Chapter 552 Looking for an Opportunity

The boat was too big and had a deep draft, and there were other fishing boats parked at the pier that went out to sea in the evening. There was no room to dock too close, so we had to drive a small boat over and then climb on board.

It was a bit troublesome to get on the boat, so Jiang Xia said, "Don't bring the children on board."

Zhou Chenglei also had this idea: "Okay, you go up and take a look. I'll ask my second brother to help us look after the child."

"Yeah." The child is asleep now. The stroller was brought over just now. I can take the stroller out of the car and put the child in the stroller to sleep without worrying about him being bored.

So Zhou Chenglei took Zhou's mother on board first, and handed the things on board one basket at a time.

Then he asked Zhou Chengsen to go back to the shore to help look after the triplets, and then he took Jiang Xia on board to let Jiang Xia see what the new boat looked like.

As soon as Jiang Xia got on the boat, Zhou's father said to Jiang Xia: "Xiao Xia, take a quick look around. The captain is very strong. Let me introduce him to you!"

Tian Caihua also followed.

Father Zhou: "Xiao Xia, feel the rudder. Does it feel good?"

Jiang Xia touched it.

After Jiang Xia finished touching, Tian Caihua reached out to touch again. Zhou's father quickly blocked the way in front of the rudder and said, "Ah Hua, don't touch it yet. Save your lucky hand for your own big boat. Next year, it will be your turn to buy a big boat with Ah Xin!"

Tian Caihua retracted her hand: "Is there such a saying?"

"Of course!" Zhou's father had a serious expression and spoke nonsense in a serious manner.

Of course not! Don't touch around with her money-spending hands! She took away all the wealth left by Wangcai!

There is no self-awareness at all!

Tian Caihua stopped touching and even held her own hand, fearing that she could not control herself.

Father Zhou was satisfied. "Xiao Xia, take a look at this fishing finder. Press it and see if it is more powerful than the previous one..."

Next, Zhou's father took Jiang Xia to touch the entire ship, wishing she could roll around on the deck a few times.

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The 66-meter ship is indeed very large.

The ship's freezer is a huge room that can easily store about 30,000 kilograms of fish.

"Let's prepare a vacuum machine on the ship." Jiang Xia said to Zhou Chenglei after participating.

"Okay." Zhou Chenglei understood as soon as he heard it.

Some good fish are killed alive, bled, and their internal organs are removed immediately after being caught. The fish are then vacuumed and quickly frozen in a freezer to better preserve their freshness.

In addition to the refrigeration tank, the ship also has an oxygen tank.

The oxygen chamber is very deep, taller than an adult, and has several compartments. It is connected to the sea through a piston, and the seawater is flowing. The fish can survive in it without being fed for a few days.

The oxygen chamber can be used to raise some of the precious fresh seafood that has been caught.

After all, the price of fresh food is different from that of frozen food.

But generally speaking, most of the fish caught in deep sea fishing are sorted and processed and then directly put into cold storage.

They had diving equipment, and Zhou's father sometimes liked to go into the water in the last few days before returning home to catch some precious seafood and put it in a live tank to take home.

The ship has two floors. The wheelhouse is on the second floor. There are two bedrooms in the wheelhouse for the captain and the deputy captain to sleep in.

On the port side of the cockpit is the sailors' sleeping room, and on the starboard side is also the sailors' room, with bunk beds that can accommodate more than 20 crew members in total.

There is also a kitchen, a bathroom, a warehouse for storing food, and two refrigerators for storing meat on the boat. In short, it has everything you need.

Now everything is new and clean, so Jiang Xia feels very comfortable looking at it.

Jiang Xia walked around and then got off the boat. Zhou's mother had already placed the offerings and other things.

Father Zhou said to the couple, "Come quickly and worship the gods."

Wangcai and his son worship gods together. The couple are of one mind and have smooth sailing. They ride the wind and waves, have success, live in peace and safety, and have a lot of wealth.

After worshiping the gods, Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei both got off the boat.

The child was about to wake up and hadn't had lunch yet, so the two of them went home to have lunch.

Zhou's father didn't go back, and many villagers also got on the boat, so he had to keep an eye on them.

Someone had seen the sailor's room and couldn't help but say when he returned to Zhou's father: "This accommodation is better than my home! It looks comfortable."

Father Zhou: "It's still more comfortable at home!"

"Your home is just more comfortable. Your house is a mansion. My home is a doghouse!"

Father Zhou smiled and said, "I've never heard that a nest of gold or silver is not as good as your own doghouse."

Everyone laughed and said, "We all want your doghouse!"

Zhou's father laughed.

"This ship is so big and majestic. The equipment on such a big ship must be very fuel-consuming to operate, right? The cost of a trip to sea should be very high, right?" someone asked Zhou's father again.

Zhou's father estimated based on his experience: "Including the sailors' wages, it should be more than 30,000."

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It's just a guess as to how much it actually costs and how much fuel the ship consumes. Zhou's father will have to wait until they go out to sea to get a rough idea.

"A ship this big would require a lot of sailors, right? How many sailors do you plan to hire? I see there are more than twenty beds."

Father Zhou: "Alei said to invite 20 people first."

"Have you invited everyone? My Jianwen is free, let him go with you to see the world!"

"Yongfu, I'm free too, please treat me! I'm experienced in catching lobsters! You know that!"

"Yongfu, my Dexian is also free! You can invite him! You watched him grow up, so you know how hardworking he is!"

"Please me! I'm free..."

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It instantly turned into a large-scale job application site.

Father Zhou said with a smile: "It is A Lei's decision to hire people. I don't care. He should have already hired them. I will ask him when the time comes."

That Zhou Jianwen is lazy and gambles all day long. Why invite him? Invite him to gamble on the boat? That Zhou Dexian is diligent, but he loves to drink. Once he is drunk, he will make trouble. The fourth brother hates gamblers and drunkards the most. He says that they will cause trouble, so he will never invite them.

But there are a few who can be invited.

For example, Zhou Guiquan, who is about the same age as Zhou's father and knows how to catch lobsters, can be invited.

But whether to invite Zhou's father or not is not something he can decide on his own, so he goes back to ask Zhou Chenglei.

In fact, it is relatively safe to hire sailors in the village because they know their backgrounds well. Moreover, if you hire so many people and don’t recruit anyone from the villagers, people will talk about you.

But Zhou's father doesn't have to worry about these things. They have already hired a lot of people in the village, and they collect dried fish from the villagers every day. After Wangcai's factory is built, they will definitely recruit some women, and no one will say anything about them.

Father Zhou is now very respectable when walking in the village! Who wouldn't greet him with a smile from afar when seeing him?

He is so embarrassed to show off outside! In the past six months, except for showing off his triplets once, he no longer shows off his new clothes.

There were too many villagers on the boat, and Zhou's father was talking to everyone and didn't have time to eat lunch. It was past two o'clock when Zhou Chengsen couldn't help but come over and urge Zhou's father to go home for lunch, and then everyone got off the boat.

The father and son got off the boat, returned to the dock, and when they were riding their motorcycle back, they happened to meet Li Xiuxian who was riding a bicycle.

She glanced at Zhou Chengsen, but Zhou Chengsen didn't look at her and drove away on his motorcycle.

Li Xiuxian glanced at the huge blue fishing boat in the distance.

She knew it was Zhou Chenglei's, so she waited until so late to come out to check, but she didn't expect to meet Zhou Chengsen again.

She is now living in her parents' home. She has lost her job and Liao Ruixiang is still in the process of divorce. The woman is asking for too much money and his mother is unwilling to give it, so they are filing a lawsuit. She doesn't know when they can get a divorce, which makes it very awkward for her to live in her parents' home.

Li Xiuxian looked back at the father and son as they left. She wanted to talk to Zhou Chengsen about it. She wanted to move back to the house in town since he wasn't living there anymore anyway.