The Boat is All Dirty

Zhou Chenglei ignored Yang Dayou; he said he wouldn't sell to him, so he wouldn't.

Xu Wen'an was a little anxious, "Help me move the Red Snapper off the boat first; I need to have someone send it back to the restaurant."

Old Hou then said, "I'm not in a hurry; let's move Manager Xu's Red Snapper off the boat first! The rest is mine."

Xu Wen'an checked and saw that the fish in the baskets weren't being deceptively sized up, so he asked Zhou Chenglei to move them off the boat.

Zhou Chenglei and Father Zhou then moved the Red Snapper he wanted off the boat.

Xu Wen'an and Old Hou didn't just stand there; they helped with the moving.

Jiang Xia was on the boat, sorting through the mixed fish while keeping an eye on the goods on the boat.

She thought that the restaurant would probably want shrimp for banquets, so she wanted to pick out the shrimp first.

The four of them quickly finished moving everything.

Old Hou returned to the boat and said, "Can I take a look at the Yellow Croaker?"

Father Zhou opened the live fish hold, showed them to the two of them, and then closed it.

Yang Dayou also squeezed over and took a peek! Good heavens, they were golden, and some even looked alive. This was very rare; generally, the Yellow Croaker caught by trawlers were all dead.

Yang Dayou's eyes widened, and he looked at Zhou Chenglei, "Comrade, brother, big brother..."

Zhou Chenglei ignored him.

Old Hou: "You must have encountered a school of Yellow Croaker before dawn, and it wasn't caught by trawling, right?"

It sounded like a question, but it was a definite tone.

Father Zhou smiled and nodded, "We encountered the school of fish not long after we set out to sea."

Xu Wen'an: "No wonder the color is so golden."

Old Hou: "What good luck!"

Father Zhou smiled, "It's all thanks to my daughter-in-law."

Upon hearing this, the two of them looked at Jiang Xia.

The sun hadn't set yet, and Jiang Xia was wrapped up tightly, so they couldn't see what she looked like.

However, it was rare in their area to bring a woman along when going out to sea to fish, but they didn't say anything.

Live Yellow Croaker would fetch a higher price than dead ones.

However, the Yellow Croaker hadn't been sorted yet; there were big and small ones, but they all looked to be around a pound or eight or nine taels, with a few particularly large ones.

Zhou Chenglei and the two of them bargained for a while.

In the end, the Yellow Croaker was sold for one yuan, two jiao, and five fen per jin, regardless of size, and directly scooped up and put into baskets.

Xu Wen'an also bought all the shrimp that Jiang Xia had picked out, as well as a dan of Spanish Mackerel, a Grouper, and a few Sea Bass.

Old Hou bought all the remaining Red Snapper, Yellow Croaker, and Spanish Mackerel.

Zhou Chenglei wouldn't sell the mixed fish; otherwise, he would have bought them all.

He saw that there were quite a few valuable goods in that pile of mixed fish, but the price of unsorted mixed fish was low, but Jiang Xia had already picked out some of the larger fish.

In the end, there were four dan of Red Snapper weighing about one jin each, at one hundred and ten yuan per dan, which was four hundred and forty yuan; three dan weighing one and a half jin each, totaling three hundred and ninety yuan; then there weren't many weighing two jin, about one and a half dan, totaling two hundred and four yuan; there were only five weighing three jin, totaling thirty-six yuan; there was also one weighing four jin, which sold for fifteen yuan. There was one dan weighing less than one jin, for eighty yuan.

The Red Snapper alone sold for one thousand one hundred and sixty-five yuan! This was equivalent to what others earned in a year and a half at sea.

The Yellow Croaker sold for a total of five hundred and seventy-two yuan and two jiao.

There were more than three hundred jin of Spanish Mackerel, at three mao per jin, selling for one hundred and five yuan and seven mao.

There were a few Sea Bass, selling for three yuan, five mao, and five fen.

The shrimp and squid also sold for eleven yuan and two mao.

The other large fish picked out from the two nets of mixed fish sold for a total of forty-three yuan and seven jiao.

In the end, the total amount received was one thousand nine hundred and one yuan, three jiao, and five fen.

There was still a pile of small fish, shrimp, and other mixed fish left on the deck, probably worth a few yuan.

Jiang Xia: "If we drag the net one more time, we might just earn enough for two thousand!"

Father Zhou's dark face was full of smiles, "It's already very good. Apart from the big ships that go to the far sea, our kind of boat has never tried to earn so much."

Today is definitely his highlight moment! Enough for him to brag about for a lifetime! He has been fishing at sea for so many years, and the most he earned was nearly two hundred yuan. He never dared to dream that he could earn nearly two thousand yuan.

Two thousand yuan!

He couldn't earn that much in a year of fishing before.

Zhou Chenglei steered the boat without saying a word.

Because Jiang Xia hadn't really experienced the prices of this era and what things two thousand yuan could buy, she didn't feel as much about the two thousand yuan as Father Zhou did, but she was also happy.

"How much can a big ship earn from a trip to the far sea?" Jiang Xia asked.

"That's hard to say, but I heard that most trips can earn thousands, there are more fish in the far sea."

Jiang Xia nodded: "When we have money, we'll buy a big ship."

Father Zhou didn't respond. A big ship costs tens of thousands, how easy is it to buy? He squatted down to sort out the pile of miscellaneous fish that hadn't been sorted yet.

The sun had already set, and the sunset glow domineeringly covered half the sky with its gorgeous and dazzling posture, half the sea dark blue and half red.

Jiang Xia took off her straw hat, untied her face scarf, and the sea breeze hit her face, making her feel refreshed instantly.

She faced the wind and took a deep breath of the ocean air.

Zhou Chenglei steered the boat, his eyes inadvertently falling on her. The sea breeze blew a few strands of her soft hair, her eyebrows and eyes gentle.

The sky is beautiful, the sea is beautiful, and she is even more beautiful.

Jiang Xia put away her straw hat and face scarf, then squatted down and began to sort out the pile of miscellaneous fish and shrimp.

Back at the village's small pier, many fishing boats were already docked.

A long queue had formed at the purchasing point. Jiang Xia saw the villagers carrying baskets of fish down, each with a smile on their face, it seemed they had a good harvest.

A few returning fishing boats were still scattered on the sea.

Mother Zhou had been waiting at the pier for a long time, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her own boat returning.

Although fishing at sea has a high income, the risks are also great. From the moment the family's boat leaves the sea, their hearts begin to rise.

Tian Caihua also came to the pier to help. Saying it was helping, she wanted to see how much money the second family could earn today, so she could have a number in her heart.

When the boat docked, Mother Zhou approached and asked Father Zhou, who jumped off the boat and pulled the rope: "Why are you so late? Is there a lot of goods?"

Without waiting for Father Zhou to answer, she glanced at the goods on the boat, and her heart skipped a beat.

Unbelievable!

Only this pile of miscellaneous fish? Mother Zhou quickly got on the boat and couldn't help turning her head to look around, a little unable to believe it, but she had to.

Really just this pile of worthless small miscellaneous fish?

Today's luck is too bad!

Tian Caihua glanced at it and also felt unlucky: "There's not much goods today! Why so little? Never tried so little before!"

The villagers all glanced at Father Zhou's boat. Someone said, "Yongfu, your luck is so-so today!"

Father Zhou smiled: "Today is okay."

At this time, the old men from the morning boarded their boat and were happy to see it: "You call this okay? Old Zhou, your mouth is harder than a diamond drill! No, I should say you have a broad mind, you're satisfied with catching such a pile of stuff, keep it up, haha."

They all felt that their predictions had come true and couldn't help gloating: "I told you not to take a woman out to sea, it will bring bad luck, you didn't listen. Look! After going out for a day, you caught such a pile of worthless goods, you've lost even the fuel money! Everyone's goods today are good, at least forty yuan, I sold more than one hundred yuan, Bingqiang sold almost two hundred yuan! I don't know if you even have ten yuan."

Zhou Bingqiang: "You'll suffer if you don't listen to the old folks. I told you that women are leaky, they can't get on the boat, it will bring bad luck! You don't believe it! I'm telling you, your boat won't catch any good goods in the future! Don't you believe it, change it as soon as possible!"

Tian Caihua's face instantly turned ugly. She glared at Jiang Xia's back, her dislike for her reaching the extreme, and couldn't help muttering: "What are you doing following us out to sea for no reason? Can you fish? Just making trouble!"

The family only has this one boat, and their family still relies on this boat to live!

Jiang Xia has dirtied the boat!

The more Tian Caihua thought about it, the angrier she became, the more wronged she felt, and she couldn't help but redden her eyes.

What to do if the boat is dirty? Go out to sea, but I'm afraid it will bring bad luck!

If we don't go out to sea, are we going to starve and drink seawater?

She was tempted to make Jiang Xia pay for a new boat! Family scandals shouldn't be aired, Mother Zhou glanced at Tian Caihua and said unpleasantly, "What era is this? Still engaging in feudal superstition? Women hold up half the sky! Who can guarantee a full catch every time they go out to sea? Which family hasn't experienced only catching a few fish and shrimp?"

That's what she said, but Mother Zhou was also afraid in her heart: If she had known this would happen, she wouldn't have let her go out to sea.

Anyone who marries her is unlucky!

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