1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 331 Shark fins are sold for dozens of kilograms
After arriving at Sham Shui Po, Liang Ziqiang asked Zhu Tianpeng and four others to wait for him on the boat. He carried the cut dorsal fin, pectoral fin, anal fin, pelvic fin and caudal fin alone and went to Yuehai Restaurant.

This time, before he reached the office, when he entered from the back door, he happened to meet Du Ziteng who was near the passage.

Du Ziteng asked him from a distance:
"You haven't brought me any chicken snails in a while. I'm desperately short of them. What's this today?"

When it comes to Jizhaoluoliang Ziqiang, there is nothing I can do. Wumingdao has been plucking from last year to this year, and it is almost gone. It is not to say that there is no more, but now I can only get a few dozen yuan or less than a hundred yuan each time. It is not worth going there specially.

Moreover, the few chicken-claw snails that are left in the corners are small in size and their quality is not as good as before.

"Chicken snails are hard to get nowadays, but there are some good ones today. Take a look for yourself!" Liang Ziqiang lifted the lid of the basket to show him.

"Shark fin?!" Du Ziteng didn't say anything else and immediately pulled him to the warehouse.

When they arrived at the warehouse, Du Ziteng called the chef from the kitchen to look at the quality of the shark fin together. They both thought it was acceptable.

Without waiting for Liang Ziqiang to ask, Du Ziteng took the initiative to say:

"I'll give you the standard shark fin price. We usually charge 60 yuan per pound for shark fins, but those are shark fins that have been dried and have shrunk a lot in weight. We also accept raw shark fins like this, and the price is not low either, it can be as high as 12 yuan!"

Shark fins lose a lot of water after being dried, so their weight does become very light, and the proportion is actually about the same.

They started weighing, and all the shark fins together weighed 39.3 jin, which came to 471.61 yuan.

When paying the bill, Du Ziteng still made up the change as usual and asked the accountant to give him 472 yuan. Yuehai Restaurant, which specializes in business with Hong Kong people, has a different concept of money.

The price of shark fins alone far exceeds the combined price of fish liver, shark skin and shark meat.

The entire tiger shark, including the fins and the body, brought him an income of over 700 yuan!

After putting away the more than four hundred yuan, Liang Ziqiang went to the department store again.

What I want to buy this time is also an urgently needed item, a marine radio.

Liang Ziqiang just got a piece of news at the county fishing port and was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.

According to the weather forecast on the loudspeaker, a strong typhoon will land on the coast around the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Everyone in the fishing port was discussing the impending typhoon. Although the weather was still clear and there were no signs of abnormality, the tense atmosphere of impending storm was already evident in everyone's conversation.

Only Liang Ziqiang was completely unaware of the typhoon because he had been deep in the sea for the past four days.

Fortunately, his sea voyage ended and he returned. Otherwise, if he continued to stay in the deep sea until the typhoon came the day after tomorrow, he would be helpless and the consequences would be disastrous!

Feeling frightened, Liang Ziqiang decided to buy another radio to listen to weather forecasts and emergency fishing information at sea.

"Do you have a radio that can be used to listen to fishery radio stations at sea?" Liang Ziqiang asked.

The salesperson was about to reach for the radio, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he pulled his hand back:
"The band you want is different. We don't have it here. You have to go to the largest store that sells fishing equipment to get it!"

The salesperson today was not the same one from last time. He was quite enthusiastic and told him the detailed address of the state-owned fishing tackle store.

After finding the location, I finally bought it as I wished.

Due to differences in the ocean environment, the reception effect of ordinary radios in the deep sea will be very poor, and it is more secure to use a special fishing boat radio.

The price is not much more expensive than ordinary radios, only thirty-eight yuan.

After asking, I found out that they also sold telescopes, which were specially used for fishing boats, so I bought one.

This black-shell fishing telescope costs 30 yuan, and it is a binocular. Fishing telescopes are definitely more useful than those for fun, but they are not the same as professional marine telescopes, and the price is much cheaper than marine telescopes.

Considering that not only he would use it, but it would also be more convenient for Zhu Tianpeng to have it when standing on the bow to look out, he bought two.

The two telescopes and the radio cost a total of ninety-eight.

After buying these, they also bought a lot of rice, oil, and noodles nearby, which were all for the men to eat on the boat when they went out to sea next time. This cost them several dozen dollars.

There are only three hundred left out of the more than four hundred dollars spent on shark fin.

When returning to the village from Sham Lo Wan, Liang Ziqiang agreed with several crew members not to go out to sea for the time being until the typhoon was completely over and the weather improved. It just so happened that the typhoon was a good time to rest and recuperate. After a few days of busy days and nights, everyone was really tired.

When I got home, strangely, Chen Xiangbei was nowhere to be found.

I didn't see him outside and thought he was feeding the baby in the inner room. But when I went into the inner room, I saw Liang Jingcheng sleeping soundly on the bed alone.

Could it be that he went to the vegetable garden, or to visit other people in the village? He thought it was more likely to be the vegetable garden, as his wife didn't like to visit other people usually.

Just as I was about to cook some food for myself, I saw Litchi coming from the direction of the woodshed. She must have just finished feeding the oystercatchers.

"Litchi, did your second sister-in-law go to the vegetable garden with mom?" he asked Litchi.

"Brother, you're back? Mom and sister-in-law are so worried! They took incense and delicious food and went to the Mazu Temple together!" Lizhi blinked and told.

Why did you go to worship Mazu while the baby was sleeping?
"I'm fine, why is she so anxious?"

"How would I know? Anyway, my second sister-in-law was so anxious that she started crying. I saw her secretly crying yesterday!"

Forget it, I can’t get any information out of Lizhi.

Liang Ziqiang was a little hungry, but he didn't have time to eat, so he asked Lizhi to help take a look at Liang Jingcheng as he wanted to go to the Mazu Temple.

I had just walked a short distance to the door when I saw my mother and daughter-in-law walking towards the house from the other end of the road.

When he looked up and saw the two people, they also looked over and saw him at a glance.

She stopped immediately, and Liang's mother's originally gloomy face suddenly broke into a smile:

"Look, Xiangbei, I told you that praying to Mazu is the most effective. I just finished praying and right after that, Aqiang came back. He came back safe and sound. Did you see that?"

Chen Xiangbei's oval face suddenly turned from cloudy to bright. After a slight pause, she walked over quickly. Her eyes were indeed a little red, and she looked at him with joy.

"What's wrong? Nothing happened to me during my normal sea trip. Besides, this is my second time going to the deep sea. You guys weren't so nervous the first time, right? Did you hear some nonsense from someone?"

"You are so good. Your wife has been worried about you and couldn't sleep since yesterday, and you said something nonsense. The weather forecast said that a typhoon is coming soon. Can this be nonsense? There is always a time when a typhoon comes as planned?!" Liang's mother rolled her eyes at him and said.

"Because of this matter?" Liang Ziqiang finally understood.

"Is this a small matter?" Chen Xiangbei argued, "Since yesterday, the village loudspeaker suddenly announced that a typhoon is coming in the next few days. It was fine before, you would go and come back the same day. Now every time you go to the deep sea, you are told that you will stay for a long time before returning, and you can't hear the loudspeaker forecast at sea. The typhoon will come as soon as it is said. What will you do when you are so far out at sea? Anyway, the more I think about it, the more scared I am. I am so anxious and don't know what to do!"

"That's right! I wanted to ask your father and brother to take a boat to the deep sea to find you, but their boat is small, and they said it can't go to the deep sea, so I can only worry!" Liang's mother also said.

Liang Ziqiang could sense how worried and anxious his mother and wife were. They even almost resorted to the stupid move of sending his father to the deep sea to find him.

It's not just that the wooden boat is too small to reach the deep sea. The deep sea is so vast that even if it could reach it, how could it be easy to find him?

Liang Ziqiang returned safely. His mother insisted that it was all thanks to Mazu and forced Liang Ziqiang to go to the Mazu temple to worship.

In fact, the real reason was that the diesel I had at that time was only enough to last until tomorrow, and I had to return today.

Of course, if I had filled up my car with 600 yuan worth of gas at the fishing port a few days ago, what would have happened? Would I have stayed in the deep sea until the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, until I encountered a big typhoon at sea?
That's probably another story...

In this case, maybe the decision not to add too much oil last time was due to the protection of Mazu?

Thinking of this, Liang Ziqiang was still very sincere and kowtowed to Mazu several times.

After returning home and eating, he heard the village loudspeaker sounding again, as if the severity of the typhoon had been assessed again.

Now, the atmosphere was full of impending storm, and Liang Ziqiang also became nervous.

He didn't dare to rest for a moment. He put down the bowl and immediately ran to the beach again.

Whether large or small, they are just regular docks used for mooring ships, but they are not suitable for the most severe typhoon times.

When a severe typhoon arrives, ships must seek another safe haven...

(End of this chapter)