Naturally, there was no reason for Xiang Yang to refuse. For Xiang Yang, it didn't matter whether he sold it to Li Chao or Zhang Qicheng, as long as the other party could afford the price.
After a hard day's work, Xiang Yang lay on the side of the boat to look at the scenery on the way back. When the humid sea breeze blew, Xiang Yang squinted his eyes in enjoyment.
On the other side, Boss Li called Zhang Qicheng, and the two of them rushed to Yanlong Village for 800 miles.
More than an hour later, Xiang Yang finally saw the vague outline of the pier under the night sky.
The dock was still crowded with people, and the villagers of Yanlong Village seemed to have regarded it as a routine to welcome the return of Xiang Yang's ocean-going fishing boat.
In fact, Xiang Yang knew that except for a very small number of people who were family members of the crew members on the fishing boat, most of the onlookers came with special purposes.
For example, Village Chief Zuo.
Xiang Yang heard from Xiang's father that Village Chief Zuo had taken the lead with twenty or thirty households in the village and was planning to jointly buy two large ships like his. However, the villagers were under great mental pressure now. Except for a few families who said they were willing to do it and pay for it even if they had to sell all they had, most of them wanted to wait and see.
What are you waiting for
Of course, he was waiting to see how Xiang Yang caught every time he went out to sea.
After watching for a few days, the villagers became bolder and more and more people were interested.
This is not surprising. After all, Xiang Yang returned with a full load after several consecutive voyages. The villagers saw Xiang Yang making a lot of money every time he went out to sea. It would be a lie to say that they were not envious at all.
Every time Xiang Yang returned from sea with a full load, the villagers would become more courageous as if they had eaten something as brave as a bear or a leopard.
I just wonder if Xiang Yang would immediately lose the courage of the villagers if he returned empty-handed from his voyage.
"They're back, look, they're back." A sharp-eyed villager saw the outline of a large ship appearing in the distance between the sea and sky, and immediately shouted loudly.
There was a commotion among the crowd, and two large searchlights were turned on.
Village Chief Zuo was smiling and fiddling with a copycat military telescope.
"How is it? Have you seen Boss Xiang and the others?"
"Village Chief Zuo, can you lend me this telescope?"
"Is Xiang Yang's boat piled high with fish again this time?"
The villagers were talking at once. Boss Li and Zhang Qicheng, who were standing by and waiting, almost laughed out loud. What could they see clearly in this weather? The telescope showed that the sea was completely dark. It was good enough to see the boats clearly. How could they see the people on the boats and the catch
"Well, I see it clearly." Village Chief Zuo's smile slowly disappeared, and his expression gradually became solemn. He found that the waterline of Xiang Yang's ship when he returned from the sea this time was very shallow, just like an empty ship.
Village chief Zuo thought to himself that something was wrong. Could it be that Xiang Yang and his team had gone to waste today
"Xiao Zuo, let me see your telescope." An old fisherman became anxious when he saw Village Chief Zuo holding the telescope for a long time without saying anything. He snatched the telescope from Zuo Murakami's hand and started looking through it himself.
"Hey, Uncle Qin, you can't watch this." Village Chief Zuo hurriedly stopped him.
But it was too late. Uncle Qin had already seen Xiang Yang's fishing boat clearly through the telescope.
"Hey, this draft."
Village Chief Zuo withdrew his arm angrily. The thing he was most worried about had happened.
Sure enough, the next moment, Village Chief Zuo heard Uncle Qin muttering to himself with binoculars in hand, "The catch of the Xiang family kid this time doesn't seem to be very large judging by the draft!"
"Yeah?"
“How many are there?”
When the people around heard what Uncle Qin said, they immediately became anxious. Although they came to the dock for different purposes, whether they came to wait and see? Or to the dock waiting for their sons or husbands to return home? They all hoped that Xiang Yang's fishing boat would have a full boat of fish. Now they heard Uncle Qin say that Xiang Yang did not catch any fish this time. How could that be tolerated
Those who were jealous of Xiang Yang's making a lot of money by buying a big ship and going out to sea began to feel uneasy and hesitant about whether the plan of the village chief saying that everyone should jointly invest in buying a big ship to go fishing in the sea should be suspended.
Those villagers who had already made up their minds to jointly purchase the large ship also began to worry, as they were afraid that some of those who had agreed to do so would back out.
Of course, the most anxious ones are the families of the crew members on Xiang Yang's ship. They are worried that Xiang Yang will lay off employees. It is really not easy to get a job in a place like Yanlong Village, especially since there is only one job with such benefits as the one on Xiang Yang's ship.
"Ah." Uncle Qin returned the telescope to Village Chief Zuo. He did not directly answer the villagers' questions. "The boat will be docked soon. You can see for yourself how much fish we have caught."
The less Uncle Qin said, the more anxious everyone became. The atmosphere at the entire dock seemed depressing for a moment.
After a few more minutes, the fishing boat finally entered the Qinglongwan waters, and now everyone could see it clearly.
When everyone saw that the draft of Xiang Yang's ship was almost exactly the same as when it went out, they were all stunned.
"The old Xiang family's kid's luck is really bad today. So many people and such a big boat went out for a whole day and didn't catch anything?"
"There's such a big ocean out there. There must be horsehead fish, right? There must be saury, right? There must be a lot of bighead carp, right? Why did you come back with an empty boat?"
"If there were fish, would Boss Renxiang not catch them? If you ask me, the fishery resources outside are just like our Qinglongwan, and they are also exhausted."
"Nonsense! If the fishery resources in the outer seas are also depleted, then what was on their boat when they came back last time?"
"That's a very pointed question. Actually, as far as I know, the fishery resources in the entire ocean are generally exhausted. The reason why Xiang Yang and his team were able to catch fish the first two times they went out to sea was because the people in Qinglongwan had never been out of the sea area outside Qinglongwan, and people outside Qinglongwan had never entered, so there were more fishery resources. But that more was relative. After catching fish twice, they were gone. So they came back empty-handed this time."
"So that's how it is."
The villagers nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
Village Chief Zuo wanted to refute, but the draft of Xiang Yang's fishing boat was indeed very low, and he really couldn't find any words to refute.
After thinking for a while, Village Chief Zuo said tactfully: "Everyone has good and bad luck. We can't just rely on Xiang Yang's failure to catch any fish in his one trip to the sea to conclude that the fishery resources in the ocean are depleted. After all, he has gone out to sea so many times, and generally speaking, the gains are greater than the losses."
No one responded to Village Chief Zuo’s words.
Even Village Chief Zuo heard someone whispering, "It's a good thing we didn't listen to Village Chief Zuo's advice, otherwise our life savings would have been thrown into the sea and we would have had to jump into the sea."
When Village Chief Zuo heard this, he was immediately angry and helpless.
What makes people angry is that the villagers are not making progress. Some people have already created a way for Yanlong Village to get rich, but the villagers are afraid to move forward.
Unfortunately, Village Chief Zuo was also very worried. He asked himself again and again, is deep-sea fishing really the way out for Yanlong Village? Was it really just luck that Xiang Yang made it out twice before