"Second brother." Xiang Hui hesitated for a long time before saying, "Since the three seafood buyers in the town are not so easy to deal with, why don't we go and discuss it with them?"
"What are you discussing? Dividing the territory?" Xiang Yang smiled at Xiang Hui. "Do you think this can be explained in a few words? They won't believe that I will only do business with Yanlong Village, nor will they give up the fish caught in Yanlong Village. They will also be jealous of the fish caught by my fishing boat. Now that they have made a move against me, they must be thinking of fighting me to the death. What can I do? I will just respond to their moves."
"Just do your acquisition business well. If you really have business talent, I will discuss with my uncle and send you out to help me develop the market." Xiang Yang said.
Xiang Hui's eyes lit up, "Send me outside?"
Xiang Yang looked out the window, and when he saw many fishermen carrying buckets and walking towards the sea, he immediately smiled, "The villagers are all going to the sea. It looks like the tide has receded. Should we try our luck at the beach as well?"
Xiang Hui refused to give in and continued to ask Xiang Yang, "Second brother, first tell me about sending me out to help you expand the market."
"I just have this idea, it's nothing. If you ask me, I don't know how to answer you." Xiang Yang took out two buckets from under his bed and emptied the shells inside. "Let's go and catch some shells."
After hearing what Xiang Yang said, Xiang Hui reluctantly took a bucket and followed Xiang Yang towards the beach.
Going to the beach to catch seafood is one of the great pleasures for people living by the sea.
Whenever the tide goes out, many marine creatures will be stranded on the beach. At this time, residents living by the sea, whether they are fishermen or not, will carry buckets to the beach to pick up stranded fish. If they are lucky, they may even catch a few crabs or even lobsters.
Although many marine creatures are stranded every time the tide recedes, the profit is not much because there are too many people going to the beach. At most, they can only add one dish to their dinner table on the day of the sea catching. However, the residents of the beach still enjoy running to the beach every time the tide recedes.
Because catching seafood is a rare recreational activity for villagers living on the coast, the villagers will use it to strengthen their relationships with each other, and sometimes even hold a small competition to see who can pick up more seafood.
When Xiang Yang and Xiang Hui arrived at the beach, there were already many fishermen searching carefully on the beach for a while.
"Shall we act separately?" Xiang Hui asked.
"Sure." Xiang Yang knew that Xiang Hui was not interested in catching seafood and must want to find a place to be lazy, but he didn't say it out loud.
"Xiaoyang, are you here to catch fish too?"
"Brother Yang, you are here too?"
When the villagers on the beach saw Xiang Yang walking onto the beach carrying a bucket, they immediately greeted him enthusiastically.
"Come and play." Xiang Yang was also quite polite. He smiled and talked with the villagers for a while before he walked alone with a bucket towards the reefs exposed above the sea after the tide receded. These places usually have large conches, swimming crabs and other seafood, and sometimes you can even see stranded small fish.
Xiang Yang's choice turned out to be correct. As soon as he reached the reef, he found traces of marine life.
But when he discovered this creature, cold sweat broke out on Xiang Yang's forehead.
"Sea snake?" I saw a colorful, long-bodied marine creature curled up under the reef, with most of its body under the reef, leaving only a very small part outside the reef.
There is no sea snake that is not poisonous. Xiang Yang did not dare to act rashly, but he also did not think of letting the sea snake go.
Although sea snakes are not as aggressive as venomous snakes on land, they generally will not attack humans if you don't provoke them. However, once a person is bitten by a sea snake, the venom will take effect in a few minutes or as long as three hours. The venom will be transmitted to the whole body through the blood and there is no medicine to cure it. Killing sea snakes is the duty and responsibility of almost every fisherman.
Xiang Yang felt a little bitter in his heart. Although the sea snake was stranded, most of its body was still soaked in the sea water under the reef. It was not so easy to kill it.
Sea snakes in water and those out of water are completely different creatures. Sea snakes in sea water have almost no natural enemies, and not many predators would be so blind as to prey on this cold-blooded killer that swims on the seabed like a flash of lightning.
Sea snakes out of the sea have almost no defense capabilities and can be easily killed by almost any creature, especially some birds, which often prey on sea snakes that come ashore to lay eggs during the breeding season.
"We don't have sea snakes here. Where did this sea snake come from?" Qinglongwan is located in a remote area, with clear water, lush aquatic plants, and a large number of birds living and breeding. In this environment, there is no soil for sea snakes to survive and reproduce, so sea snakes are extremely rare in Qinglongwan.
Xiang Yang grabbed a stone and was about to throw it at the sea snake.
At this time, other fishermen noticed Xiang Yang's actions, and looking in the direction where Xiang Yang was about to throw the stone, they immediately found the sea snake.
"Xiaoyang, stop smashing it." A villager immediately called out to Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang hesitated for a while, and finally put the stone down.
The villager immediately ran over with a smile on his face. "How can you kill a sea snake? Look, I'm going to catch it."
"Be careful, don't get bitten by it." Xiang Yang smiled and stepped aside. Sea snake is actually an extremely precious seafood. Its venom is a medicine worth more than gold, its meat is exceptionally delicious, its gallbladder is a tonic comparable to ginseng, its bones can be used to make wine, and eating its skin is said to be good for beauty. Moreover, because sea snakes are extremely difficult to catch, their value is increased even more invisibly.
Xiang Yang was unwilling to take the risk of catching a sea snake, but other villagers in Qinglongwan could not resist the temptation.
The fisherman who dared to catch the sea snake obviously had some skills.
He jumped under the reef, bent down and reached out to grab the part of the sea snake's body that was exposed outside the reef, but before he got close, he retracted his hand and reached out again, repeating these two actions continuously.
The sea snake sensed danger, and its thin neck crawled out from under the reef. It raised its neck, opened its triangular head, and moved its tongue in and out. Although there were not many teeth in its mouth, the two fangs on the upper jaw that flashed with cold light made it look particularly ferocious.
When Xiang Yang saw this, he immediately knew that the sea snake could not escape from the fisherman's clutches.
If the sea snake did not raise its neck, the fisherman might still be afraid to act rashly, fearing that he would be bitten by the sea snake.
But now that the sea snake is out of the sea water, its movements have slowed down, and its fangs are exposed to the fishermen's sight. How could it still bite the fishermen
Sure enough, the next moment Xiang Yang saw the fisherman grab the sea snake's head and lift the entire sea snake out from under the reef.
"Yes, it weighs three or four kilograms. This sea snake can be sold for thousands of dollars. Xiaoyang, you found this sea snake. I'll give you half of the money when I sell it." The fisherman raised his head and grinned at Xiang Yang.
"Go and sell it to me. I'll sell it at a higher price than you. We'll split the money in half after the sale." Xiang Yang did not reject the villagers' kindness. Strictly speaking, the sea snake originally belonged to Xiang Yang. Even if the sea snake was killed, the poison would not spread throughout the body, and the meat could still be eaten. Xiang Yang originally wanted to take the sea snake home to eat himself, so splitting it in half would be the villagers taking advantage of Xiang Yang.