Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1169 Heavy Rain at Sea
The previous sentence "like my father" was said by Ye Yaodong.

He felt that his father was sometimes a bit foolish, but he was just older and looked more experienced, not as stupid as the two younger ones.

Ye Chengyang asked cautiously: "Dad, who do I look like?"

"You're smarter, like me."

Ye Chengyang smiled, feeling satisfied. It turned out that he was not stupid, but his brother was stupid.

He nodded, "Brother is just stupid. He pressed it for a while but it still ran away. It was all in vain."

"Yes, don't learn his stupid behavior."

"Dad, how long should I press it?"

"Press me until I fall asleep."

"So when do you go to bed?"

"I went to sleep when I was tired."

Ye Chengyang was a little confused. When would his father be sleepy? His hands were already sore. After thinking about it, he switched to his feet.

But after a while, his feet felt sore again and his whole face wrinkled into a bun.

Ye Xiaoxi only played for a while, and now she was sitting astride his back and riding.

He couldn't hold on any longer, so he also sat astride Ye Yaodong's legs, almost breaking them.

Ye Yaodong screamed in pain and quickly drove the two away, "Alright, alright, let's go play."

"Then my ten cents..."

"Ask your mother."

Lin Xiuqing was counting money on the side and was easy to talk to. She took a dime from the table and gave it to Ye Chengyang.

He jumped three feet high with excitement, "Wow, I made money again, I'll go tell my brother, he can get the money as soon as he leaves."

Ye Xiaoxi was also standing nearby, watching eagerly and pulling at Lin Xiuqing's clothes. Lin Xiuqing had just handed her a two-cent coin.

"Put it in your pocket so it doesn't fall out."

She grinned happily and ran out quickly, shouting as she ran: "I want to tell Dede too."

"Then Cheng Hu will be so angry that he will die."

Ye Yaodong crouched there with his eyes closed, "When you're ready, come over and give me a massage."

"Didn't I just pay three people to do it for you?"

"Did you invite that?"

"You didn't take the money from me?"

"Damn! What a shame that the bank didn't ask you to settle the accounts. Everything is yours."

Lin Xiuqing counted handfuls of banknotes and turned a deaf ear to them.

Their noise just now delayed me from counting the money.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Ye Yaodong didn't make any noise to disturb her, for fear that she would forget to count and get scolded again.

He lay there with his eyes closed, and the only sound he could hear was the sound of money being counted, which he found quite pleasant. He fell asleep while lying there.

The next day, he had nothing to do, so he slept until he woke up naturally. Then, he stayed at home and watched TV, which was a rare occurrence for him. He didn't go anywhere.

Lin Xiuqing had distributed the things she brought back as souvenirs to her neighbors, relatives and friends the previous night, so it was not a wasted trip.

Today is the 1st, which is also Sunday. The children did not go to school and were running around outside. They only came back at lunchtime. Ye Yaodong also detained them after lunch and did not let them run outside.

"Take a rest at home. Don't run out right after eating. Running around right after a meal can easily give you a stomachache. It's rare for me to be at home, but I can't even see you. You're busier than me."

"We're going to play ball..."

Lin Xiuqing knew how to control them, "There's Sun Wukong in the afternoon!"

After saying this, they no longer talked about running away.

"Really?" Both eyes were bright.

"There was a broadcast of Sun Wukong last night, but you were all playing outside and didn't see it. It will be replayed this afternoon."

"Then let's finish watching before we go out."

After saying this, the two of them turned on the TV and waited in front of it.

After we got a TV at home, watching it for a long time became less and less interesting to me. The outside world is still more attractive.

However, those who do not have a television are more eager for one, especially the children.

The two brothers didn't plan to go out to play, but someone kept coming to their door and calling them.

When they heard that they were going to stay at home to watch Sun Wukong, everyone was extremely envious. After obtaining the consent of Ye Yaodong and Lin Xiuqing, the two brothers brought all their friends home.

Suddenly their house became like a kindergarten, gathering all the children in the neighborhood together. It was so noisy that it almost blew the roof off.

Although the people next door also have TVs at home, they just go wherever there is fun. Knowing that there are many people here, they also come over to watch TV together.

Ye Yaodong stood with them and watched the monkeys when he had nothing to do. "Why didn't I realize there were so many beauties in Journey to the West before?"

"These are all fairies..."

"Tang Seng is too confused...those are all monsters..."

"Deserves to be caught!"

"Don't goblins eat humans? Why do they need to cook them? Can't they just swallow them in one gulp?"

Lin Xiuqing also thought it was right. "We have to stay overnight, and if we catch them, we can just eat them. Then the three brothers can all go their separate ways and go home."

Ye Chenghu shouted excitedly: "Zhu Bajie wants to go back to Gao Village!"

"Tang Seng is really infuriating, eat him up quickly!"

The group of children were so angry that they wanted to rush in and beat Tang Seng up, and all they could do was curse at him.

Ye Yaodong shook his head, went back to the room and lay down for a nap as he had to go out to sea at night.

The noise from going out never stopped until an episode was over, then they ran out again cursing and swearing, and he could finally sleep peacefully.

In the evening, he settled the accounts for several rented boats at home. He was in a hurry to go to the city yesterday and came back late, so he didn't settle the accounts. He waited until today to call someone to come and settle the accounts.

The Harvest happened to come back today, and after he had settled the accounts of his family's fishing boats, he went to settle the accounts of the Harvest.

A lot of time was wasted just on settling accounts, but there is only one day like this in a month, and this is also the most important day for everyone.

After he had settled the bill, he asked Ah Qing to count the money on hand as usual.

I originally had more than 25 yuan, and I spent 5 yuan on lighters, but I also brought back more than 2 yuan from the city store, and I got a few thousand yuan at home.

The boatmen had already received their wages a few days ago, and Lin's father and mother in the city had also given them the wages when they settled their accounts. Lin Xiuqing also paid the wages of several workers in the workshop and Ye's mother at the end of the month.

Their workshop is not very formal. Sometimes the wages are paid a few days early, and sometimes a day late, which is normal.

If this happened in the 21st century, people would curse the company to death if the payment was not received for two hours, let alone one day. Everyone's tolerance is very limited, and everyone lives on wages. Only early payment is allowed, not late payment.

Now they have about 23 yuan in cash on hand.

Ye Yaodong thought that after the batch of lighters on hand were sold out, and after the store's turnover next month, it was estimated that the amount would reach 30.

However, it is already early November, and next month will be December. I guess I have to pay for the filling machine, the plastic bags, and the materials for building the wall in the city. I guess the shipyard will be able to deliver another ship.

He still has three small trawlers that have not been delivered. In fact, the original delivery date has passed, but he is not in a hurry, so he didn't deliberately push for it.

But I heard that his elder brother often asked Ye Chenghai to keep an eye on their boat and keep urging the factory.

He was silently calculating the money he had on hand and the possible expenses for next month. He estimated that the income next month would not be that much, and it would probably go back to around 25, not even 30.

It really makes sense that the better a person is at making money, the better he is at spending money.

At night, he would get up at the appointed time.

There was no Harvest with him tonight, as it would not be back until the evening. This trip had taken five or six days, and he needed to rest when he got back. Since he could not join the group, he decided to go alone.

Let's rest for two days, and then go look for them when the Harvest comes out.

All the boatmen arrived at the dock and waited on time.

"Dongzi...ah, that's not right. You should call me President Ye. I haven't seen you for a long time. Why are you going out to sea? Aren't you an official now? I thought you were enjoying the good life, so I haven't seen you for so long." A Zheng teased.

Xiao Xiao also joked, "Haha, President Ye needs to hire more people to do the work. He can't go out to sea to fish by himself."

Ye Yaodong happened to have a carrying pole in his hand, and he hit them each with a blow. "If I don't go out to sea, will you support me? There are so many mouths to feed at home and in the workshop. If I don't work, my whole family will starve."

"Hire someone to do it."

"Isn't that capitalism? I'm an honest fisherman. I work in the wind and rain every day. How can I stay at home and wait for workers to work for me?"

"That's true."

"gone."

He took a group of people and boarded the nearest ship that was going out to sea, and asked someone to take them to the Dongsheng on the sea.

Although it was rented out, no one would refuse something that was convenient, and it also saved them the trouble of taking another small boat to the middle of the sea.

The sea breeze at night is getting colder. It has rained several times this month. Now that it is November, the temperature has dropped even lower. There is a sea breeze at sea, and the temperature is lower than on land.

Ye Yaodong even put on a sweater and a coat at night to block the wind, and only then did he feel less cold.

He thought that next time he went out to sea, he would probably have to wear a woolen hat and gloves.

"Dad, you can drive it in the second half of the night. I'll take over when the sun rises."

Father Ye looked at the time, walked out of the house to the dock, got on the boat and drove it out again. In such a short while, it was almost 3 o'clock.

"Okay, then go back to the cabin."

It wasn't long until dawn, and there was no way to sleep in the cabin in such a short time, so it was better to sail.

After all, I had just woken up from bed and had a nap, so I was still in good spirits. It would be better to stay up until dawn before going back to sleep than to take a two-hour nap and then have to work for most of the day.

Ye Yaodong and the boatmen stayed in the cabin with their eyes closed to rest until dawn before getting up to take over their shift.

At this time, they had not yet reached the sea area where they used to trawle, and the depth under the sea was estimated to be not enough. After taking over, he continued to drive quickly and at full speed towards the East China Sea.

It was not until after 6 o'clock that he asked people to prepare to lower the net, while he watched from the helm.

The whistling sea breeze made his hair stand up, revealing his big forehead. He calculated in his mind that he had not trawled since July, and it had been almost four months now. It was indeed quite a long time, and he almost lost his old job.

Watching the boatmen lowering the net, he went to the cockpit, took out the telescope, and looked into the distance.

The sea surface was surging and the fishing boats were swaying slightly. In the distance, seabirds were either skimming the water or flying high in the sky, not very concentrated. It seemed that there was no difference in the surrounding sea surface.

The fishing boat moved forward slowly, maintaining a constant speed of 3 to 5 nautical miles per hour.

After a whole day, the harvest was mediocre, not very good but not bad either.

Most of the food was taken up by groceries, half of which were swimming crabs. He picked out some big and fat ones to eat and threw the rest into the sea.

In November, there are many crabs and they are plump and delicious. It's a pity that there is no one on their boat who knows how to make crab roe sauce. Otherwise, they could have dug out a lot of crab roe during their free time. Even if they can't take back live crabs, at least they would have had crab roe. Now it's all wasted.

However, now that they have just been fished out, the crabs are still active and throwing them back into the sea will help them lay eggs.

He and his father have been taking turns to ensure that they each have time to rest.

Everything went smoothly for the first four days, but on the fifth day they felt the sky was getting cloudy and the waves were getting a little bigger. At night, the broadcast on the maritime radio station was playing in a loop, saying that another typhoon was forming.

Sometimes when they get bored at sea, they will listen to the radio and the weather forecast every night.

At this time, Ye Yaodong frowned when he heard that another typhoon was forming. No wonder the sky felt a little gloomy in the afternoon, even though the sun was shining brightly in the morning.

There are still typhoons in November, but the frequency is relatively low. Today is still the beginning of November.

The origin of the typhoon is close to the equator, which is still very hot at this time.

Even in December, conditions are favorable for the formation of typhoons, and typhoons are possible in the northwest Pacific and the South China Sea throughout the year.

In China, the time range of typhoon landing is also very wide. Except for January to March, typhoons may land in other months.

It’s just that they occur most frequently in July, August, September and October, because during these months people can especially clearly feel the power of the passing typhoons, while at other times they may not feel anything at all and the typhoon will just pass.

Major typhoons also tend to occur during these months.

But they are now in the open sea, and even if it is a small typhoon, they can feel it very clearly on the sea. At this time, the sun may still be shining brightly on land and they may not feel anything, but they are likely to be hit by the typhoon at sea.

When Ye Yaodong heard the broadcast that another typhoon was forming, he quickly walked out of the cockpit and shouted to the boatmen who were sitting and chatting below, "Go wake up the boatmen in the cabin, don't sleep anymore, there's a typhoon forming, we have to go back quickly."

Everyone panicked immediately and ran into the cabin to call for help.

A typhoon is coming, so of course we better stay awake and not hide in the cabin to sleep.

Fortunately, he heard the broadcast in time. Now, the typhoon has not yet arrived. The waves on the sea are just a little big and there is no substantial impact. It is not a big problem to go back early.

After everyone in the cabin ran out in disheveled clothes, he shouted again, asking them to prepare to set up the net.

This trip has lasted four days, so it would be worthwhile to go back now.

Father Ye had already climbed up to the helm tower before he had even put on his clothes, with his hands still putting their hands into the cuffs of his sweater.

"Why is there a typhoon? The weather is so cold."

"It's starting to get cold here. It's probably not colder in the south yet. It's normal to have a typhoon. It's only November 11th. I'm going to sail back right now. I don't know when this damn weather forecast was detected. It's only broadcast at night."

"I was wondering why the sky suddenly turned cloudy this afternoon. I thought it was going to rain. If it was just light rain or moderate rain, we wouldn't be afraid and would just return depending on the situation. But I didn't expect it to be a typhoon. This is really bad."

"Well, we need to take down the fishing nets first before we can sail back."

Father Ye was worried and didn't return to the cabin. He stayed in the cockpit with Ye Yaodong and watched together.

Of course, the boatmen below were not so careless as to go back to sleep. They had to keep an eye on the sea at all times, as their lives were at stake.

Probably because a typhoon was approaching, the harvest was large. This net yielded nearly 1 kilograms. In the past, one bag of goods weighed about 2000 kilograms. Today, 5 bags of goods were put down. Father Ye estimated that the harvest was about 9000 to 1 kilograms.

A large amount of cargo is collected in the fishing net. It is impossible for them to hoist up so much cargo and put it on the deck. There is a fish collecting bag at the bottom of the fishing net.

When the fish are pulled up, the contents of the fishing net will sink to the bottom, and the boatmen will have to tighten the opening of the fish bag, then hoist the fish bag up, untie the net opening, and let the fish scatter on the deck.

Then put the fish collecting bag back into the sea, and let the fish in the fishing net fall into the fish collecting bag at the bottom. In this way, one bag lifted up is called a pack.

When the fishing nets were being pulled up, Ye's father went up to the deck to watch and counted silently until all the goods in the nets were pulled up. Then he ran happily to the cockpit to tell Ye Yaodong.

"We caught more than 7000 kilograms of fish in the evening. I thought that was enough, but I didn't expect this one to be even bigger. It should be nearly 5 tons."

"Probably half of it is sundries. It's nothing like the 11 kilograms of plum fish caught in the previous net. That one didn't have much sundries."

"That's true. Well, there's nothing to be happy about. After all, we're caught in a typhoon."

Ye Yaodong didn't say anything, just stared at the ground below. He only started to speed up after they had pulled up all the empty fishing nets.

Just as he accelerated, the sky suddenly began to crackle with raindrops as big as beans, landing on the glass in front of him, blurring his vision in a few seconds.

Father Ye was also stunned by the crackling raindrops.

"Heavy rain!"

Ye Yaodong pursed his lips tightly. Fortunately, they did not look at the sea surface when sailing, but looked at the compass and the screen display. If they looked at the sea surface, who would know the directions of east, south, west and north, especially at night.

The cockpit is located high above the rudder tower mainly to better observe the sea surface and hull around the fishing boat.

As the big raindrops fell, the boatmen below were also a little panicked. Father Ye said, "There's a lot of cargo in this net. Fortunately, everyone is awake. I'll go down and put on my raincoat, and help them pick out the cargo below and comfort them."

"it is good."

He and Lin Xiuqing saw the raincoats in Vancouver a few days ago, so they bought two and brought them to Shanghai so that he and his father could wear them while doing homework. The raincoats were a bit expensive, so he didn't buy more.

The main reason is that I feel it is not worth the price. After experiencing the era of cheap prices, looking at the current prices, of course I can’t afford it.

I didn't expect it would come in handy right after I bought it.

Father Ye originally wanted to complain and say that what he bought was unlucky, but he felt that now was not the time to say that, so he swallowed it back and hurried downstairs.

Ye Yaodong drove back with full concentration. The sky was exceptionally dark tonight. In the past, the moon and stars made the surrounding sea seem quite bright, but now all he could see was pitch black.

He drove for an hour without encountering a single fishing boat. Theirs was the only boat sailing fast on the dark sea, and theirs was the only light moving fast on the sea.

Fortunately, there was the sound of raindrops falling, otherwise the night would have been so silent. Apart from the lights on the boat, there was no light around, and everyone would have been even more panicked.

But the rain seemed to be getting heavier. At the beginning, it was just a little bit, but it got heavier as he drove, and now it has turned into a downpour.

Suddenly, the waves from the bow swept the bow of the fishing boat up 45 degrees, and some remaining waves rolled into the deck and smashed down. The boatmen were thrown to all sides by the tilt of the fishing boat, and then washed by the sea water. They were all stunned and even standing became a problem.

Before everyone could recover and stand up, another wave came head-on, and everyone was thrown backwards and hit everywhere again. Fortunately, everyone instinctively opened their hands to grab anything they could, so as not to be thrown off the stern.

However, Ye Yaodong felt that this was not a good idea. The waves at night would be more violent and more terrifying than during the day, and in the dark, everyone's fear of the unknown would be infinitely magnified.

He was thinking about whether there could be an island where they could temporarily dock for one night, or at least transfer the personnel to the island so that they would not all be tossed around by the waves on the sea and live in fear.

He temporarily went out of the cockpit and shouted to the people below, asking them to use flashlights to see if there were any islands around.

After encountering two huge waves head-on, no one was in the mood to pick up the fish scattered all over the deck. Everyone was concerned about whether they could possibly get back with their lives.

After hearing the instructions from Ye Yaodong and others, they hurriedly turned on their flashlights, shone them at the surrounding sea, and grabbed anything they could to hold on to stabilize their bodies to avoid being thrown to pieces again.

The rain continued to fall, and the waves kept hitting the fishing boats. Everyone's heart was filled with gloom, and they were all hoping that there would be islands around.

They had traveled back and forth to this sea area dozens of times. Ye Yaodong remembered that there were several small islands along the way, but he didn't know how far away they were from the islands at this time.

If it hadn't rained heavily suddenly, causing the waves to surge and surge violently, there wouldn't have been such strong winds and waves as soon as the typhoon formed.

All I can say is that the weather is unpredictable and uncontrollable. If it could be controlled, there wouldn't be so many fishing boats wrecked in the ocean.

He pursed his lips and sat back in the cockpit, his spirits tense. He didn't care that he was soaked by the heavy rain. He kept paying attention to the direction to avoid deviating from it, which would make it more difficult to control. As long as the direction did not deviate, it would only be a matter of time before he found the island.

Everyone on the boat was holding flashlights and standing on both sides of the boat to illuminate the surroundings.

Finally, a scream pierced through the rain and reached everyone's ears.

"Over there...there are mountains over there..."

"Look over there..."

The sky was gloomy and dark, and it felt like it was about to collapse and press down the sea surface.

The light of several flashlights shone in one direction. Hope flashed in everyone's eyes, and they all staggered towards the other side of the ship.

Before the people below exclaimed, Ye Yaodong had already seen that there was a protrusion where the flashlight was shining, indicating that there was an island there. He temporarily put his heart at ease and drove the boat towards the direction of the flashlight.

After the fishing boat changed direction, everyone knew that they were heading towards the island. No matter what, they had to find an island to dock first. At least their personal safety would be safe for the time being.

Heavy rain poured down, and fishing boats sailed on the sea against the wind and waves.

After driving for only about ten minutes, Ye Yaodong watched the island in front of him gradually grow larger and gradually slowed down his speed.

In order to find a good stopping point to facilitate their disembarkation, he also circled along the island.

Unexpectedly, he actually found it. There was a valley-like place in the southwest of the island, which was just facing away from the wind and could block the sweeping sea breeze.

He slowly drove the fishing boat into the valley and docked it. In an instant, the whistling sound of the wind in his ears died down, and even the surging waves could not affect the fishing boat. The whole boat immediately stabilized.

Apart from the still heavy rain, nothing else had any effect on them.

He breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the cockpit. Everyone below was laughing and talking, so he climbed down too.

"Fortunately, we found an island to dock on. It's also a col, a natural shelter."

"Yes, I was thinking earlier that we had encountered islands before when we went out. If things didn't work, we could just stop at the islands and take a break. Fortunately, we found it."

"I was so scared. This happened to me the first time I followed a fishing boat. I thought I was going to die here. Oh my god, I was so scared that I peed myself."

"Haha, it's just a little wind and waves. You youngsters need to practice more."

Everyone relaxed and was in the mood to joke.

Ye Yaodong shouted in the heavy rain, "This place is not affected by the wind and waves. Let's go to the cabin to sleep tonight. Don't get off the boat yet. It's dark and the road is not clear. The rocks are slippery. Don't fall down and be swept into the sea by the waves."

"Ok."

"Let's deal with the cargo on the deck first, and then go to the cabin to rest."

"Ok."

They were all wearing straw raincoats, and although they were soaked by the heavy rain, there was no need to change clothes. They could return to the cabin in time to change after finishing their work.

Ye Yaodong was standing in the rain and was soaked from head to toe. He had to go to the cabin to change his clothes before he could come out to help.

Today was a safe day. We will dock at the island and wait until daybreak to see the conditions of wind, waves and heavy rain.

If it really doesn't work, just stay on the boat for a few days and wait for the storm to pass. There are food and plenty of fresh water on the boat anyway.

But just in case, after changing his clothes, he took out all the containers on the boat to collect rainwater.

(End of this chapter)