Ye Yaodong cursed, pulled and pulled, and soon loosened the fishing line again.
"It's just a line, and I want to walk the fish. It's too strenuous. Fortunately, I'm wearing gloves, so I can slow down a bit. Dad, please hold the wooden stick on which the line is wound. I can use it easily."
Use your other hand."
He felt that one hand was pulling and unwinding the thread, and the thread was wrapped around his arm, and then letting go again felt uncomfortable.
Father Ye actively stepped forward to help pick up the wooden stick for winding the thread, and squeezed to the front.
Ye Yaodong freed up his hands and pulled them together. His right hand had already wrapped the fishing line around his upper arm. He felt that the fish under the sea was not struggling as hard as it was at the beginning.
It was really too fierce at first, biting the fishhook and jumping out directly. He was caught off guard, not to mention the wooden club, and half of his body was pulled out of the side of the ship.
The fishing line on his arm became more and more entangled, and his right wrist flipped there from time to time to loosen the line, and the fish underneath was obviously pulled up bit by bit.
"Dad, how long did you put the thread on? Why does it feel like after pulling it for a long time, it's wrapped around your arm and it's still so long at the bottom?"
"Should we use a longer line to catch big fish? There has been no movement for a long time, so I just thought about putting in more fishing lines to try."
"It makes sense. It's really a big fish, but it's a bit laborious!"
"Are you okay? If not, I'll do it."
"How could I not do it? This fish feels like it has been taken care of for a long time. Wait, I will get it for you guys right away."
Ye Yaodong felt that the fish underneath was no longer struggling, so he pulled hard with all his strength. The fishing line in his hand was rolled around and around, and his right hand was still flexibly turning to take up the line.
After a while, the ferocious big fish gradually revealed its true face in Lushan, looming under the water.
"Ah, what about the red fish?"
Father Ye stretched his neck and looked at the sea carefully, and said happily: "Honggan is good, Honggan is good, please pull over quickly, I will get the hook..."
As Father Ye spoke, he directly handed the wooden stick in his hand to the soldier next to him, and hurried to the cabin to get the hook.
The sounds of their excited discussions could be heard in my ears.
"Pull it up, pull it up..."
"Coming up, coming to the water..."
"So big..."
"It's so big..."
"This fish is so big, no wonder it pulled the hook and ran away as soon as it bit the hook."
Ye Yaodong was also very excited, "Made, finally my efforts were not in vain. Fortunately, it is a red octopus fish and not other garbage fish. This fish is good."
"Is it expensive?"
"It's okay. I've earned enough money today. I've got wages and gas money, so I didn't work in vain..."
Father Ye held a long hook with a wooden stick tied to it. It was made by Ye Yaodong before. When fishing, if the fish is too big to be pulled up, he can use this hook to hook directly into the belly of the fish while it is wandering by the side of the boat.
Go ahead and lift the fish up.
All the soldiers were taller than him. Father Ye squeezed and said: "Let me in, let me in... Pull me up, right? You're not small... I'll come, I'll come...
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Father Ye, with a face filled with excitement, lay on the side of the boat, stretched out his stick, hooked the red octopus that was still wandering on the side of the boat due to loss of strength, and then quickly lifted it up and threw it on the deck.
This octopus fish even bounced when it was thrown on the deck.
Ye Yaodong didn't care that his arms were wrapped with fishing lines, and he also stepped forward and kicked him twice, "Good guy, he's really quite big. I've got red marks all over my arms from the fishing lines."
"This one weighs an estimated 20 kilograms. It's quite big. It's worth the trip today. I'm going to get a knife to bleed it. It will take a long time before I get back. Don't let it stink."
Captain Chen also said happily: "There are indeed a lot of fish hidden around the reef below. I caught such a big fish after only a short while of fishing. There must be many more below."
"Yes, when we went into the water before, we saw a lot of people coming and going. There were all kinds of colors. They were colorful and pretty."
Ye Yaodong untied the thread wrapped around his arm and said with a smile, "I'll tie a thread on each of your arms tomorrow."
There was a pile of threads wrapped around it. When it was untied, some of it was knotted, and a small section was still twisted into a mess. That was because he had gathered the thread into a ball when he was winding it up and didn't bother to unwrap it.
It's a bit troublesome.
He untied all the threads, threw them on the deck, and rolled up the sleeves on his arms first.
He was afraid of getting tanned, so he wore long sleeves even on hot days, but wearing long sleeves couldn't resist the fishing line strangling his arms, and the circles of red marks on his arms were evenly distributed.
The fish he had caught before were not this big, and it was not very difficult to pull them up. This red octopus was really powerful. He waved his arm and said: "This hand line is not suitable for catching big fish, it can only catch small fish.
It’s quite fast to catch small fish, and it’s easier to catch than using a rod.”
"Who can be sure about this?" Father Ye lowered his head to bleed the fish without raising his head.
Ye Yaodong shrugged and said casually, it was like opening a blind box.
He picked up the sticks on the deck again, and no matter how impatient he was, he still had to sort out the pile of threads and roll them up.
When conditions arise, we need to build a real fishing rod. The conditions are too difficult now. Either the bamboo rod is broken or the line is in a mess, which delays things too much.
When Father Ye finished bleeding the fish, Ye Yaodong was still fighting with the messy fishing line.
"I'm going to sail to the small island on the opposite side first. It's not that far away. I should be able to get there in five or six minutes."
Ye Yaodong said without raising his head: "Okay, you can figure it out. Anyway, you are idle. There are no fishing boats on the sea at the moment. Let the two comrades from the People's Liberation Army go digging for shellfish together. They are also idle anyway."
Since there is nothing to do, it is just right to divide the troops into two groups."
Father Ye glanced at them with a smile and said sheepishly: "You are really good at appointing people..."
Captain Chen smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, we are idle anyway, so we just want to go see something and experience a different seaside life."
"Okay, okay, I'll go sail the boat..."
Of course it would be nice to have two more free laborers.
After Ye's father docked the boat, Ye Yaodong had almost tidied up the threads. Just when he breathed a sigh of relief and raised his head, he saw his father carrying a bucket to him.
"Take it!"
Ye Yaodong wondered, "What?"
"Go to the island to dig for shellfish."
"Aren't you going? I seem to be more lucky than you. I caught such a big red octopus. You didn't do anything for a long time, so I'm here to catch the fish and you go and dig it."
"Fart, it was just a coincidence. My fishhook was not good at throwing it. Go quickly."
Ye Yaodong took the bucket depressed and looked at the surrounding waves hitting the rocks. The boat was rocking and colliding. Although there were no waves today, when the sea water surged to the edge of the reef, it would also stir up some waves, and there was even a little bit of exposure around it.
There are no beaches, and it’s really hard to stand on the rocks.
Forget it, for the sake of his father's old age, let him go.
"Remember to pick me up when it's time for dinner, so I don't starve to death."
"I got it. If I forget you, I can't forget the two comrades of the People's Liberation Army. You and the two comrades of the People's Liberation Army must be careful."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong carried the bucket and checked the tools inside. They were quite complete and there were five or six sacks. After thinking about it, he brought a handful of hand nets and asked the other two people to each take a bucket for easy loading.
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He carefully got off the boat first, stepped on the rocks and climbed up. Captain Chen and another soldier also disembarked behind him.
"Be careful, go to the side, and I will teach you how to identify these shellfish and how to dig them."
Ye Yaodong told them that all stones can be dug out. Some of them look gray and white, and nothing can be seen on the surface. Only when you pry them off can you see the meat inside.
For example, for oysters, he asked them to pry off the whole spat, not just the shell, but there was nothing to put the meat in, and he also demonstrated it to them.
There are also small abalones, the shell is almost like a rock, so you can just ignore it without looking carefully...
He dug out for them what the common types of rocks looked like, and after seeing that they all remembered them, he crawled to the side.
Stepping on the rocks was not as secure as stepping on the beach, and the risk factor was high. Ye Yaodong did not dare to look around and could only focus on his feet.
When he dug a full bucket and poured it into the sack, and was about to lift the sack to the flat reef above, he saw a small cave between the two rocks above, and there was a vicious round hole in it.
Axis Crab, this moment suddenly surprised him.
This round crab is a large land crab, and one of them happened to crawl to the entrance of the cave, giving him a real look.
The armor on its back is about 12 centimeters wide, its body color is purple-black, and its two claws are one big and one small. It may be that one of the claws was broken off and then another one grew back. The new claws will be smaller.
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They are sea crabs, but they are land crabs that live on land, which means they only need to replenish the sea water occasionally.
This crab is so dirty, its body is full of parasites, its gills are full of bugs, it even eats mice and cockroaches, vomit~
Ye Yaodong glanced at it and ignored it. He didn't want this kind of round-axis crab as a gift to him, so he might as well "love" it.
"Love" is their local dialect. I don't know what its scientific name is. It is also a kind of small crab, but it lives in the cracks of rocks. It is very small. The shell on its back is as big as between a quail egg and a pigeon egg, and only the shell is missing.
The only way to eat the meat is to catch it, wrap it in sweet potato starch and fry it.
It's just that he ignored it as if he hadn't seen it, but the other two were very surprised when they saw it.
Captain Chen had just filled a bucket with shelled goods and was about to place the sack on top of it, on a flatter location, when by chance he also saw the cave.
"Ah! There is a big crab here, A Dong, Aotian, come quickly..."
Ye Yaodong suddenly staggered, holding his hands on the rock to avoid falling, Aotian?
He looked at another soldier. Could it be that his surname was Long?
Chapter completed!