Chapter 295 Heirloom
Father Ye frowned, watching him rushing down the mountain, and looked behind him wonderingly, "What are you doing? Why have you been there for so long? I don't know how to answer for a long time?"
Ye Yaodong touched his pocket, and felt that it was better not to tell his father, since he was getting old, there was no need for him to worry about it.
If there is a gold mine here, they can't get their hands on it. It's useless to talk about it, and the mountain is not small, so the two of them can't find it.
It was luck that I dug two pieces by accident, probably because of the rain washing away, so the first poodle-shaped dog-head gold emerged from the soil surface.
He thinks this is a blessing, so don’t be too greedy, because greed can easily reduce the blessing, and the dog’s head gold is not a bad street thing, and looking for it on the mountain is like finding a needle in a haystack.
"I fell and it hurt a little, so I sat down and took it easy."
Father Ye also saw the dirt on his body and hands, and believed him, "Be careful, you are such an adult, you still fall while walking, go to the boat and eat rice cakes, fortunately, the rice cakes are cooked and won't get mushy."
He nodded, washed his hands with sea water before boarding the boat.
The two pieces of dog head gold are heavy and full of weight. Fortunately, his pocket is big enough.
After a simple breakfast, they saw that the reef in the distance remained unchanged, and it was still about 1 meter above the water, and they were a little disappointed.
"Go and have a look, if you don't gain anything, forget it."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong nodded, and slowly drove the boat over, but the reef still remained the same as when they hooked abalone before, neither floating nor sinking.
"Should it be like this?"
"It's a pity, there should be a lot of abalones in the reef below, and there must be a lot of little blue dragons."
Ye Yaodong shrugged, "Unfortunately, it's useless, and it's not suitable to go into the water right now. I'll come back when it's hot, and I'll dive down to have a look."
His diving equipment was bought early, but the cold weather has been useless. This hidden reef here is a treasure, and he can come here to try the water for the first time when the weather is hot.
"Then let's go, we can drag a few more nets, don't waste any more time here."
He nodded and drove the boat away from this hidden reef. After a certain distance, Father Ye slowly lowered the fishing nets he had arranged.
With the help of the current, the sea quickly "sucked" the trawl net in.
All day long, the fishing boats are operating in this area, and from time to time you will see other fishing boats working, and everyone does not interfere with each other.
But just as they were about to return after setting the last net, a boat of more than 20 boats sailed at a constant speed in the distance, and a smaller boat was pulling behind the big boat.
He looked up, only one person on the boat was still standing and sailing, and the other three were lying curled up on the deck.
He wondered if it was a feud, so the people on the boat were beaten? The boat was towed? That boat looks familiar?
There were quite a few people on the big boat, there were four or five young and middle-aged people standing there, it seemed that they were not from the villages around them.
He wondered whose boat it was, and didn't pay attention for a moment. His trawl net had "intimate contact" with the trawl nets of these two fishing boats, and it was too late for him to react.
"Damn it, my net is finished, this is troublesome."
Father Ye has been paying attention to big boats just now, and the jungle is also applicable to the sea. It is also common for big boats to bully small boats, so he generally avoids fishing boats that are bigger than himself.
It was also because the big boat was towing the small boat that they didn't move and took a few extra glances.
"Why were you so careless... This is troublesome..." Father Ye ran all the way on the boat, hastily preparing to collect the net.
"I'm looking at which village they belong to. The boat looks familiar, and I don't know where it will be towed."
"I didn't see any faces, but the small boat belonged to Lan Zhengping, and the big boat belonged to Luzhou Island. People in Luzhou Island are fierce and aggressive. They love to bully small boats to **** fishing nets and machines. Last year, Dongqiao Village and us All boats in the village were also towed away.”
Father Ye didn’t see the people clearly when the two boats passed by just now, but he recognized the boat, and the hull was marked with paint.
Luzhou Island is at the edge of the town, surrounded by water on three sides and water on the other side, but there is a small road to get to the island.
"The family who built the house next to me?"
"Yes, just go back later and tell their family to go to Luzhou Island to find someone."
"They're unlucky."
"It is inevitable that you will encounter them after going to sea for a long time. First drag the fishing net up."
The father and son worked together to slowly drag the various parts of the trawl net out of the water section by section. If there were any entangled parts, he cut them off with a kitchen knife, and asked his father to grab the tow rope, and he **** the trawl net.
Without the help of machines, they all rely on manual operations to collect and sort the fishing nets. The whole process is long and arduous.
This inadvertent little negligence made them work non-stop for more than an hour in vain, and the last net was for nothing.
After all the fishing nets are collected, he will hand them over to his father, and he will sail back to the boat.
Counting today, I only played 3 nets, and the last net was wasted, the nets were all broken, but the harvest was not bad.
There are 3 baskets of crabs, 2 baskets of shrimps, and 4 baskets of fish of various sizes.
When he went ashore, he saw Lan Zhengping's wife waiting for the fishing boat to dock. He quickly reminded, "Aunt Lan, it seems that Uncle's boat was towed away by people from Luzhou Island?"
Ye Yaodong interrupted Aunt Lan's scolding, "The person was beaten. We don't know the specific situation, but I saw it when I passed by us. You should go back and call someone. Let's go to Luzhou Island to find someone."
"Yes, hurry up and call more people, and call a tractor to deliver it, it's getting dark..."
"That group is not human, call more people..."
"The people of Luzhou Island used to be pirates, they are bad..."
"Why didn't those pirates die, why did they continue to harm people every day, bastard, the whole family is like a dog..." She sang and sang as she walked back, hurriedly.
The villagers on the bank were also talking and discussing there. In the past, as long as they encountered a boat on Luzhou Island, as long as the boat was smaller than them, they would be bullied. Deliberately dragging people and boats away.
It’s okay if someone sees it, and they can go to find the person and the boat immediately. If no one sees it, it will take a day or two until I come back.
Mother Ye asked with concern: "Are you all okay?"
"We happened to be trawling the net, and they messed up the fishing net when we passed by. We will take it back and repair it later."
"That's okay, but the fishing net is broken. I will move it back and repair it for me later. Next time I encounter a big boat, I will avoid it to save trouble."
"It's up to you to say, hurry up and sort it out, I only hit 3 nets today..." Father Ye muttered.
"Ah? Why is there still half a basket of abalones?" Mother Ye glanced around and was surprised when she saw the abalones. Then she said happily again, "Where was that hidden reef dug? It came up again?"
They only dug abalone there, so she couldn't let her think about it.
"Only about 1 meter was exposed. It may be due to low tide and the water level is low. These are only less than 20 catties, which can be regarded as compensation for the loss of the last net."
He dug up two pieces of dog's head gold and left. After thinking about it, it might not be that the reef has risen again, but it should be the reason for the ebb and flow of the tide.
When they met in the morning, the tide was low, and the tide would last for a while before rising again.
That's why the reef was exposed a little bit, otherwise the abalone would have been exposed to the sun and died long ago, and they couldn't wait for them to dig it.
"Then next time I pass by, I will go over and have a look, maybe I can pick up some."
"talk later…"
While talking, they carried the sorted goods off the boat first. At this moment, the fishing boats came in one after another, and they needed to line up for weighing.
During the waiting time, everyone was talking about today's harvest, Lan Zhengping and his son met people from Luzhou Island, and they kept asking Ye Yaodong and Ye's father.
Ye Yaodong was eager to return home, and he was not in the mood to talk. Father Ye was talking to everyone there.
When the goods were sold out, he hurried home. Before he reached the door, he heard two children running home happily and shouting: "Mom, dad is back~"
He smiled and walked faster and faster...
When he entered the room, Lin Xiuqing was serving bowls of dishes out of the pot. When he saw him coming in, he turned around with a smile and said, "Hurry up and wash your hands and eat."
"good."
He answered, but he went into the house first.
Lin Xiuqing followed in wondering, but saw him take out two large golden stones from his pocket.
"What is this? Why do you always bring back some weird things."
"Shh, put it away first."
Lin Xiuqing weighed it curiously, "It's quite heavy. What kind of stone is this? Why is it as golden as gold?"
"This is dog head gold, a kind of ore."
"Why do you pick it up? Can you sell it for money?"
"Yes, it's very valuable, you put it away first, and sell it when you run out of money."
Lin Xiuqing's eyes lit up when she heard the words, "Really? Is it gold? Such a large piece can be worth a lot of money. Where did you dig it? It was fished from the sea."
"Not gold, but there may be gold mines where it appears."
Lin Xiuqing's hand holding the dog's head gold trembled and almost fell off. She was so surprised that she couldn't speak, "Gold... gold mine? Then... what should we do... Shall we hand it in?"
"There are two. You can sell one if you need it and keep one. As for handing it in, wait until later. It's not safe now."
The baby in her stomach is not yet born, and handing in may not save her life. It is not a system. If she is found out, she may be forced to die. The loss outweighs the gain.
Just keep it in hand first, and it will not be too late to hand it in later depending on the situation. It is never too late to hand in this kind of thing.
"Is it okay to sell it?"
"It's okay, if you pick it up, it's mine. We don't touch gold mines, and we don't have that ability."
Then she can rest assured that they are just ordinary people, and they can't do illegal things.
"Put it away first, this dog's head gold has a good meaning, if you can save it, save it."
She smiled, "Okay, take it as a family heirloom."
"Not bad."
(end of this chapter)