1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 182: Income Soars (Updated!)
The villagers found some sporadic winter floods on the sea, and compared with the previous period, the fish catch was quite good. But who wouldn't be anxious when they encountered such an unexpected incident when selling fish?
But no matter how anxious they were, they were not as anxious as Liang Ziqiang and Li Liang. They had a lot of hairtail on their boat!

"If it really doesn't work, why don't you just sail to other counties and look for fishmongers outside?" Deng Zhaocai helped.

Previously, Yang Xi and Yang Qing stole a lot of fish from the bottom of the sea, and they drove far away to other counties to sell them.

"Why go to another county? There are fish collectors in other villages in this town!" Liang Ziqiang replied to Deng Zhaocai. This fellow's thinking was obviously distorted by the incident with Yang Xi last time. If they go to another county, it's to sell the stolen goods, and they deliberately go far away.

Liang Ziqiang was really ready to turn around and look for another fishmonger.

"I'm coming!"

But then a figure came walking down the road. It was Deng Fei.

"Deng Fei, why are you the only one back? What can you do? Where's Zheng Liu? Is he lying in the hospital and can't get up today?!"

Everyone asked Deng Fei loudly.

"Don't worry, everyone. I'll come and weigh the fish for everyone first. Boss Zheng has gone back to get the money and will be here soon. I'll make sure no fish is left behind. I'll collect all of them for everyone!" Deng Fei responded affirmatively.

"Is he okay? We don't even know where he's injured..." someone murmured.

"It wasn't serious. The most important thing was that my face was beaten so badly that it was unsightly." Deng Fei revealed.

Someone also asked Deng Fei: "Is the matter over? Will the man come to bang his door and beat him up every other day?"

Deng Fei looked behind him and saw that Zheng Liu had not caught up yet, so he lowered his voice and said, "It's settled, but it's a bit of a loss to my wallet. Boss Zheng paid him a lot of money!"

"Let me tell you, it's all about money!"

"Look at what Zheng Liu has done. He has hurt his waist and his wallet!" Some villagers felt compassion for him.

They didn't leave. After all, if they flocked to other villages, the fishmongers in other villages would inevitably take this opportunity to lower the price, and they would not be able to get as much as Zheng Liu offered.

The villagers at the front were already carrying the fish and were weighing it for Deng Fei.

Someone also cleaned up the things that were scattered all over the room.

Because Zheng Liu had not arrived yet, the villagers who had weighed their goods wrote down the numbers and stood aside waiting for Zheng Liu to come and pay them.

After a while, Zheng Liu finally appeared, but his appearance was rather different.

Most of his head was wrapped in cotton yarn, like a gauze bag as he walked through the crowd.

The villagers finally recognized him from his eyes and eyebrows revealed through the cotton yarn:
"Zheng Liuni's face wasn't completely covered, so we still recognized you. If you're embarrassed, you should cover your whole face!"

"Zheng Liu, we've been waiting here for quite a while. We're all freezing cold, but you've wrapped your head so tightly, you must be warm now!"

"Whether your face is damaged or not, just don't let it affect your next date search!"

Zheng Liu took advantage of the fact that his ears were wrapped in gauze and pretended to be deaf, and walked through the crowd of villagers as if no one was around.

Deng Fei made faces and scolded the villagers:
"You are all so old, yet you still say such mean things. Can't you do more good deeds?"

The villagers repented and corrected their mistakes:

"Do good deeds! Zheng Liu, I know you have to compensate the victim for touching other people's things. I caught more fish today to help you pay the compensation!"

"Zheng Liu, if you collect more, you will earn more. Look how good the villagers are to you!"

"Deng Fei, bring the scale over here. I don't want to wait in line any longer. I want to be the first to support Zheng Liu!"

Zheng Liu glanced at everyone, tilted his head, and shouted:

"What? What did you say?! There are a lot of fish today? Lots of fish is a good thing, God has given us a lot of fish!"

This technique of pretending to be deaf and dumb is also amazing.

Seeing him like this, the villagers had no choice but to bow down to him and line up to be weighed.

Besides, Zheng Liu came to receive the goods despite being injured. What a precious spirit of professionalism!

While waiting, Liang Ziqiang, Li Liang and the others did not waste any time. Among their catch, there was a batch of common swimming crabs and red crabs mixed together. Now, they carefully selected and separated the two common crabs from the ones with red crabs.

There are so many people eager to support Zheng Liu in paying the compensation, so we don’t need them for the time being.

By the time they had finished cleaning the crabs, the others had almost sold their fish and left.

It's their turn.

"Uncle Zheng, look, we got a lot of red flower crabs, valuable red flower crabs!" Deng Zhaocai jumped in front of Zheng Liu and shouted at him.

Zheng Liu was shocked by his loud voice and said with a frown:

"Go away, stop talking nonsense. Red crabs are red crabs, where do red flower crabs come from?"

Deng Zhaocai immediately exposed him: "Look, your ears are fine, I said a word wrong, you heard it clearly!"

Jokes aside, let’s get down to business.

Deng Zhaocai helped Li Liang move the crabs over and weigh them. After weighing the crabs, they weighed the hairtail.

When weighing the hairtail, Deng Zhaocai reminded Zheng Liudao:

"Uncle Zheng, this hairtail fish really shouldn't be sold at the usual price of 20 cents!"

"In the south, hairtail is only two cents, and the price doesn't change much. How much do you want?" Zheng Liu answered with his sharp eyes and ears.

"It's different this time. These hairtail fish have eaten a lot of valuable shrimps!"

"Don't even think about eating the shrimp. Even if I ate you, I'd still only sell you for 20 cents!"

While chatting and laughing, after Li Liang’s goods were sold out, he started to sell Liang Ziqiang’s.

The common swimming crabs that have been packaged separately weigh 122 kilograms, 50 cents per kilogram, and 61 yuan in total.

The red crabs that were separated weighed 83 jin, which was much higher, at 1.2 yuan per jin, totaling 99.6 yuan.

Then there is the truly massive cargo, South China Sea hairtail.

We caught a batch of hairtail in the morning, and a relatively small batch in the afternoon. We weighed basket after basket, and the total weight reached 1,046 kilograms!

20 cents per pound. The hairtail alone cost 209.20 yuan.

In addition, there were some slippery shrimps that had not yet been swallowed by the hairtail, and were caught along with the fish when the net was cast.

All together, there are 13 catties. The price of shrimp is 70 cents per catty, which is 9.10 yuan at least.

Adding up all the crabs, shrimps, and hairtail, Liang Ziqiang earned 378.9 yuan from this trip to Longjuling.

What a coincidence, it was very close to the catch of Longjuling yesterday. Yesterday it was 375 yuan, today it is a few yuan more.

In terms of price, yesterday's yellow croaker and golden pomfret were more expensive than hairtail. Today's advantage is that there are indeed enough and dense hairtails.

The hairtail that Li Liang caught today weighed over a thousand kilograms, and together with shrimps and crabs, his total income was also over three hundred yuan.

After coming out, he stood aside and laughed so hard that his teeth couldn't cover up:
"Brother Qiang, you knew I was going to marry Xiaomei, so you sent the betrothal gift and wedding money just in time. Thank you so much!"

Liang Ziqiang: Why do I always feel like I'm causing trouble for Lin Baixian? There's nothing I can do about it. That guy can't be persuaded. I want to drag him to Longjuling to launch a wave together. What can I do if he doesn't go?

After paying his younger brother Liang Zifeng for the help, Liang Ziqiang still had more than 370 yuan left.

This time he went home with the money, feeling particularly at ease.

Including yesterday's money, the winter flood in Longjuling alone made 740. Of course, this is just the gross profit, without deducting the cost of diesel and so on.

Add to that the four hundred dollars I made from selling airplane crabs and nameless island conches a few days ago, and you've earned more than one thousand one hundred dollars in recent days.

After relying on the accumulation of dozens of pieces from the bottom of the sea for a long time, the slowly growing savings finally jumped up like a rocket again!
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