Chapter 223 Preparing for Mid-Autumn Festival
Zhao Xianghua stared at the manta ray with his mouth open, and his heart could not calm down for a long time.
He had driven here with his assistant because the words "nine meters horizontal" were so attractive that he couldn't wait to see the unknown big fish first.
But only after you have truly seen this behemoth, you will know what shocking it is.
If Zhang Ze knew what he was thinking, he would definitely laugh at his lack of vision. He said that he was just getting started. Maybe he would catch a big whale in the future, and then it would be too late to be shocked.
Zhao Xianghua walked around the big fish and found that the fish was intact except for a wound on its head. He was immediately curious: "Aze, how did you get this fish? It doesn't look like it was caught with a net. There are no signs of struggling in the net on its body."
Many people had asked him this question before. Such a big fish, no one present could believe that it was caught by him, what kind of fishing rod is so powerful!
Just now, Zhang Ze just smiled and didn't answer, which made others think that he must have some special skills to catch such a big fish, so they just let it go without asking any more questions.
Zhao Xianghua also asked the same question at this time. He thought about it and gave a simple explanation: "Of course I use fishing, but I have my own way of catching big fish. Didn't I catch a big tiger shark in Wenshui City before? I used the same method."
"But this method mainly depends on luck. I try it every time I go out to sea, but so far I have only caught two particularly large fish."
The answer was ambiguous, but Zhao Xianghua looked as if he had suddenly understood something. He nodded and stopped asking questions.
Why would he ask about other people's secrets? He wasn't going out to sea.
"Brother Zhao, how much do you plan to pay for this fish?"
Zhao Xianghua touched his chin and asked, "Aze, how do you think we should use this fish?"
His words were very clever, he was asking about usage, not selling.
After all, a six-ton fish may be affordable for the rich, but can they eat it all? And the main selling point of manta rays is not eating.
"Brother Zhao, this question requires extra money!" Zhang Ze said with a chuckle.
"We have been working together for such a long time, just tell me whether I am generous or not, Brother Zhao!" Zhao Xianghua waved his hand and said proudly.
"Haha, there's no rush about the manta ray. I'll tell you in detail later. Brother Zhao, I have some good stuff here. Let me show you first." Lin Long and Lin Hu had already started sorting out the other catches and putting them on their trucks. They would go to the restaurant first.
Zhang Ze had to first determine the price of some of the fish that were difficult for them to set before he could let them take over and sell the fish.
So he first took Zhao Xianghua to see the several king fish he had caught this time out to sea. Some of them needed to be grown using the growth function, so he temporarily placed them in the space, but some did not, so he took them out and kept them fresh in the ice when he came.
"What good stuff?" Zhao Xianghua asked, but his expression was full of anticipation.
This manta ray was already a surprise enough, but I didn’t expect there would be something else.
Zhang Ze took him to the cold storage cabin and moved out a meter-sized long-tail sea bream that could not even fit into a plastic basket, and next to it was a six-and-a-half-pound tricolor shad.
"Hey, this long-tailed sea bream is really big, it's definitely a king of fish, it's almost 24 kilograms."
"And this three-colored calamus, weighing six and a half pounds. Have you ever seen a deep-sea stone fish this big?"
"I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it. Are there any more?" Faced with Zhang Ze's boastful introduction, Zhao Xianghua cooperated very well.
"There must be more!" Zhang Ze said, and brought out a yellow croaker weighing just over 33 kilograms. "You've never seen a yellow croaker this big, have you? Compared to the first two fish, this one seems a little inferior, but I can say that you may not come across one this big even in ten years or so."
Of course, he is exaggerating. The ocean is so vast, who knows if there will be another yellow snake bigger than this one.
But it is indeed difficult to encounter them. Many times these fish will die naturally in the ocean or be hunted by other marine life, and it may not be a turn for humans to catch them.
"Of course. Where did you go this time to get so many good stuff?" Zhao Xianghua was also stunned. He just said it casually, but he didn't expect it to be true.
But Zhang Ze’s harvest did not stop there. He also took out the fan shrimp king and the dense-haired lobster king to show off. After all, they were both king-level creatures, and he took pictures of them with his camera at the time.
These are not intended to use the growth function. It takes too long to accumulate 10,000 experience points. If the growth function is used for all of them, it will seriously affect the progress of space upgrades.
So after considering the cost-effectiveness of the fish, Zhang Ze only kept 19.7 jin of white snapper, 45.6 jin of red snapper and 310 jin of seven-band grouper.
These three fish are of extremely high value, and the cost-effectiveness of using the growth function is satisfactory.
"This time we went to the open sea, and it took more than ten hours to sail! I just went out to take a look, but I didn't expect the resources in the open sea to be so good."
Zhang Ze and Zhao Xianghua chatted and waited for about an hour. Then a truck with a particularly long carriage appeared on the road outside the village, followed by a large crane.
The road condition in the fishing village is very average. Zhang Ze's truck can still be driven in. It is no problem for trucks with particularly long carriages to drive in, but it is not easy to drive out of the fishing village again. He has to back out all the time.
After the manager came to the dock and informed Zhao Xianghua of the situation, he asked the truck driver to drive in without saying a word.
How can they get rid of the manta ray if they don't drive over? Unless they cut it up on the boat, but it won't be useful for publicity.
Zhang Ze specifically called Zhao Xianghua to arrange a truck because the only feature of the manta ray is that it is large enough, which is its real selling point.
At most, we can arrange a few more people to direct the car at the rear and slowly back out. Compared with the value of the fish, spending a little more time is nothing.
After a while, large trucks and cranes slowly arrived at the dock. Fortunately, the dock of the fishing village was not that small and they could barely park on the road next to it.
The people brought by Zhao Xianghua laid out several pieces of rainproof cloth that they had bought temporarily on the open space at the dock.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Ze started the Duoyu and moved it towards the dock. He then passed a rope through the manta ray's wound, took it out of its mouth, tied a slipknot and lifted it up with a crane.
A three-ton manta ray is too heavy. If it were lighter, more people could carry it away.
Zhang Ze lifted the fish up a little, then took the rope from the big crane at the dock and tied it up through the wound in the same way.
A small piece of wood was tied to the end of the rope of the big crane, so he could pass it through the chin instead of the manta ray's mouth.
In this way, if the fish is completely suspended, there is no need to worry about it being too heavy and tearing the manta ray's mouth.
With the cooperation of the two cranes, the manta ray's huge body was fully revealed to everyone, covering the sky and the sun, and it was even more shocking than it looked before when it was lying down.
"It's too exaggerated, too exaggerated!" Zhao Xianghua picked up Zhang Ze's camera and took several photos.
Then he came to the side of the fish and asked Zhang Ze to help take a few pictures.
But he also wanted to take a photo, so he asked the restaurant manager who came with him to take the photo. The two of them stood on both sides of the manta ray, one on the left and one on the right, and took a photo.
"Aze, once the photos are developed, you must send them to me as soon as possible. I'll put them up in the office. I'll pay you for the development of the photos then."
Zhang Ze's eyes lit up. He had taken two rolls of film this time, and it would cost dozens of dollars to develop them all! Adding the photos he had taken of his wife and family, it would probably cost 60 or 70 dollars to develop them all.
If someone is willing to reimburse him, he will naturally be happy to take advantage of it.
"Okay, I'll take it to be developed this afternoon and give it to you as soon as it comes out." Zhang Ze took back the camera and agreed decisively.
The manta ray was delivered intact to a large truck, and a group of people were busy laying ice on it.
The manta ray is currently preserved very fresh, so this fish can not only be used as a specimen, but also eaten.
After watching Zhao Xianghua and the others leave, Zhang Ze did not follow them immediately.
Other restaurants need fame, but he, a fisherman, doesn't.
Moreover, Zhao Xianghua is planning to organize a manta ray buffet event for all citizens.
It is estimated that the earliest it can start is tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, so he doesn't need to rush at all.
We returned to the boat, drove the Duoyu back to the river, and started cleaning.
Lin Long and Lin Hu drove to the city, so he had to do all the work himself.
As for the price of the catch, Zhang Ze had already negotiated the prices for the fish kings, and the two of them also knew the unit prices of the other fish, so it was okay for him not to follow.
This time, several king fish including fan shrimp and lobsters sold for a total of fifteen hundred yuan.
Except for the longtail sea bream, other seafood is either too light or not expensive, so selling it for fifteen hundred yuan is already a very good deal.
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As for the manta ray, although it was big enough, it was still sold for 5,000 yuan in the end.
Zhang Ze estimated that three thousand yuan of it was the price of the promotion plan that Zhao Xianghua bought from him. In fact, the manta ray meat, even with the premium, was only worth two thousand yuan.
The meat of such a large manta ray must be of very ordinary quality, and hosting a buffet would be a real test of the chef's cooking skills.
But Zhang Ze still made a lot of money this time, his income definitely exceeded 10,000 yuan, and he became a 10,000 yuan household after just one trip to sea.
He is the only individual fisherman who can achieve such an achievement.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Ze looked at the messy Duoyu and decided to spend some money to ask the poorer families in the village to come and help.
He took Xiao Hei home to take a bath and do laundry, then rode his motorcycle to the city.
The cabin doors on the ship were all closed, and the villagers only needed to clean the decks and flying bridges, so Zhang Ze was naturally not afraid of things inside being stolen.
In this day and age, we must be aware of prevention. After all, a piece of clothing, a quilt, and even the seasonings and cooking oil in the kitchen can be stolen.
Maybe the people Zhang Ze hired to clean the boat would not steal, but some idle people in the village would sneak onto the boat when he was away.
We came all the way to the city and went to the photo studio to develop the photos.
It wasn’t that quick to develop photos, so Zhang Ze paid the deposit, got the invoice and went to the restaurant.
He moved quite quickly, and the truck was probably only halfway there.
After all, when he left the fishing village, the truck was still slowly moving backwards.
After having a simple meal with Lin Long and Lin Hu in a restaurant and saying goodbye to Zhao Xianghua, he took the two brothers to the street.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and as a boss, I still have to give some benefits to my two employees.
When he came to the street, Zhang Ze smelled the fragrance of old mooncakes coming from a shop next door.
The mooncakes of this era were not as varied as those in later generations, but for people of his generation, they were still a pretty good dessert.
Normally, they only eat mooncakes once a year, and his family had just become rich, so there was no mooncakes to eat in the past few years.
Zhang Ze walked in and bought some loose mooncakes as well as some packaged mooncakes as gifts.
I also bought some for Lin Long and Lin Hu. Lin Long is about to get married, and these packaged mooncakes can be taken to my mother-in-law's house.
Lin Hu, let's not talk about it! Young people always have their own ideas. Perhaps it was because he came to the city to learn how to drive that this kid's vision became obviously higher.
If Lin Hu knew what he was thinking, he would definitely cry out in injustice.
Which young guy doesn’t have a white moonlight in his heart? He went on blind dates before because he felt he was not qualified.
The reason I refuse blind dates now is that I think I have enough conditions now.
After buying the mooncakes, Zhang Ze then went to buy some chickens, ducks, geese, pork, etc. He gave some to the two brothers and took the rest back home.
Men buy things so simply, they walk from one end of the street to the other, buy whatever they want when they see it, and then go home after they're done.
"You guys go back and have a good rest for a few days. I will be at home with my family for a period of time around the Mid-Autumn Festival and I don't plan to go out to sea."
The Mid-Autumn Festival has high tides, which is a very good time for fishermen to go out to sea. It is known to all fishermen that there are more fish when the tides are high.
For people today, making money to support the family is the top priority. As for festivals, if they have the means, they will celebrate them. If they don’t have the means, they will just buy some small gifts for the children and have some fun.
When Lin Hu heard that he had several days off during the Mid-Autumn Festival, his eyes lit up: "Aze, since the Mid-Autumn Festival is a holiday, can I go back to my hometown for a few days?"
The two people next to him were stunned when they heard this. Zhang Ze didn't expect Lin Hu to make such a request.
Lin Long was a little puzzled. All his relatives had died and he had long since severed ties with them, so what was the point of going back to his hometown?
For him, the fishing village where his third sister is is his home.
"Why do you suddenly want to go back?" Zhang Ze asked curiously.
Lin Hu hesitated, but his face became more and more rosy. Even though his skin had become much darker during his time in the fishing village, it was still visible.
Zhang Ze understood immediately and smiled meaningfully: "So you have a close female friend over there. I was wondering why you didn't want to go on a blind date!"
"Okay, go early and come back early. By the way, how about letting Aaron accompany you back?"
Lin Hu waved his hands quickly: "No, no, I can go back alone. I have to accompany my sister-in-law during the Mid-Autumn Festival!"
But Lin Long was a little worried: "Ah Hu, I'd better go back with you. Third sister will definitely support you when she knows about it."
"Brother, it's really not necessary." Lin Hu still shook his head, and then revealed a slightly melancholy look, "I just went back to take a look this time. After so much time, she should have married."
"." Zhang Ze held his forehead with his hand. What was going on with this sudden feeling of being in a TV series?
In other words, he didn't know the specific situation of the woman that Lin Hu was thinking about, otherwise he would have to take Lin Hu to support those miserable widows in the village and the city.
With the sisters’ broad minds, I believe he will soon forget the white moonlight in his heart.
(End of this chapter)
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