In the morning, the Kawai Maru arrived in the bay between the Japanese island of Honshu and Hokkaido. Although it was already past six o'clock in the morning, it was too late in winter to see the sun rise above the sea level.

However, the captain gave the order yesterday to start fishing today, and all the sailors got up early in the morning at the request of boatswain Xu Heng, and the newly appointed sailor Xu Heng crawled out of his bed before five o'clock for the morning fishing.

The sailors stood on the deck one by one, wrapped in thick clothes, almost each with a cigarette in their hands, and shrunk their bodies in the leeward of the deck machinery, chatting quietly while looking up at the deck door from time to time.

"Boatswain, you better go in and urge the captain, everyone has been waiting for more than half an hour, why haven't you seen the captain come out, didn't you say that you are going to fish today?"

There was a sailor who really couldn't wait any longer, relying on the good relationship between himself and Xu Heng, so he came to Xu Heng and handed a cigarette while saying.

Xu Heng took the cigarette and lit it with the fire that came up, and after taking a puff, he said, "Can't wait for such a little time?" You're a little too squeamish, you used to get up earlier than you do now when you were under the hands of the Japanese! Zhao Yougen, why don't I send you to urge? ”。

"Forget it then!" Zhao Yougen subconsciously shrank his head when he heard this, to be honest, he was still a little stunned by this young captain Zhao Yougen, because there was little contact and this captain was almost shrunk in the observation room of the bridge these days, and he usually didn't go on deck at all.

"If you don't go, just wait honestly," Xu Heng finished speaking, looked at the watch on his wrist, and found that it had been almost forty minutes since he urged the sailors to gather on the deck.

As a boatswain, it is not unreasonable for Xu Heng to urge sailors to get up. Because Xu Heng, who was on duty on the bridge today, found driftwood floating on the water, and it was natural driftwood.

Driftwood, also known as driftwood, is a few pieces of wood floating on the sea, which is about a tree on land that falls into the sea for some reason. Now it is floating on the surface of the sea with the ocean current.

Don't underestimate this driftwood! All purse seine sailors know that if there is such a thing on the surface of the sea, it means that there are schools of fish under the driftwood. I don't know how big the fish is, but seeing it is a good sign for this trip.

Purse seine fishing vessels naturally operate by netting fish again, but how to determine where there are fish before purse seine depends on knowledge.

Generally speaking, there are three ways, the first is the driftwood group, which refers to the school of fish formed by the driftwood floating on the surface of the sea, such a fishing group is dominated by bonito, including some yellowfin tuna and a small amount of bigeye tuna. Schools of fish that follow driftwood are also the best to locate and of course the easiest to catch.

The second type is called the cetacean group, and the name suggests that this school of fish will follow the school of whales, dolphins, or even sharks. This kind of fish is slightly more difficult to catch than the driftwood.

The most difficult is the third type, which is also called a water group by sailors, which refers to the white foam on the surface of the sea caused by the fish jumping on the surface of the sea or preying on the bait on the sea. The advantage of such a school of fish is that it is relatively simple, generally composed of only bonito and tuna, and they are all schools of high economic value, but the disadvantage is that such fish schools are usually very active individuals, and the overall fish school is very difficult to catch.

Now what Xu Heng saw and let the boat follow all the time belongs to the driftwood cluster, if according to Xu Heng's assumption, if this driftwood is not found today, then the Puhe Maru should also throw down the artificial fish collector for fish collection, so seeing driftwood is really a good sign for Xu Heng, who has been a little depressed for the past two days: the boss is a rookie, but if there is luck, it is not a big deal. After all, it was these skilled sailors who operated it.

Isn't Xu Heng's heart in a hurry? This is a lie! Whoever gets up at six or seven o'clock in winter and stands on the deck for more than half an hour to blow the cold wind is not in a hurry, but Xu Heng is just a boatswain and not even a first mate, and even if the first mate is in a hurry, it is useless, except for the captain, whoever is in a hurry is the emperor and the eunuch is not in a hurry!

Finish a cigarette. Xu Heng looked at the door of the cabin, hoping for the stars and the moon in his heart, hoping that his captain would come out of the cabin.

Soon a figure appeared, Xu Heng was suddenly happy in his heart, and when he waited to see the person who came, he couldn't help but sigh again, it was not the captain who came, but the American first mate who was also a rookie.

He beckoned to an English-speaking sailor. Xu Heng greeted him: "First mate Diego, why hasn't the captain come out yet?" ”。 He then motioned to the English-speaking South Asian sailor to translate what he had said in Japanese.

As soon as Diego went out, he saw all the sailors standing on the deck, one by one, hiding in a sheltered place on the deck, like little quails crouching together.

"How could the captain come out at this time!" Diego couldn't help but open his mouth and said. I know about Bei Haidigo, and I asked Bei Hai about fishing yesterday. Bei Hai's answer is quite simple: wait until I wake up!

"I found the driftwood, and I made a preliminary observation, and the fish that followed the driftwood are quite good," Xu Heng immediately said: "As long as the captain gives the order, let's observe it, and if it is appropriate, it will take twenty minutes to complete the purse seine net, ......."

Xu Heng has now guessed that his captain is probably sleeping in his warm captain's cabin now, and he sleeps well in winter! But sleep well, but there is a driftwood, Xu Heng has to fight for a while. Even for the sake of his own salary, he has to sue sù for this pair of rookies, and now it's time for purse seine fishing! Even if you give an order, you can take someone to do the rest.

Obviously, as the first mate, Diego doesn't think so, Diego's ability to find fish in Beihai is almost like burning incense and kowtowing, and where does he care about the opinion of a little boatswain.

"I see! But what if the captain doesn't get up now? Just now I went to the captain's cabin door and called out, and found that the captain's tone was not good, this is enough to get up" Diego said: "Don't stand on the deck to blow the wind, hurry back to the cabin, tell the kitchen to get some hot food for everyone, and have a good breakfast!" Then wait for the captain to come out and get to work."

Hearing Diego say this, not only Xu Heng was dumbfounded even the one who was arrested as a temporary translator, not to mention the few sailors who were eavesdropping on the conversation between the three of them not far away.

I'm X! What else does the captain have to get up when he goes to sea to fish? I've only heard that you can't catch fish, or that the catch is enough, and the captain gets angry, but I haven't heard that the captain will get angry if you don't sleep enough, if you want to sleep comfortably, it's better to go directly to the land and hug a girl?

Liu Yougen was stunned for a while, and asked the worker next to him: "Lao Chen, did you say that we are here to fish or to travel?" ”。

"Our captain really has a personality," the sailor known as Lao Chen, who was standing next to Liu Yougen, also responded with a wry smile: "It seems that we don't expect any bonuses!" ”。

Can there be a bonus for encountering such a lazy captain? Soon the sailors on the deck knew that their captain was sleeping in the cabin now, and it is difficult to say when the fishing will officially start today, for a very nonsense reason: the captain of the ship wants to sleep!

Fishing had to wait for the captain to get enough sleep, and the crew suddenly felt that they were also drunk!

The order to go back to the cabin for breakfast, which was very peculiar on the day of fishing, was announced by the American first mate, and more than 20 sailors shook into the cabin in groups of three or five.

The sailors have been freezing on the deck for a long time, and now they can go back to the cabin to sleep, and after eating the steaming breakfast one by one, they simply played poker in groups in the dining room.

As the time gets closer to noon, the mood of these sailors becomes lower and lower, and the best time for the driftwood group to catch fish is in the morning, that is, about an hour or two shortly after dawn, and it is difficult to say the quality of the fish even if the net is lowered.

"Our captain is sleeping soundly!" A somewhat strange Japanese sailor said after throwing his cards on the table and making a snapping sound.

"I finally understand why I've only been working for a month, and everyone is here to play with him!" The other sailor raised his hand and signaled that he didn't want the card.

"I'll just say that young captains are unreliable, and I've been doing this for almost ten years, not to mention captains in their twenties, and even captains in their thirties have never seen much! It is estimated that the rich boy thinks that fishing is fresh to play this moment, let's deal with it honestly, everyone is relaxed on this trip, and it will be treated as a paid tour! ”。

"Yes! That's how it should be! ”。

"It's a bit of a loss this morning, I got up so early, if I had known that I would have covered my head and slept until I woke up naturally, this day was like his mother's life at home during the Spring Festival, but there was no aunt next to me!"

The other sailor's words immediately caused the other sailors next to him to burst into laughter.

As the time got closer and closer to noon, Xu Heng's heart sank more and more, and when the clock pointed to eleven o'clock, Xu Heng thought to himself: Just take the money yourself, why work so hard! The captains are all asleep now, what is the picture of their part-time job!

Thinking of this, he said to the first mate next to him: "First mate Diego, I think let's let the kitchen prepare lunch, I don't know when the captain will wake up!" ”。

When Xu Heng said this, he felt a little incredible, he could still let himself meet such a strange captain in this life! (To be continued......)