When Zhou Chenglei's boat and the others' boats docked, everyone at the pier gathered around the two large fishing boats.
Zhou Bingqiang had good luck today. He had encountered a school of Golden Threadfin Bream, and basket after basket of them was carried off the fishing boats, making everyone else green with envy.
Although Golden Threadfin Bream were cheap, there was a huge quantity of them. Besides, he had two fishing boats. With both boats filled to the brim with Golden Threadfin Bream, how could people not be envious?
The villagers on the boat said enviously, "Old Qiang, how come your luck is always so good? You run into schools of fish every few days. You must have earned at least one or two hundred yuan today, right?"
"Old Qiang has always had the best luck in our village! Otherwise, how could his fishing boats be the biggest in the village? And he has two of them! There's no one else like him around here!"
"Uncle Qiang's luck really is extraordinary. Even when he doesn't run into a school of fish, he still earns at least seventy or eighty yuan a day. We're happy for an entire month if we can earn thirty or forty yuan in a day."
Zhou Bingqiang revealed a row of brilliant white teeth on his dark face, grinning from ear to ear. "Don't talk nonsense. How could my luck compare to Zhou Yongfu's? He earns what I make in a year in a single day!"
"Zhou Yongfu only gets lucky once or twice now and then. Usually, he earns just twenty or thirty yuan like the rest of us. If we're talking about luck at sea, you're still the impressive one, Old Qiang!"
Zhou Bingqiang said, "Don't say that. He took his daughter-in-law out to