"No wonder Brother Yang insisted on buying a big ship. The income from one trip to the sea is enough to cover our lifetime efforts." said a crew member with stars in his eyes.
"Otherwise, how come Brother Yang is the captain and we are the crew?"
"Haha, we can also get rich by following Brother Yang. We will all get bonuses and red envelopes soon." A crew member laughed excitedly.
After trading the precious puffer fish with Boss Li, Xiang Yang then traded the cheap sea fish with Zhang Qichen.
After inspecting the frozen flounder and confirming that each one weighed more than two kilograms, Zhang Qichen gave Xiang Yang a relatively high purchase price of 11 yuan per kilogram.
This made the crew on the ship stunned again. Damn, they are both buyers, but one only pays seven yuan per pound and the other pays eleven yuan per pound. How can the difference between them be described by just the word "swindler"
Those flounders weighing more than five kilograms each kept in the water tanks were also in great demand. Boss Li offered Xiang Yang a price of one hundred and five yuan per kilogram.
This adds up to a total income of nearly 100,000 yuan.
The crew members on the ship were looking at Xiang Yang with such admiration that they were almost prostrating themselves before him.
After trading the flounder, the only things left on the boat were some seafood that had some value but was not considered precious.
"Brother Xiang, you know that frozen fish and common seafood are not allowed in my hotel." Li Chao grabbed a thumb-sized red fish and looked at it. "It's a pity that your fish died. If this blood-red fish was alive, I really want to take it home and raise it for fun."
"What a pity! Such bright little red fish is really rare." Zhang Qichen also leaned his head over.
Xiang Yang understood the hobbies of these two people. They felt sorry for the death of the blood-red fish not because the fish was valuable, but because many Chinese people have had a special liking for the color red since ancient times.
The small fish in Boss Li's hand, whose body was as red as blood, was not discovered by Xiang Yang when he was cleaning the catch, otherwise Xiang Yang might have kept it for fun.
"Mr. Zhang, do you want this batch of goods?" Xiang Yang asked.
Zhang Qichen smiled bitterly, "Brother Xiang, I'm in the seafood wholesale business, and my business is mainly concentrated in shrimps, crabs, common marine fish, or famous seafood. Your fish are not common, nor are they valuable. If the quantity is small, I can help you sell it. If the quantity is large, I can open up a separate business line for you, but how can I handle these hundreds of kilograms of each item?"
Xiang Yang nodded. He had made enough money on this trip, so he didn't insist on selling all the remaining catches right away. He decided to let his uncle Xiang deal with the rest.
After the transaction was completed, Xiang Yang left two crew members on duty to guard the ship on the deck, while the others all went to Xiang Yang's house to drink and celebrate.
Everyone at the table was drinking like crazy. After three glasses of wine, Xiang Yang generously took out the bottle of Maotai dragon-shaped wine that had not yet been warmed up, which caused a scramble among the crew members, and Xiang's father's face twitched.
However, Xiang's father's face soon stopped twitching. When the golden bead was twisted out of the dragon's mouth and the fragrant aroma of wine filled the room, Xiang's father also joined the looting.
The banquet was a great pleasure for both the guests and the hosts.
On the other side, in Huhai Town, Shark, Baldy and Fatty were also drinking in the food stalls in the town.
"Baldy, are you sure your information is correct?" Fatty's face looked very ugly.
"My people saw with their own eyes a large truck driving to Qinglongwan and then driving out from the Qinglongwan Wharf. How could they be wrong?" The bald man also had a gloomy face.
Shark narrowed his eyes, "That's right, I didn't expect that guy to find a sales channel outside of our Huhai Town."
"I also found out something interesting. You all know Xiang He, right? Xiang He is the boy's biological father. Recently, Xiang He has been buying seafood in Yanlong Village. All the swimming crabs and lobsters in Yanlong Village have been taken away by Xiang He. I heard that he also took away a batch of sea cucumbers."
"What? Sea cucumber?" Shark slapped the table and stood up. "I was wondering why all the food coming from Yanlong Village is cheap stuff lately. It turns out someone ate it on my plate."
"Okay, Shark, sit down." The bald man pulled Shark, "There have always been only three of us seafood buyers in Huhai Town. I guess you don't want a fourth one to appear, right?"
Both Fatty and Shark nodded.
"So we have to find a way to deal with the father and son of the Xiang family."
"Baldy, don't be crazy. They are locals. If you punish one of them, the whole village will punish you together." said Fatty.
Shark also shook his head, "There's no way to do this."
"What are you thinking? Do you think I want to find someone to beat them up?" The bald man rolled his eyes. "To punish them, there is actually no need to use force, and... ... if I want to punish them, I have to punish the entire village as well."
Fatty and Shark both looked at the bald man, waiting for his next words.
"Yanlong Village is a big village, with hundreds of fishermen alone. How many crabs, lobsters and the like do you think they can catch in a day? And how long does it take for someone to catch high-quality seafood?" asked the bald man.
Without waiting for Shark to talk to Big Fat, Baldy continued, "What feeds the hundreds of fishermen in Yanlong Village is never high-end seafood like crabs and lobsters, but cheap scallops, oysters, and the cheap small fish that are worthless. Now Xianghe only accepts high-end seafood, and obviously has no outlet for those cheap seafood. What do you think, if the three of us stop accepting seafood from Yanlong Village, can the fishermen in Yanlong Village still survive?"
"This won't work. You're killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of your own. How much will the loss be if we don't accept the seafood from the fishermen in Yanlong Village?" Shark immediately denied.
"But will people still sell valuable seafood to you now? How much can you earn from those cheap sea fish?" the bald man asked.
Shark and Fatty were silent immediately.
In fact, there is not much profit at all from those cheap sea fish. The real money-making ones are swimming crabs, lobsters, and high-quality seafood occasionally caught by fishermen.
The more valuable the seafood, the more ruthless they charge, but they don't bargain much for cheap seafood. They also need those cheap sea fish to feed the fishermen in the villages under Huhai Town.
"There is no such thing as a bloodless solution. As long as there is a struggle, it's a life-and-death struggle. Compared with the impact that Xiang He will have on us if he finds a channel to ship cheap seafood and truly becomes the fourth seafood buyer in Huhai Town, it is our best way to recover the loss by making an effort to kill him in the cradle now." The bald man poured himself a glass of wine, "Come on, let's have a toast, brothers."
... ...
Xiang Yang drank too much last night and still had a headache until almost noon today.
"Oh no, Brother Yang, Second Uncle, something terrible has happened." As soon as Xiang Yang woke up, he heard his cousin Xiang Hui's loud call coming from outside the house.