Chapter 465 Collecting the Ground Cage

Debt-free and light-hearted.

Even if he only owed a few hundred yuan, Ye Yaodong didn't want to owe it unless necessary. He felt comfortable paying it back as soon as possible and could sleep peacefully.

When he woke up in the afternoon, he realized that his father had already arrived, and the news spread in the village. Everyone knew that they had brought the goods to the market and sold them at a good price.

In a small village like theirs, word spreads quickly. Who doesn't have a family with seven aunts and eight aunts?

It was mediocre not to be envied by others. He didn't take it to heart anyway. He worked all day and had no time to hang out. He couldn't hear what everyone was saying, and he wouldn't be missing a piece of meat.

No, just after waking up, he stood at the door and took a look at the tide, and planned to go to the beach to collect the ground cage. It's already afternoon, and the tide has been full for almost two days. Now it's receding a bit, and the ground cages are exposed. It's almost ready to harvest, but I don't know how much can be harvested.

Lin Xiuqing watched him put on his rain boots and said, "The rice is still warm in the pot. Why don't you eat some food first before going? Just in time, I'll call dad over and ask him to help collect it later."

"No, I'm not hungry now. Just wait until I get back from collecting the cages to have dinner. This will avoid irregular meals and keep you busy."

"Then you ride a bicycle and ask dad to collect it together. The faster it is, the easier it is for two people to collect it, so that one person is not in a hurry."

"Yeah, I know."

Lin Xiuqing originally wanted to ask him about the shop and the final payment, but seeing that he seemed a little anxious, she swallowed it back and planned to ask him again in the evening.

Really, she was not given a chance to speak at noon.

She was also worried that being in the room for too long would make people think too much. After all, she came twice and hurried out after finishing, without asking a few careful questions about the follow-up matters.

Ye Yaodong rode his bicycle and went to the old house to call his father. Unexpectedly, the old house was empty, except for the small room where the old lady used to live at the back door. There was a pig meowing there.

He asked his neighbors and found out that his mother went to work today and was so busy that she didn't have time to come back at noon. His father had nothing to do and went up the mountain with his second brother and second sister-in-law to collect hogweed.

He had no choice but to ask his neighbor to leave a message, and then he went back to collect the cage.

There are some scattered people on the beach still picking up scallops. When the tide recedes a little, everyone comes to try their luck. If they can pick up a little bit, they can sell it for some money.

No one dared to think about his underground cage, after all, it was right in front of his house.

Empty shells and carcasses of small fish and shrimps are scattered everywhere on the shore. Even if there is no sun in summer, the temperature will not get much lower. It has been stranded for two days, and the unique fishy smell of seafood is everywhere around it.

Their ducks were leisurely poking around on the beach with their heads high and their chests high. Some of them ate without quacking. The past two days had made their bellies full and plump.

We can really raise more ducks next year, and it will save trouble. They can just drive them out and swim on the beach to catch food. The same goes for chickens. They can eat stranded fish and shrimps by themselves, and they won't eat much chaff.

When he was running through the water to pull the rope at one end of the ground cage, he didn't expect that these ducks would also waddle into the water behind him.

He smiled and looked at the ducks paddling around him, forming a neat row of quacking ducks, and couldn't help but said: "It's better for you guys."

"Quack~"

"But your free and easy life will only last for half a year. You can start killing in a few months."

"Quack quack~"

After Ye Yaodong said a few words to himself, he hummed a tuneless song in a happy mood, pulled the rope of the ground cage to the shore, and stood on the shore to collect it, so as not to get wet again.

The heavy weight and sea water made him feel a little strenuous, but fortunately he didn't have to soak in the water, and he pulled the cage upwards one by one.

From time to time, some shrimps and crabs can be seen stuck on the grid, and when he closes it, they fall down into the fish bag.

"Young~ There is also a spring fish weighing one pound."

Ye Yaodong suddenly became excited. The fish weighing seven to eight taels might only be worth fifty or six cents. The fish weighing more than one kilogram would be worth eighty or nine cents. That fish could probably be sold for one yuan.

Originally, fish and shrimp were both more popular and more expensive than ordinary seafood, and spring fish was much more valuable than sea bass.

He speeded up to collect the net, and the grids he collected were randomly scattered on the ground. He had no time to sort them out at the moment. He had to collect the entire cage and wait until it was all collected before it was too late. .

As the ground cage got longer and longer, he also saw a lot of scallops hanging on the net of the ground cage, and then they all fell into the fish collection bag.

Based on the quantity he just saw, these cages were not in vain.

Full of confidence, he used one last force to drag the fish collection bag up, and saw a heavy pile of white and gray shells at the bottom, mixed with some fish, shrimps and crabs that were still jumping around.

Although in the process of pulling it up, he already had a rough idea of ​​what was inside, and he didn't feel the joy of opening a blind box, but when he saw the goods inside, he was still happy.

There are two orchid crabs, a red flower crab, a few sword shrimps, a quite small oyster snail, and some small sea crayfish. The most beautiful one is the spring fish, and The seven or eight kilograms of scallops weighed heavily underneath.

After taking one look, Ye Yaodong threw the fish bag on the beach and went to the floor cart to take out the basket and load it. When he came out, he pushed the cart out with the basket to make loading easier.

The sound of shells clattering only lasted for a few seconds, and then they all fell into the basket together with the fish, shrimps and crabs.

Ye Yaodong was the first to take out the spring fish alone and throw it into the bucket on the trolley. A luxurious VIP cabin was arranged for it.

At this time, Lin Xiuqing also finished her work at home, handed the child to the old lady, and trotted out to help.

She held the basket with both hands and glanced inside, "How many nets are there?"

"How many more can I take? Just one!"

Ye Yaodong tied up the empty fish bag again and threw it on the ground, intending to collect another net along the rope.

"That's so much for one piece? It weighs seven or eight kilograms here, right? You put 4 rows of floor cages, right?" She was surprised, then lifted the basket and shook it twice. "It doesn't look like there are any shells, only A few clams.”

"Well, the ones caught should all be alive. If nothing else happens, there are 4 rows of ground cages and 41 nets. It's no problem to catch about 200 kilograms. You can pick out those fish, shrimps and crabs and put them separately, which will save you a lot of time. I'll collect a few more nets and throw them down, crushing them all."

"Okay, why didn't dad come?"

"He and his second brother went up the mountain to catch hogweed. They haven't come back yet, so I'll collect it first." As Ye Yaodong spoke, he also pulled the net hard in his hands.

Lin Xiuqing caught the orchid crabs first and pressed their backs with her thumbs. "These crabs don't look very fat."

Ye Yaodong turned his head and chuckled, "I have only been married for a few years, and now you can tell whether a crab is fat or not by just touching it?"

She rolled her eyes at him, "Will it be hard? Can I still not know?"

"Oh~ is that hard?"

"Hardly..." Lin Xiuqing looked at him with a smirk on his face, feeling that he seemed to have something on his mind.

"It's just barely!"

She said angrily: "Otherwise, in this season, the crabs are not very fat. In another month, the crabs will be very full."

"Yes, very full!"

Lin Xiuqing frowned and didn't want to talk to him.

"Be careful, don't get your hands caught in its big pincers."

"Yeah." This is like a human saying.

The men and women work together, so the work is not tiring. One of the couple collects the nets, the other picks the goods, and chats. They don't feel bored at all. It is much better than when he was working alone just now.

Ye Yaodong took another basket and poured it in because he saw that Ah Qing had not picked out all the seafood from the previous net and saw that she was still picking up crayfish.

However, she actually threw the crayfish she had just picked up into the sea.

"Hey Youyou, why did you throw away this little sugar shrimp?"

There are fresh water crayfish in the river, and there are also sea crayfish in the sea. The two look very similar, but the sea crayfish is very small, about the same size as a white shrimp.

The crayfish in the sea are locally called sugar shrimp, which is actually a type of crayfish.

Although it is small in size, the meat quality is not bad at all. Add some potatoes and cucumbers to make it spicy and delicious.

Even now, no one eats it. Everyone dislikes its small size and either throws it back into the sea or feeds it to chickens and ducks.

Lin Xiuqing did the same thing. Anyway, her chickens and ducks were kept at the beach. Recently, a lot of fish and shrimps had been stranded on the beach. She was not afraid that they would have nothing to eat. When she picked them up, she was afraid that they would not be able to finish them all and it would stink if they were left there, so She didn't keep any of them and threw them all back into the sea.

When she heard his question, she was still puzzled and said innocently: "This is so small, why don't you throw it away and take it back? There are so many small fish and shrimps stranded on the beach, and the chickens and ducks are not afraid of not having anything to eat."

"What a waste, pick it up and let's eat it ourselves."

"Nervous, you are so young, what is there to eat? It is troublesome to peel, and no one in the village eats it. Why do you suddenly want to keep it back to eat?"

"That's because you don't know how to cook. You either steam or boil it every day..."

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes, "Isn't all seafood steamed or boiled?"

"This is delicious when stir-fried."

"Every time I think about it, it comes out. I don't know how to do it."

"You don't know how to study, you don't say it so confidently, you didn't teach enough at noon, right?"

Lin Xiuqing was so angry that she clenched her hands into fists and wanted to hit him, but he dodged him and said, "Don't make a sneak attack! Work hard for me and I'll show you my skills tonight."

"Bah...shameless, full of filth, not a decent job..."

Ye Yaodong was stunned for a moment before he realized what he was thinking. "What the hell, where did you want to go? What I said about showing off my skills was that I would cook you a spicy crayfish at night. Where did you want to go? Damn! Catch the thief," It turns out that you are the most filthy person..."

Lin Xiuqing realized that she had misunderstood, her face instantly turned red, and she angrily picked up a few small sugar shrimps and threw them at him.

"Shut up~"

"Okay, okay, don't tell me, don't tell me~"

"Don't laugh~"

"Okay, okay~ If you don't smile, don't smile~"