Back To the Small Fishing Village In 1982

  Chapter 9 Windfall

  Ye Yaodong turned his gaze back from the boat, and looked at the surrounding rocks, which were densely packed with small mussels, small sea melon seeds, and sea oyster shells that had been dug out of their flesh.

  The rocks here have been visited by people too many times in daily life. The slightly larger mussels and sea melon seeds have been dug up long ago. Only the extremely small ones, about the size of the fingernail of the little finger, still grow on the rocks.

  The ones are so small, they only have shells, and the meat is probably not as big as booger, so they cannot be eaten, but every time the tide goes down, there will inevitably be some that grow up.

   Right now, there are people looking for it on the stone wall with tools, and his mother is one of them.

  He stepped forward and took a look, his mother was holding a water ladle in one hand, and a small basket was hanging on her wrist.

  There are already some small sea oysters in the water scoop, and there are also some slightly larger sea melon seeds and small spicy snails in the small basket.

   "Mother, this dense piece of eyes can blind you, why don't you dig sand clams."

   Ye Mu used a screwdriver to pry the sea oyster shells on the rock and said: "There are so many people in the family who have dug enough. I can dig some sea oysters and cook sea oysters at night. The children in the family haven't eaten them for a while."

   "There's not a single bit of this. Isn't our boat repaired? Let dad take you to the isolated island to dig. It's better to dig sand clams now. In two hours, the tide will fill this beach again."

   "It's easy for you to say. The rocks on the isolated island are very slippery, and it's not easy to stand on. If the waves come up, if I'm not careful, I will be swept back into the sea to see Mazu."

   "Aha, no, just choose a day when the tide is calm and the tide is low."

  Mother Ye raised her eyelids and squinted at him, "Then tell me the number of months, the weather is calm, the tide just goes down, and your father and brothers happen to be free!"

   "Ah! How can I count this?"

   How can a mortal like him calculate the wind and waves on the sea!

   What's more, how does he know when his father and brother are free?

  Mother Ye gave him a blank look, "If you don't, then shut up and stay where it's cool, and don't delay my work!"

  Ye Yaodong touched his nose, is he so annoying?

   "How about I dig it for you? Are you going to dig sand clams?"

   His legs are sore after squatting for a long time, so it’s okay to dig oysters on the stone wall, anyway, he doesn’t have trypophobia.

"You come?"

   "Yeah, let me come, open sea oysters, dig sea melon seeds, I am good at it."

   Nothing else, he played a lot of these when he was young, and the skills he learned will not be forgotten with the passage of time.

  Mother Ye looked him up and down, remembering that he just swore in the room that after the separation, he would learn from his elder brother and second brother to be diligent and hardworking...

   Could it be true?

  Transformed?

   "Then let you come. When you go back, if you don't dig a bowl for me, I'll beat you to death!"

   "Oh, I can dig as much as I can. It depends on luck. How can I guarantee that I can dig a bowl before I go back? This sea oyster is only a little big..."

Mother Ye hung the basket on his wrist without any explanation, and stuffed the water ladle and the screwdriver into his hand, "Be careful with the search, I need to pry a bowl of sea oysters, dig a bowl of sea melon seeds, and dig a bowl of snails." Get out the bowl!"

  Ye Yaodong stared, will he change, or can he do something? Also call him a whole three bowls.

   "Dongzi didn't go out to play today? Why did he come to the beach?" His aunt was also looking for the stone wall with a water ladle, and asked curiously when she saw him.

   "Well, it's too hot to go out!"

   "Huh? Isn't it hot when you come to the beach? The sun is so big!"

  Unable to find a good reason, Ye Yaodong was a little embarrassed, "Ah, yes, just come out and have a look."

   Hurry up and look for it, stop chatting, dig for a while and wait for the tide to rise, just in time to go home for lunch.

   Sea oysters are also called oysters, which grow on stone walls. They are actually plankton.

During the breeding season of oviparous sea oysters, the parent body excretes mature sperm and eggs, and the sperm and eggs are fertilized in seawater. After a period of planktonic life, they attach to other objects and become spat after solidification. Slowly grow up, pry off the shell, and there are sea oysters inside.

When a ship has been docked in the sea for a long time, spat will grow under the bottom of the boat. Most people will prop up the hull of the boat, and then pry all the spat off the bottom of the boat to reduce the weight of the hull. By the way, they can also put the spat in baskets Go back and open the oysters.

  The spats on the stone wall are too small, and the sea oysters that come out are only a little bit big, yellow-green, like snot, and the white on the belly can only be seen when they are bigger.

   "Knitting yarn, it's so big, when can I fill a bowl!" Ye Yaodong couldn't help muttering after opening one.

   "There is no way to eat it. There are so many mouths in the house. It is a little bit to dig a little. This is not a sand clam, nor can it be dug out every day."

His aunt responded, and then said earnestly: "Dongzi, you are the father of two children, you can no longer just idle around all day, you should find a job, and you will support your wife and children." Well, your parents can't support you until you grow old."

   "I'm not working, Auntie!"

   "It's right to work, but you have to earn money, and you can't just work for one day. It takes years and months to support your family. You are a man, so you have to take responsibility and have a sense of responsibility..."

   Eloquent preaching, Barabara~

  Ye Yaodong regretted speaking out. If he had kept silent, his aunt probably didn't have the desire to talk to him.

It’s not easy for him to choke back. After all, he is an elder, and what he said is right and for your own good, but the endless talking makes him feel a little dizzy. Why not dig sand clams? Know that his aunt can read so well?

   "Auntie, you dig slowly here, I'll go out and have a look."

   Just as the tide receded a bit, he simply picked it up from the farthest rock.

  However, his luck seems to be a little bit good!

  As soon as he walked to the rock position closest to the tide, he saw two small blue crabs in the rock pile in the shallow water area ahead, and his eyes lit up. This is a good thing!

  He quickly put the water scoop and the basket aside, and walked quickly towards the gravel pile. Before the danger was approaching, the two blue crabs were still fighting there with their big pincers!

  Ye Yaodong grabbed the shells on their backs one by one in each hand, and carefully separated them so that their big foot hooks would not be entangled and broken.

  The value of a blue crab with a broken leg will be greatly reduced. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you eat it yourself.

  The two blue crabs that were separated were still waving wildly with their large pincers. If they were pinched, it would be terrible, and the fingernails would directly break.

  (end of this chapter)