The next morning, Feng Ye got up but didn't see Feng Xuan. When he asked, he learned that Feng Xuan had gone to worship Mazu and hadn't returned yet.
He waited at home after finishing his breakfast.
It took almost half an hour for Feng Xuan and his wife to finally return.
After packing their things, Feng Ye asked as they pushed the cart towards the dock, "Why did it take so long?"
"There are too many people. The Mazu Temple is packed with people inside and out. We have to queue," Feng Xuan said helplessly. "If we hadn't gone early, we still wouldn't be able to get back now."
"It's not a big day today, so why are so many people worshipping Mazu?"
Feng Ye found it strange.
Even on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month, there aren't this many people going to worship Mazu early in the morning. At most, there are a lot of people worshipping on festivals, Mazu's birthday, or the day she ascended to heaven, and almost the whole family goes.
"Some people say that Uncle Fusheng and his wife prayed to Mazu before going to sea, and they only returned alive thanks to Mazu's blessing. The other two families did not go, so they did not return. Therefore, everyone went to pray to Mazu today."
"That's not right either. Even if every family in our village sent someone, it wouldn't take that long. Besides, those who go out to sea at night should have left much earlier."
"You don't think it's just our village, do you? The news about Uncle Fusheng has spread throughout the entire island. Do you think how many people will go?"
There is only one Mazu Temple on Baishi Island, located at the highest point in the center of the island, but there are four villages with a total population of more than 7,000.
If almost every household has someone going, it seems like the queue will indeed be very long.
Before Feng Xuan could finish speaking, he continued, "What's even more outrageous is that, besides our island, people from other places somehow got the news and also came to worship early this morning."
"Are there people from other places coming to worship?"
Feng Ye was speechless.
"Yes, I heard that the person who donated the most money was a fishing boat owner from the county who travels to the open sea. He donated 2,000 yuan as incense money."
"Tsk tsk, isn't our island's Mazu Temple famous now?"
"Of course, I estimate that in a few days, even more people will come to worship."
The two walked and talked, and soon arrived at the dock.
After loading the goods onto the boat, Feng Ye, as usual, pushed the cart to Feng Jiafa's purchasing point and asked him to look after it.
Then they went to Feng Xuan's small boat, lit a string of firecrackers, and Feng Xuan lit one for himself as well.
Then, the two small boats sailed side by side toward the spot where Feng Ye had set the fish trap.
Rowing at sea alone can be quite boring, but it's different with two people; at least you can chat.
"I cast my net around here."
Once they reached a point roughly in the middle of the sea, Feng Xuan stopped the boat and took out a hand-thrown net.
"I'll go and close the net first, and see if I've caught anything."
Feng Ye nodded and rowed his small boat around looking for buoys.
The surrounding sea area is only so big, so it's impossible to get the general location wrong, but we'll have to find the exact location.
After all, it was in the sea, not on land, and there was no satellite positioning like in later times.
Before long, Feng Ye spotted the sea cage buoy bobbing up and down with the waves on the sea surface.
We rowed over, moored the boat, hooked up the buoy, and started pulling in the bottom rig.
At first, pull the rope upwards, and once the frame supporting the cage mesh is exposed above the water, grab the frame one by one and pull it upwards.
He had a total of fifty traps, ten in a group, and set them up in ten groups.
The first fish trap was pulled up, and unexpectedly, it burst the net.
There weren't many items, but there were two wavy lobsters, commonly known as baby lobsters.
They are of different sizes, the larger one weighs about half a pound and the smaller one only three ounces.
Feng Ye happily untied the fish collection bag and poured all the fish inside into the bucket.
Apart from the two small green dragons, the rest were just worthless stone crabs and miscellaneous fish and shrimp.
The second trap was pulled up, but there wasn't much inside, just some worthless stone crabs and small fish and shrimp.
Eight traps were pulled out in a row, and all of them were like this.
Feng Ye was not disappointed; it was all within expectations. It's impossible for every trap to yield a good result.
When we got to the last cage in this group, it exploded again.
More than a dozen crabs were found in the trap. Apart from two worthless stone crabs, there were three blue crabs weighing about seven or eight ounces each, and the rest were red-shelled crabs, all of which were quite large.
Feng Ye happily collapsed onto the deck, took out the prepared rope, and tied the blue crab up tightly.
Blue crabs are naturally aggressive, and if they are not tied up, their claws are easily broken off during a fight, which would lower their price.
It doesn't matter if it's red armor, you can just put it in the bucket.
After finishing the first set, Feng Ye rowed his small boat to the location of the second set of traps without stopping.
Several traps were pulled up in this group, but nothing of value came out until the sixth trap was pulled up. It was crabs again, but this time they were a different species, orchid crabs, weighing about four pounds.
The later sets of traps are all similar, with only one or two occasionally yielding some good catches.
It wasn't until the last set of traps that the explosion truly occurred.
As soon as the first trap of the last group was pulled out of the water, Feng Ye exclaimed, "Holy crap, prawns!"
Shrimp aren't very valuable; the purchasing point only charges a little over one yuan. The key is that Feng Ye loves to eat them.
Quickly pull the fish trap onto the boat, untie the fish collection bag, and pour the fish into the bucket.
Most of them were prawns, probably weighing seven or eight pounds each, quite large, about sixteen or seventeen centimeters long, and there were also some small fish and shrimp.
This is only the first trap in this group, and it's already such a success.
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