As it approached 5 p.m., Bai Yu and his two companions prepared to end their beachcombing trip.
After spending more than two hours at sea, Bai Yu and his two companions had walked about two kilometers along the rocky beach from where they came down.
The plastic buckets the three of them were carrying were already full, and even Bai Yu's small net bag was full.
Honestly, Baiyu really didn't want to leave such a resource-rich beach if it weren't for the fact that there was nowhere else to put the seafood.
After all, they've left this time, and it's uncertain whether they'll have such a good harvest when they come back next time.
With a sense of reluctance, Bai Yu and the other two prepared to find a place to go ashore.
However, before going ashore, Bai Yu scanned the nearby rocky beach with his eyes and suddenly made a discovery on a rock.
When Bai Yu reached the reef, he saw a patch of snails. These snails were slightly larger than the ones he had seen before, but still only slightly larger than an adult's thumb.
Actually, the spicy snail looks similar to the sea snail, except that the spicy snail is smaller and doesn't grow very big, and it has a spicy flavor if not prepared properly.
This keeps the price of spicy snails low in the sea snail category; there aren't many sea snails cheaper than them. However, if prepared properly, these spicy snails can be quite delicious as a snack with drinks.
With that thought in mind, Bai Yu took a sand shovel and started tapping the snails.
"Cousin, let's grab some spicy snails before we go upstairs. Tonight, let's go to the food street and get a couple of dishes, and we'll have a couple of drinks too."
While Bai Yu was picking the spicy snails himself, he didn't forget to call Hu Tao over, mainly because there wasn't much room left in his bucket, and the freshly picked snails were all spread on top.
In just a few minutes, Bai Yu and Wang Hai had collected two or three pounds of spicy snails. Combined with what Hu Tao had collected, it should be enough for them to eat tonight.
The snacks for dinner are ready, now it's time to buy fish.
The place where fish are sold is not too far from this angle. Just a few minutes' ride north, there is a small dock with a purchasing station where you can sell your catch.
Hu Tao had also brought them to this place, and he was already very familiar with the owner. As soon as they met, Hu Tao offered each other a cigarette, but he didn't smoke it himself.
Hu Tao doesn't smoke, but he usually carries a pack of cigarettes with him, and it's not a low-end pack; the cheapest ones start at twenty yuan. He keeps these for himself.
To be precise, not only Hu Tao, but also Bai Yu and Wang Hai do not smoke. After all, they are track and field athletes, and smoking damages the lungs, while running requires strong cardiopulmonary function.
A good track and field athlete will not smoke during his career, but after retirement, he can do whatever he wants.
The harvest this time can truly be described as abundant.
First of all, the catch that Bai Yu and Wang Hai kept was definitely top-notch. They wouldn't take crabs weighing less than four ounces, and they wouldn't take cheap sea fish either.
After working for two or three hours, Bai Yu and the other two found only four sea fish in total. Bai Yu and Wang Hai each caught one, Hu Tao caught two, and the rest were crustaceans.
"Boss, has the price of seafood stopped rising? The Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are coming up soon, the price of seafood should go up again, right?"
While the boss was weighing the goods for Hu Tao, Bai Yu came over and started chatting with him.
It should be noted that since the fishing season opened in mid-August, the prices of all seafood products in the entire Haihe River Basin have continued to decline.
Half a month has passed, and the price of seafood has dropped by almost a third.
With the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays just around the corner, seafood prices can't keep falling, or Bai Yu and his crew will earn less and less money from beachcombing.
"Double Festival? You're thinking too far ahead. National Day is still a month away, and Mid-Autumn Festival is at the end of this month. In previous years, seafood prices would only start to rise half a month before the festival. It's still a long way off now."
"Xiao Tao, is this your classmate? I haven't seen him before."
The owner of the purchasing station quickly sorted the orchid crabs for Hu Tao, then weighed and calculated the bill. While his hands were busy, his mouth was also busy, chatting with the people next to him.
"Brother Liu, this is my cousin. He just started studying at Ocean University this year. He also knows how to go beachcombing and will often come here to sell seafood. I hope you'll take good care of him then."
"Sure, this bucket of seafood, except for the grouper and whelk that you're not selling, is all accounted for. Take a look yourself, and if there are no problems, I'll settle the bill."
Soon, Hu Tao finished his bucket of seafood, and Boss Liu handed Hu Tao a receipt.
Bai Yu particularly enjoyed the accounting part, and he immediately went over to take a look.
The receipt showed that the majority of the weight was for orchid crabs. There were a little over ten catties of orchid crabs in three sizes. The orchid crabs weighing less than half a catty were only 35 yuan per catty, while the largest ones, weighing eight taels to one catty, were more expensive at 55 yuan per catty. The medium-sized ones, weighing half a catty to eight taels, were 45 yuan per catty.
The orchid crab, weighing over ten pounds, sold for more than four hundred yuan, a price that Hu Tao was very satisfied with.
The most expensive item was the small green dragon. Hu Tao caught four small green dragons, weighing only three jin and nine liang, but the price of the three of them was not cheap. He bought them for a total of more than 460 yuan, which was far from the price that Bai Yu had sold in Sanya.
However, Hu Tao was quite satisfied. In addition, there were some sea snails and scallops, a black sea bream, and other miscellaneous items, which together sold for several hundred yuan.
After glancing at the receipt, Hu Tao told Boss Liu that it was fine and then asked him to transfer the money to him.
It's impossible for him to accept cash. It's not that Hu Tao doesn't like cash, but he has too much cash, over a thousand yuan, and he's afraid of losing it if he carries it on his person. So he wants Boss Liu to transfer the money to him.
"Xiao Tao, the money has been transferred to you. Check it on your phone. You did well today, managing to earn over a thousand yuan. That's quite rare."
"That's right. I've never made this much money going beachcombing in the past few years. I've really hit the jackpot today."
"Alright, Brother Liu, stop nagging me. Weigh my brother's seafood too; his is much better than mine, and there's a lot more. Go ahead and calculate it."
Listening to Hu Tao and Boss Liu's conversation, Bai Yu and Wang Hai immediately brought over their seafood, which was neatly arranged in several baskets.
"Brother Liu, the varieties have all been sorted out. You'll need to figure out the specifications yourself. Could you please help me calculate them?"
While Boss Liu was calculating the accounts for Hu Tao, Bai Yu and Wang Hai had already divided their harvest, mainly according to the types of produce.
Bai Yu didn't interfere with the specifications, since different specifications can make a big difference in price. It's better to let Brother Liu, the boss, handle that.
This made Brother Liu very satisfied, at least Bai Yu didn't act on his own initiative.
Hu Tao and I have similar gains, but also some differences.
What they had in common was that their main catch was also crabs. However, unlike Hu Tao, their crabs were more varied, with mud crabs being the most common, but they also had some blue crabs and stone crabs.
However, the blue crabs alone made up a whole basket, and each of these blue crabs was full of meat and roe, looking very plump and delicious.
After all, it's already September, which is the best season of the year to eat crabs. This doesn't just apply to freshwater crabs; sea crabs are the same.
There are more crabs at Baiyu, and weighing them is a bit more complicated, since crabs of different sizes have different prices.
After Mr. Liu's busy work, Baiyu caught a total of 26 jin of crabs. When he saw this number, Mr. Liu thought they had caught the crabs from someone's crab pond.
Bai Yu and his partner earned over a thousand yuan just from the crabs. They also caught even more small green dragons – eleven small green dragons weighing eight jin and two liang, which brought in another thousand yuan.
In addition, various scallops and conches sold for more than a thousand yuan, especially the conches, as Bai Yu and his friends found a super large one.
How big is it? It's about 40 centimeters long and weighs at least four or five kilograms.
Most importantly, this conch has meat. Bai Yu originally thought it was just a shell and planned to take it back to his dormitory as a decoration.
But when he picked it up, he discovered that it had meat inside, which made it incredibly valuable.
Regardless of whether such a large conch is tasty, just using it to decorate a fish tank would definitely make it a top-quality item.
Mr. Liu paid 600 yuan for just this one conch shell. The price is not high, but it is not low either.
The main problem is that Bai Yu and his group are currently in Haikou. If they were in Sanya, no matter how much money Boss Liu offered, he wouldn't sell. He wants to keep them in his own fish tank.
It's a pity he didn't have that opportunity at school.
Ten minutes later, Bai Yu and the other two walked out of the recycling station, each carrying their own plastic bucket.
In their buckets were several pounds of spicy snails and a grouper, which they planned to save for dinner later that evening.
The grouper that was left behind wasn't very big, only about a pound, and it wasn't valuable in terms of breed either; it was a pearl grouper.
Besides these two items, the three of them also took a string of numbers from the purchasing station. This was a valuable item, something everyone wanted.
Hu Tao took 1350, Wang Hai took 2000, and Bai Yu took 2860.
The reason Wang Hai received less than Bai Yu was because their profit-sharing ratio was different. Wang Hai received 40%, while Bai Yu received 60%, so the amount was naturally different.
After a busy afternoon, Bai Yu was quite satisfied with his harvest. The only thing that made him unhappy was that he hadn't used up all his luck points.
With a luck value of 57 points, Bai Yu and his two companions rode their bikes back to school, and his luck value still had 9 points left.
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