On September 15, 1995, the weather was particularly good, the wind was beautiful, the sea was calm, and the fish balls on the sonar display screen were also beautifully gathered together and gathered at the side of the boat. Chen Xing couldn't cry or laugh, standing behind the fisherman, he didn't see his face, but he still felt his anger and frustration.

Looking at the fishing nets slowly put away on the side of the boat, the blood foam in the fishing nets, and the schools of fish densely packed together, Chen Xing judged that the net fish were at least 100 tons, and 20% of them were bigeye tuna and bluefin tuna.

Unfortunately, because there were too many, the Russian purse seine was overwhelmed with its nets, and just a few minutes ago, the 100-ton fish broke the nets. The sailors were using mechanical nets to quickly grab fish from the purse seine nets on the side of the ship, and everyone did their best to pay for the bonus, but in the end only 20 tons were snatched back, and most of the fish ran away from the cracks in the nets.

Who to blame, the fisherman can't find a person to vent his anger. Just the day before yesterday, both the Russian boatswain and the Taiwanese first mate suggested to the fishing chief that the nets on the ship were too old and needed to be repaired immediately. But he was really reluctant to find the newly found driftwood, the condition of the fish on the sonar was too good, he decided to put down the last net, and went back to Victoria Harbour to mend the net, the result was ...... Eighty tons of fish were run, and that's all dollars.

There is a reason for the frustration of the fishing chief, the old net can be solved in 7 days, and the fishing time will not be delayed too much, but the broken fishing net is sorted, repaired, and replaced, at least half a month, plus the time of round-trip, how much less net?

The Aristotle is now located close to the Maldives and will take two days to reach the Seychelles. But there is no other way than to return to Victoria to repair the net, and going to Singapore will delay more time. Chen Xing looked at the fishing captain and said softly: "Boss, let's set sail early, strive to mend the net as soon as possible, and come back early, the fish here are in such good condition, we are in a hurry, we should not delay too much."

The fisherman sighed, rubbed his temples with his hands, and said tiredly: "Ah Xing, you go and inform Vasily, slowly clean up on the deck while returning home, let him drive to Victoria, I'm tired, rest for a while, and call me at any time if you have something."

It was already 17:00 p.m. on September 17 when we arrived at Victoria Harbour, and there were two nets in the net factory that were being repaired, and there was no place, so the Aristotle could only anchor outside the port, and it would not vacate the place until the day after tomorrow.

Taking advantage of the rest of the next day, Chen Xing followed Captain Pan and the fishing captain to the port in the No. 1 speedboat of the fishing boat, and exchanged 50 US dollars for 190 rupees of Seychellois currency at the local bank, which was just enough to make a 5-minute international call home at the post office.

In order to keep in touch with Chen Xing, after the family's foreign debts were paid off, my mother specially installed a telephone, in 1995, in that border town, it was a luxury to install a telephone, and the installation fee was 5,000 yuan, but it was worth it to be able to keep talking to her son.

The phone number was known to Chen Xing after receiving a letter from his mother in August. Seychelles is 4 hours behind Kyoto time, and it was noon at home when the phone called, and I chatted with my mother about the recent situation at sea, and listened to my mother's babbling instructions to take care of myself, and 5 minutes passed quickly. This international long-distance is really expensive, 5 minutes, more than 400 yuan, catching up with Chen Xing's average salary in a small town for a month and a half.

Captain Pan and Captain Fishing also called their families in Taiwan separately, seeing that they were also very tired and worried.

On September 18, the Aristotle approached the wharf of the net factory, and everyone unloaded the fishing net to the repair yard of the net factory, and began the repair work of the huge net that was more than 2,000 meters long.

In fact, this kind of repair work was not done by the ship's sailors at all, because the overall cost of repairing the nets included the cost of the site, materials and labor, which were all done by local black skilled workers. However, Taiwan's fishermen were not accustomed to seeing people idle, and they said that they would help faster, and as a result, they were getting more and more helped, and even the sailors and the local black net repairers were in constant conflict with each other.

However, this is also an opportunity for Chen Xing to exercise, mending the net is not complicated, he is a journeyman, and learning to mend the net is equivalent to learning to weave a new net. In less than a few minutes, Chen Xing's progress in supplementing the net exceeded the sum of the progress of the same group. Soon Chen Xing lost interest in this monotonous and repetitive activity, and it did not help to improve his physical strength.

The fisherman didn't ask him to help, purely out of interest. Standing under the sun for only a while, Chen Xing was already sweating, and with the fact that he was already bronzed, there was no need to waste time here.

After saying hello to Captain Pan, who led everyone to mend the net, Chen Xing walked towards the gate of the operation field, where there was a rest room, which was actually a makeshift pavilion with leaky winds, but it could block the scorching sun here in Africa, compared to the sailors and blacks on the operation field, this place was already a paradise.

Seychelles was a French colony in the 18th century, and after the 18th century, Britain and France changed hands many times, and finally belonged to the British colony, until June 29, 1976, when it declared independence and established the Republic of Seychelles, but it remained in the British Commonwealth. So the local language is mainly Creole based on French words, English and French.

In the gazebo, the fisherman and the black supervisor in his 40s at two net factories were chatting in English, and they didn't understand how they could communicate, and neither side spoke much English. Chen Xing is also Russian, and his English is not very good now, so he accompanied the fishing chief to listen, probably talking about when the fishing nets would be completed.

Chen Xing thought that with his learning and memorization skills, Russian is no problem now, and it is necessary to learn English and French, yes, Portuguese and Spanish, which are necessary languages in Africa and Latin America, plus Arabic, German, Korean and Japanese. The world is so big, I want to see it. Chen Xing secretly arranged a study task for himself, anyway, there is more time at sea, and the time vacated by his sleep is just used for studying.

But where can I find the textbooks and materials for learning these languages, and is there such a reference book in the Seychelles?