space fisherman

Chapter 108: Barnacles at the Bottom of the Boat

Wang Xuehong was on the side, shaking his head helplessly.

In his opinion, such a knife is just a souvenir.

At most, it only costs 100,000 to 200,000 Japanese coins. 500,000 is equivalent to 30,000 Chinese coins. At this price, you can buy a good fighting knife.

Since the shop owner didn't introduce much about the Wakizashi in front of him, it meant that it had no provenance. The price of such a knife was only a few thousand Chinese coins, but the price given by Ye Yuan was already 30,000.

Young people are still too impatient. This is Wang Xuehong's definition for Ye Yuan.

The two people walked out of the knife store and continued to wander here. After all, they had already bought it. Wang Xuehong didn't feel like saying anything else, so the two of them continued shopping like this.

Ye Yuan learned about how perception can be used in this way through buying a knife.

In the following period, every time Ye Yuan went to an antique store, he would use his senses to feel every antique, but he never found any strange antiques again.

Ye Yuan looked very tired from spending so much energy for such a long time. Wang Xuehong thought he was like this just because he was shopping, so he took Ye Yuan back to the hotel directly.

In the next two days, Ye Yuan went to the antique street several times alone, but still found nothing.

"I really didn't pick it up like this," Ye Yuan thought to himself.

Soon the day of the auction has arrived. Ye Yuan originally thought about going to have a long experience with Wang Xuehong, but who knows that this auction is not open to the public. Almost only those who have received an invitation letter can enter, and each person can only bring one person.

Name, someone like a consultant goes in.

Although Wang Xuehong is a well-known figure in the antiques industry, it is better to be cautious in the antiques industry.

So this time, he brought a scholar who was very knowledgeable in cultural relics. Ye Yuan was too embarrassed to continue following him. After all, there was only one quota, so he stayed in the hotel and waited.

After Wang Xuehong and others left, Ye Yuan took out the wakizashi he bought.

I thought that since the knife was hollow, there should be some way to open it like a mechanism.

What Ye Yuan didn't expect was the result.

He used his senses to observe for a long time.

Finally come to a conclusion.

This knife and the piece of leather inside were put in somehow when making the knife.

If you want to take it out, you must destroy the blade. Now Ye Yuan does not have the appropriate tools at hand, and it seems that he can only wait until he returns to study it.

I wasn't in a hurry, I bought it just out of curiosity. After all, no one would hide an animal skin in a knife if they had nothing to do, right? There must be some secret inside.

Putting away the wakizashi, Ye Yuan waited quietly for Wang Xuehong in the hotel. He also wanted to see what kind of antiques would make a person like Wang Xuehong come here.

In the evening, Wang Xuehong came back dejectedly. Ye Yuan knew at the first glance that things were not going well.

"Uncle Wang, how are you doing?"

"Hey~ Forget it, these damn Japanese devils knew that we wanted to buy those antiques, so Dong raised the price to an outrageous price. In the end, after everyone discussed it, they still didn't make a move."

"..."

Wang Xuehong was planning to return to the country the next day, and Ye Yuan also planned to go back with them. After all, his purpose of coming to Japan this time had been completed.

I told Wang Yueshan about his early return, but they didn't say anything. After all, everyone had their own things to do.

In this way, Ye Yuan, Wang Xuehong and others got on the plane flying back to the motherland.

...

Standing at the pier of Yuwan Island, Ye Yuan was directing the crew to clean up the barnacles on the bottom of the ship.

For large fishing boats, they cannot escape the troubles of marine organisms such as sea anemones, oysters, and barnacles.

These things may seem small, but they also cause big problems to fishing boats.

Once they attach themselves to the bottom of the boat, they regard it as a parasitic place and will not leave easily.

As long as it is not cleaned up, these seabed creatures will continue to breed on it. As a result, the creatures on the bottom of the ship will become more and more numerous and heavier, which will undoubtedly increase the weight of the ship's hull.

Moreover, the surface of the bottom of the boat has also become very rough, which seriously affects the navigation of fishing boats.

An ocean-going cargo ship once anchored in Sicily had a large amount of marine life attached to its bottom for 28 days.

However, the staff did not pay attention at the time. As a result, during the voyage, the speed dropped from the original 18 knots to 13 knots, and the sailing time was ten days longer than expected.

This resulted in a full increase in fuel consumption of 500 tons.

Cleaning barnacles is a very troublesome task because there is no good way but to do it manually.

This is also Ye Yuan's last job before preparing to sail this time.

Don't underestimate these marine organisms. Just cleaning them is not enough. That's because they will produce some strong acidic corrosives. When a certain amount is reached, they will corrode the bottom of the boat and cause rust.

So it is necessary to clean up the rust and then polish it.

Then apply a thick layer of anti-rust paint and anti-fouling paint.

In order to prevent these marine organisms from approaching the bottom of the ship, some toxic substances such as copper oxide and mercury oxide are added to the paint during painting.

These substances will slowly seep out, preventing the increase in the number of marine life to a certain extent.

However, as the paint on the bottom of the boat peels off, a large number of marine organisms will slowly adhere to it, so the bottom of the boat must be cleaned every once in a while to ensure the normal operation of the fishing boat.

Ye Yuan watched the crew clean up while listening to Li Hui's report.

During the week when Ye Yuan went to Japan, Li Hui also had a backlog of several things waiting for Ye Yuan's decision.

The first thing is that the researchers from the institute are in place and have begun to provide counseling to the fishery workers. The content of the counseling is how to breed various fish species more scientifically.

Through this period of study, the workers also gained a lot of experience.

Ye Yuan had decided on this matter a long time ago. At first, Ye Yuan was worried that these researchers were here because of some little guys from his own family.

Now it seems that I was overly concerned. Professor Su was really helping me. The researcher only came to teach the workers how to breed. He did not mention those guys. On the contrary, it was the monitor himself who often ran to the researcher when he had nothing to do.

After all, these researchers study marine biology, know these marine animals very well, and know what the monitor needs.

Within a few days, Ye Yuan felt that the squad leader prepared a lot of delicious food at the researcher's place, and Ye Yuan was too lazy to care about this guy.

The second thing is that Li Hui went to Landao to find a suitable location to open a seafood company.

This matter was not handled smoothly by Li Hui at first. Some of the good stores already had owners, and even those who did well did not intend to cash out the money.

Finally I found Su Mei.

Su Mei was very happy to hear that Ye Yuan planned to open a seafood company in Landao.

After all, every time I purchase goods, I have to bring a boat to Yuwan Island, which inadvertently increases my costs a lot.

Now Ye Yuan plans to open a seafood company in Landao, so that she can get goods directly from this company in the future, which is really convenient for her.

So Su Mei was very concerned about this matter and helped Li Hui find a store next to Fuxiangju.

This store is very good. Li Hui is quite satisfied with both the customer flow and the area. Now it's just a matter of Ye Yuan's final decision.

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