Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Ye Yaodong glanced at the boatmen on the Harvest fishing boat nearby. They were all whispering there, as if they were discussing the scene just now.

He felt regretful that he didn't take a camera to take a photo of a group of manta rays flying into the sky. Who would have thought that there would be a group of manta rays?

Originally, the fish couldn't fly in the sky for long. In fact, it was just a leap. It jumped into the water all at once. He was also worried that when he ran into the cabin and searched for the camera, it would be gone when he came out, so he would just watch it there.

But it's a good thing that I didn't take out the camera, otherwise the waves behind it would be knocked down one by one, and it might be scrapped.

When he looked towards the Harvest, his father also waved a red flag at the other party. Then when they looked over, he shouted to Pei's father: "We are going to lower the net first."

Father Pei also put his hands to his mouth like a trumpet and shouted, "Okay!"

It was inconvenient to communicate across the distance in the middle of the sea, so we could only speak briefly.

Immediately afterwards, the crew on the Harvest began to get busy. When Ye Yaodong saw this, he ran to the cockpit and drove the ship to the side, widening the distance between the two ships.

The fishing nets of their trawl are three to four hundred meters long. They are really close together. If they work together, the fishing nets will become entangled, which will be troublesome.

Several boatmen on the Dongsheng went to the back deck together, worked together to lift the fishing net, and slowly threw it into the sea.

The two cables that dragged the net were both more than 300 meters long. They were originally piled on the sides of the ship. As soon as the net entered the sea, the cables were quickly twitched, like a winding snake, and they all entered the sea in just a few minutes.

After the fishing net was completely lowered into the sea, the mouth of the net opened wider and wider under the influence of the feng shui board. It was a hungry dragon, opening its bloody mouth.

This was the first net officially cast by the Dongsheng out to sea. Father Ye kept watching from the side. Afterwards, he asked the boatmen to change clothes together. He took off the wet clothes and ran them through the water to dry.

After changing, Father Ye went to the cockpit.

"Let me do it, you go change clothes..."

"Okay, put as much distance between you and the Harvest as possible. Let's run forward, as long as we can see each other. If we are in front, the Harvest will follow."

"I know, we just need to keep going forward. Lao Pei and the others are also setting the net there, so they will keep going forward."

Ye Yaodong handed the cockpit to his father and went to the back of the cabin first. The boatmen changed their clothes and ran to the deck. They were all energetic and excited, staring at the sea to see if they could still see the manta rays. Fight with sharks.

Everyone's beds are at the back of the cabin. A wooden board separates the space into beds and storage rooms. Because there is only a one-meter-square hole, Ye Yaodong can only duck in and out with his head lowered.

The bed has two layers, about 1.78 meters long and half a meter wide. When lying on it, you can only sleep with your legs curled up. The bedding is new and there is no dampness or sea smell yet.

Stoves, rice noodles, and large buckets of water were piled up in the storage room. A few nails were driven into the wall, and cooking utensils and miscellaneous items were hung. The space was used as much as possible, and everything seemed messy but orderly.

He opened his suitcase from the stern and just changed into a cotton-padded jacket and trousers. After he finished changing, he took the wet clothes and trousers to the storage bin on the side.

One of the buckets inside was already half full of water, and the ground beside it was wet. It was probably left by the boatmen when they washed it. He also put the clothes in and let the water soak for a while, then took them out and wrung them out, then took them out. Go out and hang.

The water in the bucket has been reduced by more than half, and Ye Yaodong just leaves it like this. The water can still be used and cannot be wasted. You have to wash your hands at any time, and you can come in and wash yourself.

Several ropes were pulled outside the cabin, and a pile of clothes that the boatmen had just changed were already hung on them. After Ye Yaodong hung his own clothes to dry, he called them over to cook.

It was already 12 o'clock at noon, and I needed at least a little after cooking and eating. It was just in time that the fishing nets were lowered into the water, and they would not be able to get out for more than two hours. I took advantage of this free time and quickly cooked and eaten the rice.

Calling people over and asking them to take turns cooking, he stood on the deck and squinted his eyes to look into the distance.

"I should buy a telescope..."

The sea was vast and the scenery could not be seen clearly. They were far away from the Harvest. Both sides deliberately kept their distance after lowering the net into the water.

With this in mind, he returned to the boat and took out his sunglasses to put on first. At least the sun would not be so dazzling. He would go back in two days to see if he had a telescope and buy one. He would have all the necessary equipment. .

The operation of the fishing boats has slowed down, and there are no waves coming up when the bow is tilted up. The sea looks calm and waveless, and I don't know if there is a turbulent undertow underneath.

The net must be closed after two and a half hours or three hours. There is nothing to do during the period after the first time the net is put down. If they hadn't eaten yet, they only came out this morning and everyone was not tired. Otherwise, this period would have been Go back to bed and take a nap to rest.

After all, after the fish arrives, sorting is also a big project, and there will be no time to spare.

Ye Yaodong had been walking leisurely on the deck, looking at the sea around him. Just when he wanted to turn around to see if the meal was ready, he saw two behemoths floating on the sea in front of him.

A big shark bit a manta ray and struggled and twisted to the surface, with splashes of water churning and undulating on the sea surface.

"Oh, I'll go!! Fight here!"

He looked at the Harvest in the distance again and felt that he should be quite far away from where he was just now. Unexpectedly, both groups had already arrived here.

Ye Yaodong quickly shouted to other boatmen to come over, and instructs one person to ask Ye's father to slow down the boat a little more, and make a few circles around it without going too far.

The remaining people stood on the deck, pointing in the distance.

"Oh, it's so big... It's bigger than the big round table at home, it's two or three meters wide, right?"

"The shark was not small, it should have been three or four meters tall. When his teeth were exposed, he bit the devil fish hard and looked like the devil was about to die."

"After traveling so far, no wonder the fish in the sea are so big..."

The fishing boats kept a distance and just drove around nearby. They did not move forward directly like before, so everyone could still see them around. Moreover, the sharks and manta rays were constantly fighting and moving.

"I...can we...can...catch the net...go...go catch...catch?"

"While trawling, the boat keeps moving. We can't stop to cast the net. Let's just watch it first."

The tools on the boat are all complete. The tools and things they were accustomed to using on the trawler were all moved here, and they were all prepared before going to sea.

Ye Yaodong asked them to bring over the throwing nets and long sharpened bamboo poles first, as well as the bamboo poles tied with iron hooks for later use, in case they might find something missing later. ?

The shark bared its sharp fangs and kept biting the manta ray. The manta ray also swung its tail and slapped the shark from time to time. The two big fish dived to the bottom of the water and surfaced from time to time.

Sharks are one of the top predators in the ocean, and their sharp teeth are their best weapons, capable of tearing apart almost any prey.

The tail of the devil fish is poisonous. Their toxins are concentrated in the stinger on the tail. This stinger is triangular. When in danger, the stinger will pierce the stinger into the enemy's body. .

However, this big shark was huge, with rough skin and thick flesh, and its venomous sting couldn't do anything to it, so the two fish kept getting entangled.

The two fish were fighting hard to separate each other, and the fishing boats were surrounding them and operating at a distance, intending to check the situation first.

In the fierce battle, the manta ray became more and more at a disadvantage, and its struggle became less and less intense. Suddenly, a huge manta ray leapt up in the sky in the distance, and like a parabola, it instantly fell to the sea.

Since their fishing boat was far away, there was no disturbance this time.

But the big manta fish that just slipped off suddenly appeared around the two fish that were fighting each other. As soon as it emerged from the water, it slapped them with its huge pectoral fins. shark.

The two wings of a manta ray are its pectoral fins, which are larger than a kite when spread out. Especially this one, it looks much bigger than the one that was bitten by the shark.

"Holy crap! This one is bigger!"

"Here comes another bigger one!"

"The shark seems to have been stunned?"

"There are two against one in the sea..."

Ye Yaodong's eyes widened as he didn't know when he had taken off the sunglasses on his face.

I saw that the big manta ray kept fanning the shark with its pectoral fins, and the shark's mouth was biting another manta ray, unable to free its sharp teeth, so it could only be slapped continuously.

Probably stunned by the photo, the shark dragged the manta ray in its mouth and sank directly into the water, disappearing in an instant.

"Is this gone?"

"Gone?"

"Isn't this a waste of time?"

"Must be fighting underwater..."

"There are a lot of fights under the water. Instead of seeing two groups with hundreds of them earlier, they are probably all fighting in groups below."

Just as the Dongsheng was looking for its target and about to move on, a shark emerged from the water again, biting the fin of a manta ray, and it was right next to their fishing boat.

Just when they were alarmed and quickly retreated, the huge manta ray appeared on the surface of the sea again. The shark was probably stunned, and it immediately tore off a large piece of meat, and then dived into the water.

The huge manta ray that emerged also dived into the water.

There was only one manta ray left on the sea with a large piece of its pectoral fin missing. The blood spread on the sea for a little while before it faded away without a trace.

The manta ray, which was missing half of its pectoral fin, seemed to have lost its balance. It was swaying precariously on the sea surface with its other pectoral fin, as if it was about to sink into the water at any time, but it was struggling to float.

"Did the big one go after the shark?"

"This will only lead to death!"

"Shall we catch it before it falls?"

Because of its large size, its vitality is relatively strong. It has lost a small part of its pectoral fins, but it can still flutter and does not sink into the water immediately.

But it looks like it won't be long before it sinks to the bottom of the water and becomes food for other fish.

"Fill it, I must fish it. Fortunately, it has floated up to the side of the boat. Although the boat is moving, it is also moving beside it, and it is not far away from us."

The current wind direction means that the fishing boat is moving smoothly with the wind and the current. The manta ray follows the waves and immediately keeps in the same direction as them.

Ye Yaodong held a long bamboo pole with a hook tied to it. "You guys also take one each and try to fish it out. This one is probably about to die."

"Okay, okay..."

"The waves are coming right away..."

"Will that big stingray suddenly appear and slap us?"

"No...it can't be right?"

"If you think too much, this one will die. The devil must be fighting with the shark."

Everyone watched the manta rays slowly drifting over as they struggled with the waves, and they all stretched out their bamboo poles to reach for the big fishhook.

This time, part of the pectoral fins were missing again, and I couldn't maintain balance, but I could still struggle to swim slowly for a few times, and my vitality had not disappeared.

When they stretched out their hooks to poke it, it was still beating the waves with its pectoral fins and struggling. Everyone had water splashed on their faces, and they didn't bother to wipe it off, so they could only continue to hook it with their hooks.

Ye Yaodong looked at the fish being pushed closer and closer by the smooth wind and current. He thought that the fish's fins were difficult to hook because it was too slippery and the whole body was yellow, so he hooked it under the belly.

He tried hard to hook it several times, but failed to hook it. He hit the hook several times and was struggled away by it again.

"Hook it under its belly and see if you can hook it to its mouth. If the pectoral fin cannot be hooked, you can also hook its nose..."

Everyone had hooks for hooking their noses and hooking their mouths, but they were all opened by it using its remaining vitality.

Until his arms were sore and he wanted to give up, the long groove in his hand seemed to hook its mouth, causing it to struggle violently and almost lose the bamboo pole in his hand.

"I hooked it, hooked it, but it can't struggle to get away. Please help pull it out quickly..."

"Hooked? Come on, come on, come on..."

Everyone was excited and tried their best to help. The devil who was pulling the bamboo pole together struggled violently. The pulling force of several hundred kilograms almost pulled them all into the water. Fortunately, everyone gritted their teeth and prevented the bamboo pole from letting go. And go. When the manta ray was pulled beside the fishing boat, Chen Shi also hooked the manta ray's nose with a hook.

As the fishing boat was sailing, the devil was being dragged along. Its remaining vitality was still supporting its struggle. For a while, they couldn't pull it up. There was nothing they could do about it. They could only hook it up and sail, holding on for the first time. Holding the saw.

As time passed and the manta ray struggled less and less vigorously, everyone tried to pull and lift it to the boat.

The bold old boatmen all leaned down when the devil was close to the hull of the boat. One person picked its nostrils with two hands, and the five of them worked together to move the two-hundred-pound devil into the boat bit by bit. Pull up.

The manta ray still had a little vitality left, struggling weakly to slap the hull of the boat with its pectoral fins.

"Hard...hard...will come up soon..."

"one two three……"

"one two three……"

"Almost...one, two...three..."

The veins on everyone's foreheads bulged, and their faces were distorted by pulling hard.

Finally, part of its head was pulled up to the edge of the boat. Then there was a snapping sound, and the boat's hull also shook. When everyone ran to the side to avoid it, some were shaken by the shaking hull, and some lost their balance. He leaned against the side of the ship to stabilize his body.

Everyone saw that its tail was longer than a whip, and it was still swinging there. Its pectoral fins occasionally flapped twice. As soon as it stabilized its body, it immediately hid to the side to avoid being caught by its tail.

Such a big one must be very poisonous. In the middle of the sea, it makes the sky and the earth unable to respond. It would be fatal.

"Isn't this too big?"

"This one is still small, but the one that just came behind is bigger and more exaggerated. It stunned the shark."

"No wonder the shark's bite just bit off only part of the fin. If it were a smaller shark, we still don't know who ate whom."

"Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps, shrimps eat seaweed, it's normal, the weak eat the strong."

"We're all still alive, we haven't finished playing yet..."

"You have to wait until it stops moving before you step forward."

Ye Yaodong also shouted: "Wait until you can't move forward anymore. That tail is poisonous. If you accidentally throw it at someone, it will be terrible."

"Then let's eat first?"

"That's right, let's eat first, we haven't eaten yet."

"I almost forgot the fish soup in the pot..."

"Fortunately, I'm cooking fish soup, otherwise everything would be burnt..."

"Then go and finish cooking the vegetables first, and then come over and see if the fish is still alive after eating. If you can't wait any longer, chop off its tail."

Father Ye was at the helm in the cockpit, controlling the operation of the fishing boat. He kept stretching his head and looking at the big manta ray on the deck. He felt itchy and wanted to get closer, but he couldn't get away.

"Dongzi, Dongzi~"

He called for a long time before Ye Yaodong reacted and looked over, then went to take over from his father to sail the boat.

"Are you deaf? You don't even know how to react, but I'm so worried that you guys have managed to catch such a big manta fish. Come on, I'll give it here to you. I'll take a look..."

Father Ye didn't wait for him to say anything, and hurriedly ran to watch the manta ray as if his soles were greased.

"Why are you so anxious? The fish are already here and they can't escape."

Ye Yaodong didn't know the situation of the fishing boats behind him. He just looked at the calm sea ahead and kept moving forward, continuing to go deeper into the sea. He was also secretly looking forward to whether the first net could explode.

More than an hour had passed from the time he lowered the net to when they pulled up the manta ray with part of its pectoral fin missing. He checked his watch and saw that the net would be set up in about an hour.

Father Ye also came to the cockpit after seeing the manta ray.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this manta ray is really big. It must weigh a hundred or two hundred pounds. Its spread wings are half the width of the fishing boat. It looks really scary. After so long, it can still move its wings twice. "

"Have seen enough?"

"It's so rare. I don't know how much it can be sold for. It's a pity that part of the pectoral fin was bitten off. Otherwise, it would be more valuable. Now that part is missing, I don't know if it can still be sold at a higher price."

"Why don't you keep it for yourself? I've never eaten such a big stingray."

"Are you kidding me?"

Father Ye immediately put away the smile on his face and stared at him seriously, "No matter how valuable these two hundred kilograms of fish are or if the price drops, there will still be people who want them, and it is better than the trash fish that no one wants. Even if they are sold to fresh collectors How can a boat cost a few cents per pound? What a waste of food it is, floating on the sea, and you are worried that there will be no fish to eat? "

"I don't have to worry about the fish. I've just never eaten such a big one. Anyway, a large piece of meat has been bitten, so it's not that valuable anymore. Why don't we all have a try together? Well...it costs a few cents per catty..."

"Based on the discount of half the price on the fresh boat compared to the shore, plus there is a piece missing from the fish, it costs six or seven cents at most, one hundred catties is six or seven yuan, two hundred catties is twelve or thirteen yuan, so Is there anything you can’t bear to part with?”

Father Ye did the calculations for him and was confused. It was right after thinking about it. Although the fish looked big, half of it was missing, so the discount was certain. In addition, the fresh-picking boat was already discounted by half of the purchase price on the shore. When it reaches 70%, it becomes even less valuable.

"That's also true...if it's collected by the fresh harvest ship, it's really much cheaper..."

"Right? If you sell such a big fish for ten yuan, you might as well keep it for yourself and eat a few meals to satisfy your appetite. It may not be sold for ten yuan. If you lower the price ruthlessly, it's probably only worth ten yuan. For a few dollars, you will have tasted hundreds of kilograms of manta rays, and it will be a great talking point when you return to the village."

"I just feel like eating such a big fish directly is a bit overwhelming..."

"Then don't eat it, I'll eat it."

Father Ye said angrily: "With your mouth, you can eat anything and want to eat anything. There is nothing you can't eat."

"In life, eating, drinking, and diarrhea are the first priority. Anyway, you have already been bitten by a shark. Fish can be eaten, but there is no reason why humans can't eat it."

"Let's put it there for a while and wait until it stops moving. Also wait for your net to be hauled up and see if you can catch one or two in the net."

"We'll take a look when the net is set up. It's hard to say whether we can catch it. If we can net one or two manta rays of this size, it will be worth a lot of money."

The price of fish is different in every season. The receiving price of the same fish also fluctuates in different seasons, and we don’t know how much the fresh fish will cost.

Even if it's 40 to 50 cents on the shore and half the price on the fresh-picking boat, it's still 20 to 30 cents. If it weighs 200 kilograms, a stingray will cost 40 to 50 yuan.

Comparing the prices on the shore, he did lose most of his money, but there was nothing he could do. It was impossible for the fishing boat to go directly to the dock to sell fish, and the delay was enough for him to drag several nets.

Father Ye nodded, "I can only ask for the blessings of Bodhisattva and Mazu to drag two more on the net, that will be enough."

"Uncle Pei, how far did the boat go before setting the net?"

Father Ye thought for a while, "I went out to sea with A Guang before, and it was almost the same as today. I started to lower the net after three or four hours of driving out, and then moved further away while trawling the net. Anyway, there was no range no matter how far away it was. After running out of the province and approaching the shore two days ago, I would trawl the net while driving back."

"Oh... then just keep following Harvest. It won't affect each other anyway. He will drag his, and I will drag mine..."

"If you don't follow the Harvest, do you still want to drive out on your own and run around? Your wings haven't hardened yet. Just take it slow and follow the in-laws first. We'll take a look at it in a year or two. It's best to follow them all. one place……"

Ye Yaodong shrugged, it was okay.

If the two boats were working together, it would be nice to have someone to take care of them, that's what he said.

Trawlers as big as theirs are very rare now, and there are only a few in the town. In such a wide sea area, the few boats that enter the sea are almost like rice thrown into the sea.

What's more, the profits from smuggling are so high now that many fishing boats have gone on strike and have gone to the high seas to pick up goods, and there are no ships visible further out on the sea.

There are fewer honest and diligent fishermen like him.

"Of course I'm happy to follow, to reduce risks and not be afraid..."

"It's time to eat~It's time to eat~"

Father Ye looked outside and listened carefully, "It's time to eat. You go and eat first. I'll watch from here."

"it is good."

I don't need to be humble. I just spent a lot of effort to pull up the manta fish. His stomach was actually growling with hunger.

Although the old lady cooked rice cakes for him in the morning, which meant that he would grow taller and taller every year, a strong man like him would get hungry after a while due to the physical work he did.

Everyone set up a small table on the boat. The table was already filled with two dishes and two soups, a bowl of potato and pickle soup, a bowl of seabass soup, a bowl of boiled shrimp, and a bowl of dried salted fish. They were all served in large portions in small basins. .

Although the first net has not been hauled up yet, we still prepared some fish and shrimp in the morning. If there is no seafood on the beachside table, it is not called a meal at all.

When eating on the boat, the fish head is eaten first, which means "a favorable wind".

Everyone was waiting for him to come over before using their chopsticks.

Ye Yaodong also walked over, picked up the rice bowl and picked up the head of the sea bass first, and then asked everyone to eat.

The fishing boat was swaying, the table was swaying, and their bodies were swaying as they ate.

"That fish is still moving..."

"It's not easy to eat such a big fish... I almost said the wrong thing..."

"It should be said that such a big fish has a strong vitality."

Today is the first day out to sea, and it is also the first time this boat has gone out to sea. It is very taboo to say the word "death" on the ship, so I just kept saying that the manta ray has stopped moving. If I go to chop off its tail, no one will mention it. The word death.

"Hahaha, we are all uneducated and our speech is a bit rough."

"The more you say, the more mistakes you make. Fortunately, you didn't say it out loud, haha. It's better to talk less and do more."

"You should use your mouth to eat. If you don't know how to speak, speak less."

"After the meal is over, it's probably time to start surfing the Internet, right?"

"Check the time after you finish eating."

While everyone was eating, their eyes looked at the manta ray on the deck from time to time. While eating, they pointed at the fish with chopsticks and discussed.

"I don't know how much it could be sold for if it's so big. It's a pity that a piece of it was bitten by a shark."

"We wouldn't be able to recover even if a piece of it wasn't bitten by a shark, and we wouldn't even know where it would swim to."

Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "If the fishing net can catch one or two later, this one was bitten by a shark and lost a piece of meat, we will save it for dinner. If we can't finish it, we can continue to eat it tomorrow."

"Are you going to eat it? Aren't you going to sell it? It should be worth a few yuan each. It would be a pity to eat it, right?"

"Have you never tasted such a big one before? Give it a try, it's only worth a few yuan, and it will cost more than a few yuan if we drag it all over the net."

"I don't know if a kitchen knife can cut such a big person..."

"If I were to go back to the village, I would be bragging..."

I went to pick up the Yuewen gift pack by express delivery in the evening and was delayed for several hours. Sorry.