1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 28 Shocking
As I walked along the pier carrying my catch, villagers came up to me, staring with wide eyes and asking:

"Where did you two get these? Mussels are this big?!"

The two responded with laughter, but refused to say which island they were on.

What if someone would rather spend some diesel money and drive a boat over there to dig?
Mussels and clams are not a big deal, but chicken snails are valuable!
In the eyes of Liang Ziqiang and Lin Baixian, the chicken claw snails and giant blue crabs on the reefs of the small island already belong to them. They are temporarily stored there and can be taken away at any time!
When he came to Zheng Liu, as a businessman, his focus went straight to the valuable goods, but he turned a blind eye to the mussels:
"This blue crab is quite big. Where did you get it?"

Lin Baixian spoke directly:

"Don't worry about where it was obtained. It's a good thing anyway. Zheng Shuni, the price must be fair!"

Liang Ziqiang also grabbed a fat crab and said:
"Look at this crab. Its belly is absolutely full of red roe. There are more than a dozen of them, and almost all of them are like this."

He actually already had a rough idea of ​​the price in mind. Blue crabs are valuable. Stone crabs are only 40 cents per pound, but blue crabs can be sold for one yuan.

Blue crabs with roe like this one are much more expensive.

"I'll give you one yuan per pound. It's very high." Zheng Liu was really stuck on one yuan.

Liang Ziqiang was a little unhappy:
"That's the price of an ordinary blue crab. This kind of crab roe costs at least $1.50!"

"It's not that much more expensive, $1.20, that's it."

"One dollar and four!"

"Just one dollar and two cents, no more!"

Zheng Liu insisted on one dollar and two cents and refused to give in.

Liang Ziqiang was a little disappointed, but he didn't want to keep talking to him, so he just nodded reluctantly and agreed to pay one dollar and twenty cents.

After selling the blue crabs, the two men took out several kinds of sea fish they had caught and sold them.

Sea bass and yellow croaker are too expensive these days, only 40 cents. Liang Ziqiang didn't sell a cheaper goby and planned to take it back home to eat.

However, the four yellow-legged fish weighed nearly ten kilograms in total and were sold for about ten yuan.

Mussels were too cheap, so Liang Ziqiang kept half and only sold the other half.

Only after the mussels were taken away did the chicken claw snails appear under the bucket.

"Fuck, you two are hiding the snails underneath!" Zheng Liu's eyes widened again when he saw half a bucket of snails.

"It's not hidden. We dug the chicken claw snails first, and then the mussels. The mussels were covered on top!" Liang Ziqiang laughed, "This thing is too difficult to dig. Uncle Zheng, you know that."

Although today's chicken claw snails do not cost hundreds or thousands of yuan per pound like in later generations, they are still difficult to pick and are relatively expensive.

As for the specific price of chicken claw snails in this era, Liang Ziqiang had no idea. After all, he rarely sold this in his previous fishing career.

In the end, Zheng Liu offered a price of 1.5 yuan. After some bargaining, he was only willing to give 1.8 yuan at most.

Liang Ziqiang didn't know if he was cheated or not, but it was indeed much more expensive than the usual shrimps and crabs...

Thinking about the price of this thing in the future, which could be worth thousands or even tens of thousands or tens of thousands internationally, Liang Ziqiang's heart was bleeding. He felt that he was wasting the chicken claw snail and squandering a gift from heaven.

Lin Baixian pouted and joked without any respect:

"Uncle Zheng, I've noticed that you're getting more and more stingy. Is it because those lovers in the neighboring village are asking for more money? You should go there less often. It's bad for your health and money!"

Zheng Liu picked up a small scale on the table and chased after Lin Baixian to hit him. Liang Ziqiang grabbed his clothes from behind, making it impossible for him to scold him or hit him. He was so angry that he jumped up and down.

At this time, another sharp-eyed villager noticed that after Zheng Liu raised his arms, two red marks appeared under his collar.

"Fuck, Zheng Liu, what happened to your neck? Was it scratched by your lover, or was it scratched by someone's family after they caught you doing something wrong? There must be something wrong here, tell me quickly!" Zheng Liu was startled, and pulled his collar to cover the scratches guiltily, and shouted:
"The money and goods have been paid, why are you still standing here? Go away, your mouths are just like those of women, you only know how to make rumors and cause trouble!"

Liang Ziqiang and the other man held the money in their hands, picked up the half-empty bucket, and ran away.

Zheng Liu was cursing behind his back, and every word he said seemed to be from anger, but at the same time he was not really angry.

Zheng Liu is a man who can take a joke. Maybe he is suitable for doing business.

Liang Ziqiang's income from selling fish, crabs and conches totaled thirty-one yuan.

The yellow-legged crab accounted for 10 yuan. Although the crab roe and chicken claw snail are expensive, it’s a pity that there are not enough of them. The most abundant ones are the cheap mussels.

If you stay on the island for a while longer and bring back more crabs and conches in your sacks, your income will be very different!

It's a pity that there is no if in the world.

Besides, with the three big unity tickets given directly by Lu Feng, I have received a total of sixty-one dollars today.

This was beyond his expectations. If he hadn't been taken to the island this morning, he would never have been able to reach this number if he had pushed the fishing net alone.

The most important thing is, the family is most anxious to buy a new boat, but they were originally short of more than one hundred yuan. Now with today's sixty yuan, the gap is only fifty yuan!

Hope was already waving at him, almost within reach!
Lin Baixian also counted the bills in his hand several times. For him, it was unprecedented to earn so much money in one day.

His catch was less than Liang Ziqiang's, and there were not many valuable conches and blue crabs, so he only sold them for seventeen yuan.

But adding the thirty yuan given by Lu Feng, it was forty-seven yuan, which was not a small amount.

When Liang Ziqiang returned home, his mother Yuan Qiuying saw the mussels in the bucket and couldn't help asking:

"Is this the mussels we got from the island? Why did you bring such a big one home instead of selling it at the dock?"

Liang Ziqiang put down the bucket and said:
"Mussels are too cheap. They can't be sold for much money. I'll keep these for myself. The same goes for the goby. I can't sell them for much money. I'll just eat them myself."

"Then there's no need to leave so many mussels, are you a loser..." Liang's mother immediately became angry and was about to scold Liang Ziqiang for being a prodigal.

Before she could curse, Liang Ziqiang quickly took out the six big unity notes:
"This is what I earned today, sixty-one dollars, count it!"

Liang's mother stopped scolding and couldn't close her mouth. She took the money in disbelief and counted left and right. It was sixty-one, but the doubt on her face could not be dispelled:
"How can you earn so much by accompanying someone to an island? Even the God of Wealth is not so generous, right?"

The elder sister-in-law Kuang Haixia, who was working nearby, had already smelled the money and came forward, also waiting for Liang Ziqiang's answer in surprise.

Liang Ziqiang told his mother the truth:

"There are many treasures on the island. I sold the crabs, snails and fish I caught for more than 30 yuan. The other 30 yuan was given to me directly because I saved the tourists from the city!"

"Save people? You won't jump into the sea to save people, will you? That's too dangerous!" Liang's mother suddenly felt uneasy holding the money in her hand.

"Don't worry, I'm just giving people a reminder. I'm not stupid enough to jump into the sea to save others, am I?" Liang Ziqiang comforted.

Only then did Liang's mother feel relieved.

At this time, Liang Defu, Liang Tiancheng and Liang Zifeng also came back from working outside. When they heard that Liang Ziqiang had earned more than 60 yuan today, their first reaction was disbelief.

When the father and his two sons thought about how they only earned a little over one dollar for working for others all day, they felt jealous!
"Wait a minute, let me do the math. You make more money playing around in one day than I make working as a helper in a month?"

Liang's father suddenly felt that his second son's fortune seemed unstoppable recently.

The amount of money he makes is so great that even his father is a little shocked!

(End of this chapter)