The atmosphere in the office has become very dull.

Zhang Ke took a sip, smoking a cigarette with his head down, and Qu Rou also lit a cigarette and was silent.

The two of them smoked one after another as if they were competing, filling the small office with smoke.

"Thank you, Director Zhang."

After a while, Qu Rou threw away the cigarette butt, looked at him deeply, and said with some bitterness: "I think about it." ”

"Oh?" Zhang Ke looked at her.

"I decided to wait." Qu Rou sighed and said faintly: "Maybe you think that this kind of waiting is meaningless, but I thought about it for a while, and I feel that I still have to persevere." ”

"Mr. Qu, why are you bothered?"

Hearing Qu Rou's words, Zhang Ke sighed, secretly thinking in his heart, and said in vain for a long time, "What if...... Let me give you an analogy, what if you wait for 10, 20 years, and by that time, your cousin still hasn't come back? Isn't it delaying you? He persuaded with bitter words.

"Then I'll wait a little longer." Qu Rou smiled freely and said self-deprecatingly: "Maybe after thirty years, Zuo Jian will come back." ”

"Ugh." Zhang Ke shook his head vigorously, he didn't know whether Qu Rou was infatuated or stupid like this, he couldn't help but ask: "Is it meaningful to wait like this?" ”

"Yes!" Qu Rou took a deep breath, "Maybe you don't think it's meaningful!" She paused, and said in a stereotyped and almost calm tone: "You must not have thought that if one day, Zuo Jian and he really came back, but what he saw was me or Sister Mo Nong, both of us have our own families, and at that time, do you think, will he feel meaningless?" ”

"But that's just a hypothesis." Zhang Ke shook his head, he felt that such a possibility was almost equal to zero.

"Sort of." Qu Rou smiled sadly, "I just think that if Zuo Jian really comes back one day, when he finds that it is meaningless for him to wait for so many years...... I think he'll be very sad when that happens. ”

……

"Wait a minute."

On the endless, magnificent waves, Zuo Jian, who was holding a telescope, frowned, and shouted at Mike, who was driving the fishing boat in the control room.

"Boss, what's wrong?"

Mike poked his head out of the control room window, "Did you find anything?" ”

"There's a fart discovery." Zuo Jian scolded in a low voice, this is the third day of going to sea, when they really came to the sea, they found that the beautiful sea is not as rich as they imagined for three consecutive days, not to mention encountering a school of fish, not even a single fish hair!

Of course, the premise is that the fish has to grow hair.

"Mike, I don't think we should go the other way?" Zuo Jian lit a cigarette, took a puff in the sea breeze, frowned and said, "I don't think there can be any fish in the sea area in front of us, and there is not even a single fishing boat in this vicinity." ”

Angelier shook her head, got out of the control room, and said, "Zuo Jian, shouldn't we have some patience?" ”

"Angeliet, I don't think it's a matter of impatience at all." Zuo Jian pursed his lips and said: "We must have been deceived by those damn guys, they will definitely not tell us about the sea area where there are fish, I believe that no one will be so stupid to tell us the fish they found." ”

It is true that in the sea, it is not like in the fishing grounds, where the fish stay in a certain area of the sea because they have a fixed source of food.

In the sea, fish have to swim constantly in order to find food, so it is destined that they cannot inhabit a certain sea area.

Although the fishing boat is fully equipped, there are no instruments such as sonar detection with high technology.

Zuo Jian and the others are currently wandering in the sea, purely to see if there are any fish with their eyes.

As a result, even if a school of fish swims a few hundred meters away, they don't know that this is the mistake made by a few rookies who have just gone out to sea and have no experience. They treat the sea as if it were their own fishing ground.

"You have a point." Juliet nodded and said, "But, the fish swim, don't they?" Maybe they're about to swim from another part of the ocean. ”

Zuo Jian was speechless, and when Juliet arrived at sea, she became a little stubborn. But Zuo Jian always felt that the most fundamental reason why she was so stubborn about finding fish was because she didn't want to lose money.

This trip to the sea replenished a large amount of food, fresh water and gasoline, and the overall cost reached about 4,000 South Island coins.

Equivalent to a year's salary for Mike alone.

There is no doubt that such expenses are high, and it is no wonder that many captains are bankrupt, because once this trip to sea does not have any gain, it means throwing away thousands of Austronesian coins in vain, and if it is the case five or six times in a row, the captain will soon go bankrupt.

It's a real throwing money into the ocean.

"Okay." Zuo Jian shrugged his shoulders, he didn't bother to argue with Juliet about anything, this money obsessed ghost.

"BOSS, why don't we try it in this sea?" Wilson came out of the control room, his face also looking a little impatient.

Annouliette hesitated a little, looking at it, the sea was blue below, but the human eye could only see about a few tens of meters, beyond this range, it was not very clear. The swaying of the waves, and the reflection of the seawater, the view is blurry.

Without 100% certainty, Juliet was a little reluctant to go into the net, she couldn't catch anything, that was a trivial matter, and the most important thing was that every time she got out of the net, she could only see only a few sea fish in the net, and the sense of frustration and failure was hard to accept.

"Let's try it right here."

Zuo Jian saw Juliet's hesitation, took a puff of his cigarette, and said, "If there is no harvest, let's go back, we are now getting farther and farther away from the South Island country." ”

To tell the truth, Zuo Jian was reluctant to go to sea, because as he got farther and farther away from land, the feeling of extreme insecurity always filled his heart.

Human beings are land animals, and only when they step on the earth can they feel a sense of security, especially when they stand on this fishing boat that is constantly swinging all the time, this feeling is extremely strong.

"Mike, get off the net!"

Juliet hesitated for a long time, gritted her teeth, and made a gesture to Mike in the control room, who nodded, and then, with the roar of the machine, the winch rotated, and the fishing nets and lead blocks hanging in the stern slowly sank, and when the winch rotated to reach the limit, the fishing nets that sank into the sea were already about dozens of meters deep.

A depth of several tens of meters is average in the offshore area, but when you really reach the sea, it is not enough to see.

However, the fishing boat built by Zuo Jian is too small in tonnage, and the fishing nets equipped with it are naturally average, and it is impossible to have too good equipment.

The hull of the boat shook, and when the net dropped to a predetermined depth, Mike took control of the fishing boat and began to start slowly, slowly sailing in this area.

If there is a sonar detection instrument, then in the control room, you can see the general situation of the fishing nets below and the situation in the sea, but if there is no such thing as now, it is purely a blind cat touching a dead mouse.

Both Annouliet and Wilson also went to the control room and controlled the salvage route of the fishing boat with Mike.

They use a very simple method, which is to set an area range in the control room, and then cruise back and forth in this range, which is the usual fishing method in the fishing grounds.

Zuo Jian stood on the deck, holding a telescope, looking left and right boredly.

In fact, when you really go to the sea, it's a bit like going to the desert, at a glance, the scenery is the same all around, unchanged, very boring, in the past, if the seafarers stayed on the sea for too long, sailing for a few months, then it was easy to get blindness.

No matter how beautiful things are, if you see too much, you will have visual fatigue and no feelings.

Zuo Jian is exactly like this, on the first day of sailing, he was still very interested, holding a telescope and looking at it constantly, but after watching it for a few hours, he lost his initial freshness because no matter where he looked, it was exactly the same sea water.

Up to now, he almost has a feeling that he wants to vomit when he sees the seawater.

Lit a cigarette, smoked in the sea breeze, and stood for a while, Zuo Jian, who was bored, simply lay on the deck and dozed off.

After a while, Zuo Jian fell asleep in a daze, I don't know how long it took, and suddenly, the hull of the ship shook violently, almost turning Zuo Jian from the deck into the sea.

"What's going on?"

Zuo Jian stood up and looked left and right, in the distance on the sea, there seemed to be a wind, the waves were rolling, and the hull of the ship was undulating with the waves, and there seemed to be nothing wrong.

turned his head, but saw that in the control room, Annella, Mike and the others all looked anxious and panicked.

Zuo Jian's heart moved, he got into the control room, and asked Mike, who was controlling the fishing boat, "Mike, what's wrong?" ”

"Oh, damn it...... Oh sorry boss, I'm not scolding you, I'm talking about this damn reef. Sweating profusely, Mike said, "Boss, I'm going to tell you the sad news that our fishing nets seem to be entangled in the reef!" ”

"Mike, you idiot, if it was me just now, I would have stopped as soon as I noticed that something was wrong, so that I wouldn't be like now, entangled in the reef and unable to move." Wilson said gloomily.

"Bastard, you don't talk nonsense here." Mike glared at him, "What do you think a fishing boat is?" Can you stop if you say stop? ”