Recaps

Ye Yaodong recovered his boat costs, returned to regular fishing, and brought in unusually large catches as starfish flooded the coast. Fights over the harvest spread through the village, and the arc ended with Lin Weiying arriving bloodied.

• Ye Yaodong collected 1,850 yuan from A-Cai, attended literacy classes, and learned that Ye Huimei had agreed to marry A-Guang.
• Ye Yaodong and Father Ye hauled in a huge catch of small yellow croakers stunned by electric rays, then sold 1,632 jin of them.
• Ye Yaodong and Father Ye caught two swordfish after A-Wei and his uncle’s boat was attacked, and Ye Yaodong sold the fish before falling ill with a fever.
• Ye Yaodong gathered starfish with his family and other villagers, but disputes over the catch escalated into fights that village officials had to stop.
• Ye Yaodong sold hundreds of jin of starfish and found his fishing pots filled with starfish, fish, and an enormous jellyfish.
• Ye Yaodong rescued his family from the crowded water during another brawl, and Mother Ye revealed she had caught a tiger grouper without joining the fighting.
• Ye Yaodong and Father Ye caught tarpon, rabbitfish, and other fish, then collected seven and a half sacks of starfish from their pots.
• Mother Ye warned Ye Yaodong that fighting over starfish had spread onto shore, and Lin Weiying arrived in a neighboring boat covered in blood.

Ye Yaodong visited Lin Xiuqing’s family, where the children caught river creatures and helped gather produce, then returned to sea and found a stranded oarfish. After selling it and escaping a gang of attackers, he watched the village fear a possible disaster and took his family out to investigate a newly surfaced reef.

• Ye Yaodong took Lin Xiuqing and their sons to visit her parents, where he helped pick tangerines, caught softshell turtles and wild ducks with the children, and returned home with the family’s gifts and produce.
• Ye Yaodong checked his fishing pots, shared his catch with relatives and neighbors, and went to sea with Father Ye to set nets and longlines.
• Ye Yaodong and Father Ye found a stranded oarfish on an island, brought it aboard, and took it to town, where Director Zhao bought it for eight hundred yuan.
• Ye Yaodong and his companions fought off ten men who had pursued them at the pier, tied the attackers up near the Border Defense Station, and returned home with the sale money and a piece of red coral.
• Ye Yaodong warned Lin Xiuqing about the danger of going to sea and the possibility of an earthquake, while villagers watched huge waves and feared a tsunami.
• After the seas calmed, Ye Yaodong took Father Ye, Mother Ye, and Ye Huimei fishing, and the family discovered a rocky reef newly risen above the water, covered with shellfish and small green lobsters.

Ye Yaodong’s family harvested a briefly exposed reef, shared a profitable catch, and later buried a corpse before finding a bounty of horseshoe crabs. As Ye Huimei married A-Guang, Ye Yaodong watched Ye Yaohong’s investment scheme collapse and learned officials were preparing to arrest him for smuggling.

• Ye Yaodong and his family gathered abalone, sea snails, lobsters, and other seafood from a reef raised by an earthquake, then sold much of the catch for 1,080 yuan and shared the money with his parents and Ye Huimei.
• Ye Yaodong searched for his missing fishing pots, sold moray eels and a huge mud crab, and helped his family harvest sweet potatoes and radishes while refusing the village’s Ten-Thousand-Yuan Household nomination.
• When the village confused Ye Yaodong with Ye Yaohong, Ye Yaodong and Secretary Chen redirected county officials to Ye Yaohong, whose business drew villagers hoping to invest.
• Ye Yaodong and Father Ye buried a corpse that washed ashore near Oarfish Island, then found and gathered many horseshoe crabs as the tide receded.
• Ye Huimei became engaged to A-Guang, while Ye Yaodong warned relatives and his parents against investing more money with Ye Yaohong.
• After Ye Yaohong fled and investors demanded repayment, Ye Yaodong learned that both Ye Eldest Sister-in-Law and Ye Second Sister-in-Law had invested one thousand yuan and faced their family’s anger.
• Ye Yaodong carried Ye Huimei to her wedding, gave her two hundred yuan, warned Lin Jishang about the crackdown, and learned from Secretary Chen that officials had found evidence of Ye Yaohong’s smuggling and were preparing to arrest him.

Ye Yaodong shared a giant squid catch with his brothers, spent time with his family, and discovered gold and rich fishing grounds near a submerged reef. The arc ended with him diving repeatedly to recover seafood and a snagged pot, while eyeing the sunken boat’s engine for a later salvage attempt.

• Villagers ransacked Ye Yaohong’s home after his scheme was exposed, and Ye Yaodong and the Ye brothers stopped thieves from attacking children and stealing belongings.
• Ye Yaodong celebrated the New Year with his family, showed villagers the glowing blue tears in the waves, and took Lin Xiuqing and the children to the market and a movie.
• Ye Yaodong and his brothers found a stranded giant squid, hauled it to Hongsheng Hotel, and sold the 405-jin catch to Hong Wenle for 1,200 yuan.
• Ye Yaodong divided the squid money with Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua, visited Secretary Chen, and learned that more house plots would be approved near his home.
• While beachcombing with his sons, Ye Yaodong gathered seafood and then returned to sea with Father Ye, where they found an exposed reef and Ye Yaodong discovered two gold nuggets nearby.
• Ye Yaodong and Father Ye tangled nets with boats towing Lan Zhengping’s boat, and later Ye Yaodong steered a pursuing pirate boat onto a hidden reef, leaving its crew stranded on an island.
• Ye Yaodong lent A-Zheng and Xiao Xiao money for a boat, comforted the sick Old Lady, and joined Father Ye and the two fishermen on a productive trip near Oarfish Island.
• Ye Yaodong dove repeatedly at the submerged reef to free a snagged pot and collect lobsters, sea cucumbers, and abalone, then spotted the sunken boat’s engine and decided to try salvaging it later.