited, "You'll know if you take a closer look."
The two boats not far away were puzzled when they saw them suddenly speed up, but after all, they were still there catching jellyfish, so they just wanted to catch up later.
The people on Ye Yaodong's boat stopped killing and cutting the jellyfish. They all leaned against the side of the boat, stretching their necks curiously, wanting to see what was in front of them.
As the fishing boat speeded up and approached, they also saw what those large pieces of stuff on the sea were.
"A patch of gray-green? Is it still floating there?"
"What the hell? Turtle?"
"Ah? It's a turtle?"
"It's sea turtles. What the hell... A bunch of sea turtles? I thought it was a school of fish. My joy was in vain." Ye Yaodong's originally happy and expectant face suddenly fell.
"No, Dongzi, there are quite a lot of sea turtles here, and they are worth a lot of money if we catch them. Dongzi... can we just use the net to catch them and sell them?" The eldest cousin was very surprised.
"Yes, these sea turtles can be sold and are quite valuable. With such a large piece, we'll make a fortune. I'll go get the net." The second cousin excitedly planned to run to the cabin to get the net, and Ye Yaosheng followed closely behind him.
At that time, sea turtles had not yet been upgraded to a second-level protected animal, and no one had the awareness to protect sea turtles. Everyone was very happy and immediately wanted to take the fishing nets and catch them all.
You know, it’s not easy to see sea turtles normally, let alone such a large group of them, how rare it is!
"Etc., etc… "
He was struggling with his conscience and desires in his heart. He would just take the other second-level items as they could, after all, they hadn't been included yet.
But this turtle is a little different.
"What's wrong, Dongzi? Hurry up and grab some, don't be late and let others get there first. You will definitely make a fortune with so many."
Father Ye looked at him struggling there and asked in surprise, "Are you not going to fish it out?"
"hold head high?"
Ye Yaodong looked at everyone who was surprised innocently.