After knowing the price of diving equipment, the villagers were obviously not very interested in buying it.
The village chief asked Xiang Yang a few more irrelevant questions and then let him go.
Xiang Yang was just relieved that the villagers were not interested. He really didn't want to get involved in this mess, so he found an excuse to say goodbye to the villagers and walked home with his father and uncle.
Father Xiang was obviously still sulking, walking in front with his hands behind his back.
Xiang Yang's uncle walked side by side with Xiang Yang, listing Xiang Yang's faults all the way. Xiang Shan had no problem teaching Xiang Yang a lesson. There has always been a saying in rural areas that an elder brother is like a father. Xiang Yang's grandfather passed away early, so strictly speaking, Xiang Shan was the real head of the Xiang family.
Xiang Yang nodded obediently no matter what his uncle said, and walked all the way to a remote place where he suddenly stopped. His expression became very serious.
"Let's go, what are you standing there for? With that expression on your face, are you angry when I say something to you?" Xiang Shan said unhappily.
Xiang's father, who was walking in front, also turned around with a gloomy face.
"Dad, uncle, do you know what kind of lobster this is?" Xiang Yang asked softly while comforting the French blue dragon that was struggling in his arms.
"A blue lobster. Uncle has never seen one before." Xiang Shan didn't notice the difference in Xiang Yang's tone, and actually began to wonder what kind of lobster it was and why it was blue.
Father Xiang stared at Xiang Yang for a while, then walked back as if he suddenly thought of something and asked in a low voice, "Is this lobster valuable?"
"French Blue Dragon, the one I have is worth at least one million." Xiang Yang said directly.
"How much?" Father Xiang's voice trembled and he almost fainted from fright.
Xiang Bo also stared at the French blue dragon with his eyes wide open as if he had seen a ghost.
One million. Only those who have truly experienced the society and suffered its beatings know how heavy a number one million is.
One million yuan can easily buy a house in a second-tier city and change the fate of the whole family.
One million can easily crush an ordinary family of three and bring down the backbone of the family.
Take Xiang Yang's third uncle, who works in an electronics factory. He only earns about 4,000 yuan a month, including overtime pay. Even if he tied a rope around his neck and went without food and drink, it would take him 20 years to save up this huge sum of money.
"Is it really worth one million?" Mr. Xiang's neck turned red after experiencing the ups and downs in life.
"I can't tell you exactly how much it's worth, but one million is my most conservative estimate for it. You don't know that French Blue Dragon is one of the most precious lobsters in the world. The price of an ordinary lobster weighing a few taels is second only to the Chinese Jingxiu lobster over 55 cm, which costs several thousand yuan per pound. As for this big one in my hand..." Xiang Yang shook his head. It was a miracle that a French Blue Dragon could grow to such a big size. It was difficult to estimate the price without an actual transaction.
"Hey, Xiang He, Xiao Yang, we are almost home, why don't we separate here?" Xiang Bo looked away with difficulty, and he was in a difficult mood. After listening to Xiang Yang, Xiang Bo was convinced that this lobster was worth so much money, and he felt that it would not be good for him to stay here at this time.
"Uncle, you can't leave."
"Brother, don't leave yet."
Xiang's father and Xiang Yang said almost in unison, and Xiang Bo looked at them in a daze.
"Uncle, I plan to sell this lobster while I'm inviting my fellow villagers to dinner tonight, but I'm afraid the boss who comes to trade will play some tricks on me, so could you please stay at my house for a while?" Xiang Yang pleaded.
"With so many fellow villagers here tonight, those people outside wouldn't dare to play any tricks even if I lend them a guts. But it's better to be safe than sorry. If there is any conflict, the villagers may not necessarily help us wholeheartedly. Brother, you must stay and help us tonight." Xiang's father also spoke.
"It would be best to call Uncle San as well." Xiang Yang added.
When ordinary people encounter such a thing, the first person they would guard against is probably relatives rather than outsiders. However, it is different for the Xiang family. Xiang Yang's grandfather passed away early. The ten-year-old Xiang Bo took the eight-year-old Xiang Father to beg for food, and also had to take care of the five-year-old third child. Xiang Father and Xiang Yang's third uncle were almost raised by Xiang Bo. The Xiang family has been extremely united until Xiang Yang's generation.
This is also the reason why Xiang Yang cares so much about what the villagers think of his family. When he has the ability to purchase seafood, he gives the bulk of the profits to the villagers. No matter how mean the villagers are, they are the villagers who paid for Xiang Yang to go to college. No matter how poor the village is, it is the village that supports their Xiang family.
"Not only should we call the third brother over, but we should also call the two little monkeys in my family." Xiang Bo didn't have as many cunning ideas as Xiang Yang, but he understood one thing: when doing such things, the more people there are, the more deterrent there is, and the other party will dare not play any tricks.
The two monkey cubs that Xiang Bo was talking about were his two sons, one was Xiang Yang's cousin Xiang Chen, and the other was Xiang Yang's cousin Xiang Hui.
Xiang Chen is a fisherman with a generous personality. Xiang Hui was spoiled by his uncle Xiang when he was a child, and now he is not well-liked in the village and is considered a bad boy.
After the three of them made a plan, they immediately split up and took action.
Xiang Yang returned home to look after the French Blue Dragon. His father went to his third uncle's house to pick up his mother and uncle, while Uncle Xiang went to look for Xiang Chen and Xiang Hui.
There were many large wooden basins in Xiang Yang's living room, each filled with sea water. These were used by Xiang's mother to temporarily keep the large lobsters and swimming crabs that she had purchased.
After returning home, Xiang Yang directly took out the three large lobsters from the largest wooden basin in the house and threw them into the wooden basin next to it where swimming crabs were kept. Then he sniffed the sea water in the basin to make sure it had no smell before putting the French blue dragon in.
Only after doing all this did Xiang Yang call Li Chao.
When Xiang Yang called, Li Chao was in an office on the top floor of the largest aquatic product wholesale building in Longcheng City begging for help, "Brother Zhang, it's really useless for you as a wholesaler to hold that piece of fish maw, can you give it to me?"
"Bullshit, the maw of yellow croaker can save lives, and you tell me this thing is useless?" Zhang Qicheng had no intention of giving in. Yellow croakers are already scarce, and have been listed as protected animals in recent years. The existing yellow croaker maws are really one less piece per piece. Zhang Qicheng was extremely lucky to have purchased a piece of yellow croaker maw, and he would definitely not sell it.
"Come, try it. I went to Meitan specifically to buy the top-quality Guizhou Maojian tea." Zhang Qicheng picked up a purple clay teacup on the coffee table and gestured.
"Are you serving tea to see the guests off?" Li Chao looked at Zhang Qicheng suspiciously.
"I really want to invite you to taste this tea. Forget it, if you don't drink it, I will." Zhang Qicheng raised his head and drank the tea in the purple clay cup in one gulp. He smacked his lips and said in a literary manner, "Good tea. I only like green tea in my life."
Li Chao twitched his lips. Just at this moment, his cell phone on the coffee table rang. Li Chao picked up the phone and looked at the caller ID. He frowned slightly before choosing to answer the call.
"What? A French Blue Dragon weighing more than ten kilograms?" Li Chao stood up as soon as he heard a sentence on the phone.