Chapter 242

He turned the rolling wheel and collected the fishing net, letting his father collect the fish behind. The parrotfish was also pulled to Ye Fu.

Ye Fu said happily: "This fish looks quite big, it's more than three jin."

"I just picked up a piece of red coral in its mouth, a little bigger than a fingernail."

"What's the use of that? Useless, just throw it back into the sea."

"Why throw it? Bright red looks so festive. Take it back and keep it. Maybe it will be valuable in the future."

"What's valuable about this thing? People don't want it even if you give it to them..." Ye Fu said nonchalantly, "Your aunt took a basket of red, pink, white, and black ones a few years ago, and they were all thrown into the sea as garbage by your mother..."

"Holy crap!"

Ye Yaodong was so shocked that he widened his eyes and turned to look at his father, and stopped collecting the net, "Really or fake? How come I don't know?"

Ye Fu rolled his eyes at him, "Why such a big reaction? Hurry up and work. After collecting, hurry to dock. Go back before the sun sets. Aren't you still going to the town to sell the oarfish? Why are you dawdling? Collect the remaining little bit and hurry back."

"Ah... no, did my mother really throw away a basket of coral?"

Seeing that he was a bit inexplicable, just some worthless things, he didn't bother to answer his question, and went forward to turn the rolling wheel himself.

There wasn't much gill net left. It was originally a 3-layer net of 100 meters with three fingers.

"No, Dad, did my mother really throw away a basket of coral?"

If he didn't ask clearly, he would feel uncomfortable in his heart! Like a cat scratching!

Damn, damn, damn... a basket of coral thrown into the sea? Do you have to be so extravagant and corrupt?

Although coral is not valuable now, it will be valuable in the future...

Uncomfortable...

How to hear how uncomfortable, why tell him?

Ye Fu turned the rolling wheel and saw a toadfish coming up every two or three meters, hurriedly urging him, "Hurry up and work, why ask? It was really thrown away. What's the use of keeping it?"

"Holy crap..."

Ten thousand grass mud horses galloping in his heart, three baskets...

Even more uncomfortable...

"Why throw it? Where did the coral come from?" Seeing his father urging again and again, he had to endure the heartache and said while taking the ugly toadfish out of the net.

"What's the use of keeping it if it's not thrown away? The biggest one is only the original branch as big as a finger, and the small one is only half a finger long. Some places are thinner than chopsticks. It's useless to take it, and it takes up space."

"Who said it's useless? It's good to look at it at home. The red and pink ones look so good. How can that little thing take up space?"

Holy crap, Ye Yaodong wanted to beat his chest and stamp his feet! Wanted to scold people!

"Where did it come from?"

He wouldn't be reconciled if he didn't ask clearly.

"Your aunt brought a big basket a few years ago. The old lady divided it among the three of them, and as a result, your mother and the others turned around and took it to dump after your aunt left..."

Ye Fu said nonchalantly, and the gill net was all collected in the rotation of the rolling wheel. The last few meters he collected only had four toadfish of four or five jin.

Ye Yaodong took all the toadfish in the gill net out and threw them into the bamboo basket beside him, asking with heartache: "Where did Aunt get it?"

"Said your uncle ran a big boat these years, occasionally passing through the rb sea area, often catching it when working. The big ones were kept by the boat boss, and they also picked up a lot of small ones. They were thrown everywhere at home, so they wanted to take some to see if we wanted them?"

"And then they took it to throw away? Holy crap... they took it, why throw it away?" Ye Yaodong had a painful expression, like constipation.

Is there any more?

"Isn't it thrown away if it's useless?"

Ye Fu was talking, and his hands didn't stop, putting the fishing line neatly into the frame. The gill net was mixed with some messy seaweed. They didn't care about it. Anyway, it had to be washed when taken back. After washing, it had to be dried, and after drying, it had to be mended before it could be put into use again.

"Why do you have this expression? Go steer the boat home, what are you doing standing there? It's thrown away, it's not valuable, what's there to regret? If you want it, go ask the old lady when you go back. She must still have a pile there."

The old lady must be reluctant to throw it away. Things sent by her daughter are kept there even if they are useless.

Eh? Still have? Turning point, Ye Yaodong was pleasantly surprised, but instantly became depressed again.

After the old lady passed away in the previous life, he didn't see any coral. It is estimated that it was either burned by his mother and the others, or thrown back into the sea again.

He was busy with the funeral work at that time, and didn't pay attention to the things she left behind. Before the old lady died, she only secretly gave him a few big unity notes wrapped in a handkerchief. It is estimated that she also felt that coral was not valuable and useless to him, so she didn't say it.

Thinking of this, he also felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. If it's thrown away, let it be. Go back and ask the old lady. If she still has it, tell her to keep it well. If she doesn't want it either, then let him keep it. It must not be thrown away again.

"Dad, go back and tell Mom, next time if there is any more, don't throw it away. If she doesn't want it, give it to me. If you see others throwing it away, tell her to pick it up or tell me, I'll go pick it up, I want it."

Ye Fu rolled his eyes at him, "What for?"

"Save it. It's not valuable now, doesn't mean it won't be valuable in the future. What if it's valuable in the future? Anyway, if you don't want it, give it to me, I want it. Which year was it thrown away?"

"The first month of the year before last? Or the year before that? You know it will be valuable in the future now?"

"Sigh~"

Who stays at home during the New Year? No wonder he didn't know.

Ye Fu only felt that he was inexplicable. Things that no one wanted, just scraps, he actually treated as treasure, and it will be valuable in the future? Can you predict the future now?

"Go, go, go, I'll steer the boat, don't get in the way." Why don't you know? Dawdling and asking for a long time.

The work of steering the boat was taken over by his father. Ye Yaodong had to sit back on the small stool and sigh. It was really a waste of things.

He touched his pocket again, took out the small piece of coral and looked at it carefully. This red coral color was quite uniform, bright red without mixed pink and white, and there were some patterns on the surface, looking very beautiful and eye-catching. Inlaying a ring or embellishing it on a bracelet would definitely look good.

He played with it in his hand for a while, then put it back in his pocket, preparing to save it when he took it home.

Pulling his clothes, he rolled up his sleeves, planning to take advantage of the current leisure to pick out the toadfish in the baskets. The price of big and small ones is different.

This time he planned to leave the small ones to dry. It just so happens that there is weather these days.

The harvest of the gill net for the first time today is also considered not bad. One of more than 20 jin was stuck, and there were 3 of seven or eight jin. It's just that the number of fishing nets is too small, and you need to set many nets to harvest together, so the quantity will be large.

But Ye Yaodong only thought about the poor harvest of trawling at the beginning, and set a gill net to test the water and subsidize it. After all, this net is very troublesome, and it needs to be washed and dried every time, unlike the trawling fishing net that only needs to be repaired every few days.

Now with this rolling wheel, you can set more nets specifically for toadfish and flatfish. Large quantities can be enough, and it saves effort. The number of trawling times may be appropriately reduced.

Ye Yaodong has already pondered in his heart. After all, bottom-dwelling fish are better to catch with gill nets in autumn and winter.

On the way back, there were many returning boats on the sea surface one after another. The fishing boats working here go and return on the same day, and some go for three or five days. Every evening, there are the most fishing boats on the sea surface.

Although they collected an extra gill net at the end, which delayed some time, they were originally collecting the net early. Today the weather is sunny, the waves on the sea surface are small, and the boat is relatively smooth. When the fishing boat docked, the sun was just setting.

He also sorted out the baskets of toadfish, and sorted out two baskets of mullet. The price of male mullet and female mullet is different.

The ovary of the female fish is called mullet roe, which is a precious food and one of the famous products of Wanwan.

There are still a few baskets left that haven't been picked well. Wait until they go ashore and hand them over to his parents to sort.

Just as the fishing boat approached the coastal sea area, the familiar boats nearby shouted one after another, and then asked each other how much cargo they caught today.

That white giant oarfish was placed on the side of the boat, and beside it were piles of bamboo baskets stacked up. The line of sight was blocked, so the nearby fishing boats didn't see the oarfish, only saw piles of bamboo baskets, and all smiled and complimented Ye Fu.

Ye Fu looked at the full harvest on the boat and was also overjoyed, "All are toadfish and mullet, just good luck, caught a few Giant Trevally. I see your boats are also full of baskets, the harvest is also very good."

"About the same, trawling recently is all toadfish and mullet, and there are quite a few flatfish..."

"We are about the same, just leave two baskets of small ones to go back and dry..."

Ye Fu didn't specifically point out the oarfish. Anyway, it would naturally be seen after lifting it ashore later. He looked directly at Ye Yaodong, "Dongzi, are you going to the town after getting off the boat?"

"Mm, take advantage of the fact that the sky is still bright, I'll go call a tractor to send me directly to the town wharf."

Take advantage of the fact that it was just caught and fresh. Sending it to the town wharf at this time, the fishing boats entering the port there are just lively.

Ye Mu also saw her own fishing boat at this time, and also came down from the shore. As soon as the fishing boat docked, she climbed up happily.

"The harvest is quite good today, the baskets are full of boats... Ah! What is this? What is it? Hairtail? Why is it so long?"

As soon as Ye Mu climbed onto the boat, before she finished speaking, she saw the oarfish placed close to the side of the boat, and the whole person was stunned.

She had never seen such a long fish in her life.

"This is an oarfish."

"What oarfish?"

"Oarfish?" The man on the nearby fishing boat also heard it and repeated it in surprise, "You caught an oarfish?"

He leaned to the side of the boat and stretched his head to look, but his line of sight was blocked by the bamboo baskets, and he could only see a little bit of the fish head and the red tassels on the fish head.

The woman nearby hurriedly asked the man what an oarfish was, was it a hairtail?

Ye Mu also asked excitedly: "Is this the emperor among the hairtail? That's why it grew so big, that's why it's called an oarfish?"

Ye Fu had black lines all over his face, "Not the same breed, just looks like it. This is also called an earthquake fish. Be alert in the next few days."

"Ah? Earthquake fish? Does catching this fish mean an earthquake will happen?" Ye Mu felt that her brain was not enough.

"It's not that catching it will happen, it's that the appearance of this fish means that an earthquake or tsunami may happen, otherwise it wouldn't run up from the deep sea to take refuge." Ye Yaodong hurriedly explained.

The couple on the nearby fishing boat also heard the explanation. The woman suddenly realized, and the man was a bit curious, "Lift the oarfish up and let's take a look, see what it looks like. Heard it from the old people before, but really haven't seen it."

"You'll see it in a while."

Ye Yaodong greeted his parents, let them wait on the boat first, and then got off the boat first. He had to call the tractor first, so as not to delay until it was dark.