Chapter 224: Weather Forecast
The salty and humid sea breeze, the afterglow of the setting sun, and the floating on the sea, several fishing boats of the Far East Fishery Company are also taking advantage of the fact that the sky is not completely dark, entering the harbor to carry all kinds of sea fish caught ashore and deliver them to the company's staff waiting on the shore.
A young staff member on the shore with a statistical sheet in his hand was smiling and greeting a man in his forties.
"Lao Li, it seems that today's harvest is good? One hundred and sixty pounds, this month's bonus is probably the highest for you. ”
The fisherman named Lao Li smiled and wiped the sweat on his face with a towel around his neck: "If it weren't for the National Weather Bureau saying that there might be a storm at sea recently, I would have planned to go a little farther to fish, where there are all big and fat sea fish." ”
Lao Li wiped the beads of sweat and said with a smile, as a fisherman in a village along the coast of Guangdong, he is definitely a good hand at fishing, but he can't make a few dollars by fishing in Daming.
In the Ming Dynasty this year, it is good to have a full meal, and how many people are willing to spend a lot of money to buy fish and meat, even if they have money, they will buy pork or chicken stewed and eaten.
In order to change their lives, at the beginning of last year, Lao Li's family of eight, including his mother, and his wife and five children climbed the big ship to immigrate to Australia.
At that time, I only knew that I could eat and eat when I came to Australia, and the money I got for working was also high, and it was said that I was also allocated a house to live in, and he came to Australia under the attraction of many preferential conditions, and soon he found that he was the same as he said when he came, and he did not lie to himself, because he came to the country voluntarily, so he received a subsidy for immigration funds provided by the National Immigration Bureau, although the money was not much, but it was enough for their family to improve their life for a month.
In addition to giving money, the immigration bureau also arranged for the couple to enter the enterprise, the wife was arranged to enter Yang Wenwen's garment factory to become a spinning worker, and he was arranged to enter the Far East Fishing Company, because he can fish, so he was arranged into this company, which can be regarded as a professional counterpart.
Originally, he thought that fishing had absolutely no future, and even wanted to change jobs for a while, but because the immigration officials had only arranged for him for a short time, he was embarrassed to open his mouth and did it.
This is more than a year, when the first month he because of his skill, when he got the first salary was stupid, a full fifty yuan, it is said that there are more than 30 taels of silver, he never thought that fishing can have such a high salary.
I thought that it was better to be Australians, and I made so much money by fishing, and if I found it for a few years, I was afraid that I would be able to buy at least dozens of acres of land, but then again, Australians didn't come to Daming at that time, so it was useless to come.
With the first generous salary as an incentive, he worked diligently and conscientiously in the following work, and with the higher and higher wages month by month, he has now become the highest salary in the fishing team of the Far East Fishery Company, with a monthly salary plus commission and various bonuses adding up to at least 110 yuan per month.
A few years ago, he was already optimistic about a seaview garden house developed by Datang Real Estate, with a total area of about 14 square meters, four bedrooms and two living rooms, one room for himself and his daughter-in-law, one room for the old mother and the little daughter, one room for the two sons, and two pairs of sisters.
At first, he liked that the room was big enough, if it weren't for the lack of money in his pocket and the limited amount of loans from the bank, he would definitely choose the kind of villa with heaven and earth, but it is said that the kind of house that can be bought is basically the rich and officials in Australia.
For him, it is not bad to have a house like this now, although the official delivery may be at the end of next year, but the purchase loan has been done, and now he and his wife basically use more than half of their salaries to pay the loan, although the pressure is a bit big, but the days are still passing, so every time he goes to sea, he will catch more fish or the company executives say that it is valuable.
The purpose is to earn more money, in addition to paying off the loan earlier, it can also improve the living standards of the family, and now the whole family has basically not added new clothes. are tightening their finances and trying to repay the money.
However, it seems that the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes, he heard that there are more valuable big fish in the farther seas, but the staff of the Manchester City Meteorological Department clearly told them that there will be a five-day storm from tomorrow, and all fishing boats that need to go out to sea are better not to go out, so as not to affect the safety of life and property unnecessarily.
Lao Li was a little depressed when he thought of this, how much money did you have to lose if you had a good rest for five days, how can you play at home if you don't fish.
Privately talk to the company leaders and say that they are afraid of a little wind and waves, which of us fishing has not encountered a little wind and waves, if there is a wind and waves, we will not go out, and we will not starve to death. But the company's leaders clearly told him that this was for their safety.
"What do you say these Australians think," after the fish were carried and ready to go back to the place where Lao Li lived, some did not understand and asked his companions around him, many people did not understand that they did not let everyone go out to sea to fish, and these people at least had received six months' salary of professional fishermen, who already knew that their income was actually linked to the number of fish they caught every day, and not going to sea meant that there was no income, so it was inevitable that they were a little dissatisfied.
"That's it, you said that there is a storm What's the matter, five days off is dozens of dollars, I originally planned to buy a few beautiful new clothes for my mother-in-law this month, it seems that it can only be next month." Lao Li's companion also chimed in.
They don't believe in the forecast given by the National Meteorological Bureau, and they also care about it, isn't it just a small wind and waves, and it is normal for fishermen to go to sea and encounter it, and how can they not go to sea because they have points.
In fact, how did they know that the wind and waves this time are not small, according to the meteorological report research obtained by the National Meteorological Bureau, the sea surface wind may reach a maximum of more than eight levels, although it is not sure whether it is accurate or not, but it is still necessary to make advance arrangements, at least to avoid casualties and property casualties.
It's just that these fishermen from Daming can't understand the intentions of the Australian government at all, they just think that this is a small sea storm, there is no big deal at all, and there is not much danger in going to sea.
In the evening of the same day, a strong convective air formed 50 kilometers northwest of the sea area of Manchester City, and it was blowing rapidly towards Manchester City.