"No way! Such expensive fish can't be eaten by us!"
"Wouldn't it be a waste if we ate it?"
Li Jun hurriedly waved his hand to refuse, fearing that Fu Wan would offer them such an expensive fish just because of his words.
He only got this job because of Li Chunhua. If Li Chunhua found out he was talking nonsense, she would definitely tear his ears off.
Seeing how frightened he was, Fu Wan sighed.
"Since you're working on my boat, there's no reason why you shouldn't let everyone try this fresh fish."
If it were just one or two tuna, I'd keep them to sell. But there are so many small tuna here; I'll pick out some for everyone to try later. If everyone's happy, I'll be happy too!
These words deeply moved Fu Xiaochuan and the others.
Their wages are considered high in the village. Not to mention, after the New Year, several relatives came to ask if they could work on the boat together.
But they all tacitly refused.
If you want to work on a ship, the shipowner has to agree. Unless the shipowner says they need people, they will never recommend anyone.
Moreover, if the person who recommends you is a good person, that's fine. But if they're just coasting along and can't handle hardship, then you won't even have the face to stay there.
So they discussed it privately and immediately decided to decline all invitations from relatives and friends, trying their best not to cause trouble for Fu Wan.
It must be said that Fu Wan and Boss Fu have a good eye for people; these boatmen are basically honest, kind, and don't cause trouble.
After sorting through the croakers, Fu Wan counted them; there were a total of fifty-two baskets.
There were fish of all sizes inside, with eleven large ones, and the rest were medium and small.
After all, the pufferfish is known for not growing very big; being small is the norm for it.
Besides these fifty-two baskets, there were still more than half a basket of small croakers that weren't full. Fu Wan put them aside and planned to take out two or three catties to try tomorrow. The rest she would take back to Ye Xiaocui and the others to eat.
There were also quite a few small yellow croakers, totaling thirty-seven baskets; twelve baskets of yellow croaker; and five baskets of other miscellaneous fish and shrimp.
As the fish on the deck were being picked clean by everyone, Fu Wan was about to get up and leave when she suddenly noticed a few sea snails next to the fish baskets.
"Hey, this conch is quite pretty."
Fu Wan picked up a conch shell, and Fang Min, who was standing next to her, explained, "This conch shell doesn't have much meat, so I didn't pick it out and put it in the fish basket."
The implication is that they will be thrown back into the sea along with the pebbles that came from the internet.
Fu Wan carefully examined the conch shell in her hand. For some reason, she felt that the conch shell looked somewhat familiar.
I must have seen this conch before. If I haven't seen it in this life, then it must have been in my past life.
But in my past life, after I went out to work, I never went to the beach again. The only seashells I saw were either on TV, in magazines, or in short videos.
Which conch that can reach these channels is ordinary?
Judging from its appearance, this conch should belong to the family Cypriniidae.
Cowrie Shell...
She tried hard to recall her past life experiences, and suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her, and she instantly remembered the origin of the conch shell.
Futoni Bora!
That's right, what I'm holding in my hand should be the Futoni conch that became incredibly popular in later generations!
The Futoni conch is an extremely rare conch species, later known as the "Holy Grail of Conch". This conch looks similar to an ordinary conch, but has a strangely shaped pattern on its surface.
Those seemingly random brownish-red patterns, when combined, resemble eerie marks left by sea ghosts on a conch shell.
Combined with the conch's own pale blue shell, it looks even more mysterious and beautiful.
Image from Fudongni Conch Network, please delete if infringing.
Fu Wan recalled that at the time, these conch shells were being sold for tens of thousands of yuan each, not only because of their strange patterns, but also because they were extremely rare. Only in the 1990s were some collected by Russian trawlers.
Of course, at this point, this conch is still an ordinary conch.
"Ah Wan, should we keep this snail?"
Seeing Fu Wan deep in thought while holding the conch shell, Fang Min couldn't help but ask her a question.
Fu Wan nodded, snapping out of her daze. "Keep it. Lingling and Mingzhu like collecting seashells, and they don't have any like this where they live."
This conch shell certainly won't fetch a high price right now. Since she's come across it, she might as well take it home and keep it until the market for conch shells becomes more volatile, then let her child decide whether or not to sell it.
Upon hearing this, Fang Min immediately picked out several more seafood items from the pile in front of her and placed them in front of Fu Wan.
"There are several more here. I don't know if these things are edible. I was even planning to throw them into the sea."
Perfect, I can take all of these back for them to play with!
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten...
After counting all the conch shells on the surface, Fu Wan was shocked.
For a moment, she even doubted whether there was something wrong with her memory.
The reports said these conches were very rare, so how come there are suddenly more than ten of them in front of me?!
And they're all F.T. Niagara!
Fu Wan was completely stunned. She picked up the conch and washed it in the bucket next to her. The conch's back was covered with irregular brown patterns.
It was indeed all conch shells, but considering how rare these things were in later generations, she thought for a moment and threw a few live conch shells back into the sea.
She kept five of them for herself, all of which were now empty conch shells.
"Ah Wan, is it okay to eat this kind of snail meat?"
Fu Qing was puzzled when he saw Fu Wan throw the live Fu Dongni conch into the sea.
She even prepared stones for cracking snail shells, and Fu Wan smiled helplessly.
The shell opening of the conch is relatively narrow, making it difficult to extract the conch meat.
Therefore, the fastest and most convenient way to extract conch meat is to break the shell directly.
But considering that in later generations, more than 10,000 snail shells were smashed to pieces by a single stone, Fu Wan said she would never allow such a thing to happen.
At the very least, it can't happen in front of her.
How is this any different from directly undermining national unity in front of her!
If you tell them that this conch shell can be worth tens of thousands of yuan in the future, they might think you're dreaming.
"Ah Qing, the snail doesn't taste good, you have to smash it hard."
"I'll cook you fish and boil eggs tomorrow, we won't eat this conch, okay?"
Fu Qing hesitated for a second, then nodded in agreement.
After cleaning the seafood off the deck, Ye Lin led Li Jun to continue washing the deck.
It's not that they're bored and pick through everything and wash it every time; it's because if they don't clean off the mud, sand, dead fish, and rotten shrimp, all the seabirds that follow will fly over.
These seabirds not only eat, but they also poop everywhere like chickens and ducks. Just thinking about the bird droppings all over the deck is unbearable, not to mention Fu Wan, even Ye Lin, who has a chicken farm at home.
After all, when they're picking out the fish, they have to reach out and rummage through the deck.
If the deck is covered in bird droppings, oh dear, wouldn't that make everyone so disgusted that they wouldn't be able to eat!
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