After they finished selling their catch and were walking together, Ye Yaohua happily asked his father, "Dad, you're really something. You found several schools of fish in a single afternoon."
"Huh?"
"Yeah, Dad. Are you and Dongzi going back to the same place tomorrow?"
"Uh..." Father Ye's smile froze for a moment before he smiled again. "Dongzi was steering the boat this afternoon. He found the fish, not me."
Both brothers were surprised. "Dongzi?"
"Dongzi found the fish?"
Ye Yaodong raised an eyebrow. "Of course!"
Ye Yaohua gave a simple grin. "Impressive..."
"When did Dongzi get so good at this? How did you find them?" Ye Yaopeng asked curiously after his surprise wore off.
Ye Yaohua chimed in, "Right, right. How did you find them?"
There was nothing he couldn't tell them. He felt that finding them that afternoon had just been luck, so he said casually, "Watch the seabirds. If a whole lot of them fly in the same direction, there might be fish. I was only guessing too. Figured I had nothing to lose, so I followed them to take a look."
"Oh... So that's how..."
"That does make sense. Places where seabirds gather might have schools of fish, and wherever there are schools of fish, seabirds will definitely find their way there."
"We caught so much mullet today that loads of people were asking about it at the pier just now. Most of them had run into a school or two as well."
"Who knows when it started? We've been catching squid around the islands lately and haven't paid attention to the surrounding waters."
"Who cares? If we see them, we catch them. If we don't, there's nothing we can do."
"The squid are almost gone anyway. We can try our luck trawling and see if we