master of the deep

Chapter 24 Strange Fish
Zhou Deyi was having a party outside with a few friends at this time, including Zheng Yuming from Zheng's Seafood Restaurant, and two or three close brothers. Everyone was trying to persuade Zhou Deyi, because today several old customers were The Fangjia Seafood Wholesale Shop pulled it away.

"Lao Zhou, if the east is not bright and the west is bright, then forget it if those wholesale stores are unwilling to do business with your wholesale stores. As long as you have seafood, are you afraid that you can't find buyers?"

"That's right, there are so many people in the seafood industry now. Not to mention other cities, we have five or six seafood markets in Dongzhou City. There are not even 100 seafood wholesale shops but more than [-]. You Zhou family can also be counted as one. It’s an old brand, are you still worried about losing business?”

"Don't worry about these little things. Didn't your little Lin go to sea? If you really get back something good, then they might regret it before it's too late?"

"Thank you, brothers. I have seen a lot of big winds and waves in my old week. This small setback is nothing. To be honest, Xiao Lin went to sea and got a lot of big lobsters, top-quality blood coral grass, and big yellow croakers. I don't believe in these things. I can't find a buyer." Zhou Deyi held up his wine glass and said to everyone, then touched them one by one, and finished it as soon as he raised his head.

"Drip-drip-"

Suddenly, there was a text message on his phone. Zhou Deyi didn't want to take it out to read it, but he thought that he had an agreement with his son that if he found something good, he would tell him right away, so he opened the text message with a hint of expectation. He just took a look and was stunned Living.

"Old Zhou, drink, why are you staring blankly?" At this time, Zheng Yuming who was next to him shouted, but seeing that he was staring at the phone in a daze, he immediately turned his head to look at it.

"Bluefin tuna." Zheng Yuming yelled suddenly, startling everyone.

"Old Zheng, are you sure this is bluefin tuna? It seems I'm right, hahahaha." Zhou Deyi burst out laughing.

"What's the matter? What bluefin tuna? I haven't heard of anyone catching bluefin tuna this year?" The people next to them are either seafood or catering people. Of course, they all know about bluefin tuna.

"Hahaha, my son's classmate just caught a bluefin tuna, which is 2.96 meters long and weighs 324 kilograms." Zhou Deyi proudly handed the mobile phone to the crowd, which immediately shocked everyone.

"Oh my God, such a big bluefin tuna is worth nearly ten million."

"Yeah, who is so lucky to get rich all of a sudden."

"Old Zhou, will you sell this bluefin tuna as an agent of Zhou's Seafood? If you can act as an agent, the Fang family will never dare to challenge you from now on."

"Hey, this fishing boat belongs to my son's classmate. He has long said that all the catches will be agented by our Zhou Seafood. I have promised him that I will not charge him any handling fees and help him sell it for free. "Zhou Deyi laughed heartily.

"You won't lose money if you don't charge a handling fee. As long as your reputation grows, people will rush to buy other seafood even if the price is more expensive. Those fishing boat owners are still rushing to send seafood to you."

Everyone was comforting Zhou Deyi before, but now they all envied him, and expressed their willingness to strengthen cooperation with Zhou's Seafood, and everyone would make money together in the future.

"Lao Zhou, let's make an agreement first. You have to give priority to my restaurant to satisfy the best seafood on Xiao Fan's fishing boat, including this bluefin tuna. Although I can't eat them all, but at least I have to put them out before the auction. Let’s have an exhibition in my restaurant, I have a special booth there.” Zheng Yuming immediately made his request.

"Old Zheng, there is no need to talk about our relationship. I can decide this matter, absolutely no problem." Zhou Deyi patted his chest and assured, and then everyone drank even more happily.

"Fourth, my dad, and Uncle Zheng are with him. They have confirmed that this is bluefin tuna. According to last year's price estimate, this bluefin tuna should be sold for more than 800 million to 900 million. " After chatting with his father for a while, Zhou Xiaolin put away his mobile phone and said to Lin Fan and the others with a smile.

"Okay, everyone has a share, and everyone will receive a bonus of [-] when they return."

With a big wave of Lin Fan's hand, everyone shouted excitedly when they heard it. Whether it was catching bluefin tuna or getting a prize, they were all very happy.Because some crew members may not have seen bluefin tuna in the sea for decades, but they have seen it, so everyone took photos with bluefin tuna.

This time I went to sea for only five or six days, but everyone's bonuses were already thirty to forty thousand. This was the salary from several previous sea voyages. Why didn't they get excited? They started processing it without Uncle De's instructions. He picked up the fish and sent it to the largest freezer to refrigerate it.

After everyone finished their work, it was already late at night, and Lin Fan said to everyone: "Everyone has worked hard today, so let's sleep more tomorrow morning, we have to combine work and rest."

After everyone rested, Lin Fan gave an order to the engineering soldiers, and the Golden Pearl quickly headed towards the sea area where the group of stonefish lived, but the distance was relatively long, and it took about ten hours to reach it.

It was almost noon when everyone went out for activities the next day, so they used the fish they caught last night to make lunch. Then they set the net several times on the way and caught mainly some pomfret, plus the original fish. Those, almost tens of thousands of catties of pomfret.

It was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at the sea area where the stonefish lived. The Golden Pearl slowly came to a stop. The engineering soldiers in the control room told everyone that the sea below was not deep, only more than 60 meters, and you could try diving.

As soon as everyone heard that they could dive, they immediately became energetic. In addition, they had only set a few nets today and the work was not tiring, so they all equipped themselves and went into the sea.Lin Fan reminded everyone to be careful and pay attention to safety.

Because Lin Fan knew that the stonefish was poisonous. It had poisonous spines on its back. If someone stepped on it, it would emit venom through the spines.It's just that the diving suits on the Golden Pearl have been modified by engineering soldiers, and they are basically not afraid of the stonefish's stinger.

After entering the sea, everyone found that the bottom of the sea is full of coral reefs, like a reef mountain, with jagged rocks, covered with corals, colorful, and there are many coral fish swimming around, such as redhead fish, zebrafish, angelfish, butterflies The fish are all colorful ornamental fish, very beautiful.

Others were busy looking for treasures. Only Lin Fan knew that the real treasures were under these coral reefs or among the rocks. So after searching carefully, he found a stone fish that looked exactly like a stone. He gently used his feet to find the treasure. With a kick, it immediately crawled forward. After crawling a few steps, it stopped still between the rocks.

Lin Fan opened the pocket directly, put it in front of the stonefish, and kicked it lightly with his foot, and it crawled into the pocket by itself. It was effortless, and a stonefish weighing five or six catties was obtained. .

He did not remind anyone else, but after everyone failed to find the treasure, someone finally noticed his behavior. Zhou Xiaolin swam to his side and saw him kicking a stone fish into his pocket, and immediately screamed:
"Wow, there are stonefish here, what a treasure."

Of course he knew stonefish, but other people didn't know much about it, so they started to ask. Zhou Xiaolin quickly introduced the basic situation of stonefish, and told everyone that the spines on the back of stonefish are poisonous, so don't touch them with your hands. It is best to use Lin Fan's method to kick them into the pocket.

The stonefish belongs to the poisonous scorpion fish family, and its scientific name is "rose poisonous scorpion". It is named because it has thorns like roses and is poisonous.The stone fish is terrifying in shape and ugly in appearance. It looks like a stone. It lies dormant among the rock piles on the seabed and is not easy to be found.

The stewed stone fish has the medicinal effects of nourishing, promoting body fluids, moistening the lungs, strengthening the kidneys and beautifying the skin.After the fish fat of stone fish is dried, it is processed into fish maw and used for making soup. It is a delicacy on the table that is smooth and smooth in the mouth, comparable to the best shark fins and bird's nests.The "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, said that stonefish can treat muscle and bone pain and has the effect of warming the body and replenishing deficiency.

After hearing this, everyone went to the coral reefs and stone piles to look for them, and they found a lot of stonefish.By the time they started catching stonefish, Lin Fan had come out of the sea twice and brought up more than 100 catties of stonefish.

After more than an hour, everyone searched the coral reefs on the surrounding seabed and found more than 600 catties of stonefish.Of course, some jokes were made, some people even put colored coral stones on it, and regarded it as a stone fish.

"This kind of fish is called a stone fish, and it really looks like a piece of stone."

"That's right, this look is really ugly."

"However, stonefish are really rare. We have never seen them in so many seas."

"A strange fish like this, I'm afraid it's not very tasty. Can it be sold for money?"

(End of this chapter)