Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1162: Very risky!
"How could this be so simple?"

“Not every fish we catch can be kept alive!”

"Most of the fish on my speedboat can be kept alive. It can even be said that the vast majority can be kept alive. This is because Zhong Shizhu and I were very careful when fishing and were very cautious when scooping fish onto the deck."

“Try not to hurt the fish as much as possible.”

"But other people who go fishing may not be so careful."

"Many times these people injure fish while fishing. These injuries don't seem to be a big problem on the surface, and the fish can definitely be kept alive for three to five days."

"But over time, there will really be problems."

"You run a restaurant, and there are often fish bought from other people in the restaurant."

"If you just think about it, you will know whether this is the case or not."

“How can the fish caught by sea fishing boats be kept alive?”

"People on the sea fishing boats fish the same way, they don't pay much attention and often hurt the fish."

"But don't forget that once a sea fishing boat goes out to sea it will be a month away."

"All the fish caught alive will be put into the live water tank. Someone will check it every day. If there is anything wrong with the fish, they will be picked up and thrown into the cold storage."

"All the fish that can return to the dock have been eliminated, and the remaining ones are almost all able to be raised."

Zhao Dahai reminded Liu Lei.

Liu Lei immediately thought about it carefully and found that it was indeed the case.

The live fish that I bought from Zhao Dahai can be kept in the restaurant for a long time, but the fish I got from other people, no matter what kind of fish they are, can't be kept for too long. After five days, you will find that there is something wrong with these fish. You can only sell them as soon as possible. If you can't sell them, you can only put them in the refrigerator and warehouse.

"Brother Dahai!"

"So that's what happened!"

"In this case, I want to collect a large number of fish and raise them here on the fish farm. This is something I have to think about carefully!"

Liu Lei frowned. If these fish he collected were kept in the fish farm, it would take at least ten days, or even almost a month.

If you keep the fish for three to five days and find something is wrong with them, you will be in big trouble.

"You really need to think about this matter carefully!"

“The risk is still huge!”

"Crabs are relatively less risky. As long as they are completely authoritative, there won't be any major problems."

“Just check it once when you collect it!”

“It’s hard to say about shrimp.”

"Most of the natural shrimps in the sea are caught by putting fish balls in them, so they are bound to be damaged!"

"Even if you make it back to the pier alive, you'd better not buy shrimps like this and feed them on the fish farm!"

"If those other shrimps are farmed marine shrimps, when can we buy them?"

"The flower snails are OK, buy some more."

"You can hang the net bag on the side of the fish rack, or put it in the net cage, there will be no problem."

Zhao Dahai knew that the fishing moratorium would have a huge impact on Liu Gang and Liu Lei's Hongyun Restaurant as well as Wu Weimin's private restaurant, so he suggested making preparations and purchasing some fish raised on the fish farms, waiting to be used when the fishing moratorium comes. He absolutely could not purchase everything, and could not raise everything on the fish farms, as that would be risky. However, crabs or conchs could really be considered.

"Brother Dahai!"

"I understand what you mean!"

"I'll go back and have a good discussion with my father to see which things can be purchased in advance. Those that cannot be purchased or maintained can be left alone!"

Liu Lei was very glad that he came here to meet Zhao Dahai today. He had a single-minded mind and was only thinking about buying the fish, shrimps and crabs that were sold in the restaurant. It didn't matter what, as long as they were sold in the restaurant, he would buy them all at once, and the more the better. Now he realized that it was not the case at all.

Zhao Dahai nodded.

Liu Lei may not have enough experience, but Liu Gang has been in business for many years and may have just not thought of it for the moment. If I remind him, he will definitely be able to figure out what he can buy and what he cannot buy.

"correct!"

"Brother Dahai!"

"Boss Wu Weimin told me a few days ago that he would go fishing with you sometime!"

Liu Lei recalled what he had talked about with Wu Weimin on the phone two days ago.

"It means I can't stay at home anymore and want to go fishing."

Zhao Dahai smiled.

People like Wu Weimin love fishing very much. They haven't been out to sea for a while and it seems they can't stand it anymore.

Zhao Dahai told Liu Lei that when he calls Wu Weimin next time, he should tell Wu Weimin that if he wants to go fishing at sea to find him, he can find a speedboat to find Ding Dawen's fishing boat, or wait for Ding Dawen to come back every three to five days to unload the fish and then go out together. During this time, they will fish in artificial islands and reefs and will not go anywhere else.

Liu Lei nodded and decided to go back and call Wu Weimin to tell him about this matter.

There is no way Zhao Dahai would wait here. If Wu Weimin wants to go out to sea to fish, he can go out at any time.

Zhao Dahai and Liu Lei walked along the fish farm aisle while talking, and soon came to the platform connecting the two fish farms. Ding Xiaoxiang and Yang Qin were watching the long net cage put into the sea.

"What on earth were you two talking about just now?"

Yang Qin felt a little strange. On the way here, she didn't hear Liu Lei say that he wanted to talk to Zhao Dahai about something. He kept saying that he just came here to see Zhao Dahai, but as soon as he got here, he talked to Zhao Dahai for a long time. There must be something going on.

Liu Lei talked about what Zhao Dahai had reminded him of just now.

"Liu Lei."

"This matter really needs to be carefully considered!"

"The fish Zhao Dahai caught are really different from those caught by other people!"

"When have you ever seen the people setting up stalls in the fish market, or the seafood buyers, like my dad, who took advantage of the fishing moratorium to buy a lot of live fish and keep them as pets?"

"Could it be that they couldn't think of this solution?"

"it's out of the question!"

"Not many people do this. It's just like what Zhao Dahai just said. The fish caught by other people who go out to sea to fish, or those caught by various methods such as setting fishing nets or even trawl nets, may be alive when they return to the dock. It's okay to keep them for three, five, ten or half a month, but the risk of these fish is really very high."

"All the fish in the fish farm are caught by me, so I know them well."

"Otherwise, the risk is really huge."

"One is that you run a restaurant, so things like this are more risky. If Dahai and I were to do something like this, the risk would be much smaller."

Ding Xiaoxiang didn't expect that Liu Lei and Zhao Dahai were talking about such a thing.

"Sister-in-law Xiaoxiang!"

"Brother Dahai has just reminded me of this!"

"I have to go back and have a good discussion with my dad to see what I can buy and what I can't." Liu Lei nodded vigorously. This matter was not as simple as he thought. He really had to shut up and think about it carefully, especially if he wanted to buy those fish. He really had to consider it seriously.

"Brother Dahai."

"When do you plan to go out to sea?"

Liu Lei asked Zhao Dahai.

"It's almost time to go out to sea after dinner."

“We started fishing as soon as we got there.”

Zhao Dahai pointed to the speedboat parked nearby. A little further away, Ding Dawen's large fishing boat was making preparations.

Liu Lei knew that Zhao Dahai’s recent plan was to fish as much as possible, waiting for the fishing moratorium to come so that he could make more money. He would come back to rest when the weather was bad, but would definitely seize the opportunity to go out to sea as soon as the weather was good.

"It's almost time!"

"Pull it up and see how many fish are in it!"

Yang Qin pointed to the pulley next to her.

"Come and pull it!"

Ding Xiaoxiang smiled, and Yang Qin was eager to try, and it was obvious that she wanted to do it herself.

Yang Qin was not polite at all. She stretched out her hand and pulled the small iron chain on the pulley, pulling it down hard. After a while, the tail of the long net cage soaked in the water was pulled out of the water, revealing the fish inside.

"Yo!"

"So many fish?"

Liu Lei didn't care at first, thinking that this kind of net cage was just for fun, and it would be good if it could catch two or three catties of fish, but now it has been pulled up and it has at least more than 100 catties of fish. Although most of them are small fish, they can still make money, not to mention that there are a few pretty good-sized sea bass and a mackerel in the middle. The mackerel is more than 10 catties, and just this fish has made a lot of money.

Zhao Dahai told Liu Lei that there was a stream of water below, and all the fish followed the stream into the net cage. A lot of fish were caught in the past few days.

"Brother Dahai!"

"This luck is really unbeatable!"

"Otherwise, how could such a good thing happen to me?"

As Liu Lei spoke, he brought over a large basket, placed it on the ground, untied the rope, and poured out all the fish in the net cage.

"Brother Dahai!"

“What do you do with these fish?”

Liu Lei took a look at the basket. There were more than a dozen kinds of fish of different sizes in it. Some of them could be sold, while some could not.

"Take out the swordfish, but be careful, don't let it get bitten or fall on your feet and be beaten to death!"

"We'll cook it and eat it later!"

"All the remaining fish are dumped into the net cage next to it!"

Zhao Dahai prepared a net cage next to him.

"what?"

"Have all the big and small ones been dumped in here?"

Liu Lei was a little surprised.

The fish caught were big and small. He thought that the big ones must be picked out and put in another place, as for the small ones, he would leave it alone.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Dahai shouted and fell into a net cage.

"Correct!"

"All of them are poured into this cage. The big fish eat the small fish. We wait until the end of the year to see how many fish are left in this cage."

"The fish in this cage are the ones we eat during the Chinese New Year."

Zhao Dahai smiled and nodded, and briefly explained the plan between him and Ding Xiaoxiang.

"Yo!"

“So that’s how it is!”

Liu Lei's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he poured all the fish in the basket into the net cage. The few big sea bass in it swam away in a flash, but a group of other big fish in the net cage rushed out at once and preyed on the small fish that had just arrived, splashing water everywhere.

"what!"

"Are there so many fish here already? Are they all big ones?"

Liu Lei was startled and could not help but take two steps back and wipe the sea water off his face. There were really a lot of fish that just rushed out of the water, and most of them were sea bass, and they were all big sea bass.

"Correct!"

"All the fish caught in the past few days are placed in here, regardless of size. In addition, some fish caught at sea are placed in this net cage."

"More than 10 to 20 kilograms of sea bass, or more than 30 to 40 kilograms of sea bass, and some groupers."

"But at this moment, all the groupers are hiding under the nets, so it's a little hard to see them."

"We just need to wait until the end of the year to eat the big fish and the fat fish!"

Zhao Dahai knew that Shi Guangming and Zhao Shi had already put a lot of big fish into this website.

All the fish in this net cage are not sold but are kept here. By the end of the year, these fish will definitely be much bigger in size, and there will be plenty of small fish, so they must be very fat.

"Brother Dahai."

"If this news gets out, maybe a lot of people will want to get the fish in this cage!"

Liu Lei took a look at the other fish cages around. They contained fish that Zhao Dahai had caught at sea. However, no small fish were put into these cages. They would eat as many as there were in the water. There were so many fish in the cages every night that most of them could not eat enough. They would definitely get thinner over time.

Liu Lei discussed this matter with Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang. The people in the new restaurant would think that these were farmed fish and they would simply not feed them. However, if the news got out, someone would definitely want to get the fish in the cages.

"what!"

"That won't do! They can't just eat it whenever they want!"

“There won’t be too many of these fish!”

"Other people can't afford it even if they want to pay a high price."

Zhao Dahai immediately shook his head. The fish in this cage were really not for sale, but he knew that what Liu Lei said was right. Once the news spread, there would definitely be a lot of people who wanted to eat the fish in this cage. People who really knew the business actually knew that fish had to be fat to be delicious. The fish in this cage were raised so that they could eat them during the Chinese New Year, so they couldn't be bad.

"Brother Dahai."

"Can we discuss something?"

Liu Lei rolled his eyes a few times and immediately came up with an idea.

(End of this chapter)