Chapter 568: Fishing Boat Docks (Monthly Ticket Bonus 3)

The two of them, one fat and one thin, one tall and one short, could rival the fat and thin monk duo from *The Deer and the Cauldron*. Sitting there chatting and bragging in a relaxed manner, the whole scene actually looked quite harmonious.

Ye Yaodong felt that although Acai was a bit slippery, he really knew quite a bit.

Acai also felt that although he was full of nonsense and lies, what he said was quite interesting, very addictive to chat, not boring at all.

"Hey, after the reform and opening up these few years, you shouldn't have earned less, right? Last year, our village wanted to produce a ten-thousand-yuan household, get a medal, and show off. Why didn't they call you and Aguai and the others up?"

Acai cracked melon seeds and glanced at him. "I don't have any industry, just a broken house. What's the point of finding me? Choosing a ten-thousand-yuan household is to find someone who works hard, endures hardship, is diligent in creating income, and can be a model for the people of the whole country, and then promote labor glory, labor wealth, etc."

"We guys who sit there all day doing soft work, where is it suitable? If I could, why would the country still be hitting speculation and profiteering? Just advocate it directly. And I only earned some hard-earned money, those three melons and two dates, where can I reach the ten-thousand-yuan household?"

"This boat has no boat, money has no money, land has no land, industry has no industry, what does it have to do with me?"

"Your Hong brother completely caused the interest of the county leaders because your sister-in-law bumped into him in front of so many people. Actually, he also doesn't fit."

Ye Yaodong nodded, what he said was also right.

"Your hooligan transformation also has something to say, now looking at it, it's also diligent and hard-working..."

"Roll away, I'm a good young man!"

"Speaking of which, why didn't you go out to sea today?"

"My father-in-law came to the house, so I didn't go out to sea."

"So sensible?"

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes at him, looked to the side, just happened to see another boat returning. "A boat is docking, get up and work, don't just blow cowhide..."

Acai stood up and stretched his neck to look. "The neighbor's, it's not collected by me... oh, there's another boat behind, that boat is also Old Pei's, he hasn't come over yet, you also get up and help me work."

Ye Yaodong looked toward the sea surface, and looked toward the village again. Just happened to see Pei Father pushing the flatbed cart over, and he continued to sit and crack his melon seeds.

"Pei Uncle is here."

Pei Father pushed the flatbed cart to the front, but had a stinky face.

"What's wrong, Uncle, your second boat is back."

Pei Father took a small basket from the flatbed cart to show them. "Thinking toadfish are hard to kill, so handed them to two hired people to kill. The two daughters at home let them kill miscellaneous fish, as a result, they poured out another large swallow pomfret from the washbasin."

"Ah!"

"Uh... hid another one?"

"Isn't it? Nearly angered me to death. The other boat didn't do this. A while ago, they caught a large yellow croaker of two jin-plus, and they all took it out generously. You guys, this friend is not very good. It's only been a few days?"

Ye Yaodong pursed his lips. "I said, just now those miscellaneous fish were so reluctant to let you take them back, things that aren't worth money, originally didn't take less, why like this? Turns out there's a catty."

"Weigh this fish first, wait until Aguang returns and talk about it."

Acai took his basket, laughed "hehe", "Still have to find an honest one, with a good reputation."

"Talk about it when going back at night."

Acai said again: "Then this fish doesn't need to be split, weigh it and collect it yourself. People are thinking of hiding private goods, you don't have to take it out to split."

Pei Father nodded.

Ye Yaodong thought, this is another boat, finding people also have to polish their eyes, can't appoint people by nepotism. Pei Uncle himself looks like there are still loopholes.

Don't know if it was just today's miscellaneous fish that hid good things, if they hid it several times, that would be a big loss.

If he wants to get another boat, he has to ponder well, can't let money fall into others' pockets, making wedding clothes for others.

Or when the time comes, he can leave his father at home. His father is old, just let him stay at home to collect fish.

His few cousins are quite reliable, Brother Asheng is also okay, when the time comes, inviting them to be boatmen is also okay.

And Pei Father, after being forced to grow a memory, when the second boat entered, he checked very carefully this time, and incidentally told the boat boss about what just happened, and beat him.

The boat boss repeatedly guaranteed that he would never do such a thing. Win-win, cooperation can be long-term, and he would never be short-sighted and cut off his own wealth path. His whole family is counting on this boat to eat.

Pei Father also left all the fish that couldn't sell for a good price from this boat, including miscellaneous fish, just letting the boat boss look at it and take a bit of fish he wanted to leave, he wasn't a stingy person either.

The goods of the two boats, except for pulling a trip home just now, the rest piled up the large open space on the shore, more than ten baskets full, making Ye Yaodong gasp.

"A while ago said the goods from trawling were few, recently looking at it, where is it few? This is simply as many as rice?"

"Exaggerated, where is it as many as rice?" Pei Father said with a smile: "This is in waves, no one can say well, also often have goods, often have no goods. Heard that a while ago there were no goods, recently changed a place to catch."

"Just right, having goods is good, you leave a bit more at home to dry, dry and give to me."

"Good, good, good. Just heard people say you collected a lot of dried fish yesterday, Old Lin sold a good price, earned quite a bit, I was still hesitating whether to dry a bit? Didn't expect you to come over in the afternoon."

"You have two boats with so much quantity, when the time comes, all the money will be earned by you, I can only work for nothing."

"Joking, recently the goods from trawling are still not as many as sticky nets, that needs extra money, they are not willing to spend money. Trawling, fishing nets and net-lifting machines are all ready-made here, no need to spend money, can save a bit."

Ye Yaodong nodded messily, and looked toward the sea surface again. "My father and the others don't know what time they will return, the sky is a bit dark."

"Should be almost there, right? My goods are all weighed, you help me look again, I have to pull a few more trips."

"Fine, you go."

Waited at the wharf for half an hour, even Hearing Xiao Xiao and Azheng's boats returned, and he didn't see his own boat, could only wait patiently.

Until the sky was completely dark, his mother also came out to wait for a long while, and his own boat was finally in sight.

At this time, he finally realized the mood of Aqing and his old mother waiting for them to return home all day.

The sky was pitch black, and only a few flashlight lights were shining on the boat in the distance. They were far away, don't ask him how he knew it was his own boat, because basically all the boats in the village and the neighboring village had docked, only his boat hadn't.

He and his mother unanimously believed that the one returning now was his boat.

"Finally returned! Every time have to wait until dark, can't it be earlier, if really can't, go earlier is also okay!" Ye Mother stretched her neck and muttered there.

"Sudden situations at sea, who can grasp well? Doing things also has fast and slow, and going out also has to look at whether the tide has risen, where is it that you want to go out to sea at what time?"

Ye Mother glanced at him, "Can I not know? I just said so, you have to refute everything."

"Fact, not even letting people speak."

Ye Mother didn't argue with him. "Still want to say help kill fish earlier today, this time don't know how late it will be killed at night."

"Wait until you see how many quantities there are, otherwise hire one or two more people."

"So convenient as you said, hire two more people, then have to spend the money of one or two more people."

"Then you can also work a little less, the light is always on there, the electricity bill will also be more, right? Finish early, turn off the light and rest early."

This time Ye Mother didn't refute.

The boat slowly docked. Confirming it was their boat, mother and son quickly welcomed it.

Ye Mother had already nagged on the shore just now, this time on the boat she didn't nag about returning late, looking at the full boat of goods, only left with happiness.

"Harvest is quite a lot today."

Ye Father's face full of wind and frost also hung with a smile. "Still okay, just the wind blew the fishing net and it was always entangled by the machine, not easy to untie, it was slow when receiving goods, so delayed until now. The fishing net was also broken in two places, the mouth was too big, and it couldn't be used."

Ye Yaodong scanned a circle, looking at the harvest, and said in his mouth: "Broken then broken, there are still so many, temporarily don't need to mend, saving from having to receive until dark every day."

Aguang came over with a large basket at this time. "We also stuck a large squid, it's more than ten jin heavy, can be taken to wrap rice dumplings for the Winter Solstice."

Ye Yaodong shone with a flashlight, and was also interested in flipping through it. It was a diamond-fin squid, a very common large squid, generally deep-sea light fishing is more.

This is a squid with very strong phototaxis, so every night, it will follow the light to float to the sea surface or middle water layer. 【568-7

They basically catch fish or crustaceans, though they themselves are also prey for many large carnivorous fish. Because of their large size and weight, they don't swim very fast.

People around here also like to put the meat of this large squid into their rice dumplings; it's quite fresh.

"It really is a huge one. If we each cut a piece to take home for rice dumplings, that'll be perfect—saves us from having to buy any."

Ye Yaosheng said with a smile, "I was just betting with Ah Guang. He bet that you would keep it to eat yourself, while I said that since it's so big, you'd definitely take it to sell—it could fetch two or three yuan. It seems he understands you better."

Ah Guang grinned, "That's a must. We've been wearing split-crotch pants together since we were kids. I'd want to keep it to eat, and he definitely wants to keep it to eat too. We have to buy some in a few days anyway, so why not eat what we caught ourselves? It's fresher, and it's not like we're short on this one squid."

"Fresh is fresh, but it's so big—it's a pity to keep it to eat," Ye Mu said, feeling a bit reluctant.

"Keeping it to eat doesn't cost you any money, Mother. If you go to buy it, you'd have to pay out of your own pocket. Since you can eat Dongzi's, why would you want to spend your own money?" Ah Guang said with a chuckle.

Ye Mu laughed too, "Who calculates things like that?"