14. The man who catches the sea(1/2)
Wang Dongfang came back with barefoot and rolled his trouser legs, holding a pipe in his mouth, and his face was tired.
He carried the fishing gear on his shoulders, and Wang Yi went up to help remove it.
Xiufang started to lay dumplings and asked, "How are you doing today? How many goods are you stocked?"
Wang Dongfang said in a muffled voice: "Not strong."
Xiufang sighed: "It's so evil. Has the sea cucumbers driven away by diesel?"
Wang Dongfang sat down and knocked his pipe, twisted out the tobacco from his pipe and put it on a pot: "Oh, there are actually, there are boats there today, and I see that they have slaughtered a lot."
When Xiufang heard this, she didn't care about the dumplings and wiped her hand on her apron and asked, "How can that be? How many people from our seven villages and eight towns can compare to you in the ability of Zhahai Cucumber?"
"They have good guys." Wang Dongfang said dullly, "Several families in Shuihua Island bought a diesel engine ship to build a sea. The ship is amazing. There is a machine on it that can make oxygen. People can get into the water with a tube in their mouths. They can be buried underwater for an hour without bringing it."
He sighed as he said, "How do you compare this?"
Xiufang couldn't believe it: "Where do they have the money to buy boats and machines? I know that Shuihua Island is very poor."
"Loans, the loan officer has been running around since last year, alas." Wang Dongfang sighed again.
Wang Yi asked, "Then why don't we take out a loan on our island? We also borrow money to buy a boat."
Wang Dongfang and Xiufang have a unified opinion on this issue: "We are so unlimited that we can't get rid of the blame, so why do we lend money?"
"You can't owe debts. If you owe debts, you can't sleep. If you eat, you won't have a good meal. Okay, come and prepare to eat dumplings."
Xiufang put the dumplings into the pot in two pieces, one wave was filled with some peanut oil, and the other wave was filled with less oil and water.
When the dumplings were out of the pot, Wang Dongfang first scooped a few in the bowl and held the bowl and chopsticks to the south, east, and west, and bowed three times.
This is a fisherman tradition, allowing the Bodhisattva of the South China Sea, the Old Dragon King of the East China Sea and the ancestors to eat first, and then the family can eat it.
After the worship, Wang Dongfang brought a bowl of dumplings to the birthday party.
This is also the tradition on the island. Whoever has delicious food will give you a portion of the birthday party first.
The birthday boy made contributions to Tianya Island because his three sons sacrificed their lives for the cause of people's liberation. Later, the country's life was more abundant, so he compensated the martyrs' families.
The city and the county all gave the birthday party pension and pension, but the birthday party gave all the birthday party.
Among them, the pension was given in 58 years. The land of China entered a three-year difficult period in the second year. The birthday boy donated all the pensions that had not moved to the village collective.
Xiufang told Wang Yi that there were a total of 300 kilograms of millet. With these 300 kilograms of millet, all the children from Tianya Island survived - children could share a bowl of kelp rice soup a day.
She said as she handed Wang Yi a big bowl full of dumplings.
Wang Yi took a bite by binge-cold.
The taste is OK, it feels like spring.
Shepherd's purse has a strong smell, but it does not have enough fragrance.
Wild vegetables and dumplings must be supported by big oil and meat.
However, he was hungry with the kids in the morning, so he didn't bother to pick and eat them.
The first wave of oil dumplings under Xiufang was divided into four major bowls, including Birthday Chow, Wang Yi, Wang Dongfang and Wang Xianghong.
The second dumplings were not very oily, she ate them herself.
Wang Yi took the bowl over and said, "Sister-in-law gives me another half of the bowl."
Xiufang was quite surprised: "You ate so quickly? Have you made a big bowl?"
Wang Yi laughed: "It's not that you still have half a pot of dumplings, you can't finish it yourself."
He quickly added half a bowl to him and said, "He can smell the smell. If he can eat it, he has to leave him a bowl."
Sure enough, when Wang Dongfang came back, he was confused and followed.
Damifu entered the door and said, "I have long since smelled the smell of dumplings."
Instead of eating it directly, he went to find a piece of bamboo slice, and then carved it into a small fork with a kitchen knife, and inserted it with a fork to eat.
Wang Yi was shocked: "Sharpening a knife will not stop chopping wood! Who said you are confused? This is not nonsense!"
He laughed in a daze, and sat at the door holding the bowl and ate the savage.
Wang Yi handed her bowl to Xiufang: "Sister-in-law, I can't eat this half bowl anymore."
Xiufang said casually: "I just said how could you eat so much? You are full of your mouth but not full of your eyes."
The remaining dumplings of Wang Yi were already cold, so she brought them over and ate them.
Fishermen these days have no priorities in dietary hygiene.
Xiufang was stunned after taking a bite, then went to the second batch of dumplings to grab one, and then said, "Teacher Wang is an open-minded brother."
Wang Dongfang asked, "What's wrong?"
Xiufang said: "The more oil the shepherd's purse dumplings, the more fragrant it is..."
"The more oil the dumplings, the more fragrant it is." Da Mihu added.
Xiufang said: "Yes, yes, yes, you are not confused when it comes to eating."
She turned her head and said to Wang Dongfang: "I added more vegetable oil to you. Da Mihu and I didn't eat much vegetable oil. Teacher Wang left half of my bowl for me, and ate half of my bowl without any vegetable oil."
Da Mihu listened to her words and suddenly raised her head: "I gave it to me half a bowl of Teacher Wang, he knows I can't eat enough."
As he said that, his eyes turned red: "Teacher Wang is so nice to me, better than my father."
Wang Dongfang sighed lightly: "Teacher Wang is worthy of being an educated college student and also has quality!"
He then sighed again: "No wonder he left quickly after eating, because he was afraid that if we found out, he would give in to him."
Wang Yi ran away after eating, but she was not afraid that Xiufang would find out his little thoughts and then push him.
Instead, go back and get some food.
The shepherd's purse dumplings with not much peanut oil were not delicious, they were just covered with green grass. After eating them, he secretly gave them a big confusion.
So he was anxious to fill his stomach and had to eat and drink enough to maintain his spirits, because the little guys were going to have to work hard again in the afternoon...
Wang Yi looked at the child for a day.
Then I don't want children in the future.
That night, Wang Dongfeng came again and said, "Go to bed early tonight, there will be a live tide tomorrow, and the tide will fade away in the morning. Let's go to Meihua Beach together."
Chasing the sea is a daily activity of a fisherman.
In the era of the large collective, the catches in the sea belong to the public and must be handed over to the state treasury to support urban construction. Fishermen cannot take the catches home at will.
But rushing to the sea is an exception, so every time you go to the sea, it is like going to the market, with crowds of people, and women and children expect to get some seafood to improve their lives.
Tianya Island has a long coastline, and the islands are all surrounded by sea, but most of them are steep reefs, with only the northwest area with mudflats.
The tide is low in the mudflats. The small mudflats in the northwest of Tianya Island cannot support the Wang family, so they go out to sea to find islands with large mudflats to catch the sea.
There are villages on islands with mudflats, and the fishermen are very territorial. In this case, outsiders are not allowed to come to the sea.
There is a sea area more than ten miles south of Tianya Island. It is magical. Its water level is very low. The seabed is covered with mud and sand. It is usually covered with sea water. Once the tide is receding, large areas of mudflats will be exposed.
This is a holy place for the sea. Not only the Wang family on Tianya Island, the Liu family on Shuihua Island, the Zhao family on Jubao Island, and other surrounding residents will go there.
Fishermen are talking about territories when driving the sea, so they have to go and occupy the territories as soon as possible.
How early is it?
Four o'clock in the morning!
It was still dark when Wang Yi was woken up. He brought two compressed biscuits for breakfast and followed him onto the boat in a daze, running south one by one.
There were women and children on the boat and fishermen. Wang Yi got on the men's boat and listened to the enthusiastic chatting of the people around him:
"The economy is getting alive now. I heard the radio last night that several cities and counties sold commercial housing. When will we go to the city to get a set?"
"You are just a muddy person in your life. You can't change your life even if you go to the capital to get a trick. We have a rural household registration, and the city is not our land, so don't think about it."
"You have a household registration when you buy a house. Now you buy a house and get a household registration. I have nothing to do with my wife. Isn't this a city household registration for my child? It's easy to talk to a wife in the future."
"What's the use of fighting for this? Be concerned about international affairs. NATO and Warsaw Pact have said in the past few days that they are going to disarmament and nuclear weapons will be laid off."
"You said this is even more useless. What does it have to do with our people's lives? He will not set up his nuclear weapons in the sky as fireworks for us to open his eyes. We have to care about life. I heard that Wengzhou opened a free market for grain and oil? There is still some food at home, so I want to go and see..."
"Teacher Wang, why don't you speak? What are you thinking?"
Wang Yi returned to his spirit and said, "Oh, I was thinking that it was dark. How could we get to the sea when we went?"
Wang Dongfeng laughed: "If we go, we won't just go to the sea. If we go, we will occupy the territory first. If we wait until dawn, we will have no territory."
"Yes, in the past, everyone had time to set off again at dawn, but some villages later went to take up a good place before dawn, so we couldn't do it, we had to go earlier." Wang Dongyang next to him said.
Wang Yi was shocked: Mom, you have to turn it in even if you go to the sea?
The Plum Blossom Beach covers a wide area. It is an intermittent mudflat belt with a large mudflat in the middle and is dotted with small mudflats around it, like a plum blossom, so it is named plum blossom.
At this time, the tide had begun to fade and the mudflats were revealed.
It is mainly sand and very solid, and people can step on it directly.
Ships were stranded directly on the mudflat, and the flashlight was turned on, just like a lightsaber lit up, and the dark night was immediately split.
To be continued...