Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1006 Humpback Whale

However, when he returned to the cabin and lay down, he kept thinking about the previous collision of the two boats, in which one was saved but the other sank.

He still remembered the coordinates of that sea area, but it was still very far away from there now, so he closed his eyes with peace of mind.

If he has the chance to go nearby, he will go and take a look. He has been thinking about it for two days at home.

It is cold when you go into the water in winter, but the temperature under the water is not very cold. It is only cold at the moment you enter the water.

He is now strong and young, not old, and can withstand the cold. It is okay for him to go swimming occasionally in cold weather.

He would never give up unless he went into the water to take a look. Although all the goods on the deck had drifted away, there must be some in the cabin. How could such a big ship not have some better goods in the cabin?
Even if it is not better goods, it will not be worse than the canned fish piled on the deck outside. At least it should be similar to the ones on the deck. It can't float away in the cabin.

If it is also canned fish, that's not bad either. A random box of it would be worth at least a hundred dollars, and if you get a few more cans of caviar, you'd be making money.

I don't know if the Maritime Safety Administration sent someone to salvage the ship after reporting it to Director Chen, or if they are still wrangling about it, investigating it, or if they simply ignored it without paying any attention.

It is also possible that Director Chen did not take it seriously and did not report it, and just kept it for himself. This is not impossible.

It's hard to say anything without seeing it with your own eyes. Anyway, I'll wait until he has had enough sleep and then see which sea the ship is sailing in and how far away the coordinates are. I'll check then.

He had already moved the diving equipment to the boat a long time ago. How could he sell it at a low price to others if he bought it with his own money? It had a lot of uses.

Uncle Pei probably wouldn't run around, and he would usually go back and forth on a route he was familiar with.

After thinking about it for a while, he slowly fell asleep with the roaring sound in his ears.

Also, because the machine was loud enough, I couldn't hear the movements of people around me clearly, and I was always in a state of half asleep and half awake.

When he was fully awake, there was no one in the beds around him. Perhaps it was because he was the boss, and no one except his father had the nerve to ask him to get up and work.

He put on his sweater and pants in bed before lifting the quilt, stretching himself, twisting his hips a few times, then picking up the cotton jacket that had been kicked to the end of the bed, putting on his hat and going out to pee.

The bright sunlight was so blinding that he couldn't open his eyes. Except for his father, everyone else was squatting on the deck sorting cargo and looking at the sun hanging in the sky. It wasn't very late.

He searched his pocket again, took out his watch and looked at it. It was only 8:.

“Is this the goods collected by the first network?”

"Yes, it was collected just half an hour ago."

"There don't seem to be many frogfish in this net, but there are quite a lot of barramundi."

"I guess the toadfish season is almost over. The number of them will decrease day by day as they move to other places."

Ye Yaodong was wearing rain boots. He poked around and kicked a bunch of things, but he didn't see any nice stuff. His harvest was average.

He looked up into the distance again. The sky was blue, the sea was vast, seabirds were flying in the air, and occasionally swooped down to prey on fish jumping on the sea. It was really the sky was high for birds to fly and the sea was wide for fish to leap.

"Where is this surrounding?"

"I don't know. I've been floating on the sea, with water all around me. I don't know where I am."

"You can ask your father. He should know. Ask us. How can we tell the direction?"

"Oh."

He glanced at a small dot on the sea in the distance and walked towards the cockpit.

That was probably the Harvest. From a distance, it looked no bigger than his thumb. If he wanted to close the distance between the two ships, it would take about ten minutes.

"father."

"Are you awake? Do you want me to look at you for a while?"

"That's fine. Where are we now? Which is the nearest town?"

"It's hard to tell where the nearest town is. You can only know if you dock with a purpose. Otherwise, how can you know how far away a town on land is from the sea?"

"Let me put it another way. How far are we from the accident site where the two fishing boats ran aground and collided a few days ago?"

"I didn't take note of the location."

"I've got it." Ye Yaodong took out a small piece of paper and handed it to his father.

A good memory is not as good as a good pen. No matter how good your brain is, it is not as good as writing things down. What's more, he doesn't take things to heart and will forget them in a moment.

"Why are you remembering this? Are you going there again? Are you going to dive into the water to retrieve the machine?" Ye's father reacted instantly because this had happened before.

"The machine is secondary. I want to go to the cabin of the sunken ship to see if there is any good cargo. The deck is full of cargo, so it makes no sense that there is not some cargo in the cabin. I want to see if it is still there and if there is anything I can still find."

"Still here?"

"I don't know. Who knows if they have gone to investigate the case? I thought it had sunk to the bottom and was ignored. I don't know if it will be taken seriously. I thought about going over there to take a look."

"That's fine, but we're not familiar with that area and there are reefs there. We're a little worried. We'd better not run our boat into the reef if we get close to it."

"Let's follow the coordinates and stop in advance. At most, I'll dive a few more times to explore the way. If we're more careful, we shouldn't run aground."

"Then let's wait and see, or wait until we return to see if there's any passing by. Otherwise, if you get into the water and catch a cold, you'll have to stay on the boat for several days, and a person with a strong stomach won't be able to stand it. It's not so bad on the return trip, anyway, we've finished the work of trawling."

"That's fine too. Keep an eye out on your way back."

"Have you eaten yet?"

"Oh yeah, I haven't eaten yet, so I'll go have breakfast first and then come over to take over from you, and you guys can take a nap too."

Ye Yaodong slapped his forehead and then remembered that the meal at night was a midnight snack, not breakfast. If his father hadn't told him, he wouldn't feel hungry.

There was a little porridge in the pot, probably left for him, and the other pot was full of seafood, everything except fish, all steamed in one pot.

When he saw a small white seal, he simply reached out and grabbed one of its whiskers and pulled it out, tasting it first without rushing to eat it.

The meat is springy and chewy. Putting it in your mouth feels like chewing a piece of gum. You can't help but want to take a few more bites and feel the pleasure of opening and closing your mouth. Seafood is all about being fresh, and it’s authentic only when it’s caught and cooked immediately.

After he finished his meal, he went to take over his father's work. The people working on the deck also got up and two of them followed his father back to the cabin to sleep. The rest was left to the other two people in his group to deal with, and it would be almost done before the next net was brought up.

Ye Yaodong kept the fishing boat at a distance from the Fengshou and sailed until the time came, then he notified the two to prepare to raise the net.

What surprised him was that today, within the sight of their two boats, an extra fishing boat appeared, which was a rare occurrence.

It was not easy to encounter a ship after traveling so far out in the vast ocean. After all, it was the 80s, the fishing industry was not well developed, there were very few large ships, and the sea was infinitely wide.

He didn't pay any attention to the newly appeared fishing boats, as they were just passing by while doing business. He continued to stand on the wheelhouse and watched the two men below pulling the cable one by one.

However, they didn’t know whether the route set by the fishing boat that suddenly appeared in advance was really around them. It was actually heading towards them, getting closer and closer.

As their fishing boat slowly moved forward and collected the nets, the fishing boat gradually became larger in his sight until it appeared around them.

At this time, Ye Yaodong also saw that the other party was collecting the goods, no, it should be said that he was collecting the rope.

"Cuttail? Are you fishing for cuttail?"

Within his sight, he saw two people standing on each side of the other side of the ship, reeling in the lines. A string of silvery cutlassfish were pulled out of the water, their slender bodies shimmering in the sunlight, reflecting the light.

You can fish for cutlassfish not only at night, but also during the day. Although it is phototactic, it hunts all day long throughout the year.

Hairtail fish likes warm water. During the day, they like to live in the dim mud and sand on the seabed. At dawn and dusk, they enter the middle and upper layers of the water. They like to move vertically in groups and mainly prey on small fish.

As the fishing boat moved forward, the two boats were getting closer and closer. He also saw several fishing rods on the other boat. He didn't know whether they were used specifically to catch cutlassfish, or whether they were a fishing method similar to longline fishing, specifically for catching big fish.

After all, small fish are really worthless these days, but big fish are still worth some money.

It takes several hours to drag a net. This kind of trolling in deeper waters can actually catch fish continuously. If you are lucky, the fish you catch may be big fish of the same species.

It should be difficult to operate a boat specializing in hairtail nowadays. After all, you have to go to the fishing grounds to fish where there are more catches, and you also need an underwater fish detector. Now people usually rely on trawling and trying their luck.

However, it was quite satisfying to see others catching one hairtail after another. It was a pity that he didn't bring a fishing rod, otherwise he could call his father to drive the boat and he would learn to fish like others.

As the fishing boat passed by them, it hauled up a large bag of their catch, and he turned his attention from the other boat back to his own boat.

"Wow! There are also hairtails. There are hairtails all around here today!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a large bag of goods was scattered directly on the deck. The cutlassfish that had just come out of the water were still shining silvery, but they were still not as beautiful as the cutlassfish caught at night. The cutlassfish caught at night were really like silk, especially shiny, completely different from the fresh ones in the market.

Hairtail also dies as soon as it is taken out of the water. After being out of the water for a while, it looks similar to what you see in the market, and does not have the luster of having just been caught.

Ye Yaodong looked down and felt that there were quite a few hairtails in the pile of goods, but some were pressed down, with only their heads or tails exposed.

After watching the fishing net being lowered again and the boat moving further and further away, he thought there wouldn't be any big problems, so he went to the deck, fiddled with the pile of fish, and took a look at the catch.

"There are quite a few shrimps in this net, all of them are prawns and red shrimps, but there are fewer small shrimps."

"Yes, this net has a good harvest. There are quite a few hairtails, and the price of hairtails is quite good."

Ye Yaodong fiddled with the goods and picked up one to compare. They were all more than half a meter long and the meat was very thick. They could indeed be sold for a good price.

"Oh, this one has its head and tail bitten together, they are connected together."

He smiled and said: "I have seen people fishing for hairtail before. They caught one, but another one got caught on its tail. They were connected head to tail. It was not like this one, which got tangled in the net."

"That means you can catch one fish and use its tail as bait to catch another one. That's really unusual."

"Brother Dong Dong Dong! Where did you see it?"

"I saw it when I went sea fishing with rich people."

"I understand... Town... Boss..."

"Oh, yes. You guys sort the cargo. I'll go to the cockpit and watch. Make sure we don't make the same mistake as others and run aground on the reef."

The old boatman immediately responded, "Pah, pah, pah, don't say such unlucky words."

"Pooh, pooh, good luck. Okay, I'm leaving."

According to his casual estimation just now, there are probably about 1000 kilograms of hairtail, the two species of shrimp should also have about 1 to 3 kilograms, and other fish that can be sold can also weigh about kilograms, and small groceries should account for about /.

Thinking that the catch was good, he continued to work around and had no intention of leaving the area.

The distance between the Harvest and him remained such that he could only see it as the size of a thumbnail, and sometimes it would disappear from his sight, but would reappear after a while and become a little larger.

Anyway, the two boats keep their distance at all times and try not to be out of each other's sight for too long.

The warm sun was shining in the sky, but it couldn't reach the cockpit, and there was no wind. He was concentrating steadily on his work, only occasionally stepping out of the cockpit.

When he had sorted half of the cargo on the deck, he looked at the time and found that it was already 12 o'clock without him noticing. He called out and asked Chen Shi to put the rice down to cook.

But at this moment, he heard a cry of surprise and he quickly turned around to look.

An oversized fish jumped out of the water beside them and did a somersault. It was dark and he saw it too, and exclaimed in surprise.

“It’s a humpback whale!”

In an instant, huge splashes of water surged onto the deck. Because it was close, the huge size of the creature hitting the sea surface also caused the fishing boat to shake.

“This, this, this…fish, fish, fish, fish, fish, fish…” Chen Shi was stunned, and when he came to his senses, he stuttered even more.

"It's a whale! A whale!"

“Spout, pop, pop…it’s wet!”

The fishing boat shook a bit, which also woke up Ye's father and others. They could not sleep well in such harsh conditions on the boat.

They also hurried out of the cabin and onto the deck.

It just so happened that the huge humpback whale did not leave, and was sailing right next to their fishing boat, revealing its huge back.

"Oh my god, such a big fish?"

"Another fish this big..."

"Is it a whale?"

“It’s a humpback whale!”

"Dongzi, hurry up, stay away."

"It's okay, this fish won't hurt anyone, we'll just stay here and take a look, it's okay."

It's rare to be able to see it so close.

(End of this chapter)