Chapter 390: Trading with the Fishing Village
This side of the harbor.
Su Tai and Shen Yi's fishing boats alarmed the three nearby fishing villages. In such a place with inconvenient transportation and severe communication obstacles, it was already remarkable that the news could reach three villages.
The couple stood on the deck and asked, "Is there anyone who can understand what we are saying?"
They asked for half an hour, and finally someone they could communicate with appeared.
"Hello, gentlemen. I am Yu Xinghai, the village chief of Xiaogang Village. I can understand what you are saying." Yu Xinghai was very humble and bent his back unconsciously when talking to Chen Yisu Tai.
This posture is somewhat familiar.
Su Tai pondered for a while, and asked in a daze: "Village Chief Yu, excuse me, are you from Langya?"
Yu Xinghai shook his head quickly, "I am from Qiongzi, but my family was very poor when I was a child, and my parents died early. I was taken in by my aunt who married far away in Langya Country. My aunt worked for a wealthy family, and I followed her as a servant for a few years. I can speak a little bit of the Langya language."
Su Tai nodded in understanding, smiled kindly, and exchanged glances with Chen Yi.
Shen Yi cleared his throat and said, “We came to Qiongzi mainly to do business this time.”
"Business?" Yu Xinghai was a little confused. "Qiongzi is nothing but the sea. What kind of business can you do here?"
He returned to Qiongzi to live because he had a wife who was arranged for him to be married to in the village, and because he still had some things left for him by his parents. After so many years, he knew what the situation was like here. Who would come here to do business?
Chen Yi smiled, "We are here for the sea! Village Chief Yu should have seen our fishing boat! This boat can withstand the wind and waves to fish at sea."
Su Tai added: "There are life jackets on the boat, so if you accidentally fall into the water you won't sink unless there's an accident."
Shen Yi looked at Su Tai lovingly and continued, “In addition, there are fishing nets on the boat that are specially used to catch sea fish.”
Yu Xinghai was stunned and couldn't recover for a long time.
Su Tai added: "The village chief can find a few villagers who are good at swimming to go out to sea with us and see if we can catch any fish."
Yu Xinghai swallowed hard, and seeing that the villagers around him were urging him to translate, he had no choice but to tell everyone what Shen Yisu Tai meant.
Now, everyone is furious.
Many young and middle-aged people are eager to try.
Yu Xinghai looked at the men who swarmed around him and felt overwhelmed. In the end, he selected five people, making six in total including himself.
Six of them boarded the boat together.
There was a gambling element in his mind, there was no other way. The villagers' lives were too difficult. He had been back in Qiongzi for more than ten years and had only encountered an opportunity like today. If he didn't seize it, there would probably be no chance of turning things around.
The villagers who got on the boat gradually calmed down and stuck to Yu Xinghai in fear.
"Village chief, do you think these two people will trick us and sell us out? The more I think about it, the more panic I'm getting."
"Yes, yes, think about it calmly, these two people appeared too suddenly."
"Oh my god, we are not really going to die, are we? No! I have a mother, a wife and children to support at home, wuwuwu."
Shen Yi walked onto the deck just in time to hear their crying, and was very confused, "What are you doing?"
Several people were like frightened little rabbits, embarrassed and scared, and their smiles were uglier than their tears.
Shen Yi really couldn’t understand, so he went to the second floor of the cabin and got a basket of food and approached them.
"Here we have braised beef, bread and cake, and Tremella and Pear soup. Eat something first to fill your stomach." Chen Yi pointed east and west to the sea surface and asked, "Where are there more fish?"
"I'll ask them." Yu Xinghai ran over and whispered to the five people.
Soon he returned to Shen Yi, “Sir, they said they haven’t been to the sea that’s too far away, and occasionally there are large schools of fish in the near sea.”
It's the same as saying nothing.
Shen Yi returned empty-handed.
After Su Tai knew about this, she decisively entered the Gate of Time and Space and bought a fish locator from the media tool vending machine.
With the help of cheating tools, the fishing boat stopped in the waters just offshore.
Shen Yi went out again and asked everyone to cast their nets.
Shen Yi knew how to fish, but he had never tried it at sea.
He threw a net, and several people on the other side followed suit.
When closing the net, Shen Yi pulled it with great effort.
Yu Xinghai and another fisherman hurried over to help.
Everyone shouted and tried their best to pull up the fishing net.
When Yu Xinghai and others saw the big fish in the fishing net, they shouted excitedly.
Shen Yi took a closer look and found that the fish in this net were not big, but there were a lot of them, probably around four or five hundred kilograms.
Yu Xinghai was overjoyed and said, "It's barramundi, so many barramundi!"
When several other villagers saw this, they hurried over to collect the net.
They were obviously luckier, not only catching four or five hundred kilograms of mullet, but also dozens of large blue crabs.
This is definitely the most glorious moment in their lives.
Everyone was so excited by the harvest that they didn't dare to delay at all and immediately cast out the second net.
Shen Yi brought a rattan basket and said, "Village Chief Yu, would you like to clean up together?"
"Okay, okay!" Yu Xinghai hurriedly took a small stool and sat down, working carefully.
Shen Yi took the opportunity to chat with him, “Village Chief Yu also saw the beauty of this fishing boat, do you have any ideas?”
"Sir, please speak frankly." Yu Xinghai stopped what he was doing and looked at Shen Yi cautiously.
After seeing the extraordinary fishing boat, he became more and more certain that Shen Yi was not an ordinary person.
Chen Yi smiled and said, "Then I'll tell you, I want to cooperate with you. I'll provide you with fishing boats and fishing nets, and I'll take 10% of the catch you catch with your fishing boats."
“That’s it?” Yu Xinghai was dumbfounded, wondering if there was such a good thing in the world?
Shen Yi nodded, "I am a ship merchant, I only sell ships, but unfortunately you can't afford this price, so I have to change a way of cooperation. If there are other treasures in the sea, I hope you can keep them for me first, and I can afford the price, okay?"
"Yes, yes, of course!" Yu Xinghai immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Shen Yi.
The five villagers were confused.
After Yu Xinghai finished speaking, they all knelt down and kowtowed.
Shen Yi finally got away and returned to the cockpit.
"Everything has been done. They have agreed to our cooperation plan and will give us 10% of the annual profit of the fishing boats."
Su Tai's lips curled up slightly, "You can ask them later how many fishing boats they need, and we can arrange them together."
Shen Yi agreed.
Fishing boats operated in this sea area until dusk.
Seeing that it was getting late, Shen Yi turned the disc and hurried back.
There were still many fishermen waiting for news at the harbor. When they saw the fishing boats coming back, they stood up as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and stretched their necks to look around.
When they saw the whole shipload of seafood, everyone was dumbfounded.
After the five fishermen came ashore, they described the scene of fishing at sea to everyone in vivid detail, which made everyone fascinated.
The seafood was also carried into the village by dozens of villagers.
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