Chapter 797: Ye's Father Can't Take It Anymore

After putting on his clothes, he immediately felt full of security, but there was no way for his legs. He couldn't be asked to wear long pants to sleep in the middle of summer.

Ye Yaodong fiddled with the little vest and counted the few wealth hairs growing around his right nipple again. "The 6 on this side are still fine, the left side is missing one now. 5-6-5-6 doesn't sound good."

"Then let your precious right side pull one out too, and it will be symmetrical."

"That won't do! I just have to wait for the one on the left to grow back. If I pull another one out, I have to wait for two to grow back. How long will that take? Otherwise, you water it, irrigate it with nutrients, maybe it can grow faster..."

Lin Xiuqing listened to his incomparably flirtatious words and couldn't hold it in. The expression on her face was both annoyed and embarrassed. She stood up immediately, and the roots of her ears turned red.

"What are you saying? Saying all sorts of things all day."

"Hehe, water is the source of life."

"Can't be bothered with you, I'm going out to help."

"Didn't you hire people to do it? What else do you need to do yourself? Stay..."

"That also requires helping a bit, lending a hand. Otherwise, Mom is there helping to kill, and it's not good for me to stand there watching."

"I didn't ask you to stand in place and watch. You can walk around and look after standing for a while, touch the dried squid, repeat back and forth. Doesn't that make it look like you have things to do and are very busy?"

"This is your secret to being lazy. I can't practice it? Work at home, how can I use crooked thoughts? You guys sleep early."

After saying that, she didn't talk nonsense with him in the room anymore. What little thoughts of his could she not know? A pile of work, not finished yet, a pile of people outside working, how could she have the heart to lie with him in the room.

Ye Yaodong regretfully watched her back go out and had no choice but to pick up Ye Xiaoxi to play. "Just the two of us left~"

At night, Ye Yaodong climbed up when the time came and went out to sea to fish as usual.

It's just that he waited at the wharf for a while, but he never saw his dad. In the past, his dad always arrived early, and it was always his dad waiting for him. Today, he didn't know what was going on?

After waiting for half an hour and still not seeing his dad, he had no choice but to let Brother Brother Asheng and his eldest cousin wait for a while, and he went to the old house to take a look. If he didn't go out again, the tide would be too shallow, and he wouldn't be able to go out.

Ye Yaodong walked on the road with a flashlight. The village was quiet. When walking on the small path, he even saw the light of another flashlight exposed at the corner.

When turning the corner to meet, he saw that it was actually his mom. Fortunately, both of them were holding flashlights and knew in advance that there was someone at the corner, otherwise, they would have been scared to death when meeting at the corner.

"Eh? Dongzi?"

"It's me. Can you not shine it on my face? It's very dazzling. You already knew it was me, and you still have to shine the flashlight on my face again."

"It's pitch black, afraid of recognizing the wrong person, thinking of shining it to see clearly."

"I'm your son, shouldn't you recognize me even if I turned into ashes? You should know by hearing the voice too. Where are you going? Where's Dad? Why hasn't he gotten up so late? I've been waiting at the wharf for half an hour."

When asking about serious matters, he didn't forget to tease a few words. He didn't know if it was because his first reaction after seeing his mom was to argue.

"Your dad is exhausted and can't get up. He's calling there that his shoulders and waist hurt, and let me come out to replace him and go to sea with you, let him lie at home for a day and rest."

"Ah, exhausted? But he didn't say anything at dusk."

"At his age, he loves to be brave. He said his back and waist were sore two days ago, but the fishing season wasn't over. One day not going is one day's loss. How could he be willing? He told me not to tell you. Just now he wanted to climb up, but couldn't get up, and was calling 'ouch, ouch' there. I was also woken up by him."

"That's fine, then let him rest for a day. It's indeed quite tiring to be busy with high intensity for half a month. When it's dawn, let him go hang a bottle of glucose. You don't go either, two boats go as one boat."

"How can that be? Take advantage of the good weather, should go to sea, go to sea. One day not going, loss of several tens of yuan. Moreover, people have been called, and they have all gotten up in the middle of the night to wait at the wharf. You are now telling people to go back and continue sleeping? Anyway, I have nothing to do tomorrow, going with you for a day is nothing, helping you lend a hand, otherwise one person can't be busy."

"That's fine, then I'll go back and tell Ah Qing, let her come to the old house to take a look tomorrow. You go to the wharf first, tell Brother Brother Asheng and eldest cousin first, let them start the boat first."

Without a mobile phone, it's so backward, and not so convenient. Everything has to rely on two legs and word of mouth.

Mother and son went their separate ways.

After Ye Yaodong went back and said it briefly, he ran to the wharf quickly again.

Afraid that the tide was too shallow to go out, they had already rowed the boat away from the shore. He still let other small wooden boats send him for a ride before getting on the boat.

His mom could also drive the boat, but her experience wasn't so seasoned, and she couldn't distinguish the direction. Ye Yaodong also didn't worry about handing his mom over to others, so he was on the same boat with his mom, and let Brother Brother Asheng and his eldest cousin drive one boat.

Both boats were fishing in the same location, and they could see each other's figures from afar, echoing each other.

Ye Mom, while helping to pick goods, nagged, "Isn't there something called a purse seine? Can catch more, needs two boats to operate at the same time, everything passing by can be caught in one net, stronger than your single boat trawling. You just have two boats, can you try it?"

Ye Yaodong was a bit impatient. His mom had been nagging endlessly since getting on the boat, but what she said just now was actually quite useful.

The movement of him organizing the fishing net paused. He put away the expression of endurance on his face and actually thought about it seriously. "These two boats won't work. The load-bearing capacity of the net hauler isn't enough. The small net hauler on the boat has a maximum load of 1-1.5 tons, and there are no other equipment."

The basic mechanical equipment of purse seine fishing boats includes: purse winch, power block, running winch, and net head rope winch, etc., a series of them, not as simple as trawlers.

In this era, heavy industry is mainly developed, and wheel engines haven't been popularized. Fishing boats at sea mainly use trawling. There are other fishing boats, but they aren't common, and basically belong to fishery companies.

"Ah, like this? Like this, then forget it. Need to spend extra money to fix it, waste of money. Now this trawling is quite good, already stronger than many people. We just trawl."

"Mm, trawling is the most practical, and also the most common, equipment is also the most basic, simplest, no need to fix seven or eight things."

"Take it as I didn't say it. I also heard people mention it, saying a purse seine can drag several thousand to ten thousand jin in one net."

"That depends on the size of the boat, and also depends on the equipment. We small fishermen can just trawl."

"Then the boat you ordered from the shipyard?"

"Also a trawler."

If it's a dual-purpose fishing boat, their small county's shipyard can't do it, and the construction cost is also very large. Individuals don't have the ability to do it.

Medium-sized trawler dual-purpose fishing boats are mostly double-deck types, long forecastle, the stern is the working deck, equipped with stern slipway, some are equipped with 2 net winches, respectively used for bottom trawling and mid-layer trawling.

"Also good, also good. If that big boat can be driven back next year, it will be glorious. When the time comes, can go to a farther place to fish, have more goods, easier to encounter fish schools, can earn more."

"Mm."

"Then has that boat of yours started construction?"

"Don't know. This period has been busy again, no time to go to the factory to look. When Ah Guang went to pay the deposit a while ago, I heard him say that the materials have been prepared. Now it should have started construction."

"When you have time, go take a look. Your dad is exhausted. Otherwise, if he rests for a day today, he can still go take a look."

"No rush. Anyway, the contract has been signed and construction hasn't started. Going won't show anything. When I have time, I'll go look. Recently, the weather has been really good, always big sun, only occasionally cloudy, but it quickly becomes sunny again. The temperature is getting higher day by day, no wind, no waves, can't bear to rest even if I want to."

Ye Mom said unhappily, "Don't talk anymore, heaven is very stingy."

Ye Yaodong reached out and made a zipper movement on his mouth. Shut up.

He was fine. He sent goods to the city twice during this period, which counted as taking a break for two days. His dad had been getting up early and working late, and hadn't rested either. He was getting on in years, and his physical quality couldn't compare to young people. Such high-intensity labor at sea definitely couldn't be taken.

"Go back and let Ah Qing buy a chicken in the village, kill it and stew it to eat for replenishment. The whole family has been busy following along during this period and is exhausted. A chicken was killed a while ago, there were so many people in the family, both brothers-in-law were there, not enough to split. Seems like only I ate a few more pieces?"

"What seems? It was clearly you who ate the most. Your Great-Grandma put all the good meat into your bowl. Your dad only ate a chicken head and chicken neck, and drank a few mouthfuls of soup."

"Where?"

Ye Yaodong laughed straight.

Still remember a few days ago, the chicken meat in his bowl was peaking. He even deliberately split a chicken leg for the three younger siblings, while his dad originally had a chicken leg in his bowl too, but he clipped it to Ah Yuan to eat, and only gnawed a chicken head and chicken neck himself. Even the chicken claws were deliberately given to Ye Xiaoxi to eat, letting her walk steadily.

"The ones at home are still too small. Tonight, go back and let Ah Qing ask in the village, buy a chicken, and buy a duck. One for replenishment, one for cooling. This way, no need to worry about not having enough to eat."

"Mm, put this net down first, I'll pick it slowly. Today, it looks like there aren't many goods, no good things."

"Not many, just so-so. Today should also scrape together thirty or forty yuan, earn a little to make a living."

He felt it was because one wealth hair was pulled out, ruining his "six-six-six" luck feng shui!

Originally, there were 6 hairs on one side, perfectly fine, very auspicious.

Yesterday, when his dad came back, the harvest was also quite good. Although it was some cheap fish, it was also lifted off the boat in large baskets. Unlike him today.

Only caught some Bombay duck, and it was mixed with mackerel, anchovy, and anchovy, miscellaneous. Didn't see which one had a larger quantity. It looked very average, and the quantity wasn't much.

"Where were those Jiang Yao pulled from before the fishing season? Busy catching squid during this period, no time to pull. Are there still any? Can we still go pull? Looking at the goods today, there's nothing after one net. If we can pull, let's go pull Jiang Yao, get a little more back, can also make up the number."

Ye Yaodong laughed twice in his heart. Is this something he can let his mom know?

"No more. The piece discovered before has already been collected by us. Didn't see any more nearby. No goods, just go back early later."

"Alright, rarely came out with you today, actually had no harvest. What are these things dragged? Those anchovies and anchovies aren't decent enough to dry into dried fish, can only be used to make fish sauce..."