The early morning farce gradually came to an end under Mrs. Ye's scolding.
After finishing their meal, a group of children carried their schoolbags and watched them sorting crabs and binding crab legs at the door. They were all reluctant to go to school.
Mrs. Ye came out after washing the dishes and saw that they were all still talking around and not going out to school. She immediately became so angry that she went back to the house, picked up the whip and threw it at them again.
Of course, it was Ye Chenghai who suffered.
He jumped up instantly, with a sad face, "Why did you hit me again?"
"You are the one who is being beaten. When the time comes, you are still reluctant to leave. Are you waiting for the whip when you haven't had enough breakfast?"
"I'm not the only one...Hey...don't run away...wait for me..."
I walked too slowly and got whipped again...
Alas, it is really difficult to be the boss...
Ye Yaodong, his father and his mother Ye were tying and sorting the crabs in the two baskets, and the old lady was also slowly helping.
It only took the four of them a while to select all the crabs and tie their feet.
They kept the thin ones, the ones with big legs broken, and the dead ones by themselves. The intact ones weighed more than 40 kilograms when they were picked out. The vitality of the crabs was quite tenacious.
He asked his mother to divide the more than ten kilograms he kept for himself among his relatives and friends, as he couldn't eat them all anyway, and then he carried the sorted baskets onto the car.
Although the quantity in each basket is not large, you have to use baskets to sort it out. By the way, you can also carry the large yellow croaker caught last night on the cart.
Sent to the dock, the crabs were sold for more than 12 yuan, the large yellow croaker was sold for more than 16 yuan, and the two together were sold for less than 29 yuan.
This can be considered an unexpected fortune.
He happily received the order and asked Ah Cai to leave him another 50 kilograms of miscellaneous fish and shrimps as bait today.
There are a lot of sandworms at home, which can also be used as fishing bait, so the number of fish and shrimps can be appropriately reduced. If he doesn’t want to have more varieties of bait, and he also wants to dry more dried sandworms, otherwise he doesn’t need to buy them at all.
, using sandworms as bait is enough.
He happily went home. He didn't know how long it would take to clean up the two big baskets of sandworms. Fortunately, there were many people at home who could help with the work.
When we returned, Sister-in-law Ye and Sister-in-law Ye were also helping to clean up with chopsticks, and were talking about how they would catch more of them when the tide goes out and dry them in the sun. Sandworms are indeed delicious and can nourish yin and kidneys.
Even though there are two baskets here and there are leftovers from yesterday, the total amount is quite large. In fact, not much can be dried. One pound of sandworms can be dried for about one or two, and only about eight pounds can produce one pound of dried sandworms.
He left a few more kilograms as bait. Yesterday he brought a bucket back to his father-in-law and his mother-in-law. The rest is probably only about six or seven kilograms. When they come to pick up Lin Guangyuan, they will have to bring some dry food back.
, it’s really not much in total. It’s only enough for one or two kilograms for one family...
No, I have to send Lin Guangyuan to catch more in the afternoon!
Mother Ye was also there and said: "When the tide goes out in the afternoon, I will go with you and catch more. It will be delicious no matter how you cook it. There has been a lot of rain since the beginning of spring, so I haven't gone to sea much. I don't have much stock at home, so I eat all the dry goods."
It’s almost done, I need to show it more.”
"We thought so too..."
Today is the 16th day of the lunar calendar. The tide will reach full at around 1pm and last for more than an hour. Then it will gradually start to recede, reaching the bottom at around 7pm.
It just so happens that at that time in the afternoon, some of the kids are out of school, so they can be sent out!
He was not afraid that there would be no sandworms to catch today. Usually, they would come out to mate and reproduce for several days. If there were no sandworms on the surface, they could be found by digging under the sand.
But while they were busy working, Aunt Lan and her three daughters-in-law from next door came over to clean the house. They saw it and came over to say hello.
"Hey~ there are so many sandworms. Where are the sandworms? They were caught on the beach. You guys went to the beach to catch them so early?"
Sister-in-law Lan also said: "This must weigh several dozen kilograms, and it can bask in a lot of sun. How long have you been pretending? There should be some left when the tide goes out in the afternoon, right? We'll catch some by then, it's very fresh."
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Mother Ye smiled: "It's been a few days since the house was built. When are you going to move?"
"It will take another half a month to get there. Let's take some time to come over and clean it up in advance. We also need to tidy up the area around the door and make a small plot of land to grow some vegetables."
"We have to grow some vegetables. There is little land around us, so we can only grow a little bit of food here and there to eat at home."
"Yes, that's why I came here early to check it out. The man is not at home and has gone to sea, so we women can only do it."
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After they said a few words, they went to work in the new house next door.
Sister-in-law Ye was a little unhappy and said: "Well, there are a few more families nearby. Fortunately, the giant squid in the first month was discovered early, otherwise they might have discovered it first."
Ye Yaodong glanced at his second sister-in-law in surprise. His mind was quite strange. How could he think so far back? Several months had passed...
Maybe after being defrauded, she suddenly gained a large amount of money, which was deeply engraved in her heart. You must know that she had previously thought that the area of ​​​​the new house was a bit out of the way.
"Zhou Yongsheng's house will also be built next to it. I heard that they will start construction after May Day," Ye's mother said casually while working. "It would be good if more families build houses here, and it would be lively."
"They don't build it together, they bang it all day long, it's so noisy..."
"Isn't this how building a house always works..."
With more people and greater strength, everyone chatted and moved their hands slowly, and the two baskets of sandworms gradually bottomed out.
Mother Ye looked at what was left at the bottom and left it to them, while she went to fetch water and wash it.
After washing the sandworms and taking advantage of the good weather in the past two days to dry them, she had to work on the baskets of anchovies.
Fish sauce is made by fermenting small fish with salt, and its preparation is amazing, just like the infamous canned herring.
Ye Yaodong watched his mother pour the small fish into a large tank, mix it with sea salt in a ratio of 3:2 and start marinating it. As for how much fish sauce a big bag of anchovies can produce, he didn't know and hadn't calculated it.
After it's done, it can be sold. The family can't finish the big vat of it until the year of the monkey, and it can't be eaten as food. It's just used as a seasoning to freshen it up. However, it is indeed indispensable for every household in their area.
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When Ye's father helped Ye's mother, he went to the house to play with his children.
When the tide went out in the afternoon, the family took their tools to the beach and prepared to catch more sandworms.
I don’t know if Aunt Lan’s family next door leaked the news. When the tide went out in the afternoon, a lot of people came to the beach. The sandworms on the shallow water beach were wiped out as soon as they emerged, leaving them alone on the beach.
Digging slowly and painstakingly will greatly reduce the efficiency.
The sandworms are not shoveled out directly at the entrance of the hole, but around the hole, and then you can quickly dig them out with a shovel, which will be more efficient.
At this moment, Father Ye and Mother Ye were digging around with a shovel each, and Sister-in-law Ye picked it up.
When the children came over from school and saw that the beach was full of people, they were all confused.
"How long will it take to dig?"
"Dig slowly, just for fun."
After a group of helpers arrived, Ye Yaodong stopped working seriously and started wandering around again, taking a look at other people's harvests.
Hmm... not as much as they can catch with a shovel...
I walked around and only picked up a few cat's-eye snails that spray water and a few jumping fish.
There were too many people on the beach, so most of them were probably picked up.
With both hands full, he could only walk back, but saw Ye Chenghu reaching out towards a conch on the beach. He was so frightened that he immediately ran forward and kicked it away.
"father?"
"Just reach out and pick up anyone you don't recognize," he said while walking to the snail again, "Come here."
Ye Chenghu walked over with a puzzled look on his face, "Huh?"
"Let me teach you how to recognize it. This is called a cone snail. The front of the shell is pointed and thin, and the back is thick. The shape is a bit like a chicken's heart or a taro. It is highly poisonous. There are fangs in the small opening, which can shoot venom. If you touch it, you can
You are dead."
There are a lot of small seafood to pick up on the beach, but there are also deadly things, so you need to be careful, especially in this era, the ocean is rich in products, and unknown things often appear on the beach.
Ye Chenghu was stunned for a moment and remained motionless.
"Don't touch anything you don't recognize in the future." He then looked at the children gathered around him. "You guys are the same. You should be careful when playing on the beach. Don't pick up things you don't recognize."
"Oh, I understand, Uncle San."
"Go play!"
After asking them to identify it carefully, he kicked the cone snail far back into the sea. This snail was actually easy to identify.
Seeing that Ye Chenghu was still where he was, he patted his head again and said, "Go dig for sandworms. I'll give you pocket money when I get back later!"
"Really?" Ye Chenghu's eyes lit up with surprise.
Children are very forgetful.
"Really, you only have to work hard, so go ahead."
He ran away again, leaving this episode behind.
The whole family came out as soon as the tide went out and worked hard for two or three hours. After dinner, they only dug about 20 kilograms, which was disliked by all the children.
"Not as many as we caught yesterday!"
"It's not as good as what we caught at night!"
“Too many people!”
Ye Yaodong also felt that today's efficiency was too low. In the future, he would still have to put these things through the back door.
"Sister-in-law, at night we..."
Ye Yaodong knocked him on the head rudely, "Stay at home and sleep at night. If I find you sneaking to the beach, I will send you home directly tomorrow and never let you come over to play again."
Lin Guangyuan immediately stopped talking, "I mean, what time do you go to sea at night?"
"A little after two o'clock."
"Then what time will you come back?"
"I don't know what time it will be in the afternoon. It depends on the situation, the tide, the weather, and the harvest."
"All right."
"I want to go to sea and play when you are older."
"All right."
Because he had to go to sea at night, Ye Yaodong went to bed after returning from literacy class.
He went to the literacy class with the attitude of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days. He only went there when he had free time, so he has not graduated yet. He continued to attend the literacy class with the mentality of knowing as many words as he could.
315 driving was tried, waiting to be fished out
Chapter completed!