Chapter 85 Selling the Deadly Smiling Fish (3rd update!)
After returning to Changwang Village, the few people carried two loads of anchovies, as well as salted catfish and stingrays, and went straight to Zheng Liu.
On the way, Liang Ziqiang was still thinking, stingrays are not common, is it also a scarce commodity? If he took it to Yuehai Restaurant, he didn't know if they would accept it?
Later I thought about it, what they lack are conches, groupers and the like. No matter how rare stingrays are, their taste is actually similar to that of skates. How can they be related to high-end seafood?
What's more, for safety reasons, my father had already chopped the fish half to death, and there was no ice at home, so he had to act quickly.
Soon, the father and his sons arrived at Zheng Liu's place at the big pier.
Zheng Liu saw the stingray and mistook it for a ray. He was immediately unhappy: "You cut a perfectly good ray into this shape. Do you think it looks too good?"
Liang's father brought the fish closer to him and placed it under his eyes: "Zheng Liu, your eyes have been in trouble recently! You caught this fish before. Open your eyes and take a look. Is this a stingray?!"
After Zheng Liu looked carefully, he instinctively took a step back. Thinking that the tail had been dealt with and it was safe, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed for a moment and walked forward again:
"Is it a marten? Well done! If you don't chop it off, I won't be able to collect it!"
Seeing him change his words so quickly, Liang Ziqiang laughed: "Don't you think it looks ugly now? Then name a price!"
"This thing is the same price as the skate, and more expensive than sea bass, golden pomfret, yellow croaker, etc. I won't argue with you if you cut it like this, I'll just charge you the normal 70 cents!"
"You sound like you're being taken advantage of! Don't stingrays have to have their tails chopped off? Look at the cut, it's very well done!" Liang's father couldn't stand others belittling his knife skills, so he said a few words, "Come on, weigh it now!"
As for the price, he thought 70 cents was acceptable.
Zheng Liu weighed it and it was 45 kilograms. This fish alone would cost thirty-one yuan and fifty cents.
Liang Ziqiang thought about it and decided that if the giant carp was not released, it would be sold for about the same amount of money.
Zheng Liuzhuan collects seafood, and ice cubes bought from the town's ice factory are a daily necessity for him. This stingray can be preserved along with other seafood.
He was only willing to pay fifty cents for the four big catfish, which weighed sixty-two pounds, or thirty-one dollars.
Finally, the anchovies.
The total weight of anchovies was 141 pounds. At 40 cents a pound, this was worth 56.40 yuan.
The remaining miscellaneous fish were also weighed briefly.
The total amount is one hundred and twenty-nine dollars.
Compared to the 300+ we opened yesterday, it was definitely a lot less, but the situation was completely different. It took us a whole day yesterday and we went to a relatively far sea.
After all, today is only half a day. I have been wandering around the junction of fresh water and sea water, and I have caught some strange fish that can thrive in the salty and fresh waters. It is quite good to be able to earn so much money.
So far, the new boat has earned more than 490 yuan. My father has made it clear that this money is for Liang Ziqiang's marriage.
In the next ten days, Liang Ziqiang finally understood what it meant to come quickly and go quickly...
I went to the town to buy red silk, lanterns, umbrellas for the bride, round fans and other things for the wedding boats and the wedding boats, and spent dozens of dollars.
I asked a tailor couple in town to make the bride and groom's clothes for me and Chen Xiangbei. Each person paid 28 yuan, and the two sets came to 56 yuan.
The clothes that Chen Xiangbei usually wore at her mother's house were already very old. Now that she was with him, it was impossible for her to keep wearing those old clothes all day, right?
Although Chen Xiangbei was strongly against waste, Liang Ziqiang didn't think it was a waste of money and insisted on making three sets of clothes for her. The top was 12 yuan, the pants were 10 yuan, and if he bought the whole set, he could get a discount, including the fabric and labor costs, 20 yuan.
Three sets equals sixty.
Clothes are not cheap these days. A decent shirt costs 11 or 12 yuan, which is equivalent to one-fifth of a worker's salary.
The high price of clothing has directly led to many rural families being unable to afford too many clothes. Two sets of clothes are new for three years, old for three years, and patched up for another three years.
Liang Ziqiang has spent nearly two hundred yuan on these alone.
His parents were busy preparing the banquet for the wedding day to entertain relatives and friends of both parties, including dishes, drinks, candies...
After buying all the items, I found that the remaining two hundred yuan was not enough. Although I was very frugal and careful in buying the banquet dishes.
The reason why the budget was exceeded was mainly because Liang's father had not hosted a wedding banquet for many years. Liang Tiancheng and Kuang Haixia got married several years ago. The key point was that the price of goods had changed a lot in the past few years. Compared with the prices back then, some things had almost doubled...
Fortunately, during these ten days, while arranging the wedding, I also squeezed out some time to go to the sea not too far away to cast a few nets. I managed to earn some money and fill the money hole here.
In the blink of an eye, the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar arrived amid intensive preparations.
According to the customs of this area, the bride must officially arrive at the groom's home before ten o'clock in the morning.
So, at eight o'clock in the morning, Liang Ziqiang, riding on his family's brand new wedding boat, appeared on the sea near the mouth of Huagu River.
The boat was already painted with lotus and phoenix tails, and the paint was shiny and glossy. Now it was draped with a long red silk silk. Four large red lanterns swayed in the wind above the boat, and fragrant and colorful flowers were placed on the sides of the boat. At first glance, the whole boat was so beautiful that it seemed to have come out of a painting.
The wedding boat was decorated with gorgeous flowers, turning the cool sea water into a fiery glow.
It moves forward neither fast nor slow, as if it is not driven by an engine, but by a spring breeze from the human world, blowing it along the way.
There were many other fishing boats from the same village cruising behind Liang Ziqiang's boat.
Some of them were hired by Liang Ziqiang's family to attend the wedding. Generally speaking, they were similar to the city dwellers in later generations who drove a long line of wedding cars.
There are also some people who, although not specially invited, voluntarily come along to join in the fun. This has long been a customary phenomenon in "water weddings".
All the boats specially invited by Liang's father to enhance the atmosphere had two lanterns hung above the cabin as a symbol. At this moment, all the lanterns were floating in the sea breeze in one direction, so beautiful that it seemed as if they had been planned beforehand.
Ships from far and near gradually hovered on the sea, all waiting eagerly.
Liang Ziqiang was now dressed in a red silk groom's suit, standing at the bow, tall and straight. A genuine fisherman, he actually had a dashing and romantic manner.
He raised his head slightly and looked at the Huagu River that looked like a golden belt.
Waiting for the river to push the boat with gentle waves, bringing the bride of his dreams to him...
On the first day of the release, I have more than 7,000 words, nearly 8,000 words! Because I wanted to let the book friends read more yesterday, I overdrew some of my manuscripts in advance, and I don’t have too many manuscripts on hand. Today I can only write more than 7,000 words. Although there are only three chapters, the content is very solid. I spent time today to carefully refine and condense them.
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