Chapter 386: One Fish Is Enough to Buy a Wooden Trawler
When it was sorted near a pile of slippery shrimps and red shrimps, the aroma became even stronger.
Liang Ziqiang and his team were pleasantly surprised to find several large crucian carps, still long and narrow, with white bellies and pale yellow fins. Each weighed about 300-400 grams, and one could replace several ordinary small carps.
It turns out that some Xiangfei fish can really grow to several taels in weight. I never saw such relatively large ones in the batch from two years ago.
However, what Liang Ziqiang could not have imagined was that the real accident was waiting for him.
Slightly peel away the pile of red shrimps on the surface, and a long strip of back gradually appears.
After a few quick scrapes, all the small fish and shrimps on the fish were cleared away, and the entire shape of the fish appeared before our eyes.
The same white belly, pale yellow fins, and seemingly ordinary appearance.
However, if you think about it carefully, it is extremely strange.
It's like, freshwater crucian carp are generally small by nature, if suddenly a super-large crucian carp weighing dozens of kilograms appears in front of you, wouldn't it be very strange? What appeared in front of you turned out to be a super-large Xiangfei fish, which is estimated to be about 30 or 40 kilograms!
Although its appearance is not particularly eye-catching, the fragrance that emanates from it is enough to prove that it is indeed a sweetfish! No wonder the fragrance is so strong. Such a large sweetfish is naturally not on the same level of fragrance as a small sweetfish that weighs less than one or two taels.
"Oh my god!" Liang Chun couldn't help but scream, "It's not like no one has caught Xiangfei fish in the past, but they were all as small as small crucian carp. I've never heard of a Xiangfei fish that can grow this big!"
"It seems that the Xiangfei fish will die after living for a year. With such a short lifespan, it is impossible for them to grow so big!" Lin Liming's face was also full of surprise and disbelief.
"This is indeed a super large Xiangfei fish!" Liang Ziqiang concluded.
He still remembered that when he went to Yuehai Restaurant to sell the bucket of small sweetfish last year, Du Ziteng revealed that in the 1970s he heard a piece of news on Hong Kong Island that someone abroad had caught a super-large sweetfish weighing more than 40 kilograms, and the restaurant finally bought it at a high price. The price could not be calculated according to the price of ordinary small sweetfish, it was a direct price, which was equivalent to more than 2,000 yuan in domestic currency! At that time, Liang Ziqiang was envious, thinking that if he could also come across a large sweetfish, then the wooden trawler he had been longing for would be in his hands.
As a result, I never encountered it in the shallow sea, but I really encountered it in the deep sea.
If Liang Ziqiang hadn't heard Du Ziteng talk about that old foreign news, he would have been even more surprised and would not have dared to believe that this was actually happening before his eyes.
"There is always an exception to everything!" he replied to Lin Liming.
Normally, the Xiangfei fish is one of those fish with legendary fragrance and attractiveness, but also a "bearish beauty". Its cycle of traveling back and forth between the sea and fresh water is exactly one year, which is also its entire life cycle.
However, there are extremely rare exceptions that have managed to exceed the short lifespan of their peers by just one year and live to weigh several dozen kilograms.
What was even more surprising was that Liang Ziqiang discovered that the big fish was obviously still alive. After he pulled it out of the pile of red shrimps, it opened and closed its mouth and flapped its tail a few times.
"Come on, two of you lift it together!"
Liang Ziqiang specifically suggested that two people work together to lift the fish, even though one person could lift it. The fish was too precious, so they had to move it carefully to avoid injuring or killing it.
He estimated that the reason why it was still alive was that, firstly, it was surrounded by small fish and shrimps, not mackerel or bream, and secondly, the fish was large, weighing several dozen kilograms.
He and Lin Liming lifted the big fish together. A smaller bucket couldn't hold it, so they brought a large basin, poured the seawater from the bucket into the basin, and then put the big fish into the basin.
As soon as the huge Xiangfei fish entered the basin, the amplitude of its swinging immediately increased, and its tail also splashed some water.
Seeing the vitality, Liang Ziqiang felt that his income was stable.
The next morning we went down to the atoll again, fished for clownfish for two hours, and then returned while trawling.
When we arrived at the county fishing port, the catch was still stable at over 15 tons, but because the skinned fish accounted for too much this time, the income from the fishing port was less than last time. It was only 12,800 yuan, about 1,200 yuan less than last time.
But Liang Ziqiang was in a very good mood. All the small sweetfish were still in the bucket on the boat, and if he went to the city to sell them alone, he would earn some money.
What is even more worth looking forward to is the Xiangfei fish weighing dozens of kilograms in the big basin. I don’t know how much income I can get from it!
After refueling and leaving the county town, Liang Ziqiang sold all the clownfish to Jiang Wenang and went to Yuehai Restaurant.
As it was inconvenient to carry the large basins in a basket, Liang Ziqiang used a cart on the boat to push the basins and buckets to the restaurant.
Du Ziteng saw the big fish in the big plastic basin from afar. He couldn't recognize it at first. It was not until he walked a few steps closer and smelled a special fragrance that he dared to believe that it was a Xiangfei fish.
"Look, last year I told you that someone abroad caught a large sweetfish weighing dozens of kilograms, but you didn't believe it. Now, you got lucky and got it!" Du Ziteng said excitedly.
How much is the big Xiangfei fish worth? You have to weigh it to know. This kind of rare seafood is usually more valuable the bigger it is.
Du Ziteng first talked about the price of the small fragrant fish: "You also brought these small fragrant fish here, seven yuan. The market is a little higher this year, and it's already eight yuan. The big one will be weighed in the warehouse first, and it's definitely impossible for it to be eight yuan per catty for you!"
When we arrived at the warehouse, we took a bucket of small Xiangfei fish out of the water and weighed it. It weighed 33.6 jin (jin), which was 8 yuan per jin, totaling 268.8 yuan.
In addition, there were those who were already injured or even dying when they were dragged aboard, and they were taken out from the cold storage compartment. There were more of them than the living ones, weighing 37 pounds and 2 ounces.
But this can't be sold at the same high price as the live sweetfish, Du Ziteng is only willing to give 6 yuan per catty. It comes to 223.2 yuan.
Weighing the largest one, it was 35 jin and 1 liang! "Let's set a price for this one. Unfortunately, yours is still 10 jin smaller than the one from abroad. Of course, the price of fish has increased a bit compared to a few years ago." He considered it carefully, "Two thousand, for this big Xiangfei fish!"
"Okay, then two thousand!"
It was sold abroad for about RMB 2,000 a few years ago. Mine is smaller, so after taking various factors into consideration, 2,000 should be a more appropriate price.
All the Xiangfei fish added up to 2,492 yuan! Adding the other fish sold at the county fishing port for 12,800 yuan, the total income from this trip reached 15,300 yuan, not only did not decrease compared to the last time, but was slightly more! This time he did not go to the Qianluo branch near Yingbin Road.
Relatively speaking, there is more money deposited in the Qianluo Branch of China Construction Bank, while not much is deposited in the other bank.
In addition, most of the money was deposited in his own name, and only a small part was deposited using Chen Xiangbei's ID card.
From a risk perspective, it is not appropriate to have too much money in one person's name.
He decided to put the money in a bucket, cover it, and take it back with his grandmother. He would then ask his wife to come along and deposit it next time.
Just save it regularly for half a year or three months. Because in a few months, the big things you have planned will start one after another. At that time, you can take out the money and do big things...
(End of this chapter)
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