The jade pendant is quite interesting; it looks like a snake with its head and tail joined together, but there is a small round hole at the joint, with a diameter of about 5 millimeters.
The center of the jade pendant is also round, about 1 centimeter in diameter. One end of the purple cord is threaded with a round bead made of the same material as the jade pendant, except that the bead is red.
The jade piece appears to be of the glutinous type, with cotton-like floating patterns inside and no patina. The red bead paired with the green jade pendant is a typical tacky combination of "red and green, like a dog's fart." It looks like a low-grade jade piece from a craft store, worth at most seven or eight hundred yuan!
Chen Hong dried herself with a towel and casually put the towel into her pocket. It was worth at least a few hundred yuan! Money-grubbers won't let a single penny go. They think it's free money, so why not take it?
Looking into the live fish tank, the fish were jumping around and it was a bit crowded. Suddenly I realized that I forgot to turn on the aerator. I don't want the fish to suffocate in a little while!
Quickly turn on the aerator and fill it with oxygen. Watching the fish in the live water tank become even more active, swimming around and splashing water everywhere.
Chen Hong took out her phone and saw that it was 12:30. The bait was almost used up, and there wasn't much left. Chen Hong scattered the remaining bait into the sea to give the fish a treat and fatten them up so she could come back to fish next time.
By the time the boat returned to the dock, it was almost one o'clock. The dock was very hot at noon, but there were still many people busy unloading and selling fish. Several fishing boats that had gone out to sea also returned.
This was Chen Hong's first time going out to sea since her rebirth, and she wasn't well-prepared. She hadn't brought a large water tank or an electronic scale, and since she hadn't eaten lunch, she was both hungry and tired. Not wanting to go to the seafood market to sell fish, she had no choice but to call Liu Laohu at the west end of the village.
"Uncle Tiger, do you want to catch any more fish today? Oh, I'm at the dock in our village. Yes, bring a big bucket. I caught about 60 fish today. Yes, they're all quite big, almost 200 pounds. Okay, hurry up, it's too hot. I'll wait for you here."
After making the call, Chen Hong packed up everything on the boat, putting the things she could take home into the tricycle, waiting for Liu Laohu to come and collect the fish.
Liu Laohu often sells seafood to the city, and he offers fair prices. Villagers usually prefer to sell their fish to him, since people from the same village don't usually try to cheat each other, and everyone helps each other out.
If they have time, villagers will also go to the seafood market or fair to sell their seafood. Although it takes longer and is more troublesome, they can sell it for ten or eight yuan more per kilogram.
If there's too much fish, you can't sell it retail; it'll spoil quickly if you can't sell it all. If the fish isn't fresh, you can't sell it for a higher price. It's better to just wholesale it for a smaller amount of money.
Chen Hong has also suffered a margin call today. She might as well earn less and just sell the entire batch to Liu Laohu. That way, everyone can make money.
After waiting for about 15 minutes, Liu Laohu arrived in his pickup truck. He and his son each carried a large plastic box and a scale, and went straight onto the boat.
Chen Hong opened the live water tank, and Liu Laohu and his son Liu Xiaogang exclaimed, "Hey, niece-in-law, you've had a great catch today! Did you catch all these fish by yourself? You found a good spot, you're really lucky. It seems the fish are biting really well today, we don't usually see so many big fish!"
Liu Xiaogang lowered the net to catch fish, while Liu Laohu went back to the car and brought out a large plastic box. He weighed the plastic box first, then zeroed it out and scooped fish into it to weigh them.
"Let's weigh the grouper first. The fish you caught today are all quite big, niece-in-law. I won't sort them for you in detail. I'll charge you 60 yuan per jin for all of these grouper. Is that alright?"
"Why not? Uncle Tiger, you're in business too, let's just go with the market rate. I know you wouldn't cheat me, so we'll go with the price you said. If I don't trust you, I'll find someone else and won't leave the fish for you. Just pay me the price you offer." Liu Laohu and Chen Hong discussed the price.
"12 groupers, 46 jin x 60 = 2760. 15 sea bass, 52 jin x 30 = 1560. 9 black croakers, 40 jin x 35 = 1400. 5 purple croakers, 17 jin x 40 = 680. 2 turbot, 13 jin x 45 = 585. 8 mudskippers, 13 jin x 30 = 390. 6 rockfish, 4.5 jin x 28 = 126. 2 mullet, 7.8 x 25 = 195. The total is 7696 yuan. I'll give you 7700 yuan. What do you think?"
"Uncle, I'll catch two fish to take home and eat. Just give me 7,500 yuan." He said, taking a two-pound bluestone slab and a two-pound sea bass from the tank and putting them in a plastic bucket.
"Okay, whatever you say. But these two fish aren't enough for 200 yuan. Why don't you catch another one?" "Two fish are enough. It's not like I'm a stranger if I'm short ten or eight yuan. You can make up the difference next time I sell fish."
Liu Laohu had his son divide the fish into two boxes, and together they carried them in two trips to load them onto the pickup truck, then drove to the city to sell the fish.
Chen Hong quickly scooped up several buckets of water from the sea and carefully scrubbed the entire deck of the cabin. Then, carrying the fish, she got on the tricycle, unlocked it, and drove home.
I was starving when I got home, so I quickly went into the kitchen and made myself some tomato and egg noodles. It was just a simple meal for one person! After finishing the meal, I didn't even clean up the dishes. I quickly washed up and went to bed for a while.
When I woke up, it was already 3 p.m. I went to the backyard to feed and water the chickens and ducks. Since it was still early, I decided to tidy up the vegetable garden first.
There's no time to dry vegetables today, so I picked a basket of cucumbers, washed them, and let them drain. I also cleaned and dried the glass jars used for pickling vegetables in the kitchen.
I picked a few more chilies, peeled five or six heads of garlic, and peeled two large pieces of ginger. I washed everything clean and dried it. I sliced the ginger and garlic thinly, cut the chilies into sections, and cut the cucumbers into long strips, removed the seeds, and sprinkled salt on them to draw out the water.
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