The operating station is less than half a meter wide, and is stacked with compasses, maritime radio stations and other instruments.

The seat is a wooden plank about two meters long and 20 centimeters wide, and when you sit on it, you need to put your feet on the console to sit firmly.

There was only one gap left in the space that only allowed one person to pass through, and Father Ye was driving the boat there, and everything in front of him could be reached with his hand, and they were all standing on the left and right, so that the already small space seemed extremely crowded.

After Father Ye started the fishing boat, the Dongsheng also began to slowly sail off the shore.

And the master who followed the boat explained to Ye Yaodong on the side. How do I use the machines in the cockpit? How do you look at the dashboard? How to modulate the frequency of the maritime radio station and how to receive it?

They are all there to introduce him to the functions and how to use them.

Ye Yaodong also listened carefully.

After Ah Guang and the others started to move, they found that Father Ye and Ye Yaodong had run to the cockpit.

As soon as they got on the boat, everyone was very fresh, they were all wandering around, looking around, touching and touching, but I didn't expect them to start so quickly, and they didn't give everyone a time to prepare.

After the reaction, everyone also ran out of the cockpit, looking through the glass, and they were all huddled together.

Ye Yaodong went out for a while, raised his hand and drove them all away, only Ah Guang stayed to listen with him, after all, his family's boat, he is not very proficient, and it is normal to find an opportunity to watch more and deepen his impression.

It's just that in the originally small space, they can only be squeezed together.

After listening to everything and understanding the function, Father Ye reluctantly let go, went out and stood outside, let them take turns to control, and the space allowed them to stretch their hands and feet.

At this time, the fishing boat had been out for more than half an hour, and it was still in the sea area around the county seat.

It is also because they have plenty of time, they are watching the hours from three o'clock to five o'clock in the afternoon, and they can reach the village dock at five o'clock, and it is now nine o'clock, and there are still 8 hours, so Ye Yaodong also plans to drive a little farther.

Two hours of homework, three hours of round-trip, and one or two hours home, which is about the right amount of time.

The master has been watching from the cab, and has been mentioning a few words from time to time, but it is usually when Ah Guang is in control.

Ye Yaodong listened to the explanation and was already very good at getting started.

Father Ye couldn't help but sigh when he looked through the window outside, "You learned quite fast." ”

"It shows that I'm smart."

"I think you're sarcastic about me." Ah Guang put the rudder wheel, turned his head distractedly and said.

"Don't think you're just too stupid, didn't you let my dad go out with you twice in the past two months?"

"I will, even if I haven't touched it for a long time, it's easy to get confused, and I remember to be confused, so I occasionally get busy."

Ye Yaodong didn't care about his hard mouth, and saw that he had been out for almost two hours, so he asked his father and master.

"It's almost time to go online, right? It's far enough to run out. ”

The old master looked at his watch, and was shocked to realize that time passed so quickly with all his attention.

"Yes, you can watch the time yourself, and if you think you can put it down."

"Okay."

He walked out of the cab in a hurry, the nets had already been prepared, and the fish baskets and buckets were brought by them, just to facilitate the loading of the fish caught in the water.

"It's coming, brothers, it's going to be~"

"Whoop~I'm going to cast my net, I'm going to cast my net~"

"Come on, come on, we've been ready for a long time~"

Several of my friends screamed excitedly, took off their padded jackets as they walked to the back deck, threw them aside, rolled up their sleeves, and walked towards the fishing nets piled up on the gangways of the ships on both sides.

"That's a long net!"

"This can be a lot of nets, otherwise a net of thousands of catties, just the net at home, how is it possible?"

"Get rich, get rich, get rich when you go into the water~"

Ye Yaodong ran to them, took off the padded jacket on his body, spit twice into the palm of his hand, and rubbed it twice.

"Start, start~"

Everyone was like him, spitting and rubbing their palms before lifting the net.

At this time, it is not possible to immediately throw the net into the water.

There were two masters who followed the boat, one was in the wheelhouse to teach how to use the equipment to drive the boat, and the other was waiting here.

With such a large new ship launching and casting the first net, some shipyards will arrange some ceremonies, especially in their rural areas, which pay more attention to folk customs.

After they lifted the fishing nets, the master began to pick up the small gong and sing the song of casting the net while striking the gong in his hand.

"One net of gold, two nets of silver, three nets to play a cornucopia, four nets to play a copper Luo group, five nets to pull a cockle snail, six nets of fish and shrimp full of warehouses, net net boats are not empty, full of boats to return home, Niang Niang bless a good harvest, and repair the temple for Niangniang in the coming year."

"Yo hey~" everyone echoed loudly.

The old master shouted again, "Go down to the level, good luck~"

"The next level is safe, and the good luck is good!"

Everyone shouted slogans and threw them into the sea.

The master also called: "Fortune and peace~"

Everyone's slogans were shouted louder.

"Fortune and peace~"

"Fortune and peace~"

……

After the nets were put into the water, everyone folded their hands and bowed twice to the sea.

Full of blessings.

The two cables dragging the net are more than 300 meters long, as soon as the net enters the sea, Ye Father quickly starts the net winding machine, and the cable is quickly twitched, like a snake, and all of them enter the sea in just a few minutes.

When the nets were all down to the sea, the door opened wider and wider under the action of the feng shui board, and it was a hungry dragon that opened its bloody mouth.

Then it was time to wait, and everyone clapped their hands and picked up the cotton jackets that were littered everywhere again.

"It's only been two hours since we drove out, so it's a little farther than usual, and I don't know what good goods we can catch?"

"The direction of the opening is different, this will be from the county seat, it will be farther from the shore than from our village, as for how many meters of water depth can be underground, I don't know."

"Anyway, it's definitely going to make a fortune, the harvest number has only been half a year old, and Dongzi will make a lot of money next."

"The harvest is also just in time to catch jellyfish, otherwise it wouldn't be so fast, and it would have to be done slowly. It's been a lot of wind and waves lately, and you can't go out for a long time? Today's weather is very good, even the waves are quite big, shaking and bumping all the time, and hitting from time to time. Fortunately, we didn't run too far, and we went back with a net. ”

Ye Yaodong said happily while wearing a cotton jacket.

"The bigger the wind and waves, the more goods, this net will definitely gain a lot."

"I'll see it later, sit idle for a while, and take a break."

The wind and waves were indeed a bit rough today, and as they walked towards the bow of the boat, a big wave crashed behind them, and everyone quickly avoided it, leaving only a fleeting piece of foam, and the musty smell of seaweed remaining on the aft deck.

"Oops, it's good that I hid quickly, otherwise I would have ended up with a soup chicken."

"This hasn't run far, the waves are so big, if you run farther, run outside, you can't bear it."

"It's good weather today, but our trawlers won't be able to get out."

"That's why I told you to rest early for the New Year."

They walked forward, leaned on the side of the boat when they got to the front, and looked at the waves in front of them, and from time to time small fish and shrimp were swept up in the air by the waves, and then fell into the sea.

In the sunlight, the water splashes and looks crystal clear.

On the sea, as far as the eye can see, the sky is surrounded by water, and the boat under your feet seems to be the center of the world, as if there is no direction to speak of, but it is slowly moving forward, and it seems to be confident.

"After you got this boat, you won't go out before the year, right?"

"It should be, look at the weather, if the wind and waves are not so big, you can also drive out for two or three days to try first, after all, the new ship, drive back and stop there, the heart must be itchy, how to try it first." But let's talk about it then, if there is no good weather, there is no way. ”

"Did you find the boatman?"

"Not yet, I plan to call it in the next two days, and then call someone to work after the New Year."

"Then if the wind and waves are not so strong in two days, who will help you if you plan to go to sea?"

"Isn't that you? Didn't you take an early break for the New Year and stay at home? Ye Yaodong said unceremoniously and as a matter of course.

"So you're okay here?"

He smiled and said, "That's not it, it's just a temporary idea, thinking that there are still you?" ”

"Good brother!"

"That is, I can't just eat and drink and think about you, of course, I have to think about you in this work. You guys, I'll go to the cockpit and take a look. ”

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he went to the cockpit again, because the propeller and other machines are in the stern, and the most important thing is that the ship turns to flick the tail, so the cockpit is also close to the stern.

At this time, Ah Guang was still there open, and after he went up, he took over from Ah Guang.

Ah Guang also reluctantly got out of the cab and went down to chat with the others.

The process of homework is boring and boring.

It's okay, he can control the direction, but it's okay.

It wasn't until two hours had passed that he looked at his watch and counted the time before stopping the boat and preparing to set up the net.

"The net is up, the net is up."

They were waiting on the side of the boat, they had already been blown red by the sea breeze, and they all shrunk their necks, and when they heard that the net was going to be raised, everyone instantly came to their senses, and those who were smoking also threw their cigarette butts into the sea in an instant.

"The net is up, the net is up, the net is ......"

"Done, worked......"

"You go over there, I'll ...... here"

The master who sang the happy song commanded them to collect the net, and Ye Yaodong also shouted Ah Guang to come to the side of the boat on both sides.

Each of them holds a rope, wraps the rope around the rollers, and uses the power of the machine to quickly drag the cable.

The others waited and watched.

Under the pull of the machine, the net mouth on the sea surface began to tighten gradually, and after it was completely tightened, the net was slowly dragged out of the water in about half an hour.

The crane on the foredeck lifted the nets and slowly approached the boat, and everyone struggled to hold the nets, some holding the nets in their hands, and pulling them to the deck with all their strength.

"One, two, three......"

"One, two, three......"

Due to the shallow draft on the aft deck, coupled with the strong wind and waves, the splashing waves crashed against the side of the ship, and everyone was trying their best to dodge, and they were all drenched by the sea water in an instant, and they all became water people.

"it!"

"Wow...... Chilling ......"

"Took a sea bath... I'll go...... It's too big......"

As the waves hit up, the catch full of nets was dumped on the deck in an instant.

"Wow grass...... What a big pack ......"

"The tube... It's all small tube ......."

"Those who step on horses, this net is all small pipe ......"

"Good goods, they're all small tubes, thousands of pounds."

"A few thousand catties, how many thousand catties can you expect from such a big bag? No way? That's awesome, isn't it? So much on the Internet? It doesn't seem to have such a big bag when the harvest came up before? ”

"Rich, rich, this net should be worth a thousand dollars, right?"

"Maybe, there are two or three cents for a pound of small tubes!"

The master who was commanding on the side was also full of smiles, "Good luck today, the harvest is very good, such a big bag is not easy to hit usually, four or five thousand catties." ”

"It must be a big wave today, so there are a lot of goods!"

Father Ye also ran over and said happily: "There may be a reason for this, but all of them here are small tubes, looking at not many groceries, it should be a school of fish, and at this time of year before summer, there are a lot of small tubes." ”

"Rich......

"Pour it out and take a look, pick up the goods."

Everyone was overjoyed, and hurried to untie the fishing nets, and one by one poured all the goods onto the deck.

When I poured it out, I saw that there were also a little fish, shrimp, crab, octopus, jellyfish, seaweed, etc., and of course the number of small tubes was the largest, accounting for 80% of them.

", it's really a whole net, you're a little lucky!"

"Mazu blessed, remember to ask a small statue to come on the boat and say goodbye when you go back."

Father Ye squatted down and fiddled with it twice, picked up one casually, put it in his mouth and took a bite, and said happily: "It's so fresh, crispy, and it tastes fresh and sweet." ”

"I'll try one too."

"I'll eat too."

Fresh seafood is eaten in its original flavor, and there is nothing more delicious than just catching it and taking a bite, with smiles on their faces and a bite in their hands.

"Hmm... It does taste good. ”

"It's delicious, it's crunchy to bite, it's just noon, and I'm hungry."

"Almost, is it possible to go back? Don't sell a few pounds of money, and drink at night. ”

"No problem!" Ye Yaodong stuffed the rest of his hand into his mouth, and then called them to work.

"If you don't work, you don't have any wine at night."

"Pick up a few more bowls of appetizers, and just continue to eat them in your workshop."

"Can you drag a net on the way back?" Father Ye was a little reluctant, if he dragged the net again, the harvest would definitely not be bad.

"No, it's too late, it takes two hours to go back, maybe it won't be necessary, just when I was working, I drove back for a while. But once the contract is signed, it will take more than an hour to drive home, and now it is already one o'clock, so I have to go back first. ”

"Then go back first, and see if there is any weather in the next few days."

"Hurry up and get the baskets, help sort them, and don't eat them alone."

"Push this big jellyfish down first, it's too much of a hindrance, I didn't see it just now, and I took up the weight for nothing." Ah Guang put on his gloves and pushed it, but he felt particularly difficult.

This one has one or two hundred pounds, and it does take up weight for nothing.

"Give me a push."

Others immediately reached out to help.

It's just that when they pushed the huge jellyfish into the water, suddenly a bloody mouth opened in the stern of the boat, and it happened to catch the jellyfish that fell into the water.

As they stared in exclamation, the blood's mouth closed, and a large fish head was exposed.

"Damn, what's ......"

"What kind of mouth is this ......?"

"What fish ......"

Everyone immediately stepped back in horror, and stood up, clutching to the railing on the side of the ship.

"What kind of fish is this...... It's scared to death......"

"Why are you so close to each other, just right?"

"I'm going to die, I'm going to be scared... It feels like the hand is just at its mouth! ”

Ye Yaodong also stared at it with wide eyes, and couldn't tell what kind of fish it was for a while.

In this kind of deep sea, it is very likely that any big fish will appear.

"Is it a whale or a shark? Or what breed of ......"

Just when everyone's hind legs were gathered together and staring at the sea with a lot of discussions, the big fish that swallowed one or two hundred catties of jellyfish also surfaced little by little.

Everyone also heard the unusual noise, and they all clenched their ears.

"It's a whale ......"

"Look, look, squirting water......"

"Ahh Squirting! ”

"! Will squirt water, it's really a whale! ”

The whale breathes with its lungs and does not apply its gills, so it also needs to float to the surface to breathe.

During ventilation, the whale first has to expel a large amount of exhaust gas from the lungs.

The water it spews out is actually the water on the surface of the body and the gas in the lungs that the whale ejects when it breathes.

Due to the high pressure, the sound of the jet is so loud that it sometimes sounds like the whistle of a train.

When a strong air flow breaks out of the nostrils, it carries the sea water into the air, forming the fountain we see on the blue sea.

"It's a big water column, go in a little bit, go in a little and get ......"

"Hide from the yarn, didn't you just get drenched from head to toe?"

"Oh, yes, yes...... Holy shit, it's so spectacular, it's just a few meters away, right? Lao Tzu met ...... for the first time"

"It's such a big whale, it's the first time I've seen a whale spray water."

"It's a column of water, and it's even higher than the building."

"Good girl, you guys are a little lucky today, such a big whale jet ......" the old master also looked at in surprise.

Ye Yaodong also touched the water droplets that kept falling above his head, just like rain, how could the size of this whale have to be several tons, otherwise why would it spray so high?

Tut-tut, the overlord of the sea is different, I didn't expect that this is not far from the land to see whales, don't even think about it in the future.

It's a pity that he didn't bring a camera when he went out today, so he thought that when the boat came back, he would just let Ah Qing take a picture outside the dock when the time came.

I didn't expect to encounter such an amazing and spectacular scene, but unfortunately, I really have to bring a camera to the sea in the future, and the current ocean situation is so wonderful, I don't want to see it in the future.

"Dongzi, do you have a camera?" Ah Guang also thought of it.

"No, I'm also regretting it, I went out in a hurry, and I didn't think to bring it for a while."

"It's a pity."

"I'll take it with me every day next time."

After a short while, the whale continued to dive into the water after spraying the water, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"That's leaving?"

"It's called farting after eating, patting your ass and leaving."

Father Ye scolded with a smile, "Nonsense, it's good that I didn't catch this whale with the fishing net just now, otherwise, it depends on how you pull it up." ”

"yes, it's good that it didn't swallow all my small tubes, otherwise I would have to cry, so let's go."

"Hey...... Look, look, there's a lot of bulging ...... over there."

"Ah, squirting again!"

"It's all whales! Those are whales! ”

Everyone was shocked again.

One popped up right in front of them, spewing out a huge jet of water that was enough to shock them, and not far away, a pile of them appeared.

And they are all collectively spraying water for ventilation, what kind of spectacular picture is this?

"What the hell? So many? ”

"This fish seems to live in groups, too?"

"When I saw so many pieces of spraying water, of course, I knew that it was a group. But it seems to depend on the genre? ”

"Tut-tut, I don't know how big a ship is to catch them."

"It's a pity, if only I had a camera."

After everyone was shocked, they had to widen their eyes and appreciate it, and it would be harmless to them anyway.

But. The master in the cockpit may also feel unsafe, and not far away, after a group of whales sprayed water, the fishing boat also slowly moved away.

Get out of these behemoths, lest something unexpected happen and be out of control.

"It's gone!"

"It's done!"

"It's pretty fast!"

"Maybe there's not enough water......"

"Will there be any more later?"

"The boats are gone, don't look at it, hurry up and get to work."

"It's really weird that the good-looking ......"

Ye Yaodong also shouted at them and told them to hurry up and sort.

"Okay, I don't have to look at it, hurry up and get to work."

Baskets were thrown in front of their eyes, and the deck was covered with small tubes, and everyone threw them into it with their hands in their arms, and in a short time the basket was full and pushed into the corner.

They will also be on the shore soon, and now that the weather is cold, there is no need to throw them in the fish barn.

Sorting fish is a time-consuming job, and everyone has to squat there if they are working normally. I didn't go back immediately, but continued to drag another net, and many times I scored and picked up the next net.

The work is not easy for the boatmen, and the main thing is that they have been drifting at sea, which is very different from being on land.

Fortunately, today's big ones are small tubes, and sorting is very simple, they can grab them into the basket one by one, and then pick up the ones that can be sold for money and pick them up in other baskets, and when they are leftovers, the rest of them will be swept back into the sea.

You don't need to pick them one by one, and the speed can be much faster.

Ye Yaodong returned to the cockpit while they were working.

Father Ye also gave him control of the whole process in order to train him.

However, on their way back, they watched another group of whales squirting water en masse.

I heard that whales come out of the water every ten or twenty minutes to breathe and spray water.

If they do, it's not so unusual, because that's what they do regularly, but for those of them who haven't seen it, it's something to brag about.

Father Ye felt that he would talk about it again when he went back in the evening.

The old master who was watching in the cab was also there and said with a smile, when I returned to the factory, I could talk to everyone.

Looking at it up close and standing in a higher position, Ye Yaodong felt that it was more shocking to see it up close, although he had seen it before, and he was not so shocked, but he also felt quite strange.

"I guess my luck is right?"

"Of course, just that net of four or five thousand catties of small tubes is enough for you to earn, is it still bad luck? It's already the best, and most people go to sea to catch groceries, but there are often so many of them. ”

Ye Yaodong is beautiful.

He's already there, and the whales are squirting water to give him similar fireworks to celebrate.

"Do you want to dock at the dock of the county town and sell these goods first?"

"No, no, the weather is not hot today, there is no need to sell in a hurry, pull it back to our dock and sell it."

The Harvest was in a hurry to sell it when it returned to Hong Kong, but it was also because of the hot weather, so it was sold as soon as it was fresh.

"That's fine, then you can just drive in the direction of the shipyard."

"Okay."

In fact, he wanted to pull it back to dry.

In the previous squid flood season, a lot of squid was dried in large quantities in the back, although the price was high, but there were not a few people who could afford to eat it, and now they have all been sold out.

Since the shops in the city sell dry goods, of course, the more varieties the better, and the high, medium and low-end goods must be prepared.

These tubes are dried, and they will certainly not be bad.

It has a different flavor from squid and is very different from dried squid.

The small tube is also called the sea rabbit, and the one that comes out is called the dried sea rabbit, and a small piece is the size of a palm.

Steamed directly in the pot, put some ginger shredded cooking wine, steamed out of the top delicious, much better than dried squid, and this is also more expensive than dried squid.

Ye Yaodong was already drooling just thinking about it, and as soon as he made up his mind in his heart, he would stay back to dry, and it would be more profitable to sell it slowly after drying it, anyway, it was also the goods received by the first network, and he was not in a hurry to ask for cash now.

All the way back, I didn't encounter anything strange, and there were no fishing boats on the way.

They went out and came back, and they were the only ones on the sea.

"It's probably going to be there in ten minutes, a little bit in this direction......"

Ye Yaodong also looked at his watch, and now it was past two o'clock, and the time was almost enough.

Coming back is much faster than when he goes, and he consciously drove back a section when he was doing his homework.

When the shipyard was close in front of them, they slowed down and leaned forward, Director Wu was already waiting on the shore with a smile on his face.

"How? Smooth, right? How's the catch? ”

"Very good, they are very lucky today, they dragged three or four thousand catties of small tubes, and they can sell them for a lot of money."

"Ah, that's pretty lucky, this is a school of fish? Then there are a lot of goods received on this network, and you can sell thousands of dollars? Then it shouldn't be long before you get back to your capital. ”

"It's hard to say, the oil money is also a big head, and this ship eats a lot of oil."

"We also encountered a group of whales, but there was no danger."

(End of chapter)