198. Chapter 198: Raise the Price (1/2)

Chapter 198 Raise the price

After the gunshot.

The boobies were scared away, and none dared to stay on the fishing boat.

Li Duoyu glanced at the booby shot down by his eldest cousin. It should be a brown booby, a large seabird, no smaller than a chicken.

Adult boobies can grow to about 70 cm. The back of this bird is brown and the belly is white. Because they have to swim in the sea to catch fish, their claws are similar to duck feet.

Li Duoyu remembered that when he was a child, there were still many such seabirds in Xijia Reef and Dongjia Reef near Dandan Island.

But in those days, fishermen had to hand in all the fish they caught for unified distribution.

And this seabird was not in the plan, and boobies were large, had a lot of meat, and the eggs were also quite large.

So some fishermen who wanted to eat meat would go to these reefs to set traps and steal bird eggs.

As a result, word spread quickly, and within two years, the brown booby population disappeared from the West Liga Reef, and no trace of these boobies could be seen near the coast.

Li Shuguang picked up a booby and handed it to Li Duoyu: "Would you like one? The meat is roasted and eaten, it's quite good."

Li Duoyu shook his head: "You shot it with this gun, and the meat is full of those small particles. If you don't handle it well, you will break your teeth if you bite it."

His cousin's gun is a homemade gun. When shooting, you have to pour those small particles into the muzzle. It is a bit like a shotgun, but the power is not that great. It can only be used to shoot birds and small animals.

Li Shuguang said with a little disdain: "I'm giving you food, but you're still picky. If you don't want it, I'll give it to Xiaochao and Shitou."

"Give it to them, I don't eat birds."

The main reason is that Li Duoyu has really eaten brown boobies before. Because this kind of bird eats seafood all year round, the bird meat is a bit smelly, and it really doesn't taste as good as chicken.

As a senior fish farmer, he knew very well that many wild game may not be tastier than farmed ones, and most of them have a foul smell.

After being attacked by the three forces of sea, land and air, the schools of mackerel and mackerel were eaten up directly, and in the end not even a small fish could escape.

Looking at the quiet sea surface.

Shitou couldn't help asking: "Are we still fishing now?"

Li Duoyu looked at the catch today. Although Lao Liu came to disrupt the situation, it was already a bumper harvest.

He looked at the rough watch on his wrist. It was already half past twelve.

The return journey will take another three hours.

It will be almost half past three in the afternoon to get to the Qingkou Wharf. If you go back at this time, the fishmongers at the wharf should not have left yet.

This time, there are no friends from overseas provinces to send them ice cubes. If they go back late, the fish will be spoiled and they will not be able to sell them at a high price.

"Let's go, let's go back."

After fishing for a few hours, Zhang Jinsha, whose arms were already numb, nodded quickly. He didn't want to work for Li Duoyu for nothing anymore.

The more you fish, the more you lose.

On the way back.

Li Shuguang did not rely on Li Duoyu to lead the way, but took out the sextant that his father gave him when he was in the fishing team.

After seeing this thing, Li Duoyu was also a little surprised. In this era without GPS, if you want to fish in the open sea, you must learn to use the sextant.

And Li Shuguang's set should be given to him by his father. When he became the captain of the fishing team, his uncle went to training and learned to use the compass and sextant.

This thing is quite complicated. Not only do you have to measure, but you also have to calculate and refer to the nautical calendar.

Someone told him about it before, but when he got involved in fishing, fishing boats were already equipped with GPS, so he never learned it.

Although my cousin did not have a high degree and did not even graduate from junior high school, he was very good at using the sextant because he often played with fishing boats since he was a child.

Not long after.

He calculated the longitude and latitude, and then marked the location of his fishing boat on a black and white global map. After using the compass, he knew the specific direction of the Qingkou Wharf on the spot.

Even Li Duoyu felt inferior to him. He could come to the open sea because of his experience and feeling. As long as he left this sea area.

Li Duoyu would definitely lose his sense of direction in the vast ocean, but his cousin actually calculated his position.

If he had this skill, he would be eager to work in any state-owned fishing company, especially the offshore fishing companies that have just emerged recently.

Before leaving.

Li Duoyu looked at the sea. There was not a single fishing boat in the vast sea. Fortunately, he brought the reply letter from Ma Xiumei's neighbor. It was a pity that he did not meet the old man this time, otherwise he would ask him for some smoothies.

After the fishing boat began to return.

Everyone sat on the deck to rest, and everyone brought some dry food with them.

Li Duoyu and the other three ate the meat-filled guangbing made by Chen Huiying, while Shitou and Zhang Jinsha brought some triangular cakes and oil cakes.

But for coastal people, whether eating dry food or rice, if there is no soup, it is soulless.

So, Li Duoyu became the cook and cooked a pot of fish soup with the remaining fish.

People in Dandan Island love fish soup very much. For Li Duoyu and his friends, pork was hard to buy in the past.

The soup they drink is almost all fish soup. When cooking, just put some ginger slices, which can not only remove the fishy smell, but also warm the stomach.

After more than three hours of tossing on the sea.

The fishing boat arrived at Qingkou Wharf.

What everyone didn't expect was that the wharf was quite lively today. There were several fishing boats queuing up, and the wharf was full of baskets of swimming crabs.

It's no wonder that the swimming crab season is coming again, and the fishmongers are very busy at this moment.

Someone else used a loudspeaker and shouted: "Pigma crabs are only 12 cents, and hairtails are 8 cents. If you want to sell them, hurry up. If it's too late, no one will buy them, so you can only sell them to make salted crabs."

It just so happened.

At the dock, Li Duoyu unexpectedly encountered the tugboat of his third uncle's family. His second uncle and the others were carrying baskets of swimming crabs on the boat to the dock.

It has been seven or eight days since I last saw Uncle San and his friends out at sea in the middle of the night.

According to Uncle San's habit, returning to Qingkou Wharf to sell swimming crabs would definitely be the last stop.

Because his cousin Li Yujun was arrested, the third uncle worked really hard this whole year and never missed any seasonal seafood.

Although she made a lot of money this year, the third aunt was worried that Yujun would be bullied inside, so she would go to the prison every once in a while to give some cigarettes, alcohol and benefits to those in charge.

Most of the money I earned was spent on this, and there wasn’t much left.

The life of Xiao Hei, who sold Buddha heads, was not so good. He was sentenced to nearly thirty years for selling cultural relics.

Their family had little money to begin with, and since he had been sentenced to too many years, the family almost gave up on him.

I only visited once a year, and after the visit, I didn't dare to go again, because people like them who have no money to maintain relationships have the least status in prison.

Li Duoyu knows this very well. Even now, he still occasionally dreams about the horrific experiences he had in prison in his previous life.

After seeing them, Li Duoyu shouted to them.

"Third uncle, second uncle, when did you come back?"

Uncle Li Zhengfa, who was carrying swimming crabs, heard a familiar voice and looked up to see Li Duoyu not far away.

Seeing Li Duoyu on Li Shuguang's fishing boat, Li Zhengfa instantly knew where they were going.

"Did you go fishing in the open sea again? How many fish did you catch today?"

“Didn’t catch much.”

"Just some mackerel and grouper."

Zhang Jicai, who was weighing the swimming crabs, shouted to Li Duoyu after hearing that he had gone fishing.

"Duoyu, it's been a long time since you came to patronize my business. Remember to sell good products to me. The price is guaranteed to satisfy you."

Lao Zhang shouted like this.

The other fishmongers at the pier were a little emotional on the spot: "Lao Zhang, can you do it in order? The fishing boats haven't even docked yet, and you started robbing them."

Zhang Jicai replied: "According to the order of yarn, if my regular customers don't sell it to me, why should I sell it to you?"

"Shit, the one with the highest price gets it. Believe it or not, I will raise the price to see if I can sell you more fish."

Lao Zhang hummed:

"Come on, whoever is afraid of the price is afraid of you."

"Old Zhang, you are becoming more and more arrogant."

Other fishmongers were also helpless. Since Lao Zhang had a relative who worked as a purchaser at the Foreign Trade Center Hotel, they really had to match the prices. In the end, they were the ones who suffered.

Everyone's talk is their own talk.

However, these fishmongers are still united and rarely engage in malicious bidding and customer grabbing.

But today there was a young fishmonger named Li Ergou who didn't seem to agree with them and decided to try breaking out of the circle.

Before Li Duoyu and his fishing boat docked, Li Ergou passed other fishing boats and jumped onto his fishing boat two or three times.

After seeing giant mackerels all over the ground.

Li Ergou's eyes widened. He picked up a mackerel, smelled it, touched it and found that the mackerel was very fresh.

Then, he saw the imported fishing rods placed aside, and Li Ergou couldn't help but ask: "Did you catch these mackerels?"

Before Li Duoyu could answer, Zhang Jinsha took the lead and said, "Of course I caught it. The mackerel in the net is not that good-looking."

Li Ergou frowned and thought for a while, then asked Li Duoyu: "Regardless of the size, can I sell it for 35 cents per pound?"

"If you sell them, I'll take all of them."

Seeing that Li Ergou, a foolish young man, was so ignorant of martial ethics, Lao Zhang, who was calculating money with others, was so angry that he cursed on the spot: "Er Gou, please don't cause trouble, okay?"

Then he shouted to Li Duoyu on the fishing boat: "No matter how much Ergou pays, I, Lao Zhang, will give me half a cent."

"Lao Zhang, you are awesome."

Li Ergou snorted: "I just gave you four cents. I don't believe it. How dare you add half a cent."

The fishmongers at the pier found it very interesting when they saw the two bidding.

"Come on, Lao Zhang, don't be a coward."

"Forty-five cents, shoot down the two dogs."

"Er Gou, come on, win this big customer."

Some boat owners, who were always being pushed down by fishmongers, started making noises when they saw someone bidding.

"Don't be a coward, just raise the price."

"Damn it, these profiteers are lowering our prices day by day, and now they are bleeding too."

Seeing that the whole dock was booing, Zhang Jicai felt a little ashamed of being treated like this. After thinking about it for a while, he frowned and shouted: "Damn it, I'll pay you 42 cents."

After hearing Lao Zhang's offer, there were boos on the dock.

"Instead of saying how much it is, you add half a hair to Ergou's amount. How come you only add two points?"

Lao Zhang replied: "You guys come if you have the guts."

Li Ergou thought for a while, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Damn it, I paid forty-three cents, I don't believe you still want more."

Lao Zhang shouted: "Forty-four cents, if you dare to shout forty-five cents, I will give it to you."

I saw the price soared to 44 cents.

Li Ergou took a look at the mackerels. They were very big and of good quality.

But when it reaches 40 cents, you can no longer make any money after deducting the transportation fee, and you will have to pay 43 cents.

Although he also wanted Li Duoyu, a big customer, if he continued to do so, he would be at odds with Lao Zhang.

Everyone is from the same pier, and there is really no need to look up and not look down.

"Sorry, I'll give it to you."

Lao Zhang cursed: "Er Gou, you must have done it on purpose. Raise your hand, you are very happy, aren't you?"

Li Ergou said hey: "There is no way, business is hard to do, why don't you give me forty-three cents."

"You think beautifully."

The rocks on the fishing boat were a bit unresponsive. Normally, the mackerel is only sold for 30 cents at most. The mackerel they caught is good, but it really doesn't cost 44 cents.

"Lao Sha, when did Spanish mackerel become so expensive? It's even more expensive than large yellow croaker?"

Zhang Jinsha sighed and said, "It's not that mackerel is expensive, it's Li Duoyu's fish. That's why it's sold so expensive?"

"Huh? What does that mean?"

Zhang Jinsha glanced at Shitou with disgust: "When you do business in the future, you will understand that not every order can be profitable."

But the higher the purchase price, Zhang Jinsha felt his heart ached. The total weight of these mackerels was at least more than 600 kilograms.

If purchased at 44 cents.

It cost nearly three hundred yuan, and half of the boatload of mackerel was caught by him.

If you choose the 30-yuan fishing package today, you can not only save the fishing spot fee, but also earn more than 100 yuan.

Just how many kilograms of clams he cultivated would have to be sold to earn more than one hundred.

After Lao Zhang reported the price of 44 cents, he was full of regret. This price was really too high. Not counting shipping costs, he lost more than 4 cents per catty.

And right now.

Li Duoyu opened two large buckets covered by tarpaulins: "Lao Zhang, there are a lot of groupers here, do you want them?"

After seeing the grouper and snapper in the bucket, Lao Zhang became excited.

"You don't have to think about it, I definitely want it."

"Duoyu, I suffered a big loss just now. You have to sell these fish to me cheaper. Don't do it again."

Li Duoyu felt a little embarrassed when he saw the Spanish mackerel soared to 44 cents, and then raised the prices of grouper and snapper.

"No problem, just the regular price."

Lao Zhang breathed a sigh of relief.

Just some time ago, his nephew said that the hotel had set up some live pools and wanted a batch of live seafood.

If he sells these groupers and snappers to his nephew, he should be able to even out the loss from the Spanish Mackerel.

Immediately afterwards, Lao Zhang brought several baskets and packed all the mackerel from Li Duoyu, a total of seven baskets.

"Ma Shu weighs 625 pounds."

"Forty-four cents per catty."

"275 yuan"

"These groupers and snappers all cost 60 cents."

"185 pounds, 111 yuan."

"A total of 386 yuan."

The ship bosses on the dock all gasped and started talking after hearing the price.

"Is fishing in the open sea so profitable?"

"Such a small boat can make more money than us."

Li Zhengfa on the side was really envious when he saw the more than 30 pieces of unity in Li Duoyu's hand.

He took a group of people out to sea for seven days, and only sold more than 600 yuan from head to tail. After deducting fuel expenses, food expenses, and crew wages, he only got less than 100 yuan.

But I just heard from Li Shuguang that he earned more than that, as well as fishing fees from Shitou and Zhang Jinsha, which totaled thirty yuan.

In other words, Li Duoyu's net profit for this day was more than 400 yuan, which was four times as much as his.

Think of this.

Li Zhengfa couldn't help but sigh, wondering if he was getting old and would be eliminated by today's young people.

The two chapters were combined into one, and part of the plot was deleted.

The river crab part is about the protagonist fishing for sharks and involves some shark-related topics (Pu Qi).

In fact, our country has never been a shark fishing country, not even 100% of the fishing volume.

But at the beginning, the white glove environmental protection organization slapped a big label on it, saying that sharks were eaten to extinction by us.

At that time, a group of people who had been deceived started to support environmental organizations, saying that eating shark fins and shark skin was cruel.

In fact, our country has always been a downstream industry for sharks, and shark fins are sold to us as scraps that others do not want.

I won’t go into details because I’m afraid everything will be harmonized here, so you can search by yourself.