Chapter 1099 Another 5,000 Yuan

The boatmen nearby were all eager to hear this, and those whose turn it was could not wait to put on their equipment.

"It's our turn... Let's go in the water and see what's under the water..."

"Take off your clothes faster, you're taking your time, I'm still waiting to go in the water..."

"Why are you in such a hurry? There are still many fish behind, and they all need to be caught, right?"

Ye Yaodong said affirmatively: "They all need to be caught, so let's catch them all at once, and we don't have to wait until the evening."

I just thought that half a day had passed, and there were schools of fish under the water, so I tried to catch one to see the situation, and the rest would be pending.

Now that the hooks are 90% full, what else is there to be dissatisfied with? I will definitely catch them quickly, and we don't have to wait until the evening.

The bite rate is so high, and catching them early can also avoid leaving them for too long and causing them to run away.

"Be careful when you collect them, wear gloves, and the others also have two pliers in their hands to avoid being bitten."

"No, this fish will die as soon as it comes out of the water."

"Not so absolute."

If you collect them quickly, they are still very active, and some may not have time to expose themselves. If you rush to catch them at this time, they may counterattack and be bitten by their sharp teeth.

"Tsk tsk tsk, so many, five or six on one fishing line, where have you seen so many on one line in the past, it's good to catch one on one fishing line, and there are still many empty hooks."

"This basket is almost full again..."

"Put them in a neat way, don't ruin the appearance..." Ye Yaodong reminded.

"I know, we have arranged them neatly, even the quilts are not so neat..."

"Sai, you still fold the quilt? I guess you have never folded a quilt in your life..."

"Then I will arrange them neatly too. Tomorrow, whether we eat meat or drink soup, it all depends on these hairtails."

Ye Yaodong smiled and cooperated with them, "Let's continue to eat meat tomorrow. Today is a big harvest. Let's buy another 10 kilograms of meat tomorrow."

"Okay, haha... We can eat meat again..."

"Everyone work hard, Adong said to buy another 10 kilograms of meat tomorrow, and continue to eat meat..."

Everyone was enthusiastic, not just because of the extra meal and better food, but mainly because they have been fishermen for so many years and have never seen longline fishing be played like this, and the catch rate is so high. This is also the joy of a good harvest.

After a main line is collected, others are also there to carry baskets to estimate the weight.

A main line has 500 hooks, 90% of which are caught. Some can catch two, and even more, they can catch three with the head and tail connected.

Everyone lifted the baskets in their hands and estimated that seven or eight baskets together could weigh 600 to 700 kilograms. The main reason was that these hairtails were very big, and there were no small ones. Each one was nearly one meter long, and the meat was thick. It weighed more than one kilogram in the hand.

A whole basket was lifted out, and the fish were all about the same size, shining brightly.

In addition, there was a small half basket of fish that were not so good, mainly because the tails were bitten, and there were about 30 or 40 of them. Although the price was a little discounted, it could still be sold for money.

Ye Yaodong thought that he would carry this basket back and share it with others, and he didn't need to sell it. Those who came out were all from the village, and they all knew each other. They had to keep some for themselves, and the daily food consumption of 30 people was also huge.

"We didn't have enough ice for today's trip. I don't know if we can catch so many. Save some when you carry them to the fish warehouse."

"I know. Anyway, we'll be back in a few hours. They'll definitely be fresh enough."

"Yeah."

"Bring the basket over. We've got more fish..."

The second line was also hooked and pulled up by them. Everyone immediately divided the work and cooperated. Some moved the fish on the deck to the fish warehouse, and some rolled up their sleeves and followed to collect the fish.

Ye Yaodong turned around and walked to the other side of the ship, watching A Guang and the others collecting the fish on the other side.

The people on the opposite boat were all beaming with joy. At this time, no one cared about the scattered jellyfish floating on the sea. All their attention was on the hairtail. The various discussions and discussions could be heard, and everyone was very excited.

"Dongzi, are you going to catch them all?"

"Yes, catch them all. There are so many hairtails on one line. Why keep them if we don't catch them now? Some of them have already slipped away. It's better to catch them earlier to save them from slipping away."

"We have to catch them all too. There are too many. I didn't expect them to be so easy to catch."

"We call this precision delivery. We throw them into the school of fish. You can't just catch them casually. You are also collecting the second line, right? How many kilograms did you catch with the previous line?"

"About 600 to 700 kilograms. Some of them are bitten on the surface. How about you?"

"Almost the same."

A Guang shouted again with regret on his face: "What a pity. We bought less materials and made less fishing lines yesterday. Only half of yours. After I finish collecting these, I will go back to buy more materials in advance, and continue to make more in the evening, and come back tomorrow."

"Okay, the number of jellyfish floating up today is obviously more. I probably won't be able to do it for two days before I have to stop."

"Let's see."

Ye Yaodong watched their collection process. The hook rate was the same. The whole main line was pulled up, and the fish hooks on the bottom fishing line were all shiny hairtails. There were very few empty hooks, and everyone was smiling.

He watched for a while, and then went back to his side to watch everyone collect the catch. The people on his boat also gathered there to watch and chat.

He didn't know when his father would come back from trawling. If he came back, he would have to ask his father to buy some more materials. It was worth spending more money while he could still fish in the next two days.

The income was much higher than the cost.

Now one longline fishing can collect 600 to 700 kilograms, and 10 fish can collect 6,000 to 7,000 kilograms. If 1 kilogram is 30 or 40 cents, it is more than 2,000 yuan, plus sea urchins!

Sea urchins can also collect about 5,000 kilograms, and can also be sold for a thousand yuan.

Make a fortune!

It's better not to come during the jellyfish season, right?

Ye Yaodong did a quick calculation and was excited. It was a great profit. Before coming here, he had imagined that he could earn so much in a day, but he imagined that he could earn it from jellyfish. He didn’t expect that he could earn so much before he even saw the jellyfish.

"Adong, did you ask how much the hairtail fish cost yesterday?"

"They only said it depends on the size. If it's bigger and thicker, it's more than 30 cents. But they didn't specifically say whether it's a net or a fishing line, and my dad didn't ask clearly. When we go ashore to sell the goods later, don't take all the goods out first, move a basket and ask the price first."

The boatman next to him interrupted, "It must be more than 30 cents. In the past, nets with larger sizes could sell for so much. Today, our fishing line is complete and big, so it will definitely sell for more money."

"Yes, it must be 40 or 50 cents. Big fishing lines are very expensive. Don't let the locals cheat you."

"You have to ask more..."

"Can we finish collecting this line?"

"Not yet. There are more fish on the hooks. It's slower to collect. It's not that fast. It will probably take two or three hours to collect all of them. Not only that, but some of the buoys are floating a little far away. We have to wait for them to come up from the bottom of the water and then drive the boat over to collect them. "

Ye Yaodong nodded. He knew this. "When the next wave of them comes down, move to another position and also change the position to fish for sea urchins."

"Catch the jellyfish on the sea surface. It hasn't been a while. I see dozens of them floating up. Our boat in front can't move. They have all been caught by Lao Pei. We have to catch some later."

"Yes, we can't let them get away with everything..."

"Let's cook something to eat first. I won't go back at noon. Fortunately, there are a little bit of everything on the boat. I can continue to work after I'm full."

He didn't bring all the boatmen out today. He only brought half of them and left the other half to look after the house. His father also brought two when he went out to trawle at night. He didn't really need so many people to do the work.

Maybe we can bring two small boats out tomorrow to pick up jellyfish here, so that the people on their boats don't have to be distracted to fish. No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat. All these bits and pieces can be sold for dozens.

Everyone on the boat collected hairtails in an orderly manner, but there was no surprise at the beginning. It became calm. Occasionally, they would exclaim when they saw two or three connected head to tail.

The people who were fishing for sea urchins below were also taking turns. After everyone had taken their turn, they had only collected half of their longline fishing.

When it was his and A Guang's turn, they also went into the water and took a look at the special scene of the longline fishing hook in the water.

Mingming was floating in the trench, holding the iron claws to collect sea urchins and let them fall into the net bag, but suddenly a white ribbon not far below flipped and floated.

A series of shimmering hairtails rose directly near them, one long strip, a large piece, neatly arranged in an orderly manner.

Although it was not beside them, they could still see the tail of the hairtail fish swaying in the water until it was farther and farther away and could no longer be seen.

They kept watching until it disappeared, and then continued to hunt sea urchins.

During this period, several small fish also swam past them. Sometimes, the two of them were too impatient to touch it, and when they saw it, they would reach out and rub it, causing the fish to dodge immediately in panic.

A jellyfish also rose from under Ye Yaodong. After seeing it, he dodged to the side, and then he tried to poke its umbrella with his iron claws, but it immediately reacted and jumped to the side first, then retracted its umbrella and went back to the trench.

Ye Yaodong looked at the jellyfish that was about to float up in surprise, but it sank to the bottom of the water because of his action.

Although the jellyfish has no eyes and ears, it cannot hear the voice of the enemy or see the enemy's body, but it can quickly avoid the strong enemy.

This is because there is a kind of small fish and shrimp that act as its "eyes and ears". They are called "jellyfish shrimp" and "jade pomfret".

They are very small and usually live around the mouth and arms of jellyfish, using jellyfish as a protective umbrella.

When an enemy approaches, these small fish and shrimps will immediately hide in the mouth and arms of the jellyfish like a clever ghost. The jellyfish will immediately shrink its umbrella and sink into the sea water to avoid risks after receiving the "information".

Sure enough, you can't be careless. You lost one, and this one is still big.

He meowed below, and the jellyfish did not float back to the sea hook, but swung back and forth in the trench, and then floated away from them.

This time he stopped being so greedy and fished honestly. When a jellyfish appeared beside him, he just avoided it and let it rise to the surface of the sea steadily.

Not to mention, the frequency of jellyfish floating up in the afternoon was much higher than in the morning.

When the two of them filled the net bag and floated up, Pei's father had almost collected all the longline fishing, while he had only collected half.

As soon as A Guang climbed onto the deck, he told his father to go back first and ask a few more prices before selling. He stayed here to help with the fishing, and also asked his father to buy more materials so that he could catch more tomorrow.

"If we need to make more materials, we have to sail the Harvest tomorrow. This ship has no fish warehouse, and the goods are piled on the deck to dry. There are also some jellyfish, plus there are several baskets of longline fishing. There is no place to put our feet. We can't turn around."

"Then sail the Harvest. This boat can also be used for trawling."

"Okay, I thought the same as my in-laws yesterday. I did it a little more intensively. I bought materials for ten hooks, but the hooks were piled on two. Later, I bought a lot of hooks. There are still a lot of ropes left. I can replenish the hooks when I go back."

Ye Yaodong also interrupted and asked, "Uncle Pei has collected everything. Is there an estimate of how many jin?"

"About 3,000 jin? They are all piled up on the deck. The sun is too hot. We don't have a fish warehouse here, and we don't buy much ice, so we can only send them back quickly."

"Then you go back first. I haven't collected all the goods here yet. I will go back after I collect them."

"Then I will go back to sell the goods first, and inquire about the price in advance. When you go back, you just need to sell them directly."

"Okay, I believe uncle will definitely sell them at a good price."

"Then we will go back first."

In recent days, they have been trawling and selling goods there. The locals can see it and can chat with them about the collection of goods and what goods are available today. What price.

After Pei's father drove the boat away, there was only their boat floating there. Ye Yaodong and A Guang also sat on the ground with bare chests at the same time, watching the boatmen collect the hairtail one by one and put them neatly in the basket.

"Dongzi, how many kilograms have you harvested?"

"About the same as you guys? We harvested at the same time. If you have finished, we should have harvested almost half of it."

"If I had known, I should have done more yesterday. At that time, I thought that you had more people and could work faster, so we could do more. We had fewer people and could do less. Your quantity is twice as much as mine. Can you harvest 6,000 to 7,000 kilograms today?"

"It should be."

"It's a big profit."

"You are the same. You have made a lot of money. You can work for two more days to make up for the gap in the past few days."

"Those people are complaining there. It's too early to talk about it..."

"Don't worry about them. I told you that you can choose not to follow. They are happy when they make money, and gossip when they don't make money."

"Your cousins ​​were left behind on the coast, and no one brought them here. Will they expose this place directly?"

"They dare not."

Ye Yaodong is still confident. They can't bear the anger of the villagers. If they really do this stupid thing, they will be ostracized immediately, and they will not have a good time when they go back.

"But we probably don't need to wait until they expose this place before the locals find out. As long as we bring back a large amount of goods for a few days, we will be targeted by the locals. Maybe... maybe it won't take a few days? We are eye-catching enough."

"Yeah, maybe before they are exposed, we will be followed by the locals. It seems that we will have to fight a tough battle in a few days."

"Well, Chen Jianian and his men will probably come here in a day or two. The factory has started work today."

"I don't know how many people they have."

"I don't know." Ye Yaodong shook his head and couldn't guess.

Speak of the devil.

In the evening, after they collected the hairtail and the sun was setting, they really saw a lot of trawlers parked on the dock when they were returning home. There were at least twenty trawlers.

The locals on the shore were talking about it, saying that a large group of foreigners had come.

When they docked on the shore, there were local fishermen who pulled them over and asked if it was their accomplices who came to catch jellyfish again?

Ye Yaodong always answered that he didn't know. The people he brought with him had been here a few days ago, and he was definitely not fishing around the coast. They had all gone out fishing these days.

After saying that, he ignored the locals' discussions and went to find his father who was waiting on the shore to ask which family the hairtail fish was sold to.

When Ye's father came back from trawling, he went around the trench to see the harvest. He originally wanted to wait to come back together, but Ye Yaodong asked him to come back first to sell the goods, and by the way, he also asked him to ask Pei's father which family the hairtail fish was sold to and how much it was sold for.

So Ye's father was waiting here on purpose, waiting for them to come back and take them to sell the goods.

And the family that collects sea urchins and hairtails is not the same.

However, after they carried the sea urchins to the scales, and then carried the hairtails to the shore, the family who collected the sea urchins also hurriedly stopped him and offered the same price.

Ye Yaodong thought that he would not bother two people with the same thing. Since he could offer the same price, he sold them all to the same family.

Thanks to Pei's father, he came to negotiate the price in advance. He only needed to sell at the ready price, which could be sold for 50 cents per pound.

Their fishing lines were all beautiful and fresh, and they were very large and very uniform. They were almost all about one meter long. There were no particularly large or small ones, which was also the characteristic of fishing lines.

Unlike net lines, the sizes of the fish caught in a net were different.

This price was also considered high. The people at the purchasing point also said that they had not had such a good price in the past. They also saw that these were caught by them, and they were big and beautiful. If they were ordinary net lines, they would only be worth two or three cents.

They were the first to weigh the sea urchins. Today's harvest of sea urchins was a little more than yesterday because there were two more laborers.

Although we still finished work at the same time, we just helped everyone share the number of times we went into the water, but the amount still increased a little, reaching 5425 kilograms, and a total of 1085 yuan was sold.

When the fishing line was weighed, the people at the outlet couldn't help asking, asking them where they caught these and how they caught so many. I have never seen a fishing boat that can catch so many at once.

It's simply unheard of and unseen.

Ye Yaodong also explained that he encountered a large school of fish. If there were no large schools of fish, he wouldn't be able to catch so many.

Everyone was a little skeptical. Unless you use a fishing net to drag and catch them all in one net, otherwise, even if you encounter a school of fish, you have to put a lot of longline fishing to catch so many, and this time he really didn't have any other miscellaneous fish.

When Pei's father sold goods in the previous wave, the people around him were surprised enough. He brought more this time, and there were many people watching the excitement when he weighed.

His batch of goods was much better than the miscellaneous goods brought back by their fishing boats.

In terms of quantity alone, the goods from several purchasing points combined were not as much as he salvaged, because there were no big ships docking, after all, this was just a small town.

However, some people saw the messy longline fishing that their boatmen brought up, and saw that there were hooks on a fishing line, which violated common sense. Then they suddenly realized it and passed it around.

After the scale was passed and the money was in the pocket, Ye Yaodong didn't care what others said.

After weighing his hairtail, the total weight was 6230 kilograms, and there were more than 400 kilograms of them that were damaged on the surface and not so beautiful, and they were discounted by half, only 2.5 cents.

So he sold these hairtails for 6230x0.5+425x0.25=3221.25 yuan.

There were also scattered jellyfish that were salvaged, which were also sold for 32.58, more than yesterday, and these were after being divided with A Guang's boat.

The jellyfish blood was taken back and boiled, and when it was dried, it could be sold at a good price.

So in total, he earned 4338.83 yuan today, and the actual cost was lower than what he spent, and the labor was even cheaper.

Ye Yaodong walked out with a lot of money in his pocket, surrounded by the boatmen around him. By the way, they also left two baskets of hairtail with damaged skin and carried them back together.

The locals around were discussing how much he could sell so many goods for, but he didn't respond at all, but they could roughly guess that it was several thousand yuan, after all, the number was there, and the locals at the purchasing point would not hide it for him.

He thought, fortunately, there were many of them, and they were basically gathered in the same area. There were 30 people living together with him, and they were all his own people around, so people with ideas had to think about it.

We still need to have more people with us tomorrow, so that we can sell the goods when we come back. There is still some use for the strength of numbers.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief until they walked out of the dock.

"Fortunately, no one rushed up to rob or fight. It scared me to death."

"At this time, only local fishermen come back to sell goods. Gangsters will only appear after hearing about it. It is not as mixed as in big towns. Bring more people out tomorrow."

"Yes, bring more people to the dock to meet, and hide two guns in the fish that are left back."

"Don't be afraid, we have a lot of people and live not far away..."

Ye Yaodong comforted everyone who was frightened, "Don't worry too much, we stayed in this town last year, most of us People still know us, and they also know that we have weapons in our hands, and we are not easy to mess with. "

"That's true."

Ye Yaodong changed the subject and asked his father, "I saw 20 more trawlers on the dock today..."

"It was Chen Jianian and his friends who arrived. When I went back, I saw so many boats, and then I asked the people who stayed behind. Everyone said that they arrived at around 3 pm, and then they also made temporary arrangements to ask for a place to stay."

"I guess so, otherwise how could there be so many boats suddenly, and the locals are talking about it."

"He brought quite a few boats this time. I guess he brought everyone he knew and knew in a roundabout way. There are probably hundreds of people there."

"More than us."

"Including the small boats, we have more than them."

"Have they all settled down?"

"I heard that the locals are asking for a higher price, but they have no choice but to accept it, otherwise they will have no place to live. It's a bit far from us. The place they rented last year was rented by people from our area this year."

"Oh, then be careful tomorrow. Once you've settled down, they will probably go to the trench tomorrow."

"Well, they all come from the same place. Just fish for their own. It's not the peak season yet, so the number of fish is not high. Still scarce.

He changed the subject and asked: "You came back earlier, have you bought the materials for longline fishing?"

"Not much, there is not much in this town, if they didn't tell you in advance, they didn't prepare more. Yesterday, our two families took turns to buy a batch, and Lao Pei replenished it in the afternoon. When I went there, there were not many left. At most, I could make two more."

"Okay, then make two more. Chen Jianian and his people are here, and we probably can't fish for two days."

"It's a good thing that we came a few days earlier."

They talked as they walked, and soon they returned to the rental house. Ye Yaodong asked everyone to take a shower first. After taking a shower and eating, he also returned to the room and locked the money sold today and yesterday into the password box.

There is no place to hide in the rental house. They are all other people's houses. It seems more reliable to hide in the password box. Anyway, he has to leave someone to guard it every day.

Ye's father followed him into the house and watched him hide the money before asking, "Did you make 5,000 yuan from the sales these two days?"

"Yes, just over 5,000 yuan. Let's see tomorrow and see if we can make 10,000 yuan. I gave you the money I advanced yesterday, and I'll give you the money I advanced today."

"No need. The money from today's sales is with me. I'll just use it to buy it."

"That's fine. If there's any left, you don't have to give it to me. Keep it for yourself. Are you going out to trawl tonight?"

"You can't just sit there. You don't need so many people there. It's good to make a few dozen yuan a trip."

"Then come back early tomorrow afternoon, um... come back at noon, and then tomorrow afternoon, after I retrieve the longline fishing, I'll go back with Uncle Pei to sell it, and by the way, before the bank closes, Go and remit the money back."

"Okay, it's not safe to keep so much money around, so it's better to remit it back as soon as possible."

"Yeah."

Father Ye said happily: "I've only been out for two days and I've earned 5,000 yuan. If I work harder tomorrow, I can earn 10,000 yuan. It's really easy to make money. It seems that I can make a lot of money this time, definitely more than last year."

"That's because of the bonus of these goods. It's not certain if it's just jellyfish. The boats Chen Jianian brought this year are twice as many as last year. I don't know how many days it will be enough to catch."

"If there's nothing to catch, you can still go into the water to catch sea urchins, and you don't have to worry about not having money to make."

"Yeah, let's see."

He still remembered that there would be a strong typhoon this year, but he didn't remember which month it was. There might be typhoons in their coastal areas in October. It's hard to say. If there's a typhoon, nothing can be done.