Chapter 325 Look how happy this child is
Chapter 325 Look how happy this child is
"I'll go untie the net bag." Father Li ran very briskly, as if he was back to his twenties or thirties, when he was strong and healthy.
"I'll help you!" Li Changle stepped forward. After the father and son checked, they untied the knot, and the fish blocking the bag flowed out.
Some were wriggling on their tentacles, some were crawling sideways, some were jumping non-stop, some were twisting like snakes... The deck was like an underwater world, with so many different kinds of fish that it was hard to even see them all.
When the crane released the remaining half bag of fish, there were only hairtail, yellow croaker, cuttlefish, etc., as well as flounder, sole skin, sea cucumber, sea urchin...all kinds of shrimps and crabs that usually lay on the seabed instantly piled up into a mountain of fish.
"Fuck!" Chen Yongwei picked up a large sea cucumber as thick as his wrist and turned to look at Li Changle. "Brother, ours is not a bottom-level network, how come these things are also online?"
"When it's windy and raining heavily at sea, it's so stuffy under the water that fish and shrimp will come up to absorb oxygen, and we just happen to catch them."
"No matter how he got up, we are already on the deck, let's quickly sort out the sea cucumbers and valuable fish."
"I'll go down and get some ice. I'll put the good stuff in a rubber bucket and cover the rest with ice. We'll also have to find someone to sort it out when we get to the dock."
"I'm going to catch some fish and let the air out." Brother Li grabbed a grouper and ran towards the live tank.
"Stop smiling like an idiot and hurry up. Your mother and the others must be waiting anxiously at the dock." Father Li said as he picked up the bucket and was about to fetch water.
"Uncle Tang, let me do it!" Chen Yongwei picked up the big bucket and scooped up three buckets of sea water and poured them into the bucket. "Haha, we don't need too much. Just fill up this wooden bucket with those sea cucumbers."
"It's incredible that the barrel is full, at least 70 or 80 kilograms." Father Li also grabbed a large sea cucumber and threw it into the rubber barrel, muttering, "Enough, enough!"
"Boss Ale!" Chen Amao shouted at the top of his voice while standing by the side of the boat, "This net is full of good stuff, including sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and a few groupers as well."
They also had sea cucumbers and sea urchins on their boat. It was the first time for him to catch these marine delicacies with a trawl net. He and the three crew members smiled foolishly for a long time while looking at the catch on the deck.
It turned out to be the right thing to do following Boss Ale. This catch was the most valuable one he had ever caught in his more than ten years of fishing career.
Li Changle shouted back, "We also have sea cucumbers, sea urchins, and grouper!"
Father Li glanced at him and said, "Oh! Look how happy this kid is!"
Chen Yongwei grinned, "Uncle Tang, we are happy too!"
"I'm so happy! I'll make you something delicious when I get home."
"Acheng, uncle will give you a bonus when we get home!"
Wang Xincheng grinned happily, "Thank you, Uncle A Le!"
Li Changle worked with him to take out the stacked plastic buckets and rubber buckets, and then started to dig through the pile of fish, quickly picking up the sea cucumbers and throwing them into the buckets.
Then came the various crabs running around on the deck, waving their claws arrogantly.
Wang Xincheng grabbed a flower crab with reddish-brown markings all over its body and said, "Look, this flower crab is so beautiful!"
"I have one here too." Chen Yongwei picked it up and saw that the big crab had been broken. He was too lazy to even tie it up and threw it directly into another plastic bucket.
"My favorite yellow croaker!" Li Changle grinned, grabbed a yellow croaker weighing two or three pounds, and happily put it into the rubber bucket.
Brother Li carried ice cubes from the cargo hold to the deck, picked up the bucket, poured out the yellow croaker, and covered it with ice cubes. "Ah Le, you're not selling the yellow croaker this time?"
Li Changle shook his head decisively, "Not for sale! The fish maws are used to dry the fish maw, and the fish are kept to dry the yellow croaker."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Brother Li spread the ice, picked up an eel and ran towards the living cabin.
It took several people more than an hour to sort out all the fish on the boat. The remaining miscellaneous fish were sprinkled with a layer of ice and covered with cotton wool.
Brother Li started the fishing boat and headed for the dock. Li Changle patted his lower back and said, "Ouch, my old waist. It's going to break if you keep going for a while longer."
Brother Li pounded his waist and said, "Dad didn't even call you, but your waist is still hurt."
Chen Yongwei rubbed his stomach and said, "My waist is not tired, but my stomach is growling with hunger."
"I have no appetite now. I just want to get off the boat early. The waves in the open sea are too big."
"You'll get used to it after going there a few times." Li Changle picked up a bucket of water and washed the seaweed and garbage from the seafood on the deck into the sea.
As soon as the deck was cleaned, Father Li came out with a pot of rice and noodles. "Come, fill your stomach first, and you'll have something delicious to eat when you get home."
After eating and drinking, we sat on the deck to rest for a while, and then the boat sailed to the waters of Yantou Mountain, with the pier just around the corner.
Li Changle and his companions stood on the deck. From a distance, they saw several women looking over here eagerly. Children were also standing nearby, staring at the ships coming in and out, and no one was playing around.
"Why aren't the children in class? Today is Sunday."
"We left on the 18th, and today is the 21st, which happens to be Sunday." Li Changle said happily, waving at the shore, "We are back!"
Brother Li in the cab blew the whistle, and the Shunfeng behind also blew the whistle. Other ships also blew their whistles. The melodious and loud whistle sounds echoed over the dock.
"Mom, they're back!" Zhou Ruonan held Li's mother's arm, pointed at the big ship coming towards them, and couldn't help but shed tears.
"I'm back, I'm back..." Mother Li and Grandma Chen looked at the direction where the fishing boat came in, wiping their tears and muttering softly.
"Grandma, look, the big ship is coming. Our boat is back!" The children also saw the fishing boat coming towards them.
"Oh oh oh, my dad is back!"
"Mother, I saw our boat." The children pulled their mothers and cheered loudly. "I saw it! I saw it..." Zhou Ruonan and her mother-in-law responded one after another.
Jin Chan blushed as she looked at Chen Yongwei, who was standing at the bow and looked even taller, her eyes full of joy.
Li Xiaozhou pointed at the big ship and turned to his friends, "Look, this is our big ship!"
"Wow! It's so big!"
"Xiaozhou, your boat is so tall!"
After receiving a round of exclamations, Li Xiaozhou proudly puffed out his chest and said, "There are still people sleeping on my boat. If you promise not to run around, I will take you aboard to see the big ship later."
"Okay, we won't run around."
Brother Li was maneuvering the fishing boat to find a spot to dock. Chen Amao poked his head out and shouted to Li Changle and the others, "Brother Ale, let's drink together after we're done!"
"Okay!" Li Changle waved at him.
When Brother Li found a spot and parked, a group of children ran over, cheering, "Dad, Dad, we've been waiting for you for a long time!"
"Third uncle, second uncle, Uncle Awei, cousin..."
When the boatmen on the shore saw them coming back, they all put down their work and gathered in front of the fishing boat, asking in a flurry, "Tang, I heard that you encountered a large school of fish, including mackerels and sardines. Is that true?"
Father Li smiled and nodded, "Really, I met him in the open sea."
"Oh my, a boat this big must have caught a lot of big fish, right? This trip must have made a lot of money!"
Someone took it with an envious look on his face and said, "That's for sure. The Zhou brothers from Shaji Village have only been fishing for half a day and they have already caught tens of thousands of kilograms of fish."
"The third son of the Atang family is really good at shipping. He has encountered a few schools of fish in the past few months by following the right path, right?"
"It's happened three or four times. He even encountered fish turning over ponds and blue crabs moving. There is no fisherman as lucky as him in the nearby villages."
"The sons of Atang's family are really capable. Look, it took them only a short time to get on board the big boat, and this trip is carrying tens of thousands of kilograms of fish."
Someone said sourly: "If you want to get big cargo, you need a big ship. What does it have to do with you if they catch tens or hundreds of thousands of kilograms of fish?"
"It has nothing to do with me. We are all from the same village. In the past, we watched other people's big boats go to the distant sea to catch big fish. Now our village has bigger and better fishing boats than other villages. When people talk about it outside, we are proud of it."
"That's right. Atang and his sons are all kind people. When we have money to buy a big ship in the future, we can ask them for advice."
Father Li felt mixed emotions as he watched the boatmen below with different expressions. He used to go out to sea with the eldest and second oldest brothers, but he never knew fishing was so easy.
If he could encounter schools of fish, big catches and good stuff from time to time like when he went out to sea with Ale, he would have built a new house for his children long ago.
"Uncle Tang!" Ge Changfa got off his bicycle with a smile, followed by Xiang Xiaoyu and his brother. They waved to them excitedly, "You're back!"
"You're back!" Father Li looked at the people who came to greet him below with some discomfort and nodded repeatedly.
"Uncle, brother, you are back!" Li Changshui also came.
They came several times this morning. Everyone was worried about them because of the wind and rain last night.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei came over carrying a springboard. "Ah Fa, please tell Ah Dong to bring as many bamboo baskets as he can."
"Okay!" Ge Changfa turned around and left on his bicycle.
"Ah Shui," Li Changle looked at Li Changshui, "you ride the tricycle to take my mother back, call the people who killed the fish to come on board and sort the fish, call a dozen people."
"Does it take more than a dozen people?" Li's mother, who had rushed over and heard what was going on, asked excitedly, "Did you catch a lot of fish?"
Before Li Changle could speak, Li Xiaohai pulled Mother Li aside and said, "Grandma, they said that Dad encountered a large school of fish and caught tens of thousands of kilograms of fish."
"Oh, then let's go back now." Li's mother got on the tricycle and followed Li Changshui.
What does it mean to catch tens of thousands of kilograms of fish? If we used the wooden boat we had at home, it would probably take dozens of trips to catch all of them.
Zhou Ruonan and her sister-in-law looked at Jin Chan and smiled happily, "The food is still warm at home, you can go back and eat, we will go aboard to help sort it out."
"No, Dad cooked some rice and noodles for us on the way back."
Li Changle smiled at Zhou Ruonan, "Anan, I'm back!"
"Yeah!" Zhou Ruonan nodded with a smile in her eyes.
Mrs. Li gave her a slight detour and said, "Anan, this is the first time you and Ale have been apart for such a long time since you got married, right?"
Zhou Ruonan blushed and nodded, "This time it's the longest!"
Mrs. Li looked at the two of them with a smile, "No wonder you two are so happy!"
"Aunt, I'm happy too!" Li Xiaozhou said, pulling her.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei set up the springboard, and Ge Changfa brought Chen Dong and his son, pulling two carts of bamboo baskets piled up like a mountain to the front of the boat.
(End of this chapter)