Chapter 396: A Boatload of Several Ten Thousand

"What?"

"Any more?"

"There's still more? This is too exaggerated."

"My dear mother, 200 baskets, how much money would that be?"

"Struck it rich, Ye Lao Er struck it rich!"

"Our dock's record was shattered in an instant, 200 baskets!"

After the shock of the previous 150 baskets, the 200 baskets only excited everyone for a while, then they started working quickly.

Taking advantage of this time, Ye Cheng started looking for people to discuss extra pay.

200 baskets is about 4000 catties, which is about 4 tons.

Certainly one person can't eat it all; He Lao Ban pulled three other bosses, four people total, planning to eat this batch of swimming crabs, calculating that no one would digest a ton, which is not little, considering they also received a batch of goods this morning.

As for the price, since it's already the third day of the open sea and the early market period has passed, prices have stabilized, being much lower than yesterday.

Seafood is like this; the first catch is definitely the most expensive, meant for the wealthy to try fresh.

What comes after is the true bulk supply for ordinary people; it's estimated to drop a bit more in two days, after which it will stabilize.

Over half a catty: 40 per catty; four taels to half a catty: 30 per catty; under four taels: 20 per catty; with roe adds 20%.

As for the amount, we'll have to wait until those twelve people finish working.

Duan Chunsheng and the others had nothing else to do, so they helped out there, just hoping to finish early and go back to sleep.

By this point, after staying up, everyone is already a bit not sleepy.

During this time, Ye Cheng took out the fish from the last net and some miscellaneous fish from before, to see if anyone would buy them.

"There's still some sea fish; whoever wants to buy it cheap, sell it."

A few other smaller bosses came to look, and instantly they were attracted to that big guy over a meter long.

"This is a ghost head knife fish!"

Someone recognized it.

Ghost head knife fish, its scientific name is catshark, is famous for its unique shape and color; its head is large, its back narrow, the dorsal surface of the head of adult male fish protrudes squarely, resembling a ghost head, which is also the origin of its common name ghost head knife.

The body usually shows a vivid metallic blue-green color, after death it quickly fades to grayish-yellow, matching the metallic color of a knife.

The flesh is tender, low-fat, suitable for pan-frying, grilling, and sashimi, also considered a tasty kind.

However, this fish is relatively rare here, so the people at the dock just find it a bit strange.

This ghost head knife fish is 1.5 meters long, considered a relatively large specimen.

The ghost head knife fish isn't very expensive; it sold at 30 dollars per catty, totaling 60 catties, 1800 dollars, also counting as some income.

The other miscellaneous fish sold for 400 dollars, making the total seafood revenue 2200 dollars.

Here, with enough manpower, the swimming crabs were also quickly processed.

After calculation, the total sold was _ yuan, mainly because there were too many small ones and too few large ones, unlike yesterday when there were many large and few small.

However, this amount of money still shocked the people at the dock.

A boatload of several ten thousand, if this happened every day, it wouldn't just be making a fortune.

This damn, it's definitely going to get rich!

Ye Cheng himself was a bit overly excited.

If it were like this every day, why bother with farming; the sea is practically an ATM.

Total _ money, after subtracting the 1800 yuan for hired help, the net income is _ yuan.

Now Ye Cheng is a bit worried about how to split it.

Before, he and Xiao Hu were fine to split; anyway, the two got along fine, so Ye Cheng usually just split it roughly 7-3, making up an integer as needed.

Now there's also Duan Chunsheng and Zhang Guafu, leaving Ye Cheng unsure how to divide it.

"What, you've got so much money you don't know how to split it, right?" Duan Chunsheng walked over and said jokingly.

"Hehe, a bit." Ye Cheng flushed with embarrassment, still hadn't agreed on it before setting out.

"There's nothing hard about splitting it; going by the market rate, we usually get 100 a day for going out to sea on a boat, but that's for a small boat; yours is big, so add to 200, and since you're the big boss, just give 500 a day." Duan Chunsheng said cheerfully.

"500 is too little." Ye Cheng shook his head; among our own people, giving himself 500 would be laughed at.

"It's not little; you and Xiao Hu count as the boat owners, while I and Aunt Zhang are workers; a worker earning 500 for a night, where would you find that? So let's just set it like that."

Zhang Guafu, anyway familiar with Ye Cheng, also walked over.

"Right, A Cheng, 500 isn't much; I didn't do much either, just tied up some crabs, something anyone can do."

"Brother, 500 is too little, give more." Xiao Hu also chimed in.

The three had differing opinions; Ye Cheng thought it over and finally said:

"This way, we don't break the rules. You count your night's work at 500, and since the catch was good, I, the boat boss, will give a red envelope; does that sound reasonable?"

Duan Chunsheng and Zhang Guafu nodded; indeed there is such a custom: if there's a big haul, the boat boss usually gives a red envelope, both as performance and as a good omen, hoping to keep hauling big.

"Alright, the red envelope is 9500, plus 500 for labor, so each of you gets 10,000." Ye Cheng decided outright.

"Ten thousand? That's way too much." Zhang Guafu waved her hands repeatedly; she just slept on the boat for a night and tied up some crabs.

"It's not too much; mainly the boat's cost is high, otherwise we could give even more red envelopes." Ye Cheng stopped Zhang Guafu from continuing.

Duan Chunsheng furrowed his brows; ten thousand is a bit much, he felt it burning in his hands.

"Uncle, don't say more; since we've been out at sea, you've been helping me bring my stuff, and you haven't taken any money, so you can certainly accept the red envelope."

Duan Chunsheng smiled and said boldly:

"Fine, not taking money when you have it is stupid."

"Aunt Zhang, we'll just accept this big red envelope."

Zhang Guafu was a bit excited and bewildered; ten thousand yuan.

Even working as a hostess for a whole night you couldn't earn this.

Without waiting for them to nag further, Ye Cheng directly gave each of them ten thousand.

A thick stack of money, slightly damp, felt heavy in hand; Zhang Guafu thought it over, then returned the money.

"A Cheng, I'll first repay you ten thousand of this money."

When Xiao Liang had his surgery earlier, Ye Cheng had fronted 30,000; Zhang Guafu still hasn't paid him back.

Ye Cheng thought for a moment, then gave a sinister smile and pushed the money back.

Zhang Guafu looked at Ye Cheng's strange smile on his face, feeling a bit at a loss.

Could it be that Ye Cheng finally had his epiphany and intends to keep me as his kept woman?

But soon she realized that wasn't the case.

"Aunt, you must take this money back today, and you must do it with great fanfare; then before you go to sleep you must let everyone know that our boat sold for over ten thousand, and you got a share of ten thousand." Ye Cheng said patiently to Zhang Guafu.

"Huh? You earn money and still tell others?" Zhang Guafu said, puzzled.

"Exactly, you have to tell everyone in the village, most importantly the Chen family, got it? And you also have to say I spent 300,000 to buy it at the shipyard in town."

"The Chen family? And we have to tell them where we bought the boat?"

Zhang Guafu's mind started racing, but after thinking for a while it was just idle speculation.

"Lao Er, you're trying to screw over the Chen family, aren't you?" Duan Chunsheng interjected.

"Uncle, I'm just digging a pit; whether they jump in is their business, it's nothing to do with me." Ye Cheng spread his hands, giving off an air of 'don't come looking for me.'

"Fine, I'll go back and spread the word too—how can one person digging a pit be as big as two people digging a pit, right? Hahaha." Duan Chunsheng gave a wicked laugh.

The two of them have long been dissatisfied with the Chen family; who wouldn't want to dig a pit for them given the chance?

Zhang Guafu heard and roughly understood; anyway, just do as Ye Cheng said.

"Well then, A Cheng, I'll pay you back in a couple of days." Zhang Guafu said meekly.

"Alright, I'm not short on this money; head home early."

The rest, Ye Cheng still split it seven-three, giving Xiao Hu thirty thousand and keeping the rest; calculating the current situation:

Points: 7800

Savings: 150,008, external debt: 30,000, mortgage: 300,000

Points are rising fast too—gained 2,000 points in a day; tonight was worth it.