Everyone else was also asking Lu Ao about the Miiuy Croaker he had hauled up.
Lu Ao gave Weng Qian a brief reply, then introduced the Miiuy Croaker he had caught in the auction group and the boat captains' group.
The Miiuy Croaker he had caught had already died by the time he hauled it up. Judging by the marks, it had likely fought with other fish or something else to the death. The wounds were fresh and clean.
People in the group were discussing how much the fish was worth. Lu Ao told them it had not been sold yet. Based on the usual prices before the New Year, its meat would probably fetch a little over a hundred per jin, while the fish maw would be worth sixty or seventy thousand.
-That's a pretty fair price.
-Little Brother Lu, sell the fish to me. I'll pay cash. How about we round it up to sixty-six thousand for the whole fish? Your fish was already dead when you hauled it up, so it can't compare to a live one. It's bound to lose some value.
-Little Brother Lu, don't listen to him. I'll take it for seventy thousand.
-Seventy-five thousand. I'm relatively close, so it should still be fresh by the time you ship it over.
-Little Brother Lu could sell it locally for sixty or seventy thousand. If it gets shipped out, the price would be even more outrageous. You think you can fob him off with seventy thousand? I'll offer eighty thousand!
-Hey, who raises the price like that? At this rate, won't it go on forever?
The auction group became extremely lively for a while, everyone talking over one another.
Lu Ao did not stop them.
They looked impulsive, but they were actually the shrewdest people