Chapter 367: Fertilizing the sea

Ye Yaodong muttered while poking with the needle, "Don't move... it'll be over soon... just a second..."

"Why isn't it red?"

"Done~"

After piercing the fish bladder, he put the Leopard Coral Grouper into the water bucket.

Ye Fu was smiling like a doting aunt the whole time on the side.

A Leopard Coral Grouper, they are rarely seen in this sea area. Don't know where the ground cage was washed from, but it was truly an unexpected surprise; they got a huge bargain.

"Stop looking, hurry up and work. Oh... do you still want this tattered ground cage? It's torn like this, just throw it back into the sea?"

Ye Fu immediately snatched the ground cage, "Want it, why wouldn't I want it? You spendthrift, take this back, wash it, mend it, and it can be used, right? And it's not torn very badly. Mending it is cheaper than making a new one. Having an extra ground cage means catching more cargo. Why wouldn't I want something picked up for free?"

"Fine, then you tell Mom to wash it, tell Mom to mend it. Xiuqing needs to rest and can't work."

"You're the only one who knows how to dote on your wife."

"Isn't that so? When I'm old, I'm counting on her to serve me; sons can't be relied on." Ye Yaodong said while going to pick up the row hooks that were hanging on the edge of the boat after being half-collected, and continued to collect them.

"Sons can't be relied on? You're also a son."

"As for me, no matter how unreliable I am, I'm more than enough to support you in your old age."

"Wait until you've done it before saying that."

"Pfft~ looking down on who..."

Ye Fu also went to his place and continued sorting the catch. Seeing the small crabs and small mantis shrimp still alive after being dumped from the tattered ground cage, he picked them out and threw them into the sea. While they were still alive, throwing them back into the sea would allow them to continue growing.

They were too small and had no meat, useless to take; abandon the small, keep the big.

There were only two baskets of row hooks left, and collecting them was fast. Ye Yaodong spent half an hour collecting all the cargo and hooks.

There were two more baskets of fish cargo at his feet, the least of which was a jin in weight, but there weren't many good items, just all kinds of fish.

"Done, all collected. Now go finish up the squid and then call it a day and go home."

"First move these sorted baskets over there and stack them; don't leave them here to get in the way. There's a pile of ground cages here, almost no place to step. And the row hooks, stack them up too, otherwise they take up too much space."

"Hmm... this basket of water-grain fish is too small..."

"There's half a basket over there that's even smaller, all from trawling, can only keep them to dry. See how much this basket can sell for; if the price is cheap, take it back to dry too."

As fishermen, they have nothing else at home, but dried fish is the most abundant. Every day, every meal, every table has a bowl of dried fish, a fine product for rice and wine.

After stacking the baskets of cargo, Ye Yaodong went to steer the boat first, and Ye Fu continued organizing.

There really were too many miscellaneous things on the boat today, more than at any other time.

There were two baskets of squid, one and a half baskets from trawling, one basket of fish caught by longline, the abalones and such that Ye Yaodong got from diving, plus ten baskets of row hooks and 4 rows of ground cage nets. The boat was almost full, with no place to step.

When Ye Yaodong steered the boat back to the vicinity of the buoy where he had placed the branches, the squid had already gathered again, but after they caught one net, they couldn't gather again.

Ye Fu, adhering to the principle of not wasting, still used the dip net to catch two or three at a time, intending not to let go of anything he saw.

Ye Yaodong organized the net and put it away, not intending to catch anymore. One net wouldn't catch many, it was too much of a waste of time, better to just go back.

"Alright, that's about enough, don't catch anymore. You'll be exhausted to death and won't catch much anyway. Why are you so desperate for these few?"

"Catch them, catch them all. Since I've seen them, don't waste them. The sun hasn't set yet, catch for a while longer."

Ye Yaodong shook his head and let his father be; if he wanted to catch, let him catch. Anyway, Azheng's small boat hadn't come over yet, so let him catch for a while longer.

Ye Fu said while catching, "Looks like there's no need to come tomorrow. Come back in a few days and strip the branches again. Do you want to take advantage of this time and go down into the water again? We won't be coming here for many days, it's a pity not to get more things."

Ye Yaodong looked up at the sun that had already reached the west. Recently, the sun set late. He estimated that if he went down once and came back up, the sun would be about to set.

He nodded reluctantly, "Fine, then I'll go down into the water one more time."

Ye Fu glanced at him, wanting to say something but hesitated and held it back.

Ye Yaodong took off the hat with the face mask again, changed into the clothes he had left there to dry that were already half-dry, and after bringing all the equipment, he jumped into the water again.

Don't know if it was because the sun was about to set, but the water was a bit cold. When surfacing, he suddenly felt his stomach was a bit uncomfortable.

Wanted to endure it, but felt a bit of pain, couldn't endure it, a surging feeling, especially intense...

After surfacing halfway, he turned in a direction and swam to the other side of the boat, intending to solve it right there in the water.

He surfaced, saw no one around, only his boat, and his father was on the other side of the boat, so he took off his pants.

Because he was floating on the water surface, he was lying on his back, facing the sun, otherwise he couldn't hold his breath for so long with his face underwater.

Then after a long, long time, don't know if it was novelty or underwater pressure, several local areas had tremors, and then eased back.

Novelty was because it was his first time releasing "oligei" (poop) in the water...

After brewing for a while, suddenly there was a "boom" sound, plus his stomach sank, and he knew the cargo was out.

Refreshing~

But what Ye Yaodong didn't know was that they floated up instantly...

And he was lying on his back, they appeared in front of him all at once, scaring him so much that he didn't even pull up his pants, and swam backstroke desperately toward the direction of his head.

Why was he afraid? First, it was dirty, second, he was afraid of eating it himself...

Just at this moment, suddenly a boat sailed over, right behind him.

"Holy crap, Dongzi, what are you doing in the water with your butt bare?"

Ye Yaodong's old face instantly turned red...

Damn, when did their boat get so close?

He hurriedly pulled up his pants, turned his head to look by instinct, but what entered his eyes wasn't them, but a piece of brown stuff, scaring him so much that he immediately closed his mouth tightly and hurriedly turned his head to swim forward.

Just now, his ears were full of the "da-da-da" sound of his own boat's engine, he had been brewing, and didn't pay attention to the surroundings. Only when he took off his pants did he look, he really didn't know when their boat had approached.

Damn!

"Ah! Holy crap, Dongzi, you're pooping in the water!"

Ye Yaodong: "..."

Can you not shout so loudly?

"Dongzi, your butt is so white, hahaha~"

"Hahaha, holy crap~ you're actually pooping in the sea! Hahaha~"

Behind him was still his "oligei", Ye Yaodong didn't even turn his head, pretended he didn't hear anything, and hurriedly climbed onto the boat.

After getting up, he breathed a sigh of relief.

As a result, the mocking laughter in his ears was constant, damn!

"Hahaha~" ===== CHAPTER 368 =====