Feng Ye took out two packs of cigarettes and waved to Luo Zhiping: "Uncle, please take these two packs of cigarettes. Thank you for your trouble."
"Oh dear, I can't accept this..."
Luo Zhiping said he was sorry, but his hands had already reached out with lightning speed and grabbed the cigarette tightly.
Everyone else who saw this was filled with envy.
These two packs of cigarettes must be worth at least a hundred or two yuan, right?
In this era, not only them, but almost everyone believed that foreign products were good and expensive, and could never be cheap.
Feng Ye smiled and then said to the others, "Don't be envious. Everyone who sees it gets a pack. Don't say I'm unfair, after all, it was the one that discovered these cigarettes."
After saying that, he took out a few packs of cigarettes from the cardboard box and distributed them to everyone.
"No, no, we didn't say anything."
"Hehe, it's pretty good to have one, we didn't even put in any effort."
"Exactly, it's good enough that we have it. Who would dare say you're being biased?"
"It's still better to follow Ah Ye; there are always red envelopes or other surprises..."
Everyone was overjoyed, having gotten a free carton and a pack of cigarettes from the foreigner. They were all beaming with happiness and felt incredibly pleased.
"Alright, everyone, get back to work or go to sleep. It's late, don't all crowd around here."
After Feng Ye finished speaking, he took the remaining cigarettes upstairs to the second floor, intending to put them in the cabin where he and A-Can slept.
A carton of cigarettes contained 50 cartons. Seven cartons were given away, one carton was broken up, and 43 cartons remained.
Ah-Can was happily smoking a cigarette when he saw Ye-ge carrying a box upstairs. He quickly asked, "Brother Ye, what should we do with these cigarettes? Should we sell them to President Qin too?"
Feng Ye thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, we'll keep it ourselves and not sell it."
Of the cigarettes they got at the beginning of the year, they kept a few for themselves and sold the rest to Jinghong.
But this time, he doesn't plan to sell.
Why not keep it for personal use and enjoy it a bit?
Moreover, they don't lack this little bit of money; what they lack is a lot of money. There's no need for them to sell everything to get cash.
These imported cigarettes are also an excellent choice for gifts; they are prestigious enough and no less impressive than Hua Zi cigarettes.
With the scale of their operations now, they'll inevitably need to give gifts during holidays and festivals, so this is a perfect opportunity.
These cigarettes will also come in handy when you need to ask someone for a favor or when you need to bribe or maintain relationships.
If you do the math, this amount isn't actually that much, and it won't be long before it's shared among the three of us.
"It's good to keep it; it saves us money on cigarettes."
"Don't just think about smoking it yourself. Keep some for yourself. It's good to give it as a gift. It's hard to buy it, and you might not even be able to find it."
Ah-Can nodded in agreement: "Yes, we should keep some; we'll definitely need them later."
Feng Ye carried the cigarettes into the sleeping pod and put them away. After coming out, he asked, "Have you contacted my brother and Uncle Jun? How's the situation on their end? What did they manage to retrieve?"
"I just got in touch with them. Brother Xuan got two boxes of shoes, one box of sneakers and one box of leather shoes. Uncle Jun got two sacks of clothes. Their haul is better than ours."
Ah-Can exhaled a puff of smoke and sighed, "We were just unlucky; we only got a carton of cigarettes."
Feng Ye shook his head: "But cigarettes are valuable, so stop sighing and complaining."
"That's true, cigarettes are indeed valuable."
Ah-Can nodded, a smile appearing on his face. "When I told them, they were envious of us, saying we were lucky."
"That's right. Luck is relative. You can't just look at the quantity; you also have to look at the value."
"Brother Ye, how much could we sell this carton of cigarettes we retrieved for?"
"I've never seen this brand of cigarettes before, and I don't know its market price. But it certainly won't be cheap."
Feng Ye smiled and patted A-Can on the shoulder, "Don't worry about how much it can sell for, we're not going to sell it anyway."
As he was speaking, his gaze inadvertently swept over the fish finder, and he couldn't help but pause for a moment.
Suddenly, a large area of dense echoes appeared on the fish finder, and a red dot flashed on the screen.
Moreover, the color is getting darker and darker.
His eyes lit up instantly.
"Ah-chan, look at the fish detector, there's a school of fish."
Ah-Can turned his head and was stunned. He saw that a large area on the screen was filled with red dots, densely packed, like a red ocean.
"A school of fish, such a huge school of fish! We've hit the jackpot!"
Overjoyed, he excitedly steered the Donglai ship towards the central area where the red dots were most concentrated.
The denser and darker the red dots, the larger the school of fish.
Although fish finders are more suitable for purse seine fishing boats and not particularly useful for trawl fishing boats, this is only relatively speaking.
The reason is simple: even if you spot a school of fish, you might not be able to catch many with a trawl net.
After all, the port size of a trawling net is only so big.
Even if a school of fish is large and dense, its distribution area is certainly not small. A trawl with limited openings cannot cover all the fish; it can only catch a small portion of them.
Purse seine fishing boats are different; they can surround an entire school of fish and catch them all in one net.
However, with fish finders, operations become more targeted, rather than being completely unaware of the conditions in the sea.
When setting sail, they still refer to the fish finder's instructions and try to sail to areas with more fish to improve fishing efficiency.
The results were quite noticeable; at least after acquiring the Donglai, the gains were better than those from the Dongsheng.
Moreover, this was back when Feng Ye was on the Dong Sheng.
Feng Ye also informed Feng Xuan and Xiao Zhaojun of the situation via radio, instructing them to adjust their course, maintain a safe distance, and try to get as close to the school of fish as possible.
The Dong Sheng was originally their own ship, and they also had shares in the Feng Shou. Of course, they couldn't leave these two ships out; they had to share them together.
The school of fish is so large that it is currently difficult to estimate its distribution range or the exact number of fish.
After all, sonar has a limited detection range and can only detect a portion of the area.
Only by working together can three boats maximize coverage of the entire school of fish and increase the overall catch.
Upon hearing that there was a school of fish, Feng Xuan and Xiao Zhaojun were extremely excited. They immediately changed course as instructed and said they would stay in touch to report the fish's movements.
The Dong Sheng and Feng Shou ships did not have fish finders and could not detect the presence of schools of fish in the sea, so they could only rely on the Dong Lai ship for guidance.
There was nothing going on on the deck below, so Feng Ye went out to check and found that the trawl net had already been lowered.
The boatmen were probably still basking in their previous joy, chatting and smoking, and no one went to sleep yet.
They didn't know there was a school of fish yet. If they had, probably no one would want to go to sleep. They would stay up until the nets were pulled up to see what kind of fish it was.
Schools of fish are not so easy to encounter.
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