Everyone turned their eyes towards the door.
Haozi looked at Ye Yaodong with shining eyes and walked over quickly. "Dongzi, are you going to change to a bigger boat? Are you planning to go deep-sea fishing? You are really good! It's not long since you changed this boat, and you're going to change to a bigger one..."
"Hey... stop, stop, stop... who said I should change to a bigger one?"
Ye Yaodong glared at A Guang, the guy who was so talkative. He was talking so loudly about something that hadn't happened yet. He should not have told him if he had known this.
I just said that I wanted to buy another boat, a bigger one would be fine, and it was a bit ambiguous, so he directly defined it as a big boat.
A Guang touched his nose and said nothing.
Haozi looked at him in confusion, "Didn't Guang just say that you wanted to change to a bigger boat? How awesome is that? You two are really amazing now..."
"Guang's family just bought a boat, and now you're buying another one. You two have made a lot of money in the past two years... one boat after another..."
"Hey, hey, hey... I haven't even started yet, stop bragging. I just had this idea, and the money hasn't been gathered yet. I was just chatting with Guang. It will cost a lot of money to buy a boat, and I just bought a shop, how can I have so much money?"
"Don't be ridiculous. Last month, the whole village heard that you went to Zhejiang Province and earned several thousand yuan in just two months. You've made a fortune."
"Don't believe what's spread outside. It's all nonsense. The more it spreads, the more exaggerated it becomes. I don't have the ability to buy a ship yet."
Ye Yaodong was very annoyed. He had money but had to pretend to be poor. He had to explain it to others tirelessly. It was so annoying. He was too lazy to explain too much. Believe it or not? Anyway, he didn't borrow money. Normal communication was fine.
But he didn't intend to say more, and Lin Xiuqing didn't want people to think that they had a lot of money.
She smiled and said, "Don't think that Adong earns a lot when he goes out. Most of it goes to wages, gas and food. It's not like being in the village outside. The expenses are huge. And in a few days he has to go to the city to pay the shop fee, 3,000 yuan. He has to pay all the money he earns!"
"Is the store so expensive? I heard that your family bought a store in the city, but I didn't expect it to be so expensive. Dongzi is really amazing. It's only been a short time..."
Haozi was really envious. Everyone was becoming successful without his knowledge, and even the worst ones were better than him.
Ye Yaodong said casually: "It just so happened that I came across it, so I gritted my teeth and paid the deposit first."
"You guys have really been getting better and better in the past two years."
"It's okay, I'm really tired."
"Alas, comparing yourself to others makes you feel depressed. I have done a lot of work, but I have never seen any money. Fortunately, A Guang helped me this time. I hope I can make more money this winter. The work at the dock is not easy."
Ye Yaodong glanced at the helpless Ah Guang and chuckled twice, "Then if you work hard, you will definitely get rich."
"I hope so. For this boat, when can we scrape off the barnacles on the bottom and paint it?" Haozi looked at A Guang eagerly.
"Wait a week!"
"It's been too long, isn't it? Otherwise, don't scrape the barnacles and paint it yet. Wait until next spring, when I return the boat to you, and then you can do the maintenance."
As soon as these words came out, Guang frowned immediately. "If the barnacles don't scrape, the hull will be too heavy and will consume a lot of oil. Moreover, if it is too long, it will also damage the bottom of the boat, and the seawater will slowly corrode it. You should know this. Besides, you don't want the boat to consume so much oil, right?"
After hearing what he said, Haozi smiled awkwardly, "Am I not anxious?"
"That doesn't matter in a week."
"OK."
There was silence for a while, and then the old lady smiled and said to Haozi, "You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. This is your first time to go out to sea by yourself, so you have to choose a good day. There are no good days these days, so ask your wife to cook you some longevity noodles and make two purses. You will make a lot of money this winter."
"Okay, we'll have to wait for a good day." Haozi thought it made sense and a smile appeared on his face again.
"The old lady looks very energetic, but my grandma is so old and confused that I have to shout into her ear when I talk to her."
"I think it will be soon. Haha, it's like this when people get old. They either become demented or deaf. Anyway, I've lived long enough. Living longer is a gain."
Ye Yaodong changed the subject and said to Lin Xiuqing, "Go get two big baskets so they can pick what they want. Don't be polite, Mouse."
"well."
The old lady smiled and said, "Why do you keep calling me a rat? It's so ugly. I have a name."
"Aren't you used to it? Haven't you been called this since you were a child? I even forgot your full name."
"It's a good thing I didn't order a small bowl."
Ye Yaodong almost laughed out loud.
Haozi’s father is called Chen Dawan…
The old lady also glanced at A Guang in a reproachful manner, "What nonsense are you talking about."
Ah Guang laughed and said, "So it's more appropriate to call him Mouse, right?"
The corners of Haozi's mouth twitched, but he didn't refute. He had been joked like this many times before anyway.
The whole afternoon passed as everyone worked and joked.
Basically, Ye Yaodong and A Guang were chatting about the current fish prices, what kind of nets are more profitable, the weather, etc., and basically everything was about the seaside and the lives of fishermen.
The old lady would occasionally tell them a story or two, such as some abnormal things that had happened at the seaside.
Everyone listened with great interest and felt it was even better than the music box.
The old lady also spoke happily. When people get old, they are afraid that no one likes to listen to them talk.
…
As Ye Yaodong had a lot of sticky nets, it took his two sisters-in-law five days to finish making them. During this period, they also replenished the fishing net lines and discussed with A Qing and decided to buy a rolling wheel.
This wouldn't work without the machine, he and his father would be exhausted.
Anyway, he has made a lot of money, so why work so hard? He should spend the money he earns. It won't be unused in the next one or two years. If he really can't use it, he can just sell it to his elder brother or second brother. After all, he is his brother.
Lin Xiuqing was also worried that he was working too hard and would quit. She also felt that she was sitting at home enjoying the fruits of others' labor while he was working so hard, which made her feel bad. It was not a good idea to borrow from others all day long, so she simply gave him the money to buy one.
Ye Yaodong also felt that making various types of fishing nets was really a waste of money. Most people specialized in making one type of fishing net and would not switch as frequently as he did.
Because each type of fishing net requires different machines, and each type of fishing boat has its own specialization in fishing tools, it is not the case that one type of fishing boat can handle all fish.
Generally, it is a specialized fishing method, specializing in only one type of fish.
For example, a trawler needs to use a winch, which is a net-lifting machine, and a special longline fishing boat needs to be equipped with a line-settling machine, a line-reeling machine, a line-releasing machine, and a bait-hanging machine. The longline fishing machine he used is relatively simple.
There are also salmon fishing boats and tuna fishing boats, which require different automatic fishing machines. The technical content of this whole set of equipment is no less than that of large oil tankers, and it is estimated that this technology does not exist now.
Medium-sized trawlers that also serve as purse seine fishing vessels are mostly double-deck, with a long bow, an operating deck at the stern, and a stern slide. Some are equipped with two net winders, one for bottom trawling and one for mid-layer trawling.
There are many requirements for various targeted fishing boats, but fortunately the nets he made were very simple. He just set traps near the coast and dragged trawl nets. The Yanshen fishing was also a wide-ranging fishing method, without any targeted fishing.
Those targeted fishing boats basically go to the deep sea or the open ocean, which is too far away from him.
After the nets were ready, the father and son saw good weather and went out to cast the nets and do some longline fishing.
The two networks are kept at a far distance and do not interfere with each other.
This time, he put out 50 sticky nets. He was not going to just test the waters on a small scale like he did last year.
After buying the machine and investing a lot of money, you have to work hard and not even make back your investment.
After lowering all the nets and throwing out buoys, they returned and waited until the next day to collect them.
It is so simple to make a sticky net, and it saves fuel, but it is wasteful and can be easily damaged.
Sometimes the fish is bigger than the inner diameter of the net, which means the fish is wrapped in the net. At this time, you have to turn the net over, especially the three-layer net, which always has a gap. If you can turn it over, you can take the fish out without damaging the net.
If he couldn't turn it over, he would have to break one or two wires of the net to get the fish out, and the whole net would be broken in a short time. He estimated that he would have to replenish the fishing nets frequently in the next few months of winter.
On the way back, Ye's father felt a little distressed. "I should have bought another machine. I shouldn't have done it if I had known. This machine is quite expensive, about 500 or 600 yuan. I can just cast longlines and trolls and make a little profit from the lake."
Ye Yaodong explained: "But I met Uncle Lin a few days ago, and he told me that there are quite a lot of fish caught in the nets these days. Not to mention the cheap toadfish, the harvest of turbot and manta rays is also quite good."
"If I just sit there for a while, I might as well learn from A Guang and the others and take a few months off. I thought I should do more while there is stock, so I bought machines and thread and asked my eldest and second sisters-in-law to do more."
"Besides, I think our hopes of buying a ship this year will be dashed. If we order a large ship, it will definitely not be delivered so quickly. We may have to wait in line for several months, and it may not be delivered even if we order it for a year. The machine can be used next year after we buy it. The main thing is to do a lot and make a profit."
"Then you can see for yourself. It's good as long as you have a plan in mind."
Ye's father would no longer oppose his decisions, because it has been proven many times that listening to him is always right.
Everything he did made sense, and he didn't act recklessly. Everything was based on reason and he had thought it through.
"Well, we can continue to replenish the sticky webs when they are worn out. After all, we don't buy machines to use for just one or two years."
"That's fine. I can spend a little more money and do this easily. I don't have to get up early or be on the sea all day long."
"If we go back now, we can still catch up for lunch."