Chapter 546

The number of fifty nets is really large. By 12 noon, they had only collected eighteen. The main reason was that it took about an hour on the road when they came out, and the longline fishing took another two hours.

However, having one more person does increase efficiency. According to the subsequent progress, they should be able to barely finish collecting the nets by dark. It's just that after finishing, they still have to spend half an hour to an hour putting them down, and it will still be seven or eight o'clock when they return.

However, there is no longline fishing to collect or put down tomorrow, so they should be able to reach the shore just as it gets dark.

It's too hard, there's money to be made, it's hard!

No money to be made, even harder!

It's not easy.

Ye Yaodong saw that it was lunchtime, and the key was that his stomach was also hungry. After collecting this net, he stopped.

"You guys collect the fish first, I'll go heat up the food. By the time you finish collecting, the food will be heated up."

"Go ahead."

Smelling the fragrant bone soup, he was even hungrier. Fortunately, he ate dry rice in the morning, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to hold on until noon.

Feeling that the radish and pig head bone soup in the pot had already boiled, he was the first to scoop out a bowl to drink. The rice was placed on top, so it didn't heat up as fast.

He smacked his lips a few times before calling the others to come over and drink the soup first.

"Dried radish slices stewed with pig head bones are even better to drink, and it's even more fragrant if you add a little rice wine. Tomorrow, after drying the fish, I'll ask Aqing to dry some dried radish."

"Ask your mother to dry it on the weekend."

"That's right, Aqing is too busy, I have to ask my mother to do it. On the weekend, I can also ask the boys at home to pull radishes, they love doing this kind of thing the most."

Ye Yaosheng listened with envy, but just smiled and drank the soup without saying anything.

After a simple and quick lunch, they continued to work without stopping.

As Ye Yaodong expected, they only collected all the nets just as it got dark.

He let out a long sigh of relief, looked at the time, and immediately continued to put down the nets on the spot, putting down the nets they had just collected.

"Work for a day tomorrow, collect the nets and take them back to wash and dry, otherwise there are too many things stuck on the nets, the fish will be alert, and the cargo will decrease."

This kind of fishing net is transparent when put in the water, which is why it's good for catching fish.

"We'll see tomorrow. Today's harvest is okay, a few are a bit broken, but it doesn't affect anything."

Ye Yaosheng couldn't help but say, "Then if you take the nets back to wash and dry tomorrow, you can take the longline fishing to put out tomorrow. Put it out tomorrow, collect it the day after tomorrow. Anyway, there's no sticky net put out the day after tomorrow, so you guys can handle it."

Ye Yaodong nodded, "That's true, go back tonight and hire someone to organize it. When drying the fishing nets, put out the longline fishing. Just stagger it, and you can make money on both ends."

"I envy you for making money so easily, it's much simpler than us making money."

"It's just about being diligent, plus a little luck. Everyone depends on the heavens for food, no one is much stronger than anyone else, you're just lacking a bit of luck."

He just knows a little more, and sometimes he's a bit bolder, or dares to think.

Ye Yaosheng smiled and shook his head, "Work slowly! Take your time."

Ye Fu went to drive the boat, Ye Yaodong put down the nets again, and Ye Yaosheng organized the remaining fishing nets, and by the way, organized the things on the boat, each performing their own duties.

It was just that when he stacked the cargo neatly, he saw that thing in the corner covered well with cloth and nylon bags again.

He went over, touched it, and patted it, asking, "Dongzi, what is this thing of yours? It looks like a small machine? I see it's been piled up for a long time, and you don't seem to have touched it. I wanted to ask when we were catching jellyfish before."

Ye Yaodong turned his head and looked over, also seeing what he was talking about.

He had told them before that this was borrowed and had to be returned, and told everyone not to touch it, in case he couldn't explain it to others if it got bumped somewhere. He didn't expect Brother Asheng to ask about it again now.

"This is a small machine I borrowed from someone before. It's useless now, and I plan to return it, but the friend said not to worry, keep it here first, so I haven't moved it."

"Oh."

"You don't need to worry about it, just let it pile up there."

"I was just curious when I saw it. I heard you were going to return it before, but I didn't expect it to still be here. It looks like it takes up quite a bit of space."

"Hmm, don't worry about it."

Ye Yaodong felt it was time to tidy up the cabin and move this in, so that whoever got on the boat wouldn't have to ask about it.

Put this thing into the cabin, and lift it out whenever it's needed, saving it from being left outside all the time.

Ye Fu also kept looking at him, very confused as to why his underwater machine couldn't be seen by others.

Actually, it wasn't that he was afraid of being seen, but to avoid unnecessary trouble. After all, people now dive naked when they go underwater to catch things, relying mostly on real ability.

He continued to change the subject, "Brother Asheng, come over and help me hold the flashlight, make it brighter, it's completely dark now, I can't see clearly, one flashlight is very blurry."

"Alright, alright."

Now the nights are getting longer and longer. By the Winter Solstice, that night will be the longest night of the year, because the Winter Solstice is the day with the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

It will only start to gradually shorten after the Winter Solstice, until the Summer Solstice, when it becomes long days and short nights again.

After putting all the nets down one by one, Ye Fu added full power to approach the shore.

Ye Yaodong also went to check today's harvest. He had been rushing to collect nets since morning and didn't have time to pay attention to how much cargo he had collected.

He could only see what kind of fish there were when the fishing nets were collected, if there were any rare ones, or large ones? However, there really weren't any today.

Yesterday there were still three otters, but today's cargo was super ordinary, so he wasn't in a hurry to see how much cargo was collected in total.

It was just that on the return trip, he unexpectedly ran into Lin Shu. He didn't expect him to reach the shore so late today either.

Everyone was in a hurry to go back and couldn't care about chatting. They only greeted each other when the boats got close, and then drove their own boats.

After going ashore, he saw that he had actually caught one large and one small otter today.

"No wonder you were so late today, it turns out you were delayed by catching two otters, right?"

"Yeah, I happened to see a group of otters near an island not far from the island town, so I thought I'd try my luck and see if I could catch two? When I returned to the pier yesterday, I saw someone else catch two."

"Good luck."

"How much cargo did you collect today? 50 sticky nets, can you handle it?"

"It really was as you said, two people can't handle it at all. Yesterday we worked until nine o'clock at night before returning, today we specially hired Brother Asheng to help, so we returned early."

"That's why I only put out 30 nets, otherwise the father and son couldn't handle it."

Ye Fu smiled and said, "You only have one son, I don't know how much easier it is. It's enough to earn enough to eat, unlike me, I have three sons, I must earn a bit more, otherwise, it won't be enough to divide later."

"Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, they all have their own boats to earn money, what's there to divide? We can't work for a few more years, at that time we can only go back to grow vegetables."

"That's not how you say it. The boat that the eldest and second eldest are working on together was rented to them by me, and I can't take it back at that time. I can only earn more money to compensate Adong. There are many grandchildren at home, and at that time I can divide some for the grandchildren..."

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes as he listened. His father was only 50 years old and was already thinking about his sons dividing the family property and then dividing it for his grandchildren. If the two of them earned enough for themselves to spend until they were old, and didn't need the three brothers to give money for their old age, he would already be thanking God.

After all, they still had 30 years to live, and prices were skyrocketing. If they saved ten thousand yuan now, according to their nature, they wouldn't be willing to eat, wear, or use it. After 30 years, hehe~ still thinking about dividing the inheritance for the grandchildren...

"You'd better not pull so far, Dad, wait until you earn the money for your own old age first." After talking about his father, he turned to Lin Jingye, "Lin Shu's harvest today is also very good, the boat is piled full of fish."

"Can't compare to you guys, you have many fishing nets and catch a lot of cargo. Don't just chat, it's very late, I guess only we are left, the lights at the collection point are off, go call Acai over first."

"Hey, Brother Asheng, help us go call Acai over? He definitely hasn't slept at this hour, sorry to trouble you to run a trip for us."

"Good, I'll go right now."

After the cargo on Lin Shu's own boat was moved, the father and son also ran over to help move their family's cargo. Seeing the harvest on their boat, they couldn't help but click their tongues.

"I knew you guys must have caught a lot of cargo, but I didn't expect so much, it looks like it's twice as much as ours."

"That's because we also collected 1,000 longline hooks today, so isn't there a lot of cargo? With so much work, there's naturally a lot of cargo. We even specially hired one more person to help."

"How much are the wages for hiring one person? With so much cargo, you've really made a fortune."

"It's okay, I have to do a bit more, I also bought a rolling wheel, I have to earn back the cost no matter what."

"Good kid, young people are indeed more willing to spend a fortune. Like an old guy in the neighboring village, he's reluctant. I met a father and two sons from Dongqiao Village yesterday, the three of them were pulling it miserably there. With that efficiency, it's really not as fast as buying a machine to earn money."

"That's exactly what I'm saying, manpower can't compare to machines."

"Lift it first, lift it first, you guys have too much quantity."

"Sorry to trouble you."

"What's there to be polite about~"

Ye Yaodong had counted the number of baskets before. They caught more toadfish today, one basket more than yesterday, and the size was generally a bit larger. He estimated that there should be another one or two hundred jin more.

However, other fish cargo didn't decrease, it still looked like five or six hundred jin, just don't know if it's more valuable. I guess compared to yesterday, the fluctuation isn't large.

But today he also collected the longline fishing cargo. According to his preliminary estimate, today is estimated to be over 200 again. Subtracting the toadfish money, it is estimated that it is still around 150 or 160.

Just when they were waiting there to weigh, a female voice screamed not far away, which startled them and made them turn their heads and prick up their ears, listening to the sound.

"What sound is that, who is screaming?"

"It's the middle of the night, it's completely dark, who is still outside, what sound is that?"

"Who is it? Why do I hear scolding again?"