Chapter 301: Heart-wrenching

As usual, after getting on, he leaned against the side of the boat, panting while pulling the line to bring the net bag up, and asked his father, "Are all the ground cages pulled up?"

"Four have been collected. There are two more; I was just about to collect them when I saw you surface."

"Oh, it's good they aren't stuck again." He was a bit exhausted now and couldn't go down again in the short term. It was good that they could all be collected.

Ye Fu collected the ground cages and distracted himself by looking at the net bag he had just pulled up. "All abalone?"

"Pretty much." He was talking while his hands didn't stop working, dumping all the goods from the net bag. "There's one small lobster, one..."

"Coral trout?"

Coral your sister...

If it weren't his father, he would have responded directly like that.

"It's a white-lined rockcod! Not a coral trout. The visibility underwater wasn't clear, and I thought it was a coral trout too."

Ye Fu's surprised expression instantly vanished. "Oh, right, the tail doesn't look like it. Misidentified."

Ye Yaodong was too lazy to deflate it and threw it into the basket on the side. They were heading back soon anyway.

"How come this trip is all abalone? There's only one small lobster."

He looked up at his father. He had just been telling him not to go into the water, and now he felt the haul was small?

"I wasted some time finding the ground cages earlier. That ground cage went into the shipwreck. I searched around for a long time and didn't see it, then found it inside the shipwreck. This white-lined rockcod was also seen inside the shipwreck..."

"By the way, let's try to pull up the diesel engine on that ship next time."

"It's hard to pull; it's sunk to the bottom. It's been soaking for a few days, and I don't know if it can be used..."

"We'll talk about it then."

Perhaps he could wait until the net hauler from Lin Ji arrived before arranging it to save effort.

The rolling wheel on the boat had limited load-bearing capacity and couldn't drag that machine, otherwise, he could have used the rolling wheel directly.

The net hauler used for trawling had a large load capacity but was slow.

The net winder was fast at pulling fishing nets, but couldn't bear much weight.

The rolling wheel was slow and had limited weight capacity, and the one borrowed on the boat was also very old. He planned to move it back to return it.

It wasn't very useful to him. After using the gillnet a few times, it was badly damaged, and he hadn't set it again. Moreover, there was only one, and he was just setting it for fun to test the waters. It wasn't as good as trawling and longlining, and ground cages were more practical and effortless.

After Ye Fu collected the last two ground cages in succession, they went around to look for Azheng and Hearing Xiao Xiao's boat, planning to call them to return together.

This time, Ye Fu drove the boat, and Ye Yaodong went to sort the goods. He hadn't seen the harvest of the ground cages in the back yet, so he volunteered.

A row of ten ground cages, plus his two dives, yielded half a basket of crawling small lobsters. He estimated there should be about thirty of them.

There were also quite a few sea cucumbers. He caught a dozen on his first dive. The ground cages caught fewer, as sea cucumbers didn't like to move and stuck to the bottom layer, probably about thirty or so.

But they were large in size; the small ones were at least two taels, and each one was basically over three taels.

Ye Yaodong fiddled with them, secretly picking out two that were half-cut, two that were two-thirds cut, and two that were obviously small, throwing them into his own bucket.

These were to be brought home to eat! Thinking that his younger sister was also pregnant, he took out two more.

And a few abalones too; the two boys hadn't eaten them yet...

Forget the small lobsters; the quantity wasn't large, and they had each eaten one last time.

He picked and chose, threw a few more fish into the bucket, and then moved the bucket aside.

At this time, Azheng and Hearing Xiao Xiao's boat was still working. Seeing their fishing boat approach, they slowed down to let the two boats get closer.

"Ready to go back?"

"Almost, it's almost five o'clock. It'll be six o'clock by the time we get back."

"Alright, it's not convenient for us without a watch. We'll start hauling the nets immediately and go back once we're done."

They waited slightly to the side. Having a machine was indeed effortless, and the speed of hauling the nets was faster than pulling by hand. A large bag of fish was pulled directly onto the deck by them.

"Good harvest today, looks like this bag is over a hundred jin."

Azheng said happily, "It's quite good, better than setting ground cages along the coast. There's more cargo. We didn't prepare bait at night, otherwise, we could have set a few hundred longlines while we were at it."

Hearing Xiao Xiao also asked with a smile, "How many nets did you trawl today? How was the harvest?"

"Just trawled three nets, it's alright. The fish from the longlines are quite plentiful, and they aren't small, also two or three hundred jin."

"The harvest in the outer sea is still better."

"Otherwise, who would spend a lot of money to change to a big boat? Isn't it just to go to a further sea area to catch more?"

After chatting casually for a few sentences, they accelerated to rush back.

Tired after a day, everyone was eager to return home.

From getting up at two in the morning to this afternoon at five or six o'clock, drifting and working on the boat for such a long time, people would be extremely exhausted. Ye Yaodong felt especially tired. He sat directly on the ground, leaning against the cabin, waiting to dock.

Just as he was dozing off, the fishing boat docked. Feeling the boat slow down, he instantly woke up.

Hearing Xiao Xiao and Azheng originally thought he was also trawling normally, and the types of fish everyone caught should be about the same, so they didn't ask curiously.

Who would have thought that when they were off the boat, they would see small lobsters? Abalone? And sea cucumbers?

"Holy crap, where did you get these? Don't tell me you trawled them?"

Ye Yaodong said proudly, "Hmph hmph, secret. There are too many people and eyes, I won't tell you yet."

Seeing the good goods he sent over, Acai was also pleasantly surprised. "Abalone and small lobsters again? Ah, and sea cucumbers today? Good guy, it has to be you. Small lobsters can occasionally be caught in gillnets, but abalone and sea cucumbers are not easy to salvage."

"Stop talking nonsense, weigh it quickly. I'm exhausted. Finish weighing so I can go back to eat and sleep."

Too exhausted, otherwise, the price might be higher if sent to a hotel in town.

They were all old acquaintances, so Acai didn't say much, put the other goods aside first, and weighed his first.

They were all rare and good things, and everyone was very curious. No one had any objections, and they all kept asking where he had salvaged them.

"Adong has dug abalone more than once, where did you dig them?"

"The most I heard was after the earthquake, the reef was pushed up, and they were dug on the reef. Could there be more?"

"How come we never encounter such good things? Are there any more, Adong?"

"There should be, right? Look, he's dug them several times..."

"There are sea cucumbers today too. I haven't seen them before. I don't know where they were caught. Aren't these things all on the seabed? They're not easy to salvage, and they're very expensive..."

Ye Yaodong smiled and didn't say much, just said, "I was lucky and caught a few when I encountered them. I don't know if I'll encounter them again next time..."

He had previously thought the reef had sunk and wouldn't appear, so he had directly said it was because the reef had been pushed up.

As for now, of course, he couldn't tell them the specific sea area. He still wanted to continue shearing the wool. Even if they couldn't go to the seabed, he didn't want to add trouble to himself.

"How much can these sea cucumbers sell for?"

"They're so big, maybe over ten yuan?"

"Boom... so expensive... going to get rich again..."

"Where did Adong catch them?"

After calculating the account, Ye Yaodong slipped away directly, not caring about the sour words and discussions behind him.

After he walked far away, he took out the sea cucumbers pressed by a few fish in the bucket. Ye Fu stared straight at them.

"When did you secretly hide them? You prodigal thing, sixteen yuan a jin, each one is several yuan. So expensive, how can you swallow it? You bastard, hurry up and send them back to sell..."

Ye Fu snatched the sea cucumbers from his hand, threw them back into the bucket, and wanted to take them back to sell, but was snatched away by Ye Yaodong.

After knowing the price, looking at these few in the bucket, he also felt a heartache. But since he had kept them, why be so stingy and send them back?

"They've already been weighed, why send them back? Keep them, they aren't for you to eat."

Ye Fu wanted to find a stick in heartache, but he didn't see any sticks or bamboo strips around, only straw.

"How can you swallow it... eating whatever you can't get enough of, wanting to keep a taste of everything you see... like an immature child, wanting to eat everything... not feeling the heartache..."

Ye Yaodong interrupted his father's heartache, "Two for the younger sister, two for the old lady, and two for Aqing, let them eat one a day."

It wasn't that he hadn't eaten sea cucumbers before. This time the quantity wasn't large, and he really hadn't thought about keeping them for himself. His father and mother didn't have a share.

After hearing his arrangement, Ye Fu had nothing to say, only sighed heavily in disappointment.

"Eating anything is not enough, and you eat such expensive things. Other people's families are still eating pickles and porridge every day, and you're the only one who is picky. Like A-Guang, buying bird's nest, sending it to the front on purpose to anger me and your mother..."

"These sea cucumbers, let's see if they can swallow them later..."

"Things don't cost money, thinking that making money is easy. No wonder the two can become friends. Why don't you learn from your eldest brother and second brother..."

Ye Yaodong picked his ears, letting his father nag.

After throwing a few sea cucumbers into his bucket, he gave him two fish, "Are you done nagging? If you're done, let's go back. I'm exhausted."

"You also know you're exhausted, and you're still so willing..."

"Sea cucumbers are good for the body, there's nothing to be reluctant about. Let's go."

He had to nag every time, which was why he had to hide them.

"What can't be eaten? Go back and see if your mother doesn't scold you to death. The old lady will also be heartbroken to death."

"Are you thirsty?"

Ye Fu glared at him fiercely, his mouth still nagging about the prodigal thing...

After seeing the sea cucumbers, Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but keep asking how much they cost.

Although she didn't know the price, she also knew they were good things and not cheap.

How could Ye Yaodong tell her? He only said a few yuan, didn't say the specific number, and he kept one half-cut one, only one was intact.

After hearing that it only cost a few yuan, Lin Xiuqing didn't struggle anymore, but she didn't enjoy it alone, directly cutting it into small pieces and stewing it with eggs, and the whole family ate it together.

Until after the meal, Ye Yaodong gave her the cargo list, and she only knew after seeing the price.

Instantly, she beat him a few times in heartache!

"Ouch~ My god~ So expensive~ How can you swallow it........." ===== CHAPTER 302 =====