Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1047: Return to Longline Fishing (1 words, monthly ticket +20)

After sending the people away, Ye Yaodong stood at the door and watched the children playing and running around for a while. No adults stood at the door either. They all stayed at home late at night. Some had to go out to sea at night and went to bed early. He also went back to the house.

Lin Xiuqing and the old lady were so engrossed in watching TV that they were both discussing the plot, and no one turned to look at him.

Ye Yaodong went to the empty room on the first floor, opened the boxes of canned fish again, and counted the number.

There were originally 73 boxes in total, with 5 cans of caviar in each box. After reorganization, there were seven boxes left, which equals 355 cans.

He also had another box on hand, which was salvaged together with the box in Director Chen's hand. He kept it privately. There were also 5 cans in it.

However, one can was opened when the goods were inspected at Linji, and they will definitely have to be inspected again when the goods are delivered in the evening, so these five cans will be kept for now and will not be counted.

If one can costs 10 yuan, 355 cans can be sold for 3550 yuan.

This calculation is not bad, it's better than nothing, and it's better than wasting it. With so much, he will have to eat it all the time, until he vomits or it expires.

After calculating it again, he came out satisfied.

All in all, this batch of goods that we salvaged could actually be sold for 1 yuan, so it was a good profit.

Lower your desires and expectations a little bit, don’t think about how much others can earn, just count your own gains, and you will be much happier.

Feeling a little better, he sat next to the two women again and watched TV with them.

"Why are you shaking your legs? What are you so happy about?"

"I'm glad I'm going to make money again soon."

"So should we save some of the squid to dry in the sun?"

When Lin Xiuqing heard him say that he wanted to make money again, she understood that it was the squid season again, so he really had to make money again.

"Yes, of course we have to get some of all kinds of dried goods, but the price will be high at the beginning. Wait until five or six days later and reserve some for that time. This dried squid sold very well last year, so we can raise the price a little this year."

"Well, it just so happens that our big ship hasn't been out to sea, so the workshop has been empty recently. Many people have been asking me when the ship will be repaired."

"I'll find some time tomorrow to call the shipyard and ask."

"Didn't you just ask Ah Hai? What did he say?"

"They said that the factory is rushing to meet the delivery deadline, so they can only spare a master and an apprentice to do the repairs. It won't be that fast. Besides, we have three boats to be repaired together. I'll call them tomorrow and ask them to repair the seized boat first."

"Then when you go out to sea tomorrow morning, remember to bring your hand-cast nets. There are five of them, take as many as you want. If they are not enough, I will buy some netting cables in a few days and weave two more myself. Anyway, our boat is not repaired yet and the workshop is not busy, so you can just do it yourself. There is no need to ask others to do it."

The hand-cast nets on the big ship are almost scrapped. I mentioned this to her some time ago and asked her to weave a few and keep them there as backup. Now that it is the flood season, it is just right to use them.

"Got it. I'll put it on the cart first, so I don't forget it."

Lin Xiuqing also stood up and followed him out.

After preparing everything he needed to take on board for tomorrow's voyage, Ye Yaodong went to the unused room on the first floor early to sleep.

He couldn't stand the noise of the two little guys, and he had to get up at night to get caviar for Lin Ji, so it was best for him to sleep alone in this room.

Fortunately, Lin Xiuqing had already prepared everything today and made the bed. The bedding still smelled of sunshine.

With something on his mind, Ye Yaodong woke up sporadically. As the appointment was between 10 and 12 o'clock, he estimated that he should be here around 10 o'clock.

The weather is not yet fully warm, let alone 10 o'clock. The village is almost quiet and deserted at 8 o'clock. Even the children have been sent home to sleep.

After sleeping for several hours, seeing that it was just past 10 o'clock, he immediately got up, tiptoed out, opened the door, and tried to keep the sound of opening the door to a minimum and reduce the creaking noise.

Then he sat alone at the gate of the yard, smoking quietly while waiting, looking at the dark sea and the rolling waves. He thought again of the super typhoon this year. Although he had a vague impression that it did not directly hit them, they were also greatly affected.

The main reason is that the houses nowadays are relatively old and dilapidated. Some elderly people live in houses that are not much better than pig sty. A slightly stronger typhoon can blow away the roof.

If it is a house like the ones in the future, then there is nothing to be afraid of. Ordinary typhoons are just drizzles. If a super typhoon comes, there is nothing to be afraid of as long as the doors and windows are closed.

After thinking for a while, he still couldn't figure out which month it was, so he simply gave up thinking about it. He just knew that he could just fight against the enemy with his own army and block the water with earth. It would be better not to face the attack directly.

He sat at the gate of the yard for a while, and sure enough, at just half past ten, he saw his dark shadow in the distance pushing a cart towards him. The rumbling sound of the axle was particularly harsh in the silent night.

Fortunately, there was the sound of waves, which occasionally rolled over and covered up the sound of the wheel shaft turning.

"I thought I had to knock on the door, but I didn't expect you to be so punctual."

"I thought you were at this time last time, so I calculated the time and got up."

"Push it in directly or leave it at the door?"

"Put it at the door. There are only seven boxes in total. The sound of the axle turning is a bit loud at night. If you push it into the yard, the elderly in the house will probably get up. I can just go in and move it out."

"Oh."

General Lin Ji parked the car at the door, and his men followed him in, then stopped in the yard and waited for him to move out.

When the dog at his feet came in from the forest, it immediately pricked up its ears and circled around him, sniffing at his trouser legs, and then shook its hair.

Before entering the house, Ye Yaodong turned around and lowered his voice, reminding the dogs to return to their own kennels before moving the boxes.

However, no matter how quietly and carefully he moved, he still disturbed the old lady in the next house.

People sleep less as they get older, and her ears are very sensitive. At night, at the slightest movement, she feels like there is a thief. She immediately sits up alertly and quietly looks out the window.

Dongzi was clearly going out to sea early the next morning, not tonight, so where did the noise come from at night?

With the help of moonlight, I really saw a dark figure, and the gate of the yard was still open. After a while, I saw someone from the house carrying a large box of things into the yard.

The two men handed over the items stealthily, and the sound of the heavy object falling on the cart was also heard by the sharp-eared old lady.

Her first reaction was that there were two thieves moving things in the house. She panicked and didn't know what to do. She walked around the room and found that she only had a crutch.

She quietly opened the door a little, and the main room was pitch black. Then she heard the sound of things being moved in the room next door where dried fish were stored. She suddenly felt nervous and panicked.

She took two steps quietly and raised the crutch in her hand. Suddenly, she remembered that A Qing seemed to have wiped the bed in the room and made the bed today, saying that it was for Dongzi to sleep on in the next few days to avoid being disturbed by the child.

The old lady raised her cane high and then slowly put it down. She thought that it was not the first time that Ye Yaodong was sneaking around in the middle of the night. She was worried that it was him again. After all, he was the only one who slept in this room at night. How could a thief enter the room without her knowing?

She was afraid of scaring someone in the middle of the night and worried that it might be a thief, so she didn't dare to make a sound.

After hesitating for just a moment, Ye Yaodong had already moved out another box of goods. When he reached the door, he saw a dark shadow standing by the door, which scared him so much that he threw the box of cans in his hand out.

"Oh my god, no, my ancestors, why are you here in the middle of the night and scaring people?"

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay..." The old lady quickly reached out and patted his chest a few times.

"I heard some noise in the middle of the night, and I got up to check, but I was afraid to scare you, so I kept quiet. I wanted to see if it was you or a thief."

"Who told you to do things all day long instead of during the day? You're always tinkering around in the middle of the night. I thought you were really robbed. Why didn't you even turn on the lights?"

Ye Yaodong glared at her unhappily, pulled the power cord, looked at the scattered cans thrown to him on the ground, squatted down and picked them up one by one.

Lin Jishang heard the noise in the house, the light was turned on again, and he followed in, "What's wrong?"

"I was almost scared to death. Standing at the door without turning on the lights, scaring people, it really can scare people to death."

Lin Xiuqing also heard the sound of something heavy falling outside, as if a large amount of things had been knocked over. She also saw the light outside through the crack in the door, so she put on her coat, opened the door and took a look.

"It's late at night, why aren't you sleeping?"

"You all go to sleep. He wants to buy dried fish and will leave early tomorrow morning. I also have to go out to sea early in the morning and I don't have time, so he will come here to move the goods at night. I will give him these cans as well." Ye Yaodong said half-truthfully.

"You came here in the middle of the night to move goods. I thought someone was standing in the yard. It was so dark that I couldn't see anyone and the lights were not on..." the old lady muttered a few words.

"It's only 10 o'clock, how can it be the middle of the night? Go to sleep."

Lin Xiuqing looked at the caviar all over the floor and understood. All the canned fish were sold out, and these would only be caviar. She had heard him mention it before, and she would wait for him to come back and see if he wanted it.

It's okay to move at night without making any noise and turn on a light secretly, so as to avoid scaring your own people.

"Have you finished moving? Do you need help?"

"No need, we can just move it between the two of us, you guys go to sleep."

Lin Xiuqing was worried that people would feel uncomfortable seeing them, so she went back to her room and planned to interrogate them after they left.

The old lady also walked slowly back to her room, looking back every few steps.

Ye Yaodong also picked up the boxes of goods scattered on the ground and handed them to Lin Jishang, "As expected, a thief is always guilty. If I had known, I would have just turned on the light and wouldn't have to worry about any noise."

"I don't feel guilty, it's you who feels guilty."

"Okay, okay, I feel guilty. There are only a few boxes of goods in total. Hurry up and move them. You can just look through them and randomly open two cans for inspection."

"You're going to fool me?"

"How is that possible? I am an honest man."

"Then I'll take a look at it slowly when we get back."

He had no reason to fool around, nor was he really short of the money, so he could still give her some trust.

"Okay, that's 7 boxes in total, plus 10 cans of miscellaneous goods, a total of 360 cans, 3600 yuan."

I originally kept 5 cans without counting them, intending to leave them for him to replenish after random inspection. Now that there will be no random inspection, of course I will sell them to him and get the money!

If we go back and check it again, it won’t be his!
Anyway, I'm already earning so much at Linji, so I can earn less here. He doesn't have much money, so he can earn more.

"Row."

Lin Ji was also very straightforward. He took out money from several pockets on his body, counted it twice, and then handed him 3600.

Ye Yaodong saw that he was being gentle, so he didn't need to order again. He just put it in his pocket and said with a smile: "Thank you very much. Goodbye."

"Don't you want to check it again?"

"Will you cheat?"

"will not."

"That's it."

"Ah."

Lin Jishang waved at him, then looked around and pushed the cart away.

Ye Yaodong also shook the banknotes in his hand, closed the gate, then closed the door and turned off the lights and went back to the storage room to lie down.

Just as he closed his eyes, the door opened again.

"Aqing?"

"it's me."

Lin Xiuqing groped her way to the bed, but Ye Yaodong grabbed her hand and pulled her onto the bed. A loud noise came from the old-fashioned bunk bed.

"What are you doing……"

"Do you want money?"

She smiled and said, "I wonder how much the caviar sold for?"

"Serve me well, and everything will be yours."

Ye Yaodong rubbed the dough into a round shape with familiarity.

"I haven't served you well yet. I've treated you like an ancestor."

"I didn't feel it. Come on if you are sincere."

"Stop it, tell me how much it sold for."

He freed one hand and reached under the pillow. A handful of money shook a few times in front of her eyes, and then when she reached out her hand, he quickly retracted it.

"Hey~ You have to behave well before you can get it."

"You want to die." Lin Xiuqing slapped him twice.

"I want to live, live happily, hurry up, use all your strength."

"Get lost! Put it away! There's no room for so much money in this room."

Ye Yaodong raised his hands so that she couldn't reach them. When she turned over, he quickly stuffed the money under the pillow, rested his head on the pillow, and looked at her with a smile.

"Come on, it's several thousand dollars, I won't let you down."

"I'm going to die. What do you think of me?"

"Wife, everything I have is yours, hurry up, I can't even lift my eyelids for other women, hurry up."

Lin Xiuqing tried to pull the pillow, but he pressed it down with both hands, so tightly that she couldn't move it at all.

"Be obedient and fulfill your duties as a wife, and I will give you everything."

"I'll take it directly when you go out to sea tomorrow."

"Then I won't take it out to sea."

Lin Xiuqing pinched him and said, "Don't be so stubborn."

"Then I won't be stubborn, here Y..."

Ye Yaodong grabbed her little hand XX?

"Are you annoying? It's so late... and you're still in this room..."

He coaxed softly, "If you want to go out, you can go outside..."

"don't want…"

The couple was talking to each other in whispers, and the waves outside the house were surging and rolling, one wave after another, whistling as the waves hit, and the treetops rustled in the wind.

The waves on the shore rose to their highest point, then slowly fell down, rose and fell calmly for a few times, and then rolled and roared heavily again.

In the silent night, the sound of the waves is particularly clear.

Ye Yaodong lay on the bed like a dead fish, not wanting to move at all.

"Get out of my way, dead man, and let me get down."

"You don't sleep here."

"The two children are so young, how can I let them sleep by themselves? They sleep so badly, I have to feel where they sleep in the middle of the night. What if they roll off the bed in the middle of the night? I have to sleep next to them and watch over them."

Another thing was that she was afraid that if she walked out of this room early in the morning, she would be seen by the old ladies, Mr. and Mrs. Ye, and become a laughing stock. It would be so embarrassing if she had to crawl over here to sleep after spending a whole night away from them.

Ye Yaodong didn't force it. He had already enjoyed himself, and it would be even more pleasant to sleep alone later. It was hot and the bed was not cold anyway.

He also kept his promise very well. When she got out of bed, he took out a handful of money from under the pillow and handed it to her.

"This is a reward for you. You performed very well just now. Keep up the good work in the future."

Lin Xiuqing took the money, glared at him, and also cooperated with the role play, "I'll raise the price next time."

"Fuck! Do you know how much this is?"

"Humph, you think it doesn't cost anything? I have to play this game with you."

“This is called interest.”

“So the price will go up next time.”

Before leaving, Lin Xiuqing pinched him, then left happily, closing the door gently.

Ye Yaodong muttered a few words, "Thousands of dollars each time, enough to sleep with a fairy, where can I earn it?"

From now on, I have to collect all the bills from the shops in the city and the money I got back from the sea, and then give them to her before I can sleep with her? Otherwise, I can't sleep at home.

Damn it, he pulled the quilt over his shoulders, didn’t even put on pants, and just closed his eyes and went to sleep.

He worked so hard at night that he almost woke up late in the morning. He was only woken up when his father came and knocked on the door and pushed it open.

I hurriedly put on my clothes and went out to sea with them.

Fortunately, he had put all his things away last night, so he didn't have to rush to prepare this morning. He just had a simple breakfast, pushed the cart and went out to sea.

What surprised him was that when he went to the area around Oarfish Island, he found that some people had already thrown branches into the sea, and there were quite a lot of them. He hadn't seen any of them when he came to scout the area yesterday, and his longline fishing line was still not far away.

"Dongzi, we haven't been here for several months. It may have been occupied by someone else. Someone has already placed branches around here. It was either yesterday or tonight. Should we look for it again?"

"Where can we find it at this time? Let's sail around the island and take a look first."

He had some guesses that it might have been put there by Zheng Xiaoxiao.

Last year he brought their two boats to place branches around here. They hadn't been out to sea for a few months, so they certainly couldn't let anyone else occupy this spot.

After a round, his guess was confirmed. The area around the island that he occupied last year was left open, while the area occupied by the two of them last year was already filled with branches.

"It's just as I thought. It should be the branches put there by my two friends. We can just put them here. It's okay."

"Are you sure?"

"Probably 80% of the time. If you're worried, let's collect the longline first, and then re-bait it. Then we can come over and cast the branches. It will probably be noon by then, so they should come over to check on the situation."

"That's okay too."

Father Ye headed towards the buoy not far away, and Ye Yaodong continued to cut the bait.

He stopped after arriving at the place. He skillfully collected the float first, and then pulled the hook. It has been a long time since he last used longline fishing, but his luck was still so good.

After three or four hooks were empty at the beginning, a bass weighing more than three kilograms was caught directly. Then several more were caught one after another, each weighing at least two kilograms.

The sea bass in spring are plump and the spring fish are also very tender. Many of them have been harvested one after another. These are all good fish, and Ye's father is very happy and smiles from ear to ear.

"Oh, I caught a squid. It really is almost the flood season."

Ye Yaodong untied the squid hanging on the fishhook and pinched its belly. He wanted to see if there were any eggs in its stomach and whether the fish eggs had been discharged. However, he forgot that it would spit out black ink from its mouth.

With a "biu" sound, a stream of ink sprayed all over his face, more than he sprayed last night.

Luckily he was wearing a hat, so the sun visor on his face was blackened, and his eyes were also sprayed, but at least his entire face was not sprayed.

"You're not careful enough, you know it will spray ink."

After saying this, Father Ye took the squid from his hand and pinched its belly. Unexpectedly, there was still ink in its belly, which sprayed all over his face again.

Now it was Ye Yaodong's turn to laugh at his father.

"You knew there was ink inside, but you still squeezed it. I was just sprayed with ink."

Father Ye wiped his face and it became even darker.

“I thought it was finished.”

"There's nothing in her belly, so she should have ovulated. It looks like the flood season will only be in the next two days."

Father Ye casually threw it into the basket beside him, which already contained a lot of fish sorted into different categories, separating the good from the bad.

Except for the sea bass, which are packed in a separate basket, because there are so many of them, the others are only separated by value. If the quantity is large, they can be sorted separately on the return trip.

There are 100 hooks in a row in Yanshen Fishing, and the hit rate is about 1/3. There are both big and small fish. Some hooks still have baits on them, while some hooks have no bait, probably because the fish escaped. Some hooks have had half of the fish eaten by other big fish, leaving only half.

Basically, all the fish caught were fish, except for the squid just now.

It took two rows of longline fishing to catch this squid. When I fished later, I saw a few more. They were all caught with shrimp bait. Other larger baits could not catch squid.

After they finished collecting one row, they moved the fishing boat forward a bit. There were a total of 20 baskets of longline fishing lines. It was not easy to collect them all quickly, and some of the fish were still very active and could only struggle.

While reeling in the line, Ye Yaodong pulled out the line, picked up the fish, and added bait, then threw the fishing line into the water and continued working.

He would skip the damaged ones directly. As long as the majority of the hooks were still there, he would not plan to take them back. It was too troublesome. If he took them back, he would have to reorganize them and would only take them back when there were more repaired hooks.

But when he was pulling it in, he clearly saw a transparent squid weighing more than two kilograms hanging on the next hook. But before he could pull it down, a big fish suddenly jumped up, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed the whole squid.

"Fuck me..."

In the blink of an eye, the fish pulled the hook and tried to escape. The line in Ye Yaodong's hand was pulled and kept sliding forward from his palm.

He did not bother to talk and reacted quickly to tighten the fishing line, but the impact of the fish pulled his body forward, so he had to wrap his hands a few more times and tighten the fishing line.

This is using bait to lure the big fish!
Father Ye also saw the big fish that just jumped out of the water, and he tightened the scoop net in his hand.

"Ouch, I got so scared that it ran away before I could even react. Keep your fishing line safe."

"I know. Get ready. If you catch it in front of you later, remember to catch it with a hand net. It's a small tuna and it's not easy to catch it."

When he was collecting fish, his father was always ready with a hand net and other tools on the side, in case the fish was still very active and could easily escape when hooked. In order to prevent it from swallowing the hook, scissors or a wooden stick with a hook were needed, which made it easier to collect the fish.

"I know. I'm ready. You can collect yours now."

Father Ye stretched his neck and looked at the sea. He had just collected three or four rows, and this one, the one that tried to intercept their cargo halfway, was the largest.

Unexpectedly, I caught them red-handed when I raided their fishing hooks. Fortunately, the fishing hooks they used were relatively thick, which was designed to catch big fish.

Larger fish are of course more valuable than smaller ones.

Ye Yaodong was pulling the fishing line in his hand. The thin white fishing line was tightly around his palm. Fortunately, he had been wearing gloves and was not afraid of the fishing line pinching his flesh. However, as the little golden spear struggled, the line in his hand became tighter and tighter, and it still pinched his flesh.

Catching fish in this way is no different from hand-line fishing.

"Shall I help you?"

Father Ye saw him pulling back and forth following the fish but failing to pull the fish close for a long time. He loosened the line in his palm from time to time to let the fish go. He became anxious, worried that his hand was hurt by the line.

Ye Yaodong gritted his teeth and pulled, "No, you wait on the side. It's not easy to catch such a big fish. It will be soon. We will catch it in a while. Take the stick and get ready to hook the fish's gills and pull it up together."

Very powerful.

He was able to emerge from the water just now to intercept us halfway, and then ran away as soon as we met. I don’t think it would be so easy to capture him.

Moreover, judging from the figure that appeared on the sea surface when it escaped just now, it looked to be more than 40 kilograms. He was not in a hurry, so he just pulled it and waited until it was exhausted before bringing it back.

This is the biggest fish I have seen today.

The battle between the mermaid and the fish went on and on. Father Ye could only watch with his neck stretched out. He kept pulling and releasing the fish back and forth. It took him nearly 20 minutes to finally tire the fish out and pull it to his side.

The sweat on his body was pulled out.

Father Ye also watched with joy. When the fish reached the side of the boat, it was still floating back and forth on the sea, as if it had no strength left, but it could still swing its tail to hit the water from time to time.

He spotted his target and swam towards it, then he grasped one end of the wooden stick and used the other end with the hook to pierce the fish's gills. After the fish struggled violently for a while, he slowly pulled it up along the hull of the boat.

When the fish head emerged from the edge of the boat, he grabbed the fish head and used all his strength to throw the fish onto the deck.

"After a long time, I finally caught this fish."

"You let it bleed, so the meat doesn't go sour. I'll continue harvesting."

"it is good."

Father Ye threw the tools in his hand to his feet, then picked up the knife to finish the fish first. This was a small golden tuna and it must be bled. This fish is usually used for sashimi. If it is kept for too long without being bled, the meat will become sour.

Ye Yaodong shook his arm, which was a little weak from being pulled, and then continued to receive the goods.

Because the fish hooks are thicker, the fish caught are at least one kilogram or more, and larger fish or squids can also be caught.

Before he had collected the fish for a while, he saw another big squid weighing two or three pounds. It seems that the squids this year are very fat. He has seen several of this big size.

Perhaps the small ones have been screened out and cannot be hung on the hook.

"Hey, hey, hey, blue..."

After a while, his heart, which had originally become numb and calm, immediately perked up again.

Father Ye also got excited, "Could it be a grouper?"

"It's possible. It could also be a small humphead wrasse. They are all good fish. Let me collect them and take a look. This fish is very active and is pulling very hard."

The grouper comes not only in red, but also in blue. Of course, the red one is more popular than the blue one. After all, everyone likes festive colors. The red grouper is also more expensive than the blue one.

He turned the fishing line on his wrist a few times and pulled it hard. The blue fish jumped out of the water. It looked quite ferocious, and it was struggling so hard even in its death throes.

"It doesn't look like a starfish."

"Put it up and have a look."

We don’t look carefully in the sea, so there may be misjudgments. We will know once we bring the fish up.

Ye Yaodong pulled for a while before slowly sliding the fish to his side. He didn't know when the fish took the bait, but it must have not been long, otherwise it wouldn't have been so difficult to pull in.

"It's a swallowtail."

"Correct."

Both father and son looked at the tail and recognized that the fish's tail was forked, like a swallow's tail, and a swallow's tail looked like a pair of scissors.

The colors of the Oriental Grouper include bright red, blue, and brown, but the most important feature is the many blue spots on the head and body. The biggest feature is the almost complete blue ring around the eye socket.

The swallowtail grouper also comes in red and blue, and it gets its name because it has a forked tail like a swallow, which is also the main difference between it and the eastern star grouper.

If you want to tell the difference, the most intuitive way is to look at the tail, so when they got closer, both the father and son could see clearly what kind of fish it was.

"This fish is good too, it's also a grouper, it's also valuable, this one weighs about two kilograms."

"Well, we have to bleed it, too."

Ye Yaodong collected the fish with satisfaction, then threw it aside and asked his father to bleed it.

"Good luck today."

"You've always been lucky."

"That's true."

"Hurry up and collect the ones at the back. There's not much left and it's almost 9 o'clock."

“It took quite a long time to sail out, and we also went around the island.”

He estimated that by the time he had hauled up all the longline fish and put the bait on them and lowered them down, it would be around noon, and the other two boats would probably be coming over to check on the condition of the branches.

One hook after another was pulled up and put down.

There were no top-notch fish or big fish in sight, so it wasn't that difficult to reel them in. Only occasionally, when I caught a bigger or more active fish, it took some effort. But it was all smooth sailing, without any of the fish getting lost.

When he had almost collected all the goods, with only the last line left, a small dot appeared at the end of the coastline and grew bigger and bigger. It was a fishing boat.

He looked up and quickly collected the remaining goods. By the time the fishing boat arrived, he had probably collected most of the goods.

While reeling in the fishing line, he was also keeping an eye on the fishing boats approaching from afar. He couldn't tell whose they were from a distance. All trawlers looked basically the same, except for the markings on the hull, which could only be seen when he got closer.

But when he got closer, he could roughly see the people on the boat.

Ye's father also saw it.

"It really is your friend and his father."

"Yeah, I said it should be them. They occupied this island with me last year. It doesn't make sense for me to give it to someone else this year. I have to look for it somewhere else. I'm not a fool."

If he had not encountered pirates on his return journey and damaged his ship while fighting the pirates, and had towed it away for repairs, he would have given up directly because the squid season this year would have been the same as that of the Harvest.

After all, squids are trapped with branches around the island, where the water level is shallower. If a large ship gets close, it will run aground and will be unable to move forward.

If you go trawling in the open sea, you may be lucky enough to catch a lot of passing squids, and the harvest will generally not be too bad.

When he was fighting pirates, his fishing boat was damaged and towed away for repairs. Probably everyone in the village knew about it. The news that the new boat had returned also spread throughout the village. Even with their stupid brains, they knew that he would definitely take the opportunity to catch the squid season this year.

After the boat over there waved its flag to give a warning and then came closer, Ah Zheng's voice immediately came loudly.

"Donzi, I knew you were the one who put the longline here."

"How can you be so smart?"

He smiled brightly and proudly, and used a long bamboo pole to hook the side of Ye Yaodong's boat, putting the two beds together to make it easier for them to talk.

"I'm smart, so I figured it out after a quick thought. So I discussed it with Xiao Xiao and the other two, and decided to vacate the area on the island that you occupied last year for you."

"I just came over and saw it, but I was a little unsure, so I collected the longline first. Did you just finish hauling in the net?"

"Yeah, I thought it was time to take a break at noon, have a meal, and come over to see how the squids are being trapped with branches. Although my dad said there aren't many Noctiluca these past two days, the flood season should have just begun, and it will take two days for the catch to increase. It's better to go and drag more nets than to waste time here. But if we throw them down earlier and prepare earlier, we can collect more squid eggs."

"Well, I'll be ready soon."

“How’s your longline catch?”

"It's pretty good. There are a lot of bass. I just caught a small golden tuna and a swallowtail."

"Then you are very lucky. My father also said that spring has come and there are more bass. We have dragged several nets since last night and caught quite a few bass, about 100 kilograms. With this bass, we will have a good harvest today."

"You put the branches out yesterday, right? I came here last night, but I didn't see it."

"We came here to put down the branches yesterday evening when we were about to go back, and we saw the buoy floating here, and we thought it should be you. When will your boat be repaired?"

"I don't know yet. There is no definite news yet. We have to wait. Fortunately, it happens to be the squid season, so I won't lose money and I can make money."

"My father was also saying a few days ago that you are so lucky. Even when your boat broke down, you still remembered to make money, and you were able to catch up with the flood. It was just the right time for you to break down."

Zheng's father immediately said angrily: "Nonsense, what do you mean by bad just right? Can you speak? If you don't know, you would think I was hoping that their ship would break down."

"That's right, it was just the right time. Nothing was delayed."

"Okay, don't get in the way of them receiving the goods. Let's go over there and take a look at the situation. You can cook while we're at it."

"I don't want it. I can't. You cook and I'll drive the boat."

After scolding him, A Zheng's father rowed the boat away and handed it to him to drive, then went to heat up the food obediently.

There is a reason why a person is spoiled. There are always parents who spoil the child. Otherwise, there will be no spoiled children.

After Ye Yaodong watched their fishing boat slowly leave, he pulled up the last few hooks and took a look. He replenished the bait where necessary and collected the fish where necessary.

Ye's father was also there and said with a smile: "In the past two years, I saw him hanging out with you all the time, relying on his four sisters at home for everything. In the past two years, he seems to be quite decent."

"Isn't it? I taught you well."

"Don't flatter yourself. He has a father."

"My own father didn't teach them well for the past twenty years. Now that I've made money, they've become more positive, so it's all my credit."

"It's good that he's getting better. Otherwise, I won't know who will take care of me when I get old."

"He has four Voldemort sisters, and his life is easy. It's a pity that you didn't give me more sisters."

"That's too much. We already have an old man at home who doesn't know right from wrong. It's already terrible enough. If you have four older sisters, won't that be heaven?"

"It would probably take seven sisters to get to heaven."

"Hurry up and work, and stop talking nonsense. It's a pity that people are not allowed to have more children now. It seems that his family only has one son, right? And they only have one granddaughter. I don't know what sin they have committed, but they are not allowed to have more children. We fishermen who go out to sea have to have more sons. What's the use of one? Two are too few. Three is just so-so. Four or five are enough. What nonsense!"

"Stop complaining, go cook. Everything is done and you're still standing here. I've been watching for a long time and you don't even know how to cook first. My dad just ran off to cook and you're still standing here."

Father Ye shook his head and said, "Okay."

Ye Yaodong was very satisfied when he looked at the several baskets of harvest behind him. He should be able to sell dozens of these goods today, after only being busy for the whole morning.

(End of this chapter)