Chapter 178: Long Snake Formation

With 300 fish hooks, fish lined up to take the bait one by one. There were probably only thirty or forty empty hooks. Ye Yaodong pulled from beginning to end, his waist was sore, but the harvest was also considerable.

Not to mention a blue-spotted grouper, ten red conger eels were also caught, as well as some black porgies, sea bass, yellow croakers, and Spanish mackerel weighing one or two jin. There were really a lot of croakers, just as he expected.

It was just that one person had to drive the boat, pull the line, and re-hang the bait to put it down, which seemed too hurried and the efficiency was too low.

He glanced at A Zheng and Xiao Xiao who were working in the distance. It was not very clear because they were too far away, but he could see that one of them was driving the boat and the other was releasing the line, working very calmly.

He shook his head. Can't compare. They had to split between two people, while he was swallowing it alone. After changing to a bigger boat, he would just hire someone.

After pulling the line, he immediately took the two baskets of main lines on the boat to connect to the end of the main line in the sea, and also connected the buoy rope and the sinker rope together and threw them into the sea. After throwing all the two baskets of main lines he brought to sea today into the sea, he finally threw out the tail anchor and buoy.

Adding another 200 hooks, there were now a total of 500 hooks in the sea. For the first 300 hooks, he still hung small shrimp as bait. For the next 200 hooks, he hung sea centipedes as bait. Some were too long, so he took scissors and cut them into sections before hanging them up.

It is said that this sea centipede is also a universal bait like small shrimp. Wait a while and see if there are any fresh goods.

After finishing all the work, he clapped his hands, straightened his body, and twisted his waist, pondering whether he could get some sea snakes or seahorses next time to soak in medicinal wine. His waist still needed to be used, and he could also soak some for his father by the way. Anyway, his father also loved to drink, and it could also nourish the body and remove rheumatism. His father had rheumatism.

He also lifted the water bucket by the way. This bucket of his was relatively high, and he felt that one bucket weighed more than 30 jin. Both buckets were full, and several large fish weighing more than 5-6 jin were thrown on the boat.

Today's harvest would definitely exceed yesterday's. Just the blue-spotted grouper and more than ten large red conger eels were worth several dozen yuan.

This was just the beginning!

Ye Yaodong lay down leisurely, covered his face with his hat, and didn't intend to fish anymore. There were so many fish hooks in the sea, so there was no need to compete for goods with himself.

The sea waves rose and fell, and the boat swayed along, like a natural rocking chair that made people sleepy. An autumn rain, a chill, gusts of sea breeze blew, carrying a cold chill. He crossed his hands and hugged his chest directly.

When going to sea today, Lin Xiuqing specially called him to put on a cotton-padded jacket. The wind at sea was strong, and it rained yesterday, so it was indeed colder today. Wearing a cotton-padded jacket was indeed warm.

He squinted his eyes, the dark light, the swaying water surface, the sound of fish tail-swinging in the water from time to time, the leisure made his whole spirit relax. He slowly closed his eyes, intending to rest for a while before getting up to pull the line.

I don't know how long it had been, but a cry of surprise suddenly came to his ears, scaring him to sit up immediately.

"Dong Zi, Dong Zi?"

"Holy shit, what are you screaming for? I was sleeping well!" Ye Yaodong shouted at them with the depression of waking up.

"Made, are you still alive? I thought you were gone, hurry up and call A Zheng to row the boat over to see." Xiao Xiao glared at him irritably.

"The line is all set, there's nothing to do, just lying down and taking a nap because I'm bored, right?"

"We saw from afar that the boat was floating and motionless, and there was no one on the boat, so we thought you had encountered something again and fell into the sea."

"I am blessed and lucky, what could I encounter? Fall into the sea, I can swim up too. Can this shallow sea drown people? It's not like I can't swim."

"Fine, fine, it's us worrying blindly. We are also going back to harvest the fish hooks."

"Harvesting so soon?" Ye Yaodong rolled up his sleeves to check the time on his hand, and immediately stood up. He had actually slept for more than an hour.

"Yo, our Brother Dong got rich? Actually started wearing a watch?" Xiao Xiao saw him roll up his sleeves and exclaimed directly.

"Got it for nothing. I have this fortune, you can't envy it."

A Zheng also became interested, "Got it for nothing? How did you get it for nothing? Tell us so the brothers know, and see if we can get one for nothing too?"

"It won't work if I tell you. Hurry back and harvest your hooks, I have to pull the line too, I actually overslept."

"Che~ won't share the matter of getting rich."

"This cannot be shared. If it could be shared, I would definitely tell you."

Take people's money and eliminate disasters for them. Since he had already received people's things, he must keep the matter secret. At least it couldn't be leaked from him.

Ye Yaodong said while rowing the boat to the buoy where he first pulled the line, but saw the waves surging violently under the sea not far ahead.

"What's in the water over there?"

"What?"

A Zheng and Xiao Xiao originally intended to let it go if he didn't say it, and were preparing to row the boat back and start pulling the line. Hearing this, they also stopped curiously and looked in the direction he pointed.

"Eh? What's under that water surface?"

"Seems to be thin and long things? Is it a school of eels?"

Ye Yaodong nodded with bright eyes, "Looks quite like it, so long. I threw the gang hooks into the sea last night for a night. Before pulling the line, I caught more than ten large red conger eels, ranging from seven or eight jin to more than ten jin. Very pleasing."

The two were also pleasantly surprised when they heard this, "So good? Then we won't pull the line today either."

"Must bring a hand-throwing net next time we go to sea. It's fine if we didn't bring it yesterday, but I didn't bring it today either." A Zheng was a bit regretful. Who could have thought that they would encounter a school of eels again.

Ye Yaodong was also pondering in his heart that he must prepare a hand-throwing net to keep on the boat. Otherwise, every time he encountered good goods but couldn't catch them, he would be pissed off. It was fine today, the school of fish was near his gang hooks, so he could harvest some anyway.

Suddenly, the water on the sea surface churned, and a thin, long living thing stretched out a head and emerged from the water. Before they could distinguish what it was, the sea eagles that had been flying on the sea surface dived down from the air at high speed and picked it up.

The three of them then saw clearly what that living thing was, and exclaimed repeatedly...

"Hiss~"

"Holy shit, this is a sea snake. That's not a sea eel underneath, it's a school of sea snakes, grass~ I have goosebumps all over..."

"This is a blue-banded sea snake, grass~ thought it was a school of sea eels?"

Ye Yaodong's pupils also shrank, looking at the sea eagle flying away. It was holding a blue-banded sea snake with an olive color and black bands all over its body in its mouth.

"Fortunately, we didn't bring a fishing net to drag them up..."

Thinking about it, he shivered. A whole net of blue-banded sea snakes, and they were still alive. If they were dragged onto the fishing boat...

Who could stand this? This was taking their lives!

The other two couldn't help but feel lucky, "Yes, if it were one or two, we could still catch them. If this whole group was netted up, wouldn't it be fatal."

At this time, several more blue-banded sea snake heads emerged from the sea one after another. The sea eagles and seabirds eyeing them covetously on the sea surface dived down to hunt again, and none of them missed.

The blue-banded sea snakes in mid-air struggled and curled up their whole bodies. Although they were fierce, once they left the water and were in mid-air, they had no offensive ability and were almost completely unable to defend themselves, only becoming the meal of these seabirds.

Ye Yaodong estimated that they were sticking their heads out to breathe, so they were accidentally hunted.

At this time, the sea surface suddenly boiled again. A group of blue-banded sea snakes slowly floated on the water surface, visibly forming a long snake formation stretching for dozens of meters. The seabirds in mid-air were excited and flew down to hunt one after another.

"Hiss~"

So many...

The three of them gasped, looking at the dense blue-banded sea snakes on the water surface in front of them with pale faces. They gathered overwhelmingly. The boats working in the distant sea area were also restless there, swaying irregularly. It was estimated that there was a school of blue-banded sea snakes beside them, and they were scared away.

Who isn't afraid of snakes?

Stretching so far, this was more than dozens of meters, it was hundreds or thousands of meters. How many blue-banded sea snakes must be underneath.

There were more and more seabirds on the sea surface, flying from afar. The three of them were scared and hurriedly drove the boat further away, away from their snake formation and the seabirds' hunting. At this moment, they had no intention of pulling the line.

At this time, the boats on the sea surface, whether they encountered blue-banded sea snakes or not, stopped working one after another. They were all attracted by the seabirds in mid-air. Those far away even rowed over to watch. When they saw the blue-banded sea snakes on the sea surface, they couldn't help but gasp.

Ye Yaodong, Xiao Xiao, and A Zheng's boats leaned together, watching from afar.

Many times, these ocean phenomena are not something you can see just because you want to. It's rare to see them in decades.

A Zheng stretched his neck and swallowed hard, "Do sea snakes also need to gather?"

"Aren't they gregarious? They also need to contact feelings, right?"

"Snakes are cold-blooded animals, right? Do sea snakes have feelings? Are they setting up a dragon gate formation?"

Ye Yaodong listened to the two idiots talking nonsense with black lines all over his head, "Their reproductive season has arrived, so they will gather together for mating and reproduction."

"Like this?"

"A bunch of idiots, isn't this convenient for seabirds to hunt?"

"Ocean biological phenomena are not something we can understand. Anyway, we know that it is now the season for them to reproduce, so there will be a large-scale gathering of blue-banded sea snakes in a long snake formation."

"Tsk tsk tsk, Dong Zi, you are really a know-it-all at sea?"

"Of course! I don't necessarily know everything, understand everything, but I definitely know more than you."

"Then how long do they gather like this?"

"Uncertain, it should disperse in an hour or two. If they stay on the sea level for a while longer, their population will be reduced by dozens. More and more seabirds are flying from afar."

Not only seabirds, but more and more boats coming to the news on the sea surface were also attracted, all coming to watch the fun after hearing the movement.

It is not necessarily that the boats at sea spread the word. Fishermen know that usually, places where seabirds gather and circle will have schools of fish. Today, the boats on the sea surface were completely attracted by the seabirds.