When Ye Yaodong went to sea early the next morning, he found that there were particularly many boats at the pier this morning, especially trawlers. There were many more boats than in previous days, and there were also more people on the pier.
He was wondering in his heart, but he also thought that no one was trawling tonight, so it seemed that there were more boats.
When they moved all the longline fishing to the boat, a group of people from Chen Jiannian also drove the boat and set off one after another. Chen Jiannian took the people to the place, and after they knew the way, they probably didn't need to worry about it.
A group of people from their own village also set off one after another. Everyone had the same destination. They were all looking forward to the jellyfish becoming more abundant soon and were afraid of missing out.
After such a large group of people got on the boat and left, most of the people on the shore were gone, and it was no longer as lively as before.
After Chen Jiannian's group arrived, there were too many fishing boats. Ye Yaodong only recognized the fishing boats and people from his own village, and he didn't know a few people from his side at all.
Moreover, the fishing boats were traveling on the sea one after another, and no one could tell whether there were more fishing boats.
They couldn't detect an unknown boat following them as they did last year because they couldn't tell which fishing boat it belonged to.
Therefore, even though Ye Yaodong felt that there were too many boats today, he had no choice but to let it go and let the boats behind him catch up.
He probably also thought that there should be quite a few local ships going in the same direction now.
In the past two days, they have brought several thousand kilograms of fish ashore, and all of them are fishing tapes. They sell them for thousands of yuan, and the news is spreading. The locals must be jealous, and they will definitely want to follow them to see what they are doing.
Where did I catch it? I was wondering if I could get a piece of the pie.
He thought that the secret base would probably be exposed today.
I was initially optimistic that after they fished for a few days and the locals saw how much they had, they would react and follow them, but now it seems that they can't catch up by then.
Plans cannot keep up with changes.
Although they knew that there should be some local fishing boats mixed in with their team behind them, they had no idea.
It was impossible not to go. Even if he could not go, how could others not go?
Along the way, there were quite a few fishing boats in front and behind, all of them were trawlers. He still had two small boats behind him, but he wasn’t sure how many there were. The other fishing boats didn’t specially bring small boats, so the people on their side took them.
The small wooden boat that arrived was still docked at the pier.
Ye Yaodong drove the boat and followed the trajectory of the fishing boat in front, directly to the trench. When he arrived, many fishing boats were already docked on the sea around the trench.
By visual inspection, more than a dozen jellyfish had arrived before him. Everyone was busy catching jellyfish floating on the sea. The number was more than the previous few mornings. When he arrived, there were still many jellyfish on the sea that had not been fished out.
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The boatmen on his ship had prepared tools in advance, and as soon as the ship stopped, they followed suit to salvage the mosquito legs, no matter how small they were, they were just meat.
There were five or six other fishing boats that arrived at the same time as him, and the fishing boats that followed him also arrived one after another. However, the people who came a step behind didn't see anything, and I don't know if it was a blessing in misfortune.
And when they had just wiped away the jellyfish on the sea, fishing boats such as Ye's father, Aguang and others also came close to them.
Aguang frowned and climbed onto his boat first.
"Dongzi, there are too many ships..."
"Wait and see, it's not a good time to go into the water now. There are so many boats staring at you. There are so many boats parked on the sea, and the light is blocked."
He was also afraid that someone would cause trouble. Diving is a dangerous job.
Father Ye also climbed over and said: "There are too many ships on the sea today, right? They are all here."
"Local boats should be among them too."
The two of them opened their mouths in surprise, but they immediately figured it out. Who doesn't know how to fish in troubled waters? They simply couldn't tell which boats were locals and which ones were brought by Chen Jianian.
"It's better now. We won't wait until the floods come and we will be exposed."
"Let's see, step by step, after all, we are still the majority of foreign ships."
He had no choice but to make 10,000 yuan in the past three days.
Aguang looked at the fishing boats on the sea and said to the rising jellyfish: "There are a lot more jellyfish this morning. Compared with yesterday morning, the number has doubled."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "Not only has the number doubled, but the speed at which they appear has also increased."
During the short time they arrived and stayed, although the sea surface was cleanly divided, one or two floated up from time to time while talking, and of course they were picked up by the nearest fishing boat.
At this time, the fishing boats on the sea were also piled up in twos and threes. People who were familiar with each other were all close together, and they were probably discussing there.
Father Pei also crawled over at this time, frowned and asked, "What should we do now? With so many boats, can we still launch them into the water?"
"No, it would be very dangerous."
Ye Yaodong explained the potential dangers of diving and also expressed his guess, "Maybe there are hairtail fish down there today."
"there is none left?"
"Why is there no more?"
"Didn't it mean that there's a whole group of people down there in the trench?"
He looked at A Guang, "The jellyfish flood season is here. A large number of jellyfish will float up from the trench. Do hairtails have to give way? And jellyfish can sting people, and of course they can also sting fish and shrimps. They have neurotoxins that can paralyze them.
Fish and shrimp.”
"It's okay if the number of jellyfish is small, but if the number is large, the fish will have to make way for them. Large fish will eat them, but hairtail is not a large fish."
"If there are a lot of jellyfish floating up today, the hairtail schools below may have migrated away."
Everyone heard what he said was clear and logical, and felt that it made sense.
Father Pei felt a little worried, "Then we added longline fishing."
"But you have made a lot of money in the past few days, and you have made a lot of money. What does it mean to pay this little bit? No one can imagine the subsequent development. We have taken the lead. Some people were still worried about it yesterday.
I went to buy materials a long time ago and did some longline fishing, and I came here today to get a share of the pie, but they just tried to fetch water in a bamboo basket in vain."
"We'll see later. If there are less jellyfish floating up there and there aren't enough fishing boats to share them, most of these fishing boats may leave."
"It's hard to say," A Guang disagreed. "You can occasionally try your luck if you stop here. If it floats next to your own fishing boat, you can catch a few. If you leave, won't it be an advantage for others?"
"Then there's nothing we can do. If it were me, if I were asked to leave now, I definitely wouldn't be able to leave. If I leave, wouldn't it mean that other people will earn more? If I keep stopping here, I can still see if the amount is large.
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Father Ye also frowned, "Then we can only waste it all here."
"Wait, otherwise you can take the boat to trawl, and I can just stop here and watch."
"What kind of net is being dragged now? Everyone is here to watch. Our village's fishing boats are all here, so who is going to drag the net?"
"Then let's try our luck here. If it can float next to us, it means we are lucky and can catch it. You can also drive the boat to the side later. Our boat will be spread out a little and we will see if we can have better luck.
If you get a few, use it as a subsidy."
A Guang asked again: "Dongzi, how many local ships do you think are here?"
"I don't know. There shouldn't be many of them. There must be only a small number of people who agreed to block us at the dock in the morning. Most of them probably went out to sea diligently at night."
"Fortunately, not many people floated up today. They were fished out as soon as they floated up. There is no scene of large-scale gatherings."
"But with so many of our ships from other places staying here, they will definitely know that there is something fishy. Since they didn't go out to sea at night and planned to spend a day blocking us, they definitely wouldn't just leave so straightforwardly. How could they do it?
Let’s spend time here to see what happens. If we hadn’t left, they definitely wouldn’t have left either. If we stay here for a whole day, we’ll be able to see something suspicious.”
"It can only be used up, it can't go into the water, and it can't distinguish the locals." Father Pei said.
"Yes, just watch. We won't leave if others don't leave. It's not like we can't afford it."
"It's just a pity that I didn't go into the water to take a look and make sure there is nothing..."
"Don't think about it. There is probably no hope of getting into the water today. Our out-of-town boat won't just leave like this. The jellyfish float up from time to time, but the other ones may be waiting there to see how we catch hairtail. By the way,
Put their longlines down."
Aguang also thought about it. Yesterday afternoon, a bunch of fishing boats were there to watch them loading goods. He also knew that some people also went to buy materials yesterday and followed suit.
"Then there's no need to go down there tomorrow. There will only be more jellyfish tomorrow than today."
"Yes, if you can't catch hairtail today, you won't be able to catch hairtail tomorrow."
"Forget it, at least we made 5,000 yuan in two days."
At this time, Ye Yaodong raised his chin towards them, pointed to the sea ahead, and motioned for them to look over.
There are fishing boats setting off long lines. They probably thought that they have done everything and they can treat dead horses as living horses. Give it a try, otherwise it will be left on the boat. There are so many boats on the sea and there are not enough floating jellyfish to divide them.
Yes, everyone was deadlocked and waiting there.
Father Ye: "I really put a longline there..."
A Guang: "If they just throw it on the sea casually and don't put it accurately, they probably won't be able to catch anything."
Ye Yaodong: "But there's nothing we can do about it. Being idle means being idle. We can only try our luck."
He looked around the sea again and saw that not a single fishing boat had gone away. He was afraid that if he left, it would be an advantage to others.
Thinking that today would be a waste of time in the stalemate, he directly brought a small stool over and sat leaning against the side of the boat, with his hands on the edge of the boat.
At this time, some fishing boats were unwilling to miss it and came to ask them, why didn't they release the longline today and why didn't they go into the water?
Ye Yaodong told the truth that there were too many fishing boats and it was inconvenient to go down there, and there were so many jellyfish that maybe all the fish had escaped. He couldn't do anything here today, he could only wait to catch the jellyfish.
After a fishing boat approached them, other fishing boats followed suit and came over to ask them about their situation.
After all, they didn't go into the water today, nor did they launch long lines or anything. It does seem a bit abnormal to everyone. They made so much money yesterday and the day before, so there is no reason why they can't make money today.
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster. When someone comes to inquire, others will join in.
One after another, a large number of fishing boats came and left in turn, and their area seemed particularly lively.
Ye Yaodong and the others' mouths were dry as they explained.
After the fishing boats knew the reason why they did not release any more longlines, they all moved to the side with some regret, but no boat was willing to leave.
Aguang and Pei's father also returned to their own ship during the period. They couldn't do anything. Now they can only go back to their own ship and wait.
Now that they were asked to trawl, they might as well just wait here and see what happened. After all, all the ships were waiting here, and they couldn't lag behind others.
Dozens of fishing boats are all spending time in this area. It is surprising and unbelievable to say that, but the fact is that so many boats really spend a whole day here. From morning to dusk, there is not a single boat.
leave.
Although the divided jellyfish must be sent to the shore as soon as possible, the quantity is too small, just a few dozen or a few hundred kilograms, and the money sold may not be enough to pay for the fuel for a round trip, so no one leaves.
If you have the ingredients, just cut them up, marinate them and put them there, and then sell them for money when you get back. If you don't bring alum and salt to marinate them, there's nothing you can do about them turning into water.
And all the fishing boats also caught some jellyfish today, some weighing six to seven hundred kilograms, and some weighing dozens of kilograms.
After all, a jellyfish can weigh as small as ten or twenty pounds, or as large as seventy or eighty pounds. The size you catch depends on your luck.
After most of the day, the newcomers who had not been here last year had been stuck here for so long, and they all understood that there were indeed more jellyfish floating here than other sea surfaces.
On other seas, you have to wander around looking for them. They are very scattered and few. But here they are extremely concentrated. With so many ships, there is basically no air force for any ship.
If there weren't so many fishing boats and there were only 1/4 or 1/5, the harvest in that day would be pretty impressive.
When the sun set in the west, the fishing boat that had dropped the longline early in the morning also picked up the longline. The long-term worker on his boat even called him specifically and asked him to crane his neck to look.
After all, they were all there yesterday, and the fishing lines were full of hairtails. Today, someone else put them in, but they didn't put them in. Everyone was curious to see if the person who put them down today had any harvest.
"Ah, empty..."
"Nothing?"
"Not really. It's been a long time since I collected it... Don't say that you're like us, you didn't even see one or two."
"Is it because their delivery is not accurate, or is it all gone?"
"Then it's hard to say. None of us have gone down to the bottom today, and there's no way to see if there's anything else in the trench."
"It was all in vain..."
Ye Yaodong saw that they all pulled in empty hooks, and it was rare to catch one or two fish.
"It seems that I can't do it anymore, and I can't go into the water anymore."
The boatmen also had regretful faces. They thought they could earn more wages by going into the water, but their hopes were dashed after only three days of work.
"Don't be discouraged. We can't do it now. When all the jellyfish here are harvested, they will naturally leave here and go to the sea to search for them. Then they should be able to go down and salvage sea urchins again."
"Maybe it will be like today. Everyone is deadlocked here and no one is willing to leave. There are really many ships coming today."
"Let's see it later, it's hard to say."
This is also possible. After all, the captain of the ship last year would give him face when he brought the ship. He would politely give in and go to the beach to search for less cargo, leaving this area to him to salvage sea urchins.
All the boats continued to stay there until the sun was about to go down. Then everyone ended their work one after another and moved to the familiar fishing boats to make an appointment to go back.
Their boat was also waiting for Father Ye and the other two boats to approach.
"We also caught three to four hundred kilograms of jellyfish today. If we add jellyfish blood, we should be able to sell it for more than ten yuan, right?"
"There are other ships. When the time comes, we will move them all over to see how many there are. How can we earn a bite to eat?"
I can't earn any salary today, so I can only earn some food money.
Aguang, his friends, and the eldest and second brothers also came over to inquire about the harvest and communicate with each other.
As far as they knew, everyone's harvest was quite dismal. There were too many ships and the division was too severe. It was all down to luck.
Some will receive more goods, some will receive less goods, and some will either not prepare alum and salt, and then they will all turn into water, and nothing will be caught.
Fortunately, the number is small today, and there is no competition now.
"Dongzi, there seems to be quite a lot floating today. You were here all day yesterday, and you only sold a total of seventy or eighty yuan. Today there are just more fishing boats, so they are spread out on every boat, which makes the quantity seem small..."
"There will be more tomorrow, and the number will probably increase day by day."
Except for Ye Yaodong and A Guang, everyone else looked happy and looked forward to making money if the quantity increased.
"It would be good if the quantity increased. We have been here for so many days, so today the quantity seems to be a little higher."
"I can finally start making money fishing for jellyfish, but there are too many boats..."
Ye Yaodong thought to himself, maybe there will be more ships in the sky tomorrow, which will be difficult...
Fortunately, he can earn another agency fee this year, so it is not in vain to lend his equipment to A Guang for long-lining these two days.
While they were talking, Father Ye and the other two boats also brought up several buckets of jellyfish that had been harvested and divided throughout the day.
"Ah... I have forgotten that you have so many boats. You still gain the most from such a group. I heard that several people did not prepare anything, and over time they all turned into water."
"Be prepared for any trouble. Anyway, my ship is big and it won't take up any space if I put it on. Okay, let's go back. They have all gone back."
Some fishing boats started to go home after communicating with each other because the sun was setting.
Everyone watched the fishing boats leaving one after another, said hello, and left.
Ye Yaodong and others tied up the small boats at the back and drove a boat with his father to follow the large group back.
After a while, the sea that was originally full of fishing boats suddenly became empty, and all the fishing boats headed back in the same direction.
When they docked, a large wave of fishing boats all returned to the dock together. Some of the small boats looked strange. When did so many boats dock together in such a neat manner?
People standing on the shore thought it was spectacular. The town had never seen so many boats before, let alone docking together.
The most conspicuous among them is the largest Dongsheng, which can be recognized from a distance. Since this boat has caught a large number of hairtail fish for two consecutive days, people on the shore are also waiting there curiously, wanting to see
Let’s see how many hairtails this boat can bring back today and how much they can be sold for.
Before their boat even docked, there was already discussion on the pier.
Everyone has been wondering since yesterday why the fishing boats from other places all go out together and come back together, but only two boats can catch a large amount of hairtail, and no other boats can.
However, they were destined to be disappointed today. The Dongsheng only carried jellyfish, and the total weight of the divided jellyfish heads and jellyfish skins was only about 1,000 kilograms, which was not as much as yesterday.
Other fishing boats coming back from the shore also have some jellyfish, and the scattered ones can be sold for a few yuan.
The local fishermen breathed a sigh of relief when they saw it. They no longer caught so many hairtails and made so much money, and they felt relieved.
And everyone is discussing that there are more jellyfish today. They are not looking at the number on the sea surface, but at the goods brought back by these fishing boats.
Because the quantity was not large, Aguang also went to sea today and had no contact on the shore, so they all sold them to the purchasing point on the dock as soon as they came back.
After everyone sold out the items, they were all piled on the open space at the purchase point. At first glance, the quantity was indeed quite large, with some weighing over ten thousand kilograms, so the locals diverted their attention and started talking about it.
"Is the flood coming soon? They can bring back so much in one day."
"Maybe it will be soon... There were not so many jellyfish on the pier yesterday..."
"I'm telling you, they all fished in one sea area..."
"Yes, we deliberately didn't go out to sea at night. We got up early in the morning and waited on the shore, so we followed them. We originally wanted to see where they caught the hairtail fish, but we didn't find the hairtail fish. Instead, we saw them rushing into a sea area. These
All were fished from the same sea surface..."
The crowd around him was in an uproar.
“All caught in one place??? Is it true?”
"Impossible...how can you be so concentrated..."
"Don't believe it. We were there all day without moving. We just watched the jellyfish keep popping up in that area. There are too many boats. Once the jellyfish pops up, the ones that are close
The boat fished them out immediately, and I only caught a dozen of them by chance..."
"There are really a lot of jellyfish there that keep popping up..."
"It's true, several of our boats were following behind this morning, and jellyfish really kept popping up there..."
"Where is it? Tell us, we will go tomorrow too, we can't take advantage of these foreigners..."
"Your small boats can't go there. It takes about an hour to sail. If you go there, it will probably take a whole day of rowing. Only our trawling boat can keep up and go."
"Those who ride horses, aren't they all advantaged by outsiders? They have so many boats, why don't they take them all?"
"I understand. No wonder they caught so much last year. They must have caught it from the same place..."
"Yes, yes, last year their group caught a lot of jellyfish, which means they were carrying guns. Everyone was afraid and didn't dare to follow..."
"tmd made them a lot of money last year, so more ships came this year... I said why there are more ships coming this year than last year..."
"We locals don't even have enough to catch. The fishermen in the town only rely on this flood season. Their small boats can earn dozens of yuan a day. They rely on this flood season all year round. They have caught everything, so what else do we have to catch?"
Some people hesitated and said: "But they went quite far. Even if they didn't catch it, we couldn't catch it..."
"You are stupid. Our local big boats can go fishing. If they have so many boats, aren't they also robbing us..."
A lot of discussion broke out in the crowd.
They had less goods today, so they weighed them casually and settled the bill quickly. It was just because there were many fishing boats and everyone was queuing up to get weighed, so it seemed a little slow. Then all these conversations from the locals reached everyone's ears.
The locals thought they couldn't understand, but in fact their local dialects had the same tones. Everyone understood about 50% to 60%, guessed what was being said, and started whispering to each other.
"I just asked why there are so many boats on the sea today? It turns out that their local people are following us secretly..."
"Fuck, these people are so shameless, they actually followed us..."
"Then what should I do? That location is exposed and they all know it..."
"What are you afraid of? We have more than a dozen boats and nearly a hundred people here, plus those who came later, there are more than twenty, and they also have nearly a hundred people. If the locals appear on the sea, they will not be as numerous as us. We
Even if we don’t bully them, how dare they bully us?”
"This is true... I wouldn't dare to measure them on the sea."
"But on the shore..."
"I'm afraid they'll lose a lot of money on the shore, but we still have 200 people. Do the locals dare to do anything to us? We go to sea during the day and come back at night. Aren't the Public Security Bureau nearby our rental? As long as we don't cause trouble, the Public Security Bureau will
You can’t just expel us just because we are outsiders, we haven’t broken any laws.”
"Yes, we are not afraid of them, so what if we let them know the place?"
"That is, don't worry about them. We will still stay here to salvage and make money. If there are only one or two boats, we are really worried about being killed by them at sea. We have dozens of boats going in and out together, who is afraid of them?
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Ye Yaodong had sold out the goods, but he was not in a hurry to leave right away. There were still people on their side who had not sold out, so he simply stayed where he was and listened to what the two parties were talking about.
Father Ye also said: "I really told you that there are locals following us today."
"Um."
"They all feel that we came here to steal their resources..."
"Um……"
"Is something going to happen then?"
Ye Yaodong sighed, "It's hard to say. Who knows what it will develop into? We all thought at the beginning that the worst we could do was to make a profit for two or three days. If the quantity increased, a lot would come in and come out at the same time.
, and then it was discovered by the locals. As a result, it was already known before large-scale salvage began.”
"It's getting harder and harder to make money."
"Let's go back and talk about it. We can understand 50% to 60% of what they say, and the locals can understand half of what we say."
"Your brother has sold out too, let's talk about it when we get back."
Chapter completed!