sbdcsierra Chapter 1883 Going to Sea
Chapter 1883 Going to Sea
Chapter 1883 Going to Sea
Pei Yu slapped his head and said, "Do you two think I'm dead? One of you is grabbing your father, and the other is grabbing your mother. I'll just give you both a punch each, and the result will be that I kill you both."
The two men covered their heads, daring not to speak out in their anger.
"Go get your own food."
The two immediately slipped into the kitchen.
Ye Xiaoxi took Ye Yaodong's arm and said affectionately, "Dad, if Xiaoyu also gets into the top five, let her go with us. That way, we can have each other's company and even share a room. We can travel with the team, so we won't be afraid of any danger. There are so many people, and even if we go out to play, our older brothers will be there with us. There are plenty of us."
"You'll have to ask your aunt about Xiaoyu's decision. I can't make that decision myself. Going with her is fine, but I don't know if your aunt will feel comfortable with it."
Both of them looked at Ye Huimei.
Ye Huimei laughed and said, "It's rare that you have to bring Xiaoyu along no matter what you do. You two should focus on getting into the top 5 first. You haven't even gotten in yet, and you're already planning to go out and have fun."
Ye Xiaoxi clenched her fist and raised it above her head. "Definitely! We're not those two barely passing twin brothers."
"Go get your food and eat!" Lin Xiuqing urged them as she brought out the food.
"Dad, how many days are you staying here?" Ye Chengyang asked.
"Three or four days, I'll go around and check on the progress. Once things are done, I'll go back and prepare to set sail."
Ye Xiaoxi poked her head out of the kitchen. "Dad, can I still write you letters and send them by sea?"
"Haha, sure, you can write to me anytime and send it by sea."
"If only my father were in the same sea area as my third uncle, I could write letters to him and send them by sea," Pei Yu said enviously.
“If you miss your dad, you can send it to the factory. I’ll tell the gatekeeper to have the seafood collection boat take it to DYD.”
She shook her head. "It's too much trouble. It's not good to have someone carry it if it's not important. It's a waste of manpower. If you have a letter to take to sea, I can bring it along too. I don't need to carry it separately."
"Then you should wait until the second half of the year. Maybe your father and your Uncle Zheng will be in the same sea area as me then."
She nodded.
Lin Xiuqing asked, "Then let's calculate. It shouldn't take you long to get back from this trip at sea. Didn't you say you were going to the provincial capital to sign a contract with Ah Hai to handle the land matter?"
"Yes, I'll come back for a few days to take care of things before heading back to sea."
"Second brother, I really envy you for being able to go to sea with Father!"
Ye Chengyang: "..."
Why does it sound a bit sarcastic to him?
"Then it's impossible for you in this life. Maybe in the next life."
"it's a pity."
Ye Yaodong: "This is not a good thing. Don't be disappointed. Let's eat quickly."
"That's still a regret, since both of my older brothers can go to sea, but I can't."
"There's no need to compare. Do you want to suffer at sea, unable to come ashore for six months, unable to have fun or eat good food, or do you want to eat, drink, and have fun in Shanghai?"
She chuckled and said, "I just need to be able to go to sea occasionally and come back whenever I want."
"Even if the boat belongs to your family, it won't work. If you want to experience it, you can take a boat on your way home."
"What I want to see is the fishing harvest, not the sea. I'm tired of seeing the sea."
Stop thinking about it and focus on your studies.
"If I can't go to the sea, at least I can still go to the Canton Fair."
"I can take you to the Canton Fair every year."
Ye Xiaoxi looked pleasantly surprised, "I don't have to be in the top 5 anymore?"
Ye Yaodong paused for a moment, then said, "We still need it."
"If I had known, I would have insisted on going to sea first, and then you would have refused no matter what. But I insisted on going anyway, so you just compromised and said you would take me to the Canton Fair! Oh dear, what a blunder!"
Ye Xiaoxi was filled with regret. If only she had designed a script, what conditions would she have needed? She wouldn't have needed any conditions at all, and she could have gone directly to the Canton Fair.
"Where did you get all these roundabout ways from?"
"I just figured it out. I should have argued with them earlier."
Ye Chengyang said sincerely, "I've learned everything now."
"You guys are really cunning; I'm going to have to outsmart you." Ye Yaodong said with a smile.
"Dad, is it too late for me to make a scene now?"
"Don't even think about it, I'm not falling for your tricks."
The laughter and chatter around the table continued until after dinner. When it was time to watch TV, the twins started making a ruckus and wouldn't stop until 9 o'clock when they were all sent back to their rooms to sleep, and the living room finally quieted down.
But Ye Yaodong was also tired recently. After the children went back to their rooms to sleep, he watched the news for an extra half hour and then went back to his room to sleep as well.
The next day, he first spent half a day at the office with Lin Xiuqing, and then spent the afternoon checking out the freight department.
For the next two days, he went to either the shipyard or the machinery factory, and also took the opportunity to check on his own building. In addition, he also visited some land in Shanghai, thinking about building a warehouse.
The output and sales volume are both large now, and the city has made full use of all its land, but it is almost not enough.
If a warehouse were built in Shanghai, shipping would be much easier. They have their own freight department, and for exports, the port of Shanghai makes it convenient to pack containers directly in the warehouse, saving on shipping costs. Even if the containers aren't packed directly at the factory, shipping from Shanghai is still more convenient, providing a complete one-stop service.
He works long hours, leaving early and returning late, so that he can keep up with the children's schedule and even have dinner together.
Ah Zheng also called him, saying that he had already purchased all the video recorders needed for the ship and handed them over to professionals for installation. He was also coming to Shanghai the next day.
Anyway, the installation doesn't need anyone to supervise it. There are already workers on duty on the ship. We can just go back and inspect it in a few days.
Ye Yaodong originally only planned to stay for three or four days and then return after finishing his business. However, since A-Zheng came, he had to stay an extra day to accompany him to the shipyard to see their ship, even though he had just seen it a couple of days ago.
Ah Zheng also looked forward to his ship. According to the original order time, if there were no delays, it should arrive by the middle of the year. He had also ordered workers and brought them over.
When Ye Yaodong goes to sea in a few days, he will bring the workers on board to learn. He has already assigned the workers to which ships to go on.
These workers were already experienced, but going along would give them more experience on the high seas, so they could handle things more easily when they were on his own ship.
While Ye Yaodong was showing him the boat, he casually asked, "If the three of you are sharing this boat, will you be the one driving it the whole time?"
"That's the plan for now. After all, I own half the shares, and the two of them together own the other half. Also, I don't have any big ships right now, while they all have ships in DYD."
"Well, if they add more fishing boats of a thousand tons later, they will withdraw their investment from you then."
"Yes, it was agreed at the time that this is considered an investment, and also a way of helping me out. Once they build their own ship, they can withdraw their shares from me. As for the ships we partnered with before, we should all withdraw our shares where appropriate. If we don't have the manpower to manage them, we'll give them all to you. We'll give you a lump sum of cash, so we don't have to deal with all the small shares here and there, and it's too much trouble to keep track of the accounts. If it's all our own, we won't have to go through all that trouble of calculating. All the profits will be ours."
"Try to urge the shipyard to expedite the process as soon as possible; we absolutely cannot delay the delivery date."
There's no real compensation or breach of contract involved if the delivery is late, since the delivery date is scheduled more than a year in advance, and it's quite normal to postpone it if you can't wait.
If it's postponed, they can only wait, so I have to come over and quietly urge them whenever I have time, so they know how much I value it.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and those who are pressured will be more focused on getting things done.
The two spent a day at the shipyard and planned to return to Zhoushan the next day.
After all, Ah Zheng came here just to see his ship, and he had nothing else to do after that.
The video recorders are still being installed on more than a dozen ships, so it won't be quick. Ye Yaodong has time to arrange the procurement and prepare for the sea voyage.
After all the boats had their video cameras installed, he arranged for the fishing boats going to DYD to go first, followed closely by the fishing boats in international waters, only half a day later.
At the same time, he also called Lin Xiuqing in Shanghai and his parents and grandmother back home.
We already knew he was going to sea after the New Year, so no one was surprised. We just gave him a few more words of advice to be safe and pay attention to safety. We kept saying the same things.
He also said that he would probably go home again in a month or two.
That's some consolation.
He set sail on March 18th, the last day of the first lunar month, which was just before the first day of the second lunar month. After all, according to custom, one shouldn't travel far on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month.
When we set off, it was still pitch black. The ship was moored at the dock, and the lights on the mast were so bright they made our eyes dizzy. The diesel engine chugled and trembled in the cold air, and the exhaust pipe spewed out puffs of white smoke that made us want to cough.
The crew members carried things back and forth on the gangplank, their feet making a dull thud as they stepped on the ship's deck.
The freshly added crushed ice in the freezer was still steaming, and the bamboo and plastic baskets were stacked higher than a person.
"Boss, everyone's here! Everything's ready, and we've checked that everything's set up."
Ye Yaodong flicked the cigarette butt into the sea, and the sparks went out with a "whoosh".
"Unmooring the moorings, weigh anchor!"
The ship shuddered, the anchor winch rattled, and the wet chains were pulled up from the water.
The ships did not dock close together, but after everything was ready, they left the dock one after another.
Yellowish-white waves churned up behind the boat, causing plastic bottles and rotten planks in the harbor to sway back and forth.
After the New Year, it seems there's even more trash on the riverbank, as if it hasn't been cleaned up yet.
As the fleet set sail, the houses on the shore grew smaller and smaller until they became a gray line and disappeared.
Once outside the harbor, the wind immediately picked up.
In February, the wind over the East China Sea is like a knife, cutting straight into your collar.
The sky was just beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn, and the seawater was a heavy, leaden gray. The waves weren't large, but they surged very high.
The boat wasn't bouncing around with the waves; it was lifted up and then slowly slid down. Standing on the deck felt like walking on a pile of cotton, with your internal organs swaying back and forth.
Ye Yaodong was used to it. He held the thermos cup in his hand and tightened the cap to prevent the tea from spilling.
The fishing boat moved forward in a fan shape. Ye Yaodong stood in the helm, his hand on the rudder, his eyes fixed on the front.
Fine spray of foam splattered on the windshield, and the wipers screeched and scrambled, creating a blurry sea.
Following the nautical chart, they gradually accelerated after leaving the nearshore area and headed towards their destination.
The further out you go, the deeper the water becomes. It changes from a murky yellow to a grayish-green, and then from grayish-green to deep blue. You hardly encounter any fishing boats along the way, but the radar shows a dense array of bright spots.
It is a school of fish; once it reaches the deep sea, radar can continuously detect large numbers of fish.
But these were not his goals. Right now, they needed to hurry on their way to reach their target fishing ground as soon as possible.
After seven days of continuous travel, they were finally about to reach their target sea area, a fishing ground in international waters.
When the radar detected them, there were only their few ships on the sea, and no fishing boats from other countries were detected, nor were there any on the road, so they were quite lucky.
Ideally, one could have complete control of the fishing grounds without any other sharers.
Ye Yaodong picked up the walkie-talkie: "Attention all ships, we are about to reach the target area in 5 nautical miles. Tell the crew on deck to be alert and prepare in advance."
A series of crackling sounds came from the walkie-talkie, followed by several "Received" messages.
He stepped out of the helm and handed the fishing boat over to Ah Zheng. A cold wind blew in, and he instantly became alert.
He planned to hand over the fishing command to A-Zheng whenever it was his turn to be on duty. After all, A-Zheng's ship would be delivered in a few months, and he would just need to watch over things and act as an assistant.
It was pitch black outside, with only the waves beside the ship's side gleaming with a pale phosphorescent light, flashing intermittently.
Above, the clouds had dispersed at some point, revealing a small patch of sky. The stars were cold and bright, densely packed together, and the stars over the sea always seemed within reach.
The cigarette in his hand flickered, and he smoked half of it while the wind blew the other half, sharing the good fortune.
The workers on deck, upon hearing the instructions, busied themselves tidying up the fishing nets and waiting for further instructions to cast them.
The ship rocked gently, and the engine hummed softly.
"Dongzi, check if the deck is ready. A large school of fish has been detected, and the fishing boat is now heading towards the target school."
Ye Yaodong shouted down, "Is everything ready on deck? Get ready to launch the nets."
"Everything is ready, wait for further instructions."
Five minutes later, an announcement came over the loudspeaker on the ship.
"Offline."
The boatswain on deck roared, "Roger that!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the crew at the stern sprang into action. Two men crawled into the pile of nets, grabbed the edges of the netting, and stretched it apart with all their might.
The sinker went into the water first; it was at the very bottom of the net, with a string of lead weights hanging down. It crashed into the sea with a splash, creating white waves, and sank in the blink of an eye.
Immediately afterwards, the entire net, like a giant snake awakening, twisted its body from the stern of the boat and burrowed into the sea.
The netting was stretched longer and faster, and the workers scrambled to the sides, afraid of getting their ankles tangled.
Ye Yaodong stood on the wheelhouse and looked around. There are quite a few accidents at sea. One of them is that people can easily get their ankles tangled in fishing nets and be swept into the sea, where there is no way to save them.
He felt he was lucky; his fleet had all been safe and sound, thanks to the protection of Mazu.
P.S.: It's so hard to write during the Chinese New Year!
(End of this chapter)