Chapter 1243

Lin Xiuqing walked and asked him again how the matter of going to the city to write an application report, applying to visit and inspect the research institute, and by the way, applying for species suitable for local aquaculture was going.

Ye Yaodong was worrying about how to write the application report, and her words directly solved his worries.

He immediately told her about the matter, then happily took her hand. "Wife, this matter is left to you. You write it out tonight, and it will be just right for me to submit it when I go to the city tomorrow."

"Ah? What?"

"Mm, it's settled. The matter is left to you."

Lin Xiuqing was surprised and wanted to break free from her hand, but it was grabbed tightly, and she was startled again when he kissed it by his mouth.

"What are you doing? How am I supposed to write it?"

"How can you not know how to write it? Isn't it quite simple? Haven't I been telling you all along? You also know it clearly. You just need to express the matter a bit better, be logical, and make it a bit more formal."

"Since you're so clear and so capable, why don't you write it yourself?"

"I can't. I only know how to talk, not how to do it. You can organize the sentences and try to write it."

"Then how should I write it?"

"Just what I've been talking about these past two days, don't you know it all? Oh, I'm exhausted. Hurry back to eat, you think about it."

Lin Xiuqing looked at the back that was thrown away, feeling empty. She glared at the back in front, feeling a bit annoyed. She had only listened to a few ears, and didn't know anything else, so how was she supposed to write it?

She ran after him. "Can't you write it yourself?"

"My handwriting isn't good, and I don't know how to write it either. You write it for me. Anyway, it's not very formal. Submit it to Godfather first. If it's submitted, it will definitely need to be polished and written more clearly."

"Or you say it and I write?"

"That works too. Then you organize the language, I'll say it and you write."

"Alright. You hurry up and practice your handwriting. You can't ask me to ghostwrite everything in the future, right? You still have to go to the Party School every now and then. If you practice your handwriting well, you'll definitely have to write political reports often."

"I know. I'll practice with you later. I'll practice handwriting and you write the application report, and by the way, I'll tell you what to write in the report content."

"That's more like it."

The couple were both a bit like facing a formidable enemy regarding the application report. After all, it was their first time writing one, and they didn't even know how to write the beginning.

While Ye Yaodong was eating, Lin Xiuqing had already set up the paper and pen, and then looked blankly at the blank notebook.

"What should I write at the beginning? 'Hello, Leader'?"

Ye Yaodong hesitated a bit. "Or 'Respected Leader, Hello'?"

"Fine, then what?"

"I'm eating. You write yours first. After you finish writing, I'll see if there's anything to add, and then we'll modify it."

Lin Xiuqing looked at the white paper with a headache, and could only improvise on the spot. Fortunately, she had been to school for a few days and had also written short essays.

"It's really troublesome. Why not just let the leaders write it? Anyway, you've already gone to talk about it."

"Are you stupid? I proposed it, and it's also my application report submitted. If the higher-ups approve the visit and research, and then the application for aquaculture is passed, and finally there's a bumper harvest, bringing benefits to all aquaculture households like kelp, and promoting the economic development of the whole city, isn't that a great achievement? Then wouldn't I, Ye, the president of the Fishery Association, be worthy of the name?"

Lin Xiuqing listened to him in a daze, and also felt it made sense. Instantly, she stopped nagging and immediately became serious.

This concerns her husband's reputation and credit.

After the meal, Ye Yaodong also took paper and pen to start practicing handwriting. The couple sat in the main room writing by the light, stunning the three siblings who ran back to the room to drink water.

The three of them ran into the room one after another, then stopped one after another, standing in a row.

"What are you doing? Eldest brother?"

"Brother?"

Ye Chenghu walked over curiously. "Dad, Mom, what are you writing?"

"Go to the side, don't make noise."

"Don't bother us, get out of the way..."

Ye Chenghu pursed his lips. "So fierce!"

Lin Xiuqing was worrying about how to write it. The three little ones on the side were standing in a row, from big to small, stretching their heads to stare, and couldn't be driven away.

She grabbed Ye Chenghu. "If you don't want to leave, then you stay and write another page of big characters for me."

"What!"

Ye Fu thought about it and felt it made sense. "That works too. You can also arrange the squid collection at home. The price of this stuff drops day by day, so you have to be the one to judge when to collect it. It sold fast last year, but if you want to store more goods this year, you'll have to keep an eye on it and let Acai save some for you."

"Too late, you dare to run and try?"

He could only stand in place with a bitter face, waiting for Lin Xiuqing to get him a practice book and a pen.

Ye Chengyang turned and ran away.

Ye Xiaoxi stood on tiptoe, her two hands reaching the edge of the table, looking at Ye Chengyang who had already run away. She hesitated but didn't run, tilting her head to look at Ye Chenghu's wrinkled face.

"Brother, are you going to cry?"

"None of your business."

"Brother, don't cry."

"I'm not crying."

"But you're about to cry."

"I'm not crying." He shouted even louder.

Ye Xiaoxi shrank her neck in fear, and said in a low voice, "Then you're not crying, do you love doing homework?"

"You're so annoying."

"You're the one who's annoying."

Lin Xiuqing put the paper and pen on the table and urged, "Write a page neatly for me before you can leave, otherwise go stand in the corner for me until you go to sleep before going upstairs."

Ye Chenghu took the pen and struggled for a while, weighed the pros and cons, and felt that it was better to finish writing quickly so he could run out and play for a while longer. Otherwise, he would really have to stand until bedtime, which would be too miserable.

The family of three sat on three sides of the round table, and there was also Ye Xiaoxi, who curiously watched them writing there the whole time. She moved to a position after watching for a while, and kept asking questions incessantly.

"Brother, you write so slowly..."

"Mom, what are you writing, so many words..."

"Dad, why do adults still have to write?"

"Dad, do you have to go to school too?"

"Brother, do you want an eraser?"

"Mom, you are so amazing... so many words... the more words, the more amazing."

The three of them were annoyed by her in turn, and all wanted to pat her head on the table, but couldn't drive her away.

Ye Yaodong looked at the little head beside him with a headache, her chin was still resting on the table, and her mouth was opening and closing. He was worried that her chin would be worn away.

In the end, he gave her 5 cents, let her go out to find Ye Chengyang, and let Ye Chengyang take her to buy something to eat. Only then did she run out happily, and the room quieted down.

Ye Chenghu heard that they were all going to buy something to eat, wrote a perfunctory page quickly, threw the pen directly, and ran out immediately.

The couple were too lazy to care about him at this time.

Lin Xiuqing pondered while writing, and even painted and changed, but she was the last one to finish, and then showed it to Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong looked at the list and it seemed that everything was written on it. The suggestions were well-founded, and even the kelp bumper harvest in the village was written on it. The logic was clear, and it was well-reasoned.

He said happily, "This is fine, it's written very well. Just like this, just copy it again, don't have any corrections."

"Then you copy it, anyway, it's already written for you."

"You write it."

"Is it your work or my work? It's already written for you, you just copy it."

"Alright then."

Ye Yaodong sighed, took the list with a bitter face, and continued to bury his head in hard work.

Doing manual labor is fine, but he didn't expect that he would also have to do text work.

But fortunately, his handwriting has improved a bit during this period, at least it can be seen.

After copying the list, he was also tired and went straight into the room to sleep.

He originally had the work of counting money, but he handed it all to Lin Xiuqing. This is also a big project. He is tired of counting it now and doesn't want to count it at all. As long as Lin Xiuqing finishes counting and reports a number to him, that's fine.

The next morning, Ye Yaodong took Chen Shi out to sea to collect the longline fishing gear again.

It had been placed for a whole day, but the harvest was very average, with only a 40% fish-catching rate. A small part ran away after biting the hook, some couldn't be pulled up no matter what, and some hooks were gone. He thought that the ones that ran away were probably big ones, and the hooks couldn't hold them.

However, this harvest was too poor, not as good as last year.

When all the longline fishing gear was collected, he estimated that there were only about 600 or 700 jin. The goods were large and small, with all kinds of fish. There was also a better blue grouper, 30 or so big squids weighing two jin each, but overall the harvest was not very good.

After collecting the longline fishing gear, he continued to collect the 6 rows of ground cages and 4 shrimp cages remaining from last year.

He didn't know whether to say he was unlucky. He put down so many, but only collected three shrimp cages.

A complete row of ground cages couldn't be collected, and it would get stuck after collecting only two or three net openings. You have to know that a row of ground cages has 10 nets, which is equivalent to the ground cages being completely wiped out.

Before, when placed here, there was never anything like this, at most two or three would hang on the bottom, failing before the start.

Ye Yaodong thought it was normal at first, until he tried all the buoys and found that at most he could only collect two or three before getting stuck. He cursed for a while.

"Damn it, what's the situation? It never happened before."

"Dongdong brother, how... all hanging..."

"How would I know? You ask me, who do I ask? There were never so many hanging on the bottom before. I thought it would be the same as before, but I didn't expect them to be completely wiped out."

The three shrimp cages collected only caught one small lobster, not a single sea cucumber, and not even many fish and shrimp. The six rows of ground cages were completely wiped out.

Looking at the bleak harvest, he couldn't believe it.

Clearly, there were quite a lot of small lobsters and sea cucumbers here last year. When he went down to the seabed, he could still see small lobsters hiding in the crevices of the reefs and running around. It was not easy to catch, but he could still catch a few.

It was the same for sea cucumbers. Placing 6 rows of ground cages down, he could at least catch a dozen or so.

Now they are almost completely wiped out.

What is the situation?

It's only been a year or so since he placed nets here, how could there be such a big change? It's not like time has passed and the terrain has changed.

"Wh-what to do?"

"What else can we do? Prepare, take turns going into the water to see. If you can untie the ones hanging on the bottom, that's best. If you can't untie them, take a look at the situation. Only after understanding it can you decide whether to come here to place ground cages tomorrow."

"Under... stood... also no ground... cages, to place..."

"Shut up! No one will treat you as a mute if you don't speak."

Ye Yaodong was a bit embarrassed and angry, saying such a big truth.

But indeed, they were already hanging on the bottom. If he didn't untie them for him, he wouldn't have ground cages to place tomorrow. With only three shrimp cages, what's the use?

He had to honestly place longline fishing gear.

As for small lobsters and sea cucumbers, he might have to go down and catch them himself.

Extremely unlucky!

He was very depressed in his heart, never thinking that ground cages could all hang on the bottom.

If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have placed them down.

He thought it would be the same as last year, with good luck, and it wouldn't necessarily hang on the bottom after collecting for a few days.

Maybe he could wait until he finished the kelp work, freed his hands, and then go into the water to check the abalone carefully to see if they had reproduced and grown again after these two years.

Plans can't keep up with changes.

Ye Yaodong took off his clothes first, went down himself, and let Chen Shi watch from above. After all, he would be more familiar with the bottom, and it wasn't very deep. Be careful, go down a few meters first, don't go to the bottom, it's not a big problem.

Today the sunlight is sufficient, the light is good, and going down a few meters, he can barely see the scene at the bottom.

It was just that when he slowly went down into the sea, it was only four or five meters down, and he was stunned.

At the bottom, a large area was densely packed with ground cages, hanging all over the dark reefs, and swaying with the waves, like a series of lanterns.

And each ground cage was full of fish, shrimp, and crabs, and some were filled with quite a few small lobsters. He was even more shocked, his eyes widened, and he couldn't even get close to the dark reefs, all blocked by the ground cages.

Many ground cages were also intertwined, and every ground cage was goods. Except for some damaged ground cages that would have fewer goods, others were really full.

How long have these ground cages been hanging on the bottom of the sea?

Looking at the full goods inside, squeezed and short, they must have been hanging for quite a long time.

And these intertwined ones were definitely not placed down at the same time, but placed down one after another, and then tangled together, so they couldn't go up.

Damn it...

He couldn't care about looking at the goods in these ground cages, thinking about continuing to check the side and the bottom.

Since he had already come down, he had to understand it clearly.

He swayed to the side, found a slightly more spacious position, and swam down another four or five meters.

The scene on the seabed shocked him even more. A large area of ground cages, at least several hundred, covered the seabed, pressing on the seaweed, all swaying with the waves in the same direction.

The situation was the same above and below. He shuttled through these ground cages, looking at the goods inside, some alive, some already dead, densely packed in the ground cages.

Except for a few ground cages that were still empty, located above, with only scattered fish goods, he could identify that these should be the ones he placed yesterday, also tangled by other ground cages.

He took a look, found an empty position on the seabed to stand, picked up a ground cage at his feet, and saw that several sea cucumbers inside were still alive.

A waste of natural resources.

These ground cages couldn't be collected, and the goods inside could only be stuck inside waiting to die.

He cursed in his heart, turned around on the seabed again, understood the situation, and then bypassed those ground cages swaying with the waves and went up.

No wonder when collecting longline fishing gear earlier, there were many hooks that couldn't be collected no matter what.

He and Chen Shi used all their strength, used their milk-feeding strength, but couldn't collect them, and there was no movement of struggling, almost cutting their hands. He could only take scissors to cut the branch line and give up.

At that time, he also thought the hook was hanging on the bottom, hooked something, so it couldn't be pulled up. If it were a fish, it would definitely struggle and give a reaction.

This hooked onto a ground cage, what reaction could it give? It couldn't be pulled, now it's really solved.

After surfacing, he found that he was a bit far from the fishing boat, so he swam toward the fishing boat.

"Dongdong brother... how?"

"Damn it, the bottom is all ground cages, densely packed with ground cages, at least several hundred."

"Ah?"

"Ah what? Hurry up and pull me up, almost suffocated me, it must be those two idiots."

Seeing all ground cages in the water, he had already thought of who did it.

"Who... who?"

"Besides Azheng and Hearing Xiao Xiao, what other two idiots?"

"Th-they, how... could?"

"How could they not? At first, I also led them over, let them go around to help me collect Jiang Yao, cooperate to divide it up, they also knew there were small lobsters and sea cucumbers at the bottom."

"Since I had the Dongsheng, I haven't trawled in the near sea. This place is empty, don't they have to use it? Come over to wander, try their luck?"

"Damn, those two idiots don't have diving equipment themselves. If the ground cages are placed and hang on the bottom, they can only give up, but they are reluctant to give up the sea cucumbers and small lobsters at the bottom, so they can only keep making ground cages and placing them down. As long as they can catch two or three, it's worth it."

"Those two idiots, can't I know them? So that's why the bottom is densely packed with ground cages."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but curse, "Idiot, so stupid, it really surprised me, and they didn't even say anything."

"Oh... then... then what to do? I... I... go down?"

"No need, I've already seen it, just know the situation at the bottom. So many ground cages at the bottom are also a huge project, and it can't be finished in a while. Just relying on the two of us can't handle it."

"Wait until I finish processing the kelp, then the Dongsheng will come back, call a few more people to go into the water to salvage those ground cages, those two idiots..."

Ye Yaodong was so angry that he cursed for a while.

But cursing is cursing, there are benefits to collecting these ground cages, and the goods naturally belong to him.

Looking at the ground cages one by one, they were all full, each had small lobsters, and those hanging to the bottom of the sea also had sea cucumbers. Although some were dead, there were also alive ones.

Wait until he collects the several hundred ground cages at the bottom, see if he doesn't make a big profit, it can be considered a turn for the better.

He thought his luck was too bad today, the longline fishing harvest was average, the ground cages were completely wiped out, and the shrimp cages didn't have much harvest, his heart was cold.

Didn't expect such a reversal, those two idiots earned him a sum.

Really.

Don't go down to see, don't know, go down to see, get a shock.

Wait until he collects all the ground cages at the bottom, go back and mock them well for making wedding clothes for him.

"Then... go back?"

"Go back, it really surprised me, those two guys..."

Ye Yaodong was indeed both surprised and happy.

He hurriedly went to change clothes. Today when going out to sea, he thought he might have to go into the water, the ground cages might hang on the bottom, and by the way, he also wanted to see if there were abalones on the dark reefs, so he also prepared an extra set of clothes, and could change temporarily.

Sneezed twice, changed clothes, and then felt warm.

On the way back, he had already seen two trawling fishing boats in the distance.

He cursed the two idiots again.

After docking, he told Chen Shi not to tell anyone about the ground cages at the bottom first.

He will free his hands in a few days, and then secretly call a few more people to collect those ground cages. Anyway, they are all hanging at the bottom, and they won't run away after so long, just do it slowly.

Acai knew he went to collect longline fishing gear this morning, and after collecting it, he immediately returned, and was already waiting for him at the pier.

"The harvest is not bad, how many baskets? There are several hundred jin."

"Average, so-so, hurry up and weigh, I'm still in a hurry."

"Know you are a busy person, immediately, you came back early, there are no other fishing boats at this time, no need to wait, immediately weigh the goods for you."

"Mm."

Ye Yaodong turned his head and told Chen Shi to go to the workshop to pass the message, let them load the kelp into the car, load it according to his requirements yesterday, the top must be covered with kelp, he will set off after weighing it here.

"You are really busy, rushing to the city without stopping?"

"For life, for money. If you don't work hard now, you will lose money, and you have to support the whole village."

"How great!"

"You tmd, are you being sarcastic to me?"

"What thing?"

Acai didn't understand what he was saying.

"I am sincerely praising you. After the whole village develops kelp aquaculture, with such a large quantity, won't they all have to rely on you? Otherwise, let the village sell to whom? At that time, they will all rot in the sea. Am I not praising you?"

"Sincere words, then that's good."

"Aren't you talking nonsense? Now the village cadres have to try hard to please you, and they have to listen to whatever you say. You let them go east, they dare not go west, the whole village has to rely on you, and has to rely on you to get rich."

"Then I dare not take it, who knows what the situation will be next year."

"Then at least now the village committee must listen to you in everything, you are their god of wealth, and they have to worship you."

"Don't nag, hurry up and weigh the goods."

"They have to be lifted in to be weighed..."

Ye Yaodong waited until he got the cargo list, then pushed the flatbed cart and hurriedly returned first, and didn't have time to ask Acai how he considered the matter he told him the day before yesterday.

Fortunately, he is not in a hurry, anyway, there is still a month.

Lin Xiuqing was watching them move the goods in the workshop. Ye Yaodong gave her the cargo list, and he was also watching on the side.

"The harvest is not bad."

"Not good, come back at night... I'll tell you tomorrow, the wet clothes are in the basket, you can take them back to wash later."

She looked at the clothes dripping with water on the flatbed cart, "So wet, did you go into the water?"

"Mm, all the ground cages are hanging on the bottom."

"I said why it seems like there are a few more things, it turns out the shrimp cages were brought back, not thrown down again? Those 6 rows of ground cages, all 60 are hanging on the bottom?"

"Yes, all the ground cages are hanging on the bottom, afraid that the shrimp cages will also be completely wiped out, so they were not placed down, and were collected back first. Later, you also ask someone to organize the longline fishing gear, and I will take it out to place tomorrow when I come back."

"Know it. Then your clothes are all wet because you went into the water to look at those ground cages hanging on the bottom? Can't the hanging ones be collected? Weren't they able to be collected before?"

Ye Yaodong originally wanted to tell her in detail tomorrow. Since the words were spoken, the kelp hadn't finished loading, so he said it.

"It's not because of the two idiots Azheng and Hearing Xiao Xiao, they have thrown quite a few ground cages around the dark reefs these past two years, wanting to catch sea cucumbers and small lobsters..."

He whispered, and Lin Xiuqing was surprised.

"Then if all those ground cages are collected, how many goods will there be? Several tons?"

"More than that, maybe over ten tons, several hundred ground cages, if one ground cage is full, it will have at least two or three hundred jin of goods, but many are dead, but there are also quite a few alive, it will be earned if all are brought up."

Lin Xiuqing smiled and said, "Then they stumbled and did a good deed to fulfill you?"

"Fulfill me, then they are also idiots. Without equipment, they can go into the water, and they keep throwing ground cages to the bottom, trying to gamble and earn back the cost. As a result, they are all stuck together, and even hooked the ground cages I placed yesterday, causing me to be completely wiped out."

"If all the several hundred ground cages at the bottom are collected, it will also be a huge project, and it will be hard work. What I earn is all hard-earned money."

Lin Xiuqing said, "Hehe... then wait for a while when you are a bit free and collect them slowly. Several hundred, I don't know how many trips you have to go into the water, you have to call more people."

"For sure, I definitely won't do it myself. In a few days, when Dad comes back, I will transfer the people on the Dongsheng to go into the water. Those on the boat are all young and strong, and they have been screened before, and they are all those who could go into the water before."

"Mm, take your time, anyway, it won't be gone. Then did you see if there are abalones on the dark reefs?"

"Yes, it's just that most of them were blocked by ground cages, and some ground cages hung on the dark reefs. I don't know if they hung on the dark reefs themselves, or were hit by sea waves and hung on them."

"As long as there are, it's fine. As long as those ground cages are collected, you can also easily collect a batch of abalones at that time."

"Mm, let's see, I don't know if there is enough time."

Think about several hundred ground cages, although they are full inside, and you can earn a sum if you collect them, but several hundred, I don't know if you can collect them all in a month.

Next is the squid fishing season, the jellyfish fishing season, and you have to go to salvage sea urchins, you must be running everywhere.

I don't know if Lin Jishang can get two more sets of diving equipment?

Smuggling was caught a few days ago, I don't know if it implicated him, I guess the channels are all broken?

And I didn't see anyone, I don't know what his situation is now, he is like a dragon that sees the head but not the tail, and it is not easy to contact.

"Have you heard any news about Lin Jishang, or his cousin Zhou Yechi these two days? Is there any wind blowing out?"

"No, didn't hear any rumors, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just thought it had been many days, I don't know if there is any result on his side, ask if you have heard any gossip. After all, there are all kinds of women in our workshop, and nothing can be hidden from them."

If there is no gossip at all, it means it hasn't exploded yet, maybe even the families of those smugglers don't know they were caught.

After all, it is possible that these smugglers have not returned home for months after leaving home.

"Didn't hear anything. If I heard anything, I would definitely tell you. Why are you asking about him for no reason? Anyway, it has nothing to do with us. If you ask too much, maybe they will think we have something to do with him."

"Ask out of curiosity, it's normal for villagers to care about each other."

"Only a few days, the city should not be able to find our village yet. You might as well ask Godfather in the city, maybe he knows more."

"Makes sense, when I go to submit the application report in the city today, I will ask by the way."