Chapter 542 Returning with a Full Load

The second net had been pulled up early, so it took them less than 10 minutes to collect it.

The fish in this net were not that heavy, but still weighed over 30 kilograms, and there were several more sole fish and turbot.

Ye Yaodong looked at his watch. It was already eight o'clock. He had been out for almost two hours, but only collected two nets. He also felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

If there's something else to do, it's going to take a long time. He's been busy working until dark today and won't be able to finish it all.

"Dad, can you hurry up?"

The workload of fifty nets is not low. If the harvesting speed is fast, he estimates that they will have to spend a whole day, from morning to night.

Because when collecting the net, you must pay attention to collecting it in order. You cannot mess up the net because of catching fish. You must also tie the knot as it is so that you can continue to put it out after collecting the net.

Things are very complicated, and his father loves the fishing nets very much. He is very careful when collecting fish. He will carefully pick up any garbage, grass roots, seaweed and other things stuck on the nets, and try not to pull them randomly and damage the fishing nets.

With him collecting fish and sorting the fishing nets behind him, Ye Yaodong felt relieved, but his efficiency was a bit too slow.

If the machine here is running, it can be faster, but I am afraid that his father will not be able to collect fish that fast and will be too busy. When the time comes, he will be in a hurry and mess up the fishing net, which will be troublesome.

This kind of sticky web is most afraid of becoming a mess. If it becomes a mess, it is equivalent to being scrapped.

Whether it is a one-time use depends on how you close the network? If you collect it well, you can use it several times. If part of it is damaged or the hook is broken, it will not affect the use. I am just afraid of mess, after all, the network cable is too thin.

Father Ye also felt that he was collecting too slowly, fearing that there were so many nets that he would not be able to collect them all in one day.

"How about you collect the fish faster? I will catch the net at the back, put the fishing net on the table first, and then collect the fish one by one? Or you can come over and help pick up the fish after collecting two or three nets. , it will be faster this way.”

"Okay, let's try it!"

If we don't speed up the progress, we really won't be able to finish it.

No wonder when Uncle Lin found out that he had set out 50 nets and also set out long lines, he said that he must hire someone else, otherwise he would not be able to catch them all.

He originally wanted to try to collect some today, but now it seems that he may not be able to collect all the 50 nets alone, let alone long-line fishing.

However, you still have to collect it and give it a try first.

As soon as the rope of Ye Yaodong's third net was hung up and it had only turned five or six meters, he immediately speeded up. Ye's father was pulling the fishing net from behind. He no longer picked up fish slowly and put the entire net neatly on it. On the table, ready to pick it up later.

It wasn't until Ye Yaodong quickly collected three nets that it was difficult to put them on the table, that he stopped collecting them, and worked with his father to free the fish from the nets.

“There aren’t many products online, most of them are toad fish.”

"Well, there are also two golden pomfrets, so that's okay."

"The golden pomfret is not as good as the white pomfret. It's just so-so... Oh, shit~ Dad, are those otters still there?"

As Ye Yaodong was talking, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted several otters emerging from the water again. He was pleasantly surprised and pointed in the direction for his father to see.

They move forward and backward, left and right, rolling freely in the water, and even swim in circles. Their behavior looks a bit cute.

"Are you still there? Haven't you found a place to go ashore yet?"

Otters generally live in coastal salty and freshwater areas, and they often go to the sea to fish. Therefore, otters are also found on some small islands near the coast.

Although they are on the seaside, there is an island town nearby. There is a large freshwater lake in the island town, which happens to be the interface between saltwater and freshwater.

"It just so happens that the net is not being closed at the moment. Let's drive over and see if we can catch it." Father Ye was a little greedy after seeing so many fish on the sea.

Ye Yaodong nodded. There are still several decades before they become protected animals. It can be said that this is the most time. If you don't catch them, it will be useless. When they become protected animals, he will not catch them.

He is a principled person, he will catch whatever he can, he won't catch if he can't, he won't catch anything he likes, and he won't catch the cubs if they are too small.

I didn't expect these otters to be quite vigilant. Maybe they had just experienced a wave of stimulation. As soon as they approached, they heard the sound and all dived into the water to hide in advance.

"Come on, I missed it again, forget it."

Father Ye also said regretfully: "Forget it, let's untie all the goods from the fishing net first."

"Um."

The father and son continued to work on the fishing nets in their hands. After all the contents of the three bowls were taken out, the fishing nets were straightened and knotted, Ye Yaodong continued to collect the nets.

They continued to repeat it, but what they didn't expect was that in the afternoon, when they were halfway through collecting the fishing net, Ye Yaodong's rolling wheel actually turned on another otter, and this time it was an adult. Otter, no longer a cub.

This made the father and son happy.

"It's like trying to find a place after wearing iron shoes. It takes no effort to get it. Unexpectedly, I tried to catch it in the morning but couldn't. In the afternoon, I actually caught one in the net."

"Catch it first and tie it up so that it won't run away." Father Ye hurriedly ran over and took the net from his hand.

"Then take it and I'll get the rope from the cabin."

"Um."

Father Ye happily grabbed the otter, and when he saw its limbs moving wildly to scratch someone, he quickly moved it away.

While waiting, he had nothing to do and looked into the water. Unexpectedly, he was pleasantly surprised again in an instant.

"Dongzi, Dongzi, and Otter!"

"ah?"

When Ye Yaodong heard his father's call, he quickly stuck his head out of the cabin. He was holding a pair of scissors and was about to cut the rope.

"There are two more in the fishing net, so cut two more ropes."

"More? Got it?"

Ye Yaodong simply cut a few more strips quickly, and then ran over quickly. The rocking of the boat only made him unstable and staggered a little, but it couldn't hit him.

As soon as he ran over, he asked: "Anything else, dad?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I just stretched out my head to take a look, and I saw half of the nets hanging on the side of the boat. There were two more inside, one was hanging in the air, and the other was still soaked in the fishing net in the water. .”

Ye Yaodong stretched his head out and saw it, "Okay, catch three in one net, tie this one up first, and then spin up the remaining two."

"Hey, hey."

The value of these three pieces is estimated to be sixty or seventy yuan, which is barely worth what they earned today.

The two quickly turned the remaining two up and tied them up. Unexpectedly, there was a cub at the end of the fishing net.

Ye Yaodong grabbed the little thing in his hand. He didn't know if it was the one he caught before. It didn't look as good as the cub he caught before. He didn't know if it was because the three adult otters on the boat were barking there. This fierce and ferocious creature keeps moving around there.

He patted this one on the head and said, "Stop barking, or I'll stew you."

After saying that, he moved his hand to the water, then let go and let it fall into the water.

Father Ye just felt a little pity, "I released another one."

“Sustainable development does not harm the small family, so protect the big and abandon the small.”

"What a bunch of nonsense... hurry up and get to work. I won't be able to finish it until dark today."

Ye Yaodong looked at his watch again. It was almost three o'clock. There were always intermittent delays. In fact, they had sped up, but they still couldn't finish the work.

"The longline fishing can only be left open for one more day. Let's collect it again tomorrow morning. Go back in the evening and ask someone to get on the boat to help."

"You have to hire someone, otherwise there will be too many and you won't be able to finish the work. If you hire someone to help collect the fish together, the efficiency will be higher."

"Well, how about inviting Brother Asheng?"

"That's okay. We're all our own people anyway. It's very difficult for you, Brother Asheng, so you might as well take more care of him and let him save more money and marry a better man."

"The wife he was told about now is not good at all. The man is not dead yet, and she is still lingering there half-dead. He doesn't know when he will get married. Why is he here? If you want to have a son, you don't have to give birth to a son. A woman who has a son.”

Ye Yaodong didn't want to meddle in other people's affairs. He had only been with this cousin for two months and felt that he was steady, down-to-earth and reliable. It was believed that when he wanted to hire someone now, he would be the first person he thought of.

The eldest cousin and the second cousin are also reliable, but it's just pitiful that they don't have Ye Yaosheng.

Of course this person can pull it out, so he can pull it out.

"If a man is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, what can be done? We can only let him save more money. If a man is rich, he will have enough confidence. When the time comes, he will not be able to marry whatever he wants."

"Well, that's the reason. If your family is rich, what kind of wife can't you marry?"

The father and son chatted while working.

This time, Father Ye saw that his stall was so big and he was still too busy. He didn't say anything, and he didn't say anything about what he did. He did so much and didn't do it step by step.

I was convinced subtly, and I just thought about how to help solve the problem.

The two get along more and more harmoniously.

Ye Yaodong also feels that his father has made great progress from being disliked by his father in the beginning to now that the two of them can talk calmly and resolve problems in a thoughtful manner.

I don’t know whether he thinks his father is more advanced, or he himself is more advanced, or both.

They worked from dawn to dark before the father and son collected all the nets and put them down again.

There is no way to harvest the longline anymore. We can only continue to release it into the sea and sway with the waves. How much fish can be harvested depends on our luck tomorrow. Fortunately, it is cold now. Even if the fish dies, we can still release one or two. sky.

The longline that was released yesterday will be harvested tomorrow, with a one-day interval in between. The problem should not be big. As for the fish that struggled and ran away, there is nothing that can be done.

But today’s harvest is really amazing!

Return with a full load!

It was really a boat full of fish. The boat was filled with baskets, and they were all stacked on top of each other. Each basket was filled to the top.

At first glance, there are toad fish. They are slimy and ugly, but there are so many of them.

As soon as winter comes, the number of this fish increases.

Today I harvested more than 1,200 kilograms of toad fish alone.

Five or six hundred catties of other fish products were also harvested, and the harvest was very gratifying.

Including the three otters, today's harvest is estimated to be over 200 yuan. It was not in vain that he spent nearly 700 yuan to buy the rolling wheel.

With the addition of fishing nets, today the cost is directly back to 1/4.

It's just a pity that this kind of fishing net requires three days of fishing and two days of drying.