Chapter 456 Be careful not to hurt your feelings
“Zhao Dahai!”
“The fish maw of this time is much better than the one from the last trip!”
< br>“The bigger, the better!”
When Sun Er saw Zhao Dahai coming back, he immediately handed it over with isinglass in his hand.
Zhao Dahai nodded while looking at the isinglass. The mullet fish caught this time was bigger and the quality was indeed better.
“Hey!”
“This is really good stuff!”
“It’s really too difficult!”
Sun Er looked at it Zhao Dahai holds the isinglass in his hand.
In the early years when I was young, it was not difficult to find isinglass of this quality. In the past ten or eight years, there have been fewer and fewer big fish in the sea, and there are even fewer fish suitable for drying isinglass. Good isinglass Less and less.
The best thing I have seen in the past few years is Zhao Dahai’s big eel fish that weighed more than 100 kilograms and was dried. This time, these big eel fish weighing 70 or 80 kilograms were dried. It is indeed not as good as the one weighing over 100 kilograms, but it is already very good, and a level higher than the dried mullet fish weighing 40 or 50 kilograms on the previous trip.
Sun Er opened the box he brought. Each piece of isinglass had its own bag. He took them all out, forty-six pieces in total.
Sun Er reminded Zhao Dahai to pay attention to drying such good things. The weather in the past two days was not very good. The waves were too big to go out to the sea, but the sea breeze was relatively strong and relatively dry. Great for drying.
Zhao Dahai immediately took the rack and hung all the isinglass to dry. After a while, a small truck drove over, pulling the dried fish of the eel fish. They all unloaded it, and it was another busy job. All were exposed to the sun.
Zhao Dahai paid and sent Sun Er away. When he turned around, his grandma Zhong Cuihua was looking at the isinglass that was being dried.
“Grandma!”
“Things can’t fly here! No need to keep staring!”
Zhao Dahai walked to the shelf hanging dried fish and took a look I looked at the past forty-five fish, each weighing seven to eighty pounds, which was very spectacular.
“What do you know? You have to deal with this thing carefully!”
"You have to be careful about what you put into your mouth?"
Zhong Cuihua glared at Zhao Dahai.
Zhao Dahai was happy. It was not that he had to be careful about what he put into his mouth. The important thing was that his future granddaughter-in-law had to be careful about what she put into her stomach.
Zhao Dahai thought of the dried fish from the last trip to dry the isinglass. The wind was strong today, it was very dry, and there was not much sun. This was the best weather for drying the dried fish, so he moved them all out and hung them up. On the shelf.
“Grandma!”
"There's no need to keep so much of the dried owl, how about selling some?"
Zhao Dahai has a headache. The isinglass from the eel fish is a good thing and must be kept. However, the dried fish from the eel fish can be preserved for a long time after being pickled into salted fish, but we can’t eat so much of it.
Zhong Cuihua thought for a while and nodded. Just leave a few fish.
"Does anyone want this? Can you sell it at a price?"
Zhong Cuihua looked at the dried giant owl hanging on the shelf and was reluctant to sell it if the price was too low.
Zhao Dahai is not worried at all. There is no need to worry about selling the dried fish, especially the dried fish of such a large fish, and the price must be very good.
Zhao Dahai called Wu Weimin. Wu Weimin immediately said to take them all. He may not have time today, but he will come over tomorrow and must keep them.
After Zhao Dahai finished the phone call, he picked out the four largest ones from the shelf, got on his tricycle, and gave one to each of the homes of his second grandfather, Zhao Shi, Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Da. The most valuable part of the fish is definitely the fish maw. The meat of these fish is also very good. It is impossible to sell it at a very high price, but this big one can easily be sold for a hundred or dozens of yuan per catty. A fish weighing several dozen kilograms is worth three to four thousand yuan.
After Zhao Dahai finished delivering the fish, he returned home and remembered what he and Ding Xiaoxiang had discussed about buying a speedboat, and told his grandma Zhong Cuihua.
“Yo!”
“Why?”
“Didn’t you say that your speedboat is the best speedboat for offshore fishing in the surrounding villages and towns?”
“Why do you still need it? "Where is the replacement? "
Zhong Cuihua was a little confused. She didn't know why Zhao Dahai suddenly wanted to replace the speedboat. He bought the current speedboat not long ago and made a lot of money. If it is enough, there is no need to replace it with a new one. , changing a ship will cost a lot of money.
Zhao Dahai said that he went to the town today, sold out the sea bass, and went to find Ding Xiaoxiang. Ding Xiaoxiang came up with the idea.
"Yo!"
"Did Xiaoxiang say you want to change it?"
"Then change it!"
Zhong Cuihua nodded in agreement.
“Grandma!”
"Are you too biased? I said I wanted to change ships. You told me to think carefully about what I said. As soon as I said it was Ding Xiaoxiang who made the decision, you agreed immediately!"
Zhao Dahai was a little bit dumbfounded, Grandma Zhong Cuihua heard that it was Ding Xiaoxiang's idea and immediately agreed without asking why she wanted to change.
"Does this need to be said? I think Xiaoxiang is a smart kid."
"There must be a reason why I said I wanted to change."
"I'm so old, how can I think of something so thoughtful?"
"Can't Ding Xiaoxiang just make up her mind?"
Zhong Cuihua tidied up the isinglass hanging on the shelf.
“Grandma!”
“It might cost a million to get a bigger speedboat!”
“This is a lot of money from the boss!”
"Don't you feel bad?"
Zhao Dahai deliberately teased his grandma Zhong Cuihua.
“One million? Can’t you make this money?”
“How much money have you made from running deep sea in the past two days? Isn’t it enough?”
"Ding Xiaoxiang doesn't know how much money you make!"
"I must have bought such a big speedboat. I can make money back and make more money!"
Zhong Cuihua didn't care about spending one million. People who go fishing at sea spend their money on fishing boats or fishing nets. I never think about how much I spend, I just think about whether I can make back the money I spent or whether I can make more.
Zhong Cuihua would usually consider these things carefully, but now that she has Ding Xiaoxiang, she no longer cares about these things.
Zhao Dahai really doesn’t know what to say now. In grandma Zhong Cuihua's eyes, she is a silly boy, while Ding Xiaoxiang is a very smart person.
You have to think carefully about what you say. You don’t care about anything Ding Xiaoxiang does.
Zhao Dahai told grandma Zhong Cuihua and Ding Xiaoxiang that they wanted to buy a bigger speedboat. The main reason was not that they could make more money, but that bigger speedboats were safer.
When Zhong Cuihua heard this, she immediately said to hurry up and buy the best one, not to mention one million, two or three million would have to be spent.
Zhao Dahai said that he had asked Ding Xiaoxiang’s second uncle to pay attention to this matter, and he would take it down if he had any clues.
Zhao Dahai did nothing else the entire afternoon and evening. He concentrated on drying fishing rods and isinglass and chatting with his grandma. Not long after Zhao Dahai finished dinner, Wu Weimin and someone from his company drove over in a truck.
Wu Wei was very happy. These dried fish and fish were top quality. Looking at his private restaurant, he didn’t have to worry about dried fish for a while. He cut the fish into pieces, added a few pieces of pork belly, and put something else in it. The braised pork is very popular.
Zhao Dahai took out the weight and said that the process of each step weighed a total of 4,100 kilograms.
Wu Weimin quoted a currency price of 120 yuan per catty, for a total of 492,000 yuan.
Wu Weimin looked at the orange isinglass drying next to him. This is the most valuable part of a fish.
Zhao Dahai looked at Wu Weimin's greedy eyes and joked that he should exercise better and go fishing more next time.
"Ha!"
"Zhao Dahai!"
"Actually, it's all our fault that we weren't very good at it, otherwise we would have caught a lot of fish!"
Wu Weimin He sighed very helplessly. Zhao Dahai found out the water layer where the fish shoal was. He could catch it as long as he had hands. He, Gao Zhicheng, Xu Yunjiang, and Lin Zuhua didn't have enough physical strength to catch much.
“That’s right!”
"You won't be able to go to sea for these two days, right?"
Wu Weimin no longer thinks about the owl, and will definitely catch more the next time he has a chance to go to sea. Tuna or something like that is just a taste test, but of no use. The isinglass produced by drying the maw of the catfish is a good thing.
Zhao Dahai told Wu Weimin that he drove a speedboat out to explore the fishing spots early this morning. Gao Zhicheng went out to sea with two friends. Halfway through, he found that the wind and waves were relatively strong, so he changed places to go fishing. For sea bass, after fishing for sea bass, I thought about trying to see if there were horsetails or fishing for grouper somewhere else. The waves were really too big, so I had to give up.
“Can you only stay at home these days?”
Wu Weimin turned his head and looked in the direction of the pier. It was already dark. Normally, the whole sea could be seen. The lights of many fishing boats are now almost invisible, and there are not many fishing boats going out to sea.
Zhao Dahai nodded helplessly. People who go fishing have to watch the weather for food. If the weather is bad, they can only stay at home.
Wu Weimin saw that all the dried fish had been loaded onto the truck. He made an appointment to go fishing together if he had time, got in the car and left.
Zhao Dahai walked back to the yard and closed the door. The weather was bad and he couldn't go to sea. He had to sleep well and have a good rest.
Shijiao Village.
A courtyard at the east end.
Shi Jiehua, Shi Guangming and Shi Zhong gathered around a table to eat, drink and chat.
“Grandpa!”
“Brother Dahai is really amazing!”
“I caught so many fish during these two fishing trips!”< br>
“This is already the number one fishing master in this area near us.”
Shi Zhongwei took a bite of chicken drumsticks and talked about the fish caught by Zhao Dahai in the past two days. He was very happy. He rested at home for two days. As soon as he went out, everyone was asking about Zhao Dahai's fishing.
"Dad!"
"What do you think of this matter? Can it be done?"
Shi Jiehua ignored Shi Zhongwei's words, Zhao Dahai was A master of fishing, especially the number one master of fishing in this area? Isn't this obvious? Needless to say, what he is currently concerned about is his cooperation with Zhao Dahai.
“Yes!”
"One hundred percent possible!"
"A lot of people have been looking for you to book fishing spots in recent days, right?"
Shi Guangming took a sip of wine and took the one placed next to him. He took a puff from the hookah.
“Hmm!”
“A lot!”
"I wish our fishing boat had a hundred fishing spots!"
Shi Jiehua was very helpless. The last time Zhao Dahai went out to sea with his fishing boat, many people had called to reserve fishing spots, and this trip was even more extraordinary. In the past two days, more than 50 people have come directly to the door, and even more have called. The total number of people before and after is no less than 150, and there will be more in the future.
The fishing boat has twenty-two fishing positions, and one trip to sea lasts a month. In addition to the preparation and rest time before and after each trip to sea, including bad weather, etc., seven trips a year are enough to survive. Eight trips, now enough for these people to travel for a year.
“Can you accept the money now and book the fishing position in a few months.”
Shi Guangming reminded Shi Jiehua not to do this.
"Dad!"
"Don't worry!"
"I'm not a young boy. Don't you understand the importance of this?"
"I I only received a deposit and booked the next and next two sailings.”
“We definitely can’t book a longer period of time!”
Shi Jiehuasheng took a shrimp and peeled it. There is nothing wrong with collecting a deposit and setting a shipping date five or six months later. Many fishing boats do this kind of thing, but my family never does this kind of thing.
Some of these people who set fishing spots and go fishing in the sea, like Wu Weimin, just want to catch big fish, but more of them want to catch enough fish to make money to support their families. .
Don’t look at the fact that your fishing boat is very popular during this period. There are many people who want to go out to sea with the boat, but if they can’t catch too many fish in the next two or three trips, they want to go with the boat. There will be fewer people going to sea.
It only takes two trips to collect the deposit. If the collection time is too long, those who paid the deposit may regret it. It is against the rules to return the deposit, and if the deposit is not returned, these people have objections in their hearts.
My own fishing boat is not short of these people to book fishing spots, especially now that Zhao Dahai has gone out to sea twice and caught so many fish, people are queuing up to go out to sea, there is no need to do it Such a thankless task.
"Zhao Dahai's reputation for being able to help other people catch more fish has spread."
"In the past few days, I have been talking to several old men in the village, including several old men from other villages. , we are talking about this matter during meals and tea.”
“Once Zhao Dahai agrees, you can let go and prepare for this matter.”
Shi Guangming has been here for the past two days. Pondering Shi Zhong came up with this idea accidentally.
“Some things can be done in advance.”
"Once Zhao Dahai agrees to cooperate, the fishing fee will definitely have to be raised. It cannot be the current 20,000 yuan."
"The other one is a fishing boat going out to sea. It is impossible. It’s just one ship for our family.”
“Three, four or even five or six ships are not a problem. Only in this way can we make more money.”
“There is another most important thing. Once Zhao Dahai cooperates with us to do this, how much money will be paid for each fishing position?"
Shi Guangming reminded Shi Jiehua that he must think about these things clearly. If he does not think about it clearly, various things will easily happen. All kinds of things hurt feelings and relationships.
"Dad!"
"I've been thinking about this for the past two days. I have an idea, but I'm a little undecided."
"See if this works. ?”
Shi Jiehua explained his thoughts in detail. After speaking, he looked at Shi Guangming. I have seen too many people and things in my life. I have to listen carefully to opinions on such things.
(End of this chapter)