When Ye Yaodong saw Xiao Qinglong, he felt as if he had been injected with chicken blood, and he was revived with full blood. He had been exhausted all day, but now he was energetic again.
He picked up the net at a faster speed, and collected the remaining half of the net in one go.
"Ah! Three! There will be three at once..."
Father Ye gasped, endured the discomfort in his throat, and pointed at the shrimp pot with his index finger: "This is good, this is good..."
This is of course good.
Ye Yaodong untied the rope binding the fish collection bag at the bottom, dumped the whole net into the basket, and the green crayfish in it flipped over and crawled around vigorously when it was poured out, which was very gratifying to watch.
He reached out and grabbed one in his hand, watching its tail constantly curling up, "It's okay, it's a big one, weighs a catty, and there are two more that are smaller, probably about seven or eight taels. "
"I didn't expect there were lobsters caught here." Father Ye also caught one and looked at it.
Ye Yaodong didn't expect that he had collected so many shrimp cages just now, and he didn't see Xiao Qinglong. He didn't expect that there were three shrimp cages in this one.
"I don't know if there are any left, just keep watching."
"Hey, hurry up and collect it, I'll pack it in a bucket alone."
Father Ye went to the corner, put his precious hookah away, and brought an empty bucket. After thinking about it, he took another bucket of sea water, and finally caught Xiao Qinglong in the bucket.
Then he leaned against the side of the boat, watching eagerly as Ye Yaodong put down the row of shrimp cages just now, and then continued to collect them.
But after collecting the whole row, they only saw another one in the last net.
"Four."
"It's okay, it's okay, I thought it was only under the reef over there, but I didn't expect it to be here too."
"They're all in the same sea area, so it's normal." After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he continued to collect another buoy, and there was a row of ten shrimp pots.
The collection of a row of shrimp pots is fast, fast, and slow. It took half an hour to collect the last row and put it back.
There are really another surprise.
"Six in total! Two are relatively big, and should be over a catty, and the remaining four should be about seven or eight taels."
"Yes, yes, these few can be sold for several yuan, plus that big Spanish mackerel, and this basket of sword shrimp, and there are a lot of those fish. Today's harvest is not bad." Father Ye I calculated the approximate value of today's harvest in my heart, and I was very satisfied.
That is to say, they are more diligent. When they came to release the nets, they also dropped the shrimp pots and dragged the nets. They used all the time they could use.
If this is done in the future, the average fisherman will only put one type of net in a period of time, and go home to rest directly after lowering the net, and collect it the next day.
Where can they go out like they do now, go out and set up a variety of networks, make the best use of everything, just to make a little more money.
"This basket is not full of sword shrimp. If you pick it out, it may be half at most."
Ye Yaodong didn't dare to reach out to fish it out. The thorns on the head of the shrimp are very sharp. No matter how rough the hand is, if it sticks into the meat, it will still hurt and make people hiss.
If it gets stuck between the nails, it will be even more ecstasy, and there are crabs and fish inside.
He only stretched out his hand to fiddle with the surface a few times, but even so, his hand was pricked several times, and even a blood bead came out, and he took two mouthfuls indifferently.
"That's not a lot. Half of it is about 20 catties, and it can be sold for more than ten yuan. Now shrimp are quite expensive." Ye's father said as he walked to the stern of the boat, "Okay, let's go and sail. Take some goods from the stern and pack them up, and then sort this basket."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong pulled up the anchor before starting the boat and heading back. The sun had already set on the mountain, but the sky was still bright, and now the days are getting longer.
He looked at the time habitually again, it was 5:40, and it would be almost 7:00 when he went back. It is hard to earn any money...
In this life, he really did all the work that he didn't do in his previous life, and by the way, he earned a piece of money that he didn't earn in his previous life.
Thinking about it this way, he felt that he was doing it again.
Feeling in his pocket, he took a cigarette and lit it up, taking two puffs to refresh himself.
He didn’t catch any free time throughout the day. Usually, if he didn’t work, he could only manage a pack of cigarettes for one or two days, but he could manage it for three or four days on the boat.
The sky darkened little by little, and the visibility became low. Ye Yaodong also turned on the flashlight in advance.
The fishing boats dock at different times. When they come back, it’s already dark on the shore, and the lights of fishermen’s homes are lit up everywhere. There are sparks on the sea. They are probably returning fishing boats, and there are small boats swaying on the shore. .
"It seems that we are not the only ones who are late, but everyone else is also late."
"Who doesn't work from dawn to dusk, hurry up, before the fishing boats dock behind, let's quickly unload the goods and weigh them, so as to save people a step behind and have to wait in line."
It was already dark, and only a few people on the shore were busy there at this time, loading and unloading the fish on the cart, or some were carrying buckets to go home.
A Cai saw their boat docked, and hurried over to help carry it.
"Is there a lot of goods today? Didn't catch anything good?"
"Six small green dragons are considered good? There is also a golden squid weighing about 50 to 60 catties, a little bit of other mackerel, and quite a lot of sword shrimp."
A Cai was surprised, "You are lucky, and the harvest is much better than your elder brother and second brother. They only have some random goods."
"Oh? They came back first?"
It's rare. In the past, his two elder brothers were the first in the early morning and late at night. It may be that there are not many goods, so they came back early.
"It should be an hour earlier than you guys, I'll be back before dark." A Cai said as he searched the boat, "Where are the little green dragon and the golden finfish?"
"Put it in the cabin, the sun is a little bit hot during the day, I'm afraid it will be damaged by the sun."
Ah Cai went to the cabin to take a look, and found that it was really big enough. There were not many villages around them and even the village next door with trawlers. It's really not that big as sixty catties, so it's all about luck.
"This fish is a bit cheaper than mackerel, but it's big enough. One can barely hold up to the average person dragging a net. First, let's help carry it down."
"Um."
Father Ye also smiled at the side and said: "Today, I specially placed a few rows of shrimp cages. I was lucky. I also caught 6 little green dragons and a lot of sword shrimps."
"You have always been lucky."
They chatted a few words while carrying, and by the way habitually asked about other people's gains.
Except for the boats that haven’t come back yet, I found that they still caught the most goods. They hauled three nets, catching up with others who hauled five nets, but it was also thanks to the shrimp pots.
Anyway, it’s for nothing. If you put it outside, the waves are really big, you can’t go out to collect it, and you won’t feel bad if you are beaten by the waves.
However, when weighing, Ye Yaodong deliberately picked a little green dragon that was a little smaller and could climb, and threw it into the bucket by itself for storage.
"You want to keep it home to eat again? Haven't you eaten and tasted it all, and still eat it? This is too expensive..."
"Xiao Jiu hasn't eaten yet, so I'll leave one for her. She's getting older and has two teeth. She can eat these things."
Just in time, there are five days before her first birthday. She was born on the third day of March. Today is the twenty-seventh day of the lunar calendar. He checked the wall calendar yesterday, and there are only 29 days in the lunar calendar this month.
Father Ye opened his mouth. At first he wanted to say a few girlish things, but then he thought that he treasured his daughter every day, and the mother-in-law at home would say from time to time that "boys and girls are the same", "girls are not worse than boys", etc. Wait for these slogans to hang on your lips.
He swallowed the words again.
Forget it, anyway, he didn't lack good things, and he didn't lose his money. He still counted on the three brothers to take care of them.
A Cai smiled and said, "For the daughter at home? I really love her, but unfortunately my daughter is grown up. Why don't you give me half of your daughter and give it to my son as a wife when she grows up."
Ye Yaodong looked at him from top to bottom in disgust. Dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes, sons born to mice can make holes!
Like father, like son!
With his short stature and chubby belly, he wondered if his son would succeed in counterattack?
"You want to be beautiful! People who make money from me and want to make money from me, don't let me see your son next time."
A Cai: "???"
Is this going to trouble his son?
"Hurry up and weigh the goods, what are you looking at? Don't use your brain!"
A Cai shook his head. This kind of old man seems unreliable, and he still dislikes it.