The night is quiet and gentle, but the sea surface at night seems to be surging, but in the dark depths, there are also countless secrets hidden.
The silver-white waves on the left and right sides behind the fishing boat became clearly visible under the moonlight. The waves spread layer by layer, shimmering, forming a white luster.
After their boat sailed out of the fishing village for a certain distance, one or two light spots would appear on the sea from time to time. They were fishing boats, big and small, some of them were as bright as the sun, and some were as faint as fireflies. Shuttle through the night, moving forward silently.
Ye Yaodong focused on looking ahead, identifying the direction of the boat, while Father Ye was hanging bait for the longline.
That’s right, the sticky nets have been taken back, and they plan to continue fishing with longlines and trawling nets for a month or two, and then they will focus on catching squid.
After he sailed the boat to the "responsible field" that used to be used for longline fishing, he also helped hang the bait together, and then cooperated with each other to sail the boat and put the fishing line.
There are still 1,000 row hooks and ten bamboo baskets.
After placing the baskets, he stacked the baskets one by one to reduce the stacking space.
In other words, their family has a lot of bamboo baskets, because they are so versatile. It takes ten baskets to tidy up a longline line, not to mention the fish on the boat.
His father has nothing to do on weekdays, sitting at the door has never stopped doing work, and his father made all the baskets in their house when he was free.
In the past, after weaving, I handed it over to the brigade, and then occasionally took it to the market to sell it, but now it is all used by my family.
Father Ye saw that he had finished setting the fishing line, so he speeded up the boat a little, and was going to go to the place where the shrimp pots were placed yesterday, and collect the shrimp pots.
Actually, it’s okay to wait until the return trip and come to collect them, but they caught two lobsters yesterday, which made them a little excited.
Besides, Ye Yaodong still wanted to put away the shrimp cage early in the morning, and move it to a better place later.
At this time, the sky is already a little hazy.
Far away, they also saw buoys floating in the sea. Father Ye slowly slowed down and leaned over.
Ye Yaodong held a hook in his hand, and when the fishing boat approached the buoy, he used the hook to hook the buoy so that it was easy to reach.
However, his luck was not very good today, all the shrimp cages collected not a single little green dragon, not many sword shrimps, but there were quite a few red shrimps, estimated to weigh more than 20 catties.
It’s just that these red shrimps are not big and not very valuable, so they can only be used as bait or shelled and dried.
Father Ye was also a little disappointed, "It seems that there is nothing today."
"If you don't have it, then you don't have it. The sword shrimp should be able to sort out five catties, and the red shrimp can be taken back and peeled to dry the shrimp. This shrimp will definitely sell well."
Father Ye nodded, shrimps are delicious no matter how they are cooked, those dried mussels are easy to sell, there is no reason that shrimps are not easy to sell.
It's just that he was a little puzzled when he saw that he piled the cages to the corner and didn't continue to put them down.
"You don't want to put the shrimp cage in anymore? Let's put it down together."
"I'm going to put the shrimp pot in a different place. You can sail the boat to the submerged reef, be careful, and don't hit the reef."
Father Ye's eyes lit up when he heard the words, "That's right, we can take it to the reef and see if we can put more lobsters and sea cucumbers? You can catch lobsters a few days ago, so there must be more around the reef."
"That's what I thought. Last year there were quite a lot of water, but the time to enter the water was short, so it was difficult to catch. Now the weather is not hot enough, so it is not easy to enter the water. I just took the shrimp cage to put it in case it gets stuck. If you can't pull it up, forget it, don't want it, it doesn't cost money anyway, so don't feel bad."
"That's fine. If these are used up, there are still a few rows of ground cages at home. Even if the weather is hotter, you can take them out and put them away." Father Ye said as he steered the boat towards the reef.
It looks like it will be a cloudy day today. The sky is completely bright, but there is no red light on the horizon, and there is still a bit of fog in the distance.
Father Ye has been staring intently into the distance, always feeling that there is a ship docked on the island, but it is a bit foggy, so he can't see very clearly.
"Dongzi, come and see if there is a boat on the island over there?"
Ye Yaodong was leaning against the cabin to rest, when he heard his father shouting, he hurriedly got up and walked over in doubt.
"What's the matter? The wind is too strong, I didn't hear what you just said?"
Father Ye pointed at Emperor Hairtail Island, "There seems to be a boat over there."
It was just dawn on this day, and the fishing boat was not operating at sea, but directly docked on an isolated island, which made people a little puzzled.
"It seems that there is really a boat, and I don't know why the boat is docked on the island? Shall we put it in another place?"
"Could it be from our village? Send women to the isolated island and let them go down to dig shells?"
"Huh?" Father Ye thought it was really possible, "Then don't worry about it, let's put our own cage?"
"Put your own in. The shrimp cages are out of stock just after they are put down, and you are not afraid of being stolen. Let's work nearby later."
"Well, you don't need to worry about it."
On the nearby island, Ye Yaodong picked up oarfish the year before last, buried the corpse last year, and picked up two goldfish.
It's not that he didn't think about going around the isolated island again to see if he could gain anything. It's just that the island looks a little small from a distance, but it's not small when you walk around. There are even pheasants and hares on it. He was idle afterwards. After running a full circle, I just picked up a bunch of seabird eggs, but I didn't find anything, so I gave up.
Thinking about the atmosphere he has brought up recently, many women in the village are eager to go to the sea, digging out shells in the sea.
Although he only accepts his brother’s and his neighbor’s, he can’t stand the fact that they have many relatives. They can quietly take the photos from their relatives to their own house, and then sell them to him together.
Ye Yaodong weighed it three times, and he knew it when he saw that the number was more than the last time, but it didn't matter, it was a win-win situation, and he could sell more if he got more.
Father and son held this idea, so they didn't care about it. They put their own shrimp pots, but they would look over from time to time.
However, after they put all the shrimp pots out, the fishing boats on the island remained motionless.
"Um."
The father and son cooperated with each other and continued to release the net.
Although the nets they put out are numerous and miscellaneous, it would be a waste of time for them if they were told to go back like this and come out to collect the nets tomorrow. They would rather drag two more nets at sea.
It’s just that the father and son found out that they both dragged two nets and returned to the surrounding area. The fishing boat was still docked at Oarfish Island, shaking with the waves, and did not leave.
Father Ye frowned, "Dongzi, it looks like that boat doesn't belong to our village. If we let the women go to browse the sea, they will go back to work at sea after they are let go. It would be a waste of a day to stop there."
"Maybe they just sailed a boat to search the sea? Haven't we never done this kind of thing?"
"Then when we brought your mother and in-laws here, we docked every once in a while, and we were trawling the net when it was time to trawl, and we didn't wait there all day. Maybe there was a fishing boat malfunction."
"If it's a malfunction calling for help, the other party must have seen our ship nearby on the boat. Why didn't he wave the flag to ask for help?"
He felt that his father was thinking too much, like him, didn't he take Ah Qing out to explore the sea once during the fifteenth day?
However, I didn't run so far, I just chose a small island near the coast.
Father Ye thought it made sense, "Then let's go back as soon as we collect the longlines. The shrimp pots have just been put down not long ago, so we can collect them tomorrow."
"OK."
Just waited until the next morning, when they finished the longline fishing and came to collect the shrimp pots, they found a boat approaching the oarfish island and stopped shortly after.
The father and son paid attention to it, thinking that the boat went to the island yesterday and did not finish the sea scouring, and continued today, and the two were attracted by the sea cucumber and the little green dragon in the shrimp cage, so they didn't take it to heart, just focused on Collect the shrimp pots.
"I still have to put it here, there is another sea cucumber in this cage."
Ye Yaodong unfastened the net opening in his hand, and poured the contents into the bamboo basket. When the black and chubby sea cucumber fell into the basket, he flicked it a couple of times.
Father Ye grabbed the sea cucumber with a smile and threw it into the bucket, "I collected two rows and caught four sea cucumbers and three lobsters. It's pretty good."
"This location is a treasured place of geomantic omen."
"There are still a few rows that are about to be collected. After the collection, we will continue to trawl the net. There are not many goods in the past two days, and I don't know if they have all migrated. Just put a few sea cucumbers and lobsters in the shrimp pots to subsidize them."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong **** the fish collection bag again, and then threw the shrimp pots aside, handed them to his father to tidy up, and put them down together later, he still has to collect the remaining shrimp pots.
It's just that he pulled the buoy and tugged it several times, but he didn't pull the shrimp pot.
"It's over, I have to lose a row on the first day I put it down, and I got stuck."
"its stuck?"
"Well, the bottom is full of reefs. It may be placed unevenly, or it may be caught by the waves of the ground and cannot be pulled up."
"I'll try." Father Ye reluctantly took a piece of rope in his hand and tried it, but he really couldn't pull it.
"Forget it, don't pull it, don't break the line. Tie the buoy and continue to throw it here. If you are lucky, it is not washed away by the waves. Wait for it to warm up and see if the water can be collected?"
"Well, then I'll try the last two."
Unexpectedly, Father Ye tried to pull one, but he couldn't pull it, and it got stuck.
"No way?"
"It doesn't work anymore, I got stuck again." Father Ye frowned. He just posted it yesterday, but today he lost two at once. Isn't this loss too big?
Ye Yaodong was also speechless. After reciting like this, he got stuck in two rows after only one day.
"There is still a row, I will try. If it can be collected, change the position and move to the side, so as not to be too close to the reef, and it is easy to get stuck."
As he spoke, he drove the boat forward for a short distance, and the last buoy was washed away by the waves.
Fortunately, this one was not stuck, and was collected smoothly, and three rows could be kept. Moreover, there were a total of two sea cucumbers and two small green dragons poured out of the ten shrimp pots in this row.
"It's a bit of consolation."
"Go and sail the boat, a little to the side, don't get too close to the reef, I'll release it."
"OK."
Ye Yaodong followed suit and went to sail the boat, but when driving forward, he looked around and noticed the boat on the island.
After his father finished putting away the remaining shrimp pots, he said, "Father, let's get closer and see which village's boat it is from?"
"Alright, if you are curious, go and have a look. Anyway, if something is wrong, we can run first."
It’s okay to stop at an isolated island for two days. If this boat stays here every day in the future, how will he put branches to catch squid next month? It's time for another fight.
How can I go into the water when it’s hot?
Since they docked there on purpose, it’s okay for them to sail over to see which village’s boat is there. If something happens, the boat docked there must not run as fast as their boat.
I thought so in my heart, but I didn't expect it to come true.
When they drove the boat over, before they got close, they turned around and left in surprise after a short distance.
Too sleepy, there is another chapter to be added tomorrow. A day of relaxation is a day of decadence.