Back To the Small Fishing Village In 1982

  Chapter 155 Oysters

  Early in the morning on the first day of the new year, Ye Yaodong got up energetically just after dawn.

  Taking advantage of his wife’s time cooking breakfast, he first tidied up his things, only to find that there was only one sack in the house, and it was the one that held the rice that day, and the one that held the rice bran hadn’t been vacated.

   "I'll go back to my hometown and get some sacks."

"okay."

  Ye Yaodong originally planned to go back quickly, but when he passed the road in the center of the village, he heard some women talking.

   "...I dare not step on it with my feet. I went to empty the urinal early in the morning, and it was all over the floor."

   "That's right, I dare not go to the toilet today..."

   "I don't know who was so unlucky yesterday that he fell into the latrine. Fortunately, he is an adult and can climb out..."

   "It's really laughable, how many years has no one fallen into the latrine?"

  I know that there are discussions in the village today, and the fart things in the countryside can be spread everywhere.

   When he came back from the old house with the sack and passed this road again, everyone already knew that Xu Laifu fell into the latrine last night.

   I don’t know how I know it. Many people are gloating over there, saying that misfortunes never come singly, and it’s good to lose.

  Ye Yaodong was full of smiles, and hurried home briskly. After breakfast, he still wanted to go shopping, and this time he would bring Ye Huimei with him.

  Just now his younger sister knew that he was going to Taohai later, so she yelled to follow her. If she refused to let her, she would grab his clothes and not let him go.

   Ye's mother also spoke, saying that she is idle at home anyway, let her follow if she wants to play, that is, when climbing on the rocks, be careful not to fall.

  Ye Yaodong had no choice but to take her with him, and told her to go to his side with tools after dinner, and then go out to the pier together.

  By the time they went out to the pier, Fatty, Xiaoxiao, and Ah Zheng were already waiting there.

Seeing him with his younger sister, he was surprised, and said hello without saying anything, but when they boarded the boat, the three of them winked at each other, and whispered: "Go back tonight and tell Ah Guang, Ah Guang I should pat my thigh and regret not coming today!"

   "Say, I have to tell him tonight, he missed a great opportunity."

   "The boat is gone, what are you still muttering about?" Ye Yaodong looked at the three people whispering to each other on the boat inexplicably, his boat had pulled away from the shore, and they were still motionless?

   "Nothing, nothing, let's go, let's go."

   "Fuck, what are you putting on the boat? Are you really planning to live on an island? Are you bringing pots and pans? Do you still have rice?"

  Just helped his sister onto the boat, and didn't pay attention to the things on their boat, and only saw it when he turned his head and urged.

  The fat man said triumphantly: "I didn't bring rice, but I brought sweet potatoes and a bucket of water. At noon, we will cook seafood noodles on the island."

   "Okay, you can, fat man, eating and drinking is a major event in life, this glorious task is entrusted to you!"

   The fat man rolled his eyes, "I knew you guys wanted to sit back and enjoy the benefits!"

   "Chef, this is what you are good at!"

   "Go, go, concentrate on driving your boat..."

  Two small boats sailed away from the shore one after the other. Originally, Ye Yaodong was supposed to collect the nets today, but he didn't think he was in a hurry.

He drove ahead, and another boat followed behind, to the small island he stepped on a few days ago. They came out early today, and it was only after six o'clock. The tide was receding, and the waves were still coming. Hit the rocks.

The surrounding reefs are very steep, and the tide has not yet receded. Ye Huimei's ponytail was blown up on her face by the wind at sea. She frowned and said, "Third brother, are we going to be on this small island today? But here The reef seems difficult to climb, the wind is blowing the waves, and they are hitting there again, so dangerous."

"Who told you that I'm going to the island here? It's obviously not easy to climb. You can see it, but I can't see it? I stopped to find the reef that looks like a scorpion. According to me Last time I checked, it was easier to go to the island there.”

   After finishing speaking, he said to the three people on the other boat: "You go around from the left, and I go around from the right. Find out where you are?"

  Not all islands have beaches exposed during ebb tide, and the reefs around some islands are hit by waves all year round. When the tide ebbs, only the water level drops, but the tide is still full of the beach.

Unfortunately, it seems that the tide of this island will not completely recede under the reef, only the part of the scorpion reef where he stepped on last time, the tide water level will be relatively low, and the shallow beach can already be seen Yes, but only a little bit.

   After their boat docked, the water level receded a little bit.

They looked around, frowned slightly and said, "Dongzi, this island doesn't seem to work. There are sandy beaches and gravel piles in this small area, and the reefs are relatively easy to climb. The surrounding reefs are very steep. I guess When the tide recedes to the bottom, there is no beach exposed, at most a small piece of diving area is exposed.”

"It doesn't matter, and it doesn't have to have a large beach exposed, and the shallow water area is fine. Don't you see that there is a shrimp girl in the shallow water area ahead? The tide has just receded now, and it will be fine when it recedes to the bottom. Going around, I figured that the water level should be up to about the calf, and the sea water is very clear, so it doesn’t matter if there is a beach or not.”

  Everyone followed his line of sight to see that there was more than Aunt Xia, and a stone crab crawled out from nowhere.

  Ye Huimei hurriedly fished them with the hand fishing net in his hand, and directly harvested two little guys.

   "It's over, I didn't take a net with me, I don't know if today is a shallow water area and not a beach."

  Ye Yaodong looked at the fat man speechlessly, "I told you, the tool belt is complete, and you didn't bring the key things. Are you laughing at me with a bunch of pots and pans? Do you want to change the island?"

"Forget it, save the trouble, I just go digging on the reef wall. I have seen whole pieces of oysters. This is my love. Other fish and nets are not important. "

   "Is it raw oysters or sea oysters?" Ah Zheng also looked around carefully, and pried open one of the bigger ones casually, "Hey, it's really raw oysters, quite fat and full."

  In the eyes of outsiders, oysters and sea oysters are the same, but in the view of coastal people, oysters and sea oysters are two completely different things, with essential differences.

  Sea oysters are relatively small in size and rough in shell. Most of their flesh is light cyan in color with relatively little flesh.

  Oysters are relatively large, with a lot of silt in the shell, mostly white meat, plump and delicate, much heavier than ordinary sea oysters, rich in umami taste, more fragrant and more enjoyable than sea oysters.

   The fat man said proudly, "My eyesight is not bad."

   "Then what are you waiting for? Let's do it!"

  Ye Yaodong also hurried forward to dig. Oysters are very attractive to men.

  Only Ye Huimei rolled her eyes there, searched around, found a spot with wild small abalone, and was about to start digging, but saw a Shi Jiugong in the crevice of the reef.

She happily fished it into the bucket with the hand on the side. After tasting the sweetness, she also liked to search in the crevices of the stones. After a while, there were two more stone crabs in the bucket, two Shijiugongs, and a green crab. crab.

  She grabbed the big blue crab and shook it at the men who were working hard, saying: "Third brother, don't you go to find other things? I have found several Shi Jiugongs, and there are blue crabs."

"Ah? How many?" Ye Yaodong turned his head to look over, but his hand was still digging, and he accidentally pried open an oyster, a little slippery liquid flowed onto his hand, and he felt a foreign object in his palm .

  He looked down in surprise, what is this?

  In just a split second, his pupils constricted, "Oyster pearls!"

   "Oyster pearls?"

   "What oyster pearls?"

   "Oyster pearls? Did you dig oyster pearls?"

  The three of them were digging not far from him, and when they heard this, they immediately turned their heads in surprise. Everyone on the beach knows that any shellfish can produce pearls.

  Ye Huimei also ran over from a distance, "What did you find, third brother? Why are you so excited?"

  Ye Yaodong was pleasantly surprised and took a look at the milky white beads in his hand. They were indeed oyster pearls, the same color as oysters.

  Everyone saw it too, and the beads he held in his hands surrounded him excitedly.

   "Damn it, you just opened it casually and found an oyster ball?"

   "Show me the grass, it's quite big and round, it should be worth a lot of money."

   "I'm so envious, I don't know if there are any beads in the one I just dug."

   "Third brother, you are lucky."

  Ye Yaodong handed them the beads, and then he looked at the oyster meat that had just dropped out of the beads. The meat was plump and took up a full shell. The beads didn't fall out, so he wouldn't think about getting the beads out of the oyster.

  His younger sister called third brother just now is really good!

   Afraid that he would miss it, he stretched out his index finger to pick out the oyster meat that was full of shells.

   "Damn it, there's another one on the horse!"

  He took out another one in surprise, it was milky white, the same color as the oyster meat.

"ah?"

"besides?"

   "Fuck, what **** luck, two at a time?"

  Ye Huimei looked enviously, "Third brother, you are going to get rich. I think yours is more round than that of the second sister-in-law. The second sister-in-law's is a bit oval."

   "I was slashed!" Xiao Xiao added.

   "Yes, the second sister-in-law is very sad."

   The fat man rubbed his hands a little excitedly, "I don't know if there are any pearls in the oysters we just pried off."

   Ah Zheng also said itchingly: "Let's try to open a few while digging?"

   "I don't have anything to put it in... ah, yes... I have a bowl to put it in. Fatty, you are so smart today, and you even brought a bowl!" Xiaoxiao happily patted her thigh, almost forgetting that the fat man brought it in the morning.

   "Hmph... When you took me in the morning, you laughed at me unceremoniously for living on an isolated island."

   "Haha, you can open some freshly. It's good to dig out the meat and cook noodles for a while, and it's not a waste."

  (end of this chapter)