Xiang Yang rolled his eyes and said with disgust: "Go quickly, don't act like you can tell the difference between male and female crabs just because I ask you to."
Fang Youqun immediately laughed awkwardly and didn't dare to talk back to Xiang Yang anymore. He just jumped into the sea.
Xiang Yang waited on the boat for a while, and only went into the water again after conveying the message to every crew member who really needed it.
This area of the sea may be because the water is not very clean, and the top predators of the ocean are unwilling to come to such waters. The crabs lack natural enemies, so their numbers are really huge.
In just less than half an hour, the fast crew members had gone up and down several times, and the slow ones had come up at least twice. Every time someone showed up, it meant that his net bag was full, which also meant that Xiang Yang's fishing boat had 30 kilograms of swimming crabs on its account.
Half an hour later, Xiang Yang arranged for people to get on the boat to rest for a while, and then continue to salvage in the water.
Xiang Yang was not worried that his overfishing would have a devastating impact on the crabs in this sea area. There were so many crabs in this sea area that they were almost a nuisance, as could be seen from the fact that in some places under the sea there was no aquatic plants at all.
These crabs will sooner or later eat up all the sea due to their unlimited reproduction due to the lack of natural enemies. Xiang Yang's plan to capture a batch of them this time will actually be more beneficial to the long-term survival of this crab population.
More than two hours later, Xiang Yang's fishing boat had more than two thousand kilograms of swimming crabs, all of which were large and meaty.
At this time, all the crew members who went into the water were exhausted, and Xiang Yang also ordered to stop fishing in time.
The harvest of more than 2,000 kilograms of swimming crabs made all the crew members on the ship very happy. They kept asking Xiang Yang to give out red envelopes. Even his brother Xiang Chen joined in the fun.
Xiang Yang was also happy, and immediately promised: "Give it out, give it out to everyone. Chen Qingsheng, remember this. This time, anyone who goes into the water to catch swimming crabs will get a red envelope of at least 500 yuan. The one who catches the most will get a red envelope of 1,000 yuan, the second and third will get 800 yuan, and those who help catch the crabs on the deck will also get a reward of 200 yuan."
"Okay, I'll write it down right away." Chen Qingsheng stood up and said with a smile.
The crew members were even more excited, and they were smiling brightly even though they were exhausted.
"Hey, we met another fishing boat." Xiang Yang had sharp eyes and he saw a large ship coming towards him from the southwest direction.
"This doesn't seem to be a fishing boat, but a cargo ship," said He Mingde.
“It seems to be true.”
The people on the cargo ship also saw Xiang Yang's fishing boat and blew the whistle several times in succession.
"Hi!" Fang Youqun ran to the bow and waved vigorously at the cargo ship.
The cargo ship slowly slowed down and then stopped more than 20 meters to the left of Xiang Yang's fishing boat.
A bald-headed man standing on the cargo ship shouted, "Brother, are you a fishing boat?"
"Brother Yang, he asked if we were a fishing boat." Fang Youqun turned his head and said.
"No need for you to translate." Xiang Yang walked to the bow and shouted loudly: "Yes, we are a fishing boat."
After getting Xiang Yang's affirmative answer, the bald guy turned around and started whispering with a few other people. It was unclear whether he was translating Xiang Yang's words or discussing something.
Just when Xiang Yang was getting impatient, the bald guy called out again, "Brother, can we buy some fresh catch from your boat?"
"Strange." Chen Qingsheng came over and said, "Although they are a cargo ship, they also sail in the sea. Why would they think of buying fresh catches from us?"
Although there is no trawl net on the cargo ship, as long as you bring a small manual net or a few fishing rods, you will not be afraid of not catching fish as long as you sail on the sea.
Xiang Yang smiled and shouted, "You are lucky. We just caught a batch of fresh swimming crabs. If you want, we can sell you some."
The bald guy was overjoyed when he heard that, and shouted directly: "Wait a moment, brother, we will be right over."
Soon, the other party lowered a rubber boat from the boat, and the rubber boat with three people on it rowed towards Xiang Yang.
Among these three people, there is a bald guy, the other two are chubby boys, and the last one is a big sister.
"Why did you bring a child here?" Xiang Yang was speechless to the three people. The ladder of a fishing boat is not like that of a cargo ship. The height of the ladder is too high for ordinary children to climb up.
Since new guests are welcome, Xiang Yang took the initiative to go over and lend a hand.
"Where are the hairy crabs?" The boy's eyes rolled around as soon as he came up.
"Xiao Wei, why are you so rude? You have to call people uncle when you see them." The elder sister said with a stern face.
"Oh, uncle." The little boy shouted reluctantly.
"Okay, be good." Xiang Yang didn't know how to communicate with the child, and he could only utter these two words after a long while.
Fortunately, Fang Youqun was still childish and quickly attracted the child's attention. Xiang Yang then had time to talk business with the two adults.
"You also travel on the sea, why did you think of buying sea fish on my boat?" Xiang Yang asked with a smile.
"We are a cargo ship and we don't know how to fish. Plus, we all like to eat seafood, but most of what's sold on the market are farmed. It's hard to buy real wild sea fish. We just happened to meet you, boss, at sea, so we came up to take a look." The bald man said with a smile.
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "That's right. Usually people who like fishing don't like eating fish, and people who like eating fish don't like fishing."
"But you came to the right place. I just caught a batch of top-quality swimming crabs. If you had met me yesterday, my boat would have been so clean that even cats wouldn't come." Xiang Yang said with a smile, "Come on, I'll take you to see the quality of these swimming crabs."
The older sister smiled and said, "Boss, you are really good at talking. These are all swimming crabs. Why do you have to distinguish between the best and the worst?"
The elder sister had eaten swimming crabs more than once or twice, but she had never heard of any top-quality swimming crabs. Her words were full of ridicule, and she obviously thought Xiang Yang was just like Wang Po, who was bragging about herself while selling melons.
Xiang Yang didn't care. He directly opened the No. 1 live water tank and ordered people to fish out a few fresh swimming crabs from the live water tank to show the bald man.
"Wow! Such a big crab." The little boy exclaimed in surprise first.
The bald man also showed a hint of surprise on his face, and asked in surprise: "Are these crabs so big?"
"What's even more rare is that these swimming crabs are full of energy, and each of them has just been out of the water not long ago." Xiang Yang said.
The mortality rate of swimming crabs is actually very high.
As soon as a swimming crab dies, a toxic substance will be secreted immediately from its body and a foul odor will be emitted. At that time, the swimming crab can no longer be eaten, so when buying swimming crabs, it is generally better to buy the ones that are as energetic as possible.