The weather is rather gloomy today. The fishing boats are floating up and down on the sea, like a natural cradle. It is a good place for sleeping, but it would be nice if there was no noise of machines in your ears.
He was half asleep, with his eyes squinting, and only opened his eyes dazedly when he heard his elder and second brothers' exclamations.
"There really are some big ones. These Qinggan are so big!"
"Each one should weigh more than 20 kilograms."
"There are quite a few sword shrimps in this net..."
Ye Yaodong listened to the excited voices of his elder and second brothers, closed his eyes and twisted his neck, then opened his eyes and walked towards them. He saw a pile of fish and shrimps scattered on the deck, and several large green carps were still wagging their tails.
"I was lucky. I caught four green ganmus weighing more than 20 kilograms in one net."
Ye Yaopeng said happily: "Indeed, I didn't expect that I could drink some soup."
"Brother, you clean up, I'll continue to cast the net."
After a few days of working together, the two brothers were able to divide the work and cooperate well.
Green snapper, scientifically known as yellowtail, is also called green snapper and peace fish. It is mainly distributed in the waters south of the R Sea and Taiwan Bay. It has delicious meat and rich nutrition.
Ye Yaodong squatted there watching his elder brother sorting the fish and remembered that he had forgotten to tell them about the bait.
The fishing bait I bought two days ago was not used, so I stored it with Acai. I used it yesterday, but I have to take a break for the next ten days or half a month, so I don’t need to buy any more fishing bait for the time being.
And judging by the interest shown by his elder and second brothers, he probably wants to keep the small fish and shrimp they caught in the trawl as bait for themselves.
"Are you going to make hooks when you go back?"
Ye Yaopeng smiled and said, "I just discussed it with Ah Hua and decided to make three to five hundred first to give it a try."
"The small fish and shrimp in the trawl are just perfect for use as bait."
"Yeah, that's what I thought."
Okay, then he can only let Acai make the money.
He was idle on the boat, unable to lift his hands or help, so he could only sleep. When he woke up, he looked at the fish they had caught and then at the vast ocean.
It was impossible to ask his elder and second brothers to send him back specially, and he would not ask for permission as it would be too time-consuming. He could only go out to sea for about half a month in a month, and there was diesel cost for the round trip. He was free anyway, so it didn't matter if he stayed on the boat for a day or two.
After sleeping and waking up for most of the day, he couldn't fall asleep anymore. As he was leaning against the side of the ship with his chin propped up and daydreaming, a mirage suddenly appeared on the sea ahead.
He instantly perked up and looked over, and reminded Ye Yaopeng who was still sorting the fish.
He had been sailing for many years and had seen mirages many times, but he found this mirage a little rare.
It was not a building, but a tsunami!
It’s still a moving tsunami!
In the picture in mid-air, huge waves were rising on the sea, and even though they were far away, they seemed to hear the sound of the waves. There was also a fishing boat above, which was blown by the wind and waves like a leaf, rising and falling in the waves.
The three brothers looked at the scene on the sea in shock. It's not like they had never seen a mirage before, but aren't mirages usually illusory and stationary buildings
Ye Yaohua, who was driving the boat, hurriedly slowed down the speed of trawling. It was a rare scene, and the three of them were staring at the air in the distance.
I saw the fishing boat drifting on the sea. The huge waves several stories high threw the fishing boat to the top of the waves and then pushed it to the bottom of the valley.
Suddenly, the center of gravity of the fishing boat shifted, and the hull began to tilt to the left. As the waves raged, it instantly reached 90 degrees. The fishing boat began to sink, and the sea water quickly swallowed the hull...
The three men looked as if their throats were strangled, unable to make a sound, with the hair on their bodies standing on end. The magnificent scene seemed to be happening right before their eyes, but they could not see clearly whether there were any people on the boat.
Until the hull was completely submerged, the waves were still roaring and raging, and the huge waves were rolling, as if they were going to pour down from mid-air and submerge their fishing boat...
As their fishing boat moved forward, a hazy fog gradually rose on the sea in the distance and the water vapor in the air was also increasing.
The mirage of the huge waves still floats in the air and has not disappeared yet...
"Let's change direction. There's fog ahead. Let's go back early after trawling the net." Ye Yaopeng said decisively.
"Okay, Dongzi, what time is it?"
"It's almost three o'clock."
"Then we should go back early, in case the fog spreads and visibility at sea becomes too low, making it easy to run aground."
The fog on the sea surface spread quickly and soon filled the air.
Apart from Ye Yaohua, who was carefully steering the boat and identifying the direction, Ye Yaodong and his elder brother still stared at the sky, reluctant to leave.
But now there are only waves in the picture, no boat...
Ye Yaodong felt regretful in his heart. If only he had a camera to record this scene, it would be great. He didn’t know whether this scene was real or a phenomenon of light refraction.
At this moment, he remembered a news broadcast he had seen in his previous life. There had been three consecutive mirages in the Penglai area. The longest time even reached 6 hours. While people were feasting their eyes, they found that the buildings in the picture did not exist on the earth at present.
Therefore, some people suspect that the images in the mirage are not happening on Earth at all, but scenes in a parallel universe.
The environment there may be similar to the cosmic environment we live in, or even exactly the same.
If it comes to each individual, it means that there may be another self in another parallel universe, but the specific stage of evolution may be different.
In other words, some universes may have developed to the 22nd century, while some universes may still be in the 1980s.
Ye Yaodong thought about himself and felt mixed emotions.
The fishing boat continued to drag the net in the opposite direction of the mirage until an hour later when it pulled up the net.
At this time, the fog on the sea became more and more dense, and the mirage in the air was gradually covered by the fog and faded out of their sight.
Ye Yaodong also calmed down. As an ordinary person, he could not explore it, but he could choose to cherish his current life.
As the last net of fish was pulled up ahead of schedule, they had no time to be happy about the net being blown again and immediately sailed back. The moisture around them was so heavy that they could clearly feel it when breathing.
The sea behind them was already white and fog began to spread around them. They turned on all their flashlights and headlights, carefully identified the direction, and hurried back.
The weather on the sea changed a lot. Although it was gloomy in the morning, it was just because the clouds were thicker. I didn't expect it to be foggy in the afternoon.
Fortunately, we had a lot of catches today. Although the last net was collected early and I was delayed a bit in the morning helping him collect the longline, the harvest was still very good.
Not long after we started our return journey, the wind started to blow again on the sea. The strong wind made the fog spread faster, the visibility on the sea became lower and lower, and the speed of the fishing boat also slowed down.
Fortunately, there was no danger and the fishing boat entered the coastal waters smoothly. The surrounding looming mountains were all familiar to them, and the three of them felt relieved.
When the boat reached the sea where Ye Yaodong had placed the traps, they stopped the boat to help him collect the goods in the traps.
"Dongzi, you need to recuperate next, so do you want to take back these traps?"
"Um… "
Ye Yaodong thought about it and felt that it would be a waste to just collect the net and leave it there. It would be nice to throw it back into the sea and collect some seafood to eat every one or two days. If he couldn't go to collect the seafood, he could ask Zheng Xiaoxiao and the others to collect it. They could share the seafood and eat it as a snack.
"Just leave it there. If you have time, go collect some and bring it back to eat. If you don't have time, I'll ask others to collect it, and then everyone can share some."
Having just made a large sum of money, he was still willing to spend it, after all, he would have to trouble his relatives and friends.
"Haha, fine then, just throw the cage into the sea, and we'll come and collect it for you when we're free."
"You guys can do whatever you want. Anyway, I can't use my strength. I won't be going out to sea recently. Just don't waste it."
After throwing the trap into the sea for two days, the harvest was quite considerable. There were quite a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs. All of them were put into the bucket, weighing more than 30 kilograms in total.
He picked out the grouper and a dozen large conchs alone, planning to return and deliver them to Linji later.
I had kept two gannets yesterday and had originally planned to chop half of one and send it to him, but I didn't think it through and found that there wasn't enough to go around, so I could only give it to my family first.
This tiger grouper is not bad, it weighs three pounds, and there are more than ten large conches. It will be presentable when you give it to others. People living by the sea know what's good.
The children in the family all love to eat shrimps, so he reserved two pounds of large sword prawns and three one-legged blue crabs for each of the three brothers.
He also picked out two big red crabs and planned to send them to his father later, so that he and the old lady could have one each to supplement their diet. Blue crabs are just the right size for growth. He also put the other fish in a separate small basket.
Small fish and shrimp were kept back to dry in the sun, and the rest were put together with the longline catch and sold directly after reaching the shore.
At this time, many boats had already docked on the shore, all of which had hurried back because of the fog. Behind them, there were also many boats returning one after another.
Fishermen really rely entirely on the weather for their livelihood, which is high-risk and has unstable income, but they live by the mountains and the sea, there is no other way, and they don’t have any extra smart brains.
With the help of his elder and second brothers, all his goods were weighed and sold. He also asked Ah Cai when he could get the money for the goods he sold yesterday.
That's a lot of money. The sooner it's in your pocket, the sooner you can feel at ease.
Only after he confirmed that it would be three days later did he feel at ease to go back.
Today, he sold his longline catch and ground trap net together for 58 yuan, and his elder brother and second brother also had a good catch, which was more than 62 yuan, which was ten yuan more than their previous trawling. They were both very happy and they came back early today.
After they moved the ten baskets of hooks and the fish they kept on the boat onto the cart, they went home chatting and laughing.
Originally, Ye Yaodong's relationship with his elder and second brothers was very ordinary and indifferent, and they seldom communicated in daily life. However, in the past few months, the relationship between the brothers has become much more harmonious.