Not only did the village chief have to order a batch of diving equipment for the villagers, Xiang Yang himself also had to order another batch of diving equipment.
When Uncle Xiang drives the fishing boat back, Xiang Yang can not only drive the fishing boat for ocean trawling, but also lead the sailors to dive and fish when the fishing boat stops.
Xiang Yang ordered twenty sets of diving equipment at one time. Although the fishing boat has not returned yet, Xiang Yang felt that some preparations could be carried out now.
However, Xiang Yang was not in a hurry to solve the most urgent problem of manpower. A medium-sized ocean-going fishing boat could not be operated by Xiang Yang and his uncle alone. Not to mention the ordinary sailors who helped clean the catch on the deck, it would take several technicians to operate the various equipment to get the fishing boat into normal working condition.
After lunch, Xiang Yang rowed the fishing boat out to sea again. After careful calculation of the 500,000 reserve funds that Xiang Yang and his uncle had budgeted, Xiang Yang found that it was not enough. Not to mention that the fishing boat itself is a money-consuming oil tiger. Just recruiting sailors consumes a huge amount of money every month. Xiang Yang is under a lot of pressure now. He must enrich his own treasury as much as possible before his uncle Xiang drives the fishing boat back.
Xiang Yang rowed the fishing boat to a place on the shore where the fishermen could not see him and went swimming in the sea.
This time Xiang Yang swam in a different direction. The underwater scenery in this direction was completely different from the sea area Xiang Yang arrived at in the morning.
The sea water was still as clean and clear as ever, but beautiful coral reefs were visible everywhere, the seabed was covered with plump seaweed, and all kinds of beautiful fish swam among the coral reefs on the seabed. From time to time, predators showed the ferocious side of the beautiful ocean in front of Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang looked left and right, searching for valuable seafood while admiring the scenery along the way.
Xiang Yang was looking around when his eyes suddenly lit up in one direction. He saw countless mushrooms vaguely visible on the seabed in that direction. Those mushrooms were like paints in a painter's paint palette that were spilled and scattered in the ocean. They had fascinating colors: red, orange, purple and green.
"It's really the Tiger Ear Mushroom." Xiang Yang was overjoyed when he got closer and saw it clearly. Generally, brightly colored mushrooms are poisonous, but the Tiger Ear Mushroom is non-toxic.
Not only is Tiger Ear Mushroom non-toxic, it is also a precious delicacy. This mushroom likes to grow in a coral environment with moderate water flow and can coexist with certain small fish. As long as it has a suitable living environment and enough space, it can live well.
Tiger ear mushrooms come in many different colors, and can be divided into different varieties based on color, with very different prices.
Among them, the orange Tiger Ear Mushroom is the most common and the least valuable. The green Tiger Ear Mushroom is a kind of mushroom coral. It is very hard all over and is a hard mushroom coral. The purple Tiger Ear Mushroom can be used as an ornamental. Its charming appearance is loved by many girls. It can be sold on Taobao. You can spend a few dozen dollars to buy one and give it to the girl you like.
Red Tiger Ear Mushroom is relatively rare and is a very precious food ingredient. In the early years, when wild red mushrooms on land were not valuable, people often dried wild red mushrooms and impersonated red Tiger Ear Mushroom. In recent years, the price of red mushrooms on land has soared to nearly two thousand yuan per catty, but no one uses the finest mountain delicacies to impersonate red Tiger Ear Mushroom, a seafood delicacy, anymore.
However, this does not mean that red Tiger Ear mushrooms are worthless. Relatively speaking, the price of red Tiger Ear mushrooms is actually more expensive than that of big red mushrooms. This is because neither big red mushrooms nor small red mushrooms are weighed. One or two pounds of big red mushrooms can fill a basket, while the red Tiger Ear mushrooms fished out of the water are weighed very heavily, and often one pound of red Tiger Ear mushrooms is just the size of a small bowl.
"It is indeed Tiger Ear Mushroom, and quite a few of them are red." After confirming, Xiang Yang immediately started to collect some large red Tiger Ear Mushrooms.
Xiang Yang was very careful when collecting. The red tiger ear mushroom, like the big red mushroom and the small red mushroom, was a delicate thing whose value would plummet if it was disfigured. Xiang Yang did not want to cause himself a huge financial loss because of his rude behavior.
About ten minutes later, Xiang Yang collected only about half a net bag of red tiger ear mushrooms and then began to swim towards the sea surface. When catching flounder, Xiang Yang could stuff as much flounder as possible into the net bag, but when collecting the precious red tiger ear mushrooms, Xiang Yang was afraid that the narrow space in the net bag would squeeze the mushrooms, so he didn't even dare to move too much.
Xiang Yang happily went back and forth and collected over a hundred kilograms of red tiger ear mushrooms before he stopped with a sense of unsatisfied desire. In fact, there was still plenty of space on the fishing boat, but if he added more, the red tiger ear mushrooms placed at the bottom of the cabin would be crushed, which would not be worth the effort. Xiang Yang could just transport these back first, and then remember this location and come back next time.
When Xiang Yang returned to Qinglongwan, the fishermen who had gone out fishing in the morning were coming back one after another in their fishing boats. On the way, Xiang Yang actually met a guy named Zuo Pangzi.
Fatty Zuo's fishing boat has a deep draft and it looks like it will be a big catch today.
Xiang Yang saw Fatty Zuo, and Fatty Zuo naturally saw Xiang Yang as well.
When Fatty Zuo saw the waterline of Xiang Yang's fishing boat, he was immediately delighted and shouted from a distance, "Brother Yang, did you go boating in vain today?"
Baipiao means that you have been drifting in the sea for a whole day and caught nothing. Xiang Yang glanced at the layer of red tiger ear mushrooms under his fishing boat and didn't bother to pay attention to Fatty Zuo.
Xiang Yang didn't say anything, but Fatty Zuo took it as Xiang Yang's tacit agreement, and immediately gloated, "Brother Yang, it turns out that there are times when you can't catch any fish when you go out to sea! Guess what I caught today?"
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes and continued rowing.
Fatty Zuo rowed the boat towards Xiang Yang and said proudly, "It's a horsehead fish. What a great fish. I caught about 400 to 500 kilograms of it with a few nets. Brother, I made a fortune today."
Hearing that it was a horsehead fish, Xiang Yang looked at Fatty Zuo with a little surprise, "You are so lucky!"
Horsehead fish is a relatively common marine fish in the southern coastal areas of my country. The meat is very delicious. Frozen dead fish can be sold for 20 to 30 yuan per catty. Fresh wild horsehead fish can usually be sold for 70 to 80 yuan per catty in the seafood market. It is more valuable than swimming crabs. Fatty Zuo said that he caught about 400 to 500 catties, so even if he sold it to seafood buyers in the town, he could sell it for tens of thousands of yuan. No wonder Fatty Zuo is so excited.
"I've always had good luck, Brother Yang. Would you like me to send you a horsehead fish tonight as a snack?" Fatty Zuo said in a pretentious manner.
"Haha, you want me to buy the horsehead fish, right?" Xiang Yang revealed Fatty Zuo's thoughts in one sentence.
Fatty Zuo was not at all embarrassed when Xiang Yang revealed his thoughts. Instead, he continued to row the fishing boat towards Xiang Yang with a smug look on his face.
Fatty Zuo's fishing boat was a little bigger than Xiang's father's, and the hull was also a little taller. Fatty Zuo rowed the fishing boat next to Xiang Yang's fishing boat and looked down at Xiang Yang's cabin. He felt that today he could finally hold his head high in front of Xiang Yang.
"Oh my god, red tiger ear mushrooms!" Fatty Zuo lost his balance and fell off the boat into the sea. He came out from the bottom of the water and shouted loudly without even caring about the oars.