Busy all night, they caught a great number of eel fry.
Meng Daqing was both sleepy and tired and wanted to sleep for a while, but he was just a worker and had to listen to the ship captain, so he could only muster his energy to squat at the stern to make a fire and cook breakfast.
Working for thirty yuan a day, since he rushed to the Binjiang Waters and started casting his nets from the twenty-first of the twelfth lunar month, he had worked for half a month and earned four hundred and fifty yuan.
It seemed he could work for another month. Although he didn't have a good time during the New Year and couldn't go back for the Lantern Festival, he could earn more than a thousand yuan, equivalent to a year's work for a factory worker.
If only he could catch more for a few more months, but people say eel fry are only around for these two months.
