Chapter 495

Ye's father immediately frowned, "You let one go yesterday, and that was fine, but you're not planning to take this whole patch either?"

"Huh?"

Ye Yaodong continued to play dumb, looking at his father, then looked toward the sea surface again.

Early in the morning, the sun hadn't climbed high yet, and the sea breeze was especially cool, blowing right into his heart, making it feel cold and chilly...

The three cousins also looked at him in disbelief; his attitude clearly showed he didn't intend to fish them.

"Dongzi? You're not scooping?"

"No way? These can sell for quite a lot of money."

"Yeah, so many sea turtles... you're just letting them go like that?"

"Dongzi?"

*Sigh*—he sighed in his heart. Please don't let him run into fish that put him in a difficult position next time, okay?

Such a large patch was clearly testing his Dao heart.

Although he was short of money, he wasn't *that* short of money.

Ye Yaodong frowned, pondering how to make up a lie.

"Do I look like I'm short of this hundred or eighty yuan? Don't you think this sea turtle group is unusual? I've never heard of sea turtles needing to migrate in groups. Where are they swimming to in such a large patch? Are they going somewhere to hold a meeting?"

Ye's father still frowned at him, "Stop spouting this useless nonsense. Hurry up and get the fishing net to scoop them—that's the serious business. It's just right that you found them first. Scoop them up quickly, otherwise, when your big brother, second brother, and the in-laws come over later, they'll scoop them up just the same."

Ye Yaodong discovered that his father wasn't buying his act, so he had to tell the truth.

"Sigh, Dad, to tell you the truth, I think it's better to release them. We aren't short that hundred or eighty yuan. These sea turtles are quite spiritual. Look at them, each one is as big as a washbasin, and there are even bigger ones inside. It's not easy for them to grow this big, is it?"

"Other ordinary fish only grow for a year or two, maybe ten or twenty years at most. For these sea turtles to grow this big, it probably took a hundred or eighty years. No matter what it is, the longer it lives, the more spiritual it is, right?"

"When did you start believing in these crooked ways?"

"Isn't it because I always hear the old lady chanting scriptures? After hearing it so much, I feel like I've been influenced."

Ye's father heard that he wasn't saying anything serious and started spouting nonsense again, so he directly turned on his mental filter and skipped over his words.

"If you don't scoop them, when your big brother, second brother, and the in-laws come over later, they'll scoop them up just the same."

He looked behind him; those two boats were still floating not far away, scooping jellyfish on the sea surface, and didn't look like they were coming over anytime soon.

"Then we'll talk when they come over. Let this group of sea turtles float forward. Maybe they'll sink down in a while. I don't know what the situation is, but suddenly appearing in such a large patch—there's no meaning in earning this little money."

The three cousins were all looking at each other in dismay. It was their first time seeing someone push away a school of fish that had delivered itself to their door—this was all money!

Ye's father, however, had witnessed many of his wild operations, such as feeding a whale shark and even untangling its fishing net, so he had become more knowledgeable and knew that his family was wealthy now and wasn't short of this one net of sea turtles.

After struggling with heartache for a good while, he still respected his choice.

"Forget it, if you want to release them, then release them. It just so happens that they are behind us and aren't in a hurry to catch up."

The three cousins couldn't understand this father and son pair even more.

Logically, shouldn't the uncle (third uncle) scold Dongzi severely and then force him to take the fishing net and scoop them up? Who would leave perfectly good money on the table?

Is the uncle (third uncle) this open-minded?

"So we're not scooping?" Ye Yaosheng asked in disbelief.

Ye's father waved his hand, "Not scooping, just watch."

"Hiss—this appetite is too good, right? It's like sucking noodles..."

Ye Yaodong stared with wide eyes at the sea surface, where several sea turtles were snatching a super-large jellyfish the size of a small round table.

They surrounded the jellyfish, opened their mouths wide, bit off a piece with force, and then swallowed it after a suck.

This jellyfish had just floated up from the sea surface, and it probably hadn't even reacted yet before it was directly surrounded.

In just an instant, that super-large jellyfish was torn to pieces by the group of sea turtles, without even a chance to resist.

Ye's father saw him watching with great interest and also took a peek, "These sea turtles eat jellyfish. Since you don't want to scoop them, then drive the boat elsewhere and avoid them, so that as soon as a jellyfish pops up, it doesn't get eaten by them. If we follow them, don't even think about scooping anything today."

"Alright, let's just drive the boat to the side and lead the two boats behind us away."

"Hmm."

"Go drive the boat, Dad? Why are you just standing there?"

Ye's father glanced at him, and seeing that he had no reluctance, he shook his head helplessly and went to drive the boat.

He adjusted the bow of the boat, planning to drive to the left to avoid them, but after a while, Ye Yaodong saw that the sea turtle group behind them also seemed to be swimming to the left, no longer swimming with the wind, and the two boats behind had also caught up at this time.

"Damn it, why are they also swimming in this direction?"

He turned his head gloomily and shouted to his father: "Dad, change direction again..."

But Ye's father didn't listen to him and continued forward.

He didn't know if the sound of the diesel engine was too loud, but he didn't hear him. Ye Yaodong saw that he had shouted twice and his father hadn't reacted, so he had to walk over.

"Dad? I told you to change direction. Don't let that group of sea turtles behind us swim in our direction."

Ye's father, however, kept staring intently at the water surface ahead, "Look, what's that under the water in front?"

"Huh?" Ye Yaodong looked over, not understanding, but the more he looked, the more he squinted his eyes, "It looks quite large... it's quite like that group of sea turtles behind... this is a super-large sea turtle!"

He widened his eyes, "Such a big one? The diameter looks like it's over a meter?"

"Another sea turtle?"

Ye's father was getting on in years, and his eyesight wasn't as good as Ye Yaodong's. He could only see a big guy in the water, and after hearing it was another sea turtle, his face was clearly disappointed.

This prodigal son was prepared to release the sea turtle group, and even if another bigger one came, it would be useless; it would only make him release it again.

"It should be, it might be a leatherback turtle. Leatherback turtles are professional jellyfish eaters. The group of sea turtles behind us just now also had leatherback turtles in it."

Leatherback turtles are also the largest sea turtles in the world. They are fanatical jellyfish lovers and jellyfish killers. They have eaten them for thousands of years, but in recent years, they have slowly started to have problems.

A group of animals called humans invented something called plastic bags and threw them everywhere. The plastic bags floating in the sea were mistaken for jellyfish by the leatherback turtles and swallowed in one bite.

The result of a stomach full of plastic bags is, naturally, death.

It turns out there was a leader captain here, which is why there were so many sea turtles behind.

Ye's father didn't know the breed, didn't know the name, and didn't care or concern himself with what kind of sea turtle it was. He said irritably: "Are we releasing this one too?"

"Release it, it's so big. The river turtle I saw at my father-in-law's house before wasn't even this big, and I didn't catch it."

Ye's father glared at him and directly turned the boat around. Just at this moment, Ye Yaodong suddenly grabbed him.

"Wait..."

"What for? Changed your mind?" Ye's father was pleasantly surprised.

"No, look at the edge of that island over there."

Ye's father looked in the direction his finger was pointing and was surprised, "What? Colorful? A jellyfish group?"

"It should be. It looks like the color in that area is a bit different. Let's drive over and take a look."

"Aren't we driving there already..."

After the fishing boat approached, everyone on the boat opened their mouths wide in an instant.

They saw that the water around the island was particularly clear, as if one could see to the bottom at a glance.

Floating on the sea surface before their eyes were dense, crowded jellyfish, stretching endlessly along the island, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

They were crystal clear and transparent, like umbrellas, and also like large mushrooms with roots. Some were as big as tables, and some were as small as pancakes, which directly stunned everyone.

"So many jellyfish..."

"Did we run into a jellyfish nest?"

"Do jellyfish have nests?"

Ye Yaodong also smacked his lips, looking at it in disbelief, muttering to himself, "I don't know if jellyfish have nests, but if jellyfish have nests, this must be one."

Ye's father also swallowed his saliva, "No wonder that group of sea turtles was swimming here too."

"Yeah, it turns out the food is here."

"Release the nets, release the nets... eldest cousin, second cousin, Ah Sheng..."

The three of them reacted immediately and excitedly hurried toward the cabin.