Golden Fishing Village

Life at sea has never been a pleasant experience. Since ancient times, fishermen have lived a life half submerged in the water, and they may die in an accident.

Even if there is no danger, making a living at sea is very difficult. It is often necessary to go out to sea in the dark in the early morning and return in the dark at midnight.

Ao Zhiyi came again in the evening and told Ao Muyang the time to go to sea. The time he left was two o'clock in the morning and he would leave early.

This point is nothing to Ao Muyang. When he was a chef in Kyoto, he often got up at two or three o'clock to serve the fire and prepare breakfast for hotel customers.

But after returning home, he didn't want to suffer this misfortune anymore, so he said to Ao Zhiyi: "It's too early. I can't get up. Let's go to five o'clock. I'm willing to follow the boat when it goes to sea at five o'clock."

Ao Zhiyi immediately shook his head: "Five o'clock? It's dawn! As the old saying goes, the early bird catches the worm. We don't go out to sea until five o'clock, can we have a good time?"

Ao Muyang said slowly: "I go to sea these days, always at noon or even in the afternoon. Whether you gain anything or not has little to do with whether you go to sea sooner or later."

Ao Zhiyi could only compromise. He wanted to take Ao Muyang on board the ship because he knew that he would gain something every time he went to sea.

After a good sleep, he got up at 4:30 in the morning to wash up and found the general staring at Yuchizi and licking his mouth.

Seeing this, he hurried over to take a look and found that there seemed to be a few lobsters missing. He patted the general on the head and feigned anger: "You are not allowed to eat the food inside, do you hear me? If you eat again, I will beat you!"

The general wagged his tail, looking innocent.

Bringing a fishing net and a fishing rod, he and the general boarded the fishing boat.

Ao Zhiyi's family owns the best-performing fishing boat in the village. It is an old mechanical trawler with a very famous name, "Dragon Head".

The tonnage of this ship is 200 tons. It can enter deeper waters and has the best harvest in the village. Many people in the village hope to make some money by going to sea with his ship.

His ability to secure the position of village chief has a lot to do with this ship.

Ao Muyang slowly got on the boat. One of his uncles in the village, Ao Qianqi, gave him a thumbs up and said, "You have the ability. I have been riding the boat with the village chief for several years. This is the first time I slept until dawn before boarding the boat."

The morning sun has risen into the sky, and the color has not yet turned golden, but a gorgeous orange-red. The same color of light falls on the ocean, and the sea water is reflected red, and the waves are rolling, like undulating red silk.

After listening to Ao Qianqi's words, Ao Muyang smiled and did not answer. He pointed to the sea and said: "What a beautiful sea, what a beautiful morning."

The general stood on the side of the ship and looked down. He opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue in the sea breeze, and the white hair on his head was swaying.

Ao Zhiyi poked his head out of the cockpit and became anxious when he saw him with the dog: "Why did you bring the dog up? Damn it, don't let it go into the water."

According to fishermen's customs, it is unlucky to see dogs, snakes or rats swimming by the seaside and the boat when sailing in the morning, as well as wild ducks and wild birds flying by.

Ao Muyang knew these customs. He hugged the general and nodded in agreement. In this way, the Dragon Head was launched and went to sea.

Not far away from the fishing boat, Ao Muyang heard someone shouting. When he looked back, he found that it was Ao Xiaoniu who was shouting and chasing him all the way to the pier. He jumped off the pier and still swam in pursuit.

Seeing this, he said to Ao Qianqi who was sailing the boat: "Uncle Qianqi, turn around and go back to see what's going on."

As the captain, Ao Zhiyi was dissatisfied and said: "What are you going back for?"

Ao Muyang dragged the general and said, "Then I will jump off myself."

Ao Zhiyi expected him to find the catch. At this time, he was afraid of the rat and could only say impatiently: "Okay, okay, let's go back and see what's going on."

The fishing boat began to circle on the sea without turning around directly. It was not that the fishing boat was too big to turn around, but the fishermen had a custom. If the boat started in the morning and wanted to turn back, the boat could not turn around immediately, but had to make a roundabout way. The implication is that "good people don't turn around". Go back."

Ao Xiaoniu also knew this custom. When he saw the fishing boats starting to circle, he swam back to the dock.

After the fishing boat returned, Ao Muyang asked: "What happened?"

Ao Xiaoniu murmured: "Uncle Yang, how do you raise the shrimps in your pond? I just went to your house and the door was locked. I don't have the key. Also, more importantly, be careful when you go to sea..."

The last words were the key point. Ao Muyang understood that because of his father's affairs, the child was a little afraid of going to sea.

He took the house key with him. After all, there were some beautiful lobsters in the fish pond, and he had to guard against someone jealously stealing them.

He smiled and said: "Don't worry, Maverick, I will definitely come back safely. Don't worry about those shrimps now, go and play with your friends."

Ao Xiaoniu nodded, took out a Guanyin pendant that looked very rough from his pocket and handed it to him, saying: "Uncle Yang, this is the Bodhisattva my mother begged for me. Wear it first and she will bless you." your."

Ao Muyang took it and put it on his neck, Ao grinned when Newton was little.

Ao Zhiyi, on the other hand, was about to burst into tears: "Ma Nu, is this just a waste of mail?"

He drove the boat angrily, and the fishing boat accelerated, getting further and further away.

Ao Muyang looked back and saw Ao Xiaoniu standing on the dock.

The general watched for a while, and soon his attention was attracted by the duck cage at the stern of the ship. He ran over and waggled his tail to take a look.

Ao Zhiyi was startled when he saw it and shouted: "Yangzi, watch your dog carefully. If it touches my duck, I will burn it and drink it!"

Ao Muyang whistled to call the general back. This time he didn't care about Ao Zhiyi's words, because the duck at the stern was indeed very important.

This is also a custom of fishermen. Fishermen believe that ducks have tails, so raising ducks is auspicious and can bring continuous incense. Because the homonym of "duck" is "press", they like to raise ducks at the stern of the boat to press the stern.

Ao Zhiyi has raised ducks on this boat for many years. They are all old ducks, which are equivalent to his mascots and lucky charms. If they are really bitten to death by the general, he will definitely fight with Ao Muyang.

When the fishing boat entered the sea, Ao Zhiyi gave the rudder to Ao Qianqi and said, "Yangzi, come and see, where should we cast the net? We must catch carp or black fish!"

Ao Muyang patted his forehead helplessly and said, "Village chief, why are you so superstitious? Do you attach so much importance to customs?"

In the past, fishermen paid attention to the harvest of the first net. For example, if they caught carp, they would call it carp jumping over the dragon gate. If they caught black fish, they believed that the black tide was behind.

The so-called "black tide" is a large school of fish. When a large number of fish gather together and appear underwater, the water surface looks black, the fish swim, and the black water surface surges. This is the black tide.

But at that time, there were many fish in the sea, and the first net would definitely yield a harvest, so there were many things to pay attention to. Now, there may be no harvest after several consecutive nets. What's the point of paying so much attention?

Ao Zhiyi said seriously: "How can this be called superstition? Don't talk nonsense, Yangzi, go to work, it's right to listen to the ancestors, your parents, cough cough, work..."

Ao Muyang didn't answer. He asked for a raft to be put down and paddled around.

Ao Zhiyi couldn't put his hopes on him alone. He also knew that eggs should not be put in one basket, so he drove the others on the boat into the sea to find fish.

Away from the fishing boat, Ao Muyang dived into the water, condensing water vapor with the golden elixir while checking the underwater situation.