Several people who were originally looking after the house in their hometown also came out to help shortly after they landed. There are many people and strength.
There were also more fishing boats docking around, and their decks were full of fish, which had attracted a lot of people's attention. Every fishing boat docking had to look in their direction and ask some questions.
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Ye Yaodong always smiled and replied that it was because he encountered a red tide in the open sea. The cargo on the deck was suffocated due to lack of oxygen due to the red tide, and then drifted together with the tide. He encountered it, so he caught a whole
Genius brought it back.
"There is a red tide, but we haven't seen it offshore..."
"It didn't affect the offshore area, so that's fine..."
"Maybe it hasn't spread to the offshore yet..."
"What kind of fish is that on the boat? Why did it get entangled in the fishing net like that? Did you pick it up too?"
"Oh, I've wanted to ask for a long time. I've been watching them for a long time, but I haven't seen them untie the fishing net, and no one has answered. Why don't I just cut it open with scissors? It's so laborious..."
"This fish must be too big. It looks so strange. What's that thing growing on its mouth..."
The chatter in my ears never stopped. After the boatmen sorted all the fish on the deck, they immediately began to untie the fishing nets. The three fishing nets were thick and thin, and they all tightly wrapped around the sawfish.
Some are not easy to untie.
If you just want to release the fish, it is easy to just cut it off with scissors. However, if Ye Yaodong wants to keep the big net, he still has to rely on this big net to make a living.
This large net is several hundred meters long. Even if it costs money to make, it also takes a lot of time. It would take two people less than a month to weave such a large net of more than 300 meters.
Although the large net has been damaged a lot by its saw teeth due to catching this fish, it can still be repaired, which saves time, effort and money rather than weaving a new net.
Moreover, this sawfish may not be sold for much money. It is probably not as valuable as this fishing net. It is not worth it. If you can save it, save it. It doesn't matter if you throw the net by hand.
Sawfish can be eaten, but its meat is relatively rough, and its economic value is about the same as that of sharks. Its fins can be used to make shark fins, and its skin can be used to make leather and scabbards. Its liver can be used to make cod liver oil. It can be said that it is full of treasures.
Let’s see if people these days don’t know the goods.
While everyone else was untying the fishing nets, Ye Yaodong turned around and started chatting with a few people. These were the bosses who were collecting goods at the dock.
When their fishing boat docked, people came over one after another and asked if they wanted to collect the goods on his boat. However, the goods had not been sorted out at that time, so he just asked them to wait and sort out the goods first to see how much there was.
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When the sorting was almost finished, these people didn't care about the scattered bulk goods on the stall. They all ran to him and waited, wanting to collect his entire shipload of goods. After all, if there was a lot of goods, they could make a lot of money at once.
There are more, which is better than those scattered goods. Even though this is a prefecture-level city, its digestion capacity is still strong.
Ye Yaodong asked several companies and asked them to quote the prices of more than 20 types of major goods. If the goods were not in such large quantities or were not valuable, they would not ask for quotations.
Since those people were present at the same time, of course they all quoted the same price. After all, they were just hanging out on the dock, and no one could quote a higher price than anyone else. If someone quoted a price, others would not speak out to refute the price increase or lower the price.
They were all acquaintances, so they discussed and quoted the harvest price of all the goods on that day to him, allowing him to choose who to sell to or to sell them separately.
How much is each kind of product worth? Ye Yaodong basically knows it in his mind. The price of fish caught in different seasons will definitely fluctuate.
It’s hard to say whether he, a foreigner, is unconscionable and will collectively lower the price, but if the price difference is not big, he will be able to accept it.
If he didn't sell it to them, he would have to drive out to another terminal and ask about the price. Who knows if the price at another terminal would be higher than here in the city?
After going around in circles, if the price is lower than here, he will have to look for it again? It is already dark, who will the goods be sold to then? After a delay of one night, he will have to look for it again the next day.
When you go out, you can only make a big difference and be relatively reasonable.
That's why, after the big brother came out, the boss didn't equip it, but the ship boss did it first.
However, he also had his own way of asking questions. He could chat with anyone, and he never thought he was a foreigner. While the boatmen were still sorting out the goods, he chatted with them for a while, and then
The set is so close that it looks very sophisticated.
When asking about the price, he said that his ship is so big and carries a lot of cargo. If the price is fair, he will call this dock every day. Otherwise, he will change to another dock.
Anyway, he is a foreigner, so it makes no difference to him where he docks. Wherever the price is high, he will dock there to sell goods.
He used hard and soft tactics to prevent them from underestimating his image as a young boy, and also emphasized that the boat was his, not his father's.
At his age, being able to afford such a big boat immediately makes people feel extraordinary and cannot be easily fooled.
After hearing their quotation, Ye Yaodong only nodded, and did not immediately say who he wanted to sell to. He just thought about it and planned to give them a try, without appearing so eager or happy.
They were a little anxious. There were no big ships docking today, and they didn't have any big goods to collect so they could spend them here.
In addition, the Dongsheng came back early, and the whole ship's cargo had been noticed at the dock early. Everyone would have watched it. Otherwise, if they came back at this time, they would be busy receiving the goods and would not have time to care about him selling the goods.
To whom.
"Our price is very fair. Today's receipt price is the price of these fish..."
He had just sold sea urchins in the city a few days ago, and he was well aware of the price of fish in the city, but he did not respond immediately.
Ye Yaodong pointed to the sawfish on the deck that had not yet untied the fishing net, "Will you accept that big guy?"
"This thing is wrapped tightly. Although it is big, I don't know what it looks like. The mouth is very strange..."
"I haven't seen it before, so I don't want it. I'm afraid it will fall into my hands."
"Although it looks big, it looks very strange. I've never seen anything difficult..."
The people who spoke shook their heads as they spoke.
"I don't know what it looks like, but I have to untie the fishing net and expose it for a look."
He said: "This is a sawfish. It is more than three meters tall by visual inspection. Please measure it specifically. Do you know this fish?"
Everyone looked at each other in confusion.
"Forget it, let's wait until the fishing net is untied. Let's lift these goods up and weigh them first."
It was wrapped like a rice dumpling. Except for a small part of the head and the tip of the snout, no part of the body was exposed. It was all well hidden by fishing nets. It was difficult to ask these people to identify it just like this, and it was difficult to negotiate the price.
"Then you guys..."
"It's better to give these goods to the boss who collected the sea urchins the day before. Once they are raw, they will be cooked twice. If you think there are too many goods and you can't eat them, then you can figure it out and find someone else to share it with."
"Okay, okay...then take me to my place first..."
He yelled and asked a few boatmen to carry the cargo ashore first, leaving only two people to continue their research on freeing the sawfish from the fishing net.
After basket after basket of goods was carried ashore, the people on the shore who had been watching their fishing boats also moved to the purchasing point and continued to watch the large amount of goods.
It's not that everyone has never seen big ships docking and so many goods, but his goods were suffocated by red tide, so he took advantage of them and caught so much in one day.
Therefore, it was painted with a bit of magical color and had something to say to attract people's attention. As for the sawfish, which was still wrapped in a fishing net like a rice dumpling, and its true identity had not yet been revealed, everyone only felt strange and not too shocked.
Ye Yaodong stood in the open space in front of the purchasing point and directed people to stack the goods basket by basket. Then he asked people to stand in front of the pile of goods and look at them. He led two people to carry the goods basket by basket for weighing.
After all the small mountain of goods were sold out, more than an hour had passed. The sawfish on the deck had not yet been completely untied. Only half of its body was exposed, but this half attracted people to watch again, and everyone was whispering.
, everyone was discussing what kind of fish this was.
The brave ones even pulled him and asked: "Boss, what kind of fish is this big fish on your boat? Why is it so big? It was suppressed by a bunch of fish before, and we didn't even see it."
"I thought it was some debris on the ship, and they were squatting there to repair it..."
Ye Yaodong said: "It's a sawfish. It looks a bit like a shark, but it's a type of manta ray. The long part of its mouth is the end of its snout, which looks like a saw, so it's called a sawfish."
After saying that, he returned to the deck and looked at the two people who were left behind, sweating profusely, looking for patterns to untie the fishing nets.
"When it's time to cut it with scissors, just cut such a large net and it will be tangled together. How can you get it out without any damage? As long as you don't cut it all with scissors, it is still possible to repair it."
"We just want to try our best, otherwise it will take too long to ask someone to repair it, and it will also affect the trawling at sea."
"It doesn't matter, I just have two days of rest. After the rest, I will continue to go back to the trench to salvage. By then the locals will have given up and there will be no need to trawl. It's getting dark now. You should hurry up and don't wait until dark to get it out.
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"Okay, let's cut a little more."
Ye Yaodong let them figure it out by themselves. After thinking about it, he went to the purchasing point again and called over the two people who had just collected his goods.
This fish has half of its face exposed, and you should be able to recognize what it is. Call it over to see if you want it. If not, you have to ask them to help measure the length. Otherwise, what will you do if it gets really dark later and the store is closed?
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However, when they were called, both of them shook their heads and refused to accept it. They both said that they did not recognize the fish, they had never seen it before and it was difficult to bid, and they were afraid of getting it in their hands.
"You don't know each other?"
He thought to himself that their wholesale market had a fixed organization that could attract people, and it also had fixed sales, making it easy to digest new things.
"The body looks a bit like a shark, but the long mouth doesn't look like it."
"Why do I look a bit like a manta ray? It's like a combination of the two, that's the one on the mouth...it's like a saw. It's very strange. Why don't you ask other people?"
"never mind."
Originally, he thought that the fish might not fetch a high price. After all, it was ugly and unpopular, so he might not even be able to get back the money for the fishing net. But now it's better.
But it was probably within his expectation.
This kind of strange thing is definitely not easy to circulate in the market. Unless someone takes over, such as the open-minded young master Hong who returned from studying abroad in their town, who would buy this thing back?
However, even if he had known that the fish would not be sold and no one wanted it, he would definitely catch it. After all, it is rare and not everyone can encounter and catch such a big fish.
This is the rich color and experience in his life as a fisherman. It doesn't matter whether he makes money or not. He is not short of the money, but he has fished something, which is very impressive. He can take pictures and brag.
He is now waiting to completely free the fish from the fishing net, then take a perfect photo and save it.
Suddenly, he had another idea in mind.
Maybe this idea is better than selling the goods directly, and maybe it can make his name famous for decades.
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but crack his mouth when he thought of this, and his eyes were filled with anticipation.
He looked at his watch anxiously and found that it was already 6:30. He was instantly disappointed again. It was time to get off work. He didn't have an address in his hand. He only had the phone number of the office, so he couldn't find anyone.
We can only ask them to carry the fish into the fish warehouse, keep it fresh with ice, and wait until tomorrow.
There was too much work, and the work was done too late. There was nothing we could do. It was considered early to come back, but the sawfish was suppressed by those small fish.
Seeing that they were still busy there, he couldn't help but urge again, "Hurry up, or we might as well cut them all, it's getting dark."
Father Ye said: "You just asked the two bosses, did they say how much the fish cost?"
"They didn't want it. They said they didn't recognize the fish and it would be a waste in their hands. Moreover, they didn't know the value of the fish or whether it was useful."
Father Ye frowned, "Isn't it a waste of time to catch such a big fish? It took a lot of effort to catch such a big fish, and several bullets were lost."
"It won't be in vain. I'll take a picture of you later and that's all it will take."
Father Ye's face turned dark and he glared at him fiercely, "You take pictures all day long. You bought the camera just to take pictures of fish. Did you catch the fish just to take pictures?"
"There's nothing wrong with it. If you buy a camera to take pictures of fish, then of course you have to take pictures of the fish you catch."
"Sooner or later I'll make you so angry that you talk like this every day."
"Why am I talking? I originally wanted to sell it for money, but no one stopped me from selling it. But it's not a loss for us. At least we took a photo, and it will be a glorious history when we take it out in the future."
"boast."
"It turned out that bragging was just nonsense."
"Then after you finish taking the photo, are you going to throw it back into the sea?"
"Crazy, am I having a brain twitch or is there something wrong with my brain? You caught them all and threw them back into the sea? No matter what, you can chop them into pieces and feed them to the pigs. But you can't just feed such a big fish to the pigs. You can definitely eat it, but
I have discovered another economic value in it.”
"What?" Father Ye raised his ears curiously and looked at him again.
"I won't tell you yet. First, untie the fishing net and take a photo for me."
Father Ye suddenly felt bored and glared at him fiercely. Then he turned around and lowered his head to watch everyone untie the fishing nets. Even the original intention of asking him how much the goods cost was forgotten.
Seeing that the fishing net was almost untied, Ye Yaodong returned to the boat and took out his camera to play with.
Everyone laughed and said: "In Adong's eyes, there are no fish worth photographing. Every time he sees any weird and big fish, he wants to take a picture."
He didn't say anything, that's just the way it was.
The people worth taking pictures of are all at home, and his father is not worth taking pictures of every day.
He doesn't want to take pictures himself, so how can he take pictures of his father?
At most, one photo per year is enough. It is a luxury for ordinary people. Who can take photos every year?
The same goes for fish. It's just rare that he would take two pictures as a souvenir.
No wonder people say that photography is a relatively expensive hobby. Looking at it from now on, it is indeed relatively expensive.
"Give me a chance. Take a photo of me while it's still dark. I don't know if it's possible. I'll lift it out and take a good photo after it gets light tomorrow morning."
"Tomorrow dawn? Do you want to carry it out again?"
"What do you mean?"
"Aren't you going to sell it? What do you mean by taking it out again?"
After taking the photo, Ye Yaodong explained, "No one wants this fish on the pier. They don't recognize it. They also think the fish is too ugly and they're afraid of smashing it into their hands. You guys first carry it to the fish hold and spread the remaining ice cubes on it."
Go up there to keep it fresh. The two people on duty at night should be more alert and watchful. Don't sleep like pigs. You won't even know if the fish is stolen. I have a lot of use for this fish. If it disappears, you can help me.
See."
"Haha, no, we will definitely be optimistic about it."
"What are you going to do with this fish? You can't keep it fresh in the cabin, right?" Father Ye asked.
"I have an idea. Let's take it to the fish barn first and wait until we get home. It's almost dark, and I'm already hungry. I'm sleepy and tired. If there's anything we need to do, we'll talk about it when we get home."
Father Ye asked several times but didn't say anything. He felt that he was just trying to tease someone, and he got angry and stopped talking to him.
The workers all started moving, sorting out the debris on the boat, putting it in the cabin and locking it up.
After everything was sorted, the two people on duty at night were left to look at the fishing boat, while the others carried a basket of fish back and walked to the shore together.
At this time, the sky was already a little dark, and most of the people on the shore were gone. All you could see were the backs of people carrying burdens and returning from work. However, there were still people who were greedy for money and were still selling goods at the dock.
"I'm so exhausted, I feel like my feet are floating."
"Brother Dongdong...you...are you...virtual?"
"Go away, do you know what virtuality is?"
"Hehe, don't... know, I have... endless... awesome strength."
"A virgin who rides a horse is amazing, and an 18-year-old virgin is even more amazing."
"Hahahaha..." Everyone laughed.
In an instant, Chen Shi was teased with naughty words one after another.
Chen Shi was used to hearing this, he didn't blush or feel embarrassed, he just laughed.
We had a great harvest today and came back with a full load. We only went out for a day and then came back. We were able to rest for at least two or three days. Everyone was in a good mood.
It’s so cool to get paid for nothing and not work!
Everyone was chatting and laughing all the way back home. Ye Yaodong did not sit down immediately. Instead, he let the others go to eat first. He went to find his neighbors with the two fresh fish he had left behind.
He had to ask his neighbors if there were any women nearby who knew how to mend nets, and he had to ask two people to go to the boat to repair the fishing nets.
The fishing net, which is more than 300 meters long, contains not only a shuttle but also a lead weight. It is so heavy that it is very difficult for many people to lift it, not to mention that they live not far from the pier.
If you borrow a trolley, you still have to carry the fishing net back. Moving it around is too troublesome. It is better to just ask someone to repair it on the fishing boat, which saves trouble.
Aunt Xu, the neighbor, was very happy when she saw him bringing two fresh fish to the door just to inquire about this matter. She told him everything she knew. She enthusiastically immediately took him to find someone to help him mend the net.
Everyone was cheered.
When he was about to leave, he picked a few tomatoes and cucumbers from the yard and stuffed them into his arms to take them back to him.
"Listen to what's going on next door to you, have you just come back from going to sea? Other dishes need to be stir-fried, so just eat these two directly, or simply mix them with sugar, and they can also be paired with rice."
"Thank you. Auntie is so warm and humane."
"Oh, no need to be polite. We are all neighbors. You just asked about something and you brought two fish over so politely. I will give you a few worthless dishes in return. That's right."
"This is what I should do. I just came here, and I have to take care of my neighbors in the future. What happened yesterday was that everyone helped persuade the troublesome family to leave. I am in a hurry to go to sea today, and I haven't even thanked everyone properly.
I am a fisherman. If nothing else, I only have a lot of fish, haha."
"You're welcome. We are all neighbors. They are so immoral. Now they come to our door every two days to cause trouble. It's annoying. You are an official, how can you be an ordinary fisherman? You are the fish boss."
Ye Yaodong twitched the corner of his mouth, smiled and thanked him again, and then went home with an arm full of tomatoes and cucumbers.
"You exchanged the fish for vegetables? No wonder you kept so much fish back. We just came here and there were vegetables..."
"no……"
He explained.
"There is still a basket of worthless fish left. I will send it to the neighbors after the meal and divide it all. It is not worth anything anyway, so it is just a favor."
"I thought you were going to keep the salted fish back and eat it for a while."
Ye Yaodong said angrily: "I haven't eaten enough dried fish? Do you want to eat salted fish again? Is that basket intended for food?"
"Haha... Come and eat, we've all finished eating, isn't the aunt next door too enthusiastic?"
"Tomorrow I will sleep until I wake up naturally. Don't call me. Two women will come over tomorrow morning. You can take them to the boat and let them mend the nets."
Father Ye asked for the third time: "What about that big fish?"
Ye Yaodong finally mercifully told his father, "When I wake up naturally tomorrow, I will go find Director Zeng and tell him about the fish..."
"He's from the Coast Guard. Why are you telling him about that fish?"
"Don't interrupt. These public institutions are all interconnected. Do the bosses know each other? I just know him. Who can I tell him if I don't ask him? I can't sell that fish. I plan to tell him,
Donate it to the Ocean Bureau, and ask him to tell the Ocean Bureau to make it into a specimen and put it in the aquarium."
"Aquarium?"
"What about the Aquarium?" Ye Yaodong was an old antique. He had never been anywhere in his previous life and didn't know what it was called.
"Since there is a zoo, there should be an aquarium or aquarium. If you make specimens and bring them to this place, wouldn't they be a proper and conspicuous sign? It's a pity that they are dead, otherwise they can still be raised, which would be awesome, but making
Even if it is a complete specimen, it can become a treasure of the museum, and that thing is first-rate."
Father Ye looked confused, "What is the specimen? What level is it? Is this fish divided into several levels like the workers?"
"I knew you didn't understand."
"That's all you know."
"It's just a little more than you..."
Ye Yaodong thought that it was already 85 years ago, so he should have this technology, right? Anyway, he would mention it tomorrow. He didn't understand the technical aspects anyway. As long as he conveyed his intention, it would depend on how they arranged it.
If this can be made into a specimen, with such a large size, it will be a real treasure of the museum. This is very rare now, and it will be even rarer in the future. It is still a first-class protected animal.
When the time comes, he will be recorded in the records, saying that he caught the fish and donated it to the officials to make specimens.
From now on, everyone who sees this fish will think that he caught it, his name can be recorded in the history of the aquarium, and everyone who visits the aquarium will know him...
Damn it, it’s so beautiful just thinking about it...
His name can always be recorded in the history of the aquarium, hahahaha...
Ye Yaodong raised his head to the sky and screamed in his heart. He almost hit his trachea with one mouthful of rice.
"Does that mean we caught that fish in vain and we still have to give it away?"
"Isn't it that no one wants it? How can I get it for nothing? I have taken pictures, and when it is made into a specimen, my name will definitely be left behind regarding my origins and so on. Then am I not famous? And I will be famous for a long time.
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In addition, he took photos and has evidence in hand, so this is the real deal.
Father Ye couldn't quite understand what he was talking about, so he stopped worrying about the topic and let him handle it anyway.
"How much did those goods cost today?"
Ye Yaodong whispered: "More than 31,000 kilograms, sold for more than 3,000 yuan, and the six-banded trevally weighed more than 3,200 kilograms, sold for more than 500 yuan. This fish is only 16 cents per kilogram, and the total sold for less than 4,000 yuan."
Father Ye opened his mouth wide and looked around. Fortunately, everyone else had finished their meal and left the table early.
"So many?"
"The main reason is that many of the fish weighing more than 30,000 kilograms are quite valuable. Unlike our trawl net, half of the fish caught in the net are unwanted, and half of the remaining half are still worthless. There are only a few valuable ones."
Father Ye sighed, "That's really good luck. There are many valuable fish floating up, so I made a profit."
"Um."
"You said that the six-banded trevally is the one you dived under the water to look at? That's what it's called? Will the price be ripped off? During the day, you still said two or three cents."
"It's seasonal, and we have a lot of it. Anyway, we don't know the market for this fish, so we'll just sell it."
"That's right. I only went out for one day this time. It's so profitable. I've caught up with everyone this time."
Chapter completed!