"When I came here before, there were only a few dozen on the sea. It seems that they will appear faster and faster."

Father Ye said: "When we land in the afternoon, we will buy materials immediately. Fortunately, it is a seaside town, so these materials are easy to buy."

"I don't know how much of this wave of opportunities I can seize. Is this the first time these hairtails have appeared here, or have they been like this in the past? They just waited until the flood season came and the place was occupied by jellyfish before they migrated away, waiting to come back next year.

?”

"Whatever, as long as you can catch it, it's fine. We'll do the longline fishing tomorrow. We'll pull the line down into the water ourselves, and then aim the hook at the trench and lower it. The accuracy will be higher."

"That's right, putting them in the fish pile will increase the loading rate. These hairtail fish are also very easy to catch. I heard they are very greedy. I will prepare more bait tomorrow."

"It just so happens that everyone went out to trawl just now, and there are a lot of groceries. I just need to take whatever they don't want to use as bait at night."

They were waiting on the boat while discussing countermeasures, discussing how to maximize the number of hairtail fish in the trench within two or three days.

Fortunately, they also have many boats, and they can move the boats tomorrow to extend the longline fishing distance.

The crack in that trench is so long that they can sail down to the water, find the exact location, and then longline down to the trench.

The second wave of people came up after a while. Everyone gathered around the side of the boat, and the two people underwater also showed smiles.

After they were pulled up, the two people kept chattering about what they had experienced under the water. It was not much different from what Ye Yaodong and A Guang had said before, but the description was more exaggerated, which made other people who had not yet entered the water feel a bit agitated.

Can't wait to go down as soon as possible.

The sea urchins they collected weighed seven to eighty kilograms per person, which was no less than what Ye Yaodong and the others collected. When they poured it into the basket, there were two full baskets.

Ye Yaodong deliberately left ten people on the boat, working in groups of two. The haul was one hundred and fifty kilograms in one wave. Everyone took one turn and it was about seven or eight hundred kilograms. It only took about two hours. It would take more than 100 days to drag the net.

Two hours.

However, the harvest from dragging a net is not so great.

Maybe it's also because now two people are in the water together, and they can overcome each other's fear when they are with each other. After getting familiar with each other, their efficiency can be greatly improved. The trench has also been filled with hairtail fish, and there is no deep black hole in sight, so every time

The harvest from the trip was also higher than last year.

I still remember that when I went into the water last year, everyone’s harvest was about 30 to 40 kilograms. After two rounds, I only harvested 500 kilograms. That means he would gain a little more when he went into the water. Now he can harvest about 700 to 800 kilograms in one round.

When a person goes down to the bottom of the sea and then into a deep trench, he is really under pressure. Fortunately, he was smart this year and did another one.

If those sea urchins were still the same price as last year, about 20 cents per catty, then 1,000 catties would be 200 yuan.

It's only 9 o'clock now. If you don't go back for lunch at noon, you can still do three or four more waves. 10 people will take turns to do it, and there will be enough time to rest.

If we go back at four or five in the afternoon, we will be able to weigh almost 4,000 kilograms, which is about 800 yuan a day!

The worker's salary is 4.5 yuan a day, and there are 28 people. Not counting his father for the time being, his father must have given him extra, so even if he doesn't work for a day, the worker's wages will still be 126 yuan.

The 10 people who enter the water have to be subsidized by another two yuan, which is equivalent to an additional 20 yuan, so the labor cost is 146 yuan.

This is equivalent to a net profit of about 650 yuan, making you rich.

It doesn't matter if there are jellyfish or not, sea urchins are enough for him to make money.

But, you can’t really let people work at sea without food or water.

After Ye Yaodong mentally calculated the number of jellyfish he could get today, he turned to his father and said: "There are not many jellyfish on the sea anyway, and those small boats are wasting time rowing around on the sea. I still don't know if there are any."

We found a few jellyfish, but they weren’t equipped with hand-thrown nets or anything like that. Why don’t you go find those boats and take the people back first?”

"Take it back? Don't let them search for it on the sea?"

"Yes, the efficiency is too low, and there is no need to waste manpower. If you go back early, you can also buy nylon lines for longline fishing. If it is difficult to find local people to do it, you can just let these boatmen sit at home and do it.

It takes a dozen or twenty people most of the day to make one or two fishing lines."

"Well, longline fishing needs to be prepared in advance. So, should I go find those boats now and then go back together?"

"No, we won't go back. The harvest from this trip is quite big. Our boat will be used here. If we don't leave today, we will stay here and fish for sea urchins. You can send us a meal at noon.

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"That's okay. The boat will be called back later or we can leave it with you first. You can drag it back together in the evening."

"Um."

A Guang also started to think about it after hearing this.

"It's useless for the Harvest to stay here. I might as well help you tow those boats back, and then I'll also go back to prepare longline fishing materials. My dad has already set sail to trawl, and I can't ask him to help."

"Okay, then you drive your boat, take the people on your boat and go back to prepare. Anyway, the people in your boat are idle here, and you won't be able to catch a few jellyfish. I'm in the water here.

We have enough manpower, we originally had 10 people left.”

He and A Guang were not counted as heads, and A Guang also came over temporarily to join in the fun.

"good."

The two of them take care of the most people. If they are not open for a day, the expenses will be tens or hundreds of dollars. They have to increase revenue and reduce expenditure as much as possible. Fortunately, in addition to sea urchins, there are also other schools of hairtail, which can be subsidized.

Other fishing boats can now earn some subsidies by trawling the sea.

Father Ye drove Dongsheng 002 for a walk and brought back a bunch of boats and people.

After all, it had just been rowing out not long ago, and no one had much harvest. Some caught a few fish, and some caught one or two jellyfish.

Although not much can be obtained from one boat, it is quite impressive to gather the goods of 10 boats together. Father Ye has also moved them all to the boat. He can get extra meals when he takes them back, and he can also sell them.

A few bucks.

When he came back, he didn't put all the boats behind the Harvest. He also left three behind him.

Because there were only three or four small boats brought out by other people, the trawlers originally thought they would stop by and take the small boats back when they returned.

But now that those small boats saw that their big ship was going back, they all begged A Guang to let him take it back with them. There was really no cargo, so they were floating there.

Aguang was helpless, as we were all from the same village, and fellow villagers had to help each other. It was not easy to refuse such things that were within our ability, and they were only three or four more.

Then the two boats dragged a bunch of small boats and returned first.

There are also people on duty at Ye Yaodong's house. After all, there is a pile of supplies and someone has to keep an eye on them. The people on duty during the day sleep on the boat at night, so they are rewarded for resting at home during the day.

This is equivalent to each person working two days a month and taking two days off during the day.

He took A Guang into the water for the first time, and he never went into the water again. He just watched other people on the sea take turns entering the water to work for him, and he also said that if they work alone in the water, they will be paid extra.

of.

Everyone is very happy. Although there was one last year and there will definitely be one this year, of course we are even happier to hear about the salary increase.

Originally, it was 4.5 yuan a day. If you add two more yuan, it would be 6.5 yuan. If you work for thirty days in a month, it would be 200 yuan. This is higher than any living wage.

After everyone did the math, they worked even harder.

Moreover, after a cycle is completed and the water is launched again, everyone is more efficient. Sometimes one person can harvest more than 100 kilograms, and the profit can be higher than he expected.

Ye Yaodong was just like a wealthy landlord. After putting on clean clothes, he sat there with his feet up to enjoy the coolness. He watched everyone take turns getting into the water to earn money for him. He only had a handful of melon seeds in his hand, so of course he couldn't go too far.

Now their boat is the only one floating in the trench. While everyone is collecting sea urchins, there are also a lot of jellyfish floating up one after another, there are dozens of large and small, because their fishing boat is parked in place.

They moved, so no one went to salvage those jellyfish.

It wasn't until Father Ye finished his work and drove the boat out to deliver meals that he hurriedly attacked all the jellyfish that had floated up on the sea next to him in the past few hours.

Then he came over and called the people on the boat who had finished eating to come over and help cut them up. He also climbed over to take a look at what they had harvested for a long time.

"so much!"

Father Ye was surprised. He saw that the deck was full of baskets of sea urchins. There were more than twenty baskets in total. He stretched out his index finger to count the baskets.

"It's only been half a day, why are there so many?"

"Two people working together are more efficient. One person's harvest can almost catch up with what two people did last year."

"Is there 2,000 pounds here?"

"Almost, maybe a little more."

Ye Yaodong looked at his watch. It was only after 12 o'clock and not yet one o'clock. It was probably not much different from what he expected. He should have caught 4,000 kilograms today.

You have to go into the water when there are no jellyfish, and catch a lot of fish quickly, there are no outsiders, the time is right, the place is right and the people are there.

"Then you can't catch four or five thousand kilograms of sea urchin today?" Father Ye said with a surprised smile on his face, "I'm rich."

"I should. Did you ask for the price when you came ashore?"

"Yes, it's 2 cents for those above 30 taels, only 15 cents for those below 30 taels, and only 8 cents for those with one tael."

"The difference is so big."

"Seafood is eaten one size at a time. Of course, the smaller ones also have less meat. I also asked about the hairtail fish. Which hairtail fish is valuable? As long as the meat is thicker and the size is larger, it will cost more than 3 cents."

Ye Yaodong smiled all over his face, "This is great. I can sell it for more money when the time comes. Have you bought all the longline fishing lines?"

"After I bought it, I asked the boatmen to do it directly, so as not to hire anyone else. Originally, they earned a lot of wages for a day. It's not enough for ten or twenty people to just play there without work. There will be nothing to do after I go back, so I just call them

Do."

"Um."

It's 2 o'clock, I'll post it first, and I'll add another chapter before 12 o'clock tomorrow night. I'm so sleepy, I fell asleep at 11 o'clock
Chapter completed!