The next morning, Xiao Peng and the others were woken up by the sound of an argument.

Xiao Peng put on his life jacket after washing, and looked at Nikita and Georgina, who were sleepy-eyed on the side: "How is it? It feels good to sleep in the cradle, right?"

"I swear to God, I've never slept in a cradle that shakes so much, it's like sleeping in a rocking swing!"

Georgina pouted: "I hit my head against the wall in the middle of the night because of the shaking so much. I couldn't sleep because of the pain. ”

Xiao Peng smiled: "When you get used to this feeling, you will find that you can sleep soundly when you shake it." ”

Yang Meng came back from the bathroom: "What's going on outside? This Nima really deserves to be a fighting nation, why did he get up early in the morning and start fighting?"

Xiao Peng shrugged: "How do I know, let's go, go out and have a look." ”

Nikita said, "Wait for us!"

Xiao Peng shook his head and said, "You guys should hurry to the bathroom now, and go up to find us in a while, let's go up and have a look first." ”

When Nikita and Georgina finished washing up and found Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng was sitting in the cockpit eating breakfast with Yang Meng, and when they saw the two of them coming in, Xiao Peng greeted: "Come and have breakfast!"

Nikita asked curiously, "Xiao, what's going on outside?"

Xiao Peng pointed to a string of buoys in the sea: "Do you see that string of buoys?"

Nikita nodded: "See, what is that?"

Xiao Peng replied: "Crab traps." ”

Nikita was puzzled and asked, "Isn't there a string of crab pots with buoys at only two ends?"

Xiao Peng laughed: "You got to the problem, you saw the two white buoys, right? In the middle of the two white buoys is Maxim's crab pot." ”

"Huh?" Georgina spotted the question, "So, isn't that the position of that long list of buoys holding down Maxim's crab pot?"

Xiao Peng nodded: "Of course, otherwise what are they scolding?" But there is no way to scold like this now." You can only wait for someone to come back. If they can't control their temper like this, they will definitely have high blood pressure, okay, hurry up and have breakfast!"

Nikita asked curiously, "Why do you have to wait for them to come back?"

"Didn't you just ask me why it has a buoy every few tens of meters? This is because this is a big crab pot! A big guy weighs more than 700 pounds, this thing is very expensive, I just ordered this string of crab pots, there can be more than 60 in total, so a string of crab pots costs more than 70,000 US dollars, each one is very precious, and each one must have a buoy on it to prevent loss. And this kind of big crab pot is not something that can be pulled up by a small winch on Maxim's ship. So I'll have to wait for them to come back. Xiao Peng said.

Yang Meng added on the side: "This is the practice of big fishing boats bullying small fishing boats, because of the large area occupied by big crab pots like this, a boat is generally more than a hundred or two strings of sixty or seventy cages." Throw it into the sea for twenty-four hours or thirty-six hours. There was really nothing the boat could do with them. ”

Xiao Peng handed the bread and caviar to the Nikita sisters: "The problem can only be solved unless you contact the owners of these big crab pots, but you don't know where they have gone." So it's really disgusting to talk about this, no wonder Maxim they scolded the street. ”

"Why don't you think you're in a hurry at all?

Xiao Peng smiled: "No matter how urgent they are, what can they do? It is impossible for them to destroy each other's crab pots, this is the case at sea, no matter how hard a real fisherman fights, he will not deliberately destroy the other party's fishing gear." There are too many variables to make a living at sea, maybe two gangs of people will fight in the first second, and in the next second, they will have to count on each other to save their lives. Maxim is an old fisherman, and he would not do such a thing, he said that he would sell the Turks' fishing gear, but did you go to the dock and see them do it? Not at all. He's just letting go of the cruel words. Besides, it's not easy to break the other party's crab pots. If you don't do it, you can lose your life. It's more dangerous to destroy the crab pots than to collect them!"

"Huh?" Nikita was eating bread and was stunned when she heard Xiao Peng's words.

Xiao Peng explained: "The small crab pot is a string of bottom lines, except for the two ends of the crab pot that float out of the water as a mark, all the ropes and crab pots are on the bottom of the sea. And the kind of big crab pot because the price is more expensive, in order to reduce accidental losses, so it is another way to bundle, they are a few kilometers long bus on the sea surface, the bus line sags a piece of subline, each subline a buoy and a cage, so that if something happens, the loss can also be minimized. But there is also a fatal problem, that is, the bus bar is above the water surface, so it often happens that the propellers and bus bars of other boats are entangled. In big waves like this, if Maxim drives the boat over and destroys the crab pots, it's easy to get mixed up with that busbar, and wow, then we're dead!"

As soon as his voice fell, he saw Maxim scolding and returning to the cockpit: "These bandits, robbers, all of them should go to hell! Is the sea their home? Yang, you won't believe what happened! Someone pressed their crab pots on our crab pots!"

Yang Meng pointed out the window: "I have seen it a long time ago." ”

Maxim took off his hat and flicked off the snowflakes on his body: "These bastards, don't let me see them, I'll clean them up!"

Yang Meng quipped: "That's not good, you still expect them to come back to collect the crab pots, otherwise what will happen to your crab pots?"

Maxim choked.

Georgina asked, "Mr. Maxim, why don't you put the other crab pots on your deck into the sea at this time?"

Maxim laughed and said, "At four o'clock in the morning, we arrived at the drop-off point and put down all those crab pots, because we were afraid of disturbing you, so we all worked in a whisper." ”

"Wow, Maxim, you're so considerate. Nikita thanked.

Maxim laughed, "You're all distinguished guests, aren't you?"

Yang Meng wiped his hands and sat down in the captain's position: "Hey, old horse, you can enjoy it, your seat is very comfortable." What's next for you? Where are you going? You eat first, and I'll drive you over. ”

Maxim walked to the console, pointed to the charts and said, "Thank you, I've laid three crab pots here, let's go see how the harvest goes." ”

Yang Meng nodded and launched the 'Golden Pepper Fish', Maxim just wanted to speak, but Yang Meng suddenly stopped him: "Old Ma, there is something wrong with your ship." ”

Maxim smiled and waved his hand: "My 'Golden Pepperfish' is my old buddy, like us Russian men, although there are all kinds of small problems, but they are stubborn enough, and ordinary small problems cannot defeat him. After saying that, he picked up a loaf of bread and looked disapproving.

"No!" Yang Meng became rare and serious: "The bow of the boat is too heavy, there is a problem!

Maxim smiled: "Yang, my ship is not as advanced as your warship, and it is normal to have a little problem." But he said so, and tried it anyway.

After a few minutes, he also frowned, picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Alexander, go check the crash chamber at the bow of the ship!"

Alexander was the boatswain on the Pepperfish, and Shesburg was the mechanic on board.

Xiao Peng looked at Yang Meng, and Yang Meng said: "There should be stagnant water in the anti-collision cabin, according to the feeling I felt when I drove the boat just now, there should be a lot of stagnant water, I don't know where the problem is." I'll go and see. ”

Xiao Peng stood up after hearing this: "I'm with you." Nikita, Georgina, stay here. ”

There was also a lot of wind and waves outside, and the broken weather of rain and snow for a while could not let Nikita and them go out on an adventure.

Watching Xiao Peng and Yang Meng walk out of the cockpit with a serious face, Nikita asked Maxim with a puzzled face: "What's wrong?" Yang Meng and Xiao Peng spoke Chinese just now, and they couldn't understand it.

Maxim pointed to a hatch in the bow deck and said, "It may be that there is water in the crash compartment in the bow." ”

Georgina asked curiously, "Why did Yang and Xiao both go out?" Is the flooding of this crash chamber serious?"

Maxim shrugged: "It's not as serious as you think, at most the whole ship sinks into the sea." ”

"What?" Georgina and Nikita exclaimed together, no wonder Xiao Peng and Yang Meng went out to see the situation together, it turned out to be so terrifying?

Hearing the screams of the two women, Maxim laughed: "Hey, don't be nervous, all fishing boats go to sea without smooth sailing, all kinds of emergencies continue, and we face and solve more dangerous than this." If you get on a fishing boat, you are fighting for your life, and if you don't have this awareness, don't go to sea. Thank you for contributing $200 to everyone!" he said the latter sentence with a loudspeaker walkie-talkie.

A man on the deck heard it and spread out his hands and said something in the direction of the wheelhouse with an innocent face, and his voice could not be heard in the cockpit. Maxim pointed his middle finger directly at him.

"Two beauties, do you see that guy? That's Xie Xiaoge, the mechanic on our ship, who may have been used to staying in the cabin, and he didn't wear a life jacket on deck, and he was fined two hundred dollars according to the regulations. Although our industry is really playing with life, it is definitely not stupid to die. His behavior of going on deck without wearing a life jacket is looking for death, and he will not open his mind if he does not pay a fine! This money is everyone's wine money when it goes ashore. Maxim said with a grin.

At that moment, the voice of Boatswain Alexander came over the intercom: "The problem has been found! The sewage pump is broken!"

"What?" Maxim couldn't sit still: "Can it be fixed? Damn, it's in trouble!"