Chapter 539: Setting the net

Everyone cast their eyes toward the door.

Haozi looked at Ye Yaodong with glowing eyes and walked over quickly. "Dongzi is going to change to a larger boat? Are you planning to go deep-sea fishing? You're really something! This boat hasn't been changed for long, and you're going to change to a larger one again..."

"Hey... stop, stop, stop... who said I was going to change to a larger boat?"

Ye Yaodong glared at A-Guang. This guy had no gate on his mouth. It wasn't even a shadow yet, and he said it so loudly. If he had known, he wouldn't have told him.

He only said he wanted to buy another boat, a larger one would be fine, and it was still ambiguous, but he directly defined it as a large boat.

A-Guang touched his nose and remained silent.

Haozi looked at him suspiciously. "Didn't A-Guang just say you were going to change to a larger boat and it was awesome? You two are really incredible now..."

"A-Guang's family bought a boat just before, and now you're going to buy another boat right after. You two have really earned well in these two years... one boat after another..."

"Hey, hey, hey... it's not even a shadow yet, don't blow water. I just have this idea, the money hasn't been raised yet, I was just chatting with A-Guang and talking about it. Buying a boat costs a lot of money, and I just bought a shop, where would I have so much money?"

"Don't joke, it spread all over the village last month, saying you went to Zhejiang Province and earned several thousand yuan in just two months, and made a fortune."

"What's spread outside can't be believed. It's all blind rumors outside, the more it spreads, the more exaggerated it gets. I don't have the ability to buy a boat for the time being."

Ye Yaodong was extremely annoyed. He had money but had to pretend to be poor, and he had to explain to others tirelessly. It was annoying. He was too lazy to explain too much. Believe it or not? Anyway, there was no money to borrow, and normal interaction was fine.

But he didn't intend to say much, while Lin Xiuqing didn't want people to think they had a lot of money on hand.

She said with a smile: "Don't look at how much Dongzi earned on a trip. Most of it goes to wages, fuel, and food. It's not like in the village outside, the expenses are very high. And in a few days, he has to go to the city to pay for the shop, 3,000 yuan. All that he earned has to be pasted in!"

"Is the shop so expensive? I heard long ago that your family bought a shop in the city, I didn't expect it to be so expensive. Dongzi is really amazing, how long has it been..."

Haozi was truly envious. One by one, they had soared to success without him knowing, and even the worst ones were better than him.

Ye Yaodong said very casually: "It just happened, so I gritted my teeth and paid a deposit first."

"You guys are getting better and better these two years."

"Just barely, it's really tiring."

"Sigh, comparing people to people makes people angry. I haven't worked less, but I haven't seen money. Fortunately, A-Guang pulled me this time. Let's see if I can earn more money this winter. The work at the pier is not easy."

Ye Yaodong looked at the helpless A-Guang and chuckled twice. "Then you work hard, you will definitely make a fortune."

"Hope so. It's just this boat, when can it finish scraping the barnacles on the bottom and painting the paint?" Haozi looked at A-Guang urgently.

"Wait a week!"

"This is too long, right? Otherwise, don't scrape the barnacles and paint first. Wait until next spring, when I return the boat to you, you can maintain it then."

As soon as this was said, A-Guang immediately frowned. "If you don't scrape the barnacles, the boat body will be too heavy, the fuel consumption will be severe, and if the time is too long, it will also damage the boat bottom, and the seawater will slowly corrode it. You should know this. Moreover, you should not want the boat to consume so much fuel, right?"

Haozi was told this and gave an awkward laugh. "I'm just anxious, aren't I?"

"Then it's not a week difference."

"Fine."

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, but the old lady smiled and said to Haozi: "Anxiety can't eat hot tofu. This is your first time driving a boat out to sea, you have to look for a good day. It just so happens that there are no good days these few days. When the time comes, ask your wife to cook you longevity noodles with two poached eggs. You will definitely make a lot of money this winter."

"Hey, alright, alright, it's necessary to look for a good day." Haozi also felt it made sense, and his face piled up with smiles again.

"The old lady looks very energetic. My grandmother is already senile, and I have to shout at her ears to talk."

"I guess I'm almost there, hehe. People are like this when they get old, either senile or deaf. Anyway, they've lived enough years, and living more is earning."

Ye Yaodong changed the subject and said to Lin Xiuqing: "Go get two large baskets, just let them pick what they want? Haozi, don't be polite."

"Alright, alright."

The old lady smiled and said: "Why do you keep calling people Haozi? It's so ugly, they have names and surnames."

"Isn't this a habit? Haven't they been called that since they were young? I've forgotten his real name."

"It's good that you didn't call him 'Little Bowl'."

Ye Yaodong almost laughed out loud.

Haozi's father is called Chen Dawang...

The old lady also gave A-Guang a reproachful glance. "What nonsense."

A-Guang giggled. "So is it more appropriate to call him Haozi?"

Haozi's mouth also twitched, and he didn't refute. Anyway, he had often been joked about like this before.

The whole afternoon was spent in everyone chatting and joking while working.

Basically, it was Ye Yaodong and A-Guang chatting, chatting about the current fish prices, what kind of net has a greater return? And the weather, etc., basically all centered around the seaside and the life of fishermen.

The old lady also occasionally interspersed with one or two stories, such as some abnormal things that had happened by the sea, and told them.

Everyone listened with great interest, feeling that it was better to listen to than a play box.

The old lady also said it very happily. When people get old, they are afraid that no one likes to listen to old people talk.

Ye Yaodong's sticky nets were quite large in quantity, and the two sisters-in-law took five days to finish them. During this period, he also supplemented the fishing net thread and discussed with Aqing, and decided to buy a rolling wheel.

It wouldn't work without a machine. He and his father would be half-dead.

Anyway, he had earned a lot of money, why be so tired? Earning is for spending. It wouldn't be useless in these two years. If it really was useless, it would be fine to sell it to his eldest brother and second brother. Anyway, the fat water doesn't flow to outsiders' fields, and they are his own brothers anyway.

Lin Xiuqing was also worried that he would be too tired and would quit, and she also felt that she was sitting at home enjoying the fruits of others' labor, while he was so tired, so she felt sorry for him. It was not a matter to borrow from others all the time, so she very simply took the money and told him to buy one.

Ye Yaodong also felt that doing all kinds of fishing nets was really burning money. Generally, people do one kind of fishing net and specialize in it, and they won't change it frequently like him.

Because the machines needed for each kind of fishing net are different, and the fishing tools on each kind of fishing boat also have their own specialties. It's not that one kind of fishing boat deals with all kinds of fish.

Generally, it is targeted fishing, only specializing in one kind.

For example, trawlers need to use winches, which are net-lifting machines. Specialized longline fishing boats need to be equipped with line-arranging machines, line-winding machines, line-releasing machines, and bait-hanging machines. The longline fishing he sets belongs to the relatively simple ones.

There are also squid fishing boats, tuna fishing boats, and the automatic fishing machines that need to be equipped are all different. The technical content of using this whole set of equipment is no less than that of large oil tankers. It is estimated that there is no such technology yet.

Medium-sized trawlers that also serve as purse seiners are mostly double-deck types, with long forecastles and working decks at the stern, equipped with tail slipways, and some are equipped with 2 net-winding machines, which are used for bottom trawling and mid-water trawling respectively.

There are many things to pay attention to for various targeted fishing boats. Fortunately, the nets he got are very simple, just setting ground cages in the coastal near seas, dragging nets, and longline fishing is also widely fished, none of which are targeted.

Those targeted fishing boats basically go to the deep sea or the ocean, which is too far away from him.

After the nets were ready, the father and son looked for a good day and went out to set the nets, and by the way, set the longline fishing.

The two kinds of nets kept a long distance, not interfering with each other.

This time, his sticky nets were set with a full 50 sheets, and he was not prepared to test the water like last year.

He bought a machine and put down blood. He had to work hard, and he couldn't even earn back the cost.

After setting the nets and throwing the buoys, they returned, waiting for the next day to collect them.

Sticky nets are so simple and save fuel, but they are net-consuming and easily broken.

Sometimes the fish is larger than the inner net mesh, and the fish is wrapped by the net. At this time, you have to turn the net, especially the three-layer net. It always has a gap. If you can turn it, you can take out the fish without breaking the net thread.

If you can't turn it, you have to break one or two net threads to take out the fish. In a short time, a mouthful of net is scrapped. He estimates that he will have to supplement the fishing nets from time to time in the winter months.

On the way back, Ye's father was still a bit distressed. "And bought another machine. If I had known, I wouldn't have done it. This machine is quite expensive, it should be five or six hundred, right? Just set some longline fishing, drag some nets, and earn some money to make a living."

Ye Yaodong explained: "But I met Uncle Lin a few days ago and heard him say that there are quite a lot of goods from setting sticky nets these few days. Not to mention that toadfish are cheap, the turbot and stingrays are quite good."

"If you just set it to make a living, it's better to learn from A-Guang and the others and rest for a few months. I thought that since there are goods, I should do more, so I went to buy a machine, bought thread, and let the eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law do more."

"Moreover, I see that the hope of buying a boat this year is going to fall through. If a large boat is customized, it definitely won't be that fast. Maybe it will have to wait in line for several months. It's not certain that it will be delivered in a year. The machine is bought, and it can be used next year. The main thing is to do more, and it will be fine if it can earn back the cost."

"Then you can see for yourself, have a plan in your heart, and have a plan."

Ye's father no longer opposes his decisions, because many times it has been proven that listening to him is right.

His tossing is also quite reasonable, and he didn't mess around. It's all reasonable and well-founded, and he has also pondered it.

"Yeah, then continue to supplement when the sticky net is consumed. Anyway, the machine is bought, and it's not just for one or two years."

"That's good, spend more money, and doing this is also easy, no need to get up early, and no need to be at sea all day long."

"It's just in time to catch up with lunch when we go back." ===== CHAPTER 540 =====