When they were driving the boat closer to the shore, they saw a large number of boats parked around the pier, neatly arranged in an orderly manner, and no one knew when they had docked.
Ye Yaodong was surprised and said, "Are all the young men in the village really called back to fight? They are so united!"
"Yes, there are fewer women on the shore. Yesterday the beach was full of jellyfish, but today they are gone. So many boats have returned early."
"Let's get off the boat and carry all the goods back first."
Apart from the jellyfish head and skin, there are only a few buckets of jellyfish blood and brain. It's very fast to carry them back and forth a few times.
As soon as Ye Yaodong saw his father coming over, he asked him, "Have my elder and second brothers come? Did they call?"
"I was just about to tell you. Your mother called at 8 o'clock this morning and said that they left at 2 or 3 in the morning. They didn't know how they got there, but they just landed in the town. They just called and said they didn't know where the village was. I just came out of the village after answering the phone."
"Then I'll pick them up at the town's dock later..."
"I'll go, you just take a rest. I've been lying at home all day and my bones are getting rusty." Father Ye said as he climbed onto the boat, and did not forget to give him some instructions.
"The young men in the village went to the next village with weapons in hand in the afternoon, saying that someone from their village was beaten up at sea and thrown into the sea and stung by a stingray. The village was in an uproar that afternoon. Everyone at sea was called back, gathered together aggressively, and went to the next village with weapons in hand."
"Take it easy, don't get too close, it's none of our business, we're just passers-by, just take a look."
Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows. "Their village is really united. The people who were thrown into the sea and stung by jellyfish were the family we asked for directions yesterday. I was the one who towed their boat and the people back."
"Go pick up Big Brother and the others. I'll just listen to the fun. If anyone is too full, come over. There's still a lot of work waiting to be done."
Although Ye's father was somewhat surprised that they were the ones who rescued the people, he did not say anything. He just gave them a few more instructions, telling them not to get too close and to just stay at the educated youth site and wait for them to come back.
Ye Yaodong and his men packed up everything on the boat, and waited for the tractor to arrive. After they weighed the goods, they took the tractor back to the educated youth site to weigh the jellyfish blood and jellyfish brains.
The jellyfish blood that was dried yesterday unexpectedly weighed only 6.7 jin. For a 3,000 jin jellyfish, there should be 10 jin of jellyfish blood.
The moment he weighed the weight, Ye Yaodong was a little confused and couldn't believe it.
The eldest cousin was also surprised and said bluntly: "Isn't it 300 pounds to get one pound? How come it's less than 7 pounds?"
"What? Do you suspect there's something wrong with the goods?" the recipient said dissatisfiedly.
Ye Yaodong quickly smiled and said, "Not really, not really, I'm just a little surprised. We sold it yesterday and calculated the weight, and it felt a little off."
He smoked two more cigarettes for them and asked, "Brother, do you know how much is one pound? Is this a big fluctuation?"
The other person looked at him and said generously, "Of course, the blood of jellyfish of different sizes is different. For large ones, the heavier ones are the jellyfish head at the bottom and the jellyfish skin at the umbrella end. Although the area above the umbrella is also larger, how much can be scraped if the area is a little larger? This doesn't account for the weight anyway."
"Although there is a tenfold difference in weight between a jellyfish weighing more than 100 kilograms and a jellyfish weighing only 10 kilograms, can you scrape ten times more blood from the jellyfish? No way, right? There is no fixed number for this."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "That makes sense."
"Besides, you have no way to weigh the fish when you collect them at sea, so your own estimate will be off, and the fish will shrink when you handle them."
"Yes."
"Okay, let's go first, we're in a hurry."
Ye Yaodong made an appointment with them to come and pick up the goods tomorrow, and then he smoked a cigarette before politely sending them away.
He looked at the empty cigarette box and muttered twice, "I don't smoke many cigarettes myself, I just give them away to others. And I can't buy the bad ones, they are so cold, even two packs a day may not be enough."
"Haha, you are such a good person. I saw that the villagers didn't even give the cigarettes to the people when they sold them."
"Hey, you're new here, right? You have to be polite. It'll be easier to ask questions if you smoke a couple of cigarettes."
Ye Yaodong threw the empty cigarette box aside, then took out another box from his pocket, opened a cigarette and put it in his mouth, but did not light it. He handed it to his three cousins and asked them if they wanted some.
The three of them waved their hands and said that they had brought hookah or tobacco, and they could just tear a small piece of newspaper and roll it up to smoke.
How could they have the nerve to beat him
Ye Yaodong didn't force it. He closed the box and put it back in his pocket.
He looked into the distance and calculated in his mind. Yesterday's batch of jellyfish sold for 77.44 yuan, today's jellyfish blood sold for 73.7 yuan, and the jellyfish brain was not valuable, so it only sold for 2.1 yuan, but added up, the batch he caught when he came here yesterday afternoon sold for 153 yuan.
It's pretty good. After deducting labor, diesel, food and drink, I can still earn around 1300 yuan. Like today, I can make more than 200 yuan by making two trips a day. Even if the price drops day by day, I can still make a lot.
The more Ye Yaodong calculated, the more satisfied he became. He could earn 3,000 yuan by working for half a month. If he gave a few hundred yuan to his father, he would still have a lot left.
It’s not like other families in this village, where the whole family shares one boat and so many people share the money, so each person gets less.
He put his hands in his pockets, looked up at the sunset in the distance, with a cigarette in his mouth, shaking it back and forth, looking cool and handsome.
When three people just walked over, both men and women couldn't help but stare at him, especially the two women, who couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
Ye Yaodong felt as if someone was staring at him, so he turned around and raised his eyebrows in confusion. This action made him look a bit cool and handsome, and one of the girls in the room blushed.
The three of them walked towards him with a smile, just glanced between him and the brothers next to him, and then chose to walk towards the eldest cousin.
They all looked a little confused.
The leading woman spoke the local dialect and stuffed the basket in her hand into the cousin's arms.
My cousin was stunned when he saw the basket of eggs.
It was the fourth son of the Lu family, who was about the same age as Ye Yaodong but looked older than him, who explained it to everyone in Mandarin. Then they suddenly realized that it was the old mother of the Lu family who came to express her gratitude with her surviving son and daughter.
Ye Yaodong and the others were all a little amused and confused.
The eldest cousin was also a little embarrassed. He smiled at them sheepishly, pointed at Ye Yaodong, and handed the basket of eggs in his hand back to them.
The three members of the Lu family then realized that Ye Yaodong, who looked the youngest, was the one in charge, and they were all a little surprised.
Ye Yaodong also looked at them with amusement. This was because he saw that his eldest cousin was older and thought he was their leader.
The three of them came towards him again. The fourth son of the Lu family put a bag of rice on his shoulder at his feet and gave it to him. The girl also handed him a basket of vegetables.
"I'm sorry, I got the wrong person. We don't have much good stuff in the countryside. You guys are fishermen, so you definitely don't need fish or shrimp. My mom will just bring you some rice, vegetables and eggs."
Ye Yaodong waved his hand and didn't take it. "Thank you very much, you are too polite. I just did it casually. If anyone sees this, they will help bring the person back."
"It should be..."
The old lady and the fourth son of the Lu family said some words of thanks in a mixture of barbarian and Mandarin, and insisted that he accept it.
After some exchanges, he finally accepted the gift. It was exactly what they needed and it was very thoughtful. Ye Yaodong was also very happy.
"Then I'm welcome. Thank you. How are Uncle Lu and Lu Hongwei? Are they all right?"
"I went to get an IV drip this afternoon. I just came back from the drip. I think everything should be fine."
"Have you recovered the machine? I see the young men in the village haven't come back yet."
The fourth son of the Lu family was so angry that his eyes widened. "He hasn't come back yet. I stayed at home to take care of my father and brothers to get IV drips. The other brothers went there, and I don't know what happened. Now I have to prepare to go to the next village to check."
"Then go and have a look."
They exchanged a few polite words before hurriedly leaving.
Ye Yaodong looked at the big bag of rice, eggs and vegetables at his feet, and said to them with a smile: "There's more rice to cook. We won't have to worry about food and drink for the next few days."
"Did you feel that the little girl was staring at you just now?" The second cousin teased with a smile.
"Just watch, I'm pretty. Now that the jellyfish blood is cooked, I'll cook the rice first. I'll go wash the rice. I have to cook more today. My eldest brother and second brother will be here soon. I don't know how many people there will be."
Several grown men started washing rice and picking vegetables to prepare dinner. After a tiring day and a day of sweat, they still had to cook when they came back. Fortunately, Ye's father had fetched water and collected a lot of firewood today, otherwise they would have had more work to do.
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but wonder whether his elder brother and second brother had brought their two sisters-in-law over to work. These grown men were really not good at cooking.
While the rice was cooking, he left the rest of the work to his three cousins and went for a walk around the village, buying a box of mosquito coils.
There are weeds all around the educated youth site. I don’t know how many mosquitoes there were when I slept last night. They almost sucked them dry.
He worked too late yesterday, and it was already eight or nine o'clock when he cleaned up and finished his meal. The village was pitch dark, so he didn't go around. He went out to sea early in the morning, so he only had some free time now.
The environment of this small fishing village is not much different from that of other villages. There are dirt roads everywhere, with a few stone paths occasionally. There are weeds growing in the gaps between them, but they are trampled on and look messy. The weeds on both sides of some paths are taller than people.
The surrounding houses are all made of brick and adobe, unlike their stone houses. Moreover, some small houses don’t even have roofs. I don’t know if the typhoon blew away the roofs.
It was dinner time, and the roofs of every household were filled with smoke from birds cooking. The aroma of rice and the freshness of fish, shrimp and crabs could be smelled everywhere.
Ye Yaodong was walking on the path, looking left and right. Above his head was a nest of small mosquitoes, spinning and flying there, following him wherever he went.
He waved his arms as he walked, trying to drive away the mosquitoes above his head, but it didn't have much effect. Sometimes there were mosquitoes right in front of him, and when he walked over, a bunch of them would fly towards him, making his facial features wrinkle up, and he squinted his eyes, not daring to open his mouth for fear that they would fly into his mouth.
Fortunately, he doesn't have buck teeth and can close his mouth.
This is the annoying thing about summer. There are too many mosquitoes and they are very poisonous. His neck starts to itch before he has even taken a few steps.
Just as he finished buying mosquito coils and was about to go back, he suddenly heard a loud noise in the distance, which was getting closer and closer.
He walked out of the path out of curiosity and saw a group of young men with carrying poles and sticks, with bruised faces and noses, limping back and supporting each other. The women in the village heard the noise and came out to support their family members back.
There were sounds of talking, cursing, and wailing. The originally quiet fishing village suddenly became like a boiling pot.
Ye Yaodong stood on the path and watched curiously, not knowing whether they had won or lost the battle, and why they had not returned until so late.
Shouldn't we take advantage of the enemy's people being at sea, launch a surprise attack, steal their things and machines, and then come back early
Maybe it took them quite a long time to gather their own people
He stood on the path and watched for a while until he saw someone at the end pushing a machine on a cart. There were a bunch of jellyfish scattered on it. Although they were scattered everywhere in a mess, it was obvious that the things had been snatched back.
After looking for a while, he went back directly.
The two villages were in conflict, so this would help them divert most of the attention and prevent the villagers from focusing on them, a group of outsiders.
This should be a good thing for them. If they keep a low profile, they may be able to stay a few more days.
I wonder if people from the next village will come back to seek revenge
It seems that if they fight more, it will be good for him...
Ugh... can't think like that...