Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1234 Salvage Trap
Ye Xiaoxi tried her best to pull off one of her shoes, but she fell to the ground due to inertia.

She didn't care about the pain. Her facial features were wrinkled. One hand pinched her nose tightly, and the other hand was fanning the tip of her nose.

"It stinks! It stinks worse than poop!"

The two brothers lowered their heads and laughed, then turned their heads away for fear of smelling the stinky feet.

"elder brother……"

Ye Chenghu said quickly: "It has been allocated and cannot be changed. There is still one foot left."

Ye Xiaoxi's eyebrows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a fly to death. She looked at the socks on Ye Yaodong's feet, which had loosened and were hanging on his feet due to the action of her taking off her shoes just now.

"Hands will rot..."

Ye Chengyang couldn't help laughing, then turned around and made a gesture to her.

"If you're like this, just take off your socks."

"No! You are bullying me!"

Ye Xiaoxi sat up from the ground angrily, running and shouting, "Mom, my brother bullied me..."

The two brothers quickly took off their clothes and pants for their father.

Ye Chengyang muttered as he pulled up his pants, "Dad has so much hair..."

"Stupid, that's Maomao..."

Ye Chenghu struggled to unbutton Ye Yaodong's shirt, but after a long time he could only unbutton two or three buttons, which annoyed him and he cursed at him in a low voice.

He simply rolled up his clothes, took out his father's hands first, and then pulled the shirt over his head, trapping his father's head inside.

Ye Yaodong felt that he was having trouble breathing and was about to suffocate, but he was drunk and his mind was a mess. He just struggled instinctively by kicking and moving around.

He kicked one of them off the bed and threw the other aside with his hand. Only then did he feel that his breathing was smoother. He turned over and started snoring again.

The two brothers looked at each other.

"I'm almost done..."

"I'm almost done..."

The two men had no choice but to go forward and continue pulling the half-removed pants and half-removed clothes.

Ye Yaodong felt difficulty breathing again and a severe pulling sensation in his head.

He yelled in panic: "What...what...?"

Ye Chenghu hesitated whether to continue pulling out the clothes or let his father breathe first.

Ye Chengyang had already taken off Ye Yaodong's pants, and even his boxer briefs. He was looking at him curiously, wondering why he looked different from him.

Lin Xiuqing was being scolded by Ye Xiaoxi outside. She kept saying that her brother bullied her and that her father's feet smelled bad and she didn't want to do it.

She kept making a fuss and wanted her to beat and scold her brother.

She was annoyed by the noise and wanted to whip her, but the old lady snatched the whip from her.

"Hey, why did you hit her? You can't hit a child at night. It will scare her."

"Go in and take a look. Your mother and I are here to clean up. We don't need you. You can go and wipe Dongzi's body so he can sleep. He probably didn't even take a shower outside, so the child thinks he smells bad..."

Mother Ye also said: "Go ahead, we'll clean it up..."

Lin Xiuqing glared at Ye Xiaoxi who was at her feet.

Ye Xiaoxi even said aggrievedly: "It was my brother who bullied me."

"Alright, alright, I don't need you guys, I'll take it off for him."

She walked and said helplessly.

Just as he reached the door of the room, he heard Ye Yaodong groaning.

Ye Chenghu pulled twice but couldn't pull it out. Seeing that his father was almost out of breath, he quickly let go and gave him a chance to breathe.

"Brother, are you still not well?"

"I can't take it off. The buttons are too tight."

"Pull it out with some force?"

"Then together?"

The two brothers sat next to Ye Yaodong's head, pulling at his shirt, and when he couldn't breathe and struggled, they let go...

Lin Xiuqing was almost dumbfounded when she saw this scene as soon as she came in.

"What are you doing?"

The two brothers said in unison, "Take off your clothes."

Ye Yaodong was gasping for breath, fiddling with the shirt on his cheeks with his hands. He was not conscious and could only mutter curses.

"I'm suffocating, I'm drowning..."

Lin Xiuqing's head was throbbing with pain. "If I hadn't come in earlier, your father would have gone up the mountain tomorrow."

As she spoke, she quickly pulled the quilt over him to cover him.

How did these two idiots take off their pants?

Ye Chengyang looked at Ye Chenghu, "What do you mean?"

"Maybe they carried it up the mountain and buried it? I've heard others curse about it."

Ye Chenghu said uncertainly, and then quickly explained: "I couldn't unbutton it. I gave him some air, so he won't die."

"You damned child, you coffin-like child, if I hadn't come in earlier, your father would have been suffocated to death by you..."

She picked up the feather duster on the table and wanted to beat the two dead kids, but they quickly reacted and jumped under the bed, making excuses.

"He's not dead, he's breathing..."

"It's none of my business, it was my brother who did it..."

"I did give him some air... the buttons were too tight... it's all your fault, you were the one who asked me to take off his clothes..."

They didn't even have time to put on their shoes. They jumped out of bed barefoot and ran out in a hurry while talking.

Even though he reacted quickly, he still got hit a few times.

Ye Xiaoxi was satisfied.

Lin Xiuqing stood at the door and glared at the two of them, but did not chase them up the stairs.

"Why is there such a big fuss? We are almost going to sleep, and you are still beating them?" Ye's mother asked while wiping the table.

"Luckily I got in just in time. The two of them were trying to pull their clothes off their heads without even unbuttoning their shirts. They almost suffocated their dad. They also took off their pants. I don't know what they were doing."

"Then I'll beat him to death. Is there anyone so stupid?"

"Every day, I'm going to be pissed off by them."

Lin Xiuqing dropped the feather duster and went to get some hot water, responding to the conversation.

Ye Xiaoxi had already climbed into bed. It was so late and she was already sleepy.

Without taking off her clothes, she crawled to lie down beside Ye Yaodong and covered herself with a quilt. She also did not forget to pull the quilt higher for his father. She also patted his chest twice to comfort him to sleep.

Lin Xiuqing came in with hot water and saw that the father and daughter had fallen asleep in each other's arms. The shirt was still hanging around Ye Yaodong's neck.

She stepped forward to unbutton her shirt, muttering, "If your daughter hadn't gone out and said that her two brothers bullied her and had to call me in, you would have been dying in your sleep..."

"You've drunk so much, and you all have no sense of restraint when drinking. And I still treat you like an ancestor..."

"You don't need to take a shower after you go out. You don't even need to wash your feet. They stink so badly..."

Ye Yaodong was drunk and knew nothing, so he let her do whatever she wanted.

Lin Xiuqing simply wiped his whole body, soaked his feet, and then helped him put on his boxer briefs.

"You're not ashamed at all. You let the two kids take off your pants like that. You're not afraid that they'll run out and tell everyone about it. I'll have to explain to them tomorrow..."

"It's really a headache, all of these..."

By the time she had finished dressing Ye Yaodong from head to toe and came out after finishing her work, Ye's mother had also finished and left.

She asked the old lady to look after the house while she went to the workshop to take a look. She asked people to keep an eye on the workshop before going home, closing the doors and windows and lying down.

(Ye Chenghu is a bit stubborn, and he was in a hurry to go upstairs to sleep. He couldn't untie the buttonholes for a long time, so he just took them off when he got impatient.)
It was not until the next day that Ye Yaodong was told by Lin Xiuqing that he had been drunk the previous night and was nearly beaten to death by his two sons, and had even run naked.

"So my daughter saved my life!"

"You can say that."

He glared at his two sons sinisterly. Both of them shook their shoulders in fear and dared not eat any more of the rice in their bowls. They did not even dare to say a word in defense. Each of them grabbed a fried dough stick and ran away.

"Even if two monks escape, the temple cannot. Wait until I have time, and see how I deal with you two."

"I'm not even 30 yet, and you guys want to inherit my estate? You two bastards, I'll break your legs..."

The old lady laughed, "Nonsense, you are so careless so early in the morning and you are cursing yourself. You two are still young, how can you have the strength to do that? You are also ignorant."

Lin Xiuqing also smiled and said, "At least they know to wait for you to catch your breath and give you a break before continuing to take off your clothes."

"They think my death was too easy. They want me to die more often."

"Who made you so drunk?"

"How do I know that one is dumber than the other? The second oldest seemed quite smart, but now he looks so dumb. He must have been infected by the older one."

After saying that, he touched Ye Xiaoxi's head and said, "Don't be infected by your two brothers. Neither of them is smart."

Ye Xiaoxi grabbed half of the fried dough stick, ate it with oil dripping from her mouth, and nodded.

Ye Yaodong looked at Lin Xiuqing again, "I forgot to ask you yesterday, have the longline fishing gear been sorted and delivered?"

"It was delivered the night before yesterday. It's in the yard."

"Okay, I'll drop the longline down later and come back to send another truck to the city."

She nodded, then remembered something and said quickly, "Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you yesterday that many people in the village said that the squid season is coming soon. I also asked someone to cut some branches on the mountain yesterday. They have been sorted out. When you go to cast longline fishing later, you can also put these branches back into the sea."

"Okay, I was going to ask you that too. It's almost time."

It is convenient to have people around. He doesn't need to do many things himself now, as the people under him are already prepared.

After finishing his meal, Ye Yaodong also grabbed a fried dough stick, then went around the workshop, called people to come and work, loaded baskets of longline fishing lines onto a cart and sent them to the boat, and then asked them to continue carrying branches to the boat.

He just stood there eating the fried dough sticks the whole time.

There are some new small businesses in the village this year, including those frying dough sticks and fried cakes, and selling buns and steamed buns.

There are no noodle shops that serve breakfast. Who would be willing to spend that money? At most, a few people who go out to sea in the early morning will be willing to buy some steamed buns to fill their stomachs, so as to save their family members from having to get up in the middle of the night to cook.

After the village had some breakfast variety, their family's breakfast became more abundant. Lin Xiuqing was also willing to buy some steamed buns, dumplings, soy milk and fried dough sticks for everyone to change their taste.

When Ye Yaodong sailed out to the sea and headed straight for his destination, he had already seen his two childhood friends had already dropped the branches, and they were so conscientious as to leave the space for him where he had dropped the branches previously.

Their boat was not around, probably out trawling.

If he were to encounter what he said first, he would scold him first.

There are hundreds of traps under the reef, at least in dozens of rows, and no one knows how many days they have been throwing them down there.

The squid season is approaching, and some squids will surely be disoriented by those traps, causing them to burrow underground to lay eggs.

Thinking of this, he cursed again.

Today we will deliver the kelp to the troops, and he won't need to go tomorrow. We can just send someone to deliver it to the warehouse for storage.

If those bosses need large quantities of goods, they can just ask his father-in-law to arrange it.

And he should be able to start going into the water to salvage those traps tomorrow, so he can collect the traps and squids at the same time without affecting each other.

Those ground traps that have been on the seabed for a long time are considered non-degradable industrial waste. If they remain here for a long time, they may damage the seabed environment and affect the growth of abalone, sea cucumbers, clams and other animals underneath.

Ye Yaodong worked for half the morning before he finished all the work at sea. Then he immediately went to pull a cart of kelp to the city.

Then, he asked someone to drive another truck loaded with dried fish directly to the troops.

With his eloquent tongue and the fact that kelp was cheap and had many advantages, the troops accepted it without any surprise.

The main reason is that there are so many people and the consumption is high, so a few tons are nothing.

Ye Yaodong also asked the quartermaster of logistics. He learned that the army would recruit soldiers in September, but the registration would be from June to August, and the military examination would be completed during this time.

He inquired about it in detail and took note of it in his mind.

It's already May, which is just next month. Lin Guangyuan happens to have summer vacation next month, so it would be perfect for him to sign up as soon as the summer vacation starts.

Now he has moved to the city and it is very convenient for him to register by riding a bicycle.

After returning, he also talked to Lin Guangyuan who had just returned from school. The conscription would start next month, and he immediately became excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He threw away his schoolbag.

"Really, uncle?"

"Why would I lie to you? I happened to be delivering goods to the army today, so I asked about it."

"That's great, I finally made it."

"When the goods are delivered next month, ask them to keep an eye out for you and see which month it is. Then you can go and register."

"Okay okay."

He clenched his fists and gestured back and forth, very happy, and even did a couple of somersaults, looking very childish.

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes and said, "I'm leaving. I'll take you home to play for two days during the summer vacation, and then..."

"No need for summer vacation. Tomorrow is Sunday. I will go home with you now."

"You want to go home with me for a day too? If you go home with me, you have to work for me."

The other two children also hurriedly said, "Uncle, we also want to work for you..."

Ye Yaodong looked at the three people from tall to short who were looking at him eagerly and shook his head, although he would still have someone send a truckload of kelp over tomorrow.

"You don't even want to do your own housework, you just want to work for me. Your parents are counting on you to help with the store, but forget it. Lin Guangyuan has to go to the army after the summer vacation, so I wanted to take him out to play for a few days."

All three were disappointed.

"Hurry up and do your homework. I have to go back soon too."

"It's almost 4 o'clock. Aren't you going to have dinner before going back?" Lin Guangyuan asked.

"No, I can't leave any later."

The three children watched him leave in disappointment.

It was not yet time for dinner, and Lin's father and mother did not return after the store closed. Instead, they were helping Lin Xianghui's breakfast shop prepare the ingredients and meat fillings for tomorrow's breakfast.

Ye Yaodong just went to the shop to say hello to them, told his father-in-law some things, and said that he would bring a truckload of kelp as usual tomorrow, and then left in a hurry.

Don’t think that you are enjoying yourself at home or that it will be more comfortable than being at sea. In fact, it is not.

In recent days, he has been like a spinning top, busy and running back and forth. He feels that he still needs to arrange the kelp in person for the first year.

But one thing that is better than being at sea is that you can eat well and sleep well.

A young body is full of energy. No matter how hard you work during the day, as long as you have a good rest and sleep at night, you will be full of energy and vigor the next day.

The next morning, Ye Yaodong asked two men who could drive tractors to take a truckload of kelp that had been collected the previous night to the city. He also asked two strong men to go out to sea with him.

Although he had never been in the water, he was still young and thought he could train himself, try more, and come back to change if it wasn't suitable.

The two people he named to go out to sea were a little excited. They had been working in the workshop and had never been taken out to sea.

They were only recruited at the end of last year and were only taught how to drive a tractor. The rest of the time they just did some moving around in the workshop and bottling fish sauce.

Being able to learn to drive a tractor is enough for them. It is a skill and it also makes them a skilled worker. In the past, not everyone could drive a tractor in the production team.

Ye Yaodong's main purpose of going out to sea today was to salvage the traps on the seabed. Collecting longline fishing was just a side job, and collecting squids would be a matter for the afternoon.

Although it is only May and the temperature has risen a little, the sea water is still very cold. But who wouldn’t want a raise?

When the two people who went out to sea heard that there would be a salary subsidy for going into the sea, they were eager to try it out. They didn't even want to stop fishing and wanted to jump in immediately.

After collecting the longline fishing line, Ye Yaodong also explained to them the conditions at the bottom of the water and the precautions to take when entering the water, and asked them to do some warm-up exercises in advance.

He planned to take one himself and let Chen Shi take one as well. After all, they both had experience, and it would be safer if each of them took one down. In case of any emergency, they could bring the person up immediately.

After everything was ready, he explained the gestures he often used, such as what OK meant, and then led his men to jump down.

The two of them shivered at the same time, and stayed on the sea surface for a while to adapt to the situation. Ye Yaodong gestured "OK", and after getting a response, the two of them went down together.

"Brother Dong is so amazing..."

Chen Shi also nodded in agreement.

"You can get anything and make money from anything. It's amazing..."

"Now all kinds of stories about him are spreading everywhere. Everyone in my relative's village knows that we have a bumper harvest of kelp and we made a lot of money by selling it to Brother Dong. They all want to follow suit if there is a bumper harvest next year."

"Brother Dongdong... Benben is... awesome!"

……

Ye Yaodong was afraid that the newcomers would feel uncomfortable if they went too deep, so he didn't dare to go too deep. He just circled around the reef and planned to start with the trap that was stuck on the reef.

The tide is now receding and the water level is dropping, revealing some of the reefs. When they go down only four or five meters underwater, they can see some traps hanging on the bottom.

He didn't care about the shocked looks of the people around him, and first circled around a small reef in front of him, and then signaled the people around him to follow suit.

There are about 10 traps in a row, which are quite long. Sometimes not all 10 are hooked on the bottom, but if one is hooked, the others cannot be pulled up.

He can only start with the most recent one.

The trap in front of him was filled with fish, shrimps and crabs, and he could see the colorful shells of several small green dragons.

He estimated that if he could collect all the traps in a row, he could harvest at least several hundred kilograms.

The fishing net in my hand is heavy. If I try to pull it away from the reef, it will easily tear the net and the whole cage of fish will burst out.

He could only swim carefully to free the hooked fishing net.

The novice Chen Guodong next to him was shocked for a moment, but then he came to his senses and started to help.

The two were busy on the seabed, with fish and shrimps constantly passing by them.

Ye Yaodong looked at the little green dragons huddled in the cracks of the reefs and felt itchy, but he had to hold them down first and put up the fishing nets so that they would have more space to get closer and salvage the goods.

It took them a while to free one trap and then pull the next one along the rope.

However, the trap he had just rescued seemed to have only three connected traps, not like a normal row of 3, and one of them was not hung on the bottom. After rescuing two, the whole string could be pulled up.

He made a gesture to the novice Chen Guodong, and after getting a response, the two of them simultaneously grabbed the rope at one end of the trap and swam upstream. Although it was very heavy, it had buoyancy in the water and was only four or five meters from the water surface.

It took them some effort to pull the rope of the trap out of the water.

"Brother Dong, you're here. Did you get anything?"

The two swam towards the fishing boat. After they were pulled up, Ye Yaodong said, "Hang this rope on the net machine to collect the ground traps. There are three of them. They must have got stuck on the bottom and couldn't be retrieved. They just cut them with scissors and gave up in the sea."

"Great, it can be collected in no time."

"When you go down later, try to pick the cut traps. Otherwise, there are 10 in a row, and they are full of goods, so you may not be able to pull them up."

"it is good."

"First, choose the area around the reef. Most of the people around there have cut their ropes and abandoned their positions. Besides, it's only four or five meters from the water surface, not very deep, so it's safer."

"clear."

Ye Yaodong saw that the machine was stirring and pulling the trap out of the water, and then they had to pull it up manpower.

"Wow, so many goods?"

Chen Guodong, the first one to go into the water, listened to Yaodong's instructions and didn't dare to interrupt. Only now did he find the opportunity to speak.

He said excitedly: "Not only that, every trap has so much stuff, it's full to the brim. I was shocked when I got into the water. I've never seen a trap hold so much stuff."

"My eyes were wide open. The reef was surrounded by traps and small blue dragons. There were many small blue dragons hiding in the cracks..."

"There are also abalones. There are so many abalones on the reef, more than the rice in my house. Some are so big, so amazing. I thought I was dreaming. I was shocked. There were so many..."

"You haven't even seen it yet, so you don't know how many good things there are. There are too many. No wonder Brother Dong specially went into the water to salvage them. This net must weigh at least 100 to 200 kilograms..."

"I don't know how Brother Dong found such a great place. There are so many things under the water. It's really eye-opening. There are also many fish and shrimps swimming around me..."

He kept chattering about what he saw and heard underwater, and was amazed.

The first trap was also pulled up by them and dropped on the deck. Except for the front few compartments, the rest were crowded with goods, but they just looked motionless.

But everyone looked on with joy.

"Have these traps been stuck underground for a long time? Otherwise, how can they hold so many?"

"Yes, yes, that's right."

"There are so many traps down there. I don't know who is so stupid as to put them here on the reef. Isn't it obvious that there is no way back? As long as he doesn't get stuck, Mazu is his real mother..."

Ye Yaodong patted him and said, "Nonsense, can Mazu be used as a joke?"

"Hehe, I'm just making a metaphor."

"Hurry up and continue collecting, there are two more behind."

He squatted down, untied the net bag and poured out all the fish first.

This trap has probably been hanging in the sea for several months. There are many signs of wear and tear on the fishing net. It is probably because the surging sea water has caused the trap to sway and rub against the reefs, causing the fishing net to wear and tear.

After pouring out the entire net of fish, the amount was very impressive. He estimated that there were more than 100 kilograms of fish. Some of them were still moving, but most of them were smelly, the shrimp heads were black, and a few small green dragons were motionless.

He picked it up, took a look at it, smelled the stinky seafood, and threw it away.

"What a pity. If I pick and choose, I should be able to get something."

"Here it comes, I've collected it..."

Ye Yaodong stepped aside and let them bring up the fishing net.

The catch from three consecutive nets was piled up on the deck like a small mountain. There were a few small green dragons and some crabs, which immediately crawled all over the deck when the fishing nets were untied.

"Brother Dong, little blue dragons, several little blue dragons..."

"And there are blue crabs... 23456... there are six of them."

"I thought all of them were rotten, but I didn't expect there were still many alive..."

Ye Yaodong was satisfied when he saw the ones running around the deck. With these ones, it would not be in vain even if the others were broken.

The main thing is to collect all the fishing nets. Some of them can be reused, and it will not affect his collection of abalone and catching of small green dragon sea cucumbers.

"You two continue down, but don't go too deep just around the reef. Let's pick some out here first."

"Okay, Dong."

The two of them plunged into the water, following their previous example.

Ye Yaodong watched for a while, and after seeing that their heads were all under the water, he squatted down to sort out the goods.

Chen Guodong has already brought a basket to load it.

"Brother Dong, I admire you so much. You are so amazing. You can even find this place. No wonder you are so famous and your name is known everywhere."

"Don't brag. We don't know how much we can earn."

"There are so many of them, it's worth it even if most of them die, because we can still let the reefs fly to catch abalone! Those are abalone, so big! And there are small blue dragons!"

"Don't worry, when you have work to do, those traps down there alone will keep you busy for a month."

"I wish so much. This is really informative. I didn't expect it to be like this underwater. What should I do with these stinky fish?"

"Throw it back into the sea, what else can we do?"