Chapter 935 Sea Urchin Nest (7000 Words)

Just when he was playing with the sea urchins for a while, he saw five or six jellyfish floating out of the trench. He had to go and see what this trench looked like.

Anyway, there is still enough time, and it is not too late to go up after reading it.

Ye Yaodong held the stinging sea urchin in one hand and floated it towards the trench.

There was a long gap in the darkness. It was hard to tell how long it was. His vision on the seabed was blurry. He couldn't see the head as far as he could see. However, his visibility was only a few meters in front and back. He didn't have the time to see if there was any. how long.

Carefully avoiding a jellyfish that had just floated up, he looked under the gap on the side and saw many transparent jellyfish floating in the dark gap. They were crowded together, sinking and floating, and some were floating upward. , some downward, particularly obvious.

He felt at ease. It seemed that he could fish slowly just by guarding this trench. As for the reason why the sea surface was empty, it might be because their fishing boats were overfishing and the speed of floating could not keep up with the speed of fishing, so they were fishing in large areas. The reduction is visible to the naked eye.

If it's just his two boats, it should be possible based on the supply.

Even if the number is not as high as the previous two days, it should still be better than searching everywhere on the sea.

He squatted in front of this trench and wanted to carefully check the number of jellyfish, but he found that the rock walls of this trench were full of black thorns!

sea ​​urchin? ? ?

It looked like the black thorns on a sea urchin, densely packed. He opened his eyes wide and lowered his head again.

They are really all sea urchin thorns!

He looked across the gap again. Although it was foggy, the rocks on the opposite side were also covered with sea urchin spines.

so many?

Visible to the naked eye, the rocks on both sides of this trench are covered with dense black spines. Are they all sea urchins? ! !

With a smile on his face, he pulled the tube and felt that it still had a little length, so he moved forward and went down a little along the gap.

Although it is a gap, it is not a problem to accommodate two or three people side by side.

I don’t know how it was formed, but there is a natural trench at this location. Although the seabed in this offshore sea is a bit shallow, this trench is indeed real.

He went down to the trench, which was at the same height as a person and the bottom of the sea, and he didn't dare to go down any further.

From this distance, he could clearly see that the rocks on both sides were really densely covered with sea urchins, and they were all very big. They were even bigger and denser than the ones that had just grown on the strange-shaped reef.

He reached out and tried to break off one, and compared it with the one in the net bag. There was obviously a big difference in size.

The previous one can be said to be only a little bigger than a table tennis ball, but now the ones growing on these rocks are about the size of an adult's fist. One estimate is about seven or eight taels, which is not much different from the deep-sea species.

Perhaps this trench goes all the way down, and the rocks on both sides may be densely covered with sea urchins. At least he can see it with the naked eye now, and there are long black spines on both sides, and he doesn't know how many meters they extend downward.

I don’t know how many meters deep it is, but it may be equivalent to the depth of the deep sea, so the sea urchins grown are also equivalent to deep sea species.

His eyes were filled with joy.

Within a few meters that he could see with his naked eyes, there were tens of thousands of them on the rocks on both sides, and maybe no one knew how many there were further down.

Not to mention anything else, just prying off everything he can see with the naked eye is enough for him to earn. Even if he doesn't catch many jellyfish, these sea urchins alone are probably enough to rival the previous jellyfish collection.

It doesn't take long to collect these sea urchins. Just grab an iron hook and you can collect them. It's much easier than prying abalone and conch.

After roughly understanding the situation, he floated up with a net bag in one hand and a sea urchin in the other.

Father Ye saw that he came up not long after he went down, and was relieved. He just saw him holding up his hands.

"sea urchin?"

Ye Yaodong handed the things in his hands to his father first, then climbed up and took off the mask and tube.

"Are there a lot of sea urchins down there? Why is one so big and the one in the net bag so small? It's not common to see such big ones."

He saw that there were no workers on the boat. He must have been driven to another boat by his father. He also said with relief and joy: "It's not deep down there. There are sea urchins growing on the messy rocks. They are the ones in the net bag. They are not big." big."

"This one was broken off from that trench. The rocks on both sides of that trench are also covered with sea urchins. They are all large in size and densely packed. I can only see within a few meters. Anyway, All I saw were sea urchins, at least tens of thousands."

"I guess the places I haven't seen must be full of sea urchins, so there's no way to predict the number."

Father Ye was extremely surprised, "The rocks on both sides of the trench are all sea urchins? I heard that there are trenches that can go down to several thousand meters. So what if they are all sea urchins?"

"We can't go down even a few thousand meters. The sea surface here is only ten meters from the bottom of the sea. We can't go down too deep into the trench. If we want to pry more, we can only follow the gap in the trench. Our fishing boats on the sea can't go down too deep." Follow the movement and pry."

"Then you can't dig much by yourself, and you can't stay in the water forever."

"So we have to ask the boatmen to take turns digging in the water. We don't need so many people. We can just ask a few cousins ​​to come over. The others will still fish for jellyfish on the boat."

"Isn't it unsafe?"

"It's only about ten meters. It's okay. Teach them how to use these things. Take turns to go into the water and try it out. Just don't go too deep in the beginning. When Azheng looked at the water in the beginning, wasn't it the same? Really? It’s just that the eldest brother and the second brother are a bit inferior."

Father Ye hesitated, "How about letting other people know about your weird stuff?"

"It doesn't matter, we are just our own people. It doesn't matter if we tell anyone. At most, I have special tools in my hands that can go down to more than ten meters into the water. Some people can go down that deep without using tools, but they can't stay for long. It’s just a long time.”

"There is nothing that cannot be known to others. I have not done anything illegal and I bought this. It was only when the government salvaged the sunken ship before that they thought not to expose it, so as not to be directly requisitioned. When the time comes, I will go there No return.”

In the future, this thing will be very common, but now it's a little more strange, but it's not something outrageous.

At that time, he was also afraid that after the official requisitioned him, he would ask about his origin. What should he say? Did you say it was smuggled in?

"Okay, if you think it's okay, then it'll be okay."

"Give it a try. If you feel uncomfortable, don't force it. The salary of those who join the water will be increased from three yuan to five yuan a day. The two yuan supplement is considered as a subsidy. I believe they will work hard to adapt."

"That's okay, then call them over now?"

"Wait a minute. I'm going to get a big net bag. Let me go down again and see how much I can harvest in one trip?"

He walked into the cabin as he spoke, "Didn't my mother make a large net bag for me before? I need to use that one to fit it in. The one tied around my waist is too small and can't hold much before I have to bring it up."

"How about I try to get into the water again?"

"Forget it, Dad, you are already old, don't bother with it, and you also have rheumatism."

If you dive too much, you will easily get corresponding diving diseases, such as decompression sickness, otolithiasis, etc.

Fortunately, he only got into the water occasionally. He didn't regard this as a sport. It was just a means of making a living and curiosity.

"Okay then, I'll just watch from the shore."

"Move the boat two meters forward."

"good."

Ye Yaodong took out a large mesh bag, shook it, and sorted it out. It was not a problem to carry a hundred pounds in this one.

Seeing that he had adjusted the position of the fishing boat again today, he put on all his tools again, and handed the long rope tied to the net bag to his father so that he could pull it up later.

"I'm going down again. I was only down for a few minutes just now. This trip will be longer."

"Then be careful."

Ye Yaodong dived into the water again. A dark gap was particularly easy to identify in the water, so he dived directly into that gap.

It's still the same as before, the head is level with the sea bottom, and the person falls into the gap.

After the goal is clear, of course it is simple and crude to get started.

He took the hook attached to his back waist, opened the net bag with his other hand and faced the rock, and lightly hooked the sea urchin on the stone wall with the hook, and a big sea urchin fell directly into the net bag.

It takes no effort or time at all. It's just that because of the resistance of the sea water, the movement is a little slower, not as neat as on land.

He brushed and brushed, started working mode, transformed into a ruthless robot, and completed one hook after another.

At this time, he couldn't help but think that it would be great if there were two devices. If he asked one more person to come down, the two of them would have company. It would look lonely if one person was working in the sea alone.

However, I don’t know what will happen next year.

The entire side of the rocks was densely packed, with some gaps between them. He first hooked off the parts that could be seen with the naked eye and within reach of his hands, and put the bottom part first.

I don’t know how long the ditch is, so I can only move it while working and watch it. I guess I won’t be able to finish it on the return trip.

His wandering thoughts did not affect the movements of his hands at all. After only a few minutes, his hands felt heavy.

As time went by, and he felt a little uncomfortable, he stopped being greedy. He carried the net bag to the bottom of the sea, casually placed the contents of the net on the bottom of the sea, and then went straight up.

His father was still the only one on the boat. He watched him come up eagerly and expectantly, "How is it?"

"You pull the rope and collect that bag of goods. It weighs at least fifty or sixty pounds."

If it weren't for the buoyancy of the sea water, he wouldn't have been able to lift it with one hand just now.

Father Ye quickly did as he was told. He hung the rope on the rolling wheel and let the rolling wheel slowly collect the things.

He is also used to being lazy, whatever it takes to save trouble, otherwise, human laziness promotes the progress of science and technology.

It's all about convenience.

After Ye Yaodong climbed onto the ship, he sat directly on the deck to catch his breath, waiting for the goods to be picked up, and by the way, where did the other ship move?

Fortunately, those people were chatting there when they had nothing to do. They didn't take out the cards to play, or maybe they didn't bring them.

Later, I happened to call a group of people to come over to the water, which saved them from having nothing to do, just standing there and watching, even if they wanted to swat the mosquitoes.

As the rolling wheel turned, a large bag of black stuff was pulled to the edge of the boat. Father Ye quickly reached out to take it, dragged it in, and threw it onto the deck.

"It's not just fifty or sixty pounds, it should be sixty or seventy pounds."

Ye Yaodong came over and said, "It's not that clear how you feel the weight in the water. I'll get a basket to put it in."

"I wonder how much a pound of sea urchin can be sold here?"

"This one is big and may be a little more expensive than usual."

"I'm just afraid that they will bully us and think that we are outsiders, so they will just give us a low price for the purchase."

Father Ye frowned and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. Let's ask a few more companies when we get to the shore."

"Well, pour it out first, free up the net bag first, and then call the others to crawl over, and I will teach them how to get into the water."

The father and son worked together to lift up the net bag, untied it, and filled a large bamboo basket with it.

"I'm going to get another basket. Don't stand out, or it will fall everywhere."

After pouring a basket and a half, Ye Yaodong felt it, and it should indeed weigh about 70 kilograms.

After finishing, he waved to another fishing boat not far away and asked them to move over first.

Idle and bored, they were always paying attention to what was going on around them. When they saw Ye Yaodong's wave, they immediately shouted to inform others and then pulled the boat over.

"You young ones and your cousins ​​will crawl over first, while my uncles will stay on the boat and fish out the floating jellyfish."

"Oh, good..."

"Dongzi, what did you catch in that net just now...eh? Is it a sea urchin?" Ye Yaosheng asked impatiently as soon as he crawled over.

"So many sea urchins?"

"Just now we were talking about what was in that bag of yours?"

"Did you go into the water to pick it up? How could you pick up so many?"

"These are huge..."

A group of people gathered around two baskets of sea urchins, chatting away. When the goods were collected, they couldn't see clearly from a distance, but they all saw a dark net bag.

Ye Yaodong told them a little about the underlying situation, and asked them if they were willing to go down and pry the sea urchins. If they were willing to go down, in addition to their daily wages, they would be given an additional two yuan subsidy.

He also said that he had diving equipment so that they could get into the water without any worries. But if they felt any discomfort, they could just come up quickly and I would teach them.

If you feel uncomfortable, you don’t have to go down. You can try it first.

After everyone heard this, they looked at each other a few times and looked at each other.

"We don't know if we can teach it. It's quite stupid. Haha, how about giving it a try?"

"Try it. If you feel uncomfortable, don't go down."

"It's only about ten meters, it should be fine?"

"Let's talk about it after trying it. I'm quite curious about what the trench that Dongzi mentioned looks like?"

Ye Yaodong brought over all his diving equipment and introduced them to them one by one. He also put it on Brother A Sheng first and taught them how to use it.

The precautions were also explained.

"You go into the water and give it a try. I will go down with you. Don't go too deep first. Just swim around three or four or four or five meters. Give it a try. If you feel uncomfortable or scared, don't force it. .”

At this depth, it doesn't matter if he dives naked, he can still keep an eye on it.

"Then I'll go down and give it a try first."

Ye Yaodong went into the water with him.

When Ye Yaosheng entered the water at first, he was very unfamiliar and unaccustomed to it, but after swimming for a while, he felt fine, his breathing was smooth, and he didn't feel any discomfort.

He swam towards Ye Yaodong, poked him with his finger, and pointed downward with his index finger to indicate that he was going down.

Ye Yaodong nodded slowly. After watching him slowly dive under the water, he also held his breath. When he reached the limit, he hurried up.

"How's it going?" Everyone asked in unison.

"He has adapted well and has already gone down. Let's wait for ten or twenty minutes and he will almost come up."

"Then we'll wait and see."

While waiting, Ye Yaodong also explained to them the origin of his water equipment, so as to save everyone from guessing.

By the way, he also talked in detail about what he had experienced when he went into the water before, so that he would not be surprised by the newbies who did not go into the water, so he would give them a vaccination in advance.

"You are so awesome, you can do all these things."

"I said no wonder you kept digging up a lot of abalone for a period of time last year. It turns out that there is this thing..."

"It's not just abalone, there are sea cucumbers and sea cucumbers. These are all from the bottom of the sea."

"And little Qinglong..."

"Yes, there is also the little green dragon. There are too many treasures under the sea. These are all valuable goods. Most people can't go down too deep. It takes a specialized diver to go down."

"Now I know, it turns out you have this thing..."

Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "This thing is not that outrageous. It can go down to about twenty meters at most. It is too deep, and our human body cannot bear it. We are all ordinary people without professional training."

"Yes, yes, you can't go too deep. In the past, when I went four or five meters into the water, my ears couldn't bear it."

"Then I've gone down to five or six meters before..."

"Ten or twenty meters is also good. Some offshore seabeds are also very shallow. You can go down to the bottom within ten or twenty meters."

"There are more good things under the sea..."

"Yeah……"

"If we remove all those sea urchins, we should be able to make a lot of money."

Ye Yaodong shook his head, "It's hard to say. Who knows the price here? If there are too many, the price will be lowered. We have to wait until we get back to the shore to ask."

"Yes, this is a foreign country, and people will probably bully students."

Others nodded.

"You guys will take turns going into the water to collect it later. Anyway, you can collect as much as you can."

"well……"

Everyone waited patiently and chatted while waiting.

Ye Yaodong also took off all the wet clothes and pants, wearing only boxers.

Compared with other shirtless people, his body was white and shiny.

Fortunately, after being out for at least two months, some of these people are already familiar with the situation and have found a place to solve it.

He is also the boss of the ship, otherwise he is really afraid that if the time is too long, a pretty boy with such delicate skin and tender flesh may be at risk of being anal!

"Dongzi, why have you been so white after being at sea for so long?"

"Your face is just a little darker than your body, and our butts are not as white as your face..."

"That's why I wear long sleeves and long trousers every day and cover my face even at sea. Who is like you who goes shirtless every day?"

"Hehehe...isn't everyone like this?"

While they were talking, there was a sudden splash in the water.

"Coming up..."

"Ah Sheng is coming up..."

Everyone came to the side of the boat in unison and helped pull the person up.

"how's it going?"

"How was the harvest? Are you okay?"

Ye Yaosheng said with a smile: "It's pretty good. I don't feel uncomfortable at all. It's just that it's foggy underneath and looks a little gloomy, but it's okay. I didn't stay long before I came up."

“What does that trench look like?”

"It's just a dark ditch. You can't see how deep it is. You'll know when you go down. Uncle San can pull the rope up. It's only about thirty or forty pounds, only half of what it is here. I wasn't familiar with it at first. , the movement is also relatively slow..."

Ye Yaodong said quickly: "That's alright, just go down and get familiar with it for the first time. It doesn't matter how much you gain, as long as people can come up safely."

"Yes, yes, after all, it's the first time to go down there. It's quite powerful even if it weighs thirty or forty pounds."

"You can go down and take a look later. The bottom of the sea looks quite strange."

"Then I'll be the second one to go down later..."

While they were talking, Father Ye also collected the goods in Ye Yaosheng's net bag and poured them into the basket. It was almost half full and almost full.

Anyway, they have a lot of baskets on the boat, so one person doesn’t have to worry about not having enough baskets for each trip.

After the net bag was freed up, the eldest cousin also put those things on with the help of Ye Yaodong, so he was well prepared.

Ye Yaodong accompanied him into the water as usual, got acquainted with him, and then let him go down by himself.

He took turns one by one, and he took them down one by one. However, two people were afraid, as if they were afraid of heights or something. After going down for a while, they shook their heads and came up.

He won't force it. If you don't adapt, then don't go down to avoid getting into trouble.

A total of 6 people originally came here, but only 4 could go into the water. The other two were afraid, so they could just go back to another boat to continue fishing for jellyfish later. There were 3 people on that boat who were of the same generation as his father.

Originally, apart from him and his father, a total of 10 people were invited to stay at home this time. There was no fixed person who would stay at home, but basically it was several cousins ​​he was familiar with who took turns looking after the house.

This is just right, the number of people fishing for jellyfish and fishing for sea urchins is evenly divided.

The four people who entered the water collected almost the same goods, all weighing around thirty or forty kilograms, and the bamboo baskets were almost full.

However, when he went into the water again in the second round, he had improved. He was able to collect more than 50 kilograms, which was almost enough to fill the basket, but he still collected about 70 kilograms.

After just two rounds of taking turns, the boat was filled with black sea urchins, weighing nearly 500 kilograms. Ye Yaodong was extremely satisfied.

"Okay, let's take a rest. We went into the water twice and it took a lot of energy."

Ye Yaosheng said cheerfully: "It's not bad. With so many people taking turns, we have had enough rest and are not tired."

"You're not tired, but when it's time to go back, you have to send back that boat of jellyfish."

He saw the Harvest heading here not far away, and he had to send his jellyfish back together with Uncle Pei's jellyfish.

Everyone's time was just right. Just as the last person came up, Uncle Pei's boat also appeared in the distance.

"Then let's take this boat back?"

"Yes, by the way, I want to send the sea urchin back to ask about the price. I'll ask a few more companies to compare. Recently, due to jellyfish fishing, I haven't seen any other seafood on the shore. I don't know if the price can be better."

"Then I'll go to another boat." Father Ye said.

Ye Yaodong nodded and went out to catch jellyfish. He and his father always drove a boat, went back alone, and watched alone.

Usually it was his father who would deliver the goods. If there was a time when the gangsters were looking for trouble and something was not right, he would be the one who would go back.

Today's sale, he has to ask himself, just let his father watch from here.

"Uncle Pei's ship is coming soon. Let's go to another ship. Let's work hard and move the goods over together."

"Okay, okay, whether it's hard work or not, this is what we should do."

Father Pei's boat slowly came over while they were moving it. When he saw the black sea urchins all over the boat, he was extremely surprised.

"Where did it come from? Did you go into the water?"

"yes……"

Ye Yaodong told him the whole story.

He had no intention of hiding it, and he couldn't hide it either. After he docked, everyone could see his boat full of sea urchins.

It didn't hurt to tell them. They couldn't go into the water that deep, so they could only stare at his harvest.

Father Pei's face was indeed full of regret, "Sea urchin nest! Then your thing is really good. It can go down so deep into the water. It's good if you have some connections..."

"hehe……"

"There are gains and there are losses. What is said on the sea is shared with everyone, but under the sea you can keep it to yourself. Everyone knows nothing about it."

"I don't know how much it can be sold for yet. I'll have to ask after we get to the shore to find out. If the people here are too dark and it's not worth the money, it's useless. Then we won't go into the water."

"Yes, this is not our village after all."

"Let's move all the jellyfish here first, and let's free up the space and seize the time."

The boatmen of the two ships have already started busy moving back and forth, and the crew members on their ships are also helping to pick up the goods.

There is no need to mix up the goods. Everyone’s bamboo baskets are marked.

Ye Yaodong couldn't do the act of dumping the other party's goods into his own basket. He didn't earn enough to do such a dishonorable thing.

There are so many people on board from the same village. There is no airtight wall in the world. If he goes home and talks about it casually, his reputation will be ruined.

After all the goods were moved and stacked, he took the first step.

There are also two or three boats on the nearby sea. Everyone is heading towards the town, and there is a high probability that they are also from them.

After everyone fished, they had to go back to deliver the goods themselves. They didn't have to take turns. Except for him staying in the trench, Father Pei turned around for convenience, so he still asked him to deliver.

It is estimated that by the end of the night, each of the cooperative relationships will have broken down and they will settle their own accounts.

Fortunately, apart from rotating transportation, they don't have other expenses mixed in, and they don't have to wait until the flood season is over.