Chapter 1752: Going Ashore

It was only June, so the crew members only wore vests, with their dark arms bare, holding thick hemp ropes and adjusting the net position in an orderly manner. Nylon ropes slid hissingly between the workers' rough palms.

Just coming out, everyone was still in high spirits, talking and laughing.

Suddenly, everyone exclaimed, and a dark shadow suddenly rose from the sea not far away.

A humpback whale slowly surfaced, and the water column sprayed turned into lingering mist in the morning light.

Its huge tail fin was raised high, and the barnacles attached to it were clearly visible, and then it slapped the sea surface heavily, making a thunderous sound.

Ye Yaodong also saw it clearly in the telescope. "Good fellow..."

Even if everyone sees large fish suddenly appearing on the sea surface often now, they will still be surprised by the appearance of the humpback whale.

Such a large fish cannot be seen every day. It will be even harder to see in the future. It is still appearing frequently now.

Ye Yaodong watched the fishing net sink. There was nothing he didn't understand about the captain's operation. As long as it was detected well, there would be no problem. He also returned to the bed to sleep with peace of mind.

Otherwise, the next few hours of operation would just be staring blankly.

Working at sea is boring. Without emergencies, there is no entertainment, and every day is exceptionally difficult to endure.

Whenever he was bored, he missed the days with mobile phones immensely.

Two years ago, he thought about buying a big brother, but the one bought in Shanghai could only be used locally in Shanghai, and it couldn't be used when taken to other provinces. It was too chicken ribs, so he didn't buy it after inquiring.

Don't know if it has been upgraded now. If it can be used across cities and long distances, he will buy one.

No, have to buy a few, one for the wife, one for the old father.

It's okay to have a landline at home.

He looked down on the pager a bit. For him who came from the smart era, it was also chicken ribs.

With the passage of time, the rhythmic "creaking" sound of the winch, one after another, heavy fishing goods dripping with seawater were slowly lifted off the sea surface by steel cables and crossed the ship's side.

There were mackerel with cyan-blue luster all over, twisting their fat bodies and squeezing each other; there were also palm-sized mackerel crowded together, the light reflected by the scales was almost dazzling; there were also bright red poly fish squeezed together, squid that could see internal organs transparently, shrimp with curled bodies, everything...

This is also the time when workers are truly busy. They immediately surrounded, moved steadily on the wet and slippery deck, and were busy without stopping, only resting when taking turns.

Ye Yaodong can be said to be the most idle person on the whole boat. Others have their own work, and he plans to return to the shore after staying for about a month.

June can also be considered to have entered the summer, and the weather began to change unpredictably. Maybe it was sunny a second ago, and it rained the next second, and the sky instantly became the appearance of five or six o'clock in the evening at noon.

The sea surface was like this at this time. When the thunder exploded on the top of the head, everyone was busy putting on raincoats, and the sea surface suddenly rolled, revealing a large piece of fish head?

Fish head?

Fish head!!!

When Ye Yaodong woke up and stood on the steering wheel to look out, he was surprised to see the sea surface suddenly emerging with a pile of fish heads like bamboo shoots after rain.

If he had a mobile phone in his hand, he would definitely have to tighten the focus.

He took the telescope and looked at the near place, and it was the same.

"What's the situation? It's like bamboo shoots, it pops up when it rains?"

The captain also asked, "What's going on?"

"Maybe because of the thunderstorm, the water is short of oxygen? The fish schools in the upper layer float to the water surface to take a breath?"

It is indeed the case now. They are squeezed together densely, their little mouths are opening and closing helplessly, and those round fish eyes, some seem to have lost the agility under the water, just staring straight, looking like they are about to die.

"This is suffocating and helpless, coming up to take a breath?"

"Should be dying soon."

Fish squeezing fish, gill covers struggling to open and close, only the tail under the water occasionally flapping weakly.

Ye Yaodong said regretfully, "Looking at it, there is nothing valuable, they are all small fish in the upper layer, no big fish."

The captain nodded. "Sonar detection did not see obvious large echoes. Most of the area around here is small."

"Pity."

"A large piece of fish school has already been dug under the bottom, it doesn't matter if you don't want these fish on the sea surface..."

Just as they were talking, there was another huge thunder, rumbling, and a lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the gloomy sea surface.

Before long, after the thunder and lightning, bean-sized raindrops hit the sea surface, crackling, like a handful of broken beads scattered.

Ye Yaodong hurriedly returned to the cockpit, and the rain also blurred the windshield.

"Summer rain is like this, urgent and big, but it passes quickly."

"Everyone is used to it, it's okay."

"So many fish float to the water surface, it's too suitable for hand nets, and also suitable for boat fishing. It's really itchy to look at."

"Haha, boss, these fish are estimated to only be used as feed."

"It's not about how much money you can earn, it's just that picking up cheap things is so cool."

"Hehe..."

Don't understand rich people, not for how much money to earn? Just to pick up cheap things? The captain smiled on his face, but slandered in his heart.

"If only there was another big fish crossing the robbery."

"Big fish crossing the robbery? Are you talking about the big fish you caught a few years ago that was struck by lightning?"

The captain's eyes lit up. "Everyone has been blowing it for a long time. You caught a big fish struck by lightning a few years ago, saying that God couldn't look at it and wanted to send down a thunder to strike it to death, just because he was afraid it would become a spirit."

Become a spirit?

Ye Yaodong: "..."

"It is not allowed to become a spirit after the founding of the People's Republic of China, otherwise it must be a fish spirit. The fish meat is guaranteed to strengthen the body, and living to 100 years old is not a problem!"

"Hey? Your old lady is 90-something, right? Is the body really tough? Is it because of eating that fish meat? Great supplement?"

"I heard that the spirit is very good now, it is estimated that it is really going to live to 100 years old!"

"If only there could be another one, then everyone could drink soup, and it would be good to live to 90 years old."

The captain stretched his neck and looked for it on the sea surface, thinking whether there would be another dog shit luck.

"You really know how to think. I didn't dare to think about it. According to what you said, those of us who ate fish meat can live to 100 years old."

"You will know when you are old. How do you know now? But your old lady's spirit is really good. People can answer a few sentences when talking to her, and she won't be demented at all."

"That won't, she can still scold people, and can use a cane to hit my father."

"That body is good."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but think, is it really fish nourishing the body? The old lady's body is indeed quite good in the past two years, and she rarely gets sick, almost never gets sick.

The whole family is also, rarely gets sick, this makes him have to believe it.

Anyway, it's eaten into the stomach.

Even the fish glue was stewed and distributed to the three children during the New Year's Eve, hoping that they could strengthen their bodies and grow tall.

After the New Year, the children's feet grew. The new shoes bought before the New Year were a bit tight after reading for a month, so they changed to new ones.

It is said that the longer the feet, the taller the height. His father wears size 40, and he wears size 43... Don't know if it's true.

Fortunately, the shoes eliminated by the two brothers were washed clean and put away. It would be a pity to wear them for only two or three months when they can be given to Ye Xiaoxi or given to others, which is also very popular.

He took his thoughts back. "Don't look at the sea surface, pay more attention to the display screen, take a look, the waves are big now, they are higher than the bow."

"Hey, those fish heads seem to be dead, floating on the sea surface with their white bellies turned up."

"Hm, pay more attention to safety in this thunderstorm, let other fishing boats report the situation."

"Okay."

Ye Yaodong looked at the gray sky outside. It was only one or two o'clock in the afternoon, and it felt like it was going to be dark. It is still a bit scary to encounter this kind of weather in the deep sea.

Just afraid of this kind of natural weather, it is simply a time bomb.

The intercom is reporting, and at the same time, the broadcast on the channel is also playing weather warnings.

After they collected this net, they didn't work anymore, but planned to act according to the situation. If the wind and rain were too big, they would go back first. If they cast the net, it would be too cumbersome, and they couldn't run if they wanted to.

The workers took the opportunity to go to Mazu to burn incense one after another, begging the thunderstorm to stop quickly.

Usually, only the backbone of the boat burns three sticks of incense morning and evening, but when something happens, everyone on the boat takes turns to worship, fearing that they won't worship in time, and they recite Amitabha a few more times in their mouths first.

God is hated when used.

After the heavy rain fell all night, everyone also raised their hearts for a whole night. The next day, the rain cleared, and everyone put their hearts back into their stomachs.

Ye Yaodong went to burn incense before going to sleep early in the morning, and saw the incense burner full of burnt incense feet, and the incense ash fell all over the incense table. Don't know how many sticks of incense everyone burned all day yesterday.

He took a small brush to clean the ash on the incense table, muttering in his mouth, "They are all quite afraid of death... just this little wind and waves, where is this..."

When the incense in the incense burner is finished, the incense feet must be pulled out, and the ash in the furnace must be smoothed, not squeezed full, and the table dirty.

The ash on this incense table cannot be swept to the ground at will, but must be collected and put back into the incense burner.

If there is too much incense ash in the incense burner, dig some out, take it home with a respectful heart to continue to worship, or take it to the temple, and never take it to step on.

The incense feet pulled out from the incense burner cannot be thrown away at will, and must also be collected for cremation, and the ash and incense ash are put together or placed in a clean place.

If you can handle it perfectly, you must do it well. If you have a few points of respect, you will have a few points of blessing.

Ye Yaodong believes in this quite a bit. As long as he is on the boat, the incense burner is basically managed by him. He will also instruct the few backbones on the boat, most of whom are retired soldiers.

People in their village will definitely handle these well, and he doesn't need to say it.

People on the boat would rather believe it than not. They treat these as heavy as heavy.

After sweeping the incense ash and putting it into the incense burner, and putting the incense feet aside, he re-lit three sticks of incense.

"Safe and full of fish..."

After burning the incense, he went to sleep with peace of mind.

After the rain cleared, the fishing nets were also hurriedly cast. Other fishing boats also stopped fishing temporarily to deal with the wind and waves at night. Now that the rain cleared, everyone hurriedly followed to work.

He stayed up all night, and could also return to the boat to sleep with peace of mind.

After waking up, he went to notify the captain that he would return with the next fresh-catch boat.

The captain had long expected that he couldn't stay for a long time, but with him there, it was like a Dinghai needle, and nothing would be panicked. Suddenly, he was going back, and his heart felt a little empty.

"Going back so soon?"

"I've stayed for almost a month. Anyway, you guys discuss everything. It's the same whether I'm here or not."

"That's not necessarily true. If you are here, everyone has a backbone, and they won't panic when things happen."

"Not necessarily. Look at the thunderstorm yesterday, the waves were so big that everyone was panicked and hurriedly worshipped Mazu, and went to burn incense for Mazu. Usually, they didn't worship so diligently."

"Hehe, the waves were indeed big yesterday, and the waves at the bow hit the deck."

"Anyway, you guys discuss everything."

"All right."

Ye Yaodong stayed on the boat for a month, feeling that he was 10 years older, with a face full of vicissitudes and a beard.

Only when he returned to the shore did he feel that he had come alive.

When he returned to the factory after docking, it was already a few o'clock in the morning. He was too lazy to climb up and down to return to the dormitory to get clothes, so he went directly to the bathhouse to wash, and then wore underwear, carrying a bag of dirty clothes back to the dormitory to change.

Everyone was resting, and he was light-footed when he returned to the dormitory.

After lying down...

Someone!

Lin Xiuqing felt that there seemed to be someone beside her and woke up in shock. "Who!"

Ye Yaodong hadn't thought about who was on the bed, so he was kicked and fell to the ground. "Me me me..."

The couple breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why are you back?"

"Why are you here?"

Ye Yaodong replied, "I just came back. I should ask you, why did you suddenly lie here?"

"The children are on summer vacation. Didn't I bring them over? I just came for two or three days. I thought about going back to Shanghai in two days and putting them here."

"In the middle of the night, you scared me. I thought someone shameless climbed into my bed."

"I was the one scared awake by you. Sleeping in the middle of the night, suddenly someone climbed into the bed."

"You didn't know there was someone on the bed?"

"I know a fart. You don't look at what time it is now? 3 o'clock in the morning! I drifted at sea for a month, and I was exhausted long ago. When I came back, I couldn't even open my eyes. Can I still manage whether there is anyone on the bed? I wouldn't know if a zombie was lying there."

Lin Xiuqing suddenly felt heartache. "Hurry up and come over to lie down and sleep. Did you fall anywhere?"

Ye Yaodong lay down quickly and took off his pants. "My butt is broken, you rub it for me."

Lin Xiuqing believed it to be true and reached out to rub it for him. "Do you want me to rub it with tea oil? Is it bruised? Does it hurt?"

"It hurts, it's bruised, and it's swollen. You rub the front for me."

"Where is the front? Did I just kick it?"

Ye Yaodong grabbed her hand and went to the front, and she instantly understood that she was being teased.

"Sleep, you just said you were so tired that you couldn't open your eyes, and you were so tired that you were going to die. Aren't you afraid of sudden death?"

"Under the peony flower, death is also romantic."

"Sleep first, nourish your spirit?"

"No! I've been suffocated for a month! Just finished washing..."

As soon as he came back, he could eat meat. Even if he was tired, he had to do it. If he was suffocated to death, he would rather choose to die.

The next day, he slept until he woke up naturally, climbed up physically and mentally comfortable, cleaned himself up simply, and then shaved his beard, instantly feeling that he had restored the style of the year, and was more than ten years younger.

Feeling that he had nourished the yin and supplemented the yang last night!

He looked in the mirror and said narcissistically, "You are the most handsome!"

A head poked in from the door. "I am the best!"

Ye Yaodong looked down. "What are you doing?"

"Dad, you are so shameless, you say you are the most handsome!"

"I am encouraging myself! Giving myself confidence! What are you running over for?"

"Looking for you, Mom said you are back, I miss you, so I came to secretly see if you got up, and then I heard you say you are the most handsome!"

"Then am I the most handsome?"

Ye Xiaoxi spread her palm. "Give me 1 yuan, and you are the most handsome!"

"Is it so cheap?"

"Because what I said is the truth, saying false words is more expensive!"

Ye Yaodong was amused by her!

"Hahaha, stinky girl, you are quite good at talking. Come, give you 10 yuan, reward you!"

Ye Xiaoxi jumped up happily. 1 yuan was already her two days' pocket money, 10 yuan is worth 20 days!

"Ah, thank you Dad, you are so good! Love you! My dad is the most handsome! Super invincible handsome!"

Ye Xiaoxi took the money and ran away happily.

Ye Yaodong also locked the door beautifully, pulled out the key and hung it on his waist, and followed down to eat lunch.

At this time, Ye Xiaoxi ran back again. "I forgot to say, Mom asked me to go up and see if you woke up, and call you to eat!"

"What kind of memory do you have? You came for a long time, didn't say anything, just wanted money, and ran away after wanting it."

"Hehe, too happy, hurry up and go."

The family had already served rice in the canteen and ate.

Ye Chenghu said impatiently, "Dad, finally back, we have been in the factory for three days. If you don't come back, I will follow the fresh-catch boat to the sea to find you tomorrow."

Lin Xiuqing added, "If I hadn't stopped him, he would have followed the fresh-catch boat a few days ago."

"Without my word, who dares to take him to the sea?"

"So I am waiting for you to come back. Is the fresh-catch boat going out to sea today? Can I follow?"

Ye Chenghu nodded happily. "This I know, I understand, I have experience, I am not inexperienced."

"Hm."

"Then Dad, I have experience now, and I am already a qualified boat worker. Can my wages be the same as everyone else?"

"Just thinking about wages, what I have will all be yours in the future."

"Oh, don't say this, I have heard my grandfather say this since I was a child, and my ears are going to have calluses. You haven't waited for his, I want to wait for yours, how long will it take?"

Ye Yaodong: "..."

Lin Xiuqing scolded, "You dead child, want to be beaten?"

Ye Chenghu closed his mouth and didn't speak.

Adults are like this, can't argue, so they threaten people.

A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses.

Ye Yaodong glared at him and looked at the other two. "Are you also working in the factory?"

Ye Chengyang answered, "Yes, Mom was afraid that we would run around in the hot weather, so she let us go to logistics to pack and work the second day."

Ye Xiaoxi added, "And sister, but we don't know how much our wages are. Ask cousin in finance, cousin said to ask you when you come back."

"Then child labor gets 20% off."

Ye Chenghu hurriedly asked, "Then am I also a boat worker with 20% off."

"It can be handled according to what you said."

Ye Chenghu hadn't been happy for two seconds before hearing him say, "Originally, I thought you had experience, not a novice, and you could help a lot at such a big person, so I wanted to give you the same treatment as the workers..."

"Ah what... want want want! I want the same treatment as the workers, workers 300, I also 300!"

"You asked for 20% off yourself, so you only have 240."

"Dad... I am an old man! You can't chill the heart of an old man!"

"Old your head, eat."

Ye Chenghu was unwilling, and kept muttering while eating, until Ye Yaodong said that if he was wordy again, he would give him 50% off, and then he closed his mouth.

But after eating, he still followed closely, his little mouth babbling, continuing to fight for himself.

Ye Yaodong was annoyed by him, and threatened not to let him work, so he hurriedly went to find the boat captain.

Lin Xiuqing walked with him and said, "Do you want to call home?"

"Want, did you help me call home?"

"Keeping it for you to call, then the meaning of me calling and you calling is definitely different. You call back and greet yourself. You waited at sea for a month, then you definitely didn't call home for a month."

"All right, A-Hai's wife hasn't given birth yet?"

"Not yet, it's early. I called two days ago, saying there are still two months, expected to be in the seventh lunar month, about 5 months apart from Chenghe's child."

"Oh, when I came back, the eldest brother was still muttering, asking me to ask, he thought there was no news, it should be that she hadn't given birth. Otherwise, the fresh-catch boat would definitely go to the sea to report the news."

"If she gives birth again, A-Jiang will be in deep water and hot fire again."

Ye Yaodong smiled. "It looks like there is indeed a lot of pressure. I will pay attention in two days to see if there are any customers with daughters."

Lin Xiuqing smiled. "Are you changing your profession to be a matchmaker?"

"This is just asking casually. It's best if there is one, get to know each other. If not, forget it. Otherwise, he sends goods all day long, where can he meet girls?"

"That's hard to say, he sends goods and will connect with the warehouse manager, maybe he can also be familiar with the finance of other factories, and can also meet a few."

"Whose factory finance works until the middle of the night? If you really let the finance work until the middle of the night, the finance can point to the boss's nose and scold."

"Uh... that's also true."

"It's not good for physical and mental health to keep being a bachelor, and your two big nephews, three people mix together every day, three big bachelors."

Lin Xiuqing got angry when she heard this. "Why do you say birds of a feather flock together? Those two were introduced to several objects by the family during the New Year, but they didn't look at them, and they pretended not to hear them, entering from the left ear and exiting from the right."

"Plus a oldest bachelor, Lin Guangyuan Lin Dongxue, don't talk about my brother and sister-in-law, my father and mother are all anxious to go crazy..." ===== CHAPTER 1753 =====

Lin Xiuqing flared up as soon as she heard this, "Why else would they say 'birds of a feather flock together'? Those two are just like Ajiang; their families introduced them to several potential partners for the New Year, but they wouldn't even look at them, acting as if they hadn't heard a thing—in one ear and out the other."

"Plus one more old bachelor, Lin Guangyuan and Lin Dongxue; never mind my brother and sister-in-law, even my parents are worried sick."

"One by one, they are all at such an age, yet not a single one wants to get married. They are starting to suspect that the feng shui at home is unfavorable for marriage..."