This long silver-white "ribbon" made both of them widen their eyes in surprise.
Also because of the long strip of silvery-white light in the middle, the densely packed sea urchins growing on the steep cliffs on both sides of the trench are extremely clear, just like natural lighting.
As if their eyes were not enough, the two of them looked back and forth between the sea urchin and the light, but they couldn't communicate underwater. They couldn't express the shock in their eyes, and they didn't have the right tools in their hands, so they could only hold it in.
Ye Yaodong was the first to react. He gestured to Aguang and took out the large net bag he had brought with him when he entered the water, as well as the iron claws that were always tied to his waist, and motioned for him to start working first.
Originally, the purpose of their trip to the water was the sea urchins growing on the cliffs on both sides of the trench. The silver-white ribbon in the middle was an unexpected discovery. We can talk about it after we get up there. Time is limited, so let's do the work that needs to be done now.
Only then can you go up again.
A Guang also immediately calmed down and imitated him by taking out all the tools tied to his waist. Then he also followed him, swinging his flippers, and went down into the trench. He hooked the sea urchins on the cliff with his iron claws and dropped them into the net bag.
After all, this was the first time he had done this job, and A Guang was not that agile. After a few moves, he turned around to look at what was happening next to Ye Yaodong. After seeing his slippery speed, he also speeded up and stopped hesitating.
After focusing all his attention on the densely packed sea urchins on the cliff, he also forgot his fear and forgot that he was now in the middle of the trench, with silver-white light underneath instead of a pitch-black hole.
And because of the bright lighting underneath, their vision is no longer obstructed and their efficiency is much higher.
After Ye Yaodong waited for the two net bags in his hands to be filled, he threw them to the bottom of the sea and swam to Ah Guang. Seeing that he had just started filling the second net bag, he waited a moment.
By the way, I took a look at the "ribbon" underneath that glowed silvery white.
These "ribbons" are hairtails. The densely packed long hairtails of silvery white are deep under the trench. They are swinging and moving, filling the bottomless trench. It no longer makes people feel numb in the scalp and as if they are about to be drowned.
The illusion of sucking it down.
They are all swinging constantly, and they are densely packed under the wide trench.
He was shocked when he saw it for the first time. Although he knew that there would be many strange creatures growing in the trench, the deeper the trench, the more strange the creatures grew.
But he never expected that there would be hairtail fish just under the trench.
Hairtail fish generally live in waters between 60 meters and 200 meters deep. They can be found in the waters of the continental shelf. These places are rich in food and suitable for them to hunt.
For example, the hairtail in the East my country Sea floats in the middle of the sea (about 60 meters) during the day and sinks to the bottom of the sea (100 meters deep) at night. During the winter solstice, the water temperature drops, and the hairtail swims to the depths of the water to escape the cold.
In addition, there are other species of deep-sea hairtail fish that live in trenches 1,000 meters deep all year round.
At a depth visible to the naked eye, these hairtails are currently at a depth of tens of meters. They do not belong to a special species of deep-sea hairtails, but look like ordinary white hairtails.
Just when he was wondering, what if there were so many hairtails down there, covering up the sky and the sun, and what about the jellyfish?
Jellyfish also emerge from the bottom of the trench...
Obviously there were jellyfish on the water just now, which means there are still jellyfish popping up, so what's going on with the hairtails below? Shouldn't there be no jellyfish this year, and instead they should be replaced by hairtails?
Just when he was wondering, he saw a small group of hairtail fish moving violently in a small area below, and then a large black hole was revealed around it.
The hairtail fish that were originally there all moved to the side to avoid it, and a transparent bulk jellyfish emerged from the black hole and slowly rose up.
"Fuck..."
He cursed in his mind, could it be the hairtail dove occupying the magpie's nest?
When the jellyfish flood season arrives and a large number of jellyfish emerge, these hairtail fish should migrate to escape, right?
Fish generally have a hostile relationship with jellyfish. Once the fish touches the tentacles of the jellyfish, these stinging cells will eject the stinging threads inside and pierce the fish and shrimp. The stinging threads also contain various types of venom to paralyze the fish.
shrimp.
In this way, no matter how flexible the fish or shrimp is, they cannot escape the "clutches" of the jellyfish, so the fish and the jellyfish have a hostile relationship.
Ye Yaodong's eyes were always on the jellyfish that had just emerged from the hairtail school. He wondered whether as the number of jellyfish increased day by day, these hairtail schools would disappear and they would move to another place.
Then he needs to hurry up?
After Aguang waited until his net bag was full, he stopped and turned around to look for Ye Yaodong, only to find that he was not far behind him.
At the same time, the hairtail school around them started to stir again, and two more black holes appeared. After a while, two more jellyfish rose up from the bottom of the black hole.
"Huh?"
A Guang was extremely surprised.
Earlier, when the two of them were concentrating on hooking the sea urchins with their iron claws, several jellyfish appeared intermittently beside them, emerging from the bottom of the trench in the same manner.
It's just that the two of them didn't notice it, and they didn't notice it until after the work was done.
Ye Yaodong looked at the jellyfish that appeared in the same way and roughly understood.
He patted A Guang and signaled that he could go up.
The two of them swung their flippers at the same time, holding the rope of the net bag containing the sea urchin in their hands, and swam upward.
As soon as he came out of the water, Aguang couldn't wait to take off the mask and trachea from his face.
"Damn it, there are not only sea urchins down there, but also hairtail fish and horse-riding ones. They almost blinded my eyes. I have been wanting to talk for a long time and it's suffocating me to death."
"Let's get on the boat first."
“There are so many of them, you can’t see the end at a glance, they are so densely packed.”
"Are you talking about sea urchin or hairtail fish?"
A Guang hurriedly swam along and said, "They are all there. Sea urchins are also densely packed, as are hairtails. I just don't know how long and deep the trench is. Anyway, the light is not good down there, so I can see them all."
"tmd, it turns out that the bottom of the sea is like this, there is everything underneath..."
"There were fishes swimming right by me just now. I poked the fish with the iron claw in my hand, which scared it so much that it spit several bubbles and ran away with its swaying fish tail."
"If I had known I had listened to them last year, I would have come out to join in the fun..."
"Dongzi, what should I do with those hairtail fish? There are so many of them, but I can't put the net there..."
Aguang followed him and leaned towards the side of the boat, chattering endlessly. The scene under the sea just now really shocked him. If he hadn't been unable to speak, he wouldn't have held it in until now.
Ye Yaodong climbed up first, and then said: "You have to use fishing, not fishing nets, you have to use long lines. If you go back in the afternoon, buy nylon ropes and hooks quickly, and ask the locals to make them overnight. They will be done tonight."
, so as not to delay tomorrow’s fishing.”
After saying that, he patted his thigh again, "Who knew this thing could come in handy, otherwise I would have brought it here."
"Who would have thought that longline fishing takes up so much space, and we only take it out when we are too full. Then we will go back early in the afternoon and buy ropes to make fishing lines."
"What are you talking about?"
Ye's father gathered around the two of them and listened to their chatter. He didn't understand a single word. He only understood that they regretted not bringing a longline for fishing.
"What longline fishing? Where did the hairtail come from? Can there be hairtail here? You should have to go to the sea farther away and deeper to find it, right?"
Before Ye Yaodong could say anything, Aguang started chattering excitedly about what they had seen and heard at the bottom of the sea. He also made gestures while talking, and his eyes were full of excitement.
Even the boatman next to him was very surprised when he heard this.
"Ah, there are hairtail fish under that trench? We didn't even see them last year."
"There are so many of them, and they are still shining."
"The hairtail fish naturally glows at night, and it also glows when it comes out of the water."
"Is it because there are too many hairtails and it's blocked, so the jellyfish didn't come up, and the sea is sparse today?"
"I just saw a few heads popping up a while ago..."
"No, it's just that the peak season hasn't arrived yet, so we have to wait a few more days, but we just happened to catch a wave of hairtails during these few days of waiting. It is estimated that after the jellyfish appear, the hairtail schools will disappear and move away."
Ye Yaodong listened to what they were talking about and also intervened. His hands were not idle either. The sea urchins in the two net pockets he had just dug were still at the bottom and had not been collected yet. He called the two of them over to help collect them together.
Father Ye marveled, "This trench is amazing, isn't it? Even if there are a large number of jellyfish popping up, there are still dense sea urchins on the rock walls on both sides. Now the jellyfish haven't reached the peak season, but there are actually schools of hairtail fish in it.
It’s amazing.”
"Nature is so magical. Don't think blindly. Which of you will go down? The old one brings the new one. Hurry up and put on your equipment first. I will collect it here right away."
The two packages of sea urchins weighed seventy or eighty pounds in total, and the two packages of A Guang on the other side were about the same amount.
All of them are black and shiny, and the sharp thorns on their heads are like those of hedgehogs. Probably no one has ever been in the water. These sea urchins have never been collected by anyone, so they are densely packed underneath. All of them are big and fat, and every one of them has it.
They look like three or four.
They took the lead in carrying a few net bags to the edge of the basket, and then dumped them into the basket to free up the net bags so that the second wave of people could go down.
When someone was picking up a sea urchin that fell on the deck, he was accidentally pricked by the thorns on it, which caused bleeding. However, he did not panic and just stood aside and peed on his hand.
Because some of the spines on individual sea urchins contain neurotoxins, it doesn’t matter if it’s not serious, but it’s best to flush it with urine so that it will heal immediately.
Ye Yaodong also warned them when they went into the water, "The newcomers should get used to it for the first time. Some of you went into the water last year. Take care of them more and take them down slowly. After you have experienced it once or twice, you will be able to get used to it later."
alright."
"Know."
"Warm up first. If you feel uncomfortable physically or mentally, come up immediately. Don't force it."
"OK."
During their activities, he said a few more words, mainly for the newcomers to listen to. He said it once now and will not say it again later.
After the second wave of people entered the water, he asked others, "Are there many jellyfish that came up just now?"
"About six or seven, they were scattered. Our ship didn't dare to move. The Harvest accidentally caught two of them, and the others were salvaged by small boats."
"Ah...there's someone else showing up over there..."
"When I came here before, there were only a few dozen on the sea. It seems that they will appear faster and faster."
Father Ye said: "When we land in the afternoon, we will buy materials immediately. Fortunately, it is a seaside town, so these materials are easy to buy."
"I don't know how much of this wave of opportunities I can seize. Is this the first time these hairtails have appeared here, or have they been like this in the past? They just waited until the flood season came and the place was occupied by jellyfish before they migrated away, waiting to come back next year.
?”
"Whatever, as long as you can catch it, it's fine. We'll do the longline fishing tomorrow. We'll pull the line down into the water ourselves, and then aim the hook at the trench and lower it. The accuracy will be higher."
"That's right, putting them in the fish pile will increase the loading rate. These hairtail fish are also very easy to catch. I heard they are very greedy. I will prepare more bait tomorrow."
"It just so happens that everyone went out to trawl just now, and there are a lot of groceries. I just need to take whatever they don't want to use as bait at night."
They were waiting on the boat while discussing countermeasures, discussing how to maximize the number of hairtail fish in the trench within two or three days.
Fortunately, they also have many boats, and they can move the boats tomorrow to extend the longline fishing distance.
The crack in that trench is so long that they can sail down to the water, find the exact location, and then longline down to the trench.
The second wave of people came up after a while. Everyone gathered around the side of the boat, and the two people underwater also showed smiles.
After they were pulled up, the two people kept chattering about what they had experienced under the water. It was not much different from what Ye Yaodong and A Guang had said before, but the description was more exaggerated, which made other people who had not yet entered the water feel a bit agitated.
Can't wait to go down as soon as possible.
The sea urchins they collected weighed seven to eighty kilograms per person, which was no less than what Ye Yaodong and the others collected. When they poured it into the basket, there were two full baskets.
Ye Yaodong deliberately left ten people on the boat, working in groups of two. The haul was one hundred and fifty kilograms in one wave. Everyone took one turn and it was about seven or eight hundred kilograms. It only took about two hours. It would take more than 100 days to drag the net.
Two hours.
However, the harvest from dragging a net is not so great.
Maybe it's also because now two people are in the water together, and they can overcome each other's fear when they are with each other. After getting familiar with each other, their efficiency can be greatly improved. The trench has also been filled with hairtail fish, and there is no deep black hole in sight, so every time
The harvest from the trip was also higher than last year.
I still remember that when I went into the water last year, everyone’s harvest was about 30 to 40 kilograms. After two rounds, I only harvested 500 kilograms. That means he would gain a little more when he went into the water. Now he can harvest about 700 to 800 kilograms in one round.
When a person goes down to the bottom of the sea and then into a deep trench, he is really under pressure. Fortunately, he was smart this year and did another one.
If those sea urchins were still the same price as last year, about 20 cents per catty, then 1,000 catties would be 200 yuan.
It's only 9 o'clock now. If you don't go back for lunch at noon, you can still do three or four more waves. 10 people will take turns to do it, and there will be enough time to rest.
If we go back at four or five in the afternoon, we will be able to weigh almost 4,000 kilograms, which is about 800 yuan a day!
The worker's salary is 4.5 yuan a day, and there are 28 people. Not counting his father for the time being, his father must have given him extra, so even if he doesn't work for a day, the worker's wages will still be 126 yuan.
The 10 people who enter the water have to be subsidized by another two yuan, which is equivalent to an additional 20 yuan, so the labor cost is 146 yuan.
This is equivalent to a net profit of about 650 yuan, making you rich.
It doesn't matter if there are jellyfish or not, sea urchins are enough for him to make money.
But, you can’t really let people work at sea without food or water.
After Ye Yaodong mentally calculated the number of jellyfish he could get today, he turned to his father and said: "There are not many jellyfish on the sea anyway, and those small boats are wasting time rowing around on the sea. I still don't know if there are any."
We found a few jellyfish, but they weren’t equipped with hand-thrown nets or anything like that. Why don’t you go find those boats and take the people back first?”
"Take it back? Don't let them search for it on the sea?"
"Yes, the efficiency is too low, and there is no need to waste manpower. If you go back early, you can also buy nylon lines for longline fishing. If it is difficult to find local people to do it, you can just let these boatmen sit at home and do it.
It takes a dozen or twenty people most of the day to make one or two fishing lines."
"Well, longline fishing needs to be prepared in advance. So, should I go find those boats now and then go back together?"
"No, we won't go back. The harvest from this trip is quite big. Our boat will be used here. If we don't leave today, we will stay here and fish for sea urchins. You can send us a meal at noon.
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"That's okay. The boat will be called back later or we can leave it with you first. You can drag it back together in the evening."
"Um."
A Guang also started to think about it after hearing this.
"It's useless for the Harvest to stay here. I might as well help you tow those boats back, and then I'll also go back to prepare longline fishing materials. My dad has already set sail to trawl, and I can't ask him to help."
"Okay, then you drive your boat, take the people on your boat and go back to prepare. Anyway, the people in your boat are idle here, and you won't be able to catch a few jellyfish. I'm in the water here.
We have enough manpower, we originally had 10 people left.”
He and A Guang were not counted as heads, and A Guang also came over temporarily to join in the fun.
"good."
The two of them take care of the most people. If they are not open for a day, the expenses will be tens or hundreds of dollars. They have to increase revenue and reduce expenditure as much as possible. Fortunately, in addition to sea urchins, there are also other schools of hairtail, which can be subsidized.
Other fishing boats can now earn some subsidies by trawling the sea.
Father Ye drove Dongsheng 002 for a walk and brought back a bunch of boats and people.
After all, it had just been rowing out not long ago, and no one had much harvest. Some caught a few fish, and some caught one or two jellyfish.
Although not much can be obtained from one boat, it is quite impressive to gather the goods of 10 boats together. Father Ye has also moved them all to the boat. He can get extra meals when he takes them back, and he can also sell them.
A few bucks.
When he came back, he didn't put all the boats behind the Harvest. He also left three behind him.
Because there were only three or four small boats brought out by other people, the trawlers originally thought they would stop by and take the small boats back when they returned.
But now that those small boats saw that their big ship was going back, they all begged A Guang to let him take it back with them. There was really no cargo, so they were floating there.
Aguang was helpless, as we were all from the same village, and fellow villagers had to help each other. It was not easy to refuse such things that were within our ability, and they were only three or four more.
Then the two boats dragged a bunch of small boats and returned first.
There are also people on duty at Ye Yaodong's house. After all, there is a pile of supplies and someone has to keep an eye on them. The people on duty during the day sleep on the boat at night, so they are rewarded for resting at home during the day.
This is equivalent to each person working two days a month and taking two days off during the day.
He took A Guang into the water for the first time, and he never went into the water again. He just watched other people on the sea take turns entering the water to work for him, and he also said that if they work alone in the water, they will be paid extra.
of.
Everyone is very happy. Although there was one last year and there will definitely be one this year, of course we are even happier to hear about the salary increase.
Originally, it was 4.5 yuan a day. If you add two more yuan, it would be 6.5 yuan. If you work for thirty days in a month, it would be 200 yuan. This is higher than any living wage.
After everyone did the math, they worked even harder.
Moreover, after a cycle is completed and the water is launched again, everyone is more efficient. Sometimes one person can harvest more than 100 kilograms, and the profit can be higher than he expected.
Ye Yaodong was just like a wealthy landlord. After putting on clean clothes, he sat there with his feet up to enjoy the coolness. He watched everyone take turns getting into the water to earn money for him. He only had a handful of melon seeds in his hand, so of course he couldn't go too far.
Now their boat is the only one floating in the trench. While everyone is collecting sea urchins, there are also a lot of jellyfish floating up one after another, there are dozens of large and small, because their fishing boat is parked in place.
They moved, so no one went to salvage those jellyfish.
It wasn't until Father Ye finished his work and drove the boat out to deliver meals that he hurriedly attacked all the jellyfish that had floated up on the sea next to him in the past few hours.
Then he came over and called the people on the boat who had finished eating to come over and help cut them up. He also climbed over to take a look at what they had harvested for a long time.
"so much!"
Father Ye was surprised. He saw that the deck was full of baskets of sea urchins. There were more than twenty baskets in total. He stretched out his index finger to count the baskets.
"It's only been half a day, why are there so many?"
"Two people working together are more efficient. One person's harvest can almost catch up with what two people did last year."
"Is there 2,000 pounds here?"
"Almost, maybe a little more."
Ye Yaodong looked at his watch. It was only after 12 o'clock and not yet one o'clock. It was probably not much different from what he expected. He should have caught 4,000 kilograms today.
You have to go into the water when there are no jellyfish, and catch a lot of fish quickly, there are no outsiders, the time is right, the place is right and the people are there.
"Then you can't catch four or five thousand kilograms of sea urchin today?" Father Ye said with a surprised smile on his face, "I'm rich."
"I should. Did you ask for the price when you came ashore?"
"Yes, it's 2 cents for those above 30 taels, only 15 cents for those below 30 taels, and only 8 cents for those with one tael."
"The difference is so big."
"Seafood is eaten one size at a time. Of course, the smaller ones also have less meat. I also asked about the hairtail fish. Which hairtail fish is valuable? As long as the meat is thicker and the size is larger, it will cost more than 3 cents."
Ye Yaodong smiled all over his face, "This is great. I can sell it for more money when the time comes. Have you bought all the longline fishing lines?"
"After I bought it, I asked the boatmen to do it directly, so as not to hire anyone else. Originally, they earned a lot of wages for a day. It's not enough for ten or twenty people to just play there without work. There will be nothing to do after I go back, so I just call them
Do."
"Um."
It's 2 o'clock, I'll post it first, and I'll add another chapter before 12 o'clock tomorrow night. I'm so sleepy, I fell asleep at 11 o'clock
Chapter completed!