Ye Yaodong turned his head and glanced at the stern of the boat. There were indeed several large fish with exposed fins chasing behind the fishing boat. He didn't know if they were attracted by the smell of blood.
When a fishing boat is moving, big fish will chase behind it and eat small fish.
"It's there in the first place. Maybe it's attracted a little by the smell of blood. It doesn't matter. It's raining heavily and the ship is moving. The smell is not strong and it will be diluted after a while."
"Oh shit...they're all sharks..."
As soon as Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he realized that he had said it wrong. There were sharks behind the stern of the boat...
Maybe he was really attracted by the smell of blood.
At this time, he saw the black shadow speeding past again, and the big flag waving in the wind was conspicuous in the dark night, and he immediately breathed out the fragrance...
"...fucking...grass..."
"You guys hide better and don't come out yet. I'll quickly change direction and leave this area. There are indeed swordfish on the sea. The crow's mouth like me is right..."
They are really a school of fish. I saw one, and there may be a group of them in the sea.
Ye Yaodong glanced at the two fish that were still twitching and felt relieved. Be careful and don't get too close. It shouldn't be a big problem.
He entered the cockpit with the gun, placed it directly on the console, and then slowly turned the ship's bow.
He had just let the boat move forward on its own and was far away from the other two boats. At this time, he ignored the dots of various colors on the display screen and moved closer to the other two boats.
He did not speed up, but continued to work at the pace of 2 to 4 knots. It was not a crisis moment, and he still had to take care of the goods in the fishing nets below.
Even though his body was wet, Ye Yaodong didn't have time to change. He also entered the small channel to connect with the other two people and informed them that there was a swordfish and suggested that he stay away from this area.
He also told vividly that the tip of the sailfish's snout could penetrate the hull of a steel ship, and a hole was dug in his rest room.
Fortunately, it's a rest warehouse and not another storage warehouse, otherwise I might have to go back immediately now.
There must have been no one lying around in the chaos at that time, and everyone must have gathered around the door to watch.
Later, when the fish is completely dead, they can get the fish out. Then they will get some cloth strips to block the hole first, and then go out for inspection after returning.
Upon hearing this, the other two boats also cooperated and left the area first, and asked him a few questions with concern.
As Ye Yaodong sailed the boat, he paid attention to his surroundings and the stern of the boat. There were still fish following him. He just wanted to stay away from dangerous things like swordfish.
With the speed and impact of this fish, if it rushes towards a fishing boat, it can jump over the fishing boat and hit people. We have seen it in the news, and this fish is widely distributed, so sometimes it is difficult to guard against it.
He and the other two boats worked away from this area. After sailing for more than an hour, everyone discussed whether they should work in the surrounding area tonight and wait until dawn tomorrow to see if the situation should be changed.
The workers also came out of the rest cabin early and went to the deck to see the two big fish.
The vitality of this kind of fish, which is three to five meters in size, does not dissipate so quickly.
They waited for a long time and noticed that there seemed to be no movement before going out to take a look. However, they did not dare to get too close, and there was no word from Ye Yaodong. No one moved the two fishes, they just squatted there and watched.
Ye Yaodong first changed out of his wet clothes, then put on his raincoat before walking out to the deck. It was still raining outside.
"Brother Dong...this is all dead..."
"What to do now?"
He walked over and kicked the great white shark, and blood oozed from the deck that had been washed clean by the rain. "It's really big enough. Let's drain the blood from it first. There's also a swordfish."
At this time, the snout was still stuck in the rest cabin. Ye Yaodong also looked closer and kicked it a few times, and then asked someone to help pull the fish out.
"Let's bleed it. Although it has been dead for a while, it is not too late. The holes that were poked out should be plugged first, and we can repair them when we go back in a few days."
Everyone was discussing in the rain.
"These two fish are too big..."
"It's hard to pull it out, it's so slippery..."
"The person who just explained to A Dong didn't dare to stick his head out to look at it. It's a pity that two such big fish died together."
"I have never seen such a big fish in my life..."
"I've seen a lot these days."
"Brother Dong will tell you how he died later."
Ye Yaodong said: "How else can you die? Even if you are stupid, you can rush to the ship. If the gun doesn't kill them, who will they kill?"
"It's already dark, and it's raining again. You guys need to be more agile, and you'll be able to get online later. There's still plenty of work to do."
He watched the workers bleed on the spot, walked back and forth, and warned them.
"Okay...are we safe now? There shouldn't be any big fish coming up, right?"
"That's hard to say. Just be more alert."
"Fortunately there are guns on the boat..."
"How much can such a big fish be sold for?"
"We should be able to sell a lot of them. It's so rare. Not just any boat can catch such a big fish..."
Ye Yaodong saw that the two fish had been placed together for bleeding, so he went up to the helm first.
The rain didn't seem to stop at all, and I didn't know if it was going to rain all night.
He sneezed several times and needed to drink more hot water.
After the two fish were bled and dragged to the freezer, the deck was washed away by the rain. Ye Yaodong saw that the time was almost up and asked everyone to prepare to set up the net.
If we hadn't encountered these two fish today, we would have been very relaxed. We would have been weighing the fish there this afternoon, taking breaks intermittently.
Unlike the past few days, I was busy working there all day long. No one could rest until the fish was sorted.
In the evening and this morning during the shift, I could barely rest, but how could I have a good rest on the ship?
Ye Yaodong couldn't rest well either. There were already thick dark circles and bags under his eyes. He was a little worried at night, so he decided to stay up until midnight by himself.
But he is much better than a worker. At least he is in the cockpit and is not exposed to wind, sun or rain, so he is more comfortable.
It was raining at this time, so the workers had to keep raising nets for sorting.
When he was closing half of the net, he went down to take a look again and get some food.
While watching them sorting, he spotted a miniature swordfish on the lid of the fish bin. He curiously picked it up, put it in his hand, and took it with him.
The swordfish is usually 3-5 meters in length and weighs 100 kilograms or even more. However, who would have thought that the ferocious swordfish is only as big as a grain of rice when it is just born.
However, in just one year, it can quickly grow from a "mini fish" of a few centimeters to a large fish of three to five meters in length. Its size increases by nearly a hundred times at a rapid rate, transforming it into a "top ocean hunter".
Ye Yaodong placed the mini version of the swordfish on the operating table, looked at it curiously, and even measured it with gestures. It was not even 5 centimeters.
But the snout is still long, taking up 1/3 of the body.
He thought about putting this in an iron box, putting some ice cubes to keep it fresh, and taking it back to show the freshness to his children at home.
It wasn't until daybreak that nothing happened, so he safely handed over the boat to his old cousin and went back to the lounge to sleep.
He didn't know when it stopped raining. When he got up from sleep, it had stopped raining, but the sky was still gray. It was hard to tell whether it was morning or evening. The wind was still so strong. Without looking at the time, he would never have guessed it was two in the afternoon.
Three o'clock.
He had the great white shark and swordfish from yesterday taken out and placed together, and then took a photo. This was his achievement.
Not to mention this era, it will still be worth showing off in the future.
After I get back, I will develop the photos taken by the camera during this period and show them to my children at home.
It also lets them know how powerful they are, how difficult it is to make money, and what kind of risks they have experienced at sea, so that they can have the good life they have now.
The old cousin also reported to him how many nets he caught during his break, how many kilograms of fish he caught, and which fish were more abundant.
"A Dong's camera is all used to take pictures of fish... no one has seen you take pictures..."
"Haha, because humans are not as valuable as this fish."
Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "I'm not taking pictures, I'm documenting my life, you know? These are all my achievements. When I get older, when I open the photo album, it will remind me of how awesome I was when I was young."
"You have thought so far ahead and still think about when you are old."
"How far is it? I am already 30 years old. If my life is not that good, I will only have 30 years left until I retire at the age of 60. Life goes by very quickly."
He went back to 1982 in the blink of an eye and was 40 years younger. It is normal for him to think about things 40 years from now.
In my last life, I was still doing it when I was in my sixties, but I don’t want to be doing it in my sixties in this life.
Now I just want to wait until I am old enough to take care of myself with Ah Qing, and then look through my memories to prove that I really came back and everything I experienced is real and there is evidence.
These photos are not so much his achievements as traces of his existence.
"If you retire at 60, your life will be bad? Then what do we call it? A life of hard work."
"Retiring at the age of 60 is not considered a bad fate. People with good fortune retire at the age of 40 or 50 and play with their grandchildren at home. Those who are really unlucky have no grandchildren at the age of 60 and may still be working there to support them.
The son earns money from his wife, but he is still worried that he will not be able to find a wife."
"Hahaha, if so, how could you not get a wife?"
"Hard to say."
Ye Yaodong chatted with everyone for a while, but no one believed what he said, so they just treated it as a joke.
In an era when there were no mobile phones, it was even more boring to be at sea. There was no village in front of you, no store in back, and a small boat floating on the sea. In addition to working, everyone could only pass the time by chatting.
Even people like Ye Yaodong, who is not very fond of mobile phones, find it difficult. He has to look at the calendar several times every day and count the numbers.
After finally surviving another week, the two fishing boats discussed finding a fresh harvesting boat, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
His refrigerator and freezer were almost full, and he was waiting for them to contact the fresh-picking ship to take out the inventory and make space. He would catch them for a few more days and then refill them before returning home.
The refrigerator compartment is not as big as the freezer, so when the goods cannot fit, he simply puts them directly in the freezer. When selling, he also takes them out of the freezer in advance.
When the fresh harvest boat came for the second time, everyone was obviously more excited. It was already the second day of February and the dragon had raised its head.
They were also secretly calculating in their minds that they should be able to go back in a few days.
Ye Yaodong didn't let them wait too long. When it was just dark on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, a thunder sounded, and a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, lighting up the entire sky, then darkened again, followed by the roar of thunder and the waves.
It was churning and raging, as if someone was going through a catastrophe.
The workers, who were all eating, were startled by the thunder on the ground and looked up at the purple thunder and lightning in the sky.
The thunder on the sea felt closer to them, and the roaring thunder seemed to hit everyone's hearts. Listening to the thunder, their hearts trembled.
Ye Yaodong was eating his food and looking at the lightning in the sky. Then he turned to look at the calendar. There were only three days until the Wake of Insects.
The thunder of spring makes all things grow.
Before the thunder struck, he would not see the sky for seven or forty-nine days.
Spring thunder rang before the Waking of Insects, and the sun did not appear for forty-nine days.
Thunder struck before the Waking of Insects passed, and the clouds did not clear for forty-nine days.
This is a golden rule, which means that if there is thunder before the Waking of Insects, it will rain continuously.
According to this theory, if thunder occurs before the solar term Jingzhe, there may not be a sunny day for more than a month, but instead there will be dark clouds and continuous spring rain all day long.
"It's over~"
He put down the bowl and chopsticks, took the calendar and looked through it in annoyance, cursing.
"Damn it, if there's thunder right now, it won't be nice until the Qingming Festival. Damn it, how can I dry my shredded squid?"
He deliberately saved up to 100,000 catties, and kept all the recent catches in cold storage, and then sold them all two days ago. He was worried that there would be too much goods and he would not be able to handle them.
This thunder sounded, not only was it impossible to do anything, it was simply impossible to do anything, and it was all in vain.
Madhu... Man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation...
I'm not even in the mood to eat.
He took the wall calendar and flipped it up and down. Thunder and lightning struck outside one after another, and he cursed louder.
The new money-making plan seems to be in ruins for the time being.
This is not something he just imagined or figured out. This proverb has existed throughout the ages and is regarded as a golden rule by farmers. Elderly people are very good at observing solar terms, so he reacted to it immediately.
There was only rain but no thunder a few days ago, which was fine. Today, there was suddenly such a heavy thunder that I was playing ball.
Just when he was worried, the rain came down heavily and the windshield was obscured.
"I scolded the guy next door...what's wrong..."
He sighed heavily and threw the calendar aside, hoping to get through the stormy night first.
It wasn't time to set up the net yet, so he was thinking about whether he could just go back in the evening while working.
His boat can still withstand the wind and waves, but he originally planned to return in the next few days. Since it has already rained so heavily, should he just take advantage of the situation and return?
He changed the direction of the fishing boat and planned to slowly go back to work. After the net was put away, he would check the weather and chat with Zhao Chengzhou.
The two old men were also talking about this thunderstorm, saying that the weather would not get better until the Qingming Festival.
"Uncle Zhao, Uncle Ding, it's thundering and raining heavily."
"Yes, it suddenly thundered and rained so heavily. Didn't you originally plan to go back in the next few days? Do you want to go back in advance now?"
"Seeing the sudden weather, I also thought about going back early."
"You plan to go back in the next two days anyway, so you might as well go back now. I don't know how long this thunderstorm will last, but it will be hard to have good weather until Qingming..."
They are all experienced old people. They can predict the weather in the coming period just by looking at the thunder at night, which is more reliable than weather forecasts.
"I think so too. I think the weather will definitely not be good in the future. Now I plan to walk back first, work slowly, and then put the net away and go back directly."
"Well, you're right. You know the weather is bad, so you might as well go back early."
"I'll let you know in advance to save you from worrying about not being able to see my ship later."
"Okay, if you come out on the next trip, you can also look for the chart we came out with at the beginning. Anyway, we are basically in the surrounding area. We will contact you after we come out to determine the location."
"Okay, thank you."
Rumbles of thunder continued to fall, and the workers had begun to worry.
After Ye Yaodong made an agreement with the two old men, he went out with a loudspeaker to inform everyone and reassure them.
It was the first time for the workers to board such a big ship. They were in the middle of the sea and felt closer to the sky. The thunder sounded overhead, which was much scarier than at home.
The waves on the bow of the boat can hit the boat, and the fishing boat is shaking more violently than before. Everyone is a little worried about whether the boat can withstand the wind and waves.
It's not that they don't have confidence, it's just that it's their first time running so far, and the waves hit them higher than people.
After hearing Ye Yaodong's reassurance that they had already turned back and would go back after the net was put away, they felt more relieved for the time being.
After Ye Yaodong returned to the cockpit, he began to think about his big red squids again. He had kept them all, so he couldn't really fall short, right?
With such a large quantity, it would not be a loss to transport it back and sell it directly, but his plan was ruined. He had planned it well, and it would be simple to implement it.
It will also become an important way for him to make a fortune in the future. In addition to dried fish and fish sauce, he has also expanded into new marine businesses.
Since the weather is going to be bad and we can't get natural sunlight, I don't know if we can get a dryer.
He thought thoughtfully, forget about large ones, medium-sized ones are also fine, and domestic ones are also good.
It’s already 1987, so there should be some dryers used in agriculture and food, right?
In recent years, haven't we been developing industry and introducing advanced foreign equipment and technology? Then we have also manufactured some things, right?
He was thinking about it alone.
But just by relying on him to figure it out, he actually can't figure it out. For more details, he has to ask his godfather.
After all, he is also the director of the Fisheries Bureau. If he is involved in the drying techniques of these seafood, he should know something about it, right?
This is much better than just imagining things on his own.
Even if it can be done, time is also a problem, and voltage is also a problem.
By the way, doesn't his eldest son work at the Electricity Bureau?
Ye Yaodong thought for a while, not knowing whether he could get it done in a few days. If there was no trace of him in a day or two, he would have no choice but to sell a whole shipload of goods directly to Ah Cai.
It is estimated that Ah Cai's jaw dropped to the ground when he saw his cargo, and he did not dare to accept such a large cargo.
Just collecting fresh goods from home is probably enough for him to keep busy.
I have a headache...
Now we can only hope that the country has made great progress and now has these industrialized equipment.
As long as you have these equipments, it shouldn't be particularly difficult to go the godfather route.
He spent the whole night thinking about it, notifying the workers to close the nets but he didn't go out to take a look. It was windy and rainy outside, and he didn't want to go out.
When the workers below were collecting the nets, they were shaken from time to time by the fishing boats, which made the work more difficult.
The waves from the bow of the boat also crashed in from time to time. They didn't know whether they were wet by the sea water or the rain. They were wearing raincoats and were wet from head to toe.
After being out for more than half a month, tonight gave them a taste of the ruthlessness of the waves.
They had not experienced the battle between swordfish and shark a few days ago. After all, they had not seen it with their own eyes, only after the war.
It was already after 10 o'clock when Ye Yaodong returned as fast as he could. When all the fishing nets were collected, he informed everyone and set a route back.
All the workers were on the deck to help sort the goods, and there were no more shifts.
It's time to return, and I must finish sorting all the goods before I can rest.
When it was time to go home, they all cheered up.
The voyage they made when they came out lasted for more than ten hours, but the first three or four hours were all sailing at full speed. After setting the net, they slowly worked on the chart while working.
The speed of his boat was originally faster than the other two boats, but when it came out, it also accommodated the speed of the other two boats.
Now he is rushing back with all his strength. It should have been faster, but his ship is now full of cargo and he has returned fully loaded. In addition, plus the wind and rain, he estimates that it will take at least six or seven hours to reach the port.
There are too many factors that affect navigation.
The specific time to dock depends on the weather and waves on the road.
There were lightning and thunder along the way, which showed that the thunderstorm was not just limited to the sea area, but also covered a wide area.
Ye Yaodong has already thought of a plan to deal with the squid, so he will focus on the sea first. The next step is to get to the shore first.
We docked at the city wharf. Part of the cargo was handled by Ah Cai, and the rest of the squid was left behind until he had visited his godfather.
There are also some other big fish and commodities. I will go back to the docking town later and ask Hong Wenle if he needs any.
By the way, I can also naturally ask him about the loan progress and the fish cannery.
After all, he has been out for a month, and the loan should have been approved anyway. Since he has been away from home for such a long time, he doesn't know what the progress is or whether he will change his mind.
Chapter completed!