Chapter 188 Feast

Chapter 188 Feast

Chapter 188 Feast
"Brother, these boat owners are so rich!" Chen Yongwei pulled the fishing line with envy, "When can we buy a metal boat like this? It would be great!
"Work hard, it will be ready soon." Li Changle certainly wanted to do the same.

Brother Li took over and said, "They are from Shaji Village. In the first two years after the division of households, they also sailed wooden boats like us.

The year before last, we were lucky enough to catch a large school of fish and several thousand kilograms of good catch. We ordered a metal boat and this year we made a lot of money. My brothers and I borrowed money to buy a second boat.

After hearing this, Li Changle suddenly remembered the Shaji Village in his previous life, where several brothers jointly bought a thousand-ton ocean-going fishing boat. "Brother, you are talking about the Zhou brothers of Shaji, right?"

"Yes! They are the ones. There are five brothers in his family. Their parents died a long time ago. The brothers were all raised by Boss Zhou. The brothers are united and now they are in Shaji Village. They are considered the best."

Li Changle nodded and held his and Chen Yongwei's shoulders, "Let's work hard and buy a bigger one than his next time."

"Yes, buy a big one!" Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly.

Before he finished speaking, a large wooden boat about ten meters long arrived. There were many silver pomfret and big fish piled on the deck. Li Changle and his brothers were envious.

The people on the boat greeted Brother Li happily, "Brother Li, you've made a fortune!"

After Li Changle saw it, he thought about it and remembered that this man was the eldest son of Secretary Wang's family.

"Boss Wang, you're here too!" Brother Li greeted the sturdy man with dark skin happily.

"Yes, we just arrived. Let's work harder. We may fall asleep when we are exhausted!" Boss Wang waved at him excitedly and drove the fishing boat to chase the school of fish.

"Ale, An, the net has been closed!" Brother Li shouted to them excitedly.

"Here we come!" Li Changle and his second brother ran over quickly and saw a lot of big deep-sea fish in the net bag.

There were red snappers that were almost as tall as his thighs, bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna that were over a meter long, and several swordfish with long swords growing out of their mouths...

This creature's sword is not just for decoration. If it weren't for the silver pomfret and other fish in the net that were holding it back and unable to move, the trawl net would have been pierced by them and it would have escaped.

The dead ones are okay, but the living ones will jump around after being poured out. If you are poked by it, even if you don’t die, you may have to lie in bed for ten days or half a month.

"Ah Le, bring the stick."

Second Brother Li shouted excitedly, untied the ropes that tied the net bag, and asked Li Changle to hit the heads of several swordfish with a wooden stick to prevent them from jumping around and poking people.

"Here they come!" Li Changle hurriedly pulled out a hard wooden stick as thick as an adult's wrist from the rubber bucket. These sticks were used by them for self-defense.

Just like the situation today, if it is a small school of fish, they may be attacked and robbed by those people on the south coast. In recent years, the fishermen on the north coast have suffered a lot from them because they are poor and cannot afford to buy big boats to go out to sea.

There were two major fights in the past two years. After the Maritime Administration and the police demarcated the fishing areas, there were fewer incidents of fatal fights over territory. However, if you encounter them in the vast sea, there will still be incidents of fighting over territory.

"Pull hard!" After the danger was over, Brother Li followed him and poured the fish in the fishing net onto the deck like water.

The two brothers sorted out the fishing nets as quickly as possible and put them back into the sea. Brother Li steered the fishing boat and slowly moved forward following the school of fish.

"A Le, quickly bleed those deep-sea fish. I'll go help A Wei pull the net." Brother Li ran over like a tireless robot to help Chen Yongwei pull the net onto the boat.

"I'm too tired. I can't pick up the fish anymore!" Chen Yongwei, who had pulled seven or eight nets in a row, was exhausted and sat down on the fishing boat.

"You take a rest for a while, I'll do it!" Brother Li picked up the fishing net and started working. Chen Yongwei took a breath and saw that he started to collect the net. He took a deep breath, stood up and went to help again.

After Li Changle drained the blood of the tuna and swordfish, he shook his sore hands a few times, wishing he had a pair of tireless mechanical arms.

He took a look at his hands covered in fish blood and was too lazy to wash them. He just wiped them on his swimming pants and went over to help pull the net.

At this time, more and more fishing boats were attracted to this sea area, and the excited cheers were getting louder and louder.

"Master Hailong has given us a chance to eat! Brothers, roll up your sleeves and get to work!"

Someone excitedly sang a fisherman's song: Even if the wind is against us, we can still dry the fish without caring about the sun, because we want to touch the pearls on the seabed...

Li Changle looked at the cheering crowd and felt that the school of silver pomfret in this sea area today would allow these offshore fishing boats to brag about it for the rest of their lives.

Brother Li looked at the two people who looked exhausted and patted his sore arms. "Ah Le, Ah Wei, you two should hold on a little longer. Take advantage of this opportunity to catch more fish. If you miss it, you don't know when you will have the chance again!"

"I know. The more you catch, the better." Li Changle rubbed his arms a few times and felt the soreness and discomfort in the muscles on his arms and wrists.

From the time they discovered the school of fish until now, the three people who were pulling the net were all exhausted and out of breath. They had to put down the net and take turns pulling it while one of them took a rest.

Lord Hailong is giving us food to eat. We must not miss such a good opportunity. We should catch as many nets as we can. As long as we are not dead from exhaustion, we will work ourselves to death.

There were more and more fish piling up on the deck, and it was easy to step on a fish if you weren't careful.

"Ah Le, you guys have caught so much? You must have arrived a long time ago!" Lai Lao Er, who was sitting next to him, was standing at the bow with a fishing net, looking at the fish on their deck with envy and shouting. Lai Lao Da, who was at the helm, was also looking at them, his eyes almost overflowing with envy.

Looking at the catch on their boat and then at the catch on their own boat, the two brothers felt a pang of sadness and thought that their luck was not good enough. If they had come earlier, they would have been able to catch more fish.

"It's been a while!" Li Changle saw that there were a lot of fish on their deck and grinned, "It's been fun today. Every time I cast a net, I catch a fish."

Lai Laoer glanced at the sturdy Chen Yongwei and said, "You are so lucky! We came late and only managed to catch three nets, but every time we pulled a net, it would explode."

One net can catch one or two hundred kilograms of silver pomfret. I have been fishing for more than ten years and have never seen such a fish. If I had known earlier, I would have followed their fishing boat out to sea.

Boss Lai, who was at the helm, looked at the trawl net on Li Changle's fishing boat. He thought about selling the silver pomfret and going to the pier to load the trawl net.

After saying hello, they went back to their fishing operations.

Li Changle and the other three worked together to cast a dozen nets. They worked from the time they discovered the school of fish until eleven o'clock, five or six hours of high-intensity physical work.

The four men's hands were not as strong as when they first cast the net. The net was not round at all when it landed on the sea surface, but it was still able to catch dozens of kilograms of silver pomfret and one or two big fish.

By the end, he was exhausted, his hands were shaking, his legs were weak, and he could not move anymore. He leaned against the side of the ship, gasping for breath, and sat on the deck to catch his breath.

His eyes were still watching the Lai brothers and other fishing boats chasing fish not far away, and he felt very sorry!
Li Changle looked at the fishing boat in the distance and thought that the person standing on it seemed to be Li Ah Si. He squinted his eyes and looked carefully and found that it was indeed him. "Brother, Fourth Uncle is there too."

"I've seen it before. No matter how many fish he catches, it's useless. He'll still be working like a slave for the Xu family."

The brothers felt that what Brother Li said was absolutely right.

Brother Li turned to Chen Yongwei, who was squinting at the side, and said, "Your future brother-in-law and father-in-law are here too."

"Where?" Chen Yongwei looked in the direction he pointed and saw a wooden boat similar to theirs fishing not far from an iron boat.

He looked at the iron boat circling on the sea with pity and envy, "Brother, let's go back and install the purse seine. If we have a purse seine this time, we can catch more fish."

Their trawl nets can only catch fish in the middle layer. The purse seine nets used to catch fish in the top layer have floats on top and weights underneath. After the fish are surrounded, the bottom of the net is closed with a rope, and then the net can be collected.

In addition, the flexible hulls of their small fishing boats allow them to circle more conveniently and quickly than their ships, thus catching more top-level fish.

"The boat is too small. Once the new house is built, we will earn enough money to buy a bigger boat and equip it with all the equipment."

Li Changle was glad that he had installed the trawl net before the typhoon came, otherwise, they would have to rely on casting the net, one or two hundred kilograms at a time, and it would take six or seven nets to catch a thousand kilograms of fish.

It’s different with machines. A net dragged down weighs at least a thousand pounds.

And this time there were so many big fish preying on the silver pomfret, their trawl nets caught quite a few.

"If we had known earlier, we would have taken that ship out for a day's test run." Brother Li said with some regret, "Alas! We missed such a good opportunity."

Brother Li advised cheerfully, "Take your time. Haste makes waste. This time, we are lucky to have installed the trawl net. Look at the deck. There is almost no place to step."

"There's still one net that hasn't been pulled up yet!" Chen Yongwei looked at the mountain of fish on the deck with a silly smile on his face. "Brother, the fish you caught this time must be about five or six thousand kilograms, right?"

"More than that!" Brother Li calculated, "The trawl nets were full of fish. You must have caught at least twenty of them, which should be about seven or eight thousand kilograms."

"Of course there is." Brother Li said confidently, "We have a lot of people, and we are all strong laborers, especially Awei, one can do the work of two."

"It's not that serious!" Chen Yongwei smiled innocently and touched his stomach, "I can't do it anymore. I need to eat something."

"You are all more tired than me. I'll go get the lunch box." Brother Li said as he stood up and took the backpack. He opened one and saw it was full of rice balls, which he placed on Li Changle's thighs as he sat cross-legged.

"Help yourself!" He unscrewed the kettle and took a few sips before handing it to Li Changle. "It contains the rice soup that your sister-in-law cooked early in the morning. It's still warm."

"Hmm!" Li Changle swallowed the rice in his mouth, drank a few mouthfuls of the rice soup, and handed it to Chen Yongwei beside him.

The four of them ate some rice balls, eggs, and salted duck eggs, drank a pot of rice soup, replenished their energy, packed up their lunch boxes, took their positions, and pulled the trawl onto the boat.

There were fewer big fish in this net, two red snappers and a few tunas, but there were quite a few large silver pomfret.

After the fish were poured out, those that needed to be bled were bled, and the others were piled on the deck. I had just finished tidying up the trawl and put it in the sea, and picked up the fishing net to prepare to cast the net.

Li Changle looked up and suddenly saw the Zhou family's iron boat operating in front of him. He didn't even cast the net and sped up the boat to head forward.

(End of this chapter)