472 catties.
Thirty thousand yuan per pound.
Someone secretly opened a calculator and did the math.
"hiss!"
"Fourteen million, one hundred and sixty thousand."
Xiang Yang looked at Li Chao and smiled awkwardly, "Brother Chao, I'll give you the change of 160,000 yuan, and you only need to give me 14 million yuan."
Li Chao smiled, handed Xiang Yang an IOU and said, "Okay, you have paid off all the debt you owe me. I'll have someone transfer the remaining money to your card."
Murong Zhenfei immediately became anxious and shouted, "Brother Chao, what about mine?"
Li Chao glanced at him and said, "After draining the blood of this bluefin tuna and taking out the cheek meat, I'll put it in my hotel for display for two days. After two days, I'll cut half of it for you."
Murong Zhenfei rubbed his hands and said with a wry smile: "Brother Chao, can you give me a piece of fish cheek meat as well?"
The most precious meat of bluefin tuna is the two pieces of cheek meat, which are more valuable than shark fin.
Although the meat on the back of this bluefin tuna was broken, the two cheek meats were not damaged. This is also the main reason why Li Chao was willing to buy it for 30,000 yuan per kilogram.
When he heard that Murong Zhenfei had set her sights on the cheek meat of bluefin tuna, he immediately became angry, "You spendthrift, that's the treasure of my hotel."
"If you don't want to give it to me, then don't give it to me. Why are you so fierce?" Murong Zhenfei actually didn't expect those two pieces of cheek meat. When he saw Li Chao getting angry, he immediately changed his mind and stopped asking for it.
"You encountered big storms when you went out to sea. Are you all safe?" Li Chao got what he wanted and began to care about Xiang Yang and the others.
"No one was injured, but many people suffered. Many new crew members even vomited bile, and many people were probably scared when the ship was shaking." Chen Qingsheng said with a smile.
"Wow." Li Chao shouted, "Brother Xiang, you have to give your buddies some money to calm them down!
"It has been given." Fang Youqun said loudly: "A red envelope of one thousand yuan per person."
After saying that, he looked at Xiang Yang eagerly.
Xiang Yang smiled. He made a lot of money this time, so he was very generous. He said with a smile, "Thanks to Brother Chao's help, this bluefin tuna is more valuable than I thought. This time I promised to double the bonus for everyone. Chen Qingsheng and Master Xu will each get 200,000 yuan, and the rest of the people will each get a 2,000 yuan bonus."
When the crew heard this, they immediately cheered, and even the last bit of jealousy that Xiang Yangbai had picked up more than 10 million disappeared.
After Xiang Yang gave red envelopes to everyone, he sent everyone off work, leaving only the personnel on duty on the boat.
The local crew members from Yanlong Village immediately went to the village to report the good news.
The crew members from the Ocean University discussed going to the town to find a KTV to sing.
The news that Xiang Yang encountered rough seas while out to sea and picked up a bluefin tuna and sold it for 14 million spread throughout Yanlong Village like a whirlwind.
He Mingde was drinking with a few fishermen on a drift net fishing boat.
He smacked his lips when he heard the news. "That guy hasn't even gone on a long ocean voyage, but he's already made back more than half of the money he spent on the boat?"
Yu Xiang was envious, "Why didn't we go out to sea with them today? If we had gone out to sea, that bluefin tuna might have been ours."
"Ah Xiang, you must have drunk a lot of alcohol, right?" Fourth Grandpa glanced at Yu Xiang, "Didn't you hear that Yangzi and his crew encountered a storm at sea? Their large ship, which is over 60 meters long, was swaying in the wind and waves. If our ship, which is less than 40 meters long, was there, wouldn't it have sunk long ago?"
He Mingde nodded in agreement.
It is really terrifying to encounter storms at sea.
In serious cases, the boat may even capsize and all the people on board may be buried in the sea.
Although Xiang Yang and his friends escaped unharmed, they turned a disaster into a blessing and picked up a bluefin tuna, making a fortune.
But after encountering storms at sea, the greater possibility is that you will never come back.
"For me, I don't want to become rich like Yangzi. As long as I can catch some fish every time I go out to sea, I'll be satisfied as long as I can make some profit," said Fourth Grandpa.
"Um."
Yu Xiang and He Mingde's expressions turned serious.
Although they bought a drift net fishing boat, they were still in the adjustment period and had never gone out to sea once.
Although they were not in debt like Xiang Yang, they had really sold everything they had for that driftnet fishing boat. If they failed to catch any fish for several consecutive times, they would not even be able to afford the fuel for the fishing boat.
... ...
On the other side, Xiang Yang, Li Chao, and Murong Zhenfei walked onto the deck.
The crew members received the red envelopes from Xiang Yang and went to the town to have fun happily. Now there were only people on duty left on the ship, so the deck looked empty.
"Is this the oarfish?" Murong Zhenfei squatted in front of a very long strange fish and exclaimed: "This fish is really rare. This is the first time I have seen it."
"Not just you?" Li Chao snorted, "I'm afraid many old guys who specialize in studying marine life have never seen this fish."
Xiang Yang smiled, what Li Chao said was right.
Before September 2006, no one had ever come into contact with this kind of fish. Even if they had, they would not recognize it and would only mistake it for a sea snake.
After September 2006, although many people knew about oarfish, they were still very rare.
Murong Zhenfei rolled up her sleeves and tried to pick up the oarfish.
Although this fish is very thick and looks like a silver ribbon, it is really heavy. Murong Zhenfei, a grown man, used all his strength but still couldn't hold it.
When Li Chao saw it, he shouted, "Zhen Fei, don't mess around. This fish is very fierce. You'll get bit again soon."
"Impossible." Murong Zhenfei shook her head and said, "The fish died a long time ago."
"That's not necessarily true. This fish has strong vitality. It can still survive even if only the front half of its body is left. It might have just fainted when it fell down." Li Chao said.
Upon hearing this, Murong Zhenfei immediately let go, stood up and kicked the fish head.
The fish's head was immediately kicked over and fell stiffly to one side.
"He's definitely dead. There's blood coming out of his mouth. This is a sign that his internal organs are broken." Murong Zhenfei said.
"Huh?"
Li Chao let out a sigh and squatted down. He opened the oarfish's mouth, looked inside, and said, "Could this really be a sea snake?"
It turns out that in the mouth of this oarfish, there are two very sharp teeth, which look like the fangs of a poisonous snake and are very scary.
Xiang Yang saw it and smiled, "This is definitely an oarfish. The oarfish's mouth is different from that of ordinary cutlassfish. Although its mouth is not big, it has two very sharp teeth in its mouth. When hunting, it usually holds its head upwards, lying vertically on the seabed like a ribbon, motionless."