Chapter 217: Locusts

The next day, the sky looked even worse. It looked gray early in the morning, and it started to drizzle with light rain.

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but frown as he looked at the sea surface. The wind was not as big as the previous two days, but the waves were still there.

His 1000 hooks were still at sea, and he didn't know if the buoy would be washed away by the waves. It was annoying. There were also ground cage nets at sea, which hadn't been collected for 3 days. If he didn't go today, the fish and shrimp in the cages would go bad.

"Aqing, I'll drive the boat out to collect the goods in the ground cages."

"There are waves, and it's raining, and your cold just got better..."

"A little light rain is fine, and the waves are not as big as the previous two days. I'm not going to the outer sea, just collecting the ground cages along the coast, it's fine."

Lin Xiuqing glanced at the outside of the house, frowned and said, "Then be careful, put on the coir raincoat."

"Mm."

Ye Yaodong picked up the coir raincoat hanging behind the door, put it on, took the bucket, and walked out. Seeing him still walking out in the rain, Ye Yaohua and Ye Yaopeng asked him what he was doing?

"Going to collect a ground cage and coming back."

After leaving a sentence, he walked out without stopping.

Boats of all sizes were floating outside the pier. The weather had been bad for the past few days, and no boats had gone out, and even the acquisition point hadn't opened.

It was the same today, cold and clear, without even a person. Compared to the bustling crowds of the past, it formed a huge contrast.

Ye Yaodong carried the bucket and walked toward the shore of the pier, but looking from a distance, he always felt that the reefs covered by seawater outside the pier were a bit wrong.

Why did it feel like the reefs had turned colorful?

Looked yellow and purple? Seemed to be moving?

He walked forward quickly in the rain with a head full of question marks, but was shocked to widen his eyes, "Holy crap... starfish??? So many?"

The dense starfish with tentacles moving randomly on the underwater reef walls were actually starfish!

It is currently in a low tide state, but the tide cannot retreat to the bottom. Although the reefs on the shore are all submerged by seawater, he can still clearly see that the underwater reefs as far as the eye can see are all starfish. His mouth opened wide, and he kept saying holy crap...

Walking closer, although the seawater is a bit turbid, he can still vaguely see that even the sand beach underneath is covered with large areas of yellow and purple starfish. After all, their colors are quite eye-catching.

"F***, how long will it take to pick these up?"

He was happy and a bit worried. There was nothing to hold these things...

Today he just wanted to collect a ground cage, so he carried two buckets, and didn't even push the flatbed cart out. There was no place to put them after picking them up. His boat was not small, but it couldn't dock in. This water level was too shallow in the low tide state.

Usually, they take the bus boat out at high tide, then get on their own boat, and then dock their own boat to the shore to load goods or things.

The water level on the shore is too shallow at low tide. Every day there are two high tides and two low tides. The rising and falling time is different every day. Docking on the shore is easy to run aground, and if it runs aground, it can't go out.

In the past, boats were docked at the pier at high tide to unload goods. After unloading, they would drive a little further out to dock, and then individuals would be picked up to the shore by the bus boat.

Small wooden boats are not afraid of shallow water levels and are all docked on the shore, but his small wooden boat had long been sold. Annoying!

Scanning the surroundings, his eyes suddenly lit up. He saw Ah Zheng and Xiao Xiao's small wooden boat!

"Good guy, just you! Borrow it to save the emergency first!"

It's not good to move other people's boats. If they are seen, there will be trouble. Theirs is definitely no problem!

He swung the two buckets and walked excitedly toward their boat.

Simply started picking from the reefs nearby where their boat was docked.

From a close distance, he could clearly see that some of these starfish had five corners like a five-pointed star, but there were also four, and six.

Under its corners, there are 4 rows of dense tube feet side by side. Using tube feet, they can both capture prey and let themselves cling to rock reefs.

The big starfish on the underwater reef, he visually estimated some to be more than 20 centimeters in diameter, which looked amazing, with dense tube feet on the lower side, and the small ones were also about 5-6 centimeters, and he didn't see any smaller ones.

These starfish are all wriggling their tentacles to feed. They wrap around the small mussels on the reef, pry open a very thin opening with their tentacles, and then eliminate the meat inside.

Don't look at them as very beautiful and cute, but they are particularly able to eat. As long as they are swimming in the water, creatures with a volume smaller than them, such as oysters, abalone, sea cucumber, fish eggs, crabs, and scallops, are all eaten.

Sometimes when they are ruthless, they don't even let go of their own kind...

It is like the locusts on the ground, with very strong destructiveness. Wherever they go on the seabed, there are few shellfish left.

And it also has super reproductive ability. A female starfish can produce 20 million eggs at a time!

Ye Yaodong picked one up and rubbed it with his thumb in his hand. Its several tentacles were still moving.

"Damn, such a large area, the goods on the pier reefs are going to be eaten empty, and the sand clams under the beach are going to be eaten up."

He threw the starfish into the bucket and continued to pick. He picked the big ones first. He didn't know when they climbed up. No one walked out to the pier for a few days because of the wind and waves, and no one actually found them.

It is estimated that they were washed by the waves, so they appeared on the shore in large quantities to forage.

He bent his waist, and in a short while, he picked a full bucket. He twisted his waist and continued.

By the time he picked two full buckets, he had only eliminated a small area. The surrounding area was crowded with starfish. If he picked for a day and a night, he estimated he wouldn't be able to finish picking!

F***, whatever, pick as many as he can first. While no one found out, fill that small boat first.

He poured all the starfish from the two buckets onto the small boat, and then returned to load them. He didn't care that his trouser legs and shoes were in the water.

Coming and going, whenever the water bucket was full, he went to pour it. He didn't know how many times he poured it. The small boat looked half full, and his waist was almost failing.

He didn't know when the rain stopped, and the sky looked a bit brighter.

Ye Yaodong looked at his watch and realized it was already past 12 o'clock. He had been out for more than 4 hours. No wonder he was hungry.

"Ah? What is this?"

Ye Yaodong heard the voice, raised his eyes and looked, "Mom? Why did you come out?"

"It's me, didn't Aqing say you went to sea to pull ground cages? Why are you here? What are these dense things? Are they starfish?"

He said affirmatively, "They are starfish. Originally I wanted to go to sea to pull ground cages, but as soon as I arrived at the pier, I saw starfish everywhere, so I picked them here."

His waist was almost broken from picking.

The pig waist felt like it was supplemented in vain some time ago, didn't exert force at the critical moment, and today it was all consumed here.

Upon hearing this, Ye's mother looked at the large area of starfish here with eyes immediately shining, "Why didn't you know to go back and say something? There are so many here, how long will it take for you to pick them alone?"

"Didn't I think, since I saw it, I should pick it for a while before anyone finds out. I haven't asked you yet? Why did you suddenly run out?"

"I looked at the rain stopping after eating, so I went to your place to see, who knew Aqing said you came out to collect ground cages, and you haven't gone back yet. I was worried that you would have some accident because of the big waves, so I came out to see. You didn't know to go back and say something."

As Ye's mother said, she slapped her thigh and said excitedly, "Ouch, I have to go back and call your dad, sister, eldest brother, second brother and the others, call them all out to pick, these are all money!"

She ran back excitedly as soon as she finished speaking.

"Wait, Mom, help me bring a few more sacks, call Xiao Xiao and Ah Zheng and them both out..."

Also couldn't requisition their boat in vain.

"Got it, got it..."

Ye's mother's voice came from afar, and Ye Yaodong found a reef with a higher position to sit down with peace of mind. His waist was about to break, he had to rest for a while.

Looking at the surrounding reefs, they were still covered tightly by starfish, only the area around where he stayed was emptied.

Damn, he worked hard all morning, and only picked a small area, it was really flooded.

Ye's mother went fast, and the people she called also came fast.

Only to see Ye's father and Ye Huimei pushing the flatbed cart over first, and Ye's eldest brother, eldest sister-in-law, second brother, and second sister-in-law followed closely behind.

They were stunned to see that the reefs covered by seawater on the shore were all starfish.

"Really all starfish!"

"So many..."

"Quick, quick, let's go down and pick..."

"Adong already picked so many?"

"This small boat is all picked by you? Why didn't you go back and say something?"

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes. Why would he waste time going back to say something?

Shouldn't you pick it yourself first when you encounter good things?

If it weren't for his mother coming out, he could continue to pick, pick until dark or fill the boat before going back!

"Still nagging there, why don't you pick?" After Ye's father said a word, Ye's second sister-in-law immediately shut up.

They each shook a sack, found a position, and excitedly started picking money.

The excited mood prompted them to start talking again.

"Why are there so many starfish?"

"Yes, why did so many starfish suddenly appear on the shore. Each one is quite beautiful, usually you can only occasionally pick one or two on the beach, today there are so many and so big!"

"Is it because of the waves these few days?"

"There are some in the sea, look, they are everywhere on the sand beach in the sea."

Before long, Ye's mother also brought Ah Zheng and Xiao Xiao and them late.

The two didn't know why they were called out by Ye's mother, and thought Dongzi had something urgent, so his mother called them so anxiously to bring sacks and rush out.

They were originally puzzled, what are they doing bringing sacks to the pier? This is not the first day of the lunar month, nor the fifteenth, and there are waves at sea.

At a glance, they were also pleasantly surprised, and immediately reacted, and followed Ye's mother to rush up.

Sure enough, they are good brothers, thinking of the family is fine, and actually thinking of them too!

Too moved!

"Holy crap, you damn well already filled a boat?"

"This boat seems a bit familiar?"

"F***, this is our boat, are you stupid?" Xiao Xiao glared, no wonder he took a detour to call them.