Back to the small fishing village in 1982

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 silvery 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 Ye's father was hanging bait for the longline.

That's right, the sticky nets have been taken back, and they plan to continue longline fishing with trawl nets for a month or two, and then focus on catching squid.

After he drove 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 1000 row hooks and ten bamboo baskets.

After finishing, he stacked the baskets one by one to reduce the stacking space.

In other words, there are really many bamboo baskets in their house, because they are so versatile, ten baskets are needed to tidy up one longline line, not to mention that they are used to load fish on the boat.

His father is usually idle, and sitting at the door is always busy with his work. The baskets in their house are made by his father when he is idle.

In the past, after weaving, they were handed over to the brigade, and later they were sold occasionally in the market, but now they are all used by their own families.

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.

In fact, it’s okay to come and collect them when they return home, but they caught two lobsters yesterday, which made them a little excited.

Moreover, Ye Yaodong still wanted to take advantage of the early morning to put away the shrimp cage and move it to a better place later.

At this time, the sky was already a little hazy.

From a distance, 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 he could reach it easily.

However, his luck was not very good today, all the shrimp pots were collected without a single little green dragon, and there were 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 a corner and didn't continue to put them down.

"You don't want to put the shrimp cage in? 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 today will be a cloudy day, 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 kept staring into the distance, always feeling that there was a ship docked on the island, but it was a bit foggy, so he couldn't see clearly.

"Dongzi, come and see if there is a boat on the island over there?"

Ye Yaodong was resting against the cabin, when he heard his father shouting, he got up and walked over suspiciously.

"What's the matter? The wind is too strong, I didn't hear what you just said?"

Father Ye pointed at the octopus 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 docked directly on the isolated island, which made people a little puzzled.

"It seems that there is a real boat, and I don't know why the boat is docked on the island? Why don't we put it somewhere else?"

"Could it be from our village? Send women to the isolated island and let them dig for shells?"

"Ah?" Father Ye thought it was really possible, "Then don't worry about it, let's put our own cage?"

"Put your own. The shrimp cages are out of stock just after they are put down, and we 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 body last year, and picked up two dog head gold.

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 follow him to the sea, digging out shells in the sea.

Although he only accepts his brother's and his neighbor's, he can't help that they have many relatives. They can quietly take the photos of 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, if he got more, he could sell more.

With this idea in mind, the father and son didn't care about it. They put their own shrimp pots on their own, 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.

"Drag the big fishing net out of the cabin, don't worry about it, well water doesn't interfere with river water, let's do what we do," Father Ye said.

"Ah."

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, and they would rather drag two more nets at sea.

It's just that the father and son found out that they both finished dragging 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 won't be a waste of a day to stop there."

"Maybe they just sailed a boat to find 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 stop there all day to wait. Maybe there was something wrong with the fishing boat."

"If it's a breakdown calling for help, the other party must be able to see our ship is nearby on the boat. Why didn't he wave the flag to ask for help when he saw it?"

He felt that his father was thinking too much, like him, didn't he also 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 longline fishing. The shrimp cage has just been put down for a while, so we can collect it tomorrow."

"Row."

It was just that in the early morning of the next day, when they finished the longline fishing and came to collect the shrimp pots, they found a boat approaching the oarfish island, and it stopped after a while.

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 dumped the contents into the bamboo basket. When the black and chubby sea cucumber fell into the basket, he flicked it duang duan twice.

Father Ye smiled and grabbed the sea cucumber first, and threw it into the bucket, "Two rows were collected, four sea cucumbers and three lobsters were caught, 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 trawling. There are not many goods in the past two days, and I don't know if they are all migrating. Just put a few sea cucumbers and lobsters in the shrimp pots to subsidize them."

"Ah."

Ye Yaodong tied up the fish 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. It's the first day I put it down and I have to lose a row. It's stuck with Dad."

"its stuck?"

"Well, the bottom is full of hidden 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 took a piece of rope from him without giving up, and tried it, but he really couldn't pull it up.

"Forget it, don't pull it, don't break the line. Tie the buoy up and keep throwing it here. If you're lucky, it doesn't get washed away by the waves. Wait until it gets hotter 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.

"Again?"

"It doesn't work again, 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. This was a big loss, but luckily it was a no-cost business.

"There's another row, I'll try. If it can be accommodated, change the position and move it 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 wasn't stuck, it was collected smoothly, and three rows could be kept, and in this row of ten shrimp cages, a total of two sea cucumbers and two small green dragons were poured out.

"It's a bit of consolation."

"Go and sail the boat, move to the side, don't get too close to the reef, I'll release it."

"Row."

Ye Yaodong followed suit and went to sail the boat, but while 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're curious, go and have a look. Anyway, if something is wrong, we can run away first."

It's okay to stop at the isolated island for two days. If the boat stays here every day in the future, how will he put branches to catch squid next month?It's time for another fight.

And how do you get 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 the boat is from. In case 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, after a short distance, they immediately turned around in surprise and left.

Too sleepy, there is another chapter to be added tomorrow.A day of relaxation is a day of decadence.