Ye Yaodong is still a little scared when he thinks back to the scene in the water just now. Fortunately, he jerked his head to the side to avoid it, otherwise the game would really be over.
Those are needlefish!
Needlefish mostly live in estuaries or near inshore bays. The body of the fish is long and cylindrical, about 20-45 centimeters in length, but some can grow up to one meter. The body of the fish looks very smooth and has about three inches.
It has a sharp mouth, and the fish mouth is very hard, and can easily pierce the human body.
And the swimming speed is about 60 kilometers per hour. At this speed, once scraped or stung by a needlefish, whether it is a human or a fish, it is very likely to be dead.
Just when he was hiding in the crevices of the reef, he saw a series of needlefish passing by, some of which had two or three small fish stuck on their mouths, like candied haws.
Moreover, needlefish have phototaxis, and if there is something luminous, it will be easier to attract them to rush towards the light point in excitement.
Needlefish are sometimes even scarier than sharks.
In most people's minds, except for sharks, which are scary, other fish are mostly delicacies that humans can eat and kill. They are weak and honest and can be taken at will.
However, in fact, this is just an illusion. Fish are even more likely to cause injuries than land animals. The reason why we rarely hear of injuries may be because the proportion of people who come into direct contact with fish is not large.
In fact, there are some larger fish with "needles" that are even more powerful. For example, the swordfish weighs hundreds of kilograms, can reach speeds of hundreds of kilometers per hour, and can even crash a boat through a big hole. It is called a live fish.
torpedo.
The swordfish also had long "needles" on their mouths. He had seen them inserted into the hull of a ship before, and they were very scary.
When Father Ye told him, he became nervous and his heart ached.
"What about you? How did you avoid it just now? I just swam past the boss group. When I was staring at the sea on the boat, I saw a large black mass under the water coming towards me at a very fast speed. What I was thinking was
If there is a school of fish, quickly use the hand-thrown net to throw it down."
"I collected a net and jumped when I saw it was a needlefish. The needles on this fish's mouth are very powerful. If any vital part is pricked, it will be over immediately."
Ye Yaodong also patted his chest, "That's right. If you get stabbed anywhere, you'll have to die at least half your life. Fortunately, I'm lucky and blessed by Mazu. It seems that the three days of carrying the sedan were not in vain."
"Yes, you are sincere, and Mazu will bless you. After I found out that the fish on the net was needlefish, I was worried that something would happen to you down there. I kept worrying about it and didn't have the time to think about anything else. There were two hand-thrown nets on the boat.
They all took turns filling it and then threw it on the deck."
"You can catch as many as you can. Anyway, you are lucky if you have good luck and good fortune."
"Don't go down there. It looks very dangerous down here. You don't know what you will encounter when you go down there. The stone fish before was very dangerous, and now there is a needle fish. You don't know what else you will encounter."
“You can still encounter good things!”
Ye Yaodong thought for a while, no matter what he brought into the water, he couldn't hide it from his father.
"I just met a needlefish, so I hid in a crevice in the reef, and found a wooden box under the crevice..."
Father Ye was originally frowning, but he raised his eyebrows in an instant, and his eyes widened in surprise, "Wooden...wooden box? There can be a wooden box under the gap?"
"Yes, I turned around unexpectedly and saw it. I was also very surprised. I originally wanted to go down and have a look, but I ran out of time, so I had to come up first."
"This wooden box... is the crack in the reef big? Can you go down alone? Can you walk inside?"
"I haven't gone down, so I'm not sure. The bottom seems to be a little narrower than the top, but I haven't gone down to try it, so I can't say. I can just stand there and avoid the opening. I'll rest for a while and then go down and try to explore.
Look, there’s only time to take a few more glances ahead.”
"Are there many boxes?"
"There seem to be four or five of them. They are entangled in water and weeds. I can't see very clearly. I can only see a little bit. The sun is strong today and the light is good. It shines right through. The visibility is quite high. I can barely see a little. And I
His eyesight is also good."
"I just don't know if there are any stacked boxes at the bottom. If there are boxes stacked up at the bottom, it must be more than that. I'll find out later when I take a look."
Father Ye was surprised and a little happy, thinking of the wooden box that A Dong picked up when he was fishing for the big cauldron...
It would be really terrible if there was a treasure in this wooden box, but he was also worried about whether there would be any danger, and felt a little complicated and tangled in his heart.
Ye Yaodong was happy because of the patronage. He sat directly on the deck and guessed: "I don't know what's in the wooden box. It doesn't look big at all. I don't know how many years it has been piled underneath."
"This seawater is very corrosive. In addition to gold and silver, everything else must have been damaged, right?"
"Who knows? It would be great if it were gold and silver. I don't want anything else. It's useless to take it. If I really want to get something incredible, I still have to hand it over. Isn't my work in vain?"
He rubbed his hands together and his mouth almost watered. Thinking of the box of gold cakes at home, he had very high expectations in his heart.
If you just melt that box of gold cakes, you should have nothing to worry about in this life. But who thinks money is too much? The more the better.
"How about waiting for a few days? There's no need to hurry and go fishing now. You can't escape anyway. The needlefish just appeared. What if there are still more underneath?"
Ye's father was also worried about his safety. No matter how important money was, it was not as important as his life. Moreover, he didn't know what was in the box. Those needlefish were swimming past very fast just now. With the long sharp blade on its mouth,
They all felt that it would be too much to prick them.
Ye Yaodong was right to think about it. What if there were residues?
There will always be a few fish that slip through the net, right?
With such a large group of fish swimming past, what if one or two idiots fall behind and wander around? It would be safer to go into the water a few days later. Who knows if we will still have good luck if we encounter the remaining troops?
Anyway, only his family's fishing boat is trawling here in the vicinity. Other fishing boats at most pass by this area when they are working. There should be no one launching here for no reason. It won't have any impact if they come here a few days later.
"Then forget it for now. I can't run away anyway. I'll come back in two days to explore the water."
"Well, let's go trawl now."
"OK."
After hearing his answer, Ye's father immediately went to sail the boat.
Father Ye actually didn't realize that he was becoming more and more focused on Ye Yaodong. He discussed everything with him and rebutted and reprimanded without opening his mouth.
Ye Yaodong sat for a while, then stood up and poured the needlefish out of the fishing net. Not to mention, each of these needlefish were quite big. There were no small ones, and most of them were half a meter long.
I don’t know if there is too little fishing in the ocean now, but all of them are very big, some of them seem to be nearly one meter long.
This net weighs at least two hundred kilograms, so this boat has rolling wheels to make it easier to pull it up.
After Ye Yaodong poured out both fishing nets, he first tidied up the fishing nets, put them aside and then squatted down to sort out the needlefish according to their size.
All you need to do is pick out the big ones. Except for a few that are nearly one meter long, the others are all evenly sized and about 40 to 50 centimeters long.
After he picked out the big one, he found that the two looked different. They should be two varieties. The big one was nearly one meter long and had a long cylindrical shape. It was slightly flatter in comparison. It was probably a fish in troubled waters that had mixed in with a few.
Not the same.
They must be cousins.
He flicked the sharp mouth at the front twice more, and it really looked like a steel needle. No wonder it was called a needle fish.
In his previous life, he was reading the news and saw someone's temple above his right eye being penetrated by a needlefish. It penetrated deeply into the brain and got stuck in it. He died on the spot.
He shuddered and threw the fish directly into the basket.
After all the bamboo baskets were filled, he dragged them to the corner and stacked them up. He didn't know how much the fish was worth, but it weighed four to five hundred kilograms. He could sell a little of it.
During his selection process, Ye's father also drove the boat back to the middle of the sea to prepare to lower the net. Taking advantage of the fact that he didn't waste much time just now, if he lowered the fishing net and dragged it now, he could drag two nets before dark.
At this time, there was more than one of his other boats working on the sea. There were also two more fishing boats on the horizon in the distance. They should also be working back and forth.
Generally speaking, everyone does not interfere with each other's operations at sea.
After Ye Yaodong helped his father lower the fishing net together, he held his chin and thought on the side. He was still thinking about the gap in the reef, and he felt itchy and wanted to go down now.
Father Ye saw him staring at the sea in a daze, and he knew that he was still thinking about the boxes under the water.
"Don't think about it. Wait until the day after tomorrow to get into the water and take a look. It will take another day tomorrow. Don't worry."
"Um."
With nothing to do, he simply went to the cabin to pay homage to Mazu again.
It was a good day yesterday. After seeing the good time, his mother asked them to go to Thean Hou Temple with his father and invite Mazu's statue on the boat to worship her. Now there were seasonal cherries and peaches in front of the statue.
, the plums are offered there.
When you disembark in the evening, you can burn three sticks of incense and you can almost remove these tributes.
The children at home are also enjoying the food. When I bought it yesterday morning, it happened to be the weekend, and they were watching TV at home and kept eating it.
In the past, when weekends came, they would definitely go to the mountains to pick food, and they would be sunburnt before summer, just like wild monkeys. Now that they have TV, they will honestly not go anywhere.
But I can't scream anymore. No matter how much soy sauce or vinegar I try, I can't move my butt.
I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.
The father and son had finished hauling the two nets and it was getting dark. The boat belonging to cousin and Asheng had finished work earlier than them and stayed on the sea to collect the fish for a while while waiting for them.
Chapter completed!