327: Snapper Harvest

"If you want to be my friend, then listen to me on this. Once my big ship is ready, I'll take you to the South China Sea for some fishing when there's a chance. That's where it's really awesome!"

Yang Qi looked at Liu Zheng and said sincerely.

"This... how can this be? With a ship as big as yours, not to mention anything else, just refueling once costs forty or fifty thousand."

Liu Zheng still refused.

"We didn't use much fuel today. We were lucky and ran into a large school of fish in the morning. It's not like we use this much fuel every time we go out to sea. That's settled, let's not talk about it anymore!"

Yang Qi explained.

"This..."

"Oh, stop with the 'this'. Just have a good time here with your wife, don't feel pressured."

"Alright, fine! Thank you! Brother A Qi, thank you for treating a poor guy like me as a friend!"

"Don't say such..."

Yang Qi then changed the subject and told Liu Zheng about how he first started sea fishing.

He talked about how happy he was when he first started shore fishing and earned a few hundred yuan a day, his mental journey when he caught over five hundred jin of Bluefin Tuna in the South China Sea, and so on.

About three hours later, Yang Qi steered the "setting sail" and parked it steadily at the berth of the training center dock.

His mother and a few others, along with Chen Tianming and his group, had already been waiting there for a long time.

"Yang Qi, did you really catch so many valuable Sea Bream this time?"

Chen Tianming asked after offering Yang Qi and Liu Zheng a cigarette.

"Why would I lie to you? Go see for yourself."

"By the way, this is my friend who came from Zhejiang Province to visit. Please weigh his fish first."

Yang Qi introduced the two to each other, then added:

"Keep six hundred and fifty jin of fish for me. One hundred and fifty jin is for General Manager Yu, and the other five hundred jin is for my neighbors."

"Alright! I'll weigh the fish for your friend from afar first, and I'll keep yours for later."

Chen Tianming nodded and said. After finishing, he called the workers to start scooping the fish onto the shore.

In the end, Liu Zheng and his wife sold a total of over eighteen hundred jin of live and iced fish, earning three hundred and seventy-five thousand yuan in total.

While they were still settling the accounts, Yu Dafu arrived. Seeing such good fish, he pestered them until he got an extra fifty jin of fish.

Yang Qi had no objections, and in the end, under Chen Tianming's constant eye-rolling, he took away two hundred jin of fish.

Finally, excluding the over five hundred jin of fish that Yang Qi asked to keep and the two hundred jin that Yu Dafu took.

Yang Qi sold five thousand three hundred jin of fish to Chen Tianming and received over one million one hundred and forty thousand yuan in payment.

After giving some fish to his mother and the others to try, Yang Qi and the others steered the "setting sail" back to the small dock at the Sea View Villa.

The old men and women, young girls and young wives were already waiting there with baskets in hand.

When Yang Qi and Liu Zheng carried the baskets of lively fish onto the shore, everyone lined up and quickly distributed the remaining catch according to the weights they had pre-ordered in the homeowners' group chat.

However, when they saw there were some extra fish left over, the remaining few people bought them all up.

Thus, plus the two hundred and twenty thousand yuan from Yu Dafu and the homeowners, the total harvest for the three of them was over one million three hundred and sixty thousand yuan.

Yao Shanshan also received the ninety thousand yuan transferred to her by Bai Xue.

"What? Honey, Brother A Qi gave us the proceeds for all the fish we caught?"

"How can this be?"

On the side, Liu Yan shook her head repeatedly when she learned that Liu Zheng had received the three hundred and seventy-five thousand transferred by Chen Tianming.

"I told him, but he wouldn't listen!"

Liu Zheng said with a trembling voice.

"Then I'll go talk to him!"

Liu Yan walked excitedly towards Yang Qi and the others.

Yang Qi gave Bai Xue a wink, and he and Yao Shanshan pulled the fish boxes towards their home.

After a while, Bai Xue accompanied Liu Yan, whose eyes were red, into the house. Seeing Yang Qi, Bai Xue nodded at him, and Yang Qi understood that it had been settled.

"Brother A Zheng, do me a favor, let's build a doghouse for the puppies."

Yang Qi called out for Liu Zheng to help.

"Sure! I can do that, I've done renovation work before."

The puppies were too small, so Yang Qi decided to build a doghouse for them in the backyard first, and move them to the front yard to guard the house after they grew up.

Liu Zheng measured the area, calculated the materials needed, and the two went to town to buy some wooden boards and tarpaulin.

They didn't need to buy nails or tools; Yang Qi's studio already had them.

Back home, with Liu Zheng leading and Yang Qi assisting, they finished building a doghouse over a meter square in just over half an hour.

Must say, Liu Zheng really had some skills; the doghouse he made was good-looking, sturdy, and waterproof!

"My family has been raising dogs for years, I don't even know how many of these I've made."

Liu Zheng waved his hand in response to everyone's praise.

Bai Xue found some old cushions, and the two puppies officially moved into their little villa. Bai Xue mixed some milk powder for them, and after they were fed, they lay inside to sleep.

"Honey, are we eating at home tonight, or going to Mom's place?"

Bai Xue asked.

"Mom just called, we're going over there to have a free meal."

Yang Qi said with a smile. Every time they returned from the sea, his mother would call them over for dinner, knowing they were tired.

This is the benefit of having Mom around!

At four in the afternoon, the five of them arrived at Mom's house and found the Mother-in-law and Chen Lanxin there too. Usually, whenever the "harvest" went out to sea, the three women would get together to cook.

"Your aunt came by this morning and asked us to go to the Northeast to play next month."

During dinner, his mother Zheng Jin suddenly said.

"That's great! I've never been to the Northeast!"

Yang Qi raised his eyebrows and said.

"That's great, I want to see the snow. I'm even worse off, I've never even seen it snow! Is it really like goose feathers drifting down?"

Upon hearing they were going to the Northeast, Bai Xue immediately jumped up in excitement.

"Shanshan, needless to say, she's from Guangxi, she definitely hasn't seen it, just like me! Sister Liu Yan, have you seen snowflakes?"

"Well, where I'm from is okay, it snowed a few times a few years ago, so I have seen it."

Liu Yan felt a bit envious that they could be financially free. They could go wherever they wanted to play.

"When is my eldest cousin coming?"

Yang Qi asked his mother. Because he had heard from her that she had persuaded his father, Yang Limin, to hand over the work on the ship to his eldest uncle's eldest son, which was his eldest cousin, Zheng Maolin.

Bai Dahai insisted on staying on the ship, so after the two families discussed it, they decided he would take more of the captain's salary and commission, while other shares would remain the same.

"In the next two or three days. Once A Mao comes, your dad won't have to go out to sea anymore."

Zheng Jin said happily; it was clear that she was also very happy that his father, Yang Limin, could stay at home.

"Hmm, I guess in a few more days, my dad and the others should be able to return, right?"

"Just about!"

Yang Qi was talking with his mother.

Over there, Bai Xue's eyes were already shining as she pulled Yao Shanshan and the others to start dreaming about visiting the world of ice and snow.

"Oh! I can't go, your dad still has to go out to sea, right? Otherwise, who will cook for him when he comes back?"

Chen Lanying rolled her eyes at her daughter.