When he arrived at the dock, he said hello to Ah Cai and told him that he would settle the bill with him when he came back. He had not yet settled the bill for the abalone from the previous two days. He should let him know in advance and ask him to prepare the money.
It was a rare winter day with sunny days in a row. There were not many ships docked outside the pier as most of them had sailed away.
There were two largest boats docked there, one belonged to A Guang and the other was his. He saw Pei's father lying on the boat tinkering with the engine, so he moved the boat closer to that side.
"Uncle Pei, I heard that there was a problem with your boat's engine. What's wrong?"
Father Pei heard the sound of the machine before the boat got close, but he didn't have time to see whose boat it was. When he heard someone calling him, he sat up and took a look.
"It's Adong. Some of the parts are rusted and old. I was afraid of accidents at sea, so I didn't dare go out today. I just went to town to buy parts this morning and I'm replacing them now."
"That's good. We should have found it and replaced it in time before going out to sea. Otherwise, if the engine fails at sea, it will be troublesome."
"Yeah, so you always have to check before you go out to sea and be careful. Where are you going now?"
"I'm going to collect the traps. I haven't done that in a few days."
"You're quite diligent. You've set quite a lot of nets."
He chuckled twice, "Isn't this just to improve efficiency? We have to make enough money after each trip. We should put a few more types of nets on the boat to be prepared."
"You have set a good example for the villagers. Most of them have started longline fishing. I heard that the catch is very good. All the fish caught are big fish, no small fish."
"It's OK. You can try it. You fix the machine first. I have to go out to sea soon. I won't bother you anymore."
"go Go."
Ye Yaodong drove the boat out again, but when he arrived at the sea area he was familiar with, he couldn't find his buoy!
!
"Fuck, could it really have been washed away by the waves?"
He circled the surrounding sea for a long time but didn't see any familiar buoys. He only saw other people's buoys. He felt depressed, but not giving up, he drove to the outer sea again to look for it again.
But I didn't see anything, but I saw a lot of people working on the sea.
After walking around for a long time, he still couldn't find it. When he was about to go back, he heard someone calling him. He turned around to look for the source of the voice and saw a small wooden boat sliding towards him.
Oh, it’s A Zheng and Xiao Xiao.
He sailed the boat towards them, and seeing how hard they were rowing, he couldn't help but say, "You can change boats now."
Xiaoxiao shrugged, "We want to do that, but we lack the money. Brother Dong, would you like to sponsor us a little?"
"How much do you need?"
It's a good thing that you have the ambition to change to a bigger ship. It's also okay to give your brothers a hand. It's better than lending it to unknown people.
"I haven't figured it out yet, but I have this plan. I'll first see if a used boat is good. I can't afford a new one."
"Then you guys just take your time to look for it. If you find something suitable, take action. If it's not too far off, I can still help."
"Hey, it's not much. If we split it between two people, it won't be much. It may only be a few hundred dollars. We need a boat to know the exact difference."
As Ah Zheng sorted out the cargo on the boat, he asked, "Dongzi, have you redistributed the traps?"
"Ah? Have you seen my trap?" Ye Yaodong was immediately surprised.
"I see. There are two on the east side. They should be yours, right? We saw your buoys when we came here this morning. Did you separate them?"
They had helped him collect several times last month and recognized his buoy.
"No, it's because of the earthquake a few days ago that we didn't get it back. I spent too much time in the sea the day before yesterday, so I thought I'd take a two-day break and asked my eldest and second brothers to go get it. But they didn't find it, so I had to go out and look for it myself. I didn't expect it to be gone. I just walked around for a long time."
"We thought you were too full, keep them separate."
"It's just a few rows of traps. I'm crazy and I'm separating them. I won't say anything more. I'll go over and take a look."
Good thing you found it.
He excitedly drove the boat in the direction they pointed, but saw only two buoys around. He didn't have time to look for any more for the time being and decided to collect these two first.
After a round of netting, the cages were filled with fish and shrimps. But it was a pity that they had been left there for too many days, and all of them had their bellies turned up, with only a few still alive.
It takes another half a day to sort them out. It's a pity that there are so many fish and shrimp. If they were collected two days earlier, they wouldn't have gone bad. Who knew they would be washed here
He didn't have time to sort them at the moment. He had just collected one trap and had to collect more. Then he continued to search and pour all the goods into the basket. He didn't care whether they were dead or alive, and continued to collect the traps.
Each trap was very heavy and contained a lot of goods, but not many were alive.
I was in tears. After collecting all the fish in a row of traps, there were only three moray eels still alive. Some of them might have just died and were still fresh, but most of the fish had cloudy eyes. I randomly looked at a few of them and found that their gills were dark red and covered with mucus.
These three moray eels were very ferocious, with their mouths wide open, and they attacked each other in the basket.
Finally found some alive ones. Ye Yaodong fetched a bucket of sea water and put them into the bucket. Each one was more than one meter long and as thick as an adult's arm, which was quite rare.
Moray eel and conger eel are different. The one with fins on the chest is moray eel, and the one without fins is moray eel.
The head of the moray eel is long and pointed, while the moray eel looks like a snake with distinct patterns on its body. Its skin is thick and fierce. Its head is relatively small and its teeth are relatively large. It has two sets of sharp teeth, one for biting its opponent and the other for swallowing food.
After collecting one row, he steered the boat towards another buoy. Unexpectedly, there were 6 moray eels in the cage. When they were poured out, they almost attacked him and bit the back of his hand. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and pulled back.
These 6 moray eels are big and small. The big one is estimated to be over 1.2 meters long, and the smaller one is probably less than 1 meter long. After they are all poured into the frame, they attack each other.
Before he could put them into the bucket one by one, he suddenly saw a large eel with its huge mouth opened, biting another moray eel with a slightly thinner body, tearing it apart with its broad and sharp teeth, and refusing to let go.
It looked a bit scary, as its mouth actually bit the middle part of another moray eel's body and it could even swallow it.
At this time, other moray eels also took the opportunity to rush up and bite, killing each other.
Seeing this, Ye Yaodong quickly separated the big ones from the small ones and rescued the conger eel that was bitten half to death from his tiger's mouth. As soon as he caught it, there were still several fish hanging on its body, and it refused to let go.
He carefully picked up the strips one by one and threw them into the bucket, putting the big ones in one bucket and the small ones in another bucket.
But he was not careful and one of them slipped and fell onto the boat. This creature was extremely ferocious. It raised its head high and bit him directly at the feet when he was not prepared.
"Shit! Luckily I'm wearing rain boots."
The moray eel opened its huge mouth and tried to bite the rain boots, but it slipped and failed to bite. Ye Yaodong reacted quickly and stepped on its head and crushed it hard when it was about to attack again.
"Die for you!"
Its long tail swam and struggled desperately, from fierce resistance to weak twisting. After it was completely motionless, Ye Yaodong waited for a while before moving his feet away with confidence.
I saw that its head had been crushed and burst.
He picked it up with pliers in disgust and threw it into the basket, ready to be picked out with the other fish later.
It took him quite a bit of effort to catch this net of moray eels, mainly because they were too ferocious and it was easy to get bitten if one was not careful.
There were still a few traps he was continuing to collect, and there were one or two fish in almost every trap, and some had three or four.
There were not as many as in the cage just now. I don’t know if they were eaten. The few remaining ones in the cage were quite big, about three or four pounds each.
When he was pulling up the last trap, he saw a squirming white snapper. A moray eel jumped up from beside it and bit its head, then swallowed it whole.
"Shit, there was no time to stop it, it was swallowed up in the blink of an eye, and it only picked out the good stuff to eat."
Ye Yaodong muttered something and put it into the bucket, then folded the trap. There was only one fish in the last trap.
He had to put away all the traps and put them back to their original places. He also had to look around or outside.
He might not care about one or two, or two or three conger eels, but the two rows of traps just now caught quite a few. The first row caught 3, and the second row caught 15.
Those dozen or so together weighed more than fifty kilograms, which was not cheap and much more expensive than conger eels. He had to look for the remaining traps that were washed away by the waves.
After walking around, he found another one at a certain distance, and felt relieved. He thought that as long as he could find a row, he would find one.
I pulled the trap up, but found that the fish bag was a little empty? Only a few stone crabs and small pufferfish
He continued to twist it, but it was empty again. When he untied the bag, there was not even a pound of goods inside...
"Damn it, it was stolen!"
He cursed a few words, then pulled up the entire row of nets. They were only a few pounds. The entire row of traps put together were not as heavy as the one just now.
Maybe it was left there for too long and was stolen. He looked around and saw a few buoys floating there.
After feeling depressed for a while, he continued looking. When he didn't see anything around, he drove to a farther sea area. Unexpectedly, he actually found another one, and there were quite a few good ones.
When he hauled up the first net, he saw that there were quite a lot of crabs in it so he filled a new basket. Most of them were not fresh, but there was a huge blue crab!
"Fuck, Blue Crab King!"
Ye Yaodong looked at the huge blue crabs crawling around in the basket with surprise!
He stretched out his hand to grab it, but found that even with his five fingers spread out, he could not control his palm and could not grab the shell on its back. He needed both hands to grab it.
A normal blue crab weighing one or two kilograms can be caught by an adult with an open palm.
As expected, strong winds and waves meant there was a big catch. He had never seen such a big blue crab before!