Chapter 314: A Trip Worthwhile

"This fish isn't worth much!" Ye Chenghai had no interest in this fish; it was so small.

"It's not worth much, but it can be used to make fish sauce. Fish sauce made from anchovies tastes both salty and fresh, it's delicious. It's perfect for dipping hairy taro."

Fish sauce is a very popular seasoning in their local area and is a very ancient type of condiment in coastal regions. Whether in Teochew cuisine, Fujian cuisine, or Southeast Asian cuisine, fish sauce is an indispensable condiment.

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If it weren't for the thought of scooping them back to make fish sauce, he wouldn't waste the effort to scoop these worthless little fish; some weren't even as long as his palm.

Fortunately, these fish scrambled to gather around, so he didn't need to waste any effort. A casual scoop was a full net.

"Shine the flashlight better, don't wave it around blindly, just shine it on the sea surface in front of me, they'll swim over themselves."

"Oh." Ye Chenghai's flashlight, which had been shining everywhere, focused back in front of Ye Yaodong.

Just because he wasn't interested didn't mean Lin Guangyuan wasn't interested.

People from the mountains looking at the seaside find everything curious. The school of fish scrambling to rush ashore kept attracting his attention, making him feel like a cat was scratching his heart.

"Little Uncle-in-law, are you tired? Is your hand sore? Let me help you, you take a rest, don't be too tired..."

"Hahaha~ You've never seen fish before~" Ye Chenghai laughed out loud on the side.

"Nonsense, I..."

Ye Yaodong looked at him speechlessly. "If you want to work so much, then you come!"

It just so happened he didn't want to do it anymore, it was hard on the waist!

Waist strength must be used in critical places!

"Alright!"

Lin Guangyuan excitedly rolled up his pant legs, trotted over to take the dip net from his hand, and while holding the mouth of the sack, scooped with one hand and opened the sack to fill it with the other.

"Wow, you scooped so much in just a little while?"

"There's more over there, Ah Hai, you move closer, you two cooperate, I'll go wander around the reef edge."

"Being a hands-off boss again..." Ye Chenghai muttered.

Ye Yaodong casually tapped his head with the fire tongs again. "Why do you have so many opinions? Don't want your pocket money anymore?"

"Hmph hmph~"

There were still quite a few things to pick up just after the tide receded. Ye Yaodong swung their small bucket and wandered around the reef, only to see a large sea eel under a big rock. It looked to be about five or six jin, and it looked quite fierce.

When he took the fire tongs to clamp it, it actually opened its bloody mouth, revealing sharp teeth, and bit his fire tongs.

You have to know, his fire tongs had been opened by him, and its mouth was wide enough to swallow a sea eel of the same thickness.

He forced the fire tongs open a bit more, and its mouth was also forced open along with it.

Ye Yaodong held the fire tongs high and lifted it into mid-air. Its tail kept swinging and struggling, but its mouth was forced open too wide and got stuck by the fire tongs, unable to retract.

He held the water bucket with one hand to catch it, and the fire tongs in the other hand also closed. He swung it twice before tossing it into the water bucket.

Even so, it still raised its head wanting to bite people, but the height of the water bucket made it unable to reach, so it could only honestly coil up there.

"Good harvest, can take it back to help with lactation."

Thinking of Ye Xiaoxi's chubby little face, and her eager look when breastfeeding, and the smacking sound, he couldn't help but raise a smile on his face.

Of course, a baby is only cute when they are white and chubby.

Eel stewed with wine is perfect for lactation. Recently it's been sea bass soup every day, just right to change it up.

He continued to wander around. The headlamp was still very convenient, not needing him to free up his hands to hold it, shining wherever he wanted. Look, he discovered a large mud crab in a rock crevice.

He clamped it up with the fire tongs and took a look. Oh, it's a female red-paste crab!

Can stew it with rice wine for lactation again.

Ah Qing's pregnancy this time is just at the right time, luckier than the previous two, having endless good things to eat every day.

After the confinement period, she has to go get sterilized. This is the last confinement, must take good care of her, so as not to leave any sequelae. In her previous life, she died of intestinal cancer.

Thinking of this, he felt a bit uncomfortable again.

Ye Yaodong thought while searching, he really had to go out to sea tomorrow, catch a few sea cucumbers, and get some abalone to stew soup for her to nourish her.

Thinking about things, he almost missed a big catch!

"Damn, there's actually a large yellow croaker!"

His eyes widened. He saw a large yellow croaker, golden and shiny, that had been stranded in a recessed water ditch surrounded by two reefs, swimming and wagging its tail in the ditch!

He was thinking about things just now, and his headlamp had been shining forward, not carefully shining around the reef, almost ignoring it.

It was only because he heard the "coo-coo" sound that he stopped his footsteps in doubt and looked left and right, and then from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the golden light, and that was how he discovered it.

Large yellow croakers can make sounds.

In that small puddle of water, it probably wouldn't last until the tide rose before this fish would kick the bucket and return to the sea. Fortunately, he discovered it.

Only large yellow croakers at night are golden in color, so large yellow croakers are generally caught at night.

Its fishing season is divided into spring and autumn. The spring season is generally from April to June, with fishing grounds concentrated in the spawning areas near the coasts of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian. The autumn season forms in the northern sea area of Zhejiang between September and October.

"Ye Chenghai, bring the other bucket over."

This large yellow croaker deserves an independent luxury single room!

"Oh, coming." Ye Chenghai stuffed the flashlight to Lin Guangyuan, carried the water bucket, and ran over, pitter-patter. "Third Uncle, what good thing did you find again? Is one bucket not enough to hold it?"

Ye Yaodong grinned and said, "A large yellow croaker of over three jin, pocket money doubled tomorrow!"

"Wow~ really? Damn, so beautiful~ golden and shiny!"

Ye Yaodong used both hands to catch this large yellow croaker, but it was very slippery, and it slid back into the water puddle, splashing water all over his face. He wiped it with his sleeve, cursed, and continued catching.

"Pass your bucket over to catch it."

After he caught it, he directly tossed it into the bucket, and watched it jump for a good while before it stopped struggling. Large yellow croakers generally die as soon as they come ashore.

"Third Uncle, this fish can sell for a lot of money, right?"

"Of course, the harvest tonight is not bad! Crabs, sand worms, anchovies, just now a large sea eel, and now a large yellow croaker!" Ye Yaodong became more excited as he spoke.

"Then how much is doubled pocket money?" Ye Chenghai also happily rubbed his hands back and forth.

"1 mao becomes 2 mao?"

"Ah?" Ye Chenghai's shoulders instantly slumped. "No way? This fish can sell for more than ten yuan, and there are those tens of jin of crabs!"

"Eyes full of money?"

"It was you who said pocket money doubled!"

Ye Yaodong didn't tease him anymore, smiled and said, "Then I'll reluctantly add a zero for you!"

He instantly beamed with joy. "That's more like it!"

Just at this moment, Lin Guangyuan shouted loudly, "Little Uncle-in-law, I've finished scooping, there are no more fish, the sack can't be lifted!"

"Coming."

The two trotted over again, only to see the sack was almost full.

"Damn, so many? You really didn't scoop less!"

"Saw them, couldn't let them go! Scooped them and there were still more, scooped and still more. They were delivered to the door, it would be a waste not to take them. It's just that my hands are sore, there's too much, my waist is sore."

"Where does a child get a waist!"

"Exactly the same as what my mother said, who says children don't have waists?"

"What can your waist do?"

After Ye Yaodong asked back, he shone his headlamp on the surrounding sea surface again. There really wasn't much left, they had scooped it quite clean.

"A waist is just a waist, what can it do?" Lin Guangyuan asked in confusion.

Ye Yaodong smiled wickedly. "Little brats don't need to understand, hurry up and go up, I'll drag it."

There was no hemp rope around to tie the mouth, so it was hard to carry, could only drag it.

He dragged this full sack of anchovies to the position where they were catching sand worms earlier, and put it together with the sack containing the sand worms and the sack of crabs.

Seeing sand worms still moving not far away, he turned his head to look at the two. "Do you still want to catch them?"

"No more..."

"Catch them? What a pity if we don't..."

Ye Chenghai looked at Lin Guangyuan with disdain. "Haven't you done work before? We've already caught nearly half a sack..."

"Then isn't it a waste not to catch them?"

"Waste of what, can't sell for money, taking them back is just distributing them everywhere. I'm not doing it, catch them yourself if you want."

Ye Yaodong patted Lin Guangyuan's head. "Then you catch them alone for a while, I'm going back to push the cart! Don't run around."

"Then since you two aren't doing it, I definitely can't do it either!"

"Hehe, you stay a few more days, then you can play enough. Catching this is too easy."

Lin Guangyuan nodded. "Is there anything else to play with?"

"Going to steal loquats in a few days, are you going?"

"No, I have plenty at home, why go to the mountain to steal them?"

"You don't understand, stealing is fun."

"And then be chased all over the mountain by people, and after being caught and sent home, get your butt beaten into a flower?"

Ye Chenghai instantly shut his mouth, he hadn't been beaten less.

Ye Yaodong went fast and came back fast, pushing the cart on the beach very quickly. After carrying several large bags of goods onto the cart, he wasn't prepared to go wander around the reefs anymore.

It was already very late, and Ye Chenghai still had to go to school tomorrow, so that was about enough.

But Lin Guangyuan still had some unfinished business. "Little Uncle-in-law, shall we come again tomorrow night?"

"Come your head, haven't scooped enough yet?"

"Yeah, it's too fun, the seaside at night is more fun than during the day."

"Not coming, I'm going out to sea tomorrow night."

Lin Guangyuan's eyes instantly lit up. "Then I'll go with you!"

"Go your ghost, do you think going out to sea is for fun? You'll be tired to death."

"Try it, at worst I'll lie on the boat and sleep."

"Don't think about it, just play on the beach."

Bringing him was impossible, the sea was so dangerous, a half-grown child, and not his own, what to do if something happened?

"Sigh, then they are all going to school tomorrow, who am I going to play with?"

"Aren't your two cousins people? You said it so nicely when you stayed today, that you would help watch your two cousins."

Lin Guangyuan laughed dryly. "Hehe~ then I'll take them to play."

After Ye Yaodong pushed the cart to the door, he moved the bags of goods down and dumped them into bamboo baskets.

The crabs were packed in two bags, one bag only had twenty or thirty jin, so they wouldn't be crushed to death. They were still jumping around when dumped into the basket. It's just that if they were taken to sell tomorrow morning, it would probably be risky, and the price would be greatly discounted.

The anchovies were dumped into three full baskets, but they were all crushed to death.

The sand worms were also dumped into two baskets, still twisting around, looking a bit disgusting.

The doorway was piled full of baskets, not in vain that he didn't sleep and got up in the middle of the night to toss about.

Other miscellaneous goods picked up were also mixed with the crabs. He was too lazy to sort them in the middle of the night, anyway, the crabs would also have to be sorted tomorrow.

Swimming crabs and stone crabs had to be separated, and sizes also had to be sorted, the prices were different.

After dumping all the goods, he sent the two little ones to sleep.

"Ye Chenghai, call out softly tomorrow morning, don't disturb people's dreams."

"Ah?"

"Tighten your skin, maybe the beating won't be that painful!"

"Little Uncle-in-law, you are so experienced..."