Seeing that Xiang Yang did not agree immediately, Wu Shiwen was not discouraged. Instead, he nodded very carefully and said, "Captain, don't worry, I will definitely think twice before acting."
Xiang Yang nodded slightly. The method of betting on clams was proposed by Wu Shiwen. It would definitely be more appropriate to let Wu Shiwen do it than for Xiang Yang to find an agent himself.
Xiang Yang is not the kind of boss who would hold his employees back from leaving. If Wu Shiwen is really determined to leave, Xiang Yang will not be able to keep him.
There was no problem in packing the pearl oysters for Wu Shiwen, but Xiang Yang was worried about two things: one was that Wu Shiwen might be acting in a momentary impulse.
The second point involved Xiang Yang's own vital interests. Just as Wu Shiwen thought, it would consume a lot of fuel for fishing boats to sail to this sea area. If Xiang Yang wanted to sail the fishing boat to this sea area, he would have to salvage enough pearl oysters. Xiang Yang was afraid that Wu Shiwen could not eat so much of his goods. After all, Xiang Yang had heard about Wu Shiwen's previous business, which was all small-scale business.
"Go ahead." Xiang Yang tilted his head and thought for a while before speaking: "For now, only the three of us know about this matter. We can discuss it later after you have considered it."
"Yes, Captain."
At this time, Xu Fang ran over from the deck with a red face, "Captain, De Ge, can you give me another basket of squid?"
Xiang Yang climbed onto the deck and took out two baskets of squid from the freezer to feed the sea lions. When the crew saw this, they all rushed to feed them, so Xiang Yang simply let them do it.
"Those two baskets were finished so quickly?" Xiang Yang asked in surprise.
"With so many people, each of them got two squids and they were gone." Xu Fang took out a hundred-dollar bill from his pocket. "These sea lions are really smart. It's rare that we are having fun today, so I'll buy a basket of squids."
"Nonsense! I brought the sea lion back in the first place. How can I charge you for feeding the squid to the sea lion?" Xiang Yang waved his hand and said, "Go directly to the freezer and get two baskets of squid out."
He Mingde was even more generous than Xiang Yang. "Squids aren't valuable. If you want to have some fun during the holiday, then take all the squids out of the freezer. If Xiaoyang needs the squids, just go back and drag them in a net. There are plenty of squids in the sea."
Xu Fang felt embarrassed when he heard this. Although squids were indeed like garbage in the fishing village and most seaside residents were too lazy to pick up squids when they saw them on the beach, since Xiang Yang had said before that these squids would be of great use if they were taken back, it would definitely be impossible for him to treat them as garbage.
"Forget it, Captain, Brother De, shall we just stay on the boat today?" Xu Fang changed the subject.
"Where else can you go? You all played with the sea lions, but none of you dared to go into the sea." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
"How about we play a few more rounds of Golden Flower? That kid Chen Qingsheng ran away after winning the money. It was clearly him who suggested playing, but now he doesn't even mention it anymore." He Mingde joked.
Xu Fang took out his phone and opened a map. "Captain, you haven't been to the island yet, right? Look here, there is a small island. Should we go to the island to play?"
"Island? Is it far?" Xiang Yang was not very interested. He had actually been to the island. It was a bare island with nothing but reefs. Local people rowed small fishing boats to transport fresh water and instant noodles to the island for sale. The selling price was more than ten times that of land, but no relevant department cared about it.
He Mingde was very interested, "Is there anyone living up there?"
"It's a deserted island, a little far away. It may take some time to sail there." Xu Fang said.
"A deserted island!" He Mingde was a little disappointed. "You can ask the captain."
"I'm free anyway, why not go and take a look!" Xiang Yang said.
"I'll go sail."
The crew members seemed very excited when they heard that they were going to the island for fun.
After counting the number of crew members and making sure that everyone was on board, the fishing boat sounded a loud whistle and slowly accelerated towards the south-west.
The fishing boat was moving steadily in the sea, followed by a large group of jumping and undulating sea lions. Two humpback whales were swimming slowly and far behind the fishing boat.
It was unknown how long it had been, but the outline of the island finally appeared in Xiang Yang's sight.
Fang Youqun stood up and said, "Captain, I want to go fishing and barbecue when we get to the island."
Chen Qingsheng slapped Fang Youqun on the head and said, "I want to roast you and use you as bait."
Fang Youqun looked at Chen Qingsheng with grievance, not knowing what he had said wrong again.
"Once we get to the island, take a careful look around before taking any action. There may be sea snakes on such a deserted island, and there is no sea snake that is not poisonous. Everyone, be very alert." Chen Qingsheng shouted loudly towards the deck.
"Sea snake?" Fang Youqun's pupils shrank, and many crew members also changed their expressions. In the eyes of fishermen, sea snakes are really terrifying creatures.
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "There's no need to be so nervous. Once you get to the island, you can probably tell whether there are sea snakes on it with just a casual look. These deserted islands overseas are different from the sea snakes on the coast. Even if there are sea snakes on the coast, there are only one or two of them and it's hard to find them. On deserted islands, there are either no sea snakes at all or there are densely packed swarms of them."
"A densely packed group of sea snakes?" Fang Youqun felt his scalp tingling just by hearing the word.
Xiang Yang smiled and said nothing.
Sea snakes can actually be divided into two types. One type is a sea snake that lives in the sea from birth and will never come ashore for its entire life. The other type is a sea snake that can normally swim in the sea but needs to float to the surface of the sea to breathe and needs to come ashore to lay eggs during the spawning season.
If sea snakes are found on some deserted islands in the ocean, it is definitely because the island lacks natural enemies of snakes and is densely populated with countless sea snakes.
Because the main natural enemies of sea snakes are birds, and most birds have very sharp eyes, they will eat all the sea snakes in their territory without leaving any alive.
Soon the fishing boat arrived at the shore.
The first thing that caught Xiang Yang's eyes was rows of very strange trees.
This is a tree with reddish-brown bark and trunk. Some of them grow on the beach near the sea. The sea water submerges their roots but the trunks remain straight. Some even have their trunks on the seabed, with only lush branches and leaves exposed above the sea, just like clumps of lush seaweed growing on the sea.
"Is this a mangrove?" Xiang Yang actually recognized the names of these trees the first time he saw them, but his tone was still full of doubt.
The well-developed root system of mangroves allows them to take root firmly on beaches or on the seabed where plants are difficult to grow. They are a rare and unique landscape and barrier between the ocean and the land. They mainly grow between the coastlines of tropical and subtropical regions. When the tide is high, they form underwater forests on the seabed, and when the tide is low, they emerge from the sea surface. They are a very precious and rare tree species.