Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1231 Surprised Him

As they walked, Lin Xiuqing asked him how his plan of going to the city to write an application report to apply for a visit to the research institute and to apply for species suitable for local breeding was going.

Ye Yaodong was worrying about how to write the application report, and her words immediately solved his problem.

He immediately told her what happened, then happily took her hand and said, "Wife, I'll leave this to you. Write it up tonight, and I'll hand it in at the city tomorrow."

"Huh? What?"

"Well, it's settled. I'll leave it to you."

Lin Xiuqing was surprised and tried to break free from his hand, but was held tightly. He even put her hand to his mouth and kissed her, which frightened her again.

"What are you doing? How am I supposed to write this?"

"Why can't you write? Isn't it simple? I've been telling you this all along, and you know it clearly. Just express it better, with clear logic and in written form."

"You know it so well, and you are so good at it, why don't you write it yourself?"

"I can't. I can only talk but not do it. You can organize your sentences and try to write it."

"How do I write it?"

"Don't you know what I've been talking about these past two days? Oh, I'm so tired. Let's go back and eat. Think about it."

Lin Xiuqing looked at the empty hand that was thrown away and stared at the back in front of her, feeling a little annoyed. She just listened for a few times and knew nothing else. How could she be asked to write?
She trotted after him and asked, "Can't you write it yourself?"

"My handwriting is not good, and I don't know how to write. You can write it for me. It's not very formal anyway. Give it to my godfather first. If you submit it, I will definitely need to polish it and make it clearer."

"Or do you want me to write it?"

"Okay, then you organize the language and I'll talk and you write."

"Okay. You should practice your handwriting quickly. You can't ask me to write for you in the future, right? You have to go to the Party School every now and then. If you practice your handwriting well, you will definitely have to write political reports frequently."

"Got it. I'll write with you later. I'll practice calligraphy while you write the application report. I'll also tell you what to write in the report."

"That's pretty much it."

Both husband and wife felt a little daunted about the application report. After all, it was their first time writing one and they didn't know how to start.

While Ye Yaodong was eating, Lin Xiuqing had already prepared paper and pen, and was staring blankly at the blank notebook.

"What should I write at the beginning? Hello, leader?"

Ye Yaodong hesitated a little, "Dear leader, hello?"

"Okay, then what?"

"I'm going to eat. You write yours first. After you finish, I'll see if there's anything you want to add. Then we can revise it."

Lin Xiuqing looked at the blank paper with a headache and could only improvise on her own. Fortunately, she had attended school for a few days and had written a short essay before.

"It's really troublesome. Why don't you just ask the leaders to write it? You've already said it anyway."

"Are you stupid? I proposed it, and I submitted the application report. What if the higher-ups approve the visit and research, and then apply for aquaculture? And finally there's a bumper harvest, just like kelp, which will bring benefits to all the farmers and promote the city's economic development? Isn't this a great achievement? Then I, the chairman of the Fisheries Association, Ye, will be worthy of the title, right?"

Lin Xiuqing was stunned by what he said, but she also felt that it made sense, so she stopped talking and immediately became serious.

This concerns her husband's reputation and merit.

After dinner, Ye Yaodong also took paper and pen to start practicing calligraphy. The couple sat in the main room and wrote under the light of a lamp, which shocked the three siblings who ran back to the house to drink water.

The three of them ran into the house one after another, then stopped one after another and stood in a row.

"What are you doing, brother?"

"elder brother?"

Ye Chenghu walked over curiously, "Dad and Mom, what are you writing?"

"Go away and stop making noise."

"Don't bother me, just go away..."

Ye Chenghu pursed his lips, "So fierce!"

Lin Xiuqing was worrying about how to write. Three little ones were standing in a row beside her, from the oldest to the youngest, staring at her with their heads stretched out, and she couldn't be driven away.

She grabbed Ye Chenghu and said, "If you don't want to leave, then stay and write another page of big characters for me."

"what!"

Ye Chenghu was frightened and turned around to run, but his clothes were caught.

"It's too late. Do you dare to try to run?"

He could only stand there with a bitter face, waiting for Lin Xiuqing to bring him a calligraphy book and pen.

Ye Chengyang turned around and ran away.

Ye Xiaoxi stood on tiptoe, reaching the edge of the table with both hands, looking at Ye Chengyang who had already run away. After hesitating for a moment, she still did not run away. She tilted her head and looked at Ye Chenghu's wrinkled face.

"Brother, are you going to cry?"

"none of your business."

"Brother, don't cry."

"I didn't cry."

"But you're about to cry."

"I'm not crying." He shouted even louder.

Ye Xiaoxi shrank her neck in fear and whispered, "Then you're not crying, does that mean you love doing your homework?"

"You're so annoying."

"You're the one that's annoying."

Lin Xiuqing put the paper and pen on the table and urged, "Write a page neatly before you leave, or you can stand in the corner until you go to bed and then go upstairs."

Ye Chenghu hesitated for a while holding the pen, weighed the pros and cons, and thought it would be better to finish writing quickly so that he could run out and play for a while. Otherwise, he would really have to stand until he fell asleep, which would be too miserable.

The family of three sat on three sides of the round table, and there was also Ye Xiaoxi, who watched them write with curiosity the whole time. He would move to another seat after watching for a while, and kept chattering and asking questions.

"Brother, you write so slowly..."

"Mom, what did you write? So many words..."

"Dad, why do adults still need to write?"

"Dad, do you want to go to school too?"

"Brother, do you want an eraser?"

"Mom, you are so awesome... so many words... the more words, the more awesome."

The three of them were annoyed by her one by one, and they all wanted to slam her head on the table, but they couldn't drive her away.

Ye Yaodong looked at the little head beside him with a headache. Her chin was still on the table, and her mouth was opening and closing. He was worried that her chin would be worn away.

Later, he gave her 5 cents and asked her to go out to find Ye Chengyang and ask Ye Chengyang to take her to buy something to eat. Then she ran out happily, and the room became quiet.

Ye Chenghu heard that they were all going to buy something to eat. He quickly and perfunctorily wrote a piece of paper, threw down the pen, and ran out immediately.

The couple were too lazy to care about him at this time.

Lin Xiuqing was thinking while writing, and she also made some corrections. She was the last one to finish, and then she showed it to Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong looked at the list and it seemed that everything was written on it. The suggestions were well-written and the village's kelp harvest was also mentioned. It was well organized and the main point was well-reasoned.

He said happily, "Sure, it's well written. Just copy it again and don't make any corrections."

"Then copy it. It's all written for you anyway."

"You write it."

"Is it your job or my job? It's all written for you, just copy it."

"OK then."

Ye Yaodong sighed, took the list with a resentful look, and continued to work hard.

It’s fine if he just does the work, but I didn’t expect that he would also be required to do the writing work.

Fortunately, his handwriting has improved a little during this period, and at least it can be presented to others.

After copying the list, he was so tired that he went straight into the house to sleep.

There was also the job of counting money, which he gave to Lin Xiuqing. It was also a big project, and he was tired of counting now and didn't want to count at all. He just needed Ah Qing to report the number to him after he finished counting.

The next morning, Ye Yaodong took Chen Shi out to sea to fish with longline.

After a whole day of fishing, the catch was average, with only a 40% fish catching rate. A small portion of the fish escaped after biting the hook, some could not be pulled up no matter what, and some had their hooks missing. He thought that the ones that escaped were probably big and could not be caught on the hook.

However, the harvest is too bad, not as good as last year.

After all the longline fish were caught, he estimated that there were only about 30 to kilograms. The catch was large and small, with all kinds of fish, including a relatively good-looking blue grouper and about large squids weighing two kilograms. But overall, the harvest was not very good.

After collecting the longline fishing, he continued to collect the 6 rows of ground traps and 4 shrimp cages that remained from last year.

I don't know whether I should say that he was unlucky. He put down so many shrimp cages, but only collected three.

A whole row of ground traps could not be folded up, only two or three nets would get stuck. You should know that a row of ground traps has 10 nets, which means that all the ground traps were wiped out.

There have never been any like this before when we put them here. At most, there were two or three hanging at the bottom, but we were unsuccessful.

Ye Yaodong thought it was normal at first, until he tried all the buoys and found that he could only collect two or three at most before they got stuck. He cursed and started talking.

"What the hell? This has never happened before."

"Brother Dongdong, why...are they all dead..."

"How should I know? You ask me, who should I ask? There have never been so many people hanging around before. I thought it would be the same as before, but I didn't expect that everyone would be wiped out."

The three shrimp cages that were collected only caught one small blue dragonfish, no sea cucumbers, and not even many fish and shrimps. All six rows of ground traps were wiped out.

Looking at the dismal harvest, he was a little bit unbelievable.

There were clearly a lot of small blue dragons and sea cucumbers here last year. When he went down to the seabed, he could still see small blue dragons hiding in the cracks of the reefs and running around. It was not easy to catch them, but he could still catch a few.

The same goes for sea cucumbers. If you put 6 rows of traps down, you can catch at least a dozen.

But now they are almost wiped out.

What is the situation?

I haven't set a net here for more than a year, why has it changed so much? It's not that time has changed or the terrain has changed.

"What should I do?"

"What else can we do? Get ready and take turns going into the water to see what's going on. If we can free the one stuck on the bottom, that would be great. If we can't, we can still take a look at what's going on. Once we understand, we can decide whether to come here again to set the trap tomorrow."

"I understand... I have solved it... There is no place... There is no trap, come and release it..."

"Shut up! No one will think you're dumb if you don't speak."

Ye Yaodong was a little angry and embarrassed, what a truth he said.

But it has indeed fallen to the bottom. If I don’t free it, he will have no place to put the shrimp cages tomorrow. What’s the use of only three shrimp cages?

You have to use longline fishing honestly.

As for the small blue dragon and sea cucumber, you may have to catch them yourself.

What bad luck!

He was very depressed, as he never thought that all the traps could be hung on the bottom.

If he had known it earlier, he would not have let it go.

He thought it would be the same as last year. If he was lucky, the market wouldn't crash even after a few days of harvest.

Maybe I can wait until he finishes the work with the kelp and has some free time, then go into the water to take a closer look at the abalone to see if they have reproduced or grown again after these two years.

Plans can't keep up with changes.

Ye Yaodong took off his clothes first and went down first, letting Chen Shi watch from above. After all, he was more familiar with the depths down there, and it wasn't very deep, so he should be careful and go down a few meters first, not to the bottom, it wouldn't be a big problem.

There is plenty of sunshine today, and the light is good. Even if you dive a few meters, you can still barely see the scene below.

But when he slowly descended into the sea, after only four or five meters, he was stunned.

There was a dense mass of traps below, hanging all over the reef, and swaying with the waves like a string of lanterns.

Moreover, each trap was filled to the brim with fish, shrimps and crabs, and some were filled with quite a few small green dragons. He was even more shocked, his eyes widened, and he couldn't even get close to the reef as it was completely blocked by the traps.

Many traps are crossed, overlapped and intertwined, and each trap is filled with goods. Except for some damaged traps with less goods, the others are really full.

How long have these traps been hanging on the bottom of the sea?

Looking at the place which is full of short and crowded goods, it must have taken quite some time.

And these entangled ones were definitely not put down at the same time, but were put down one after another, and then entangled together, so they could not go up.

damn it……

He didn't bother to look at the goods in the traps, and wanted to continue checking the sides and the bottom.

Now that we're all here, we need to understand everything clearly.

He swung to the side, found a slightly more open spot, and swam down another four or five meters.

The scene on the seabed shocked him even more. A large area of ​​ground traps, at least hundreds of them, covered the seabed, pressed on the seaweed, and all swayed in the same direction with the waves.

The situation was the same both above and below. He shuttled through the traps, looking at the creatures inside. Some were alive, while others were dead, densely packed in the traps.

There were only a few empty traps at the top with only a few scattered fish. He could tell that these were the ones he had put down yesterday and were entangled by other traps.

He took a look, found an empty spot on the seabed to stand, picked up a trap at his feet, and saw that several sea cucumbers were still alive.

Plundering natural resources.

These traps cannot be closed, and the goods inside can only be stuck and wait to die.

He cursed in his heart, walked around the seabed again to understand the situation, and then walked around the traps that were swaying with the waves and went up.

No wonder when I was reeling in the longline fishing earlier, there were many hooks that I couldn’t reel in.

He and the useless Chen Shi were so strong that they couldn't stop the attack no matter how hard they tried, and there was no sign of struggle. He almost cut his hand, so he could only use scissors to cut the branch line and give up.

At that time, I thought the hook was stuck on the bottom and caught something, so I couldn’t pull it up. If it was a fish, it would definitely struggle and react.

This hook is hooked to the ground trap, what reaction can it give? It can't be pulled, now it's really solved.

After surfacing, he found that he was a little far away from the fishing boat, so he swam towards it again.

"Brother Dongdong...how is it?"

"Damn it, there are traps all over the ground. There are so many traps, at least hundreds of them."

"what?"

"What? Pull me up quickly, I'm almost mad at you, it must be those two idiots."

When he saw the water full of traps, he already knew who did it.

"Who...who?"

"Besides Ah Zheng and Xiao Xiao, who are the other two idiots?"

"How could he, them...?"

"Of course not. I was the one who led them here in the beginning, asking them to help me collect Jiang Yao from the surrounding areas and work together to divide the spoils. They also know that there are small blue dragons and sea cucumbers underneath."

"Since I got the Dongsheng, I haven't been trawling offshore. Now that this area is vacant, shouldn't they make use of it? Come over and try your luck?"

"Damn, those two idiots don't have diving equipment. They have to give up the traps when they get stuck on the bottom. But they can't bear to give up the sea cucumbers and small blue dragons below. They can only make traps and put them down again and again. As long as they can catch two or three, it's worth it."

"Those two idiots, how could I not know them? That's why there are so many traps underneath."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but curse, "Fool, so stupid, you really gave me a surprise, but you didn't even tell me."

"Oh... then... what should I do? Should I... go down?"

"No need. We've already seen it. It's enough to know what's going on down there. It's a huge project to fish out so many traps down there. It's impossible to fish them all out in a short time. It's impossible for the two of us to do it."

"Wait till I get rid of the kelp. When the Dongsheng comes back, I'll call a few more people to salvage the traps. Those two idiots..."

Ye Yaodong was so angry that he started cursing.

But even if he cursed, there would be benefits after collecting these traps, and of course all the goods would belong to him.

Looking at the traps that are full, each one has small green dragons, and there are sea cucumbers hanging on the seabed, some are dead, but some are alive.

When he collects the hundreds of traps below, he will make a fortune, which will be a turning point.

He thought he had bad luck today. The longline fishing yielded average results, the ground traps were all wiped out, and the shrimp cages had almost no catch. He felt very disappointed.

I didn't expect there would be such a reversal. Those two fools made a fortune for him.

Really are.

If you don’t go down to see, you won’t know. But if you go down to see, you’ll be shocked.

When he has collected all the traps below, he will go back and laugh at them for making wedding clothes for him.

"Then... go back?"

"Let's go back. I was really surprised by those two guys..."

Ye Yaodong was indeed surprised and happy.

He hurried to change his clothes. Today, when going out to sea, he thought he might have to go into the water, and the trap might get stuck on the bottom. He also wanted to see if there were any abalone on the reef, so he prepared an extra set of clothes so that he could change them temporarily.

I sneezed twice and only felt warmer after changing my clothes.

On the way back, we saw two trawling fishing boats in the distance.

He cursed them both as fools again.

After reaching the shore, he asked Chen Shidu not to tell anyone about the trap below.

He would free up his hands in a few days and secretly ask a few more people to collect the traps. They were all hanging down there anyway and they couldn't escape after so long, so he would just take his time.

Ah Cai knew that he had gone to collect the longline fishing line this morning and would return immediately after finishing the work, and was already waiting for him at the dock.

"What a good harvest. How many baskets? Hundreds of kilograms."

"It's OK, just so-so. Hurry up and weigh it. I'm in a hurry."

"I know you're a busy person. Right away, you're back early. There are no other fishing boats at this time. You don't have to wait. I'll weigh the cargo for you right away."

"Ah."

Ye Yaodong turned around and told Chen Shi to go to the workshop and tell them to load the kelp onto the truck according to his request yesterday, and to make sure the top was covered with kelp. He would set off after weighing the truck.

"You are really busy. You are going to the city without stopping?"

"It's for living, it's for making money. If we don't work hard now, we will lose money, and we have to support the whole village."

“How great!”

"You tmd, where is my yin and yang?"

"what?"

Acai didn't quite understand what he was talking about.

"I am really praising you. When the whole village starts to cultivate kelp, won't we have to rely on you when the time comes? Otherwise, who will the village sell it to? It will all rot in the sea. Am I not praising you?"

"It's good if you tell the truth."

"What you said is nonsense, isn't it? Now the village cadres have to try their best to please you. They have to listen to you. If you tell them to go east, they will never dare to go west. The whole village has to rely on you to make money."

"Then I don't dare to take the title. Who knows what will happen next year?"

"Then at least the village committee will listen to you now. You are their god of wealth, and they have to worship you."

"Stop talking so much and weigh the goods quickly."

"We can only weigh them after we carry them inside..."

After Ye Yaodong got the cargo list, he pushed the cart back in a hurry. He didn't even have time to ask Ah Cai what he thought about the matter he had talked to him the day before.

Fortunately, he is not in a hurry, as there is still a month left.

Lin Xiuqing was in the workshop watching them moving goods. Ye Yaodong handed her the manifest and watched from the side.

“The harvest is not bad.”

"No, I'll come back tonight... I'll tell you when I come back tomorrow. The wet clothes are in the basket. You can take them back to wash later."

She looked at the dripping wet clothes on the cart and asked, "They are so wet, did you go into the water?"

"Well, all the traps are hanging on the bottom."

"I was wondering why there seemed to be something extra. It turns out that they brought back all the shrimp cages and didn't throw them down again? Are all 6 of those 60 rows of cages hanging on the bottom?"

"Yes, all the ground traps were stuck on the bottom. I was afraid that all the shrimp cages would be wiped out, so I didn't put them down anymore. I just retrieved them first. You can also ask someone to sort out the longlines later. I will take them out again when I come back tomorrow."

"I see. Then your clothes are all wet, so why don't you go in and check those traps hanging on the bottom? Can't you collect those that are hanging on the bottom? Weren't they able to be collected before?"

Ye Yaodong originally wanted to tell her in detail tomorrow, but since the topic came to this point and the kelp had not been loaded into the truck yet, he just told her.

"It's all because of those two idiots, Ah Zheng and Xiao Xiao. They've been throwing a lot of traps around the reef in the past couple of years, trying to catch sea cucumbers and small blue dragons..."

He spoke in a low and gentle voice, and Lin Xiuqing was surprised.

"If we collect all those traps, how much cargo would we have? How many tons?"

"More than that, maybe more than ten tons, hundreds of traps, a full trap would hold at least two or three hundred kilograms of goods, but many are dead, but there are also many alive, if you catch them all, you will make money."

Lin Xiuqing smiled and said, "So they accidentally did something good to help you?"

"They are fools if they help me. They have no equipment to go into the water, but they keep throwing traps down there, trying to make a profit. As a result, they all got stuck together, and even the trap I put down yesterday was hooked, causing my entire army to be wiped out."

"If we collect all the hundreds of traps below, it will be a huge project and very laborious. I earn my money through hard work."

Lin Xiuqing said, "Haha... Then let's wait until we have some free time and then slowly collect them. There are hundreds of them. I don't know how many times we have to go into the water. You have to call more people."

"Of course, I won't do it myself. When my father comes back in a few days, he will transfer the people on the Dongsheng to go into the water. The people on that ship are all young and strong, and they have been screened before. They are all able to go into the water."

"Well, take your time. It won't disappear anyway. Do you see any abalone on the reef?"

"Yes, but most of them are also blocked by the traps. Some of the traps are hung on the reef. I don't know whether they are hung on the reef originally or are hung there by the waves."

"It's fine if we have it. As long as we collect those traps, we can easily collect a batch of abalones then."

"Well, let's see. I don't know if it's enough time."

Think about the hundreds of traps. Although they are full and you can make some money by harvesting them, there are hundreds of them and I don’t know if I can harvest them all in a month.

Next up is the squid season, the jellyfish season, and he has to catch sea urchins, so he will definitely have to run around.

I wonder if Linji can get two more sets of diving equipment?

He was caught for smuggling a few days ago. I wonder if he has been implicated. I guess his channels have been cut off?

I haven't seen him either, and I don't know what his current situation is. He's like a elusive creature and it's hard to contact him.

"Have you heard any news about Lin Ji or his cousin Zhou Yechi these days? Have you heard any rumors?"

"No, I haven't heard any rumors. What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just thought about it for days, and wondered if he had any results, so I asked if you had heard any gossip. After all, there are so many gossipy people in our workshop, and nothing can be hidden from them."

If there is no gossip at all, it means that it has not been exposed yet, and maybe even the family members of those smugglers don’t know that they have been caught.

After all, it is possible that these smugglers would leave home and not return for months.

"I didn't hear anything. If I had heard anything, I would have told you. Why are you asking about him all of a sudden? It has nothing to do with us anyway. If you ask too much, he might think we have some connection with him."

"I'm just asking out of curiosity. It's normal for people from the same village to show their concern."

"It's only been a few days, the city probably can't find our village yet. You might as well go to the city and ask your godfather, he might know a little more."

"That makes sense. I'll ask about it when I go over to submit my application today."