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Chapter 401 The Old Guy Wants to Fish Too

Ye Yaodong was cursing, pulling and tugging there, and after a while he loosened the fishing line again.

"It's just a thread, and it's too strenuous for me to walk the fish. Fortunately, I wear gloves, and I can take it easy. Dad, you hold this wooden stick for reeling the thread for me, I'm so excited Take the other hand."

He felt that one hand was pulling and releasing the thread. It was not very convenient for the thread to be rolled up on the arm and then let go.

Father Ye actively stepped forward to help take the wooden stick for reeling the thread, and squeezed to the front.

Ye Yaodong freed his hands and pulled them together, his right hand had wrapped the fishing line up to his upper arm, and 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 the beginning, biting the fishhook and rushing out, he was caught off guard, let alone the wooden stick, half of his body was pulled out of the side of the boat.

The fishing line on his arm became more and more entangled, and his right wrist turned there from time to time to loosen the line, and the fish underneath were obviously pulled up little by little.

"Father, how long did you keep this thread? Why does it feel like it has been stretched for a long time, and the arms are wrapped around and around, and the bottom is still so long?"

"Should I change to a long line to catch big fish? Why did there not be any movement for a long time just now, so I thought about putting more fishing line to try."

"It makes sense, it's really a big fish, but it's a bit of a hassle!"

"Can you do it? No, I'll come."

"How could I not be able to do this? This fish feels like it's been walked too much. Wait, I'll stock you guys right away."

Ye Yaodong felt that the fish underneath was no longer struggling, so he pulled with all his strength, the fishing line in the palm of his hand was coiled round and round, and his right hand was still flexibly turning the line to take it up.

After a while, the ferocious big cargo gradually revealed its true face, looming under the water.

"Ah grass, octopus?"

Father Ye stretched his neck to look at the sea carefully, and said happily: "The red ganache is good, the red ganache is good, you quickly pull it over, I'll get the hook..."

As Father Ye spoke, he directly passed the wooden stick in his hand to the soldier next to him, and hurriedly ran to the cabin to get the hook.

The sounds of their excited discussions there can be heard everywhere.

"Pull it up, pull it up..."

"It's coming up, it's on the surface of the water..."

"So big..."

"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, it's finally not in vain. Fortunately, it's an octopus, not other trash fish. This fish is good."

"Is it expensive?"

"It's okay, I've got enough money for today, I have wages and gas money, I don't have to do it for nothing..."

Father Ye is holding a long hook tied with a wooden stick. 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 the belly of the fish when he is wandering around the side of the boat. Come on, bring up the fish.

All the soldiers were taller than him, Father Ye squeezed and said, "Let me in, let me in... You're pulling me up, right? You're not too small... I'll come, I'll come... "

Father Ye lay on the side of the boat with an excited face and stretched out his stick, hooked the octopus fish 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.

The octopus bounced when it was thrown on the deck.

Ye Yaodong didn't care that his arms were covered with fishing line, so he stepped forward and kicked him twice, "Good guy, it's really not small, I have a red mark on my arm because of the fishing line."

"This one is estimated to weigh 20 kilograms, and it's really not small. It's worth the trip today. I'll take a knife to bleed it. It will take a long time before I go back. Don't smell bad."

Captain Chen also said happily: "Sure enough, there are quite a lot of fish hidden around the reef below. It took only a while to catch such a big fish. There must be many more down there."

"Yes, when we went into the water before, we saw a lot of people coming and going in a hurry. There are all kinds of colors, and the colorful ones are pretty pretty."

Ye Yaodong untied the thread wrapped around his arm and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, I will fix a hand thread for each of you."

There are a bunch of tangled threads, some of them are knotted when they are untied, and a small section is still twisted into a mess. It is because he harvested a bunch of threads when he took them up, and he didn’t take care to untangle them when he wound them. It's a bit of a hassle.

He untied all the threads, threw them on the deck, and rolled up the sleeves on his arms first.

Afraid of tanning, he also wears long sleeves on hot days, but wearing long sleeves can't resist the fishing line strangling his arms, and the red marks on his head are evenly distributed.

The fish caught before were not so big, and it was not difficult to pull it up. This octopus is really powerful. He shook 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 those with rods.”

"Who can be sure about this?" Father Ye lowered his head and bled the fish without raising his head.

Ye Yaodong shrugged, and he said casually, this is like opening a blind box.

He picked up the stick on the deck again, no matter how impatient he was, he still had to untangle the bunch of threads and roll them up.

When the conditions are met, a real fishing rod has to be repaired. Now the conditions are too difficult, either the bamboo rod is broken, or the thread is messed up, which is too late.

After Father Ye finished bleeding the fish, Ye Yaodong was still fighting with the messy fishing line.

"I'll sail to the small island on the opposite side first. It doesn't look too far away. It should take five or six minutes."

Ye Yaodong said without raising his head: "Okay, you can figure it out, anyway, idle is idle, there are no fishing boats in the sea at the moment, let the two comrades of the People's Liberation Army go dig shellfish together, anyway, they are also idle If you have nothing to do, it's just right to divide the troops into two groups."

Father Ye glanced at them with a smile, and said embarrassedly: "You really know how to appoint people..."

Captain Chen smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, we are idle anyway, and we just go to see and experience a different seaside life."

"Okay, I'm going to sail..."

Of course two more free laborers would be nice.

After Ye's father docked the boat, Ye Yaodong also almost tidied up the threads. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief and raised his head, he saw his father carrying a bucket to him.

"Take it!"

Ye Yaodong wondered, "Why?"

"Go to the island to dig for shellfish."

"Aren't you going? I seem to be luckier than you. I caught all those big octopuses. You haven't moved for half a day. I'm still here to fish and you dig."

"Fart, you are a coincidence, it's not because of my good hook, go quickly."

Ye Yaodong took the bucket depressed, watching the waves hitting the rocks around him, and the boat swaying and bumping against each other all the time. Although there are no waves today, when the sea surges to the edge of the reef, there will be some waves, and there is even a little bit of nakedness around. There are no beaches in the world, and it's really hard to stand on the reef.

Forget it, for the sake of his father's old bones, let him do it.

"Remember to pick me up when it's time for dinner, don't starve me to death."

"Understood, I forget you, and I can't forget the two comrades of the People's Liberation Army. Remember to be careful with the two comrades of the People's Liberation Army."

"Ah."

Ye Yaodong took 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 nets with him, and asked the other two to take a bucket each, so that they could be loaded and dumped easily. .

He carefully disembarked first, stepped on the rocks and climbed up, Captain Chen and another soldier also disembarked after him.

"Be careful, go to the side, I will teach you how to dig these shellfish."

Ye Yaodong told them that all rocks can be dug up, and some of them look gray and white on the outside, nothing can be seen on the surface, and the meat inside can only be seen when they are pried off.

Take sea oysters for example, he asked them to pry out the whole juvenile shell, not just the shell, but there was nothing for them to hold the meat, and he also demonstrated it for them to see.

There is also a small abalone, the shell is almost like a rock, so I skip it if I don’t look carefully...

He dug out the common shapes on the rocks for them, and saw that they had memorized them before crawling to the side.

Stepping on the reef is not as solid as landing on the beach, and the risk factor is high. Ye Yaodong didn't dare to look left and right, he 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 flatter reef above, he saw a small cave in the gap between the two reefs above, and there was a vicious round bird inside. Shaft crab, this surprised him immediately.

This round axis crab is a large land crab, and one of them just climbed to the entrance of the cave, showing him the real thing.

The carapace on its back is about 12 centimeters wide, and its body color is purple-black. It has two clawed feet, one big and one small. It may be that one was broken, and then a new one grew back. The regrown big feet will be smaller .

It is a sea crab but a land crab that lives on land, which means that it only needs to replenish seawater occasionally.

This crab is dirty, its body is full of parasites, its gills are full of worms, it even eats mice and cockroaches, vomit~

Ye Yaodong glanced at it, and skipped it directly, he didn't even want this kind of round axis crab as a gift, it would be better than "love".

"Love" is their local dialect, and I don't know the scientific name.It is also a kind of small crab, it just lives in the crevices of rocks, it is very small, the shell on its back is as big as between a quail egg and a pigeon egg, and there is only the shell but no meat, so it can only be caught back, wrapped in sweet potato starch and fried to eat.

It's just that he skipped it as if he didn't see it, but the other two were pleasantly surprised when they saw it.

Captain Chen had just filled a barrel of various goods with shells, and was about to put the sacks on top of it, on a flatter place. Coincidentally, he also saw the cave.

"Ah! There is a big crab here, Adong, come here, Aotian..."

Ye Yaodong staggered suddenly, and kept his hands on the rocks so he didn't fall, Aotian?

He looked at another soldier. Could it be that his surname is Long?

(End of this chapter)