Chapter 1392: Preparing to Double

The matter of the goods was resolved, and Ye Yaodong felt light.

There were no worries about collecting goods at sea the next day.

He waited there all day long. Whichever boat cast its net, he would approach to collect the goods. Several boats took turns, and those whose turn hadn't come continued to trawl nearby, which didn't delay anything.

Busy from morning till night, altogether they managed to get 80-something tons of goods for him, not including his own Ocean No. 1.

These few boats had come out the day before yesterday at dawn, so it was only two days and a bit, and the harvest was considered very average. However, this was relative; compared to being at home, it was already very good.

After Ye Yaodong collected all the goods, he contacted his father. He estimated that the current distance was reachable; they were all in the fishing grounds, just a difference in distance.

Sure enough, after shouting on the public channel, he got a response from his father, and the two went to a small channel to talk.

"Dongzi, I've been waiting for you. Hurry, hurry, open the boat over to collect the goods on the boat..."

"How is the catch volume these two days?"

"Too much, too many goods. Dragging a net up can have 8 to 10 bags. More than half have to go back into the sea, but it can still leave about 20,000 jin. It's incredible, every net collected these two days has such a quantity."

"Holy shit, so much!"

Before, at home, basically one net up would be 6 to 8 bags, and one bag was generally about 5,000 jin. It was just that there was too much debris, or too many useless goods, so more than half had to be thrown away.

Ye Fu was jubilant on the other end, "That's right, the goods here are too concentrated. In just two days, there are already 80 or 90 tons. You must open the boat out tomorrow to pull the goods back. Otherwise, that fresh-catch collection boat of yours won't be able to bear 100-something tons of goods."

"Understood, I know. I'll open the boat to collect the goods early tomorrow morning."

Ye Fu laughed happily, "Earned big. It looks like you'll have to come out every one or two days."

"I estimate that if there's good weather, I'll have to come out every day."

"How is the goods collection of the other few boats?"

"It will be a bit worse. I see more boats in the near sea this year. There are many fishing boats operating on the sea surface where they are catching."

When he went to collect goods, he stayed on the sea surface, and there were more than a dozen boats within sight, and the flow was quite large. Some left, and some came. The plundering was a bit ruthless.

It was no wonder the resources were becoming more and more exhausted.

The Zhoushan fishing ground is the largest fishing ground in our country, with the four major economic fish species of large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, hairtail, and cuttlefish (squid) as the main fishery products.

But there are also not a few other seafood varieties, including hundreds of species such as mackerel, conger eel, mackerel, filefish, pomfret, sea bass, sea bream, grouper, swimming crab, various shrimp, etc.

It is also a spawning and foraging place for numerous economic fish and shrimp species.

Large fishing boats go out to sea for ten days or half a month and can basically catch hundreds or thousands of tons of economic fish.

Ye Fu said proudly: "That's still better on my side. I see only four or five boats nearby."

"I'll tell them when I return, let them open further out."

"Right, let them change places to catch more. Then remember to come out to collect goods early tomorrow morning."

"Good."

After Ye Yaodong finished talking with his father, he immediately contacted the other boats. After all, others didn't have as much experience. Seeing that the current goods collection was better than at home, they were probably very satisfied and wouldn't run around, and he was the same.

Without comparison, naturally, everyone was very satisfied.

He knew the catch volume of Ocean No. 1 must be astonishing, but he didn't expect that the goods of this one boat would be worth those six boats there. He didn't know how the quality was, but the quantity alone was already scary.

Before, the catch volume of Ocean No. 1 at home wasn't small, and there were more and more concentrated economic fish here. It looked like the fresh-catch collection boat would have to come out to collect a wave of goods every day from now on.

One trip specifically to collect Ocean No. 1's goods, one trip specifically to collect the other few boats' goods, this was also not bad, and the earning efficiency was higher.

When he didn't have time, he could hand over the connection to Ocean No. 1 to his cousin. Anyway, it was his own boat, the goods didn't need to be weighed, just move them back.

The goods of the other few boats still had to be weighed and recorded well. He didn't know if his cousin could write; many people knew limited characters but couldn't write.

Later, he could ask if there was anyone on the boat who could write. Anyway, he had to gradually transfer the work out and let others do it.

And he only needed to be responsible for delivering goods and collecting money on the shore, reducing his own workload.

He was a boss now, there was no need to do everything himself. Gradually cultivate people, let the workers do it. Anyway, their few boats were all their own people, no cash transaction was needed, and the personnel on the boat could also supervise each other.

After telling everyone, he went to call his cousin up to open the boat, while he himself took the notebook and went to the deck to sort the goods first.

This boat's goods basically had a landing now, just return and deal with it.

The notebook recorded how much quantity everyone needed and what fish they wanted. He started sorting in advance now.

Move his mouth, let the workers weigh the goods, and after docking, he could call a car to load and deliver them.

By the way, he also asked others if anyone could write. However, the older ones really didn't know how to write, at most recognizing a limited number of characters.

Only two young ones, not yet 20 years old, could write a little. Ye Yaodong remembered them first, preparing to bring them up in these few days, and let these two take turns recording when weighing goods later.

If the goods were collected today and delivered to everyone's hands, and the price and quality were satisfactory, they could definitely continue to cooperate and continue the quantity and time required for the next batch.

He would deliver it directly at the agreed time, saving them from coming out to purchase and move.

And he could also give a relatively low price. Anyway, it was his own goods collected by his fresh-catch collection boat (except for one boat, other boats all had shares). A few days ago, he raised the price back to 60%.

As long as he could save some trouble and be more convenient, it was right to give up some profit.

Resources were abundant here, everyone didn't go far to catch, and the return trip only took two hours.

Ye Yaodong only weighed a part of the goods, piled them on the deck first, and didn't weigh them because there wasn't enough space. It just happened that they docked.

He handed the recorded notebook to his cousin and let his cousin arrange for people to weigh the goods.

While he himself went to hire a tractor, moved the goods already weighed on the deck onto the car, and took half the people to deliver goods and collect money from house to house first.

Busy until the moon was on the willow tips, he delivered all the goods on this boat, and collected a full bag of cash.

There was also a small part of the quantity left. He sold it casually for a while, and seeing that there wasn't much left, and they were all cheap goods, he just waved his hand and returned directly.

It was already very late. Bring the remaining goods back to deal with, saving a crowd of people standing and staying up together. The quantity was small and not easy to sell.

On the way back, the workers were even more excited than him.

"Dong-ge, you must have sold over 10,000 today, right?"

"Every trip delivered is a settlement of hundreds or thousands of yuan, too awesome..."

"Dong-ge, you really are the person I admire most in my life..."

Ye Yaodong covered his bag and beat them, "How can it all be mine? This is just the money sold. When other boats return, the money from selling goods still has to be calculated for them."

"There is some profit, but don't you have expenses? Such a large boat, bearing weight and consuming oil, the oil money for the round trip is hundreds of yuan, plus your wages, your food and drink, all need money."

"Now that row of buildings at the site, I spent more than 30,000 just building the house, and it's not finished yet. The land also cost tens of thousands."

Damn, still owe 200,000 to the bank. If I don't earn more, where will I get the money to fill these holes?"

"Still have to raise you. Just the three boats on hand, there are already 30-something workers. Do you know how much wages are paid a month?"

"Just your wages, it's 5,000 yuan a month! Those three boats just adding oil once costs 6,000 or 7,000. Do you know how many times a month they have to add?"

"Damn, I don't even know how much money has to be spent a month. This earning is only this little. I don't know how many years it will take to pay back the 200,000 owed to the bank."

"You all work harder and more diligently, pray that I earn more, so that there will be money to pay your wages and red envelopes at the end of the year."

"Still have to go back and count, after deducting the money for this trip's goods, whether the remaining money is enough to finish the site. The wages of more than a dozen workers there haven't been settled yet, and it's almost time to pay the wages."

Everyone listened to him calculating thousands and tens of thousands, and they were all stunned. They couldn't imagine how so much could be spent?

If it were given to them to spend, they couldn't imagine how to spend so much money?

They were still spending money in cents and dimes, and A-Dong was already talking about thousands and tens of thousands...

"My mother, how much do you earn to be enough..."

"Your expenses are too fierce..."

"Have to spend so much..."

"Dong-ge is a big boss, otherwise how could he hire so many of us to work? It's normal for expenses to be big. Which big boss doesn't raise a bunch of people?"

"This is also too awesome. Then it's true, the money earned today isn't much for Dong-ge..."

"Too capable. Dong-ge is also very familiar with those bosses, and even made an appointment to play cards together tomorrow!"

Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "Go, treat everyone to a late-night snack. Busy all day, just right to have a late-night snack and go home to sleep."

"Alright..."

"This is good!"

"There are many stalls on the street next door, which can open from dusk till dawn, and there is everything to eat."

"Go, anyway, it's not far from home."

The workers were all happy, and they could eat and drink their fill before going back to sleep.

In their hearts, they also thought that following Ye Yaodong to work, the food and drink benefits were really nothing to say. He wasn't stingy, wasn't petty, and wouldn't cut corners to save money on this point.

Ye Yaodong thought the same. They came out to work with him to earn money. He was generous, and the workers felt comfortable working, and they were all their own people from the same village.

After everyone ate and drank their fill and went back happily, Ye Yaodong took advantage of everyone taking a bath and went into the room to count the money himself.

A full bag of money was poured onto the straw mat. They were all whole numbers, no coins.

He wiped off the odd numbers, no cents or dimes, all were heads, and most were ten-yuan notes, which were convenient to count.

In a while, he stacked several piles, 100 notes per pile, specially pulling out one note horizontally to clamp the money together.

When it was enough for 10,000 yuan, he took a rubber band to integrate the piles of money together and tied them up with a rubber band.

After counting, there was a surplus. Compared to last year's quantity, it wasn't much, but it wasn't bad. After a period of time, when the hairtail fishing season slowly came, he would use radar nets to trawl, and the catch volume could be even higher.

He counted it again happily, and after confirming it was correct, he put it into the password box and locked it, and then continued to calculate the goods list.

He had a count of how much money he would divide himself, directly calculating 40% of the total sold just now, which was 5,000-something yuan.

After deducting oil money and expenses, there was nearly 5,000 yuan left. This was purely earned in one day. This was because there were many fish goods here, and the price would be lower than their side.

Tomorrow, he would go out to sea to collect Ocean No. 1's goods again. After delivering the goods to them just now, a few people ordered tomorrow's quantity again.

Tomorrow's boat's goods were even more incredible. They were all his own, no need to give half to other fresh-catch collection boats.

Ye Yaodong thought about it and was excited. That boat was really a big killer.

Calculating this way, if he went out to sea every day, plus the dividends of several boats, he could have 10,000 yuan coming in every day. What is called earning money every day! This is it!

He couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Sure enough, channels are king, and having production tools and channels, this era is the life of earning money.

In the first three years, tossing this and tossing that, he only saved tens of thousands of yuan with hard work. It only started to double after coming out the year before last. After having more boats last year, coming here doubled it even more.

This year the boats are even more powerful, and his income will have to double again.

Ye Yaodong happily started flipping through the calendar he specially brought up, pondering how many days were left until the New Year.

However, this calendar only went past New Year's Day. If he wanted to buy a 1988 calendar, he could only wait until December to see this year's New Year time.

He flipped the calendar to the end, December 31st, the lunar calendar was only November 11th, so the New Year would be in mid-February.

Then he would definitely stay until the end of January, and then go back for the New Year.

Counting from beginning to end, that would be 4-something months!

However, in October, they would definitely have to go home once, so there were still 4 months.

Earned big!

However, imagination is beautiful, and reality is skinny.

He couldn't be excited for more than one night. When he got up the next day, he felt the weather was a bit wrong. Although it was still a bright sun, he felt the wind.

Now it was summer, midsummer, a bright sunny day, and he felt something was wrong with the wind.

And the other workers also got up early and sat there discussing that a typhoon was coming.

"A typhoon is coming?"

"Right, A-Dong, you're up. I felt the wind last night, and thought it was the sea breeze blowing after nightfall, cool."

"No wonder quite a few people at the fish market said the waves were big last night."

Ye Yaodong looked at the big sun on the horizon. It was only past 6 o'clock, and the sun was like an egg yolk.

He couldn't help but curse: "Damn, a typhoon is coming after only three days at sea?"

"Fortunately, we came up a few days early..."

"When I went out to buy fried dough sticks in the morning, everyone said the small boats went out at night, and now they are returning one after another."

"Then others went out at night, and now they should also be returning?"

"Then Dong-ge, are we still going out to sea to collect goods later?"

Everyone was a bit indecisive. It was typhoon day. If the fishing boats returned, then would they not have to go out to sea?

"I'll go to the pier to see first if the fishing boats have all returned."

If the fishing boats were all returning to port one after another, there was no need to go out to sea to collect. Just wait at home for his father to return.

Ye Yaodong didn't wash his face or brush his teeth, pushed his bicycle, and went out to see first.

The pier was really crowded with people, goods piled on goods, all unloading goods from fishing boats back and forth.

Usually, they would go out to sea one after another at this time, and unloading was basically in the evening or at night. The boats really returned one after another.

And the pedestrians coming and going on the pier were all discussing that a typhoon was coming.

However, what he saw were all small boats returning to shore. He also saw people from his own village, but there were quite a few fishing boats queuing to enter the port in the channel. It looked like they had just returned from the sea.

Ye Yaodong also chatted with the fishermen from his own village and knew that the wind and waves on the sea had increased since the night, so they followed back when they saw other boats returning this morning.

Then he really didn't have to go out to collect goods today.

He went around in a circle and returned home.

"A typhoon is really coming. Then there's no need to go out to sea today. My father and the others will definitely return too. Just wait at home."

Everyone had expected it long ago and wasn't surprised at all.

"I don't know if this typhoon is big or not. There's no feeling yet."

"Upstairs, only the tiles are left to be laid. It didn't come early or late, but a typhoon came at this time. There's nowhere to avoid the rain, and the doors and windows haven't been made."

Ye Yaodong also took a look at the house. The beams for the row on the 2nd floor had all been laid, and the frames had all been set up. Only the tiles were left to be laid.

And downstairs, only his room had a door installed, and the windows only had a frame, not yet installed with glass. He just pasted newspapers on it now.

"Urge the workers these two days, and everyone help out. If you work for two days, it should be about the same. If there are tiles, at least you can avoid the rain."

"Just nail the windows with wooden boards first. There's no going out to sea these two days, everyone is free anyway. Do it yourself, it's fast. At least there's a place to shelter from the wind and rain when the typhoon comes."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"After eating, we'll go help together and finish before the typhoon."

"It should be in time. Everyone has returned from the sea, hundreds of people, this can be finished in one day."

In the time they were eating breakfast, people were constantly carrying loads back to the gate.

By noon, the Dongsheng and Fengshou boats had also returned one after another.

Even his father sent a worker to run back and call him, saying he had arrived at the pier and was waiting for him to deal with the goods.

Ye Yaodong waited while helping with the work, and finally waited for his father to return.

He put down the work in his hand and immediately took the account book to the pier.

The quantity recorded yesterday could also be delivered at this time today.

If he hadn't thought his father would return today, he wouldn't have waited at home all morning. He would have gone to the Chamber of Commerce to squat, play cards with everyone, and sell a little more.

Ye Yaodong hurried to the pier, found his own boat, and saw that the goods had all been moved out, piled on the deck. It looked like they were just waiting for him.

"Are the wind and waves on the sea big? How many tons are here?"

"The wind and waves are big. The wind started since the night, and the waves also got bigger. I saw it could still bear it, so I stayed for a while. Later, I heard on the radio that a typhoon was coming, and then I saw the surrounding boats gradually decreasing until this morning, so I thought I'd follow back."

"Returning early is good. I was going to go out this morning, but seeing the weather was wrong and everyone said a typhoon was coming, I didn't go out, thinking you would also return."

"What to do with these goods? Is there a way? Have you sold the goods you collected yesterday?"

"Sold out, with 200 or 300 jin left. Everyone dealt with it this morning, pickled it. Seeing the weather wasn't suitable for drying, I just pickled it."

Ye Yaodong said while flipping through the account book, and added: "Ordered a little more goods out yesterday, about 30 or 40 tons. Weigh this part of the goods first, and I'll deliver them one after another."

"Move a little goods to the fish market street on the side to sell first. After I finish delivering the goods, I'll ask others to see if anyone wants to increase the quantity."

"A typhoon is coming, fishmongers all have to collect more to transport away. There won't be any fishing boats going out to sea in the next few days, so there won't be any goods."

Ye Fu nodded continuously when he heard his arrangement.

"Alright, then weigh what you want first."

When Ye Yaodong came, he had already asked someone to go to the fresh-catch collection boat to get the big pole scale.

"About how much quantity is on the boat?"

"About 120 or 130 tons, look at this quantity..."

"It's easy to sell. A typhoon is coming, fishmongers all have to collect more to transport away."

The more quantity, the more people will ask. When everyone buys things, they naturally like to buy where there is more quantity.

Ye Fu felt relieved when he heard his affirmative answer.

"How is home? A typhoon is coming soon..."

"Already let everyone help with construction, hurry up and prepare for the typhoon."

"That's good. This trip also went out to sea for a few days, at least it can earn a little. Otherwise, coming up without starting to earn money and just resting there, the daily expenses are not small."

Ye Yaodong laughed. With these two boats of goods, it doesn't matter if you rest for a few more days later, you won't lose money.

Just now he also let the workers go out to buy meat, chicken, and duck.

The weather is hot, meat can't be kept for a few days, but live chicken and duck can be raised there. These two days of typhoon weather are not easy to buy things, but there can still be meat dishes.

For the whole afternoon, he ran back and forth, sweating all over.

There were more fishing boats returning to shore at the pier. It was more than a thousand sails returning to port. Looking over, it was densely packed with boats of all sizes.

The fish market street was even more lively, all goods, all fishermen shouting there.

After delivering the goods, he went to help his father. When he ran into someone he recognized, naturally, he had to weigh the goods from him.

And he also let his father and the boat workers go back to rest first, and he took another batch of workers to take over the work here.

Busy until the middle of the night, the goods were sold seven or eight out of ten. Seeing that there wasn't much left and it wasn't easy to sell, he closed the stall and returned.

At this time, the waves on the shore were even bigger. On the way back, he could hear the sound of waves, and could see large waves hitting the shore.

His site was still a short distance from the shore, so he wasn't afraid of being hit by the waves.

Ye Fu welcomed them after they returned.

"Sold out?"

"A little left that wasn't easy to sell, brought it back. I'll send some to people tomorrow, saving myself from dealing with it for half a day."

Ye Fu felt relieved when he saw there wasn't much left, just a few hundred jin.

"That's fine. You've also made a few friends up here, send some to them. Pickled too much, can't finish eating every day."

"Hmm, send some to the shipyard by the way." ===== CHAPTER 1393 =====

"Hmm, send a little over to the shipyard side as well, while you're at it."