Chapter 1095 An Unexpected Discovery

This long silver-white "ribbon" made the two people's eyes widen in surprise.

Also because of the long silver-white light in the middle, the sea urchins growing densely on the steep cliffs on both sides of the trench were extremely clear, just like natural light.

As if their eyes were not enough, they looked back and forth between the sea urchins and the light, but they couldn't communicate under the water. The shock in their eyes could not be expressed, and they had no competent tools in their hands, so they could only hold it in.

Ye Yaodong was the first to react. He gestured to A Guang, and took out the large net bag he brought when he went into the water, as well as the iron claws that had been tied to his waist, indicating that he should start working first.

Originally, the purpose of their trip to the water was to find the sea urchins growing on the cliffs on both sides of the trench. The silver-white ribbon in the middle was an unexpected discovery. It would not be too late to talk about it after going up. Time was limited. Now they had to do what they should do before going up again.

A Guang also immediately calmed down and took out the tools tied to his waist like him. Then he followed him, swinging his flippers, went down to the trench, and used his iron claws to hook the sea urchins on the cliff and put them into the net bag.

After all, it was the first time to do this job, A Guang was not so agile. He turned his head to see what was happening next to Ye Yaodong after a few moves. After seeing his agile speed, he also sped up and stopped wasting time.

After focusing all his attention on the dense sea urchins on the cliff, he also forgot his fear and forgot that he was in the middle of the trench. There was a silvery-white light below, no longer a dark black hole.

And because of the illumination from the light below, their vision was no longer obstructed, and their efficiency was high.

After Ye Yaodong filled the two net bags in his hand, he threw them to the bottom of the sea first, swam to A Guang's side, and saw that he had just started to fill the second net bag, so he waited for a while.

By the way, he observed the "ribbon" emitting silver-white light below.

These "ribbons" are hairtail fish. The silvery-white hairtail fish are densely packed deep in the trench. They sway and move, filling the bottomless trench, and no longer make people feel tingling and as if they are being sucked to the bottom.

They are constantly swaying, densely packed under the wide trench.

When he saw it for the first time, he was shocked. Although he knew that there would be many strange creatures growing in the trench, the deeper the trench, the more strange the creatures growing.

But he never thought that there would be hairtail fish in the trench.

Hairtail fish generally live in waters 60 to 200 meters deep underwater. They can be found in the waters of the continental shelf. These places are rich in food and suitable for their hunting.

For example, the hairtail fish in the East China Sea of ​​my country floats in the middle layer of the sea water about 60 meters during the day and descends to the bottom of the sea 100 meters deep at night. At the winter solstice, the water temperature drops, and the hairtail fish swims to the deep water to avoid the cold.

There are other species of deep-sea hairtail fish that live in trenches 1,000 meters deep all year round.

At the depth he could see with his naked eyes, these hairtail fish were only tens of meters deep. They were not special species of deep-sea hairtail fish, but just ordinary white hairtail fish.

Just as he was wondering, if there were so many hairtail fish at the bottom, covering the sky and the sun, what would happen to the jellyfish?

Jellyfish also emerged from the bottom of the trench...

There were jellyfish on the water just now, which means that there were still jellyfish emerging, so what about the hairtail fish at the bottom? Will there be no jellyfish this year, but hairtail fish instead?

Just as he was wondering, he saw a small area of ​​hairtail fish at the bottom moving violently, and then a large black hole appeared around it.

The hairtail fish that were originally there all moved to the side, and a transparent bulk jellyfish emerged from the black hole and slowly rose up.

"Fuck..."

He cursed in his heart. Could it be that the cutlassfish has taken over the nest?

When the jellyfish season arrives, a large number of jellyfish will emerge. Shouldn't these cutlassfish migrate to avoid them?

Fish and jellyfish are generally hostile. Once fish touch

the tentacles of jellyfish, these stinging cells will eject their internal stinging threads and pierce into the fish and shrimp. The stinging threads also contain various types of venom to paralyze fish and shrimp.

In this way, no matter how flexible the fish and shrimp are, they can't escape the "clutches" of jellyfish, so fish and jellyfish are enemies.

Ye Yaodong's eyes have been on the jellyfish that just floated up from the cutlassfish school. He wondered if as the jellyfish increased day by day, these cutlassfish schools would disappear and move to another place?

Then he had to hurry up?

When Ah Guang's net bag was full, he stopped and turned to look for Ye Yaodong, but found that he was not far behind him.

At the same time, the school of cutlassfish around them became agitated again, and two more black holes appeared. Soon, two more jellyfish rose from the bottom of the black holes.

"Huh?"

A Guang was very surprised.

When the two of them were concentrating on hooking sea urchins with iron claws, several jellyfish also emerged from the bottom of the trench in this way.

It's just that the two of them didn't notice it until they finished their work.

Ye Yaodong looked at the jellyfish that emerged in the same way again, and he roughly understood it.

He patted A Guang, indicating that they could go up.

Then the two of them swung their flippers at the same time, holding the rope of the net bag containing sea urchins in their hands, and swam upwards.

As soon as he came out of the water, A Guang couldn't wait to take off the mask and trachea on his face.

"Fuck, there are not only sea urchins, but also hairtails. Damn, they almost blinded my dog ​​eyes. I wanted to talk a long time ago, but I'm dying of suffocation."

"Let's get on the boat first."

"There are so many, I can't see the end at a glance, they are so dense."

"Are you talking about sea urchins or hairtails?"

A Guang hurriedly followed and swam while saying: "There are both. The sea urchins are also densely packed, and the hairtails are also, but I don't know how long and deep the trench is. Anyway, the light is not good down there, and it looks like everything."

"Td, so this is what the seabed is like, there are all kinds of things down there..."

"Just now, a fish swam right past me. I poked the fish with my iron claws, and it blew several bubbles and ran away quickly with its tail wagging."

"If I had known what they said last year, I would have come out to join in the fun..."

"Dongzi, what should we do with those hairtail fish? There are so many of them, but we can't put the net down there..."

A Guang followed him to the side of the boat, chattering non-stop. The scene under the sea just now really shocked him. If he couldn't speak, he wouldn't have been holding it in until now.

Ye Yaodong climbed up first, and then said, "We have to use fishing. Fishing nets won't work. We have to use longlines. When we go back in the afternoon, we'll quickly buy nylon ropes and hooks and ask the locals to make them overnight. We have to make them tonight so as not to delay fishing tomorrow."

After saying that, he slapped his thigh again, "Who knows this thing can still be used, otherwise I would have brought it here myself."

"Who would have thought that longlines take up so much space? I brought it out because I was too full. Then let's go back early in the afternoon and buy ropes to make fishing lines early."

"What are you talking about?"

Father Ye surrounded the two people and listened to their chattering. He didn't understand a word, but he only understood that they said they regretted not bringing longlines.

"What is longline fishing? Where do cutlassfish come from? Can there be cutlassfish here? We should go to a farther sea area, deeper to find them, right?"

Without waiting for Ye Yaodong to say anything, A Guang excitedly talked about what they saw and heard on the seabed. He gestured while talking, and his face was full of joy.

Even the boatman next to him was very surprised.

"Ah, there are still hairtails under that trench? I didn't see any last year."

"There are so many of them, and they glow."

"Hairtails glow at night, and they glow when they come out of the water."

"Is it because there are too many hairtails blocking the jellyfish, so the jellyfish didn't come up, and there are only a few on the sea surface today?"

"Just now, I saw a few of them emerge in the middle of the day..."

"No, it's just that the peak season hasn't arrived yet. We have to wait a few more days, but we can catch a wave of hairtails during these few days. I guess when the jellyfish appear, the hairtail school will disappear and move away."

Ye Yaodong listened to what they were saying and interrupted them. His hands were not idle either. The two net bags of sea urchins he had just dug were still under the sea and had not been collected yet. He called two people to come over to help collect them together.

Father Ye was amazed, "This trench is so amazing, isn't it? Not only are there a large number of jellyfish, but there are also dense sea urchins on the rock walls on both sides. Now that the jellyfish are not in season, there are even schools of hairtail in it. It's amazing."

"Nature is so amazing. Don't think about it. Who will go down? The old will lead the new. Hurry up and put on your equipment. I will collect them here soon."

The two bags of sea urchins together weigh about 70 to 80 kilograms. The two bags of A Guang on the other side are about the same amount.

Each one is shiny black, with sharp spines like a hedgehog. Probably no one has ever gone into the water. These sea urchins have never been collected by anyone, so in addition to being densely packed at the bottom, each one is big and fat, and each one weighs about 30 to 40 taels.

They first carried a few net bags to the side of the basket, and then poured them into the basket to free up the net bags so that the second wave of people can go down.

When someone was picking up the sea urchin that fell on the deck, he was accidentally pricked by the spines on it and bled, but he was not panicked. He just stood aside and urinated on his hand.

Because some of the spines on the sea urchins have neurotoxins, it’s okay if it’s not serious, but it’s best to flush it with urine, so that it will be better immediately.

Ye Yaodong also reminded them when they went into the water, "The newcomers should adapt first when they go down for the first time. Those of you who went into the water last year, please take care of them more and take them down slowly. After one or two experiences, they will be fine later."

"I know."

"Warm up first. If you feel uncomfortable physically or mentally, come up immediately. Don't force it."

"Okay."

During their activities, he said a few more words, mainly for the newcomers. Now I have said it all at once, so I won’t say it later.

After the second wave of people went into the water, he asked the others, "Were there many jellyfish that came up just now?"

"Six or seven, scattered, our ship dared not move, the Harvest caught two by accident, the others were salvaged by small boats."

"Ah... there are more popping up over there..."

"When we came here before, there were only a few dozen on the sea, and it looks like they will pop up faster and faster in the future."

Father Ye said, "We will buy materials as soon as we dock in the afternoon. Fortunately, this is a seaside town, and these materials are easy to buy."

"I don't know how much of this wave of opportunities we can seize. Is this the first time these hairtails have appeared here, or has it always been like this? They just migrated away after the flood season arrived and the place was occupied by jellyfish. Wait. Come back next year?"

"Who cares? As long as we can catch fish, that's fine. Tomorrow we'll do the longline fishing, and we'll just pull the line into the water, and then aim the hook at the trench and put it down, which will give us a higher accuracy rate."

"Yes, putting it in the fish school will give us a higher catch rate. These hairtails are also very easy to catch, and I heard they are very greedy. Let's prepare more bait tomorrow."

"It just so happens that everyone has gone out to trawl, and there are a lot of groceries. We can just use the ones they don't want as bait at night."

They were waiting on the boat, while discussing countermeasures, and how to maximize the number of hairtails caught in the trench within the next two or three days.

It's also okay, they have a lot of boats, and they can move the boats tomorrow to extend the fishing distance of longline fishing.

The crack in the trench is so long, they can drive the boat down to the water, find the exact location, and then put the longline down to the trench.

The second group of people who went down came up after a while. Everyone gathered around the side of the boat, and the two people under the water also smiled.

After pulling the people up, the two people kept chattering about what they saw and heard under the water. It was not much different from what Ye Yaodong and A Guang had said before, but the description was more exaggerated, which made the other people who had not yet entered the water impatient to go down earlier.

And the sea urchins they caught, each person had 70 to 80 kilograms, not less than what Ye Yaodong and his team caught, and they were poured into two full baskets.

Ye Yaodong deliberately left ten people on the boat, two in a group, and one wave of them caught 150 kilograms. Everyone took turns to catch about 700 to 800 kilograms, which took about 2 hours. It took more than two hours to drag a net.

However, the harvest of dragging a net was not so great.

Maybe it's because now two people go into the water together, with a companion, they can overcome fear together, and after getting familiar with each other, the efficiency can be greatly improved. The trench is also filled with hairtails, and the deep black hole can't be seen, so the harvest of each trip is higher than last year.

I still remember that when we went into the water last year, everyone's harvest was about 30 to 40 kilograms, and only 500 kilograms were harvested after two rounds. Only when he went into the water would he harvest more. Now he can harvest about 700 to 800 kilograms in one round.

It's really stressful to go down to the bottom of the sea alone and then go to the deep trench. Fortunately, he was smart this year and caught another one.

If those sea urchins are still the same price as last year, about 20 cents per catty, then 1,000 catties will be 200 yuan.

It's only 9 o'clock now. If you don't go back for lunch at noon, you can catch three or four more waves. 10 people take turns to do it, and there is enough time to rest.

If you go back at four or five in the afternoon, you can catch nearly 4,000 kilograms, which is about 800 yuan a day!

The workers were paid 4.5 yuan a day for 28 people, not counting his father, who must have given them extra money. Even if they didn't work, the workers still had to get 126 yuan a day.

The 10 people who went into the water had to be subsidized 2 yuan, which was equivalent to an extra 20 yuan, so the labor cost was 146 yuan.

It was equivalent to a net profit of about 650 yuan, making a fortune.

It didn't matter whether there were jellyfish or not, the sea urchins were enough for him to make money.

But we couldn't really let them work on the sea without food or water.

After Ye Yaodong calculated the amount he could catch today, he turned to his father and said, "There aren't many jellyfish on the sea anyway. Those small boats are wasting time rowing around on the sea. I don't know if they have found any jellyfish yet. They don't have any hand-cast nets or anything like that. Why don't you go find those boats and take the people back first?"

"Take them back? Don't let them search on the sea?"

"Yes, it's too inefficient, and there's no need to waste manpower. If you go back early, you can buy the nylon line for longline fishing first. If it's hard to find local people to do it, it's just right for these boatmen to sit back and do it. If we do it at home, a dozen or twenty people can make one or two fishing lines for most of the day."

"That's right. Longline fishing needs to be prepared in advance. Then I will go to find those small boats now, and then go back together?"

"No, we won't go back. This trip will yield a lot of gains. We will stay here with this boat. We will not leave today. We will stay here to catch sea urchins. You can bring us lunch at noon."

"That's fine. We can call the small boat back later or leave it with you. You can tow it back together in the evening."

"Yes."

After hearing this, A Guang also started to think about it.

"There's no point in the Harvest staying here, so I'll just help you tow those boats back, and then I'll go back to prepare the materials for longline fishing. My father is out trawling, so I can't ask him to help."

"Okay, then you drive your boat and take the people on your boat back to prepare first. Anyway, the people on your boat are just sitting here doing nothing, and they can't catch many jellyfish. I have enough people to go into the water here, and I originally kept 10 people."

He and A Guang are not counted as heads, and A Guang just came here temporarily to join in the fun.

"Okay."

Their two families have the most people. If they don't open for a day, the expenses are dozens or hundreds of yuan. They have to increase revenue and reduce expenditure as much as possible. Fortunately, in addition to sea urchins, they can also have another school of hairtail, which can be used as a subsidy.

Other fishing boats can also earn some subsidies by trawling out to sea.

Father Ye drove Dongsheng 002 out for a walk and brought back a bunch of boats and people.

After all, they had just rowed out for a short time, so no one had much harvest. Some caught a few fish, and some caught one or two jellyfish.

Although one boat didn't catch much, the goods from 10 boats were gathered together, which looked quite impressive. Ye's father also moved all the goods onto the boat, which he could use to make a meal or sell for a few dollars.

After returning, he didn't put all the small boats behind the Harvest, and he also left three behind himself.

Because there were only three or four small boats brought out by other families, the trawlers originally wanted to come and take the small boats back when they returned.

But now that the small boats saw that their big boat was going back, they all asked A Guang to pull them back together. There was really no goods, so they were just floating there.

A Guang had no choice. They were all from the same village, and the villagers had to help each other later. It was not easy to refuse such a thing within their ability, and it was just three or four more.

Then the two boats towed a bunch of small boats and went back first.

Ye Yaodong's family also left someone on duty. After all, there were a lot of supplies there, and someone had to watch over them. The people on duty during the day slept on the boat at night, and they were rewarded to rest at home during the day.

It was equivalent to each person working two days a month and resting two days during the day.

He took A Guang into the water for the first time, and he didn't go into the water again. He just watched others take turns to go into the water to work for him on the sea. He also said that those who went into the water alone would get extra wages.

Everyone was very happy. Although there was last year and there will definitely be this year, they were of course happier to hear about the salary increase.

Originally, it was 4.5 yuan a day, and adding two more yuan would be 6.5 yuan. If you work for 30 days a month, it would be 200 yuan, which is higher than any other job salary.

After everyone did the math, they worked harder.

And after a cycle, when they went into the water again, everyone was more efficient. Sometimes one person could collect more than 100 kilograms, and the income was higher than he expected.

Ye Yaodong was just like a rich landlord. After changing into clean clothes, he sat there with his feet up to enjoy the cool air, watching everyone take turns to go into the water to earn money for him. He was just short of holding a handful of sunflower seeds, but of course he couldn't go that far.

Now their boat was the only one floating in the trench. While everyone was collecting sea urchins, many jellyfish floated up one after another, and there were dozens of them, big and small. Because their fishing boat was parked in the same place, no one went to salvage those jellyfish.

It was not until Ye's father finished his work and drove the boat out to deliver food that he hurriedly caught all the jellyfish that floated up on the sea beside him in the past few hours.

Then he came over and called the people who had finished their meal on the boat to come over to help divide it up, and he also climbed over to see their harvest for most of the day.

"So many!"

Ye's father was surprised. Looking at the full baskets of sea urchins on the deck, there were more than twenty baskets in total. He stretched out his index finger to count them one by one.

"It's only been half a day, how come there are so many?"

"Two people going into the water together is more efficient, one person's harvest can almost catch up with last year's two people."

"Are there 2,000 kilograms here?"

"Almost, maybe a little more."

Ye Yaodong looked at his watch. It was only a little after 12 o'clock, not even one o'clock yet, which was probably not much different from what he expected. It should be possible to catch 4,000 kilograms today.

You have to go into the water when there are no jellyfish, and catch as much as you can. There are no outsiders, and the time, place and people are all right.

"Then we must have caught 4,000 to 5,000 kilograms of sea urchins today?" Father Ye's face was full of surprise and smile, "I've made a fortune."

"I think so. Did you ask about the price when you came ashore?"

"Yes, they said that the ones weighing more than 300 kilograms are 20 cents, those weighing less than 300 kilograms are only 15 cents, and those weighing 100 kilograms are only 8 cents."

"The difference is so big."

"We eat seafood by size, so of course the small ones have less meat. I also asked about the hairtail fish, which is valuable. As long as the meat is thicker and the size is bigger, the purchase price is more than 30 cents."

Ye Yaodong was all smiles. "This is good. We can sell it for more money. Have you bought the longline fishing lines?"

"Yes, I'll let the boatmen do it directly, so I don't have to hire people. They get a lot of wages a day, and it's not good for more than 10 or 20 people to just play around without work. They won't have anything to do when they go back, so it's a good idea to let them do it."

"Yes."