Chapter 1345

Ye Yaodong propped up his feet, lit a cigarette to refresh himself; the enclosed space was filled with smoke in a while, and he also opened the window from time to time to ventilate.

Feeling a bit hungry, he looked at the situation and everything was fine, so he went down to prepare to take some food up.

There is food 24 hours a day on the boat; 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, all of them still full of energy.

He teased, "Can still chat so enthusiastically in such a big wind, the stomach is about to be filled with wind."

"Isn't it, the throat is cold."

"There is food and hot water in the pot, don't catch a cold."

"Okay, I'll go eat when I'm hungry later."

With half the manpower and twice the cargo, I don't know if they can finish it when the next net is hauled up.

Ye Yaodong thought while going to get food, haul the net according to the situation in about three or four hours, don't haul the net for so long anymore, the manpower simply can't handle it.

He filled his aluminum lunch box with a pile of seafood, and also planned to take a thermos up, saving himself from having to pour hot water back and forth.

Just as he had the lunch box in his left hand and the thermos in his right hand, and turned around, a yellow-green figure jumped out of the water and landed in the water again.

"What? Mahi-mahi?"

Ye Yaodong stretched his neck, watching a green figure on the water surface sink to the bottom of the water.

When he looked, two workers were also carrying a basket of fish cargo to the freezer, and curiously asked beside him.

"What is a mahi-mahi?"

"Did I just see a green thing jump?"

"You must be seeing things, why didn't I see it?"

"There was indeed a green one, you say it like that, I feel a bit creepy..." A boatman rubbed his arms in fear, and then looked left and right.

The surrounding sea surface was pitch black; it would be fine if you kept your head down and worked without staring at it, and didn't let your brain run wild.

It's just that when people are idle, looking at the dark and empty surroundings of the sea surface, their thoughts are too active, and they like to scare themselves.

Ye Yaodong glared at them and hurriedly spoke out, lest there was nothing wrong, and others were scared into panic.

"It's a mahi-mahi fish, what are you thinking, cowards, two grown men are actually still afraid."

"It's a fish? I was startled, thought it was something, and then just listened to you say there's a ghost in the word..."

"Ghost your egg, it's a fish."

"Are there green fish? It seemed quite long just now."

The two of them calmed down after saying one sentence after another.

"Of course, there are fish of all colors in the sea, it just depends on whether you recognize them."

"That that that... Brother Dong..."

"What?" Ye Yaodong looked curiously in the direction the worker pointed.

There was really a green color suddenly appearing on the sea surface, floating with the wind and water, flowing in the same direction as their fishing boat, but the speed was much slower than the fishing boat.

"Eh? Moving with the wind? Dead?"

"Brother Dong, is that the mahi-mahi fish you just mentioned?"

"A bit of distance, only saw a green color, can't see clearly, I can't be sure, wait until it's pulled up to take a look, I'll go drive the boat, turn around nearby, slowly approach, you guys use a dip net or a cast net to see if you can scoop it up."

"Okay."

After Ye Yaodong finished instructing, he took another look, and then quickly carried the things in his hands up to the wheelhouse.

At this time, the display screen was showing a large area of red dots; he was delighted and thought about temporarily moving toward the red dots, the fish school was more important.

Anyway, that yellow-green color was very conspicuous in the dark night, and it was still floating on the sea, looking like it was in a state of just dying.

If it was a mahi-mahi fish, the color would slowly fade after death, and I don't know if it will be in time; if not, then it can only be forgotten.

Now the conspicuous yellow-green color is still easy to identify; after a while, when the color fades and it blends into the dark night, it won't be seen floating in the vast ocean.

Ye Yaodong prioritized the fish schools detected by sonar, but the fishing boat was also slowly shifting toward that side, which could be considered on the way.

Since it was on the way, he watched the display screen and moved toward that yellow-green big fish.

Two workers were already ready; after getting close, a cast net was spread out, directly covering that yellow-green fish; at this time, the color had faded a lot, with only a faint yellow-green color appearing.

The wind resistance was very large, and the fishing boat couldn't stop; it had to operate; if it stopped, the fishing net would hang on the bottom and sink.

The two of them pulled hard, and it took a long time before they dragged the fishing net to the front, preparing to haul it up.

Ye Yaodong couldn't go down yet, and still detected dense fish schools, so he sat in the wheelhouse and watched first.

Until the red dots on the display screen faded, turning yellow and then green, he walked down again.

At this time, that mahi-mahi fish had already faded, without the tender and bright color seen at the beginning, and they were all a bit uncertain.

When opening the belly and bleeding, they were all muttering.

"Is this the one? It wasn't this one just now, did we scoop the wrong one?"

"But when it was thrown out just now, it still had a bit of faint color, did it change color when it left the water?"

"Who knows, it took a lot of effort to drag it up, rolling and rolling in the sea, don't know if we caught the wrong one."

Ye Yaodong said, "No mistake, it's this one; this is a mahi-mahi fish, the color is bright when it's alive, yellow-green or bright green, and after it dies, the color will slowly fade, not that good-looking."

"No wonder, I said it looked quite conspicuous at first, why is it black-gray when hauled up, no different from ordinary fish..."

"My goodness, heavens, why are there so many small sea turtles..." The person who was killing the fish and bleeding exclaimed, and used the knife in his hand to poke those small sea turtles wrapped in mucus.

"What small sea turtles..."

"Oh my, damn, so many..."

"So many small sea turtles, haven't been digested yet, and there's a big squid..."

Ye Yaodong also looked surprised; so many sea turtles in the belly of this mahi-mahi fish?

"Did it end the nest of sea turtles?"

"Two, four, six, eight... thirty, thirty-two, grass, 32 small sea turtles, really excessive, no wonder it choked to death."

"Not afraid of indigestion..."

"Choked to death?"

Ye Yaodong didn't know how this mahi-mahi fish died; it suddenly floated to the water surface, and he was really a bit puzzled.

Don't know if it's the same one as the figure I saw flashing by?

This fish is visually estimated to be about 1.3 meters long, weighing about forty or fifty jin, with a blunt and round head, a conical body, and a slender forked tail.

This fish is not solitary, it is also gregarious, inhabiting the surface layer of the ocean, with a water depth generally not exceeding 40 meters.

It is greedy, often chasing and catching flying fish and sardine-like surface fish, sometimes jumping out of the water to feed, and is a companion fish of tuna and swordfish.

He also caught them a few years ago, just by good luck, encountering a sardine storm with his father; those sardines covered the sky and the sun, and a pile of various deep-sea fish of all sizes were eating and drinking wildly there, and their fishing boat also took the opportunity to catch wildly.

The worker on the side picked up a red fish head and showed it to Ye Yaodong.

"It's this fish, it got stuck in its throat, probably died, anyway, when opening the belly just now, this fish in the throat was taken out first."

Ye Yaodong's eyes widened, "Damn, this is a lionfish, buddy, don't get pricked by its thorns, didn't get pricked, right?"

"No, opened the belly, directly used the tip of the knife to cut it out, what's wrong?"

"The thorns on this back are highly poisonous, even killing the fish requires careful consideration."

As soon as this was said, the worker who was still holding the fish head was so scared that he let go immediately, and the fish fell directly to the deck.

"Oh my mom, scared me to death, almost saw the King of Hell."

"Really can't grab unknown fish casually next time."

"Fortunately, I didn't touch it just now..."

"Then this big fish must have been poisoned by it."

Lionfish is a small seawater fish with a gorgeous appearance and poisonous thorns on its back. Due to its strong adaptability, ability to reproduce quickly, and toxicity, its population grows explosively every year.

Continuing to grow, it is also the reason for the extinction of many fish species after the 21st century.

Later, many marine biological names of fish will be used to name some submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles, which is a common practice for the navies of many countries.

For example, piranha, queen fish, sturgeon, and scorpion fish have been used to name submarines, while sailfish, devil fish, and long-knife fish have been used to name unmanned underwater vehicles, etc.

Later, lionfish also joined this ranks and was used by the beautiful ugly military to name the next generation of small unmanned underwater vehicles.

Ye Yaodong picked it up casually.

The people around were all shouting for him to be careful and throw it away quickly.

He nodded, threw it back into the sea with a parabolic arc; actually, it can be eaten, it is also delicious, only the thorns on the back are poisonous, the meat is still quite delicious.

But except for him, surely no one else would dare to eat it, he is not greedy for this bite, just throw it away.

Only pufferfish is the yyds.

"Sure enough, the more beautiful things are, the more poisonous they are; this fish is red, quite beautiful, and the thorns on the back and fins are big, didn't expect it to be so poisonous, even such a big fish was poisoned to death."

"How much can this fish sell for?"

"If it's not valuable, let everyone taste it, hahaha..."

"This one was poisoned to death, should it be non-toxic?"

Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "Thinking about eating it, and still asking if it's expensive? It's fine if it doesn't poison you to death, it can be eaten after being cooked, forget about sashimi."

"If it was caught alive, then sashimi would be fresh, but this one was poisoned to death, it's non-toxic after being cooked, it can be eaten, forget about sashimi, life is important, don't go to gamble."

"Forget it, I won't eat it..."

"Coward..."

After Ye Yaodong laughed and scolded, he didn't care about them, let them handle it, and returned to the wheelhouse himself.

He didn't know the current price of this mahi-mahi fish at first; since he caught it once a few years ago, he knew that this fish is not valuable, purely beautiful, a face value representative, and it's okay to eat.

People who say it's not delicious actually don't know how to eat it.

The meat quality of mahi-mahi fish is not as delicious as the bass, small yellow croaker, sea bream, etc., that are usually eaten, and at the same time, mahi-mahi fish has more thorns, but slicing it and coating it with breadcrumbs and frying it is very fragrant, and sashimi is also good.

Forget it if there are no conditions on the boat, let them toss it however they want to eat it; if they can't finish it, let them throw it into the freezer.

After taking it home, he will let Aqing fry a basin, I guarantee everyone will be so fragrant that they will want to swallow their tongues; if there are no breadcrumbs, they can also fry it directly with flour.

After sitting back in the wheelhouse, without the cold wind blowing, he felt comfortable again.

If it weren't for curiosity, a mahi-mahi fish wouldn't be worth him running down specially, purely because he was amazed by the green figure he encountered just now.

And he felt stuffy in the wheelhouse, wanted to go down and walk around, and also satisfy his curiosity.

The workers below were sorting, bleeding the fish, and there was a pile of cargo like a mountain that hadn't been sorted yet.

He poured himself another cup of hot tea, took a sip, and his whole body warmed up.

The seafood packed up just now hadn't been touched yet; it would be just right as a midnight snack.

Inside, there was a piece of big red squid meat, which he specially cut off, otherwise that whole thing could be his meal for a day.

This meat was a centimeter thick, felt soft, QQ and elastic, and it was just caught, exceptionally fresh; he couldn't wait to dry it, and then tear it to eat as a snack.

"Missing two bottles of wine, what a pity..."

It's best to eat it fresh after catching it on the boat; it would be even better if there were wine to pair with it, what a pity.

Ye Yaodong ate while not forgetting to stare at the screen, listening to the broadcast by the way, and he wasn't bored anymore.

He released this net around 12:00, and he estimated that he would haul it around 4:00; when it was hauled up, it would be dawn, and others should get up to take shifts, just in time to take over the sorting work.

It was almost 2:00 now, and in two hours, it would be fast.

Drinking tea can also refresh him, and he wasn't sleepy at all, just felt bored, and everything around was pitch black, nothing to look at.

The two boats in the distance could only see light spots, couldn't see the boat body clearly, and were all moving slowly, which meant they were all going smoothly.

There was no sound on the public channel; if they encountered anything, they could also call him on the public channel.

Probably they had all passed the urge to talk; no one talked in the middle of the night, and maybe it was dawn, and they changed people to drive the boat, maybe.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that changing Chen Shi to drive the boat was a bit inappropriate; after all, he didn't just communicate with the people on their boat, but also had to maintain communication with other boats.

The big guys on their boat were used to Chen Shi speaking slowly, but others weren't used to it, so he still had to change someone.

Before his stuttering got better, he could only honestly do the work.

Ye Yaodong started to ponder the candidate in his heart, thought about the people on the boat, and finally decided on a relative in his 40s, who could be considered a cousin.

The son born by his mother's cousin... a cousin three thousand miles away...

The relationship is said to be complicated, it is also quite complicated; the son born by the daughter of his mother's aunt...

It is also quite simple to say; anyway, collectively called relatives.

Such relatives are everywhere; there is no contact normally, and when there is money, they are intimate, and they are all their own people.

And the older generation can give birth more; the slogan of the 50s and 60s was that there is strength in numbers.

The whole village is a relative with a turn; his grandfather is an outsider; if it were a local, it would be even more incredible; the surrounding villages are all relatives.

Now at least half the village is a relative with a turn.

Half of the people on the boat now are 20-something, young, and the rest are between 30 and 50.

Some of the young ones call him boss, some call him Brother Dong, and even those older than him now call him Brother Dong smoothly.

There are also those in their 40s or 50s, with too much age difference, who are embarrassed to call out, and are still calling him Adong.

Ye Yaodong feels that in a few years, when he is 40, someone should call him Uncle Dong.

If they call him boss, he doesn't object.

He pondered for a while, and when it was almost 4:00, the sorting of the cargo below was still a bit short, but he couldn't care about it, and had to haul the net.

When this net is hauled up, the sun should be about to rise.

"Get ready to haul the net, haul the net."

He stood on the wheelhouse with a megaphone and shouted, and the workers below also moved immediately.

After everyone was ready, he let them arrange the net hauling themselves.

This is the third net.

Today is also the second day, the 18th of the lunar calendar.

The workers below also had a bit of experience, and they all carried out the net hauling in an orderly manner.

He didn't return to the wheelhouse, but stood on the deck watching, not knowing what cargo could be hauled up in this net.

The previous two nets were moving, the second net was close to the destination, and hauled a lot of big and small red squid; he estimated that this net was probably mostly squid, and there might be some mahi-mahi fish.

After all, whether it is moonfish or mahi-mahi fish, or triggerfish, they all like to feed on squid.

It's just that he guessed whether this net would catch tuna for him.

Tuna is valuable, not comparable to mahi-mahi fish and triggerfish, and these two fish are companion fish of tuna.

Because of the light irradiation last night, a pile of triggerfish appeared on the side of the boat, and later encountered mahi-mahi fish, he felt that there must be tuna in this sea area, it's just whether there is luck to catch it; if he could catch one net, it would be worth it no matter what.

Ye Yaodong stood on the wheelhouse and looked at the stern of the boat; in the fishing net hauled up little by little, there were really brightly colored mahi-mahi fish seen; this fish is very easy to identify, tuna can't be seen clearly.

He was wrapped tightly, didn't feel cold, stood on the wheelhouse and watched patiently.

After all the fishing nets were hauled up and ready to be hoisted, the sun also climbed up from the horizon, dawn broke.

Only then did he let them go to the cabin and call the other workers up; it was past 5:00, and it was about time to get up to take shifts, just in time to hand over the cargo to them.

They didn't stay up too late last night, these people who stayed up late are the hard-working ones.

It just so happens that the fish collection bag needs to be hoisted, call that cousin up and teach him.

Those on his boat can also drive the boat, and most of the machinery and equipment for hauling and releasing the net are also used; at most, because this boat is big, the things in the wheelhouse are more sophisticated and have more control functions, so individual ones need to be taught, explained, and guided, which can be considered a very simple matter.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been taught yesterday, and people wouldn't have been called over at this time.

He can also watch from the side now, accompany for an hour or so, and after all the cargo is hauled, and the net is released again, everything is in order, then he will go to the back to sleep; if there is anything, knock on the door, and he can climb out immediately.

"Wow ha... tuna!"

The rising sun was red, the sky was misty, but the orange-yellow light shone into the fishing net, and he saw the tuna inside with sharp eyes.

Sure enough, as he expected, according to his many years of fishing experience, if mahi-mahi fish and triggerfish appear together, then tuna is inevitable.

There are quite a few mahi-mahi fish in this net, very conspicuous, some are brightly colored, some are already a bit dim, meaning some just died, some died for a while.

Ye Yaodong used a megaphone to remind them: "In a while, mahi-mahi fish fresh, tuna frozen, other seafood as original."

"Good!" Everyone responded in unison.

After one load of cargo was released, several tuna fell directly onto the deck because of their large size.

Ye Yaodong knew at a glance that this was bigeye tuna.

The fish's body is gray, full of fat, the tail is short, and the head and eyes are big.

The body length of those that fell on the deck is about 1.5-2.0 meters, and the weight should all exceed 200 jin, which is incredible.

There are also several triggerfish; this fish is not as big as the bigeye tuna.

The back of the bigeye tuna's body is blue and cyan, and the side and abdomen surface are silver-white. The meat is pink and a bit soft.

The pectoral fin is very long, 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.

And triggerfish can be distinguished at a glance; the simplest way to distinguish is that the triggerfish has 4-6 black longitudinal bands on the abdomen.

The workers were also shouting that there was tuna in this net...

Everyone can still recognize this fish; however, bigeye tuna is not as valuable as bluefin tuna, but it is still better than triggerfish and mahi-mahi fish.

Ye Yaodong smiled and shouted with a megaphone: "In a while, slaughter a tuna for sashimi, extra meal."

"Good~"

"Cousin Tie, come up..."

"Hey..."

He called the person up, and the person was still confused.

After knowing that he was to take over the position, take shifts together, and add half the salary, he was so happy that he couldn't believe it.

"Really?"

"Yes, I can't stay up all night, come, come, I'll teach you, anyway, you probably know most of it..."

"Know, know, know, I know, I also learned before."

"Well, listen again."

"Good, good, good..." He was very happy; the original salary was not low, and he could add half, which was earned.

Driving the boat in the wheelhouse is easy, and there is no need to blow the cold wind; there is nothing better than this.

"Dongzi, you are really amazing, hahaha..."

"Good, good, why are you suddenly praising me again?"

"I really think you are too capable."

Ye Yaodong smiled; isn't this obvious to all? The whole village knows it.

"There is quite a lot of cargo in this net, it is estimated that there can be six or seven loads."

"Should be, those few tuna have a lot of weight."

"Well, anyway, I sleep in the cabin behind the wheelhouse; if there is any accident or if there is a problem with the instrument somewhere, and you don't understand or don't know, call me immediately, don't be afraid of disturbing me."

"I understand."

"Then you sit inside first, familiarize yourself, I'll go out and take a look, and after a few loads of cargo are released, I'll go to rest."

"Good."