The sun was shining brightly at noon, and the typhoon the night before seemed like a dream. Ye Yaodong was already sweating profusely just by walking from home to the beach.
Come to think of it, it’s still cooler on typhoon days, and it would be even better if the house didn’t leak.
The glaring sunlight forced him to squint his eyes, "Oh~ there are quite a lot of people on the beach."
"After the typhoon, the tide receded and everyone knew that they had to try their luck. Plus, the day before yesterday you took advantage of the typhoon to pick up a sea bass, and the news spread all over the village. Aren't there a lot of people here today?" Father Ye said with a frown.
"Are you still going down?"
"Now that we are here, let's go down and take a look."
Most of the people on the beach were women and children carrying buckets, as well as young people with nothing to do. When they met someone they knew, they all greeted them.
"have you eaten yet?"
"You guys are here too?"
"What did you find?"
Well... these are the words...
Ye Yaodong didn't stop and pulled Lin Xiuqing away from the army and headed straight for the reef area, which was the area where the large cargo was found the day before yesterday. The small fish, shrimps and clams on the beach were left for others to pick up.
"Mom and Dad, don't run, wait for us..."
Ye Yaodong: This idiot!
He didn't even turn his head, waiting for them to do what
The tide was just receding and had not yet retreated below the reefs, so after running halfway, they could only follow the tide and move slowly.
Ye Yaodong saw a big bass rolling with the waves in front of him, so he quickly let go of Lin Xiuqing's hand, took off his rain boots, and rushed into the sea with the bucket.
Lin Xiuqing didn't see why he suddenly rushed to the sea, so she shouted, "What are you doing? The waves will hit us again soon."
"You wait there, don't move."
Ye Yaodong walked until the water was up to his waist before stopping to look for the perch he had just caught. The waves were rolling there and almost made him float away.
Just then a wave rolled up and he saw the bass again, one meter in front of him on the right. He quickly moved forward, took aim and scooped it up with the bucket. Unfortunately, the fish was too big and there was too much sea water, so it jumped out again just as he scooped it up.
He followed it with a bucket, and just as the sea water rose, it swam in by itself...
Ye Yaodong held the bucket high over his shoulder and walked quickly to the shore. Waves came up one after another and he was soaked from head to toe. He felt very comfortable.
Lin Xiuqing went up to him and asked, "Why are you still trying to catch them in the sea? It's so dangerous..."
"It's okay. I can swim, so I'm not afraid. Besides, it's not that far away. The water is only up to my chest, so I can't drown." He handed her the bucket and showed it to her. "It's a big bass, about four or five pounds, worth a few dollars."
"Well, be careful."
"Ah~ there's a big snail~"
The tide just happened to push a snail to their feet. Lin Xiuqing picked it up happily. "I didn't expect that a snail would be delivered to my door even when I was standing still. There is meat inside, not empty. Is this a conch?"
"Um!"
"Do you want to break it open and take a look?"
Ye Yaodong laughed, "You thought there was another baby, didn't you?"
Lin Xiuqing glared at him in disapproval, "It's so big!"
"This conch is not available, so you should sell it for money!"
"If there is none, then there is none." She was not disappointed. It was already a great adventure to have a Melo Pearl, and it was not bad to pick up a large conch for free.
The couple followed the tide and walked forward. They didn't pick up much other seafood, but they almost filled a bucket of clams.
Ye Yaodong took out the sack from his pocket and shook it as usual, "Pour it in!"
Lin Xiuqing couldn't help laughing, "Why do you always carry a sack with you?"
"I had anticipated this. If I didn't bring a sack with me, what would you use to load the goods?"
In fact, he had learned a lesson from the trip to the isolated island a few days ago. Whenever he went out, he would carry a sack in his pocket, no matter whether it was needed or not.
"There are so many people on the beach, two buckets should be enough for us."
"That's not enough. The bucket I have is filled with sea bass, and the bucket you have is filled with clams. If we come across other goods, what will you use?"
"Well, you're from the seaside, so you're right!"
The two men followed the tide downstream, picking up whatever they could find, accepting everyone who came. It was not until the tide was about to recede to the reef area that Ye Yaodong discovered that his second brother and his wife had also followed.
"What did you pick up? Why are you carrying sacks?" Mrs. Ye craned her neck curiously to look at their buckets and sacks. "Ah, what a big perch."
The clams in the sacks were not uncommon, they were all over the beach. They had picked up almost a bucket, and others had picked up a lot as well.
Lin Xiuqing said with a smile: "Just now, when the tide had not receded so much, Dongzi saw a perch and rushed into the sea to catch it."
"Haha, Yaodong seems to be much more diligent recently. He seems to have turned over a new leaf."
Ye Yaodong ignored her and walked towards the reef area next to him. There were people coming over here not far away, so he had to take a look around first.
Lin Xiuqing gave an awkward laugh and hurried to follow.
When they saw Ye Yaodong bending down and grabbing two blue crabs, their eyes lit up and they trotted over to follow him.
"Two blue crabs were caught at once. Ahua, let's look for them quickly." Ye Ersao was so envious. This was a big sea bass and a big blue crab, and they hadn't caught anything valuable yet.
Ye Yaohua also started to walk around with a silly smile on his face, and soon caught one. Although they were not as big as the two caught by Ye Yaodong just now, Ye Ersao's face was also full of smiles, as long as she had a harvest.
"Adong, Adong, come quickly..." Lin Xiuqing suddenly shouted excitedly at this time, "What kind of fish is that? It's so big, and it's still moving!"
When Ye Yaodong heard her say it was so big, he got excited and ran over without even picking up the stone crab he had just found.
"This? This is amberjack? Right?"
He looked at it a little uncertainly. After all, the ocean is so big, and he didn't know every fish. Moreover, some fish looked very similar. He thought it was somewhat similar to the Amberjack he had seen before.
"How would I know him? If you ask me, who should I ask?"
The back of the body is blue-gray to olive, the belly is silvery white to light brown, and there is another yellow vertical band on the side of the body. It should be the Amberjack!
There are many such fish in the straits around Taiwan, but this one is a bit big.
"This should be the Toro's amberjack! Ah Hua, come and take a look!"
Ye Yaohua and the others also heard Lin Xiuqing's voice and were curious. He walked over to take a look and said uncertainly, "This fish looks like amberjack. I think I saw it when I was moving goods at Yujing Wharf."
“This…this fish should be more than one meter long, right? It looks like it weighs over a hundred kilograms.” Mrs. Ye was envious and jealous. Why did all the good luck come to them
"How much can this fish sell for?"
Mrs. Ye asked everything that was in her heart.
"You have to catch it and then ask how much it's selling for. I heard there are a lot of them in the waters of Taiwan. The Japanese also like this fish and use it to make sashimi!"
This is a fish that is as famous as salmon in Japan.