Ye Yaodong went to the cabin to burn three sticks of incense for Mazu, and then returned to the deck to help, while listening to the uncles chatting about ancient times.
At this time, his father suddenly appeared and patted his shoulder, "Dongzi!"
To his surprise, the fishing boat was already swaying and he sat down on the ground, with his hands full of greasy fish.
"Why are you slapping me so hard all of a sudden?"
He was thinking about something, thinking that if he could make one or two thousand in the first day, how many more days would he be able to survive?
His saliva was almost drooling, but he was slapped awake by his father.
Father Ye's face was full of smiles, "I just got online with my in-laws. He received a little less goods than us. He was also counting the goods just now."
"What's so exciting about that? As I said, it must be because I have a lot of Internet connections. I ran after the aperture earlier than him. It took him a while to find out and catch up."
"He also caught a lot, but he hasn't finished counting yet. He just said that yesterday's harvest in one day was equal to the previous two or three days. He also said that yesterday's day at sea was good."
"After chatting for a while, I asked him about the fresh harvest boat. His fish warehouse is not full yet, but it should be almost full by the evening. He wanted to say that we are in a hurry to sell, so he will join us."
"However, the discount on the fresh-harvest ship is very high. This ship has a lot of valuable goods. He thought about going ashore to sell it. He said that he would contact other friends who have ships to see if anyone knows the price on the shore in the next few days after the New Year. Compare it with the price on the shore.
Follow the fresh boat and take a look before deciding."
Ye Yaodong thought for a while and wondered whether he would be lucky or not and how he would receive the goods.
Five or six thousand kilograms of golden snapper will cost at least more than a thousand yuan and nearly two thousand yuan when landed, ten to twenty thousand kilograms of toad fish, four large manta rays, several large sharks, small tube sword shrimps and other valuable fish, etc., in total
There are also one or two thousand catties, which is quite a lot.
If it can be sold for 3,000 yuan ashore, it can be sold for 1,000 yuan more than if it is sold to the harvest ship. Under normal circumstances, it is worth wasting a day.
I just don’t know if it will be a waste if I don’t drag the network today, or if there will be good products that will hit the network?
While thinking this, he shook his head again. He couldn't think like this. Who knows what happened after it was confiscated?
Just because you were lucky yesterday, it doesn't mean that your luck will always be that good in the future. It all depends on luck, and it's not 100%.
"That's okay... If he can ask someone, someone familiar with it who knows the recent price, it would be suitable. If he thinks it would be more profitable to sell it ashore, it's not impossible for us to waste most of the day and land ashore. It's just that it's not impossible.
How far is our current location from the dock where we can dock to receive goods?”
"I asked him about the direction, and he said that we are almost reaching the provincial capital. He said that he would not go to the East China Sea next, but would turn back and trawl in the direction of the province. We should be able to reach it by the afternoon."
"It's a pity to sell so much goods to the fresh-harvesting ship at a much lower price, but we have to ask about the prices on the shore and compare them. We also calculate the goods in the fish warehouse ourselves to see if it's worth spending half a day."
Ye Yaodong looked up again and looked at the cargo on the deck. After more than half an hour, he picked up several baskets of golden snapper, but he didn't seem to see any reduction in the two small piles of cargo.
"Then let's wait until these goods are sorted. Let's estimate the weight and price ourselves. Pay attention to the cockpit later to see if Uncle Pei has asked for news. Let's do the calculations."
It’s one thing to consume fuel and go back and forth. The most important thing is to delay fishing. For example, if you speed up to the nearest shore and go back for five or six hours, it will take more than ten hours to go back and forth. In addition, the time for selling goods during the period is not that much.
Come on, I still have to delay a bit, the whole day is almost over.
Moreover, they have not yet connected to the Internet, and they are still working on it slowly.
They have just been out for a day and have been heading towards the East China Sea. However, there is no nearby dock to receive the goods. Now it is equivalent to turning back and spending a day selling goods. I don't know if it is worth it.
At first, he didn't think about selling on the shore. He just wanted to strike while the iron was hot. He netted so many goods yesterday and continued to see if he could catch more today. It would be too late to go back and sell.
But since Uncle Pei knows a few people, let him ask about the price first and then they make a decision.
"Okay, let's follow him to the direction of the provincial capital anyway. We have been running all day, all the way to the East China Sea. If we can't get to the shore so quickly, we can also trawl together in the direction of the provincial capital first, and wait until we are sure.
Let’s hurry up and hurry up.”
When you go out, you need to get to know more people. Sometimes a piece of news is worth a lot of money. So after the big brother was established later, many fishermen who drove big boats on the beach were equipped with it early.
Although the newly released Big Brother is very expensive, costing tens of thousands of yuan each, but if you can contact your family and know the receiving price in each town, you can still get your money back.
After the conversation, Father Ye returned to the helm cabin. Unexpectedly, the Harvest had caught up with them and ran to the right of them. The distance between the two ships was also growing, so he had to quickly sail to catch up.
Lao Pei has much more experience in running boats than he does. He has been at sea all year round. He can't go wrong by following behind. Safety comes first.
Ye Yaodong continued to squat there to help sort, thinking that if he speeded up the voyage and docked, he wouldn't have to set off the net or work, but he could go back to the cabin and lie down and sleep for a while.
I don't know if I squinted for three hours at night and slept intermittently. Although I feel fine now, I guess I won't be able to bear it anymore in the afternoon.
"Are you going to sell it ashore?" A boatman nearby heard the father and son talking and turned around and asked curiously.
"I don't know the price on the shore. Uncle Pei seems to know someone. He will contact him first to see if anyone has sold goods on the shore in the past two days."
The boatman nodded, "Then we'd better decide after asking. The price of these seafoods is fixed for a period of time. After a year, it's normal for it to fluctuate. The cost of our trip to the shore is not small. If you have questions, then ask first."
"Well, anyway, just follow Uncle Pei. He has been at sea these past few years. I heard that he has been everywhere and knows a lot. We can just follow him in whatever he wants to do."
Chen Laoqi also said: "Yes, yes, it's rare for you to be so sensible. Some young people always feel that their wings are stiff. There is no need to listen to the words of the older generation. Listen more to the words of the old people. You are right. They are better than young people anyway."
Decades of extra salt.”
"Why are you talking about this? Who hasn't come from a young age? It's normal to have some achievements and abilities. It's normal to be proud. I don't know when these guys will be reduced. You still have time to whisper..."
"What does talking with your mouth have to do with my work? I don't use my mouth to work."
"You want to work with your mouth, but you don't have the ability yet. My basket is full again. Please help me lift it..."
"How many baskets are there, all of them are red fish..."
"Ah! The porridge seems to be ready. I'll go over and take a look. I'll continue after eating later..."
Ye Yaodong quickly threw away the fish in his hand, almost forgetting the bubbling porridge in the pot. He quickly threw in the washed chrysanthemum leaves, added a little salt, and simmered it for two or three minutes before eating.
After eating, he remembered that he didn't brush his teeth when he got up to work at night, and he still hasn't brushed them now.
I turned around and took a look. Among the group of people who were gorging themselves on food, no one was brushing their teeth, and their eyes were still covered with mucus.
You have eaten everything, you are not unclean, and you will not get sick after eating.
Anyway, the short period of time he squinted at night was not considered sleep. He peeled and bit shrimp from time to time during the night without stopping. It seemed that he didn't feel uncomfortable if he didn't brush his teeth.
He also pulled it quickly, and after eating, he brought a large bowl to the cockpit for his father. By the way, he asked if there was any news from Uncle Pei?
"Didn't I cook porridge?"
"The most indispensable thing on the ship is seafood. You can eat whatever you want. No worries. It tastes better when cooked like this. It's much better than plain porridge."
Father Ye just saw that it was different from what he had put down to cook in the morning, so he asked more questions, and immediately changed the subject after asking.
"My in-laws just got back to me, saying that all the people he knows have just gone to sea in the past two days, and no one has sold on the shore. They are all contacted by the fresh harvest ship, so there is no reference, let us figure it out ourselves.
What do you think?"
Ye Yaodong thought for a while, "Then let's wait until the goods on the deck are almost collected, and then we calculate the number of golden sea bream and then decide."
"That's what I told my in-laws just now. I just told him to calculate the quantity and see if it's worthwhile to sell it on the shore. I asked him to do the calculation himself. He hasn't finished picking up the goods yet."
"Then you eat first and continue to follow the Harvest. When the goods are almost ready, I will calculate the quantity and let you know."
"OK."
Without reference, you can only make your own decisions.
The five of them had enough time to sort the more than 10,000 kilograms of goods on the deck until the next load was collected, but they hadn't even finished sorting yet.
However, at least half of the deck was emptied, and the pile of leftover groceries were swept into one area to make room for the newly collected net.
After Ye Yaodong collected the new net, he did not ask anyone to put it down. Instead, he went to the cockpit and asked his father to connect to Pei's father. He decided to speed up to the shore and sell the goods on the ship ashore.
The goods coming from this net were miscellaneous and nothing particularly valuable, which directly prompted him to decide to dock. Together with the two nets caught at night, he estimated that the total should be six thousand kilograms of golden snapper, so he decided to dock.
Try selling it.
"Are you sure? If you are sure, I will connect with your Uncle Pei and ask him not to put down the net again. I don't know if he has pulled up the net or has already put it down. We have to ask him to hurry up and catch up. We have been
If we go back, we should be able to reach the shore in time to sell goods before dark."
Ye Yaodong looked at the time and said, "It's only after nine o'clock, so there's enough time."
"It's so cold now, it gets dark early."
"It's not the end of the 15th day of the 15th, and it doesn't count the end of the New Year. The provincial capital should still be very lively at night."
"We have only been out for a day. Otherwise, if we dock in the provincial capital at night, we can go ashore and rest for a night."
"Dad, you have changed!"
"Ah?" Father Ye said with confusion on his face, "What do you mean? Why have I changed?"
"It's only been a day since you came out, and you're already thinking about going ashore to rest. You're so lazy!"
"Nonsense, am I thinking of docking in the provincial capital? No one has ever been to the province..."
"Don't explain. I know that you just got lazy. You haven't worked for two days and you want to take a rest. You still have the nerve to say that it's useless for me to be so big. I can carry two loads of millet into the ditch.
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"What I'm telling you is all true. It's all in the province. Don't you want to go to the streets and take a look?"
"No, next time you don't talk about sesame seeds and rotten millet all day long."
Father Ye glared at him, "I'm too full, and I talk about you all day long. I don't care if you want to go ashore to rest. I wish you could go to sea directly after selling out, and drag two more cargoes, so as not to be delayed for too long and suffer a big loss."
"This is for you to watch. You can connect with your Uncle Pei and tell him to hurry to the provincial capital and speed up to the shore. I'll go down and see what the harvest is like."
Ye Yaodong looked at his father's back and grumbled, "Doesn't he lose face?" He recounted old stories all day long.
The old guy also wanted to see the world of flowers, but it must have been night after the goods were sold at the shore. The tens of thousands of kilograms of goods from the two ships were not being weighed so quickly, and there was nothing to see. I could give him some time during the day.
Let them walk around.
Forget it now, hurry up and drive out at night, and you can still haul a net before dawn.
After Ye Yaodong waited for his father to go out, he contacted Uncle Pei. His net had not been collected yet and was almost ready, so he simply collected it in advance and accelerated forward.
He also followed behind in the Dongsheng, and the two ships drove forward with full power.
The boatmen on the deck were still sorting fish goods there as usual. After sorting the goods, they could go back to the cabin to rest. There was no catching a net, and everyone was looking forward to having a rest.
The remaining unfinished goods in the morning, plus the goods hauled up by a net, were sorted until past twelve o'clock, and it was almost finished after lunch.
Father Ye ordered everyone to eat first and then clean up after eating.
Ye Yaodong also looked at the deck, which looked like it had been scratched by chicken claws. There were fish everywhere on the deck, evenly distributed in every corner of the deck.
Everyone sorted them very cleanly and carefully, leaving almost no items that could be sold for money. All the seafood was carefully looked through.
He estimated that the remaining cargo piled on the deck was about three thousand kilograms, including fish, shrimps, crabs, and shells.
"Grass! What a waste of natural resources!"
From now on, nothing produced in the sea will be worthless. Except for a few large jellyfish and aquatic plants and garbage, the ones on the deck will be sold for a lot of money.
Even the anchovies, which are half as long as a finger and can’t be any smaller, are purchased by factories to produce the raw materials of Jinzai Xiaoyu!
After the boatmen finished eating, they took brooms and buckets, loaded baskets of goods into baskets, and dumped them into the sea.
Ye Yaodong is extremely regretful. It would be great if he could have a mobile phone to record a video at this time?
Record a video in 1985 and send it to 2024.
In the future, I don’t think there will be many scenes of people carrying thousands of kilograms of seafood into the sea. If there are, it is because the fishery administration catches fishing boats that secretly go out to catch fish during the fishing ban period, so they take the goods on board like this.
Thousands of kilograms were thrown back into the sea.
"Dongzi, you go to eat and watch from here."
"Dad, have you heard of a fish canning factory near our county?"
"Nonsense, where is the fish cannery? Can there be fish in it? How to eat it? Aren't the cans full of oranges and other fruits? How can you eat fish in it?"
"oh."
That is, these days, the canned fish in their rural areas are not yet famous. It seems that the generation in Guangdong Province has production, but they are all sold overseas.
After all, in the past, when productivity was low, people's purchases were very limited, and people had little to eat or wear, canned food was a high-end food that only the rich could afford.
Not to mention before the reform, now after the reform, only the rich can afford canned food. Who is willing to spend several dollars and a few days' salary to buy a canned food that only tastes sweet?
Only by giving gifts can I be willing to spend money.
But overseas, only the poor will eat canned food, and the rich will of course prefer to eat fresh food.
Haha, it’s upside down.
Ye Yaodong also had a random thought, thinking that it would be a pity that so much of the goods ended up in the sea. It would be great if they could be made into various cans.
It is also difficult to store seafood and transport it in order to extend the period of food spoilage.
Unfortunately, the industry is still developing. All machinery and equipment are imported, and the production technology is imported. Probably only the formula is our own.
Ye Yaodong shook his head. He didn't have that much energy, and he didn't understand the twists and turns. He should just be an honest fisherman and catch fish.
Leave the cockpit to his father's attention while he goes to eat.
The rice and soup were still hot, but the dishes were a bit cold, but it was good to have a hot meal at sea.
He carried a large bowl of rice and vegetables and went to the deck. While eating, he watched them pour the goods into the water one by one.
Although I had already seen it yesterday, there was more stuff being dumped into the sea today, and I never get tired of it.
Of course my heart aches, but looking at this scene I feel quite satisfied.
"Now we are pouring baskets into the sea one by one. In the future, people will only catch these goods that have been dumped into the sea."
"How is that possible? It takes up a lot of space to bring these goods back. If you give them away, you can only use them to feed chickens, ducks, and pigs and dogs. No one wants them now. Who would be so stupid as to catch these goods in the future?"
It hurts my heart.
"That's what I'm saying. Maybe in the future there will be more and more ships, and more and more goods will be caught, and these will also be valuable."
"More and more are being caught, and everyone's food is getting better and better, so no one wants these anymore, and the pigs can't even eat them..."
If he hadn't lived until 2023, he would have almost believed it.
Now pigs eat sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines. In the future, people will spend money to buy sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines to eat.
"It makes sense, uncle is right."
"A day or two before I go back, I can pick up these goods and take them back to make fish sauce for you. The scale of your fish sauce workshop is quite large. It costs thousands of dollars and will take several years to build.
Get your money back?"
"I don't know, it's only been sold for a month."
"It would be great if pigs could be raised on the ship, so they wouldn't have to fall into the sea..."
"It's impossible to raise pigs. It's possible to use these goods directly for production at sea. However, it would take a large ship of hundreds of thousands of tons to make it possible to produce while fishing."
"Really? You know a lot..."
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Ye Yaodong cooked a whole bowl of rice. The workers hadn't finished cleaning up the deck yet and were still dumping goods there. He seemed to have nothing to do with him. The fishing boat was following closely behind the Harvest. With his father at the helm, he simply lay back.
Catch up on some sleep in the cabin.
Take a nap at noon and catch up on your sleep so that you can be energetic at night.
I just brought the new quilt on board yesterday, and now I can smell the strong smell of seafood when I lie in it. Fortunately, it has been sunny these two days, so the quilt does not feel damp.
Having eaten so much, he would have been easily sleepy. He had just laid down on the bed, thinking about the roar of the machine in his ears, but he fell asleep not long after.
When he woke up again, the bed next to him was still empty, and he didn't know whether those people were still awake or had woken up and went out.
He looked at the time and saw that it was already three o'clock. He stretched out a lot and felt very comfortable after a good sleep. Especially in the winter, there is nothing more comfortable than sleeping under the quilt.
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Although the fishing boat was swaying and the roaring in my ears was constant, it was a luxury to have a place to lie down.
There was no sunshine outside, only thick clouds and biting cold wind remained.
He walked to the back deck, carefully held the edge of the boat, peed, then quickly shook it a few times, put it in, and returned to the deck.
"Are we almost docking? You woke up just in time. Did you guys take a nap?"
"Yes, I just went to take a nap when I had nothing to do. I just woke up not long ago."
"We are almost docking. We just saw a lot of trawling boats along the way. We are also followed by several trawling boats. They should also be docking."
Ye Yaodong nodded and went up to the helm. His father would not be cold sitting in the cockpit.
"Is it almost there?"
"It's almost there, there should be about twenty minutes left."
"That took almost six hours."
"At sea, it's no better than on the shore. Waterways are inherently slower."
He stayed and chatted with his father for a while, then went to the deck to blow in the cold air. The cockpit was too crowded.
Half an hour later, the bustling port was visible in the distance, and everyone stretched their necks and said that they were finally here.
There were a lot of ships coming and going at the wharf in the provincial capital. For ships as big as theirs, they saw more than a dozen from a distance. They could even see a few ships more than thirty meters long, which were not comparable to those in the city.
, let alone the small wharf in their town.
As the sun sets, ships of all sizes are shuttled on the sea, docking at the dock ahead.
On the pier, fishermen were busy carrying baskets of fresh seafood, and laughter and conversations were heard one after another, full of the atmosphere of life.
The sea breeze carries the smell of salty sea water, blowing across everyone's face, which is black and red, with the joy of harvest on their faces.
“Is this pier specially designed for landing fish?”
"Definitely. In a big place like the provincial capital, the cargo terminal and the fishing boat terminal are separated. There are not many ships docking today. They are probably all at sea."
The two boatmen were there asking and answering questions.
"Stop talking, we're going to land soon. Let's move all the goods out of the fish warehouse first."
"Good, good, good work..."
Father Ye squeezed into the gap at the dock with the Harvest, and the two ships docked side by side.
The two of them did not immediately let the goods be moved off the ship. Instead, they went ashore to find buyers first. They were from out of town, so they had to ask several buyers to avoid deliberately lowering the price. After asking about the price, they took someone on the ship to see the goods and then negotiated.
After gathering, ask people to move the goods ashore for weighing.
The pier was bustling with fishermen or intermediaries who received goods. There were baskets of seafood everywhere in the open space. The ground was wet and there was a fishy smell everywhere.
Ye Yaodong, Ye's father, and Pei's father were walking among the crowds of people. There were baskets of seafood everywhere on the ground, crowded with people and goods.
There are also some goods caught by small boats that are set up stalls directly at the dock, waiting for vendors to come over to inquire about purchasing.
The three of them specifically looked for large purchasing points. Small purchasing points were not trustworthy enough and might not be able to consume as much of their goods.
"Here are people and goods. Let's go separately and ask a few more stores. We'll just ask about the prices of the most popular items on the ship. We'll compare them later."
There were so many people, and baskets were piled next to each other, that it was difficult to walk. After Ye Yaodong followed them and asked a family, he thought that he could move faster by splitting up, so as not to get dark before he started weighing the goods.
"Okay, then let's ask each other separately and say hello. We'll gather here later to compare which one offers a higher price."
The three of them immediately split up.
Ye Yaodong did not expect that the wharf in the provincial capital would be so lively, with all kinds of shouts and shouts, and there were as many people as there were goods.
Along the way, he also saw a lot of golden-eyed seabream, but he didn't see as many as them anywhere.
After walking around for a whole time, I found that the total number of golden sea bream in the whole dock was only three to four thousand kilograms, which was not as much as any of their ships.
He also asked some fishermen and found out that they collected their golden-eyed eagles around 30-23 cents, and he knew it well.
After scanning the surrounding area, he chose two buying places that looked relatively large. Although they were still in shabby condition, they were seen moving around in the open space, and most of the people were weighing the goods and settling accounts.
He asked who the boss was and walked over directly.
“Brother, what’s the price for golden-eyed sea bream?”
"No matter the size, just call it Sanmaoer."
"What about the size?"
"You divide it between you and me. The big one is 35 cents and the small one is 30 cents. I won't divide it here."
“Is it a bit more expensive for larger quantities?”
"How big is it? If it weighs a thousand pounds, you can consider adding a penny."
"It's quite big. Do you want it weighing tens of thousands of pounds?"
He was busy with his head down, counting the goods, and only took the time to answer. His irritating and impatient tone could be heard by a blind person, but when he heard what he said about tens of thousands of kilograms, he immediately straightened up and his eyes widened.
"Ten thousand kilograms? Real or fake? Don't bluff me. If you deliberately try to take advantage of me, you won't be able to get out of this pier."
"Absolutely not. I am an honest person. I came here to ask and negotiate the price sincerely."
"If it weighs ten thousand kilograms, regardless of size, just call it San Mao San."
"Brother, you are not sincere. I just asked around a lot and found out that many people sell for 30 cents. With my quantity, you can earn more by selling as much as you want. If you just sell it for 30 cents, I can earn more."
I won’t tell you the price, I’ll sell it for whatever you say.”
"If you really have ten thousand catties, take me to see the goods. If it is true, I will give you thirty-four cents. No more, otherwise I will lose money."
Every businessman likes to say this.
How is it possible to lose money? It is impossible to lose money even if you lose your character.
I went out to get my hair done in the afternoon. I sat there for six hours and didn’t come back until 7pm. I was finally kicked out. I’ll try not to ask for leave if possible. Keep me updated.
Chapter completed!