When the father and son were sailing, they turned their heads frequently and paid attention to the surrounding sea. Fortunately, nothing happened again, and the whale shark did not follow.
When the father and son approached the shore, they saw the fishing boat less than 30 meters floating in the middle of the sea, swaying with the wind and waves.
There was no one on board the fishing boat. According to Lin Guangyuan who came back yesterday, those people had almost finished salvage. After sorting out the follow-up work, they would leave Baisha Village one after another.
This fishing boat is too big and the water level on the shore is too shallow to dock. It can only float far away in the middle of the sea, and then use small boats to pick up people to the shore.
It is estimated that I will drive to pay it back today. I heard that renting a month costs hundreds of dollars, but for those people, they don’t know how much money they get, and how much they can earn in the middle?
At this time, there are not many boats on the shore, and they are all working outside, but there are many people on the pier, because the Mazu Temple is located more than ten meters away from the pier, surrounded by villagers who come and go to work and build the temple. Those outsiders seemed to be particularly lively around here.
The donation shed is still set up there, and some people still sit and wait there every day. Donations can be made at any time.
Even though it has been half a month since the start of work, occasionally one or two people will come to donate money, and they only heard about it after returning from the sea in the surrounding area.
There is a sunshade there, which is very convenient for workers to work. There is also a place to shade when eating and resting, so that they don’t have to be exposed to the sun all day.
It is rare for the father and son to return empty-handed one day. They didn’t even collect the longline fishing, and put it directly into the sea. They planned to wait until tomorrow to collect it. Anyway, the weather has been calm these two days. If you wait longer, you can receive more goods Yes, of course, escaping the hook is inevitable, anyway, it's all luck.
They thought that the scene of the whale shark attacking the fishing boat at sea was seen by a few boats, and they came back quite early, so it should not have spread.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they stepped ashore with the broken fishing net, the villagers on the shore were already talking about how fierce the whale shark is.
They didn’t know that it was a whale shark. What they said was that whales or big fish attacked fishing boats. How scary. I heard that fishing boats were smashed to pieces.
Ye Yaodong wondered, besides him and Azheng Xiaoxiao in the three boats at sea, could there be people from this village in the other two boats?
People come back one step ahead of them? Otherwise, why are the villagers so well-informed?
Father Ye was also surprised, "Why does everyone in the village know about it?"
"Who knows? Maybe there was a member of the village on the nearby boat at that time, I will listen to it later..."
Both father and son pricked up their ears and listened, while carrying the fishing net tens of meters long to the cart. The fishing net itself was very heavy because of its thick thread, and there were so many lead pendants hanging on it, which made it very special. Heavy.
After moving all the fishing nets to the cart, they squeezed into the crowd curiously and found out.
It turned out that someone from the newspaper office saw it, and I heard that they even took photos.
"The newspaper office? The people from the newspaper office haven't left yet? Are they still hanging out at sea?" Ye Yaodong asked curiously.
Because the matter of Matsu building the temple was published in the newspaper, the people in the newspaper office also knew that there was a sunken ship to be salvaged here. During this time, people from the newspaper office would come to the village to take pictures from time to time.
They will also go out to sea with the salvage team to take photos of the cultural relics that have just been salvaged, and prepare to publish them in newspapers as material.
Didn’t expect them to go offshore before leaving?
"Not yet, I heard that they are curious about fishermen's work at sea, and they want to go out to experience the sea before leaving, take a few photos by the way, and ask our villagers to take them out to sea to haul a net, and they really hauled a lot of goods back... There are more than 30 catties of Pippi shrimp in one net..."
It's from the newspaper office, no wonder they came back before him. It took him a lot of time to clean the fishing nets on the whale shark.
No wonder there was already an uproar at the pier as soon as I came back at this moment.
Ye Yaodong hastily interrupted them, saving them from digressing, "Ah...then they just came back?"
"Yeah, I heard that they took a lot of photos, I heard that the big fish is super big, it's more than ten meters long, and I don't know if it's true or not..."
"Really? How could the people in the newspaper office lie to people? If it wasn't that big, how could it be possible to shoot the fishing boat to pieces? I heard they said it would be published in the newspaper, and I don't know when I will see it...Hey...you have a newspaper at home ?"
"Who pays that money to subscribe to the newspaper? When the time comes, go to the village committee and have a look..."
"It will take ten days and a half months to develop this photo, right?"
"No need? It takes ten days and half a month for the photo studio to develop photos, because the film is not used up. People's newspapers take so many photos a day, and they will definitely be developed in a day or two."
"That makes sense... tsk tsk tsk ~ more than ten meters, which is equivalent to a boat, so... how many tons does that fish have to weigh? I have never seen such a big fish in my life. I didn't expect these people to encounter it when they went out to sea. Come on, good luck..."
"What a fart, I heard that they almost peed in fright, but they were really curious, so they boldly watched the big fish smashing the boat to pieces from a distance. I heard that the big fish behind You actually chased them, but luckily they ran fast."
"Yeah, I heard that they were scared out of their wits... But we have never seen such a big fish and attacking fishing boats..."
Ye Yaodong thought of the people from Luzhou Island, and asked quickly, "What about the people on the boat?"
"I heard that the old Zhoutou father and son who were sailing the boat, saw someone holding driftwood at sea, and they didn't dare to stop, for fear that they would be caught up by big fish and suffer disaster themselves."
"That's right, there is a big fish chasing behind, who dares to stop..."
Father Ye listened to the gossip for a while, and now he found a chance to speak out. He said angrily: "Those people can't be saved, but fortunately they can't be saved. Those people are from Luzhou Island. If they are rescued, maybe they will be rescued." Take all your boats."
"Oh, those pirates on Luzhou Island, they fought well, they deserve it, they can't be saved, they can't be saved..."
Father Ye told them about the process of encountering pirates, saying that fortunately the big fish blocked the wave, and taught them a lesson, otherwise they might have been robbed.
At this time, someone in the crowd patted his thigh, "Oh...Old Zhou said that when they got rid of the big fish and were about to come back, they seemed to see that big fish floating on the sea from a distance, and there were two other fish beside it. The boat, could it be you?"
"Huh? When you encounter such a big fish, why don't you run away? Are you not afraid of being eaten?"
Ye Yaodong's mind was moved, shouldn't he take a picture of him untying the fishing net for the whale shark?
Without further ado, Father Ye also excitedly told them about his experience at sea, "Don't look at that fish, which is more than ten meters long, it's quite docile. As for the fact that it smashed the boat on Luzhou Island, it was because of that boat." The propeller hit it, and they didn't know how high the fishing net was to catch the big fish, and the net was so tight that it was strangled to the flesh..."
"Thanks to Dongzi, seeing it has been following us, Dongzi said it was asking for help, so he wanted to help it untie the fishing net. Not to mention, the fish is really big, as long as our boat, he climbed to The body of the fish is as small as an ant, and it took more than an hour to untie the fishing net..."
"Wow~"
There was an uproar in the crowd~
Is there anyone who is brave enough to climb on such a big fish?
"Really? Are you bragging?"
"Yeah, such a big fish actually climbed onto it? Are you afraid of being swallowed by him? Didn't it mean that it could destroy the boat..."
"That's right, Ye Laosan, don't brag about not drafting..."
There were bursts of disbelieving rebuttals from the crowd. They thought it was too bizarre. Such a big fish, just after attacking the fishing boat with its front legs, actually asked them for help with its back legs?
And also said that the multi-ton fish is docile?
Why do they not believe it so much?
It’s almost like saying that fish ate people...
Father Ye said angrily with a stern face: "Why are you lying to you? Is it necessary to lie to you? You can call old Zhou Tou over and ask, is there anyone on that big fish?"
"Besides, before we encountered the Luzhou Island fishing boat, we encountered this fish. It ate the goods in our fishing net under the water and bit through our fishing net. Our fishing net even brought it back to repair it. .”
Father Ye pointed to the cart next to him after finishing speaking, "Hey...look...the fishing net, because of that fish, we all returned empty-handed today, otherwise who would come back so early?"
"Also, this fish swam to our boat after eating and begged us for food. Dongzi even poured all the bait in the remaining bucket to it."
"Its mouth is about 1.5 meters wide. It looks really scary, but it doesn't have sharp teeth. We saw it with our own eyes, and the fish is right in front of us..."
Father Ye talked endlessly, and described what the fish looked like, the patterns on its body, and the teeth in its mouth.
"ah!"
Everyone looked at Father Ye in disbelief, feeling as if he was talking in a dream.
"Really? Did you feed the fish?"
"Its mouth is so wide open, you are not afraid, but dare to go forward? It's true, why don't you believe it?"
"If you don't believe me, is it necessary to lie to you?"
Father Ye also spoke out in a hurry, and he didn't intend to show off, but he described everything about the fish, but these people still didn't believe it?
That's a bit depressing.
"Don't you say that old Zhou saw two fishing boats next to the big fish? The other boat belonged to a friend of Dongzi's. The ones seemed to be called Li Xiaozheng and Lin Jianyao. They were called by nicknames every day. I almost forgot what their real names were... "
"What you said is true?"
"Dong really climbed onto the big fish to untie its fishing net?"
"Are you really feeding it?"
"You're so awesome, aren't you afraid? What if it really eats people?"
"I dare not even think about it. It's so big. I can't even imagine what a fish with a length of more than ten meters looks like. How big is it?"
Everyone was skeptical seeing Father Ye's swearing and detailed description, and asked Ye Yaodong who was next to him.
"Ah Dong, really? What you said is true!"
"Is that fish a whale or a shark?"
Ye Yaodong stood there with his hands in his pockets, listening to everyone's discussion, he felt inexplicably pretentious.
"It's a whale shark. I forgot who told me that it's the most docile shark. It doesn't have fangs. Don't be afraid if it doesn't know how to eat people. Most fish don't know how to eat people. You may think that humans are ribs. teeth."