After Bai Yu cast his baited hook into the water, he held a tablet in his hand, chatting with the viewers in the live stream while waiting for a fish to bite.
Since their plan today is to sell every fish they catch, we can't let the live stream get quiet while they're waiting.
If no fish bite, Bai Yu will chat with the guys in the live stream to strengthen their relationships.
"Oh my, I've been waiting for ages, and finally someone asked me how to pay for the fish. There must be hundreds of thousands of people in our live stream by now, and only now is someone noticing that I don't have a shopping cart for selling goods?"
Our way of selling goods is different from others. In addition to not having a fixed price, it is not a case of the highest bidder wins. Instead, we set a minimum price, and everyone bids freely. We then select one person to sell to.
We don't want the proceeds from the fish sales. You can just donate the price you mentioned, in your own name, to any foundation you like. However, I recommend donating to Sister Hong's foundation.
Then we'll try to dock and ship the fish to everyone within two days. First, let me clarify that the donation from the fish sold only applies to those caught today. That super amberjack from before wasn't donated; it was for our fuel costs for this round-the-world trip.
That's gas money, gas money, gas money! I'm saying it three times because it's important. Don't let me see anyone stirring up trouble online later!
While explaining the various rules of the live broadcast to the camera, Bai Yu also told some trivial jokes.
Overall, Bai Yu's live stream had a pretty good atmosphere. Even though none of them had logged onto the fish yet, Bai Yu's chatting kept the atmosphere in the live stream from getting cold.
In addition, many netizens are very curious about Bai Yu's unique live streaming style. The key point is that his way of selling goods makes Douyin (TikTok) not earn a single penny.
It's one thing for the platform not to earn any platform fees, but Bai Yu doesn't earn a single penny either. In fact, he loses money because sending packages costs money, and sending seafood requires cold chain logistics, which costs even more.
The fact that the platform isn't making money from him but isn't shutting down his livestream is incredibly impressive to those unfamiliar with Bai Yu; it seems like this streamer is truly talented.
Those who know Bai Yu believe that Bai Yu is really bold, selling goods without using Ofo (a bike-sharing platform), and the official platform backed down this time, or perhaps the relationship between the two sides seems to be very good.
In any case, it's amazing that no one cares about Bai Yu's way of selling goods, and nobody makes any money.
The only profitable catch was that huge amberjack, but Bai Yu repeatedly emphasized that the profits from this catch should be used for fuel and not squandered.
It was precisely because of this unique live streaming method that the number of viewers in the live stream quickly exceeded one million, although Bai Yu couldn't see it on her tablet.
Soon, one of the eight fishermen caught a fish. After asking Li Xue to watch his fishing rod, he walked over to Zhang Yuxin with the camera. This time, it was Zhang Yuxin who caught the fish.
"Yuxin, what's the situation now? Is the fish that took the bait big?"
Bai Yu came to Zhang Yuxin's side and asked about her current situation.
"Brother Fisherman, I'm using a small hook, and the fish that bite are only two or three pounds, not particularly big."
"Two or three pounds of fish is pretty good, it won't interfere with eating anyway."
"Hey guys in the live stream, can anyone guess what kind of fish we caught this time? If you can, it's definitely not free, but if you can guess it, I'll give you a discount and charge you less, how about that?"
As soon as Bai Yu finished speaking, the comments in the live stream chat started scrolling rapidly.
'Two or three pounds? That's hard to guess. Is it a red sea bream?'
'This is the East China Sea, the area is vast, so I'll be bold and go for the large yellow croaker!'
"The person upstairs is too daring; I bet it's a yellow croaker."
Black sea bream.
'Silver pomfret.'
'Sea wolf fish, these are delicious grilled.'
......
In just a few seconds, the barrage of comments refreshed incredibly fast; he could barely keep up.
In response to this situation, Bai Yu simply took a screenshot on his tablet, which contained more than ten comments. He said that if the screenshot showed this fish when Zhang Yuxin caught it, he would give the viewers in the live stream a discount.
Zhang Yuxin was fishing for mid-to-upper-level sea fish at a shallow depth. Since the fish that took the bait wasn't very big, she caught it in no time.
A huge ribbonfish, as big as a silver dragon, was caught. This fish was really big, about 1.5 meters long and about six fingers wide.
These ribbonfish are enormous and rarely seen in the market. Once they're brought back to the dock, they're immediately delivered to various high-end hotels or restaurants.
Just one ribbonfish like this would cost at least a thousand or two thousand yuan to eat in a restaurant, enough to serve five or six tables of diners.
Bai Yu then glanced at the screenshot on the tablet and didn't see the ribbonfish option. It was a pity that the discount couldn't be given away this time.
"I'm sorry, brothers, as you all saw, no one guessed it was ribbonfish in the screenshot I took. So there's no way we can offer a discount; we can only sell it at the original price."
As you can see, this ribbonfish is over a meter long, weighs nearly two kilograms, and is about six fingers wide, with very thick flesh.
Let's not even talk about how much it would cost to eat one in a hotel; even if we just bought it online, it would probably cost at least a hundred yuan.
However, we don't need that much money here. Here's what we'll do: I'll just set a price. The starting price for this ribbonfish is twenty yuan. As long as someone bids no less than twenty yuan, the person who wins the bid will donate the amount they bid, and the ribbonfish will be theirs.
Now we're starting to sell the fish. I'll count down from three, and then I'll take a screenshot. Get ready, guys!
3
2
1
stop! "
As Bai Yu shouted the word "stop," he took another screenshot on his tablet.
This time, Bai Yu didn't hesitate at all. He took the tablet and walked in front of the camera to show the viewers in the live stream who the last person in the screenshot was.
"Let's congratulate this brother named Fat is Lucky for buying this ribbonfish for thirty-five yuan. Fat brother, wait a moment, I'll follow you back and send you a private message. Then send me a screenshot of your donation, and this ribbonfish will be yours."
There are other staff members handling the back-end follow-up, so Bai Yu only needs to focus on live-streaming sales.
To ensure the smooth running of this live broadcast, Bai Yu utilized all the staff on the yacht, with each person taking on a specific task.
Besides receiving private messages from others, some people also categorize and label the fish catches to prevent confusion about who bought which fish when there are too many fish to sell.
As for those contestants who just talk the talk but don't donate, causing the fish to go unsold, it's not a big problem. Bai Yu and his team can just keep the fish and sell it themselves when they get to the dock.
The ribbonfish had just been sold out here, and then someone else caught fish on the other side. In fact, two people caught fish at the same time, one of whom was using his own fishing rod.
Although he caught a fish, Bai Yu didn't have time to fish now because he still had to sell the fish.
It was from this moment that Bai Yu realized he had made a mistake: he shouldn't have become a fishmonger; he should have just stayed a regular fisherman and left the selling of fish to others.
But now that the die is cast, and since some things have already begun, he had better see them through to the end.
Then he stood beside his fishing rod and silently watched Wang Hai take his fishing rod and catch a brown-banded grouper from the sea, a grouper weighing more than 30 kilograms.
While Bai Yu silently watched Wang Hai fish, the fans and viewers in the live stream were almost laughing their heads off, especially the fishing enthusiasts, who could truly understand Bai Yu's feelings at that moment.
After all, for a fisherman, the happiest moment is when a fish bites the hook and he's fishing with his rod.
Now, it's one thing for Bai Yu to watch Wang Hai fish, but the most crucial thing is that Wang Hai is using Bai Yu's fishing rod, even though this fish should have been caught by Bai Yu.
Moreover, what he caught was a large grouper weighing over 30 kilograms, which was quite a blow to his mentality. Bai Yu felt as if he had missed out on a fortune.
After all, he hasn't caught a single fish all night. He hasn't even touched the fishing rod for very long before he started live streaming on camera.
Finally, this brown-banded grouper was sold for six hundred yuan. A person named Qingfengxulai quickly sent over a screenshot of the donation from Sister Hong's foundation.
This guy really hit the jackpot by buying a 30-plus-pound brown grouper for 600 yuan. Even if he doesn't like eating fish, he can still make at least several hundred yuan just by reselling this grouper.
Once they figured out the key to it, more people joined in selling the fish, because they all realized that the price Bai Yu had set for these fish was far too low.
Far below market price, and even lower than the price charged by fishing boats at port, this stuff is truly a steal.
Just as it was approaching nine o'clock, the moment when the final ownership of the giant red octopus was about to be revealed, Lu Sheng once again caught a hundred-pound behemoth from the sea.
In order to catch the big fish as quickly as possible, Wang Hai and Li Shuang went to help. Thanks to the high quality of their fishing rods and equipment, they managed to bring the 100-pound behemoth up in just twenty minutes.
The most crucial point is that the big fish caught this time was actually a tuna, and not the cheaper longfin tuna or yellowfin tuna, but a bigeye tuna.
Before Bai Yu could even react to the sight of the bigeye tuna, the viewers in the live stream got excited.
After all, following the previous pattern, the fish that Bai Yu and his group sold were of very low value, regardless of the species or size, almost always costing ten or twenty yuan per kilogram, and rarely exceeding fifty yuan per kilogram.
If this bigeye tuna is also sold at this price, that would be interesting. Whoever manages to buy it would definitely make a profit.
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