Chapter 1101 Exposed

When Ye Yaodong went out to sea early the next morning, he found that there were more boats at the dock this morning, especially trawlers, which were much more than the previous days, and there were more people on the dock.

He was puzzled, but he just thought that no one went trawl tonight, so it seemed that there were more boats.

When they moved all the longline fishing boats to the boat, Chen Jianian's group also drove a boat and set off one after another. After Chen Jianian took the people to the place and knew the way, he probably didn't care.

A group of people from their village also set off one after another. Everyone had the same destination. Everyone was looking forward to more jellyfish and afraid of missing them.

After such a large group of people got on the boat and left, most of the people on the shore were gone, and it was no longer as lively as before.

After Chen Jianian's group came, there were too many fishing boats. Ye Yaodong only recognized the fishing boats and people from his village. He didn't recognize many people from his side at all.

Moreover, the fishing boats were sailing on the sea one after another, and no one could tell whether there were any more fishing boats.

They couldn't spot an unfamiliar boat following behind them as they did last year, because they couldn't tell which fishing boat it belonged to.

So, even though Ye Yaodong felt that there were more boats today, he had no choice but to let the boats behind catch up.

He probably thought that there should be quite a few local boats heading in the same direction.

In the past two days, they landed thousands of kilograms of hairtail, and they were all fishing belts. They sold for thousands of yuan, and the news spread like wildfire. The locals must be jealous and would definitely want to go and see where they caught them, thinking about whether they could get a share of the pie.

He thought that the secret base would probably be exposed today.

Originally, he was optimistic that after they fished for a few days, the locals would react and track them down when they saw that they had so much fish. Now it seems that they can't keep up with that time.

Plans can't keep up with changes.

They knew that there should be some local fishing boats mixed in with their team, but they couldn't do anything.

It's impossible not to go. Even if he can not go, how can others not go?

Along the way, there were quite a few fishing boats in front and behind him, all of which were trawlers. Only behind him, there were still two small boats. It was not certain how many there were. Other fishing boats did not bring small boats, so the small wooden boats brought by their people were still docked at the dock.

Ye Yaodong drove the boat to follow the track of the fishing boat in front and went straight to the trench. When he arrived, there were already quite a few fishing boats docked on the sea around the trench.

It was estimated that more than a dozen had arrived before him. Everyone was busy salvaging the jellyfish floating on the sea. The number was more than the previous morning. When he arrived, there were still quite a few jellyfish on the sea that had not been salvaged.

The boatmen on his boat had prepared the tools in advance. As soon as the boat stopped, they also followed the salvage. No matter how small the mosquito leg was, it was still meat.

There were also five or six fish that arrived at the same time as him, and the fishing boats that followed closely behind also arrived one after another, but the people who came a step behind did not see anything, and they did not know whether it was a blessing in disguise.

Just as they swept away all the jellyfish on the sea, Ye's father and A Guang and other fishing boats also came over.

A Guang frowned and climbed onto his boat first.

"Dongzi, there are too many boats..."

"Wait and see, it's not suitable to go into the water now. So many boats are watching, and there are so many boats parked on the sea, and the light is blocked."

He was also afraid that someone would make trouble, diving is a dangerous job.

Ye's father also climbed over and said: "There are too many boats on the sea today, right? All here."

"Local boats should be mixed in."

The two opened their mouths in surprise, but they immediately figured it out. Who can't fish in troubled waters? They can't tell which boats are local and which boats are brought by Chen Jianian.

"This is good, we're exposed before the peak season."

"Let's see, take it one step at a time, after all, most of our foreign boats are still there."

He had no choice, but fortunately he had earned 10,000 yuan in the past three days.

Ah Guang looked at the fishing boats on the sea and said to the jellyfish that kept floating up: "There are a lot more jellyfish this morning, one or two times more than yesterday morning."

Ye Yaodong nodded, "Not only has the number doubled, but the speed of surfacing is also faster."

In the short time they arrived and stopped, although the sea surface was divided up, one or two floated up from time to time while they were talking. Of course, they were also caught by the nearest fishing boats.

At this time, the fishing boats on the sea were also gathered in groups of three or two, and those who were familiar with each other were close together, probably discussing there.

At this time, Pei's father also climbed over and frowned and asked: "What should we do now? With so many boats, can we still go into the water?"

"No, it will be very dangerous."

Ye Yaodong explained the potential dangers of diving and also said his guess, "Maybe there are no hairtails below today."

"No?"

"Why is there no?"

"Didn't they say that a large group of them are in the trench?"

He looked at A Guang, "It's the jellyfish season, and a large number of jellyfish will float up from the trench. Should the hairtail fish give way? Jellyfish can sting people, and of course they can sting fish and shrimp. They have neurotoxins that can paralyze fish and shrimp."

"If there are a few jellyfish, it's okay. If there are a lot of them, the fish will have to give way to them. Large fish will eat them, but hairtail fish are not big fish."

"If there are a lot of jellyfish floating up today, the hairtail fish below may have migrated away."

Everyone listened to his logical reasoning and felt that it made sense.

Father Pei was a little upset, "So we added longline fishing."

"But you have made a lot of money these days, so what's the point of this? No one can imagine the subsequent development. We have taken the lead. Some people went to buy materials early yesterday morning and did some longline fishing. They came to share a piece of the pie today. They are the ones who got nothing."

"Wait and see. If there are not enough jellyfish floating up, and there are not enough for so many fishing boats to share, most of these fishing boats may leave."

"It's hard to say," Guang disagreed, "Stop here. Sometimes you can try your luck and catch a few fish floating next to your fishing boat. If you leave, won't it be easy for others to catch them? "

"There's nothing you can do. If it were me, I would definitely not leave now. If I leave, wouldn't others make more money? If you stay here, you can see how many there are."

Father Ye also frowned, "Then we can only waste time here."

"Wait, or you can drive the boat to trawling, and I'll just stay here and watch."

"Why trawling now? Everyone is watching here. Let's All the fishing boats in the village are here, who would go trawl?"

"Then let's try our luck here. Those who can float next to us are lucky and can catch fish. You can also drive your boat to the side later. Let's spread out our boats a little and see if we can catch more fish with luck. It will be a subsidy."

A Guang asked again: "Dongzi, how many local boats do you think are here?"

"I don't know, there shouldn't be many. There must be only a small number of them who agreed to block us at the dock early in the morning. Most of them should be diligent and go out to sea at night."

"Fortunately, today's There are not many floating ones, and they are fished away as soon as they float up. We can't see the scene of large-scale gathering. "

"But so many of our foreign ships are staying here, they will definitely know that there is something fishy. Since they didn't go out to sea at night and planned to spend a day blocking us, they will definitely not leave directly, and they will definitely stay here to see what's going on. If we don't leave, they will definitely not leave. After staying for a whole day, they will definitely see the suspicion. "

"Then we can only waste time, we can't go into the water, and we can't distinguish the locals. "Pei's father said.

"Right, let's wait and see. If others don't leave, we won't leave either. We can afford to waste time."

"It's just a pity that we didn't go in the water to check if there are any more..."

"Don't think about it. There's basically no hope of going in the water today. Our foreign ships won't be willing to leave like this. The jellyfish float up from time to time. Another point is that they may still be waiting there to see how we catch hairtail and release their longline fishing line by the way."

A Guang also thought that a bunch of fishing boats were there to watch them load the goods yesterday afternoon, and he also knew that someone went to buy materials yesterday to follow suit.

"Then there's no need to go in tomorrow. The number of jellyfish will only be more tomorrow than today."

"Yes, if we can't catch hairtail today, we can't catch it tomorrow."

"Forget it, at least we have earned 5,000 yuan in two days."

At this time, Ye Yaodong raised his chin to them, pointed to the sea ahead, and motioned them to look over.

Some fishing boats were casting longlines, probably thinking that they had already done everything, so they might as well give it a try. Otherwise, they would just leave it there. There were so many boats on the sea, and the jellyfish that floated up were not enough to share. Everyone was deadlocked and waiting there.

Father Ye: "They really cast longlines there..."

A Guang: "They can't cast them accurately if they just throw them on the sea, so they probably won't catch anything."

Ye Yaodong: "But there's nothing we can do. We're just sitting there, so we can only try our luck."

He looked around the sea again, and no fishing boat had left. They were all afraid that if they left, they would benefit others.

Thinking that it would be a waste of time to stay here today, he directly moved a small stool over and sat against the side of the boat, with his hands on the edge of the boat.

At this time, some fishing boats were unwilling to miss and came to ask them why they didn't cast longlines today and didn't go into the water?

Ye Yaodong told the truth that there were too many fishing boats and it was inconvenient to go down. Besides, there were too many jellyfish and the hairtail might have run away. There was nothing to do here today but wait to catch jellyfish.

When a fishing boat approached them, other fishing boats followed suit and came to ask about their situation.

After all, they did not go into the water today and did not cast longlines or anything. It did seem a bit abnormal to everyone. They made so much money yesterday and the day before yesterday, so it made no sense not to make money today.

Something must be wrong when things are out of the ordinary. Seeing someone coming to inquire, others also came over.

A lot of fishing boats came and left one after another, and their side seemed particularly lively.

Ye Yaodong and his friends were so tired from explaining.

After the fishing boats knew why they did not use longline fishing again, they all moved to the side with some regret, but no boat was willing to leave.

A Guang and Pei's father also returned to their own boats. They could not do anything, so now they could only wait on their own boats.

At this time, they were asked to trawling, so they might as well wait here and see what happened. After all, all the boats were waiting here, and they could not fall behind others.

Dozens of fishing boats were all spent in this sea area. It was surprising and unbelievable to say it out, but the fact was that so many boats really spent a day here, from morning to dusk, and no boat left.

Although the cut jellyfish had to be sent to the shore as soon as possible, the quantity was too small, just a few dozen or a few hundred kilograms, and the money from selling them might not be enough to cover the fuel cost for a round trip, so no one left.

Those who brought the materials cut them up, marinated them and put them there, and then sold them when they returned. If they did not bring alum and salt to marinate, they would be dissolved in water and there was nothing they could do.

And all the fishing boats caught some jellyfish today, some weighing 600 to 700 kilograms, and some weighing dozens of kilograms.

After all, a jellyfish can weigh a dozen or twenty kilograms for a small one, or 70 to 80 kilograms for a large one, and it all depends on luck to catch the size.

After most of the day, the newcomers who had not been here last year stayed here for so long today, and they all understood that the jellyfish floating up here are indeed more than those on other seas.

On other seas, they had to look around everywhere for them, which were particularly scattered and few, but here they seemed particularly concentrated, with so many boats, and basically no one was empty-handed.

If there weren't so many fishing boats, and there were only 1\/4 or 1\/5, the harvest that day would be quite impressive.

As the sun was setting, the fishing boats that had cast longlines early in the morning also pulled them up. The long-term worker on his boat called him and asked him to stretch his neck to look.

After all, they were still there yesterday, and the fishing lines were full of hairtail. Today, it was someone else's turn to cast them, but they didn't cast them. Everyone was curious to see if the people who cast them today had any harvest.

"Ah, nothing..."

"Nothing?"

"Really nothing, it's been a long time since we've been fishing... Don't say you didn't see one or two like us."

"Did they cast them inaccurately, or did they all run away?"

"That's hard to say. None of us went down to the bottom today, and there was no way to see if there were any more in the trench."

"They worked in vain..."

Ye Yaodong watched them pull up empty hooks, and only caught one or two fish.

"It seems that we can't do it anymore. We can't go into the water anymore."

The boatmen were also full of regret. They thought that they could earn more money by going into the water, but they didn't expect that their hope would be dashed after only three days of work.

"Don't be discouraged. If we can't do it now, they will naturally leave here and go to the sea to look for jellyfish when all the jellyfish are caught here. Then they should be able to go down to fish for sea urchins."

"Maybe it will be like today. Everyone is deadlocked here. No one is willing to leave. There are really many boats coming today."

"Let's see later. It's hard to say."

This is also possible. After all, there were fewer boats last year, and the boats that brought them would give him face and politely give way. If there were not many goods, they would go to the seaside to look for them and let him fish for sea urchins in this area.

All the boats continued to insist there until the sun was about to set. Everyone finished work one after another, approached the familiar fishing boats, and agreed to go back.

And their boats were also waiting for Ye's father and the other two small boats to come over.

"We also caught 300-400 kilograms of jellyfish today. With the jellyfish blood, it should be able to sell for more than ten yuan, right?"

"There are other boats. When the time comes, we will move them all over to see the quantity. We can at least earn a bite to eat."

We can't earn wages today, so we can only earn enough for vegetables.

A Guang and his friends, as well as the eldest and second brothers, also came over to ask about the harvest and exchange ideas.

As far as they know, everyone's harvest is quite bleak. There are too many boats, and the division is too fierce. It all depends on luck.

Some will get more, some will get less, and some either don't prepare alum and salt, and then they all turn into water, and they don't get anything.

Fortunately, the quantity is small today, and there is no competition now.

"Dongzi, there seem to be quite a lot of fish floating up today. You were here all day yesterday, but you only sold 70 or 80 yuan in total. Today, there are just more fishing boats, so the fish are scattered on each boat, which makes the number seem small..."

"There will be more tomorrow, and the number will probably increase day by day."

Except for Ye Yaodong and A Guang, everyone else looked happy, hoping that the number would increase so that they could make more money.

"It's good to have more. We've been here for so many days, and it's only today that we see a little more."

"Finally I can start making money by catching jellyfish, but there are too many boats..."

Ye Yaodong thought, there might be more boats tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, it will be difficult to deal with...

Fortunately, he can earn another commission this year, and it is worth it to lend the equipment to A Guang to go longline fishing these two days.

While they were talking, Ye's father and two other small boats also brought up several buckets of jellyfish that had been caught and divided all day.

"Ah... I forgot that you have more boats. You still have the biggest harvest. I heard that several people didn't prepare anything, and everything turned into water after a long time."

"It's better to be prepared. Anyway, my boat is big, and it doesn't take up space to prepare a little. Okay, let's go back, they are all heading back."

After communicating well, some fishing boats started to go home because the sun was about to set.

Everyone saw the fishing boats leave one after another, and they also said hello and left.

Ye Yaodong and others tied the small boats to the back, and he and his father each drove a boat to follow the main group back.

After a while, the sea that was originally full of fishing boats was empty in an instant, and all the fishing boats went back in one direction.

When they arrived at the shore, a large number of fishing boats all returned to the dock together. Some small boats were surprised to see that when did so many boats arrive at the dock so neatly?

People standing on the shore also found it spectacular. The town had never seen so many boats before, let alone docking together.

The most conspicuous one among them was the largest Dongsheng, which was recognized from a distance. Since this boat had caught a large number of hairtails for two consecutive days, people on the shore were curiously waiting there, wanting to see how many hairtails this boat could bring back today and how much money it could sell for.

Before their boat arrived at the shore, people on the dock had already started talking about it.

Everyone started to wonder yesterday, why the fishing boats of the outsiders all went out and came back together, but only two boats could catch a large number of hairtails, and the other boats did not.

However, they were destined to be disappointed today. The Dongsheng only brought up jellyfish, and the total weight of the cut jellyfish heads and jellyfish skins was only about 1,000 kilograms, not as much as yesterday.

Other fishing boats that came back from the shore also had some jellyfish, and the scattered ones could be sold for a few yuan.

The local fishermen also breathed a sigh of relief when they saw it. They were relieved that they didn't catch so many hairtails and make so much money.

And everyone also discussed the increase in the number of jellyfish today. They didn't look at the number on the sea, but at the goods brought back by these fishing boats.

Because the number was not large, A Guang also went out to sea today and didn't contact the shore, so they sold all of them to the purchasing point on the dock as soon as they came back.

After everyone sold their jellyfish, they piled them up on the open space at the purchase point. At first glance, the quantity was indeed quite large, with more than 10,000 kilograms, so the locals shifted their attention and started to discuss.

"Is the peak season coming soon? They can actually bring back so many in one day."

"Maybe soon... All the jellyfish on the dock yesterday were not so many..."

"I tell you, they all caught them in one sea area..."

"Yes, we deliberately didn't go out to sea at night, and waited on the shore early in the morning, and followed them. We wanted to see where they caught the hairtail, but we didn't find any hairtail, but saw them rushing straight to one sea area, and all of these were caught in the same sea..."

The crowd around was in an uproar.

"They were all caught in one place??? Is that true?"

"It's impossible... How can they be so concentrated..."

"Don't disbelieve me, we were there all day, without moving, and just watched the jellyfish keep popping up in that sea area. It's just that there are too many boats. As soon as a jellyfish pops up, the boats that are close to it will immediately take it away. I only caught a dozen by luck..."

"There are really a lot of jellyfish popping up there..."

"It's true. Several of our boats followed behind this morning. There are really jellyfish popping up in that place..."

"Where is it? Tell us, we will go there tomorrow too. We can't let those outsiders get away with it..."

"Your small boats can't go there. It takes an hour to sail. If you go, you will probably have to row for a whole day. Only our trawling boats can keep up and go there."

"Damn, isn't that a bargain for the outsiders? They have so many boats, won't they take all the fish?"

"I know, no wonder they caught so many last year, they must have fished from the same place..."

"Yes, yes, yes, last year they caught a lot of jellyfish, but they were carrying guns, everyone was afraid and didn't dare to follow behind..."

"Damn, they made a lot of money last year, so there are more boats this year... I was wondering why there are more boats this year than last year..."

"We locals can't catch enough, the fishermen in the whole town rely on this flood season, a small boat can earn dozens of yuan a day, they rely on this flood season all year round, they catch everything, what else can we catch?"

Some people hesitated and said, "But they went quite far away. Even if they didn't catch it, we couldn't catch it either..."

"Are you stupid? Our local big boats can go and catch it. They have so many boats, so they are just robbing us..."

A lot of discussion broke out in the crowd.

They had less goods today, so they just weighed them casually and settled the bill quickly. It was just that there were many fishing boats and everyone lined up to weigh them, so it seemed a little slow. Then all the conversations of the locals were heard by everyone.

The locals thought they couldn't understand, but in fact, their local dialect had some similar tones. Everyone heard 50% to 60% of it, guessed what they were talking about, and started whispering to each other.

"I was wondering why there were so many boats on the sea today? It turns out that the locals secretly followed us..."

"Fuck, these people are too shameless, they actually followed us..."

"What should we do? That location has been exposed, and they know it..."

"What are you afraid of? We have more than a dozen boats and nearly a hundred people here. Add the people who came later, there are more than 20 boats, and they also have nearly a hundred people. If the locals appear on the sea, they are not as many as us. We don't bully them, so why do they dare to bully us?"

"That's right... On the sea, they don't dare to do that."

"But on the shore..."

"On the shore, we are still afraid of them. We still have 200 people. People, do the locals dare to mess with us? We go out to sea during the day and come back at night. Isn't the Public Security Bureau near where we rent? As long as we don't cause trouble, the Public Security Bureau can't drive us away just because we are outsiders. We haven't broken the law. "

"Yes, we are not afraid of them. What if they know the place?"

"That's right, don't worry about them. We will still stay here to salvage and make money. If there are only one or two boats, we are really worried about being killed by them at sea. With dozens of our boats going in and out together, who is afraid of them?"

...

Ye Yaodong has sold all the goods, but he is not in a hurry to leave immediately. There are still people who haven't sold all their goods, so he simply stays where he is and listens to the two parties talking there.

Father Ye also said: "You are right. There are locals following us today."

"Yeah."

"They all think we are here to steal their resources..."

"Yeah..."

"Will something happen?"

Ye Yaodong sighed, "It's hard to say. Who knows how it will develop? At the beginning, we thought that the worst case scenario was that we could only fish for two or three days. There were a lot of fish, and we went in and out at the same time, and then we were discovered by the locals. As a result, we haven't even started to fish in large quantities, and people have known about it."

"It's getting harder and harder to make money."

"Let's talk about it when we get back. We can only listen to 50% to 60% of what they say, and the locals can only understand half of what we say."

"Your eldest brother and his friends have sold out, so let's talk about it when we get back."