Not everyone shared the same idea as them. Some people walked to the shore, but more people stayed to see what was happening.
Who would be reluctant to refuse such hard-earned money? Picking up a sack is enough for a day's wages. In just a short while this morning, everyone had picked up half a sack, not to mention yesterday.
Although Ye's mother managed to catch a grouper by taking advantage of the situation, she didn't want to go down and squeeze with so many people. There might really be a fight later. She had already gotten the advantage, so it was better not to join in the fun. She was also splashed with water and got wet.
"Then let's sell the goods, go back, take a shower, and then come out to watch the fun."
Ah Guang whispered to Ye Huimei: "I'll take you back to soak your feet. We'll come out soon and I'll accompany you to watch the fun. Don't go in. I told you this morning not to go in the water, but you didn't listen..."
"I didn't know there would be chaos."
Ye Huimei was also scared and didn't want to go down to pick it up again.
"Let's go. I'll keep the half bag to dry in the sun. You guys can weigh the ones you have. I'll also sell the grouper as well."
After Ye's father spoke, they all went to the purchasing point. There were not many people selling now, so they didn't need to wait, and they walked out after weighing.
When I came out, I saw that the eldest and second sons were still standing there, still watching. When I asked them, they said, "Let's take a look first..."
Just ignore them, they are not children.
After Ye Yaodong's parents left, he stood on the shore for a while. The young men who were fighting on the water were finally tired by now. They were wet and bruised and were pulled ashore by their familiar friends and relatives.
The people who were watching on the shore jumped into the water...
Sister-in-law Ye and Sister-in-law Ye also dragged their men to continue...
They all thought well. If there was another conflict, they would just climb ashore and walk quickly. It would be a shame not to pick up the money falling from the sky. Three or four starfish would only be worth two cents.
Ye Yaodong didn't care about them. He planned to go out to sea to collect starfish. Judging from everyone's harvest this morning, there must be a lot of starfish on the seabed. He could go and collect another wave.
He sailed the boat away from the shore and headed for the distant sea. From time to time on the way, he would encounter some small boats working or on the return trip. He could see that the boats were full of starfish and everyone on the boats was in high spirits.
Isn't it happy
You can easily get most of the boat without having to go into the water and compete with a group of people at the dock.
He drove to the sea area where he had placed the ground trap. He had just collected a wave of starfish the night before. Only a few hours had passed. When he pulled up the ground trap, the fish bag underneath was full of starfish again.
After emptying all the traps, he once again harvested half a boatload of starfish, and a few small fish, but no larger ones, after all, he had just collected them last night.
After putting the trap back into the sea, he went straight back. There seemed to be no waves on the sea today, so he estimated that it should be time to go out to sea at night.
After the fishing boat returned to the dock, he took the sack and slowly loaded the cargo on the boat by himself, while also watching the excitement not far away.
Only two or three hours had passed when another conflict broke out in the water.
But this time there were fewer people, and seeing that things were not going well, quite a few people came ashore, and most of those in the water were there to help pull the fight apart…
Several fishing boats that had just returned were also watching with great interest.
There was some commotion at the dock today.
After Ye Yaodong weighed all the starfish, he just walked away, not caring that the shore was still crowded with people.
It's already past dinner time, and these people don't want to eat, but he wants to.
After he returned, Lin Xiuqing felt relieved, "If you don't come back, I'm going to go out and look for you."
"It's a good thing you didn't go. There were so many people outside the dock."
He told Lin Xiuqing about the series of conflicts in the morning. She frowned and asked, "You didn't go into the water, did you?"
"No, I just watched the fun on the shore."
She couldn't help but feel lucky, "Fortunately you woke up late in the morning and didn't go out. With so many people here, a slight collision could easily lead to a conflict."
"Um."
He hadn't planned to go out to pick up the trash today. He had been picking up the trash all day yesterday and his waist was about to break. It would be better to just collect the trap nets, which would be easier and quicker.
"I just sold another 510 kilograms of starfish from the ground traps at 10.2 yuan. I think we can get another wave tomorrow."
She smiled and put away the order. "This is good. I don't have to compete with a lot of people."
"Now it seems that there are no waves on the sea. I should go out to sea at night."
"Yeah, okay. I got it."
After Ye Yaodong ate a bunch of kidney-nourishing dishes, he went for a nap to rest and get some sleep.
When he woke up in the afternoon and took two puffs of cigarette at the door, he saw the four adults next door coming back soaked.
He was also impressed that they had actually held on until now. It seemed that they had walked in the water for a while.
"Big brother and big sister-in-law, second brother and second sister-in-law, it looks like you made a lot of money today?"
"Uh...it's okay. There were too many people today, so I only sold it for 6 yuan..." Before Ye Erge could finish his words, Ye Ersao poked him with her elbow, glared at him, and then pushed him into the house.
Ye Yaodong pursed his lips, and said, "If you don't want to say it, then don't say it."
I agreed with Ye's father in advance that we would go out to sea at around 3 a.m., and he would go to wait outside the dock on time.
Since the fishing hooks had been lost in the sea for several days and there had been waves in the past few days, he was not sure whether he could find them. He did not prepare bait in advance tonight and planned to focus on trawling today.
After filling up the diesel, they set off as soon as Ye's father arrived.
An autumn rain brings a chill. The temperature has obviously dropped by several degrees in the past few days. It is colder on the sea than on land. The cold wind brought by the ship while it is sailing is not only biting, but also a bit damp and cold.
He had just had a crew cut in the evening, and now his bald head felt particularly cold. Walking against the wind, the wind blew in through his hat, making him feel very cold.
I don’t know if his father’s big forehead with a moved hairline feels cold.
"What are you looking at?" Father Ye felt his gaze, touched his forehead, and was a little puzzled.
"No, I just feel it's quite cold on the sea."
"Drive the boat carefully, don't look left or right, be careful of hitting the reef."
"knew."
He identified the direction and moved forward at a steady speed in the darkness. After driving for more than an hour and reaching the approximate target sea area, he slowed down and began to search on the sea.
Father Ye also shone a flashlight around the beach. This place was too far from the shore and was not suitable for spending the night there.
The sea is so vast that even if you know the approximate location, it is not easy to find a buoy. Moreover, there is no guarantee when the wind will blow, and the buoy can be easily washed away by big waves.
The father and son drove the boat on the sea and searched for a long time but couldn't find it in the surrounding area, and they didn't know if they had strayed away.
Ye Yaodong was a little depressed. "Let's not waste time. It's dark now and the light is not good. Let's search while trawl."
"That's good. It'll be easier to find in the daylight. Look around while you drag the net. I'll go set the net."
Fortunately, they can still trawl.
He slowly moved around the surrounding sea at 3-5 nautical miles per hour. When it was daybreak, he continued sailing for a long time. It was not until seven o'clock that he pulled up the first net.
I don’t know if it’s because of the low temperature recently, the fish are not active and don’t feed often. Although there have been waves these few days, there are not many fish caught on the first net. The most caught are mantis shrimps, about twenty kilograms.
But the mantis shrimps were not very fat at that time. Ye Yaodong poured out the goods and picked out a few. After taking a look, he could only say that they were very average. Although they were not empty, the meat was not very full, let alone the red paste. Moreover, a large part of them were very small.
"Dad, it's cold now. The fish are not active anymore. They all sink to the bottom and are hard to catch."
"Well, that's what happens when it's cold in winter. Those that should migrate will migrate."
He frowned, picked and chose, and said, "I'll go back and ask someone to make a sticky net to try. It should be deeper. It seems more suitable to use a sticky net in winter."
Father Ye thought for a moment and said, "It's not expensive to make a sticky net, but a net can only be used three or five times, and it's easy to break if you catch a big fish."
"Try to make one first."
"Then you can decide for yourself. You can make one to test the waters when you get back."
He asked his father to drive the boat while he set the net and picked the fish at the same time.
He picked out some particularly small ones and threw them into the sea. They could neither be sold for money nor used as bait, so he just let them return to the sea to continue growing.
Looking at several seabirds flying low over the sea following their fishing boat, he picked up a few small fish and threw them into the sea. The seabirds immediately swooped down to catch the prey, picked up the prey in their mouths, and then quickly flew into the air.
After the fish were almost sorted, it seemed that there were even fewer of them. Most of them were worthless small fish and shrimps. The only ones that could be sold were a few pounds of mantis shrimps and a few larger fish.
The moment he looked up and stood up, he saw his buoy in the distance.
Father Ye also saw it and said happily: "Dongzi, I found it."
"Well, let's pull up this trawl first before we go over there."
It's good to find it, otherwise it will cost a lot of money to make it again.
After wandering around the surrounding waters for another two hours, Ye's father finally raised the net again. This time there was still not much catch, and it was particularly mixed, with mostly mantis shrimps.
Fortunately, the weather is cold now and the wind is strong at sea, so there are fewer fishing boats going out to sea. Although mantis shrimp are not fat, their price has risen recently.
Some time ago, the price of small ones dropped to 20 cents per pound, and recently it started to rise to 40 cents.
After pouring out all the fish, they didn't even bother to sort them out and went back to collect the hooks. They hadn't been out to sea for 4 days and didn't know if some of the fish had gone bad.
After getting close to the buoy, Ye Yaodong retracted the buoy and tried to pull it. This time, the sinker rope was not stuck and was pulled up smoothly.
After the experience of getting stuck once, he would be a little worried when collecting it. It would not be pleasant to go into the water in such a cold weather.
He continued to reel in the line. It had been four days, which was too long. He originally did not have much hope, but after pulling it a bit, he felt that it still had some weight.
He reeled in the main line and pulled the branch line upwards, but saw a strange black fish suddenly emerge from the sea.
"what is this?"
Father Ye looked at the big fish that had just been pulled up from the sea with a confused look on his face. Its mouth was still opening and closing, and the fishhook had pierced its lower jaw.
Ye Yaodong was also confused. This fish was so ugly, he had never seen one before?
"Pull it up first, it's quite heavy."
The fish was in a half-dead state and did not struggle when it was pulled up. It was very smooth.
I saw this ugly and scary strange fish, more than 40 centimeters long, black all over, its teeth were like sharp glass fragments, and there was a small black broom-like "rod" on its head, like a light bulb.
Its mouth is very wide and can swallow fish as big as itself, and its teeth are particularly sharp.