Chapter 538: Wedding Anniversary (End)
Each of the small eels that Austin caught was more than twelve or three centimeters long.
After removing the head, it can be cut into about five or six pieces of eel about the length of a thumb.
And such a small eel has the most tender and delicious taste after grilling.
When the last baby eel was cut into eel segments, Pei Pei put all the pieces into the basin where the Napoleon wrasse was kept, and then walked back to the deck with the basin and handed the freshly processed fish to Austin to take care of.
Previously, when Pei Pei was handling the fish, Austin had already baited all the cages, and then hung all the cages under the surface of the sea around the yacht.
After seeing his wife come out with a basin, Austin took the basin from the other party's hand, and handed a plastic bucket to his wife, then pointed to the deck where he killed the fish just now, and instructed Pei Pei: "I'm going to start preparing the grilled fish now, you don't have anything to do at this time anyway, just be responsible for helping me clean the deck!" β
After speaking, he leaned over and gave Pei Pei a kiss on the cheek: "Thank you!" My dear! β
"Chief Report: Guaranteed to complete the mission!" After receiving this third assignment from Austin, Pei Pei once again learned the Boy Scout salute posture, playfully posing a saluting pos to her husband, and then walked to the railing with the bucket and hit the first bucket of seawater.
After three washes in a row, Austin's deck was finally washed clean.
And at the same timeβ
The smell of grilled fish is also beginning to fill the deck
Pei Pei leaned behind Austin and poked her head out. After pretending to be intoxicated and smelling the fish, he wrapped his hands around Austin's waist from behind his back, and then smacked his mouth while asking coquettishly, "Honey, how long will it take before we can officially start eating?" β
Austin replied without looking back, "If you don't have anything to do, let's go take a shower first." I guess you'll be about the same when you come back from the shower. β
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After diving out of the water, the couple began to be busy with their catch.
And the bodies of the two of them are already sticky!
Therefore, Austin's suggestion also caters to Pei Pei's heart.
"Then I'll go take a shower first, and I'll be back for you later." Pei Pei let go of the hands that were wrapped around Austin's waist. And then. He jumped into the cabin
After taking a shower and changing into a clean dress, Pei Pei returned to the aft deck in a comfortable fit -
At this time, on the deck in front of the BBQ oven, three plates of freshly grilled eel segments that are still steaming and fragrant and a plate of grilled napoleon wrasse wrapped in aluminum tin foil are already placed.
Pei Pei leaned over to the plate and squatted down. After looking down and smelling the aroma of the fish. Got up and looked at Austin and asked, "I chilled a bottle of champagne and a bottle of white wine in the freezer before taking a shower." What kind of alcohol do you want to drink? β
"Let's open a bottle of white wine!" Austin looked up at his wife and replied with a smile.
"Got it, I'm going to get the wine out now! After sobering up. It's also time to eat! Pei Pei smiled and made an "OK" gesture, then turned her head and jumped into the cabin happily
When she came out again, she had a bottle of white wine under her arm, a decanter in her left hand, and a plate in her other, which contained the steamed napoleon wrasse.
After opening the corkscrew with a corkscrew, Pei Pei poured a small half bottle of white wine into the decanter.
When she was done, Pei Pei clapped her hands and glanced at the baking tray -
The food that has not yet been grilled is now only a few small abalone and snail meat, and this job, in Peipei's opinion, is not difficult at all.
So, she told Austin to hurry up and take a shower and change clothes, and she took over the work of roasting the abalone and snail meat later.
Austin leaned over his caring wife's face, gave a loud "bar", and then turned and walked into the cabin
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Austin took a shower very quickly, and Pei Pei had just loaded a round of abalone and snails, and it seemed that only six or seven minutes had passed, he had already finished showering, changed into a pair of boxer sweatpants, and then, with his upper body naked, returned to the aft deckβ
After stepping onto the deck, Austin shook his wet hair and walked up to Peipei's side to help his wife brush up the barbecue sauce
With the young couple working together, they quickly baked all the remaining shellfish.
At this time, the sunset on the horizon has just emerged
Pei Pei and Austin sat on the bow deck, snuggling up to each other, watching the sunset and the sea breeze while sweetly feeding each other the delicious seafood they had caught and grilled with their own hands
At this timeβ
Not far away on the horizon, a large area suddenly appeared like a strip of ripples like a school of fish swimming rapidlyβ
Immediately afterward, in the sight of the two, they saw beautiful dolphins jumping up one after another on the sea
Pei Pei was immediately excited.
She put the dinner plate on the deck, then ran quickly back to the cabin, took out her phone, and ran back to Austin's sideβ
"Hurry up and take a picture for me!" After Pei Pei adjusted the phone to the camera function, handed it to Austin, and then leaned on the railing and began to set up the POSS
After several consecutive shots at a fast pace, Austin excitedly said to his wife, "I'll tell you a little bit about sea fishing - if you see a big school of dolphins, it means that there must be a big school of fish swimming in the area, and those schools of dolphins are preying on these fish." So. If we quickly cast the rod and cast the bait, we will definitely catch a lot of marine fish. β
"Really?" When Pei Pei heard this, she became even more excited.
She turned around and observed the ripples on the surface of the sea for a moment, then asked, "It seems that there is still a long way to go from the dolphin colony, shall we drive the boat over and then cast the rod?" β
"Let's make a decision by observing the direction in which the fish are swimming. Now you go to the cabin and get all the rods out! After Austin had said this, he began to untie a clasp to the railing that was tied to the cage.
Pei Pei didn't understand what Austin was doing, but she didn't ask more, but turned around and ran in the direction of the cabin.
After finding the fishing rod, Pei Pei ran back to the deck quickly. Just in time to see Austin lifting the cage that had just been untied.
Inside this cage. I don't know when an octopus has been drilled in.
When Austin saw the octopus, he slapped his hands happily and said to himself, "Great, I'm worried about the lack of bait." This octopus is just enough to be used as live bait for the fish! β
Pei Pei immediately understood Austin's intention to raise the cage.
She lowered the two fishing rods to Austin's feet. Reminder: "I'll go to the kitchen and help you get a knife!" β
"By the way, bring another pair of scissors and a few buckets!" Austin commanded without raising his head.
Without saying a word, Pei Pei turned around again and continued to run into the cabin.
After finding all the tools Austin needed in the kitchen. She hurried back to the deck and handed the tools in her hand to Austin: "GiveβI've got all the tools you want." Look at it, what's missing? β
"That's enough." Austin picked a pair of scissors directly from Peipei's hand. Then, with a "click", one of the tentacles of the octopus was cut.
Then, with scissors, he continued to cut the octopus tentacles into sections of bait about six or seven centimeters long.
Then, Austin grabbed a piece of the octopus tentacle that was still writhing, skewered it onto the hook, handed it to Pei Pei, and said, "This rod is for you." Don't be in a hurry to throw the rod yet, you will throw it again when I tell you to do it later! β
After speaking, without waiting for Pei Pei's reply, he continued to string the second hook.
With the bait on the hook of the second rod, Austin threw the octopus that was still wriggling on the deck, and the remaining tentacles of the scissors into a bucket.
Then, he got up with his rod and continued to pay attention to the direction of the dolphin pods on the surface
After observing only a moment, Austin immediately shoved the fishing rod in his hand into Pei Pei's hand and roared, "We are in the wrong direction, now we must immediately anchor and drive the boat to the correct direction where the fish are swimming before we can start casting the rod to fish." β
As he spoke, he ran to the stern of the boatβ
After untying the ropes and pulling the anchor up, Austin sped into the engine room again, and soon the yacht's engine was starting.
Then, Austin drove the yacht and chased it in the direction of the dolphin's swim
The closer you get to the sea area where the dolphins swim, the more obvious the traces of fish swimming under the surface of the sea, and many fish even jump out of the sea under the pursuit and predation of the dolphins.
Austin took the helm and steered the yacht in the direction of the fish, and only after a long distance did he stop the yacht.
Then, after stepping out of the cabin, he took his rod from Pei Pei's hand, and said to Pei Pei in the direction of the stern: "My dear, I will lower the anchor like the stern of the boat!" β
Pei Pei is in a state of doing whatever Austin tells her to do at this moment.
She walked to the stern, threw the anchor into the sea, and then turned and walked back to the bow deck.
After returning to the railing at the bow of the boat, she looked at the bottom of the sea and asked curiously, "The fish under the surface of the sea here seem to be very small, why didn't we drop anchor near the big fish just now?" β
"According to the law of the food chain of fish predation, dolphins chase big fish, big fish eat small fish, and small fish chase after smaller fish to prey, and at the top of the food chain of this school of fish are generally large schools of shrimp," Austin explains
Before Austin's explanation could be finished, Pei Pei immediately continued to ask, "Will there be more ferocious carnivorous fish behind the dolphins, such as sharks and the like?" β
Austin shook his head and laughed, "That's the other way you can tell!" Sharks are not the natural enemies of dolphins, to be precise, dolphins should be the nemesis of sharks! β
Looking at his wife's curious expression, Austin smiled and threw the rod in his hand into the sea before continuing to explain: "Dolphins swim much faster than sharks, and they are more agile than sharks!" In this case, it is very difficult for a large shark to bite a dolphin, but it is very easy for a dolphin to attack a shark! In addition, sharks have always preferred to be alone, while dolphins prefer to live in groups. The dolphin's beak is its most powerful weapon, and under high-speed poking, it will rupture the internal organs of the shark with special bones and die! So, if there is no human round-up, dolphins are actually at the top of the marine life chain! β
When it comes to the topic of "human round-up of dolphins", the whole world knows that the Japanese are the biggest culprits for the increasingly scarce dolphin population!
The Japanese also set September 1 as the beginning date of the "dolphin hunting season" every year!
Once the season begins, it will last until the end of March.
According to incomplete statistics, the number of dolphins dying in the "Dolphin Killing Festival" is at least tens of thousands!
As soon as she thought of this heavy topic, Pei Pei, who was still in a good mood, immediately involuntarily went down.
At this time, Austin snapped his finger and slapped his wife's head, reminding her: "What do you think, don't hurry up and throw the rod!" I didn't see the big fish in the back swimming over soon! β
Pei Pei shook her head, and put aside all the distractions caused by the dolphinsβ
She seriously threw the hook into the sea
What's nextβ
The young couple snuggled up to the bow deck and chatted while waiting for the big fish to bite the hookβ
"Is it that when this group of big fish swims through this sea area, we won't have any big fish to catch?" Pei Pei asked.
"Not really!" Austin replied with a smile: "It's easy for a small fish to break away from the organization in the process of evading the big fish!" In the same way, large fish can easily break into small and scattered schools in the process of avoiding dolphin pursuit. The base of scattered fish and stragglers is very large, and we will not be short of fish if we cast a rod in this area for one night! β
As soon as Austin's words fell, he immediately felt the fishing line in his hand suddenly tighten-
"I've got a big fish on my side!" Austin screamed excitedly, and immediately turned the reel of the fishing rod (to be continued......
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