The previous sentence "like my father" was said by Ye Yaodong.
He felt that his father was also a fool sometimes, and since he was older, he looked more mature and not as stupid as the two younger ones.
Ye Chengyang asked carefully: "Dad, who do I look like?"
"You are smarter, like me."
Ye Chengyang smiled and was satisfied. It turned out that he was not stupid, but his brother was more stupid.
He nodded, "Brother is just stupid. He pressed the button for a long time and then ran away. It was all in vain."
"Yes, don't imitate his stupid behavior."
"Dad, how long do I have to hold on?"
"Press until I sleep."
"Then when will you go to bed?"
"I fell asleep when I was sleepy."
Ye Chengyang was a little confused. When would his father get sleepy? His hands were already sore now. After thinking about it, he switched to his feet.
But after a while, he felt his feet were sore again, and his whole face wrinkled into a bun.
Ye Xiaoxi only played for a while, and now she was sitting astride his back and driving.
He couldn't hold on any longer, so he straddled him and sat on his legs, almost breaking Ye Yaodong's legs.
Ye Yaodong screamed in pain and quickly drove the two of them off, "Okay, okay, let's go play."
"Then my dime..."
"Ask your mother for it."
Lin Xiuqing was counting money beside her, so she took a dime from the table and gave it to Ye Chengyang so that she could talk.
He jumped three feet high in excitement, "Wow, I made money again. I'll tell my brother and he can get the money as soon as he leaves."
Ye Xiaoxi also stood nearby and watched eagerly, pulling at the hem of Lin Xiuqing's clothes. Lin Xiuqing had just given her a two-cent coin.
"Put it in your pocket and don't lose it."
She grinned happily and ran outside quickly, shouting as she ran, "I'm going to tell Dede too."
"Then Chenghu will be so angry."
Ye Yaodong crawled there and closed his eyes to rest, "Come over and give me a squeeze when you're done."
"Didn't I just pay three people to pinch it for you?"
"Did you ask for that?"
"You didn't get the money from me?"
"Damn! The bank won't ask you to settle the accounts. It's a pity, it's all yours."
Lin Xiuqing counted a lot of money and turned a deaf ear.
Those who were noisy just now were all delayed in counting their money.
Seeing that she was silent, Ye Yaodong stopped disturbing her, lest she forget to count and get scolded again.
He lay down with his eyes closed, and he could only hear the sound of counting money in his ears. It felt quite pleasant, and he fell asleep while lying down.
There was nothing much going on the next day. After he woke up naturally, he rarely stayed at home and watched TV without going anywhere.
Lin Xiuqing used the things she brought back last night as souvenirs and distributed them to her neighbors, relatives and friends, which meant that her trip was not in vain.
Today is the 1st, and it is also Sunday. Several children did not go to school and were all running around outside. They only came back during lunch. Ye Yaodong also restrained them after lunch and did not let them run out.
"Take a rest at home. Don't run out right after eating. Running around right after eating will make your stomach hurt. It's rare for me to be at home, and I can't even see your ghosts. You are busier than me."
"We're going to play ball..."
Lin Xiuqing knew how to handle them, "There will be Sun Wukong in the afternoon!"
As soon as they said this, they didn't even say they were going to run away.
"Really?" Both eyes were bright.
"There was Monkey King last night. You all were playing outside and didn't see it. It will be replayed in the afternoon."
"Then let's go out after watching it."
After saying these two words, go to turn on the TV and wait in front of the TV.
After you have a TV at home, watching it for a long time is no longer so rare, and the outside world is more attractive.
But people who don't have a TV are more eager for a TV, especially children.
The two brothers didn't plan to go out to play, but people kept coming to call them.
After hearing that they were going to stay at home to watch Sun Wukong, everyone was extremely envious. After the two brothers obtained the consent of Ye Yaodong and Lin Xiuqing, they brought all their friends into the house.
Suddenly, their home was like a kindergarten, gathering all the nearby children together, and the excitement almost overturned the roof.
Although the people next door also have TV sets at home, they always join in wherever the excitement is. Knowing that there are many people here, they all come here to watch TV together.
Ye Yaodong also stood with them watching the monkeys when he had nothing to do, "Why didn't I realize there were so many beauties in Journey to the West before?"
"These are all fairies..."
"Tang Monk is so confused...those are all fairies..."
"Deserves to be caught!"
"Aren't fairies cannibals? Why do they cook them? Wouldn't it be better to just swallow them in one bite?"
Lin Xiuqing also felt that it was right, "If you have to stay overnight and eat the catch, then the three brothers and sisters can disperse and go back to their respective homes."
Ye Chenghu shouted excitedly: "Zhu Bajie is going back to Gao Laozhuang!"
"Tang Monk is really angry. Eat him quickly!"
A group of children were all very excited and wanted to rush in and beat Tang Monk up. They were all scolding.
Ye Yaodong shook his head and went back to his house to lie down and take a nap. He also went to sea at night.
The noise outside never stopped, and it wasn't until the episode was over that they ran out again cursing, and he was able to sleep peacefully.
In the evening, he settled the accounts for several of the boats rented out by his family. He was in a hurry to go to the city yesterday and came back too late, so he didn't settle the accounts. It was only today that he called someone to come over and settle the accounts.
The Harvest just happened to come back today. After calculating the accounts of his family's fishing boat, he went to calculate the accounts of the Harvest again.
Just settling accounts also wastes a lot of time, but even if it is just one day in a month, it is also the most important day for everyone.
After he finished calculating the accounts, he asked Ah Qing to take stock of the money on hand as usual.
It originally cost more than 250,000 yuan, and it cost 50,000 yuan to invest in lighters, but the store in the city also brought back a little over 20,000 yuan, and several thousand more yuan was divided here at home.
The boatmen's wages had been paid a few days ago, and Lin's father and mother in the city had also paid them when they were settling the accounts. Several workers in the workshop and Ye's mother's wages were also paid by Lin Xiuqing at the end of the month.
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Their workshop is not very formal. Sometimes wages are paid a few days earlier, sometimes a day later. It is normal.
If we put this in the 21st century, not to mention delaying for one day, not even delaying payment for two hours can scold the company to death. Everyone's tolerance is very limited, and everyone depends on wages. They are only allowed to be early and not late.
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Now their money on hand is probably back to about 230,000.
Ye Yaodong thought that after the batch of lighters on hand was sold out and the store's turnover was collected next month, it would probably reach 300,000.
However, it is already the beginning of November, and next month will be December. I will probably have to pay for the filling machine, the plastic bags, and the materials for building walls in the city.
Pen, the shipyard estimates that there are more ships that can deliver the goods.
He still has three small trawlers that have not yet been delivered. In fact, the original delivery date has passed, but he is not in a hurry, so he does not deliberately rush them.
But I heard that his eldest brother often asked Ye Chenghai to keep an eye on their boat and kept urging the factory.
In his mind, he was silently calculating the money on hand, calculating the possible expenses next month, and trying to estimate that the income next month should not be that much. It is estimated that it will be back to around 250,000, not 300,000.
It really makes sense that people who are better at making money are better at spending money.
At night, he gets up immediately when the time comes.
There was no Harvest with him tonight. The Harvest only came back in the evening. This trip lasted for five or six days. He had to take a rest when he got back. Since he couldn't get together with him, he decided to go alone.
Just wait for two days to rest and then go look for them when the Harvest comes out.
All the boatmen also arrived at the dock on time and waited.
"Dongzi...ah, no, I have to call you President Ye. I haven't seen you for a long time. Why are you still going to sea? Aren't you already an official? I thought you went to the popular and spicy food, that's why I haven't seen you for so long.
Arrive." Ah Zheng teased.
Xiaoxiao also joked, "Haha, President Ye needs to hire more people to do the work. How can I go out to sea and fish by myself?"
Ye Yaodong just happened to have a pole in his hand and gave each of them a slap. "How can you support me if I don't go to sea? There are so many mouths at home and in the workshop. If I don't work, the whole family will have to drink from the northwest wind."
"Hire someone to do it."
"Isn't that capitalism? I am an honest fisherman. I have to go through wind and rain every day. How can I wait at home for workers to work for me."
"That's true."
"Gone."
He led a group of people to board the nearest ship that was about to go to sea, and asked people to take them to the Dongsheng at sea.
Although it was rented out, no one would refuse it as a convenience, which also saved them from taking other boats to row to the middle of the sea.
The sea breeze blows even cooler at night. It has rained several times this month. Now that we have entered November, the temperature has dropped even lower. There is a sea breeze blowing from the sea, and the temperature is lower than that on land.
Ye Yaodong even put on a sweater and a coat to block the wind at night, so he didn't feel so cold.
He thought that next time he went to sea, he might have to wear a woolen hat and gloves.
"Dad, you can drive in the middle of the night. I will take over for you at dawn."
Father Ye checked the time, walked out from home to the pier, got on the boat and drove the fishing boat out. In such a short time, it was almost 3 o'clock.
"Okay, then go back to the cabin."
It wasn't long before dawn, so there was no way to sleep in the cabin in such a short time, so it was better to sail.
After all, I had just gotten out of bed and had a good sleep, and I was in good spirits. It would be better to stay up until dawn before going to sleep, rather than sleeping for two hours and then taking over for most of the day.
Ye Yaodong and the boatmen all stayed in the cabin with their eyes closed and rested until dawn before getting up to take over the shift.
At this time, they had not sailed into the sea area where they had trawled before, and the depth under the seabed was estimated to be not enough. After he took over, he continued to sail towards the East China Sea quickly and with all his strength.
It wasn't until after 6 o'clock that he asked someone to prepare to launch the net, while he watched from the helm.
The roaring sea breeze blew his hair up, exposing his forehead. He calculated in his mind that he had not trawled since July, and it has been almost 4 months since then.
It did take a long time, and I almost lost my old career.
Seeing the boatman lowering the net, he went to the cockpit to take out the telescope, put it on, and looked into the distance.
The sea surface was undulating, and the fishing boats were swaying along with it. The seabirds in the distance were scattered about the water or flying high in the air. They were not very concentrated. It seemed that there was nothing different about the surrounding sea surface.
The fishing boat moved forward slowly, operating at a constant speed of 3 to 5 nautical miles per hour.
At the end of the whole day, the results were mediocre, not great but not bad either.
Most of the groceries were taken up, and half of them were swimming crabs. He picked some big and fat ones and kept them to eat, while throwing the rest to the sea.
The crabs are plentiful and plump in November. It’s a pity that they don’t have anyone on board who can make crab paste sauce. Otherwise, they could dig up a lot of crab paste in their spare time. If they can’t bring back live crabs, at least they still have crab paste. Now they can only
All wasted.
However, now that they have just been fished out, the crabs are still active, and throwing them back into the sea can help them ovulate.
He and his father have been working shifts to ensure their respective rest periods.
Everything went smoothly for the first four days, but on the fifth day they felt that the sky had become cloudy and the waves had become a little bigger. At night, the broadcast on the maritime radio station was also playing in a loop, saying that there was another wave.
A typhoon formed.
Sometimes when they are bored at sea, they also listen to the radio and must listen to the weather forecast every night.
At this time, Ye Yaodong frowned when he heard that another typhoon was forming. No wonder he felt that the sky was a little gloomy in the afternoon, even though the sun was still shining brightly in the morning.
There are still typhoons in November, but the frequency is relatively low. Today is still early November.
The origin of the typhoon is close to the equator, which is still very hot at this time.
Even in December, conditions can be provided for the formation of typhoons, and typhoons may occur throughout the year in the northwest Pacific and South China Sea.
In China, the time range for typhoon landfall is also very wide. Except for January to March, when no typhoon makes landfall, typhoons may landfall in other months.
However, the most frequent months are July, August and Nineties, because in these months the people can particularly clearly feel the power of the passing typhoon, while at other times they may not feel it at all, and the typhoon will pass.
Major typhoons also tend to occur during these months.
It's just that they are currently in the open sea. Even if it is a small typhoon, their feelings on the sea are very clear. At this time, the sun may be shining brightly on the land and they have no feeling, but they are very likely to withstand the storm of the typhoon at sea.
Ye Yaodong heard the announcement that another typhoon was forming. He quickly walked out of the cockpit and shouted to the boatmen sitting below chatting, "Go and wake up the boatmen in the cabin. Don't sleep. There is a typhoon forming. We have to go back quickly."
Everyone immediately panicked and ran into the cabin to call for help.
A typhoon is coming, so of course you have to stay awake and not hide in the cabin to sleep.
Fortunately, he heard the broadcast in time. The typhoon has not yet come, and the waves on the sea are just a little bigger, so there is no real impact. It will not be a big problem to go back early.
When everyone in the cabin ran out in disheveled clothes, he shouted again and asked them to prepare to raise the net.
It's been 4 days since I left this trip, so it's not a bad idea to go back now.
Father Ye had already climbed up to the helm tower before he had even put on his clothes, his hands still stuffed into the cuffs of his sweater.
"Why is there a typhoon? It's already so cold."
"It's starting to get cold here. The temperature in the south probably hasn't cooled down yet. It's normal to have a typhoon. It's only November 6th. I'm going to sail back right now. I don't know when this damn weather forecast was detected.
It will only be played in the evening.”
"I just said that in the afternoon, the sky suddenly became overcast today. I thought it was raining. If it rains lightly or moderately, we are not afraid. We can just return according to the situation. I didn't expect it to be a typhoon. This is serious."
"Well, let's put down the fishing nets first before we can sail back."
Father Ye was worried and never returned to the cabin. He and Ye Yaodong stayed in the cockpit and watched together.
Of course, the boatmen below are not so worried about going back to sleep. Of course, they have to keep an eye on the sea at all times, as this is at stake for their lives.
It was probably a typhoon coming soon, and the volume was relatively large. The harvest from this net was huge, and nearly 10,000 kilograms were brought up in one net. In the past, one package of goods was about 2,000 kilograms. Today, five packages were put out. Father Ye estimated that it would be almost enough.
About 9,000~10,000 each.
A large net of goods is collected inside the fishing net. It is impossible for them to hoist all the goods up and get them to the deck. There is a fish collection bag at the bottom of the fishing net.
When it is collected, the contents of the fishing net will sink to the bottom, and the boatmen have to tighten the mouth of the fish bag, then hoist the fish bag up, untie the net mouth, and let the fish scatter on the deck.
Immediately afterwards, the fish collection bag is returned to the sea, and the contents of the fishing net are dropped into the fish collection bag at the bottom. In this way, when a bag is hung up, it is called a bag.
When the fishing net was being collected, Father Ye walked to the deck to look at it and kept counting silently. Only after all the goods in the fishing net were collected, he happily ran to the cockpit to talk to Ye Yaodong.
"In the evening, more than 7,000 kilograms of goods were collected in that net. I thought it was enough, but I didn't expect that the quantity in this net was even greater. It should be nearly 5 tons."
"About half of it is groceries. It's not as good as the 110,000 kilograms of plum fish caught in the previous net. That one really didn't have much groceries."
"That's true. There's nothing to be happy about. After all, we encountered a typhoon."
Ye Yaodong said nothing and kept staring down. After they collected all the empty fishing nets, he started to speed up.
Just as he was accelerating, huge raindrops suddenly fell from the sky and landed on the glass in front of him, blurring his vision within a few seconds.
Father Ye was also stunned by the pitter-patter raindrops.
"It's raining heavily!"
Ye Yaodong pursed his lips tightly. Fortunately, they didn't look at the sea surface while sailing. They looked at the compass and the screen monitor. If they looked at the sea surface, who would know the north, south, east, and west, especially in the dark night.
The cockpit is located at a high place above the helm building mainly to better observe the sea surface and hull around the fishing boat.
After the heavy raindrops fell, the boatmen below were also a little panicked. Father Ye said again: "There are a lot of goods online. Fortunately, everyone is awake and awake. I will go down and put on my raincoat and pick through the goods with them."
Goods, please comfort me by the way."
"good."
He and Lin Xiuqing saw the raincoats in Wenzhou a few days ago. They bought two and brought them to the sea so that he and his father could wear them for work. They were a bit expensive, so he didn't buy more.
The main reason is that I don’t think it’s worth the price. I’ve experienced the cheap era, and looking at the current price, of course I can’t afford it.
I didn’t expect that it would come in handy immediately after I bought it.
Father Ye originally wanted to complain, saying that his purchase was unlucky, but he felt that now was not the time to say this, so he swallowed it back and hurried down.
Ye Yaodong drove back with all his concentration. The sky was extremely dark tonight. In the past, there were moons and stars, which made the surrounding sea seem quite bright. But now it was pitch black as far as the eye could see.
He drove for an hour and didn't even come across a single fishing boat. Their boat was the only one left on the dark sea, moving fast, and their light was the only one moving fast on the sea.
Fortunately, there was the sound of falling raindrops, otherwise it would be completely silent in the dark night. Except for the lights on the boat, there was no light around, and everyone would probably be even more panicked.
It's just that the rain seems to be getting heavier and heavier. It was just a small amount at first, but it got heavier and heavier as he drove, and now it has turned into a heavy downpour.
Suddenly, waves surged up from the bow of the fishing boat, and the bow of the fishing boat tilted 45 degrees. Some of the remaining waves also rolled into the deck and smashed down. The boatmen were knocked around by the tilt of the fishing boat, and were hit by the sea water.
Once washed away, everyone was stunned and even standing was a problem.
And before everyone could slow down and stand up, another wave hit them head-on, and everyone was knocked on their backs again. Fortunately, they all instinctively opened their hands to grab everything they could, so as not to be thrown off the stern of the boat.
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However, Ye Yaodong feels that it is not a problem if this continues. The waves at night will be more turbulent and terrifying than during the day, and in the dark, everyone's fear of the unknown will be infinitely magnified.
He thought to see if there was an island where he could temporarily dock for one night, and at least transfer the people to the island first, so that they would not all be tossed and beaten by the waves in the sea, fearful.
He temporarily left the cockpit and shouted to the people below, asking them to use flashlights to see if they could see any islands around them.
After encountering two big waves, no one was in the mood to pick up the fish scattered everywhere on the deck. At this time, everyone was concerned about whether their lives could go back.
After hearing the instructions from Ye Yaodong and others, they all quickly turned on their flashlights and shined them on the surrounding sea. They also grabbed something that could hold them in place to avoid being thrown to pieces again.
The rain continued unabated, and the waves continued to hit the fishing boats. At this time, everyone felt gloomy and looked forward to the appearance of islands around them.
They had gone back and forth to this sea area dozens of times. Ye Yaodong remembered that there were several small islands on the way, but he didn't know how far away they were from the island at this time.
If it hadn't suddenly rained heavily, and the waves surged and rolled violently, there wouldn't have been such huge waves just after the typhoon formed.
All I can say is that the weather is unpredictable and cannot be controlled. If it could be controlled, there would not be so many fishing boats wrecked on the ocean.
He pursed his lips tightly and returned to the cockpit to sit, tense and even though his whole body was soaked by the heavy rain, he kept paying attention to the direction so as not to deviate and it would be difficult to control it. As long as the direction was not deviated.
If we move, it will only be a matter of time before we find the island.
Everyone in the boat was holding flashlights and stood on both sides of the boat to illuminate the surroundings.
Finally, an exclamation broke through the rain and reached everyone's ears.
"Over there...over there there are mountains to see..."
"Look over there..."
The sky was overcast and dark, and it felt like it was about to collapse on the sea.
Several flashlights shone brightly in one direction, and everyone's eyes flashed with hope, and they all staggered toward the other side of the ship.
Ye Yaodong had already seen it in advance before the people below exclaimed. There was a protrusion where the flashlight shone, indicating that it was an island. He was temporarily relieved and drove the boat in the direction where the flashlight shone.
go.
After the fishing boat changed direction, everyone knew that it was heading towards the island. No matter how we found an island to dock first, at least our personal safety would not be a problem for the time being.
The heavy rain was pouring down, and the fishing boats were riding the wind and waves on the sea.
After driving for only ten minutes, Ye Yaodong watched the island in front of him expand a little bit and slowly slowed down.
In order to find a good stopping point for them to go ashore, he also walked around the island.
Unexpectedly, he actually found it. There was a mountain col-like place in the southwest of the island. It was facing the wind and could block the incoming sea breeze.
He slowly drove the fishing boat into the mountain col and docked. The sound of the wind whistling in his ears suddenly subsided. Even the churning waves could no longer affect the fishing boat. The whole boat immediately became stable.
Except for the still heavy raindrops, nothing else had any impact on them.
He was completely relieved and walked out of the cockpit. Everyone below was laughing and talking, and he climbed down.
"Fortunately, we found an island to dock. It is also a mountain col and a natural haven."
"Yes, I was just thinking that when we went out in the past, we also encountered islands. If it didn't work, we would stop at the island for a while. Fortunately, we found it."
"I was scared to death. This happened to me on my first trip with the fishing boat. I thought I was going to explain it here. Oh my god, I was scared to death."
"Haha, it's just a little storm. You young people still need to exercise."
Everyone relaxed and was in the mood to joke.
Ye Yaodong shouted in the heavy rain: "We are not affected by wind and waves here. Let's go to the cabin to sleep at night, and don't get off the boat yet. It's dark and we can't see the road, and the rocks are slippery, so we don't fall off and get swept up by the waves."
sea ​​miles.”
"OK."
"Now let's take care of the cargo on the deck, and then go to the cabin to rest."
"OK."
Each of them was wearing a raincoat, and even though they got wet from the heavy rain, there was no need to change clothes. They could just go back to the cabin to change after finishing their work.
Ye Yaodong was already wet from head to tail while standing in the rain. He had to go to the cabin to change clothes before he could come out to help.
Today is considered a near miss. We will dock at the island and wait for daybreak to check the situation of wind, waves and heavy rain.
If it doesn't work, just stay on the boat for a few days and wait for the storm to pass. Anyway, there will be food on the boat and plenty of fresh water.
But just in case, after changing his clothes, he took out all the containers on the boat to catch the rainwater.
Chapter completed!