Chapter 360: Selling 14 tons of fish
for the first time It was only a little after nine in the morning, so we could still start another round of work today.
This round of operation was carried out while the boat was sailing back and forth to the shore. Along the way, there were schools of winter fish coming towards us, and we could get a lot.
After landing, he ran back to the village to contact Jiang Wenang as usual and arranged to meet and trade in the same way as last time. After confirming, he drove to the county town to sell fish.
Arriving at the purchasing station at the fishing port, it took a long time to sell the fish. Liang Ziqiang caught a variety of fish, not only in rich variety, but also in huge quantities of each kind.
The majority of the fish are swallowtail pomfret, horsehead fish, hairtail fish and bluefin mullet, none of which are in small quantities.
There are also more expensive fish such as bonito, skipjack tuna, tuna, and red crab. There are also several baskets of other miscellaneous fish and shrimp.
All in all, during these five days of trips to the wintering fishing grounds, we caught more than 14 tons of various fish, or more than 28,000 kilograms!
Swallowtail pomfret is 40 cents, horsehead fish is 50 cents, which is not too cheap. But bluefin bream and southern hairtail are really cheap, only a little over 10 cents and 20 cents respectively.
As for the bonito and red flower crab, the quantity was very small, but they could be sold for 80 cents and 1.5 yuan respectively, which was a good price. There were no bluefin tuna among the dozens of tuna, but they were all ordinary tuna, but they could also be sold for 2.3 yuan per catty. These 30 or so tuna alone sold for 2,200 yuan.
After deducting 3% tax from the 14 tons of fish, the total income was still more than 9,800 yuan, just a little short of 10,000 yuan! Of course, the wages this time were also relatively high. The five crew members worked day and night for five consecutive days, and the total wages paid were just over 200 yuan.
The catch was large and the boat had a deep draft, so he decided to increase the amount of oil he brought with him next time to be prepared. This time he increased the amount of oil he stored, adding 800 yuan worth of oil.
After leaving the county fishing port, they headed for Sham Shui Po in the city, and still made a deal on the boat with Jiang Wen'ang as had been agreed in advance.
This time, I was mainly helping a few crew members sell fish. The various clownfish in their buckets were indeed similar to what Liang Ziqiang had estimated, and each person basically earned around 50 or 60 yuan.
Of course, they all smiled brightly after receiving the money. After all, including the wages, the total income of these five days of sailing reached about 100 yuan. Before going out to sea, they obviously did not dare to think about such a large number.
Liang Ziqiang has the least number of clownfish.
Five blue-striped clown fish, each one is two dollars; six red tomato clown fish, each one is one dollar and fifty cents;
Rose clownfish are relatively the most expensive, and Jiang Wenang is willing to pay six dollars for each one. Liang Ziqiang has a total of four of this type.
Although there were only a dozen or so fish, it totaled forty-three dollars.
This income of nearly 10,000 yuan was unprecedented. Liang Ziqiang had never had such a large amount of money at once. As soon as he turned around, he put the money into the basement and locked it in the iron box.
Then he left his ship and headed for the Moon Sea. This time, the harvest was really dazzling, and there were still some good things that he hadn't sold yet.
When we arrived at Yuehai Restaurant, there was nothing else to do this time except selling that extremely plump airplane crab.
It was weighed and found to be three pounds and three ounces. Du Ziteng could directly offer a high price of twelve yuan for this rare crab, which came to thirty-nine yuan and sixty cents.
After getting the money, Liang Ziqiang mentioned to Du Ziteng that he had something good to find and needed to find Pang Jiahui. Du Ziteng was already very familiar with both of them, so without hesitation, he contacted Pang Jiahui for him.
Fortunately, Pang Jiahui's house in Yanghai is close to Yuehai, so it is very convenient for anyone in Yanghai to come here.
After waiting for more than half an hour, Pang Jiahui arrived. Liang Ziqiang took out all the snail shells he had picked up today and placed them on the table in the private room.
When Pang Jiahui heard about the snail shell, he originally thought there was only one, because every time Liang Ziqiang made a transaction, he would basically give him an abalone bead or a clam.
As a result, when they saw the six snail shells displayed, although they were different, they all made people's eyes light up and they couldn't help but be stunned.
After taking a quick look, he finally found the red peony conch, which is known as a famous snail, to be the most attractive, and he was immediately fixed on it.
He picked it up and looked at it from left to right, front to back, and again and again. Before Liang Ziqiang opened his mouth, he laughed: "Boy, do you think you should admire me now?!"
Du Ziteng, who was standing by, was a little confused: "It's not Brother Hui, the thing was found by Aqiang, why should I admire you?!"
Pang Jiahui glanced at him and said, "You must have forgotten what I said at the beginning. I said that this kid might have good luck again and again in the future and find rare goods from time to time. Now look, I gave him the right picture album, it came in handy!"
Liang Ziqiang smiled knowingly. So this is what he was referring to. If that were the case, it was really a relief to have that atlas. The three types of snails I found this time were all printed in that atlas.
Of course, the most famous of them, the Red Peony Conch, could still be recognized by Liang Ziqiang even without the picture album.
"Your book is really accurate." Liang Ziqiang also chuckled, "Brother Hui, take a look, what is the price for this red peony conch?"
When dealing with these two, just be straightforward.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Pang Jiahui did not answer directly, but asked with a look of vigilance on his face:
"I have to ask you this, Aqiang, have you bought that boat later?!"
As soon as these words came out, Du Ziteng couldn't help but burst out laughing, and Liang Ziqiang also chuckled twice.
Pang Jiahui was taking precautions, fearing that he would use the excuse of lack of money to buy a boat as he did last time and raise the price! It seemed that he was also scared by Liang Ziqiang's last fight, and the memory was still fresh.
"I bought it a long time ago. If I didn't have that new boat last time, would I be able to pick up so many rare snails in the deep sea?!"
"That's it!" Du Ziteng was happy again after hearing this. "It seems that Brother Hui, you did make an investment in your long-term business last time. So your money was worth it!"
Pang Jiahui breathed a sigh of relief: "Then don't bargain with me this time, I'm giving you the highest price!"
After a pause, he looked at the Red Peony Conch and said, "This conch is definitely not as valuable as the Jade Giant Clam, but it is more valuable than your previous abalone. The highest price I can offer is six hundred. I can't offer more than that!"
Having said that, Liang Ziqiang decided not to bargain this time.
Then he talked about the prices of the other two types. The golden conch is relatively rare, 80 yuan each; the hundred-rib starfruit conch is slightly better, exactly 100 yuan each.
Liang Ziqiang's six snail shells include one red peony, three hundred-ribbed star fruit snails, and two golden snails.
Six pieces together, one thousand and sixty dollars.
Adding the more than 9,800 yuan from the 14 tons of fish, and the dozens of clownfish and airplane crabs, the total income from this trip exceeded the 10,000 yuan mark, approaching 11,000 yuan! This is just the catch of just five days...
The potential of that deep-sea wintering ground that people avoid so often cannot be underestimated!
At this moment, Liang Ziqiang felt so clearly that what restricted him from making more money was no longer the amount of fish and shrimp in that place, but his own fishing ability...
Judging from the situation in the past few days, there are so many fish in the wintering grounds that he can't catch them all. The worrying thing is that he only has this deep-sea boat.
If I had several large steel ships over 24 meters long, and they were all moving in parallel, going into the wintering grounds to fish, the situation would be very different...
As usual, I bought some fruits, rice and flour from other places, and also bought a bag of candy for Lizhi and Xiaohai.
For Liang Ziqiang now, these small expenses are not a big deal. Even if he adds in the various expenses such as wages and diesel, he still has 10,000 left from his 11,000 yuan income.
However, on the way home from Sham Shui Po, he was not the happiest person. The other crew members all had hundreds of dollars in their pockets, and they seemed to never run out of money. I don't know where all the talk came from.
They were so excited that it seemed as if they had earned more than Liang Ziqiang during this five-day voyage.
This time, Liang Chun was in charge of lookout at the bow, and the other four were called into the cabin to watch from the side. Liang Ziqiang also taught them patiently and in detail, telling them the technical points of driving a large steel ship, as well as the unexpected situations that might be encountered and the countermeasures.
Everyone had some free time on the way back to the village by boat, so Liang Ziqiang certainly wouldn't miss this rare opportunity for hands-on teaching.
Seeing that they were about to pass Xiaolang Village, Zhu Tianpeng had to stop here, get off the boat, and go home.
Before getting off the boat, Zhu Tianpeng asked: "Aqiang, the radio just said that there will be strong north winds and big waves on the sea. What should we do? Should we rest for two or three days as usual and then go out to sea?"
Since Liang Ziqiang bought a fishing radio, not only does he listen to it every day, but other crew members also listen to it while eating.
The radio started reporting yesterday that there would be strong north winds and big waves, and specifically mentioned that fishermen were advised not to go out to sea in the next few days.
In fact, Liang Ziqiang's current 24-meter steel ship is not affected by ordinary light winds and waves at all when going out to sea. In fact, the more windy and rough the weather is, the more his ship can actively go out to sea to seize the opportunity for more fish and shrimp to emerge on windy and rough days.
But there are limits. For example, in the typhoon last time, or in the stormy days when the radio specifically advises against going out to sea, for safety reasons, his big ship should stay put and not go out to sea.
"Anyway, we have the next three days to rest. We've been exhausted recently, so we should have a good rest at home for a few days. If the wind is light after three days, we will go out to sea. If the wind speed and wave level predicted by the loudspeaker have not changed, we can only wait and see!" Liang Ziqiang decided.
Not long after Zhu Tianpeng got off the boat, the boat returned to the big pier of Pomfret Village. After dropping anchor, each crew member carried some fish and shrimp and went home as usual.
The difference is that Liang Ziqiang came back with a load of buckets on his shoulder. One bucket was filled with fish and shrimp, while the other bucket was covered with a hat, and it was not filled with fish, but money...
Ten thousand yuan in cash! Even if he had three or four waist bags, it wouldn't be enough. He had no other choice but to use an iron bucket to carry the money...
He returned to Juzipo carrying the money. It was neither lunchtime nor dinnertime, and when Chen Xiangbei saw him coming back, she put the baby in the cradle and immediately went to cook for him.
Unexpectedly, Liang Jingcheng was lying comfortably in his mother's arms, but suddenly he refused to move after being put into the cradle, and started crying while grinning at his mother's back.
It was not known whether Liang's mother had gone to the vegetable garden or out visiting relatives, and she was not at home at the moment. Liang Ziqiang had no choice but to wash his hands and hurried over to hug the little baby.
The annoying thing is that when he wasn't hugged, he cried more subtly, but as soon as he hugged him, Liang Jingcheng cried even more unrestrainedly.
"Do you have a grudge against me?" Liang Ziqiang felt inexplicably upset.
His posture of holding a baby was not bad. In fact, including the two in his previous life, he was a father who had held three babies. His skill was not much different from that of his wife. But this little thing just didn't buy his account, and it seemed as if his hands would hurt her.
Hearing her baby crying as if he was being abused, Chen Xiangbei became worried and peeked out of the kitchen:
"If he cries, just rock him. If that doesn't work, just carry him around and see?"
In fact, Liang Ziqiang just shook the baby a few times, but not too much. According to his previous experience, he heard that shaking the baby too much is not good for the baby. The baby's brain is not yet fully developed, so it is easy for the baby to get sick from shaking.
The same principle applies to the fact that it is best not to rock the baby too violently in the cradle.
He didn't plan to keep shaking, so he took his son outside for a walk. Unfortunately, the species in the house were not as rich as last year. The big turtle ran away, and the oystercatcher escaped. Xiao Hai had played enough before, but now there was nothing special to see at Liang Jingcheng's place.
There are also substitutes. Liang Ziqiang held little Jingcheng and squatted not far from the woodshed, watching a few roosters fighting and pecking at each other for the hen. It was really a mess, with chicken feathers all over the floor...
Little Cheng Cheng's crying finally subsided. I don't know if she was really watching the rooster fight seriously, or if she had cried enough and decided to stop.
After a while, Chen Xiangbei's dishes were cooked, so she came out to call him to eat. But when she looked over, she saw that her husband was holding her son and pointing at the roosters fighting each other.
Moreover, all the brown and brown chicken feathers flew up, and several pieces were about to stick to Liang Jingcheng.
She was so angry! She snatched the child from her hand and bit him with her teeth: "What are you doing? Teaching him to play cockfighting since he was a child?!"
Liang Ziqiang thought about it silently and answered seriously:
"Let him learn how to fight for a wife when he grows up..."
After saying this, he was almost beaten to death by his wife...
The weather is cooler now, and I feel much better after eating the food my wife just heated up.
After dinner, his wife urged him to take a bath. When he returned to the room, he saw that his wife had already coaxed the baby to sleep, and the baby was finally well-behaved in the cradle.
He took off the waist bag in front and handed it to his wife: "You have been carrying it for a long time, you need to wash it."
"Give it to me." The wife pouted, "It smells like sweat. It should have been washed long ago!"
As he said this, he unzipped his pants, intending to take out the money inside before washing it.
After taking it out, he was stunned: "I went out for five days this time, and this is all I got? I didn't catch any fish?"
There are only two big unity notes in my pocket, and the rest are yuan notes, Mao notes, and cent notes.
In the past few months since Liang Ziqiang went to the deep sea, every time he came back he had a harvest of hundreds of dollars, and sometimes he even had thousands in his pocket.
She was really overwhelmed to see her income suddenly drop to just over twenty yuan.
"Twenty or so dollars is still money. Take it out and put it in the drawer for use when you buy groceries or something." He instructed his wife.
The wife was putting the money down while she was worried, calculating: "For five days out, the gas and labor costs will be six or seven hundred yuan, so you're out of pocket for more than six hundred yuan! "
After calculating this, she felt so painful that she didn't even bother to wash the waist bag in her hand.
"Fortunately, you earned a lot in the past few months! If there are not many fish, you'd better not go out to sea. Just stay at home this winter and have a good rest. Don't waste all the money you earned in the past few months. It will be good to go out to sea when there are fish in the spring..." She has a "stop loss" consciousness and has already made a plan for him.
Liang Ziqiang wanted to laugh when he saw his wife like this, so he pursed his lips:
"Have you seen that iron bucket? Even though your waist bag is empty, I brought you a large amount of goods from the deep sea this time. Would you like to take a look?"
"Why did you bring the iron bucket into the inner room?" The wife looked up and saw the bucket. "What kind of big stuff can be put in an iron bucket?!"
Although she showed disapproval on her face, she still reached out and lifted the lid on the bucket.
Then came the sound of her gasping for breath.
It's really a bucket full of "big stuff"...
"Where did you get so...half a bucket of money?!" She looked like she was scared.
"Of course it was earned this time out to sea. The more fish we catch, the more money we make. I originally had 11,000 yuan, but after deducting some expenses, I only have a little over 10,000 yuan now!" Liang Ziqiang said.
"Ten... ten thousand?!" His wife was shocked again. "Ten thousand in five days, how many fish do we have to catch!"
"Fourteen tons. There should have been a lot of fish, but it's a pity that I only have one boat and can't catch them all even if I wanted to."
"Isn't it enough to arrest so many? This is too much wealth. I will feel uneasy if I catch more..."
She was disappointed at first because she thought it was only twenty or so yuan, but now that she found out there was so much money, she became anxious again.
"Why would I feel uneasy? I've earned my own money, so the more money I have, the better!"
As he earns more and more money, Liang Ziqiang now has a different concept of money.
More wishes were sprouting in my heart: "Let me tell you, after I got this ten thousand, I almost ran to the Harvest Shipyard on impulse today and bought another boat!"
There was no clear number of fish in the wintering fishing grounds yet, but with every additional boat he added, his harvest would double from the current level.
If I buy another large steel ship of the same size right away, the cost of each trip will directly increase from 10,000 to 20,000! (End of this chapter)
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