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Chapter 218 The "Locust" in the Sea

The next day, the weather looked even worse. When I got up early in the morning, it looked gray and light rain started.

Ye Yaodong looked at the sea and couldn't help frowning. The wind was not as strong as the previous two days, but the waves were still there.

His 1000 hooks are still at sea, and I don’t know if the buoys will be lost by the waves. I’m worried, and the ground cage net is also at sea. I haven’t collected it for 3 days. If I don’t go today, the fish in the cage will be destroyed. The prawns were going bad.

"Ah Qing, I'll sail out to collect the goods in the ground cage."

"There are waves, and it's raining, you just have a cold..."

"It's okay with a little rain, and the waves are not as big as the previous two days. I didn't go to the open sea, so I put the cage on the coast. It's okay."

Lin Xiuqing glanced outside the house, frowned and said, "Then be careful and put on your coir raincoat."

"Ah."

Ye Yaodong picked up the straw coir raincoat hanging behind the door and put it on, put on the bucket and went out. Ye Yaohua and Ye Yaopeng saw him going out even when it was raining, so they asked him why he was going?
"Go and collect a ground cage and come back."

Without saying a word, he walked out without stopping.

There are large and small boats floating outside the pier. The weather has been bad in the past few days, so no boats have gone out, and even the purchase point has not been opened.

It's the same today, it's deserted and there's not even a single person, which forms a huge contrast to the bustle of people coming and going in the past.

Ye Yaodong carried the bucket and approached the shore of the pier, but looking at it from a distance, he always felt that something was wrong on the reef covered by sea water outside the pier.

How do you feel that the reef has become colorful?

It looks yellow and purple?Seems like it's still moving?

He walked forward in the rain with question marks all over his head, but his eyes widened in shock, "Fuck...starfish??? So many?"

As far as the eye can see, on the wall of the underwater reef, the densely packed tentacles flickering are actually starfish!
It is currently low tide, but the tide does not recede to the bottom. Although the reefs on the shore are submerged by sea water, he can still clearly see that there are starfishes stretching across the reefs as far as he can see. It's so big, it's going to lie...

When he got closer, even though the sea water was a bit cloudy, he could still vaguely see a large yellow-purple starfish lying on the beach below. After all, its color was quite eye-catching.

"Grass, when will this be picked up?"

He is both happy and a little worried, there is nothing to hold these things...

Today I just wanted to collect a ground cage, so I carried two buckets. I didn’t even push out the cart, and there was no place to put it. His boat was not small, so it couldn’t come in when it docked. The water level in this place was at low tide. too shallow.

Everyday they go out by bus at high tide, then get on their own boat, and then bring their own boat to the shore to load or load things.

The water level on the shore is too shallow when the tide is low. There are two high tides and two low tides every day.

In the past, ships came in to dock to unload when the tide was high, and would drive outside to dock a little after unloading, and then personally let the bus ship pick it up.

The small wooden boat is not afraid of the shallow water level, and they are always docked on the shore, but his small wooden boat has long been sold, so sad!

His eyes scanned the surroundings, and in an instant, his eyes lit up, and he saw Ah Zheng and the little wooden boat!

"Good guy, it's you! Lend me first!"

Other people's boats are not easy to move, and if they are seen, some will make a fuss at that time, and theirs will definitely be fine!
He swung two buckets and walked towards their boat excitedly.

Simply start picking from the reef near where their boat is docked.

From a close distance, he can clearly see that some of these starfish have five horns like a five-pointed star, but there are also four and six.

There are 4 rows of dense tube feet side by side under its horns.Using tube feet, they can both capture prey and allow themselves to climb rocky reefs.

The diameter of the big starfish on the underwater reef is more than 20 centimeters according to his visual inspection. It looks amazing. There are densely packed tube feet on the lower side, and the small ones are about 5-6 centimeters. I haven’t seen any smaller ones. .

These starfishes are wriggling their tentacles one by one to eat. They wrap the small mussels on the reef, use their tentacles to pry open a very thin opening, and then destroy the meat inside.

Don't look at the beautiful and cute starfish, but they are very edible, as long as they swim in the water and are smaller than them, oysters, abalones, sea cucumbers, fish eggs, crabs and scallops are all the same. eat.

Sometimes I get so ruthless that I don't even spare my own kind...

Like the locusts on the ground, it is particularly destructive. Wherever it goes on the bottom of the sea, there are very few shellfish left.

And it also has super reproductive ability, a female starfish can lay 2000 million eggs at a time!

Ye Yaodong picked one up and rubbed it with his thumb, its tentacles were still moving.

"Mad, such a large area, the goods on the reef at the pier will be eaten up, and the sand clams under the beach will be eaten up."

He threw the starfish into the bucket and continued to pick it up. With such a large piece, he picked the big ones first, and he didn't know when he would climb up. In the past few days, no one came out of the pier because of the wind and waves, and no one found it.

It is estimated that they should be washed by the waves, so they appeared in large numbers on the shore to look for food.

He bent down, picked up a full bucket in a short while, twisted his waist, and continued.

When he filled both buckets, he only eliminated a small piece, and the surrounding area was full of starfish. It took him a day and a night to collect them, and he probably couldn't finish them all!
Grass, who cares, pick up as much as you can, and fill the boat first before you find it.

He poured all the starfish in the two buckets into the boat, and then went back to fill them, and he didn't care that his trousers and shoes were soaked in water.

He came and went, poured the bucket when it was full, I don't know how many times, the boat seemed to be half full, and his waist was about to die.

The rain didn't know when it stopped, and the sky looked brighter.

Ye Yaodong looked at his watch and realized that it was past 12 o'clock, and he had been out for more than 4 hours, no wonder he was hungry.

"Ah? What is this?"

Ye Yaodong raised his eyes when he heard the voice, "Mom? Why did you come out?"

"It's me, didn't Ah Qing say that you got out of Hella's cage? Why are you here? What are these densely packed things? Are they starfish?"

He said affirmatively, "It's a starfish. It was supposed to come out of Hela's cage, but when I arrived at the pier, I saw starfish everywhere, so I picked them up here."

My waist is almost broken.

Some time ago, I felt that the pork loin was all in vain. I didn't put in the effort at the critical moment, and I wasted it here today.

When Ye Mu heard the words, she looked at the big starfish here with bright eyes, "Why don't you know to go back and say something? There are so many here, when will you pick them up by yourself?"

"I'm not thinking, since I saw it, I should pick it up for a while before anyone finds out. I haven't asked you yet? Why did you run out suddenly?"

"I saw the rain stopped after eating, so I went to see you. Who knew that Ah Qing said that you came out to collect the ground cage, and you haven't gone back yet. I was worried about something wrong with you, and asked me to come out. Take a look. You don’t know how to go back and say something.”

Mother Ye patted her thigh while talking, and said excitedly: "Oh, I have to go back and call your parents, your elder brother and second brother, and call them all out to pick them up. This is all money!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she ran back happily.

"Wait, mother, bring me a few more sacks, and call Xiao Zheng and the others..."

Nor can their ships be requisitioned in vain.

"I know, I know……"

Ye's mother's voice came from afar, and Ye Yaodong finally found a higher rock and sat down, his waist was about to break, he wanted to rest for a while.

Looking at the surrounding reefs, they were still tightly covered by starfish, and only the area around him was empty.

Made, worked hard all morning, but only picked up a small half of the place, which is really flooding.

Mother Ye left quickly, and the people who called were also fast.

Father Ye and Ye Huimei were the first to push the scooter, elder brother Ye, sister-in-law Ye, and second elder brother Ye, second sister-in-law followed closely behind.

They were stunned to see starfish all over the reefs covered by seawater.

"It's really all starfish!"

"so many……"

"Hurry up, let's go down and pick it up..."

"Dong has picked up so much?"

"You picked up this boat? Why didn't you go back and say something?"

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, why did he waste time going back and talking?

Shouldn't you pick up some things yourself first?

If his mother hadn't come out, he could continue to pick it up, and go back after picking up the dark or filling the boat!
"You're still rambling, why don't you pick it up?" Father Ye said, and Second Aunt Ye immediately fell silent.

Each of them shook a sack, each found a place, and excitedly began to pick up money.

Their excitement prompted them to chatter again.

"Why are there so many starfish?"

"Yeah, why are there so many starfish popping up on the shore all of a sudden. All of them are quite beautiful. I usually only pick up one or two occasionally on the beach. Today they are so many and big!"

"Is it because of the waves these days?"

"It's in the sea, look, it's everywhere in the sea and on the beach."

……

After a while, Mother Ye came late with Ah Zheng and Xiao Shanshan.

The two of them were called out by Ye's mother because they didn't know why, thinking that Dongzi had something urgent, that's why his mother asked them to come out with sacks in such a hurry.

They were still wondering, why are you taking the sack to the pier?This is not the first day of junior high school, nor the fifteenth day, there are still waves in the sea.

They were also pleasantly surprised at just one glance, and they immediately reacted and rushed up with Ye Mu.

Sure enough, he is a good brother, even if he has good things to think about his family, he actually thinks about them!

So impressed!

"Fuck, you've already loaded a boat with your horse?"

"This ship seems familiar?"

"Grass, this is our boat, are you stupid?" Xiao Xiao stared, no wonder he took a detour to call them.

(End of this chapter)