Chapter 161: Still Penniless After One Year in the Book
"The Ocean Research Institute in the city has agreed to build an experimental base in our village. I need to accompany Xie to find a place and learn the technology of raising prawns from him.
In addition, I opened a seafood restaurant in the city, which is currently in the decoration stage, and I have to go and take a look.
Of course, these are all my personal problems.
You go out to sea to fish. The same is true for me. My boat club has been fully entrusted to Uncle Li and Brother Liu.
I know that what everyone fears most is returning with an empty boat. In fact, everyone is just used to being in a group. It does not mean that being in a group will definitely have more advantages than disadvantages.
Many of us who own boats have small boats. Even if we go to 246, we don’t have to go that far to catch fish and return.
And large ships should not be afraid of small boats and dare not go far.
You are all old captains who are more experienced than me. You know very well where there are fish and islands and reefs.
Believe in yourselves! "
Lin Wanxia spoke for a long time.
She has been out to sea so many times and knows very well that most captains have real skills.
It’s just that she was frightened by the experience on the high seas before.
Later, she was controlled by Zhao Tiezhu for two years, and her thinking fell into limitations.
But she has seen their abilities with her own eyes during the six months she has been sweeping the 246 waters.
Most captains are very experienced. They will change their directions on the sea according to the weather, and can even judge reefs by the currents.
She has been sweeping 246 for half a year and has gained a lot of reputation.
I heard that some pirates have spread the word that they will bypass the Pink Princess when they see it.
However, even though Lin Wanxia talked until her mouth was dry, the captains were still reluctant.
They felt that fishing with Lin Wanxia was more reassuring.
Whether it was safety or harvest, it was guaranteed.
Lin Wanxia didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Big brothers, I'm just a person, not a god. You can't really treat me as Xiao Long Nu just because you call me Xiao Long Nu. I can't call the wind and rain. If I fall into the sea, I will still drown. I still need an umbrella when it rains."
"You are Xiao Long Nu!" an older captain shouted, "Otherwise, how can the killer whales and great white sharks listen to you?"
There are many overlords in the ocean, but only these two will appear in the 246 sea area.
In fact, the 246 sea area is very large, and they tend to avoid places where killer whales and great white sharks appear.
In short, killer whales and great white sharks appear at times and places where they shouldn't appear.
Lin Wanxia felt a little guilty, but fortunately most people were easy to fool and attributed problems that they had never seen and could not explain to metaphysics.
She thought for a moment and took a step back. "Let's do this. I saved a young killer whale that was injured while helping us at sea. Now they listen to me.
When you go out to sea, I'll let them follow you. It's no problem to save your lives at the critical moment."
After some communication, many captains agreed reluctantly.
Not to mention that there are killer whales and militia escorts, even if there are not, Lin Wanxia didn't take a penny from them, so they can't force her to follow, right?
Even if she is fine this time, she can't let her follow the ship when she gets pregnant and has children in the future, right? !
Lin Wanxia didn't think that far ahead. It's not that she really doesn't want to go out to sea, she just wants to be busy for a while and follow next time.
Uncle Li and Brother Liu are two very reliable people.
Uncle Li has experience, Brother Liu is young and strong, and there is also Auntie Fatty to support them.
Lin Wanxia trusted her employees and didn't trust them, so she just handed the boat over to them and left it alone.
Mainly because she didn't have time to take care of it.
Xie Lijun came with his shrimp farming technology.
According to Xie Lijun's request, Lin Wanxia found some people in the village to dig shrimp ponds.
There were no large machines, and everything was dug manually.
There were no old men who took their pensions to play with their birds in the fishing village, only seventy-year-old laborers who still carried shovels to the fields and the women who stayed behind.
These people were the main force working for Lin Wanxia.
The old men were much less physically fit than the young people, but they were experienced and efficient at work.
The men drifted on the sea all year round, and the land at home was cultivated by the women who could hold up half the sky.
They were really not much worse than men when it came to physical work.
Lin Wanxia, who had been a corporate slave before she came here, was very generous with her wages, two yuan a day.
This was already a lot in 1983.
Many strong laborers from other villages wanted to come over to grab the work after hearing about it, but Lin Wanxia did not agree.
She gave the opportunity to make money at home to the elderly and women who stayed in the village.
Then she led other strong laborers from the island city who came to find work to work on other beaches.
After all, a breeding experimental base still needs to be built!
No matter how valuable the currency in 1983 was, it couldn't flow like tap water.
Labor costs and material costs flowed out like water every day.
Lin Wanxia spent the money she got before she could even warm it up.
She didn't even count how many accounts she had returned after the New Year.
After paying back part of the money to Chen Bin, she had no more food left.
In the past few months, Chen Manshu has given her a lot of dividends, averaging about 3,000 yuan a month.
After all, she only participated in the clothing business of Chen Manshu.
When she led the team to the sea, she only made about 2,000 yuan a month, but she made more in the inner sea, about 4,000 to 5,000 yuan.
Because it is easy to cheat in the inner sea.
She saved 10,000 yuan of the dividends given by Chen Manshu, and now invested all of it in breeding.
The money earned in the inner sea was returned to Chen Bin.
The money earned from going to sea was used as shipping fee for Lei Yanjun.
Of course, the money Lei Yanjun brought back last time, Lin Wanxia's share was used to settle the accounts with Chen Bin.
In other words, she, Lin Wanxia, is debt-free!!!
It's sad to say it, someone traveled through time and space for half a year and became a big boss in a certain city.
She, Lin Wanxia, traveled through time and space for a year and only cleared her debts and had no savings!
Of course, compared to the natives, she is still a cheat.
In just one year, she went from being penniless to becoming the captain of a fleet, with a second-hand fishing boat worth fifty thousand.
A seafood restaurant to be opened.
Now she has also rented a large beach.
It is not profitable yet and is burning money.
In other words, she is still penniless after a year of traveling through time.
Lin Wanxia sighed at the account book: Men! They are the stumbling blocks on her road to making money.
Thinking of her stumbling block, Lin Wanxia closed her account book and stood up.
Jiang Sinian and his soldiers were transferred from different units, and it was just right for them to take advantage of the fishing ban period for training. Once the fishing ban period is over, the 246 sea area will be temporarily closed to domestic fishermen.
They already knew about the incident on the Drilling Platform. The two wounded soldiers were rescued, but one of them could never return to the battlefield and was left with a lifelong disability. Of
the twenty people who originally stayed on the Drilling Platform, only the two of them survived.
This news was kept secret from the outside world, but it was made public to Jiang Sinian and his men.
They were the ones who went to pick up the bodies when they were transported back from the Drilling Platform.
On that day, everyone, including Lin Wanxia, heard the sound of gunfire that echoed throughout the island city.