Father and son took advantage of the night, there was no one around, there was no one around, there was no one around, there was no time to pick up, they had no time to pick up.

They were going to shovel the entire circle of the sides of the hull, and it would not be too late to deal with the shelled ones on the beach.

On the night of April, the wind was still cold, but the father and son were sweating profusely, taking off their coats and throwing them on the cart casually, and they were still sweating with only their vests.

The main reason is that I want to take advantage of the low tide at night and get it done early, and I work very hard.

Ye Yaodong stood on the beach for a while, and then climbed onto the boat, mainly because the fishing boat ran aground on the beach and did not stand up, so it was not easy to scrape, and the bottom of the boat could not be scraped, so they could only scrape the top of the hull on the edge first.

After two hours of busy work, Ye Yaodong lifted the vest on his body, wiped his face, and said, "It's almost, Dad?" Did you scrape it over there? ”

"Clean it up and wait for it to get painted."

"Take a rag and wipe it, if you haven't scraped it clean, just shovel it again."

"Well, you first clean up these shelled ones on the ground and pick them up in the basket, otherwise you won't even have a place to put your feet."

"Okay."

Ye Yaodong took down the baskets on the board cart to load these juvenile barnacles, and shoveled them into the baskets one by one with a shovel, and after a while, they were full.

When a bamboo basket was full, he pulled it aside and continued to change it.

It took a while for him to stand there with his hands propped up.

"Whew~ I'm tired, I'm not very tired from going to the ground."

"Have you ever been on the ground?"

"Isn't there land in my yard?"

Although it is only a little bit, it is also the ground, but he has also taken a hoe, turned over the ground, and sowed a few times seriously.

"Just a little bit of land in your yard, also called the ground? When will you wait for the double robbery, you will go to Dongqiao Village next door to harvest some rice and try it? ”

"Nerves, you don't have a job at home? Don't be verbose, is your side okay? ”

"Almost, you come here and shovel."

Father and son swapped places again.

It took more than half an hour to clean the hull of the ship, and also load the shelled ones into bamboo baskets and carry them onto the cart.

"Pretty much that's going to work, right?" Ye Yaodong said when he saw the full baskets piled up on the board car.

He raised his hand and looked at his wrist, just shoveling these barnacle shells, he and his father were busy for almost three hours, and the bottom of the boat had not been cleaned yet, it would be almost eleven o'clock, and the tide would rise again at three o'clock in the night.

He glanced at the intertidal zone in the distance, "Let's hurry up Dad, before the tide rises, finish brushing and drying early." ”

"Alright, alright, you go get the paint and paint the hull again. We don't have to clean it, we have to wait for it to dry and fetch water, it's too troublesome. Take a rag and wipe it, apply it first, and dry the mark first. ”

"Okay."

The hull is painted with black paint, which is rare anywhere, and most people are either painted blue or red.

Most of the big boats that run twenty or thirty meters deep in the sea are basically red bottoms and blue hulls.

The black paint brush had covered up the ship's markings in two strokes, and it looked good, but the more he looked at it, the more it looked like a pirate ship......

Originally, they only painted a black font, not the whole ship black, but he brushed it like this, more like an authentic pirate......

Ye Yaodong's brushing movement became slower and slower......

"Dad, do you think that if we paint this ship all black, it looks more like a pirate ship?"

"Uh... So what to do? ”

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

Ye Yaodong stood up, walked back and forth with a brush in one hand, looked left and right, looked up and down, walked around the boat for a long time, thinking of the red and white paint on the boat, he had an idea.

"It's been brushed, there's no way, other colors can't cover it up, only black, just paint it black, and we'll use the red and white paint, it just so happened that I just brought it out, and I wanted to use it as a mark."

Thinking that his father's brain was not as good as him, he gave his father the task of painting the black paint, and went to take the red and white paint off the cart himself.

"You paint the black one in the middle of the hull, I paint a white line on the top of the hull, go around the hull, and then brush the white one and then a red one, so it looks good, so it doesn't look like a pirate ship, there are three colors!"

Fortunately, when he first brushed, the first thing was to paint off the mark, and the parts of the brush were all around the mark, not the area above the hull.

Now only the middle of the hull is black, which hides the original marking, and they can still mark it after brushing it.

Father Ye thinks it's feasible when he thinks about it, it's not all black.

"Then I'll paint the lower part of the hull draft red, although it's not that special paint, but the color looks a little more, and it can look a little better, and a little more color won't look like a pirate ship."

"Yes, only the middle is black, and the top and bottom are red and white, which is more beautiful."

Ye Yaodong thought about it and felt that it was feasible, just thinking about it, he felt that it looked much better than the monochrome they used to paint, and there were so many colors.

In the past, in order to save trouble and money, the villagers bought the same kind of paint and applied it all over to avoid too much leftover and waste.

Father Ye also smiled, "As long as it's not like the legendary pirate ship." ”

Father and son rolled up their sleeves and said just do it.

Ye Yaodong also deliberately ran home and took a piece of chalk that Ye Chenghu secretly brought back from school to play.

The kid threw it at the window, which he could see every day when he went in and out and looked through the calendar, and it came in handy.

He took the chalk and drew the lines on the hull first, so as not to make it too ugly.

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

After seeing that he finished painting, Father Ye also took the remaining chalk, and planned to draw the waterline first, so as not to paint too much black paint.

The father and son have been working together for so long, and they also have a tacit understanding, division of labor, and orderly.

Ye Yaodong felt more and more that he was really a working material, and the more he painted, the more he got started.

Although there are not many red and white paints, they do not cover a wide area, but they are barely enough to use one.

Father Ye finished painting the black, looking at the white, red and black color of the hull, the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became, it was much better than their original boat.

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

"Dongzi, let's wait for dawn and tell the neighbors that we bought it, okay? Can people believe it? If the people of Luzhou Island inquire everywhere, it just so happens that we suddenly have an extra boat at this time, will others inquire? ”

"And our boat, which appeared on the beach early in the morning, wouldn't it be a little abnormal? Wouldn't it be better for us to drive somewhere else for a few days and then come back in the open? ”

Ye Yaodong thought about it and felt that what his father said made sense, they didn't let out the wind in advance, everyone didn't know, suddenly, there was an extra boat on the beach early in the morning, he said that he bought it, it would be too surprising.

Moreover, he suddenly thought that tomorrow the village will start singing a big opera, and five days later it will be Mazu's birthday.

At that time, their village had been in the newspaper to donate money to build the Tianhou Palace, what if the people of Luzhou Island also came to join in the fun?

The small statue of Mazu, but I can ask one to go back and keep safe......

In case the people of Luzhou Island also come over and want to donate some sesame oil money, please have a small statue, and join in the fun by the way?

He is now a celebrity in the village, and everyone knows about his family, and if you inquire twice, you will have to leak the bottom ......

"Then drive to the dock in town and dock for a few days? When Mazu's birthday is over, let's drive back? ”

"That's okay, there are several docks in the town, there are also shelters nearby, you can stop anywhere, there are many docks in the town, let's drive there and stop for two days without browsing."

"Well, you can't just be on the beach out of nowhere, and it's still at this point in time."

Mazu's birthday and the Shangliang of the Tianhou Temple have already pushed their village into everyone's sight, at this time, he has one more boat, it really has to become a talking point in ten miles and eight towns, it is already famous enough, and when the time comes, the thief will not just worry about his family.

I have to postpone it a few days later.

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

"After Mazu's birthday is over, I will squeak with your mother, saying that someone wants to sell the boat, and you look cheap and want to buy it. Let her big mouth go out and say a few words first, let out the wind, and then we will drive the boat back. ”

"So it's not strange to the villagers, at most they are envious and jealous and say something sour, anyway, you made money selling dried fish, everyone knows that it's okay to buy one more boat and come back, and Ah Guang's family also bought two boats."

Ye Yaodong nodded, "This way, it completely reflects the value of my mother." ”

The right way to use his wife!

Father Ye gave him a blank look, "Hurry up and work, before the tide rises, you have to let the paint dry, and then you have to drive to the town." ”

"The one I bought is a Taiwanese product, I heard that it dries quickly, there is wind at night, and the wind blows and it dries thoroughly, so it should be in time. The tide can only grow at three o'clock at night, and it will rise to this position at three o'clock, and I am almost done. ”

"Then let it dry for a while, lest it fade when you go into the water. I'm almost getting better with my black, and I'm almost bottoming out of paint. The red paint is not enough, the paint below the waterline will not be brushed first, anyway, it will have to be brushed twice, and after a few days, the limelight of the Mazu Temple will pass, and then we will drive the boat back to repair the paint. ”

"I'm not afraid of fading at all, I just marked the paint that was painted in that position, and now this should have dried, so I'll mark the same spot first. No matter how faded this black one, the color will not fade, at most it will fade a little, and it will be quite thick just coated, and it can be dried for another hour or two. ”

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

Just say, 'I bought it in advance, let the family paint it first, and then I saw the auspicious day of the zodiac before I drove it back', so it's okay to say that, anyway, write your name first.