461.Where's the Harvest (6/10)
After leaving the fishing boat, Qin Shiou now goes to the most places in bars, which makes him feel a little incredible.
After thinking about it, it may be that he has been saying goodbye to the silence of the island for too long, and occasionally when he has the opportunity, he will go to a crowded place to stay and be more popular.
It's the old saying that humans are social animals.
Qin Shiou is not in the bar for drinking and picking up girls, but for watching the ball game with a group of rough guys, the NBA's regular season is in full swing, and the big screen in the bar has live games all day long.
At one o'clock in the morning, after watching the ball and arguing with a bunch of people about the All-Star Game candidates, Qin Shiou walked out of the bar with the fishermen to get ready to rest. As a result, the phone rang suddenly, and when I looked at the caller ID, it was Afif calling.
"Did you disturb your rest, my brother Qin Shiou?" Afif greeted briefly.
Qin Shiou said that I had just finished watching the game and had not rested, Afif said that this was good, and then cut to the topic, simply and neatly: "The sunset in Montmajou, 50 million US dollars is no problem, when can I find an expert to inspect the goods?" ”
As soon as he heard this, Qin Shiou suddenly became energetic, 50 million US dollars, and after deducting taxes, he still had 25 million in his hands, which was converted into Canadian dollars, 30 million less!
Immediately called Little Black and Billy and asked them to contact Afif and sell Van Gogh's paintings.
50 million is a very reasonable price, and Little Black has already told him that the reserve price of this painting at auction is only 24 million, and the transaction price can be doubled at most.
In addition, there is another advantage of selling "Sunset of Montmagour" now, which is that it can reduce the cost of publicity. The spring auction is still two months away, and the official promotion of the auction has not yet begun. That's when big bucks are spent.
Selling "Sunset in Montmajor", Qin Shiou was suddenly refreshed. Then you can prepare for the last time to go to sea, and then you can go home for the New Year.
The weather in the Bay of St. Lawrence has not been very good in the last two days, and it has been cloudy, and the Meteorological Bureau has issued a forecast of four to five sea winds, which is not very strong, but it will also make some captains jealous, after all, the Kraken 18 storm has just passed.
The fishermen aboard the Harvest are not afraid, they have already weathered the Super Storm. This small wind and wave can only be described as a drizzle, and there is no pressure.
After two days of rest, replenished with fresh water, ice, diesel and food overnight, the Harvest quietly sailed out of the fishing port and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the bumpy waves at half past two in the morning.
As soon as he got out of the bay, Qin Shiou immediately asked Shaq and the bull to take people to block the name of the fishing boat on the outside of the boat. The bull bought two plastic sheets of the same color as the Harvest and sprayed them with black paint with a random name: Deep Sea Axe.
The deep-sea axe fish is a very beautiful silvery fish, belonging to the family Plethoracidae. It has a thick chest and flat sides, and most of it inhabits the western part of the Pacific Ocean, so it is not well-known in the Newfoundland area.
The renamed Harvest is a dragon into the sea this time, unless someone gets on board to check it out. Otherwise, the identity of the harvest will definitely not be judged.
Just as cars are not allowed to cover their license plates and change their license plates on land, ships at sea are not allowed to cover their names, but this is only a legal requirement. Who cares if no one checks?
For example, there is a scene in Nicolas Cage's famous movie "Lord of War", where Cage tries to avoid being tracked by the International Coast Guard. He had his brother change the name of the ship before the Coast Guard arrived, thus avoiding being tracked down by the Coast Guard.
So early in the morning. When the fishermen arrived at the pier, they found that the Harvest they had been monitoring was gone.
The fishermen were extremely depressed, and every time Qin Shiou went to sea it was after dawn, which gave the fishermen the illusion that they were successfully raided by the Harvest Number.
After a little inquiry, they knew that the Harvest had been replenished with energy and food before leaving the port, so they immediately knew that the Harvest would be fishing at sea once, so they contacted the fishermen who went out to sea to ask if anyone had seen the Harvest.
The answer they received disappointed them, and the Harvest seemed to disappear into thin air, and no one saw them.
This is normal, the harvest was fishing in the direction of the Basque Country, and it took eight hours before dropping anchor and starting to cast the shrimp pots.
Snowball and Ice Blade found two relatively concentrated lobster groups in advance, and the fishermen threw the shrimp pots down, and Qin Shiou used the Poseidon Consciousness to control them to get in, so that they could harvest a shrimp pot in only two and a half hours.
In addition to lobsters, Qin Shiou's other target is a marine fish that is more precious than haddock, that is, salmon.
Salmon tend to stay in offshore waters, and Snowball first found a batch of Atlantic salmon, and Qin Shiou drove a boat to rush over.
Casting the nets, the boat moved forward, and forty minutes later the nets were harvested, and they were full of Atlantic salmon, more than two tons.
Salmon do not like to congregate in large groups like haddock, they appear in small groups, which is also related to the fishermen's frenzy of fishing.
The fishermen are working at full speed and can only rest for three or four hours a day, harvesting too many fish and lobsters during the day, and needing to tidy up the fish tanks overnight at night.
The ice tanks were filled with fish, and the fishermen were in a good state of mind despite their exhaustion, and they were full of joy to see the harvest again and again.
It took 7 days, Qin Shiou and his party played frantically at sea, until the ice cabin was stuffed, so that at least 55 tons of salmon and at least 20 tons of lobster were collected.
Qin Shiou was really tired, because of the crazy consumption of the Seagod's energy, his mental state was worse than that of the fishermen. In the end, he almost exhausted all the Seagod's energy and carried out a major cleansing of the surrounding sea.
The fishing ground was stuffed with catches, and the draft of the Harvest increased by nearly one meter, and now a big wave can directly hit the boat, Qin Shiou waved his hand and returned home!
As soon as they heard of the return, the fishermen suddenly lost their strength, and they were pale and depressed, so they found a random place to sit down and began to smoke.
The bulls divided cigarettes one by one, and Qin Shiou saw that they were smoking their own hand-rolls, so he asked, "Don't you have any cigarettes?" ”
The bull subconsciously said, "No, the cigarette is boring now, we have to smoke some big ma." ”
"What, big ma?" Qin Shiou frowned, "Don't play with this thing, damn it, they're not good for your body." ”
He is not very good at blaming the fishermen for this, and when the fishing boats go to sea, especially on long voyages, there are some big horses hidden on the boats. Because the work at sea is tiring and boring, the fishermen can't stand it for a long time, so they need to have some big horses to relieve the pressure.
When he was in China, Qin Shiou looked at propaganda and regarded things like big Ma as a beast. But in Canada, under the influence of the United States, there was very little resistance to this thing, and the call for legalization seems to be higher in Canada than in the United States.
When Qin Shiou downloaded the crew code on the Internet before, there was a clause on it that the crew was not allowed to be infatuated with the big ma, but they were allowed to smoke a little after work every day.
Therefore, now that he sees the fishermen coming, Qin Shiou can't say that he is too dead. This is still related to living habits, culture, etc., just like Muslims can't persuade people not to eat pork when they see Han people eating pork, right?
The bull frowned when he saw Qin Shiou, and his heart became uneasy, and the smoking gun came over to ask what was going on, and after knowing it, he explained a few words.
Qin Shiou nodded to show that he understood, and the bull hurriedly handed him one. Qin Shiou waved his hand and refused, and told the bull to let everyone take it easy, and no one could touch this thing when they went ashore.
Bull explained, "We don't want to waste it, we brought it with us when we left Farewell Town, and it has never been useful. Now I'm about to leave, and it would be a waste if I didn't solve it, so everyone came to the dock with two people, and just had the spirit to unload the goods on the dock. ”
Qin Shiou gave him an angry look, this thing can also use thrift as an excuse? He wanted to say something more, but when he turned around, he saw that Shaq and the cigarette gun had also been divided into the tobacco leaves. Well, needless to say, go back to sleep by yourself.
However, the crew members were still very clever, and seeing that Qin Shiou didn't like them to smoke this thing, the cigarette gun knocked off the contents of the pipe first, and said to the others: "Throw them all away, look at your pretending, as if you are really tired." ”
The others also understood, so they threw their cigarettes into the sea, and the bull took a hard breath, and said with some regret: "It cost more than a hundred dollars, what a pity." ”
Qin Shiou said: "If you are just to relieve fatigue, then I don't have a big objection, what I'm worried about is that you will be obsessed with these damn things after you make money with me in the future!" ”
The Smoking Gun helped everyone explain: "This won't be, Captain, don't worry, we use it to relieve mental pressure, if you don't want this thing on our Harvest Ship then we won't touch it in the future, I dare to swear to you, none of our brothers dare to mess around!" (To be continued......)