Xiang Yang asked the crew to throw a rope from the stern and asked Fatty Zuo to tie the rope to his small boat.
After tying the rope, Fatty Zuo immediately climbed onto Xiang Yang's boat, "Brother Yang, I see your boat has a very deep draft. Let me see what good things you caught this time."
Xiang Yang ignored him.
He Mingde smiled and said he would just watch it casually.
Fatty Zuo walked around the deck and pointed at the black and green things piled up on the deck and said, "Are these all kelp? Brother Yang, kelp doesn't seem to be very valuable, and it's quite difficult to salvage it. How did you get so much kelp back?"
"Bullshit." Fang Youqun said disdainfully, "If you don't know, don't talk nonsense. Do you know how much the kelp we towed back is worth?"
Fatty Zuo's politeness to Xiang Yang doesn't mean he will be polite to Fang Youqun. He snorted, "Fang Youqun, you are itching for trouble again, right? I eat kelp three times a day, and you say I don't know kelp?"
After saying that, Fatty Zuo looked at Xiang Yang and said, "I'm afraid even squid and cuttlefish are more valuable than kelp, right?"
"It's hard to say about squid. Cuttlefish is indeed more expensive than kelp." Xiang Yang said with a smile: "But Fatty, you do underestimate these kelp."
"Oh?" Fatty Zuo looked at Xiang Yang curiously.
"Brother Yang said these kelps are worth five yuan per pound. Do you know how many pounds these kelps weigh?" Fang Youqun said proudly.
Fatty Zuo looked at the piles of kelp and felt that they were not very much. He asked, "How many pounds are there?"
This is how human vision works.
When you look at something very valuable, such as banknotes, a small stack of them spread out will seem like a lot.
When you look at those worthless things, for example, sandstone stones, even if they are piled up there, they don't seem to be a lot.
Fatty Zuo is like this now. He subconsciously thinks that kelp is not valuable, so when he sees the kelp piled on the deck, he thinks it is just so-so.
Xiang Yang glanced at Fang Youqun and motioned for Fang Youqun to speak.
Fang Youqun smiled strangely, "There are more than a hundred tons here."
“Just over a hundred…” Fatty Zuo was halfway through his words when he suddenly jumped up from his place like a cat with its throat choked.
"Brother Yang, how many kilograms is one ton? Five hundred kilograms or one thousand kilograms?" Fatty Zuo's voice trembled as he spoke. He remembered what Fang Youqun had said before, that each kilogram of these kelp could be worth at least five yuan, and more than a hundred tons... Oh my God! How much money would that be
After Fatty Zuo said this, the crew members were speechless.
He doesn’t even know how many kilograms are equal to one ton. Is this fat guy Zuo illiterate
Fang Youqun also felt very embarrassed, "Fatty Zuo, have you been studying? You don't even know how many kilograms are equal to one ton? This ton is equal to..."
"Brother Yang, how many kilograms does this ton equal?"
Xiang Yang: “…”
"One ton is equal to two thousand kilograms." Xiang Yang shook his head. For the first time, he felt that it was necessary to improve the cultural level of the crew on his ship. He didn't ask them to know too much, but at least they had to know how to do arithmetic.
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Fang Youqun first touched his head in embarrassment, then glared at Fatty Zuo, "It's all this Fatty's fault. He led me astray just now. I knew that one ton equals two thousand kilograms."
Fatty Zuo ignored Fang Youqun, took out his mobile phone, turned on the calculator function and started calculating.
One hundred tons multiplied by two thousand kilograms, and then multiplied by five yuan per kilogram. The string of zeros in the resulting number scared Fatty Zuo so much that he quickly recalculated.
After calculating several times, the computer came up with the same number every time.
Fatty Zuo immediately took a breath of cold air and said in shock: "Brother Yang, you made more than a million in just half a month?"
One million in a place like Yanlong Village is more than all the assets of most villagers combined.
Building a new house in Yanlong Village with fine decoration and a full set of furniture costs less than one million yuan.
Xiang Yang smiled and nodded, "I'm lucky this time."
"You're more than just lucky." Fatty Zuo said sourly.
"Do you think that's all?" Fang Youqun interrupted, "This one million is just the income from the kelp alone during Brother Yang's trip. You don't think Brother Yang only made a few hundred thousand during his trip and came back, do you?"
"Just?" Fatty Zuo repeated these two words.
Fang Youqun listed them one by one, "I won't talk about the ordinary catches, but this time Brother Yang also caught pearl crabs, swimming crabs, fish balls... Each of these made him hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Every time Fang Youqun said something, Fatty Zuo's heart skipped a beat.
After that, he trembled and said, "Are the fishery resources in the sea outside really that rich?"
Xiang Yang smiled and interrupted Fang Youqun, saying, "The fishery resources in the sea outside are indeed much richer than those in the coastal waters. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people willing to invest so much money to buy such a large ship. But I was really lucky this time."
Fang Youqun also immediately shut up. When Xiang Yang came back, he told them that it was okay to tell everyone about other catches, but the matter of the conchs should be kept secret until the transaction was completed. Xiang Yang could tell the crew on his ship about these things, and he could trust the villagers, but if the villagers got to know the news, it would definitely spread to Huhai Town or even further places, and there might be some twists and turns at that time.
"Brother Yang." Fatty Zuo hugged Xiang Yang's arm, which scared Xiang Yang. He quickly shook him off and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Brother Yang." Fatty Zuo said expectantly, "Take me with you next time you go out to sea."
Xiang Yang said without hesitation: "It's useless for me to agree to this matter. You need Uncle Zuo's consent."
In fact, Xiang Yang had already implicitly expressed to Village Chief Zuo that he wanted to take Fatty Zuo with him, but Village Chief Zuo refused. Xiang Yang didn't know what Village Chief Zuo was thinking. If he was worried about whether Fatty Zuo could endure going out to the high seas, Village Chief Zuo himself had been out to the high seas, so it was obviously impossible that Fatty Zuo could not endure the hardships he had endured.
As for the issue of safety, it is not a problem at all. Even if he does not go out to the open sea, Fatty Zuo often rows a small boat alone in the waters of Qinglongwan. When he is on Xiang Yang's boat, there will be more people to take care of him. In addition, the larger the boat, the stronger its ability to withstand wind and waves. Village Chief Zuo cannot be unaware of this.
"Alas." Fatty Zuo hesitated to speak and finally just sighed.
Xiang Yang looked at Fatty Zuo suspiciously. The tone of his sigh was not like Fatty Zuo's character.
However, Xiang Yang did not ask any more questions. At this moment, the fishing boat had already slowly arrived at the small pier along the coast of Yanlong Village with a full boatload of fish.