Xiang Yang found it a little funny. Who would wait at the docks to collect corals? It would be strange if they could get them. In recent years, any fishing fleet that has underwater operations has a fixed harvest channel.
"No wonder when you saw the twin grid brains, you didn't think about taking advantage of the opportunity, but wanted to talk to me." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
"Don't say anything." Qu Yongchang smiled bitterly and said, "I was just trying my luck. I didn't expect that you, Brother Yang, actually have the goods. To be honest, I hope you can take care of me in the future."
Xiang Yang waved his hand and said, "Brother Qu, you are joking. You should take care of me more."
At this time, He Mingde climbed up from the dock, holding a plastic bag in his hand, "Xiaoyang, Boss Qu, are you full?"
"This is my uncle, He Mingde." Xiang Yang introduced.
"Hello, Boss He." Qu Yongchang shouted.
"Hello, Mr. Qu." He Mingde opened the plastic bag. "Just now I saw someone selling grouper at the dock. I felt that the grouper looked quite pitiful, so I walked over to ask the price, and then bought half of it. If you are not full, you can try the taste of this grouper."
"Well, I'm full. The ones here haven't finished eating yet." Qu Changsheng said with a sweat.
Xiang Yang's mouth twitched. He didn't understand He Mingde's train of thought. Seeing someone selling a grouper and feeling sorry for it, shouldn't he buy it and release it or take it home to raise? What did he mean by buying half of it
"Uncle, you should keep this grouper for yourself."
"Okay, let's stop here." Qu Changsheng put down his bowl and chopsticks and stood up and said, "Brother Yang, next time you have good stuff, you must take care of me."
"Okay." Xiang Yang also stood up and said, "Your people haven't arrived yet? Do you want me to ask the crew to help you deliver the brain coral to the dock?"
"No need." Qu Changsheng pointed to the bottom of the boat, "They are already here. I will let them come up and move the goods now."
"That's fine."
After seeing Qu Changsheng off, Xiang Yang looked at He Mingde with a smile, "Uncle, have you sold all the catches?"
"Yeah." He Mingde nodded, "They're all sold. The price of cuttlefish here is a little higher than ours. The horsehead fish only sold for 37 yuan per catty. The others were about the same. The total sales were 64,000 yuan."
Xiang Yang nodded. The price was about what he expected, neither expensive nor cheap.
"By the way, why did you buy grouper? And you bought half one." Xiang Yang asked.
"Because it's cheap and a farmed grouper, I just bought it when I saw it." He Mingde said with a smile.
Xiang Yang nodded and immediately stopped being confused.
Don’t think that fishermen will never buy fish. On the contrary, most fishermen often buy fish.
Because in the eyes of most fishermen, the fish they catch are all wild and are to be sold for money, while farmed fish are very cheap. Usually, one kilogram of wild sea fish sold can buy several kilograms or even more farmed sea fish.
Take the grouper for example.
The quality of wild grouper is similar to that of farmed grouper, but the price is very different. Most fishermen are reluctant to eat wild grouper.
"How was it? How much did you sell your corals for? How was the talk with Mr. Qu?" He Mingde asked.
"Five hundred thousand." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
"What? How much?" He Mingde suspected that he had heard it wrong.
"Five hundred thousand? Actually, to be precise, including the one I bought at the dock, the total sold was about six hundred thousand."
"Fuck." He Mingde suddenly felt unwell, "Is Boss Qu really the landlord's stupid son?"
"He is the son of a landlord, right? But he is not stupid at all."
Xiang Yang smiled and told He Mingde the entire transaction process with Qu Yongchang. He Mingde was amazed and exclaimed that it was incredible. The brain coral was so valuable.
Afterwards, Xiang Yang ordered Master Xu to continue the fishing boat heading east. In fact, the reason why Xiang Yang chose to sell the seafood in Dongwuyang was not only to clear out the store on the ship so that the fishing boat could move forward more easily, but he also wanted to let Master Xu have a rest. After all, Master Xu was the only one driving the boat, and he hasn't had much rest until now.
Xu Fang did not immediately go to the cockpit? Instead, he asked: "Captain, should we go down to replenish supplies and eat something?"
In fact, Xu Fang's real meaning was not that the fishing boat needed to be replenished with supplies, but he was euphemistically asking Xiang Yang whether he wanted to go down and find a place to eat. Xiang Yang and Qu Yongchang had already eaten, but the other crew members on the boat were still hungry.
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "We don't need to resupply for now. Everyone, please work hard. Let's drive to the east of Dongwuyang first. I will cook for you and make you some sturgeon soup."
The crew members' eyes immediately lit up. Sturgeon is not a cheap sea fish. Although it is common, its market price has not come down. The most important thing is that its meat is really fresh. Especially in this season, drinking a bowl of sturgeon soup can make the whole body warm. The taste is simply indescribable.
However, no one dared to compliment Xiang Yang's cooking skills. Chen Qingsheng said directly: "Captain, how can you trouble yourself to cook? Let me do it."
Xiang Yang was about to speak when he suddenly asked in surprise: "Huh?"
"What's the matter, Captain?"
"Look over there." Xiang Yang pointed in a direction outside the ship's side.
Everyone looked in the direction where Xiang Yang's finger was pointing, and saw a strange fish of enormous size moving forward on the sea like a large disc. Its swimming speed was relatively slow, but its movements were very graceful, just like a large lotus leaf floating on the sea.
"Stingray!" someone exclaimed immediately.
The stingray, commonly known as the stingray, is a cartilaginous fish with a flat body, two wing-like fins and a tail that looks like a long whip. It is widely distributed and can be seen in any sea area in the world, whether it is tropical waters near the equator or extremely cold polar waters.
"I actually saw a stingray." Chen Qingsheng seemed extremely excited.
"Why, is this fish very expensive?" Fang Youqun asked in confusion.
"I don't know, but no one will buy this kind of fish." Xiang Yang said.
Stingrays are very dangerous fish. There are about 480 known species of stingrays. According to the 1995 "Dangerous Marine Life - A Guide to Field First Aid", stingrays are the largest venomous fish known to humans, with a tail that can reach 37 cm in length.
If you are stung by the tail of a stingray, you will be poisoned even if you are not seriously injured. Especially if the heart is attacked by a stingray, you will usually die. Because of this characteristic, although they generally do not attack humans easily, they are still listed as one of the extremely dangerous animals.