Chapter 293 Going to sea for the first time after the year
Hearing the exclamation in his ear, Ye Yaodong also quickened his planing movements, but he couldn't be compared by his son.
He threw aside the sand clams he dug up one by one, and piled them on the open space.
In the past few months, starfish were rampant, and there were no clams on the beach for a long time. Over the past few months, clams from the outer sea were washed in again and buried under the sand.
Not long after, a small pile was piled up beside him, like a hill, and it was effortless to dig.
At this moment, Ye Chengyang suddenly yelled, "Crab...the crab ran away...Dad...the crab ran away..."
Ye Yaodong turned his head and saw that crabs were crawling all over the place, and there were two hanging from the edge of the bucket. Two large pincers were holding each other, one was hanging in the air, and the two fell down together in an instant.
"Huh? You escaped without seeing it in a blink of an eye?"
It may be that the buckets were too full just now, and they escaped from prison one by one.
He just came out to pick up some seaweed. The bucket he brought was not as big as the ones he used to get out of kelp. It was the red plastic bucket that is common at home.
He caught all the crabs that were crawling all over the ground back into the bucket, and put all the clams he dug into the bucket by the way, it was full, already 80% full.
Just out for a stroll, there is a bucket, very good.
Seeing that the crabs in the bucket began to pile up again, he shouted to the two cubs, "Let's go, stop digging, go home."
"I just came out so quickly, let's play for a while, Dad, I didn't dig a lot."
"It's a bucket full. If you don't take it back to the pot, the crabs will run away again. You won't have anything to eat at noon. Hurry up, you were asked to dig, but if you don't dig, you should work harder now..."
Ye Chenghu dug two more without giving up, and was picked up by Ye Yaodong, "Wait...my quack (sand clam)..."
The local children verbally call sand clams quack...
After putting the few he dug into the bucket, he reluctantly followed behind and walked back.
"Going back so soon...Dad, when are we going to dig Gaga again?"
"Next time."
"When is the next time?"
"See if I'm free and in the mood?"
Ye Chenghu muttered in a low voice: "Then I will come secretly..."
Ye Yaodong didn't care about him, he just urged them to go faster.
Although adults don’t allow children to go to the beach, they can’t live without seeing the sea. Especially in summer, there are no children who don’t play in the water. Nowadays, children are free-range.
As soon as he walked to the shore, he saw his old lady in the open space beside him from a distance, chatting with others in full swing, smiling so hard that he couldn't close his mouth, and he didn't know what to be so happy about.
He called her directly, half of the bucket full of seafood was crab, and he couldn't finish it, so he asked her to bring some back.
Mother Ye looked at the bucket of crabs that was almost full, and asked in surprise, "There are so many crabs on the beach today?"
"There are other miscellaneous things underneath."
"It's very convenient to live here. You can go to the beach when the tide is out. Look, it's not like you can pick up a bucket full on the first day or the fifteenth day of the junior high school. You have to go earlier." It was his newcomer who spoke. Neighbor's mom.
Ye Yaodong smiled, "It's just that I'm idle and I'm idle. Just when the tide is receding, I took the two children down for a walk. They are all worthless. Would Aunt Lan take some back?"
"No, there are a bunch of shrimps and crabs when I come back from the sea every day. I don't have time to peel them. It's troublesome to eat. I don't have the time..."
No, he went to the back door, entered the house through the back door, took a washbasin to empty, and brought a few for his elder brother and second brother's house, and his wife didn't want it either. His father and second brother went to sea, and she and the old lady were the only ones at home.
Lin Xiuqing heard the movement at home and knew that he was back, peeked at it, and came out of the room in peace after confirming it.
Mother Ye saw her, reached out and touched her belly, and said in a low voice, "Can't you tell?"
"It's just wrapped in a cotton jacket, it's okay if you don't look carefully."
"Then you just don't go out. Dongzi should go to sea or go to sea. There are still two months left, so he can't stay at home and play all the time. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will be good, so you can go..." Ye Mu murmured.
Ye Yaodong responded casually, and picked out the blue crabs individually, and kept them for stewing for dinner at night. Sea urchins, fish, and clams were also picked out, and the other items were washed with water directly, and steamed in a pot later, saving trouble.
"You don't have to cook at noon, just eat here, and bring the old lady down, what are the two of you cooking, it's a waste of firewood."
"It's fine, then I'll cook, Ah Qing can go back to the house, there are people coming and going at the door..."
"I've already cooked the rice, and I'm going to fry the rice bowl at noon, and the meat and vegetables have been cut..."
"Then I'll fry..."
It is a local custom to eat mustard rice (rice with rice bowl) on the third day of March. It is not the time yet, but the vegetables they grow at home have grown very large. You can cut a tree in advance and stir-fry rice with rice.
This is also very popular, and the whole family likes it very much. The two children ate a big bowl of vegetable rice with sea urchin and steamed eggs, and clamored to eat it at night.
In the evening, Ye Yaodong had no choice but to go to the nearby vegetable field to chop another tree, but when he entered the house, he saw his elder brother came back, followed by Ye Chenghai with slumped shoulders and a loveless life.
He raised his eyebrows, "Yo? After doing great things and earning a lot of money, you came back? Did you buy anything to honor the third uncle?"
Ye Chenghai had a mournful face, showing a smile uglier than crying, "Third Uncle, don't laugh at me..."
"I was wrong, I almost crawled back..." When he saw the armchair at the door, he slumped on it, with his limbs hanging down naturally.
"How much did you earn today?"
"1 dollar..."
"That's right. I'll go back tomorrow. I'll earn 30 yuan for a month, 365 yuan for a year, and 3650 yuan for ten years. You can earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan for a lifetime. It's awesome. I'll work a few more years than others..."
Ye Chenghai heard him say that he had worked a few years longer than others, his face turned pale, and he almost slipped and sat on the ground, "Ah! No, no, no... I love reading..."
Ye Yaodong almost died laughing, pretending to be surprised: "What's wrong, making money is not good."
"I almost died... My dad still told me to finish it... Dear dad... Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomatic
Other people who were playing in the room also ran out one after another and asked, "A Haige, did you earn a lot of money?"
"Is Ahaigo Wharf fun?"
"Brother is so powerful, he can make money like Dad..."
"Brother, do you want to treat us, please buy something to eat..."
Ye Chenghai wanted to cry but had no tears, "Get out!"
Ye Yaodong patted his head, "Reading is the most comfortable thing. Cherish it young boy. In the evening, your third aunt will cook rice with rice and I will make a bowl for you later."
"Thank you third uncle." He said weakly.
After Ye Yaopeng has time to go to sea at night, he doesn't need Father Ye's help.
Ye Yaodong thought about it and after dinner, he went to tell his father to let him prepare. They also went to sea at night, and asked his mother to go to his place to watch more during the day.
I wanted to stay at home for two months, but now I can't bear the urging, and it's easy to be asked if I stay at home and don't go to sea.
You can also trawl the net without preparing bait in advance.
When she was sleeping at night, Ye Yaodong kept stroking her stomach, confessing uneasy.
I don’t know if it’s because he was thinking day by day and dreaming at night, but he actually dreamed at night, dreaming that Lin Xiuqing in his previous life was carried back after a tire slip, with a pale face, and he sat up straight after waking up, thinking about it made him worry.
"It's time?" Lin Xiuqing was also awakened by the movement beside her.
He looked at his watch, it was exactly 2 o'clock, "Well, you sleep on your own."
It’s just a dream, if you don’t go to the mountains in this life, you should be fine.
I have already made an agreement with his father, and I can't stop going in a dream.
He moved the fishing nets and tools to the cart before going to bed, as long as he brought some food and water.
Going to sea on the first day of the new year, Ye Yaodong also attached great importance to it. On the way to the pier, he would pass the Mazu Temple first. He deliberately stopped and went first to light three sticks of incense.
Some people are more superstitious. Every time they go to sea, they will go in and light three sticks of incense first, and then burn three sticks of incense when they come back.
After arriving on the boat, Father Ye took out yellow paper and lit it and wrapped it three times around his head, three times with his left and right hands, and said something in his mouth, which was a prayer.
Ye Yaodong himself is okay, young people are less particular about it, and old people are superstitious.
After finishing the sense of ceremony, he went to sail the boat, and Father Ye also went to tidy the fishing nets.
The fishing boats at the wharf are also heading out one after another.
The sea breeze in the early spring was still icy cold. Fortunately, he was experienced and did not take it lightly. He wore a sewing hat and scarf, and also wore an extra mask that Ah Qing sewed himself to keep out the wind. It made Father Ye look at him a few more times.
He touched his pocket, and took one for his father, "Try it, it's good to block the wind, so that the face won't hurt when the wind blows."
Father Ye nodded.
It was the first time he went out to sea in the beginning of the year. He planned to go to the sea area he went to most often, but when he arrived, he found that there were already fishing boats operating there. Ready to release the net.
While trawling the net, avoid it, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble, and also afraid of the shortage of goods.
It turned out to be unexpected. When the fishing boat was working, he unknowingly drove the boat to the isolated island of the oarfish.
He shone back and forth with the flashlight uncertainly, only to be sure that it was the isolated island, and when he was shining, he also found that there was a pointy head protruding from the reef that sank before, about one meter away. .
The hidden reefs on the seabed are hard to guard against, especially at night, when it is dark everywhere, luckily we discovered them in advance, otherwise we might hit them later, and it would be over.
"Dongzi, there is a hidden reef over there..."
"I saw it. It was the reef where the abalones came ashore collectively. I didn't expect the submerged reef to pop up again in a short time. I will drive over to have a look later when the net is collected."
Otherwise, the fishing net is easily caught by the reef and damaged.
"Is it the abalone reef? Has it risen again?" Father Ye's heart suddenly became hot.
"Yes, go there later, and trawl the net nearby first."
It’s dark and I can’t see the situation clearly.
I’m lazy and slack today, and there’s one more chapter later.
I really want to ask for leave. I haven’t asked for leave since the book was opened in September. Alas~
(end of this chapter)