Father Ye was only disappointed for a moment. He felt a little bit of pain on the instep of his rain shoes, and felt relieved again.
After a while, it still wasn't received, so he simply took out the ingot and played with it. It was golden and pleasing to look at. He smiled again, wiped it on his clothes, and couldn't help but put it in his mouth and bit it twice.
Ye Yaodong watched from the side and his mouth twitched, his father's feet were no better than his.
Taste your own taste.
Ye's father also felt Dongzi looking at him, and happily explained his repeated behavior.
"Take a bite, so that it feels real. We are not dreaming. We really got a big box of gold ingots. It won't matter if there is more glass in the box later."
"Ah! Say something nice!"
Although he thinks so too, there is nothing wrong with being greedy as long as everything is good.
And he didn’t monopolize it, everyone who saw it had a share, his father had it, and he also paid tribute to Mazu! He paid tribute!
Father Ye also smiled and hurriedly sighed twice, "Then let's get some more gold and silver treasures. How many boxes are there down there?"
"There are three more, just go down two more times later."
"Hurry up, just tie the rope and come up... Come on, come on, this box is coming up."
The father and son did not bother to talk and went to pick up the box first.
As soon as Father Ye got his hands on it, he felt that the weight of the two boxes was about the same, "It's not gold."
"Definitely not. How can a box of gold be so light?"
"It would be nice if it wasn't glass."
"You'll know after you open it and take a look."
Ye Yaodong picked up the kitchen knife with a wavy blade, and now he could only use the back of the knife to chop off the lock.
Father Ye had no sense of expectation at all and just opened the box.
"What should I do?"
He stretched his head to take a look, then reached out and took one out, looked at it, and fiddled with it back and forth.
"Carry it into the cabin and store it first. It's better than the two boxes of glass in the front. This one is at least a inlaid mirror."
The small round mirror in the middle reflected a person's face very clearly. The back should be made of copper. It had become patina due to being soaked in sea water and was quite green. He didn't know if it was still useful.
This whole box is filled with all kinds of mirrors. It can be seen that the ancients made them quite beautifully, but they are all green and have been corroded by sea water into a patina.
At least the mirror is not broken, so let’s carry it to the cabin first. Anyway, take it back and bury it in your own yard. Whether it is of use or not will be left to future generations to worry about.
He is an uneducated person who has only attended literacy classes for a few days and understands nothing. He doesn't know how to deal with these things.
Even with that box of gold, he didn't know what to do with it. When he took it back, he just planned to bury it and hold it in his hands like a collection.
When a poor person becomes rich, he doesn't know how to spend money, so he has to save money first. Anyway, his philosophy has always been to spend enough money.
The father and son carried the box of mirrors into the cabin as usual, and Ye Yaodong also took a mirror and placed it on the altar table.
Bribery is a must. As Mazu is a woman, she must also like to dress up.
When the offering is finished later, the gold ingot will have to be put away, but the mirror can always be kept.
Father Ye didn't say anything about his actions, he just urged him to quickly pick up the three boxes below.
Ye Yaodong repeated the trip twice more before salvaging all three boxes at the bottom.
Opening these boxes is really like opening a blind box.
Two vases came out of a box, but they were both knocked. One was broken into pieces, and there was a gap in the other opening. I don’t know how it was damaged. Is it because of the narrow gap when I hid it in the sea?
Hit?
The box was undoubtedly thrown back into the sea by them, but Ye Yaodong still took out the broken vase.
I don’t know if it’s still useful if it’s broken, but the pattern looks quite beautiful. I can take it back and put it on the table for my wife to arrange flowers. It doesn’t matter whether it’s chipped or not.
Another box contained a set of dishes that looked like blue and white porcelain. Some of them were broken, but some were good. He didn't plan to pick this set separately. He would keep it and bury it anyway.
It's a rare complete set. Although there are gaps, if it can be put to use, there are some collectors or some masters. I heard that they know how to repair it.
You can keep them first. Anyway, burying a box is still a burial, and burying a pile is still a burial. Put it away as junk first.
Or maybe you need to give it away later.
Father Ye also listened to him. If he wanted it, he would take it to the warehouse. If he didn't want it, he would throw it into the sea. Anyway, it was all what he fished out.
"This is the last box. It's light and it's not important."
"It must have been packaged in a separate box, so it felt light and no sound was heard."
"Open it, finish it early, and collect the cage early."
Ye Yaodong opened the box, and there was no doubt that there was something in a box inside.
He didn't do what he thought and opened it directly, almost blinding the father and son with his titanium dog eyes.
"Guanyin!"
I originally thought that the box was light and would contain some kind of porcelain, but I didn't expect that it would be a white jade Guanyin, which made the father and son's hearts tremble.
"It's a jade Guanyin!"
Ye Yaodong was so happy that his eyes almost bulged out. He didn't expect that besides a box of gold, there would be a big surprise waiting for him!
"You can take it back and give it to the old lady to keep in the house."
"That's right, you have to take this Guanyin home as an offering. You can't just bury it in the ground. What if Guanyin gets angry..." Father Ye didn't say what was left behind.
"Yes, just give it to the old lady and ask her to offer it to you. She will burn three sticks of incense in the morning and evening."
Anyway, no one would go to the old lady's house, and the country people were uneducated, and no one would study Guanyin. They would only take a glance at it. It is quite normal for the elderly to worship Guanyin and Buddha in their houses.
The old lady believed in Guanyin the most besides Mazu.
Anyway, there is nothing else enshrined in their home, and there will be no conflict. They go to Thean Hou Temple to worship Mazu every day.
This jade Guanyin would be a good idea for the old lady to use for her daily worship. She would probably be very happy.
"Then it's better to put it in a box and put it in the cabin first. Then, if you don't want the box, it's better to throw it back into the sea."
Ye Yaodong nodded.
A small part of the cabin has been taken up by boxes stacked one after another. The space inside will need to be filled with fishing nets and other sundries later. It is better to throw away unnecessary things to save space.
After going down four times intermittently, Ye Yaodong also felt quite tired. The last trip was because he only had to tie up a box and there was no need to go down again.
So after tying the box, he thought not to waste time, so he touched the gap where he had caught the little green dragon before, and caught three more of them unprepared.
The rest were hidden further inside and out of reach, so he had to take out a sharp knife to pry out the conchs adhering to it, and occasionally a few abalones adhering to it.
Then I wandered around the nearby reefs and searched for a while. I also found a lot of conches and abalones intermittently, and also picked up two extra sea cucumbers.
I also encountered a few large scallops, but they ran so fast in the sea that I couldn't even catch them.
After filling the net bag half full, he went up and asked his father to collect the rope and open the three boxes together.
Father Ye looked at the boxes stacked neatly and said, "Everything is done. Now let's collect the cages. The time is just right. I will go home after collecting them."
"Let's take the fishing net into the cabin first? Anyway, we won't be trawling today. Such a big net will be directly placed in the cabin. It just happens to cover those boxes. We also pack all the things that need to be packed inside and lock the cabin directly.
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"When night falls, around 11 or 12 o'clock, there will be no one on the pier and on the road. Let's quietly move to the boat."
Father Ye nodded, "That's fine. Then you can put everything in the cabin and lock it up. I'll drive the boat to the ground cage."
"Then let's not go out to sea at night. We'll take a nap when we get back. At eleven or twelve o'clock, we'll go out to the dock to move the boxes. After moving them back to the yard, we still have to dig holes and bury them, and there's no time to rest."
"Then we have a day off tomorrow. We have to be a little early at this time. Otherwise, around two o'clock in the night, your brother and the neighbors will get up and prepare to go to sea. It is not good for them to hear the noise."
"It will be around 10 o'clock then. Recently, the folks have been going to bed early because they have gone to sea. This time should be fine. Let Ah Qing turn off the TV early in the evening and drive the children back to bed."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong thought about it and took the opportunity to take a day off tomorrow, sleep until he wakes up naturally, and then ride his bicycle to the county seat.
In the afternoon, I also caught five small green dragons, three to four kilograms of abalone, and a dozen conchs. These are not easy to die and can survive after being raised for one night. It will be just right to send them to Director Chen tomorrow.
These are some of the best souvenirs, plus a sack of cuttlefish, which is a decent gift and can be seen.
The total cost is probably worth one or two hundred yuan, and the quantity seems to be large, so it is not rude to give it away. It is not considered bribery, after all, they are all local specialties, and they are all harvested and dried at home.
Full of value and sincerity.
After he made up his mind, after putting the fishing nets and sundries in the cabin and locking them, he looked at the contents of the bucket again and counted the quantity carefully before he felt relieved. It would not look good to give away too little.
There was also an octopus in the bucket. When he caught it and counted the other items, it kept crawling around and even escaped. It crawled out of the basket and crawled around on the deck.
This octopus was something he accidentally touched when he was tying the box.
It had been crawling on the side of the box, and it almost startled him when he first touched it. It was soft and sticky, and it even wrapped around his arm.
It's not honest to put it in a net bag, because the net bag is made of mesh and has tiny holes. Its tentacles are particularly good at drilling into gaps. They can also stretch out along the holes and wrap around his waist to move around.
He almost didn't break his defense.
"Come and help close the net, don't wait there."
"Coming."
After catching the octopus back into the bucket, he immediately went up to help his father.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone!
Chapter completed!