Ye Yaodong rubbed his aching head and sat up.
Lin Xiuqing stepped forward and rubbed his temple with some distress, and whispered: "You knew you were going out to sea at night, but you still drank so much."
Ye Yaodong hugged her waist and buried his head in her arms, "It's okay, just drink a few more sips of tea and wake up."
"Are you feeling better? If you are, get up and eat. When we go out to sea later, let dad drive the boat and you can lie on the boat and take a nap."
"Um."
After hugging her for a while longer and taking a deep breath on her chest, he let her go and stood up to put on his clothes.
If you don't get up now, it will be too late.
Ye's father had been waiting at the dock early, and had brought the fishing net woven by his mother. Seeing that he was late, he naggled a few words and asked him to get up earlier next time.
He nodded randomly, and first moved the fishing net onto the boat with his father, and then hurried to buy diesel and ice. After everything was ready, he sailed away from the shore.
The whistling sea breeze made his mind clearer. The night sky was dotted with stars, and tomorrow should be another good day.
Decades later, the stars in the sky were not as bright as they were at this time, and the same was true in the countryside.
Ye Yaodong did not let his father drive the boat, but drove it himself. He wanted to find a fishing spot by himself. The experience of the past few months made him very confident in his intuition and sense of direction.
Ye's father was also very relieved, as the third brother was quite reliable when he got serious.
Although they came out later today because of his procrastination, the days are short and the nights are long now, so when they arrived at the fishing spot he chose at around 4 o'clock, the sky was still dark and there was no light at all.
Most of Ye's father's bait had already been put up. He slowed down, slowed the boat down, and then went up to help.
The speed will be much faster if two people do it in an instant, one cuts while the other hangs and releases.
He first put the hooks with baits into the sea one by one. Today he did not tie the float, intending to let the fishing gear sink to the bottom and catch the fish at the bottom.
By the time all the hooks were put into the water, it was already dawn.
The father and son then went to sort out the fishing nets. After everything was ready, Ye Yaodong drove the boat away from the place where he had cast the longline, then slowed down and cast the net while sailing.
He really tried his best, not wasting any time and maximizing the benefits.
He was also familiar with the trawling business, having worked with his father for two months.
But after the boat sailed one nautical mile, he felt something was wrong. There seemed to be a lot of floating objects on the sea in the distance. As the fishing boat got closer, he wondered if he could see more clearly or if there were more of them
It's getting more and more dense.
Father Ye also noticed it, "Dongzi, are those fish?"
"It looks like it."
Ye Yaodong was also very confused as to why there were suddenly so many fish turning upside down on the sea.
When they got closer, they could see it clearly.
“It’s a small yellow croaker!”
To be precise, it should be densely packed small yellow croaker!
"Over there, over there, a large group of small white yellow croakers suddenly surfaced again."
Ye Yaodong looked at them in amazement. He saw with his own eyes that all of a sudden these fish turned over on their stomachs. It was a bit shocking because there weren't that many of them when he saw them from a distance.
"What's going on?"
"Let's use our hand net to scoop some up and see."
In just a short while, more fish floated up, and the school of fish was floating towards the fishing boat.
Father Ye scooped up a net and found that the fish gills were still bright red. They were all very fresh, and some of them could still bounce a few times when they were scooped up.
"It's still fresh, Dongzi..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Yaodong excitedly ran to the cabin to get the hand-casting net. Fortunately, he did not return it to A Zheng yesterday!
"Dad, you use your hands to scoop up the net, and I'll throw the net with my hands to catch more."
The purchase price of small yellow croaker is 1.5 cents per pound!
It’s free money!
Just as they were excitedly catching fish, small yellow croakers kept floating up on the sea surface. The father and son were so happy. Isn't this just picking up money
Not long after, they found that their fishing boat had been surrounded by a school of fish in an oval shape. Father Ye said happily while catching fish: "It seems that more and more fish are floating?"
"That's good, give me more!"
He can waste a few more days!
They were all surrounding the fishing boats. There were not many fish in the distance and the hand-cast nets were not working well. Ye Yaodong only cast two nets and only caught more than 60 kilograms. He had to give up and use hand-cast nets instead.
Father Ye had just scooped up a net and suddenly paused. "I seem to have heard from the old lady that there was something like this in the village a few decades ago. I heard that there was a lot of fish floating outside the dock all of a sudden. They were all very small fish. There were all kinds of fish. They were washed in densely from the sea by the waves. They were all very fresh."
"Ah? Really?"
"I think so. It happened when I was a kid. It's been decades, so I can't remember it clearly. I'll ask when I get back."
Ye Yaodong's eyes sparkled. An old lady in the family is like a treasure. The old lady is so old that she must have seen many wonders of the sea.
"Go back and find the old lady to listen to her stories."
The father and son each held a scoop net and talked as they fished hard. After about half an hour, they clearly noticed that the number of small yellow croakers floating on the sea was decreasing.
Is this no longer increasing
The two men were tireless. After they finished catching fish on one side, they just shook their hands and walked away to continue on the other side. They didn't care when the net was halfway drawn, intending to continue after they finished catching fish.
After all, this is making money...
It was not until an hour and a half later that the father and son caught all the floating small yellow croakers and sat down to rest for a while.
Ye Yaodong pinched his arm, and slapped it with his left and right hands from time to time. "If this happens a few more times, I think my hand will be broken!"
Father Ye also smiled and moved his arms and said, "Others want to meet you but can't."
“It’s all fate! Hahaha~”
"These weigh about one or two thousand pounds, right?"
"It should be there, but the mouth of the hand net is too small, so we are slow to fish."
"It's okay if you're slow, as long as you get everything out."
The father and son looked at the boat full of fish with smiles on their faces.
"The sun is too strong today. We can't leave these small yellow croakers on the deck for too long. We'll take out the fishing nets, collect the hooks, and then return."
Father Ye nodded and said he had no objection. These small yellow croakers could be sold for one or two hundred yuan.
After resting for more than half an hour and feeling that his arms were less sore, Ye Yaodong got up and started the boat, driving it to the place where he had just placed the hooks. After stopping not far away, he prepared to pull up the net.
Father Ye was reeling in the net, and Ye Yaodong also helped to pull up the net, but he felt that the fishing net that he had just pulled up for a short time was too heavy.
The father and son gritted their teeth, their biceps bulged, and they slowly pulled up the fishing net.
At this time Ye Yaodong was also dumbfounded. This... this... what the hell... Pikachu
"Yao fish?"
"Who's talking to you about Yao Yu? This is an electric ray, dad! It's the fucking real-life Pikachu!"
"ah?"
Father Ye didn't understand what he said, but he heard him say it was an electric ray. After taking a closer look, he found that it was indeed an electric ray.
"I finally know why so many small yellow croakers floated up there just now. The small yellow croakers encountered a school of electric rays, which triggered them directly. They were electrocuted and floated to the surface! Who can stop the electricity released by a group of electric rays?"
"Pour it out first."
"Be careful, there seems to be a big one in there. If you get electrocuted by it, you'll be dead! Fortunately, the fishing net is not conductive."
Ye Yaodong reminded him and thought it would be better for him to do it himself. "Let me do it. You old man, go away. I'm young and strong. You can't kill me with the shaking."
Father Ye glanced at him with disdain and said something unpleasant, "Go away, you are a good talker and a bad worker."
The electric ray looks very strange, with a flat body, head and chest connected together, smooth body without scales, and a thick, fleshy, stick-like tail dragging behind it, which looks like a large cattail leaf fan.
There is a pair of small eyes on the front of the back, a small mouth on the front of the abdomen, and five gill holes on each side.
Among the group of electric rays that were dumped out, there was one that was about 1.6 meters long and 1 meter wide. It was the largest one in the net. The others were about 50 to 60 centimeters long.
When they pulled it up, both father and son felt that these stingrays and the other fish inside weighed about two hundred kilograms.
The electric ray can generate electricity on both sides of its head for defense and capturing prey. The current emitted by large electric rays is enough to knock down an adult, such as the largest one here, which is estimated to make him shake for a few times!
I heard that the battery was created based on its discharge characteristics.
This group of electric rays were not completely dead yet, so the father and son were careful not to touch them and just threw them casually on the deck.
"What hill did you just say this is?"
"What hill? Earthworms attracting earthworms? You heard it wrong," Ye Yaodong quickly diverted his father's attention, "Fuck, I should have circled there a few more times, there must be electric rays underneath."
"We've come this far, let's pull up the hook first."