1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 148: A New Height
The next morning, Liang Ziqiang and Lin Baixian went to Yanghai City.

This time, the two did not take another bus, but drove the boat to transport the sea goods to Sham Shui Po, and then took them to Yue Hai Restaurant.

Because we took the water route, we arrived at the Moon Sea earlier than usual.

Manager Du heard the knock on the door, opened the door of the manager's office, and saw that it was them, and said with a smile:

"You two are getting more and more accurate in timing. The goods were just being digested, and you two came on time!"

After greeting each other, Liang Ziqiang went straight to the point and asked Du Ziteng to watch the fish.

The most eye-catching thing this time is a brown cloud pattern that is several times larger than other groupers.

"Did you catch such a big grouper this time?" Du Ziteng bent down to take a closer look.

Although compared with the real "giant grouper" in the deep sea, the fish in front of us is still only pocket-sized, but it is considered big under normal circumstances.

"Yeah, he's quite big, and has a bad temper. I was not careful and the fishing rod was almost pulled into the sea." Liang Ziqiang said with a chuckle.

Lin Baixian, who was standing by, curled his lips and complained inwardly: It was you who dozed off while fishing, and that’s why you almost let the fish and the fishing rod escape, right? !
Du Ziteng took a closer look and saw clearly:
"This is oil spot. I can offer a good price for oil spot. It's better than brown spot and is usually quite popular with customers. How about eight dollars?"

Liang Ziqiang nodded and said yes. This is indeed two yuan more expensive than the brown belt, plus it is big, just this oil spot alone is a lot of money.

Although the red snapper was eye-catching, it was not the first time the deal was made. Both parties knew the price and no further discussion was made.

The orange-red Guan Gong carp, which is slightly lighter in color than the grouper, is small in size but still very good-looking. There are more than a dozen of them, and they are shining brightly.

Du Ziteng even picked up one and took a look: "This looks pretty good, and the price of Guan Gong fish is not low, five yuan a pound!"

Then I looked at the remaining groupers:
"I'm familiar with brown bands, but now we have tiger bands? When we buy tiger bands, we'll charge double the price of blue bands, four dollars a pound!"

"This tiger grouper is not ordinary. Brother Teng, you will know if you catch one and take a closer look!" Liang Ziqiang reminded.

Du Ziteng really picked it up and looked at it: "The color is more golden than other tiger groupers. The taste is indeed a little stronger, but it is only tiger grouper after all. Five yuan should be enough. I can't give you more."

Therefore, the number of golden tiger grouper was increased from four to five.

As for the three-headed abalone and chicken claw conch, both parties knew the price very well, so they didn't say much. Du Ziteng just took a closer look at the quality and felt that they were still plump and of good quality as usual.

On the way to the warehouse, Du Ziteng asked casually:

"You guys go fishing for grouper. There is another kind of fish that is not grouper, but it tastes pretty good. It is also very popular with our customers. I wonder if you have encountered it?"

"What fish?" Liang Ziqiang asked.

"It's a kind of snapper, grouper snapper. But the price is not that of a snapper, it's probably more expensive than grouper."

"Spotted sea bream? We only caught one this time, and it ran away..." Liang Ziqiang said somewhat embarrassedly.

"She didn't just run away. She bit through Aqiang's fishing line and swallowed the hook before escaping!" Lin Baixian added, fearing that Liang Ziqiang was not embarrassed enough.

"Is that so?" Du Ziteng chuckled. "This fish is like this. Its teeth are very hard. You need a thicker line to bite it! Next time you catch one, bring it here too."

As they were talking, the three of them had already arrived at the warehouse next to the kitchen.

Lao Peng weighed them one by one.

At first, they thought they would fail to catch any chicken claw snails this time, but unexpectedly, they caught quite a few. Liang Ziqiang alone caught 22.1 jin (6.8 kg), which was a little more than last time, but not much more. After all, if they caught too many, the Yuehai Restaurant would not be able to take them all.

Eighteen yuan per pound, the chicken claw snail alone brought 397.80 yuan. "This time the grouper is a little small, only nine taels." Old Peng counted as he looked at the scale.

Twenty yuan per pound, this one is eighteen yuan.

"This fish is quite fat. Let me see, it weighs 6.9 jin (15.3 catties), almost 7 jin (15.3 catties)!" Lao Peng continued to report.

This one costs fifty-five dollars and twenty cents!
"Red Guan Gong? These fish usually don't grow very big, and are smaller than grouper. Weighing thirteen of them together, they weigh six pounds and four ounces!"

The Guan Gong fish is sold for thirty-two yuan.

Several brown belts together cost forty-nine dollars and sixty cents.

"What's this, tiger grouper? Eleven tiger groupers weighing 17.5 jin!"

The tiger striped couple went together and the price came to 87.5 yuan.

There are still some blue spots left, more than ten of them costing thirty-five dollars.

Abalone weighs 13.6 jin (20 catties), and costs 136 yuan.

All in all, Liang Ziqiang's total income this time reached 810.3 yuan!
I remember that the last time I sold seafood at Yuehai Restaurant, my income was more than 700 yuan. Later, after adding the 200 yuan from the blue-purple abalone bead, the income reached more than 900 yuan.

If we only talk about seafood revenue, this time is undoubtedly the highest, setting a new record!

The most crucial point is that with the change of seasons and the cooling weather, fishermen in the entire village are now facing a decline in income.

Such a huge income of more than 800 yuan is an astronomical figure for those people. Don’t even think about it in this season!

Only Liang Ziqiang, through night hunting and the "private bank" of Wuming Island, was able to go against the cold current of the season and continue to get stacks of money. In the words of later generations, it can be regarded as "going against the trend"!
Of course, night fishing can never compare to these rare seafood. It costs more than 100 yuan per night, and I am so tired that I can fall asleep wherever I sit.

Lin Baixian's income was much less. The main reason for his failure this time was that he did not catch many valuable groupers, but he caught a lot of white mullets, thorny fish, etc., and he killed them all on the spot, contributing to the bait.

The other three abalones didn’t yield that many.

But I still got about 600 yuan.

After receiving the money from the accountant, Liang Ziqiang asked Du Ziteng on the way:

"Brother Teng, winter is coming soon. The cold weather will last until before the Spring Festival. Your restaurant business should be pretty good, right?"

"Based on previous years, business at the end of the year is no worse than usual, only better, it's considered the peak season!" Du Ziteng seemed to understand what Liang Ziqiang was going to say, "Come sit down in my room, I also want to talk to you two about the end of the year!"

After returning to the manager's office and sitting down, Du Ziteng looked at the two of them and said:
"Consumption is more prosperous at the end of the year. Next time you two come, you can bring more goods than usual! Oh, and I have never been able to ask you this. I wonder if the place where you two got these seafood is considered a deeper part of the ocean?"

Liang Ziqiang understood that the other party had the same idea as him, and immediately replied:
"Not really, it's still far from the deep sea. That's why I was just about to say this. I estimate that we can only catch it once more this year. In half a month or so, the cold wave will officially come. First, the sea will be windy and rough, making it dangerous to go out to sea. Second, the grouper and abalone in that place will definitely all hide in the deep sea by then, and we won't be able to catch them!
I was thinking that next time I go, I can’t just buy half a month’s supply. You’ll need the goods for the next few months, so I should have enough for several months. I just don’t know if you have a way to preserve it. Last time, I heard you say it’s not easy to preserve…”

"Yes!" Du Ziteng was a little troubled. "If you raise them for too long, they will become inedible. If they were really that easy to raise, people would have been vying to raise these valuable seafood! Anyway, I definitely don't have the technology to do that."

He frowned and thought for a while, then finally said:
"Grouper is relatively better. You two can double or even triple or quadruple the usual amount next time. If I can keep it alive, I'll keep it longer. If I can't, I'll freeze it, which will sacrifice some of the taste. But there's really nothing I can do about chicken claw snails. Who would eat them if they've been frozen for so long? I can only order a little more than usual!"

"Okay, I'll get more grouper next time!"

Liang Ziqiang had already made up his mind that no matter what, he must save some money before the end of the year.

Going out to sea, night fishing, underwater diving, plus dredging on unnamed islands and fishing for grouper, all kinds of ways to make money are used together. I don’t believe that in this “off-season”, I won’t be able to save enough money to build a house!

Two chapters were released in quick succession in the early morning. Happy May Day, fellow readers, and happy reading!
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