Chapter 255: Eyes Popping Out

There weren't many hooks left. Ye Huimei became skilled through practice, feeling the fish along the rope. The rest, except for occasional empty hooks, were mostly toadfish. She complained while removing the hooks.

"Why are there so many toadfish? More than half are them, can't catch them all."

"In the middle of winter, isn't it just that there are many toadfish? Didn't you also eat it very deliciously?"

"Eating is eating, but it doesn't prevent me from disliking how ugly it is!"

"Keep a little bit to dry toadfish tonight, prepare a bit more for the New Year, and don't go to sea in the first month, just spend a good New Year at home."

Toadfish have no hard bones. After being dried into fish jerky, the fish bones are very crispy. Being ugly doesn't affect its deliciousness.

Actually, he wanted to dry a bit more Spanish mackerel jerky, but thinking that Spanish mackerel was still worth two or three cents, he'd better sell it. It wasn't a pity to keep this toadfish, which was worth a few cents, to eat.

Ye Mu nodded. "Alright, life is better this year, we can keep a bit more, don't need to be so tight. The 200 jin dried last time, after drying, there were only 30-something jin, and after splitting, there wasn't much."

"Then don't sell this fish today, just dry it all, there isn't much, sell those few baskets of valuable ones."

Today, 5 baskets of toadfish were collected, 2 baskets of Spanish mackerel, half a basket of flatfish, one basket of mixed fish, such as sole, dull fish, black sea bream, devil fish, etc., and there were a few other good fish, the most pleasing was that giant cobia.

Big yellow croaker dies as soon as it goes ashore, but the two groupers were still swimming well in the bucket. The harvest of the longlines today was also okay, it was just that there was no time to put more hooks, and no time to trawl.

I don't know if the trawling boats today all had full nets.

After collecting all the fishing lines into the basket, he and Ye Mu lifted the baskets to the corner and stacked them up to avoid taking up space.

Ye Fu also steered the boat back. It was already past 2:00, and it was estimated to be past 3:00 when returning to dock.

Ye Yaodong's bare legs were freezing; the hair on his legs stood straight up, covered in goosebumps. It was too miserable, but it also taught him a lesson: he must bring an extra set of clothes when going out to sea in the future.

The boat was steered by his father, so he sat by the stove again, lifting his legs to roast by the fire and get warm.

On the way back, there were no ships. The weather was good today. At this time, the sun had just slanted westward, and it would be a while before it set. They could still cast another net. It was estimated that the fishing boats wouldn't dock so quickly.

Ye Huimei looked at this basket and that basket, and then ran to the corner to look through the sacks, her face full of smiles, excited, and only after a while did she lean over again.

"Third Brother, let's go pan for the sea again on the next first day of the month?"

"Ate too full? Life at home is too comfortable, or haven't you blown enough sea breeze? In the middle of winter, staying at home comfortably, you still want to run to the isolated island, the cold wind will blow you to death." Ye Yaodong said unhappily.

"Just occasionally, not going every three days. Blowing for a while occasionally is fine."

"Still blowing for a while is fine... look at my face, only a few months, and it changed from a fair-skinned face to a genuine fisherman's face."

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Ye Huimei looked at her Third Brother's change in just a few months, that face tanned red by the sea breeze, compared to the previous fair and tender, suddenly felt a bit of heartache.

Her Third Brother had been pampered since he was a child, at most he was tanned by the summer sun, but he quickly turned white again. He really hadn't been sunburned like this before, looking old.

He really hadn't done less work in these few months.

But she didn't say anything sentimental, but playfully hit him. "Ah hahaha... it's okay, can't compare to Father, that's the genuine fisherman's face, you're still a bit short, need to continue to work hard, so bring me along again."

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes at her. "You'll be like me if you go to sea a few more times."

"Humph humph..."

She sniffed her nose and hummed a few times, then unwillingly turned her head and shouted at her mother: "Mother..."

"What for?"

"Hehe... we didn't dig many shelled ones today, but the reef was dense with them. Next month, let's ask Third Brother to take us again, otherwise, the New Year goods won't be dried."

Ye Mu nodded in agreement. "We must go again, we didn't pry many today, half a sack, can't dig much meat."

Ye Yaodong stared helplessly from the side; that brat only knew how to find reinforcements.

"Dongzi, take us again in a while, let's dry a bit more before the New Year..."

"That's about it, why dry so much? There was some left before, and there are so many fish jerky, after the first month, when the weather warms up, it's not too late to take you to sea. Why must you rush to go in the middle of winter? The wind on that sea island is so big..."

Ye Mu interrupted him. "Just go again next month, it won't delay you anything, just take us along and drop us off at the small island, we can dig by ourselves, you don't need to do anything."

"We really have to dry more this year. Brother Guang has no mother, and there is no woman in the family to manage. We have to dry more to send over before the New Year, your sister is going to marry into his family before the New Year..."

Speaking of this, Ye Yaodong had nothing more to say, "Fine, fine. If there are no waves and the weather is good at the beginning of next month, I'll bring you all along."

"Hmm."

After achieving her goal, Ye Huimei triumphantly raised her eyebrows at him. Ye Yaodong gave her a big eye-roll and continued to warm himself by the fire.

When the fishing boat was close to the pier, he put on the pants that weren't so wet and made do with it.

It was high tide at this moment, so the fishing boat docked directly. Ye Yaodong and Ye Fu first lifted the toadfish they wanted to keep onto the flatbed cart and told Ye Huimei to watch it.

A Cai sat at the door watching the father and son move, a bit surprised, looked at the sky and then at his watch, wasn't it just past 3:00?

"Did the wind start? Why did you come back so early? So many people went today?"

"No wind, are there no trawling boats docked yet?"

"Right, you are the first to dock. What goods do you have today? Are these toadfish to be kept for drying?"

"Right, seeing the weather is good recently, I plan to dry more to store for the New Year. There are other things on the boat, wait a moment."

After Ye Yaodong and Ye Fu moved all the cargo they wanted to keep onto the flatbed cart, they went to lift the rest of the fish. Basket after basket of fish was carried into A Cai's collection point. Immediately after, they lifted the bamboo baskets containing the cobia and shortfin mako shark, which instantly made A Cai's eyes light up.

"Such a big cobia? This is a giant cobia, not bad, sure enough, big wind and big waves have big fish, are there any big ones behind?"

"No big fish."

"Ah?" A Cai was a bit puzzled. "None? Just these? The waves at sea rolled for two days, and you only have this harvest? And you came back so early?"

"What's the rush, no big fish, there are others, wait."

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he walked outside with his father. A Cai was also curious about what else there was, so he followed them to the shore, watching as they lifted another basket down from the boat, stretching his neck to take a look.

"Holy crap, small green lobster!"

He was both surprised and unexpected. "And quite a few! How did you catch them? This thing is in the underwater coral reef, not easy to catch."

"Luck was good today, you help us take it in, this isn't heavy, there are other goods on the boat, wait..."

A Cai took the basket from his hand and cursed. "Damn, told me there were none earlier, now there are more, teasing me?"

"You asked if there were big fish? Didn't I tell you there were none?"

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes and then continued to transport goods from the boat.

A Cai was actually just grumbling, moving the bamboo basket with small green lobsters into the acquisition point. He also happily grabbed a few to look at, but his peripheral vision caught the father and son lifting a super big sack in.

He hurriedly put down the small lobster in his hand and asked curiously, "What is this again? Shellfish? You panned for the sea today, no trawling? No wonder so many people went, the fish goods have shrunk severely."

While speaking, he reached out and untied the straw rope tied on the sack, stretched his head to look, and the result shocked him to the point of widening his eyes. "Ah? Holy crap, abalone? This whole sack is abalone?"

Ye Yaodong ignored his chatter and walked further outside with Ye Fu.

"Holy crap, you still have some on the boat?" A Cai stared at their backs, a bit unable to believe they actually dug so many abalones back?

Since when were abalones so easy to catch? So rampant?

Aren't these all goods from underwater reefs? Where did they get them, so capable? Actually, not just one sack, no wonder they docked early today, he was still wondering earlier.

Holy crap!

He hurriedly followed, and just as the father and son lifted the goods from the boat to the shore, he hurriedly helped take over.

After lifting the three and a half sacks of abalones to the shore, A Cai's mouth couldn't close with joy, and he hurriedly asked, "Are there any more? Are there any more?"

"None, all here, this sack is big sea snails and abalones, need to pour them out to sort, the other two and a half sacks are sorted."

"Did you poke an abalone nest? How come there are so many?"

"It's a reef, an underwater reef suddenly appeared on the sea, covered with abalones..." Before he could finish, Ye Mu excitedly chattered and gestured, constantly describing how big the abalones were, how the reef was covered with them, they only dug less than half, it was a pity...

It was quite exaggerated... clearly they dug almost 2/3...

He couldn't help but cover his forehead... middle-aged woman... finally witnessed what is called hearsay...

Actually, he wasn't afraid to tell A Cai, anyway, the reef sank back into the sea. If he didn't say it, the villagers might discuss and guess even more fiercely after knowing.

He interrupted his mother's words and added, "We accidentally encountered a reef pushed up at sea this morning, probably due to the earthquake a few days ago. The pushed-up reef was covered with dense clusters of abalones and sea snails. It's a pity it didn't stay above the water for long, we hadn't dug much before it sank again..."

"Small green lobsters were also scooped near that reef. It's a pity they ran too fast. Just scooped one net with a hand net, and the rest ran away."

"Grass, all good things were encountered by you, no wonder you came back so early."

"It wasn't that easy to dig, my feet were soaked and swollen. Alright, hurry up and sort the goods in the sack and weigh them, otherwise, wait until all the fishing boats come in, you won't be able to handle it." ===== CHAPTER 256 =====

"Damn, you've encountered all the good things. No wonder you came back so early."

"It wasn't that easy to dig; my feet are all swollen from soaking. Alright, hurry up and pick through the cargo in the sacks to weigh them, otherwise, you won't be able to handle it once all the fishing boats come in later."