After everyone got on board, he leaned against the side of the boat, panting and pulling the line to pull up the net bag, and asked his father, "Have all the traps been pulled up?"
"I've collected four, and there are two left. I was just about to finish collecting them when I saw you surface."
"Oh, it's good that it's not stuck again." He was a little exhausted now and couldn't go down any further in a short time. It would be good if he could get it all back.
Father Ye was collecting the trap and distractedly looked at the net bag he had just pulled up. "Are they all abalone?"
"That's about right," he said, his hands busy as he poured out all the goods in the net bag, "There's a little blue dragon, a..."
"Eastern Star Spot?"
Dong your sister...
If this wasn't his father, he would have just agreed to it.
"It's a white-lined red bass! It's not a grouper. My vision was not clear underwater just now, so I thought it was a grouper."
Father Ye's surprised expression disappeared instantly, "Oh, yes, the tails are not the same, I made a mistake."
Ye Yaodong was too lazy to deflate it and threw it into a basket beside him since he would be returning soon anyway.
"Why are there only abalones this time? There is only one little blue dragon."
He looked up at his father. He had just been telling him not to go into the water again, but now he felt that the goods were not enough
"It took me a while to find the trap before. The trap was lowered into the shipwreck. I searched around for a long time but couldn't find it. Later I found it in the shipwreck. This white-lined red bass was also found in the shipwreck..."
"By the way, let's try to pull up the diesel engine on that boat next time."
"It's hard to pull it out. It's all sunk to the bottom. I've been soaking it for a few days and I don't know if it can be used..."
"Let's talk about it later."
Maybe we can wait until the net lifting machine from Linji is delivered before making any arrangements, which will save some effort.
The rolling wheels on the boat have limited load-bearing capacity and cannot tow the machine, otherwise the rolling wheels could be used directly.
The trawl net lifter has a large load-bearing capacity but is slow.
The net reel is used to pull the fishing net quickly, but the weight it can bear is not large.
The rolling wheels are slow and have limited weight bearing capacity. Besides, the one borrowed on the boat is very old, so he plans to move it and return it.
It was of little use to him. After being used a few times, the sticky net was badly damaged, so he didn't use it again. What's more, he only had one net, and he was just using it for fun to test the waters. It was not as good as trawl and longline fishing. Ground traps were also more practical and easier to use.
After Ye's father collected the last two traps, they went around looking for A Zheng's small boat, intending to call them back together.
This time it was Ye's father's turn to drive the boat, and Ye Yaodong went to pick up the goods. He hadn't even seen the harvest in the traps at the back, so he volunteered.
With a row of traps and ten nets, and two dives he made, he harvested half a basket of small green dragons crawling around. He estimated that there should be more than 30 of them.
There were quite a few sea cucumbers. He caught more than a dozen the first time he went into the water. The traps he used caught fewer because sea cucumbers don't like to move and stick to the bottom. So he caught probably around thirty or so.
But it is big in size, the small ones weigh two taels, and most of them weigh more than three taels.
Ye Yaodong fiddled with them for a while, and secretly picked out two half-broken ones, two-thirds-broken ones, and two obviously smaller ones, and threw them into his own bucket.
This is to be taken home to eat! Thinking that his younger sister was also pregnant, he took out two more.
Let's have some abalone too, the two boys haven't eaten them yet...
Forget about the small blue dragons, there aren’t many of them, and everyone ate one last time.
He picked and chose, took a few more fish and threw them into the bucket, then took the bucket aside.
At this time, A Zheng Xiaoxiao and his group were still working on their boat. When they saw their fishing boat approaching, they slowed down and let the two boats get closer.
"Are you ready to go back?"
"Almost, it's almost 5 o'clock, we have to be back by 6 o'clock."
"Okay, it's not convenient for us to have no watch. Let's start the net right away and go back after we collect it."
They waited for a while nearby. The machine really saved effort and the speed of pulling the net was faster than manual labor. A large bag of fish was pulled directly onto the deck.
"We have a good harvest today. This bag weighs more than 100 kilograms."
Ah Zheng said happily, "It's good. It's better than putting traps on the coast. We can catch more fish. We didn't prepare bait at night, otherwise we could have put a few hundred hooks."
Xiaoxiao also smiled and asked: "How many nets did you pull today? How was the harvest?"
"I just dragged three nets, it was OK. The longline caught a lot of fish, and they were all big, weighing about 200 to 300 kilograms."
"The harvest is still better in the open sea."
"Who would spend a lot of money to buy a big boat? Isn't it just to go to farther waters to catch more fish?"
After chatting casually for a few minutes, they quickened their pace and headed back.
After a tiring day, everyone is eager to go home.
Getting up at two o'clock in the morning and now it's five or six in the afternoon, after such a long time of drifting and working hard on the boat, people would be extremely tired. Ye Yaodong felt especially tired. He just sat on the ground, leaning against the cabin waiting for the boat to dock.
Just as he was dozing off drowsily, the fishing boat approached the shore. He felt the boat slowing down and he woke up instantly.
Xiaoxiao and A Zheng originally thought that he was just trawling normally, and the types of fish caught by everyone should be similar, so they were not curious and asked more questions.
Who would have thought that when we were carrying them off the boat, we would actually see small blue dragons? Abalone? And sea cucumbers
"Where did you get these? Don't tell me you caught them with a trawling net."
Ye Yaodong said proudly: "Hehe, it's a secret. There are too many people around, so I won't tell you yet."
Ah Cai was also pleasantly surprised when he saw the good stuff he brought over. "Again, abalone and blue dragon? Oh, there are also sea cucumbers today? You are the good guy. Blue dragons can be caught by the net occasionally, but abalone and sea cucumbers are not easy to catch."
"Stop talking nonsense and weigh yourself quickly. I'm so tired. Let's finish weighing ourselves and go back to eat and sleep."
I was too tired, otherwise if we sent me to a hotel in town the price might be a little higher.
Since they were all old acquaintances, Ah Cai didn't say much. He put the other goods aside and weighed his first.
They were all rare and valuable things, and everyone was very curious. They all had no objections and were asking where he had fished them out.
"Adong has dug abalone more than once. Where did you dig it from?"
"The most common one I heard was after an earthquake, when the reef was pushed up. Could there still be more from digging on the reef?"
"Why haven't we encountered such good things? Is there any more, Adong?"
"There should be more, right? He has dug it up several times..."
"There are also sea cucumbers today. I haven't seen them before, and I don't know where they were caught. Aren't they all on the bottom of the sea? They are hard to catch, and they are very expensive..."
Ye Yaodong smiled and said nothing more, "I was lucky enough to come across it and caught a little. I don't know if I can come across it again next time..."
Previously, I thought the reef had sunk and would not appear, so I just said that it was because of the reef coming up.
Now, of course he couldn't tell them the specific sea area. He still had to continue to fleece the sheep. Even if they couldn't go to the bottom of the sea, he didn't want to cause trouble for himself.
“How much can this sea cucumber sell for?”
"It's so big, it'll cost more than ten yuan, right?"
"Tomorrow... it's so expensive... I'm going to get rich again..."
"Where did you catch Adong?"
After Ye Yaodong settled the account, he just left without paying any attention to the sour words and discussions from people behind him.
After he walked away, he took out the sea cucumber that was pressed by several fish in the bucket. Father Ye stared at it.
"When did you hide it? You spendthrift, it's 16 yuan per pound, and each one costs several yuan. It's so expensive, how can you swallow it, you bastard, send it over and sell it quickly..."
Ye's father snatched the sea cucumber from his hand, threw it back into the bucket and wanted to take it back to sell, but Ye Yaodong snatched it away.
After knowing the price, he felt a pain in his heart looking at the ones in the bucket, but he had already kept them, so why be so stingy and send them back.
"It's already been weighed, why send it over? Keep it, it's not for you to eat."
Ye's father was upset and wanted to find a stick, but there were no sticks or bamboo sticks around, only straw.
"How can you swallow it... You are never satisfied with what you eat, and you want to stay and taste everything you see... You are like a child who has not grown up, you want to eat everything... and you don't feel sorry for it..."
Ye Yaodong interrupted his father's distressed expression and said, "Two for my little sister, two for the old lady, and two for Ah Qing. Let them eat one a day."
It’s not like he hasn’t eaten sea cucumbers before. This time there weren’t many, and he really didn’t think of keeping any for himself. His father and mother didn’t get any.
After listening to his arrangements, Ye's father was speechless and could only sigh heavily, feeling very disappointed with his friend.
"Why eat something so expensive when you can eat anything else? Other people eat pickled vegetables and rice porridge every day, but you are the only one who is so picky. You are just like A Guang. Why do you buy bird's nests and send them to me just to piss off your mother and me..."
"Let's see if they can swallow this sea cucumber..."
"Everything is free, and you think making money is easy. No wonder two people can become friends. Why don't you learn from your elder brother and second brother..."
Ye Yaodong scratched his ears and followed his father's muttering.
After throwing a few sea cucumbers into his bucket, he took two more fish and gave them to him, "Have you finished reading? If you're done, go back. I'm exhausted."
"You know you're exhausted, but you're still willing to give up..."
"Sea cucumbers are good for the body. There's nothing to be reluctant about. Let's go."
Every Hui people would talk about it, so he had to hide.
"What can't you eat? If your mother doesn't scold you to death when you go back, the old lady will be heartbroken."
"Are you thirsty?"
Father Ye was so angry that he glared at him fiercely, still muttering "this waste of money"...
After seeing the sea cucumbers, Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but keep asking how much they cost.
Although she didn't know the price, she knew it was a good thing and not cheap.
How could Ye Yaodong tell her? He only said a few dollars without saying the exact amount. Moreover, he kept half of one and only one was intact.
After hearing that it only cost a few dollars, Lin Xiuqing was no longer hesitant. But she didn't eat it all by herself. She simply cut it into small pieces and stewed it with eggs, and the whole family ate it together.
It was not until after dinner that Ye Yaodong gave her the list of goods and she looked at the prices and knew the price.
I immediately felt so distressed that I hit him hard a few times!
"Oh my god, it's so expensive, how can I afford it..."