Chapter 709 Painter

The father and son took advantage of the darkness and there was no one around, and kept busy there, holding a shovel, holding a shovel, and from time to time scraping with a hoe, and the barnacle larvae clattered under the boat. They all fell all over the beach, and they didn't even have time to pick them up.

They planned to shovel the entire side of the hull clean, and it would not be too late to deal with the shelled ones on the beach.

On an April night, the wind blowing was obviously still chilly, but the father and son were sweating. They took off their coats and threw them casually on the cart. They were both wearing only vests and were still sweating.

Mainly because I was thinking about getting it done as soon as possible when the tide went out at night, so I worked very hard.

Ye Yaodong stood on the beach for a while, and climbed onto the boat for a while. The main reason was that the fishing boat was stranded on the beach and did not stand up. It was difficult to scrape like this, and the bottom of the boat could not be scraped. At this time, they could only lift it first. Scrape the edges of the hull first.

After working for two hours, Ye Yaodong lifted up his vest, wiped his face, and said, "It's almost done, dad? Have you finished shaving?"

"Clean it a little and wait until it's time to paint."

"Take a rag and wipe it. If there is any area that is not scraped clean, just shovel it again."

"Well, you first clean up these shelled ones on the ground and put them in the basket, otherwise there won't even be a place to set foot."

"good."

Ye Yaodong took down all the baskets on the cart to put the juvenile barnacles in, and shoveled piles of them into the baskets with a shovel. After a while, they were full.

When a bamboo basket is full, I pull it aside and continue to change the basket.

After shoveling for a while, he stood the shovel there and rested on it with both hands.

"Phew~ I'm so exhausted. I'm not even tired even after going to the ground."

"Have you ever been to the ground?"

"Speaking of which, doesn't my yard have land?"

Although there was only a little bit, it was still ground after all. At any rate, he had picked up a hoe, turned over the ground, and actually sown seeds a few times.

"Just a little bit of land in your yard is called off the land? When are you going to go to Dongqiao Village next door to collect rice?"

"Nervous, you don't have any work to do at home? Stop nagging, are you feeling better on that side?"

"It's almost done. Come over here and shovel it."

Father and son exchanged positions again.

After working for more than half an hour, the hull of the boat was cleaned again, and those with shells were put into bamboo baskets and carried onto the cart.

"It should be almost done, right?" Ye Yaodong said when he saw the full baskets piled on the cart.

He raised his hand and looked at his wrist again. He and his father had been busy shoveling these barnacle larvae for almost three hours. The bottom of the boat hadn't even been cleaned yet. It was already almost eleven o'clock, and the tide was around three o'clock in the night. It will rise again.

He looked at the intertidal zone in the distance and said, "We have to hurry up, Dad, and finish brushing and drying it early before the tide comes in."

"Okay, okay, you go get paint and paint the hull again. We don't need to clean it. After cleaning, we have to wait for it to dry and fetch water. It's too troublesome. Wipe it with a rag and apply it first. Brush off the marks and let them dry first.”

"good."

The hull is painted black, which is rare wherever it is placed. Most people paint it either blue or red.

Most of the large ships that run in the deep sea of ​​20 to 30 meters have a red bottom and a blue hull.

The black paint covered up the markings on the ship with just two strokes. The effect looked good, but the more he looked at it, the more it looked like a pirate ship...

Originally, they only painted black fonts, not the whole ship, but with his painting, it looked more like an authentic pirate...

The more Ye Yaodong brushes, the slower his movements become...

"Dad, do you think we painted this ship all black, making it look more like a pirate ship?"

"Uh...what should we do?"

He didn't say it, and he didn't think about it. As soon as he said it, Father Ye saw that the hull of the ship was already a large black area, and he felt that it looked similar.

Ye Yaodong stood up and walked back and forth with a brush in one hand, looking left and right, up and down, and walked in a large circle around the boat. He thought of the red and white paint on the boat, and an idea came to him.

"It's already been painted. There's nothing you can do about it. Other colors can't cover it up. There's only black, so just paint it black. We'll use the red and white paint later. I happened to have brought them out just now. I originally wanted to use them for marking. of."

Thinking that his father's brain was not as good as his own, he handed over the task of painting with black paint to his father and went to pick up the red and white paint from the cart.

"You paint the middle of the hull black, and I paint a white line on the top of the hull, and go around the hull, and then finish the white and then paint a red line, so that it looks better, and it doesn't look like a pirate ship. , there are three colors!”

Fortunately, when he just painted, his first priority was to erase the marks. The areas he painted were all around the marks and did not touch the area above the hull.

Now only the middle of the hull is black, covering up the original marks. They can still add their own marks after painting.

Father Ye thought about it and thought it was feasible, as long as it wasn't all black.

"Then let's paint the lower part of the hull with red paint later. Although it's not a special kind of paint, the color will look better and it will look better. With more color, it won't look like a pirate ship."

"Okay, this way only the middle is black, and the top and bottom are red and white. It looks better."

Ye Yaodong thought about it and thought it was feasible. Just thinking about it made him feel that it looked much better than the single-color ones they used to paint, with so many colors.

In the past, in order to save trouble and money, villagers would buy the same kind of paint and just apply it all once to avoid leaving too much leftover and wasting it.

Father Ye also smiled, "As long as it doesn't look like the legendary pirate ship."

The father and son rolled up their sleeves and just did it.

Ye Yaodong even made a special trip home to pick up the chalk that Ye Chenghu secretly brought back from school to play with.

This kid threw it against the window, and he could see it every day when he went in and out to look at the calendar, and it came in handy.

He took a piece of chalk and drew lines on the hull first to avoid making them look too ugly.

Keeping a width of about five centimeters, he drew two lines next to each other, then picked up white paint and painted it first, planning to paint the top line white and the second line red.

When Father Ye saw that he had finished painting, he also took the remaining chalk and planned to draw the waterline first to avoid applying too much black paint.

The father and son have been working together for so long and have a tacit understanding. They divide the work and work in an orderly manner.

Ye Yaodong felt more and more that he was a real worker, and the more he applied, the better he got at it.

Although there are not many red and white paints, it does not cover a wide area, but it is barely enough for one application.

Father Ye finished painting it black and looked at the white, red and black colors of the boat. The more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became. With this painting, it looked much better than their original boat.

However, while he was satisfied, he was also a little worried.

"Dongzi, let's wait until daybreak and tell the neighbors that this is what we bought. Is that okay? Can they believe it? Then if the people of Luzhou Island ask around, we will suddenly have more at this time. A boat, will anyone find out about it?"

"And our boat appears on the beach so early in the morning. Isn't it a bit abnormal? Is it more appropriate for us to leave it somewhere else for a few days and then drive it back openly?"

Ye Yaodong thought about it and felt that what his father said made sense. They didn't let the news out in advance and no one knew about it. Suddenly, there was an extra boat on the beach early in the morning. He said that he bought it. It felt too embarrassing. People were surprised.

Moreover, he suddenly thought that the opera would start in the village tomorrow. It would be Mazu's birthday in five days. Not to mention villages from all over the country, county leaders would also come.

At that time, their village had made a newspaper donation to build the Tianhou Palace. What if people from Luzhou Island came to join in the fun?

I can ask one of Mazu’s small statues to go back and keep him safe...

What if people from Luzhou Island come over and want to donate some sesame oil money, please come and join in the fun?

He is now a famous person in the village. Everyone knows about his family's situation, and even a few inquiries will reveal the details...

"Then we drive to the town dock and dock for a few days? Can we drive back after Mazu's birthday is over?"

"That's okay. There are several piers in the town, big and small, and there are shelters nearby. You can park anywhere. There are many piers in the town, so we can park there for two days without even noticing."

"Well, you can't just suddenly appear on the beach, and it's still at this time."

Mazu's birthday and the construction of the Tianhou Palace have already pushed their village into everyone's sight. At this time, if he has another boat, it will really become the talk of the country. He is already famous enough, and when the time comes, the thief Don't just worry about his home.

It has to be postponed for a few days anyway.

Whether it's to avoid the busiest days or to avoid making people suspicious, we really can't let the boat appear on the beach tomorrow.

"After Mazu's birthday is over, I'll tell your mother that someone wants to sell the boat, and you think it's cheap and want to buy it. Let her big mouth go out and say a few words first to spread the word, and then we can bring the boat back. .”

"Then the villagers won't be surprised. At most, they will be jealous and make some slanderous remarks. Anyway, you have made money selling dried fish. Everyone knows that it doesn't matter if you buy an extra boat to come back. Aguang's family also bought two boats. .”

Ye Yaodong nodded, "That's okay. It fully reflects the value of my mother."

His mother's correct way to use it!

Father Ye rolled his eyes at him, "Work quickly. We have to let the paint dry before the tide comes in. Then we have to drive to the town."

"The one I bought is from Taiwan. I heard it dries very quickly. If there is wind at night, it will be completely dry if the wind blows. It should be able to be done in time. The tide will not grow until after three o'clock in the night, and it will not reach this position until three o'clock. I This is almost done.”

"Then it needs to be left to dry for a while, so as not to fade in the water. My black one is almost healed, and the paint is almost bottomed out. The red paint is not enough, and the waterline of the ancestral temple has passed. Let's put the boat back Drive back and touch up the paint.”

"I'm not afraid of fading at all. The paint I just painted on the marked position should have dried by now. I'll mark the same position first. If the black color fades again, the color will not fade away. It will fade a little more, the paint you just applied is quite thick, and it can still dry for another hour or two.”

Ye Yaodong took a white paint brush and wrote the word "Ye San" on it. Anyway, he could always find a reason to make it up.

Just say "I bought it in advance, let someone paint it first, and then drove it back after seeing the auspicious day." That's okay, anyway, write your name first.