Chapter 368: Making a Fortune

As the fishing net was pulled up, you could see mullets hanging on the white fishing net.

It is rather troublesome to catch fish with this kind of fishing net, as the fish have to be taken off the net one by one.

While Zhou Chenglei was pulling up the net, he took the fish off the hook and threw them into the basket.

However, there were too many fish hanging on the fishing net to pick them all off. He was afraid that if the net was left in the water for too long, some fish would break free and escape, so he simply pulled all the nets onto the boat and then took the fish off.

The deck was full of fishing nets and fish.

Jiangxia sailed for more than an hour, and Zhou Chenglei spent an hour sorting it out.

There are too many to pick, and there is no way to pick them all.

The dock was almost there, Zhou Chenglei went to guide Jiang Xia to moor the boat first, and then waited for Jiang Xia to successfully dock the boat.

In order to sort the fish and sell it as quickly as possible, Zhou Chenglei went to the dock and asked four women to help divide the fish.

Several women saw the boat full of fish and laughed, "You are so lucky to have caught so many fish."

"Has this been going on since last night?"

"A couple so young and diligent, going out to sea in the middle of the night?"

Jiang Xia smiled and replied to the women: "No, we just went out to sea this morning."

"We caught so many fish this morning? We are so lucky!"

"They are all good fish. This fish is very expensive! I am so lucky!"

Jiang Xia: "I don't get this much luck once a year."

Zhou Chenglei was about to call Xu Wen'an and Lord Hou to inform them. He said to Jiang Xia, "Sit down and take a rest. Don't share the fish. I'll call Manager Xu."

Jiang Xia nodded: "Go!"

After Zhou Chenglei went to make the phone call, the women said again: "Your husband really loves you! He doesn't even want you to work."

"Are you pregnant?"

"Whose wife doesn't have to work when she's pregnant? Men are better because they know how to care for their wives."

Jiang Xia sat there and smiled as a response to their words.

The four women were all efficient at work, and they managed to sort out a boatload of fish in about an hour.

They also considerately separated the male and female mullets.

There is a price difference between the fish that can be made into mullet roe and the mullet that cannot be made into mullet roe.

Baskets of fish were neatly arranged on the boat, the fishing nets were also tidied up, and the deck was cleaned.

Jiangxia gave each of them one yuan as wages, and gave each of them a mullet and three pounds of mud shrimp.

The salary is the same throughout the entire dock, so Jiangxia will naturally not break the rules. However, the fish is his, so he can give away whatever he wants, and no one can say anything.

The four women were so happy to receive their wages, a mullet and a few pounds of mud shrimp.

Mullet is worth four or five yuan when sold. Mudfish is cheap but delicious when made into fish stew, and you can take it home to eat.

Jiang Xia was generous. They all stayed on the boat and did not leave in a hurry. After Zhou Chenglei sold the fish, they helped move the fish off the boat and put them in the car.

When the four of them left, they enthusiastically said to Jiang Xia: "Sister, remember to look for us next time you have fish to share!"

"We work at this dock almost every day, sorting fish, making nets, and repairing fishing nets."

Jiang Xia smiled and replied, "Okay."

After selling all the fish, Zhou Chenglei sailed away.

Jiang Xia sat on a recliner, checking accounts, counting money, and keeping accounts.

There were seven yellowfin tunas, except for the one weighing over 100 kilograms, which Xu Wen'an took, at three yuan per kilogram.

The remaining few weighed more than 60 kilograms and were sold to the marquis at 2.5 yuan per kilogram.

The tuna was sold for 1,285.60 yuan.

Male and female mullets were sold separately, and Zhou Chenglei kept more than twenty of the largest female fish.

I plan to sell all the others.

There were 112 females and 536 males.

Jiang Xia: "The ratio of men to women is too unbalanced!"

Zhou Chenglei: "Mullet schools usually consist of one female and four males, so there are more males. And one female can lay 5 to 7 million eggs."

"This is a complete polyandry system! Do the 7 million fish born from it have the same father or different ones?" Jiang Xia couldn't help but ask.

Zhou Chenglei: “…”

"By the way, are there more male fish among fish? Are they all polyandrous?"

Zhou Chenglei: “…”

He shouldn't have talked to her so much.

What nonsense is polyandry? Generally speaking, when fishermen catch mullets, they will sell the male fish directly, cut out the eggs from the female fish and sell them separately from the fish meat. The fish eggs are purchased by factories that specialize in processing mullet roe.

Zhou Chenglei was too lazy to make things so complicated, so he sold female fish for 1.2 yuan per pound and male fish for 60 yuan per pound, and he sold them all directly to the Marquis.

The female fish weighed a total of 1,060 kilograms, and the male fish weighed a total of 3,752 kilograms.

This time we encountered a large school of mullet and made a total of three thousand five hundred and twenty-three yuan and two cents.

I kept one blue-spotted mackerel and sold the rest, for a total of thirty-nine yuan.

Zhou Chenglei did not sell the black tiger shrimps. He took them home to eat and dried the leftovers.

Then he kept the squid, octopus, some mud shrimp, and a large basket of small fish.

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The rest were all sold, which totaled nearly 200 kilograms and was sold for 86 yuan, 37 cents.

The total sales this time were seven thousand one hundred and thirty-four yuan and thirty-three cents.

The money for two barrels of oil, a total of 40 yuan, and labor cost 4 yuan must be deducted, and the damage to the fishing net is not counted.

Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin went out to sea a few days ago. The weather was cold and there were not many fish, so they each earned about two hundred to three hundred yuan.

I hope it will stay warmer for a little longer so I can earn back the money I spent on the furniture before the Chinese New Year.

Zhou Chenglei was also thinking about renovating the welfare housing at the shipyard as soon as he took over the building, otherwise it would be difficult to renovate it in the spring when the weather was humid after the Chinese New Year, and by summer the baby would be almost born.

The renovation costs money, and then after the Chinese New Year, in April, the customized mesh boxes arrive, which costs a lot of money again.

Now they really have no money left, only more than 5,000 yuan.

Fortunately, today is another day of making a fortune.

Finally I became a millionaire again!

Jiang Xia smiled so hard that her eyes curved.

Zhou Chenglei watched Jiang Xia smiling as he counted the money one by one. Each bill was facing the same direction and stacked neatly.

Her eyes and brows were as gentle as the setting sun in the sky when she was counting the money.

*It was already half past five when we returned to the village dock.

Dafang’s fishing boat had just docked not long ago.

Still queuing up to sell fish.

Tian Caihua saw Jiang Xia and asked excitedly, "Xiao Xia, how was your harvest today? We had a good harvest today, and we can sell it for more than 200 yuan!"

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "We have made a good harvest."

Tian Caihua didn't ask Jiang Xia how much it cost. It wouldn't be a small amount anyway, and it wouldn't be hers even if she asked!

She asked Jiang Xia: "Did my second brother's wife go to your place? Do you know how much they earned today?"

Jiang Xia shook his head: "I don't know. We encountered a school of mullets. My second brother took the boat to chase the mullets, so we went to the city dock to sell the fish."

Tian Caihua's eyes widened: "Did you encounter a school of mullets?"

"Um."

Tian Caihua turned around and gave Zhou Chengxin a fierce look.

It's all his fault, he only brings good luck but not wealth! He doesn't even know to pick up the money when there's money to be picked up!

Losing is worse than spending all your money!

Not even as good as the boy who gives away money!

If I had listened to her and followed Jiang Xia to Abalone Island to feed the fish in the morning, and then came back to Pearl Island to feed them, I wouldn't have missed the fish!

Li Xiuxian got the upper hand this time!

It’s all because Zhou Chengxin is stupid.

Zhou Chengxin, who was inexplicably glared at, said: "..."

What happened again?