Chapter 212: Selling Fish
Bian Rui saw the swordfish for the first time, and also saw someone untie the swordfish on the spot for the first time, the old Henry was very nimble, and at a glance he knew that there was a person with a job in his hand, and the wide-backed machete about forty centimeters long was playing in his hand, and soon the head of the swordfish was unloaded.
Bian Rui looked at the old Henry Jieyu, turned his head and wanted to talk to Zhou Zheng, but his eyes moved to his left, and found that Zhou Zheng, who was still standing beside him just now, was gone.
Where is the little girl willing to rest, still on the bait and looking at the fishing float on the sea, waiting for the big fish to take the bait twice.
Soon both of their rods were fished, but unfortunately the fish are not big, of course, this is not much compared to the two just now, compared to the general catch is still a lot bigger.
Like Zhou Zheng, what he caught was a big-eyed tuna, but it was only about 20 catties, far less big than the one caught by the little girl, and a small ribbon fish came up from the little girl.
Both fish were pulled onto the boat without much effort.
Next, the two continued to bait and fish, but the result was still some fish that did not slip, and Zhou Zheng also caught a small shark.
Tossed to more than seven o'clock, Bian Rui couldn't stay up, returned to the cabin and began to make a fire to cook, braised hairtail fish that must have, two hairtail fish Bian Rui chopped into fish segments according to the Chinese method, and then marinated in cooking wine or something, and finally wrapped in flour and fried in the oil pan, fried until golden brown out of the pot and braised in the pot.
The grouper is steamed, and the remaining few fish are not known very well, and these two dishes are enough. As for the little bigeye tuna, Zhou Zheng said that he was going back to make sashimi, so naturally he didn't have to worry about Bian Rui.
I have to say that Henry and the two sailors are on the ship, as long as you don't let them almost feel their presence, Bian Rui was ready to invite them over to eat during the meal, but was stopped by Zhou Zheng for them to have their own principles.
After Bian Rui understood, it became clear that people like Henry would not eat with their employers, this was their rule, and this had nothing to do with their social status, and they would not feel inferior to themselves. They have a clear separation between work and life, and rarely bring things from work into their lives, and rarely bring their lives to their work.
Anyway, Bian Rui doesn't have to let them come over to eat with him, it's okay, it's best.
After eating, Bian Rui took his daughter back to the room on his boat, and after a while, he fell asleep.
The little girl didn't take her father for a while and fell asleep, the father and daughter spent a lot of energy today, and slept until dawn, and when the father and daughter got up, the dock was already in sight.
Bian Rui poured a cup of coffee, came to the door of the wheelhouse, chatted with Henry while drinking, and asked him what he did before he became a captain, because Bian Rui was a little interested in his method of unwinding fish, and there was nothing to chat about anyway.
Henry Sr. said: "I used to work on fishing boats, and my main job was to handle the catch, but now I can't do this job anymore ...... old age."
"You can have such a high salary for handling fish?" Bian Rui was taken aback by the salary that Henry said, even Mingzhu's white-collar workers were less than half of others, and they only had to work for three months.
Henry added: "This work is not as easy as you think, every year a fisherman dies in the sea, do you think you are tired when you pulled fish yesterday? In reality, the work on a fishing boat is ten times more tiring than this, and you can only sleep three hours a day, and if you are lucky, you can only have five hours ......."
Bian Rui said: "That's really hard."
While chatting, Bian Rui found that the boat was going a little wrong, not the route that came out yesterday afternoon, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Let's not go back to the original berth?"
Without waiting for old Henry to speak, Zhou Zheng came out of the cabin, wrapped in knee-length flannel pajamas with hoods, and they were black and white striped, dressed a bit like a zebra.
"Now go to the fishing dock, we don't have anyone over there to collect fish. By the way, Henry, how are the fish preserved?"
"It's nice, at least getting to the fishing dock doesn't have any impact on the quality of the meat," Henry said.
"Oh, I forgot to ask the little girl where she wants to buy this fish, and what price she can accept," Zhou Zheng said happily and was about to turn around.
Bian Rui hurriedly shouted to him: "It's good if you decide this, why do you still ask her, where does her little girl know this."
Zhou Zhengdao: "Why can't people make decisions about other people's fish?"
After speaking, he ran directly into the cabin, and it seemed that he had a chat with the little girl again.
Bian Rui looked at Zhou Zheng's figure and disappeared from view, and then smiled awkwardly at Henry.
Henry said: "The boss likes children, today I learned that he is so gentle with children, originally I thought he was the kind of person who doesn't like children very much, and he is not very interested in women......."
"Wait, I like children, I admit it, but where did you come to the conclusion that you are not interested in women?" Bian Rui was quite speechless, if Zhou Zheng was not interested in women, he would like to see what a man who is interested in women should be like.
Henry was also very curious, and asked rhetorically: "Why? I have been to the sea many times, and I have not found out that he has brought a girlfriend every time, unlike other rich people who will bring different women every time they go to sea, and some even bring several at a time."
Bian Rui had to sigh.
The two were chatting, and they heard the voice of someone greeting from the side, and the accent of English was very strong, and Bian Rui couldn't understand what this person was saying.
However, the person who came obviously didn't say it to Bian Rui, and after talking to Henry, he smiled enthusiastically at Bian Rui.
This is also a captain, but his boat is a serious fishing boat, almost half smaller than Zhou Zheng's yacht, about 21 meters long, a standard sea fishing boat.
Approaching the dock, Henry found a place to stop, and as soon as the boat approached the dock, he saw a middle-aged bald man in his forties with a big belly coming over, holding a list in his hand and asking Henry.
"Fish?"
Henry said: "There are fish, they are all big guys, one bigeye tuna, and the other is ...... swordfish."
As he spoke, Henry stretched out his hand and pointed to the catch in the two large ice packs at the bow of the boat.
Just looking at these two bags, the people who came knew that the fish was not small, so they came directly to the boat from the pier trestle, came to the bag, reached out and untied the bag, and looked inside.
"What a beautiful fish!"
"For a good price, it was caught by a little girl on our boat," said Henry.
At this time, Zhou Zheng took the little girl to watch the excitement, and when he heard Henry pointing at himself while talking, the smart little girl immediately understood the general meaning, and pointed at herself as if she said loudly: "I caught it, I caught it!"
It was still spoken in English, although the words were a little inaccurate, but the fish collector on the pier still understood, and said a word of praise to the little girl and climbed back to the pier.
On the dock, this immediately found someone to hang the fish from the boat, because Zhou Zheng's yacht did not have such a large freezer cabin, so now the fish is simply preserved, fortunately, if it is winter and summer, such a big fish may not be able to keep fresh even if it is summer.
Once on the crane, the sailfish were soon hoisted onto the docks, weighed and graded, and loaded into huge foam boxes filled with ice before being transported back to the warehouse by the trolley.
Then there was the bigeye tuna, and when the ice pack was opened, the owner of a nearby boat exclaimed.
"It's going to be a winner this year, and I think it's 400 pounds," said one of the shipowners.
Another owner said, "This fish looks fat, and the meat is estimated to be worth 1,500 dollars if it can be graded."
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Bian Rui listened to the nearby boat owners discussing the size of the fish enthusiastically, so he asked Henry curiously, "Is there still a selection event here?"
Henry smiled and said: "Yes, but there is no bonus, it is completely an honor, only the old fisherman takes this very seriously, for them for a lifetime without such an award, life is imperfect, for ordinary people is to be happy, this fish has hope, which of you will go up to take a group photo?"
Bian Rui listened and looked at Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng immediately waved his hand: "I'll forget it, let the obedient go."
The little girl immediately nodded and said, "Well, I'll go!"
Bian Rui smiled: "You go up in case someone asks you to say something?"
The little girl said, "I'll just say, thank you, it's my honor ......."
Bian Rui was very strange when he heard it: "When did English become so good?"
The little girl said, "Godfather just taught me."
"That's okay, you can go up if you want to" Bian Rui thought that it would be good to give the child a chance to practice his courage, so he didn't say anything.
The fish has been hoisted up at this time, and several dock workers carefully put the fish horizontally on the scale, when the fish was stabilized, the number on the scale not only surprised the people on the dock, but even Bian Rui was stunned, originally thought that it was only about four hundred pounds, who knew that after not getting on the scale, it directly displayed four hundred and sixty pounds.
"What's the biggest one?" asked someone on the dock.
"Three hundred and fifty pounds, bluefin tuna," someone on the dock replied again.
Three hundred and fifty pounds of bluefin tuna is not huge, but this is by far the biggest catch on the dock this year, and Little Girl's 450 pound bigeye tuna has a good chance of winning.
Zhou Zheng took the little girl to the shore to take a group photo, and Bian Rui took a photo below.
When the little girl arrived at the dock, she still looked like she was holding the fish with one hand and comparing V with the other, and she was silly at the camera.
What Bian Rui didn't expect was that there were actually reporters who came to interview his daughter, but the little girl's Yingli quickly sold her, but the little girl did not show timidity, but directly said it in Chinese, talking about how to get this fish, the logic in the process of narration is clear and organized, and the performance is quite good.
All the things are over, and the little girl has two more orders in her hands, which are authorized contracts.
Originally, according to Bian Rui's idea, the fish was sold to the company on the wharf, who knew that people did not operate like this, the fishery company only sold it on behalf of the company to get a share, so after paying the money at the wharf, it was impossible to get the money, and it would take a few days to get the money after the fish was sold. The business model here is already very mature, and it is impossible for the fishing company to escape with the money, so the little girl does not need to worry about her money.