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At about four o'clock in the morning, Bei Hai woke up and took a shower, and then took a few changes of clothes and walked directly to the dock. When they got to the dock, they checked their things one last time before they went out to sea, and they took everything they needed to bring, and went to buy ice for their fish tanks.

Small ships such as the Bowen are generally not equipped with seawater ice machines, and the fish caught must be stored at a suitable temperature on the boat to obtain the best preservation effect, so every time you go to sea, you have to buy seawater ice made by others.

Basically, every time you go to sea, there is no cost for oil, and the ice in the cabin alone costs two to three hundred dollars, which cannot be saved unless there is an ice machine on board.

Of course, it is indispensable to buy a few boxes of ice trash fish as bait, and seven or eight boxes of this cost more than 200 yuan to Beihai.

Bei Hai did everything here, and he was busy until almost five o'clock, when old Morgan appeared on the dock.

"Good morning, Matt!" Bei Hai watched old Morgan come and greeted him happily.

"I've woken up a long time ago, but I thought you hadn't come so early to stay at home for an hour, and I'd be going to wait for you a little longer on the boat when I came," said old Morgan with a smile.

When he arrived at the ship, Matt looked around the ship and found that everything was in order, and said to Bei Hai: "Captain, I will do these things in the future, and you can give me the key to the ship next time."

"Okay!" Behai looked at Matt and smiled, turned his head to look around, and saw that there was nothing left to fiddle with, and Matt, the only crew member, had also arrived on the ship.

Bei Hai said to Matt, "Then let's go?" ”。

"Yes, Captain!" Matt immediately went to untie the cable on the dock and threw it onto the boat. This action is very skillful, and after untying the two cables, he got on the boat and immediately put the red cable in order.

Bei Hai, who watched it, couldn't help but praise himself in his heart: Sure enough, he was an old fisherman.

The Ripple left the port, and Matt had done all the things in his hands, not only did he finish everything, but he also familiarized himself with the things he was going to use, and at a glance he knew that he was a very attentive and careful person.

"Captain, where are we going?" Matt sat down on a chair next to Bei Hai and asked casually, "That's good over there at Cape Cod, the Spear caught a six-hundred-pound fish there, and the Hunter caught a four-hundred-pound fish there!" A lot of the ships turned that way."

These are all things that Matt just heard, for Matt, he naturally hopes that Bei Hai can have a harvest, although he is taking a fixed money, but if the employer has no income, who else will he find for this fixed money?

Now if the town chooses the one who least wants Bei Hai to go to sea and return empty-handed, it must be old Morgan.

I just asked about these news because I wanted to build a little bit for my young captain, and also to keep my job. Although this was the beginning of the fishing season, and there was still time to come, Matt, as an old fisherman, knew that it would take at least two weeks to wait for a new job at this time, and then there might be vacancies on the ship of the outstanding captain, and it was still possible.

Even though Bei Hai was so young that Matt, an old fisherman, didn't have much hope, Matt still decided to do his own thing and pay the young employer for his salary.

Bei Hai shook his head and said, "We don't go there, let's go to a place with big fish!" ”。

Hearing Bei Hai say this, Old Matt was stunned for a moment and then said, "Okay, Captain! ”。

Now Matt doesn't believe that Bei Hai knows a better place to fish for tuna than Cape Cod or George Shoal, but as an old fisherman, Matt knows that the only person who has the right to decide when he gets on the boat is the captain, and the captain will go wherever he wants, and the captain is like the brain of the ship.

Although the brain of the Ripple is a little too young, the brain is the brain, and the captain is the captain.

It's not a big deal for Bei Hai to drive the boat here, the two started chatting, and they can be regarded as getting acquainted with each other, while Bei Hai introduced himself, most of them are true, but a small part of them took a little leave, saying that they had fished before. Otherwise, Bei Hai is afraid that he will fish all of a sudden, is it even more abrupt.

Not only did he have other plans, Bei Hai decided to dress himself up as a real fisherman, the first thing is to let himself have a little superstition, the original atheist became the theist Bei Hai, and now Bei Hai believes in Taoism, and it is also extinct and his own apocryphal Tianyuan Sect (the view has been demolished and is not extinct?) ), learning from other fishermen, has a little personal avoidance.

Matt Morgan was an old man who lived his life as a simple man, went to the city as a young man and made no name for himself, and then returned to Gloucester to work as a fisherman. After working as a fisherman all his life, he finally didn't get a boat to be the captain, to be exact, he got it, but he didn't have the ability to find fish and finally lost money, and the boat became a bank.

Now Matt's family of four, Matt and Matt's son and two grandchildren, the son works in New York, and he can't make any money, Matt has to subsidize his children and grandchildren from time to time, and life is not very good. If it weren't for the fact that he wouldn't have heard that the salary given by Bei Hai was stable, he would have immediately moved his heart, unlike other people who were willing to spend some more time waiting to see.

In short, the current situation is that old Matt has no capital to fight every fishing season, and if he loses, the life of the family will be even more difficult, and he may go bankrupt.

When I was in China, I always heard how Americans were independent, and all college tuition fees were earned by themselves. When I arrived in the United States, I found that this was becoming more and more different. Generally, parents who can afford it will pay for their children's tuition, and the so-called school district housing in the United States is also very expensive, and in many cases it is no different from that in China!

Even the gnawing old people that are often heard about in China are not new in American society.

If the world is not good, if you can't find a job, American parents can let their children starve to death? It's not like you have to pay for it! In fact, the heart of parents is not much different from that in China. Americans are not as 'ruthless' to their children as many Chinese people think. Especially under the current economic conditions, there are more and more unemployed, and the retired elderly get a lot of money more than the young people who work now, and taking care of their 'children and grandchildren' is also something that many elderly Americans are willing to do.

The two chatted all the way, and everyone became familiar with each other. Bei Hai thinks that old Morgan is good, at least for now, he is still quite quick and organized.

Matt feels that although his captain is young, he is very kind and patient and courageous, if he is not only twenty-five years old, he will not be the captain himself, but he still has some doubts about the work of Bei Hai to find fishing, whether he can find a fish school is a matter of captain value, and it is also the first step in fishing.

After driving for nearly ten hours, that is, almost 300 kilometers from the port of Gloucester, Bei Hai saw a fish 'jumping' out of the water in the distance, and stopped the boat.

I observed the situation around me left and right, and then changed places and came here again, and I came here four or five times, and each time I muttered that something was wrong with feng shui. In the end, the boat stopped at a satisfactory place.

"It's time to get there, let's fish in this place!" Behai pulled down the accelerator lever and turned to Matt.

Matt looked around at the fishing boat, not to mention that the fishing boat couldn't even see the shadow of the boat, he couldn't help but be a little uncertain, and asked his captain with a little question: "Here, are you sure?" ”。

Matt has really heard of the word Feng Shui, and now this kind of Chinese word often appears in movies and television, which can be regarded as a fashion, knowing that it is a matter of 'good or bad' depending on the place.

"Here! I think it's a good place! Bei Hai nodded and walked out of the wheelhouse, then carried a small bucket tied to the rope and put it into the water, lifted the water and looked at it pretendedly, and then came to the stern again, making Matt confused again.

"The location is a bit out of the way!" After looking at 'a few buckets of water', Bei Hai expressed his conclusion.

"It's time to cut the bait, I just need to change the position a little bit and fish," Bei Hai said to the stunned Matt.

Is that okay too? Matt looked at Bei Hai and fetched a few buckets of water, and looked at it twice, and said where did the conclusion of changing positions come from, but think about whether he was taking a fixed amount of money, or listen to the captain.

Matt felt that the young captain now had one more look that matched the identity of a captain, and that was superstition! And this superstition also has a bit of oriental mystery.

Listening to Bei Hai's words, Matt got out of the cabin and took out the ice bait, cut the packing tape, poured the fish into the bucket, and then fished out a fish head and tail and cut it into three pieces, so piled up in another wide-mouth plastic box.

When the boat came to a standstill, Bei Hai took out one of the three rods and hung live bait, two of which were hung with ordinary mackerel as bait, and then put a rod on each of the three sides of the stern, even if he had finished his work.

After getting these Bei Hai, he returned to the cockpit and turned on the fish finder, waiting to hear the sound of dripping inside. Of course, this sound was for Matt, and Bei Hai already knew that there was a school of fat bluefin tuna at six or seven hundred meters of water, and they were eating on the bottom of the sea. And your boat is stuck in the perfect position, and the current will carry the bait in front of the fish.

After cutting the bait, Matt moved a small bench and sat next to the side of the boat, and each time he forked a piece of bait and threw it into the water. I secretly prayed in my heart that my superstitious new captain really knew that there were fish here! (The novel "The Fisherman" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )