Chapter 401 The old guy also wants to fish
Ye Yaodong cursed, pulled and tugged there, and loosened the fishing line after a while.
"It's just a thread, and it's too strenuous for me to walk the fish. Fortunately, I wear gloves, and I can take it easy. Dad, you hold this wooden stick for reeling the thread for me, I'm so excited Take the other hand."
He felt that one hand was pulling and releasing the thread. The thread was all rolled up on the arm, and then it was not very convenient to let go.
Father Ye actively stepped forward to help hold the wooden stick for reeling the thread, and squeezed to the front.
Ye Yaodong freed his hand and pulled both hands together. His right hand had already wrapped the fishing line up to his upper arm. He felt that the fish under the sea was not struggling as hard as it was at the beginning.
At the beginning, it was really too fierce, biting the fishhook and rushing out, he was caught off guard, not to mention the wooden stick, half of his body was pulled out of the side of the boat.
The fishing line on his arm became more and more entangled, and his right wrist turned over from time to time to loosen the line, and the fish underneath were obviously pulled up little by little.
"Father, how long did you put this thread? Why does it feel like it has been stretched for a long time, and the arms are wrapped around and around, and the bottom is still so long?"
"Should I change to a long line to catch big fish? Who made it so quiet for a long time, I just thought about putting in more fishing line to try."
"It makes sense, it's really a big fish, but it's a bit of a hassle!"
"Can you do it? If not, I'll come."
"How could I not be able to do this? This fish feels like it has been walked almost too much. Wait, it will be stocked for you right away."
Ye Yaodong felt that the fish underneath was no longer struggling, so he pulled with all his strength, the fishing line in the palm of his hand was coiled round and round, and his right hand was still flexibly turning the line to take it up.
After a while, the ferocious big cargo gradually revealed its true face, looming under the water.
"Ah grass, octopus?"
Father Ye stretched his neck and looked at the sea carefully, and said happily: "The red ganache is good, the red ganache is good, you quickly pull it over, I'll get the hook..."
Father Ye was speaking, and directly passed the wooden stick in his hand to the soldier next to him, and hurriedly ran to the cabin to get the hook.
The sounds of their excited discussion there are all in my ears.
"Pull it up, pull it up..."
"Come up, come up to the surface of the water..."
"So big..."
"so big…"
"This fish is so big, no wonder it pulled the hook and ran away as soon as it bit the hook."
Ye Yaodong was also very excited, "Made, it's finally not in vain. Fortunately, it's octopus, not other garbage fish. This fish is good."
"Is it expensive?"
"It's okay, I've got enough money for today, I have wages and gas money, I don't have to do it for nothing..."
Father Ye is holding a long hook tied with a wooden stick. It was made by Ye Yaodong before. When fishing, if the fish is too big to be pulled up, he can use this hook to hook the belly of the fish when he is wandering around the side of the boat. Come on, bring up the fish.
All the soldiers were taller than him, Father Ye squeezed and said: "Rang Rang, Rang Rang, let me in... Pull me up, right? I'm not too small... I'll do it..."
Father Ye lay on the side of the boat with a face full of excitement and stretched out his stick, hooked the octopus fish that was still wandering on the side of the boat due to loss of strength, and then quickly lifted it up and threw it on the deck.
This octopus bounced a bit when it was thrown on the deck.
Ye Yaodong didn't care that his arms were covered with fishing line, so he also stepped forward and kicked twice, "Good guy, it's really not small, I have a red mark on my arm because of the fishing line."
"This one is estimated to weigh 20 catties, and it's really not small. It's worth the trip today. I'll take a knife to bleed it, and it will take a long time before I go back. Don't smell bad."
Captain Chen also said happily: "Sure enough, there are quite a lot of fish hidden around the reefs below. It took only a while to catch such a big fish. There must be many more down there."
"Yes, when we went into the water before, we saw a lot of people coming and going in a hurry. There are all kinds of colors, and the colorful ones are pretty nice."
Ye Yaodong untied the thread wrapped around his arm and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, I will fix a hand thread for each of you."
There are a bunch of tangled threads, some of them are knotted when they are untied, and a small section is still twisted into a mess. It is because he harvested a bunch of threads when he took them up, and he didn’t take care to untangle them when he wound them. It's a bit of a hassle.
He untied all the threads, threw them on the deck, and rolled up the sleeves on his arms first.
Afraid of tanning, he also wears long sleeves on a hot day, but wearing long sleeves can't resist the fishing line strangling his arms, and the red marks on his head are evenly distributed.
The fish caught before were not so big, and it was not difficult to pull it up. This octopus is really powerful. He shook his arm and said: "This hand line is not suitable for catching big fish, it can only catch small fish. It’s quite fast to catch small fish, and it’s easier to catch than those with rods.”
"Who can be sure?" Father Ye lowered his head and bled the fish without raising his head.
He picked up the stick on the deck again, no matter how impatient he was, he had to untangle the bunch of threads and roll them up.
When will the conditions be met, and a real fishing rod must be repaired, and the conditions are too difficult now, either the bamboo pole is broken, or the thread is messed up, which is too much delay.
When Father Ye finished bleeding the fish, Ye Yaodong was still fighting with the messy fishing line.
"I'll sail to the small island opposite first. It doesn't look too far away. I should be there in five or six minutes."
Ye Yaodong said without raising his head: "Okay, you can figure it out, anyway, idle is idle, there are no fishing boats in the sea at the moment, let the two comrades of the People's Liberation Army go dig shellfish together, anyway, they are also idle If you have nothing to do, it's just right to divide the troops into two groups."
Father Ye glanced at them with a smile, and said embarrassedly: "You really know how to appoint people..."
Captain Chen smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, we are idle anyway, just follow to see and experience a different seaside life."
"Okay, okay, I'm going to sail..."
Two more free laborers are of course good.
After Ye's father docked the boat, Ye Yaodong also almost arranged the lines. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief and raised his head, he saw his father carrying a bucket to him.
"Take it!"
Ye Yaodong wondered, "Why?"
"Go to the island to dig shellfish."
"Didn't you go? I seem to be luckier than you. I caught all those big octopuses. You haven't moved for half a day. I'm still here to fish and you dig."
"Fart, you are a coincidence, it's not because of my good hook, go."
Ye Yaodong took the bucket depressed, watching the waves hitting the rocks around him, and the boat swaying and bumping against each other all the time. Although there are no waves today, when the sea surges to the edge of the reef, there will be some waves, and there is even a little bit of nakedness around. There are no beaches in the world, and it's really hard to stand on the reef.
Forget it, for the sake of his father's old bones, let him do it.
"Remember to pick me up when it's meal time, don't starve me to death."
"Understood, I forget you, and I can't forget the two comrades of the People's Liberation Army. Remember to be careful with the two comrades of the People's Liberation Army."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong took the bucket and checked the tools inside. They were quite complete, and there were five or six sacks. After thinking about it, he brought a handful of nets with him, and asked the other two to take a bucket each, so that they could be loaded and dumped easily. .
He disembarked cautiously first, stepped on the rocks and climbed up, Captain Chen and another soldier also disembarked after him.
"Be careful, go to the side, I will teach you how to identify these shellfish."
Ye Yaodong told them that all rocks can be dug up. Some of them look gray and white on the outside, and there is nothing visible on the surface. You can only see the meat inside when you pry it off.
For example, sea oysters and oysters, he asked them to pry off the whole juvenile shell, not just the shell, but there was nothing for them to hold the meat, and he also demonstrated it for them to see.
There is also a small abalone, the shell is almost like a rock, so I just skip it if I don’t look carefully...
He dug out all the common shapes on the rocks for them, and saw that they had memorized them before crawling to the side.
Stepping on the reef is not as solid as landing on the beach, and the risk factor is high. Ye Yaodong didn't dare to look left and right, he could only focus on his feet.
When he dug a full bucket and poured it into the sack, and was about to lift the sack to the flatter reef above, he saw a small cave in the gap between the two reefs above, and there was a vicious round bird inside. Shaft crab, this surprised him immediately.
This round axis crab is a large land crab, and one of them just climbed to the entrance of the cave, showing him the real thing.
The carapace on its back is about 12 centimeters wide, and its body color is purple-black. It has two clawed feet, one big and one small. It may be that one was broken, and then a new one grew back. The regrown big feet will be smaller .
It is a sea crab but a land crab that lives on land, which means that it only needs to replenish seawater occasionally.
This crab is too dirty, its body is full of parasites, its gills are full of worms, it even eats mice and cockroaches, vomit~
Ye Yaodong glanced at it, and skipped it directly. He didn't even want this kind of round axis crab as a gift to him. It's better than "love".
"Love" is their local dialect, and I don't know the scientific name. It is also a kind of small crab, it just lives in the crevices of rocks, it is very small, the shell on its back is as big as between a quail egg and a pigeon egg, and there is only the shell but no meat, so it can only be caught back, wrapped in sweet potato starch and fried to eat.
It’s just that he ignored it as if he hadn’t seen it, but the other two were pleasantly surprised when they saw it.
Captain Chen also just filled a bucket of various goods with shells, and was about to put the sacks on it too, in a flatter position, and by coincidence, he also saw the cave.
"Ah! There is a big crab here, Adong, Aotian, come quickly..."
Ye Yaodong staggered suddenly, and kept his hands on the rock to avoid falling, Aotian?
He looked at another soldier. Could it be that his surname is Long?
(end of this chapter)