Chapter 1144 Another Idea

The few people who were originally looking after the house in their hometown came out to help shortly after they landed. Strength lies in numbers.

There were more and more fishing boats docked around them. Their decks were full of fish, which had attracted a lot of attention. Every fishing boat that docked had to look over at them and ask a few questions.

Ye Yaodong always replied with a smile that it was because he encountered a red tide in the open sea. The fish on the deck were suffocated by lack of oxygen due to the red tide, and then they drifted with the tide and gathered together, and he encountered them, so he fished them out for a whole day.

"There is a red tide, but we didn't see it near the coast..."

"It didn't affect the coast, so it's okay..."

"Maybe it hasn't spread to the coast yet..."

"What kind of fish is that on the boat? Why is it entangled in the fishing net like that? Did you pick it up?"

"Oh, I've wanted to ask for a long time. I watched for a long time, but I didn't see them untie the fishing net, and no one answered. Can't you just cut it open with scissors? It's so laborious..."

"This fish is too big, it looks so strange, what's growing on its mouth..."

The discussion in my ears never stopped. After the boatmen sorted out the fish on the deck, they immediately started to untie the fishing nets. The three fishing nets were thick and thin, and they all tightly entangled the sawfish. Some were not easy to untie.

If you just want to release the fish, it's also easy to cut it with scissors, but Ye Yaodong has to keep the big net. He still has to rely on this big net to make a living.

This big net is several hundred meters long. It costs money to make it, and it takes a lot of time. Two people cannot weave such a large net of more than 300 meters in less than a month.

Although the big net has been cut and damaged by the saw teeth of the fish, it can still be repaired, which saves time, labor and money compared to weaving a new net.

Moreover, this sawfish may not be sold for much money, probably not as valuable as this fishing net, so it is not worth it. It is not worth it to save money. It doesn't matter if you can throw the net by hand.

Sawfish can be eaten, but its meat is relatively rough, and its economic value is similar to that of sharks. The fins can be made into shark fins, the skin can be made into leather and scabbards; the liver can be made into cod liver oil. It can be said that it is full of treasures. It depends on whether people nowadays know the value of it.

When others were untangling the fishing net, Ye Yaodong turned around and chatted with a few people. These people were the bosses who received the goods at the dock.

When their fishing boats were docked, they came over one after another and asked if they wanted to buy the goods on his boat. However, the goods had not been sorted out at that time, so he just asked them to wait and sort out the goods first to see how much there was.

When they were almost done sorting out, these people didn't care about the scattered loose goods on the stalls, and all ran to his side to wait, wanting to buy his whole boat of large goods. After all, with more goods, they would naturally make more money at once, which was better than those scattered goods. After all, this was a prefecture-level city, and the digestion capacity was still strong.

Ye Yaodong asked several companies and asked them to quote the prices of the twenty or so major goods. If there were not so many goods or they were not valuable, he would not ask for a quote.

Since those people were present at the same time, of course, their quotes were the same. After all, they were all making a living at the dock, and no one could compare their quotes. If someone quoted a price, others would not speak out to refute or lower the price.

They were all acquaintances, so they discussed and quoted him the harvest price of all the goods for the day, and let him choose who to sell to or sell them separately.

What is the approximate value of each kind of goods? Ye Yaodong basically knew that the price of fish in different seasons would definitely fluctuate.

It was hard to say whether they would collectively lower the price for him as an outsider, but if the price difference was not big, he could accept it.

If he didn't sell it to them, he would have to drive out again to another dock and ask the price. Who knew if the price at another dock would be higher than here in the city?

After going around in circles, what if the price was lower than here? He would have to look for it again? It was dark, who would he sell the goods to? It would take a night, and he would have to look for it again the next day.

When you are out, you can only get roughly the same price, which is relatively reasonable.

That's why, when the mobile phone came out, the bosses did not have it, but many of the boat captains were equipped first.

However, he also had his own way of asking questions. He could chat with anyone and never treated himself as an outsider. When the boatmen were still sorting the goods, he chatted with them for a while and tried to get close to them, which made him look very experienced.

When asking for the price, he said that his boat was so big and he had a lot of cargo. If the price was fair, he would dock here every day, otherwise he would change to another dock.

Anyway, he was a foreigner, so it didn't matter where he docked. He would dock and sell goods wherever the price was high.

He used both soft and hard tactics to prevent them from looking down on his image as a young boy, and also emphasized that the boat was his, not his father's.

At his age, he could afford such a big boat, which made people feel that he was extraordinary and not someone who could be easily fooled.

After listening to their offer, Ye Yaodong just nodded, and didn't immediately say who he would sell it to. He just thought about it and planned to leave them alone. He didn't show that he was so anxious, nor did he show that he was overjoyed.

They were a little anxious. No big ships docked today, and they didn't have any big cargo to collect, so they had to waste time here.

In addition, the Dongsheng returned early, and the entire shipload of cargo had been noticed long ago at the dock, so everyone was watching it. Otherwise, if it had returned at this time, they would have been busy receiving the goods and would have had no time to care who he sold the goods to.

"Our price is very fair. Today's receipt price is the price of these fish..."

He had just sold sea urchins in the city a few days ago, and he was well aware of the price of fish in the city, but he did not respond immediately.

Ye Yaodong pointed to the sawfish on the deck that had not yet untied the fishing net, "Will you accept that big guy?"

"This thing is wrapped tightly. Although it is big, I don't know what it looks like. The mouth is very strange..."

"I haven't seen it before, so I don't want it. I'm afraid it will fall into my hands."

"Although it looks big, it looks very strange. I've never seen anything difficult..."

The people who spoke shook their heads as they spoke.

"I don't know what it looks like. I have to untie the fishing net and expose it for a look."

He said: "This is a sawfish. It's more than three meters by visual inspection. Please measure it specifically. Do you know this fish?"

Everyone looked at each other in confusion.

"Forget it, let's wait until the fishing net is untied. Let's lift these goods up and weigh them first."

It was wrapped like a rice dumpling. Except for a small part of the head and the tip of the snout, no part of the body was exposed. They were all tightly hidden by the fishing net. It was difficult to ask these people to identify it just like this, and it was difficult to negotiate the price.

"Then you guys..."

"It's better to give these goods to the boss who collected the sea urchins the day before. Once they are raw, they will be cooked twice. If you think there are too many goods and you can't eat them, then you can figure it out and find someone else to share it with."

"Okay, okay...then take me to my place first..."

He yelled and asked several boatmen to carry the cargo ashore first, leaving only two people to continue their research on freeing the sawfish from the fishing net.

After basket after basket of goods was carried ashore, the people on the shore who had been watching their fishing boat also moved to the purchasing point and continued to watch the large amount of goods.

It's not that everyone has never seen big ships docking and so many goods, but his goods were suffocated by red tide, so he took advantage of them and caught so much in one day.

So it was given a bit of magical color, and it attracted attention when it had something to say. As for the sawfish, which was still wrapped in a fishing net like a rice dumpling, and its true face had not yet been revealed, everyone only felt strange and not too shocked.

Ye Yaodong stood in the open space in front of the purchasing point and directed people to stack the goods basket by basket. Then he asked people to stand in front of the pile of goods and look at them. He led two people to carry the goods basket by basket to be weighed.

More than an hour had passed when all the goods in the small mountain were sold out. The sawfish on the deck had not yet been completely untied. Only half of its body was exposed, but this half attracted people to watch again, and everyone was whispering. , everyone was discussing what kind of fish this was.

The brave ones even pulled him and asked: "Boss, what kind of fish is this big fish on your boat? Why is it so big? It was suppressed by a bunch of fish before, and we didn't even see it."

"I thought it was some debris from the ship. They were squatting there to repair it..."

Ye Yaodong said: "It's a sawfish. It looks a bit like a shark, but it's a type of manta ray. The long part of its mouth is the end of its snout, which looks like a saw, so it's called a sawfish."

After saying that, he returned to the deck and looked at the two people who were left behind, sweating profusely, looking for patterns to untie the fishing nets.

"When it's time to cut it with scissors, just cut such a large net and it will be tangled together. It can't be freed without any damage. As long as it's not all cut off with scissors, it's still possible to repair it."

"We just want to do our best, otherwise it will take too long to ask someone to repair it, and it will also affect the trawl out to sea."

"It doesn't matter, I just have two days of rest. After the rest, I will continue to go back to the trench to salvage. By then the locals will have given up and there will be no need to trawl. It's getting dark now. You should hurry up and don't wait until dark to get it out. "

"Okay, let's cut a little more."

Ye Yaodong let them figure it out by themselves. After thinking about it, he went to the purchasing point and called over the two people who had just received his goods.

This fish has half of its face exposed, and you should be able to recognize what it is. Call it over to see if you want it. If not, you have to ask them to help measure the length. Otherwise, what will you do if it gets really dark later and the store is closed? .

However, when the two people were called, they all shook their heads and refused to accept it. They both said that they did not recognize the fish, they had never seen it before and it was difficult to bid, and they were afraid of getting it in their hands.

"You don't know each other?"

He thought to himself that their wholesale market had a fixed organization that could attract people, and it also had fixed sales, making it easy to digest new things.

"The body looks a bit like a shark, but the long mouth doesn't look like it."

"Why do I look a bit like a manta ray? It's like a combination of the two, that is, the one on the mouth...it looks like a saw. It's very strange. Why don't you ask other people?"

"never mind."

Originally, he thought that the fish might not fetch a high price. After all, it was ugly and unpopular, so he might not even be able to get back the money for the fishing net. But now it's better.

But it was within his expectation.

This kind of strange thing will definitely not be easy to circulate in the market. Unless someone takes over, such as the open-minded young master Hong who came back from studying abroad in their town, otherwise who will buy this thing back?

However, even if he had known that the fish would not be sold and no one wanted it, he would definitely catch it. After all, it was rare, and not everyone could encounter and catch such a big fish.

This is the rich color and experience in his life as a fisherman. It doesn’t matter whether he makes money or not. He is not short of the money, but he has salvaged something, which is very impressive. He can take pictures and brag.

He is now waiting to completely free the fish from the fishing net, then take a perfect photo and save it.

Suddenly, he had another idea in mind.

Maybe this idea is better than selling the goods directly, and maybe it can make him famous for decades.

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but crack his mouth when he thought of this, and his eyes were filled with anticipation.

He looked at his watch anxiously and found that it was already 6:30. He was instantly disappointed again. It was time to get off work. He didn't have an address in his hand, and he only had the office phone number, so he couldn't find anyone.

We can only ask them to carry the fish into the fish warehouse and store it fresh with ice until tomorrow.

There was too much work, and the work was done too late. There was nothing we could do. It was considered early to come back, but the sawfish was suppressed by those small fish.

Seeing that they were still busy there, he couldn't help but urge again, "Hurry up, or we might as well cut them all, it's getting dark."

Father Ye said: "You just asked the two bosses, did they say how much the fish cost?"

"Don't tell them that they don't recognize the fish, it will be thrown into their hands if they take it. Moreover, they don't know the value of the fish and whether it is of any use."

Father Ye frowned, "Isn't it a waste of time to catch such a big fish? It took a lot of effort to catch such a big fish, and several bullets were lost."

"It won't be in vain. I'll take a picture of you later and that's all it will take."

Father Ye's face turned dark and he glared at him fiercely, "You spend all day taking pictures. You bought the camera just to take pictures of fish. Did you catch the fish just to take pictures?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. If you buy a camera to take pictures of fish, then of course you have to take pictures of the fish you catch."

"Sooner or later I'll make you so angry that you talk like this every day."

"Why am I talking? I originally wanted to sell it for money, but no one stopped me from selling it. But speaking of it, we are not at a loss. At least we took a photo, and it will be a glorious history when we take it out in the future."

"boast."

"It turned out that bragging was all nonsense."

"Then after you finish taking the photo, are you going to throw it back into the sea?"

"Is it crazy? Am I suffering from brain twitching? Or is there something wrong with my brain? I caught them all and threw them back into the sea? No matter what, I can chop them into pieces and feed them to pigs. But such a big fish certainly can't be fed to pigs like this. It can definitely be eaten, but I Another economic value has been discovered.”

"What?" Father Ye raised his ears curiously and looked at him again.

"I won't tell you yet. First, untie the fishing net and take a photo for me."

Father Ye suddenly felt bored and glared at him fiercely, then turned around and lowered his head to watch everyone untie the fishing nets. Even the original intention of asking him how much the goods cost was forgotten.

Seeing that the fishing net was almost untied, Ye Yaodong returned to the boat and took out his camera to play with.

Everyone laughed and said: "In Adong's eyes, there are no fish worth photographing. Every time he sees any weird and big fish, he wants to take a picture."

He didn't say anything, that was just the way it was.

The people worth taking pictures of are all at home, and his father is not worth taking pictures of every day.

How can he take pictures of his father if he doesn't even want to take pictures himself?

At most, one photo per year is enough. It is a luxury for ordinary people. Who can take photos every year?

The same goes for fish. It's just rare that he would take two pictures as a souvenir.

No wonder people say that the photography hobby is relatively expensive. Looking at it from now on, it is indeed relatively expensive.

"Give me a chance. Take a photo of me while it's still dark. I don't know if it's possible. I'll lift it out and take a good photo when it gets light tomorrow morning."

"Tomorrow dawn? Do you want to carry it out again?"

"what does it mean?"

"Aren't you going to sell it? What do you mean by bringing it out again?"

After taking the photo, Ye Yaodong explained, "No one wants this fish on the pier. They don't recognize it, and they think the fish is too ugly and they are afraid of smashing it into their hands. You guys first carry it to the fish hold and spread the remaining ice cubes on it." Go up there to keep it fresh. The two people on duty at night should be more alert and keep an eye on me. Don't sleep like pigs. I don't know if the fish has been stolen. I have a lot of use for this fish. If it's gone, you can help me. See."

"Haha, no, we will definitely be optimistic about it."

"What are you going to do with this fish? You can't keep it fresh in the cabin, right?" Father Ye asked.

"I have an idea. I'll carry it to the fish barn first, and we'll talk about it when we get home. It's getting dark, and I'm already hungry. I'm sleepy and tired. If there's anything else, we can talk about it when we get home."

Father Ye asked several times but didn't say anything. He felt that he was deliberately trying to trick him, and he got angry and stopped talking to him.

The workers all started moving, sorting out the debris on the boat, putting it in the cabin and locking it up.

After everything was sorted, the two people on duty at night were left to watch the fishing boat, while the others carried a basket of fish that had been left back and walked to the shore together.

At this time, the sky was already a little dark, and most of the people on the shore were gone. All you could see were the backs of people carrying burdens and returning from work. However, there were still people who were greedy for money and were still selling goods at the dock.

"I'm so exhausted, I feel like my feet are floating."

"Brother Dongdong...you...are you...virtual?"

"Go away, do you know what virtuality is?"

"Hehe, don't... know, I have... endless... awesome strength."

"A virgin who rides on a horse is amazing, and an 18-year-old virgin is even more amazing."

"Hahahaha..." Everyone laughed.

In an instant, Chen Shi was teased with obscene words one after another.

Chen Shi was used to it, he didn't blush or feel embarrassed, he just laughed.

We had a great harvest today and came back with a full load. We only went out for a day and then came back. We were able to rest for at least two or three days. Everyone was in a good mood.

It’s so cool to get paid for nothing and not work!

Everyone was chatting and laughing all the way back home. Ye Yaodong did not sit down immediately. Instead, he asked the others to eat first. He went to find his neighbors with the two fresh fish he had left behind.

He had to ask his neighbors if there were any women nearby who knew how to mend the nets, and he had to ask two people to go to the boat to repair the fishing nets.

The fishing net, which is more than 300 meters long, contains not only a shuttle but also a lead weight. It is so heavy that it is very difficult for many people to lift it, not to mention that they live not far from the pier.

If you borrow a trolley, you still have to carry the fishing net back. Moving it around is too troublesome. It is better to ask someone to repair it directly on the fishing boat, which saves trouble.

Aunt Xu, the neighbor, was very happy when she saw him bring two fresh fish to the door just to inquire about this matter. She told him everything she knew. She enthusiastically immediately took him to find someone to help him mend the net. Everyone was cheered.

When he was about to leave, he picked a few tomatoes from the yard and a few cucumbers and stuffed them into his arms to take back to him.

"Listen to what's going on next door to you, you just came back from going to sea, right? Other dishes have to be stir-fried, so these two can just eat them directly, or simply mix them with sugar, and they can also be paired with rice."

"Thank you. Auntie is so warm and humane."

"Oh, no need to be polite. We are all neighbors. You just asked for some information and you brought two fish over so politely. I will give you a few worthless dishes in return. That's right."

"This is what I should do. I just came here, and I have to take care of my neighbors in the future. What happened yesterday was that everyone helped persuade the troublesome family to leave. I am in a hurry to go to sea today, and I haven't even thanked everyone properly. I am a fisherman, and I only have a lot of fish, haha.”

"You're welcome, we are all neighbors. They are so immoral. Now they come to our door every two days to cause trouble. It's annoying. You are an official, how can you be an ordinary fisherman? You are the fish boss."

Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched, he smiled and thanked him again, and then went home with his arms full of tomatoes and cucumbers.

"You exchanged the fish for vegetables? No wonder you kept so much fish back. We just came here and there were vegetables..."

"no……"

He explained.

"There is a basket of worthless fish left. I will send it to the nearby neighbors after the meal and divide it all. It is not worth anything anyway, so it is just a favor."

"I thought you were going to keep the salted fish back and eat it for a while."

Ye Yaodong said angrily: "I haven't eaten enough dried fish? Do you want to eat salted fish again? Is that basket meant to be eaten?"

"Haha... Come and eat, we've all finished eating, isn't the aunt next door too enthusiastic?"

"Tomorrow I will sleep until I wake up naturally. Don't call me. Two women will come over tomorrow morning. You can take them to the boat and let them mend the nets."

Father Ye asked for the third time: "What about that big fish?"

Ye Yaodong finally mercifully told his father, "When I wake up naturally tomorrow, I will go find Director Zeng and tell him about the fish..."

"He's from the Coast Guard. Why did you tell him about that fish?"

"Don't interrupt. These public institutions are all interconnected. Do the bosses know each other? I know him. Who can I tell him if I don't talk to him? I can't sell that fish. I plan to tell him, Donate it to the Ocean Bureau, and ask him to tell the Ocean Bureau to make it into a specimen and put it in the aquarium. "

"Aquarium?"

"What about the Aquarium?" Ye Yaodong was an old antique. He had never been anywhere in his previous life and didn't know what it was called.

"Since there is a zoo, there should be an aquarium or aquarium? If you make specimens and bring them to this place, wouldn't they be a proper and conspicuous sign? It's a pity that they are dead, otherwise they can still be raised. That would be awesome, but making A complete specimen can also become a treasure of the museum, and that thing is first-rate. "

Father Ye looked confused, "What is the specimen? What level? Is this fish divided into several levels like the workers?"

"I knew you didn't understand."

"That's all you know."

"It's just a little more than you..."

Ye Yaodong thought that it was already 85 years ago, so he should have this technology, right? Anyway, I'll mention it tomorrow. He doesn't understand the technical aspects anyway. As long as the meaning is conveyed, it depends on how they arrange it.

If this can be made into a specimen, with such a large size, it will be a real treasure of the museum. This is very rare now, and will be even rarer in the future. It is still a first-class protected animal.

When the time comes, he will be recorded in the record, saying that he caught it and contributed it to the officials to make specimens.

From now on, everyone who sees this fish will think that he caught it, his name can be recorded in the history of the aquarium, and everyone who visits the aquarium will know him...

Damn it, it’s so beautiful just thinking about it...

His name can always be recorded in the history of the aquarium, hahahaha...

Ye Yaodong screamed up to the sky in his heart, and almost hit his trachea with one mouthful of rice.

"Does that mean we caught that fish in vain and we still have to give it away?"

"Isn't it that no one wants it? How can I get it for nothing? I have taken pictures. When it is made into a specimen, my name will definitely be left behind when the time comes. Then am I not famous? And I will be famous for a long time. "

In addition, he took photos and has evidence in hand, so this is the real deal.

Father Ye couldn't quite understand what he was talking about, so he stopped worrying about the topic and let him handle it anyway.

"How much did those goods cost today?"

Ye Yaodong whispered: "More than 31,000 catties, sold for more than 3,000 yuan, and more than 3,200 catties of six-banded trevally, sold for more than 500 yuan, this fish is 1.6 cents per catty, the total sales are less than 4,000 yuan."

Father Ye opened his mouth wide and looked around. Fortunately, everyone else finished their meal early and left the table.

"So many?"

"It's mainly because many of the fish in the 30,000-plus kilograms are quite valuable. Unlike our trawling, half of the fish we catch are unwanted, and half of the remaining half are still worthless. There are only a few valuable ones."

Father Ye sighed, "That's really good luck. Most of the fish that float up are valuable. We made a profit."

"Yeah."

"You mean the six-banded trevally that you saw when you dived under the water? That's the name? Will you be ripped off at this price? You said two or three cents during the day."

"It's seasonal, and we have a lot of them. Anyway, we don't know the market for this fish, so we'll sell it when it's almost done."

"Yeah, we've only been out for one day this time, but it's really profitable. We caught all the waves."