Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1148 Fishery Association Established
"Bring honor to our family!"

"It's amazing that our village can produce someone who can become an official in another province. It's amazing that catching a jellyfish can make him an official."

"Your father is so lucky. Now he can walk around the village with his head held high. He is so proud of himself."

"Why are you still fishing? You don't need to fish anymore. Just become an official in the city. Why do you have to work so hard?"

Ye Yaodong quickly stretched out his hand, "What's the connection? I'm just a figurehead. I don't get paid and I don't have any rights. I've already said it's just a makeshift team. I can't make a living from it. If you want to make money, you still have to fish. If I don't fish, what am I going to do?"

What's more, facts have long proved that he is powerful in shipping. Instead of using such a good cheating tool, he ran to the city to be a mascot for others, being ordered around. It would be better for him to be free and easy at sea.

He had long understood that he was just a name, just to make people who didn't know the truth envious and to make it sound good when he talked about it. In fact, who took him seriously? He was originally an outsider.

If he can't see clearly and takes himself too seriously, he will have to go back to his hometown in a few days.

Know your own position and be a mascot. Who knows, you may be able to sit on the vice-president's seat for a few more years and brag for a few more years.

"Then... then he is also the vice president. This title sounds so impressive, just like the deputy mayor. It sounds so impressive..."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but twitch his lips, "You really think highly of me. You are really good at using metaphors."

"Well, Dong, you have written so much on this paper. Do you have to speak under the national flag tomorrow? Will there be a lot of people watching?"

"We will all go to applaud you tomorrow afternoon to increase your popularity. We can't let you be looked down upon by others. Otherwise, our palms will be swollen from applauding you."

"Yes, yes, yes. After dinner, I'll tell the villagers to come and support you tomorrow afternoon..."

"Wait, wait, what are you thinking about? A speech under the national flag? You really have a lot of imagination. There was no speech at all. Probably just a bunch of people in the meeting took turns speaking. Stop imagining, it has nothing to do with you." Ye Yaodong was a little helpless. Every one of his imaginations was exaggerated.

"Don't you need it?"

"No, you don't have to do anything. Just eat quickly. This has nothing to do with you. You don't need to get involved. If you really want to help, go in the water and replace me. Anyway, those who go in the water will get a two-dollar subsidy."

The remaining three old men looked at each other, you looked at me, I looked at you.

"Then let's take turns going out and try. If your father can't do it, we will also think that we can't do it."

"My dad can, but he's old, so I didn't let him go in the water. You're the same, you're all a bit old, so I didn't think of letting you go in and try. Don't force yourself. Five people in the water is enough. We have to have someone at home to watch over the cooking."

This is completely the truth, not just a polite remark. The people called out have all been planned. It is impossible to only hire a few people when they are going into the water. We have to leave people at home to look after the house and do chores and cook. There also have to be people on the fishing boat to take shifts at night, after all, we are in a foreign place.

"Oh, then we will still take turns on duty on the boat at night, and stay at home during the day to look after the house, fetch water and chop firewood."

Ye Yaodong nodded and said nothing. If you are willing to try, then try it. If you don’t want to, forget it.

After dinner, he continued to organize his drafts.

In the past two years, he has not stopped reading newspapers. As long as he is at home, he will catch up on the newspapers he has not read, but he writes less.

He could recognize most of the characters, but when he wrote them, they were sometimes incomplete and only he could recognize them. If they were too complicated, he would sometimes write half of them and use circles and crosses to replace the remaining half.

One only regrets not having read enough books when he needs them. When he really starts writing, he starts to feel a little scratchy because it is too ugly. He is too embarrassed to show the draft paper to others because it looks so uncultured.

He took a pen and wrote and drew, added a few words, and then sighed.

"It seems that it's me, not Ye Chenghu, who should practice calligraphy. Damn, I'll go buy some calligraphy copybooks when I go out. I have to cram for it at the last minute. I never know when I'll need it again. This handwriting is a bit embarrassing."

"I think my writing is pretty good. I can only write numbers, circles, crosses and words."

Ye Yaodong glanced at the three curious people beside him, folded the paper again and again, and then put it in his pocket.

He didn't say anything, but someone else spoke for him.

"Dongzi is a boss, how can he be like us rough guys? What's more, we are all old, who knows how many years we can live, and he is still a young man, he will soon become an official, he will definitely write a lot of words and sign his name in the future, so of course he has to write well for people to see."

This was true and it touched his heart.

He didn't need to practice other characters for now, he had to practice his signature first.

Just do it.

After he finished the speech draft in the afternoon, he started writing his own name. Although he didn't know when it would come in handy, he had to write his name first.

Full of passion, stimulated by the title of vice president of the Fishery Association, which he had never dared to dream of, he felt like he had been injected with a shot of chicken blood, and his whole body was full of energy.

If I had this kind of enthusiasm when I was studying, why would I worry about not being admitted to the top institution of learning?
All his energy was now concentrated on this, but he was only enthusiastic for a short time. After he finished writing, the effect of the chicken blood wore off, his enthusiasm subsided, and he dropped his pen and went back to his room to sleep.

After the sun went down and Ye's father and the others returned, he went to the dock to help.

The first thing Mr. Ye asked when he saw him was why the Coast Guard had called him over today.

Ye Yaodong explained everything in detail, and Ye's father was stunned. His reaction was the same as everyone else's. His first reaction was that he was promoted?

He had no choice but to explain it again, asking his father not to be happy too soon, as it was just a title.

"That would bring honor to the family. He would be a high-ranking official all of a sudden. It would be more impressive than what you said before. The title would sound different."

Old man Ye's face was full of wrinkles from smiling, he was so happy that he kept muttering a few words, "May our ancestors bless you."

"Have you called home to tell them? You should also tell your family members so that everyone can be happy in advance. This trip was not in vain. You made money and gained fame."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Things haven't been finalized yet, so there are still variables. Don't rush to promote it now, lest you make a fool of yourself by saying something big."

"Ah, that's true. Let's wait until you have a meeting tomorrow at noon to finalize it. Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, or you'll be laughed at."

Father Ye couldn't help laughing after he finished speaking, "Hey... you've really made it."

"Hurry up and move the goods. Then we'll go home."

"Yes, yes, yes, sell the goods quickly and we'll talk about it later when we get home."

It was a rare day that he was away and didn't go into the water, so the harvest was really reduced, missing several hundred kilograms.

Originally, after the rain stopped, they could collect about 3000 kilograms of fish during the few days of intermittent salvaging. Now it has shrunk to only more than 2300 kilograms, which they sold for a little over 500 yuan.

Father Ye watched them counting the money and stretched his neck to see, "So much is missing? Without you here, we lost more than a hundred dollars. I knew some of the money was missing when I saw the goods received today, but I didn't expect it to be this much."

"Well, let's talk about it when we get back."

Ye Yaodong also felt bad about the money he lost, the difference was too huge, but he would definitely not be able to go out to sea tomorrow.

Fortunately, it was only two days.

He comforts himself.

Anyway, he is the only one who can catch the sea urchins below, and no one else can, so they belong to him. It doesn't matter if he catches less now, since it won't get any benefit to others anyway. He can just catch more in the future.

When I think about it this way, I don’t feel sad anymore, since it’s all his anyway.

After returning, Ye's father was still thinking about arranging shifts for the five people in rotation, so that they could rest less and try not to miss any opportunity. Today, there were three teams of five people, and in one team only one person went down, so one person was missed.

Ye Yaodong felt that there was no need to stop his father.

It was okay, because his father just came in and mentioned it when he took the money back to the house to hide it.

He explained: "Going into the water too frequently is harmful to the body. They go into the water six or seven times a day now, which is enough. If you don't give them more time to rest in between, their bodies can't bear it. If you let five people take turns without any byes, then each person will have to make at least two more trips, which is too harmful and won't work."

"Isn't there anything wrong?"

"It looks fine, but accidents can happen. Fortunately, it has been raining intermittently during this period, and we don't go out to sea every day. We can give everyone a break. We can't increase the workload. Let's just leave it at that. Anyway, no one will steal our goods."

"OK then."

"Just think of it as a loss caused by the rain. It rained intermittently a few days ago. If you really count it as a loss, then it would be several thousand yuan. Now it's only a hundred yuan a day, so it's not a big deal."

"Okay, you're right."

Father Ye did not refute, but changed the subject and asked: "Do you have any rights after becoming the vice president?"

"No."

"No power? Then what good is there?"

"If there is any benefit, it's probably a good reputation. I can brag about it in front of people who don't know the truth. When I return home, the whole village will know about it and feel proud."

"that's it?"

"That's it. Didn't I say before that it's just a name? It's just a good reputation. Be content. Others want to take advantage of this but have no chance. This was obtained with the help of the leaders."

Father Ye was a little disappointed, as he had thought he could have a great time.

What Ye Yaodong said at the dock before, Ye's father just listened to it once. He only listened to what he wanted to hear and didn't pay attention to the rest. Besides, it was inconvenient to talk outside because of the noise. Now he really understood it.

"Well... that's good too. It's not bad. At least I have a title, and it's a higher position than I expected. That's better. So I'll just have a title first, and take it slow until I'm familiar with the job."

Ye Yaodong didn't attack him either.

"Then you should prepare quickly and finalize this matter tomorrow afternoon so that we can call back and tell our fellow villagers that you have become an official here."

Father Ye adjusted himself and quickly accepted it. A smile appeared on his face again, full of pride. It was too late for him to brag.

He pursed his lips and said nothing.

There were quite a lot of people at the meeting the next day. I estimated that there were about thirty or forty people sitting in an empty room. There was a vacant space in the middle, and everyone sat in two or three circles, then took turns standing in the upper middle position to talk.

When Ye Yaodong was the first person to introduce himself, he was completely confused. Everyone spoke in the local dialect and he didn't listen to a word. He quietly asked the person next to him, but the person glanced at him and said nothing.

After cursing in his heart, "Damn, what's so great about the local guys?", he turned his head, sat up straight, pretended to listen seriously, and then when others applauded, he also applauded.

When the second person came up, he spoke in the local dialect again, so he could only sit there calmly, looking confused.

But at this time, someone on the other side patted him twice out of curiosity, and then talked to him in the local dialect. He directly said, "I don't understand, I'm from another place."

The man was surprised for a moment, then immediately switched to Mandarin, "Oh, I see, you are the vice president of the fishermen's association from another place."

Ye Yaodong nodded modestly.

"That's amazing. You're an outsider and a fisherman, but you managed to get in and become the vice president. That's amazing. And you don't look like a fisherman at all. You look so handsome that I thought you were a soldier. Aren't fishermen all as dark as charcoal and have weathered faces?"

"It's just a compliment from my boss," he touched his face again, "I don't tan very well."

"I thought the vice president of the Fishermen's Association would be an old man in his 50s or 60s, but I didn't expect him to be so young and handsome. My name is Fang Jingfu, you can call me Ah Fu, I'm also the vice president, my father is from the Institute of Oceanography, he heard that you donated that big fish the day before yesterday, he was very happy, he said he studies small shrimps every day, it's rare to have a rare big fish sent to him."

Ye Yaodong was surprised for a moment, "So you were also stuffed in."

"What are you talking about, brother? We are all the same." Fang Jingfu pointed at the person who was speaking, "Look, this person was also forced in. He is the son of the president of the Chamber of Commerce that was just established in the past two years. The first president who spoke before is from the Ocean Bureau..."

Ye Yaodong listened to him talking about the formation of this makeshift team, and he immediately realized that this was really a makeshift team, which was established after a balance of organizations from various departments.

In addition to the president, there are several directors and a secretary general. Half of them were stuffed in from everywhere, and the rest were idle personnel drawn from other departments. They were asked to supervise and do practical work, and then they would be handed over after the work was formalized.

Then, after today's meeting is over, there will be an announcement in the newspapers that the Fishery Association will be officially established. We will also recruit new talents to strengthen the Fishery Association and cultivate talents. New people will have to pay a membership fee.

Of course, these veteran backbones also have to pay membership fees to be used as start-up capital, which is a piece of cake for Ye Yaodong.

Fang Jingfu seemed to be a chatterbox as well. He kept talking whenever he met Ye Yaodong, pointing out everyone he knew present and talking to him about them.

It was not until the person speaking in the middle changed and called Fang Jingfu's name that he instinctively stood up, shouted "here", then smiled awkwardly, took out the draft paper from his pocket and started speaking.

But this time he didn't speak the local dialect, but Mandarin.

Ye Yaodong listened to him talking excitedly, and clapped his hands cooperatively after he finished speaking. Then after he came down, someone else came up, but Ye Yaodong's name was not called yet.

"How can you speak Mandarin? Don't you all speak the local dialect?"

Fang Jingfu folded the draft paper in his hand and put it in his pocket. "I just graduated from college. I have always spoken Mandarin in school, so I will speak Mandarin."

Ye Yaodong gave him a thumbs up and said, "Great! College students have unlimited potential."

"Well, I failed to get into a technical secondary school, so I just randomly got into a technical college. I was originally assigned to a tractor factory, but my father got me to a research institute and asked me to help him. Now he got me here again and gave me a nice title."

"That's amazing. He has many jobs. I'm not educated and can only fish."

"As I said, there are top talents in every profession. You are amazing too. I have seen your boat. It is quite big. I heard that boat cost tens of thousands of dollars."

"Haha, it's not as valuable as a college student like you."

"Do you go out to sea every day? Do you often catch some rare big fish?"

"It's not necessarily rare big fish, but there are still many magical scenes in the sea and various strange phenomena of marine life."

Fang Jingfu immediately became interested, but when the person in the middle finished speaking, he suddenly called out Ye Yaodong's name.

Ye Yaodong's nerves, which had just relaxed, immediately tensed up again. He quickly stood up and put on a serious face.

Everyone around him looked at him in surprise and whispered to each other.

It’s true, if he hadn’t said he was a fisherman, no one would have guessed who he was.

After all, he is tall, has long legs, a good body shape, and his face is whiter than that of ordinary people, at least whiter than those present, and he looks very young. It's also because he has been tanned recently and looks more mature. Otherwise, he looked like a pretty boy before.

Moreover, he shaved his head last month, and after a month and a half, he now has a buzz cut, which gives people the first impression that he looks more like a soldier.

Everyone was whispering, and their impression of him was a little better. When they first learned that there was a vice-president from another fishermen's association, they all guessed that he was an old man in his fifties or sixties with a weather-beaten face.

Now, I am more handsome than anyone else present. Personal image is quite important. If you give a good first impression, at least you can create a good impression. Although you are still xenophobic, you are not as contemptuous as before.

Ye Yaodong had read the draft paper dozens of times, and he was already familiar with the content. After all, it was written by him. When he was speaking, he only glanced at it occasionally, and most of the time he looked at everyone sitting in the room.

What he said was also refreshing to everyone. Those who had just spoken were very official, only talking about how they would do their jobs well, how they would praise the Fishery Association, how they were optimistic about the development of the Fishery Association, and so on.

What he said was very targeted advice on jellyfish and the prospects for breeding of some marine organisms. He promoted the breeding industry and built a jellyfish hometown. This is a resource given by the ocean due to its geographical location and it must be utilized.

Then it was also suggested to provide more support for marine research and to encourage the government to give some preferential policies regarding fish production.

After he finished speaking, everyone was thinking about it, and Fang Jingfu was the first to applaud, leading everyone to stop discussing in low voices and applaud.

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he also breathed a sigh of relief, bowed, and then returned to his seat.

"That's amazing. You speak so clearly and logically. Everyone else's speeches were so unrealistic, but I didn't expect you to speak so realistically."

"Haha, because I'm a fisherman, I've been in contact with the ocean more than you have, I've been floating on the sea every day, and I have a deeper understanding of the ocean than you do. I just want our country to develop the ocean better, so that we can develop better and better in the future, surpassing some of the neighboring countries."

Fang Jingfu nodded with a smile on his face, his expression particularly agreeing, "You are right, we should promote more marine research. The more things we find out from research, the more it will benefit the country and the people, and the more we can use it for development, making us stronger and stronger."

"That's right, science is the primary productive force, and only with technology can there be power."

"I have to go back and tell my dad. You gave everyone a refreshing look today. Everyone used to look down on you, but now it seems that you are much better than others. It's far different from what we imagined."

"Ha ha……"

"No wonder leaders always say we should start from the grassroots. The working people at the grassroots have their own wisdom. It is true that every profession has its own top talent. If one can achieve excellence in one profession, even fishermen and farmers can be admired by others."

Ye Yaodong only laughed twice, and then he started chattering again.

The meeting started at 2pm and lasted until 5:30pm. Everyone present took turns speaking, but no one listened at the end. Those at the beginning might have pricked up their ears and listened seriously for a while, but by the end they were already absent-minded.

It was not until the meeting was about to end that the president who was presiding over the meeting took out the registration certificate of the Ocean Association and showed it to everyone, and announced that the Fisheries Association was officially established today.

After everyone’s warm applause, today’s meeting officially came to an end.

Ye Yaodong was also smiling and excited, the dust had settled.

Most of the people present were very happy and clapped with all their might. The applause was exceptionally enthusiastic, and at this point it was no longer possible to tell that this was just a makeshift troupe.

He and Fang Jingfu also became familiar with each other during this meeting. When they left, they exchanged addresses, and Fang Jingfu also left the institute's phone number, asking him to send it to the institute if he found any rare goods.

Ye Yaodong didn't know whether he was chatting with him for this purpose, but the two of them had a very pleasant chat, and he also learned a lot of information about this makeshift troupe from Fang Jingfu.

I made a new friend today, and it seems that he is a person of some status.

After the two of them separated and went their separate ways, the people behind him continued to whisper to him, but he couldn't understand them anyway.

Ye Yaodong completed a big task and walked back briskly.

More updates tomorrow