At four o'clock in the morning, as Bai Yu started the fishing boat, his group was about to dock.
In the cockpit of the fishing boat, Bai Yu and Li Shuang were chatting idly.
After all, Bai Yu was fishing all night, from evening until dawn, and he was exhausted.
In other words, Bai Yu is currently driving while fatigued. For the safety of everyone on the ship, it is advisable to arrange for someone to accompany him during the driving process, so that Bai Yu does not fall asleep while driving.
Then this person became Li Shuang, who stayed in the driver's seat and chatted with Bai Yu to keep him from falling asleep.
"Brother Yu, we're about to dock. What are your thoughts on where we should go for our first stop?"
Li Shuang casually found a spot in the wheelhouse, leaned back, and started chatting with Bai Yu, who was steering the boat.
"Where to go first? Let's sleep first, and then find a place to eat after we wake up. We can also look online for restaurants that food bloggers have been to and see how the food is."
"Food review bloggers? Brother Yu, there seem to be quite a few food review bloggers online. Which ones should we watch?"
"Just look at Lao Tang's and Lala's. One is a noodle-themed streamer who talks about his alma mater everywhere, and the other reviews both high-end and low-end products, giving value for money based on consumption. They shouldn't be too bad, right?"
"Alright, leave this to me. I'll search online and see if I can pick out a few shops."
As Bai Yu and Li Shuang chatted, the coastline soon appeared in front of the fishing boat, and they were about to dock.
At the same time, a pale light began to appear in the distant east, and as Bai Yu and his companions continued their journey, the eastern sky gradually turned fiery red.
It was not even five o'clock yet, but the sky was already getting light, and it wouldn't be long before the sun came out.
Neither Bai Yu nor Li Shuang showed any interest in this rare sunrise at sea; their attention was focused on the coastline at the bow of the boat.
They've seen the sunrise at sea countless times. After all, they sailed all the way from Sanya. If they wanted to see the sunrise, they could just get up early and find a pier in Sanya.
But the pier they were heading to was the one in Zhoushan, and it was their first time there. The pier was far more attractive than the sunrise.
Especially as they got closer to the coastline, the number of ships on the sea increased dramatically; you could really call it all kinds of ships.
Many of them came from the same direction as Bai Yu and his group, clearly having just returned from fishing for large yellow croakers.
Following the flow of boats, Bai Yu slowed down his fishing boat and gently steered it into the dock.
Once they reached the other side's territory, Bai Yu decided to keep a low profile, obediently follow the flow of boats, and then, according to the dock's schedule, moor his fishing boat at the designated berth.
Bai Yu and his group were, after all, outsiders, so they didn't have their own designated parking spaces here. They had to park in public parking lots, which required payment.
Bai Yu had just parked the fishing boat and was about to rest with Li Shuang when he heard a commotion outside.
"Huh? What's going on? Why is it so noisy outside? Shuangzi, did you contact someone from our company? But wait, we don't think we know anyone here, right?"
Hearing the noise outside, Bai Yu asked in confusion.
"No, we're here to have fun. When you're out having fun, you should focus on it and not do anything else."
Besides, as you said, our company doesn't have any partners here, and nobody knows we're coming.
"That's strange. Where is that noise coming from outside, and why are they surrounding our fishing boat?"
"Brother Yu, why don't we go out and take a look?"
"Then let's go take a look."
After Bai Yu finished speaking, he led Li Shuang toward the deck.
As soon as they pushed open the cabin door, a cacophony of noise rushed in. The sounds were so chaotic that Bai Yu felt like she was in a bustling market; it was all so varied and unpredictable.
When Bai Yu looked towards the dock, he saw that it wasn't their fishing boat that was surrounded, but rather all the boats that had returned with them, surrounded by a large number of people.
Bai Yu listened briefly and learned that the dock workers were asking returning boats if they had large yellow croakers, and if so, they would buy them at a high price.
Moreover, it wasn't just one company buying the fish; many companies were vying to buy as many large yellow croakers as possible.
This can be seen from the clothing of the people at the dock; some are obviously middlemen, wearing waterproof clothes.
Others looked like hotel purchasing staff. Bai Yu was very familiar with these two types of people and could tell them apart at a glance.
In addition to the people surrounding the boats, there were also people on Bai Yu's fishing boat, although there were relatively fewer of them.
It's not that others think Bai Yu and his crew brought back a small number of large yellow croakers, but rather that there was no one on the deck of their fishing boat. They couldn't even see any of them, so how could they ask them questions?
As soon as Bai Yu opened the cabin door, people on the dock immediately saw them, waved to them, and said something.
Unfortunately, the other person's accent was too strong, and Bai Yu couldn't understand the local dialect.
Bai Yu immediately stepped out of the cabin, stood by the railing, and asked the other person:
"What? Bro, I didn't understand what you just said. I'm not a local. Could you say it again in Mandarin?"
"Hey handsome, do you have any large yellow croakers for sale? I'll pay a high price for them."
"Buying large yellow croaker at a high price? Buddy, how much are you willing to pay?"
"One jin costs 1,000 yuan per jin, two jin costs 2,000 yuan per jin, and so on, with no upper limit."
"Brother, your price isn't fair. The large yellow croakers on my boat are all wild-caught, mostly over a pound each, with the largest weighing around ten pounds. Your price won't do."
As Bai Yu spoke, he shook his head to indicate his dissatisfaction, saying the price was too low.
"How much? Ten pounds of yellow croaker? Handsome, do you mean ten pounds of yellow croaker in total, or does one yellow croaker weigh ten pounds?"
Dissatisfied with the white fish, the man offering the price paid no attention to the price itself, but instead inquired about the ten-pound yellow croaker.
After all, there are two different concepts: several large yellow croakers weighing ten pounds in total and one large yellow croaker weighing ten pounds. He must figure out the key to this. If it is the latter, then even if he has to suffer a huge loss, he must get this large yellow croaker!
"Brother, does this even need explanation? Our fishing boat has been at sea for two days, so we can't just catch ten pounds of big yellow croaker, right? So..."
Bai Yu didn't explain the large yellow croaker very clearly, then paused for a moment before continuing:
"But brother, the crew on our boat fished for big yellow croaker all night last night, and they're all sleeping in the cabin now. There's no way they can sell them now."
How about this, let's set a time, 3:30 PM, and meet here again. Everyone is welcome to come. Whoever offers the highest price, we'll sell this boatload of at least a hundred large yellow croakers to them.
Bai Yu looked at the middlemen and buyers on the dock and said loudly that he wanted them all to know that they had a large number of large yellow croakers on their ship, including many big ones.
The purpose is to spread the news so that more middlemen and buyers will come in the afternoon, thus maximizing the price of these large yellow croakers.
After saying that, Bai Yu ignored the reactions of the people and took Li Shuang back to the cabin to wash up and rest.
As for whether these people will believe it or not, that's not Bai Yu's concern. It doesn't matter if they don't believe it or not; whoever doesn't believe it won't earn this money. People will always come in the afternoon.
Since they all went to rest and there wasn't a single person left on the ship, wouldn't there be some problems?
There's no need to worry about that. They've already returned to the dock. Our country is a society governed by law. If anyone dares to run aboard their ship, things will get interesting.
It's important to know that Bai Yu and his crew's fishing boat was loaded with a lot of supplies, and there were cameras all over the boat. Anyone who dared to come aboard would definitely be filmed.
Therefore, Bai Yu has no worries at all; what he needs now is rest.
And the reality was indeed as Bai Yu thought: the people in our family are of very good quality, and everyone is a law-abiding and civilized person.
As for his claim that there were large yellow croakers weighing ten pounds each, and that there were hundreds of large yellow croakers on the boat, some people believe it, and some do not.
Regardless of how many people believed it, the news had spread, especially in places where people ate breakfast. The fish middlemen and buyers were exchanging information they had gathered.
Of course, they didn't exchange all information. What they could openly exchange was either information about completed transactions or, as Bai Yu mentioned, information about a ten-pound yellow croaker that they had only heard about but never seen.
Not many people would believe a ten-pound yellow croaker, but quite a few would believe a story about hundreds of yellow croakers.
The former refers to a rare and exceptional large yellow croaker, which is extremely rare. It's already October, and not a single ten-pound yellow croaker has appeared here all year, so not many people believe in it.
However, catching hundreds of large yellow croakers is relatively easy if you go out to sea long enough, have enough people, and a little bit of luck.
So when the afternoon came, many middlemen came to the fishing boat, all waiting for 3:30 to arrive.
If Bai Yu and his group really had hundreds of large yellow croakers, these middlemen would be very eager to acquire them, even at the cost of lowering their profits.
Don't be fooled by the abundance of large yellow croakers in the East China Sea right now; if you go fishing, you can almost always bring back a few.
However, wild large yellow croaker, a high-end sea fish, is still in short supply in our consumer market.
The number of wealthy people in our family is far beyond what many people imagine. As for how these people got their money, that's hard to say.
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