Among those fish, bomb fish and red eels are more valuable. Twelve bomb fish weighing more than 100 kilograms were sold for 43 yuan. There were also two baskets of turbot and other miscellaneous fish and goods from the ground trap net, which were sold for more than 122 yuan today.
Because a typhoon was coming, Ye Yaodong saved a lot of fish and shrimp, and the father and son each shared some, planning to eat them for two days.
In this kind of weather, if you cook it and leave it there, you can only eat it for two days, and that’s if you don’t stir it, otherwise it will become sour the next day.
Fresh ones can’t be kept until the next day. For example, if you leave shrimps out for the next day, the heads of the shrimps will turn black.
The house is still missing a refrigerator!
After earning some money, Ye Yaodong felt eager to spend more. It was inconvenient without a refrigerator. It was difficult to eat iced watermelon in summer, and there was no ice in the mung bean soup.
But the refrigerator is so big that it would be too eye-catching to put the whole one in the house. Besides, if his father, mother, old lady and his wife were to join in, he felt that he would not be able to cope with it.
After the reform and opening up, the "old three items" of bicycles, watches and sewing machines have gradually become the "new three items" of washing machines, refrigerators and televisions over time.
Refrigerators, in particular, are not affordable for ordinary people. They are more expensive than televisions and difficult to buy. It is a complete seller's market.
Even though the average worker only earns forty or fifty yuan a month, there is still a shortage of supply. They are relatively scarce in rural areas, but more in big cities and more in coastal areas.
As far as he knows, a domestically produced single-door refrigerator like the Xiangxuehai 125-liter one costs 685 yuan, a Shuanglu double-door refrigerator costs 1,200 yuan, and a Baixue refrigerator costs more than 800 yuan.
Imported refrigerators from Hitachi, Toshiba, Panasonic and other brands are much more expensive, costing two to three thousand yuan. There is no way to buy them, and even if you have foreign exchange coupons, they may not be available.
Refrigerators in this era are considered a luxury item and only the rich can afford them. He suppressed his restless heart. He had just saved up a little money and couldn't get carried away. Now this refrigerator was still very expensive.
Moreover, all the money he earned was in the hands of his wife. For things like marine machinery, which required three turns and one buzz, she would still agree after some persuasion. However, she would definitely not be willing to spend thousands of dollars on a refrigerator. He also thought it was not cost-effective, so he quickly got rid of the idea from his mind.
He divided the goods he kept back and put them in another bucket for his father. He also kept a bucket of the less valuable goods, which he planned to give to his mother, who would give them to relatives and divide them up.
It's too cheap, and can't be sold for more than a dollar or two. It's better to let his mother use it as a favor, and give some to some relatives who don't have any experience in seafood, so it can still be sold for a good price.
As for who to give it to? Just let his mother decide.
Thanks to his past life, he wasn't very familiar with his relatives and didn't interact with them much, unless they came to visit him on their own initiative.
The cart was filled to the brim. There were ten baskets of hooks stacked high in groups of three or two. He also threw several buckets into the baskets, otherwise there would be no place to put them. There were also four rows of ground nets, which he had to wait for the next trip to pull.
There were many people coming and going on the road. The construction site of the Mazu Temple was still in full swing. After all, the sun was still shining brightly today, but it was a little cooler. The workers on the construction site were discussing when the typhoon would come? When would the typhoon go? What were the typhoons like in previous years
The villagers said as if it was a matter of course that they would climb up to the roof to check the tiles when they returned.
Some also said that they would carry a few more buckets of water and put them there when they return, so as to avoid having no water when a typhoon comes and the water becoming turbid and undrinkable after the typhoon.
Others said they would check if there were any candles at home and prepare a few in advance.
Since the village was electrified, there has been a power outage every time there has been a typhoon or thunder and lightning in the past two years. Everyone has experienced this.
As soon as he pushed the cart to the front of the Mazu Temple, the villagers who were working there looked up and greeted him.
"Have you untied the fishing nets? The waves are strong today, so I think we should have a good catch, right?"
"Adong and his son are quite good at shipping. They always get more than others..."
"When will you be in the newspaper? Did the people from the newspaper say anything about it yesterday?"
"Yes, no one believed it yesterday. I didn't expect that the newspaper people came to our door at noon yesterday. The news spread all over the village."
"You are really good and lucky... The 'Ten Thousand Yuan Household' failed and couldn't be in the newspapers, but now you can still be in the newspapers because of this big fish."
Ye Yaodong saw them throwing out a series of questions, one by one, and he didn't know who to answer. He also wanted to know when he could see his heroic figure in the newspaper.
"It's so-so. I can only sell a little bit of goods to Hukou. There will be another typhoon next. I don't know how many days I need to rest at home before the storm passes."
"As for when it will be in the newspaper, I don't know either. Those people didn't say it would definitely be in the newspaper. They just came to ask about the situation at that time. I am more looking forward to it than you are. I will wait and see in a few days. If it is in the newspaper, the village committee will have it in the newspaper."
"It would be really glorious if it could be published in the newspapers. Not only would you get paid, but you would also be known by people all over the country. That would be awesome..."
He chuckled twice, and when the group of people passed by, they took a picture from a distance and ran away. He didn't even notice the boat. They might not have seen anything and just thought he was a pendant on the whale shark.
It is hard to say whether the washed ones are as big as sesame seeds. Can people in the country recognize sesame seeds
"A typhoon is coming, folks, please rest in advance. It's noon now, time for lunch, I'm going back first."
"Okay, okay..."
After chatting with them for a few words, Ye Yaodong pushed the cart back again. It took him two trips to pull all the traps back.
Those trap nets had not been cleaned for a long time. They were covered with all kinds of seaweed and debris, as well as fish mucus, and looked very dirty.
As soon as we go out to sea in the morning, we collect the fish and put them on the boat. They have been dried now and emit a pungent smell all the way. They also attract mosquitoes nearby, which keep buzzing close to the fishing nets.
Ye Yaodong felt a little disgusted when he saw it. He didn't want to pile them in the yard for fear that mosquitoes would fly everywhere. Children have delicate skin and it would take several days for the swelling to go away if they were bitten by them.
He simply pushed the cart towards the beach at the door, where he could take advantage of his free time in the afternoon to wash and scrub it, then put it back in the yard. When the typhoon came, the rain would wash it clean, saving him the trouble of fetching water for flushing. However, he still had to fetch more water later and store it in the water tank at home.
After cooking, Lin Xiuqing stood at the gate of the yard and looked towards the dock. She felt relieved when she saw him coming back pushing the cart.
But seeing that he did not go straight home, but pushed the cart towards the beach, she also walked towards the beach out of curiosity.
"Adong? Why didn't you go back? Oh, you need to wash the cage net."
Ye Yaodong threw the trap off the cart and said, "It's too dirty and stinks! When exposed to the sun, the fishy smell attracts a lot of bugs. It's too disgusting. I can't put it in the yard. I'll take it here and wash it before putting it in the yard."
"And your hooks?"
"I just sent it directly to Old You at the entrance of the village. I asked him to sort it out for me so that they wouldn't be piled up in the yard. There are too many things and it's too messy."
"Eat first, I'll help you wash later."
"Yeah, I'll be done soon. Let me wash my hands... Hey... are there scallops?"
Just as he threw all the traps to the beach, walked forward a few steps, squatted down to wash his hands, he saw a lot of scallops on the surrounding rubble.
He picked up one and looked at it. It was tightly closed and still alive, which gave him a small surprise.
"Good stuff, a dinner treat."
He waved the scallops in his hand towards Ah Qing and said, "Bring the bucket from the cart over here. There are quite a few scallops here, probably all washed up by the waves. There are also many clams."
"Really?" Lin Xiuqing happily took a bucket from the cart and went over. "I want to wait until the tide goes out before going back to the beach. I picked up two large basins full of clams yesterday and I haven't finished eating them yet..."
"Go and get some kids to work."
"The waves are quite big... I didn't dare to let them get close to me just now, and I asked the old lady to help watch..."
"With me here, what are you afraid of? How can you let them be swept away by the waves?"
Lin Xiuqing thought about it and it made sense. In her heart, Ye Yaodong had gradually become her backbone.
"I'll go right away."
A group of kids had been wanting to go to the beach for a long time, but the waves were too big and I wouldn't let them go.
The old lady even moved a stool and sat at the gate of the yard holding a rattan stick to watch them, for fear that they would play in the water. The waves on a typhoon day are no joke and are very ruthless. A wave may take a life.
After receiving the order, they all rushed towards the beach, crying like birds released from a cage.
“Ahh~ I’m coming~ I’m coming~”