Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1100 Another 5000 Yuan

The boatmen nearby were all itching to get started, and those whose turn it was couldn't wait to put on their equipment.

"It's our turn now... We can go in and see what's under the water..."

"Take off your clothes faster, stop dilly-dallying. I'm still waiting to get in the water..."

"Why are you in such a hurry? There are still many more to come. Are they all to be collected?"

Ye Yaodong said affirmatively: "We all need to collect them, so let's collect them all at once. We don't have to wait until the evening."

I was just thinking that half a day has passed and there are schools of fish below, so I tried to catch one to see the situation, and the rest will be decided later.

Now that the hooks are 90% full, if there is anything I am not satisfied with, I will definitely collect them quickly without waiting until dark in the evening.

The bite rate is so high that collecting it early can also avoid leaving it for too long and causing the hook to slip away.

"Be careful when you collect them. Wear gloves. The others also have two pairs of pliers in their hands to avoid getting bitten."

"No, this fish will die once it leaves the water."

“It’s not that absolute.”

If you collect them quickly, they are still very active and some may not have time to expose themselves. If you are in a hurry to catch them at this time, they may counterattack suddenly and be bitten by their sharp teeth.

"Wow, tsk, tsk, there are so many. There are five or six on one fishing line. I've never seen so many caught on one line before. It's good enough to catch one on one fishing line. There are also quite a few empty hooks."

"This basket is almost full again..."

"Arrange them neatly and don't ruin the appearance..." Ye Yaodong reminded.

"I know. We have arranged them neatly. Even folding quilts is not as neat as this..."

"Sai La, you still fold the quilt? I guess you have never folded a quilt in your life..."

"Then I'll arrange them neatly. Whether we eat meat or drink soup tomorrow depends on these hairtails."

Ye Yaodong smiled and agreed with them, "We'll continue to eat meat tomorrow. Today is a great harvest. Let's buy another 10 kilograms of meat tomorrow."

"Okay, haha... I can eat meat again..."

"Everyone, work hard. Ah Dong said we will buy another 10 kilograms of meat tomorrow and continue to eat meat..."

Everyone was so enthusiastic, not just because of the extra food and the better food, but mainly because in all his years as fishermen he had never seen longline fishing be played this way, with such a high catch rate, and this was also the joy of a good harvest.

Once a main line was finished, the others were also there carrying baskets to estimate the weight.

There are 500 hooks on one main line, and 90% of them are loaded. Some can even load two, and some can even load three hooks connected head to tail.

Everyone lifted the baskets in their hands and estimated that seven or eight baskets together could hold about 600 to 700 kilograms. This was mainly because the hairtails were all very large, with no small ones. Each one was nearly one meter long, with thick meat, and could weigh more than one kilogram in the hand.

A whole basket was carried out, all of them were about the same size and sparkling.

There was also a small half basket of fish that were not in such good condition, mainly because their tails were bitten. There were about thirty or forty of them. Although they were a little discounted, they could still be sold for money.

Ye Yaodong thought that he would carry this basket back and share it with other people, and there was no need to sell it. Those who came out were all from the same village and they all knew each other, so they would have to keep some for themselves. The daily food consumption of 30 people was also huge.

"We didn't bring enough ice today, so we don't know if we can catch this much. Please save some ice when you carry it to the fish warehouse."

"I know. We'll be back in a few hours anyway, so it will definitely be fresh enough."

"Ah."

"Bring the basket over here, we've collected more..."

The second line was also hooked and pulled up by them, and everyone immediately divided the work and cooperated. Some moved the fish on the deck to the fish warehouse, while others rolled up their sleeves and followed over to collect the fish.

Ye Yaodong turned around and walked to the other side of the ship, watching A Guang and the others receiving the goods on the other side.

Everyone on the opposite boat was also filled with joyful smiles. At this time, no one cared about the jellyfish floating on the sea. All attention was on the hairtail. From the various discussions and murmurs, it was clear that everyone was very excited.

"Dongzi, do you want to collect them all?"

"Yes, collect them all. There are so many hairtails on one line. If we don't collect them now, what's the point of keeping them? Some of them have already escaped. It's better to collect them early so that they won't escape."

"We have to collect them all, there are too many. I didn't expect it to be so easy to catch."

"We call this precision casting. We throw them into the school of fish, but you can't just catch them casually. You're also reeling in the second line, right? How many pounds did you reel in with the first line?"

"About 600 to 700 kilograms. Some of them are bitten on the surface. How about you?"

"Absolutely."

Ah Guang shouted again with a look of regret on his face: "What a pity, we bought few materials yesterday and made few fishing lines, only half of yours. When I finish collecting these, I will go back early to buy more materials, make some more in the evening, and come back tomorrow."

"Okay, there are obviously more jellyfish floating up today. I probably won't be able to do this for two days before I have to give up."

"Let's see."

Ye Yaodong watched their collection process and found that the hook rate was no different. When the entire main line was pulled up, the fish hooks on the bottom fishing line were all shiny hairtails, with very few empty hooks, and everyone had a smile on their face.

He watched for a while and then returned to his side to see everyone receiving the goods. The people on his boat were also gathered there watching and chatting.

He didn't know when his father would come back with the net. If he did, he would ask his father to buy some more materials. It would be worth spending a little more money while he could still fish in the next two days.

The income is much higher than the input.

Now one longline fish can bring in 10 to 1 kilograms, and fishes can bring in to kilograms. If you calculate the base price at to cents per kilogram, that’s more than yuan, plus the sea urchins!
We can harvest about 5000 kilograms of sea urchins and sell them for about a thousand dollars.

Make a lot of money!
It’s better not to come during the jellyfish season, right?

Ye Yaodong made a rough calculation and felt very excited. It was a great profit. Before coming here, he had imagined that he could earn so much in a day, but he imagined that he could earn it from jellyfish. He didn't expect that he could earn so much before he even saw the jellyfish.

"Adong, did you ask how much the hairtail cost yesterday?"

"They only said it depends on the size, the bigger the fish, the thicker the meat, and the more than three cents. But they didn't specifically say whether it was a net or a fishing line, and my father didn't ask clearly. When we go ashore to sell the goods later, don't take all the goods out yet. Take a basket and ask the price first."

The boatman next to him interrupted, "It's definitely more than three cents. In the past, we could sell the fishing line for that much if it was a little bigger. Today, our fishing line is intact and big, so we can definitely sell it for more money."

"Yes, there are definitely some for 40 or 50 cents. Big fishing lines are very expensive. Don't let the locals cheat you."

"Ask more questions..."

"Can we finish this line?"

"Not yet. There are too many fish on the hooks, so we are slow to collect them all. It will probably take more than two or three hours to collect them all. Also, some of the buoys are a little far away, so we have to wait for them to come up from under the water before we can sail over to collect them."

Ye Yaodong nodded. He knew this. "When the next wave comes down, we'll move to another location. We'll also change our location to catch sea urchins."

"Let's catch the jellyfish on the sea surface. It hasn't been long since we saw dozens of them floating up. Our boat in front can't move because they have all been caught by Lao Pei. We have to catch some later as well."

"Yes, we can't give them all away for free..."

"Let's cook something to eat first. We won't be back for lunch. Fortunately, we have everything prepared on the boat. We can continue working after we are full."

He did not bring all the boatmen out today, but only half of them, leaving the other half to look after the house. His father also brought two of them when he went out to sea to trawle at night, so there was really no need for so many people to do the work.

Maybe we can bring two small boats out tomorrow and pick up jellyfish here, so that the people on their boats don't have to be distracted to catch them. No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it's still meat. If we clean up all these bits and pieces, we can sell them for dozens of dollars.

Everyone on the boat was collecting cutlass fish in an orderly manner, but there was no longer the same surprise as in the beginning. Things became calm and peaceful, and they would only exclaim occasionally when they saw two or three fish connected head to tail.

The people fishing for sea urchins below were also taking turns, and by the time everyone had their turn, they had only caught half of the longline catch.

When it was his and Guang's turn, they also went into the water and took a look at the special sight of the longline fishing hook being hooked in the water.

Mingming was floating in the trench, using his iron claws to collect sea urchins and letting them fall into the net bag, but suddenly a white ribbon not far below him flipped and floated.

A string of shimmering hairtail fish rose into the air directly near them, in long strips, in a large sheet, neatly and orderly.

Although it was not next to them, they could see the cutlassfish's tail swaying in the water until it got farther and farther away and could no longer be seen.

They watched until it disappeared from view and then went back to hunting sea urchins.

During this time, there were a few small fish swimming past them. Sometimes, the two of them would reach out and rub the small fish when they saw them, which would scare the fish and immediately dodge away.

A jellyfish rose up from under Ye Yaodong. When he saw it, he dodged to the side. Then he wanted to poke its umbrella with his iron claws, but it reacted immediately, jumped to the side first, then retracted its umbrella and sank back into the trench.

Ye Yaodong looked at the jellyfish in surprise. The jellyfish was about to float up, but it sank back to the bottom of the water because of his actions.

Although jellyfish have no eyes or ears and cannot hear the sounds or see the shapes of their enemies, they can still quickly avoid powerful enemies.

This is because there are a kind of small fish and shrimp that act as its "eyes and ears". They are called "jellyfish shrimp" and "jade pomfret".

They are very small and usually live around the mouth and arms of jellyfish, using the jellyfish as their umbrella.

When an enemy approaches, these small fish and shrimps, like clever ghosts, immediately hide in the mouth and arms of the jellyfish. Upon receiving the "signal", the jellyfish immediately retracts its umbrella and sinks into the sea to avoid danger.

It turns out that you should not be too careless. You lost one, and this one was quite big.

He glanced down and saw that the jellyfish did not float back to the sea hook. Instead, it swayed back and forth in the trench and then floated away from them.

This time he stopped being so reckless and fished honestly. If a jellyfish appeared next to him, he would just move out of the way and let it rise safely to the surface of the sea.

It’s no wonder that jellyfish come to the surface more frequently in the afternoon than in the morning.

By the time the two of them filled the net bag and floated up, Pei's father had almost collected all the longline fishing, while he had only collected half.

As soon as A Guang climbed onto the deck, he told his father to go back first and ask a few more shops for prices before selling. He would stay here to help with the salvage and also told his father to buy more materials so that he could catch more fish tomorrow.

"If we want more materials, we'll have to sail the Harvest out tomorrow. This ship doesn't have a fish hold, so all the cargo is piled on the deck to dry. There's also some jellyfish, plus there are several baskets of longline fishing. There's no place to put our feet, and we can't even turn around."

"Then bring out the Harvest, which can also be used for trawling."

"That's fine. Yesterday I thought the same as my in-laws and did it a little too intensively. I bought ten pieces of material, but ended up with all the hooks piled on top of two. I bought a lot more hooks later, so I have a lot of ropes left. I can just replenish the hooks when I get back."

Ye Yaodong also interrupted and asked, "Uncle Pei has collected all the goods. Do you have an estimate of how many kilograms they are?"

"About 3000 kilograms? They're all piled up on the deck. The sun is too strong. We don't have a fish storage here, and we didn't buy enough ice. We can only send it back quickly."

"Then you guys go back first. I haven't collected all the goods yet. You can go back after I have collected them."

"Then I will go back to sell the goods first and inquire about the prices in advance. When you return, I will just need to sell them directly."

"Okay, I believe I can sell it for a good price."

"Then let's go back first."

In recent days, they have been trawling there to sell goods. The locals have seen it all and can chat with them about the delivery situation and what goods are available and what the prices are today.

After Pei's father sailed away, theirs was the only boat floating there. Ye Yaodong and A Guang also sat on the ground with their bare chests, watching the boatmen collect the hairtails one by one and place them neatly in the baskets.

"Dongzi, how many kilograms have you collected?"

"It's about the same as yours, right? We collected them at the same time. Now that you've finished, we're almost halfway through, right?"

"If I had known, I should have done more yesterday. I thought that since you have more people, you can work faster and do more. Since we have fewer people, we can do less. Your quantity is twice as much as mine. Can we harvest 6,000 to 7,000 kilograms today?"

"should have."

"Big money."

"It's the same for you. You're making a lot of money. Just work two more days to make up for the free time you've had these few days."

"Those people are complaining there, it's too early..."

"Don't bother with them. I've already told you that you can choose not to follow them. They're happy when they make money, but they gossip when they don't."

"You said, your cousins ​​were left behind and thrown on the shore, and no one brought them here. Will they just shake this place out when the time comes?"

"They don't dare."

Ye Yaodong was still confident that they could not afford the anger of the villagers. If they really did such a stupid thing, they would be ostracized immediately and would not have a good ending when they returned.

"But we probably don't need to wait until they reveal this place to the locals. As long as we bring back a large amount of goods for a few days, we will be noticed by the locals. Maybe... maybe it won't take a few days? We are eye-catching enough to begin with."

"That's right. Probably before they get exposed, we'll be caught up by the locals. It looks like we'll have to fight a tough battle in a few days."

"Well, Chen Jianian and the others will probably be here in a day or two. The factory has started work today."

“I don’t know how many people they have.”

"I don't know." Ye Yaodong shook his head, unable to guess.

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao.

In the evening, when they finished collecting the hairtail and were heading back as the sun was setting, they actually saw a large number of trawlers parked at the dock, at least twenty of them.

The locals on the shore were talking about a large group of strangers coming.

When they docked on the shore, some local fishermen pulled them aside and asked if they were their accomplices coming to catch jellyfish again.
Ye Yaodong always answered that he didn't know. The people he brought with him had been here a few days ago, and he was definitely not salvaging around the coast. They had all gone out fishing these days.

After saying this, he ignored the locals' comments and went to find his father who was waiting on the shore to ask who he wanted to sell the hairtail to.

When Father Ye came back from trawling the net, he went around the trench to take a look at the harvest. He originally wanted to wait for everyone to come back together, but Ye Yaodong asked him to come back first to sell the goods. By the way, he also asked him to ask Father Pei who the hairtail was sold to and how much they sold for.

So Ye's father was waiting here on purpose, waiting for them to come back and take them to sell the goods.

The companies that collect sea urchins and hairtail are not the same ones.

However, after they carried the sea urchins to be weighed and then carried the hairtail ashore, the family who collected the sea urchins hurriedly stopped him and offered the same price.

Ye Yaodong thought that it would be better not to bother two buyers, so since he could offer the same price, he just sold them all to the same buyer.

Thanks to Pei's father, he came over in advance to negotiate the price. He just had to sell it at the existing price, which was 5 cents per pound.

All of their fishing lines are beautiful, fresh, and very large in size. They are particularly uniform, and almost all are about one meter in length. None are particularly large or small, which is also the characteristic of fishing lines.

Unlike a net belt, when a net is pulled up, the fish are of different sizes.

This price is considered high. People at the purchasing point also said that they had never gotten such a good price in the past. This was because the fish they caught were big and beautiful. Ordinary nets would only be worth two or three cents.

They were the first to weigh the sea urchins. Today's harvest of sea urchins was a little more than yesterday because there were two more laborers.

Although we still finished work at the same time and just shared the number of times we went into the water, the quantity still increased a bit, reaching 5425 kilograms, and sold for a total of 1085 yuan.

When the fishing line was being weighed, the people at the fishing point couldn't help asking where they caught these and how they caught so many. They had never seen a fishing boat catch so many at once.

It was simply unheard of and unseen.

Ye Yaodong also explained that he encountered a large school of fish. If there weren't such a large school of fish, he wouldn't have caught so much.

Everyone was a little skeptical. Unless you use a fishing net to catch all the fish in one go, even if you encounter a school of fish, you would have to use a longline to fish in such a large number of fish to catch so many. And there are really no other fish in this fish.

When Pei's father was selling goods last time, the people around him were already surprised enough. This time, the quantity he brought back was even greater, and there were many people gathered around to watch when he was weighing the goods.

His batch of goods was much better than the miscellaneous goods brought back by their fishing boats.

In terms of quantity alone, the goods from several purchasing points combined are not as much as what he salvaged, because there are no large ships docking, after all, this is just a small town.

However, some people saw the messy longline fishing lines that their boatmen had brought up, and saw that all the fishing lines were covered with hooks, which went against common sense. Then they suddenly realized what was going on and passed it on.

After weighing the items and putting the money in his pocket, Ye Yaodong didn't care what other people said.

After weighing his hairtail, the total weight was 6230 kilograms. In addition, there were more than 400 kilograms of fish that had surface damage and were not so pretty. They were discounted by half to only 2 cents.

所以光这些带鱼他就卖了6230×0.5+425×0.25=3221.25块。

There were also some jellyfish that were caught, which were sold for 32.58. The quantity was more than yesterday, and these were after being shared with A Guang's boat.

Take the jellyfish blood back and cook it, then dry it and sell it for a good price when there is enough of it.

So in total he earned 4338 yuan today, and the actual cost was lower than what he spent, and the labor was even cheaper.

Ye Yaodong, carrying a large sum of money, walked out surrounded by boatmen. They also took two baskets of hairtail with damaged skin back with them.

The locals around him were discussing how much he could sell so many goods for, but he never responded. However, everyone could roughly guess that it was several thousand yuan. After all, the quantity was there, and the locals at the purchasing point would not hide it for him.

He thought, it was a good thing that there were many of them and they were basically gathered in the same area. There were 30 people living with him alone, and everyone around him was his own people, so people who had other ideas would have to think carefully.

We still need to go with more people tomorrow, so that there will be more people when we come back to sell goods. Strength in numbers can still be of some use.

Everyone didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they walked out of the dock.

"Luckily, no one rushed up to rob or start a fight. It scared me to death."

"At this time, the local fishermen come back to sell their goods. The gangsters will only show up after hearing about it. It's not like the big towns where there are all kinds of people. Bring more people out tomorrow."

"Yes, bring more people to the dock to meet them, and hide two guns in the fish that are left behind."

"Don't be afraid. We are a lot of people and we don't live far away..."

Ye Yaodong calmed down the frightened people and said, "Don't worry too much. We have been in this town since last year. Most people know us and know that we have weapons and are not easy to mess with."

"That's true."

Ye Yaodong changed the subject and asked his father, "I saw about 20 more trawlers at the dock today..."

"It was Chen Jianian and his group that arrived. When I went back, I saw so many boats. Then I asked the people who stayed behind, and they said they arrived around 3pm, and they also made temporary arrangements and asked for a place to stay."

"I guess so. Otherwise, how come there are so many boats all of a sudden? The locals are also talking about it."

"He brought quite a few boats with him this time. I guess he brought everyone he knew and knew in some way. There are probably hundreds of people in total."

“More than us.”

"Add the boats, and we have more than them."

"Are they all settled?"

"I heard that the locals are asking for a higher price, but they have no choice but to accept it, otherwise they will have nowhere to live. It's a bit far from us, and the place they rented last year was rented by people from our area this year."

"Oh, then be careful tomorrow and settle down. They will probably go to the trench tomorrow to check."

"Well, they all come from the same place, so they can just catch their own. It's not the peak season yet, so the numbers are still small."

He changed the subject and asked, "You came back earlier. Have you bought the materials for longline fishing?"

"Not many. There is not much stock in this town. If we didn't tell them in advance, they wouldn't have prepared more. Yesterday, our two families took turns buying a batch, and Lao Pei replenished it in the afternoon. When I went there, there were not many left. At most, they could make two more."

"Okay, let's make two more. Chen Jianian and his people are coming. We probably won't be able to fish for two days."

"It's a good thing I came a few days early."

They talked as they walked, and soon returned to the rental house. Ye Yaodong asked everyone to take a shower first. After that, they had dinner. He also returned to the room and put the money from today's sales together with yesterday's money and locked them in a password box.

There was no place to hide in the rental house, as they were all other people's houses, so hiding the password box seemed a little more reliable. He had to leave someone guarding it every day anyway.

Ye's father followed him into the house and watched him hide the money before asking, "Did you make 5000 yuan from the sales in the past two days?"

"Yes, just over 5000. Let's see tomorrow if we can get 1. I gave you the money I advanced yesterday, and I'll give you the money I advanced today as well."

"No need. The money from today's sales is here with me. I'll just use it to buy it."

"That's fine. If there's any left, you don't have to give it to me. Keep it for yourself. Are you going out to haul the net tonight?"

"I can't just sit there and do nothing. You don't need so many people there. It would be good if I could earn a few dozen dollars per trip."

"Then you should come back early tomorrow afternoon, um... come back at noon, and then tomorrow afternoon after I retrieve the longline fishing, I will go back with Uncle Pei to sell it, and by the way, I will remit the money back before the bank closes."

"Okay, it's not safe to keep so much money with you, so it's better to remit the money back as soon as possible."

"Ah."

Father Ye said happily, "I've only been out for two days and I've already earned 5000 yuan. If I work harder tomorrow, I can make yuan. It's really easy to earn money. It looks like I can make a lot of money this time. I'm sure I'll make more than last year."

"That's because of the bonus of these goods. If it's just jellyfish, it's not certain. Chen Jianian brought twice as many boats this year as last year. I don't know how many days it will take to catch them."

"If there's nothing to fish for, you can still go into the water and fish for sea urchins, and you won't have to worry about not having money to make."

"Well, let's see."

He still remembered that there would be a strong typhoon this year, but he couldn't quite remember which month it would be. Their coastal areas might have typhoons in October, so it was hard to say. If a typhoon hit, nothing could be done.

(End of this chapter)