"Enough talk. There's no ice on the boat, so it won't keep well. I need to row back while this sea pig is still fresh. It looks like thirty or forty jin, so it should fetch a few yuan. You guys take your time casting your nets here."
"Huh? We're not going to the Isolated Island?" A-Zheng still hadn't given up.
"We can't. I checked several little islands, but the tide hadn't gone out at any of them. They're pretty steep and hard to get onto, and the rocks are slippery too. It's not very safe. Let's wait until the first or fifteenth of the lunar month."
Hearing that, the three could only give up.
"I'm off. Keep at it!"
"All right."
When he carried his two buckets over to A-Cai, A-Cai also praised his luck: he had gone out with just a bucket and managed to scoop up a sea pig.
The sea pig, scientifically known as the finless porpoise, was a round, chubby creature with strange tentacles. Larger ones could grow to around 150 centimeters long and weigh two or three hundred jin, with lead-gray or grayish-white bodies.
The one he had caught was on the small side, probably only seventy or eighty jin.
Once A-Cai weighed it, sure enough, it was only seventy-two jin.
"I'll give you thirty-three fen a jin for this. Any objections? That's already the highest price I can offer, so don't haggle with me..."
Every time he sold his own catch, Ye Yaodong would haggle if he had anything good. A-Cai had gotten into the habit of mentioning it.
Ye Yaodong smiled. "All right, no haggling this time. Whatever you say."
He had picked it up for free anyway, and he was delighted.
Only then did A-Cai relax and calculate the price. "That's