"How long were you gone? Did you catch anything good?"
"We did. If you're interested, come take a look with us."
"Hahaha, since you're putting it that way, there must be some good stuff. Then I won't stand on ceremony."
"Don't stand on ceremony!"
Shen Mingquan drove back to Deyu Fish Shop with Niu Deyu and the others.
The shop assistants helped carry down the boxes of fish. Shen Mingquan scanned the baskets one by one. "Let me see what good things you've got."
Lin Gongshang smiled. "What kind of good things are you looking for?"
"Any particularly special seafood?" Shen Mingquan looked at the fish baskets. "Do you have Giant Grouper?"
"Of course. Giant Grouper is one of our regular catches. No matter where we go fishing, we always catch one or two Giant Grouper."
"That makes sense. You should have Giant Grouper. What about Mouse Grouper?"
Mouse Grouper was among the most prized types of grouper. It tasted excellent and sold for a high price, but buying one depended on luck. They were rarely seen under normal circumstances.
Lin Gongshang pointed at Lu Ao. "We don't have any. He caught one."
"You even have Mouse Grouper?" Shen Mingquan refused to give up. "Then let me name another one. Do you have abalone?"
"Not many." Lu Ao raised his eyes. "We dug up fifteen or sixteen. How many do you want?"
"Let me see how big they are first."
"They're probably three-head abalone this time. They're all wild, and they're in the mesh bag."
Abalone grades were calculated by the number per jin. Dried abalones of the same size were weighed together, and however many made up one jin determined the grade.
The three-head abalone Lu Ao mentioned meant that after these abalones were dried, three would weigh one