The sun is slanting in the west, reflecting on the sea, sparkling with gold, Ye Yaodong is already satisfied with the fishing income of this jellyfish, even if he can't catch many goods every day and can only earn a salary, he doesn't care, the harvest is enough.

Sea urchins are a bonus, the icing on the cake.

I hope to sell it at a good price, and when the time comes, give them a big red envelope one by one, celebrate with the whole world, and give two red envelopes to those who go into the water to help catch sea urchins.

The shipwrights also hope that the sea urchins will be sold for a good price, so that they can continue to fish in the water and earn an extra wage every day.

Originally, three yuan a day was followed, which was already a high salary, and two more yuan could be added after a few times of water, five yuan a day, which was already topped.

Even if they don't add money and are invited to work, the master asks them to salvage, they have to go into the water, even gossip is inevitable, and everyone will probably complain.

Now that I can earn two more dollars, everyone is extremely satisfied, and I came out just to earn more money.

All the way to the direction of the town, more and more fishing boats around the city have gathered, most likely their own boats, calculate the time to return to the city.

When they arrived around the coast, many small wooden boats were still fishing there, and it was unknown whether they had sold out of food or had not yet returned.

As soon as they landed, Ye Yaodong asked people to carry Pei's father's goods ashore first, and then his own goods.

Pei's father's goods, Ah Guang can collect the manifest by himself.

His goods, he didn't have time to manage today, and he also handed them over to Ah Guang to look at, and when he was free later, he would just give him the money according to the bill of goods, and he now had to hold on to the batch of sea urchins that were almost 500 catties first.

After all the jellyfish were carried ashore, he asked the others not to move them first, just leave one person to watch, and the others went to watch the sale and help move and lift, and he had to go to a few purchase points at the dock to ask about the price.

The buying points are also very sloppy, not much different from the small squatter on their dock, and they have also collected jellyfish there during the recent jellyfish flood season, and no one has caught the fish.

When he went to the acquisition point, the open space was full of stacks of jellyfish, and there were tractors waiting at the door, all of them were busy carrying them to the car.

"Huh? The boss is not there? ”

"What? You have too many jellyfish to sell? ”

"It's not...... I want to ask you, do you want sea urchins? How much is a pound? ”

The thin little man looked at him suspiciously, "Is there a lot?" If you don't want it, you don't have time to tidy up those little things, and now you're busy collecting jellyfish. ”

"A few hundred pounds, you see if you want it, if you don't, I'll ask others."

The boss was surprised, "How many hundred pounds?" That's okay, if it's just a few catties, I won't have to work hard for 10 catties. ”

"How much do you charge?"

"Five cents."

Grass!

"Forget it." Ye Yaodong twisted and left, too insincere.

"Hey, wait, it's a lot of five cents for you to buy and sell with a hammer, not to mention that now is not the time to collect these things, now everyone is busy collecting jellyfish and has no time to take care of these bulk goods, you go to other people's homes to ask, and people are about the same price, maybe they are too lazy to collect it."

"I just saw that your façade was a little bigger than the others, and there were more goods, so I thought I'd come over and ask you first, 5 cents... I'm not stupid, and I'm not a fool. ”

"Hehe, that's for the sake of your goods, then even if it's 6 cents, 7 points and 7 points will be 7 points, if you don't sell it, I won't toss it."

Ye Yaodong took out a fist-sized sea urchin, "Does this quality have to be paid?" It's not the same as the small sea urchin we usually see, this one is the top two. ”

"Huh?" The boss took it in surprise, "This is a deep-sea variety, where did you get it?" ”

"Haidilao."

"Hmmm......"

"You just say that you have to add money like this, I'm a fisherman, I sell a lot of goods, I know how much money is in my heart, don't bully me for being out of town."

"I believe you, I heard the locals and fishermen say that you are fair, so don't ask other people's homes, just come straight to you."

The boss frowned, "Then... That's two cents, my price is very fair, if you go to another house to ask, maybe people will bully you as a foreigner. ”

"A little more."

"If you don't add it, that's it, if you don't sell it, you can go to someone else's house and ask."

"2 cents 2, just 2 cents 2, when I wait for a while, I can bring you another few hundred catties, there will be tomorrow, long-term trading, do you do it?"

"In the evening, tomorrow? Really? ”

"Really, what are you doing? It's not good for me, I'm still fishing for jellyfish here, there's no need to lie to you. ”

The boss stared at him for a while, then hesitated, "Okay, then let's take it at a loss, I don't make any money anymore, it's just pure good deeds......"

"Okay, I'll ask someone to move over now, it's just that the quantity is large, otherwise I won't bother to take it out and sell it, we have a lot of people ourselves, just eat it directly."

"It's a waste to eat, of course you have to sell it for money......

Ye Yaodong had already walked out, and the boss was still talking behind him.

The baskets of sea urchins brought ashore were sharp needle-like thorns, black and shiny, and their size was very uniform, and there was no need to pick and choose.

The boss of the acquisition point lifted a basket, poured it again, and after a while, there was no muddy water fishing messy or different sizes, and he was also very satisfied.

poured all the baskets over, and by the way, returned Ye Yaodong's baskets to him, and then passed the scales directly.

They are all some old fritters, and the weight of the hands is estimated very accurately, saying that it is nearly 500 catties, and there are really 490 catties when they are weighed, and a total of 107 yuan and 8 cents are sold.

Ye Yaodong was very satisfied, everyone only took turns to go into the water twice at noon to have this harvest, and everyone was not very familiar with it for the first time at that time.

I'll go back and go into the water again, and the harvest should be a little more in the evening.

But you can't go down too many times a day.

It's okay to have a longer interval and a longer break, but don't go into the water all the time.

He decided not to go into the water in the early morning, to go down twice at noon and twice in the afternoon.

You can sell it for an extra 200 yuan a day, and there will be more than half a month to go, and you can sell it for two or three thousand more, which is the icing on the cake.

If you can't finish fishing, you will wait for the next year, and it will be regarded as making up for the loss of jellyfish in the next year.

After receiving the money, Ye Yaodong walked out happily with the people, and the boss of the people was still shouting in the back, asking him to remember to send it over again at night.

Ye Yaodong turned his back to the person, and only raised his hand and waved it twice, indicating that he knew.

Ah Guang was still busy working there, and all the fishing boats had docked in the afternoon, and the harvest in batches was not so fast.

He said hello and said that he would come back in the evening to get the bill and count the money, put him there first, and then leave with someone first.

You have to go to the field, otherwise it will be too late, the sun will go down, the temperature will be low, and it will be easy to catch a cold.

Father Ye was also looking forward to it there, and when he saw them coming back, he drove the boat over as soon as possible, climbed over and asked, knowing that it was sold for more than 100 yuan, and he was also very happy.

"It's good, it's good, it can sell for more than 100 points, and it can sell for more than 300 in three waves a day, which is not much less than jellyfish, and the next day of jellyfish may not be as much as this."

"I plan to let them go down two waves a day, one at noon, one in the afternoon, don't go down in the morning, the temperature is low in the morning, and they are easy to catch a cold."

"That's okay, it just so happens that there are fewer jellyfish now, and the sea urchins can be on top, so that the income can still catch up with before."

Ye Yaodong nodded.

As they spoke, the eldest cousin was already actively putting on his overlays and fins.

"Dongzi, I'm going down now?"

"Hey, okay."

The eldest cousin plopped and went into the water.

Get into the water early, and you can rest early after fishing, so as not to let the sun set later and the visibility in the water is low.

Everyone was watching there, Father Ye asked another boat to catch jellyfish by himself, and he also had to watch here, anyway, there was no need for so many people, there were too many 5 people on that boat now.

Ye Yaodong leaned on the side of the boat, smoking a cigarette, pondering, if he goes back at night, he can arrange more people to rest from tomorrow, and take care of the house by the way.

The people on his boat still didn't move, and the other boat arranged for three people to rest, three people to fish, and take turns day by day.

Anyway, now jellyfish are occasionally popping up here and there, and it doesn't take too many people, three people are enough to deal with it.

Everyone was there watching, chatting while watching, guessing how many catties could be collected this time?

"If there is one more set of these diving things, it will be convenient, and you can catch a little more, but I don't know how much it costs?"

"It's definitely not easy to get it, it's all said that it's because of the relationship."

"The main thing is that you don't usually need it, the weather is cold, and whoever goes down to the bottom of the water will freeze to death."

"Won't you be able to come next year anyway?"

"It's still early next year, why talk about next year? Why don't you guess how much more you can charge for this trip? ”

"Sure, you should be able to collect 60 pounds......"

"The boss of the acquisition point is too deceitful, and he said 5 points at the beginning, which is too much......

"That's right, put it on our dock, the common kind can be worth seven or eight cents, this kind of deep sea big man doesn't know how much, but it must be higher than the price here."

"When the time comes, wait for the last day, let's go home directly to Ah Cai, don't sell it to them, the people outside here are too bad."

"Normal, outsiders will be bullied wherever they go......"

Everyone chatted, and after a while, the eldest cousin came up.

This time, there was no need for Father Ye to do anything, so they spontaneously went to the rolling wheel to receive the goods by themselves, and the rest of the people helped pull the eldest cousin up.

"How many pounds is this time?"

"I don't know, the underwater weight is not accurate, and I will know when I collect it, who will come next?"

"I, I, I ......"

"Then Chen Shi."

"Hey."

"I think your stutter seems to be better......"

"It's okay......"

From stammering eight words to stammering three words, there has indeed been progress, Ye Yaodong thought.

The eldest cousin has indeed made progress this trip, and he can also collect fifty or sixty catties, and after getting acquainted with it, the harvest must be more than one trip.

Ye Yaodong also followed them in turn, but he was the last to go down.

This was the fourth time he had gone down today, but now that the sun was about to set, the light at the bottom of the sea was not as abundant as at noon, and it was even more foggy than at noon, but it was barely visible, so this trip in the afternoon would be two times at most.

He brushed aside the nearby aquatic weeds and ran directly to the trench, with a clear purpose and a quick solution.

After the two trips were finished in turn, the sky was also a little dark, and the sky was full of glow, after Ye Yaodong climbed up, they also hurried and hurried back.

On the other boat, his father had arranged to drive back to the island first, and there were nets on it, and every evening they would return to the island first, collect the nets, divide the jellyfish, and transport them back together.

This wave in the evening sold more than in the afternoon, because everyone was familiar with the way, and the efficiency was also high, and it sold a full 135 yuan, a third more.

Ye Yaodong was extremely satisfied, collected the money, and planned to explain to the people who stayed to watch the house tomorrow after going back, buy some meat, and treat everyone with dinner tomorrow.

As for the sea urchins that were pried off at the bottom of the sea when he was first launched at noon, he never took them out and kept them for dinner at night.

And today the total price of jellyfish sold has also shrunk.

When he got home, Ah Guang gave him the money he hadn't paid in the afternoon.

Today, the whole day, the amount of the two boats is less than 750, and he will not talk about the fraction, the big head is still the money from the sale of jellyfish blood, and the jellyfish blood is still caught two days ago, and it was dried for a day yesterday, and it was sold this morning.

Moreover, this morning they received the same goods as usual, but they only shrank in the afternoon, and it is estimated that the money they will sell tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will be less, because there is less jellyfish blood in the big heads.

The price has fallen because of the increase in goods, and now it is even worse.

The people in the next room are already discussing, settle the accounts today, and start fishing their own tomorrow, anyway, the trench is almost empty by them, and there is no point in partnering.

Fortunately, there is also a large area of sea urchin growing in the trench, which can make up for his loss.

When he came back in the evening, the big guys also spread the word, knowing that he had found a sea urchin nest under the trench, and they were all envious, but they also knew that they had to use tools to go down to the bottom of the water for more than ten meters.

One by one, I regretted it for a moment and could only shake my head.

In this case, they can't afford to get a piece of the pie, so they can only watch with their eyes open.

But fortunately, during this time, the big guys have not earned less, and they are basically grateful, and they who came last year were able to share the place with them, so that they can also earn this money.

Although Ah Zheng and Xiaoxiao had gone into the water with Ye Yaodong to engage in that Jiang Jue before, but now in this situation, Ye Yaodong did not invite them to join, and of course they were not embarrassed to take the initiative to come over and speak, so they could only hold back.

After all, he also hired a long-term worker to go into the water, there is no need to share the profits with them, and call them to go into the water together, and there is no need for so many people.

Ye Yaodong arranged for three people to rest the next day, and the rest continued to go to sea.

The villagers were a little unwilling, not believing that the trench had been hollowed out by them, and fantasizing that a large number would emerge in one night.

So early in the morning, everyone didn't go their separate ways to fish, and they all went to the trench.

And after the night passed, the trench was indeed as everyone thought, and a lot of jellyfish appeared, and everyone was happy, but after a while, their faces collapsed.

Where is the little bit that rises to the top enough for their twenty-five boats to catch?

In just three or two clicks, at most half an hour, they were surrounded by their group and scraped clean.

Even those with a diameter of about ten centimeters, they didn't let go, it was a lore.

After it was completely empty again, the big guys dispersed again, and each went to the sea to look for it again.

There are only two boats left in the trench, Ye Yaodong thought about it, there is no need for them to have two boats here, anyway, they won't go into the water early in the morning.

He asked his father's boat to stay in the trench and fish sporadically, and he drove the boat out to the sea to take a turn, and he could catch a few of them, maximizing the benefits, and saving everyone from staying there in a daze.

Father Ye also agreed, "That's okay, just have my boat here, you remember to watch the time, and come back early when it's time." ”

"Got it."

"I don't want you to deliver the goods back to the dock later, I'll just go, you take those brothers of yours into the water early, see if you can go down one or two more times, and get a little more sea urchin."

Father Ye was distressed when he learned yesterday that the jellyfish had shrunk by nearly a quarter, this is all money, and it will be even less tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

He also hopes to catch a little more sea urchin to make up for it, anyway, when he comes back from delivering the goods, he can still catch all the jellyfish that have floated up and not yet drifted out.

"That's fine, then I'll go around the sea first and look for it."

"Go, go, don't go too far."

"Got it."

Ye Yaodong drove the boat around the sea aimlessly, occasionally letting people poke it when he saw a jellyfish floating by, and fishing it with a hand-copied net if he was close.

Sometimes they simply turn off the fire, let the fishing boat float smoothly with the wind, and look for it with the fate, anyway, there is already a sea urchin at the bottom, and now how many jellyfish can be caught, with the fate.

Sometimes when I see it, I will sail over it purposefully.

Probably not yet into the end, there are really a lot of jellyfish floating nearby, they just fished sporadically in the morning, there are two or three thousand catties, no worse than waiting for rabbits in the trench.

It can be said that it is less than the above, and more than the bottom.

The offshore sea area is wide and the range is large, and there will be more targets to be found, so there is no need to compete with a bunch of small wooden boats on the coast.

These areas are farther away and can only be fished by their trawlers, and small wooden boats cannot reach here.

Ye Yaodong looked at the time and went back, and carried all the goods that had been divided to his father's ship, and Uncle Pei also calculated the time to drive back when they were moving.

However, after Father Ye left on the boat, Father Pei did not leave immediately, but asked him curiously.

"Are you going to go into the water now?"

When he was carrying it just now, Father Pei saw that their ship was empty, and there were no sea urchins, so he had already asked suspiciously, and he explained.

"It's a little later, it's only eight o'clock now, take a moment, don't worry."

"Oh, I thought I was going to go into the water now, I want to take a look, so why don't you go into the water now, so why don't you give me your diving equipment and let me try it?"

Everyone has curiosity, and Ye Yaodong shrugged his shoulders indispensably.

"Okay, then you can climb over here."

This is not his own father, and he doesn't want to persuade him not to go into the water or anything, so as not to be stingy for him, men of this age are a little unwilling to admit defeat, and it's okay to give him a try.

Father Pei hooked his boat with a hook, so that the two boats were close together, and climbed over neatly, seeing that they had taken out the tools in advance in the corner and prepared the tools to be placed there.

With a strange face, he looked at it with interest, and asked Ye Yaodong to teach him how to wear it.

Ye Yaodong also put them on for him one by one, and took the trouble to talk about the precautions again, and some other things.

In fact, he was very annoyed in his heart, who was willing to talk over and over again, he could only pretend to be patient with everything, who let this be an elder, or a friend's father and in-laws, he could only be polite.

Father Pei also went into the water as he said.

It was only five minutes, and Father Pei immediately came up.

"How is it so fast?" Ye Yaodong was surprised.

Everyone also helped pull Pei's father up.

"Alas, old man, no, I went down to the bottom and saw the trench, and it was exactly as you said. Actually, there was nothing uncomfortable in the first place, but when I looked down and saw the long ditch like a black hole, I couldn't help but panic, and I was always worried that something strange would crawl out of the black hole-like place underneath. ”

Ye Yaodong's face was clear.

"Oh, that's right, that's normal, there were two cousins who also went into the water before, and they also came up after they got scared. It should be deep-sea phobia, I feel unfathomable underneath, and I feel panicked when I look at it, let alone fall to the bottom. ”

Father Pei nodded, "It's probably like this, but when you descend to the bottom of the sea, you will be a little panicked, I don't know how deep it can be, but it can't compare to the moment I saw the trench." ”

"Alas...... Originally, I wanted to try it, take a look, if it is useful, grit my teeth, and see if I can ask you to buy one, but now it seems that it is not the ...... to eat this bowl of rice."

Ye Yaodong: "......"

Uncle Pei really thinks about it.

I didn't have much contact with him before, but I just thought he was a very talkative elder, and he went to their house to drink every day, and occasionally bumped into him at home, he didn't say anything, and he was able to drink with them with a smile.

Now it seems that people think for themselves.

It's best to be a father, no matter how good others are, they have selfishness and ideas.

"Alright, then I'll go first."

"Oh good."

After watching his boat sail away, others asked him as well.

"Dongzi, are you so good at this thing?"

"Who said that it's not easy to do, where did you say that you can do it if you can do it?"

"Then Uncle Pei was thinking about asking you to get it just now."

"He took it for granted, but fortunately the idea was dispelled", Ye Yaodong pursed his mouth and changed the topic, "Okay, there is a jellyfish coming out over there, go over and fish it, don't let it float out or sink into the water again." ”

"Oh, right away."

After everyone's attention shifted, they chatted about something else.

It wasn't until 9 o'clock that Ye Yaodong asked them to finish fishing all the jellyfish on the sea, and then called them to start taking turns to go into the water.

When there will be another one, those who can get it, let others poke it with bamboo poles, and if they can't reach it, wait for his father to come back and catch it.

This wave is so, and so is the afternoon wave.

The sea urchin also asked his father to send it back to sell in the afternoon, and this time the benefit was higher, selling one hundred and fifteen, and everyone made perfect with practice.

When it comes to the evening, there is not much difference, and it is still sold for more than 15 years.

It is equivalent to one day today, and the income of sea urchins alone is as high as 300 yuan.

But correspondingly, the number of jellyfish is less, after all, this morning is not comparable to yesterday morning, and the blood of jellyfish is not comparable.

In the next few days, the income of sea urchins has also been stable at 300 or early 300 per day, depending on the status of everyone that day.

The daily selling price of jellyfish also tends to be stable, which is a steady decrease, and after there is no natural trench, the daily income is cut by one-third to half, and two boats can be sold for more than 600 at the best time.

However, as time goes on, the selling price has been falling, and in just a few days, it has dropped to 500, which shows that the number of jellyfish is gradually decreasing, and it is estimated that the peak flood is almost over.

They have been fishing peacefully, and as the number of their receipts has also decreased significantly, the locals have become more pleasing to the eyes, and everyone is the same.

It was fished until the end of the month, during which there was also a heavy rain, and it rained for three days and two nights before it cleared.

These two months are also considered to be beautiful, the weather is very good most of the time, in the summer, there are few cloudy days, basically not the sun or the heavy rain under the influence of the typhoon, this month is also at most the tail of the typhoon swept to, affecting a few days.

They don't need fishing nets for jellyfish, and they don't have to fish for three days and dry them for two days, and they only rest when rainy and cloudy days are not suitable for fishing.

In fact, the workers who fished for jellyfish were quite relaxed, and they took turns every day for the second half of the month, half of them rested, and half of them fished.

It's the 4 people who went into the water to catch sea urchins and him, the boss of the boat, will work a little harder.

There is no harm if there is no contrast, and the effort should be proportional to the income.

It doesn't make sense that when people take turns to rest, they have to take turns to go into the water, and the subsidy should be.

He is so diligent, and he deserves to make money.

By the end of the month, their daily income from sea urchins was still fixed at around 300, but the income from jellyfish had plummeted to the point where they were no match for sea urchins.

Although so, but it is better than nothing, everyone still decided to continue fishing for two more days, although the drop is great, but how is it stronger than trawling, a boat daily income is also more than 100 yuan, deducting labor and oil expenses, it is enough to earn.

If you trawl at home, it will be dozens of dollars a day, seventy or eighty when the receipt is good, and thirty when it is bad.

Anyway, there are still a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival at the end of the month, and if it is reduced to the point where the expenses such as labor oil money are deducted, and it is flush with the trawl at home, it is not too late to go home.

Everyone thought very well, but it turned out that the next day some people were cut in half again, and some people could continue to maintain their current gains, all by luck.

At this moment, some people could not sit still, and if they stayed for one more day, they would have to pay the ship's workers more than ten yuan in wages, and twenty or thirty dollars in oil money.

After deducting expenses, they don't earn much at all, and some people can't wait to go back.