"That's the way it is calculated! You don't have to spend money to eat what others have, but you have to spend money to eat what's your own. Of course, you have to eat what others have. This is called eating from a big family! That's what Dongzi said."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, "You are the big fisherman. Both of our boats received nearly 2,000 kilograms of goods today, half of which are dragonhead fish and half of toad fish, which are twice as much as other people's. There are also two 3
The big swallows and pomfrets weighing more than 5 pounds are worth a lot of money, so you don’t have to do it yourself.”
"Ah? A big swallow pomfret weighing more than three kilograms? So powerful? I'm so lucky today."
"Well, everyone else's harvest seems to be pretty good today. Let's move the goods off the boat first. Ah Cai ran home for dinner and will probably be here soon."
As for the mouse episode, when he comes home, his father will naturally talk about it, and he will stop talking.
At this time, he had to quickly move a boatload of goods down. After nightfall, the sea breeze blew over and it became even colder. He came out early in the afternoon and didn't wear a scarf, so the cold wind kept pouring into his neck, making it chilly.
They had many people working at the moment, and they carried baskets of fish out of the boat in pairs.
Those three baskets were sold directly for money. After they were poured out and weighed, Ye Yaodong borrowed his scale and weighed all the fish he wanted to keep home.
The more Ah Cai looked at it, the more upset he became, "Because of what you did, our delivery volume has shrunk. We used to be able to transport two or three cars a day, but now we can only transport one car."
"Those small boats can't catch anything with nets compared to boats like yours. Moreover, it's cold and all the sea cargo has gone to the outer sea. The small boats can't put much cargo around."
"Hey, don't be so stingy. These fish are not worth much. If you dry them and collect them for me, you can earn more money. This is good for everyone. You should be more conscious."
"Keep your head high, high, now I don't even have the money to live on, so I can make a living by awakening!"
"I heard you call me poor, I heard you make it up. Come on, help me calculate. How many kilograms are there in total? The kilograms are recorded here. Hurry up, we are still in a hurry to go home for dinner."
Ye Yaodong pushed the lists that he had just weighed and recorded in front of him, and urged him politely.
"I cut off my hair and still use it?"
"Hurry up, stop being wordy. It's slow to add them up one by one. If I knew how to use an abacus, I wouldn't call you."
After Ah Cai muttered something, he picked up the abacus and shook it twice, returning all the beads to their places, and then started tapping with the list.
Everyone else craned their necks to watch.
Father Ye looked at Ah Cai's smooth movements and couldn't help but said: "Dongzi, you had nothing to do last year and went to literacy class. Why don't you learn an abacus?"
"When did you see me idle? I'm as busy as a spinning top. I took some time off last year, so I didn't have time to learn an abacus."
"It's quite useful to learn an abacus."
"We'll wait until it's empty. We've already weighed it. You need to put the goods on the pallet and take it home first. You won't be able to finish it in one trip."
What's the use of learning it? Calculators will come out in a few years. It's so fast to press "microzero microzero", so why bother with it?
Ah Cai stopped after finishing the calculation and said: "If you want to learn abacus, pay me some tuition and I will teach you. I will teach you how to do it. I can teach you even a wooden donkey."
"You're just a wooden donkey. You can deceive me, but you can't defraud me of money. How many kilograms are there in total?"
"Why did I lie to you? No one wants to sell it to mine coal. It's 1,111 kilograms in total."
"It's all 1."
Mother Ye said with satisfaction: "A little over 1,000 pounds is enough."
Ye Yaodong is also calculating in his mind that the delivery will be delivered in five days. If it is sunny, almost all the goods that everyone saved today can be dried, which should be enough, and there will be more.
The items collected in the next few days can be placed on the next delivery.
As long as it doesn't rain and it's sunny for a few days, he will definitely be able to earn one or two thousand yuan, but if it rains, it will be hard to say.
Not only is he looking forward to a few more sunny days, but several other families are also looking forward to the weather being better, so that everyone can earn more money.
Although his move to collect dried fish was only in a small area, it spread throughout the village the next day.
There are no secrets in the countryside. Everyone is free and likes to listen to gossip.
What's more, the entire door of several families was hung with fish that had been slaughtered overnight, and many of them even asked people to help kill them. It was only half the morning, and the whole village knew about it.
It's just that Ye Yaodong went out to sea early in the morning to collect nets and was not at home. I don't know that his wife had a headache at home.
I spent the whole morning there dealing with the villagers who came to ask questions. Everyone wanted to sell dried fish to them, and people from the next village also wanted to dry fish and sell it to them...
Several nearby villages are close to each other, and they all intermarry with each other. They are all related to each other, and messages can be transmitted very quickly.
She didn't have any free time all morning, and she was done talking. As soon as she sent this group of people away, she quickly bolted the door, not daring to open the courtyard door any more, and hid in the house.
"The tea I just poured is still a little hot. I'll drink it later. I'll hold it to warm my hands first and keep standing outside. It's freezing." The old lady poured her a cup of tea in advance and left it there to cool down.
Lin Xiuqing sat on the armchair, rubbed her cheeks, and then held the bowl with tea.
"My smile was crooked when I was making money, and I almost froze when I faced these people. This morning, everyone was like a cat smelling something fishy. People they knew and people they didn't know came to the door and asked if they wanted more.
I don’t want dried fish, and I really treat Adong as my boss, and I can’t even say a good word without paying for it.”
"You are a young daughter-in-law with a thin skin. If it were your mother, she would just say no, that's enough, just close the door."
"Everyone said nice things to their smiling faces, and I was too embarrassed to chase them away."
The old lady smiled and said, "It's okay. It'll get better once you have more experience. In the future, if you want to hear good things, just talk to them for a while. If you don't want to hear them, just say it's something."
Lin Xiuqing laughed, "It would be nice to have more experience? You old man, do you think someone will come to our door every day to fawn over us? A Dong has not yet reached that level of success."
"That's not necessarily true. I think Dongzi is becoming more and more promising."
"You felt the same way before."
"This shows that I have accurately predicted that Dongzi is the most promising of the three brothers."
Lin Xiuqing was very happy when she heard this. She sipped the tea in small sips and swallowed a mouthful of hot tea. She instantly felt her whole body warm.
Ye Yaodong didn't even have time to take a sip of hot tea.
It's not pleasant to go to sea on a cold day. The cold wind blows in your face all the time, making a huffing and puffing sound.
Ye Yaodong wrapped himself up so that only his eyes were exposed, and the sewing cap on his head was also wrapped up to his ears to make it easier.
His father and brother Asheng were not as well protected as they were. Their faces were peeled by the wind, and their lips were purple from the cold. His father was a little better, and he still wore Ah Qingou's sewing hat.
Brother Asheng's ears were all red from the cold, and he felt like he was about to get frostbite. His hair was standing on end from the wind and became a mess. He didn't know how long it had been since he had a haircut.
The cotton-padded jacket on his body looked very thin, and there was a hole under his armpit. The cold wind kept pouring in, and I didn't hear him sneezing. It was considered that he was in good health.
It's really bad if there is no woman in the house to help.
He turned his head and shouted to Ye Yaosheng: "I'll ask Ah Qing to hook you up with a hat tomorrow. It will keep you warmer."
Then he said to his father: "Didn't I give you a mask before? Why don't you wear it? Your nose is turned red from the cold."
"I can't breathe smoothly while wearing that thing. It can suffocate me to death. Why should I wear it? What does it matter if a grown man blows some wind? I won't wear it."
If you don’t wear it, it will fall down!
Ye Yaosheng smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. I'm not cold. I'll be fine once I get used to it. The wind direction seems to be relatively favorable today. I should be able to go back early. The sun will be out now and I feel a little warmer."
"When I woke up in the morning, there was a thin layer of frost on the roof, and I didn't know how many days we could go out to sea. Fortunately, it didn't rain, and it was rare that there was still sunshine."
While collecting the fish in the fishing net, Father Ye said: "Maybe the frost will get heavier and heavier in the future. It would be great if we can dry out 10,000 kilograms in the past few days and put it there, so we don't have to go to sea in the future.
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"Go back later to calculate today's harvest. Yesterday I was standing outside the dock waiting. I know how many kilograms of goods each family will take back. If everything goes well, we should be able to show off a 10,000 kilograms harvest in the next few days.
There, there is no need to dry it later, just deliver it on time."
It's getting colder and colder, and the wind is actually a bit strong today. The boat is shaking quite hard, but it can be tolerated. They only take risks because they want to make money.
If they can get enough sunshine in a few days, they may not come out in this kind of weather later.
The wind and waves were strong and freezing, so going to sea was a hell of a job.
Ye Yaodong was collecting the fishing net while talking, but he happened to see a big red and purple fish spinning up on the scroll wheel, which looked very pleasing to the eye.
"Oh yo yo~ There is a red friend fish. This fish is great, bright red and purple."
The scientific name of this fish is Purple Snapper, and it is also often active in offshore waters. However, the red friends in deep water are redder and more colorful than those in shallow water. The body color of red friends caught in shallow waters near the coast is usually gray and there is no deep water area.
of beauty.
Generally speaking, there are more colorful fish in the deep sea, such as tiger fish, horsehead fish, wave fish, and redwood fish. These fish are all relatively bright in color and are all red, with the exception of Shi Jiugong.
Ye Yaodong didn't stop after seeing it and continued to collect the fishing net. Behind him, Father Ye also kept collecting the fishing net. He was also very happy to see this red fish.
"It's a pity that it's not big, only two or three kilograms. This fish can grow to dozens of kilograms."
"I heard that it can grow up to 50 kilograms, but when I was running a boat before, I only saw one that was about 15 kilograms at most, and never any larger than that," said Ye Yaosheng.
"Fifteen pounds is already a lot. This one is probably only about three pounds. It can be sold for two or three yuan. It's not bad. It's pretty...his..."
When Father Ye received the fishing net, he stretched out his hand to catch the red fish first. As a result, the fish was still alive and bit his thumb fiercely. Blood immediately covered his thumb.
It hurt a bit, and he quickly put his thumb in his mouth to hold it.
There is one more chapter that will have to wait until one or two o'clock
Chapter completed!