"Little Azure Dragon?"
Fu Wan became interested when she heard this. She hadn't been to sea for a while, and the last few days when she went out to sea for work, she was on a boat.
Fu San nodded, frowned and smiled wryly, "Yes, I heard it's from South Korea. They requested that small lobsters be added to the menu. I haven't had any of these in the seafood I've received these past few days."
Yes, small green lobsters usually like to hide in caves in coral reefs, making them very difficult to catch with ordinary fishing nets.
Even if you're lucky enough to catch one occasionally, it's only a few here and there. So, to catch small lobsters, you usually have to go into the sea and use a speargun or catch them by hand.
The prerequisite is that you have to go into business.
So when Fu San heard Boss Liu tell him about this, he immediately thought of his niece, Fu Wan.
In this village of Fujia, among the younger generation of fishermen, who is as good a swimmer as Fu Wan? She's seen those little green dragons before.
"Ah Wan, how is it? Boss Liu really had no other choice but to search all over the county for purchasing stations to buy small green dragons."
At that time, there were no farmed baby green dragons; they all had to be wild-caught in the sea.
Fu Wan agreed, "It's just catching a little green dragon. I'll go to sea tonight and try my luck. If I catch it, Uncle, please sell it for a good price for me. I'm planning to build a house and I'm short of money!"
Seeing that she agreed, Fu San had nothing more to say and hurriedly nodded happily.
"That's natural. This time, the price of the small arowana will definitely be higher than before."
The principle that things are valued for their rarity is exactly what this means.
The little green dragon is most active at night, so Fu Wan plans to go to sea to check it out.
Fu San was pleased that the order from his regular customer had been delivered and urged Boss Fu to pick up the previous order.
"Brother, hurry up, let's settle the accounts."
Collecting receipts and settling accounts promptly is Fu San's rule.
Boss Fu's order was in a cloth bag in the cabinet, wrapped in the plastic bag that had previously contained tobacco.
Boss Fu took out the list, and Fu Wan took it. She was also curious about how much fish they had last time.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at the results, but once you do, you'll be incredibly proud.
Goodness, they didn't realize there was so much stuff when they were fishing.
Look at the list: 38 catties of yellowfin seabream, 134 catties and 2 taels of octopus, 364 catties and 6 taels of black-eyed ribbonfish, 94 catties of crab, 140 catties of bamboo knife fish, 170 catties and 8 taels of sardines, and 98 catties of prawns.
And that conger eel weighed 32 jin (approximately 16 kg), and that blue-spotted mackerel weighed a whopping 45 jin (approximately 22.5 kg). The abalone, since it was shelled, was also weighed directly by the jin (approximately 50 catties), totaling 78 jin (approximately 34 catties).
The oysters were all opened and dried early in the morning by Lin Fuliang, Fu Ming and others, so they were not included in the list.
This is quite a lot of stuff. The smiles on Fu Wan's family's faces were impossible to hide. Fu San took out the pen he was carrying and started to calculate the money with them.
Yellowfin seabream is 80 cents a pound, totaling 30.4 yuan; Octopus has dropped in price to 1.2 yuan a pound, totaling 161 yuan; Black-eyed ribbonfish is more expensive than regular ribbonfish, at 95 cents a pound, totaling 346.4 yuan.
Crabs are 70 cents a pound, totaling 65.8 yuan; shad are 50 cents a pound, totaling 70 yuan; sardines are 30 cents a pound, totaling 51.2 yuan; prawns are 40 cents a pound, totaling 39.2 yuan.
The conger eels and mackerel were snatched up by Boss Liu from the county. Fu San directly charged them a fixed price of 50 yuan each. Since the abalone had been shelled, and they hadn't been weighed like this before, Fu San charged them 1.5 yuan per jin, for a total of 117 yuan.
All these odds and ends add up to a total of 981 yuan.
After deducting the cost of diesel fuel and taxes for the two boats, as well as the cost of fishing nets, we still made a profit of 968 yuan!
This is truly an auspicious number.
Fu Laoda took the stack of ten-yuan notes that Fu San had counted, and grinned from ear to ear.
After paying the money and tearing up the receipt, Fu San, who had other business at the recycling station, hurried home.
By this time, Boss Fu's drunkenness had subsided, and he was thinking about how to divide the money.
Seeing his appearance, Ye Xiaocui thought he was still drunk and slapped him on the back.
"What are you doing!"
Fu Laoda was startled by the slap and gave Ye Xiaocui a reproachful look.
"Aren't you thinking about how to divide the money?"
Ye Xiaocui said irritably, "What's there to think about? Apart from the diesel cost, let's split it the same way as before!"
She was also worried that Boss Fu was reluctant to share the spoils with his own brother and nephew, which made her somewhat unhappy.
“You should take some money from your older brother and Ah Lin; they have it tough too.”
"That's natural."
Fu Laoda also remembered the kindness of his brother-in-law, and after thinking about it, he discussed it with Fu Wanye and Xiao Cui.
"How about we divide this 968 yuan into four parts: one for Liang and his mother, one for my older brother and Lin, and two for our family?"
Ye Xiaocui calculated that the eldest brother and Alin would each receive more than two hundred.
They all have large families to support, and with this income, Ye Jianguo's family can make ends meet for a long time.
"As for the money for the abalone pearls, Ah Wan, you can just keep it with you. Sell the oyster pearls later and use the money to build a house."
Neither of the two children is married yet. Although the eldest son tries his best to distribute resources evenly, he sometimes inevitably favors Fu Wan.
There was no other way; Fu Wan was raising two children, and besides, the family's current happy life was largely thanks to her.
After the money was allocated, Fu Wan took out her mermaid clothes, along with her spear, bamboo arrowheads, and other items, preparing to catch the little green dragon that night.
Before they knew it, it was evening. Fu Ming and Ye Lin saw that Fu Wan was going out to catch the little green dragon. Since they had nothing else to do, they said they would go to the beach to meet Fu Wan.
Ye Xiaocui was busy putting the two children to sleep, so she let them be.
At night, the only sound at the beach was the sound of waves crashing on the sand, because it was almost ten o'clock and the villagers of Fujia Village were all asleep at home, so there were hardly any people on the beach.
"Ah Wan, Ah Lin and I will check here to see if we can catch any crabs. Be careful when you go down."
Fu Wan responded, then took the harpoon and net, took a few steps into the sea, and disappeared on the surface of the water.
"Is Awan such a good swimmer?"
Looking at the dark sea, Ye Lin couldn't help but feel worried.
Fu Mingzheng was looking for crabs with fire tongs, and said without turning his head, "My dad dragged us to learn to scuba dive when we were three years old. Awan learned things quickly from a young age, and her swimming skills are much better than ours."
Fu Wan, a strong swimmer, swam in the sea for a while and searched several coral reefs before finally catching three small green dragons, each weighing less than a pound.
She had a clear goal this time, so she didn't fish for any other fish, especially since they were all small fish like bream and sea bream, which she was too lazy to use a speargun for.
After swimming for a while, Fu Wan found another lobster hole. After she caught two big ones, she discovered that all the other lobsters inside had disappeared.
Fu Wan picked up her net and looked inside. If she remembered correctly, there should be eight small green dragons in there, weighing at least five or six pounds.
Just then, she felt something bumping against her back. When she turned around, she was face to face with an orange-red fish.
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