It was too strenuous to catch it with bare hands, and let it run away without paying attention. He was thinking about bringing a hand-made net after going ashore to rest, which would be more convenient.
He doesn't think that only one cage will get stuck in a row, and there will definitely be others stuck when they continue to collect later. What's more, there are so many goods on the bottom of the sea, and they will definitely have to be launched into the water, but now we have to remove the net bag first. Fill first.
The feeling of catching it by yourself is different. It is much more exciting than catching it in a cage, and it is more fun. If it is not underwater, he will definitely be more excited.
However, Xiao Qinglong is too active and can jump. It takes a little time and too much energy. He has limited physical strength, and it is not worth the loss to keep chasing Xiao Qinglong. He plans to find sea cucumbers first, and dig some abalones along the way.
The seabed here is the bottom layer of sediment, which is suitable for sea cucumbers to survive.
But there are many rocks around, big and small, pointed, round, and all kinds of strange shapes. He thinks it was the cause of the earthquake some time ago, so they are scattered everywhere, and even corals are broken and fell on the sand.
Moreover, there are large areas of hidden reefs, and fishing nets cannot catch goods here. Perhaps it is also because of this geographical environment that this place has become a refuge for Xiao Qinglong.
He walked around carefully, and saw two sea cucumbers lying on the surface of the sand in front of him, crawling forward, a bit like a big caterpillar, moving extremely slowly.
It takes no effort at all.
He grabbed two of them, but saw one and a half of them lying there in the seaweed bushes in front of him?
While walking, he stuffed the two into the net pockets, stepped forward and took a look, the one lying here really had only half of its body, but it was alive.
Sea cucumbers are somewhat similar to earthworms, which have magical regeneration ability. If half of them are eaten, or even three pieces are cut off, as long as they are not completely eaten, they will repair themselves. Generally, the wound can be repaired in 2-7 months, and each section will heal into a whole. individual sea cucumbers.
You can keep the half of it for yourself to eat, and then hide a few more secretly, cut it first and then play it, otherwise his father will feel so distressed again.
It happens that both the old lady and Ah Qing need to make up for it.
He fiddled with the seaweed around him and found two more.
There are quite a lot of sea cucumbers here. It may be because it moves slowly, so sea cucumbers often stay in one place, rarely move, and it is very convenient to grasp. As long as you see it, it is in your pocket.
He searched all the way forward, and unknowingly came to the side of the sunken ship. He was not interested in the fish boat that just sank, and it was not an ancient sunken ship. He just ignored it.
But at this moment, a stone fish came out from the bottom of the boat, which startled him a lot.
Just when he was about to leave, the stonefish actually swam to his left front, and then lay down on the edge of the reef, motionless.
so far so good!
He couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, fortunately he saw...
There are a lot of abalones around that reef...
The stonefish is not impressive in appearance, only about 30 cm in length, and likes to hide under the seabed or under rocks, disguising itself as an inconspicuous stone.
But it is the most poisonous fish in the world, and its protective color blends perfectly with the bottom of the sea. It doesn't take the initiative to attack its prey, but if someone accidentally steps on it, it will immediately fight back unceremoniously, launching a deadly poison outward.
The 12 to 14 needle-like sharp backstabs on its back can easily penetrate the soles of the shoes and pierce the soles of the feet, causing people to be quickly poisoned and in severe pain until death.
Thinking about it, Ye Yaodong shuddered. Fortunately, he saw it in advance, otherwise the fish would be easily overlooked, thinking it was a stone that stepped on it at will.
You really can’t touch things in the sea, unless you know them, otherwise you don’t know if you can get ashore alive.
After he memorized the hidden location of the stonefish, he avoided it. He planned to dig a few abalones nearby and float up after filling the net bag, so as not to delay too long. His father was worried on the top.
This is the first time I have dived so deep, I still have to go up to report safety.
He carefully looked around for the landing spots, and there were no unknown creatures, so he stood in front of a small reef with confidence.
This place should be an abalone nest. There are no conchs on a small reef, only abalone.
He took out the knife in his pocket, which he prepared in case his feet got tangled in seaweed.
Aim the iron piece at the gap between the abalone and the stone, and insert it suddenly...
Pry up again to overturn the abalone.
Just after prying for a while, he felt a little tired and exhausted. Activities in the water were too exhausting, and it took him a long time to get down.
When he felt a little tired, he resolutely gave up the abalone in front of him, put away his tools, and swung his fins to swim.
He tried his best to avoid the swimming fish around him, and after a while, he floated to the surface of the water. Before he could climb up, he heard his father's anxious and relieved voice.
"You bastard, just go down and get a cage net. I've been there for so long. I thought something happened to you. It scared me. I'm about to jump down and have a look."
Ye Yaodong took off the eyepiece and looked at his father, who was only wearing autumn clothes, standing on the side of the boat with an ugly face, staring at him fiercely, wishing he could grab him up and beat him up.
"Hurry up and roll up for me, haven't you soaked enough water?"
"It's coming up."
He climbed up with hands and feet, and immediately slumped on the deck panting.
He thought that his physical strength should be good after working for half a year, so he took out the watch in the pocket of his coat next to him. It turned out that only more than 20 minutes had passed, plus the time he had spent acclimating on the sea before, it was not too long in the sea.
So imaginary...
"You said that you are such a big man, why are you still so unreliable? Go into the water to find the ground cage, and you should come up when you are done. Once you stay at the bottom for so long, my ground cage is pulled up. You have no one." Appeared. Fortunately, I am your father, if it is a random boatman, they may think you died below, and sailed back directly..."
Father Ye was so angry that he pointed at him and scolded him, and went to the corner to get the stick again while talking.
Just now, the more I thought about it, the more worried I became, and I almost burst into tears. This is my own son, and I have to go into the water to see if I can't give up.
"Ah? Dad, why did you just use a stick? What about it? Ah...don't hit me... If you have something to say, talk it out, talk it out..." Ye Yaodong used both hands and feet before taking off his flippers, rolling and crawling Dodge quickly.
"Speaking of your mother! The more I think about it, the more I get angry!"
Father Ye took a stick with a thick arm and beat him mercilessly towards his upturned buttocks.
"Oh~ I really hit it, I have to go into the water later, the net bag has not been confiscated..."
It was a solid stick, and he grinned his teeth in pain, but he was wearing flippers, and the rope of the net bag was tied around his waist. The net bag was still confiscated in the sea, so he couldn't run.
"Do you still want to fight? You still want to fight? You can't kill you... You are such a big person, and you still have to worry..."
"Hiss~ okay, okay, hit me later, hit me later..."
After being hit several times in a row, Father Ye stopped.
Ye Yaodong clutched his butt, and took the first to take off his flippers. This thing in the way made him unable to run.
"I didn't do it on purpose. I saw that there was a lot of goods at the bottom, and I thought that I would fill up the net bag in the limited time before going up."
"It's too late for you to get up the floor cage first?"
"Isn't this trying to save time?"
Father Ye gestured again with the stick, Ye Yaodong immediately shut up, "Okay, okay, you are my father, you can do whatever you say, you can hit if you want, now let me put the net bag up..."
He made a gesture of surrender with his hands, then grabbed the rope tied around his waist and walked to the side of the boat, pulling the rope hard.
After a while, with a bang, a net bag full of seafood was pulled onto the boat by Ye Yaodong forcefully.
A net full of lobsters, abalones, and sea cucumbers.
When he first came up, he felt a little exhausted, thinking that he could save a little effort, so he lengthened the rope tied around his waist, so that the person came up first, and then pulled up the seafood placed on the bottom of the sea.
Father Ye looked at the full net bag, and was a little surprised. It contained 4 small green dragons, more than a dozen sea cucumbers, and half a bag of big abalones.
"There are so many sea cucumbers down there?"
"I have nothing to say now, do you know why I am reluctant to come up?"
Father Ye glared at him, "You're still reasonable. You can come up later and go down later. I can't beat you to death. You'll get itchy if you haven't been beaten for a while."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, he was in his 20s, his father beat him whenever he wanted, he was so mad, luckily no one saw him.
"When did you pull up the ground cage? I was looking for sea cucumbers down there just now, and I didn't notice it."
"You went into the water for about ten minutes. I saw you didn't come up for a long time, so I tried to pull the ground cage and found that it could be pulled up. Who knows that people who have been waiting for a long time but can't wait for you think that you can't get up. coming……"
"Ah, it's okay...my fault...my fault..." Hearing his father talking again, he quickly changed the subject, "How many cages did you pull?"
"I just pulled up two of them, and they got stuck again."
"Wait a minute, I'll rest for a while. I'll go down after I've had enough rest. There are a lot of little green dragons down there. It's hard to catch without a net bag just now. It's a waste of time and energy, so I have to go find sea cucumbers and dig abalones."
"Isn't it safe? Can you see the bottom of the sea? How deep is it?" Father Ye was a little worried, and almost died of fright just now.
"Be careful, don't touch things you don't know, the basic problem is not big. There may be a hidden reef at the bottom, only a dozen meters deep to the bottom, visibility is okay, today's weather is fine."
"You just came up, you should rest for a while, the ground cage will not be gone if you put it here first, go to collect the row hook first, I will collect it, you rest, and come back after collecting it. Otherwise, you don't know how long it will be delayed later .”
"also."
It’s just time to close the hook, take a break and come back later.