Chapter 699 Strange Ship

The night is quiet and gentle, but the sea surface at night seems to be overwhelming, but in the depths of darkness, there are also countless secrets hidden.

The silvery white waves on the left and right sides behind the fishing boat became clearly visible under the moonlight. The waves spread layer by layer, sparkling and forming a white luster.

After their boat sailed a certain distance from the fishing village, one or two light spots would appear on the sea from time to time. They were boats that were also fishing at sea. They were large and small, some were as bright as the sun, and some were as faint as fireflies. They were there. Traveling through the night, moving forward silently.

Ye Yaodong looked ahead intently to identify the direction of the boat, while his father hung bait for the longline.

That's right, the sticky net will not be released anymore. Next, they plan to continue fishing with long lines and cooperate with the trawl net for a month or two, and then focus on catching squid.

After he drove the boat to the "responsible field" that used to be used for longline fishing, he also helped hang bait, and then cooperated with one to launch the boat and the other to put the fishing line.

There are still 1,000 row hooks and ten bamboo baskets.

After putting them away, he stacked the baskets one by one to reduce the stacking space.

By the way, they have a lot of bamboo baskets because they have so many uses. Ten baskets are needed just to organize a longline, not to mention the fish on the boat.

His father had nothing to do on weekdays. He sat at the door and never stopped working. His father made all the baskets in their home when he was free.

In the past, they would be knitted and handed over to the brigade, and then occasionally taken to the market to sell. Now they are all used by my own family.

When Father Ye saw that he had finished placing the fishing line, he speeded up the boat and prepared to go to the place where the shrimp pots were placed yesterday to collect the shrimp pots.

In fact, they could just leave it and collect it later when they return, but the two lobsters they caught yesterday made them a little excited, so they thought of coming over to collect them early in the morning to see if there were any more.

Moreover, Ye Yaodong also wanted to take advantage of this early morning to put away the shrimp pot and move it to a better place later.

At this time, the sky was already a little hazy.

In the distance, they also saw the buoy floating on the sea. Father Ye slowly slowed down and leaned over.

Ye Yaodong took a hook in his hand. When the fishing boat approached the float, he used the hook to hook the float so that he could reach it easily.

However, his luck was not very good today. There was not even a small green dragon in all the shrimp pots, and there were not many sword shrimps, but there were quite a few red shrimps, estimated to weigh more than 20 kilograms.

It's just that these red shrimps are not big and not very valuable. They can only be used as bait or peeled and dried.

Father Ye was also a little disappointed, "It looks like there is nothing today."

"If you don't have it, then you won't have it. I can sort out five kilograms of sword shrimps. I can just take the red shrimps back and peel them and dry them. These shrimps will definitely sell well."

Father Ye nodded. Shrimps are delicious no matter how you cook them. Those dried mussels are easy to sell. There is no reason why shrimps are hard to sell.

However, he was a little puzzled when he saw that he piled the cages into the corner and did not continue to put them down.

"Aren't you going to put down the shrimp pot? Put it down together."

"I'm going to put the shrimp pot in another place. You can drive the boat to the reef. Be careful and don't hit the reef."

Father Ye's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Yes, you can put it on the reef and see if you can put more lobsters and sea cucumbers? If you can catch lobsters in the past few days, there must be more around the reef."

"That's what I think. Last year there was quite a lot of water there, but the time to enter the water was short and it was difficult to catch. The weather hasn't warmed up yet, so it's difficult to go into the water. I just used a shrimp pot to put it in in case it got stuck. If you can’t pull it up, forget it, don’t do it, it doesn’t cost you any money anyway, so I don’t feel bad.”

"That's okay. If these are used up, there are still a few rows of ground cages at home. If the weather gets hotter, you can take them and put them there." Father Ye said as he sailed the boat in the direction of the reef.

It looks like it will be a cloudy day today. The sky is completely bright, but there is no red light in the sky, and there is still a bit of foggy feeling in the distance.

Father Ye kept looking intently into the distance. He always felt that there was a ship docked on the island, but it was a bit foggy and he couldn't see clearly.

"Dongzi, come and see if there is a boat on the island over there?"

Ye Yaodong was resting against the cabin. Hearing his father's shouting, he quickly got up and walked over in confusion.

"What's going on? The wind was too strong, so I couldn't hear what you just said?"

Father Ye pointed towards Huang Haiyu Island and said, "There seems to be a boat over there."

It was just dawn this day, and the fishing boats were not operating at sea, but docked directly at the isolated island, which was a bit confusing.

"There seems to be a ship, but I don't know why the ship is docked at the island? Why don't we put it somewhere else?"

"Is it from our village? Send women to the island and ask them to dig shells?"

"Ah?" Father Ye thought it was really possible. "Then don't worry about it. Let's just put our own cage in it?"

"You can put your own. The shrimp traps are empty just after they are put down. We are not afraid of being stolen. We will work nearby later."

"Well, you don't have to worry about it yet."

On the island next to it, Ye Yaodong picked up an oarfish the year before last, buried a body last year, and also picked up two gold nuggets.

It's not that he didn't want to go to the isolated island again to see if he could gain anything. It's just that the island looked a bit small from a distance, but it was not small when wandering around. There were even pheasants and rabbits on it. He was idle later. After running around for a whole time, I just picked up a bunch of seabird eggs and found nothing, so I gave up.

Thinking about the trend he has recently created, many women in the village are eager to go out to sea and dig for shells.

Although he only accepted items from his brothers and neighbors, he couldn't resist the fact that they had so many relatives. They could quietly take the items from their relatives' homes and sell them to him together.

Ye Yaodong has weighed three times. He sees that the quantity is getting higher every time, and he knows it. But it doesn't matter. This is a win-win situation. If you buy more, he can sell more.

With this idea in mind, the father and son paid no attention to it and placed their own shrimp pots, only looking at them from time to time.

However, after they finished placing all the shrimp pots, the fishing boats on the island remained motionless.

"Drag the big fishing net out of the cabin. Don't worry about it. The water in the well does not interfere with the water in the river. Let's do our thing." Father Ye said.

"Um."

The father and son cooperated with each other and continued to release the net.

Although the nets they put out were numerous and miscellaneous, it would be a waste of time for them if they were told to just go back and come out to collect the nets tomorrow. They would rather drag two more nets at sea.

However, the father and son discovered that after they had hauled two nets and returned to the surrounding area, the fishing boat was still docked at Oarfish Island, swaying with the waves and not sailing away.

Father Ye frowned, "Dongzi, it seems that the boat doesn't belong to our village. If we let the women go out to wash the sea, they would just put it down and go back to the sea to work. It would be a waste of a day to park there."

"Perhaps they just set sail to go fishing in the sea? It's not like we haven't done this before?"

"Then when we brought your mother and in-laws, we also docked at intervals. When it was time to trawl, we were trawling, and we didn't stay there all day waiting. Maybe there was something wrong with the fishing boat."

"If it's a breakdown and calling for help, the other party on the ship will definitely be able to see that our ship is nearby. Why wouldn't he wave the flag and call for help when he sees it?"

He felt that his father was overthinking it. Like him, didn't he take Ah Qing out to go fishing on the fifteenth day?

However, I didn't go that far, I just chose a small island near the coast.

Father Ye thought it made sense, "Then let's collect the longline and then go back. The shrimp pots were just put down not long ago. Let's collect them again tomorrow."

"OK."

But when they finished their longline fishing in the early morning of the next day and came to collect the shrimp pots, they found a boat approaching Oarfish Island and docked soon after.

The father and son paid attention and thought that they had not finished fishing on the island yesterday on the boat. They continued today. They were attracted by the sea cucumbers and small green dragons in the shrimp pots, so they didn't take it to heart and just focused on it. Collect the shrimp pot.

"We still have to put it in this area. There is another sea cucumber in this cage."

Ye Yaodong untied the net in his hand and poured the contents into the bamboo basket. When the black and chubby sea cucumber fell into the basket, it bounced twice.

Father Ye smiled and caught the sea cucumber first and threw it into the bucket. "I collected two rows and caught four sea cucumbers and three lobsters. It's pretty good."

"This location is a Feng Shui treasure."

"There are still a few rows that are about to be harvested. After that, we will continue trawling. There haven't been many goods in the past two days, and I don't know if they have all migrated. I just put a few sea cucumbers and lobsters in the shrimp pots to subsidize them."

"Um."

Ye Yaodong tied up the fish collection bag again, then threw the shrimp pots aside and handed them to his father to sort them out. They would put them down together later. He still had to collect the remaining shrimp pots.

However, he pulled the buoy several times but failed to move the shrimp pot.

"It's over. We lost a row on the first day we put it down. It's stuck dad."

"its stuck?"

"Well, there are reefs underneath. Maybe the place where it was placed is uneven, or it may have been washed by the waves underground and got caught, making it impossible to pull it up."

"I'll try." Father Ye reluctantly took the piece of rope he had and tried it, but he really couldn't pull it up.

"Forget it, don't pull it, don't break the line. Tie the buoy and keep throwing it here. If you are lucky and it is not washed away by the waves, wait until it gets warmer and see if the water can be recovered?"

"Well, then I'll try the next two."

Unexpectedly, Father Ye tried to pull one, but he couldn't pull it and was stuck.

"No?"

"No, it's stuck again." Father Ye frowned. He just sent it out yesterday, and today he lost two of them. Isn't this a huge loss?

Ye Yaodong was also speechless. After carrying it like this, two rows of it were jammed after just one day. This was a huge loss. Fortunately, it was a business without capital.

"There is another row, let me give it a try. If it can be closed, change the position and move it to the side to avoid getting too close to the reef and getting stuck easily."

As he spoke, he drove the boat forward a short distance, and the last buoy was washed away by the waves.

Fortunately, this one was not stuck, and was brought up smoothly, and three rows could be saved. Moreover, from the ten shrimp pots in this row, a total of two sea cucumbers and two small green dragons were poured out.

"It's a little comfort."

"You go and sail the boat, a little to the side, don't get too close to the reef, I will release it."

"OK."

Ye Yaodong complied with the instructions and sailed the boat, but as he drove forward, he looked around and noticed the boat on the island.

After his father finished placing the remaining shrimp pots, he said, "Dad, why don't we get closer and see which village's boat it is from?"

"Okay, if you're curious, go take a look. Anyway, the signs are wrong. We can run away if we take the first step."

It's okay to stop at an isolated island for two days. If this ship is here every day in the future, how will he put branches to catch squid next month? We have to fight again.

And how can we go into the water when it’s hot?

Since they docked there on purpose, it didn't matter if they sailed over to see which village the boat was from. If something happened, the boat docked there would definitely not be as fast as their boat.

I thought so in my heart, but I didn't expect it to come true.

When they drove the boat over, before they even got close, after a short distance, they immediately turned around and left in surprise.

I’m so sleepy. I have another chapter to finish tomorrow. A day of relaxation leads to a day of decadence.