Chapter 401

Damn, I've known them for a few days, but we haven't spent much time together. I didn't ask for their names, and I rarely heard them call each other's names. I really didn't know there was a Long Aotian inside???

It really surprised him, even more than seeing the round-axis crab!

Seeing that 'Long Aotian' excitedly crawling over, he also chuckled twice and followed.

This name is too important and cannot be taken randomly. I'm afraid of encountering unreliable parents, and then it will really be laughed at by others.

After walking over, he didn't even look at that round-axis crab but looked at that 'Long Aotian'.

"Uh, brother, is your surname Long?"

"Ah?" Long Aotian looked at him with a confused face, "What's wrong?"

"Hehe, curious, just asking! We've known each other for many days, but it seems I still don't know what your names are."

"Oh, my surname is Lin, not Long. My name is Lin Aotian. In the clan, it's the 'Ao' generation. Half of our whole village is surnamed Lin. My seniority is quite high. Some old men in the village still have to call me uncle..."

"Hehe, hehe..." Ye Yaodong gave two awkward laughs. So he's not called Long Aotian. Why does it feel a bit inexplicably regretful?

Suddenly, there was less joy.

But having said that, the surnames in their Bai Sha Village are quite mixed because they are all immigrants who fled here to settle down during the famine years. There are very few people who have lived here for generations.

Lu Xun has a saying that there were no roads in the world, but when many people walked, they became roads.

The same is true for a village. After many people live there, it becomes a village.

Who told the seaside not to lack food.

"A-Dong, take your fire tongs over and catch this crab. This one is so big, it must be able to sell for a lot of money," Captain Chen said excitedly while squatting there.

"Don't waste time. This crab is worthless. Nobody wants it. If you give it to someone to eat, they will still dislike it for being dirty."

"Ah? No way, such a big size!"

Ye Yaodong also squatted down, "This is the seaside. I know more crabs than you know women. This one is called a round-axis crab. It's disgusting. Someone in our village caught one before and cooked it, but the result was a fishy smell inside."

"The shell is black when opened, even blacker than the mud on the beach. The crab gills are also black. When you break them open to look, they are all small black dots, which are the corpses of small insects after being cooked."

"The cover behind its butt is also black when broken open. Nobody can take a bite after one look. And its meat is not white either. Normal crab meat is white, and it smells very fresh. The meat inside it is white with black, and a bit yellowish? Yes, yellowish, beige? It's about that color, you can imagine it."

Captain Chen looked regretful, "Isn't that a pity? Such a big crab, can't you wash it clean and then cook it?"

Ye Yaodong spread his hands, "I don't want it. If you think it's a pity, then you catch it. Catch it back and wash it to see? I guarantee you'll give up immediately."

"That's fine, I'll catch it back and see. Anyway, there's no loss. Just one crab won't take up space."

Ye Yaodong saw him excitedly going to take the fire tongs to catch the crab and hurriedly pulled him, "What's the rush? You caught it now, where will you put it? Put it in the bucket? Isn't your bucket for those shellfish? Wait until my father drives the boat over in a while, and when we get on the boat, we'll catch it out of the cave. It can't run away. Anyway, it lives in the cave."

"Okay."

It's rare to find a big crab. Even though Ye Yaodong said that the crab was dirty and not suitable for eating, Captain Chen was still quite attentive. Every time he went to dump the shellfish full in the bucket, he had to take a look to confirm it was still there.

Even when he found a few small yellow croakers later, he couldn't forget this big crab.

Ye Yaodong straightened his waist after digging for a while and pounded it. He felt that the sun exposure was okay, after all, the sea breeze on the island was strong, and it wouldn't be particularly hot when blowing. It's just that his waist couldn't take it, and it was particularly tiring to keep bending over.

He straightened his body from time to time to look left and right, front and back. When looking back, he was lucky enough to encounter an octopus that had just been washed over by the waves.

It is estimated that the waves slapped it on the reef, and it was suddenly stunned. It didn't react and was still hovering there, not swimming into the sea.

Seeing the opportunity, Ye Yaodong took the hand-net and carefully climbed down to the reef below. While the octopus was still waving its tentacles and playing there, he scooped it up all at once.

Although its IQ is equivalent to that of a five or six-year-old child, it couldn't save its fate of being caught, but its reaction was very fast.

As soon as it was scooped into the hand-net, it exerted the power of its eight tentacles and tried hard to crawl to the mouth of the hand-net.

Ye Yaodong didn't give it a chance. Seeing that it was about to crawl out of the mouth, he grabbed it out and put it in an empty sack.

Before long, a green crab floated up in the water. He was planning to put the sack on it, but just turned his head to look at the sea surface casually and saw the green crab, so he had to go back.

This green crab, without a doubt, also became his booty.

This one is hundreds of times better than that round-axis crab. The meat is tender and fragrant, and the nutritional value is particularly high.

Just as he was preparing to go up, the waves hit another black sea bream, but his reaction was a beat slow. This black sea bream was very flexible. After being washed over, it swam into the sea instantly, and he scooped an empty one.

Ye Yaodong didn't leave this time and planned to stand here for a while to see. He didn't know how many goods he had missed before when he wasn't paying attention.

It's just that after he stood here, no more seafood was washed over by the waves.

"Damn, are you teasing me?"

He cursed and simply bent down to dig in this area, saving himself from climbing around.

But he really scooped up a few green crabs and stone crabs, as well as seven or eight small fish, which made the two soldiers envious. After discovering it, they borrowed the hand-net from him and swapped positions.

Anyway, he didn't care. He goes to the sea every few days, and he doesn't want to go. The beach is right at his doorstep. He hasn't gone down even when he's idle, unless he goes to call the kids to eat.

Just when the two soldiers were playing vigorously, Ye Fu drove the boat over. Ye Yaodong saw it from afar and stopped moving. He sat on the reef and smoked two cigarettes. After the boat approached, he extinguished the cigarette butt and carried the sack onto the boat.

"Hey hey hey... there's still my round-axis crab..."

I didn't expect that even after catching so many fish in the sea, Captain Chen was still thinking about that round-axis crab.

"Go catch it yourself." Ye Yaodong didn't look back and first moved the bag he was carrying onto the boat. It was really too heavy. Ye Fu and the other two soldiers also stood by the gunwale to help move it.

"What round-axis crab? Why bring that thing over? It's dirty, it's not as good as 'Ai'."

"Captain Chen found it and felt that it was a pity not to catch such a big one back. He didn't believe in evil and wanted to catch it back to wash and see."

"If it could be washed clean, would nobody eat it? Come up first, the noodles have already been cooked. After eating, continue. I'll go down in a while."

"Hmm? Are you sure? Not fishing anymore?"

Ye Fu said in frustration, "Fishing a hair. I only caught a few mullet fish about one jin, and some rockfish. The other two PLA soldiers were lucky. Each caught a black sea bream weighing over two jin."

"I said it, it really has to be me," Ye Yaodong was a bit proud, but also a bit worried, "You be careful when you go down to the reef later. Stand on a flat place, don't look around, and pay more attention to your feet."

"Do I need you to tell me? The one who looks around is you, right?"

I can't blame him for loving to talk back. It's hard for him not to talk back when talking to his father.

He closed his mouth tightly, helped the other two lift the goods on their shoulders to Ye Fu and the others to take, and then got on the boat to eat together.

Ye Fu looked at the three round-axis crabs in Captain Chen's bucket and couldn't help but tell him again how dirty this crab was.

That's right, it was three. There were two hidden inside, and after Captain Chen found them, he caught them together.

Captain Chen smiled and said, "Anyway, it's idle after going back. I'll wash it clean and see. I always feel it's a pity not to catch such a big one back."

"Then you look at it. You've already caught it, so take it back and see. Just take it as satisfying your own curiosity."

Ye Yaodong looked at his watch. It was only 12:30. He felt that the morning time passed extremely slowly. Usually, putting out nets is tiring, but there is work to do, and it's not boring. Money is the motivation.

Now I just pray that the salvage team comes tomorrow, so I can be liberated.

After simply eating some noodles cooked by someone, he continued to work.

Watching his father start to pry steadily on the reef, he felt relieved to drive the boat away and return to the shipwreck position.

It's just that as soon as he put down the hook and stone, he didn't know what the hook had hooked. Just when he was preparing to pull the fishing line tight to sense the feeling of the fish biting the hook later, he felt it was a bit too tight, right?

He thought it was his illusion and tried to grab the fishing line and shake it a few times to make the fish move, but found that the hook was still motionless?

"Is this even the hook snagged on the bottom? Damn!"

"Snagged on the bottom?"

"It means it's stuck, stuck at the bottom."

How can this make me go into the water in front of them? But this afternoon is still long.

"I'll go down and see for you."

"How embarrassing is this?"

Although he thought so in his heart... anyway, they can dive to a depth of more than ten meters...

"It's okay, anyway, I haven't been in the water today or yesterday."

After a soldier finished speaking, he moved his muscles and bones slightly and jumped down, then dived down along the fishing line. This fishing line became a transparent color when it went into the sea. This was to hide it, otherwise, if the color was too obvious, the fish would see it and not eat the bait and bite the hook.

The soldier had to dive down along the fishing line, otherwise, it would be hard to find at the bottom. It was just such a small line, and the seabed was so wide that he wouldn't necessarily be able to find it even if his eyes were blinded.

The two people on the shore looked at the sea surface expectantly. Ye Yaodong also pulled the fishing line from time to time, but there was no sign of loosening, and he didn't know if he had found it or not.