Chapter 226: Calling a tractor

Ye Yaodong and Ye Fu turned their heads to look upon hearing this. They saw bloodstains all over the boat. A young man was anxiously docking the fishing boat. The middle-aged man, who should be his father, was leaning against the gunwale, covered in blood. It was obvious that his shoulder was injured. There was also a huge sailfish in the middle of the boat.

Both father and son widened their eyes, and they realized in their hearts: was he injured while catching the sailfish?

Ye Fu leaned over to the gunwale and shouted with concern, "How are you? Where are you injured?"

They were in the neighboring village, and all made a living from the sea, so everyone knew each other. Seeing this, they should ask a couple of questions.

"Uncle, my dad's shoulder was pierced by the sailfish. Can you help call someone to go to my house and call people?"

"Ah?" Who should he call to go?

He turned his head to look at Ye Mu. "Is there anyone from Dongqiao Village on the shore who hasn't left yet? You go ashore and ask if anyone knows their family? Someone who lives closer, let them help report the news."

Ye Mu also felt it was scary looking at the blood. It was nothing for fellow villagers to pass a message, so she hurriedly went ashore.

People on the shore had already seen it and were discussing it. Ye Mu went up and casually asked if anyone knew their family. Someone volunteered, saying they were neighbors and had already sent someone back to report the news.

Ye Yaodong was no longer in a hurry to unload the cargo. He started chatting on the boat with the young man opposite, who was named Lin Jinyang.

"So the boat we encountered at sea was yours. That's a bit of a coincidence."

"Mm, this fish flew past us at that time. Fortunately, it didn't charge directly at our boat, otherwise, it would have been over."

"You saw this fish too? Then why didn't you chase after it? We thought you didn't see it."

Originally, when Lin Jinyang drove the boat to chase that sailfish, he was worried when he saw their fishing boat there. Later, seeing them make no move, he thought they hadn't seen it and felt more relieved.

Ye Yaodong chuckled twice and said, half-falsely, "It's not that we saw your boat chase it first, so we thought we wouldn't follow. Besides, this fish is very fierce."

Lin Jinyang nodded. "This fish is indeed very fierce. It was our first time catching one too. The fishing net was torn by it. After it broke free and fell into the water, it rushed out of the water again and charged directly at my dad, who was leaning against the gunwale. That's how it pierced my dad's shoulder. And then it fell onto the boat..."

Hiss~

Anyone listening felt the pain; it pierced the shoulder directly.

If it had been a little off, piercing the heart, it would have been over.

"And then you caught this fish?"

"Mm, because of the impact, my dad fell on the boat, and it also fell onto the deck. And it was still able to explode with energy. Later, I knocked it unconscious with a stick, killed it, and then it stopped. This fish is not easy to catch."

"It's normal that it's not easy to catch."

This is a sailfish. This one could let them not work for several days. However, the price was also quite high. Fortunately, they were lucky. Fortunately, he didn't follow.

After chatting for a few sentences, Ye Yaodong and the others continued to move the cargo off the boat after their family members came in a hurry.

Two baskets of toadfish; the small ones were purchased at two cents a jin, the bigger ones were four cents, and that black, super ugly one was actually six cents a jin.

Six big silver carp weighing 465 jin, at six cents a jin. Those rabbitfish weighed 236 jin, the big ones at six cents, the small ones at four cents. There were also a few flatfish, which were more valuable at sixty cents a jin.

Half a basket of mantis shrimp also weighed 24 jin, which was also worth more than ten yuan. There were also a dozen or so miscellaneous fish pulled up by longline fishing.

There were also 721 jin of starfish, which was also worth more than ten yuan.

Miscellaneous goods, patching together, all the goods today, including starfish, sold for more than 78 yuan, which was also quite good.

It was just that the waiting time was too long.

Waiting from dawn to dark, damn, the whole pier was full of people, all queuing to sell starfish. He didn't know how many days this would last.

He had long ago let his father go back first, and by the way, helped him send the kept goods back for an extra meal. He himself queued there. After selling, he first sent the ten baskets of longline hooks to someone for repair, and then pushed the cart home.

"You're back. I'll serve you rice."

"Dad, today's big prawns and squid are so delicious..."

His wife's gentle words, the children's happy laughter—as soon as he entered the house, it washed away all his fatigue. His face was also full of smiles.

Just before he could speak, he saw his wife finish serving the rice, and then she frowned instantly, saying with some worry, "My mother sent a message through someone, saying that when my dad went up the mountain to pick oranges, he rolled down the hillside and injured his foot."

"When did it happen?" He was a bit surprised.

"It happened yesterday. I heard it was already in a cast. There is no phone in my parents' village, so I can't call back..."

Ye Yaodong held her slightly cold hands and comforted her, "Don't worry. It only said he injured his leg and put it in a cast, and didn't say anything else, so it should be fine. I'll take you back to see tomorrow."

Lin Xiuqing frowned slightly and said hesitantly, "You still have to go to sea. I'll send the two children to Mom tomorrow during the day, and then I'll go back by myself and come back in the evening..."

"It will be windy by evening, so you might not be able to go at night. It's fine if you don't go for a day or two. It just so happens that we can send the sea snake wine and the dried fish we dried to your parents' house. I'll go out a little earlier tomorrow to collect the ground cages, and I'll take a bag of fresh starfish too."

Hearing his arrangement, Lin Xiuqing's frown smoothed out, the corners of her mouth lifted slightly, and her whole face softened.

She nodded. "Okay, then let's go back and see. Shall we leave the two children with Mom?"

"Take them with us. Take them over to play for two days."

"Alright, then I'll go pack things up."

"Mm. Take more dried fish. We don't have anything else, but we have too much of this stuff. When we encounter cheap fish, we can keep some more to dry. I didn't say it early today, so the toadfish were all sold, otherwise, I would have taken some back. Its fish liver is good stuff."

Lin Xiuqing smiled. "No need to take so much. I'll divide half of it, and that's about it. We need to keep some at home too. When we dry more in the future, we'll take some back then."

"Mm, you decide!"

They were all dried goods dried by themselves, so he let her arrange it.

Ye Yaodong picked up his chopsticks and first picked a piece of toadfish belly to eat, then took a sip of rabbitfish soup.

It was hot, and his whole body warmed up.

Aqing used the toadfish to cook with wine lees. The wine aroma mixed with the fish aroma, which was particularly delicious. When normally braising, digging a big spoonful of wine lees and putting it in gives it a unique flavor.

They have the habit of eating fish with wine lees locally. Many types of fish can be used to cook fish with wine lees, and oysters are also often used to cook with wine lees.

Tired for a day, a sumptuous and appetizing dinner made him extremely satisfied.

The next day, he climbed up as soon as the sky brightened. With things on his mind, he couldn't sleep soundly.

Collecting the goods from the ground cages early meant he could set off early.

When he arrived at the pier and saw that there were few people on the shore, he thought everyone was scared today and no one came out to pick starfish. Who knew that by the time he collected all the ground cages and returned to the shore, the shore was already densely packed with people waiting for the tide to recede.

Wealth moves people's hearts. The number of people fighting to the death every day didn't seem to decrease.

But today, there were indeed fewer starfish. He collected all the ground cages and only harvested one bag in total. Although he had just collected them yesterday evening, compared to the seven bags yesterday, it was obviously less.

This shows that the number of starfish on the seabed is decreasing. It is estimated that the shellfish on the seabed and shore in the surrounding area have been eaten up, and many have been caught by ground cages. It should retreat in a few days.

After docking the boat, he carried a sack of starfish and a bucket ashore. There wasn't much stuff. A sack of starfish was only worth about 2 yuan. There was only a two-jin sea bass in the bucket, and the rest were only two jin of small fish and shrimp.

It was already considered lucky to have a sea bass, after all, he had just collected a batch yesterday evening.

After putting all the goods on the cart, he went to Acai's acquisition point to look around to see if there were any other fresh fish to buy, but there was nothing. The goods were all transported away yesterday.

He had to give up and push the cart back.

Unexpectedly, he ran into his mother at the door, holding a big sea bass and a bucket in her hand.

"Mom, what are you doing?"

"Sending you fish, what else? I heard your in-laws injured their feet. It just so happens that A-Guang sent a sea bass and a bucket of lizardfish last night. I'll take them for you to send over."

"That's just right. I was just thinking of buying a sea bass, but there are no goods outside the pier so early, and the fishing boats don't come in so early."

He felt that there was only one two-jin sea bass that was fresh and alive, which was a bit too little and not presentable.

"Mm, is everything packed?"

"About the same. We'll leave after breakfast."

"Are you taking the children too? Why not leave them for me to watch?"

"No, take them. Let's take them over to play for two days!"

Ye Mu didn't care. If they didn't ask her to watch the children, it would be easier for her.

Lin Xiuqing was worrying in the room at this time. There seemed to be too much stuff, and it was hard to carry...

After entering the room, Ye Yaodong only said to eat breakfast first; he had a way.

To their surprise, a tractor came to the door, saying it was called by Ye Yaodong. This shocked Lin Xiuqing and Ye Mu.

While they were staring, Ye Yaodong hurriedly explained, "Isn't it hard to carry things? There's so much, plus two children, it's impossible to carry. So I just called a tractor last night to send us directly to Anhe Township. It's a bit easier."

When he went to the literacy class in Dongqiao Village last night, he went to find a family that drove a tractor and set it to come pick them up at 7:30 this morning.

It was really because the shadow of the last time was too big. Taking two such small ones, plus a big pile of things, and walking for more than half an hour was too life-threatening.

It didn't matter if the adults were tired and suffered a bit, but the children suffered too, following them for a long way.

What's more, his wife was pregnant with another one now, so he couldn't let her walk that far again. So he acted first and reported later. Anyway, it didn't cost much to call a car.

Ye Mu originally wanted to scold him, but hearing this and looking at the pile of things next to her, plus a whole sack of starfish,

Thinking of the one in her daughter-in-law's belly, she had to swallow it back, only glared at him and muttered a sentence.

"I don't know how to save a little."

Lin Xiuqing had nothing to say. She was also worrying about how to take it back, thinking about whether to just push the cart and walk back slowly, letting the two children sit on it. Now that the tractor had been called, then take the tractor.

After blocking the mouths of the two difficult women, Ye Yaodong hurriedly moved the things up.

Seeing that there were a few small wooden stools thoughtfully placed on it, he was even more satisfied.

Hearing that they were going to take a tractor to their grandmother's house, the two children were already crazy with joy. They ran around the tractor circle after circle, excited to death, shouting that they were going to take a tractor...

Ye Chenghai and others who hadn't gone to school yet looked on with envy, and then were slapped on the head and driven to school.

Ye Yaodong grabbed one in each hand and tucked them under his armpits to send them to the car. The two also climbed up nimbly, and then continued to jump on the car...

"You two sit still for me. If you jump around again, don't go, stay at home and watch the house!"

The two children stopped instantly, but their eyes were still looking around brightly.

After helping Lin Xiuqing up and sitting down, he went to check the house again, confirming that the doors, windows, and drawers were all locked, before locking the main door with peace of mind.

They had quite a few treasures in their house now, so they naturally had to be careful. ===== CHAPTER 227 =====