Chapter 218 "Locusts" in the sea

  The next day, the weather looked even worse. When I got up early in the morning, I looked gray and there was a light rain.

  Ye Yaodong looked at the sea and couldn't help frowning. The wind was not as strong as the previous two days, but the waves were still there.

His 1,000 hooks are still at sea, and I don’t know if the buoys will be lost by the waves. I’m worried, and the ground cage net is also at sea. I haven’t collected it for 3 days. If I don’t go today, the fish in the cage will be destroyed. The prawns were going bad.

   "Ah Qing, I will sail out to collect the goods in the ground cage."

   "There are waves, and it's raining, you just have a cold..."

   "It's okay with a little rain, and the waves are not as big as the previous two days. I didn't go to the open sea, so I put the cage on the coast. It's okay."

  Lin Xiuqing glanced outside the house, frowned and said, "Then be careful and put on your coir raincoat."

"Um."

  Ye Yaodong picked up the coir raincoat hanging behind the door, put it on, put on the bucket, and went out. Ye Yaohua and Ye Yaopeng saw him going out even when it was raining, so they asked him why he was going?

   "Go and collect a ground cage and come back."

   Leaving a word behind, he walked out without stopping.

  There are large and small boats floating outside the pier. The weather has been bad in the past few days, so no boats have gone out, and even the purchase point has not been opened.

  It was the same today, it was so deserted and deserted that there were not even a single person, which formed a huge contrast compared to the bustle of people coming and going in the past.

  Ye Yaodong carried a bucket and approached the shore of the pier, but looking at it from a distance, he always felt that something was wrong on the reef covered by sea water outside the pier.

  How do you feel that the reef has become colorful?

  Looks yellow and purple? Seems like it's still moving?

  He walked forward in the rain with question marks all over his head, but his eyes widened in shock, "Damn it...starfish??? So many?"

   As far as the eye can see, on the underwater reef wall, the densely packed tentacles are actually starfish!

It is currently low tide, but the tide does not recede to the bottom. Although the reefs on the shore are submerged by sea water, he can still clearly see that there are starfishes stretching across the reefs as far as he can see. It's so big, it's going to be a trough...

   Going a little closer, although the sea water was a bit turbid, he could still vaguely see a large yellow-purple starfish lying on the beach below. After all, its color is quite eye-catching.

   "Grass, when will this be picked up?"

  He is both happy and a little worried, there is nothing to hold these things...

Today I just wanted to collect a ground cage, so I carried two buckets. I didn’t even push out the cart, and there was no place to put it. His boat was not small, so it couldn’t come in when it docked. The water level in this place was at low tide. too shallow.

  Daily they go out by bus at high tide, then board their own boat, and then bring their own boat to the shore to load or load things.

  The water level on the shore is too shallow when the tide is low. There are two high tides and two low tides every day.

  In the past, ships would come in and dock to unload when the tide was high. After unloading, they would drive outside to dock a little bit, and then personally let the bus ship pick up the shore.

  The small wooden boat is not afraid of the shallow water level, and they are always docked on the shore, but his small wooden boat has been sold long ago, so sad!

  Looking around, his eyes lit up in an instant, and he saw Ah Zheng and the little wooden boat!

   "Good guy, it's you! Lend me first!"

  Others' boats are not moving, and if they are seen, some will make a fuss, and theirs will definitely be fine!

  He swung two buckets and walked excitedly towards their boat.

   Simply start picking up from the reef near where their boat is docked.

  From a close distance, he can clearly see that some of these starfish have five horns like a five-pointed star, but there are also four and six.

   There are 4 rows of dense tube feet side by side under its corners. Using tube feet, they can both capture prey and allow themselves to climb rocky reefs.

The diameter of the big starfish on the underwater reef is more than 20 centimeters according to his visual inspection. It looks amazing. There are densely packed tube feet on the lower side, and the small ones are about 5-6 centimeters. I haven’t seen any smaller ones. .

  These starfish are wriggling their tentacles one by one to eat. They wrap the small mussels on the reef, use their tentacles to pry open a very thin opening, and then destroy the meat inside.

Don't look at the beautiful and cute starfish, but they are very edible, as long as they swim in the water and are smaller than them, oysters, abalones, sea cucumbers, fish eggs, crabs and scallops are all the same. eat.

  Sometimes he becomes ruthless, even his own kind...

  It is just like the locust on the ground, and it is particularly destructive. Wherever it goes on the bottom of the sea, there are very few shellfish left.

   And it also has super reproductive ability, a female starfish can lay 20 million eggs at a time!

  Ye Yaodong picked up one and rubbed it with his thumb. Several tentacles were still moving.

   "Mad, such a large area, the goods on the reef at the pier will be eaten up, and the sand clams under the beach will be eaten up."

  He threw the starfish into the bucket, and continued to pick it up. Such a large piece, he picked the big ones first, and he didn’t know when he would climb up. In the past few days, no one came out of the pier because of the wind and waves, and no one found it.

   It is estimated that they should be washed by the waves, so they appeared on the shore in large numbers to look for food.

  He bent down, picked up a bucket in a short while, twisted his waist and continued.

  When he filled both buckets, he only wiped out a small piece, and the surrounding ones were full of starfish. It took him a day and a night to collect them, and he probably couldn’t finish them all!

   Grass, who cares, pick up as much as you can, and fill the boat first before you find it.

  He poured all the starfish in the two buckets onto the boat, and then went back to load them, not caring that his trousers and shoes were soaked in water.

  He came and went, poured the bucket when it was full, I don’t know how many times, the boat seemed to be half full, and his waist was about to die.

   The rain didn't know when it stopped, and the sky looked brighter.

  Ye Yaodong looked at his watch and realized that it was past 12 o'clock, and he had been out for more than 4 hours. No wonder he was hungry.

   "Huh? What is this?"

  Ye Yaodong heard the voice and raised his eyes, "Mom? Why did you come out?"

   "It's me. Didn't Ah Qing say you got out of the Haila cage? Why are you here? What are these densely packed things? Are they starfish?"

  He said affirmatively: "It's a starfish. It was supposed to go out of the Hella cage, but when I arrived at the pier, I saw starfish everywhere, so I picked it up here."

  My waist is almost broken.

  Some time ago, the pork loin felt like it was all in vain, and I didn’t work hard at the critical moment, so I wasted it here today.

  Mother Ye stared at the big starfish with bright eyes immediately after hearing the words, "Why don't you know to go back and tell me? There are so many here, when will you pick them up by yourself?"

   "Isn't this thinking, since I saw it, I should pick it up for a while before anyone finds out. I haven't asked you yet? Why did you suddenly run out?"

"I saw the rain stopped after eating, so I went to see you. Who knew that Ah Qing said that you came out to collect the ground cage, and you haven't gone back yet. I was worried about something wrong with you, and asked me to come out. Take a look. You don’t know how to go back and say something.”

  Mother Ye patted her thigh while she was talking, and said excitedly: "Oh, I have to go back and call your parents, your elder brother and second brother, and call them all out to pick them up. This is all money!"

  As soon as she finished speaking, she ran back happily.

   "Wait a minute, mother, bring me a few more in your sack, and call Xiao Zheng and the others..."

   Nor can their ships be requisitioned for nothing.

"I know, I know…"

  Mother Ye's voice came from afar, and Ye Yaodong finally found a higher rock and sat down, his waist was about to break, he wanted to rest for a while.

  Looking at the surrounding reefs, they are still tightly covered by starfish, and only the area around him is empty.

  Made, I worked hard all morning, but I only picked up a small half of the place, which is really flooding.

  Mother Ye leaves quickly, and the people who come are called quickly.

  Father Ye and Ye Huimei were the first to push the scooter over, elder brother Ye, sister-in-law Ye, second brother Ye, second sister-in-law followed closely behind.

  They were stunned to see starfish on the reefs covered by seawater.

   "It's really all starfish!"

"so many…"

   "Hurry up, let's go down and pick it up..."

   "Dong has picked up so many?"

   "You picked up this boat? Why didn't you go back and say something?"

  Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, why did he waste time going back and talking?

  Shouldn’t I pick it up first when I come across a lot of things?

   If his mother hadn’t come out, he could continue to pick it up, and go back when it’s dark or the boat is full!

   "You're still rambling, why don't you pick it up?" Father Ye said, and Second Aunt Ye immediately fell silent.

   Each of them shook a sack, each found a place, and excitedly began to pick up money.

  The excitement prompted them to start chatting again.

   "Why are there so many starfish?"

   "Yeah, why are there so many starfish popping up on the shore all of a sudden. All of them are quite beautiful. I usually only pick up one or two occasionally on the beach. Today they are so many and big!"

   "Is it because of the waves these days?"

   "There are in the sea, you see, there are everywhere in the sea and on the beach."

  …

   After a while, Mother Ye also arrived late with Ah Zheng and Xiao Shanshan.

  The two of them were called out by Mother Ye because they didn't understand, thinking that Dongzi had something important to do, that's why his mother asked them to come out with sacks in such a hurry.

  They were still wondering, why are you taking the sack to the pier? This is not the first day of junior high school, nor the fifteenth day, there are still waves in the sea.

   They were also pleasantly surprised at just one glance, and immediately reacted, and rushed up with Ye Mu.

   Sure enough, he is a good brother, even if he thinks about his family when he has good things, he actually thinks about them!

  I'm so touched!

   "Damn it, you have already loaded a boat with your horse?"

   "This ship seems familiar?"

   "Grass, this is our boat, are you stupid?" Xiao Xiao stared, no wonder he took a detour to call them.

  (end of this chapter)