The sun was setting in the west, reflecting the golden light on the sea. Ye Yaodong was already satisfied with the profit from this jellyfish fishing trip. Even if he could not catch much fish every day and could only earn a salary, he would not care. He had already harvested enough.

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The sea urchin was an unexpected surprise and the icing on the cake.

I hope it can be sold at a good price. When the time comes, I will give each of them a big red envelope to celebrate. If anyone goes into the water to help catch sea urchins, I will give two red envelopes.

The boatmen on the boat also hope that the sea urchins can be sold at a good price. In this case, they can continue fishing and earn an extra wage every day.

Originally, I was paid three yuan a day, which is already a high salary. I could add two more yuan a few times for watering, so it was five yuan a day, which was enough.

Even if there is no extra money, they are invited to work, and the owner asks them to salvage, they still have to go into the water, even gossip is inevitable, and everyone will probably complain about it.

Now that I can earn two more yuan, everyone is extremely satisfied, and they just follow me to earn more money.

As we drove all the way towards the town, more and more fishing boats gathered around us. Most of them were their own boats, so we had to calculate the time to return to the city.

When they arrived around the coast, many small wooden boats were still fishing there. It was not known whether they had sold out their goods or had not returned yet.

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

For Pei's father's goods, Aguang can just collect the goods himself.

He didn't have time to take care of his goods today, so he handed them over to Aguang to look after. Later, when he was free, he could just pay him according to the goods order. Now he had to focus on that batch of nearly 500 kilograms.

sea ​​urchin.

After all the jellyfish were moved ashore, he asked others not to move them yet and just left one person to watch. The others would watch the goods for sale and help move them. He would go to several purchasing points at the dock to ask about the prices.

The purchasing points are also very sloppy, not much different from the small hut at their dock. During the recent jellyfish flood season, they have been collecting jellyfish there, and no one is fishing.

When he went to the collection point, the empty space was also filled with piles of jellyfish. There were tractors waiting at the door, and everyone was busy carrying them onto the truck.

"Hey? Is the boss here?"

"What are you doing? You have too many jellyfish and you can't sell them?"

"No... I just want to ask you, do you want sea urchin? How much does it cost per pound?"

The thin little man looked at him suspiciously and said, "Is the quantity large? If it is small, then I don't want it. I don't have time to deal with those little things. I am busy collecting jellyfish now."

"A few hundred pounds, you can see if you want it. If not, I'll ask someone else."

The boss was surprised, "How many hundreds of kilograms? That's okay. If it's just a few kilograms, I won't bother with the 10 kilograms."

"How much does it cost?"

"Five cents."

Grass!

"Forget it." Ye Yaodong hesitated and left. It was too insincere.

"Hey, wait a minute, five cents is a lot for you. What's more, now is not the time to collect these things. Now everyone is busy collecting jellyfish and has no time to deal with these bulk goods. You go to other people's houses and ask

, the price is about the same as others, so maybe they are too lazy to accept it.”

"I just saw that your store is a little bigger than others and you have more goods, so I thought I'd come over and ask you for 5 cents... I'm not a fool, and it's not like I've never sold anything before."

"Haha, since you have a lot of goods, then it's 6 cents, 7 cents is 7 cents. If you don't sell it, I won't bother."

Ye Yaodong took out a fist-sized sea urchin and asked, "Do I have to pay extra for something of this quality? It's different from the small sea urchins we usually see. This one is worth two."

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

"It's fished from the sea."

"Um……"

"Just tell me whether I need to pay more for this. I am a fisherman and sell goods all the time. I know how much everything costs. Don't bully me because I am from out of town."

"I believe you. I heard from the local fishermen that you are more fair here, so don't ask other people, just come straight to you."

The boss frowned and said, "Then... let's just call it 20 cents. My price is very fair. If you ask someone else, they might think you are a foreigner."

"More."

"If you don't want to add more, just this is the number. If you don't want to sell it, go to someone else's house and ask."

"2 cents and 2 cents, just 2 cents and 2 cents. Later in the evening, I can bring you a few hundred more kilograms. There will be more tomorrow. Do you want to do a long-term business?"

"There will be more tonight and tomorrow? Is it true?"

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

The boss stared at him for a while and hesitated, "Okay, let's take it at a loss. I don't even make 20 cents anymore. I'm just doing good deeds..."

"Okay, I'm going to ask people to move it over now. Even if there's a lot of it, otherwise I wouldn't be too lazy to sell it. We have a lot of people ourselves, so we can just eat it."

"It's such a waste to eat it. Of course, if you can sell it for money, you have to sell it for money..."

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

The several baskets of sea urchins brought ashore have sharp needle-like spines, are shiny black, and are all very even in size, so there is no need to pick at all.

The owner of the purchasing point lifted a basket and poured it out. After a while, he found that there was no fish in troubled waters or mixed sizes or different sizes. He was also very satisfied.

He emptied all the baskets, took out Ye Yaodong's basket and returned it to him, and then weighed it directly.

They were all experienced dough sticks, and they all estimated the weight accurately by hand. They said it was nearly 500 kilograms, but it actually weighed 490 kilograms. They sold it for a total of 107 yuan and 80 cents.

Ye Yaodong was very satisfied. At noon, everyone took turns to go into the water twice and achieved this result. At that time, it was the first time for everyone to go into the water and they were not very familiar with it.

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

However, you shouldn’t go into the water too many times a day.

A longer interval and a longer rest are fine, but don't go into the water continuously.

He decided not to go into the water when the water was cold in the morning. He would go down twice at noon and twice in the afternoon. It was just right, so he just went to swim a few laps in the water and take it easy.

I can sell it for an extra 200 yuan a day, and in the next half month, I can also sell it for an extra two to three thousand yuan, which is the icing on the cake.

If you can't catch enough jellyfish, just wait until next year and treat it as making up for the loss of less jellyfish catch in the coming year.

After receiving the money, Ye Yaodong and others happily walked out. The boss was still shouting from behind, asking him to remember to deliver it in the evening.

Ye Yaodong turned his back to the person and only raised his hand and waved twice to show that he understood.

Aguang's side is still busy. All the fishing boats have docked in the afternoon, and the batch harvest and accounting are not so fast.

He said hello and said he would come back in the evening to pick up the order and calculate the money. He would leave it at his place first, and then left with the others.

You have to go to the event, otherwise it will be too late, the sun will set, the temperature will be low, and you will easily catch a cold.

Father Ye was also waiting there eagerly. When he saw them coming back, he immediately sailed over and climbed over to ask. He was very happy when he found out that they were selling for just over 100.

"It's pretty good, pretty good. It can be sold for more than 100 points. Three waves a day can sell for more than 300. This is not much less than jellyfish. The daily receipts of jellyfish may not be as much as this."

"I plan to let them go down twice a day, one at noon and one in the afternoon, and don't go out in the morning. The temperature is low in the morning and it's easy to catch a cold."

"That's okay. It just so happens that there are less jellyfish now, so sea urchins can take over. In this way, the income can still keep up with before."

Ye Yaodong nodded.

While they were talking, the eldest cousin had already actively put on a mask, flippers and other things.

"Dongzi, should I go down now?"

"Hey, okay."

The eldest cousin jumped into the water with a splash.

Get into the water early, finish fishing early and rest early, so as not to have low visibility in the water when the sun sets later.

Everyone was watching there. Father Ye asked another boat to catch jellyfish by himself. He also wanted to watch from here. Anyway, there was no need for so many people. Five people on that boat were too many now.

Ye Yaodong leaned against the side of the boat, smoking a cigarette and thinking that if he went back at night, he could arrange for more people to rest from tomorrow and take care of the house.

The few people on his boat remained the same, and the other boat arranged for three people to rest and three people to fish, taking turns day by day.

Anyway, now jellyfish occasionally pop up here and there, so you don’t need too many people, three people are enough to handle it.

Everyone was watching there, chatting and guessing how many pounds they could gain this time.

"It would be convenient if there were more sets of these diving equipment, and you could catch more, but I don't know how much it would cost?"

"It's definitely not easy to do. They say they did it because of connections."

"Mainly, it's not of use at ordinary times. If the weather is cold, whoever goes under the water will freeze to death."

“Can’t we still come next year anyway?”

"Next year is still very early, so what are you talking about next year? Why not guess how much more you can get on this trip?"

"It's definitely possible, I should be able to collect about 60 kilograms..."

"The boss of that acquisition site was too bully. He even said 5 points at the beginning, which was too much..."

"That's right. If you put it at our dock, the common ones are worth seven or eight cents. I don't know how much a big deep-sea one costs, but it's definitely higher than the price here."

"On the last day, let's just take it home and give it to Ah Cai. Don't sell it to them. The people outside are too bad."

"Normally, outsiders will be bullied wherever they go..."
To be continued...