Chapter 1096: The First Day of Harvest Is Nearly 1000 (Monthly Ticket +2)
After delivering the meal and cutting up the jellyfish, Father Ye did not leave immediately, but waited there to see the goods collected in this wave.
He did not wait for a while, and he waited for two people to emerge from the water together.
After two rounds of work in the morning, the boatmen on the boat had experience. After they pulled people up neatly, the next person took over immediately, and the others also pulled up the ropes and pulled up the net bags that were still sinking to the bottom of the sea.
Father Ye kept stretching his neck to see how much goods they could collect in one trip, and saw the full net bags being pulled out of the water and smashed onto the deck.
"So much... much more than what you caught this morning..."
"Practice makes perfect. Once you get used to it, you can go much faster."
"There's nothing to be afraid of in that trench. The glowing hairtails at the bottom can provide light. But if a jellyfish suddenly pops up, there will be a black hole. It looks a bit scary, but it's okay as long as you don't look down."
"We all have experience..."
After watching everyone pour the sea urchins into the basket, Father Ye couldn't stop smiling, and then quietly approached Ye Yaodong and whispered, "Should we give them a raise?"
"Well, they must be paid more for doing more work than others for no reason, and going to a place like the seabed, how can we not pay them more?"
"That's too easy to make money... There was no work to do, and they were asked to come out. It's only right that they should be asked to do anything in their free time. They just went into the water, and they still have to be paid more..."
"You can't say that. They did do more work than others. If you don't pay them more, who will help you work hard to make money? Others don't have to work and do the same work. If they go into the water, the price will be the same. Won't they shout that they are afraid? Then who will help me to salvage? "
"Okay."
"Look at the long-term, Dad. Don't be reluctant. Think about it. Now that they are skilled in diving, two people can bring up nearly 200 kilograms in one trip. We have already collected 2,000 kilograms in the morning. It is not a big problem to collect another 2,000 kilograms in the afternoon. Besides, everyone is big in the trench, there is no small one. If we calculate 4,000 kilograms, we can earn 800 yuan a day. , the little salary paid is nothing."
"Okay, you are right, you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child."
"Right! It just so happens that the jellyfish haven't reached the peak season these two days, and the number floating up is still small. Take advantage of this gap to quickly catch sea urchins and cutlassfish. Otherwise, when the jellyfish season comes, the speed of floating up is too fast, and those cutlassfish will have to migrate away."
"Then it's better to come slowly during the season, and catch these first."
"It depends on the situation."
It's not up to him when the peak season comes.
Ye's father heard two splashes, and two more people jumped down. He was also a little itchy.
"Dongzi? How about I try again?"
"Don't join in the fun. I have enough manpower. If you don't need it, just let them do it. I haven't gone down yet. Why are you going down at your age? Don't be so curious."
Hearing this, Ye's father had to give up, so as not to be unable to help, but to hinder.
Ye Yaodong also drove his father away, "The jellyfish on the boat have been divided, you should send them back quickly and sell them for as much money as you can. I also have half a bucket of jellyfish heads and half a bucket of jellyfish skins here. I accidentally caught some of them floating to the side of the boat and brought them back for you to sell."
Father Ye was reluctant to part with the jellyfish that floated up intermittently, worried that they would not be caught and the trawling boats would pick them up later.
"I should have left a small boat here for you just now."
"No need, there are not many. I will catch them when I am close enough. If I can't reach them, I will leave them alone."
The big heads are now on the sea urchins and hairtails.
"Then I will sail back first, sell the goods on the boat, and help with the longline fishing to finish it as soon as possible."
Ye Yaodong waved his hand, asking his father to go back quickly, and then he continued to sit with his feet up and enjoy the sea breeze.
The boatmen on the boat took turns to go into the water, and those who didn't get a turn just sat there and rested in the sea breeze.
For them, it wasn't tiring at all. After all, they could rest for more than an hour after going into the water for 20 minutes, and the experience of going into the water to catch sea urchins was novel enough. They could brag about it when they went back, and there was also a high salary subsidy, which was the best thing.
The number of baskets on the deck kept increasing, all of which were black thorny balls. The sea urchins that looked like bombs filled the deck, affecting everyone's normal activities.
Ye Yaodong asked people to move them to the fish warehouse first, so that they would take up less space.
They stayed in the same place to collect sea urchins, from morning to sunset, and then fishing boats returned to the trench one after another.
Seeing that the fishing boats had returned, Ye Yaodong also asked people to stop salvaging for a while, move the fishing boats first, and catch all the jellyfish on the sea surface first, so that they would not stay here for so long, and the jellyfish that floated up would be cheaper for others.
Big money should be earned, but small money should not be despised.
After the salvage was completed, they continued to go into the water, and the fishing boats also approached.
He saw that it was Pei's father who came back first, and helped explain why A Guang went back.
Pei's father's eyes lit up, "There are schools of hairtails below!"
"Yes."
Ye Yaodong didn't want to keep it secret, and there was no way to keep it secret. There were so many boatmen, dozens of people knew about it, and his family was still doing longline fishing there, so they must have made a batch overnight. Others would just ask out of curiosity and know what was going on. It couldn't be kept secret.
After being excited, Pei's father's face was full of regret, "It's a pity that we don't have a way to get your equipment for going into the water..."
Ye Yaodong knew that Pei's father had another idea.
"A Guang can drive a boat here together tomorrow. If you want to go longline fishing, let him go down together and put the hooks together in the trench."
"Okay, okay, let him help you fish for sea urchins. Anyway, he has already gone down once, so he can't come up empty-handed."
Ye Yaodong nodded.
The fishing boats behind did not delay for long and returned one after another. No one could see the harvest on his boat. He had moved all the sea urchins to the fish warehouse. Everyone could only see the buckets on the deck. It was unclear how many jellyfish were in them, but there were definitely none around the trench.
Ye Yaodong explained to the others again that the other small boats were taken back by A Guang.
"Didn't you say you would stay here to catch sea urchins? How many did you catch?"
"A lot, right? What is that thing that you can get in the water? Can we buy it?"
"You're dreaming. I heard that you can only get it with connections. How can we ordinary people get it?"
"Hey, A Dong is really amazing. He can get anything and make any money. He can even hold his breath in the water for so long to catch sea urchins. He deserves to make money."
All the returning fishing boats were close together, chatting together. He just smiled and didn't respond. The others automatically answered for him. They probably just complained and didn't expect him to say anything.
But they didn't go back immediately.
"How long can they stay underwater? How long will it take for them to come up? Let's wait here and take a look before going back."
Ye Yaodong looked at his watch, "Soon."
There were still fishing boats behind them that hadn't returned, so everyone waited there patiently.
After waiting for just 10 minutes, they saw a splash on the water surface, and someone emerged from the water, wearing a strange mask on his face. However, after watching the two people climb up, everyone found that their hands were empty, and there was nothing in them, and they started talking again.
He didn't need to answer, the other boatmen helped explain, and everyone saw that they were collecting the ropes and pulling up the net bags.
One rope collected two black bags of goods, and the other rope also collected two bags. (The last chapter was modified a bit)
"So many?"
"It must be about 100 to 200 kilograms, right?"
"Of course there are..."
"How much can one kilogram of this sell for?
It must be quite a lot..."
Everyone was talking about it, and they were all curiously watching. After they were poured into the bamboo baskets, they were carried to the fish warehouse in a short while, and everyone had nothing to see.
"Adong, how many kilograms have you caught so far today?"
"I haven't weighed it yet, so I don't know. I'll know when I weigh it when I get to the shore."
"You should have an idea of how many baskets there are, right? I should be able to estimate it roughly."
Ye Yaodong looked at the sky and thought for a while, "4,000 kilograms, right?"
"What?"
"Ah? 4,000 kilograms?"
"Oh my goodness, are there so many sea urchins down there?"
"4,000 kilograms, how much would it sell for? Hundreds of dollars? Oh my god, you made so much on your first day here?"
"4,000 kilograms, isn't that too much? Did you crush the sea urchins? Is it the nest? Are there more under there? Can we catch more tomorrow?"
"It shouldn't be that much, right? If we can catch so much every day, what will happen? There will always be a time when we can catch all of them. 4,000 jin is too much. I thought it would be at most one or two thousand jin. There shouldn't be that much under there, right?"
"I've made a fortune... I've made so much money right after I got out. Why would I catch jellyfish? I can just catch sea urchins."
Ye Yaodong felt that he was just being conservative. In fact, there should be more than that. There is still time now, and he can catch two more trips. He thinks it is very likely that he can catch 5,000 jin today. His efficiency is really amazing.
"When the jellyfish season comes, there are so many of them here, how can we go down to catch sea urchins? We can only catch them for a few days."
"Yes, it will be inconvenient to go into the water when there are too many jellyfish, otherwise the sting of jellyfish can kill people."
"There must not be many sea urchins down there... There are too many to catch..."
Everyone was talking about sea urchins, and Ye Yaodong and Pei's father tacitly did not mention the hairtail.
And Ye's father also asked everyone if they wanted to go back together. Anyway, the other boats had gone back, and it was just time for dinner now. It would be just right to go home and eat after selling the goods.
"Are you going back, Dong? Or we can go together later?"
"I'll finish work around 5 o'clock. I'll go back and sell the goods and eat at around 6 o'clock."
"Let's go back first. He hired a cook to cook for us, but we don't. We have to cook for ourselves..."
"That's right. They are more comfortable. It's much easier to have someone cook for them..."
"Let's go. Then let's go back first. The fishing boats that haven't come back will have Adong here later. If they don't see any boats later, they will go back naturally."
"Then let's go back first..."
Ye Yaodong also waved to everyone, and they continued to fish as usual.
It was summer, and the sun set late. It was almost 5 o'clock and the sun was still strong, but it was setting to the other side of the mountain. It was estimated that there was still an hour before it set.
He also stopped when he saw that it was time. When the time came, he directly called everyone to finish work after waiting for people to come up. By the way, he also cleaned the surrounding sea surface again. After catching all the remaining jellyfish, he immediately went home.
During this period, all the fishing boats came back. Until everyone else went back, they also returned first. They were the last to fall.
All the boatmen were sitting on the deck, all wet, their faces filled with the joy of a good harvest. Some were cutting up jellyfish, some were talking about today's catch, and some were asking if they would fish for hairtail again tomorrow.
Ye Yaodong was all smiles, "Let's go back and see how the longline fishing is going. We have to do both tomorrow."
"How many pounds can the sea urchins weigh today?"
"We'll know the exact number after we weigh them back."
"We have to move to another location tomorrow. The area around us is all gone. We didn't get much the next time, so we have to move to the side to look for them."
"Well, we'll move to another location tomorrow. It's just right that when we take the longline fishing into the water, we can find out which area has the most."
"I'm rich. There are really a lot of sea urchins down there. They're so dense. Mama is in pieces..."
"I've really made a fortune..."
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "Everyone, work hard. I'm not stingy even though I've made a fortune. Your salary will also increase. Think about it. As long as you go into the water, you can earn 6.5 yuan a day, which adds up to 200 yuan a month. If you stay for two more months, this trip will be comparable to what you earned in the past six months? How much is the salary of an average worker in a month? You can earn four or five months' worth of theirs in one month."
"Haha, yes, a lot..."
Everyone was smiling.
Ye Yaodong also went to drive the boat.
All the fish were caught, and there was no need to sort them, which was particularly easy. Everyone sat on the deck and chatted.
As the fishing boat got closer and closer to the shore, the setting sun gradually began to set.
They docked before the sun set.
Ye Yaodong asked the purchasing point that bought his sea urchins last year. The boss also knew him and was surprised to know that he came to fish for sea urchins again.
Generally, it is not easy to get such underwater things. If there are any, the quantity is small. The days when Ye Yaodong produced steadily last year also left a deep impression on him. This year, he still gave him the price of last year.
Originally, it was 0.22 cents, but later when he had more, it became 0.2 cents. Now he is directly given 0.2 cents.
However, he is not very satisfied. This year, prices of everything have increased, even wages have increased, so it makes no sense that fish prices should not increase.
But the key is that fish prices have not increased. In the first half of the year, the fresh-collecting ships at sea did not increase, and the shore did not increase much. What they increased was the retail price, and the purchase price was still the same.
Moreover, because he had too many, the purchase point insisted that it would not increase. When it comes to interests, people are not as surprised and easy to talk to as at the beginning.
Ye Yaodong has no choice, who made him have a large quantity.
Generally, a large quantity means that the price will fall accordingly. He has not yet said his quantity, so he did not say much.
When he carried out the sea urchins in the fish warehouse, he almost stunned people's eyes, but at this time, people wanted to lower the price, but there was no way, because the words had been said, and Ye Yaodong said that he could get thousands of kilograms tomorrow.
After all the sea urchins were weighed, Ye Yaodong was pleasantly surprised when he calculated the total. The estimate was accurate, 4,822 kilograms, and he sold them for 964.4 yuan.
The jellyfish he bought also sold for 16.3 yuan, for a total of 980.7 yuan. Although it didn't break a thousand, it was already unexpected.
All the fishing boats didn't catch much today, and he earned nearly 1,000 yuan on the first day.