The young man smiled awkwardly and said nothing more.
The price that Xiang Yang paid for more precious seafood like swimming crabs and lobsters was obviously much higher than that in the town. If the fishermen caught them, they would definitely send them to Xiang Yang without hesitation.
But Xiang Yang does not accept all seafood. He does not accept cheap seafood such as scallops, oysters, and squids.
Not every fisherman can catch rare seafood when going out to sea. The vast majority of fishermen still have to rely on catching large quantities of cheap aquatic products to make a living.
The fishermen are also afraid that if they anger the seafood buyers in the town, they will stop buying goods from Yanlong Village. In that case, all the cheap seafood will rot in the fishermen's hands.
When the purchase price in Xiangyang is similar to that in the town, the fishermen will not choose Xiangyang first. They need to please the seafood buyers in the town. As for the convenience provided by Xiangyang? The villagers don't need this convenience.
Without chatting with the villagers for a while, Xiang Yang rowed his father's fishing boat towards the ocean where flounder were abundant.
Xiang Yang did not really row the fishing boat all the way to that sea area before stopping. He only rowed for about twenty minutes and realized that the fishermen on the coast could not see him and the fishing boat, so Xiang Yang ignored the small boat and let it drift on the sea. Xiang Yang himself jumped to the bottom of the sea and swam towards that sea area.
Xiang Yang returned to this very clean and clear sea area again, walked barefoot on the soft sandy beach, and carefully searched every suspicious place on the beach.
Whenever he sees a flounder weighing more than one kilogram, Xiang Yang will immediately "dig" it out from the beach and throw it into the net bag. Only when the net bag is full will he swim back to the surface of the sea and pour the flounder in the net bag into the fishing boat.
Xiang Yang ran back and forth more than ten times before he stopped with a feeling of unsatisfied desire. It was not because all the flounder in that sea area had been caught, but because Xiang's father's fishing boat could no longer hold them.
Xiang's father's fishing boat was the smallest one. With three or four hundred kilograms of catch and Xiang Yang weighing over a hundred kilograms, the boat was already drafting very deep. If Xiang Yang stuffed more flounder onto the boat, by the time Xiang Yang rowed back, a slight wave might have overturned the entire boat into the sea.
Although the warehouse was full of fish, Xiang Yang was not in a hurry to go back. He held a flounder weighing more than two kilograms in one hand and continued to walk barefoot on the seabed beach as if he was looking for something.
Xiang Yang was holding a flounder with its eye on the left side. He was looking for a flounder with its eye on the right side that was about the same size as the one in his hand.
The body of a flounder is very flat, so flat that it looks like half a fish and requires two of them to be together to form a complete fish. In addition, they often lie on the seabed and seldom move, so people mistakenly believe that a male and a female flounder must be tightly together in order to swim. When swimming, the side with the eyes of the two fish is outside and the side without the eyes is tightly together. This statement perfectly "explains" why some flounders have eyes on the left and some have eyes on the right.
Although this misunderstanding has been overturned today, the saying that two flounders are deeply in love and fly together has remained and is widely accepted. Whenever two flounders of the same size and shape, with eyes on the left and right sides, get together, their value will immediately double, and they will leap from a cheap edible marine fish to a precious ornamental fish.
Xiang Yang actually didn't have much hope of finding a flounder of similar size and shape to the one in his hand, with its eyes on the right side, because there are many types of flounder, and although the flounder with eyes on the left and right sides look very similar, they are actually not the same creature at all. The only thing they have in common is that they are all called flounder.
Xiang Yang had the idea of trying his luck after seeing the large number of flounders in this sea area. Facts proved that Xiang Yang was overthinking. Even though this sea area was very suitable for flounders to survive and reproduce, it was not suitable to accommodate multiple flounder populations to coexist.
After another round of wandering around the seabed, Xiang Yang memorized the location of this sea area and finally got on the boat.
My goodness, this clear sea area rich in flounder is even larger than Xiang Yang had imagined. This precious land must be recorded. When the big ship he bought comes back, it will consume fuel to trawle for fishing. This turbot that lies motionless on the seabed and can be picked up by diving in the water with a diving suit must not be missed.
It's a pity that Xiang Yang didn't bring his mobile phone, otherwise he could just open a chat app and use the main account to share the location with the small account, so that he could easily find it next time he came by big ship. As for now, Xiang Yang can only rely on his memory.
Even so, Xiang Yang was already very satisfied. He could easily catch three or four hundred kilograms of turbot and earn three or four thousand yuan, and there was no cost at all.
It's just a bit hard to row the boat back. The fishing boat carrying so much catch has a deep draft, and it requires certain skills to row the boat back. If you use too much force, the boat may capsize.
It only took him about twenty minutes to row here, but it took him more than an hour to row back and he still hadn't reached the shore. Xiang Yang was almost exhausted.
Fortunately, as soon as they approached Qinglong Bend, a sharp-eyed fisherman saw Xiang Yang returning with a full load.
When everyone saw Xiang Yang rowing out and coming back with a boat full of catch, they all rushed over to help.
"Xiao Yang, have you found the hometown of the turbot? How come you caught a boatful of them in such a short time?" asked an old fisherman as he helped Xiang Yang carry the turbot ashore.
"No, there is only a small group of them. They should have swam to our Qinglong Bay from somewhere else, and I almost caught them all in one net." Xiang Yang did find the nest of the turbot but he didn't dare to tell the truth. That sea area was too far away from Qinglong Bay. If he told the truth, Xiang Yang would have no way to explain how he got there in such a short time.
"Xiao Yang, you made another three or four thousand this time, right? Are the resources on the seabed so abundant?" asked another fisherman who was helping to move the goods.
"Luck, luck." Xiang Yanglian said.
"Luck is bullshit. Everyone else is reluctant to spend money on diving equipment, but you, Xiaoyang, dare to buy it. This is your ability. Damn it, I don't care. Xiaoyang, help me get a set of diving equipment. I don't want the small bottle ones you mentioned. I want the ones you are using now. Four thousand yuan, right? I will go to the town to get the money later."
Faced with such words from the villagers, Xiang Yang could only respond with a sneer, but the villagers seemed to be addicted to it.
"Brother Yang, can you help me get a set too? I'll just use the small bottle. I'll send the money to your home tonight."
"The timid will die of starvation, and the bold will die of gluttony. Xiaoyang, help me get a big suit too."
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The fishermen saw with their own eyes that Xiang Yang could earn a lot of money every time he went out to sea wearing that set of diving equipment. How could they not be jealous? This time, someone took the lead in asking Xiang Yang to help him get a set of diving equipment. Suddenly, their passion was ignited, and they all rushed to ask Xiang Yang to help them get a set of diving equipment.