Chapter 98: Taking advantage of its carelessness
"I was wrong, I was wrong, let go, can I call you brother?" Someone who wanted to control the brother-in-law was suppressed by the brother-in-law.
Tong Yuanhang didn't expect that Zhang Ze looked thin but was so strong.
So the fishermen who pull the nets can't beat the farmers? "You are so brave, do you dare to do it again?" Zhang Ze tied his hands behind his back, pressed his knee against his lower back, and held him tightly.
"I don't dare to do it anymore, Brother Ze, is it not enough for me to call you Brother Ze?" Tong Yuanhang cried out in pain, feeling so regretful! We are all grown men, it would be enough to just say it, why do we have to resort to violence.
Seeing that he begged for mercy, Zhang Ze smiled and let go of his hand.
Just kidding, his strength is one of the best among all the men in the village, not to mention that he drank the spiritual spring.
Tong Yuanhang stood up and twisted his arm, his face full of resentment: "I think you're wasting money by collecting oysters and scallops, is it necessary to use force?"
Zhang Ze sneered: "You make it sound like I was the first to do it."
After he finished speaking, he explained: "I will continue to run my small shop for the time being. You guys will only help me once or twice, and it's not appropriate to ask you every day. We can spend some money to let others help pry it open, and they can also clean it for us, which will be convenient for us."
"And you can specifically target those whose families are in difficulty, so at least they can have some income."
Zhang Ze knew very well that he couldn't make all the money by himself. Only when the money was circulated would the people above be happy to see it.
Hearing this, Tong Yuanhang's expression became more serious: "Okay, I'll go ask, there must be someone willing to do it."
Two oysters for one cent, even if Zhang Ze's shop can only sell one hundred a day, the other party can still make fifty cents. Add scallops, and the daily income of about one dollar is comparable to the salary of an ordinary worker.
Any family on the island would rush to do this if they knew about it.
"By the way, they are currently delivered to the dock around 10 a.m. every day. I will go there to receive the goods and pay for them. The maximum number of oysters per day is 200. I will change the quantity later depending on the situation. I will take as many scallops as I can get."
Before leaving, Zhang Ze gave one more instruction.
The quantity of oysters has to be limited, otherwise if others send hundreds of them at once, his store will not be able to sell them all.
Scallops are relatively difficult to pick up, and most of them are still in the area five to ten meters underwater, so the number will be much smaller. Zhang Ze will naturally take as many as he can, and at worst he can store them in the space first.
After leaving, Zhang Ze came to the dock and found Zhang Qinghe fiddling with the hooks on the deck.
When he came back yesterday, he went to Lumen Island to buy some fishing lines and hooks, and also got some discarded foam to teach him how to make a row of hooks.
Zhang Qinghe was also a little surprised to see that he was the same as Tong Yuanhang: "Aze, why are you here today? Didn't you say that the store is open? I wanted to go to your place tonight to try your aunt's cooking!"
"Alas, business is unexpectedly good. The ingredients are almost sold out at noon, so I'm going out to sea to get some ingredients in the afternoon and find a good place to catch mantis shrimps." Zhang Ze waved his hands with a helpless expression.
When Zhang Qinghe saw his expression, he suddenly felt itchy and wanted to smear it on him.
If he had lived through the 21st century, he would know that this is actually called Versailles.
Zhang Ze didn't talk to him much. He walked into the cab, started the fishing boat, and went to Lumen Island first.
Large ships cannot approach reefs and other places, so his father-in-law was thoughtful and made two small boats specially for his son and him.
When he came yesterday, one of the ships was almost finished and he said it would be finished today.
Originally Zhang Ze was not in a hurry, but the popularity of the shop was beyond his expectations, so he came to see if it was ready.
If he does it well, he can go to the reef island to pry oysters. There are so many resources there that he can easily pry a basketful of them.
When I arrived at my father-in-law's house, the first thing I saw at the door was a small boat two and a half meters long, as big as a door panel.
The boat is very simple to make, just three wooden boards with two layers of foam in between.
This boat can be capsized by stronger winds and waves, but it has no problem reaching isolated islands and reefs.
Zhang Ze thought the boat would be heavy, but when he lifted it he found it was very light. If it wasn't too big he could carry it by himself.
But it's true. If it's too heavy, how can they pull it from the sea onto the boat? The weight of the boat will increase a lot if it's soaked in water.
When his father-in-law saw that he needed a boat, he called two people to help. Together with him and Zhang Qinghe, the four of them lifted the boat onto the fishing boat at the dock.
After saying goodbye to his father-in-law, Zhang Ze started the fishing boat and prepared to go to the place where the traps were placed, and then go to the reef island to dig oysters.
Last night he placed the trap in a location along the mangroves in Yuewan County where blue crabs are farmed. He placed it in a relatively hidden place, hoping that no one would find it. If discovered, not only would the blue crabs inside, but even the trap would have to be thrown away.
Fortunately, the place he found was indeed hidden, and with the rope tied to the tree trunk, the trap was completely immersed in water, so it would not be easy for others to find it even if they got close.
Zhang Qinghe stared at the almost full of blue crabs in the trap in amazement: "That's too much, how can you catch so many mantis crabs with just one net?"
"Yeah, no one catches mantis crabs here, and they are rampant everywhere." Zhang Ze also sighed. If he had had these resources for fishing in his previous life, he would wake up laughing in his dreams.
This time we found a good spot, and the blue crabs in one trap weighed at least sixty or seventy kilograms.
Zhang Ze asked Zhang Qinghe to drive the boat to the reef island, and he took a bundle of straw ropes and started to tie up the blue crabs.
Green crabs are very aggressive and will bite each other in broad daylight. And if they are not tied up, it will be difficult for Zhang's mother and others in the store to catch them if he is not around, as they are easily trapped.
Zhang Ze kept the ones that were big, plump and full of flesh.
The large blue crabs, each weighing an average of more than one kilogram, were selected by him over the past few months. There are currently more than two hundred kilograms of them in the space.
I originally thought it was quite a lot, but judging by the current business of the store, there will definitely be a period of explosive growth, and these two hundred kilograms will definitely not be enough.
So now he even wants smaller blue crabs, as long as they are fat.
When he got back, he had to explain to Zhang's mother and the others that the current price of 50 cents per serving of five-spice blue crabs was a store opening discount, and from now on the price would be charged by kilogram, based on the weight of the blue crabs.
Otherwise, if the small number of blue crabs weighing one pound and five or six ounces, or even as much as two pounds, in his space were also calculated at this price, he would be the one who suffered the loss.
The blue crabs that were too small and too thin in the bamboo basket were thrown back into the water. The remaining blue crabs were estimated to weigh only about 30 kilograms.
The big and small ones were all put into the space, leaving only those weighing about ten pounds or one pound.
But there were still a lot of blue crabs weighing about one kilogram in the space. Zhang Ze thought about it and finally took out forty of them. It should be no problem to make up fifty kilograms in the evening.
After lifting the bamboo basket full of blue crabs and moving it to a cool place, Zhang Ze picked up a knife and put a backpack on his back, ready to get off the boat to pry oysters.
It took more than an hour to tie up the blue crabs, but it wouldn't take that long to drive to the reef island. Zhang Qinghe had already taken a small boat to the reef island to dig oysters and pick scallops.
He was given the price of one cent for two oysters and two cents for three scallops.
After arriving in Wenshui City, Zhang Qinghe realized that the little money his family saved in the countryside in a year was not restricted from spending at all, so he had no intention of finding a wife at the moment.
He planned to follow Zhang Ze's arrangement and rent a house first to make money and settle down first, so he was working very hard to pry the oysters.
"Qing He, row the boat over here, I'm done with my work here!"
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"Okay, here I come!"
After hearing the shout, Zhang Qinghe straightened up and replied, then put the knife in his hand into the backpack beside him, then got on the boat and rowed over to pick up the person.
They used bamboo poles instead of oars to row the boat, so even if he had never rowed a boat before, he would be able to do it the first time, just at a slower speed.
After he came over, Zhang Ze walked onto the boat and took the bamboo pole from his hand. He rowed closer to the shallow water and reached directly to the bottom. The boat's speed suddenly increased a lot by supporting itself with the reef on the bottom of the water.
After arriving at the reef and securing the boat, they dispersed.
Zhang Qinghe returned to the original place, and Zhang Ze looked around and found a good place to start prying oysters.
Although the large reef is densely packed with oysters, there are not as many large ones as one might imagine, so the two people basically have to change positions after a while.
So this thing still has to be farmed. It’s okay in the early stages if it’s wild, but after a long time, when others start to imitate it, it becomes difficult to maintain a stable supply.
So as Zhang Ze was prying, thoughts began to wander in his mind, wondering if he should do something else.
Compared to shellfish resources, what resource in the sea is the most stable?
The two most abundant fish here are naturally small yellow croaker and hairtail. The small yellow croaker smells quite fragrant when grilled.
Not to mention coating the hairtail with flour and frying it.
Zhang Ze felt that he should give it a try if he had the chance, and let his family and neighbors try it, and listen to their opinions and ideas.
However, there is no need to rush this matter. For the time being, there is still a stable supply of oysters and scallops.
After prying the things here, Zhang Ze continued to move to another place, and he would carefully look for scallops along the way.
However, I didn’t find any scallops this time, but I did pick up two large snails.
He didn't want this thing when he went fishing last year, but it seems he can get some back this time.
By the way, there is also his favorite conch, which tastes great whether salt-baked or braised.
So Zhang Ze suddenly changed his style and stopped prying oysters. Instead, he started looking for all kinds of snails that tasted good.
As he was searching, he found a group of volcanic barnacles, among which there were actually many small abalones living.
"Little abalone" is just a folk term. Its scientific name is the conch, and it likes to attach itself to reefs.
They are not big in size, basically only the size of a one-dollar coin in later generations.
This thing tastes delicious, Zhang Ze immediately took a knife and started prying it open.
"Aze, what are you doing?"
Zhang Qinghe, who had worked hard to get a basket of oysters and scallops, saw Zhang Zedong walking around and looking around, so he came over out of curiosity to take a look and take a break.
When I got closer, I saw him prying something that looked like a bamboo hat, so I squatted beside him and asked curiously.
Zhang Ze explained: "I'm getting some small abalone. This stuff tastes very good. You can also pry some back home and stir-fry them at night, or you can also add scallion oil."
"Delicious? Then I'll get some too." Hearing that it tasted good, Zhang Qinghe didn't even bother to rest. He immediately came over and started prying it open. If he could pry open a plate of it, he wouldn't have to go buy vegetables in the evening.
He just used a knife to scratch the narrow gap of the abalone a few times, but not only did the abalone fail to come off, it became even tighter.
He thought such a small thing would fall off if touched, but it turned out to be like an oyster when pried open.
He turned his head and looked at Zhang Ze. Yes, he did pry the little abalone gently and it fell off. What happened?
So he got another one, but it still sucked very tightly.
"Aze, what's going on? Why is it so easy for you to pry it open?"
"This one, look at me," Zhang Ze said as he picked up a small knife and placed it next to the small abalone. Then, before the small abalone could react, he pried it off accurately and quickly and dropped it to the ground.
"When you touch the abalone, it will react and cling to the reef to protect itself. So you have to be quick and take it down before it is careless and unprepared."
Zhang Qinghe suddenly realized, so this is the case! (End of this chapter)
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