Ye Zhiqiu and Li Daqi talked for a while and quickly decided to exchange grain for seafood. In the evening, Ye Zhiqiu took the seafood away to exchange.
The two of them had a very good understanding. Li Daqi didn't ask where the food came from, and Ye Zhiqiu didn't ask him why he had stockpiled so many seafood.
Because he had discovered long ago that something was wrong with Lijiawan! They had too much seafood, it didn't look like the inventory of an ordinary fishing village at all.
After drinking a few drinks with Li Daqi, Ye Zhiqiu suggested borrowing a boat to go out to sea and experience sea fishing.
Li Daqi was in a cheerful mood. He waved his hand and said, "Can you sail a boat? If you can, take any boat you like at the village dock. Just don't go too far, as you'll easily get lost."
"Hey, I actually know how to drive this diesel fishing boat. Where can I find a fishing rod in the village?"
"Silly boy, what boat doesn't have a fishing rod? Just use any of them!"
Someone heard what Li Daqi said and took Ye Zhiqiu to the village dock. In fact, the fishing boats here are not big. According to the guide, the bigger boats went out to fish.
After teaching Ye Zhiqiu how to drive a boat, the guide got off the boat. In his opinion, driving a boat is something that anyone can do, right?
So he had no other ideas at all, and was not afraid that Ye Zhiqiu would not be able to come back. At worst, the villagers would just take another boat out to pick him up!
Ye Zhiqiu actually didn’t know that Lijiawan actually ran a black market!
That’s right, the black market is also troubled by the food problem, so Ye Zhiqiu offered to help get food in exchange for seafood, which was exactly what Li Daqi wanted!
Lijiawan is not short of money. Since the seafood is not enough to offset the payment for grain, they can just give the money to the people Ye Zhiqiu goes to trade with.
It was agreed that the village would pay for the gas and provide a thousand sacks free of charge, which would be taken away with the first truckload of cheap seafood tonight.
Although Li Daqi trusts him a lot, trust is trust, and things that should be treated with caution still need to be treated with caution.
Ye Zhiqiu drove the boat away from the dock and came to the sea, and he began to collect the water from the seabed!
I mainly rely on this method to collect seafood, and see if there is any seafood nearby. Anyway, after tinkering around, I got some harvest, but it’s not that much.
Because the seawater ponds in the space are twenty meters deep and cover an area of thirty acres, there are very few fish, shrimps and crabs swimming in it!
However, there are kelp, seaweed, shells and other things in the space.
In fact, Ye Zhiqiu was wrong. The fishery resources are indeed not bad now, but they are not near the coast!
How can the fishery resources be abundant if the nearshore waters are fished every day?
So he thought of catching fish and raising them near the coast, but it was all a joke because he didn't know much about the seaside.
Anyway, he wandered around for a long time and sailed back in frustration. The number of sea fish in this space was probably twice as many as the number of freshwater fish.
But seawater fish ponds are several times deeper and dozens of times larger than freshwater fish ponds...
Although Ye Zhiqiu was depressed, he didn't say anything. In fact, no matter how many sea fish there were, he couldn't catch many to take home and eat!
It's acceptable to catch one occasionally, after all, there are sea fish supplied to the capital, but most of them will not be circulated in the market, and most of them are hairtail, yellow croaker and mackerel.
Stopping the boat successfully is actually not difficult. All you need is hands!
A villager came over and tied up the boat's rope. He said to Ye Zhiqiu, "Comrade Ye, the old village chief asked you to go to the canteen when you return. Can you really get some food for our village?"
Ye Zhiqiu smiled and walked towards the village, replying, "How could it be fake? I'll go get some seafood tonight and bring back some food."
"Then I wonder if there are any sweet potatoes among these grains?"
"What's the matter, brother, do you want to eat sweet potatoes?"
"What's there to worry about? We have to eat what we can. We have some land in our village where we can grow sweet potatoes. We're so short of food this year, we've eaten so much that we don't have any seeds left for next year."
"There should be sweet potatoes, but I'm not sure. Anyway, if I see any, I'll take some."
They chatted all the way and soon returned to the cafeteria. Li Daqi didn't want to talk to him about anything, just to ask about the type of food he wanted.
To Ye Zhiqiu's surprise, they actually wanted more coarse grains than fine grains, and even the best ratio of four-fifths coarse grains to one-fifth fine grains.
The prices are also very good. Coarse grains are all calculated at three yuan, and fine grains are four and a half yuan, which are exactly the same as the prices on the black market here.
Ye Zhiqiu didn't know that there was a black market in Lijiawan, and didn't know that they needed easily obtained food rather than fine grains, which were obvious and difficult to obtain.
This is a very simple matter. The miscellaneous grains circulating privately in the market are most likely stocks flowing out of rural communes and will not be checked so strictly.
After all, farmers have no money, so many people don’t think there is anything wrong with buying some food for those who are in need.
Naturally, they turned a blind eye and didn't want to be too strict. Therefore, when selling this batch of grains with unknown sources on the black market, coarse grains were the best choice.
Ye Zhiqiu nodded and said, "No problem. Since you want coarse grains, I will tell them to ask for more mixed grains."
Li Daqi said happily, "Are you hungry? I had someone steam some lobsters for you today. They're a rare commodity. We usually wouldn't eat them, but they sell for two yuan each!"
Ye Zhiqiu had just collected some lobsters, but it was estimated that there were less than a hundred of them. There really weren't as many lobsters as in the waters of the south.
He smiled and replied, "Then I have to try it. To be honest, I've only heard of lobsters in this world, but I've never tasted one!"
Ye Zhiqiu specifically mentioned this in this world because he really had never eaten it! He had eaten it in the future, but the memory was very distant.
In fact, it is just a simple boiled dish, not a complicated method, but Ye Zhiqiu still felt very delicious while eating it.
However, lobster was a treat only for him, while other colleagues could only eat ordinary seafood.
They didn't have any objection. It was the first time for them to eat fish as a meal, and they just thought it was too luxurious.
Everyone has a great appetite and never gets tired of eating.
After lunch, the team members continued to work with the villagers to bag the various seafood. They wanted to make sure they packed as much as possible, but the people in Lijiawan didn't care. They only had three cars with awnings, so how much could they possibly pack?
Ye Zhiqiu and his friends had never seen the fishing boats that the villagers got with the money they made in the black market. They were several large ships. Every time they went fishing in the open sea, they would bring back an astonishing amount of seafood.
The cost is also very high because fishing requires time off from work. In this year of material shortage, Lijiawan needs to spend extra money to buy food.
Otherwise, Ye Zhiqiu and the others would not understand how wealthy Lijiawan is.
Otherwise, Li Daqi would not be able to control Lijia Bay so tightly now!
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