Ye Yaodong still took the three people with him during the day at night. The original team continued to go to sea. However, due to the rise and fall of the tide, it was almost dawn when they went to sea.
By the time we arrived at Oarfish Island, the sun was shining brightly in the sky, and the beach was golden, mixed with some white floating objects and white foam washed by the waves.
The four members of Little Azheng's family are already there. It seems that they have just arrived, otherwise there would not be squid floating on the beach and in the water.
When Ye Yaodong and the others arrived, they each took buckets or sacks, and hand nets, and followed them down to the beach.
"Dongzi, you are too late, we have almost finished picking up all this."
"After we've picked them up, let's dig up spat barnacles on the rocks."
When he saw the densely packed rocks on the rocks yesterday, he felt itchy and unbearable.
Taking advantage of the fact that it was not suitable to go into the water early in the morning, there were many of them, so they knocked out a few more sacks and carried them back.
His mother has been very busy in the past two years and rarely goes to the rocks to pry these things. The fresh shellfish he eats are usually dug by his relatives, aunts and so on, and then distributed everywhere.
If the quantity is large, the meat will be dug out, dried, and then sold to him.
Everyone in the village knew that he wanted these dried goods, but some of the nearby islands had dug them all up, and it would take time to grow them again. If they were bits and pieces, if they were willing to sell them for money, they would definitely keep them for their own consumption.
.
Now it was only these distant islands that were densely growing, so he happened to have a lot of people with him, so he took the opportunity to pry some of them back.
The workshop now has a lot of manpower, so we are not afraid that there will be no workers to do these troublesome things.
"Why did you bring us the ground cage yesterday? Didn't you tell us to give it to us? We don't need it now." Azheng asked, also holding a bucket in one hand and a fishing net in the other.
"Then give it to me. I don't have any use for it. I'm just going to fish longlines at home in the past few days. When my harvest boat arrives next month, I'm even going to hire people for the big boat."
Xiaoxiao also quickly put down what he was doing, looked up and asked in surprise: "Ah, let me go, you don't even drive the Dongsheng, then who should we go with then?"
"Follow my father and the others, or you can ask my father to open the harvest boat when the time comes. We'll take turns and we'll see when the time comes."
"That's good."
"So now that you have the fresh food boat, are you going to Zhejiang Province this year?"
"I'll definitely go."
He was thinking about setting up a scale and using the fresh harvesting ship to collect their jellyfish directly at sea, thus achieving a win-win situation.
It saves everyone the trouble of not having to go back and forth. After processing, the goods can be sold to him at a cheaper price. They can all stay where they are and catch more jellyfish, while he drives the fresh harvest boat back and forth to sell the goods, a win-win situation.
However, it may only be a short period of a few days. When the trench is finished fishing, everyone can only salvage scattered things on the sea surface and disperse them everywhere.
Then there is no need for him to drive around on a harvesting boat to collect goods. This kind of scattered salvage will not collect much goods, and it is not enough to subsidize the fuel expenses.
It will definitely only last a few days, and a few large ships will probably go out to sea to trawl the nets, and the fresh-water harvesting ships will be able to go back and forth to collect the goods from the large ships.
And the small boat he had left in his hand, the No. 7 boat that had been sailing in the past few days, would be taken to the trench and let the boatmen salvage the sea urchins.
This is not bad.
So you have to use your brain to make money, and you have to come up with new tricks every year and do fancy things to make money.
I heard that there are a lot more wooden boats in the village this year. Someone wants to copy his fishing boat last year and pull a small boat there, and the small boat salvage the fishing boat to sell goods... follow his old path... haha...
Chen Guodong came over and asked: "Brother Dong, can I follow you this year?"
"You want to follow?"
"Of course, I heard the salary is high if you join us."
"The risk is also great. You don't know how many people were wiped out by the army in the town last year? Those who survived were sentenced to some extent. With good luck, the circumstances were minor. The local border guard interceded for mercy, and a small number of them were redeemed with money."
"Well……"
"Don't just think about making money quickly. High returns mean high risks. Although the salary at home is not as high as working out, it is at least safe and the risk is low. Think about it carefully."
"OK."
"It's work, it's work."
Ye Yaodong shouted and asked them to start working quickly. He was also thinking in his mind that he would have to raise his wages again this year.
Otherwise, there was such a big incident last year. This year, many people would probably be worried about their safety and afraid to go, fearing that it would be difficult to call people.
Everyone scattered around, fishing for squids if they could. After all the squids in the surrounding sea were divided up, Xiaoxiao and Azheng's boat went out to trawl, leaving only the four of them on the island.
The tide was still high at this time, and the tide would not recede until about noon, so the water level was high and it was easy for fishing boats to sail out.
At the same time, only a little bit of the beach was exposed. Ye Yaodong couldn't catch some seafood on the beach, so he could only pry some shells off the slippery rocks hit by the waves.
However, he was reluctant to climb around on the rocks, hoping to see if he could find anything good in the cracks of the rocks.
"Hey, hey, there are big blue crabs and sword shrimps in the cracks in the rocks... Come on, get me a bucket."
"You're lucky. I just picked up a lot of conchs and threw them into the sack together with the barnacles."
Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "You should also take a closer look at some of the gaps. A lot of goods are hidden in the gaps. If there is a lot of goods received today, each of you can take some back."
"The smelly fish and rotten shrimps I brought back yesterday were enough for my family to clean up. They were busy until nightfall. There were too many."
"Yeah, it's too much. Fortunately, one person can share a little. It's a waste of time and money."
"My mother said... I knew earlier, I should raise more... chickens and ducks."
"Anyway, it won't break easily after it's been boiled, dried in the sun, and broken into pieces. If you don't use it up, share it with your brothers and relatives."
Ye Yaodong said that he wouldn't need it anyway. His home is right by the beach. Every day when the tide goes out, there are a lot of stranded fish and shrimps. They are much fresher. It is enough for the chickens and ducks to go out to find food by themselves. They only need a small amount every day.
Rice bran.
"Brother Dong, don't you keep some?"
"Are you stupid? Brother Dong still lacks these stinky fish and rotten shrimps? The fresh ones are shipped to the workshop in tons and tons. These are all broken, how can you look at them."
"hehe……"
A few of them dug and pried everywhere on the island. From the time the sun just rose to when it was hanging high in the sky, each of them packed two big sacks before they felt hungry.
The tide was late today, so they went out to sea late. The fried dough sticks stall in the village was also at work. Ye Yaodong bought a lot of fried dough sticks and fried cakes and put them on the boat. At this time, he struggled to carry several large bags of spat and barnacles onto the boat.
, everyone was paralyzed.
However, I got excited when I saw the fried dough sticks and fried cakes.
Ye Yaodong also took out a large basket, which was padded with white cotton cloth at the bottom and covered with a layer of white cotton cloth on top. When he opened it, a big snow-white steamed bun was revealed. Everyone sat up quickly with joy.
"I thought we had to open the fire to cook the noodles, but Brother Dong was so thoughtful."
"It's too troublesome. There are people running these small stalls in the village. It's easier to buy some and take it on the boat. It doesn't cost much. If you buy a lot, don't be polite. Just eat it when you're hungry. After all, going into the water is also physical work."
"Great, we have fallen into a lucky nest."
The three of them each grabbed a big steamed bun, broke it open, stuffed the fried dough cake into the steamed bun and ate it. They also grabbed another fried dough stick to go with it, one bite from the left and one from the right. Their mouths were full of oil and their faces were full of oil.
Sense of happiness.
"Brother Dongdong, I...I'll give it to you, and I'll do it for you...for the rest of your life."
"Haha, I'm so happy, aren't I? I eat well and get a high salary." Chen Guodong laughed.
Another man named Lin Jianping also said: "Don't laugh at him. If I could, I would like to work for Brother Dong for the rest of my life. What a good job, no one else can envy him."
"No joke, Chen Shi also expressed my feelings, haha."
Ye Yaodong just listened and didn't say anything. No one said how long he had been working. He didn't even know how long he could work.
Anyway, as long as they are willing to stay, work hard, and he can sustain it, then he can continue to work, and the people who follow him cannot be deprived of food.
"Eat quickly. It's past 8 o'clock. Let's take a rest after eating. Let's go into the water at 9 o'clock. It's been working for a few hours. It's not bad to get so many bags. I also caught several blue crabs and flower crabs. The temperature is up now.
It’s suitable for going into the water, it’s neither hot nor cold.”
"Okay, let's try to salvage more land and cage it today."
"When the ground traps are removed and the rocks are exposed, we can dig abalone."
"Don't tell me, the suction power of the abalone is too strong and it will be difficult to buckle it."
"It doesn't matter if it takes a lot of effort to deduct it. If you still can't deduct it, you have to poke it with a stick."
After Ye Yaodong finished eating, he washed his hands casually and then went to sail the boat. After he had rested enough, he called them into the water.
Following yesterday's pattern, I went into the water and cleaned the floor cages hanging from the bottom.
Some floor cages have a whole row hanging from the bottom. If they are too long, they will cut off the rope appropriately, otherwise they will not be able to pull them up.
When they collect these cages, they also collect the squid eggs hanging on the cages.
This is what they saw with their own eyes yesterday. As long as there is something attached to a group of squid swimming from a distance, they can hang on it and lay a series of eggs.
Then the squid will die immediately after laying eggs and float on the sea surface, or be washed away on the island by waves.
Pickled cuttlefish eggs are also an excellent side dish. It's a pity that he doesn't understand industrial things. Otherwise, he would have to make cuttlefish eggs into cans.
These cuttlefish eggs were picked up for nothing. The cages collected yesterday were not even there yet.
The four of them were busy from morning to noon, during which they took an hour's rest and took a look at the squid around the branches, but there were not many.
They casually fished for an hour, but after not achieving satisfactory results, they felt that it was not enough to collect the ground cage, so they continued to go into the water and did not stop until the sun went down.
The longline was taken back yesterday and had to be sorted out by someone to repair the missing hooks and branch lines. It would not be completed so quickly.
So there was no longline fishing today, and the whole day was spent taking turns launching the water to collect the ground traps.
Fortunately, he had calculated that his father would be back in the next two days, otherwise they would not be able to withstand such a high-intensity water dive. Fortunately, it was only four or five meters underwater, and the pressure was not high, so there would be no damage to the ears.
When the people on the Dongsheng came back, he asked them to come over and take turns launching the water. He also added some subsidies and more people to share the work, so that everyone could reduce their workload.
On that boat, except for his father and Chen Laoqi, they were all young and strong, and they were all good at fishing for sea urchins in the past.
Today's harvest is more than twice that of yesterday. After all, they have been left for a year. Apart from being filled with some seaweed and silt, the contents of each cage are particularly impressive.
Those with less seaweed have more goods, and those with more seaweed have less goods. Today, even seaweed is still wanted.
The geese are plucking their feathers.
One asked for it, and the other two also asked for it, and the three of them divided up the seaweed into piles of seaweed.
Ye Yaodong didn't care at first, but when he saw more and more seaweed, which was piled higher than others, he became speechless.
These are not just seaweeds, but also various types of seaweeds. Anyway, they are all called seaweeds.
"You don't let it go at all!"
"My mother said, feed the pigs."
"My wife said to bring a handful to make soup, but since you want to feed the pigs, I will also bring some of it back to feed the pigs."
"Me too."
"You just divide it among yourselves and go back."
Today, Ye Yaodong came back with a boat full of smelly fish and shrimps. No one was surprised. They just thought it smelled bad. No one was surprised that he also brought a boat full of seaweed.
You can even praise him a few times, saying that he is thrifty and does not waste anything, and you can even tease him for asking for grass.
He sounded a little embarrassed. He had plucking his hair so much that nothing was left.
"A few of them said they wanted to take them back to feed the pigs, so they dragged them back. The same goes for those smelly fish and rotten shrimps. They had to take them back to be dried, crushed and fed to chickens and ducks before they let them go."
This must be explained, otherwise the villagers may think that he even wants smelly fish and rotten shrimps, but he still has to dry them in the sun, or throw them into fish sauce to ferment, and his reputation will be ruined.
"So, I thought it was so much that you had to throw it into the fish sauce to ferment, but it doesn't make any difference anyway."
He knew that some people would think too much.
"How can I still sell this little product? These can't enter my workshop."
"That's good, otherwise everyone won't feel safe eating your fish sauce."
"Don't worry."
He explained a few words and then lined up to be weighed. The spat and barnacles on the boat were dragged to the workshop on a cart first. If they wanted to take some home, let them take it themselves.
The remaining smelly fish, rotten shrimps and seaweed will be distributed and processed by themselves.
As for those cages, Azheng and Xiaoxiao happened to be at the dock, so he asked them to move them by themselves and handle the distribution.
Yesterday I just asked the workers to randomly transport it to them, but now it is better to let them distribute it themselves.
Ye Yaodong also hurried back to the workshop after the goods he brought back were weighed.
"Ah Qing."
"Hey, here, all the goods are sold out?"
"Well, have you collected all the kelp?"
"It's collected. The quantity is indeed less today, only 3 tons and 200 kilograms."
"Where's the total?"
"It's 29 tons and 295 kilograms. After lunch in the afternoon, they collected it all and delivered it. After I finished the calculation, I calculated the total, and the village chief and others all laughed crookedly."
"It's quite a lot. If 10 tons are dried and one ton is dried, this is equivalent to a fresh yield of about 10 tons per mu. It is already considered a high yield."
Lin Xiuqing also smiled and said: "Yes, the yield is high. They also said that they should plant more crops in the second half of the year. They have already gone back to write a report in the afternoon. One after another, villagers came back from going to sea and came to ask me. I told them directly
They told them, and then asked them to go to the village committee to ask."
"Well, just leave it to the village committee to make arrangements. How much did it cost in total?"
"A little over 4,000 yuan."
"That's a pretty good profit."
"Yes, if we work hard next year, we will make a fortune with this year's profit."
"Hopefully, there are only a few people breeding them now, and things are more expensive when they are scarce, so the prices are pretty good. When we start to breed them in large quantities, I don't know if the prices will go down."
Lin Xiuqing frowned and thought it was right.
"Forget it, this is not what we worry about. Anyway, everyone sees this year's success. Whether the price will be the same next year is not up to us. Even if it is half cheaper after widespread planting, everyone will still make a profit.
You will be happy. To everyone, the least valuable thing is labor force."
"Well, you're right, let's talk about next year's matters. We've already done a good job this year."
Ye Yaodong walked around the workshop and heard everyone happily saying that this year the kelp yield per mu would reach 10 tons, and one ton of kelp could be dried and sold for 140 yuan per acre.
Even people who have just returned from a trip to the sea have to stop and ask about the women inside when passing by the workshop door.
Everyone's desire to share is very high. People are not allowed to enter or exit the workshop casually. They can communicate even through the fence and talk enthusiastically.
His mother was also there at this time. When she saw him, she pulled him and said: "Why do you bring so much goods to others to feed the chickens? We can keep some at home. There are so many seaweeds."
, said to take it back to feed the pigs, you can also leave some for your sister-in-law and them to feed the pigs..."
"Why are you so stingy? I want to keep those goods back. The villagers should worry about whether I dried them in the sun and sold them, or put them in fish sauce and fermented them."
"How could..."
"Why not? They all have very rich imaginations. You can take them back to feed the chickens. The chickens and ducks at home are on the beach. You don't know how to find something to eat? Where are you going to get the smelly fish and rotten shrimps?"
"
"Okay, then there's seaweed..."
"I want grass, so I have to dig hard. I don't raise pigs, and my elder sister-in-law and my second sister-in-law didn't ask me for it either..."
"They didn't tell me, because they told me to help them feed the pigs, and they had to go out to sea to pick squid. They had to work from dawn to dusk every day, and they had to take care of the pigs."
Mother Ye babbled with disgust, "You are so cruel. You have raised so many piglets and caught 8 piglets. You are not afraid of exhaustion. You are there before dawn, roaring, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um."
"The kids couldn't get enough pigweed to eat. I had to go to the mountain to get pigweed for them during my lunch break. I couldn't even straighten my back. I had to go back to cook pig food later."
"Your father hasn't eaten a few meals of the rice I cooked in the past two years. Now it's good to cook all the rice for the pigs..."
Ye Yaodong listened to her mother's nagging talk. Someone passed by and said hello to her. She immediately changed her smile and said hello to them as well.
The corner of his mouth twitched, "I know, I'll save the seaweed for you to feed the pigs tomorrow."
"Well, that's right. It also saves me having to go up the mountain to collect pigweed. Forget about those smelly fish and rotten shrimps. You have to keep the seaweed. My waist..."
"It would be great if they had so many people working like you, and it would save me the trouble. I don't need to worry about getting out of the pig pen, and I need to help raise the pigs. When they are out of the pig pen, the pigs will be theirs, and they don't know about me.
How many kilograms of meat can I eat..."
"Forget it, stop talking. I'm just going to read a few words to you. Don't say it out loud, or you'll scold me and I have to go back to feed the pigs."
As Ye Mu said that, she walked to the corner and picked up two large baskets of seaweed, which were full to the brim.
Only when Ye Yaodong looked at it did he realize that his mother had already cut off half of the pieces from other people's hands and piled them up in the corner, ready to take them back.
Lin Xiuqing came over and said, "Mom has just told me that the two sisters-in-law haven't come back yet, and she has to go feed them again in the evening. A few workers in front pushed a cart full of seaweed.
When I came back, she left half of it alone."
"Are they following other people's boats?"
"It's just the two boats they rented out. If they want to go pick squid with them, who can stop them?"
"Okay, I understand, I'll leave it for her tomorrow."
If his mother wants it, no matter what he can do, he has to keep half of it back to feed his mother's pigs tomorrow.
"Oh, I forgot to tell her. I brought back three large buckets of squid eggs today, and I forgot to tell her to marinate them."
"Tell her again after she has finished feeding the pigs and comes over to eat."
"Um."
"You go back and wash up first. If you are hungry, eat first. The food will be hot in the pot.
"Um."
His father didn't come back today, but his prediction was correct. He would come back at noon the next day. He didn't know about it until he saw the Dongsheng when he came back in the evening.
When he docked, his father was already waiting at the dock to help him.
He also told him about the situation of going to sea in the past few days, and that the money from the sale had been given to Ah Qing.
And under his father's curious eyes, he explained to him the cargo on the ship, the cages, and the situation during the flood season.
He also told his father that he would take all the workers to the sea tomorrow to launch and salvage the underground cage.
However, the tide will ebb about 50 minutes later than the previous day every day, so you don’t have to get up so early tomorrow, so everyone can get a good rest today.
"Then I'll go out and talk to them later. It's Mazu's birthday soon, and I don't think the Dongsheng will have to go to sea. Once the birthday is over, you can take them out to sea to salvage the ground cage. They will leave early and come back late.
You can even listen to a show when you come back in the evening."
"That's okay. Dad, I'm going to the city tomorrow. Why don't you take them out to sea to salvage the underground cage? Chen Shi and the others have been following me these past few days. They know where they are and what they need to do. You can follow and take a look.
Come on, no need to go into the water."
"Why are you still going to the city? Didn't Ah Qing say that he had already taken all the kelp to the city this morning?"
"Yes, I'm going to check out the remaining inventory and see how my father-in-law's sales have been in the past two days. The day before yesterday, I asked my mother to ask a girl who graduated from junior high school and can do accounting, and I will send her to the city together.
"
After saying that, seeing that his father didn't understand, he explained that he was currently in great need of someone who could do the accounting.
The day before yesterday, he asked Ah Qing to find out. Yesterday, his mother had already contacted the person. It was a girl named Huang Mei from Xishan Village next door.
The salary is paid every month, which is also a great attraction for a girl's family.
What kind of work can an average girl find? There is no work at all. She can only help with washing, mending, and cooking.
Being able to educate a girl until she graduates from junior high school means that this family is very open-minded and loves their daughter.
It just so happened that his father was back, and he was free to do other things. He just arranged the people in place, and then handed over the work.
Anyway, the money must not be handled by anyone, it must be collected from his father-in-law, and there must be a voucher for payment.
"Okay, then you go and do your work, and I'll go to sea and take a look."
"Oh, by the way, remember to leave the seaweed back for my mother to feed the pigs. She is very resentful."
"I know, Jing nags me every day, helps my wife with some work, and screams. I'm being manipulated by you all day long, and I don't even scream."
Ye Yaodong: I paid you!
He actually wanted to go to the city and ask his godfather if he could get two more sets of diving sets. The Navy must have them, but he didn't know if they would be easy to get.
There are only two sets, but he feels that they are not enough. The efficiency is too slow, and it will also be slow to salvage sea urchins.
Therefore, he had to make a trip to the city in the near future to give it a try.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you. Maybe I won't be able to come back tomorrow, so you have to work for two more days."
"I knew the pig's feet at lunch would not go to waste."
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "Be filial and be filial, and work is work. I didn't give you pig's feet to eat, so don't you have to help me?"
"Hey, go, go, go..."
"Then I'm leaving?"
"Hey, wait, wait, why are you leaving? This product hasn't been weighed yet. Come back!"
As soon as he stood up on his heels, his father quickly grabbed him.
Then his father turned around and left on his own.
"It's time for me to leave. I'm going to talk to the others. I have to go to sea to work tomorrow."
Tomorrow I'll tell Ah Qing to buy some pig's feet for the little old man to eat.
While Ye Yaodong was waiting for dinner, he also told his mother and asked her to inform the accounting girl after dinner that she would go to the city with him early tomorrow morning.
After dinner, Lin Xiuqing also helped him pack the things he would take to the city tomorrow.
"I brought back a lot of squid today. Except for the few I cooked for dinner at night, the rest were covered with ice. It looked like there was a full bucket. You can give half to your godfather tomorrow and half to my dad.
With the eldest brother, the second brother and the others."
"There is also a big vat of squid eggs that Mom has pickled. You can bring them with you tomorrow. It's not that convenient to send them to your godfather. I'll give this vat to him first instead of giving it to my father and the others. We can't eat it right away anyway."
"The ones I brought back today are pickled. I'll just give them a jar in a few days. It's very convenient to give them things."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "I understand."
"Do you have anything else to bring? I'll prepare it for you in advance."
"No, that's all. Your own stuff is better, so there's no need to prepare anything else."
"Okay, I'll load up a cart of dried fish tomorrow and take it to the city for storage."
"Um."
Chapter completed!