After the bicycle was on the main road, Ye Yaodong sped up.
He didn't invite his friends along today, so there was no one to disturb him and no one to burden him. The journey was extremely quiet. Although it seemed a bit boring, he rode faster and arrived at the shipyard in about an hour.
It was just time to get off work. When he arrived, the workers were filing out of the factory, probably going home for dinner. The old man in the factory was about to lock the door, so he hurried forward and told him his purpose.
People knew him and knew he had booked a boat here, so they just let him in.
However, no one greeted him at this time. The old security guard followed him while eating with his own lunch box, so he simply started to walk around by himself.
The 26-meter ship already looks quite decent. It seems that all that is left is a paint job and the installation of machinery and equipment.
Although the cabin above had not been painted yet and was a bit crudely welded, so it was not very beautiful, but it was indeed quite large. There were two upper and lower bunks welded together, leaving only an aisle in the middle that was large enough for one person to walk through. It was no different from the ship he had been on before.
It's just a place to sleep, just a place to lie down. People drifting on the sea don't care about these things.
There is also a larger fish warehouse underneath, which can easily accommodate several thousand kilograms of goods.
He walked around the ship, climbed up and took a closer look, and was sure that the main body of the ship was almost complete, with only the machines and equipment left to be installed and debugged.
If everything arrives smoothly, we can test the waters in less than two months.
He couldn't let it go and touched it up and down, then turned around and asked the security guard who was eating with a lunch box in his hand, "Uncle, is this ship about to be delivered?"
"It seems to be coming soon, right? They say the delivery date is June. If it doesn't rain, we can paint it in the next two days. After a few coats, we can install the equipment. We may be able to deliver it ahead of schedule."
"It depends on the weather. It could be earlier or later. Don't worry. You don't have to wait until this boat is finished before we can arrange for yours. The factory manager has arranged for people to prepare the materials in the past two days. The boat is almost done, and the craftsmen can spare two people to work on yours."
Ye Yaodong was surprised, "Really?"
I thought we had to wait until this ship was delivered before we could arrange to build his.
"Well, isn't the ship almost finished? We don't need a master craftsman anymore. Painting is the job of a painter, and installing machinery and equipment later is the job of a technician."
"Great, we can start construction earlier and finish it sooner."
"The number of people ordering ships this year is twice as much as last year. We are short of manpower. But your ship is big. I heard from the factory manager that we have to give you priority in manpower allocation."
"Thank you, thank you. Since the factory is short of manpower, should we recruit apprentices?" Ye Yaodong thought of his father's wish for Ah Hai to learn shipbuilding.
"Yes, but not everyone can get in. Once you become a regular employee, you will be a skilled worker with a stable job. Many people would break their heads to learn skills here, but the requirements are high. They say you have to be a junior high school graduate, and older people are not accepted. What else is there? I don't know."
Then Ah Hai will have to wait for two more years until he graduates from the third year of junior high school.
Ye Yaodong nodded and said he could bring him here next time on the weekend.
He asked the old man how many ships were waiting to be built, and looked at the progress of other ships in the factory before waiting for the factory director Wanwan to come over on his bicycle.
"Your ship hasn't been built yet, so you don't have to come for now. Come back in the second half of the year."
"I came over to take a look out of curiosity. Anyway, I haven't worked these two days and I'm free anyway. I came over to take a look and supervise you so that others won't cut in line."
"Don't worry about that. We arrange the orders based on the order of priority and the type of goods required. Once the delivery date is set, we will try our best to complete it before the delivery date."
“What if it’s not completed before the deadline?”
"Then you can only wait. There are always unexpected events in the world. If there are typhoons, rainstorms, rainy seasons, etc., the process may be delayed. How can we be sure? We can only ensure that we will be on time as much as possible."
Ye Yaodong pursed his lips, a typical seller's market!
"Come on, let's go have some tea."
Wherever the Minnan people go, they drink tea. They can skip meals but they must have a sip of tea.
While he was sitting with his feet up and drinking tea, other people came over to check on the progress or ask about shipbuilding.
Seeing that others were busy all the time and constantly greeting people, he left tactfully. Anyway, his boat had not been built yet, so he came to take a look and that would be enough.
He was riding a bicycle on a dusty dirt road. It would have been fine if there hadn't been a tractor passing by, but when a tractor passed by, his hair immediately turned white like snow, and he could shake some of it out when he shook his head.
"Damn it! I have to wash my hair again when I get home."
Considering the high temperature during the day, he didn't wear a hat. He scratched his hair twice and felt some graininess.
At this moment, another tractor slowly drove towards him from behind. He could only endure it again in frustration, but unexpectedly, he met an acquaintance.
The tractor coming over belonged to Uncle Zhou. His rear cargo bed was raised with wooden boards and filled with sand.
I didn’t expect that he had already received the job just a few days after getting the tractor.
Turning around, they greeted each other, and the two vehicles did not stop but continued to move forward. After a while, the tractor left the bicycle behind.
Ye Yaodong also pedaled faster and managed to avoid falling too far behind.
When the tractor drove into the village on the roadside, he continued riding forward for two minutes and returned to Baisha Village.
Ye's father waited at his house until almost evening when he finally came back.
"Why didn't you call me when you were going to the shipyard?"
"I thought the ship hadn't been built yet, so I went over to take a look. That's why I didn't call you."
Father Ye pointed to a pile of green fishing nets in the corner that looked like traps but weren't actually traps, and whispered, "When your uncle came over this afternoon, he brought them here. He said he couldn't use them, but we happened to have two boats, so he brought them here, thinking you might be able to use them."
Ye Yaodong walked over curiously, picked up the fishing net, and took a look. "Is this a shrimp cage?"
"Shh," Ye's father winked at the person next door, "keep your voice down, your elder and second brothers won't know."
After saying this, he looked at him with satisfaction and appreciation, "You have a good eye. You didn't miss the shrimp cage and you even know the shrimp cage."
Ye Yaodong chuckled twice. Haven't you seen pork yet? Haven't you seen a pig run? And just because he didn't let it go in this life doesn't mean he didn't touch it in his previous life.
What's more, his two brothers-in-law also have two simple shrimp cages at home, which are used to release river shrimps into the river. As soon as he saw the mesh of the net, how could he not know what was put in it
There is not much difference between ground traps and shrimp cages, except that ground traps are denser and shrimp cages are sparser.
A ground cage is a cage used to hold various kinds of fish, such as fish, shrimps, crabs, etc.
Shrimp cages are mainly used to store shrimps. Shrimp cages and crab cages are also ground cages, but the mesh of shrimp cages is larger, and the mesh of crab cages is even larger. They automatically remove useless small fish and catch them in a targeted manner. Some fish will also enter the lower shrimp cages, but they will be larger in size.
Moreover, this fishing net is green. Shrimp cages are usually made with green fishing nets. Because the grass in the water is green, green shrimp cages can easily confuse shrimps.
"I already have a ground trap, but lately I feel that ground dragons are too useless, so I don't have any. This shrimp cage is not very useful either."
"Wouldn't it be better to have a few more nets? It just so happens that you only have four rows of ground traps left, which is too few. You can use these shrimp cages to supplement them. Shrimp are more expensive than fish."
"Besides, if the ground cage is gone, won't you feel bad? I got this shrimp cage for free, so if it's gone, you won't feel bad at all. It's just a pity at most."
"If there's no wind or waves in a couple of days, take the shrimp cages outside when you cast the sticky nets and see if you can catch more shrimp. You need to hire people anyway, so you might as well take a couple more shrimp cages. You can sell them for more money. You're too lazy to put out the ground traps now, so just put out the shrimp cages. It's just a small thing. There aren't many here."
"Okay, let's wait until the wind and waves are a little smaller and release it when we go out to sea."
His father said so, and secretly left it to him without telling his elder brothers. What else can he say
By the way, he has quite a lot of fishing nets piled up in his yard now, including large trawling nets, sticky nets that have just been dried in the past two days and are piled up on a cart, a dozen baskets of longline fishing lines, neatly stacked ground traps and freshly white shrimp nets.
"Hey~ Isn't my uncle the captain? Where did you get the shrimp net?"
Father Ye whispered, "It seems that they got it from a fight with other boats at sea last night. Then the captain thought the shrimp cage was of little use, so he asked who wanted it, and he took it back."
"It's really dangerous. Their ship is quite big, right? The ship they are fighting with should also be quite big."
Father Ye nodded. "It's not safe at sea. We're fine in the nearby seas. We haven't gone far. People around here are from this county and speak the same language. As long as we don't run into ships from Luzhou Island, it's fine. Once we buy a big ship and go farther, we'll have to be more careful."
"Well, we'll talk about it later."
I have to find a chance to get a homemade gun as a backup. Since the supervision is not strict now, it should be easy to get.
The man from Linji popped up in my mind again, but I gave him a cross in my heart. This man is a bit dangerous. Let's talk about it later, until the boat is built.
Ye Yaodong picked up the pile of green fishing nets in the corner one by one and checked them. He found that these shrimp cages were also different from the ground cages.
His ground traps are rectangular, while these shrimp cages are "丁"-shaped cylindrical cages with a diameter of about 40 cm, which is quite large, and there is only an entrance at one end and a lid at the other end.
Father Ye whispered again: "Don't tell your elder and second brothers, or they will accuse us of being partial."
"I see. Didn't they see it when I first brought it over?"
"I saw it. I said someone else threw it away and you bought it second-hand."
"oh."
"Cover it with a nylon bag first. We don't know when we can go out to sea."