A trawler is typically staffed with eight to ten people.
There are only five people on his ship right now, and it's not a possibility, but he definitely won't be able to handle it all.
Let alone ten people, even if there were fifteen people on his boat, once the catch is overflowing, no one will be idle.
Therefore, we are still short-handed.
He hadn't originally considered the Fan brothers, Dali and Xiaozhu, but after hearing what they said, he started to think about it.
We had worked together before because of Ma Weiqun's matter, and we are friends. We can't say we know each other inside and out, but we do know each other to some extent.
Putting aside other things.
Both Fan Dali and his brother are reliable people.
He was quite at ease letting people work on his ship.
Fan Dali was taken aback, and hesitated before saying, "If I work on your boat, then our fishing boat..."
Wu An said, "To put it bluntly, your fishing boat should have been retired long ago."
"Brother Dali, Brother Xiaozhu, I am sincerely inviting you."
"Work on my boat for a few years, and I can't guarantee anything else, but building a three-story house in the village and buying a car worth around 200,000 yuan for transportation will definitely not be a problem."
Fan Dali: "Ah, this..."
Fan Xiaozhu remained silent, but inwardly he thought, "Anyone can make empty promises."
He doesn't talk much, but he's not stupid.
He silently calculated in his mind that if he wanted to build a house and buy a car, it would cost at least several hundred thousand yuan.
According to Wu An's projections, let's say it takes three years. After deducting expenses like food and drinks, one would need to earn around 200,000 yuan a year.
Wu An offered a 1% commission. If he wanted to earn 200,000 a year, it would mean that Wu An's trawler would have to earn 20 million a year.
Is that possible?
The more Fan Xiaozhu thought about it, the more troublesome it seemed; he simply couldn't stomach this pie.
Fan Dali did not refuse and said, "Okay, let's go back and discuss it."
Wu An nodded and didn't continue the topic.
It's clear that the Fan brothers, Dali and Xiaozhu, aren't very enthusiastic about working on his boat, which is understandable. Most people know he makes money fishing at sea, but they don't know exactly how much he makes.
Eat and drink well.
Fan Dali and Fan Xiaozhu are leaving.
Wu An greeted him, "Are you in a hurry to get back?"
"If you're not in a hurry, I can help you retrieve the longline later."
"We're in a hurry to get back."
"Having two more people will allow us to finish the job sooner."
Fan Dali nodded.
After the two brothers left, Aqing said, "Brother, why did you suddenly ask them for help? We should be able to handle it ourselves."
Wu An smiled and said, "Help them make a decision."
Aqing wanted to say more, but Meiwu called her away.
...
When the Fan brothers returned to the fishing boat, Old Man Fan was eating noodles with a bowl in his hand. He asked with a hum, "Well, did Wu An agree?"
“You guys are stupid. If you really wanted to follow, you wouldn’t need to give them half the money.”
"We'll do the same thing as before, at worst we'll just secretly follow them..."
Fan Xiaozhu interrupted, "Dad, Wu An didn't agree."
Old Man Fan was stunned: "He disagrees? He wants more?"
Fan Xiaozhu shook his head.
Fan Dali sat down and explained the situation.
Old Fan laughed: "Damn it, he doesn't want you to join him, he just wants to turn you into his employees."
"He's certainly got his own agenda."
"Pah!"
Fan Dali said, "Dad, you're being short-sighted. We don't know exactly how much money Wu An made, but he said he bought a trawler, so he must have made a lot of money."
"If we follow him, maybe things will work out."
"Xiaozhu, what do you think?"
Fan Xiaozhu told Old Man Fan what he had been calculating in his mind, and Old Man Fan immediately shouted, "Xiaozhu is overanalyzing! He's just trying to trick you two into working for him. You can't agree to that! You absolutely can't agree to that!"
Fan Dali sighed and said, "Dad, you should go back first. Anyway, there wasn't much fish to catch."
"Xiaozhu and I went to help on Wu An's boat."
"We'll go back once we've finished our work."
Old Fan shouted, "What help are you offering? I'm not helping."
Fan Dali stood up.
Fan Xiaozhu also got up.
Seeing the two brothers go over, Old Man Fan was furious. He quickly finished his noodles and followed them over.
Fan Dali saw the old man following him and asked, "Dad, what are you doing here?"
Old Man Fan snorted: "Can't I help too?"
Fan Dali whispered, "Don't cause trouble or say anything you shouldn't."
Old Man Fan said, "I don't need your explanation."
"I'll keep an eye on things for you."
"So that you two brothers don't get sold out without even knowing it."
...
When Wu An saw that Old Man Fan had also arrived, he said some polite words of thanks, quickly found the float, hooked it up, and the winch started working, quickly pulling up the longline fishing line.
"Brother, the rope is shaking really badly."
"It's a conger eel, holy crap, it's really energetically splashing around."
Aqing shouted with joy.
These moray eels are clever. They are pulled to the surface of the sea and tumble and die repeatedly. Of course, they eventually end up on the boat, where they are left with nothing but death.
Wu An was quite satisfied, as the price of wild conger eels wasn't low.
Old Fu looked at it and said, "The longline fishing we do tonight is right when the moray eels are feeding, so we should catch quite a few."
Aqing went to grab the line.
Wu An called out, "Wait a minute, don't rush."
Ah Qing grabbed the rope and exclaimed, "Wow!" He showed off, "Look how big it is, it must be over a meter long. And look how fat it is, it must weigh about ten pounds."
Mei Wu remained silent and helped remove the fishhook.
There's no way to solve it.
These moray eels are incredibly resilient and extremely aggressive; even a slight touch will definitely break your skin, let alone a bite.
With the winch operating steadily, one eel after another was pulled up.
Fan Dali said, "Dad, look, we've caught quite a few eels. We've tried fishing here several times before, but we didn't catch many."
Old Man Fan snorted: "Conger eels aren't worth much."
No sooner had the words left his mouth than Aqing shouted, "I've been swarmed by red eels, no, several of them, Selinmu! What do we do now?"
Old Man Fan couldn't resist going over to take a look.
It turned out that several red eels were entangled together. These red eels can spin around, especially when they are injured. These red eels spun around and pulled the rope together, and then they became entangled with each other. One of the red eels even bit another red eel.
He was dragged onto the deck, blood flowing freely.
Aqing and Meiwu were unsure how to handle the situation and were hesitating when Fan Dali walked over and said, "I'll do it."
Working together, he and Fan Xiaozhu quickly cleaned the red eels and threw them into the live fish tank. After processing them, Fan Dali exclaimed, "These red eels are all quite large."
"One of them must be over two meters long, that's very rare."
"I estimate it can sell for over 100 yuan per kilogram."
As Old Fan listened, a hint of envy and jealousy flashed in his eyes. They were all old fishermen, and they could easily calculate the approximate value of the catch at a glance. The sea eels and red eels that had been pulled up in just over half an hour were probably worth around ten thousand yuan.
This kid is really lucky.
You have to admit it.
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