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Chapter 221 "SpongeBob SquarePants?"

There are not only people but also goods in the long queue. There are several long lines. Today, almost everyone in the village has been mobilized. The shore is now crowded with densely packed people and goods.

The surrounding roads were full of muddy puddles, and everyone's trousers and shoes were splashed with loess slurry, but their cold hands and feet did not dampen their excitement.

The wharf has never been so lively, it is so noisy everywhere, there is almost no place to step on, and the smiles on everyone's faces are almost catching up with the New Year.

This is the joy of making money, who doesn't want to get rich.

It's just that everyone is a bit regretful that there are too many people, they are divided, and the tide is high, so the water level rises and it is not easy to pick up.

Ye Yaodong moved the last half of the bag of starfish to the cart before taking a breath, "How many bags are there?"

Lin Xiuqing has been guarding by the cart, she has seen all the goods in her house, and she knows exactly which bags are which.

"7 and a half bags, is there nothing underneath?"

"Nothing."

She smiled and said: "Mother, father and younger sister picked up almost 7 bags, and the eldest brother, elder sister-in-law, second brother and second sister-in-law also picked up a little more than 4 bags."

Ye Yaodong nodded. He didn't pick up much in the afternoon. After working all morning, he couldn't straighten his waist. He only picked up 2 bags, and the rest were picked up in the morning.

He looked at the other villagers, who were surrounded by sacks, and they seemed to have picked up a lot. Most of them were the whole family, and there were several members in the family.

The team moved forward slowly, and their goods were all on the carts, which was less laborious than others.

At this time, he heard someone behind him asking his second sister-in-law about the money made by the big brother, and the second sister-in-law Ye excitedly turned her head to tell others how much money she had earned, and encouraged them to invest together.

Seeing her working so hard, Ye Yaodong couldn't help but guess, did Ye Yaohong pay her extra headcount?
Lin Xiuqing also glanced at him, and he smiled, "It's fine for me to line up here, you should go back and look at the two boys first, those two are so energetic, the old lady will probably have a headache."

"It shouldn't be long, let's go back together later?"

She is also curious how much other people can sell it for?You can also listen to gossip here.

The whole village is here, so lively, how can she be willing to leave?
Since she moved to her new home, she has nothing to do and rarely goes out for a walk. Most of the new things in the village are learned from Ye Dasao and Ye Ersao.

Right now to listen.

Although it is a trivial matter, it sounds quite interesting. For example, if someone said they were married, the man is a lame man who spent a lot of money to marry a beautiful wife from a foreign country...

Whose man was having an affair with a widow outside and was caught by his wife...

Another example is a family who gave birth to a child with a cleft lip some time ago, and the mother cried to death. The village said it was because she was greedy and ate rabbits during pregnancy...

He also talked about not being able to eat mutton, and the child would be born with epilepsy...

Then someone's child went up the mountain to steal oranges and was chased by the owner and broke his hand. The child's family came to extort money...

Another old man passed away, and the sons in the family were about to fight over the division of property...

……

There are all kinds of weird things, and everything in the countryside is told.

Lin Xiuqing pricked up her ears, looked around and listened to all directions, listening with gusto.

Seeing her looking around, Ye Yaodong couldn't help but shook his head, "Do you want to visit all the teams?"

"Huh? Hehe, I just find it interesting."

Mother Ye looked back at her from the front, and reminded her vaguely, "Don't go out to visit if you have nothing to do. It's cold, and the village is deserted, and no one wants to sit at the door of the house and chat. They are all in the house."

She smiled, she understood Ye Mu's worry.

"I know, I've been sewing quilts and making wedding dresses for my little sister recently, and I don't have time to walk around."

The person on the side who also listened to the gossip with his ears upright asked Mother Ye, when did Ye Huimei get married?
He also said that Ye's mother would look for her, and she found one without a mother-in-law, and her daughter will feel comfortable in the future...

Ye's mother is also very proud of this. At first, she felt that without her mother-in-law, her daughter would be more tired and have a lot of things to do.After being reminded by someone later, I immediately patted my thigh, not as good as my mother-in-law...

The more I look at Aguang, the more I am satisfied...

Several purchase points received goods at the same time, and the team was not slow to move forward. After a while, they moved a lot forward, because Ye Mu and the others went ashore early, and the queue was relatively high. Now we only need to wait two or three more to arrive. They are gone.

Ye Yaodong looked at his watch, it was already past 4 o'clock, he was still thinking about the goods in his cage, the tide was coming up right now, just in time.

When it was their turn, they weighed separately, and their original goods were not mixed.

Big Brother Ye and Second Brother Ye have relatively less goods. Their goods will be weighed first. One of them is 420 catties and the other is 408 catties. Both Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Ye are smiling happily. Fortunately, they came early.

叶母三人捡了快7袋，称了692，卖了13块8毛4分。

叶耀东一个人捡了7袋半，有736斤，卖14块7毛2分。

Fortunately, he picked up one more morning than others, otherwise he would fight alone, and the whole family would go to other families together, and he would die at a loss.

They didn't keep much of the goods, only a few to eat, because there is no weather recently, and there is no way to dry the starfish.

After handing over the receipt to Lin Xiuqing for collection, he asked her to go back first, "The ground cage has not been confiscated yet. Now that the tide is high and the waves are not too big, I will go to the sea to collect it, and I will be back in a little over two hours."

"Can't I collect it tomorrow?"

"It's been cloudy this day, and I don't know if it will rain tomorrow, and there will be no wind at night, so hurry up and collect it while I can go out now."

It's okay if he doesn't go to the literacy class for a day or two, anyway, he's halfway there, so he just needs to study for a few more days.

He reckoned that the ground cage was also full of starfish!

The ground cage has always been the best tool for catching starfish, but the number of his ground cages is a bit small.

Turning around and seeing Ah Zheng and Xiao Xiao, thinking that they also have ground cages, I reminded them, "Your ground cages are still in the sea, right? You can collect them later, there should be a lot of starfish!"

The two people's eyes lit up again when they heard the words, "Are you going out now?"

"Ready to collect another wave."

"Together!"

The two of them are very convinced of Ye Yaodong now, following behind him, they have made a lot of money in the past few months.

After handing over the task of queuing up to sell goods to the wife at home, they also went to sea to collect the cages.

The other villagers also became more active when they heard the words. After saying hello to the family members, they also wanted to go out to sea to collect a wave before it was dark.

Their hearts are more lively, thinking that after collecting them today, they will continue to collect them tomorrow when the weather is fine.

It is a pity for some people who did not put the ground cage.

Ye Yaodong called Xiao Xiao and Ah Zheng into his boat, and with their small wooden boat, it was probably already dark when they rowed to the place where the cage was placed.

It's past 4 o'clock now, and it's already dark early in autumn and winter.

He started the boat with full horsepower, the sound of the diesel engine rattling, and he heard them talking there, and he would change to a power boat at any time, saving time and effort...

Looking at the waves on the shore, the waves are not big, but when the boat is on the sea, you can really feel the waves.

He first drove the boat to the approximate sea area where he put the ground cage, but after searching for buoys around for a long time, he saw that the place was displaced by the waves.

After collecting the buoys and pulling up the ground cage, he found that the fish collection bag under the ground cage was indeed full of starfish, and the fish was surrounded by them.

"The grass... is really full of starfish. Where did there come from so many starfish? Are there all over the sea?" Xiaoxiao helped pull up the ground cage together.

"Looking at the densely packed appearance of the pier in the afternoon, it must have been washed in from the outside, and there must be a lot of seabed along the coast."

Ah Zheng also said cheerfully: "The whole village has made a fortune today. Fortunately, we came early and packed more bags than everyone else."

"This thing is known as the locust on the bottom of the sea. Wherever they pass, all shellfish will be wiped out. First pour it out and have a look."

The fish collection bag at the bottom was full of starfish, Ye Yaodong untied the rope, and poured it all onto the deck, only to see that there were only fish in it except for the starfish, and the stone crab and shrimp roe had been eaten to nothing but a shell.

Ye Yaodong tossed it casually, and threw those shrimps and crabs with only their shells back into the sea. At this moment, he saw a relatively large starfish holding a soft yellow irregular shape in his arms.

"SpongeBob SquarePants?"

He felt that it was very interesting, and he took the sponge in his hand and squeezed it.

The animations are all deceitful, there is no friendship between SpongeBob SquarePants and Pai Daxing, sponges are also food for starfish.

Ah Zheng looked at him speechlessly, "Sponge is just a sponge, or SpongeBob SquarePants? Do you think it's stupid to be a father?"

"You know what a fart! Just take it back and wash the dishes for my wife."

Now household sponges for washing dishes are all synthetic, and people used to use sponges from the sea.

"Hurry up and finish pulling the rest of the ground cages, it's getting dark, I didn't realize that you are so dawdling."

"What's the hurry, I won't let you swim back."

That's what he said, but Ye Yaodong still speeded up and pulled the net quickly. There is no doubt that in the next few nets, except for starfish, there were only fish and no shellfish, but several sponges appeared.

This surprised Ye Yaodong, but he felt a little regretful.

It is a natural sponge, also called sponge silk, it is not a dead thing, but a multicellular marine animal, which is a living thing.

Sponge silk becomes soft and elastic when exposed to water. It has always been used as a sanitary product, as well as pottery, painting, and surgical supplies. In ancient Greece, it was called soft gold, and it is still valuable now.

But it's useless to leave them here on the beach, so they can only take it back to play with the children, or wash the dishes.

After collecting several nets, the boat was full of starfish, fish or shells. He asked the two to help pick them out, and by the way, let them pick up all the starfish into sacks, so that it would be easy to carry them off the boat in a while.

When there were only two rows left at the end, the sky was completely dark. He turned on the flashlight on the boat and speeded up, only to find that there were no starfish in the net, and a huge white jellyfish filled the fish collection bag.

(End of this chapter)