Father Ye frowned immediately. "You released one yesterday, but you don't plan to keep such a large group?"
"hold head high?"
Ye Yaodong continued to pretend to be deaf and dumb and glanced at his father, then looked towards the sea again.
Early in the morning, before the sun rose high, the sea breeze was particularly cool, and it blew into his heart, making him feel so cool...
The three cousins looked at him in disbelief; his attitude clearly showed that he had no intention of fishing.
"Dongzi? You don't want to fish?"
"No way? This can be sold for a lot of money."
"Yeah, there are so many turtles... Are you just going to let them go?"
"Dongzi?"
Alas, he sighed in his heart, please don’t let him encounter a fish that will embarrass him next time, okay
Such a large area was obviously testing his faith.
Although he is short of money, he is not very short of money.
Ye Yaodong frowned, wondering how to make up a story.
"Do I look like I'm short of a hundred or eighty bucks? Don't you think this group of turtles is unusual? I've never heard of turtles migrating en masse. Where are they swimming to? Are they going somewhere to hold a meeting?"
Father Ye still frowned at him, "Don't talk nonsense. Hurry up and use the fishing net to catch it. It's a good thing that you found it first. Hurry up and catch it, otherwise your eldest brother, second brother and in-laws will come over later and catch it as well if they see it."
Ye Yaodong found out that his father didn't buy it, so he had to tell the truth.
"Hey, Dad, to tell you the truth, I think it's better to release them. We don't mind the hundred or eighty dollars. These turtles are quite smart. Look at them, some are as big as washbasins, and there are even bigger ones inside. How hard is it for them to grow?"
"Other common fish only grow for one or two years, or ten or twenty years at most. A sea turtle this big may take a hundred or eighty years to grow. No matter what it is, the longer it lives, the more spiritual it is, don't you think?"
"When did you become so convinced of these twists and turns?"
"I always listen to the old lady chanting sutras. After so many times, I feel like I'm being influenced by her."
After hearing that he didn't say a few serious words and started talking nonsense again, Ye's father simply turned on the filter in his ears and ignored his words.
"If you don't fish, your elder brother, second brother and in-laws will come over later and fish too."
He glanced behind him and saw the two boats still floating not far away, catching jellyfish from the sea, and they didn't look like they would be coming over for a while.
"Then let's wait until they come over. Let's just let these turtles drift forward. They might sink soon. We don't know what's going on. There's no point in making this little money if such a large group of them suddenly appear."
The three cousins were looking at each other in bewilderment. It was the first time they saw someone pushing away the fish that were delivered to the door. It was all money.
However, Ye's father had seen many of his amazing actions, such as feeding the whale shark and untying the fishing net for it. He had also become more knowledgeable and knew that his family was now well-off and did not need a net of turtles.
I was heartbroken and conflicted for a while, but I still respected his choice.
"Forget it, if you want to release them, just do it. They are right behind you and are not in a hurry to catch up."
The three cousins couldn't understand this father and son even more.
Shouldn't the uncle (third uncle) have scolded Dongzi and then forced him to use the fishing net to scoop up the fish? Who would leave good money for nothing
Is my uncle (third uncle) so open-minded
"Then don't fish it out?" Ye Yaosheng asked in disbelief.
Father Ye waved his hand and said, "No more fishing. Just watch."
"Hiss~ This appetite is too good, isn't it? It's like sucking noodles..."
Ye Yaodong stared at the sea, where several turtles were fighting over a huge jellyfish as big as a small round table.
They gathered around the jellyfish, opened their mouths wide, took a bite of it, and then sucked it down and swallowed it.
This jellyfish had just floated up from the sea, and it probably hadn't even had time to react when it was surrounded.
In just a moment, the giant jellyfish was torn to pieces by a group of sea turtles, without even a chance to resist.
Seeing that he was watching with great interest, Father Ye also meowed and said, "These turtles eat jellyfish. Since you don't want to catch them, then drive to another place and avoid them, so that any jellyfish that appear will not be eaten by them. If you follow them, you won't be able to catch them today."
"Okay, let's move the boat to the side and divert the two boats behind us."
"Um."
"Go sail, Dad? What are you doing standing there?"
Father Ye glanced at him, and seeing that he was not reluctant, he shook his head helplessly and went to drive the boat.
He adjusted the bow of the boat and planned to move to the left to avoid the problem. However, before long, Ye Yaodong saw that the group of turtles behind him seemed to be swimming to the left and no longer swimming with the wind. The two boats behind also followed.
"Fuck, why are you heading this direction?"
He turned his head and shouted to his father in frustration: "Dad, change the direction..."
But Ye's father didn't listen to him and continued to move forward.
I don’t know if it was because the noise of the diesel engine was too loud that he couldn’t hear it. Seeing that his father didn’t respond after he called him twice, Ye Yaodong had no choice but to walk over.
"Dad? I told you to change direction. Those turtles behind us shouldn't swim in our direction."
Father Ye has been concentrating on looking at the water ahead. "What do you think is underwater?"
“Ah?” Ye Yaodong looked over in confusion, and the more he looked, the more his eyes narrowed. “It looks pretty big… Compared to the group of turtles behind it… This is a giant turtle!”
His eyes widened. "It's so big? It looks like it's more than one meter in diameter?"
"Another turtle?"
Mr. Ye is old and his eyesight is not as good as Ye Yaodong's. He could only see a big creature on the water. When he heard that it was another turtle, there was obvious disappointment on his face.
This prodigal son was planning to release the group of turtles, but if a bigger one came along, it would be useless, so he had to let it go again.
"It should be. It could be a leatherback turtle. Leatherback turtles are specialized in eating jellyfish. There was also a leatherback turtle among the group of sea turtles behind us just now."
The leatherback turtle is also the largest sea turtle in the world. It is a jellyfish fanatic and a jellyfish killer. It has been eating jellyfish for thousands of years, but problems have gradually arisen over the years.
There is a group of animals called humans who invented something called plastic bags and threw them everywhere. The plastic bags floating in the sea were mistaken for jellyfish by leatherback turtles and eaten in one bite.
The result of having a stomach full of plastic bags is naturally death.
It turns out that there is a captain leading the team, which is why there are so many turtles behind him.
Father Ye didn't know the species, didn't know the name, and didn't care what kind of turtle it was. He asked unhappily, "Release this one too?"
"Release it, it's this big. The river turtle I saw at my father-in-law's house before was not as big as this one, and I didn't catch it."
Father Ye glared at him and turned the boat around. At this moment, Ye Yaodong suddenly grabbed him.
"etc… "
"Why? Changed your mind?" Father Ye was surprised.
"No, look at the edge of the island over there."
Father Ye looked in the direction of his finger and was surprised, "What? Colorful? A group of jellyfish?"
"It should be. The colors in that area look a little different. Let's drive over and take a look."
"Isn't it opening..."
When the fishing boat approached, everyone on board opened their mouths in surprise.
The water around the island was so clear that you could see to the bottom at a glance.
There are dense jellyfish floating on the sea in front of us, stretching out around the island with no end in sight. The scene is very spectacular.
The bodies were crystal clear, like umbrellas or giant mushrooms with roots. Some were as big as a table and some were as small as pancakes, which stunned everyone.
“Lots of jellyfish…”
"Did we encounter a jellyfish nest?"
"Do jellyfish have nests?"
Ye Yaodong also smacked his lips, looking at it in disbelief, muttering, "I don't know if jellyfish have nests, but if they do, this must be it."
Father Ye also swallowed his saliva and said, "No wonder those turtles are swimming here."
"Yeah, so the food is here."
"Let the net go, let the net go... Big cousin, second cousin, brother Sheng..."
The three of them reacted immediately and hurried into the cabin excitedly.