Zhang Qicheng handed Li Chao a cigarette and said with a smile, "These villagers are really interesting. I wonder what their expressions will be when they see those abalones when they come ashore."
“Bang!”
Amid the crisp sound of metal clashing, Li Chao lit up a cigarette and took a puff. "I think it will be exciting."
"I guess so." Zhang Qicheng agreed.
Li Chao opened the car window to let out the cigarette smell and spoke in a much lower voice. He lowered his voice and said, "Qicheng, don't mention this to Brother Xiang later. We will pretend that we didn't see or hear anything."
"Why?" Zhang Qicheng also asked in a low voice.
This was not a glorious thing to begin with, and Zhang Qicheng certainly would not mention it in front of Xiang Yang, but he couldn't understand why Li Chao would specifically instruct him on this matter.
"Think about it." Li Chao said with a smile: "Why are these villagers gathering at the dock? To welcome Brother Xiang? No, they are all here to see Brother Xiang's harvest after returning from the sea. Brother Xiang's harvest in the next few times he goes out to sea, as well as his attitude in the future, may determine whether these villagers will buy big boats and go fishing in the open sea like Brother Xiang."
Zhang Qicheng's eyes lit up, "Do you want to encourage these villagers to buy big boats like Brother Xiang and go fishing?"
"It's not me who thinks, it's you who thinks. These are experienced fishermen who have been fishing for generations." Li Chao said with a smile, "The most important thing is that they have no shipping channels except you. If you make this happen, it's like you have hundreds of additional employees who only need to pay commissions, not basic wages."
Zhang Qicheng nodded vigorously. "That's right. Fish are hard to catch now. There are many competitors in the market. Many catches have to be snatched away. If I can get a stable supply channel, it will be a huge help to me."
Li Chao smiled and said, "I'll help you later, but there are some things that you need to handle on your own."
Zhang Qicheng asked: "How can we help? How can we grasp it?"
"This is easy. Just make Brother Xiang happy and make the villagers jealous, and then everything will be done."
"Be more specific..."
“Woo—”
A long whistle sounded on the sea.
Li Chao and Zhang Qicheng both looked towards the dock.
"Let's go." Li Chao opened the car door and walked down. "Brother Xiang has come ashore. Let's go and greet him."
Zhang Qicheng hurriedly followed.
Outside the simple dock, Chen Qingsheng was the first to jump off the deck and connect the probe to the unloading bridge.
The villagers waited for Chen Qingsheng to walk up to the dock from the unloading bridge and immediately surrounded him.
"Master Chen, did you go out fishing today?" an old fisherman asked first.
Chen Qingsheng was stunned and asked, "How do you know we didn't go fishing today?"
"Uh." The fisherman was stunned for a moment. He spoke quickly and quickly, so Chen Qingsheng's answer really surprised him.
Village Chief Zuo's face changed, "Did something happen?" According to Village Chief Zuo's idea, there are so many fish in the sea outside, and Xiang Yang has always been reliable. If something really happened, Xiang Yang would definitely not leave the fish uncaught.
At the same time, Village Chief Zuo was secretly happy in his heart, because it seemed that the fishery resources in the outer sea had not been exhausted yet.
At this time Xiang Yang climbed down from the boat, his face full of smiles, "Is everyone here?"
Village Chief Zuo was even more relieved when he saw the smile on Xiang Yang's face. As long as Xiang Yang could still smile, it would not be a big deal even if something unexpected happened.
"Xiaoyang." Village Chief Zuo asked for everyone, "Why did you come back empty-handed this time?"
Before Xiang Yang could say anything, Chen Qingsheng glared at him. "Empty-handed?"
Village Chief Zuo pointed at Xiang Yang's big boat and said tactfully: "The draft of the boat was different when you came back last time."
Xiang Yang smiled and instantly understood what everyone was here for. "So that's what you're concerned about? To be honest, I'm really lucky today. I promise you'll be surprised when we clean up the harvest later."
This statement immediately made everyone confused. Judging from the draft of the fishing boat alone, Xiang Yang definitely didn't catch much fish this time.
Going out with an empty boat in the morning? Coming back with an empty boat in the evening? Do you think you have good luck? Then what is average luck? What is bad luck
Is it considered average luck if the ship doesn't sink after hitting a reef? Is it considered bad luck only if the ship sinks
Xiang Yang was about to explain.
Just then Boss Li and Zhang Qicheng squeezed into the crowd.
"Brother Xiang? Congratulations on your prosperity." Li Chao clasped his fists and raised them to the level of his eyebrows and congratulated Xiang Yang loudly.
Li Chao's words immediately made the villagers even more confused.
Didn’t Xiang Yang’s ship come back empty when he went out to sea this time
Why do they all react like this
Many fishermen stretched their necks and stood on tiptoe, trying hard to look at the deck. They were so curious and wanted to find out what was going on.
"Boss Li." Xiang Yang temporarily ignored the villagers and greeted Li Chao with a smile.
"Where's the stuff I want?"
"It's on the boat. I'll have them move it down now."
Long awaited!
Looking forward to it!
The crew finally came down from the deck carrying barrels.
When everyone saw clearly what was inside the wooden barrels, there was a sudden sound of people gasping for air all around.
“Oh my god!”
"Fuck!"
"Oh my god!"
"abalone!"
"abalone!"
“It’s all abalone!”
There was an uproar on the small dock. Each of these wooden barrels contained three or four abalones? There were already more than a dozen that had been lifted off the boat, and it seemed that there would be more wooden barrels and water tanks at the back.
Abalone is not like those rare and exotic treasures like French blue dragon. Not to mention the fishermen on the coast, even many people inland who have never eaten seafood know that abalone is as expensive as gold.
"Oh my god, so many abalone." Village Chief Zuo's eyes widened, his voice trembling, "And they are all this big. Xiaoyang, there must be hundreds of them, right? Are these all the ones you caught this time?"
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "Yes, we caught them all today. We caught more than 300 in total. These are the smaller ones, and there are bigger ones to come."
"Three, three hundred?" Village Chief Zuo opened his mouth wide.
The sound of people gasping for air was heard again on the small dock.
Even Li Chao and Zhang Qicheng took a deep breath. Hearing was one thing, and seeing was another. Hundreds of natural abalone, each weighing more than nine heads, were placed in front of them. The visual impact was enormous.
Especially when the single-headed abalone was the last one to be carried off the deck by the crew, everyone felt a tingling sensation on their scalp.
"An abalone bigger than a bowl!" Someone rubbed his eyes vigorously and said in disbelief: "Xiang Yang, is this really an abalone, not a model?"