"Of course, we have to take a passenger ship back."
Mingjing led the two off the bus and to the pier to wait for the passenger ship.
"The sea here is so big and beautiful," Li Xiaoyu exclaimed excitedly.
As soon as I disembarked from the passenger ship and arrived at the dock, a familiar voice came from behind me.
"A clear mirror!"
Mingliang stood at the bow of the boat and waved to the shore.
"Why are you back so soon?" Mingjing muttered. "Never mind, my own boat is back. We'll go back together later."
"Mingjing, you bought a boat?"
Li Xiaoyu was extremely excited.
“Yes, it’s not expensive,” Mingjing replied softly.
There were far fewer onlookers at the pier today than usual; most were waiting at the Hong Leong purchasing point, and very few people came specifically to watch.
As soon as the boat docked, Mingliang carried the fishing baskets down.
"My goodness! What a huge ribbonfish!"
Mingjing craned her neck to look, and it was indeed quite large, over a meter long, its entire body gleaming silver, extremely beautiful.
"Mingjing, this is so beautiful! We're going to catch ribbonfish tomorrow too."
Lu Chen poked her little head with his finger, "Be careful you don't fall into the sea and become fish food."
"It's alright, I'll go save her if she falls into the sea. Tomorrow, bring some fish traps and fishing rods, and you can try it out."
Li Xiaoyu pointed excitedly at the boat in front of her, "Are we going out to sea from here tomorrow? Mingjing, you can even sail a boat?"
"No, it's that."
Mingjing pointed to the white yacht moored next to her with a relaxed expression.
Upon hearing this, the two looked on in astonishment.
Good heavens, fishing to buy a yacht? Who would believe that?
"You two step aside, I need to move these things down."
Lu Chen put down what he was holding and pulled Li Xiaoyu to help.
"Brother, why are you back so quickly today? I thought you guys would be gone for a while."
"Today we just set up traps and caught quite a few zebra eels, and they're all pretty big," Mingliang said, glancing at the busy men and women.
Mingjing quickly introduced, "This is my friend in Beijing, and that's her boyfriend. They're here to visit."
“Mingjing, this is your older brother. He really does look a bit like you.”
People from every place have their own unique characteristics. The locals have dark skin, big eyes, small mouths, flat noses, and are not very tall.
These two siblings are indeed special; they have striking features and fair skin, and don't look like they're from the local area.
"Hello," Mingliang greeted the two of them.
Ming Dahai stood at the bow of the boat and laughed, "You two have come at just the right time. We should be able to see dolphins tomorrow. The dolphins even put on a circus show for us today."
Mingjing asked in surprise, "You saw dolphins today too?"
"Yes, we saw them, but since you weren't here, they didn't guide us to the school of fish; they just finished their dance and left."
Brightness is a bit of a disappointment.
"And there are dolphins, I want to see them!" Li Xiaoyu said lively.
"Alright, get to work."
Lu Chen wasn't spoiled at all; he simply lowered his head and helped with the work.
When Mingliang drove his tricycle to the collection point to pick up the goods, Li Xiaoyu followed along out of curiosity.
When Sun Yang arrived at the purchasing point, he was having dinner.
Fish from Mingjing are in high demand. If it weren't for the distance, the fishmongers would buy them as soon as they set sail.
"Uncle, did you make a pot?" Mingjing asked in surprise.
Not far away, there was a small open-air stove made of stones, with freshly stewed fish in an iron pot.
"Well, we can't keep bothering your mom. There's no time to cook when we go back, so we set up a small stove here. It's easy to remove."
Mingjing nodded.
"You made a good profit today, didn't you?"
She looked down at the fish in the basin; they had flat bodies, large heads, and thin tails.
It's cod.
“Your dad made a bunch of big-headed stars today, and this is the only one left.”
"Cod, a highly nutritious food, Mingjing, how much is it? I'll buy it."
Li Xiaoyu grew up in Beijing and doesn't really like eating seafood, but she can try the cod later; she's heard it tastes good.
"How can we let you pay? These fish were caught by our own family and are free. We can't even sell one of them. We'll take them home and eat them."
This cod weighs just over a pound and isn't very big.
"We made a fortune on the cod today. The money's in the cupboard in the back room. Take it yourself," Sun Yang said with a smile as he ate the fish.
Cod is generally abundant in the East China Sea, so it's quite rare to see cod in this area, which naturally drives up the price.
Today, Minghai caught fifty catties of cod, some weighing over ten catties and others four or five catties. They were all picked up by large restaurants, and the rest were also picked up by diners.
In another basin lay several zebra eels, each weighing about two or three pounds. They looked somewhat like sea snakes, and Li Xiaoyu was too scared to look at them.
"Wow, they even have lobsters today?"
"Well, it weighs 21 jin in total, which isn't much. Individual customers picked out a few, but the big boss thought it wasn't enough to sell, so he didn't take any more."
Sun Yang interrupted,
"Uncle, I'll take three back to make lobster noodles. You can take the rest back to Auntie to make soup to help with lactation; she needs to replenish her nutrition after giving birth."
"Alright, your dad caught a lot of small fish today. Since we can't sell the rest, I'll keep them to make fish tea."
Mingjing couldn't understand what was so good about fish tea; it was both fishy and salty, and she thought it tasted just like canned herring.
"Mingjing, your dad caught so many fish? Is it like this at the beach all the time?"
Li Xiaoyu was surprised by the pile of fish at the purchasing point. She had heard that the bosses had taken away most of them, and now there was still so much left. She found it unbelievable.
"They're just lucky. If they did this every day, the ocean would be completely emptied out."
Sun Yang smiled, put down his chopsticks, and handed the money to Mingjing without missing a single penny.
"One is worth 23,500. Don't underestimate the value of the goods, but today we've brought back their descendants. It's a large quantity and a lot of money."
Mingjing counted the money, gave Sun Yang five hundred yuan, and told him to oversee the construction, get some water and food for the workers, and settle their wages.
On the way, Li Xiaoyu pulled Mingjing along and said affectionately, "Mingjing, you've really struck it rich. Otherwise, I'd quit school and go fishing with you. There's a kind person who can earn 20,000 yuan at a time."
The way he was counting money just now made Li Xiaoyu quite envious.
"Don't go that, Lu Chen and your parents will go crazy," Mingjing teased.
“Then I’ll go fishing with you. Wherever you go, I’ll go,” Lu Chen shamelessly clung to her, making Ming Jing feel like she was getting in the way.
Lu Chen looks like a sunny, cheerful young man, but he acts like a girl when he's being affectionate.
I went to the village and brought a pound of crabs for Old Zhao. I also told him that I was going to bring people on the boat tomorrow and that the boat fare could be halved.
Old Zhao took the crabs and immediately told them to go together. Mingjing was in charge of Mingjing's boat, and they also wanted Mingjing to take them down into the fish trap.
Mingjing didn't agree immediately. She had good luck every day, but there was no guarantee that what she caught would be valuable, and it was hard to say whether she would win by quantity.
That would be a real joke.
After wandering around the village, Mingjing returned home.
Sun Yunmei had already prepared the meal and was standing at the door to greet the two of them.
The sensible Li Xiaoyu brought a gift for Sun Yunmei, but Sun Yunmei didn't have anything to give, so she could only invite the two of them into the house.
"Mom, take these to stew," Mingjing said, handing the eel and crab to Sun Yunmei.
"That's enough, Auntie, there's plenty of food. We can't finish it all."
With a strong Beijing accent, Sun Yunmei and Ming Dahai didn't understand what it meant at first.
Ming Dahai carried the crabs to the well to process them, and asked Mingyue to pour him some tea.
“Mingjing, your little courtyard is quite beautiful. When I came here, I heard that you were now rich and could earn tens of thousands of yuan by going to sea. Now it seems that it is true.”
“I don’t want to go to school anymore. Even if I go to school, I won’t earn as much as you do at sea in a day. It’s pointless,” Li Xiaoyu complained, sitting on a bench.
"It's not impossible. Why don't you just transfer your Beijing household registration here and come fish with me?"
Li Xiaoyu was silent for a while, then chuckled, "Okay, but I have to finish university first. Without a degree, even the fish won't bite."
Mingjing rolled her eyes at her, thinking to herself, "Hmm, who used a fishing hook? Wouldn't it have been better to just cast a net?"
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