Time Travel: A Fisherwoman Goes to the Sea to Raise a Baby

"At least move a little. Don't you know how heavy you are?"

The two men on the deck were exhausted and panting as they pulled Xu Yinli up.

"I'd be happy to let you pull me up, otherwise it would be a shame for me to drift on the sea for so long."

Xu Yinli picked up the wooden bucket filled with clean water from the deck and poured it directly over himself, then changed his clothes.

"I guess you're really unlucky today. Who could have known that the ship would sink?"

The man standing in front of the window was named Liang Yuwen, a colleague of Xu Yinli.

He reached out and threw the wine jug over.

"Speaking of which, your eldest daughter is quite impressive. I think she was only thirteen or fourteen, right? She was even calmer than you appear when saving people."

Liang Yuwen couldn't help but praise him, and Xu Yinli didn't frown when he heard it.

Instead, he smiled with a smug look on his face.

"That is, my daughter must be the best."

Xu Yinli looked proud.

Another person suddenly interrupted, "Why do I feel like she doesn't like you very much?"

Gao Rongfang said this with a playful smile, and the next moment the wine jug hit his head.

"Even food can't stop your mouth."

Xu Yinli was also very depressed. He was very proud that his daughter was so sensible and capable.

But he was also depressed because the children in his family could live well without him.

When he thought of his eldest daughter's expression when she saw him, he couldn't help feeling sad.

"When will the mission be over?"

Xu Yinli said something in a muffled voice, and Liang Yuwen's hand paused for a moment.

"It will be soon. Soon you will be able to go home and reunite with your family."

Among the people present, Xu Yinli's situation was relatively special.

Compared to them who are alone, Xu Yinli has a family and many children.

When he couldn't sleep at night, he would toss and turn thinking about it.

Having said this, the atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

When the boat passed by the island, Xu Yinli anxiously looked at it with his telescope.

Looking at the island where he grew up, he feels endless attachment to it.

From a distance, the people on the island looked like ants, tiny black dots.

Xu Yinli didn't see it clearly, and when he saw someone, he wondered if it was his own child.

The sky, which was sunny just now, is now covered by dark clouds.

It is always rainy in summer and the weather is changeable.

The ship Xu Yinli was on sped up.

Xu Yiyi abandoned his boat and parked it on the mudflats. The bottom of the boat was tightly wrapped in mud and did not move at all. Then he took his children to go fishing.

The two sides missed each other again.

A rake raked the mudflats and turned out a lot of tender little fish.

The seagulls will keep a close eye on this situation, and when they see the fish, they will dive down at high speed and bite the finger-long fish into their stomachs.

Sihai hated this moment very much. He reached his chubby little hands into the mud, grabbed a handful of mud and threw it directly at the seagulls.

After a few tries, he not only failed to drive the seagull away, but also got himself dirty.

One of them lost his balance and sank into the mudflat, unable to lift his feet.

He simply lay down on it and started moving immediately.

"Big sister, big sister, look, I'm so fast."

Sihai's teeth were exposed, and this was the only part of his body that was still white.

The ground was soft and the mud was cool.

The soft touch made Sihai think he was on a soft bed. When he saw his elder sister struggling forward, he shouted with great pride.

Xu Yiyi looked over and said, "Finally, we have food for today."

When she saw Sihai like this, her forehead tightened and she didn't know what to feel.

"What to eat?"

When Sihai heard this, he crawled over curiously.

His big eyes stared at his elder sister.

"Fried little mud pig, want some?"

Xu Yiyi hit Sihai on the butt with the rake.

The fleshy ones will rebound.

"This dish is good. When it's ready, share some with my family."

Aunt Li smiled and heard that Xu Yiyi was teasing the child, so she became interested and joked.

"No, no, the little mud pig is too dirty. Let's eat fish! Look at the fish I caught, big sister."

Sihai took out a small fish from his clothes and stuffed it into his elder sister's fish basket.

Sanchuan slapped his forehead and thought to himself that his brother was so stupid.

"The little mud pig that Big Sister was talking about is you, silly brother."

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"It's so fleshy and dirty, what else could it be but a little mud pig?"

When Sihai heard this, he quickly stepped back and shook his head repeatedly.

"Don't eat me, I'm not delicious."

Sihai stepped back a little and looked at his elder sister warily.

"You made it so dirty that our eldest sister doesn't want to say anything to you."

Er'er saw the crab in the mud nest and struggled to pull his foot out and walk over.

Passing by Sihai who was lying in the mud, he rudely stepped on his butt.

Sihai realized later that his elder sister disliked him because he was dirty.

Just as I was thinking about getting up from the mudflat, I was bitten by something the next moment.

The child screamed in pain, and Sanchuan quickly went over and pulled his brother up.

A palm-sized crab fell down. Sanchuan saw that it would be painful if he was bitten by the crab.

Aunt Li pulled Sihai onto her wooden board and slid along. Sanchuan turned around and continued to work with his fish basket.

There are a lot of seafood on the mudflats, but they are not very big.

The big guys are not picky and pick up whatever they come across.

Take it back and dry it, and it will become another delicious dish.

Xu Yiyi likes to dry these small shrimps, crabs, and fish and grind them into powder, and add a little when cooking to enhance the flavor.

It can also be used to make various sauces, which is a delicious dish that can be eaten daily during the fishing ban period.

Aunt Li was very experienced in this and she picked up more seafood by herself than all of them.

Seeing that the fish basket was full, he quickly took out a new one and continued.

There are clams and mussels in the mud pit, various small fish, crabs, shrimps, and jumping fish.

Fishing nets are not very useful at this time; it is more convenient to catch them with bare hands.

Xu Yiyi struggled for a long time, and his hands were covered in mud. They were so heavy that if you didn't know him, you would think he was holding some treasure.

He swung it hard behind him and threw the mud away.

Sanchuan took the rake and dug a hole diligently. In just a few seconds, he dug a large hole in the mud beside him. Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and continued digging.

The next moment, an octopus covered in mud and water was thrown out.

Er'er was running after a fish. He finally managed to pick the fish up, but the fish struggled out again.

Xu Yiyi reached over and pinched his hand between the fish's gills. No matter how the fish struggled, it couldn't escape.

"The tide is coming in, take your things and go back."

Xu Yiyi dragged several of his own clay figurines onto the boat.

The tide quickly rose to knee height, and people on the mudflats quickly evacuated.

As the tide rose higher and higher, the boat broke free from the mud.

As the sun sets, the fishermen begin to return home.

It was only a short while on the way back when the mud on my body had already stuck to my skin, and the dry parts felt a little stinging from time to time.

As soon as they entered the river, the children on the boat jumped in one after another.

Xu Yiyi heard Wu Yuan crying from a distance.

When the boat got closer, we saw that Uncle Taiye was holding Wu Yuan with a look of deep hatred and resentment. In just one hour, he looked as if he had aged ten years.

Xu Yiyi smiled unkindly.

It turns out that whoever takes care of the child will look haggard!

"Still laughing? Hurry up and take your little devil back home. If I stay with him any longer, I'll lose a few years of my life."

Wu Yuan cried so much that the skin around his eyes turned red, as if he had been abused.

God knows how many years it has been since my uncle held and coaxed a child like this.

It was of no use at all, the child just cried more and more sadly.

Sihai's body was severely itchy, and his short little hands left traces of marks on his body when they scratched it.

Seeing Wu Yuan crying so hard, he came over to take a look.

Sihai, who was covered in mud, scared Wuyuan so much that he cried even louder.

"Go away now. You scared your brother."

Uncle Taiye quickly turned around holding Wu Yuan, his face wrinkled like a bitter gourd.

It’s nothing, the kid’s voice is just really loud.

Xu Yiyi wanted to hug him, but his body was covered in mud.

"Oh, don't wash it. Go back and clean it up later!"

When Xu Yiyi heard this, she didn't hesitate and carried Wu Yuan over and put him on the boat.

Uncle Great Grandpa breathed a sigh of relief instantly.

"You are so naive. Don't let children cry too much. It's not good for their health. Who would have thought that your fifth child is such a crybaby?"

The uncle was so tired that he wiped his sweat and thought that no other child was so difficult to deal with.

Xu Yiyi took one of the fish baskets and rinsed it with water several times to wash off the mud, and then asked his uncle to take it back.

After all, his own child really gave him a lot of trouble.

No one knew where A Yue came from. Earlier, when a group of people went to the mudflat, A Yue saw them and turned around and ran away.

I guess he's afraid of getting dirty.

There are people everywhere on the island, and they all know about A Yue's situation, so Xu Yiyi is not worried that she will run into the sea.

So I didn’t look for it.

Seeing this, Er'er quickly washed the starfish he had picked up from the mudflat and threw it up.

A Yue picked it up and smiled foolishly, looking very happy.

Then he helped to carry back the quickly washed fish. Xu Yiyi grabbed a handful of seaweed and carefully scrubbed the mud on the bottom of the boat.

Aunt Li joked that she took good care of the boat.

Then he washed his own boat again, packed up quickly, and then carried Wu Yuan home.

Poor little Wuyuan can't walk because he cries so much.

His brothers and sisters were busy carrying things back and didn't pay any attention to him at all.

"Tell the kids to come to my house later and get some big sea fish. Your uncle Li brought home quite a few when he came back from the sea."

Xu Yiyi sighed. Usually, most of the fish that could be brought home after going out to sea were damaged.

If we bring back a lot, doesn’t that mean we don’t gain much?

"Someone bought it cheap at the dock, why don't you sell it?"

Xu Yiyi didn't ask the children to come over and helped Aunt Li carry the things home.

"They're all quite fresh, but the skin is damaged. We sold a lot of them at a penny a pound, and the remaining ones won't last for a few days."

The fish caught at sea are definitely for selling mainly. Xu Yiyi took a look at the bucket and saw that there were not many in it, so he stopped talking.

Li Xiuying is waiting to be married and rarely comes out at noon.

I didn't even participate in this year's competition.

When my great uncle found out, he didn't say anything. After all, he was not a member of the clan, and if he interfered too much, he would probably become disliked.

At this moment, he saw Xu Yiyi coming into the room and rolled his eyes at her behind Aunt Li's back.

Aunt Li skewered the relatively fresh fish in the bucket with seaweed and handed it to Xu Yiyi.

"Don't go yet, I'll get you some more sauce."

I worked on the mudflats for an hour and my back was hardly straightened.

Xu Yiyi felt a little tired and just wanted to go home and sit for a while.

He quickly waved his hand to refuse.

"I've made some sauce at home, I don't want yours."

Aunt Li didn't listen, picked up the bowl and went into the house to get a bowl of shrimp paste.

"Your family just made it, and you can't eat it yet. Don't be polite to Aunt Li. I was reluctant to give it to someone like your mother when she asked for it, but since you siblings are good, I'm happy to give it to you."

Only after saying this did Xu Yiyi give up.

On the way back, he held Wu Yuan's small cradle with a bowl of sauce on it in his left hand, and a few half-dead fish in his right hand.

When Xu Yiyi arrived home, Er'er was scooping hot water from the pot.

My uncle and aunt came to help with the cooking after they left home.

Sanchuan took a bath towel and rubbed the mud off Sihai's body.

After staying on the mudflat for so long, my whole body was filled with a fishy smell.

A Yue was sitting in the yard, cleaning the shrimps and crabs she had picked up from the mudflats.

The fish you just caught cannot be eaten immediately. You have to put it in water to raise it and spit out the mud so that there will be no foreign matter such as sand when you eat it.

"Alright, alright, rinse off and get up!"

Sanchuan used a clean cloth to carry Sihai to the rocking chair in the yard. The part that was previously bitten by the crab was already purple, which was particularly conspicuous against Sihai's fair skin.

Sanchuan went into the house and took out the medicine powder and sprinkled it on Sihai's wound. He helped his brother put on his clothes before running to take a shower.

When a few people came out to clean up, the shrimps and crabs had already been washed.

Xu Yiyi picked out the shrimps of appropriate size and separated them out. Sihai helped to light the fire and added appropriate amount of salt and ginger slices to the water in the pot and brought it to a boil.

The fire at Sihai was so big that a large basin of shrimps turned red and bent as soon as they were poured in.

The cooked shrimps need to be dried for a while, then exposed to the sun. The dried shrimps can be canned and placed in a cool place and can be eaten for more than half a year.

"Sister, Wu Yuan eats a lot."

Sanchuan came in with Wuyuan's small bowl of milk. The child usually only needed one bowl.

I actually ate half a bowl more just now. It's really abnormal.

"It feels like its belly is still bloated, and it keeps crying if I don't feed it."

After putting away the clean milk bowl, Sanchuan brought Wuyuan in. The full child looked chubby and well-behaved, and smiled at Xu Yiyi.

"He didn't eat in the afternoon because he was busy crying. He must eat half an extra bowl."

Xu Yiyi was also a little worried. This child would make a lot of trouble when he was away from his family.

If this continues, it may be detrimental to the development of one's character.

"Take your brother out to play with the kids in the village. Don't stay at home all the time."

When Er'er heard this, he came in, pulled Sihai's little bun, and took over the job of making the fire.

Sanchuan stuffed Wuyuan into the cradle and ran out with Sihai carrying him.