1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 361 Asking Someone to Buy Gold Jewelry

"Even if you have more boats, there won't be enough people to drive them for you, right?" His wife thought of the difficulty of the matter.

For Liang Ziqiang, this is indeed the most painful thing at the moment.

With his income this time, plus the savings in the box before, it was more than enough to buy a large steel ship, and just enough to buy two.

In other words, theoretically, if he wanted, he could immediately own three 24-meter steel boats and head to the wintering grounds together, making a lot of money every time. That kind of formation and scale were no longer those of ordinary fishermen. To put it in a broader sense, it could barely be considered the strength of a small fishing company.

However, he couldn't run three boats by himself! The existing staff was already very tight on manpower to run this one boat, let alone three boats at the same time.

It was difficult to find experienced people who could drive a large trawler and operate a winch.

Besides, we don’t dare to bring too many strangers to that place at once and make it known.

He calmed down and thought about it today, and finally resisted the urge to go to Fengshou Shipyard to buy a boat.

He still has to wait until his other plans are gradually put in place and the time is right before he can expand the scale.

Maybe it will be pushed forward a little later, but one thing is certain: large-scale fishing in the wintering fisheries is something he will have to do sooner or later!

"Next, around this time next year, I might be able to lead a large group of boats and openly engage in large-scale winter fishing," Liang Ziqiang planned. "But before that, try not to tell anyone about the fact that I make a lot of money from winter fishing."

In fact, his wife didn't know the location of the wintering fishing ground at all, so even if she let it slip, she couldn't really reveal anything to others. But to be on the safe side, he still hoped that she would not mention it in other people's eyes.

If the next plan he is envisioning can be implemented smoothly, in about a year, there will be no need to keep it secret. By then, even if he recruits troops and starts fishing openly, no one else will be able to do anything...

"Do I need you to tell me this? Even if you tell others, I won't say a word about it. If you say too much, others will become greedy and covet the money in our box. There are more than 20,000 yuan now. I'm already worried about keeping it in the house. I stay at home all day and dare not go out!" Chen Xiangbei frowned when he took a look at the bucket of money, as if he was looking at a worrying thing.

"That's true." Liang Ziqiang also thought for a moment and said, "Let's go out to sea again. When we have more money, I'll take it to the bank and open an account to deposit it. From now on, I'll deposit it every two trips out to sea!"

Judging from the current situation, he could earn nearly 10,000 yuan per trip to the wintering grounds, but he couldn't go to the bank every few days, right? Two trips to the sea would be equivalent to depositing 20,000 yuan in the bank every half a month, which was more reasonable.

As they talked, they were already putting the over 10,000 clothes in the iron bucket into the wooden box. There were too many clothes this time, so they had to vacate some of the clothes in the wooden box.

After a lot of fiddling, Chen Xiangbei finally managed to temporarily squeeze the clothes into another box.

The next day, the strong north wind came exactly as predicted on the radio. Liang Ziqiang could not go anywhere and slept all day at home.

After the strongest day, the wind ebbed a little the next day and the rain stopped. Seeing this, the eldest brother Liang Tiancheng resumed the construction of the house he had just started.

The loudspeaker still advised against going out to sea because the waves were still very high. So Liang Ziqiang went to the foundation of his eldest brother's new house and helped build the wall.

My eldest brother's house has fewer rooms than his, two inner rooms and one main room, only three rooms in total.

In terms of structure, Liang Tiancheng listened to Aqiang's advice and planned to build two floors together, and then lay traditional wooden floor boards on the middle floor.

After building a house for his eldest brother's family for several days, the north wind finally became much weaker and the waves on the sea became smaller. Liang Ziqiang boarded the big boat again and set off for the wintering fishing grounds.

This time we didn't catch as many horsehead fish as last time, but it still made several people's eyes light up. It was bright yellow, a big yellow croaker!

The amount of yellow croaker this time is huge. Even the yellow croaker flood in Longjuling during last year’s winter flood period could not be compared with the one we see now.

Although the price of yellow croaker is slightly cheaper than horsehead fish this year, the quantity is too large!

After catching yellow croaker for two consecutive days, on the third and fourth days, many six-line fish appeared among the large number of sea bass and hairtail.

The Otaki redfin tuna was able to be sold at a high price, and bonito and tuna were also caught in small quantities. The harvest in the last two days was significantly greater than that in the first two days.

Early in the morning of the fifth day, we set aside two hours as usual to fish and look for snail shells on the atoll.

Liang Ziqiang did not find any Red Peony Conchs this time, but he found the same number of Hundred-ribbed Starfruit Conchs as last time, and two more Golden Conchs than last time.

On the other hand, the harvest of clownfish was even better. We got three rose clownfish alone and two black king clownfish, which were as expensive as the rose ones.

After rushing back to the shore, the crew members sold the clownfish they caught for around fifty or sixty yuan as usual.

Liang Ziqiang's catch increased instead of decreasing, reaching a little over 15 tons this time. Together with the 100-rib carambola snails, black diamond clownfish, and tuna, the total was more than 10,800 yuan.

After deducting the labor and gas costs, I got about 9,700 or 9,800 yuan this time, which is already close to 10,000 yuan.

When selling the hundred-ribbed star fruit snail to Pang Jiahui, Liang Ziqiang surprised Pang Jiahui again.

"Brother Hui, I have something to ask you for a small favor this time!" He said as he took out the snail shells one by one.

"Want to buy another boat? My business costs a lot, and I'm short of money!" Pang Jiahui thought he was going to borrow money from him, so he quickly told him to give up.

Liang Ziqiang was depressed for a moment. Did he look like he was in need of money? Besides, he was not close enough to the other party to ask for money. He knew this.

"You can't buy a ship now even if you want to," he said with an awkward smile, "Here's the thing, Brother Hui, you go back to Hong Kong Island often, I wonder if you know the latest gold price there?"

"You're asking this?" Pang Jiahui was relieved. "You're probably interested in gold jewelry, right? Gold jewelry and gold bars are not the same price. Let me convert it into the currency here and tell you, if we talk about the normal gold price, it's the same as here, a little more than 40 yuan per gram. But if you want to buy gold jewelry from some of the century-old brands over there, there are design fees and labor costs included, and these two things are not cheap, it's about twice the normal gold price!"

After hearing this, Liang Ziqiang found that there was not much change compared to last year.

Last year he heard from Du Ziteng that the normal price of gold is around 40 yuan per gram, and the price of gold jewelry in Hong Kong Island is around 70 to 80 yuan per gram.

I remember that he was shocked at the time. He had not expected that the price of gold had reached such a high level in the early 1980s. So he gave up the idea of ​​buying the three golds.

Forty years later, the price of gold has only risen a little more than ten times. When he was reborn, he obviously took it for granted and thought that gold should be very cheap in the 1980s.

With the little money he had last year, Huang Jin didn't dare to think too much. But now it's different. He wants to buy some beautiful jewelry for his wife, and the idea comes up again.

(End of this chapter)