Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1143 The Big Wave Brought by the Red Tide
Looking down from a high place, the visibility is quite good, and with a telescope, it is still possible to track the group of six-banded trevally.

Following his suggestion, Ye's father also chased after the school of fish.

Fortunately, the full silver shark did not swim very fast, and the large group following behind did not run very fast either. The shadows of fish were gathering on the sea.

The fishing boat sailed past quickly, then slowed down and stopped after passing a certain distance. The boatmen were already prepared. As soon as the fishing boat stopped and saw a school of fish sailing towards the side, they immediately threw out the prepared fishing nets.

There were two nets full of fish again, but when they were pulling in the nets, the fish did not stop at all, but continued to move forward, and even deviated from the direction of their fishing boats, swimming to the side.

Because there were so many fish and one net was full, it took them time to collect the nets. After the two nets were collected and dumped on the deck, Ye Yaodong stood on the wheelhouse and looked through the telescope, but he could no longer see any trace of the school of fish.

He only knew that the fish had just deviated to the side, so he casually pointed in a direction and asked his father to continue driving in the direction he pointed to see if he could find it again. If not, they would have to give up, as this wave of six-banded trevally would only bring them so much harvest.

Father Ye kept moving forward in the direction he pointed, but he could no longer see any trace of the school of fish. Ye Yaodong also looked around with a telescope, but there were no more waves on the sea. Even the seabirds were scattered or flying around their fishing boat.

I don’t know if it was because he was full, or because he was frustrated at not being able to catch big fish, or if there was more food to eat if he followed their fishing boat.

"It's gone? Can't find it?"

Ye Yaodong took down the telescope and said, "I can't find it. It must have run far away or sunk under the water. I can't see any trace of it. You can decide which direction and which coordinates to go to."

It would be nice to have a fish finder so we can detect what's happening under the ocean.

"Forget it if you can't find it. The wave we just encountered should have been quite a few."

"I'll go down and take a look. You can drive the boat."

The deck was still full of fish. Some brave seabirds swooped down and tried to take away the big fish, but they were unsuccessful and were always waved away.

When people were cleaning up and picking up goods, they would also throw out some small fish to feed the seabirds, attracting them to fly down and grab the fish.

Ye Yaodong watched everyone picking up the goods, squatted down to help pick them up, and asked, "Do you know how many kilograms have been brought up?"

"It should be around 3000 kilograms, and can be sold at a good price."

"We haven't even reached the fishing area yet, and we've already caught so much before we even start casting the nets. That's pretty good..."

"Chen Shi's stuttering has improved a lot. It seems that fish can cure stuttering?"

Chen Shi laughed, "No, it's just too... shocking. It's the first time... to see so many... schools of fish in the water. I was... speechless at the time."

"If I couldn't tell it then, I can tell it now."

"correct."

"It's a pity that we can't cast the net here. It's too shallow. Otherwise, we could have caught more remnants."

"Let's go a little further out and take a look. We can no longer see many jellyfish, which means we are almost out of the coastal waters."

They are now heading towards the East China Sea. In the past, they would head towards the Taiwan Strait or the southeast coast.

While driving the fishing boat, Father Ye used a compass to determine the direction of travel. Being in unfamiliar waters, he did not dare to go too far out. After calculating the time and feeling that it was about time, he asked people to cast the net.

The nearby sea is vast and boundless. There are no mountains or hills to be seen, only the coastline on the horizon.

The Dongsheng is extremely small in front of the vast ocean, just like a grain of sand in the desert.

The sun was scorching during the day, but the breeze off the sea was still very cool. After sorting all the goods, Ye Yaodong returned to the hold to rest while others were lowering nets or cooking.

Take advantage of your free time to do what you need to do, so that you will still be busy when you get back online.

While lying there, he was not idle. He was still thinking that the trench was exposed and there would probably not be many ships coming over to make money next year.

After all, it is not as profitable as in the past two years, when only a few families could share it. Now everyone in the city is participating, and it is not worth fighting with the locals to make this money.

If they can still earn a million yuan in one trip and rivers of blood are shed, they may still think it is worth it, because no one would think of themselves as cannon fodder. They will always fantasize that they are the chosen one and will have the last laugh.

However, it is not ruled out that some people think that it may be regulated next year and not so dangerous. After all, it is the flood season here. Even if they are fishing on the sea one by one, it is better than earning a little money by trawling at home.

He thought about it a lot and felt that he didn't need to worry about those people in the village next year. Those who were supposed to come this year had already come and knew their locations, so they could make their own arrangements.

At most, I can wait for him to become the vice president. If there are any relevant policies or other matters, I can tell him in advance. In case there are any difficulties, he will help if he can. After all, we are from the same village, so we should stick together.

If he were to come, he would definitely come a long time in advance.

It would be impossible to salvage all the sea urchins in the trench in just one month. Who knew how the weather would change? Even if it was sunny every day, he had no idea how long the trench was. He could only salvage one area and then move on little by little, catching as many as he could.

This time, he only planned to stay for about three days, and return immediately when the fish warehouse was full. With these few days of buffer, probably all the locals had tried it and gave up.

When he returns, that trench will still belong to him.

If he can make a lot of money nearby, why should he go far away?

While it is not yet autumn and the weather has not turned cold, we should go into the water as many times as possible and catch all the sea urchins at the bottom of the trench. Who knows, they may be able to move outside.

Next year, we will not have to stay in the trench where jellyfish gather, but will move outward along the trench below.

By then, everyone will be crowding in to catch jellyfish, and he only needs to catch sea urchins easily outside, avoiding everyone else, which is better.

He was fantasizing so much that he fell asleep and didn't even have lunch. The boatman wanted to come in and call him, but when he saw him sleeping, he left.

It’s too early to get up at night. After dinner, they will take a nap and wake up just in time to close the net.

Throughout the entire day, they did not encounter any fishing boats except near the coast. Their boat was the only one floating on the sea.

It's not like they haven't been out to sea before, but now, maybe it's because they are in another province or another place, the fishing boats are floating alone all day, so they find it a bit scary to work at night.

Even at night, they could always see the Harvest when they looked up. With two ships accompanying them, they felt particularly safe.

Ye Yaodong slept too much during the day and automatically took over the first half of the night.

Just as he was driving the boat slowly on the sea, two sailors who were in the same shift with him ran up from the lower deck.

He asked in confusion: "What? Have you picked up all the goods downstairs?"

"I've picked it up. There are only two of us on the deck. It feels empty... and a little scared..." Chen Laoqi hugged his arms and rubbed them back and forth.

Chen Shi also said: "It's too... too dark... The entire... sea surface is... dark, except... for the two lights... above and below. It's scary."

Ye Yaodong didn't feel anything at first, as he had long been accustomed to the darkness, but after hearing what they said, he suddenly felt a little scared.

The darkness was like a giant beast with its mouth open. When they were sailing and working, it felt as if it was going to swallow up their entire fishing boat, as if the fishing boat would disappear into the darkness in the next second.

In the past, no matter what happened on the sea, there would always be a Harvest ship. Looking at each other, the two ships did not look so lonely.

"What you two said is true. Then you two should stay on the rudder tower until we are ready to collect the nets. People should not be idle. When they are idle, they will always think about random things. When there is work to do, they will not think about anything else."

"Yes, that's right... As soon as I finished my work, I raised my head... to look at the sea, and my heart... was startled."

When Ye Yaodong was about to say something, he saw the raised bow of the boat suddenly create blue waves as it sailed.

And not just at once, but continuously.

The fishing boat is working non-stop, which is equivalent to constantly sailing. The waves hitting the bow are all blue and never change.

He blurted out, "Red Tide!"

"Red Tide!"

"The waves... the blue ones..."

Ye Yaodong repeated, "The red tide has come... It wasn't there just now, but it has spread all of a sudden."

Not only the bow, but also the sides and stern of the ship, he saw that the waves caused by the voyage were all blue, undoubtedly a red tide.

Red tide also has a nice name called blue tears. It is a natural phenomenon. I didn’t expect to encounter it here.

He had encountered this at home two years ago, but it had little impact on them. But now it’s different. He has to drive the boat back.

We don’t know whether these red tides will spread inside. Now we can only go back and work in the nearby sea areas. Generally, we can’t go out anymore. There should be red tides everywhere outside now.

"Red Tide... is... what?"

Chen Shi had only been a fisherman for two years, and he had not encountered any such situation, so he did not know much.

"Red tide is an ocean phenomenon. The seawater is brown during the day, and at night, when the waves are rolling, there will be blue light. Now the fishing boats are sailing, and the waves are naturally bringing out the blue light."

"High concentrations of red tide organisms can block the respiratory organs of fish and shellfish, causing the death of large numbers of fish and shellfish. These fish or shellfish poisoned by red tides continue to secrete toxins in the seawater, endangering the growth of other marine life."

"This thing looks good, but it's not a good thing. We can only temporarily leave this sea area with red tide." Ye Yaodong explained it to him.

"Fishing net..."

"No need to collect it immediately. Don't be in a hurry. Open it first. We just encountered it. It's not a big problem."

"It looks...very beautiful..." Chen Shi curiously went down the wheelhouse again, leaned against the edge of the boat, and stared at the blue light created by the waves beside the fishing boat.

Red tides usually occur more frequently in summer, and if they are too severe, they will also affect humans. If people accidentally eat fish, shrimp and shellfish affected by red tides, they may be poisoned. Fortunately, he just encountered it, and there will be no big problem if he goes back.

However, he was working while walking back, and the fishing net was dragging underneath, so his speed was a little slow. Even though he was driving back, the waves he created were still glowing blue. After thinking about it, he simply asked the two of them to pull up the net.

Pull up the net first and then walk back. You can also lower the net when there is no blue light.

They had a pretty good catch today and had originally planned to trawle the net as they headed back tomorrow night so that they could reach the shore in the evening the day after tomorrow. However, plans cannot keep up with changes and now they can only go back and trawle the net to a place without blue light to kill time.

The darkness, which originally had a suffocating fear, suddenly became a little more eerie because of the blue light.

When it first appeared, people felt a little curious, but after looking at it for a long time, they couldn't help but feel their hair stand on end. After all, the background in the dark was black, and the circle of fishing boats was now emitting blue light, which looked weird to them no matter how they looked at it.

Especially Ye Yaodong who was sitting in the cockpit, he could see the whole picture of the fishing boat. The whole fishing boat was emitting blue light, as if it was held up by this blue light. In the endless dark night, the blue light was shining.

After using his rich imagination to make some associations, he shook his body, and then quickly shook his head to get rid of some weird ideas.

Blue tears are quite common in the summer, but they are not common now. The marine ecology is generally better now, and they appear less frequently. There is only one boat on the sea, and fishermen nowadays are more superstitious, so seeing this phenomenon in the dark is bound to be a little scary.

The fishing net was slowly pulled up, and the fishing boat was heading back, but the blue light was still there. Only after the fishing net was completely pulled up did the blue light fade a little, becoming less bright and dense, and more sparse. However, we still had to keep going back.

It looks like this wave of blue tears covers a pretty large area, and I don't know if it will continue to spread further in.

Ye Yaodong and others poured all the cargo in the fishing nets onto the deck, and Chen Shi and the others pulled up the fishing nets that were still in the sea little by little and threw them onto the deck.

After everything was collected, he quickened his speed and drove inside, and by the way, he moved a little to the side, hoping that other sea areas would not be affected.

But until dawn, wherever his boat went, it would not take long for the bow to create blue waves.

At the beginning he would ask people to continue casting the net, but after going back and forth twice, he gave up the idea and focused on walking back.

Ye's father and his friends had just gotten up, stretched themselves, and urinated. They wanted to help sort the fish, but they only saw a large, messy patch of fishing nets on the deck. There was no fish at all, which looked a bit strange.

At this time, the sky was just pale, the moon had not yet completely set, and the sun had not yet fully risen.

"What's going on? Why are all the fishing nets pulled up? No one is working?"

Chen Laoqi explained: "We encountered a red tide at night."

The three people who had just gotten up shouted in surprise in unison: "Red Tide?!"

"When did we encounter the red tide?" Father Ye looked at the sea, but found that the water was very blue and there was no sign of a red tide at all.

"Five or six hours ago, when we discovered the red tide, we wanted to go back a little to see if we could avoid it and continue fishing, but we found that the sea water was always blue, so we pulled up the fishing nets."

"Dong... Brother Dong said that this... red tide should be quite large and spread... quite widely. Originally... we planned to go directly to the shore..."

"You're going back now?" Father Ye frowned. "You've only been out for a day and a night, and you didn't earn much during this day and night..."

"He said that a red tide had come and the seafood on the seabed might be affected. He wanted to go back and see if there was any that had not been affected so he could cast two more nets."

"This is the original. Don't listen to Chen Shi's half-hearted talk. When we first drove to this place, we found that there was no blue light. He just came out and shouted, asking us to prepare to lower the net. We are now arranging the fishing nets and preparing to lower them."

"Then we can change the location and continue the salvage." Father Ye felt more relieved. Anyway, he could avoid it, and it didn't matter as long as it didn't affect their fight.

After saying that, he also walked towards the wheelhouse, intending to replace Ye Yaodong, and by the way, ask a few more questions about the red tide that sounded at night.

"It's OK. The red tide happened at night, and the waves from the fishing boats were all blue. I spotted it at first sight, and then turned back, planning to find a place without red tide to continue fishing, so as not to waste gas money for the round trip. It just happened that we just found it, and it doesn't look like it has spread yet, so we should be able to haul the net."

"Well, leave it to me, you go and rest."

"it is good."

Anyway, they have found a place where there is no red tide, so they can salvage the fish. They can just leave it to his father to watch over. He is indeed very sleepy after staying up all night.

He swapped positions with his father, he went out and his father came in.

Ye Yaodong stood on the wheelhouse and stretched vigorously. He took out the telescope hanging around his neck and took a look. He was going to take a last look at the sea conditions before returning to the cabin to sleep.

"and many more……"

He frowned and kept staring at the sea ahead.

"Dad, come and take a look. There's a huge crowd ahead. Come and take a look..."

Father Ye was curious after hearing what he said, so he kept the boat moving forward at a constant speed, came out, and took his telescope. "What is that?"

When he put on the telescope and took a look, he was also surprised, "What is that? It's black and white, and it seems to be floating over here."

Ye Yaodong was also squinting his eyes and looking there, but he couldn't see clearly in the distance with his naked eyes. After all, it was just dawn and the water on the sea didn't look blue. Usually, when the weather is good, the blue sky is reflected on the water surface, making the sea appear blue.

"I don't know what it is. Wait a minute, I'll tell them not to lower the nets yet, but to pull them up first to see what's over there, in case it's another red tide spreading over, and all their efforts would be in vain."

We have already set down the net twice before. Now we see a huge patch of black and white ahead. I feel that it might be the spreading red tide. Let's see how the situation develops.

"It's so unlucky. We just went out to sea..." Ye's father complained.

"It's not bad luck. After all, we encountered a school of fish yesterday. There's nothing we can do about this natural phenomenon."

Ye Yaodong was quite open-minded. After all, he was not short of money now. It was not unacceptable for him to waste one or two opportunities to go out to sea occasionally. Yesterday's harvest was quite good, and this trip did not lose anything. Now he would go back like this. Although he would not make much money, he would not lose anything either.

He shouted to the people below, and although they were confused, they obeyed and quickly pulled the net up again, only asking one more question.

"Is the red tide spreading again?"

"Not sure, let's wait and see, anyway, collect it first."

It wasn't completely put into the sea in the first place, so it's easy to retrieve it.

When everyone threw the fishing nets on the deck again, they were suddenly free again. Out of boredom, they followed the father and son on the helm and looked into the distance.

"Ah...what's that black thing?"

"What's so black about it? It's obviously white but a little black..."

"No... not like the red tide..."

"What is that?"

After just a short wait, the thing in the distance floated closer and closer, and everyone was surprised when they could see it with their naked eyes.

The father and son upstairs looked more carefully.

"No... what is that big thing... that area on the side should be a school of floating fish, right?"

Father Ye looked at Ye Yaodong muttering to himself and felt a little itchy in his heart. He reached out to hook his arm and wanted to snatch the telescope from his hand, but found that it was not high enough.

"What big thing? Let me see it, let me see it quickly... Don't occupy it all, let me see it too..."

Ye Yaodong looked at his father helplessly and handed the telescope to him.

"The white things I just saw in the distance are the rolling waves, and the black things seem to be some big fish. I can't see them clearly. I can't identify them from the distance. The surrounding area is densely packed and black. It should be a school of fish."

Father Ye said with certainty and excitement: "It's a school of fish! The big ones are also big fish. Tell them to get ready. I will sail over there right away."

After saying that, he stuffed the telescope into Ye Yaodong's arms, and immediately went to the cockpit, ready to drive the boat over.

Ye Yaodong hadn't even taken two looks through the telescope when his father urged him to tell his men to get ready, so he had no choice but to do as his father asked.

"Go prepare the fishing nets. There is a school of fish ahead. We are going to sail over now. Please prepare in advance."

"A school of fish, no wonder..."

"Let's go get the fishing net..."

But when they got the fishing nets ready and were waiting to throw them when they got close to the school of fish, Ye Yaodong on the helm was surprised again.

"Wait wait wait...don't move yet..."

Without him saying anything, the people below also noticed something was wrong. As the fishing boat approached, they suddenly discovered that the big guy on the sea was a little different.

It seemed very ferocious, tumbling constantly, and the closer I got, the louder the tumbling noises became.

Ye Yaodong took the telescope and looked more carefully. It seemed as if it was right in front of him. The big fish was indeed very ferocious and looked different. There was a big saw as wide as a wooden board on the end of its snout!

At this time, it was tumbling and killing on the sea, constantly waving the large sawtooth in front of it, and the fish it was chopped at was also a big fish, which looked like a shark.

"Dad...wait a minute, let's not get too close...there's something wrong with the school of fish over there..."

After seeing the big fish, he felt that the small fish around it seemed different. They seemed to be dead, all floating on the sea, drifting with the waves instead of moving actively.

"Ah, what kind of fish is that... Why did something like a saw appear..."

"That one looks like it grew on a fish..."

"Damn, what kind of fish looks so weird..."

As the distance got closer, Ye Yaodong could see clearly that it was a giant sawfish!

Sawfish is also a kind of ray, or it can be said to be a kind of manta ray. Its body is very similar to that of a manta ray, but its snout is very different. It is shaped like a saw tooth and occupies half of the body.

Its long, flat saw-toothed edge is lined with beak teeth, which is very similar to the blade side of a saw. Its back appears dark gray in the sea water.

But now there was a patch of red in the sea ahead, probably because the shark was killed by him, so the gushing blood dyed the water red, but it was soon washed away by the sea water.

Ye Yaodong said to his father, "That's a sawfish in front. It has a long, flat, saw-like weapon on its mouth. It's like the long mouth of a swordfish or a marlin, but it's flat and wide."

"The fish floating up around here seem to be dead, and there is a large group of them. And the color of the sea water on the distant coastline seems to be quite dark. I wonder if it is the spread of red tide."

He looked in all directions, not only at the school of fish and sawfish that was very close, but also at the sea in the distance.

He wondered if the fish in front of him were affected by the red tide, so they all died and floated to the surface of the sea, and then they encountered them.

If this is the case, then they really cannot salvage some of the dead in the previous wave. Since a large number of them have died due to the red tide, the human body will definitely be affected if they ingest it.

He is not the kind of person who would lose his conscience just to make money.

"What should we do then?" Ye's father asked him, and at the same time slowed down his pace. He had now become the backbone.
"Is that a red tide in the distance? Can we catch the fish in front? That big fish won't attack the fishing boat. Can we deal with it?"

"Take a closer look before deciding whether to fish these fish. The big fish shouldn't be a problem. Once you get closer, throw the fishing net from the boat down and entangle it. Even if its mouth can cut through the fishing net, it will still be finished if it's entangled."

In just a moment, a solution came to his mind.

He still has guns on his boat, and after a few shots he'll naturally have no ability to resist.

"This fish is alive and large, so there is no need to worry about it being affected by red tide."

This fish is so big and rare, and it is also rare to be able to catch it.

(End of this chapter)