Chapter 1168 Heavy Rain at Sea

The sentence "like my dad" was said by Ye Yaodong.

He felt that his dad was sometimes a fool, but he was older and looked more sophisticated, not as stupid as the two younger ones.

Ye Chengyang asked cautiously: "Dad, who do I look like?"

"You are smarter, like me."

Ye Chengyang smiled, satisfied, it turned out that he was not stupid, but his brother was stupider.

He nodded, "My brother is stupider, he ran away after pressing for a long time, and it was all in vain."

"Yes, don't learn his stupidity."

"Dad, how long should I press?"

"Press until I fall asleep."

"Then when do you fall asleep?"

"I fall asleep when I'm sleepy."

Ye Chengyang was a little confused, when would his dad fall asleep? His hands were sore now, and after thinking about it, he changed to his feet.

But after a while, he felt his feet were sore again, and his whole face wrinkled into a bun.

Ye Xiaoxi played for a while, and now he is sitting on his back and riding.

He couldn't hold on any longer, so he also sat on top of her, sitting on her legs, almost breaking Ye Yaodong's legs.

Ye Yaodong screamed in pain, and quickly drove the two off, "Alright, alright, let's go play."

"Then my ten cents..."

"Ask your mom for it."

Lin Xiuqing was counting money on the side, and was easy to talk to, so she took ten cents from the table and gave it to Ye Chengyang.

He jumped three feet high in excitement, "Wow, I made money again, I'll tell my brother, he can get the money as soon as he leaves."

Ye Xiaoxi also stood by and watched eagerly, pulling Lin Xiuqing's clothes, and Lin Xiuqing just gave her a two-cent coin.

"Put it in your pocket so it won't fall out."

She grinned happily and ran out quickly, shouting as she ran: "I want to tell Dede too."

"Cheng Hu will be so angry."

Ye Yaodong lay there with his eyes closed, "Come and give me a massage when you're ready."

"Didn't I just pay three people to help you massage?"

"Didn't you pay them?"

"Didn't you take the money from me?"

"Damn! The bank didn't ask you to do the accounts, what a pity, all of it is yours."

Lin Xiuqing counted a lot of money and turned a deaf ear to them.

Just now, they had delayed counting the money because of their noise.

Ye Yaodong saw that she didn't say anything, so he didn't disturb her, lest she forget to count and get scolded again.

He lay down with his eyes closed to rest, and the only sound of counting money was in his ears, which sounded quite pleasant. He fell asleep while lying down.

The next day, he had nothing to do. After waking up naturally, he stayed at home to watch TV and didn't go anywhere.

Lin Xiuqing had given the things she brought back as souvenirs last night to her neighbors, relatives and friends, so it was not a wasted trip.

Today is the 1st, which is also Sunday. Several children did not go to school and were running around outside. They only came back at mealtime. Ye Yaodong also detained them after lunch and did not let them run out.

"Take a rest at home. Don't run out right after dinner. Running and jumping right after dinner can easily cause stomachache. It's rare for me to be at home, but I can't even see your soul. You are busier than me."

"We are going to play ball..."

Lin Xiuqing knew how to control them, "There will be Sun Wukong in the afternoon!"

After saying this, they didn't say they were going out.

"Really?" Both of them had bright eyes.

"There was Sun Wukong last night, but you were playing outside and didn't see it. It will be replayed in the afternoon."

"Then we will go out after watching it."

After saying that, the two turned on the TV and waited in front of the TV.

After having a TV at home, watching it for a long time is not so rare, and the outside world is more attractive.

But people who don't have a TV are more eager for it, especially children.

The two brothers don't plan to go out to play, but people keep coming to call them.

After hearing that they are going to stay at home to watch Sun Wukong, everyone is very envious. After obtaining the consent of Ye Yaodong and Lin Xiuqing, the two brothers brought all their friends home.

Suddenly, their house is like a kindergarten, gathering all the children nearby together, and the excitement almost overturned the roof.

Although the neighbors also have TVs at home, they will go wherever there is excitement. Knowing that there are many people here, they also come here to watch TV together.

Ye Yaodong stood with them and watched the monkeys when he had nothing to do. "Why didn't I realize there were so many beauties in Journey to the West before?"

"These are all goblins..."

"Tang Seng is too confused... Those are all goblins..."

"They deserve to be caught!"

"Don't goblins eat people? Why do we have to cook them? Can't we just swallow them?"

Lin Xiuqing also thought it was right. "We have to keep them overnight. If we catch them and eat them directly, then the three brothers can all break up and go back to their own homes."

Ye Chenghu shouted excitedly: "Zhu Bajie wants to go back to Gao Laozhuang!"

"Tang Seng is really infuriating, eat him quickly!"

A group of children were so angry that they wanted to rush in and beat Tang Seng up, and they were all cursing.

Ye Yaodong shook his head and went back to the room to lie down for a nap. He had to go out to sea at night.

The noise of going out never stopped. It was not until the end of an episode that they ran out again cursing, and he could sleep quietly.

In the evening, he settled the accounts for several rented boats at home. He was in a hurry to go to the city yesterday and came back late, so he didn't settle the accounts. He waited until today to call someone to come and settle the accounts.

Harvest happened to come back today. After he settled the accounts of the fishing boats at home, he went to settle the accounts of Harvest.

It took a lot of time to settle the accounts, but there was only one day in a month, and it was the most important day for everyone.

After he settled the accounts, he asked Ah Qing to count the money on hand as usual.

Originally, there were more than 250,000 yuan. He spent 50,000 yuan on the lighter shares, but he also brought back more than 20,000 yuan from the city store, and the family divided a few thousand yuan.

The boatmen had received their wages a few days ago, and Lin's father and mother in the city had already paid them when they settled the accounts. Lin Xiuqing also paid the wages of several workers in the workshop and Ye's mother at the end of the month.

Their workshop was not very formal. Sometimes the wages were paid a few days early, and sometimes it was normal to be a day late.

If this were put in the 21st century, let alone a day's delay, even if it was delayed for two hours, the company would be scolded to death. Everyone's tolerance was very limited. Everyone lived on wages, and only early payment was allowed, not late payment.

Now they have about 230,000 yuan in cash.

Ye Yaodong thought that after the lighters were sold out, and after the store's turnover was collected next month, it was estimated that they would reach 300,000 yuan.

However, it was already early November, and next month would be December. The filling machine and plastic bags would have to be paid, and the materials for the wall in the city would have to be paid. The shipyard would probably have another ship to deliver.

He still had three small trawlers to deliver, and in fact, the original delivery date had passed, but he was not in a hurry, so he did not deliberately urge them.

However, he heard that his eldest brother often asked Ye Chenghai to keep an eye on their boat and keep urging the factory.

He was silently calculating the money on hand in his heart, and calculated the possible expenditures next month. He thought that the income next month should not be that much, and it would probably return to about 250,000 yuan, not 300,000 yuan.

The more money you make, the more you spend. It really makes sense.

At night, he got up directly at the appointed time.

There was no Harvest to go with them tonight. The Harvest came back in the evening. It took five or six days to go out this time. He had to rest when he came back. He couldn't join him, so he planned to go alone.

After resting for two days, he could go find them when the Harvest came out.

All the boatmen also arrived at the dock on time.

"Dongzi...ah, no, I have to call President Ye. I haven't seen you for a long time. Why are you still going out to sea? Aren't you an official? I thought you went out to eat and drink, so I haven't seen you for so long." Ah Zheng teased.

Xiaoxiao also joked, "Haha, President Ye has to hire more people to work. How can he go out to sea to fish by himself?"

Ye Yaodong happened to have a shoulder pole in his hand, and hit each of them, "If I don't go out to sea, will you support me? There are so many mouths at home and in the workshop. If I don't work, my whole family will starve."

"Hire someone to do it."

"Isn't that capitalism? I'm an honest fisherman. I go out in the wind and rain every day. How can I wait for workers to work for me at home?"

"That's right."

"Let's go."

He took a group of people and boarded the nearest ship to go out to sea, and asked someone to send them to the Dongsheng on the sea first.

Although it was rented out, no one would refuse to do it by the way, which saved them from taking other small boats to the middle of the sea.

The sea breeze at night was even colder. It rained several times this month. Now that it has entered November, the temperature has dropped even lower. There is a sea breeze blowing on the sea, and the temperature is lower than on land.

Ye Yaodong put on a sweater and a coat to block the wind at night, so he didn't feel so cold.

He thought that he would have to wear a woolen hat and gloves next time he went out to sea.

"Dad, you can drive in the second half of the night, and I will take over from you at dawn."

Ye's father looked at the time, walked out of the house to the dock, got on the boat and drove the fishing boat out again. In such a short time, it was almost 3 o'clock.

"Okay, then you go back to the cabin."

It was not long before dawn, and it was actually impossible to sleep in the cabin in such a short time, so it was better to drive the boat.

After all, I just got out of bed and had a nap, and I was in good spirits. It would be better to insist on staying up until dawn and then going to sleep than taking a nap for two hours and then taking over the driving for half a day.

Ye Yaodong and the boatmen stayed in the cabin with their eyes closed and rested until dawn to take over.

At this time, they had not yet sailed to the sea area where they used to trawle. The depth under the sea was estimated to be not deep enough. After taking over, he continued to drive quickly and at full speed towards the East China Sea.

It was not until after 6 o'clock that he asked people to prepare to lower the net, and he watched from the rudder.

The sea breeze blew his hair up, revealing his forehead. He calculated in his mind that he had not trawled since July. It has been almost 4 months now. It is indeed quite a long time. He almost lost his old job.

Watching the boat workers lowering the net, he went to the cockpit to take out the telescope and put it on, looking into the distance.

The sea surface was undulating, and the fishing boat was swaying and shaking. The seabirds in the distance were scattered like dragonflies on the water or flying high in the air, not very concentrated. It seemed that there was no difference in the surrounding sea surface.

The fishing boat moved forward slowly, maintaining a uniform speed of 3 to 5 nautical miles per hour.

The whole day, the harvest was mediocre, not very good but not bad.

Most of the groceries were taken up, and half of them were swimming crabs. He picked some big and fat ones and kept them to eat, while throwing the rest to the sea.

The crabs are plentiful and plump in November. It’s a pity that they don’t have anyone on board who knows how to make crab paste sauce. Otherwise, they can dig up a lot of crab paste during their free time. If you can’t bring back live crabs, at least you still have crab paste. Now you can only All wasted.

However, now that they have just been fished out, the crabs are still active, and throwing them back into the sea can help them ovulate.

He and his father have been working shifts to ensure their respective rest periods.

Everything went smoothly for the first four days, but on the fifth day they felt that the sky had become cloudy and the waves had become a little bigger. At night, the broadcast on the maritime radio station was also playing in a loop, saying that there was another wave. A typhoon formed.

Sometimes when they are bored at sea, they also listen to the radio and must listen to the weather forecast every night.

At this time, Ye Yaodong frowned when he heard that another typhoon was forming. No wonder the sky felt a little gloomy in the afternoon, even though the sun was still shining brightly in the morning.

There are still typhoons in November, but the frequency is relatively low. Today is still early November.

The origin of the typhoon is close to the equator, which is still very hot at this time.

Even in December, conditions can be provided for the formation of typhoons, and typhoons may occur throughout the year in the northwest Pacific and South China Sea.

In China, the time range for typhoon landfall is also very wide. Except for no typhoon landfall from January to March, typhoons may land in other months.

It's just that the most frequent months are July, August and Nineties, because in these months the people can particularly clearly feel the power of the passing typhoon, but at other times they may not feel it at all, and the typhoon will pass.

Major typhoons also tend to occur during these months.

It's just that they are currently in the open sea. Even if it is a small typhoon, their feelings on the sea are very clear. At this time, the sun may be shining brightly on the land and they have no feeling, but they are likely to withstand the storm of the typhoon at sea.

Ye Yaodong heard the announcement that another typhoon was forming. He quickly walked out of the cockpit and shouted to the boatmen sitting below chatting, "Go and wake up the boatmen in the cabin. Don't sleep. There is a typhoon forming. We have to go back quickly."

Everyone immediately panicked and ran into the cabin to call for help.

A typhoon is coming soon, so of course it’s better to stay awake and not hide in the cabin to sleep.

Fortunately, he heard the broadcast in time, before the typhoon came, and the waves on the sea were just a little bigger, so there was no real impact, so it wouldn't be a big problem to go back early.

After everyone in the cabin ran out in disheveled clothes, he shouted again and asked them to prepare to raise the net.

It's been 4 days since I left here, so it's not a bad idea to go back now.

Father Ye had already climbed up to the helm tower before he had even put on his clothes, his hands still stuffed into the cuffs of his sweater.

"Why is there a typhoon? It's already so cold."

"It's starting to get cold here. The temperature in the south probably hasn't cooled down yet. It's normal to have a typhoon. It's only November 6th. I'm going to sail back right away. I don't know when this damn weather forecast was detected. It’s only played at night.”

"I just said that in the afternoon, the sky suddenly became overcast today. I thought it was raining. If it rains a little or moderately, we are not afraid. We can just return according to the situation. I didn't expect it to be a typhoon. This is serious."

"Well, let's put down the fishing nets first before we can sail back."

Father Ye was worried and never returned to the cabin. He and Ye Yaodong stayed in the cockpit and watched together.

Of course, the boatmen below are not so arrogant about going back to sleep. Of course, they have to keep an eye on the sea at all times, which is at stake for their lives.

It was probably a typhoon coming soon, and the volume was relatively large. The harvest from this net was huge. Nearly 10,000 kilograms were brought up in one net. In the past, one bag of goods was about 2,000 kilograms. Today, five bags of goods were put out. Father Ye estimated that it would be almost enough. About 9,000~10,000 each.

A large net of goods is collected inside the fishing net. They can't hoist all the goods up and get them to the deck. There is a fish collection bag at the bottom of the fishing net.

When it is collected, the contents of the fishing net will sink to the bottom, and the boatmen have to tighten the mouth of the fish bag, then hoist the fish bag up, untie the net mouth, and let the fish scatter on the deck.

Then the fish collection bag is put back into the sea, and the contents of the fishing net are allowed to fall into the fish collection bag at the bottom, so that when a bag is hung up, it is called a bag.

When the fishing net was brought in, Father Ye walked to the deck to look at it and kept counting silently. It was not until all the goods in the fishing net were collected that he happily ran to the cockpit to talk to Ye Yaodong.

"In the evening, more than 7,000 kilograms of goods were collected in that net. I thought it was enough, but I didn't expect that the quantity in this net was even greater. It should be nearly 5 tons."

"About half of it is groceries. It's not as good as the 110,000 kilograms of Mei Tong fish in the previous net. That one really didn't have much groceries."

"That's true. There's nothing to be happy about. After all, we encountered a typhoon."

Ye Yaodong said nothing and kept staring down. After they collected all the empty fishing nets, he started to speed up.

Just as he was accelerating, huge raindrops suddenly fell from the sky and landed on the glass in front of him, blurring his vision within a few seconds.

Father Ye was also stunned by the pitter-patter raindrops.

"Heavy rain!"

Ye Yaodong pursed his lips tightly. Fortunately, they did not look at the sea surface when sailing. They looked at the compass and the screen display. If they looked at the sea surface, who would know the east, south, west, and north, especially at night.

The cockpit is high up, and the main purpose of being on the rudder tower is to better observe the sea surface and hull around the fishing boat.

After the big raindrops fell, the boatmen below were also a little panicked. Father Ye said again: "There are a lot of goods in this net. Fortunately, everyone is awake and not asleep. I will go down and put on a raincoat, pick the goods with them below, and comfort them by the way."

"Okay."

The raincoat was seen in Vancouver a few days ago. He and Lin Xiuqing bought two and brought it to the sea to make it convenient for him and his father to wear it when working. This is a bit expensive, so he didn't buy more.

Mainly because I think it is not worth the price. After experiencing the cheap era, looking at the current price, of course, it is a bit difficult to buy.

Unexpectedly, it came in handy right after I bought it.

Father Ye wanted to complain that he bought something unlucky, but he thought it was not the right time to say it, so he swallowed it back and hurried down.

Ye Yaodong was concentrating on driving back. The sky was particularly dark tonight. In the past, there was the moon and stars, and the sea around him seemed quite bright, but now it was pitch black.

He drove for an hour and didn't encounter a single fishing boat. The sea was dark and only their boat was moving fast there, and there was only their light moving fast on the sea.

Fortunately, there was the sound of raindrops falling, otherwise it would be silent in the dark night. Except for the lights on the boat, there was no light around, and everyone would probably be more panicked.

But the rain seemed to be getting heavier. At first it was just a bean-sized dot, but it got heavier as he drove, and now it has become a downpour.

Suddenly, the waves from the bow swept the bow of the fishing boat up 45 degrees, and some of the remaining waves rolled into the deck and smashed down. The boatmen were thrown to the ground by the tilt of the fishing boat, and were washed by the sea water. They were all stunned and even had problems standing.

And before everyone could recover and stand up, another wave came straight down, and everyone fell back and hit everywhere again. Fortunately, everyone instinctively opened their hands to grab everything they could grab, so as not to be thrown off the stern.

However, Ye Yaodong felt that it was not a good thing to continue like this. The waves at night would be more turbulent and more terrifying than during the day, and in the dark, everyone's fear of the unknown would be infinitely magnified.

He thought about whether there was an island where he could temporarily dock for one night, at least to transfer the personnel to the island first, so that they would not all be tossed and thrown by the waves on the sea, and worried.

He temporarily went out of the cockpit and shouted to the people below, asking them to use flashlights to see if there were any islands around.

After encountering two head-on waves, no one was in the mood to pick up the fish scattered on the deck. Everyone was concerned about whether they could return home with their lives.

After hearing Ye Yaodong's instructions, everyone quickly turned on their flashlights, took pictures of the surrounding sea, and grabbed anything they could hold on to to prevent themselves from being thrown to pieces.

The rain continued to fall, and the waves kept hitting the fishing boats. Everyone was in a gloomy mood at this time, and they hoped that there would be islands around.

They had been back and forth in this sea area for dozens of times. Ye Yaodong remembered that there were several small islands on the way, but he didn't know how far away the islands were at this time.

If it hadn't rained suddenly, and the waves had surged and churned violently, there wouldn't have been such a big storm just after the typhoon formed.

All I can say is that the weather is unpredictable and uncontrollable. If it could be controlled, there wouldn't be so many fishing boats that crashed in the ocean.

He pursed his lips tightly and sat back in the cockpit. He was tense and didn't care that he was soaked by the heavy rain. He kept paying attention to the direction to avoid deviation. It would be more difficult to grasp. As long as the direction was not deviated, it would only be a matter of time to find the island.

Everyone on the boat held flashlights and stood on both sides of the ship to illuminate the surroundings.

Finally, a cry of surprise came through the rain and reached everyone's ears.

"Over there... There is a mountain over there..."

"Look over there..."

The sky was gloomy and dark, as if it was about to collapse and press down the sea.

The light of several flashlights shone in one direction, and everyone's eyes were full of hope. They all staggered to the other side of the ship.

Ye Yaodong had already seen it before the people below exclaimed. There was a protrusion where the flashlight shone, indicating that there was an island there. He temporarily let go of his heart and drove the boat in the direction of the flashlight.

After the fishing boat turned around, everyone knew that they were heading towards the island. No matter what, they had to find an island to dock first, at least their personal safety would be safe for the time being.

The heavy rain poured down, and the fishing boat sailed on the sea.

After only driving for more than ten minutes, Ye Yaodong watched the island in front of him enlarge a little bit, and slowly slowed down.

In order to find a good docking point for them to go ashore, he also circled along the island.

Unexpectedly, he really found it. There was a valley-like place in the southwest of the island, which was just facing the wind and could block the sweeping sea breeze.

He slowly drove the fishing boat into the valley and docked. In an instant, the whistling sound in his ears became smaller, and even the rolling waves could not affect the fishing boat. The whole boat immediately stabilized.

Except for the still heavy raindrops, nothing else had any impact on them.

He was completely relieved and walked out of the cockpit. Everyone below was laughing and talking, and he climbed down.

"Fortunately, we found an island to dock. It is also a mountain col and a natural haven."

"Yeah, I was thinking about it earlier. When we went out in the past, we also encountered islands. If it didn't work, we would stop at the island and take a rest. Fortunately, we found it."

"I was scared to death. This happened to me on my first trip with the fishing boat. I thought I was going to explain it here. Oh my god, I was scared to death."

"Haha, it's just a little storm. You young people still need to exercise."

Everyone relaxed and was in the mood to joke.

Ye Yaodong shouted in the heavy rain: "We are not affected by wind and waves here. Let's go to the cabin to sleep at night, and don't get off the boat yet. It's dark and we can't see the road, and the rocks are slippery, so as not to fall and be swept into the sea by the waves." ”

"OK."

"Now let's take care of the cargo on the deck, and then go to the cabin to rest."

"OK."

Each of them was wearing a raincoat. Although they got wet from the heavy rain, there was no need to change clothes. They could just go back to the cabin to change after finishing their work.

Ye Yaodong was already wet from head to tail while standing in the rain. He had to go to the cabin to change clothes before he could come out to help.

Today is considered a near miss. Let’s stop on the island and wait for daybreak to see how the wind, waves and heavy rain will turn out.

If it doesn't work, just stay on the boat for a few days and wait for the storm to pass. Anyway, there will be food and plenty of fresh water on the boat.

But just in case, after changing his clothes, he took out all the containers on the boat to catch the rainwater.