Chapter 412: No more salvaging

Haven't been to that reef in the near sea for ten days. After the plum rain, only went once, really miss it a bit.

Mainly want to go into the water, too long haven't gone into the water, the landscape on the seabed is really attractive, this diving will also be addicted.

And today his eldest brother and second brother's boat also went with him.

At dusk, he specially found a chance to tell his eldest brother and second brother. He didn't say he had simple diving equipment, only said he had a way to let them go into the water to touch abalones, but have to see if they can adapt themselves.

Some time ago, he really forgot whether he emphasized the word abalone, but the problem is not big, ask again.

But, really not everyone has an adventurous spirit.

After trawling a net and the sky brightened, Ye Yaodong equipped them with diving equipment, taught them how to use it underwater, let them adapt in the water for a few meters first, if they can't adapt, it's fine to float up.

Don't know if the wind was too big today, the waves were also a bit big, when his eldest brother went into the water to familiarize, a surge directly hit him to the reef, knocked him around several times, painful until he bared his teeth, stabilized his body and floated up directly.

"Eh... this can't be done, can't be done, too dangerous, the waves on the seabed directly patted me to the reef, fortunately the head is fine."

"No way? Why are you so unlucky?"

Ye Fu frowned and hurriedly pulled him up, "Nothing, right? Where is injured?"

Ye Yaopeng turned his back, the clothes on his body had already been hooked by the reef and stripped off several threads. Ye Fu lifted his clothes and also saw several red blood marks, and several pieces of blue and purple, all were scraped by the reef.

"So careless, Dongzi and them never like this when going into the water."

"Luck is not good, this can't be done, too dangerous, and going down to the sea so deep, I'm panicked, can't do it, can't do it, this money can't be earned, I'd better honestly go trawling."

Just this one hit directly made Ye Eldest Brother retreat, he just wanted to earn money safely.

Ye Yaohua hadn't gone into the water yet, heard his eldest brother say so, he also retreated, don't lose his life before earning money.

He glanced at Ye Yaodong and his father, and also hesitated and said: "Then forget it? This money is also not easy to earn, I and eldest brother had better go trawling, this job underwater is not suitable for us."

Since it's like this, Ye Yaodong didn't force it, people have their own aspirations, they like to be stable, then don't take risks.

Ye Fu also didn't say anything, anyway trawling can also earn money, look at it yourself!

"Then Father, Dongzi, we'll go first. By the way, we'll also trawl in this vicinity, if you have anything you can't handle, just drive the boat over and call, anyway we are in the surrounding area."

"Know, go."

Ye Fu thought about it and worriedly exhorted: "Also, don't tell people that

Ye Fu thought about it and, feeling uneasy, gave another instruction: "Also, don't tell anyone that Dongzi has this kind of equipment on his boat. Don't tell your wives either. Those people salvaging cultural relics are all living in our village now. If they find out, they might come to our door to requisition it again. Save yourself the trouble."

"We know."

As soon as their boat sailed away, Hearing Xiao Xiao and Ah Zheng couldn't wait to crawl over, excitedly wanting to go into the water. They had been waiting for a long time and were already impatient.

Ye Yaodong took turns going into the water with the two of them. What he salvaged belonged to him, and they had to give him 1/3 of what they salvaged.

The interval between two dives is generally about 1 hour. Ye Yaodong also controlled the time, letting them rest more. During the time on the boat, he let them drink more hot water to help discharge nitrogen. If there is too much residual nitrogen in the body, it is very easy to get decompression sickness.

After each person had dived three times, he called for them to finish work: "Today's underwater activities end here. It's only 1 o'clock now, there's still time to go drag another net."

Ah Zheng looked at the full harvest in the basket, feeling a bit unsatisfied: "I think we can rest for a while longer before going down."

"Don't mess around. This is very harmful to the body. You can't go into the water too many times a day. I see you've dug up forty or fifty jin, that's enough. It can sell for nearly 200 yuan. After I take my cut, you can still earn sixty yuan each today, which is very good. There's also the catch from the trawling. We can go drag another net later, and selling that will also be worth some money."

Hearing Xiao Xiao agreed and said: "Yes, yes, yes, Dongzi is right. Slow and steady wins the race. Before, we would drag nets for a day and earn at most fifty or sixty yuan, and even splitting it in half wouldn't be much."

"Let's calculate, it seems we really earned a lot. We're rich!"

Ye Yaodong calculated in his heart and then said: "I reckon that reef underneath can only be picked over by us for a month or so, and that should be about it. Whatever we can't reach in the corners and crevices, we'll leave for them to breed."

"If only this could be farmed. If we caught them all and farmed them, the more we farm, the more there will be. That way we'd be rich."

"It can be farmed!"

"Ah?" The two widened their eyes, emitting hopeful light, "Really!"

"But I don't know how."

Ye Yaodong said as a matter of course, and they almost beat him up.

"Then you're talking nonsense."

"But I know that Dongshan Island now has the farming technology for this kind of variegated abalone. In '79, the General Bureau of Aquatic Products invested in building a large-scale abalone propagation station on Dongshan Island. However, we probably can't learn it yet. Let's see in a few years; we can go over and learn how to farm them."

"What the hell are you talking about? I thought you really knew. The farthest place I've been in my life is our county town."

"What's wrong with that? If you have an idea, are you afraid you won't find the place? If you have an idea, you can really go and learn in a few years. I support you. Abalone is so expensive."

"Don't stray too far. I haven't even earned back the cost of the boat yet. I have to earn back the boat money first."

"That's also true..."

"Going trawling..."

Seeing them leave, Ye Yaodong also went to sail the boat. Ye Fu asked him curiously: "Can Dongshan Island really farm abalone? Did you see it in the newspaper?"

"Of course! Reading the newspaper lets you know the affairs of the world! You are illiterate, but you can buy a radio and listen to the news."

"I'm full, we already have one at home, why buy another?"

"That's the old lady's, not yours. After the house is built in a few days, she'll move over and you won't have one to listen to either. Spend money when you should, don't be reluctant. Anyway, you can't take it with you when you're born, and you can't take it with you when you die. The three of us brothers can all earn money, we don't count on your coffin money. Mom is even eating public food now."

Ye Fu glared at him fiercely and didn't argue with him.

Maintaining today's trawling plus diving mode, they fished continuously for three days, and only encountered thunder and lightning on the afternoon of the fourth day.

In fact, there were signs in the sea long ago. The fish in the sea were particularly active. When they went out to sea at night and dragged a net, they caught up to the cargo of two normal nets, and the wind started blowing after dawn.

Their group didn't dare to go into the water anymore. The wind meant big waves, and the sea was more dangerous, so they hurried back directly.

Along the way, there were also boats rushing back.

By the evening, the wind blew even harder, and there was thunder and lightning.

It was clearly three or four in the afternoon, but it looked like it was already seven or eight o'clock.

Ye Yaodong stood at the door of his house, looking at the rolling waves. There were also many people nearby holding umbrellas. Besides the villagers of their village, there were also that group of salvage teams and those people from the museum.

Coming back these few days, I heard at the pier that they had salvaged a lot of things. Many people saw it, saying it was carried down in baskets, and many baskets were carried down every day.

I heard there were many wooden boxes, as well as porcelain, and all kinds of bronze ware. It spread throughout the village, and everyone said they had picked up a big bargain. They were all discussing it, asking them to take more money to repair the temple.

In fact, the villagers had no concept of the value of those things, and were not very interested. Everyone's attention had always been on when the money would be approved to repair the Mazu Temple.

The more they saw them salvage, the more they wanted to know, fearing that they would run away after salvaging everything, especially the old people in the village who had worshipped Mazu for a lifetime.

After the rain stopped and it cleared up for a day and a night, the old people in the village spontaneously organized to go to the village committee to ask. It was really because of this thunderstorm weather that the Mazu Temple was leaking badly, and half of the tiles had been blown away by the wind.

In the past, after every wind and rain, it had to be repaired and patched up. This time, everyone was thinking about the money approved from above, wanting to do it once and for all.

The village committee couldn't do anything about the old people in the village. The main thing was that the village committee didn't know how much money could be approved from above. The cadres took them all to the educated youth spot and let them go directly to ask the people from the museum.

It just so happened that because the thunderstorm weather had just passed, the whole village was idle there. After hearing the news, everyone rushed to the educated youth spot, and Ye Yaodong also went to watch the fun.

Except for going to the beach to pick up bargains, the whole village had rarely gathered together so neatly.

"Everyone, rest assured, the promised commendation and rewards will all be there. We have already submitted the application. This all takes time to go through the process..."

"Then you should stop salvaging. Whenever it's approved, you can salvage then."

"Yes, yes, yes, whenever it's approved, we'll let you salvage."

"Your way of thinking is wrong. These belong to the country, not to individuals or collectives. You should cooperate..."

"Bullshit, if you finish salvaging and pat your butts and leave, who are we going to find?"

The big guys were just a group of uneducated, uncultured rural fishermen. Who would reason with them? Talk about ownership?

"Exactly!"

"You officials only know how to fool people. If you really finish salvaging, you'll just leave..."

"Once it's all salvaged, you'll just approve a little money to dismiss us, and we'll have no choice. No, you've already salvaged so many baskets, you must approve the money, otherwise, we won't let you salvage."

"Yes, anyway, there are always people at our pier, everyone will block it, and don't let them get on the boat to go to sea..."

"Lest they run away after salvaging, then we will really be calling to heaven and heaven won't answer, calling to earth and earth won't answer, and it will all be in vain..."

Those people's foreheads were sweating, and I don't know if it was because of anxiety or heat.

"We will write a letter to urge them later, everyone disperse first, there will definitely be an answer."

"How much money can be approved? You tell us first."

"We are only responsible for applying for approval, it has to be decided by the superiors first. Everyone wait patiently, there should be results in a few days..."

"You are too slow, aren't you? People came so fast, but approving money is so slow. No, only after it's approved will we let you salvage."

"Yes, fellow villagers, let's go to the road to the pier and block it, don't let them pass first... just let our own villagers pass..."

"Yes, yes, yes, let's go, let's block it first..."