Chapter 1651: Fishing

A good thing.

Being able to get a large boat now is better than waiting to do it later. Buy early, earn money early. Prices are rising too fiercely right now; the country is developing at high speed.

Ye Yaodong said on the channel: "Then you all do it, all go get a boat. Anyway, you've earned quite a bit of money these past few years. If you don't buy now, you won't be able to keep up with the speed of price hikes later."

It's just like buying a house after the millennium; you always think about saving up a bit more before buying so you won't empty out your family's savings, but then no matter how you save, you can't keep up with the skyrocketing speed, and you're always just a little bit short of the down payment.

By the time you've saved enough to buy, well, you've become the one left holding the bag.

Ye Yaopeng said: "Then Dongzi, what is your current position?"

"I'm heading toward the pier now. If you want to go back, you don't need to follow me. Just haul in your nets and tidy up yourselves. Go back once you're done. Anyway, I have to process the cargo before I can head back out to sea; it'll take at least two days."

"Alright then, you head back first. We'll haul in the nets and then head back."

"Then I'm cutting the channel. I need to switch to the traffic control channel; I'll be receiving docking instructions in a moment."

"Hey, alright."

After Ye Yaodong cut the channel, he returned to the public channel, and the fishing boat continued to sail along the shipping lane toward the shore.

Only when they were about to enter the port did he switch to the traffic channel. Following the Zhoushan VTS instructions, the fishing boat hugged the north side of the shipping lane, sailing in a single line.

The sky was turning dark, and the outline of the shore appeared. The crew all put away the drying laundry and prepared the mooring ropes.

Just for his boat alone, the return trip speed was considered fast; they had already reached the shore in less than 48 hours.

"Dongzi, after we dock, how should we unload this cargo?"

"First, sort out the cargo needed by the processing plant and send someone to the plant to call for trucks to load and unload. For the remaining cargo, look at today's manifest before arranging it."

"Hey, alright. Then I'll have everyone sort out the cargo in the freezer first. What about the tuna?"

"Carry one back first, leave the rest for now."

Unload one to take back and have a taste, then he would find someone to ask about the fishery company's export situation.

Currently, very few companies have import and export rights; they are all state-run units, after all, they can generate foreign exchange. Private ones are rare.

He planned to go ask Xiang Hui.

"Carry two."

Since he was going to ask, he couldn't go empty-handed.

It would be even better if an acquaintance could bridge the gap and make an introduction; it's always better than rashly taking the initiative to send oneself to the door to ask.

Ye Fu received the news and knew Ye Yaodong's boat had returned, so he hurriedly followed the truck over.

"Dongzi, why are you back?"

"Don't want me back? That's fine, from now on, the plant is all handed over to you."

"What kind of talk is that! Didn't you say this trip would take at least two months? You gave me a fright by suddenly coming back."

Ye Yaodong stopped teasing his father. "Caught a batch of big cargo, I have to come back and handle it personally."

Ye Fu's eyes lit up. "What big cargo? How big, that it's worth you running back specially?"

"Take a guess?"

"I'll go take a look."

Ye Fu brought quite a few workers over, all for logistics, loading, and transport. Ye Yaodong led them to help.

For such a large boat, everything up and down has to rely on the gangway. Unloading naturally isn't done entirely by human labor; they mainly rely on semi-mechanized equipment and human labor working in coordination.

The crew opened the hatch covers on the deck, revealing the fish hold. At this moment, the hold was piled full of fish covered in crushed ice, including hairtail, pomfret, eel, small yellow croaker, squid, various shrimp, and other economic fish species.

Several workers had long been standing in the pile of fish, following Ye Yaodong's instructions, using shovels or their bare hands to shovel the cargo destined for the processing plant into bamboo baskets or plastic turnover boxes.

The fish hold was already piled with quite a few baskets and boxes. Now, they just needed to set up simple wooden sliding rails, and the workers pushed the full fish baskets to slide toward the hatch opening below.

Then, using the boat crane, they swung them to the pier unloading area, and the workers then moved the cargo onto the trucks.

Ye Yaodong watched them busy at work and asked Chen Baoxing about today's delivery situation, preparing to transport the cargo needed by the processing plant over before arranging to send today's cargo to the partner plant.

Chen Baoxing had a briefcase tucked under his arm, licked his finger, flipped through the ledger for him, and explained as he flipped.

Ye Fu rushed over, beaming with joy. "So it was bluefin tuna that was caught! And there are nearly 300 of them, plus albacore tuna. We've struck it rich, we're going to make a fortune this time! I heard they can be exported now and sell for a very high price, not as cheap as before."

The two were in the middle of talking and checking the order when they were interrupted, so they had to deal with his father first.

"Yeah, that's why I had to come back personally to arrange the sale."

"Then how are you going to sell this? Where are you going to sell it to? You should find an intermediary, right? Find that Chen Jianxing from before?"

"Not looking for him for now. This mainly requires finding a company with export rights to get a high price. When I deliver the goods tonight, I'll go find Xiang Hui and see."

It's just that he didn't know if the person was at home or out running the truck. If the person wasn't there, he could only spread the word and wait for interested parties to come to him to buy.

Cargo worth several million isn't something an average person can afford. It's best to have an acquaintance act as a middleman.

Besides, he was in a hurry and didn't have time to spend several days haggling over prices with others. It would be best to talk directly to a company with export rights.

So it was better to ask Boss Xiang Hui first, then make plans.

Ye Fu nodded. "That's fine too. You get along well with Boss Xiang Hui. If he's there, it would be best if he could act as a middleman to introduce and arrange things."

"Yeah, let's transport the cargo needed by the processing plant first. It just so happens we can check the delivery list for tonight here, sort out the goods, and then come back to load them once the trucks are empty."

"Hey, alright."

"You go back to the plant with the trucks in a moment; Baoxing and I can arrange things here."

"Aren't you going back to rest first? Arranging deliveries is very troublesome. With so much cargo, it'll probably take until dawn. Otherwise, I'll arrange the deliveries, and you can just go to the plant to find Boss Xiang Hui when dawn breaks? If you go find him in the middle of the night, he'll definitely be sleeping."

Ye Yaodong thought about it and felt this was also fine. Anyway, his father was used to it, and his father and Chen Baoxing were more familiar with the order list.

He would wait until he had a sleep and recovered his energy before handling the tuna matter tomorrow morning.

"That's fine, I'll leave the arrangements here to you."

"Then you just go back with the cargo truck in a moment."

"Alright, when you deliver the goods tonight, help me ask if Xiang Hui is at home? If he is, I'll go over tomorrow. If not, I'll save myself a wasted trip."

"Alright."

Ye Yaodong handed over the matters on the boat to his father and went down to the unloading area himself to wait and help.

At this time, there were quite a few large boats unloading at the deep-water port unloading area.

Their scale couldn't compare to his, but they were still 50 or 60 meters long, and two of the boats also had the fishery company's mark printed on them.

His heart stirred when he saw this. He pulled one of his own workers over and whispered a few words in his ear.

Immediately after, the worker understood and asked loudly in Mandarin: "Boss, I heard you caught several hundred tuna on this trip, and there's bluefin tuna inside, is that true or false?"

"Could this be false? Of course it's true. We'll unload one to take back in a moment; I'll move it down for you to see in a bit."

"Damn, I heard bluefin tuna is super expensive, specially exported to the Japanese, and can earn foreign exchange, is that true or false?"

"True."

"Struck it rich! Besides bluefin tuna, what other tuna is there?"

"There's also albacore tuna. The quantity of this is a bit more than bluefin tuna, there are several hundred of them. It was also good luck to run into them."

The worker said enviously and loudly: "It's more than just good luck, it's good character too! Otherwise, could the heavens let you catch them? I heard they are very rare in our sea area. As long as they appear, everyone fights to get them, and then they're exported. I heard they can earn... earn... earn what was it, very useful..."

Ye Yaodong reminded him: "Earn foreign exchange."

"Right, right, right, I heard they can earn foreign exchange, super awesome."

A worker nearby who didn't know what was going on smiled and chimed in: "How do you know?"

"How could I not know?"

"Boss, what about the tuna? Why don't I see it?"

"Still in the freezer, hasn't been lifted out yet. We'll lift one back in a moment, and wait for me to find a buyer for the rest. Anyway, there are people left on the boat."

"Then if people know, won't they all fight to get them?"

"Yeah, hurry up and move them first. Once the cargo is mostly unloaded, go lift 3 bluefin tuna out and put them on the boat to take back as gifts or for ourselves to eat." Ye Yaodong had achieved his goal and was also very happy.

"Giving them away and eating them yourself? They're so expensive, and you're giving them away? Why not sell them? You could sell them for more money."

"Is the boss the kind of person who lacks that bit of money? Of course, you have to taste rare fish, otherwise, wouldn't it be a pity?"

"That's true."

The fishery company workers unloading nearby pricked up their ears and heard everything.

Someone shouted at them: "Brother, your boat caught tuna too? True or false? And bluefin tuna?"

The little smart-aleck cooperating with Ye Yaodong shouted loudly: "Of course, our fishing boat caught several hundred."

"Really? Then we have to open our eyes wide and take a good look."

"Sure, I'll show you when we unload them in a bit. We're unloading other fish right now."

After the workers on both sides started talking, they very naturally chatted loudly back and forth.

"Brother, your boat is incredible. It's been spread all over the pier since before the New Year, the biggest boat in the whole port."

"You look even more professional than us, you're all wearing uniform clothing. We didn't even wear work clothes every day before."

"Yeah, it was only after the director saw you wearing uniform clothes that he required us to wear work clothes too, except when at sea, where we don't have clothes to change into and can wear our own."

The little smart-aleck also responded loudly: "That's because our boss is amazing, he specially ordered the most advanced boat. Our boss didn't even know it would become the biggest in the whole port, haha."

"Just heard you call him boss, is that brother on the side your boss? He looks quite young?"

"Yeah, our boss is super awesome, he has dozens of boats in his hands. He started from a small wooden boat a few meters long to reach this scale today."

"Ah! Damn! This is too awesome, right?"

Someone else asked: "Everyone has been saying your boss has a military background, is that true?"

"Of course it's true. I myself am a retired soldier who came down from a warship. We have hundreds of people who were once in the Navy!"

The fishery company workers were all stunned, not expecting it to be true! And that hundreds of them were!

Everyone opened their mouths wide, and they all forgot to do their work.

Ye Yaodong coughed dryly and patted the little smart-aleck on the head. "Hurry up and work, so much talk."

"Hey, hehe..."

"What's your name? How old are you?"

He had too many workers in his hands now. Just on the boats and in the factory, there were two or three hundred retired soldiers. Of course, he didn't know everyone.

After assigning them to each boat, he let the captain of each boat be responsible for management. As long as the captains knew and understood the people on their own boats, it was fine. Anyway, he only needed to coordinate with the captains.

"Boss, my name is Du Zhuang, I'm 21 years old this year."

Du Zhuang...

"21 years old? Can you join the army at 17?"

"I joined the army at 16. Last year, after serving 4 full years, I had to retire. I wanted to apply to stay for another year but couldn't. Fortunately, Ah Yuan helped introduce me, so I could have a job, otherwise, I would have only been able to go home and farm."

"Oh, so you were introduced by Ah Yuan?"

"That's right."

"Very smart, work hard."

"Alright."

During the time Ye Yaodong was talking and communicating with them, the workers on the opposite side had also been stealing glances at him.

He had been at sea for a week, hadn't shaved his beard, and was wearing a wool hat, so he looked a bit weathered.

It didn't give the impression of a soft-faced pretty boy like before, and he looked a bit steadier.

Once the large and small trucks were almost full of cargo, he had the workers lift one bluefin tuna down, regardless of size.

When Du Zhuang saw the bluefin tuna, he immediately shouted loudly at the fishery company's unloading area.

"Brothers, the bluefin tuna we caught is here, come over if you want to see."

The workers on the opposite side immediately put down their work and ran over to watch.

"Oh my, it really is bluefin tuna."

"You kid weren't bragging, I thought you were bragging. It really is bluefin tuna, I've seen the ones exported before."

"It really is, but the size is a bit small. These three don't look like they're 200 jin, right?"

Ye Yaodong explained: "They're all half-grown fish of this size. At this season, bluefin tuna are in the outer ocean area. We accidentally ran into a group of half-grown fish, it was also good luck."

The workers on the opposite side gave him a thumbs up: "Tsk tsk tsk, the boss is amazing, struck it rich."

"Finally know what the boss of this boat looks like, hahaha, didn't expect him to be so young, thought it was just a rumor."

"Boss, how many did you catch?"

"Several hundred, there's bluefin tuna and albacore tuna."

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he shouted at his own workers: "Put the fish away, lock the truck doors, hurry up and transport them back. It's already pitch black, and there's still a boatload of cargo to unload and transport."

"Right away."

"We're going to transport the cargo away first, you guys busy."

"Hey, alright..."

Seeing him still greeting them so politely, the workers nodded and bowed, watching them get in the truck and leave.

Then they returned to their own unloading area, discussing it endlessly.

Ye Yaodong had Du Zhuang cooperate with the publicity. He didn't know if it would work, but having people take the initiative to come to the door was better than him having to push himself forward.

When the cargo was transported back to the plant for unloading, Du Zhuang came up to him and asked: "Boss, the scene you had me act out just now, was it to attract their boss to come over and buy tuna?"

He nodded. "Yeah, not many companies have export rights. Since we ran into people from the fishery company at the pier who happened to be unloading, we might as well try. It's best if they take the initiative to come to us. After all, this fish is rare; in a whole month, the pier might not even catch one."

"Oh, no wonder."

"You watch over things here, unload the cargo into the cold storage, and unload the tuna into the cold storage too."

"Alright."

Ye Yaodong was also exhausted. He went to wash up first, then casually made himself some instant noodles, ate, and went to sleep.

During the two days of the return trip at sea, because they weren't taking the original shipping lane back, he had been watching quite closely, and his spirit had been tense. Now that he relaxed, his eyelids were fighting each other, and he fell asleep as soon as he lay down.

The next morning, hearing the movement in the factory below, he woke up. He didn't linger in bed and climbed up quickly.

His tuna hadn't been processed yet, so he couldn't afford to linger in bed.

After washing up, he went downstairs and checked the cargo transported back yesterday in the cold storage. After all, he hadn't supervised the unloading yesterday and had gone to rest, so he had to check now to be at ease.

And just as he came out of the cold storage, his eldest brother and second brother walked toward him.

"Dongzi, morning."

"Morning, when did you get back? You're up quite early, coming over so early?"

"Just got here too, it was already eight or nine o'clock when we docked yesterday," Ye Yaopeng said.

Ye Yaohua asked: "Dongzi, have you handled all the cargo transported back yesterday?"

"Handed it to Dad. I just got up too and haven't run into him. He probably worked until dawn before coming back to sleep. I'll ask him later when he wakes up."

"Oh, what are you preparing to get busy with now? Do you need help?"

"Not for now. You guys wander around as you please. I'll go handle things first. I brought tuna back and already had someone lift one out to thaw. I'll have Fatty come over to process it in a bit. You guys eat together at noon too."

Both their eyes lit up, and then they couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache.

"You even brought tuna back to eat? Isn't this too extravagant?"

"Why don't you take it to sell? This fish is super expensive, they say it can even earn foreign exchange. What a pity to eat it, it's a waste of things."

"What's a pity? If the Japanese can eat it, why can't we? Of course, you have to taste good things yourself first. It's just for a taste, the rest are all for sale."

"That's not what I meant, it's just that I feel this thing is too expensive, it's a pity to eat it, it should be sold for money."

Ye Yaodong waved his hand. "No need to feel heartache for me. If I tell you to eat, then eat. If you don't eat it, others will."

"Alright then, we'll have a treat."

"Yeah."

He went to the office first and called Fatty's restaurant.

Didn't expect this dog-thing hadn't woken up yet. He had to leave a message and wait. Anyway, he had to wait for the fish to thaw first.

After hanging up, he called the partner factory of Uncle Xiang Hui again, wanting to ask first if Xiang Hui had taken the truck out.

As a result, the person who answered the phone didn't know anything and only said they didn't understand the factory's truck situation, so he had to call the Heaven on Earth place again.

Anyway, as long as he was at home, he would definitely go there every day.

This time there was specific news, saying he was seen last night, but at this time he should still be sleeping, and probably wouldn't be able to get up until noon.

Ye Yaodong had to hold back, handle things in the factory first, and prepare to go to his house around 10 o'clock.

After hanging up, he called Lin Guangyuan again. He didn't know if he had gone out to study yet. Last year he said he was going for further studies this spring.

Without a doubt, the call went through and he could only leave a message; he didn't know when he would get a return call.

Thinking about it, he called the leader again. Usually, if there was nothing, he wouldn't easily call the leader, but today was considered special.

Who told him he didn't know if Lin Guangyuan was there or not.

What surprised him was that as soon as he got through to the leader and exchanged a few polite words, saying he couldn't find Lin Guangyuan and could only call, the leader had someone go call Lin Guangyuan.

In the process of waiting, he also took the opportunity to ask what important matter he had.

He talked about catching a group of bluefin tuna and said he planned to send one over and let Lin Guangyuan come carry it.

The leader was surprised, and after Lin Guangyuan came over and finished the call, he said he would come over to take a look in a bit.

However, before he waited for Lin Guangyuan to come over, he unexpectedly waited for a rare guest.

The big fish he fished for yesterday had actually taken the bait.

People from the fishery company had come to the door at this moment.

Ye Yaodong was overjoyed and came out to receive them after hearing the report.

?? "The Poor Daoist Wants to Take the College Entrance Exam"

? Chen Shi'an lived on the mountain for eighteen years. What he copied most familiarly was the "Tao Te Ching," and what he practiced most smoothly were the rituals for crossing over.

? It wasn't until the day his master breathed his last that he realized—in this world, you need to register to perform rituals, and you need a diploma to inherit a Taoist temple!

? What to do about a fish that slipped through the net of nine-year compulsory education...

? What else can be done?

? Pack up your luggage, go down the mountain to travel, and take the college entrance exam along the way!

? Keywords: Human world travel, daily life, reading, leisure, youth ===== CHAPTER 1652 =====