"Hiss~ Male Gobi, got bitten..."
Hearing the familiar curse words, Ye Yaodong raised his head and glanced at Lin Guangyuan. He was speechless and followed him. Otherwise, if Ah Qing was here, he would have scolded him. The half-grown boy likes to imitate adults and use dirty words.
"Be careful, don't get your hands caught."
"I just got pinched. Fortunately, the crab is not big, so it hurt a little."
Ye Chenghai looked at him with contempt, "You are so useless, how can you still get bitten while catching crabs?"
"I'm not a beach person."
"Hurry up and catch them, they're all gone..."
Ye Yaodong kept bending over and picked up all the items in front of him, regardless of their size, into buckets or sacks.
“Talk without delaying work!”
The two boys carried the bucket, and when it was half full, they took it and poured it into the sack. They went back and forth without getting tired, but they just chatted non-stop.
"Made, there are so many here at once, can't they come ashore in batches?"
"What do you think of lining up for food? It's a good idea, but you want to ask them to queue up even if you are going to die?" Ye Yaodong replied to Lin Guangyuan while grabbing.
"Why do they come ashore at night?"
"Because at night, the shore environment is relatively quiet, and there is less oxygen in the water at night, so crabs will crawl ashore in large numbers to move around or look for food. You kept chattering, so they were scared away.
"
"Ah? Like this? Then shut up, shut up, stop talking!"
"Idiot, aren't they already crawling into the sea?"
These crabs came ashore and stayed for a while, and then turned around and crawled into the sea one after another. At this time, the three of them wished they had three heads and six arms. It would be a shame if they ran away, it was all money.
Fortunately, the sea water is receding, extending their way back to the sea a little longer, allowing them to catch them for a while longer.
But it only took about 20 minutes to catch them, and all the crabs on the shore ran away and went into the water.
The three of them carried the buckets and continued to catch in the water. They could still catch in the water for a while before they swam too far.
They waited until both buckets were half full and there were no crabs in the shallow water around them before they went ashore.
"It's a pity that we didn't set up a few nets around the shallows, otherwise we could have caught them all."
"A lot of them have been caught."
"Yes, we have grabbed half a bag, it must be twenty or thirty kilograms."
Ye Yaodong poured all the crabs in the bucket into the sack, stretched out his hand to lift his own bag, and then said with satisfaction: "It can weigh about 20 kilograms, mainly because they are quite big.
One bag should be more.”
"I'm rich~" Ye Chenghai said happily.
"It's just a small fortune. I'll sell it tomorrow and I'll give you pocket money."
Lin Guangyuan said happily: "The tide has just gone out. Let's look for it again. There must be other goods. We were all just catching crabs."
"Yes, yes, if we look further, there must be others."
Ye Yaodong looked at his watch. It had only been an hour. The tide had just receded and it had not risen so quickly. It was all out, so let's go shopping again.
"Go to that reef area and have a look. Just throw these two bags here first, so you don't have to carry them around. No one comes out in the middle of the night anyway, so you guys are too full."
"Uncle Third, you are the same, you are too full!"
"Well, I'm indeed too full. I'm so busy that I didn't sleep in the middle of the night and actually went out to sea with you. I won't be so leisurely in two days. Let's go, hurry up and go home to sleep after this."
As a result, before walking very far, Ye Yaodong felt a bit of shit under his feet. At this time, the flashlight also shone on the surface of the beach and suddenly many sandworms appeared.
"Ah? Uncle, there are sandworms again..."
Ye Yaodong stepped on his feet and took a look. Many of the strips under his feet had been crushed by him, and half of them were still in the sand before they had time to get out.
"They come out to mate and reproduce on the night of the full moon. Catch as many as you can."
Without him having to say anything, the two boys already excitedly squatted down and fished into the bucket.
Hearing the familiar sound of shaking sacks, Ye Chenghai raised his head in surprise, "Uncle Third, how many sacks do you have on you? How come you can take them out at any time?"
"You care about me? Hurry up and get to work, don't be nagging."
He still has it with him, just in case of emergencies. Haixing didn't bring a sack that time, which gave him a better memory.
"We should wake up everyone. What a pity. It's just the three of us. How can we catch them all?"
"Catch as many as you can, little uncle, let's blow up another pot at noon tomorrow?"
"Why is it that it's not you who should be scolded, so it doesn't matter to you? Don't think about it, just fry leeks and eat them tomorrow."
…
While muttering, they grabbed another half of the bag. By this time, all three of them were so tired that their necks and waists were sore.
"Oh, there are too many small seafoods. It's really frustrating if you can't pick them up..."
"Yes, there are more sandworms at night than during the day. We can't catch them all. We obviously caught so many during the day, but more come out at night."
"Tired? Just go back to sleep when you're tired. That's almost enough."
Although it's a pity not to catch them all, but if they catch too many, it will be troublesome for them to clean them up. Let's keep them for sustainable development.
"No, I'm not sleepy!"
"I'm not sleepy either!"
"Okay, I won't be able to get up tomorrow anyway, and it's not me who will be beaten. You just catch her here slowly, while I go to the side to look around."
I happened to be a little tired, so I went to walk around the nearby reef to see if I had gained anything else, but I didn't come back to continue.
"I want to go too..."
"You just catch it here, who knows if there is anything ahead, don't delay."
The two boys could only look up at him while talking and walking away.
"Why do I feel that my brother-in-law is being lazy and makes us do hard work here!"
"Don't think that he just treats us as laborers. I see through him."
"Damn it! People under the eaves have to bow their heads!"
…
Listening to the muttering of the two young men behind him, Ye Yaodong twisted his neck and rubbed his waist as he walked, looking at the darkness in the distance, thinking that it was a good thing he didn't follow his bad friends, otherwise, you would be scared.
I, I'm scaring you, there's nothing you need to do.
His headlamp shone on the ground from time to time, and from time to time it shone on the rocks not far away. As he walked, he picked out several cat's-eye snails buried in the sand, with only the breathing holes exposed.
He didn't want to pick it at first, but who showed him the hole? If he didn't pick it, he would feel a little itchy...
I feel comfortable when I pick it. The soft flesh on it feels very relieved and water can flow out, which gives me a special sense of accomplishment.
As he got closer, he saw the densely packed small barnacles and mussels on the rocks. He simply ignored them. They were not as big as his boogers.
He lowered his head and carefully looked at the rocks and the gaps around them, and he actually picked up two ghost-headed crabs.
At this moment, he heard the sound of water splashing in his ears. Curious, he directly used his headlamp to shine on the surrounding sea. When the headlamp shook, the sea was extremely calm.
He was a little puzzled, but just when he was about to turn his head, a slender silver-white figure appeared in the light of the headlight and jumped out of the water.
"Huh?"
He stopped moving his head and took a closer look. Just when he was about to take a closer look at what kind of fish it was, he found that in the halo of light, more and more white figures were gathering, and they were also jumping over each other, white water splashes.
Being splashed everywhere.
Wasn't that the sound those fish made just now as they were squeezing and jumping around?
He curiously continued to move his head, letting the headlight shine to the side, but saw this small group of fish follow one after another, surrounding the circle of light.
Phototaxis!
Many fish have phototaxis!
That’s why there is this method of light fishing.
He walked towards the fish school and turned his head around. Unexpectedly, he saw a group of silver-white fish on the shallow reef nearby, but their backs were blue. Under the bright light, they jumped
The splash became more active, and the water splashed continuously.
"Damn, there are so many? No wonder there is so much movement!"
"What? Third uncle? What are you talking about?" Hearing him talking to himself, but unable to hear clearly what he was saying, Ye Chenghai shouted loudly.
"Bring me the handwritten net next to you!" Ye Yaodong also shouted to them, and then continued to walk forward.
Wherever his headlight shines, the fish follow the light and swim there.
Only when he got closer did he see that these were anchovies.
The silvery white color is the color of its abdomen, which is more obvious at night.
The anchovy is a small fish with strong phototaxis, so he didn't notice it when he first shined his headlamp on the sea surface. After a short while, the anchovy was attracted and swam over before he saw it.
The longer the photo is taken, the more it becomes.
When Ye Chenghai heard his third uncle asking him to grab the net with his hands, he immediately ran over excitedly with Lin Guangyuan.
"What are you doing with the hand-made net, Third Uncle?"
"Catch fish!"
"Ah, there are fish! There are so many!" Ye Chenghai also saw it after he ran over.
Lin Guangyuan also kept shining his flashlight on the sea surface, and said with bright eyes: "Wow, uncle, what kind of fish is this? Why are there so many? Catch it quickly~"
With that said, he handed the flashlight to Ye Chenghai and rushed forward...
Ye Yaodong grabbed his back collar and pulled him back, "What do you want from me? Just wait here for me!"
Then he took the handmade net from Ye Chenghai's hand and said, "You guys are all waiting here. Use your flashlight to help shine it, and I'll go catch it."
"I don't have a flashlight, so I'm going to help fish it out."
Ye Yaodong pulled him back again as he rushed forward, "It's just a hand net, what do you use to catch it? Can you take off your clothes to catch it?"
"It's not impossible..."
Ye Yaodong glared at him and said, "Be honest!"
Lin Guangyuan wrinkled his face and looked at Ye Yaodong sadly, "You said you have already come out, why don't you bring one more?"
"How do I know there will be fish? I just bring them with me casually. I only have one at home and the others are on the boat. They are waiting here."
He stepped forward to the shallow water, and under the light of the light, the anchovies rushed to the shore. He gently fished out the net with his hand, and the net was full.
Immediately afterwards, the fish next to it squeezed in to fill the gap.
"What kind of fish is this? Uncle, you haven't even told me yet. This fish is so small. It's as long as my hand and thin."
"This is an anchovy, which we also call sea anchovy. It can be used to make fish sauce."
Wait half an hour for the next chapter.
Chapter completed!