Chapter 244: The Floating Thorn Net is Obtained
Baskets containing different kinds of fish were moved onto a cart one by one, and the entire cart was piled high with baskets stacked on top of each other.
Evening had already arrived, and the sky was dark, but Zheng Liu and his men were still there. When Li Liang came to sell fish, he specifically greeted Zheng Liu, saying that Liang Ziqiang still had a lot of fish and would come to sell them later today.
At this moment, Zheng Liu saw Liang Ziqiang pushing so many baskets in, and he and his men came over to move the baskets, while calling out:
"Finally you're here. You caught so many fish today?"
Liang Ziqiang hummed, "Weigh these first. There are still a lot of thorny fish on the boat. I'll go shovel two more carts over!"
Zheng Liu's face twitched. Two carts...
"Then hurry up!" Zheng Liu responded and started weighing the various fish in his basket.
Liang Ziqiang asked Zhu Tianpeng to watch over the purchasing point and cooperate with the weighing. He turned around and went back to the boat to shovel the fish.
He really took a shovel and quickly scooped up the thorny fish that were all over the deck.
After two trips back and forth on the cart, all the barbarian fish were finally cleared out.
Here, Zheng Liu had already weighed the fish in front, and when he saw him come in, he muttered:
"Aqiang, are you dealing with the spring flood this time? Why are the fish so diverse? I've never seen such a variety of fish in the spring flood!"
"I catch a little here and a little there, that's all. Actually, I also want to not catch so many kinds of fish, it would be great if they were all black carp!" Liang Ziqiang said casually without intending to elaborate.
"You do wonder how expensive black mackerel is." Zheng Liu laughed. "By the way, the Spanish mackerel you caught today is pretty big, so it's worth a lot of money!"
Liang Ziqiang thought, it is indeed worth some money, but you don't know how many fish I lost because of it. The fish I lost are more than the value of this mackerel itself! "How heavy is this mackerel?" Liang Ziqiang asked.
"Twenty-one pounds and eight ounces!" Zheng Liu replied, and began to calculate, "Fifty cents a pound..."
"Wait a minute!" Liang Ziqiang had to interrupt him again, "Why are you still using last year's price? What's the 50 cents? The lowest purchase price now is 60 cents!"
In fact, he didn't go to other villages to ask, he just knew that the general trend in the future would be that the prices of these fish would gradually increase. Of course, the real leap forward will be next year, and this year's increase is very moderate.
Zheng Liu's face immediately turned bitter: "How can it increase so fast? There is absolutely no purchase price of 60 cents! If you really want a higher price, I'll give you 55 cents. Don't tell anyone else. This is the first time I'm buying it back at this price this year!"
"This is not just a few kilograms of mackerel, it's more than 20 kilograms! Sixty cents is the minimum." Liang Ziqiang insisted.
Of course, swordfish themselves tend to grow into large sizes, and in the deep sea there are some that weigh over 100 kilograms, so it is not uncommon for one to weigh over 20 kilograms.
If it's more than 100 kilograms, the price will definitely be different. It's impossible to be only 60 cents.
Zheng Liu finally compromised: "Okay, I'll give you 60 cents this time. This fish is 13.08 yuan, so I'll give it to you at 13.10 yuan!"
"There are a lot of golden pomfret, 312 pounds, 30 cents a pound, 93.60 yuan!"
"There are two hundred and six catties of green fish, 1.5 yuan, thirty dollars and ninety cents!"
"Ninety-eight pounds of small yellow croaker, thirty-five cents, that comes out to thirty-four dollars and thirty-thirty cents."
"There are a few more large yellow croakers, 125 kilograms, and this is exactly 50 yuan!"
"Seventy-six catties of fish, thirty dollars and fifty-two cents for this!"
"The six-line fish weighs thirty-one kilograms. You already knew this last time. The price has risen to eighty cents. Twenty-four dollars and eighty cents!"
The variety of fish this time was so rich and varied that Zheng Liu's saliva almost dried up just by reading about them.
There are many more. Others include swimming crabs, blue crabs, white shrimps, slippery shrimps, plum fish, black wife, squid, white croaker, silver pomfret, croaker, goby...
Each type accounted for a smaller amount, but there was still some. Zheng Liu read them out to Liang Ziqiang one by one and reported the amount at the same time.
Of course, in terms of weight, the biggest one is still to come.
Deng Fei also weighed the thorny fish that Liang Ziqiang had just pulled over.
The weight of the thorny fish alone reached 506 kilograms!
But these croakers were also the cheapest, so after taking them off the floating net, Liang Ziqiang threw them directly onto the deck.
This is five cents a pound, and the price hasn't increased. Five hundred and six pounds, such a huge amount, it's only twenty-five dollars and thirty cents!
The total amount of fish, shrimp, and crabs, including the large floating gillnet and the six seabed nets, was four hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty cents.
In terms of the weight of the fish caught, this was truly an astonishing harvest.
Because it was wrapped in the floating thorn net, it was difficult to estimate when on the boat. Liang Ziqiang predicted that it was nearly a thousand kilograms.
But in fact, the fish caught and entangled in the floating gill net alone amounted to more than 1,200 kilograms. Together with the harvest from the six seabed nets, the total catch this time was about 1,400 kilograms of fish and shrimp! So many fish were sold for only more than 410 yuan, which was actually a small amount. The reason was that the cheap fish occupied a large number of positions in the floating gill net.
The two types of fish, the black carp and the green carp, alone weigh more than 700 kilograms, accounting for more than half of the total weight.
This is also the most helpless thing about floating gillnets. The fish you catch are the ones that come with the most fish.
If he could selectively and proactively cast his net like he did during the winter floods, he would definitely avoid these two cheap fish.
But on the other hand, if he didn't have the floating thorn net, he would be helpless in facing the risks that would come after the temperature in Longju Mountain warmed up. He would have to watch helplessly as the spring flood came, and he wouldn't even be able to get the 400 yuan.
If you think about it this way, the more than 400 yuan is totally extra money!
While he was selling his catch, Zhu Tianpeng also had his two catches from the seabed dealt with by Zheng Liu.
Zhu Tianpeng had a good harvest from one of his seabed dives, but lost a lot of smelly plum fish from the other one. The total amount of fish he caught from the two dives was 28.30 yuan.
When Liang Ziqiang walked out with more than 400 yuan in his pocket, the group of kids were still waiting outside the door for him to settle their wages!
He smiled and gave each of the six children one dollar. In fact, they only helped for a short while, and they cheered as if they had found money on the beach instead of earning it from their temporary help.
The children dispersed, and Liang Ziqiang gave Zhu Tianpeng his wages again. He followed the agreement that if he caught a lot of fish, he would give him more money for his hard work, so he gave him five yuan.
Zhu Tianpeng held the twenty-odd yuan in his hand and said, "My income from the seabed is equivalent to half a month's work in a brick kiln. Why should I ask for wages?"
"It may be a seabed burrow, but that thing is unstable. The wages have been agreed upon, so there is no reason not to pay!" Liang Ziqiang stuffed it into his pocket.
When it was Lizhi's turn, he naturally gave her more and wanted to give her three yuan, but Lizhi just waved her hands:
"I don't know how to use this, second brother, please give me two bags of candy!"
Liang Ziqiang thought about it and said, "What kind of candy do you want? I'll buy it for you next time I go to the city."
"The bunny candy from last time was the best, I want that one!"
White Rabbit? That candy is more than three yuan a pack, she wants two packs. Is this girl really not good at spending money? I guess in Liang Lizhi's eyes, three bills for only two packs of candy, her request is already very low...
Anyway, he usually buys her food from time to time. Liang Ziqiang said happily: "Okay, okay, you must rinse your mouth after eating at night, so as not to decay your teeth!"
Lizhi immediately showed him her teeth to prove that her teeth were very white and good, and that she could easily eat White Rabbit milk every day.
Zhu Tianpeng, who was standing by, laughed.
After spending all kinds of formal and informal labor fees, Liang Ziqiang still had about four hundred yuan left.
By using the crooked trick of floating thorn nets, he was able to take advantage of the spring floods and enrich his family fortune...
Two chapters have been published in the early morning. Happy reading! (End of this chapter)
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