Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 997 Giving credit (7000 words)

The two boats kept following, and the fresh harvest boat had to follow.

Originally, we had to go to the city. The aquatic product wholesale market in the city is now the largest in the entire province. Generally, if the fresh-harvest boats in the surrounding area can dock in the city, they will try their best to dock in the city, and then transport them to the aquatic product market to sell them. Good price.

It is now the early hours of the night, and it is just in time to deliver it after landing. If it is delayed until dawn, there will be fewer people selling it. If it is not kept, it will not be sold on the same day, and ice cubes will be wasted to keep it fresh for another day.

By about two o'clock in the morning, five boats docked one after another and came ashore.

As soon as the cargo ship docked, the strong men from the cargo ship immediately jumped from the maritime ship to the fresh food ship. A group of people looked at each other aggressively, some pointed their index fingers at each other's noses and cursed, and some even grabbed each other's collars. , the war is about to break out.

When the people from the Maritime Safety Administration saw this, they immediately crawled over to stop it.

There are many large and small fishing boats docked on the shore, with a lot of flashlights swinging around, and some are still moving goods. It looks very busy, and there are noises everywhere. It is much more lively than the docks in the province. They were probably all rushing to dock in the early morning to sell goods at the wholesale market.

Many people also saw the movement here, and they were all talking in surprise.

"What are you doing? There's going to be a fight as soon as we reach the shore. The ship from the Maritime Safety Administration is also here..."

"There must be a dispute..."

"This looks like it's going to start a fight..."

"That one seems to be a fresh-harvest boat? There aren't any machines on the boat. They're all big barrels with ice cubes on them..."

"Could it be that the seller was unbalanced, so he sought revenge after landing?"

"Who knows?"

"The prices offered by the fresh-picking ship are indeed too low compared to those on shore..."

"That can't be said. It's normal to consume a lot of fuel when going back and forth on the sea, not to mention..."

There was a lot of discussion in his ears, and Father Ye frowned at their commotion.

"What should we do? Just wait here? We don't know how long it will take for the commotion to end and we can come to an agreement. We can't just wait here forever. There is still some cargo on the ship. Now that it has docked, then Just pull it up and sell it?"

"Sell it directly ashore, or take it to the market?"

Father Ye thought for a while, "The cargo on our ship is not too much. From the afternoon of the day before yesterday to the afternoon of yesterday, it was only one day's volume, more than 10,000 kilograms of cargo..."

"Keep the cheap ones to dry and not sell, such as the tens of thousands of catties of toad fish. For the other ones that can be sold at a reasonable price, we will see if there are any tractors on the shore that are free to pull goods, and hire someone to pull a cart to sell in the market. , it’s only a few yuan to sell it for a few more yuan. It happens that there are many people in the market during this period, so it’s easy to sell. By the way, I can also go to my father-in-law’s place to settle the accounts for the next few days after the new year and take the money back.”

"That's okay. How about you go? I'll watch here? I can't speak Mandarin. I can't speak in the market."

Ye Yaodong chuckled and said, "Okay."

"Don't laugh, everyone is the same, I'm not the only one who can't tell the truth."

"Ah, yes, yes." He said perfunctorily, "Then you watch here, I will go to the shore to find a tractor, negotiate the price at the wholesale market first, and then ask someone to move it onto the truck."

"Let's also tell my in-laws to see if he wants to go ashore and sell goods?"

"understood."

Ye Yaodong looked at the people on the boat next to him who were spitting. They were so excited that their faces were red and their necks were thick, and they were spitting. Several people from the Maritime Safety Administration almost couldn't stop them, but they still couldn't stop people from getting angry.

Maybe if we don't come up with some regulations, the two sides will start fighting, and the people of the Maritime Safety Administration may suffer another disaster.

"Dad, if I'm not here later and they start fighting, don't come forward and just let them fight."

"I know this. It's none of my business to kill you. I'm here to watch. Whoever wants to step forward will step forward."

"Well, I'll go and talk to Uncle Pei."

Although several boats docked at the same time, they all parked in whenever there was an opportunity. None of them parked side by side. How could there be such a coincidence that there was a large space for them to dock.

The Harvest stopped two boats away from them and stood there watching the commotion here.

He climbed two boats before climbing onto the Harvest and said hello to Uncle Pei.

Uncle Pei also responded immediately and wanted to go to the market with him to sell goods and visit his son and daughter-in-law.

Aguang and Huimei came to the city at the same time they went to sea. They had been there for a few days. They happened to go to the market to sell goods and took a look at them to see if they were used to it.

"Uncle, don't bother with the toad fish on the boat. You can sell them to me to dry and dry them, so you don't have to take them to the market to sell them later. We'll see what the market price is later and let's just settle on that. Anyway, When things here are over, we will go back, and it won’t make any difference if we go back to the pier in the village and weigh ourselves.”

"That's okay. That saves you having to move it around and wait to sell it in the market."

"Yes, if you really have to haul tens of thousands of kilograms of toad fish to the city, it will take time to sell them. The tractor will have to make several trips, and the toll will cost several yuan. The transportation will also take a lot of time."

"Okay, I'll keep these goods and bring them back to you. Now let's go ashore to see if there are any tractors specially used for transportation."

After the two reached an agreement, they went ashore to find the tractor. Ye Yaodong took two people with him to help lift it, as did Pei's father, and he also asked Ye's father to help him look at the boat.

At this time, there were more people coming and going at the market entrance than there were people going to the market during the Chinese New Year. People were carrying all kinds of goods coming and going, and a bunch of pallets, tractors, and trucks were all fully loaded with goods.

It's deserted during the day and brightly lit at night.

Ye Yaodong also delivered goods and sold goods in the market for the first time after the market was completed.

Every stall and the floor were piled with goods, and there were all kinds of shouts everywhere.

The selling price of each kind of goods in the market fluctuates according to the price of the day. Except for some rare items, the selling price of the same kind of goods is the same. In the market, the managers will also bring customers one by one according to their needs. Take it to each stall to order, just like a shopping guide.

It took Ye Yaodong and Pei's father more than two hours to get rid of several kilograms of goods each.

These goods were sold out one after another for hundreds of kilograms. He also went to the transaction office with each buyer to settle the accounts and collect money one by one.

After collecting all the money, he went to Father Lin's place again.

It was already getting bright at this time, and it was already past five o'clock in the morning. There were several vendors standing in the store asking for goods. Father Lin, Mother Lin, and Aguang were all constantly weighing the goods, bending down to pick up the goods, and looking for goods. When I was settling accounts and collecting money, I was just surprised when I saw him coming suddenly and didn't even bother to speak.

Ye Yaodong also threw himself into helping as soon as he came over.

Father Pei and several other boatmen were not familiar with the prices of goods, so they had to keep asking for prices.

Remembering that the two boats were still docked at the pier, when there were not many people in the shop and the other people could be busy for the time being, Ye Yaodong and Lin's father went to the table inside to settle the accounts.

After they finished settling the accounts, the shop was also busy and the sun had risen outside, so they could sit down and chat for a while.

"Ah Guang also gets up at two or three o'clock in the morning and comes to sell goods?"

"Otherwise, I can't just wait for food all day long. Dad, why are you selling goods in the market today?"

Father Pei briefly told him what happened at sea.

"It was so unlucky that it hit a reef. Fortunately, it was not our ship."

"Well, you live in the village, has anyone come to check on you?"

"No, we have only been here for less than a week. Uncle Lin often sends dried fish and fish sauce to the village chief. The village is very friendly to us."

"You'll get used to it, and it'll be fine."

Ye Yaodong said: "We should go home directly later. Do you want to go back with us? Come back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?"

As soon as he said this, Aguang hesitated a little. He was also a little worried about his daughter at home. He didn't know how the child cried after being out for a few days.

"I'll go back and talk to Huimei and see what she says. You guys wait for me here."

"Row."

While waiting, Lin's father also told him about the sales situation of the store's goods in the past few days, and asked him to have someone replenish the fish sauce after he went back. After the new year, many dealers came back to wholesale.

"The more than one thousand kilograms of dried sea rabbits you posted years ago have all been sold out in the past few days. One or two hundred kilograms are sold every day. This thing is relatively rare and is not usually available. Most people will bring one when they see it in the store. A few kilograms. When I hear that the quantity is small, some people will buy more.”

"Then you still need to have a variety of dishes. You can't just use the common cheap dried fish. You still have to get some expensive ones like this occasionally."

"Yes, now our store has more varieties and more goods. The stores that follow suit don't have as many products as we do. After all, we are also the first to open."

"It's a time-honored brand. I'll ask the carpenter to make a sign for me when I get back today. It will be more eye-catching then."

"It's okay, we can also put up a signboard, let more people know about our house, don't go by the wrong way."

……

It only took about ten minutes for A Guang to leave and come back again. He ran over panting and shouted for them to come together.

"We agreed to go back and stay one night. I'll see if your tractor comes by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, or you can take my father's boat over. The weather will be fine in the next few days after the new year."

"By the way, my father-in-law just happened to ask me to send some fish sauce to replenish it tomorrow. Then you can just follow the car and come here just in time."

"Okay, let's go and go back and take a look at the child."

A few people walked out, and Ye Yaodong handed him a bun and said, "Don't worry, I can't abuse her."

While he was just waiting, he stopped by his brother-in-law's breakfast shop and packed a dozen steamed buns and a dozen steamed buns to save him from having to make breakfast later.

"That's not what you're saying. As a father, I always feel sorry for my child. She's so young and hasn't been completely weaned yet. I can't even say anything right, so I leave her alone at home. I haven't dared to hit her in the past few days. We called back because we were afraid that she would cry when she heard our voices.”

Ye Yaodong didn't know what to say and could only criticize the damn policy.

"Take a rickshaw there? I don't know what's going on at the pier."

"Take a tractor, right? You have to take several rickshaws. If the tractor is more expensive, just be more expensive. Anyway, there are more of us, and the tractor is faster."

"Then ask the tractor waiting to pull goods on the roadside..."

At this time, the farce outside the pier has ended. When Ye Yaodong and the others arrived, there were only a few boats on the pier. They were all going out to sea, and there were not many people around.

When they got off the tractor, they saw that their boats were there, but there were no people on them, and they were all very puzzled.

And the dozen boxes they fished out of the sea on the ship were gone.

"What's going on? Why is there no one on the boat?"

"It should be that the affairs of those two ships have been dealt with, and everyone has returned to the cabin to sleep?"

"Go up and have a look..."

They got on their respective boats and went to the cabin to take a look. Sure enough, everyone was sleeping.

Ye Yaodong stayed up all day and night. It was already 8 o'clock now, and he had been yawning a long time ago.

After letting the others rest, he put the money in his backpack into the iron box under the bed and locked it before going to wake up his father, and the two went to the deck to talk.

"What about the people in the two boats?"

Father Ye picked up a bun without even brushing his teeth, chewing on it and talking.

"There was a fight later, and I couldn't hold them back. The two groups greeted each other and started beating each other to death on the boat. Then they also beat up all the people from the Maritime Safety Bureau. They became a mess and fell into the sea several times. As soon as I climbed up, I started beating again, but luckily I was able to get water.”

"The people from the Maritime Safety Administration came back to the boat and fired a shot and pointed their guns at them again before they all stopped. Otherwise, we don't know what kind of fight they would have gotten into. After separating them one by one, they took them away together. ." Ye Yaodong had an expected expression on his face.

All the wealth was lost in it, and the losses were heavy. It would be strange if there was no anger, and it would be normal to start a fight.

Maybe there are a lot of people behind it. Those caviar are not cheap goods, nor can they be produced by just a few people.

Fortunately, there was a gun warning, otherwise it would not have stopped until no one was killed.

"The boxes on the ship were also taken away by the Maritime Safety Administration?"

"Yes, otherwise, put it on our boat and we will drive back directly. They won't have anywhere to look for it, so they took the box away with them when they left with the Maritime Safety Administration."

"Does this count as surrendering to a trap?"

"Usually nothing happens and it won't be discovered, right? As long as the two groups of people negotiate compensation, it should be fine, right?"

"How is that possible? If you assault a police officer, you have to be detained for ten and a half months anyway. If you don't know what you're looking for, you have to take it away and not return it to them. How you want to deal with it is up to someone else."

Ye Yaodong touched his chin. If this was the case, then he might as well give Director Chen some credit?

Anyway, the people and the goods are now detained by the Maritime Safety Administration. If no one reminds them, the goods will probably be kept there. When will they be taken out for processing?

The packaging of those goods is very concealed, and there are only a few out of dozens. Without carefully turning them out and comparing them together, no one will notice the differences on the outer packaging.

Maybe if you open it and take a look, if you know what it is, you can just label it as a smuggler and deal with it together.

As lucky as he is, there may not always be a jar of caviar when he opens it.

Anyway, those people have been arrested, and no one will know whoever reports the information. They will probably think that the Maritime Safety Administration discovered it on its own, and it will not have any impact on him.

On the contrary, he can give Director Chen a favor and make people appreciate him.

There is smuggled caviar hidden in this fish can, which is no small matter. Sturgeons are now protected animals.

Smuggling is no small matter. There must be an industrial line here, and the problem may be bigger.

Father Ye thought very simply. It was none of their business anyway, and it was not their goods. It would be good if he got two boxes for free. The rest would be withheld as long as they were withheld.

"Then leave them alone."

"Oh, by the way, that person was taken away. What about the goods on the fresh-carrying ship?"

"It was taken over by people from the Maritime Safety Administration. They were beaten for nothing and they were very angry, so they detained all the goods, including the boat."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, "Are you losing your wife and losing your troops? We are both unlucky and losing all our money? We didn't even gain anything?"

"is not that right?"

"Fuck, we wasted our whole night."

Then they have to be sent in.

The people at the Maritime Safety Administration don't care whether they have contributed or not, and they will not thank those people for their help.

"Well, a Jiefang truck came in front and took away all the goods on the fresh-carrying boat. All the boxes picked up by our two boats were also loaded onto the truck."

"Originally, one ship was sunk and the other was saved. Now both ships have lost everything. They are both in bad luck and jailed. It's fair, and there's no need to make a fuss."

"I don't know what will happen next. Hey, don't worry about them. Who made this happen to us. We will encounter those who should help in the future, and we still have to help. Who knows that they will fight and turn into this. Let's go. Well, it’s already early in the morning, and the goods are sold out, so let’s quickly sail home, it’s already afternoon when we get home.”

"Well, we have made enough money on this trip. Now no one is in the mood to continue working. A Guang has just boarded the ship, so let's speed up and go back."

"Okay, since you don't want to walk back and do your homework at the same time, then you can go to bed. You've stayed up all night and I've had enough sleep. I'll drive."

"Well, when we go back, we will dock at the county town and then dock at the shipyard."

Father Ye was surprised, "Didn't you say you were going back with all your strength? Why did you stop at the county seat again?"

"I'm going to give Director Chen some credit, and I'd also like to thank him for his continued care."

"You want to report the caviar incident to him?" Father Ye thought about it after thinking about it for a while. Although he didn't know what was wrong with the caviar, there must be something wrong with it if it was faked and hidden.

Apart from this, he couldn't think of why Dongzi wanted to dock in the county.

"That's what I think. How can we work for nothing all night? At least we know some inside information and report it to Director Chen. No matter whether we can help others or not, at least we have this intention and others have to appreciate it. No matter what comes and goes. "

He seemed to have forgotten about the two boxes of goods he had for free. A box of dozens of canned fish was quite expensive.

Nothing was found that night, and it must be the Harvest that did the work for nothing.

"Is this a big deal?"

"I don't understand this either. Anyway, since their goods and people have been detained, why not reveal some more information to Director Chen, and maybe give him a chance to make meritorious deeds."

"Okay, just do whatever you want. If you want to dock, then dock. Stop at the shipyard and borrow a bicycle from the factory. Then you can ride there faster."

"That's what I thought."

I just thought about it, and my first reaction was to stop at the shipyard to borrow a bicycle. Otherwise, the dock somewhere in the county might be further away and there would be no transportation.

Although the bicycle is a big item, I am an old acquaintance with the shipyard there, so it is easy to borrow a bicycle.

The father and son were talking on the deck. Aguang and his son on the next boat had already learned about the situation and were calling for them to set off.

The two had no choice but to return to the cockpit and continue talking, talking while driving.

"Then when you dock, don't you have to bring a box of goods with you?"

"Well, just bring the box we opened, and the three remaining cans along the way, just for display."

"Uh... do you want to bring the leftovers with you?"

Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "This can prove that we didn't hide it secretly. We have handed over as much as we have."

"Okay, you can do whatever you want. Go to bed first. I'll drive here and call you when the time comes."

"Row."

He was indeed very sleepy. He had eaten just now, so it was just right for him to lie down and sleep.

The cabin was filled with snores one after another, each one louder than the other, but it was okay, and there was no roar of machines, so it was just fine to listen to it as a symphony.

Both boats were a bit anxious to return home, so they explained it online when they first set off, and reached an agreement to go back without any work.

Father Ye also said that he would stop at the county town on the way, so there was no need for the Harvest to stop and wait.

Ye Yaodong slept for three or four hours and was woken up again when he felt dizzy.

The work of going to sea is really not done by humans. You can only take turns to rest throughout the day, and the sound of the machine is so loud, it is impossible to get a good rest. You really need to take two days of rest after landing.

I really have to admire Uncle Pei for doing whatever he can and letting his son enjoy the blessings at home.

Aguang grew up with pampering and care, and was not crooked. He was quite promising in his last life. It was really blessed by God.

He responded with a sound, and continued to close his eyes while lying on the bed. He closed his eyes and rested for a while. After the sound of the machine on the ship stopped, he felt comfortable and fell asleep again.

He didn't get up until he was woken up for the second time.

"arrive?"

"We have been docked for a while. I called you just now. I thought you would get up, but unexpectedly you fell asleep again. I didn't see you coming out after waiting for a while, so I came in again to have a look."

Ye Yaodong yawned loudly, twisted his neck, and stretched, "I'll have to rest for a few days after I get home before I come out. I'll be exhausted."

"Haha, we will do whatever you say."

He first went to the small warehouse with groceries in the compartment, moved the box of opened canned fish to the deck, had a simple meal, and then went ashore to borrow a bicycle.

I borrowed it very smoothly, and took some ropes to tie the box of canned fish to the back seat. Fortunately, the box was not too big and could be carried in the back.

It was noon now, so Director Chen must have gotten off work. He rode directly to the house, and he was familiar with the road anyway.

Director Chen was not surprised to see his sudden arrival. Anyway, it was not the first time that he had come running like this.

"Haha, here we go again? Why didn't you come earlier to say New Year greetings? Come here now? What's in this box? Why do you always bring things with you?"

"I'm not thinking that you will have a lot of social activities and be busy during the New Year, so I won't bother you. I just came back from going to sea today, and I specially stopped in the county town."

"You are serious. Since you have just come out, you should go home and rest as soon as possible when you come back..."

"No, something happened at sea. I don't know if it will be of any use to you. I thought I would stop by and give you a message to take a look."

Just now I knew how to use the honorific "you" politely, but later he showed his true colors and changed to "you" and "you" again.

Ye Yaodong told him about the sea affairs, and the smile on Director Chen's face disappeared and he also frowned.

"The sturgeon is already a protected animal. The one you reported two years ago was specially raised later, saying that it was used to study breeding. I heard that caviar is sold at a sky-high price abroad, and it is not available now. I know how the research went."

"The caviar is specially disguised with dace cans. It's no small matter. There are not many factories that can produce canned fish now. The materials used are all imported, and the cans are also exported."

“It’s not something ordinary people can do to catch sturgeon, pickle it into caviar, and mix it into canned dace to fish in troubled waters for profit. There’s a lot involved here.”

He pretended to understand, "Uh... I don't understand this either. Take a look, if it can help you get promoted and make a fortune, that would be great. Those people are now being detained by the city's Maritime Safety Administration, and their goods are also being detained. I don’t know when they will find it, or if they won’t find it at all. What should you do? I don’t know these things.”

"Well, you'll just keep these things for now. Are they all here?"

"Hey, okay, they are all here. When I went ashore to sell goods at the aquatic product wholesale market, my father saw them coming to move goods, so he greedily hid a box. Mainly because he was busy all night, working for nothing, and felt a little unbalanced. Oh...hehe..."

Anyway, his father is not here, so just push him!

It’s understandable that no one would be happy if someone was left to do wasted work.

Father Ye sneezed wildly on the boat, thinking he had a cold, and deliberately wrapped the quilt tighter.

"Well, that's true. I helped a lot at sea. As a result, two gangs fought and all the people and goods were detained. It was indeed a waste of time. It's okay. I'll report this matter. If anything is really involved. It’s a big event, I’ll apply for a reward for you when the time comes.”

"Ah, don't, don't, don't... you think I am reporting anonymously. Don't apply for rewards for us. We can't afford retaliation if someone slips through the net. We are just little fishermen."

"That's true, forget it, just treat it as an anonymous report. Anyway, there were a lot of boxes floating on the sea at that time, so it's normal for them to be salvaged and found."

"Yes, yes, I have told you about this matter. You can see what to do. I will rush back first. My father is still waiting at the dock."

"Okay, okay, you go back first, I have to take care of this."

"Hey, good."

(End of this chapter)