"Before dark, sell all your fish, and then go to the dock to find me with plastic pots, baskets, electronic scales and other things."
Before he finished speaking, the old man, who had already taken the money away from Wei Ran and put it in his pocket, picked up the fat and ugly big white cat and left the fishery market leisurely.
"Your uncle..."
Wei Ran twitched the corners of his mouth, wiped the prices on the price tags, and changed them all to single digits. Then he asked the stall opposite, "Do you want it? I'll sell it all to you?"
The aunt opposite who was reminded by the standard-minded aunt immediately nodded when she heard this, walked directly across the stall, took out a water-stained 1,000 ruble bill from her pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, and said generously, "No need to change.
, this money must be enough."
“You are so kind and generous”
Wei Ran reluctantly took the money handed over by the other party and put it into her pocket. She helped the other party dump the fish that had just been delivered into her basin. Then she immediately packed up the things on the stall and dropped them on the trolley.
I caught up with the old man whose name I didn't even know.
The old man looked at Wei Ran with a half-smile, then reached out and patted the big fat cat lying on his shoulder. The latter immediately jumped onto the trolley, turned around and stepped on the electronic scale, and finally
Choose a comfortable position and lie down.
"Why did that crazy female Dalia ask you to come to me?" The old man asked slowly as he walked. While talking, he took out a crumpled cigarette case from his pocket and pinched it from inside.
Take one out and pop it into your mouth.
"She didn't say," Wei Ran replied honestly, "I don't even know your name."
"Since you didn't say anything, please help me for a few days." At this point, the old man introduced himself in a puff of smoke, "The name doesn't matter, just call me Ivan. What's your name?"
Victor, right?”
"Yes, Victor." Wei Ran replied patiently, he wanted to see what kind of tricks the old man wanted to do.
"Can you sail a boat?" the old man who called himself Ivan asked with interest.
"No," Wei Ran replied honestly.
"It doesn't matter. I will teach you how to sail a boat in these two days. Of course, you have to work for me."
When Ivan said this, he pointed to a small restaurant not far away, "Before we go to buy some lunch, remember to buy two bottles of vodka and a bottle of pickles, two cans of Salou meat and a few Bollingers.
There is also bread, and if you want to give me some small gifts, you can buy some more beef pies."
"wait for me"
Wei Ran shook his head helplessly, handed the cart to the other party, and walked towards the small restaurant designated by the other party.
According to the other party's request, Wei Ran packed enough food for the two of them to eat for a whole day, and Wei Ran continued to follow Ivan towards the dock, and finally stopped next to a shabby-looking fishing boat.
.
However, unlike the other boats around it, this broken boat looked much bigger. It was at least 20 meters long when Lin Lin finally got down. Even its shape seemed a little weird.
"Give me your lunch, and then carry the things aboard." Ivan said, having already taken the food and drink from Wei Ran's hand, and stepped onto the bow of the ship on the gangplank accompanied by the big white cat.
By the time Wei Ran loaded the trolley and the plastic pots and baskets onto the boat, Ivan had already placed lunch on the table under the umbrella on the bow. But what surprised him was that he saw the wine glasses placed on the boat.
I knew that there were probably two other people enjoying this lunch.
Sure enough, in less than ten minutes, two more old men with a fishy smell boarded the boat, talking and laughing.
"Why is today's lunch so rich?"
After one of the old guys sat down, he picked up the wine glass and drank it all. Then he took off the baseball cap on his head, covered his mouth and smelled hard, and then continued to ask, "Old Ivan, this
Who are the young people?”
"The person who invited us to lunch." Ivan also picked up the cup and touched it with the second old man who sat down. "His name is Victor, and he is the helper I hired."
"Can your broken ship afford foreign sailors?"
Another old guy with a big beard drank the wine in the glass and looked at Wei Ran curiously, "Why do I feel like I've seen you somewhere before?"
"Maybe it's because in your eyes, Asians all look the same," Wei Ran replied with a smile.
“That makes sense”
The bearded old man picked up the bottle and poured a glass for Ivan and the old guy opposite. At the same time, he kept saying, "Young man, drink the wine in the glass quickly."
Hearing this, Wei Ran picked up the glass with a smile, drank all the wine in it, and then let the other person fill the glass for him.
"All the fish are sold out?" Ivan used a knife to cut off the skin of a piece of raw marinated fat meat, then threw it into his mouth and asked while chewing.
“All sold”
The old guy on Wei Ran's left who put on his baseball cap again picked up a piece of pie, took a bite, and replied vaguely, "The remaining dead fish were sold cheaply to the restaurant owned by Alyosha's son."
"At four o'clock in the afternoon, there are still some things that we need to transport back." The bearded old man followed and said, "The shipping cost is five thousand rubles."
"Then just wait a little longer today"
Ivan said as he picked up the cup, "I was also lucky today. A young man with a weak brain bought my fish at double the price."
"Double? Are you kidding me?"
After finishing speaking, the old man in the baseball cap shook his head and said with a look of jealousy, "Why don't I meet such an idiot?"
Ivan glanced at Wei Ran, who had a calm expression, but stopped talking and stopped teasing him. Instead, he started talking about the ship under his feet that needed to have its deck repainted recently, or that there was some problem with the circuit somewhere.
Repair, these are topics that cannot be discussed at all.
Fortunately, Wei Ran was happy to be a quiet listener and seemed to focus all his attention on the lunch on the table.
After drinking up a bottle of vodka with these three old guys, Ivan burped and stood up unsteadily and said, "Victor, if someone comes to deliver something later, please help move it to the boat. Remember to talk to him
Check the list provided and sign if there are no problems.
Okay, now clear the table. If you're bored, you can go fishing on the stern deck or help with the cleaning, but don't make too much noise. I'm going to take a nap now."
Before he finished speaking, Ivan had already entered the cabin, and the two old guys who didn't even know their names also said hello to Wei Ran and then got into the cabin. Not long after, there was a series of noises.
Loud purring sound.
"What on earth am I doing here?" Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded, but he didn't feel dissatisfied at all.
Originally, he thought that the other party was trying to test him, so when he was just eating, he was distracted by recalling the details of helping to sell fish, the characteristics of the customers who bought fish, or the things he saw along the way.
But after the meal, the other party not only didn't ask anything, but his words were completely fishermen's cunning. He didn't reveal any effective information at all, and there was no hint of anything that looked like a test.
Thinking of this, Wei Ran calmed down and calmly cleared away the leftovers from the table, removed the gangplank to the pier, then chased away the big white cat that was sunbathing on the deck chair and lay down on his own.
Go up.
By the way, he also took out a pair of polarized glasses from his pocket and put them on to block the slightly dazzling sunlight and his eyes that were not closed.
The drunkenness, the warm sunshine, the breeze blowing from the lake, plus the rocking of the ship's hull caused by the waves, and the big white cat that jumped on his lap and snored, had been secretly observing Wei Ran around him.
I couldn't help but yawn, my upper and lower eyelids began to fight, and finally I couldn't stand the annoying sleepiness and closed my eyes.
Half asleep and half awake, the shouts from the pier made him wake up instantly and opened his eyes. Then he saw a man in his forties waving and calling Ivan's name. On the pier behind him, there were also
There was a dirty pickup truck parked.
After rubbing his face vigorously and regaining consciousness, Wei Ran stood up and walked over, reinstalling the springboard that he had put away before.
"Isn't old Ivan here?" the middle-aged man asked as he carried his things and walked to the boat, "Why haven't I seen you?"
"He's drunk and sleeping. I'm here to help him." Wei Ran first pointed to the snoring cabin behind him, and then stretched out his hand towards him, "Where's the list?"
"Oh, here." The middle-aged man quickly took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran.
There are not many things in this list. Apart from some fishing nets and mechanical accessories, the most common items are hardware building materials such as colored steel tiles, galvanized pipes, screws and nails.
After moving everything onto the deck according to the list, Wei Ran signed the list. When the middle-aged man who delivered the goods drove away, the originally quiet fishing boat also suddenly heard the roar of its engine, and then
The two old men also got out of the cabin. One ran to the dock and untied the cables, while the other helped Wei Yan secure the building materials that had just been brought up with ropes.
Not long after, the shabby fishing boat slowly drove out of the pier, turned around in circles, and headed straight to the northeast.
"Victor! Come in!" Ivan in the cabin shouted at the top of his voice to the guard who had just finished his work on the deck.
"Right away!" Wei Ran responded, quickly ran into the cabin and found Ivan who was holding the rudder.
"Next, I'll show you the way, and you can sail the boat."
Ivan had already let go of the rudder as he spoke, then he lit a cigarette slowly and explained loudly, "First hold on to the rudder to maintain the current course, and then I will introduce it to you."
How to sail a boat?"
"Okay, okay."
After Wei Ran responded at the top of his lungs, he quickly grasped the rudder, which was coated with pulp, and followed Ivan's fingers to the instrument panel where several LCD screens were taped.
However, before Ivan could speak, he noticed something different first. He couldn't help but pointed at a control switch on the instrument panel and asked in surprise, "Ivan, why does your fishing boat have a fire switch?"
?”
"Who told you this was a fishing boat?"
Ivan, who was about to speak just now, said angrily, "Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, this was a genuine patrol boat."
"patrol boat?!"
"Class 1400 Patrol Boat"
Ivan patted the edge of the dashboard proudly and said loudly amidst the noisy noise, "Although it is in tatters now and has all its weapons removed, it can still run 30 knots as long as you don't care about fuel consumption.
high speed!"
"How did you get this thing here?"
Wei Ran looked at the other party in surprise. Not to mention Lake Onega, which was holding the boat at this time, even Lake Ladoga, which is 130 kilometers away, there seemed to be no need to use this thing. This thing should only appear in offshore waters.
.
"Of course it was driven back along the Neva River," Ivan replied matter-of-factly. "I spent a lot of money to buy this boat."
"Using an armed patrol boat as a fishing boat?"
Wei Ran asked with a grin. To put it bluntly, this is nothing unusual. For a magical country that can use nuclear bombs to build reservoirs, tank chassis as tractors, and even decommissioned armored vehicles for rent, this patrol boat is the incarnation of
Fishing boats don't seem to be anything to fuss over.
"Before I decided to retire, I mainly relied on it for transportation. Fishing was just a pastime for it and me." Ivan said with memories, "From here to Lake Ladoga, no boat can run better than it."
It’s fast and can pull the same amount at the same time.”
"So where are we going now? Keep going forward?" Wei Ran was too lazy to listen to the other party's show, and asked loudly in the loud noise.
"Don't worry, let her run slowly first, and now I will teach you how to sail the boat." Before I could finish speaking, Ivan pulled the throttle to the lowest level. Suddenly, the roar was slightly reduced, and the speed of the boat was visible to the naked eye.
It has tended to be stable.
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