Most of the moon is in the sky, reflecting a few white clouds.
Chen Yuan was lying on the deck chair on the back deck of the Xinhai, holding a phone in one hand and a beer in the other.
"It's New Year's Day today, why didn't you go out to play?" Chen Yuan said.
"It's finally a day off, let's rest at home."
"Playing on the computer again?" Chen Yuan heard the sound of typing on the keyboard very quickly.
"whee."
"Be careful not to become short-sighted."
"So what if I become myopic? You don't like me anymore."
Chen Yuan laughed: "I care about your health."
"Don't worry. Generally speaking, the probability of becoming myopic after the age of eighteen is relatively small."
"Then you should also pay attention. Is there a kind of anti-computer radiation glasses? You can buy one and wear it." Chen Yuandao.
"Okay. Still haven't found any fish in the past few days?"
"It's getting harder and harder to find fish now. How long do you have until your vacation?"
"I guess it will be after the 20th. By the way, I told my dad that I found a boyfriend."
"What did dad say...what did uncle say?"
Yan Xiaoxi snorted and said, "My dad said he would take you back during the Chinese New Year to see what kind of handsome young man he is that is worthy of my daughter."
Chen Yuan chuckled: "I'm the only one who's so handsome."
"cheeky."
After chatting until very late, Chen Yuan said "good night".
Yan Xiaoxi replied, "I miss you."
It feels so good to have someone caring about you.
the next day.
At dawn, Chen Yuan called Zhou Sheng who was still sleeping, got up and washed up, went to the kitchen, made two pots of noodles to eat, and then went to change shifts with Yang Xun and the others.
"Let's go." Chen Yuan shouted.
"You took the wrong medicine to be so excited." Zhou Sheng glanced at Chen Yuan listlessly.
"Young man, come up with some ideas and show your temperament." Chen Yuan shouted: "We are going to create a big tuna school today."
Zhou Sheng also waved his hand and started the fishing boat: "Let the storm come more violently. No, let the tuna come more violently."
The Shengyuan left the fleet, and Chen Yuan launched a drone to observe.
…
Time flies.
On days when there were no fish, Lin Xinhai spent the whole day taking care of his pots of green plants in the captain's cabin.
Luo Laosi is energetic every day, but occasionally has a bad temper.
Zhou Sheng still looked careless, but he often complained that the fishing boat Shengyuan was not good here or there.
Chen Yuan calculated ocean current lines all day long and planned the route of the entire fleet.
My luck seems to have run out, and my recent harvest has been dismal.
Chen Yuan's good luck seemed to have run out, and he often couldn't make a single net for several days.
Maybe it's not bad luck.
When they first came to this area, Chen Yuan and the others could often see fishing boats, but now, there are far fewer fishing boats in this area.
There are very few trawlers, and they are probably the only two purse seiners.
The fishing boats that can be seen are basically gillnet boats.
Gill nets mainly capture flying fish.
It was mid-month. Lin Xinhai had accumulated a lot of fish on his boat and sold them again, but they were all worthless fish. There were only two valuable fish, one yellowfin tuna and one dogtooth tuna. These two fish
Sold more than five thousand.
There were more than three tons of fish left, which were sold for a total of 23,000 yuan.
For more than half a month, the fishing boats have not used much fuel. After simple replenishment, Chen Yuan and his fleet still have 850,000 yuan left.
The labor cost for this trip is 300 yuan per person. If the fleet makes money, it will be calculated as 400 yuan per person per day, and additional bonuses will be given depending on the situation.
Chen Yuan, Zhou Sheng, Lin Xinhai and Luo Laosi are all unpaid.
There are still 19 crew members left. Calculated on November 28, it has been 49 days in total, and the labor cost is 279,300 yuan.
The workers have not been paid yet, which means they still have 1.12 million yuan on their books.
When looking for tuna, the most important thing is the cost of gas.
Now there is less time to travel at night during this period, but occasionally we still have to travel at night. In addition, there are no fish now, so on average, their fleet has to travel 13 hours a day.
For 13 hours, in terms of Shengyuan's fuel consumption, the daily expense is about 7,500 yuan.
The Xinhai has a cold storage facility and uses more oil.
Lin Xinhai looked at Chen Yuan and the others through the telescope. Seeing their fishing boat suddenly speeding up, he quickly asked: "Did you find any fish?"
"There is movement on the sea."
"Big movement?" Lin Xinhai asked.
"I saw something jumping out of the sea." Chen Yuandao.
"Don't be a dolphin again." Luo Laosi said.
"Stop being so talkative."
Chen Yuan and the others ran over quickly: "Gan, it's a dolphin again."
Luo Laosi laughed: "Did we meet before?"
"I guess so." Chen Yuan said.
Chen Yuan and the others have encountered this group of dolphins several times.
Every time Luo Laosi saw these dolphins, he would take out small fish and feed them to them.
Maybe it was for this reason that the dolphins followed them.
Zhou Sheng took off his clothes and jumped into the sea again. Zhou Sheng had played with these dolphins several times. The dolphins were not afraid of him and just surrounded Zhou Sheng.
Chen Yuan went into the cabin and took out some frozen flying fish and threw them to the dolphins.
One of the dolphins popped up and was right next to the boat. Chen Yuan reached out and touched it: "Help us find tuna."
The dolphin 'poof', sprayed water on Chen Yuan's face, and then dived in.
"Gan."
Zhou Sheng laughed loudly when he saw it, played in the sea for a while, and then swam over.
Chen Yuan gave him a hand: "Since this group of dolphins followed me, I won't get excited even if I see fluctuations in the sea surface."
Zhou Sheng got up and laughed: "Are there any fish left?"
"No more." Chen Yuan spread his hands.
Zhou Sheng looked at the dolphins and waved his hands vigorously: "No more, take us to find tuna."
The dolphins played around their fishing boat for a while and then swam away.
Zhou Sheng went to take a bath, and Chen Yuan started the fishing boat and chased the dolphins.
Now I have nothing to do and no inspiration. I am just idle, chasing dolphins and getting lucky.
When dolphins want to hunt, they will go to places with lots of fish.
But to be honest, chasing dolphins, unless you are in the high seas, a very large sea. This is the South China Sea Basin, which is quite vast in area, but there are many reefs and small island groups, and the food is quite sufficient.
Several days passed, chasing dolphins, but not a single net was caught.
These dolphins are really thieves and often hang around Luo Laosi's fishing boat.
Luo Laosi was particularly fond of these guys. He would throw out worthless fish catches to them every time, several basins at a time.
After feeding these elves, they continued to play and headed north.
Chen Yuan looked in the direction of the dolphins. He didn't intend to chase them, but he saw a long black shadow in the distance. There were two dolphins next to him...
The black shadow was quite long, estimated to be about ten meters in length.
Chen Yuan released the drone and flew around. There were only few biological signals nearby: "Go and take a look." Chen Yuan pointed in the direction of three o'clock.
"Anything found?"
Chen Yuan frowned and squinted: "There seems to be something."
That is, a distance of two to three hundred meters, more than one meter underwater, a torpedo-like thing. But it is very long, almost ten meters.
Chen Yuan quickly contacted Lin Xinhai: "Master, I found a torpedo here."
"Torpedo?" Lin Xinhai was startled: "It's a detector or something like that."
"It looks like a fish, with a propeller behind it. I don't know what it is."
"When I go over and take a look, it should be a foreign submarine." Lin Xinhai said: "I have salvaged similar things before. How big is yours?"
"It's quite big, about 10 meters in length."
"Are you still working?"
"The spiral of roundup is still turning."
"Do you have any rope on your boat?"
"have."
"Tie it up. A 10-meter submarine is probably worth a lot of money."
"How much does this cost?"
"A round ball device costs several thousand to tens of thousands per piece. The torpedo-shaped device has a minimum guarantee of 10,000 yuan and a maximum of 100,000 yuan. I once fished one that was more than 6 meters long. Together with all the workers on the ship, I paid 10,000 yuan per day."
The individual reward is 20,000 yuan. The total is more than 200,000 yuan."
"That's not bad." Chen Yuan said with a smile.
"What did you find?" Luo Laosi's voice came out.
"A submarine, about ten meters long." Chen Yuandao: "It's still working."
Zhou Sheng had already taken out the rope and the tail of the submarine, and then put the rope down.
This rope is only a few dozen meters long.
Neither Chen Yuan nor Zhou Sheng had seen anything like this before, and it looked so much like a torpedo that they both felt a little scared.
Don't really make a mine, what if it explodes?
It took a long time for Lin Xinhai and the others to arrive, driving over in an assault boat.
After a period of observation, we found that the tail propeller of the submarine below rotates due to the flow of sea water.
This thing was so similar to a torpedo that Chen Yuan felt a little scared. He wanted to stay away when he saw it, but the dolphins below pushed the submersible in front of Chen Yuan and the others.
This thing must normally be underwater, but it surfaced because the dolphins lifted it up.