Chapter 362

A golden, beautiful color instantly came into view, and Ye Yaodong was extremely happy.

Two of them!

A family of three!

This small reef nook was completely covered by seaweed. If he hadn't poked at it, he would never have discovered that there were actually two big bailer shells inside.

They are really big!

One hand couldn't even grasp them.

Holding them in his hand, they were bigger than his palm. He visually estimated the shell length to be a little over 20 centimeters.

He held one in each hand, habitually pressing the soft meat on top. The inner lip had teeth, and the outer lip was very thin.

Looking at the size of these two, he estimated they weighed three or four jin. The small one he caught just now probably weighed one or two jin.

Putting these two into the net bag as well, letting their family of three reunite, Ye Yaodong wandered around the area again.

At this moment, the visibility on the seabed was becoming clearer. It must be because the sun was high in the sky, the sea surface was clear for miles, and the light penetrated the water more thoroughly, which was more conducive to his treasure hunting on the seabed.

After picking up another sea cucumber and a half-crippled one in the seaweed cluster, he walked to the reef wall. Thinking that time was running out, he prepared to dig for abalone to make up the numbers, filling the net bag first.

Just then, an antenna suddenly poked out from a crack in two reefs, followed by another antenna.

Ye Yaodong's body reacted faster than his brain. Before his brain had even moved, his hand had already grabbed those two antennae, and with a bit of force, he pulled the small spiny lobster inside straight out.

Its shrimp tail curled up instantly, then relaxed and curled up again, repeating continuously.

It really was easy to come by.

He had chased one before, but it went into a crack and he couldn't get it out. Now, one had inadvertently delivered itself to his door.

After putting it into the net bag, he peered into the crack again. There were several more inside, but this crack was connected, and the other end was also an exit, making it hard to reach.

Given that time was limited, he didn't plan to try and gave up directly. Filling the net bag with more abalone from the reef wall was the priority.

After his efforts during this period, the number of abalone on the surrounding reefs had decreased a lot, but human power is limited, and he was still far from clearing them out.

Every time he went into the water, it was basically to rescue the ground cages. The actual time spent digging for abalone was only about five minutes, and he basically only went into the water about three times a day.

The underwater pressure is very damaging to the eardrums, so he has to control the number of times he goes into the water. Fortunately, he doesn't go into the water every time he goes out to sea.

Today, because he had three bailer shells, which took up half the space in the net bag, the net bag was full after he had only been prying abalone for a little while.

Regardless of the fact that the time wasn't up yet, he prepared to move his fins and surface.

But just then, a sharp head suddenly emerged from a crack in the stone next to him. He stared at it vigilantly, preparing to swim away at any time, but saw the head poke out a little more.

Ye Yaodong recognized this thing at this moment—a wolf-tooth eel?

This is a good thing for promoting lactation.

It has sharp teeth like a vicious wolf and is highly toxic.

There were fishermen in their village who had their fingers bitten by a wolf-tooth eel, and their fingers swelled up until they turned black.

If the swelling was too severe and it festered, they would have to go to the hospital for surgery to cut it off. This wolf-tooth eel is not to be trifled with.

But don't look at how fierce the wolf-tooth eel is; its price is far lower than that of sea cucumbers and abalone. If it weren't for the thought of catching it to take back for Aqing to promote lactation and nourish her body, he would have just walked away as if he hadn't seen it.

But since he had already seen it, he couldn't let it go.

He pulled out the hand net from behind his waist and reached out directly with it.

He had heard before that the wolf-tooth eel has extremely poor eyesight and slow reflexes, so when danger approaches, its movements are slow, leading people to mistakenly think it is calm and courageous.

Afraid of alerting the enemy, he moved the net over slowly, but no matter how slow he was, the surrounding water flow would change abnormally.

It was just that by the time the wolf-tooth eel was alert to the danger, it was already too late; a large net had already encompassed it.

Afraid of being bitten, Ye Yaodong kept spinning the fishing net after catching it, making the wolf-tooth eel dizzy, and then took the opportunity to grab its head and surface.

Ye's father was collecting the ground cages. Seeing him surface, he first hung the half-collected ground cage on the boat to give him a hand, but at this moment, Ye's father also saw the wolf-tooth eel in his hand.

"A wolf-tooth eel?"

"Yeah, bring over a bucket for water and put it in first."

Ye's father immediately turned to get it.

After Ye Yaodong came up, Ye's father saw the net bag at his waist again, a big, full bag.

"Huh? Bailer shells today too? Such good luck?"

"Yeah, good luck. I found a small one, and then accidentally found two big ones."

Ye Yaodong took off the equipment on his face and body, wiped the water off his face, and said while doing so.

"The bottom is a treasure land. With my efficiency of going into the water every day, I really can't clear it out. But it's good that I can't clear it out—sustainable development. I can dig a little every time I go into the water."

Although Ye's father didn't understand what he meant by sustainable development, it didn't stop him from being tempted again.

"Are there really that many goods down there?"

"Yeah, there's a huge area of reefs down there. The ones exposed to the sea surface before were only a part of it. There are more down there, and they are all covered with abalone. We can dig them slowly."

"Why don't you teach me how to handle those gadgets of yours? We'll take turns going into the water; that way the efficiency will be a bit higher."

"Huh? You're already a pile of old bones, what are you going into the water for?"

Ye's father's originally amiable expression vanished instantly, and he only felt stifled.

"My old bones... my old bones are still stronger than you, and my fist is bigger than yours."

He knew he had been perfunctory before.

"Pfft~ You've been working for decades, isn't it normal for your finger joints to be thick? Don't think about it. You're already at that age, why bother tossing around? Just stay on the boat honestly. You can't earn all the money in the world."

Ye's father frowned. "I'm only in my 50s, how am I already at that age?"

"Old enough. I'm only in my 20s."

Ye's father was choked with anger, another day of being angered by his dog of a son.

"If you don't talk, no one will think you're a mute."

"Didn't you ask?" Ye Yaodong smiled cheekily twice. "Anyway, you're not short of money now, and I'm not short of money either, why work so hard?"

"You spendthrift, you've only worked for a few months and earned some money, and you think you've earned enough and don't want to work anymore, right? You're always lazy. You're young, only in your 20s, and you don't want to work. Other people, with their old bones, are still rocking their little boats out to sea to earn money..."

"You have another mouth to feed at home now, the whole family is counting on you, and you didn't say you'd be diligent..." Ye Yaodong interrupted his father's nagging, took over the conversation, and said cheekily.

Ye's father was blocked dead with his mouth open. The words he hadn't finished nagging could only be swallowed back.

He laughed and said, "Oh, I knew what you were going to say. My mother says those few sentences every three days. Not only did you memorize them, but I've also learned them. Don't be influenced by her."

Seeing that his father's dark face was obviously even darker, he patted his shoulder ingratiatingly. "Relax, relax, I definitely won't work myself to death earning money. Just earning money properly is enough."

What kind of talk is that?

Ye's father wasn't comforted at all and could only give him a fierce glare before continuing to collect the ground cages.

If he chats with this bastard coffin-son for a few more sentences, he'll lose a few years of his life.

It's fortunate that he's on the same boat as him, so he can still watch him, supervise him, and urge him. If he had found any random long-term worker, with no one to manage him, he might work for one day and rest for three.

Ye Yaodong: Underestimating him!

Ye's father went to collect the nets, and Ye Yaodong also poured out all the goods in the net bag into another bucket filled with seawater.

Anyway, they don't interfere with each other.

The abalone soon attached themselves to the bucket wall, the sea cucumbers and bailer shells sank to the bottom, and only the small spiny lobster swam back and forth in the narrow space of the bucket.

In the corner next to it, there was another bucket that already contained quite a few small spiny lobsters and sea cucumbers.

Those were the goods Ye's father had just poured out from the ground cages, and the quantity looked very optimistic.

If it weren't for the need to avoid the limelight, he really wouldn't be willing to leave this reef area. The output from below is such that he can match others' daily trawling with just two or three trips into the water.