Wear It with Space - Chapter 12

Father Zhao walked back and forth in the hall more than a dozen times with his hands behind his back. Aunt Zhao, who was doing needlework, couldn’t help but look up at him, “His father, what do you think?”

Father Zhao stopped in front of the window and looked at the courtyard. Shen Ling was washing clothes in front of the tub, and Zhao Gang was helping to carry water, looking like they were getting along well.

Aunt Zhao didn’t wait for his answer, and said: “Actually, there is nothing wrong with taking him in. There is also a helper when he goes out to sea to fish. After all, Xiaodie is a daughter’s home, so she can’t keep going in the wind and rain like this.”

Father Zhao finally spoke: “This is not a hurry, let’s take a look first.”

Zhao Gang in the yard didn’t know that he had entered the inspection period. He had a straightforward temper. Shen Ling saved his life, so he was willing to do more for Shen Ling. When Shen Ling washes clothes, he carries water. When Shen Ling dried the clothes, he helped to support the bamboo poles.

In short, he has been busy around Shen Ling, so that Shen Ling has no chance to even enter the space. Finally, he gave him a glance and entered the hall.

“Xiaodie, come and have a look, how about this flower that the mother embroidered?” Aunt Zhao called Shen Ling to her side and showed her half-made clothes to her daughter.

“It looks more beautiful than that embroidered on that dress.” Shen Ling said sincerely, “Mother, teach me!”

Aunt Zhao smiled and said: “We Xiaodie is older and finally know how to get a needle. As long as you want to learn, mother teaches everything.”

The mother and daughter got together to do needlework. Father Zhao sat on the wooden chair in the middle of the hall and looked at Zhao Gang who was carrying water into the tank outside the door. He didn’t know what he was thinking.

When she was about to make dinner, Shen Ling had already learned what she was. Aunt Zhao called her talent and said that in two or three days, she would be able to make the simplest purse.

Shen Ling was tired after being a novice for a long time, stretched out his arms and went to the kitchen to cook. When she came to the kitchen, Zhao Gang, who had finished picking water, was resting there. Seeing her coming in, he hurriedly stood up and said, “Sister Xiaodie.”

Shen Ling gave a hum, and found out the vegetables he bought in the morning. The soil in the fishing village where they are located is not good, whether it is crops or vegetables, they are not growing well. Over time, no one grows vegetables in their yard. If you want to eat vegetables, you can only go to town to buy them.

However, some people are frugal and only serve their own dried fish all year round. Anyway, every family is a fisherman, and most of them are fish that cannot be sold out.

Shen Ling was about to choose a dish, when he saw Zhao Gang looking over, knowing that he could not be free, and simply said directly: “I’m going to have dinner now, you can help me light a fire first!”

After Zhao Gang boiled the water, Shen Ling washed the rice and put it in the pot. Then he washed the vegetables and chose the vegetables for cooking. After a while, the dinner was ready.

Dinner was still eaten in the hall. At the dinner table, Aunt Zhao diligently persuaded Zhao Gang to eat more, and then asked him if he could go out to sea.

Shen Ling understood what Zhao Auntie meant, and she kept eating rice in her mouth while observing Zhao Gang’s expression.

Zhao Gang smiled shyly: “I haven’t been to sea. The most we have there is to go fishing in the lake.”

Father Zhao poured himself a glass of soju and another glass for Shen Ling. Looking back, Zhao Gang looked at the wine glass in front of Xiaodie incomprehensibly. In his impression, there were few girls drinking.

Father Zhao said: “Fishing at sea is easy to catch wind and cold. Drinking some shochu can get rid of the cold in the body.” He paused and said, “You also have a drink?”

Zhao Gang shook his head and said, “I don’t know how to drink.”

Shen Ling poured him a glass: “Just drink it and it will be done.” After she finished speaking, she asked Father Zhao directly, “Father, when will we go to sea next time?”

Father Zhao said: “I will go to sea tomorrow. In more than 20 days, there will be a hurricane on the sea. This month, we will go out to sea several times.”

Shen Ling said: “Father, let Zhao Gang go too! In the future, you can share some of the money for fishing and selling, even if it is a shareholding.”

Father Zhao said: “It depends on what Zhao Gang said. The sea is no better than the land. The wind is high and the waves are swift. If you accidentally die, you will be there.”

Zhao Gang hurriedly said: “I’m not afraid of this. Xiaodie saves my life. I will do whatever she wants me to do. As for money or anything, forget it, just let me eat.”

Shen Ling smiled and said: “Fool, you can stay in our house forever in the future. If you don’t need money, how can you marry your biological son?”

Speaking of marrying his biological son, Zhao Gang blushed and said, “I’ll talk about it later.”

“Well, in the future, the money from selling fish will be divided into three parts. Me and Xiaodie will have one share, and you will have one share. That’s it.” Father Zhao finalized the matter directly. Originally, he was thinking about waiting a few more days to look at it, but the girl had said this first, so he couldn’t say a word of rejection, so he said his intention.

Shen Ling wanted Zhao Gang to go out to sea selfishly. Although Father Zhao has experience, he is old after all. No matter how capable Shen Ling was, she was still a girl, and she was still struggling to do some physical work. Since Zhao Gang is dedicated to repaying his favor, let him help.

Several people discussed the matter at the dinner table, and when they went out to sea the next day, Zhao Gang appeared on the fishing boat. He was sturdy and willing to give up his strength. He took all the work of casting the net. In less than a day, the fish pond on the boat was half full.

Taking advantage of Father Zhao’s good mood, Shen Ling took the opportunity to propose to spend the night on the original island, and Father Zhao quickly agreed.

The next day, Shen Ling did not accompany the two of them to continue fishing on the sea under the pretext of being uncomfortable, but stayed on the island.

Seeing the fishing boat disappear into a small spot in the sea and sky, Shen Ling took a deep breath and started to walk into the sea. This body has excellent waterability and can dive to a depth of more than ten meters. And the place where the pearl shell grows, according to Father Zhao, is the seabed more than ten meters deep.

After the warm water enveloped Shen Ling’s body, she leaped forward slightly, and her whole person was like a flexible fish swimming into the clear water. Because of the sunny days, the light in the sea is not weak, and Shen Ling can clearly see the underwater world not far away.

It was a sandy soil mixed with gravel, and there were various shellfish, large and small, and some crabs and small sea oysters were lying on top of some sea shells. Shen Ling didn’t have a handy tool at hand, only picked up some larger bead shells. After feeling a little suffocated in her lungs, she tried to say the word space silently, and in the next second people came to space.

Shen Ling was breathing the fresh air of the space with big mouthfuls. After slowing down, she put Zhubei in the pool, then went to the warehouse and found a sickle. She secretly put this sickle into the space before she went out to sea, so that if she encountered seaweed when picking shells, she could cut it off with the sickle.

With tools in hand, when Shen Ling went out of the space, she focused on those crabs and sea oysters. When she had almost caught the crabs and sea oysters on the bottom of the sea, she thought about the remaining pearl shells. Throw it into the space.

And she herself left the space to continue wandering in the underwater world, but unfortunately she didn’t have a fishing net in her hand, and she could only watch some larger fishes slip away in front of her.

Before she knew it, she had already swam several tens of meters forward, and the light began to dim. Under the faint light, Shen Ling saw some undulations in the originally flat sand and mud, and there were some reefs in her sight. Some reefs were covered with sea oysters and seashells, and Shen Ling gently cut them off one by one with a sickle. After these sea oysters and sea shells were transported to the space by her, Shen Ling continued to swim forward, hoping to add more species to the pool of space.

It’s just that the fish in the sea are very flexible. Shen Ling couldn’t catch one with all his strength, but it made her catch a few sea prawns.

Shen Ling put the sea prawn into the space and rested for a while. When he came out again, he swam a few meters forward and found a still black shadow not far away. With the faint light, Shen Ling could see that the black shadow in front of him turned out to be a sunken ship.

The shipwreck was about the same size as the fishing boat of Old Zhao’s house. Shen Ling circled the shipwreck and found several net bags at the bow of the ship. The net bag is much smaller than the fishing net used for fishing, because it has been sunk for too long and it is covered with sand.

Shen Ling tried to pick up one of them and found that there were several shells in the net bag that looked like pearl shells. She suddenly understood that the sunken ship in front of her was a pearl ploughing ship.

When she turned the whole ship upside down, she finally found a decayed cloth bag in the cabin. Shen Ling raised it, and the decayed cloth bag soon shattered into countless pieces, with four pearls inside. Spread out.

It took Shen Ling a long time to pick up the pearls scattered on the seabed one by one into the space. At this time, she no longer had the thought to move on, and she wanted to return to the island to take a closer look at the pearls she picked up.

After returning to the cave, Shen Ling took off his wet clothes and dried them on the boulders outside the cave, then went into the space and changed into clean clothes before starting to look at the pearls.

When she was on the bottom of the sea before, she only felt that there were a lot of pearls. At this time, she counted and found that there were more than 60. Among them, there are more than 20 lotus seed-sized pearls, but they are only four or five pearls. As for the remaining forty pearls about the size of a pinky finger, except for a few of different shapes, the others can be said to be round and smooth.

Although Shen Ling didn’t understand the market of pearls, he also knew that the pearls he picked up were not top-grade, but they were also top-grade among medium-grades.

She thought for a while, took out ten little finger-sized pearls from it, and carefully wrapped them in a kerchief. She intends to use these ten pearls to improve the economic conditions of the Zhao family, so that her standard of living in the Zhao family will be better. She and Father Zhao didn’t have to work so hard, and they had to go out to fish in the scorching sun and wind and cold.

After she made up her mind, she waited patiently for the return of Father Zhao and Zhao Gang.

There were only two or three pearls in the ten pearl shells she picked up from the bottom of the sea. She pried all the pearl shells open with a knife, and got a total of thirty pearls. Among them, there were five or six of them in good condition, as well as a golden pearl the size of a soybean, all of which were put away by her. Those who were not in good condition were picked up by her and prepared to be ground into pearl powder in the future.

In the evening, Father Zhao and Zhao Gang returned.