"What a coincidence." Mr. Peng said with a smile, "This is what they call searching for something without any effort, but finding it without any effort."
Village Chief Zuo and his men helped Mr. Peng move the swordfish into the car, and after asking for Mr. Peng's business card, they left tactfully.
Xiang Yang, Zhang Qicheng, and Mr. Peng walked slowly on the beach.
Zhang Qicheng envied him and said, "You actually got in touch with China Southern Airlines. Selling that swordfish for 300,000 is too cheap. No, you have to treat us."
"Don't give me that. Can you tell me if there is any company or enterprise in Longcheng that has not bought seafood in bulk from your wholesale market? You asked me to treat you for this business deal. Shouldn't you treat us every now and then when you do business with China Southern Airlines?" Mr. Peng scolded with a smile.
Zhang Qicheng rolled his eyes. "My business is that the logistics department comes to me to buy some seafood. How can it be compared with your business?"
Mr. Peng was in a very good mood. He did not argue with Zhang Qicheng. "Okay, I'll treat you. Where shall we go to eat?"
"You are all guests, how can I let you treat me? If anyone wants to treat me, it should be me." Xiang Yang said.
"What do you want to eat?" Xiang Yang asked.
"I'm just kidding. I just had dinner with you and I'm so full now. You can ask General Peng what he wants to eat." Zhang Qicheng said.
Mr. Peng blinked and asked, "You just finished your meal?"
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "Yes, I went for a walk in the sea with Mr. Zhang. Where do you think I caught that swordfish?"
Mr. Peng immediately said, "Actually, I was just kidding. I don't eat much at night anyway, so I'm just going to hang out and forget about eating."
So the three of them felt the humid air of the sea, walking and chatting on the beach while feeling the sea breeze.
Soon, Zhang Qicheng's cell phone rang. It turned out that it was the driver who came to pick him up.
Mr. Peng also said goodbye to Xiang Yang at an appropriate time.
Xiang Yang watched them leave and stayed alone on the beach for a while. He had an indescribable feeling in his heart.
In fact, Xiang Yang always felt lonely in the past. Even when standing in a lively crowd, he felt so lonely that he felt like he was photoshopped.
Xiang Yang likes his current life very much.
It’s not just because Xiang Yang is richer now than before, but more importantly, Xiang Yang has found the value of his existence.
Because of him, dozens of people in the poor Yanlong Village have their own jobs.
Because of him, the backward and conservative fishermen in Yanlong Village saw the vast sea outside.
Because of him, Yanlong Village, which had always been a place where only people left, finally had outsiders coming in.
... ...
No words were spoken that night.
When the first ray of sunlight in the early morning shone on the earth, Xiang Yang arrived at the dock early.
The crew members were moving things from a small truck into the cabin, including cabbage, radishes, bottled drinking water, cantaloupe...
Seeing Xiang Yang coming, all the crew members stopped what they were doing and shouted to Xiang Yang, "Captain."
Even the town's wholesale boss who was smoking in the cab of a small truck quickly jumped out of the truck, handed Xiang Yang a pack of betel nuts and said, "Boss Xiang, would you like a betel nut to wake you up?"
Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head. He couldn't chew this. His mouth would get blisters if he chewed it.
"You all come so early?" Xiang Yang greeted the crew members.
"Yesterday we just took a tour on the sea and came back, it wasn't satisfying enough. Today we are finally going out to the open sea, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep the whole night." Fang Youqun said excitedly with two panda eyes.
"You've been playing with your phone all night and haven't slept all night, right?" a crew member asked.
Fang Youqun immediately got anxious, "Bullshit, I didn't even touch my phone the whole night."
Xiang Yang watched them make enough noise before he smiled and said, "We are indeed going to go to a farther sea this time, and we may even need to dock for supplies. You guys are happy now, but don't get bored and want to get off the boat when you're at sea. I won't agree to that."
"Captain, don't worry, we won't be bored."
"Captain? Don't tell me you don't agree. We don't agree either."
The crew members shouted.
At this time, He Mingde climbed down from the deck, ran back to the dock through the unloading bridge, and said, "Xiaoyang, the fresh water, vegetables, and fruits we prepared this time are enough for us to eat for a week. Do you think we need to prepare anything else?"
He Mingde knew that Xiang Yang intended to go to farther seas this time, because in the near future Xiang Yang would have to replace a larger fishing boat. By that time, Xiang Yang would regularly go deep-sea fishing. This trip to sea for fishing was secondary. The main purpose was to allow the crew on the boat to gradually adapt to the life of deep-sea fishing.
People who have never experienced ocean voyage will never understand the feeling of seeing the sky and water blending into one all day long. At first, you may still be in the mood to appreciate the scenery, but anyone will get irritated after looking at it for too long.
Xiang Yang thought for a moment and said, "It's enough to bring enough vegetables, fruits and fresh water. I don't really need anything else."
Xiang Yang did not forbid the crew from bringing snacks, chess, cards, books and the like on board. Each crew member had a cabinet of their own in the cabin where they could put some entertainment items to pass the time. Xiang Yang no longer planned to bring any extra entertainment items on board for the crew, after all, the space on this fishing boat was limited.
When we change to a bigger ship in the future, Xiang Yang can purchase a batch of books to bring to the ship to entertain the crew.
"Boss Xiang, the total price of these vegetables, fruits and fresh water is three thousand four hundred." The wholesale department boss said very politely.
No wonder he was polite. Xiang Yang was now one of his big customers. Every time he ordered goods, it cost several thousand yuan. Only he knew the profit in between.
Xiang Yang was in no hurry to give him the money. He first took out an orange from the truck, peeled it and started eating. "The goods this time are almost the same as last time, why is it several hundred yuan more expensive?"
The last time, Xiang Yang and He Mingde dragged the supplies back from Pengcheng themselves. Logically speaking, the prices in Longcheng should be cheaper than in Pengcheng.
The boss of the wholesale department froze, and immediately said anxiously: "Boss Xiang, I'm not expensive to you."
"The main reason is that we calculated that the time was longer this time, so we bought more milk. Also, the milk we bought last time was yogurt, but this time it was real fruit pulp, so it's a bit more expensive than last time. The price of fruits is about the same, and vegetables are a few cents cheaper than last time." He Mingde said on behalf of the boss of the wholesale department.
Xiang Yang nodded and directly transferred three thousand four hundred yuan to the boss via WeChat. It's not that he really needed this little money, but Xiang Yang had to have an idea in his heart why some things were so expensive. After all, he was not a sucker, right
After moving all the supplies onto the ship, Xiang Yang watched Chen Qingsheng and his team check the equipment. This time, there was one more person checking the equipment than usual, Chen Fusheng. When He Mingde was checking the fishing boat route, Chen Fusheng followed behind He Mingde to help. After all, He Mingde was about to leave the ship, but the chief engineer could not be without him, so Xiang Yang had the idea of training the relatively mature and stable Chen Fusheng as the chief engineer.