Chapter 159
After pulling the catch to the purchasing station, Chen Dong couldn’t help but exclaimed, “Fuck, how come you have so many good catches every few days? My family also has several boats that collect catches, why don’t they have such good luck?
I thought it was just Aqin’s luck. Even if Aqin didn’t go, you could still collect so many good catches. You really bought the right old boat. If I had known I would not have given it to Aqin.”
Of course he was joking, but he was really surprised. Let alone two red spots, who can catch a few yellow spots in a day? It’s a good day to catch one.
“Brother Dong, wait until I get my new boat, or I’ll give this boat to you?” Zhao Qin joked.
“Really want to sell it? If you really want to sell it, I’ll help you find a buyer. It will definitely be no less than 20,000 yuan. Tell others that you can earn so much with 100 longline hooks. I guess they won’t believe it even if you kill them.
Who knows, I might raise the price to get this boat.”
Zhao Qin just said it casually, but he didn’t expect Chen Dong to have set the price. He hesitated for a while and said, “I haven’t decided yet. Let’s see when the time comes.”
The laughter of several people alarmed Chen’s father upstairs. He came down and saw such a harvest, and he was amazed at their good luck.
Talking about the scarcity of yellow croaker, Chen’s father also told them about the past.
There were actually a lot of yellow croakers in the past. In the 1950s, due to the imperfect preservation technology, the yellow croakers caught were very cheap, about 7 cents per pound, and many of them that could not be sold were made into yellow croaker roe (xiǎng, fish cut open and dried).
At that time, a fishing method called knocking on the net (gǔ) was introduced here. The specific method is to work with multiple boats and knock on the hull to make a sound.
The yellow croaker is a member of the Sciaenidae family. There are two otoliths in the skull. The sound will cause the fish to become comatose or die when it is transmitted to the sea. At that time, more than a dozen boats went out to sea together, and they could catch hundreds of dan, nearly 10,000 jin of fish a day.
This fishing method is indiscriminate, no matter big or small, all are caught, so wild yellow croaker is on the verge of extinction.
Finally, the country issued a policy that no longer allows such a method of operation.
While chatting and busy, they were all weighed in a short while. There were six yellow croakers, the largest one was 2.3 jin, and the smallest was only 8 liang.
This kind of fish also has a different price for each one. The price difference between more than one jin and less than one jin is very large. Similarly, there is a price difference between two jin and one jin. Chen Dong gave 480 yuan per jin for more than two jin, 390 yuan for more than one jin,
And less than one jin is directly 120 yuan per jin.
The price of red grouper is the same as last time, and spring fish is 65 yuan per catty. The fish today is sold for 6,100 yuan.
“Aqin, when will your father come back?” After the account was settled, Chen’s father asked.
“Mid-Autumn Festival, my father called my eldest brother a few days ago.”
In fact, his father said a lot, saying that he was promoted to manager and was very busy this year. Mid-Autumn Festival is probably only two days off. As for how much truth it is, Zhao Qin is too lazy to analyze it.
“Let him come over for a drink when he comes back.”
“Uncle Chen, when my father comes back, I will pick you up to drink in the village.”
“Okay, it’s the same wherever.”
Seeing that it was getting late, Chen’s father asked them to go back.
They had dinner when they got home. After dinner, Zhao Qin asked his sister-in-law to take out the money from the previous two trips to the sea. He was so busy during this period that he didn’t even share the money. He was going on a long trip tomorrow, so he simply settled the account today.
“Brother, where are the bills for you and Ah He’s expenses?”
The two of them took out the bills for buying ice, bait, and diesel. He took the money handed over by Xia Rong and took out a pen and paper while writing.
“Diesel for three times is 475 yuan. Sister-in-law, please help me count it.”
Xia Rong agreed and counted out 475 yuan and put it aside. Zhao Qin handed it to his brother and asked his sister-in-law to count out 170 and 45 yuan for bait and ice respectively, and gave them to his brother and Ah He respectively.
“And then there is your salary of 300 yuan each for three days of sea voyage.”
This time Zhao Qin counted 300 yuan each and gave it to the two.
Excluding these, there was still 8894 yuan left for the three sea voyages, and 20% was 1778. He rounded it up and gave 1800 yuan to each person, leaving him with more than 5200 yuan.
After the money was divided, it was over. There were almost no miscellaneous fish caught in longline fishing. Two yellow breams were kept when selling, and each family kept one to take home and eat.
As long as they went out to sea, no matter how much or how little they earned, there would be no shortage of fish to eat at home.
Ah He took out 200 yuan, put it on the table, and said to Zhao Qin: “Brother, Sister Mei is moving to a new house. Brother Ping and I can’t go out to sea. Please bring me a gift.”
“You don’t need to bring yours. My sister won’t accept it.”
“My grandma said so. I’m leaving first.” Ah He turned around and ran away for fear of being pulled.
Zhao Qin had to put the 200 yuan in his pocket and help to bring the gift later.
“Sister-in-law, this matterI don’t understand either. How much courtesy will you give my sister this time? ”
“Your brother and I have been discussing in the past two days. According to our rules, 800 yuan is enough. But now Amei is in trouble. The family has a lot of money for the time being, and there is no need for a lot of money. We are thinking about it. Two thousand, you are not married yet, so it would be better to have less…”
“Then let’s just go with 2000. We just need to unify.”
“With so much, will your brother-in-law’s relatives look bad when the time comes?” Zhao Ping expressed another layer of worry.
“It’s okay. I’ll give it to my brother-in-law alone when the time comes. It’s his business to write as much as he wants on the gift list.”
“Well, this is a good idea.”
“Let’s eat. You must be hungry. Let’s talk while eating.” Xia Rong brought the dishes to the table.
Zhao Ping stood up and took a bottle of wine. Zhao Qin took it and poured a glass for his eldest brother. The two brothers touched each other and then he said: “Brother, don’t show off in these two days. Go to sea if you can. If you can’t just rest at home.” With.
As for the things I put on the boat, you can get to the boat early tomorrow morning and take the white one to the collection station for charging. When you come back in the evening, you can take it on board and plug it in. ”
“Aqin, what on earth is that?”
“Brother, just don’t move. It doesn’t take up any space anyway.”
After eating and drinking, Xia Rong gave him 2,000 yuan before leaving. Naturally, he would not refuse the money.
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In the early morning, he followed his eldest brother and the others to the town. He first went to the boat to teach his eldest brother how to unload and plug in the UPS, making sure that they both knew how to do it.
He asked the two of them to set off, and he moved the UPS to the collection station and started charging it.
“You said you don’t have a car license, otherwise it would be more convenient to drive my car.”
“Don’t worry, Brother Dong, I will definitely trouble you sometimes.”
He came to the noodle stall and ate a bowl of noodles. The earliest bus had also arrived at the starting point. After getting on the bus, he chose a seat by the window. He put his bag on the side and covered it with his body. There was nothing he could do, there were too many thieves these days. .
When the car was about to start, he actually saw a familiar figure. The other person seemed to have seen him and quickly shifted his gaze.
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