Chapter 634

Because they were in a hurry and still had to go out to sea to set the nets, they only stayed for a little while before Ye Yaodong and Ye Fu went back first.

Anyway, with Uncle Pei taking the lead, both sides trusted each other quite a bit, and there was no need to give a deposit or anything; a verbal agreement was enough.

It was just that they were in such a hurry to go back that they forgot about the dried shrimp. They thought they would just ask Uncle Pei to ask the other party if they were selling when they came back at night; one thing shouldn't bother two masters.

There was no need to make a special trip back; their time was already tight.

Fortunately, the trip was a quick one. His father had already seen it before, so the round trip plus the talking only took an hour. Once it was settled, they immediately went home again.

Ye Yaodong pushed the flatbed cart, which was piled full of white sticky nets, even peaking higher than a person. Three or four buckets were hung on the handles of the cart, and there was no place to put the baskets, so they could only be stacked up for Ye Fu to carry. The father and son chatted as they walked.

"With so many Bombay ducks, we can get three or four thousand jin after drying. For others, such a large quantity is a burden, and people might not even want this fish when it's fresh. For us, spending five or six hundred yuan and being able to double our money is a huge bargain. We'll have to thank your Uncle Pei properly later."

"That's for sure. Wasn't it bought at fourteen cents? I plan to take out another cent as a referral fee for Uncle Pei. It's considered he didn't make the connection for nothing."

"That works too. With such a large quantity, calculating it directly as a referral fee, one cent is still thirty or forty yuan, which is much better than buying those things to eat and drink. Nothing is as practical as hard cash."

"Mm."

"It looks like that dried fish business is very reliable. You have to pay more attention to it and can't just dump everything on your father-in-law and mother-in-law. After all, they are old, and there are times when they can't look after everything. You have to have a clear idea of the quantity and the accounts."

Ye Yaodong roughly knew what his father hadn't said. It was human nature to be worried, and he was also too busy to look after it.

However, according to the trajectory of his previous life, his father-in-law and mother-in-law could still be trusted. Even if they really hid some privately, they wouldn't hide too much. He had a clear idea of the weight of the goods before sending them over.

Anyway, selling back and forth, it was just dried fish.

It was normal to have discrepancies. As long as the difference wasn't outrageous, he actually didn't care. Just consider it compensation for the two old folks having to bury their child in his previous life. He was already earning quite a lot, and since both of them were getting on in years, they couldn't work for much longer anyway.

"I know, I have a clear idea."

"I hope the weather will be better next. If we go out to sea more and dry more, we can sell more. If we can sell five, six, seven, or eight thousand jin this month, just the income from this dried fish will be enough to pay off the final payment for that large boat of yours this year, and you'll still have some money left over. Work at sea and other work, what you earn is what you get directly."

"Dad, you're taking it for granted. Throughout the year, we have to have that much dried fish to sell. Unless we specifically target one type of fish, otherwise, like trawling, what fish can we drag up? It's all miscellaneous fish, and the quantity is very small, unless we run into a school of fish."

Like toadfish, which are easiest to catch in winter, they usually live on the deep-sea floor at 500-1000 meters. In winter, their gonads begin to develop, and they spawn in spring. Only during this period do they move to shallow-water areas. Once spawning is over, they return to the deep sea, and then they can't catch them anymore.

And to be honest, specifically targeting one type of fish to catch and dry might not even be as profitable as trawling. After all, wherever the trawl net passes, it catches everything, big fish and small fish alike, and his luck has always been pretty good.

Ye Fu thought about it and felt it made sense. "Then after spring passes, there won't be any toadfish, and there won't be any fish to dry. There will only be those miscellaneous dried fish. Then we'll have to collect more at that time and can't just collect from those few families."

"Spring is here, and in previous years, we've also netted quite a lot of round scad. This fish is also dirt cheap, and every year the village dries a large batch for themselves. A bit later, we'll tell the fellow villagers that from now on, we'll take whatever dried fish there is in the village, so we don't really run out of things to sell after only a few days and have to close the shop and rest."

Ever since Ye Yaodong set up a stall to sell dried fish for a few days, he truly felt that things nowadays were not hard to sell at all. No wonder they said this era was full of gold and opportunities everywhere.

He didn't know how far he could go, nor did he know to what extent he could do it. After all, he was also a complete novice, relying entirely on exploration, and could only play it by ear, moving forward step by step.

"Dried round scad is also fine. In our surrounding area, every household likes it, and city people will definitely like it too."

Whenever they cook noodles, they like to take one out, tear the meat off, and put it in.

Thinking of cooking noodles, Ye Fu associated it with those shellfish meats. "It's a pity your mother doesn't have time, otherwise I'd tell her to go to the sea every day to forage, get more of those shelled ones back, and dry some of those shellfish meats. It would probably sell well if taken to be sold."

"Mother can't go, but it's the same if the eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law go. Anyway, they don't earn much money weaving nets while idling at home. When the eldest brother and second brother go out to sea, wouldn't it be fine to take them along?"

"Ah, right. I only thought of your mother and left out your eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law. Anyway, they stay at home all day, mending nets and weaving nets, idling is idling. When they come back at night, I'll mention it to them. It's best if it can be sold for money; if it can't be sold for money, keeping it for our own consumption is fine too. It just takes a bit more effort."

Ye Yaodong nodded. This was a pretty good idea. The main problem with seafood nowadays is that it's hard to circulate, but drying it into dried goods makes it convenient. It's just that you have to dig and pry it yourself, which is quite laborious and time-consuming.

Those are all shelled. If you dig up a hundred jin, the meat you get is only a little bit, and the weight is all in the shells. After drying, there's even less. You can't make a fortune, but earning some extra money to subsidize the household is still possible, and it's a bit better than weaving nets.

And it can also increase the variety in his shop, so it's no longer just those few types of dried fish. Even a mosquito's leg is meat.

Ye Fu muttered along the way, feeling that he was also very smart to find some work for his two daughters-in-law, so they wouldn't gather together all day whispering and saying that even the two old folks were biased toward Dongzi.

Yesterday, they just killed a chicken, and the fragrant smell couldn't be hidden from the neighbors. Coming over this morning, he heard the muttering. They didn't think about the fact that Dongzi was supporting them in their old age now, and they were eating and drinking at his house.

Having too many sons is really worrying.

The father and son chatted as they walked about dried fish, shellfish, and collecting goods in the village, until they moved the fishing nets and things onto the boat and left the shore before they stopped talking.

The sound of the wind blowing was all around their ears. Ye Fu looked at Ye Yaodong, who was looking ahead and steering the boat with a serious face, and remembering the praise from others in the morning, he also felt comforted in his old heart.

Ye Yaodong turned his head and saw his father's strange smiling face, feeling a bit unsettled. Why was he looking at him and smiling for no reason?

Inexplicable!

He continued to look ahead, paying attention to the direction of travel. The water waves on both sides of the boat kept receding, and the sea surface was like a mirror, reflecting the color of the sky. It was just that the sky today was a bit gray, and the morning sunshine was only for a moment. Anyway, as long as the waves weren't too big, they could go out to sea.

After arriving at the destination, the father and son weren't in a hurry to set the nets. They directly finished their lunch first to avoid having no time to eat later. It was already past ten o'clock since the boat came out.

Ye Fu had already burned the coal stove a step ahead and heated up a large portion of cauliflower stir-fried rice cakes that Aqing had stir-fried.

After eating their fill, the two began to work, setting the sticky nets and setting the buoys.

Looking at the sea surface, it was empty. As far as the eye could see, there wasn't a single boat, only their boat drifting on the sea, swaying as they worked.

Ye Yaodong also steered to this area and only stopped after seeing that there were no boats working nearby. Otherwise, only further ahead would be the sea area they were usually familiar with.

Although there are a few more trawlers now compared to previous years, compared to the future, they can be said to be pitifully few. A village only has a few, and small villages might not even have trawlers.

As the years pass, after there are more and more fishing boats, fishing technology will become more and more mature. While returning with a full load, the sea goods will also decrease significantly. By the millennium, the near sea will also be fished to injury, and then the policy of the fishing ban period will be promulgated.

Now it still belongs to the period of fishing at will, fishing heavily, without worries.

Waiting until the future when there will be a fishing ban period, Ye Yaodong suddenly sighed, "Buying a boat still has to be done early. You have to earn the money that should be earned first, otherwise it will all be earned by the RB people and the HG people."

"What?"

Ye Fu looked at him inexplicably. Why did this sentence suddenly pop out?

What does his buying a boat have to do with RB people and HG people?

"Nothing, just complaining. Our country's shipbuilding technology is still too poor. No wonder they say that if technology is backward, you will be beaten."

"You know again? RB people and HG people have good technology? Did you see it in the newspaper?" Ye Fu looked at him suspiciously. "Does the newspaper write everything?"

"That's why I say, read more books. Pass that net over to me too."

Ye Yaodong didn't answer directly either. He just complained casually for a moment. Could it be that he really explained everything? The key was that he couldn't explain it clearly either.

Ye Fu looked at him inexplicably, saying half of what he said and then not saying it. However, he didn't dwell on it either and changed the subject himself.

"When you have time, you must go to the shipyard more to see if your own boat has been built. Go over more to show your face and urge them so that they will pay attention. With so much money, some people can't earn so much money in a lifetime, so don't get scammed."

"I know, I know. This also requires having time to go. If you have time, you go. Anyway, you know where it is. They say ginger is old and spicy. I, a young man, don't know as much as you do. You help me supervise and supervise."

Make the best use of everything. Anyway, his father was idling when he wasn't working.

"If you run into the weekend, take Ahai along and take him to have a look. This is a legitimate opportunity to learn the trade. Just let him see if he is interested? If you want him to learn, he must be interested himself."

Ye Fu's eyes lit up instantly. "Right, right, right. That's it. You all kept saying there was no way. Anyway, he won't study. Take him to have a look, and it's good to see first. If he has a skill in his hands, he can support his whole family in the future. He is also 13 years old. When your eldest brother was 13, he didn't know how much work he had done."

"Then reading still has to be finished. Just take him on the weekend. Just consider it joining in the fun and broadening his horizons. We can't go every day."

"I know, I know."