Chapter 25 Dirty the Boat

Zhou Chenglei ignored Yang Dayou. He said he would not sell it to him if he didn't want to.

Xu Wen'an was a little anxious: "Help me move the fish off the boat first. I have to have someone send it back to the restaurant first."

Lao Hou said, "I'm not in a hurry. Let's take the fish that Manager Xu wants off the boat first! The rest is mine."

Xu Wen'an looked through the basket and saw that the fish in it were not too small, so he asked Zhou Chenglei to carry them off the boat.

Zhou Chenglei and his father carried the grouper he wanted off the boat.

Xu Wen'an and Lao Hou didn't just stand there, but helped to move.

Jiang Xia was sorting the miscellaneous fish while looking at the cargo on the boat.

She thought the restaurant would order shrimps for the banquet, so she wanted to pick out the shrimps first.

The four of them finished moving quickly.

Lao Hou returned to the boat and asked, "Can we take a look at the big yellow croaker?"

Father Zhou opened the living cabin, showed it to the two men, and then closed it.

Yang Dayou also came over and took a look! Wow, they were golden and some of them looked alive, which was rare, because the yellow croakers usually caught in the trawl were dead.

Yang Dayou's eyes widened as he looked at Zhou Chenglei: "Comrade, brother, big brother..."

Zhou Chenglei ignored him.

Lao Hou: "You encountered a school of yellow croaker before daybreak, and you didn't do it with a trawling net, did you?"

It sounded like a question, but the tone was affirmative.

Father Zhou smiled and nodded: "Not long after we went out to sea, we encountered a school of fish."

Xu Wen'an: "No wonder the color is so golden."

Lao Hou: "What good luck!"

Father Zhou smiled and said, "It's all thanks to my daughter-in-law."

Hearing this, both of them looked at Jiang Xia.

The sun had not yet set, and Jiang Xia was wrapped up tightly, so they couldn't see what she looked like.

However, it is rare to bring women with you when fishing in their area, but they don't mind it.

The price of live yellow croaker is slightly higher than that of dead one.

But the yellow croakers have not been sorted yet. Some are big and some are small, but they all look to be around one pound or eight or nine ounces, and some are particularly large.

Zhou Chenglei bargained with the two of them.

In the end, the big yellow croaker was sold at one yuan and twenty-five cents per pound. Regardless of size, they were directly caught and put into baskets.

Xu Wen'an also bought all the shrimps that Jiangxia had picked out, as well as a load of swordfish, a grouper and several sea bass.

Lao Hou bought all the remaining grouper, yellow croaker and mackerel.

Zhou Chenglei doesn’t sell the miscellaneous fish, otherwise he would have wanted to buy them.

He saw that there were quite a few valuable items in that pile of miscellaneous fish, but the price of the miscellaneous fish was low because they were not sorted. However, Jiang Xia had already picked out some of the larger fish.

In the end, there were four loads of 1 jin of garfish, each load sold for 100 yuan, which is 440 yuan. There were three loads of 1.5 jin, which sold for 390 yuan. There were not many 2 jin, about 1.5 jin, which sold for 204 yuan. There were only five 3 jin, which sold for 36 yuan. There was also one 4 jin, which sold for 15 yuan. One load of less than 1 jin sold for 80 yuan.

The fish sold for 1,165 yuan! This is equivalent to what others earn in a year or two.

The yellow croaker was sold for a total of 572.2 yuan.

There were more than 300 kilograms of swordfish, each kilo costing 0.3 yuan, and the total price was 105.7 yuan.

There were a few sea bass, which I sold for three dollars and fifty-five cents.

Shrimp and squid also sold for 11.2 yuan.

The other big fish picked out from the two nets of miscellaneous fish were sold for a total of 43.7 yuan.

The final total was 1,901 yuan, 35 cents.

There were still a bunch of small fish, shrimps and other miscellaneous fish left on the deck, probably worth a few dollars.

Jiang Xia: "If we catch one more net, we might be able to earn two thousand!"

Father Zhou's dark face was full of smiles. "It's already very good now. Except for the big ships that go to the high seas, our kind of ships have never made so much money."

Today was definitely his highlight moment! It was enough for him to brag about for the rest of his life! He had been fishing at sea for so many years, and the most he had ever earned was nearly two hundred yuan. He never dreamed that he could earn nearly two thousand yuan.

Two thousand dollars!

Before, I couldn’t make that much in a whole year fishing at sea.

Zhou Chenglei drove the boat without saying a word.

Jiang Xia had not really experienced the prices of goods in this era, nor had she felt what two thousand yuan could buy, so she was not as impressed as Zhou's father by the two thousand yuan. But she was also happy.

"How much can a large ship earn from a trip out to the open sea for fishing?" Jiang Xia asked.

"That may not be certain, but I heard that most people can earn thousands of dollars per trip. There are more fish in the distant sea."

Jiang Xia nodded and said, "I'll buy a big ship when I have enough money."

Father Zhou didn't respond. A large boat costs tens of thousands. How could it be so easy to buy one? He squatted down and sorted the pile of miscellaneous fish that had not yet been sorted.

The sun has set, and the sunset glow covers half the sky with its gorgeous and dazzling appearance, half of the sea is rustling and half of the sea is red.

Jiang Xia took off his straw hat and untied his face scarf. The sea breeze blew on his face, and he felt refreshed instantly.

She faced the wind and took a deep breath of the ocean air.

Zhou Chenglei was driving the boat, his eyes inadvertently falling on her. The sea breeze blew her soft hair, and her eyes were gentle.

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The sky is beautiful, the sea is beautiful, but she is even more beautiful.

Jiang Xia put away the straw hat and face towel, then squatted down and began to sort out the pile of miscellaneous fish and shrimp.

When we returned to the small pier in the village, there were already many fishing boats docked there.

There was also a long queue at the purchasing office. Jiang Xia saw the villagers carrying baskets of fish down, all with smiles on their faces. It seemed that they had a good harvest.

There were still a few returning fishing boats floating on the sea.

Zhou's mother had been waiting at the dock for a long time. She finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her boat return.

Although the income from fishing at sea is high, the risks are also high. The moment the boat sets out to sea, the people at home begin to feel nervous.

Tian Caihua also came to the dock to help. She said she was helping because she wanted to see how much money the second wife could make today so that she would have a better idea.

When the boat reached the shore, Zhou's mother approached and asked Zhou's father, who had jumped off the boat and was pulling at the rope, "Why are you so late? Is there a lot of cargo?"

Without waiting for Zhou's father to answer, she took a look at the cargo on the ship and her heart skipped a beat.

incredible!

Just a bunch of miscellaneous fish? Zhou's mother quickly boarded the boat and couldn't help turning her head to look around. She couldn't believe it, but she had to believe it.

Are they really just a bunch of worthless small fish?

My luck today is so bad!

Tian Caihua took a look and also felt unlucky: "There is not much stock today! Why is there so little stock? I have never tried such a small amount before!"

The villagers all looked at Zhou's father's boat, and someone said, "Yongfu, your luck is average today!"

Father Zhou smiled and said, "It's okay today."

At this time, the old men from that morning got on their boat and laughed: "You call this okay? Old Zhou, your mouth is harder than a diamond! No, I should say you are generous. You are satisfied with playing with so many things. Keep it up, haha."

They all felt that their predictions had come true, and couldn't help gloating: "I told you not to take women out to sea, it would bring bad luck, but you didn't listen. Look! After a day out, we caught a bunch of worthless goods, and we lost all the gas money! Everyone's goods today are good, at least forty yuan, I sold more than a hundred yuan, Bingqiang sold nearly two hundred yuan! I don't even know if you have the ten yuan."

Zhou Bingqiang: "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer. It's said that women with exposed bottoms can't get on the ship, it will be bad luck! You don't believe it! I tell you, you won't be able to catch any good goods on this ship in the future! Don't disbelieve it, change it as soon as possible!"

Tian Caihua's expression suddenly turned ugly. She glanced at Jiang Xia's back and felt extremely disgusted with her. She couldn't help but mutter, "Why did you go out to sea with me for no reason? Do you know how to fish? You're just causing trouble!"

This is the only boat they have in the family, and the whole family depends on it for their livelihood!

Jiang Xia made the boat dirty!

The more Tian Caihua thought about it, the angrier she became, and the more aggrieved she felt, and she couldn't help but turn red in the eyes.

What should I do if the boat is dirty? I am afraid that I will be unlucky if I go out to sea!

Don’t go out to sea. Will you eat the northwest wind and drink sea water?

She even wanted Jiang Xia to compensate her with a boat! Family disgrace should not be made public. Zhou's mother glanced at Tian Caihua and said unhappily, "What era is it now? Why are you still practicing feudal superstition? Women can hold up half the sky! Who can guarantee that they can catch fish every time they go out to sea? Who hasn't experienced the time when they only caught a few fish and shrimps?"

Although she said so, Zhou's mother was also afraid: if she had known this would happen, she would not have let her go out to sea with them this morning.

Whoever marries her will be unlucky!

The next chapter will start to be updated, and the update will be advanced to 12:05 in the evening. After tomorrow, it will still be updated at 9 am.

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