As mealtime approached, Bai Yu prepared more than ten dishes to entertain Trof and the others.
This includes hot pot, which was placed in the middle of the table among a pile of dishes, looking rather awkward.
However, Trof and the others were quite satisfied; ever since they entered the restaurant, the corners of their mouths couldn't help but turn up in a smile.
The smiles became even more pronounced after four or five bottles of baijiu were placed on each table.
It is well known that Russians particularly enjoy drinking, especially strong liquor, and some Russians can even be described as being addicted to alcohol.
The wine that Bai Yu served to Trof was all baijiu: two bottles of Maotai, two bottles of local Hainan liquor, and a bottle of Erguotou.
There are five tables for dinner tonight. Bai Yu and his crew on the yacht, as well as those brought by Trof, are divided into two or three groups and each group sits at a table.
However, the people that Trof brought were mainly received by security personnel, many of whom spoke Russian, making communication easier.
Bai Yu, accompanied by Li Shuang, two Russian-speaking security personnel, a translator from the yacht, and Trof and his two crew members, sat together.
Li Shuang joined Bai Yu's table with a purpose: he planned to buy some cod from Trof to take back to China.
Cod is an extremely cheap commodity, especially in the Far East, but in China, it is in high demand and short supply, and has become a sought-after commodity with counterfeit products rampant in the market.
Bai Yu's company only sells genuine products, so if they want to sell cod, they must have a stable supply.
Bai Yu and his crew certainly couldn't stay in the Bering Strait for too long, especially since they were traveling on a yacht, not a fishing boat, making their cod fishing efficiency extremely low.
However, it would be uneconomical to have their company's fishing boats come to the Bering Strait to fish for cod, given the distance and the high cost.
However, if we were to source our goods from Da'e, that would be more promising, since they could source from the docks closer to our home, or they could source them by land. There are quite a few options.
Li Shuang quickly finished talking with Trof and initially agreed on a purchase intention of 100,000 jin (50,000 kg). The relevant person in charge of the company will contact the other party later.
However, these fifty tons of cod cannot be transported by sea; the quantity is too small, and it's not cost-effective to make a sea trip. They can only be transported by land.
If the fifty tons of cod sell well, they can sign a long-term agreement with Trove to have them collect the cod for them in the Goose region, and then their company will send fishing boats to pick it up.
Trof ate his entire dinner in a daze. He hadn't even drunk much alcohol, but he already felt quite drunk.
He just wanted to mooch a Chinese meal on the yacht, but now what's going on? He got the meal, but what's with this contract for 100,000 catties of cod?
Could it be that his luck is about to change? Is he about to make a fortune?
The dinner consisted of more than ten dishes, which were all devoured by Bai Yu and his group of eight. As for the alcohol, only five people drank it; Bai Yu, Li Shuang, and Trof did not.
Bai Yu is an athlete, so he doesn't drink much. Even when he does drink, it's mostly beer or low-alcohol beverages. He really has no interest in baijiu (Chinese white liquor).
Li Shuang and Trof were discussing business, although there's an old saying that business deals are often made over drinks.
However, there is another potential factor in this statement: a successful business deal requires both parties to be in a sober state; otherwise, drinking alcohol is just pointless and harmful to one's health.
After dinner, everyone, including Bai Yu and Trof, was in high spirits. Trof and the others didn't want to go back to their fishing boat and insisted on helping Bai Yu and the others collect the crab traps.
I also took the opportunity to explain the precautions to them on-site, and then took them to a place with a richer supply of king crabs to help them set the crab traps.
Bai Yu didn't know how to refuse Trof and the others' enthusiasm, so in the end he had no choice but to let them continue to stay on the ship.
It wasn't until another two or three hours had passed, and their crab traps had been soaking in the sea for six hours, that they finally prepared to retrieve them.
As the yacht slowly began to move, they headed towards the spot where they had previously placed the crab traps.
Sometimes you really have to admire these Russians; they have such big hearts.
When the yacht set off, Trof and his men were still on board. There was no one on their boat; they were just quietly floating on the sea. Trof and his men had no worries at all.
If it were Bai Yu and the others, they wouldn't be able to do it. They wouldn't leave a single person on the ship; who knows what might happen later?
After all, they were in a fishing ground. Although there weren't many fishing boats that came here, one or two boats would occasionally pass by.
Bai Yu had already spoken to Trof about this situation, asking him to leave one person on the ship so that there would be someone on board in case of an emergency.
However, Trof refused, insisting that they should help Bai Yu and the others collect all the crab traps before returning.
Bai Yu and the others didn't set too many crab traps; all of them combined only had fifty, and forty of them were small, with only ten being large crab traps.
For a professional like Trof, such a small amount of crab traps is like a piece of cake.
If this were during crab fishing season, they would bring at least two hundred crab traps each time they went out to sea to catch king crabs, and those would all be large crab traps.
Soon the yacht arrived at the area where they had set the crab traps, and they saw five small red lights floating on the surface of the sea.
Trof gave Bai Yu a big thumbs up for his team's act of equipping the buoyancy ball with lights to make it easier to find.
This isn't to praise Bai Yu and the others for being smart, but rather to say they were incredibly lucky!
Because it's currently the closed season for fishing, their blatant act of catching king crabs is extremely dangerous.
Even if they have fishing licenses, some law enforcement vessels or other fishing boats are unaware of them.
If a ship were to pass by here, their thoughts would inevitably be the same as Trof's initial thoughts: Bai Yu and his crew were simply engaging in poaching, which is illegal and criminal!
Then they retrieved and took away their crab traps, and searched for the owners of these crab traps in the vicinity, punishing those who should be punished and arresting those who should be arrested.
That's why Trof said Bai Yu and his group were bold and lucky; the crab traps had been there for over six hours and hadn't been discovered yet.
The yacht then slowly approached a red light. Li Shuang took a long hook they had just made that day and headed towards the buoy on the sea surface.
Because of this long hook, Bai Yu and his crew no longer needed to go ashore to retrieve the buoy; they could simply hook it from the deck.
This long hook was actually just a long bamboo pole with an iron hook attached. It was six or seven meters long, long enough for them to stand on the deck and reach the sea directly.
Li Shuang took the long hook and circled the buoy, hooking up the rope attached to it before retrieving the hook.
Next, remove the buoyancy ball from the rope, connect the rope to the winch, and start the winch to begin retrieving the line.
They were already very familiar with the procedure, after all, it wasn't the first time Li Shuang and the others had done this.
And coincidentally, the first rope Li Shuang collected was the one that had the only ten large crab traps tied to it. Isn't that a coincidence?
However, there is some bad news. They chose the right crab trap, but it seems a bit heavy. When the winch is pulling the crab trap in, it always seems a bit powerless.
Under normal circumstances, Bai Yu and the others would turn on the winch and it would be able to reliably retrieve the crab cage.
But it's not working today. The winch is running at an unusually fast speed. In the past, it would only take three seconds for the winch to complete one revolution, but today it takes five seconds to complete one revolution. It will take six or seven seconds or even longer.
This is why the crab cage is indeed still being retrieved; otherwise, Bai Yu would have suspected that their winch was broken.
At that moment, a thought flashed through Bai Yu's mind: could the reason why the speed of the retrieval line had slowed down be related to the amount of crabs harvested from the crab trap?
After all, their winch isn't specifically designed for hauling in crab traps, so its pulling power isn't very strong. If there's too much crab meat inside the traps, it might actually be impossible to haul them in.
As for the specific reason, Bai Yu will soon find out.
As the winch operates steadily, although the speed is a bit slower, it is still retracting the wire.
Soon, just before Bai Yu and the others were about to fall asleep, the first crab trap finally surfaced.
The moment the crab trap was lifted out of the water, all the lights on the yacht shone on it, illuminating the harvest inside the trap with crystal clarity.
At that moment, a series of gasps rose and fell on the deck, and Bai Yu felt that the temperature here seemed to have dropped again.
The cage was full of king crabs!
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