Fairy Gourd Farm

Chapter 237 Eel Fishing Season

Zhao Lei secretly "thumped" in his heart, knowing that he must have changed after breaking through the second level of mind.Maybe this change is not big, but it cannot be hidden from the eyes of acquaintances.

However, Zhao Lei was still calm on the surface, and smiled slightly at Chen Lan: "We haven't seen each other all night, what's the difference? Could it be that someone else pretends to be me?"

Chen Lan also felt that her feelings were a bit inexplicable, she shook her head with a smile and said, "Maybe it's my illusion, I always feel that you..."

"Do you think I'm more handsome?" Zhao Lei deliberately rambling: "It's also normal, Xi Shi is in the eye of the beholder. If you like me more and more, of course you will find me more handsome!"

Chen Lan was gentle and introverted. Although she had already tied all her heart to Zhao Lei, she blushed a little after hearing what he said. She gave Zhao Lei a coquettish look and said, "Nonsense!"

While being shy, Chen Lan's attention was also diverted, and she stopped mentioning that Zhao Lei was different from before.

This made Zhao Lei secretly heave a sigh of relief, and quickly asked her with a smile, "What do you want from me?"

Chen Lan nodded slightly, and handed a form to Zhao Lei: "This is last month's sales report, please take a look."

Zhao Lei took the report and looked at it carefully, nodded with a smile and said, "It's well done, the data is detailed and clear at a glance, it seems that Sister Lan, you are really suitable for sales. Or you will be responsible for the sales in the future. what do you think?"

Zhao Lei's praise and trust surprised and delighted Chen Lan, but she still asked worriedly, "Can I really do it?"

"Of course, I am optimistic about your ability!" Zhao Lei smiled and pulled Chen Lan into his arms, and whispered in her ear: "I will leave this matter to you, I am at ease, are you willing to give it a try?"

Chen Lan, who was hugged by Zhao Lei, felt weak all over, and quickly nodded in agreement.

Chen Lan's shy appearance made Zhao Lei move his index finger, and a pair of big hands involuntarily approached her slender waist.

However, at this moment, someone knocked on the office door.

Zhao Lei quickly let go of Chen Lan, cleared his throat and said, "Please come in!"

It was Xing Wenming, the director of the fish pond, who came in. He smiled and nodded when he saw Chen Lan: "Chen Lan is also here. I have something to say to Boss Zhao."

"I'm fine now, let's talk about it." Chen Lan smiled at Xing Wenming, and was about to leave Zhao Lei's office.

"Then it's settled like this. The new vegetable greenhouse will be put into use soon, and you can start contacting new customers now." Zhao Lei reminded Chen Lan solemnly, as if doing business.

"Understood." Chen Lan replied very seriously, completely unable to see that she was still flirting with Zhao Lei just now.

After Chen Lan left, Zhao Lei asked Xing Wenming, "Old Xing, what can you do with me?"

"Didn't we agree a few years ago that we will raise a batch of eels today." Xing Wenming said to Zhao Lei seriously: "This year's eel fishing season has already started, and I heard that there are fewer eels than last year. If we want to If we have enough eel seedlings, we will try to buy them now."

As the director of the fish pond, Xing Wenming has been paying attention to the situation of the eel fry, but he has not received any good news, so he came to discuss with Zhao Lei how to plan ahead.

Last year's mandarin fish brought huge profits to Zhao Lei. Of course, he will not ignore the cornucopia of fish ponds.After listening to Xing Wenming's introduction, he quickly nodded and said, "How many eel seedlings do you think we want?"

Xing Wenming pondered for a moment and said: "Counting the fish pond under construction, the company has a total of eight acres of water surface. After deducting the need for raising soft-shelled turtles and mandarin fish, I plan to use four acres of fish ponds to raise eels, so it is best to have three thousand Up to [-] eel fry."

Speaking of this, Xing Wenming added: "Although most of the fish ponds are still under construction, the fish fry do not need such a large water area. The bought fish fry can be raised in a fish pond first, and when the fish fry grow up, other fish The pond has also been built, and it happens to be able to be raised in separate ponds without wasting any time."

Zhao Lei's principle has always been "don't use suspicious people, and don't use suspicious people." Now that Xing Wenming has made up his mind, he will of course fully support him, so he nodded and said, "In this case, I will go to buy eel fry myself, and I will start tomorrow!"

Eel is a migratory fish, the juveniles grow up in fresh water, and then enter the sea to lay eggs as adults.After the fish eggs hatch every spring, they will swim from the sea into the river to grow up.

This is also the season for fishing eel fry, which is between February and May every year in the Jiangnan area.However, the peak period of fry emergence is between March and April, during which the number of migrating eel fry is the largest.

In the Jiangnan region, the mouth of the Yangtze River is definitely the place where the largest number of eel fry is caught.The next day, Zhao Lei came to Chongdao at the mouth of the Yangtze River. There are many fishing piers here, and there are many people from all over the place to buy eel fry.

Because of the migratory nature of eels, there is no precedent for artificial breeding so far.However, eels are becoming more and more popular year by year, and the number of breeding is also increasing year by year. Coupled with the depletion of wild eel resources, the price of eel fry is also rising steadily.

Zhao Lei inquired on the pier, and was also taken aback by the price of eel fry.Eel fry are sold by the piece, because the number of catches this year is very small, and it costs more than 30 yuan a piece!
This price is more expensive than many ordinary big fish. No wonder eel fry are called "soft gold" in the ocean, and it really lives up to the name.

This is Zhao Lei's first time to buy eel fry, and he doesn't quite understand the mystery, so he carefully observes how others do it.

Zhao Lei found that the vast majority of people who bought eel seedlings looked worried, frowning and looking towards the river, waiting for the ships that went out to catch eel seedlings to return to port.

It is reasonable for everyone to be so worried. The number of eel fry this year is very small, almost half of last year.If this trend continues, many farmers will not have enough fry to raise and can only switch to raising other types of fish.

And compared to eels, other types of fish are much cheaper.In this way, the income of the farmers will drop sharply, and they may not even be able to get back their money.

Zhao Lei waited on the pier until dusk, and finally saw a fishing boat slowly returning to the port.

Before the fishing boats docked, people who bought eel fry rushed up and stood on the pier and asked the fishermen loudly, wanting to know how their harvest was.

However, the result was still disappointing. After a hard day, most fishing boats only caught one or two hundred eel fry, which was not enough for the people on the pier.

But even so, everyone still squeezed forward desperately, wanting to buy these few fry. After all, having one or two hundred fry is better than none at all.

However, at this moment, a bald man brought a group of people to the pier and yelled at everyone: "I haven't come yet, who dares to touch these eel seedlings?!"

(End of this chapter)