Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1236: We don’t lack this little money!
"correct!"

“How many fish are in this cage?”

Yang Qin pointed to the net cages where she had just dumped two or three hundred kilograms of large and small fish. As soon as the fish entered the net cages, a group of sea bass rushed out, and most of the small fish were eaten up, and not many escaped.

"Five large groupers weighing more than 100 kilograms have already been put in, as well as some weighing 20 to 30 kilograms, and some red-spotted sea bass and other fish."

"Are you worried that there won't be any good fish to eat during the New Year?"

"There are quite a lot of fish in this cage. By the time the Chinese New Year comes, they will be big and fat."

Ding Xiaoxiang knew that Yang Qin was concerned about how many fish were in the net cages. It had been agreed long ago that they would be kept here and shared among everyone during the New Year.

"Now, this cage contains not only sea bass, black porgy and various types of grouper caught by Zhao Dahai."

"Don't we catch fish here every day and put the fish we catch into these net cages?"

"It's really hard to tell right now how many species of fish are in this cage."

Ding Xiaoxiang is the same at this moment, and she doesn't know about this matter. Sometimes, some big fish caught in the net cage will be taken out and cooked, but most of them will be put into the net cage. The small fish are used to feed the big fish. The bigger fish caught are living well in the net cage. For example, now you can see some yellow bream as big as a palm, or some other fish swimming around on the water surface or in shallower places. These are not what Zhao Dahai catches when he goes out to sea.

In addition, you can also see some large cuttlefish, all of which were caught in the net cages.

"correct!"

"How's the abalone thing going?"

Yang Qin suddenly remembered this very important thing. This was a plan that had been in place for a long time. The key was that these abalones were raised here in the fish farm, but in order to grow them into big abalones, they had to start raising them as quickly as possible.

"The cage in the northeast corner is used exclusively for abalone, no other fish are put in it."

"We have been purchasing abalone fry recently, but the quantity is not too large. After all, we want abalone fry that grow naturally in the sea."

"Sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less. If there's any, I'll collect it. If there's none, forget it. All in all, I estimate that I've collected about 300 kilograms."

“They’re all in the cage!”

Ding Xiaoxiang pointed to the outermost fish cage in the northeast corner. It was a fish cage specially prepared for raising abalone and no other fish were put in it. All the abalone fry collected recently, big and small, were placed in it.

These abalone fry are kept in the net cages and fished out for a check every six months or a year.

It is born and raised by nature. If you are alive, you are alive. If you are dead, you are dead. There is no need to pay attention to it.

As long as they are there, they will be put in and put out continuously. It is hard to say how many will survive in the end.

"Let's not rush to eat!"

"Raise them as big as you can, and raise them as long as you can. In the end, that's how many you can raise!"

"When we get good abalone fry, we put them in there. Not to mention after eight or ten years, even after three or five years, there will be a lot of abalone in there."

The more Yang Qin thought about it, the more excited she felt.

People who grew up by the sea know very well that small abalone are actually quite common. You can even say that you can find them as long as you want to. However, large abalone, especially single-headed abalone or even double-headed abalone, are not so easy to find.

Ding Xiaoxiang's family buys fish, shrimps and crabs, so they must have had some over the years, but not many.

Now there is a fish farm like this. If you collect the small abalone fry and put them in it, and raise them for three to five years, five to six years, or even ten to eight years or longer, you will definitely be able to raise an abalone.

It is the real valuable goods.

Even though this giant grouper weighing over 100 kilograms is very valuable, it is actually meaningless, especially to people like us.

If it is something that can be bought with money, even if the quantity is small, even if it takes some time, there will definitely be a chance to buy it. In particular, Zhao Dahai can catch a lot of large groupers.

But abalone, especially a whole abalone, is definitely not something that can be bought with money.

Zhao Dahai is not short of money, and neither is he nor Liu Lei, who have enough money to buy this abalone. But the key point is that even if they take out the money, they can't find it. No one is willing to buy it. This is something that is priced but not sold. The best and simplest way is to collect abalones and raise them in fish racks as Ding Xiaoxiang is doing now. After a long time, they will be able to raise big abalones.

"There shouldn't be any big problems with this approach, but no one knows if we can raise them. We have to see how many abalone we can raise in the next year."

Ding Xiaoxiang feels that there is nothing wrong with doing this, but whether it will be successful in the end is hard to say now. She has to raise them while seeing how many abalones she can raise. Another thing to consider is how fast these abalones grow and how many years it will take to raise them.

"We are not in a hurry!"

"Whenever you can raise it, raise it!"

"The seawater quality here is so good, there's no need to worry. It just depends on whether it will take a long time or a short time. Anyway, we have plenty of time!"

"I don't believe that we can't raise a few abalones in eight to ten years, or even twenty to thirty years."

Yang Qin knew that it was not easy to raise an abalone, but she and Ding Xiaoxiang had plenty of time, so there was no reason why they couldn't raise one.

Ding Xiaoxiang, Yang Qin, Zhong Cuihua, Huang Jintao and others were talking while waiting for Liu Lei, Shi Guangming and Zhao Shi to come back.

"Brother Dahai's speedboat is really easy to drive, but now it can only be left here at the fish farm to be exposed to the wind and sun!"

Liu Lei drove the speedboat away from the fish farm and slowly headed towards the speedboats of people who were still waiting there at night, not sure if they were fishing or had any other plans.

The first speedboat Zhao Dahai bought was actually very good and very large. It’s just that he has bought a better one now, and he has not sold this old one. It was originally placed in the village. Now that he sees the fish farm, it can still be used sometimes.

"what!"

"How could it be bad? This is really a good speedboat. Even though Zhao Dahai doesn't use it now, there are so many people who go fishing around here, but few of them have bought a speedboat like this one."

"Many people have been asking whether this speedboat is for sale and how much it would cost, but Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang refuse to sell it."

"Many people have asked me about it!"

Shi Guangming was really not joking. When Zhao Dahai's speedboat stopped at Langtou Village, this kind of thing had not happened before. But when his speedboat stopped at the fish farm, many people knew about it and they all knew the relationship between him and Zhao Dahai. These people rarely saw Zhao Dahai, so almost all of them wanted to inquire about this matter. However, he knew that Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang would not accept it, so they all refused.

"Brother Dahai is not short of money now, so why would he sell this speedboat? He would rather leave it at the dock, exposed to the wind and sun than sell it. Not to mention, now that this speedboat is at the fish farm, it can still be used sometimes."

Liu Lei knew very well why Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang would not sell this speedboat. If they were short of money or did not have much money, they would definitely sell the old speedboat after buying a new one. However, Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang really did not lack the money. The most important thing was that this speedboat was the first speedboat bought by Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang. At that time, their relationship had not yet been confirmed. Such a speedboat had important significance to Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang.

"Correct!"

"There's no need to sell the speedboat." Zhao Shi nodded.

Liu Lei drove the speedboat closer to the speedboat closest to the fish farm.

"Yo!"

"Two dogs!"

"I wonder why you are so diligent?"

With the help of the light from the speedboat, Shi Guangming could immediately tell that the person on the speedboat opposite was from his village. He was about the same age as Shi Zhongwei, and he had forgotten his name. He only knew that everyone called him by his nickname, Ergouzi.

"Can you catch any fish staying here this late?"

Shi Guangming asked directly.

"Master Shi."

"Who knows if I can catch any fish? Anyway, there's nothing to do at home, so I'll just stay on the sea."

"I would like to fish on the fish raft, but they don't allow it!"

"Master Shi."

"Isn't this your fish farm? Can you let me go fishing?"

"It's definitely impossible to catch fish in the net cage!"

"Just some money or something!"

"Isn't that what they do in other villages and fish farms?"

"The fish paddock is right there anyway, why not charge some money? It's a waste if you don't make some money!"

Er Gouzi's eyes kept moving and he never stopped while he was talking.

"Humph!"

"I have a share of the fish fillet, but you don't want to tell me that you don't know who this fish fillet belongs to?"

"Let you go fishing?"

"Why did I let you go fishing?"

"Do you think I would be short of your money for fishing on the fish raft?"

"Or do you think Zhao Dahai needs this little money from you?"

Shi Guangming was not polite at all.

Er Gouzi must have asked Ding Ailian and Ma Baozhu and knew that it was absolutely impossible to get on the fish raft. Now that he saw me and was talking about this matter again, he was trying to fish in troubled waters.

"what!"

"Then they definitely don't need the money!"

"The fish farm is where you can catch fish. If we can get there, we can definitely catch some fish and make some money!"

Er Gouzi shook his head a little embarrassedly.

There is no need to talk about Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang, even Shi Guangming would not be short of this little money from the fishing raft.

"Don't think about it!"

"The fish farm is used to raise the fish that Zhao Dahai and Shi Jiehua bring back from the sea."

"No matter what kind of person you are, you can't catch fish in the row."

"If you fish here, I can't control you. This place is not my home. But you are absolutely not allowed to fish at the fish farm. If you want to fish, you have to stay away from it. Otherwise, don't blame those people who are watching the fish farm for being rude."

Shi Guangming didn't say much to Ergouzi. He just said this sentence directly and called Liu Lei to drive the speedboat towards another speedboat where people were fishing.

Er Gouzi's face suddenly turned a little ugly when he saw Shi Guangming leaving, but there was nothing he could do.

Liu Lei drove the speedboat, and together with Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming, they took a tour and greeted everyone who was fishing nearby. It was almost two hours later that they returned to the fish farm.

Ding Xiaoxiang and Yang Qin had already asked the kitchen of Yupai to prepare a large pot of seafood porridge. When Liu Lei, Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming came back, they immediately brought it up and placed it on the table.

Don’t think that it’s still summer and the weather is quite hot, but the temperature on the sea surface will drop at night. In addition, it was a bit cold when the sea breeze blew tonight. After a walk, I drank a bowl of steaming seafood porridge to warm my body, which was very comfortable.

"Second Grandpa."

"Grandpa Zhao."

"What does it feel like? Are all these speedboats around here just looking to fish?"

Ding Xiaoxiang waited until Zhao Shi, Shi Guangming and Liu Lei had finished their bowl of porridge and warmed themselves up before she asked about this matter.

"Correct!"

"Most people seem to be fishing here, but they think they can catch fish in this place, especially big fish will come out of the fish."

"They are all waiting here!"

Shi Guangming just took a look around with Liu Lei and Zhao Shi. It seemed that these speedboats or small fishing boats were surrounding the fish farm to fish.

There's no way to be 100% sure that these people are just fishing, but judging from the looks of it, they shouldn't be too far off the mark.

"Some of the people here are from Shijiao Village, and I know them all. Some are from surrounding villages, but I don't know all of them, but they look familiar."

"Tomorrow during the day, Old Man Zhao and I will go around again to see how many people are waiting to fish nearby and see if they have any other ideas."

Shi Guangming finished his porridge and put down his bowl. At this time tonight, there were more than ten small speedboats crowded around here to fish. He looked at them all. Some of them he recognized and some he didn't, but he wrote down what these people looked like. In the next two days, he and Zhao Shi would have to visit this place.

(End of this chapter)