Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1373: Prepare to Double

Now that the cargo issue was resolved, Ye Yaodong felt relieved.

There is no need to worry about going out to sea to receive the goods the next day.

He waited there the whole day. Whenever a boat started to pull up the nets, he would go over to collect the catch. Several boats took turns, and those that didn't have a turn could continue to trawle nearby without being delayed.

Busy from morning till night, he handled a total of more than 80 tons of cargo for him, not including his own Ocean No. 1.

These boats set out in the early morning of the day before yesterday, and it took only two days from beginning to end. The harvest was very average, but this is only relative. Compared with home, it is already very good.

After Ye Yaodong and others collected all the goods, they contacted his father. He estimated that the current distance was sufficient to contact him since they were all at the fishing ground, the only difference was the distance.

Sure enough, after shouting on the public channel, he got a response from his father, and the two went to the small channel to talk.

"Dongzi, I've been waiting for you. Come on, bring the boat over here and take away the cargo..."

“How’s the catch these past two days?”

"Too much, too much stuff. We can pull up 8 to 10 bags in one net, and most of them have to go back to the sea, but there are still kilograms left. It's incredible. Every net has pulled up this much in the past two days."

"Fuck, so many!"

Before, there were basically 6 to 8 bags at home, and each bag was usually around 5000 kilograms. There were just too many sundries or useless goods, so most of them had to be thrown away.

Father Ye was beaming at the other end. “Yes, the cargo here is too concentrated. In just two days, there are already 80 to 90 tons. You must sail out tomorrow to bring the cargo back. Otherwise, your fresh-water ship won’t be able to handle more than 100 tons of cargo.”

"Yes, I know. We will set sail to pick up the goods tomorrow morning."

Father Ye laughed happily, "You've made a lot of money. Looks like you'll have to come out every one or two days."

"I guess if the weather is good, I'll go out every day."

"How are the other ships receiving cargo?"

"It will be worse. I see more boats offshore this year. There are many fishing boats operating in the area where they fish."

When he went to collect the goods, he stayed on the sea. There were more than a dozen boats in his sight, and the movement was quite fierce. Some were leaving, while others were coming. The plundering was quite brutal.

No wonder resources are becoming increasingly depleted.

Zhoushi Fishery is the largest fishery in my country, with four major economic fish species as its main products: large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, hairtail and cuttlefish (squid).

But there are also many other varieties of seafood, including mackerel, conger eel, mackerel, horse mackerel, pomfret, sea bass, snapper, grouper, swimming crabs, various shrimps and hundreds of other species.

It is also the spawning and feeding place for many economic fish and shrimps.

Large fishing boats can basically catch hundreds or thousands of tons of commercial fish after going out to sea for ten days or half a month.

Father Ye said proudly: "My place is better. There are only four or five boats nearby."

"I'll tell them on my way back to drive further out."

"Yes, let them fish in different places more often, and remember to come out and collect the catch tomorrow morning."

"it is good."

After Ye Yaodong finished talking to his father, he immediately contacted other ships. After all, the others did not have that much experience, and seeing that the current harvest was better than that at home, they were probably very satisfied.

Without comparison, everyone is naturally satisfied and won’t run around. It’s the same for him.

I knew that the catch of Ocean No. 1 must be astonishing, but I didn't expect that the cargo of this ship was equivalent to that of six ships there.

I don’t know what the quality is yet, but the quantity alone is scary.

Previously, Ocean No. 1 had caught a lot of fish at home, and here there are more and more concentrated economic fish. It looks like the fresh fish collection ships will have to come out to collect a wave of goods every day.

One trip is specifically for collecting cargo from Ocean No. 1, and the other trip is specifically for collecting cargo from other ships. This is also good and more profitable.

If he is not available at that time, he can leave the connection with Ocean No. 1 to his cousin. After all, it is his own ship, so the goods do not need to be weighed and can be directly moved back.

The cargoes from the other ships still had to be weighed and recorded carefully. I didn’t know whether his cousin could read or not. Many people could read but not write.

Later he can ask if there is anyone on the ship who can write. By then he will have to gradually transfer the work to others.

All he has to do on shore is deliver the goods and collect the money, thus reducing his workload.

Once you become a boss, there is no need to do everything by yourself. Just train your people slowly and let the workers do the work. Anyway, they are all family members on several ships and there is no need for cash transactions. The people on the ship can also supervise each other.

After telling everyone, he went to call his cousin to come up and drive the boat, while he himself took the notebook and went to the deck to divide the cargo.

This shipload of cargo has basically been found now, so we can just go back and deal with it.

The notebook records the quantity and type of fish each person needs, and he starts to distribute them in advance.

Just talk to the workers and ask them to weigh the goods, then after they dock you can call a truck to load and deliver them.

By the way, I also asked other people if anyone could write, but none of the older ones could, and at most they could only recognize a few limited words.

There were only two younger ones, under 20 years old, who were allowed to write. Ye Yaodong memorized them first and planned to train them in the next few days. He would let these two take turns to record the weighing of the goods afterwards.

I will collect the goods and deliver them to you today. If you are satisfied with the price and quality, we can definitely continue our cooperation and order the next batch in the required quantity and time.

He would deliver it directly at the agreed time, saving them the trouble of going out to purchase and transport it.

He could also offer a relatively low price, since he was the one who collected his own goods on the fresh boat (except for one boat, he had shares in the other boats). A few days ago, he raised the price back to 60%.

As long as it can save some trouble and make things more convenient, it is reasonable to give up some profits.

The resources here are abundant, and we don’t have to go far to fish, and the return trip only takes more than two hours.

Ye Yaodong only weighed out a part of the goods and piled them on the deck first. As there was not enough space, he did not weigh it anymore. It just so happened that they had docked.

He gave the record notebook to his cousin and asked him to arrange someone to weigh the goods.

He went to hire a tractor, loaded the weighed goods on the deck onto the vehicle, and took half of the people to deliver the goods and collect the payments from door to door.

He was busy until the moon was above the willows, and he finally delivered all the goods on the ship, and received a big bag full of cash.

There was a small amount left, so he sold them for a while. Seeing that there were not many left and they were all cheap, he waved his hand and went back.

It's already very late, the remaining goods can be taken back and dealt with, so as to save a lot of people from standing around and waiting. It will be difficult to sell the small quantity.

On the way back, the workers were even more excited than he was.

"Brother Dong, you must have sold tens of thousands of dollars in one day, right?"

"Each delivery costs hundreds or even thousands of dollars. It's so awesome..."

"Brother Dong, you are really the person I admire most in my life..."

Ye Yaodong covered his bag tightly and knocked on it, "How can it all be mine? This is just the money from the sales. When the other ships come back, I have to give them the money from the sales."

"You can make a little money, but don't you have to spend money? Such a big ship, it bears a lot of weight and consumes a lot of fuel. The round trip fuel costs hundreds of dollars. And then there are your salaries, your food and drinks, all of which cost money."

"I have spent more than 3 yuan just on building the row of buildings on the construction site, and they are not even finished yet. I also spent tens of thousands of yuan on buying the land."

Damn, I still owe the bank 20. If I don’t make more money, how can I fill these holes?”

"I have to support you. For the three ships we have, there are more than 30 workers. Do you know how much the monthly salary is?"

"Your salary is 5000 yuan per month! Just refueling the three ships costs to yuan. Do you know how many times they have to refuel in a month?"

"Damn, I don't even know how much I spend every month. I only earn so little, and I don't know how many years it will take to pay back the 20 I owe the bank."

"You should work harder and pray that I can earn more, so that I can pay you wages and give you bonuses at the end of the year."

"We have to go back and count whether the money left after deducting the money for this trip is enough to finish the construction. There are still more than a dozen workers who have not been paid for the construction of the house, and the day to pay them will come soon."

Everyone was stunned when they heard him calculate thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. They couldn't imagine how he could spend so much.
If you give it to them, they can’t imagine how to spend so much money?
They were still spending money in cents, but A-Dong could easily spend thousands or even tens of thousands...

"Oh my god, how much do you have to earn to make ends meet..."

"Your expenses are too high..."

“It costs so much…”

"Brother Dong is a big boss, otherwise how could he hire so many of us to work? It's normal for the expenses to be high. Which big boss doesn't have a bunch of people to support?"

"That's amazing! That's true. The little money we made today is nothing to Brother Dong..."

"What a talent! Brother Dong is very familiar with those bosses and even made an appointment to play cards with them tomorrow!"

Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "Let's go and treat everyone to a midnight snack. We've been busy all day, so it's just right to have a midnight snack and go home to sleep."

"OK……"

"This is good!"

"There are a lot of stalls on the next street, open from dusk till dawn, selling all kinds of food."

"Let's go. It's not far from home anyway."

The workers were all happy and could eat and drink their fill before going back to sleep.

They all thought that if they worked with Ye Yaodong, the food, drink and benefits would be really great. He was not stingy or miserly and would not skimp on this aspect.

Ye Yaodong thought so too. People worked with him just to make money. If he was generous, the workers would feel more comfortable. Besides, they were all from the same village.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and went back happily, Ye Yaodong went into the house to count the money while everyone was taking a shower.

A large bag of money was poured onto the straw mat. All of them were round numbers, with no coins.

He erased all the decimals, leaving no cents or dimes, they were all heads, and most of them were from the Great Unity, so it was very convenient to count.

In just a short while, he had stacked several piles of 100 bills each, and would specifically take out one and hold the money together horizontally.

When he had 1 yuan, he used a rubber band to put several piles of money together and tied them up.

After counting, there are a little over 13500 in total. Compared with last year's number, it is not a lot, but it is not bad either. After a while, the hairtail season will slowly come, and then we will use radar nets to catch them, and the catch volume will be even higher.

He counted them again happily, and only after making sure they were correct did he put them in the safe and lock them up, and then he continued to count the cargo list.

I knew how much money I would get, so I just calculated it as 5000% of the total amount just sold, which was about yuan.

After deducting the gas expenses, there was still nearly 5000 yuan, which was the pure profit for the day. This was because there were more fish here and the prices were lower than back home.

Tomorrow, he will go out to sea again to collect the goods from Ocean No. 1. After he delivered the goods to them, several people placed orders for tomorrow.

The cargo on tomorrow's ship will be even more amazing. Everything he sells is his own, so he doesn't have to give half of the profit to other fresh-collecting ships.

Ye Yaodong got excited just thinking about it, that ship was truly a killer weapon.

If he goes out to sea every day, plus the share of the boats, he can earn 1 yuan a day. What does it mean to make a fortune every day? This is it!

He couldn't help but laugh.

As expected, channels are king. With both production tools and channels, making money is your destiny these days.

In the first three years, I struggled with this and that and only saved up a few tens of thousands of dollars through hard work. It was only from the year before last that my money started to double. Last year, when more ships came here, my money doubled even more.

The ship is even better this year, and his profits will double again.

Ye Yaodong was so happy that he had already started flipping through the calendar he had brought with him, wondering how many days were left until the New Year.

However, this calendar only lasts until New Year's Day. If you want to buy a calendar for 1988, considering the time of New Year this year, you will have to wait until December.

He turned the calendar to the bottom. It was December 12st, but the lunar calendar was only November 31th, so it was mid-February before the Chinese New Year.

Then he must have stayed until the end of January and then went back to celebrate the New Year.

Counting the beginning and the end, that’s more than 4 months!
However, they will definitely have to go home in October, which means there are still at least four months left.

Make a lot of money!
But imagination is beautiful and reality is cruel.

His excitement only lasted for one night. When he woke up the next day, he felt that something was wrong with the weather. Although the sun was still shining, it felt windy.

It's summer now, hot summer, the sun is shining brightly, and the wind feels wrong.

The other workers also got up early in the morning and sat there talking about the coming typhoon.

"Is a typhoon coming?"

"Yeah, Adong, you're up. I felt the wind last night. I thought it was the sea breeze that was blowing because it was cool on the pier after nightfall."

“No wonder many people at the fish market said the waves were big last night.”

Ye Yaodong looked at the big sun in the sky. It was just past 6 o'clock, but the sun was as bright as an egg yolk.

He couldn't help but curse: "Damn it, we've only been out to sea for three days and there's already a typhoon?"

"Fortunately, we came here a few days earlier..."

"I went out to buy fried dough sticks this morning. Everyone said that the boats went out at night and are now coming back one after another."

"Then the others who went out at night should be back by now?"

"Then Brother Dong, do we still need to go out to sea to collect the goods later?"

Everyone was a little undecided. It was a typhoon, and if the fishing boats came back, did they not have to go out to sea?
"I'll go to the dock first to see if all the fishing boats have returned."

If the fishing boats were returning to port one after another, there was no need to go out to sea to collect the fish. He could just wait at home for his father to come back.

Ye Yaodong didn't wash his face or brush his teeth, he pushed his bicycle and went out to take a look.

The dock was really crowded with people and piles of goods, all being unloaded from the fishing boats coming and going.

Normally, ships would go out to sea one after another at this time, and unloading would generally be in the evening or at night, and the ships would really come back one after another.

The pedestrians passing by on the dock were all talking about the coming typhoon.

However, all he saw were small boats returning to the shore, and he also saw people from his own village, but there were still many fishing boats queuing up to enter the port on the waterway, and it seemed that they had just returned from the sea.

Ye Yaodong chatted with the fishermen in his village again and learned that the wind and waves on the sea had become stronger since nightfall, so when they saw other boats returning this morning, they also followed suit.

Then he really doesn't need to go out to receive the goods today.

He walked around and returned home.

"If a typhoon is really coming, then there's no need to go out to sea today. My dad and the others will surely be back soon, so we can just wait at home."

Everyone had expected this, it's not surprising at all.

"I don't know how big this typhoon is. I haven't felt it yet."

"All that's left upstairs is the tiling. If they don't come earlier or later, there will be no place to shelter from the rain when a typhoon comes. The doors and windows are not even fixed."

Ye Yaodong also took a look at the house. The row of beams on the second floor had been installed and the frame had been set up. All that was left was to lay the tiles.

Only his house downstairs had a door, and the windows only had a frame, with no glass yet. He was just pasting newspapers on top of them.

"Let's urge the workers to work over the next two days, and everyone can help. Two days should be enough. If there are tiles, at least we can avoid the rain."

"Just nail the windows shut with wooden boards. We haven't been out to sea these past two days, so we're free anyway. We can do it ourselves. It's quick, and at least we'll have a place to shelter from the wind and rain when a typhoon comes."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"After we finish eating, we will go together to help and finish the work before the typhoon."

"We should be able to make it in time. Everyone has returned from the sea. With several hundred people, we can finish this in one day."

While they were having breakfast, people kept coming back to the gate carrying loads on their shoulders.

By noon, the Dongsheng, Fengshou and other ships had returned one after another.

Even his father sent a worker back to call him, saying that they had arrived at the dock and were waiting for him to go over and handle the goods.

Ye Yaodong helped with the work while waiting, and finally his father came back.

He put down the work at hand and immediately went to the dock with the account book.

The quantity recorded yesterday can be delivered by this time today.

If he hadn't thought that his father would be back today, he wouldn't have waited at home all morning. He would have gone to the Chamber of Commerce to play cards with everyone and sell some more.

Ye Yaodong hurried to the dock, found his own ship, and saw that all the goods had been moved out and piled up all over the deck. It seemed that they were waiting for him.

"Is the sea rough? How many tons are there?"

"The wind and waves were strong. The wind started to blow at night, and the waves were getting bigger. I thought I could still bear it, so I stayed here. Later I heard on the radio that a typhoon was coming, and then I saw that the number of boats around me had gradually decreased until this morning, so I thought about returning as well."

"It's good that you come back early. I was going to go out this morning, but the weather was not right and everyone said there was going to be a typhoon, so I didn't go out. I thought you would come back too."

"What should we do with these goods? Is there any way? Have you sold all the goods you collected yesterday?"

"After they were sold, there were only about 200 to 300 kilograms left. Everyone processed them this morning and pickled them. Since the weather was not suitable for drying them in the sun, we just pickled them."

Ye Yaodong flipped through the account book as he spoke, and added: "We ordered some more goods yesterday, about 30 to 40 tons. Weigh out this part of the goods first, and I will send them out one by one."

"You can move some goods to the fish market on the street next door and sell them first. When I finish delivering the goods, I will ask others if they want to increase the quantity."

"A typhoon is coming, and many ships have returned. They must have to transport more goods today. There will be no fishing boats going out to sea in the next few days, so there will be no goods."

Seeing that he had made arrangements, Father Ye kept nodding.

"Okay, then weigh what you want first."

When Ye Yaodong arrived, he had already asked someone to go to the seafood collection boat to get a large beam scale.

"How many are there on board?"

"About 120 to 130 tons. Look at this amount..."

"It's easy to sell. A typhoon is coming, so fishmongers have to collect more and ship them away."

The larger the quantity, the more people will ask. Of course, people like to buy things from places with large quantities.

Father Ye was relieved when he heard his affirmative answer.

"How's it going at home? A typhoon is coming..."

"We have asked everyone to help with the construction and make the best use of time to prepare for the typhoon."

"That's good. We've been out at sea for a few days this time, so at least we can make some money. Otherwise, we'd be resting there before we start making any money, and the daily expenses would be quite high."

Ye Yaodong smiled. With these two ships of cargo, it would be okay to take a few more days off. He wouldn't lose anything.

Just now he asked the workers to go out and buy meat, chickens and ducks.

The weather is hot and meat can't be kept for a few days, but live chickens and ducks can be raised there, so even if it's hard to buy groceries during the typhoon season, we can still have meat.

He ran back and forth the whole afternoon and was sweating all over.

There are more and more fishing boats returning to the pier. There are more than a thousand boats returning to the harbor. At a glance, there are densely packed boats of all sizes.

The fish market street has become more lively, with goods everywhere and fishermen shouting their wares.

After delivering the goods, he went to his father to help. If he met someone familiar, he would naturally ask him to weigh the goods.

He also asked his father and the boatmen to go back and rest first, and he took another group of workers to take over the work here.

He was busy until late at night and had only sold most of the goods. Seeing that there were not many goods left and they were not selling well, he closed up his stall and went back.

At this time, the waves on the shore were even bigger. On the way back, I could hear the sound of waves and see large waves hitting the shore.

His construction site was a short distance from the shore, so he was not afraid of being hit by the waves.

When Father Ye saw them coming back, he hurried over to greet them.

“Are they all sold out?”

"There are some left that are hard to sell, so I brought them back. I'll give some away tomorrow to save myself the trouble of dealing with them myself."

Father Ye was relieved when he saw that there was not much left, only a few hundred kilograms.

"That's fine. You've made some friends here, so send some to them. There are too many pickled ones to eat every day."

"Well, send some to the shipyard as well."