Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1557 Big Red Squid

"This is a big sea bass that the boss caught. Chen Shi will have to eat two more bowls tonight."

“Hahahaha, that’s a win for me.”

"I earned it for you, so eat more."

Ye Yaodong also smiled and said, "Eight or nine kilograms is enough for everyone to eat. Add more ginger. It's been raining these days, and I don't know when it will stop."

"The sky looks so dark, it doesn't look like the sky will clear up after the rain."

"Then I'll kill it first before it's dead..."

"I'll try to hook it during the shift change..."

If Chen Shijiao had not been bitten by an eel, everyone would have tried it with bamboo poles with hooks.

Now I am eager to try again.

Ye Yaodong only reminded them to be more careful. After all, the boat was still moving slowly and was not stationary. In addition, there were waves and the boat was swaying.

After a while, there were exclamations and a few surprised curses.

When these people are unhappy, they will swear a few words, and when they are happy, they will also say a few words.

This is a fixed modal particle.

Some people hooked a mackerel weighing more than ten kilograms, some caught a red sea bream, and some caught a few kilograms of croaker. There were more people with empty rods. Everyone took turns, after all, not everyone had a bamboo pole with a hook.

Everyone just tried it casually, and when it was time to cast the net, they stopped immediately. Hundreds of meters of fishing nets were piled up on the deck, and everyone had to start working.

The gloomy sky and the heavy rain almost make people forget the time, but the work that needs to be done still needs to be done.

Ye Yaodong directed everyone to lower the fishing nets. By the time all the nets were lowered, it was already completely dark. It was clearly not even 6 o'clock. Normally, it would be almost 7 o'clock in this month before it would be completely dark.

He hadn't eaten yet after a nap, and he had been busy until now, so he was already starving.

After setting up the nets, everyone hurried to eat, and after eating those who needed to rest took a rest, and those who needed to take shifts took over.

Ye Yaodong drank two large bowls of sea bass soup, and his empty stomach was immediately filled and satisfied.

The milky white soup is thick and fragrant, with a little wolfberry sprinkled in it floating in the fish soup, which looks very appetizing. The fish meat is so tender that it melts in the mouth, with a little spicy taste of ginger, and it warms the stomach after drinking it.

It was fresh and tender, and retained the flavor of the sea bass, but it was a pity that there was no radish.

In winter, add some shredded radish into the fish soup, which will be more delicious and healthy.

After eating and drinking, he felt refreshed. When he went to the cockpit to change shifts, he still held the enamel pot in one hand and a toothpick in the other to pick his teeth.

He looked very relaxed, as if he was not on a fishing boat but at home, and the weather outside was not so bad but sunny and windy.

As soon as he sat down, he took a sip of the strong tea that had just been brewed in the enamel pot.

"Ha~"

If he wasn't floating on the sea, everyone would praise him for having a good life and a comfortable days.

After Ye Yaodong put down the cup, he began to concentrate on his work.

The rain seemed to have subsided a bit at night, and the nighttime weather forecast also said that the heavy rain will turn into moderate rain tomorrow. I don’t know whether this is considered heavy rain or moderate rain. Compared with last night, it is moderate rain.

In his opinion, last night's rain was considered to be a rainstorm, not just heavy rain.

His eyes moved back and forth between the display screen and the dark sea, while one hand was still touching the enamel tank.

The radar ripples suddenly jumped violently, and the blue-green pixels gathered into a strange vortex shape.

This is not a malfunction, nor is it an illusion. The bottom of the ship is covered by some kind of glowing living creature, which looks like a jellyfish.

Those translucent jellyfish are like crushed moonlight, and their tentacles create tiny phosphorescent lights as they stretch with the ocean currents.

It's a school of krill, lured by the bioluminescence and hiding under the protective umbrella of the jellyfish.

And deeper shadows were gathering, as their long tentacles swept across the sonar range, revealing another large school of squid.

After a while, the area around and under the fishing boat was almost occupied by squids. Because the area around the fishing boat was considered a safe area, it attracted a lot of small fish and shrimps, and now it has become a ready-made canteen for the squids.

He had already lowered the net, and could only leave the squids to their own devices, allowing them to hide under the fishing boat while he chased the school of fish ahead.

However, when he saw more and more squids gathering, he couldn't sit still anymore.

He took a look and found that these squids were not small squids, but big red deep-sea squids. One could weigh seven or eight kilograms when held in the hand, and some were as big as more than ten kilograms.

This thing is the raw material he uses to process squid shreds. With such a large bunch of it, he can make a lot of money.

He thought about it, then went out with a loudspeaker to call Lao Xiao.

After calling someone to take his place, he put on his hat again and went out to take a look on the deck.

He had a flashlight in his hand. Although the orange light was not particularly bright, it was still the brightest light in the dark night.

When you casually shine the light towards the distant sea, you can clearly see the garbage floating on the sea and some fish with their stomachs turned upside down.

He waved the flashlight and shone it everywhere. The sound of rain falling in the light of the flashlight gave a feeling of poignancy.

Bah, you are sick. You have watched too much Romance in the Rain.

From far to near, he shone the flashlight around the fishing boat again. As the aperture moved, something kept jumping in the water. It was much more obvious than the boiling feeling of rain falling on the sea, like a squid rolling in boiling water.

Ye Yaodong shone it around, thought for a while, and decided to open his mouth wide, put the flashlight in his mouth, and reached for the cable of the fish search light, loosening it one circle at a time.

With a "click" sound of the switch, the kilowatt xenon lamp suddenly lit up, and the dazzling white light split the dark sea surface like a sharp sword.

The moment the light penetrated the sea water, the originally boiling water surface suddenly jumped like dumplings. Thousands of squids floated up from the water and kept jumping where the light shone on the sea surface.

The grayish-white body is almost transparent under the strong light, and those tentacles, which should be called tentacles, stretch out like blooming flowers of death.

The fishing boat was moving, the aperture was moving, and the squids were also chasing the aperture.

They frantically chased the light source and swarmed towards the side of the boat as if hypnotized, and the "pa pa" sounds of their tentacles hitting the water became a continuous one.

Ye Yaodong's eyes widened, "Fuck..."

"Someone is coming, someone is coming soon..."

"Where did he die? Hurry up and get some help..."

He knocked on the door while calling for someone, and finally called the person over.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

"Is there an accident? But the fishing boat isn't shaking much anymore?"

Ye Yaodong shouted to them, "Look at the water, come and help."

"Ah? Fuck..."

"Oh my god? So many squids?"

"Do you want to fish it out? Hurry up and grab the hand net..."

He stared at them speechlessly. "Holding a woolen hand net won't tire you out. How many pounds can you catch with this net? Forty or fifty pounds. If you want to catch a ton, how long will it take you?"

He rolled his eyes and said, "Come here and adjust the lights for me. Extend the light waves and attract the squid from the bottom of the boat to the stern first. Keep an eye on the sea surface at the same time. People on duty must stay there. We can't all retreat."

The giant red squid has a strong phototaxis and is most sensitive to blue-green light. We can only try to adjust the wavelength of the fishing boat’s fish-attracting light to keep it away from the bottom of the boat, so that it can be caught more easily.

However, there is no guarantee that this will be feasible. He will have to slightly change his course or speed and use the current to carry the squid away from the bottom of the boat and into an area where they are easier to catch.

This is more reliable. Anyway, you can use both methods and try more. Otherwise, it would be a shame to waste so many big red squids at the bottom of the boat.

Everyone responded and sat obediently on the deck in the rain, staring at the sea and the aperture.

Ye Yaodong also went up to the cockpit again.

Lao Xiao said excitedly: "I was wondering why you called me up here to take a look. It turns out that you found a school of squids under the boat. It's so big and dense. How come they all hid under the boat?"

"Yesterday there were groups of small squids, which were then washed up by the waves one after another. Today there are large groups of big red squids, and they are not afraid of being smashed into pieces by the propellers."

"What should we do now? They are all hiding under the boat, it's hard to fish them out. Should we continue to wait for the waves to come up? But the rain today doesn't look that heavy, and the waves aren't as high as yesterday..."

"It takes a lot of effort to use a small net, and you won't catch much. You still have to use a trawl net to catch everything in one go. It's quick and hassle-free..."

Old Xiao chattered on and on.

Ye Yaodong did not respond. After entering the cockpit, he began to control the fishing boat. He followed his instructions and decided the direction of the boat.

Lao Xiao, you reacted after a while. What is he going to do? "Why do you want to adjust the direction?"

"Let's try changing direction and use the current to see if we can move the squids under the boat to the stern. We can lengthen the light waves below and see if we can get them into the trawl range."

Lao Xiao's eyes lit up, "Great, or do you have a way to do this?"

"I'm just giving it a try. I can't guarantee whether it will work or not. Anyway, if it doesn't work, there's no loss. At most, it's just a matter of fate. I'll try better next time."

Or wait for him to go back and get some squid cages, place them specifically on the sides and stern of the boat, and then shine the light specifically on those locations.

Anyway, squids are attracted to light, and light fishing has always existed. There are now special light fishing boats.

"Yes, there is no harm in giving it a try. We should give it a try. If we can get these squids to move to the stern of the boat and then sink, that would be just right."

"Let's try it first."

Lao Xiao looked at him with admiration, "Dongzi, how come you have such a smart brain? You can think of anything and handle this."

"What's the big deal? And this is just my thought. It's not certain whether it will work or not, and you're already praising me."

"At least you can think of it. Others can't think of it. After listening to me, I think you should be able to do it."

"Let's talk about it later."

Still working, Ye Yaodong focused more. The ship couldn't change direction casually, not to mention that there was a fishing net dragging behind it, and the radar and sonar were still detecting, so he had to be careful.

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