Chapter 509

But there was some distance, and the two boats on the opposite side were blocking them, making it a bit unclear what the situation was.

Moreover, Ye Yaodong was also a bit curious about that huge sailfish, and he didn't know if it was still there.

Would those three boats join forces to surround and catch it?

But those boats were used for smuggling, so they probably didn't have tools for catching and killing, right?

He stretched his neck and squinted, but could only see the goods piled up on the two boats opposite. As for the situation of the other boat and how it had capsized, he couldn't see clearly.

"Why don't we get closer? Don't get too close, just take a look?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Fu shouted to the other boats and asked. After everyone had no objections, he steered the boat toward that side.

Who knew that just as they were approaching, a sailfish with its fin spread out sped past the water in front of them, giving them a big fright and causing Ye Fu to stop the boat in an emergency. The two boats next to them also stopped suddenly.

An ordinary boat couldn't withstand that sharp snout.

But fortunately, it swam past at high speed, only to stay on the sea not far away, poking and stabbing, swinging its body back and forth.

Ye Yaodong moved a stool to stand on, held onto the small cabin wall to step up, and looked into the distance.

He saw many fish carcasses floating on the sea, and then, it opened its mouth to suck wildly. Instantly, all the blood and fish carcasses were swept into its mouth. Immediately after, it swam away rapidly, continuing to rush forward like a speeding sailboat.

It turned out it had run into a school of fish, so it stayed there and used its sharp sword-like long snout to churn and stir in the sea, chasing and killing wantonly, stirring the sea surface into a rolling mess of blood and floating fish carcasses, and then swallowed them in one gulp.

"Ah, I see, it turned out that a school of fish was discovered over there, so it stayed there and launched an attack."

"This fish is too scary. With the speed it just flew past, a person in front would be pierced through."

"So that boat is too miserable..."

"Eh~ those two boats seem to be dragging that boat away?"

"Seems to be heading toward the foot of the mountain opposite?"

"Seems to be something on the sea?"

Ye Yaodong stood high and saw far, surprised, "It's boxes and sacks! Dad, steer the boat over and take a look."

"Good."

Anyway, that fish had already left, and they were all curious about what those boxes and sacks floating on the sea were. Why hadn't they sunk?

The three boats quickly sailed forward again. The fishing boats in front also noticed them, but they were powerless to care at this moment. What they needed to do now was to reduce losses and drag this attacked boat to the shore to avoid sinking and suffering heavy losses.

As long as the fishing boat didn't sink, it could always be repaired. Moreover, there were still some goods left on the boat that hadn't fallen into the sea, so perhaps they wouldn't lose too badly.

Because the two boats were dragging one boat, the sailing wasn't very fast. Everyone behind also discovered the things stacked high on that boat, which had already scattered more than half. The boat was in a mess, and there was no one on it. It was estimated that they had already fallen into the water when the boat tilted earlier.

"Dongzi, those boxes and sacks must have fallen off when that boat tilted just now," Ye Yaosheng was overjoyed.

Chen Jiayuan chimed in, "Yes, yes, otherwise they wouldn't all be concentrated and floating in this area."

"We're rich, Dongzi. Let's fish up all these boxes and sacks. There must be good things inside..."

Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows, not as excited as them, "Not necessarily. Usually, things sink directly to the bottom. Things floating on the sea are relatively light. It might just be some small things, who knows."

Good things like watches, radios, and the like would definitely sink directly. How could they still be floating on the sea?

"That's true too."

"But with so many boxes and sacks, it's a free pickup anyway. We can fish them up first to see what they are. The things on these boats were definitely meant to be taken back to sell for money."

"Yes, yes, they transported them all the way from the high seas, so they must be meant to be sold for money. Let's fish them up first," Ye Fu echoed excitedly and slowly steered the boat toward the floating objects on the sea.

The two boats next to them were the same, all approaching the floating objects on the surrounding sea.

At this time, no one cared about the three boats in front. Anyway, they had no time to care about them now.

The boxes and sacks were of different sizes. They each took a hand-held net to fish up the small ones directly. The large ones were hard to fish up, so Ye Yaodong took out a cast net from the cabin, aimed, threw it out, and then dragged it toward them.

All three boats planned to seize the time to fish. After fishing, they would leave quickly. They still had to hurry, and they were also afraid that the two boats would turn back after dragging the boat to the shore.

"This sack seems quite heavy too..."

"It's floating on the sea and hasn't sunk, so it shouldn't be very heavy, right?"

"Could it be that wood is driving the things inside to float on top?"

"Then the things that sink will still sink..."

"Fish first. After fishing, we'll leave quickly. We can open them slowly to see what they are when the time comes."

"Hey, good..."

There were only a dozen or twenty floating objects on the sea. The three boats fished them all up onto the boats in no time, in the time it took to say a few words.

Ye Yaodong counted them. Their own boat fished up 3 small boxes and 4 sacks. Mainly because these were closer to his boat, it was easy to fish them up, following the principle of proximity.

How many the other boats fished up, they didn't know. The moment they finished fishing, they quickly steered their boats to run away. Everyone had no time to stop and chat.

"Open them all to see what's inside. On the way back, I didn't expect to be able to pick up a bargain. I don't know if it's worth any money."

"You steer, you have good luck!"

"Even if it's not worth much, there are so many bags, it's a free pickup anyway. Let's see what's inside first."

"These two bags look the same in shape, both are long strips. Could it be fabric?"

"Possibly. If it's fabric, that's also quite good. Take it back, wash it, and dry it, and it can still be used to make clothes..."

Amidst everyone's discussion, Ye Yaodong picked one of the two bags they were discussing at random, untied the rope tied on top, and saw various colors and patterns of polyester knitted fabric standing neatly inside.

Everyone was instantly pleasantly surprised!

"It really is fabric! Several bolts of fabric!"

"It's all fabric, so much..."

"This fabric is several yuan per meter..."

It really was fabric, and Ye Yaodong was also excited. It didn't matter if the fabric was soaked in a little seawater. Anyway, they were going back today. When the time came, they would take it back, spread it out, rinse it with water, and dry it.

"Fabric is good. There's another bag with the same shape, it must also be fabric. Hurry up and open them all to see what kind of fabric it is. The colors look colorful and quite good-looking," Ye Fu rubbed his hands, wishing he could go up and open them himself.

"Good, good..." Ye Yaodong was also excited to continue untying the sacks.

Without a doubt, the second bag opened was also fabric. However, this bag was all tweed fabric, which was even more surprising.

"It's tweed fabric for making clothes in winter. I heard this is very expensive. It's just right to take it to make coats in winter."

"Found a treasure. There's actually tweed fabric inside..."

Everyone was even more excited. Tweed fabric is more expensive, and the coats made from it aren't cheap.

"There are several bolts, black, red, beige, and black and white plaid. They are all good-looking colors. I heard a tweed coat costs over a hundred yuan. How many can this make?"

"You fished this up really accurately. You even fished up tweed fabric."

Ye Yaodong smiled until his eyes narrowed, "The ones floating in front were all sacks. I could have fished them up with my eyes closed. I just fished up two at random. Let me see what the three small boxes and the other two bags are? Everyone can pick some later."

Just at this moment, they also heard exclamations from the boat next door, and the others looked over.

"They are also opening boxes over there. They must have opened something good."

"It's leather shoes. They opened a box of leather shoes!" The second cousin lay on the side of the boat and exclaimed loudly.

Others also looked over and saw them taking out leather shoes, and they were all envious.

"These leather shoes aren't cheap!"

"There really are good things in these boxes..."

"What a pity, we should have fished up a few more boxes just now. I don't know how many sank to the bottom of the sea..."

"No need to feel sorry. Anyway, these are all free pickups. It's already very good that we were able to pick up a few pieces. Moreover, those things that sank probably can't be used after being soaked in seawater. Only this fabric can still be used after being taken back and washed," Ye Yaodong had a good mentality.

Having just earned a large sum of money, these were just icing on the cake. It was already very good to have them.

Ye Fu also nodded, "If these were radios, cameras, tape recorders, they couldn't be used after being soaked in water, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes, let's continue to open them all to see what else is in those few pieces of goods?"

Ye Yaodong looked at the parallel boat next door opening boxes and was also full of drive, intending to open one first to see, "You guys also go and open the other bags and boxes."

"Good, good..."

"It's an electronic watch!"

"Electronic watch..."

"Boom—this small box is electronic watches... Are they soaked in water? Can they still be used?"

"This one costs eight or nine yuan, and there are dozens of them."

"See if they are soaked in water and broken? If they are broken, what a pity?"

The three of them couldn't care about untying the sacks. After seeing them, they were all excited and squatted down, surrounding the box.

At this time, watches were just becoming popular. Mechanical watches were too expensive, and ordinary people couldn't afford them. People in the countryside didn't have much money in their hands, and this kind of electronic watch was also a watch.

In the 1980s, there was no full coverage of network digital information. Every household needed clocks and watches, which were a part of life and were super popular now.

Ye Fu heard that they had opened watches and stretched his neck, "Quick, take one and show me... Are they soaked in water? Can they be used? Should we stop the boat for a while and open everything before talking? We've already sailed quite far, those two boats won't chase us back, right?"

Ye Yaodong shouted at his dad, "Steer your boat first, we'll see later, it's not like they'll disappear. Let's sail further away first."

Everyone was extremely excited. They had opened three items and all were good things. There were two more boxes and two sacks on the side, and everyone was itching to see them.

"Later, pick through these watches. Some are soaked in water, some should still be fine. Pick out the broken ones and throw them away."

These electronic products are most afraid of seawater.

"There are 4 more items, let's each open one."

Everyone was excited and each chose one to open. Unexpectedly, those two boxes were all cassette tapes.

The second cousin said happily, "These cassette tapes are also good. City people love to use cassette tapes to listen to tape recorders..."

Ye Yaodong flipped through them casually, and quite a bit of water had entered inside, making his hands wet.

But fortunately, there was a layer of white plastic film and plastic shell, so they shouldn't have been soaked.

"Fortunately, there is plastic film, they should be usable."

"Borrow a tape recorder when we get back to try one or two. This is also popular."

Ye Yaosheng also happily flipped through the box of cassette tapes in his hand, "They definitely won't be wet inside, they should all be fine. There are dozens in this box, we made a big profit."

The second cousin was happy and then sighed with regret, "What a pity, a lot must have sunk in the sea. If they hadn't sunk, how good would that be? They all went down the drain and were given to the Dragon King."

"It's already not bad to have these. You still think it's too little for a free pickup?" Ye Yaodong said with a smile. Anyway, he was already very happy.

He felt that since he had come back again, he had a bit too much windfall luck, and he didn't know if it was a benefit of coming back again.

"That's true, any one of these is already worth quite a bit of money."

"There are two more bags, hurry up and open them to see..."

"Mine here is clothes!" Chen Jiayuan untied the rope on the sack and said excitedly.

Everyone looked over and found that they were all flashy.

"It's women's clothes!"

"Women's money is easy to earn!"

"These people are quite smart."

"There's one more bag..."

"Should I open it?" Ye Fu also stretched his head and kept paying attention, wishing he could stop the boat directly. He had been listening to them talking excitedly all along, and no one had said to come over and take over, letting him go over and take a look.

"Then you come." Ye Yaodong went over to take over the job of steering the boat from his dad, letting him untie a bag. He guessed that bag was also clothes or something, soft and fluffy.

Ye Fu rubbed his hands, his old face blossomed with smiles. He glanced at the other opened boxes and sacks before going to untie the last sack.

"These people really know how to pick. What they brought over are all hot-selling good things. These things won't be hard to sell..."

"If those watches and cassette tapes were all fine, they could be sold for a lot of money, right? What a pity they fell into the water. I don't know how many were broken..."

While untying the sack, he was muttering to himself. People of his age seem to have a common problem: they like to mutter.

"Eh? My bag is a nylon mosquito net. This is also good, it's also a good thing. I heard that when it was hot, many people lined up and couldn't buy it, and some people had to entrust others to buy it everywhere."

Chen Jiayuan also touched it lovingly, "Yes, this nylon mosquito net is easy to wash and durable. Someone in our village bought one, and everyone went to his house to see it."

"There should be several in this bag. My luck is not bad."

Ye Yaodong looked at the nylon mosquito net his dad untied and was also quite happy. Their family was just in need of one. The mosquitoes in summer were very poisonous. When he left, his daughter had two bites on her face, and there were bites on her hands and feet, which made his heart ache.

He had originally seen it in the alley yesterday and wanted to buy it, but he couldn't compete with an auntie.

He looked at the boundless sea, and couldn't see anything behind him, so he simply stopped the boat directly. They had already sailed quite far, so they shouldn't be able to catch up.

Moreover, the top priority for those people now should be to leave one boat to keep watch, and the other boat should quickly catch up with the team in front, and ask a master to go over and repair the boat after docking.

Thinking this way, they couldn't spare any hands, and they wouldn't target these goods soaked in water. Anyway, they had all fallen into the sea, so it wasn't worth it to waste time to chase them.

"Eh? Why did the boat stop?"

Everyone looked over.

"I think this little bit of goods, and it's soaked in water, shouldn't be worth chasing us specifically. They have goods on their boats, and we have already sailed out of sight. Stopping the boat now shouldn't be a big problem."

"Then let's stop for a while..."

The other boats that had sailed past also turned back. After asking, they also stopped. Everyone exchanged what was in the sacks and boxes they had fished up on their boats.

The harvest was quite good, with some the same and some different.

Both of their boats had leather shoes, but only he had electronic watches and nylon mosquito nets.

Ye Yaodong looked at the people on the boat, "You guys take a look, pick a few things if you want."

Chen Jiayuan rubbed his palms back and forth, his eyes lingering on those things reluctantly, and said embarrassedly, "This is your boat. These things fished up should be yours. I'm just hitching a ride..."

The second cousin and Ye Yaosheng also laughed, "Yes, we are just working for you, following you to earn wages. The boat is yours, and the things fished up are naturally yours too."

"We are just working for you. Without us helping to fish, you could have fished them up yourselves."

Ye Yaodong chuckled. These cousins of his were really honest. It was no wonder that the relatives on his dad's side and his mom's side didn't have anyone particularly successful; they were all fishermen for a lifetime, following in their fathers' footsteps.

Ye Yaohong, who was the most successful in his previous life, had already gone in to step on a sewing machine early in this life, to the point that his big uncle felt ashamed, was embarrassed to go out, and didn't dare to visit.

"It's okay, everyone pick a few things. Anyway, it's a windfall. It's a free pickup, so of course, everyone has a share. No need to be polite, just look and take whatever you want, pick at will."

"This is so embarrassing..."

"You keep it to sell for money yourself..."

"We are all our own people, not outsiders. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's not bad to pick a few things to take back as gifts for your family."

"Then... then we won't be polite?"

"Pick, pick..."

Ye Fu was a bit hesitant, but he still restrained himself and didn't speak, just watched them picking and choosing there with a heavy heart, already cursing the prodigal son in his heart.

Pick at will... how can this be picked at will?

Wouldn't it be enough to give them one or two pieces each?

This dead child is really good at being generous with other people's money, it makes his heart ache.

But fortunately, the three of them were quite sensible and didn't take much. They each took one intact electronic watch and picked two pieces of women's clothes. No one took the large bolts of fabric or the large nylon mosquito nets.

Ye Fu breathed a sigh of relief after seeing this, and he was also satisfied in his heart. He could also politely smile and say a few words, "Take two more pieces? There's still a sack here? Take a few cassette tapes too?"

"No, enough, enough. This electronic watch is already worth eight or nine yuan, and these two pieces of women's shirts and pants, these two pieces are already worth more than ten or twenty yuan. We've taken enough."

"Good, good, good... Then you guys keep them well, put them back in your own baskets. Your wives should be very grateful when you get back."

Ye Yaodong also squatted down to count the electronic watches in the small box, checked them carefully, and threw the ones with unlit screens onto the deck casually.

This action made Ye Fu's heart ache again. He hurriedly picked up the watches on the deck, blew on them by his mouth, and wiped them with his sleeve.

"Why throw them around casually? Take them back and repair them, maybe they can still be used?"

"Repair? Who repairs them? Is there anyone in the village who can repair watches?"

"Then you can put them away first. Why throw them around so casually, wasting things."

Ye Yaodong pouted. These are electronic watches, not mechanical watches. Whether he can find someone to repair watches is still a question.

He sorted out the watches, separating the good ones from the bad ones. When the time comes, perhaps he can take two to exchange for small leather shoes with his big brother and second brother.

He let them pile the other clothes and fabric in the corner. There was no need to pour them out to see. There were also two boxes of cassette tapes, which had to be taken back to borrow a tape recorder to try. The good ones could also be picked out to sell for money.

They had finished picking, but the two boats next door hadn't finished yet. They were still taking things out with high spirits, looking at them and touching them, and talking excitedly there.

Ye Yaodong simply waited for a while, and by the way, took out a shirt from the sack to look at. It was just right to wear a shirt when it got cool later. This red plaid shirt also looked quite stylish.

Goods smuggled from outside would look better than what they had locally. It was just that they were too backward in the past few years and couldn't keep up with the level of development of the times.

After the other two boats were happy and finished picking the goods, they also learned from Ye Yaodong and each gave two things to the people on the boat, everyone having a share.

Then they looked at Ye Yaodong's side with unfinished interest.

"Dongzi, let's exchange the things we don't have with each other after we get home? It's not the time to deal with these things on the boat now."

"Hmm, then let's talk about it after we get home. Let's hurry up and get on the road now. We've been delayed for quite a long time. It's estimated that it will be dark when we get home."

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he looked at Ye Fu, who was still touching the cassette tapes and electronic watches there, "Dad, let's sail."

"Hey, coming..." Ye Fu ran over, "Pick one for me and your mom each after we get back. Anyway, you have more than 20 good ones there."

"Sure, let's pick after we get back. There's also a sack of clothes there. Let mom pick a few pieces when we get back."

"What a pity, if only the cassette tapes were exchanged for leather shoes."

"It doesn't matter. If you want leather shoes, just go to big brother and second brother's side and take two pairs. It's just that I don't know if there are any suitable ones."

"Let's talk about it after we get back."

Ye Fu grinned and happily took over the job of steering the boat again, but instantly he frowned again, "It seems to be getting windy. Sailing won't be so smooth later. It should be dark when we get home."

"Dark is dark. Who told us to be delayed for so long? Anyway, it's in our surrounding waters after dark, and we'll be familiar with it. Anyway, steer however it's stable."

"Hmm."

Ye Yaodong happily ran back to look at the goods he had just fished up. He poured out those cassette tapes and let everyone wipe them with a cloth together and dry them to see.

Along the way, everyone was immersed in joy. No one was in the mood to play cards anymore. They were all discussing the topic of smuggling, and from time to time, they touched the watches on their hands.

They couldn't afford mechanical watches, and everyone was very fond of this electronic watch.