Chapter 69: First Net Explosion

After Ye Chenghu was saved by Ye Mu, Ye Yaodong also returned to the room to sleep. He had to go out to sea at night.

Sleeping in a daze, a knock on the door suddenly woke him up. Originally, he had things on his mind, so his sleep wasn't very deep. Hearing the sound, he sat up and got out of bed directly.

Lin Xiuqing also heard the knock on the door. Turning her head to look, her husband had already gotten up to open the door. She had just sat up when she heard voices coming from the door.

"Since you're up, wash up, let's go."

"I know."

When Ye Yaodong turned to enter the room to put on clothes, he saw her getting out of bed and was almost startled, "What are you getting up for?"

"I got up when I heard the movement. Be careful at sea, listen to Dad more."

"I know, I'm not a three-year-old child, you continue to lie down and sleep, it's only two o'clock."

"Mm."

Ye Yaodong put on his clothes and rain boots and hurried out to eat, then go out to sea after being full.

Ye Mu prepared two portions of rice and dishes for them in lunch boxes, and also boiled two eggs and handed them to Ye Yaodong.

"It's your first day going out to sea today, these two eggs are for you. Your eldest brother and second brother also had them the first time they went out with your dad."

He responded, brought everything he should bring, and hurried behind his father with a headlamp.

Outside it was pitch black, and he could only rely on the headlamp to illuminate the road ahead.

The village was quiet, as if the sound of a needle falling on the ground could be heard. When they walked to the pier, it was lively, with headlamps flashing everywhere and the noisy sound of talking.

"You wait here first, I'll go start the boat."

"Did you buy diesel?"

"Bought it, bought it in advance when I brought the boat back in the afternoon."

After the typhoon, tonight should be the first time people in the village were going out to sea. The pier was full of various boats, and several boats were sailing away from the shore or were already floating on the sea. Their iron boat, compared to the small wooden boats with oars, was already considered a big boat.

Amidst the noisy "da-da-da" sound of the machine, the boat sailed toward the distant ocean.

Because it was dark, Ye Fu didn't feel at ease handing the boat to Ye Yaodong, afraid he wouldn't know how to distinguish directions. Ye Yaodong also knew that relying on his mouth to speak was useless, his father wouldn't believe him. He simply felt at ease, lay down wherever, and prepared to close his eyes for a while.

Until they sailed to the sea area where they often fished, Ye Fu called him up, "We're here, we're going to cast the net, watch carefully."

They were single-boat trawling, using sleeve trawls, mainly for bottom operations, adopting tail trawling.

This kind of trawl net, by installing two water-blocking boards on both sides of the net, when the fishing boat drags the fishing net, the water flow pushes the two boards to expand outward at a certain angle, driving the fishing net to open the net mouth.

After Ye Fu called Ye Yaodong up, he slowed down and released the net gear from the tail slipway, connecting the net boards to the towing cable and making them detach from the two net board racks.

Then the fishing boat moved forward quickly and gradually released the two towing cables. When the towing cables were released to the predetermined length, the fishing boat dragged the net forward according to the predetermined direction and speed.

The trawling speed was generally 3-5 nautical miles per hour.

Ye Yaodong actually knew how to do it in his previous life, but he still listened very seriously to his father explaining the principles to him.

"How long until we lift the net?"

"Depends on the situation, generally lift the net once every two or three hours."

Working at sea was very boring, and at this time there were no mobile phones to watch videos, so he could only support his chin and wait blankly while looking at the sea level.

And facing his father wasn't as interesting as facing his friends. If he were with friends, he could chat, play cards, etc.

Ye Fu couldn't stand him being idle, and directly shouted at him: "You come over and drive for a while!"

"Are you at ease?"

"Didn't you say A-Guang taught you a few days ago, and you know how? I'll let you try now."

"Sure! Then you close your eyes for a while, I'll take care of this net, it will definitely be a bumper harvest!"

As long as his father was at ease, how could he not do it? Since he was reborn, they had always felt he couldn't do it.

Ye Fu looked at him with disdain, "It's not bad if you can drive the boat well, be careful not to hit the reef."

Looking down on him!

Ye Yaodong didn't argue with his father, pouted, and directly looked at the distant sea surface, honestly driving the boat.

Ye Fu saw that he looked like he knew what he was doing, and felt a bit more at ease.

When the sky was getting light, Ye Fu looked at the time and thought it was about time, so he planned to lift the first net.

The fishing boat moved forward slowly and sequentially tightened the towing cables. When tightened to the net boards, Ye Fu fixed the net boards on the net board rack, made them detach from the towing cables, continued to tighten the net gear, and dragged it from the tail slipway onto the deck.

Ye Yaodong also ran up to help drag, "So heavy? Must be big goods, right? Yo-ho, it's skate, so many? Cheap is cheap, but the quantity is really large. This pile is almost a hundred jin, right? And there are a few true sea breams..."

Skate was estimated to be less than two cents a jin, but this nearly a hundred jin plus other fish goods was also 20 yuan. And there were some scattered shrimp and crabs, which counted as a net explosion. People in their village who were trawling now only earned ten or twenty yuan a day.

Ye Fu was also very satisfied, "Mm, this net is not bad, we encountered a school of skate, sure enough, there are more goods after the typhoon."

Skate is a cartilaginous fish, its body is flattened into a diamond shape, its appearance is strange and elegant, and its whole pectoral fin is like a pair of big wings, swimming just like flying.

It looks very similar to the manta ray, but skate has a tail fin or dorsal fin, while manta ray only has a head fin or snout fin.

The size is also different. Manta ray is the largest species of skate, and skate is far inferior to manta ray. Generally, skate is up to 2.5 meters long, while the largest manta ray will exceed 7 meters.

And manta ray also has powerful aggressiveness, easily killing people, so it is called "manta ray", while skate's aggressiveness is much smaller.

Ye Yaodong sorted and said, "Isn't it my luck bonus?"

Ye Fu squinted at him, "I'll let you cast the next net, and I'll let you drive, you can drive wherever you want to drive."

"Sure, with me coming out, today will definitely be a bumper harvest."

No hair on the mouth, things are not firm. Saying it well now, let's see how many nets he can explode!

This first net was already enough to break even, Ye Fu didn't mind letting go and letting him try a net.

After sorting the skate, the other scattered goods were handed to his father, and Ye Yaodong ran to drive the boat and cast the net.

Time passed slowly, and the sky became brighter and brighter.

On the sea level, a faint orange light gradually appeared, becoming more and more intense, and the clouds on the horizon were also shining, attracting the attention of fishermen at sea.

Ye Yaodong also looked at the horizon, sunrise?

In the distance, the clouds were glowing, and the sun appeared from the sea in the east, from the chaos where the sea and sky were one color, revealing threads of golden edges.

In less than two minutes, the sun jumped out all at once, radiating dazzling and eye-catching brilliance.

The vast sea of clouds was illuminated by the red light of the sun, colorful, the golden morning glow gradually dyed the eastern horizon red, and countless golden lights rippled on the water surface.

What a sunrise at sea! Really stunning!

It's a pity that communication is not developed now and there is no mobile phone, otherwise it could be recorded and sent to his wife to see. She must have never seen a sunrise at sea.

If there is a chance, he could take his wife to see the sunrise at sea.

Ye Yaodong didn't delay driving the boat while watching the sunrise, always controlling the direction and moving forward at a constant speed to trawl.