Sunset
On the way back, the sky was filled with beautiful sunset clouds.
As the saying goes, "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning; red sky at night, sailors' delight," it seems tomorrow will also be a sunny day.
The island's resources are much better than those of Baisha Village, and today's sea voyage was quite fruitful.
Looking at the setting sun, Chen Zhiyao was in a great mood, happily thinking about coming early the next day to go beachcombing and fishing.
However, Grandpa Chen was not so optimistic, because there was another saying in their area: "If the sky turns red at dusk, a typhoon is sure to hit within three days."
The old man looked up at the sky and sensed that a typhoon would likely arrive within three days.
You can still go out to sea tomorrow, but it will be more dangerous to go out to sea the day after tomorrow and the day after that.
Seagull Island was very close to the village, and although they wandered around for a long time in search of fish, the return trip only took about 45 minutes.
Chen Zhiyao sat in the driver's seat and steered the fishing boat to the town's dock.
By this time, the dock was brightly lit, and the shore was filled with fishing boats of all sizes, laden with their catch.
Town Wharf
Half an hour earlier, Chen Zhiyao had sent a message to Boss Yang, asking him to bring his car over to transport the fish.
Knowing that Chen Zhiyao had rare creatures like small green dragons, tiger groupers, large green croakers, and octopus weighing over ten kilograms, Yang Jiajun couldn't wait to come to the dock early on to wait.
As the fishing boat slowly approached, Yang Jiajun's tall and rounded figure gradually became clearer.
With many hands making light work, the three of them quickly loaded the various catches from the fishing boat onto the purchasing station's vehicle.
When they were unloading their catch, there were quite a few people watching at the dock, and two other fishmongers also wanted to buy Chen Zhiyao's catch.
However, since Boss Yang always offered good prices, Chen Zhiyao didn't bother with them.
The three quickly arrived at the purchasing station. Yang Jiajun, while directing the shop's workers to weigh the catch, began to announce the prices with a smile:
"Small green lobsters are 180 yuan per jin, large green croakers are 100 yuan per jin, small green croakers are 58 yuan per jin, grouper are 420 yuan per jin, amberjacks are 50 yuan per jin..."
Grandpa Chen's catch was noticeably smaller, so Boss Yang settled the bill for him first.
Spicy snails, 8 jin, 16 yuan per jin, total 128 yuan. Orchid crabs, 1.1 jin, 45 yuan per jin, total 53 yuan.
6 taels of mud crab, 50 yuan per jin, totaling 30 yuan. 8 jin of sea snails, 35 yuan per jin, totaling 280 yuan.
Chen Zhi's catch from the morning beachcombing totaled 491 pieces.
Pearl spotted barbs, 5 jin, 38 yuan per jin, total 190 yuan. Sea wolf barbs, 4 jin, 10 yuan per jin, total 40 yuan.
Two catties of rockfish, 65 yuan per catty, totaling 130 yuan. 24 catties of sea bass, 35 yuan per catty, totaling 840 yuan.
The fishing portion costs a total of 1200 yuan, which is significantly more than the beachcombing portion.
Mr. Yang rounded it up to a whole number and transferred 1700 directly.
The old man was overjoyed when he saw the payment notification on his phone, and couldn't wait to go night fishing at sea.
Overall, beachcombing is not as profitable as fishing, and he has now relegated beachcombing to the sidelines.
Grandpa Chen was secretly pleased with himself, thinking that he would start fishing as soon as tomorrow arrived.
Chen Zhiyao divided her catch into two parts: first, the catch from beachcombing and using fish traps.
5 jin of mud crabs, 50 yuan per jin, total 250 yuan. 1.3 jin of mudskippers, 68 yuan per jin, total 89 yuan. 1.2 jin of blue crabs, 45 yuan per jin, total 54 yuan.
Octopus 1 jin, 30 yuan total. Whelk 1 jin, 35 yuan total. Sea bass 3 jin, 35 yuan per jin, 105 yuan total.
Golden pomfret, 3.8 jin, 26 yuan per jin, total 99 yuan. Small green wrasse, 3.7 jin, 58 yuan per jin, total 215 yuan. Large green wrasse, 5.6 jin, 100 yuan per jin, total 560 yuan.
5 jin of conger eel, 53 yuan per jin, totaling 265 yuan. 3.6 jin of small lobster, 180 yuan per jin, totaling 648 yuan. 5 jin of sea snails, 35 yuan per jin, totaling 175 yuan.
The earnings from beachcombing and fish trapping amounted to 2525 yuan, and the system's points also increased by 2525 points.
Next came her fishing catch:
Small bluefin tuna, 1.5 jin, 58 yuan per jin, total 87 yuan. Grouper, 2 jin, 420 yuan per jin, total 840 yuan.
Amberjack, 15 jin, 50 yuan per jin, totaling 750 yuan. Sea bass, 22 jin, 35 yuan per jin, totaling 770 yuan.
Chen Zhiyao earned 2,447 yuan from fishing, bringing her total income for the day to 4,972 yuan.
Chen Zhiyao was a little surprised when she saw the receipt given to her by Boss Yang. She didn't expect that she had earned back a month's rent.
Chen Zhiyao looked at the data carefully. With the income from the fish traps, the income from beachcombing was quite good.
Therefore, she did not have the same obsession as the old man with going fishing.
After leaving the purchasing station, Chen Zhiyao and Grandpa Chen returned to their fishing boat and then sailed to the village's dock.
As he left, Grandpa Chen muttered curses in the driver's seat:
"The docks in town are getting more and more shady. Our boat has been docked for less than half an hour, and they're already charging us 30 yuan for docking."
Chen Zhiyao, who was standing next to her, couldn't help but join in the吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for complaining/criticizing):
"That's right, it only stopped for 25 minutes, less than half an hour, but they charged an hour's worth of parking fees."
The thought of the 30 yuan hourly parking fee made Chen Zhiyao's heart ache; it was even more expensive than parking.
Fortunately, the village's dock is free; otherwise, the monthly mooring fees would be a considerable expense.
The fishing boat slowly sailed along the coastline. With nothing to do, Chen Zhiyao took out a calculator and began to calculate the cost of today's trip at sea.
In the morning, Grandpa Chen filled up his car with 1,000 yuan worth of gasoline and 200 yuan worth of ice.
The ship probably won't have much oil left after it reaches the village dock. However, the ice hasn't melted much, so it should be able to use the ship for another day.
In addition, there is the cost of renting a boat, which is 4,000 yuan per month, which averages out to 134 yuan per day.
Including the mooring fee, the total cost of this trip to sea was 1264 yuan.
Chen Zhiyao paid for the boat herself, but Grandpa Chen insisted on splitting the costs of fuel, ice, and mooring with her.
After deducting the average of 565 yuan, Grandpa Chen's total income for today is 1135 yuan.
Chen Zhiyao's income today became 4273 yuan.
On the way back, Grandpa Chen kept saying that the cost of going out to sea was too high, and that he must prepare fishing nets and extra fish traps when he got back.
Fuel costs are too high; if I only fish, I'll easily lose money.
Today's departure at sea was too rushed; we didn't prepare many things.
Chen Weiqiang had already seen the big fish his daughter and father-in-law had caught that day on his phone, and he was so envious he was practically a lemon.
He wasn't focused on work and came home early today. However, the two of them got so engrossed in fishing that they lost track of time, and they waited and waited, but the two never returned.
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