It was almost 5 o'clock when we got back to the dock. As a star figure at the dock, Mr. He rushed over immediately after returning from a long sea voyage.
Other bosses originally wanted to buy some, but Ye Cheng wanted to thank Lao He for providing the clue last time, so he planned to sell them all to Lao He this time, which made him very happy.
"Second brother, do you have any good ones? Show me the good ones first. I like to eat meat before vegetables."
"Yes, Xiao Hu, bring the grouper up here for our Boss He to see."
As they spoke, Xiao Hu and Duan Chunsheng brought the grouper up to the surface.
Boss He immediately recognized that it was caught by longline fishing, as there was a wound on the fish's mouth.
"Wow, second brother, you've caught so many groupers with just a longline fishing trip."
"That's right. Having an elder in the family is like having a treasure. Don't you know who's on our ship? This is my Uncle Duan, an old hand who's been at sea for decades."
Duan Chunsheng was initially overjoyed, but as soon as Ye Cheng uttered those words, his face darkened. Damn it, this guy wouldn't be satisfied without cursing him a couple of times.
"Let me see, wow, there are two spots on it, that's good."
"There are red-spotted and red-spotted groupers, and even tiger groupers. Tsk tsk tsk, second brother, you've struck it rich."
Ye Cheng smiled slightly.
"My getting rich is your getting rich, it's not like you don't make money."
"Yes, I'll take them all."
"Let's take everything else out and have a look."
Since everything was going to Lao He anyway, Ye Cheng didn't bother to hide anything and just pulled everything out.
Rat spots: 2
Red grouper: 6
Eastern Star Grouper: 5
Tiger stripes: 4
Cod: 4 pieces
Black sea bream: 20 pieces
Yellow-legged: 12
Dog shark: 3
4 conger eels
Yellow croaker: more than 50
Tongue sole: 14 pieces.
There were over 100 fish in total. Ye Cheng calculated that the catch rate was about 20%, which wasn't high, but it was still acceptable.
The main problem is that there weren't enough groupers; it would have been better if there were over 100 groupers.
That felt great.
Besides these fish, this is what we got from the fish trap.
Sea cucumber: half a basket
whelks: 2 baskets
Snails: 3 baskets
Tiger prawns: 2 baskets
White shrimp: 4 baskets
Prawns: 4 baskets
There were also three baskets of octopus and miscellaneous fish, a dazzling array of kinds.
Old He asked the shop assistant to weigh the items separately, separating the large and small ones. It took more than an hour of this to calculate the extra charge.
Grouper is 800 yuan per jin, red grouper is 600 yuan per jin, red grouper and tiger grouper are both 150 yuan per jin, sea bream is 20 yuan per jin, cod is 15 yuan per jin, conger eel is 50 yuan per jin, yellow croaker is 10 yuan per jin, and dog shark is 80 yuan per jin.
The total comes to [amount] yuan.
Then there were the goods in the fish trap, totaling [amount] yuan, which sold for [amount] yuan in total.
Ye Cheng originally said they would split it equally, but Duan Chunsheng said he would take 5,000, and Xiao Hu didn't mind either, so he also took 5,000. Ye Cheng was left with 20,000. He made a decent amount of money, and most importantly, his points increased significantly.
Points: 1200
Deposits: 420,000; Foreign debt: 10,000; Mortgage: 300,000
With things settled at the dock, Ye Cheng didn't rush back. Instead, he took Xiao Hu to town to buy longline fishing line.
"Brother, why are you buying more cable? We already have cable on the boat, right? You're not planning to add more, are you? Six sets are already tiring enough." Xiao Hu felt his back ache just thinking about all those densely packed cables.
"Damn, you think I'm not tired? I'll buy some line, find someone to set it up and bring it up, and then bring the line from the ship down. That way we won't have to set the line ourselves. Aren't you smart?"
Ye Cheng's idea came from his university life. Back then, he lived close to home and was too lazy to do laundry, so he would go home once a week to take his dirty clothes back to his mother to wash, and then bring some clean clothes back with him.
Hearing Ye Cheng say that, Xiao Hu was immediately happy.
"Okay, bro, how about we make a few more sets? We don't have to coil the cables ourselves anyway."
Ye Cheng thought about it and realized it made sense. He bought 20 sets of cables directly. The other 6 sets belonged to Duan Chunsheng and he had to return them to him.
These 20 sets, I can bring 10 sets up at a time, that's just right. As long as I don't have to run the lines myself, everything else is fine.
By the time Ye Cheng returned to the village, it was already dark. As soon as Ye Cheng reached his doorstep, he saw Li the Cripple already waiting for him.
"Hey, what's up with you? You came out on your own initiative."
Li the Cripple grinned, barely able to contain his laughter. He then pushed Ye Cheng into the room, closed the door, and began to speak.
"Chen Jinfeng got beaten up, you know that, right?"
Ye Cheng smiled faintly, "It wasn't you who hit it, why are you so agitated?"
"Damn, even though I didn't type it, I was the one who pasted those contracts down. That's awesome, hahaha."
"Second brother, it feels so good to do bad things."
Seeing Li the Cripple's extremely excited state, Ye Cheng began to wonder if he had done something wrong, or if he had awakened a sleeping demon.
"Tell me, how badly did the fight go that you're so happy?"
"Oh dear, they beat him so badly. Let me tell you, the Chen family surrounded him early this morning. At first, Chen Jinfa tried to argue, but then they just threw a piece of paper in his face."
Li the Cripple made a flicking motion, as if he himself were the one flicking the paper.
"He was dumbfounded when he saw the paper. He wanted to run away, but it wasn't that easy. Tsk tsk tsk."
"You didn't see it, he was knocked down in an instant. The Chen family really beat him, they beat him until he was dead."
"Dead? No way?" Ye Cheng was startled; he hadn't intended to cause a death.
"No, just one more bite."
"Damn it, then explain yourself clearly, why are you making such a fuss?"
Li the Cripple didn't care at all.
"He's not dead, but he's almost dead. They took him to the city hospital. The people who came back said he has three broken ribs, so he won't be able to work for at least two months."
Three ribs, that's really ruthless.
Ye Cheng originally thought that a beating would be enough. It seems that the Chen family has been holding back their anger lately, and finally found an outlet to vent it all on Chen Jinfa.
"Is he hospitalized in the city now?" Ye Cheng asked.
"Hospitalization my foot! This guy doesn't have the money for hospitalization right now. He just got it treated and came back, then quickly got the money refunded, and now he's lying at home recovering."
His wife is furious with him, saying he didn't get any money, got beaten up, and can't even claim medical expenses.
Well, it's a bit tragic, but this kind of person needs to be taught a lesson, otherwise he'll do bad things again in the future.
"By the way, none of them guessed it was you who did it, right?"
"No," Li the Cripple waved his hand smugly.
"How could anyone guess it was me? I pretended to be completely unaware outside."
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