Chapter 540: Otter

Fifty sticky nets is not a small number. Ye Yaodong specifically asked, and Lin Shu only set 30.

And Lin Shu said that he was lucky these few days, and one net could collect about thirty jin on average, with all kinds of fish. Toadfish, which are not worth much, account for the majority, but there are also quite a few other fish.

Because of the large quantity, each time he could sell for seventy or eighty, and sometimes he could get nearly a hundred when he was lucky.

People coming and going at the pier were also a bit envious, but the small boats were not powerful enough to go too far. Some people were preparing to try making a few sheets and set them along with the ground cages to try sticky nets.

However, he heard that the effect along the coast was not good, and there were not many goods. After all, it was in the surrounding coastal waters, and there were the most small wooden boats in the village, all in the surrounding coastal area, setting all kinds of nets. The resources circulating around the coast were also very limited, not comparable to the sea area further away.

Ye Yaodong got up the next morning after calculating the time. After seeing the tide come in, he followed his father out to sea to collect the nets, full of hope and high spirits.

The quantity of 50 nets is really not small. One net is about 30 meters long on average. If there are 50 nets, you have to collect the nets along the sea area, collecting 1500 meters, but this is exactly what he wants.

Ten sheep are driven, and 50 sheep are also driven. The time of a day must be fully utilized.

As soon as he drove to the destination, he started to collect the buoys, pull the net lines, and wind the net lines onto the rolling wheel. While rolling, the fishing nets were slowly collected, and the fish goods in the fishing nets were gradually brought up by the wheel.

Ye Yaodong turned the wheel in front, and Ye's father collected the fishing nets behind, and took out the fish stuck in the fishing nets.

Later, they specially padded a wooden board to transition the collected fishing nets. Some of those toadfish weighed five or six jin each. It was not easy to take them out while pulling the fishing net with one hand. It was much more convenient to pad a wooden board, collect them on the wooden board, and then take the fish out one by one.

Ye's father was happy while taking out the fish from the fishing net. "Dongzi, I didn't expect these toadfish to be really many, and they are all about two or three jin."

"If they were all stingrays or turbot, that would be fine. Even sole would be fine. The value of these is several times higher than toadfish." Ye Yaodong collected the fishing nets, seeing one or two large or small fish every one or two meters, and was also very happy.

"You're taking it for granted. If there were many of those fish, they wouldn't be worth much. It's because there are many of them that they are cheap."

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"Can't you think about it if you want to?"

Everyone knows the truth that things are precious when they are rare, but it can't stop him from fantasizing and thinking better.

"Cheap is cheap, but it's okay to have quantity. We can probably collect over a thousand jin today, which is a lot, and it's almost enough to sell for over a hundred yuan. If it's sunny for half a month without wind and waves, maybe it won't take half a month to earn back the cost, and the rest will be profit."

"Mm~ I think so too... holy crap, holy crap, this stingray is big..."

Ye's father also stretched his neck, seeing the large stingray that was being dragged to the front by the rolling wheel, and shouted happily again. "This one is big, this one is good, this one can sell for a good price."

He said, and quickly bent down to take a kitchen knife from the tool column at his feet, and cut off its tail first.

Then he slowly untied the three-layer fishing net and dug it out from its nostrils.

"This stingray is big, it felt like seven or eight jin just dragging it."

Ye Yaodong turned his head to look behind him, his attention on the large stingray in his father's hand, his eyes not looking at the rolling wheel, but his hands kept moving to pull the line.

At this moment, a boat happened to sail in their direction, which instantly shifted their attention again.

They all looked over, watching the boat take the initiative to avoid, keep a distance from them, and sail separately, and they felt a little relieved.

"Oh my~"

Ye Yaodong's attention hadn't shifted back yet, but who knew, at this moment, he actually felt his hand touch something furry.

This instantly gave him a big surprise, and his hand retracted like an electric shock, and his attention instantly returned to look at his hand.

"Holy crap? What is this? A seal? No, is it an otter?"

"What seal, otter?"

Ye's father's attention was attracted by his voice, and he also quickly turned his head to look at the rolling wheel.

Ye Yaodong looked curiously at the little thing in the fishing net, staring at it with big eyes. "Still alive."

"Let me see." Ye's father quickly took a few steps forward. "Oh my, why is it so small?"

"It's an otter cub that hasn't fully grown up. I don't know how it got stuck in the sticky net." Ye Yaodong carefully pulled the fishing net and slowly untied it from the fishing net and grabbed it in his hand.

This otter cub didn't struggle after being grabbed in his hand, nor did it bite people. It looked very cute, with wet little eyes, looking very milky and cute at first glance, a bit cute.

Its body hair is long and dense, and its back is coffee-colored with an oily luster; the belly hair color is lighter, grayish-brown. The base of the fluff is grayish-white, and the fluff surface is coffee-colored.

Ye's father also looked at it curiously. "Too small, it could sell for quite a lot of money if it were bigger."

"It's a pity I don't know how to raise it, otherwise I'd take it back to raise. It's so small, the two children would definitely like it."

"Forget it, it would be played to death in a few times in the hands of a few children. The little chicks at home were played to death by them before."

"Yeah, then let it go, let it grow longer in the sea while it's so small."

Otter skin is expensive, and the liver is considered a precious traditional Chinese medicine. Otter hunters pursue it relentlessly, causing the number of otters to decrease year by year, and later it became a protected animal.

"Taking it back to stew can also be nourishing."

"Forget it, it's too small, it's all bones and can only drink soup."

Mainly because it looked cute, too cute, and those big eyes were black and wet, looking a bit innocent, feeling like Ye Xiaoxi's pupils, Ye Xiaoxi's eyes also had black pupils occupying most of them, round like small grapes, and it didn't bite people, looking very well-behaved, he couldn't bear to kill it.

"What does that have to do with it? It's also nourishing to eat."

Just when the father and son were talking, the boat on that side had originally avoided far away, but suddenly it came over again.

Ye Yaodong didn't care about talking to his father, turned his head to look, only to find that it was a familiar boat.

It was A-Guang's boat, the one temporarily partnered with Haozi.

It seemed to be Haozi, his wife, and his father on the boat. They should have recognized his boat, so they came over.

"Dongzi, what a coincidence."

"Yeah, it's quite a coincidence. Is the boat maintained? Can it be opened to set nets?"

"Yeah, it was maintained yesterday. It just happened to be a good day today, so I drove it out early to try it, and by the way, drag two nets to see how the harvest is."

"Is that an otter in your hand? Why is it so small? If it were bigger, it could be worth a lot of money. It's a pity."

"Yeah, caught by accident. It's too small, let it go back to the sea to grow longer." As he said, his hand turned over and he threw it back into the sea.

Haozi's wife immediately lay on the gunwale and shouted, "Ah! Why did you throw it away as soon as you said it? It could sell for some money even if it's so small. If it really doesn't work, you can eat it yourself? Throwing it into the sea like this, what a pity."

"What's a pity? A tiny thing, it's not like I haven't eaten anything?"

Haozi's father also looked at the sea surface there, also very sorry. "This can at least be eaten."

Ye Yaodong pursed his lips. He caught it, he wanted to let it go. ===== CHAPTER 541 =====