Chapter 28: Catching a tiger grouper

“Oh, this fish is so slippery!”

Ye Yaodong had just poked it out and tried to catch it, but it ran away again and went back in.

The stone was too big to move, so he could only continue to use the tongs to stir it and let it run out again.

A Guang squatted down, holding his bucket and aiming it at the crack under the stone, “My bucket is empty anyway, so I’ll lend it to you to catch this fish first.”

Ye Yaodong looked at his empty bucket and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Everyone had a harvest, but his bucket was still empty, with nothing in it.

“Okay, put it in my bag first!”

A Zheng’s eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, “A Guang must be very depressed, but he still has to force a smile, so pitiful! Good brother!”

“Ah~”

“Hahaha~”

Listening to them continue to tease A Guang, Ye Yaodong raised the corner of his mouth, and used the fire tongs to stir under the stone for a long time, but found that the tiger grouper didn’t run out for a long time, “You go to the opposite side to see if it has run to the other side?”

“Here! Here! It swam out here, give me the bucket!”

“It’s quite big.”

“It looks like it should be one or two pounds.”

“Dongzi is really lucky!”

Xiaoxiao took the bucket handed over by A Guang, scooped it at the tiger grouper, and scooped it directly into the bucket, “It’s done, caught it!”

Several heads stretched out, looking at the lively fish in the bucket, with envy on their faces.

Buy, everyone can afford it. Going fishing is all about the fun and satisfaction of catching seafood. And this is not just any fish, it is a tiger grouper. Everyone can’t help but complain about Ye Yaodong, saying he is so lucky.

“There is too little seawater in this bucket. Add some more, but don’t kill them.”

Awei said, “I only have two jumping fish. Pour them into your bucket and use them to scoop water.”

Xiaoxiao said with a smile, “Then I have earned two fish!”

After half a bucket of water was filled, Xiaoxiao handed the bucket to Ye Yaodong, “Do you plan to keep them for yourself or sell them?”

“Sell them! Of course I will sell them. If I eat them, my mother will scold me and break my legs. I caught two small green crabs yesterday and planned to keep them for food, but she scolded me and told me to give them to the children. Then she looked better, but I still sold them.”

This tiger grouper is much more valuable than the two small green crabs yesterday. If I stew them, not to mention his mother scolding him, his wife will be angry with him for a few days.

It’s not bad to sell them for a few dollars, so that she can save a day of weaving nets and not earning a dollar.

Although he didn’t know how much his wife had saved, he knew it was definitely not much.

“You have to sell it. The older generation was reluctant to eat or wear it. This pound costs more than one yuan. Such a big one can be sold for three yuan, which is equivalent to 3-4 days of fishing. It would be a waste to just waste it.”

“Yeah, it’s okay to eat worthless seafood, but you should sell it!”

“While you are still alive, you should take it to the dock purchase point first. It’s a good opportunity for us to find out if there are any big goods? Otherwise, the goods will all go into your bucket, and I will have to return with an empty bucket!”

Everyone said so, and Ye Yaodong nodded, “Okay, then you guys play here first, I’ll be back in a while.”

Ah Zheng said with a chuckle: “It’s okay, you can stay for a while. It’s okay if you don’t come back. We are here, so we don’t need you!”

He laughed and cursed, “Fuck, you are jealous of my good luck. If I’m not here, you will definitely not find good stuff.”

“Get out of here~Get out of here~”

He happily walked towards the group of people digging sand clams with a bucket. After finding Lin Xiuqing, he put the bucket in front of her, “I found a grouper, it’s a tiger grouper, you can take it to the purchase point to sell it.”

“Ah? Tiger grouper!” Lin Xiuqing looked at the bucket with her eyes shining with surprise, “It’s so big!”

“What tiger grouper? Lao San, did you catch a tiger grouper?” Ye’s mother also came over in surprise.

“Tiger grouper?”

The people around gathered around after hearing this, saying in unison: “It’s really a tiger grouper!”

“Where did you catch it? You’re so lucky?”

“And a few stone crabs?”

“Oh, and snow clams…”

“Where did Dongzi find it? There are so many things, why haven’t we seen them before?”

“When we go to the beach, we only pick up a few jumping fish and stone crabs. Dong is lucky!”

Ye Yaodong ignored the surprise of the people around him and said to Lin Xiuqing: “You guys take out a bucket to put the fish, and then take this tiger grouper to the purchase point to sell it. This bucket belongs to A Guang, I’m going to give it back to him, and by the way, go around and see if there’s anything else to pick up.”

“Okay, I’ll pour the sand clams into my mother’s bucket, you wait a moment.” Lin Xiuqing smiled brightly and quickly took out the bucket actively.

He estimated that this tiger grouper could only be sold for three yuan, and he was too lazy to go to the purchasing point. After pouring the fish into his wife’s bucket, he took the empty bucket and his own bucket and continued to walk down the beach.

“Wait a minute!”

Mother Ye called him, “Don’t you still have snow clams in your bucket? How many are there? If there are too many, take them out and let Aqing take them to the purchasing point to sell them. Why are you still keeping them in there?”

“Ah? Snow clams are also going to be sold?”

“Of course, the valuable ones should be sold,” Mother Ye took his bucket and shook it, “The ones you picked up are almost as big as fish balls, and they look like they are more than a pound, and can be sold for one or two yuan. If you don’t sell them together, are you going to eat them?”

“Okay…then sell them together.”

Lin Xiuqing actually wanted to say this just now, but she was afraid that he would be unhappy. After all, he had contributed a tiger grouper. Now that Mother Ye said so, she was happy to take them out.

“Be careful, the big claws of those stone crabs can pinch you, let me do it.”

Ye Yaodong stopped his wife from reaching out, and took out a few stone crabs from the bucket first, stepped on them with his feet to prevent them from crawling around, and then took out the snow clam and threw it into the bucket containing the tiger grouper.

“Is this okay? There are only a few worthless stone crabs and sword shrimps, as well as jumping fish, and there is only one nine-segment shrimp that can’t be sold for money.”

Ye’s mother nodded with satisfaction, “You’ve been lucky these two days. People who go to the beach to fish in the sea for several years may not be able to encounter tiger groupers once. Go around again, and if you find good stuff, bring it to your wife to sell.”

“How can it be so easy to encounter it? I thought it was cabbage? There was only a tide these two days, so there were some things to pick up. What you can pick up is also a matter of luck. Do you really think that there are goods all over the beach and you can just pick them up casually?” Then did A Guang have an empty bucket all the time? Seeing that the women on the side were very tempted, he hurriedly said.

Otherwise, they would not dig sand clams, but go to the sea, and he would not have to go.

His luck has been really good recently!

“I just said that. If I didn’t tell you so, you would have eaten it for me the next time!” Ye’s mother glared at him and said unhappily.

Everyone knows that he is trying his luck. How many things can there be on their beach? How could she not know?

“I sent it here, didn’t I? How can I eat it…”

“Go, go, go and take a look again.”

Alas, he has handed it in, and his mother is still nagging. It is not easy to change the family’s view of him, but it doesn’t matter. According to his previous life, he lived to 65 years old before he died. He still has many decades to go. It’s better to take it slowly and accept it imperceptibly.

(End)