Ye Yaodong crossed his legs and lit a cigarette to refresh himself. Soon the closed space was filled with smoke. He also opened the window from time to time to let in some fresh air.
Feeling a little hungry, and seeing that everything was fine, he went down to get some food.
There is food on board 24 hours a day, and at least there will be a pot of hot seafood and hot water in the pot.
He went down and walked around. Several workers were talking and working there, and all of them were in high spirits.
He joked, "You can still talk so enthusiastically in such a strong wind, and your stomach is almost full from the wind."
"Isn't it? My throat is freezing."
"There is food and hot water in the pot. Don't catch a cold."
"Okay, I'll eat later when I'm hungry."
The manpower is reduced by half, and the goods are doubled. I don’t know if we can finish the work when the next net is collected.
As Ye Yaodong went to get food, he thought to himself that the net would be set up every three or four hours depending on the situation. It couldn't be set up for such a long time anymore because there was simply no way for manpower to do it.
He put a bunch of seafood in his aluminum lunch box, and planned to bring a hot water bottle to it to save himself from having to pour hot water back and forth.
Just as he turned around with a lunch box in his left hand and a thermos bottle in his right hand, a yellow-green figure jumped out of the water in front of him and fell into the water again.
"What? Ghost-headed sword?"
Ye Yaodong stretched his neck and watched a green figure on the water sinking to the bottom of the water.
While he was watching, two workers were also carrying a basket of fish and loading it into the freezer, and asked curiously beside him.
"What is the Ghost Head Sword?"
"I just thought I saw something green jumping across?"
"Are you dazzled? Why didn't I see it?"
"I did see some green ones. What you said makes me feel a bit creepy..." A boatman rubbed his arms in fear, and then looked left and right.
The sea all around was pitch black, so it would be fine if I kept my head down while working without staring at it and keeping my mind from wandering thoughts.
I'm afraid that once I'm free, I'll look at the darkness and emptiness around the sea, my mind will be too active, and I like to scare myself.
Ye Yaodong glared at them and hurriedly spoke out to prevent others from panicking when nothing happened.
"It's the Ghost-headed Knifefish. Where did you think it was? You're a coward. Two grown men are still scared."
"Is it a fish? I jumped a lot, thinking it was something, and then I heard something ghostly in the words you said..."
"Ghost, your eggs are fish."
"Are there any green fish? There seemed to be quite a long one just now."
The two of them calmed down after saying each other.
"Of course, there are fish of all colors in the sea, it just depends on whether you recognize them or not."
"That, that, that...Brother Dong..."
"What?" Ye Yaodong looked at the worker's direction in confusion.
Suddenly, there was a touch of green on the sea surface, which was floating in the wind and water, flowing in the same direction as their fishing boat, but at a much slower speed than the fishing boat.
"Huh? Moved with the wind? Died?"
"Brother Dong, is that the Ghost-headed Knifefish you just mentioned?"
"It's a bit far away. I can only see a touch of green. I can't see clearly. I'm not sure. When I pull it up to take a look, I'll drive the boat and drive around for a while. Then slowly get closer. You can use a hand net or a hand
Throw a net and see if it can come online."
"OK."
After Ye Yaodong finished his instructions, he took another look, and then quickly carried the things in his hands to the helm.
At this time, there was a red dot showing on the display screen. He was pleasantly surprised and thought of moving towards the red dot temporarily. The fish school was more important.
Anyway, that touch of yellow-green was very conspicuous in the dark night, and it was still floating on the sea. It looked like it was just dead.
If it is a ghost-headed swordfish, the color will slowly fade after death. I don't know if it will be done in time. If not, then we can only forget it.
The conspicuous yellow-green color is still easy to recognize now, but when it fades later, it will merge with the dark night, and you will no longer be able to see where it is floating in the vast sea.
Ye Yaodong took the fish detected by sonar first, but the fishing boat was also slowly moving that way, so it was considered a smooth sailing.
Now that he was on his way, he watched the screen move toward the big yellow-green fish.
The two workers were ready. When they got close, a hand-thrown net spread out and directly covered the yellow-green fish. At this time, the color was much lighter, with only the faint yellow-green color.
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The wind resistance is very strong, and the fishing boat cannot stop and must work. If it stops, the fishing net will hang on the bottom and sink.
The two of them struggled to pull, and it took them a while to drag the fishing net closer to them bit by bit, ready to collect it.
Ye Yaodong couldn't go down yet, and he also detected a dense school of fish, so he sat in the cockpit and watched first.
He didn't go on until the red dot on the display faded, turned yellow and then green.
At this time, the ghost-headed swordfish had faded away and did not have the bright yellow color they saw at first. They were all a little unsure.
When I was disemboweling and bleeding, I kept chanting.
"Is it this one? It wasn't this one just now. Did you catch the wrong one?"
"But when I just threw it out, it was still a little light in color, but it changed color when it came out of the water?"
"Who knows, it took a lot of effort to drag it up. It rolled over and over in the sea. I don't know if I caught it wrong."
Ye Yaodong said: "That's right, that's it. This is the Ghost-headed Knifefish. When it's alive, it's brightly colored, yellow-green or bright green. When it dies, the color will slowly fade away and it won't be that pretty.
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"No wonder, I said it looks quite conspicuous from the front, but it's black and gray. It's no different from ordinary fish..."
"Oh my God, why are there so many little turtles..." The man who was killing the fish and bleeding them exclaimed, and used the knife in his hand to fiddle with the little turtles wrapped in mucus.
"What little turtle..."
"Oh, I fucked so much..."
"There are so many little turtles that haven't been digested yet, and there's also a big squid..."
Ye Yaodong also looked surprised. There were so many turtles in the belly of this ghost-headed swordfish?
"Did it take a turtle's nest?"
"Two, four, six, eight... thirty, thirty-two, grass, 32 little turtles, it's really too much, no wonder they choked to death."
"I'm not afraid of indigestion either..."
"Choked to death?"
Ye Yaodong still didn't know how the ghost-headed swordfish died, but it suddenly surfaced, and he was really a little confused.
He didn't know if it was the same figure he saw running past.
The fish was visually measured to be about 1.3 meters long and weighed about forty or fifty kilograms. It had a blunt head, a cone-shaped body, and a slender, forked tail.
This fish is not solitary and lives in groups. It lives on the surface of the ocean and the water depth generally does not exceed 40 meters.
It is a glutton in nature and often pursues surface fish such as flying fish and sardines. Sometimes it will jump out of the water to catch food. It is a companion fish of tuna and swordfish.
He had also caught fish a few years ago, and he was lucky. His father and he encountered a sardine storm. The overwhelming sardines covered the sky, and there were a bunch of large and small deep-sea fish all around.
Drink, and their fishing boats also took the opportunity to catch wildly there.
The worker on the side picked up the head of a red fish and showed it to Ye Yaodong.
"It's this fish. It's stuck in its throat. It's probably dead. Anyway, when it was just disemboweled, we took out the fish from its throat first."
Ye Yaodong's eyes widened, "Fuck, this is a lionfish, buddy, you must not be pricked by its spines, haven't you been pricked?"
"No, just cut open the belly and cut it out with the tip of a knife. What happened?"
"The thorns on this back are so poisonous that even killing fish has to be considered."
As soon as he said this, the worker who was still holding the fish head was so frightened that he immediately let go, and the fish fell directly to the deck.
"Oh my god, I was scared to death. I almost met the King of Hell."
“Next time, I really can’t catch any fish I don’t recognize.”
"Fortunately, I didn't touch it just now..."
"Then this big fish must have been poisoned to death."
The lionfish is a small saltwater fish with a gorgeous appearance and venomous spines on its back. Due to its strong adaptability, rapid reproduction, and toxicity, its population is growing explosively every year.
Continued growth is also the reason why many fish species will become extinct after the 21st century.
In the future, many submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles will be named after fish, which is a common practice among navies of many countries.
For example, piranha, queenfish, sturgeon, and scorpionfish have been used to name submarines, while sailfish, manta rays, and swordfish have been used to name unmanned underwater vehicles, etc.
Later, lionfish also joined the ranks and was used by the beautiful and ugly army to name the next generation of small unmanned underwater vehicles.
Ye Yaodong slipped away with his hand.
People around him were shouting at him to be careful and throw it away quickly.
He nodded and threw a parabola back into the sea. In fact, you can eat it and it is delicious. The only thing that is poisonous is the thorns on the back. The meat is quite delicious.
But apart from him, no one dared to eat it, and he didn't want to eat it, so he just threw it away.
Only puffer fish are yyds.
"Sure enough, the more beautiful things are, the more poisonous they are. This fish is red and pretty, and the spines on its back and fins are huge. I didn't expect it to be so poisonous. It can kill such a big fish."
"How much can this fish be sold for?"
"If it's not valuable, let everyone try it hahaha..."
"This person who was poisoned to death shouldn't be poisoned, right?"
Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "I want to eat it, but I still ask if it is expensive? As long as it is not poisonous, it can be eaten after it is cooked, and it can be eaten as sashimi."
"If you catch it alive, the sashimi will be fresh, but this one is poisonous after all. It is no longer poisonous when cooked. You can eat it. Just don't eat it as sashimi. Life is important, so don't gamble."
"Forget it, I won't eat..."
"coward……"
After Ye Yaodong laughed and cursed, he ignored them and let them deal with it before returning to the cockpit.
He didn't know the current price of the Ghost-headed Knifefish at first. Ever since he caught it once a few years ago, he knew that this fish was not worth much. It was just beautiful, good-looking, and tasted okay.
People who say it doesn’t taste good actually don’t know how to eat it.
The meat of the swordfish is not as delicious as the meat of seabass, small yellow croaker, sea bream and other fish that you usually eat. At the same time, the swordfish has more spines, but it is eaten sliced, wrapped in bread crumbs and fried. Not to mention how fragrant it is, the sashimi is also good.
If there are no conditions on the ship, forget it. You can eat whatever they want. If you can't finish it, let them throw it away and freeze it.
After taking it home, he asked Ah Qing to fry it in a pot and keep it so fragrant that it can be swallowed by the tongue. If there is no bread crumbs, you can also fry it directly with flour.
When he sat back in the cockpit, there was no cold wind blowing, and he felt comfortable again.
If he wasn't curious, a ghost-headed swordfish wouldn't be worth the trip. He was simply surprised by the green figure he just encountered.
And he was bored in the cockpit and wanted to go for a walk and satisfy his curiosity.
The workers below are currently sorting, bleeding fish, and there are mountains of goods that have not yet been sorted.
He gave himself another cup of hot tea, and after one sip, his whole body warmed up.
The freshly packaged seafood has not been touched yet, so it is perfect for a late night snack.
There was a piece of meat from the deep-sea giant red squid, which he cut off on purpose, otherwise the whole piece would be enough for him to eat for a day.
The meat was about one centimeter thick, and it tasted soft and bouncy. It was freshly caught and extremely fresh. He couldn't wait to expose it, then tore it into pieces and ate it as a snack.
"It's a pity that we're missing two bottles of wine..."
The most delicious food is caught and eaten on the boat. It would be even better if it was paired with wine, but it’s a pity.
Ye Yaodong was eating with his mouth, his eyes not forgetting to stare at the screen, and he was listening to the radio in his ears. He was not bored anymore.
He put down the net around 12 o'clock, and he estimated that he would wait until around 4 o'clock to close it. It would be daybreak when the net was put up, and it would be time for others to get up and take over, so they could take over the sorting work.
It's almost 2 o'clock now, and it will be faster in another two hours.
Drinking tea can also refresh him. He is not sleepy at all, he just feels bored. The surroundings are pitch black and there is nothing interesting to see.
For the two ships in the distance, only light spots could be seen, and the hulls could not be seen clearly. They were both moving slowly, indicating that everything was going smoothly.
There is no sound on the public channel. If something happens, they can call him on the public channel.
They were probably too tired to talk. No one spoke at night, or maybe it was early in the morning and they might have changed people to sail the boat.
Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that it would be inappropriate to change Chen Shi to sail the ship. After all, he not only had to communicate with the people on their ship, but also had to maintain communication with other ships.
Everyone on their ship is used to Chen Shi speaking slower, but others are not used to it, so someone else has to change.
Until his stuttering gets better, he can still only work honestly.
Ye Yaodong began to think about the candidate again in his mind. After thinking about the people on the boat, he finally settled on a relative who was about 40 years old, and he was also a cousin.
The son born to his mother's cousin...a cousin is three thousand miles away...
The relationship is complicated, but it is quite complicated. His mother's aunt's daughter gave birth to a son...
It's quite simple to say it's simple. It's against the orthodoxy to call relatives.
There are a lot of relatives like this. They don't interact with each other normally, but when they have money, they get close and affectionate. They are all their own.
Moreover, the older generation is more productive. The slogan of the 1950s and 1960s was that there is strength in numbers.
The whole village is full of relatives, and his father is still a migrant. It would be even worse if he is local, and the surrounding villages are full of relatives.
At least half of the village now is full of relatives.
Half of the people on the ship are young in their 20s, and the rest range from 30 to 50 years old.
All the young people call him either boss or Dong Ge, and even those who are older than him, some now call him Dong Ge.
He was only forty or fifty years old. There was such a big age difference that people were too embarrassed to shout out and still called him A Dong.
Ye Yaodong feels that in a few years, when he reaches forty, someone will call him Uncle Dong.
If you call him boss, he won't object.
He thought about it for a while, and when it was almost 4 o'clock, the sorting of the goods at the bottom was still a little bad, but he couldn't care less because he had to go online.
Once the net is pulled up, the sun will probably almost rise.
"Get ready to close the net, close the net."
He stood on the helm with a loudspeaker and shouted, and the workers below immediately started moving.
When everyone was ready, he asked them to arrange the closing of the net.
This is the third network.
Today is also the second day, the eighteenth day of the lunar calendar.
The workers below also have some experience and are closing the nets in an orderly manner.
He did not return to the cockpit, but stood on the deck and watched, wondering what kind of goods this net could collect.
The first two nets were moving, and the second net was closer to the destination and collected a lot of large and small red squids. He estimated that this net was probably mostly squid, and there might be some ghost-headed swordfish.
After all, whether it is moon fish, ghost-headed saury, or bomb fish, they all like to feed on squid.
He just wondered whether this net would catch him tuna.
Tuna is valuable, but it cannot be compared with the swordfish and the bomb fish, and these two fish are half-raw fish of tuna.
Last night, due to the light, a bunch of bomb fish appeared next to the boat, and later he encountered the ghost-headed swordfish. He felt that there must be tuna in this area, but would he be lucky enough to catch one?
Internet, it’s all worth it.
Ye Yaodong stood on the helm and looked towards the stern of the ship. In the fishing net that was being collected bit by bit, he actually saw the brightly colored ghost-headed swordfish. This fish was very easy to identify, and the tuna was hard to see carefully.
He was fully wrapped up and didn't feel cold. He stood on the helm and watched patiently.
After all the fishing nets were collected and ready to be hoisted, the sun climbed up from the horizon and dawn broke.
He then asked them to go inside the cabin and call the other workers up. It was past 5 o'clock, and it was almost time to get up and take over the shift, just in time to collect the goods and hand them over to them.
I didn't stay up too late last night. Those who stay up late are the ones who work hard.
Now it's time to hang the fish bags, so I called my cousin to come up and teach me.
Everyone on his boat can also sail a boat, and can use most of the machinery and equipment for raising and lowering the net. At most, because the boat is large, the things in the cockpit are relatively sophisticated, and there are many control functions. Some of them need to be taught.
, it is a very simple matter to talk about the functions and give some guidance.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t be the case that we didn’t teach yesterday and would call someone over now.
Now he can also watch from the side, staying with him for several hours, waiting for all the goods to be collected, and then putting down the net again. Everything is in order. He can then go to sleep in the back. If there is anything, knock on the door, he can climb out immediately.
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"Wow... tuna!"
The rising sun was bright red, and the sky was misty, but the orange light shone on the fishing net, and with his keen eyes he saw the tuna inside.
As expected, according to his many years of fishing experience, if the ghost-headed swordfish and bomb fish appeared together, there would inevitably be tuna.
There are also a lot of ghost-headed swordfish in this net, which are very conspicuous. Some are brightly colored, and some are a little dull, which means some have just died and some have been dead for a while.
Ye Yaodong reminded them with a loudspeaker, "The swordfish will be chilled later, the tuna will be frozen, and other seafood will remain as is."
"Okay!" Everyone responded in unison.
When a package was put down, several tuna fell directly onto the deck because of their size.
Ye Yaodong knew it was big-eye tuna at a glance.
The body of the fish is gray and full of fat, the tail is short, and the head and eyes are large.
The ones that fell on the deck were about 5-0 meters long and probably weighed more than 200 kilograms, which was pretty big.
There are also several bomb fish, but this fish is not as big as the big eye tuna.
The back of the bigeye tuna's body is blue and cyan, and the sides and belly surface are silvery white. The meat is pink and a little soft.
The pectoral fin is very long, and its end is very prominent, extending below the second dorsal fin. The second dorsal fin is also very narrow, and its height is similar to the first dorsal fin.
The shellfish can be distinguished at a glance. The simplest way to distinguish it is that there are 4-6 black longitudinal bands on the belly of the bombfish.
The workers are also shouting that there is tuna in this net...
Everyone can recognize this fish, but bigeye tuna is not as valuable as bluefin tuna, but it is still better than bombfish and ghost-headed saury.
Ye Yaodong smiled and shouted with a loudspeaker: "I will kill a tuna sashimi later for extra meals."
"Okay~"
"Cousin Atie, come up here..."
"Why……"
He called people up, but they were still confused.
When they found out that he would be asked to take over the position, work shifts together, and get a half salary increase, they were all so happy that they couldn't believe it.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I can't stay awake. Come on, I'll teach you. You can probably do it anyway..."
"Yes, yes, I know it. I also learned it before."
"Well, listen again."
"Okay, okay..." He was very happy. The salary was already not low, and he could add half of it, so he made a lot of money.
It's easy to drive the boat in the cockpit, and there's no need to blow cold wind. There's nothing better than this.
"Dongzi, you are so awesome, hahaha..."
"Okay, why did you suddenly praise me again?"
"I really think you are very capable."
Ye Yaodong smiled, wasn't this obvious to everyone? The whole village knew it.
"This website has a lot of goods, I guess there are six or seven bags."
"It should be, those few pieces of tuna are quite heavy."
"Well, I'm sleeping in the cabin behind the cockpit anyway. If there's any accident or there's something wrong with the instruments that you can't understand or understand, call me right away. Don't be afraid of disturbing me."
"I see."
"Then you sit inside first and get familiar with it. I'll go outside and take a look. After a few bags of goods are put away, I'll go and rest."
Chapter completed!