Chapter 3

In his previous life, he only cared about playing with friends and didn't care about what happened at home.

He would go out to hang out with friends after waking up and only return drunk at dinner time. He only remembered netting a net of large yellow croakers; he didn't hear the price clearly before he went back to his room to sleep in a daze.

Although large yellow croakers are rare now, the living standard of the common people is limited, so they are not very expensive, just a few times more than ordinary fish.

Unlike later generations, where they were hyped up to sky-high prices.

In 2022, a wild large yellow croaker weighing about one jin was priced at 600 yuan per jin.

A wild large yellow croaker weighing 1 jin 3 taels was priced at about 800 yuan per jin; one weighing 1 jin 8 taels would exceed 1000 yuan per jin.

If it was around 2 jin, the price would be between 1500 and 1600 yuan per jin.

For those weighing over 2 jin, the price is generally over 3000 yuan per jin.

This is the price collected directly by the fresh-collecting boats at sea. Once they enter the port, the price of 1-2 jin large yellow croakers will double!

If the quantity is large, the price will also fluctuate.

Although he was not motivated and was a bit of a loafer, he was also a native fisherman and still knew his stuff.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but slap his thigh. Damn it, if only he had pulled this net a few decades later!

A loss of millions!

The whole Ye family frowned, looking at his bizarre thigh-slapping and his face full of regret.

What kind of trouble is Third Brother causing again?

Ye Mu frowned and couldn't help but ask: "What are you doing, Third Son? Everything is fine, why slap your thigh so hard? Did you take the wrong medicine?"

"Mom, how much did we sell that net of large yellow croakers for yesterday? I didn't hear clearly yesterday and went back to my room to sleep."

Ye Mu glanced at Ye Fu. Anyway, the whole family knew. If she didn't say it, Third Son's wife would say it when she went back to the room, so she just said directly: "1200 yuan! It was bought at 5 yuan per jin. It was a little short on the scale, but the boss was generous and just rounded it up."

They were taken advantage of, yet they still praised the other party for being generous!?

Ye Yaodong beat his chest and stamped his feet: "Mom, you sold it at a loss, do you know that? A huge loss!"

Everyone in the room, regardless of gender or age, frowned and looked at each other. The eldest brother couldn't help but ask anxiously: "Third Brother, how do you know we sold it at a loss?"

"I hang out outside all day, how could I not know how valuable large yellow croakers are?"

That's true. Although Third Brother is a bit of a scoundrel, he is still the most knowledgeable in the whole family.

Hanging out everywhere in the city with a group of people all day and knowing a bunch of people from all walks of life, how could he not be knowledgeable?

Ye Mu's heart also tightened: "What do you mean? How much does it sell for outside per jin? The fish from our village have always been collected by the pier. It was just because our amount yesterday was too large that the pier directly contacted a boss to come and collect it."

"If you had packed some ice and called a tractor to send it to the county town, you could have directly doubled the price!"

Ye Yaodong felt extreme pain. Actually, doubling it—if it were in later generations, over two hundred jin would be worth millions!

Hearing him say this, everyone regretted it in their hearts. It was too hasty...

Doubling it...

That's a difference of 1200 yuan directly. It hurts...

Ye Fu's heart was also bleeding, and the hand holding the water pipe was shaking: 1200 yuan...

Now an ordinary worker's monthly salary is only 40 or 50. It's really enough to make one vomit blood!

Ye Fu's chest heaved, and he directly scolded him: "You scoundrel, you hang out everywhere all day and don't do proper work! If you had gone out to sea with us, we wouldn't have sold it for 5 yuan per jin!"

"What does that have to do with me? I didn't know you could catch large yellow croakers. If I had known, I would have gone to the pier early to wait! No, I would have found a rich boss early to wait at the pier!"

It's really infuriating. Over two hundred jin of wild large yellow croakers! If he had died a day earlier, could he have been reborn a day earlier?

Bah... cursing himself!

Ye Fu was so angry that his chest heaved. In the end, he could only sigh: "Forget it, it's already sold, there's nothing to regret. Maybe our family's wealth is only this much for now. We'll have experience if we catch them again in the future and won't sell them so hastily."

That's right, it's already sold, it's useless to regret it now.

The good mood of the whole family was directly terminated by Ye Yaodong.

Originally, Ye Dabo and Ye Erbo came to the door wanting a share, which just made them feel a little depressed, but their mood was still good.

Now... sigh...

It's just a pity that it could have been sold for more money.

After the whole family felt the pain for a while, they accepted it calmly. After all, they had made a fortune.

The most depressed one was still Ye Yaodong: "Dad, do you think large yellow croakers are Chinese cabbage? And you'll have experience if you catch them again next time..."

"Don't you know that after several rounds of knock-fishing, the number of large yellow croakers has dropped sharply, and now they are almost invisible?"

"In 1954, the knock-fishing method spread from Guangdong Province to Fujian Province. Because this method of fishing is very efficient and the output is huge, it was directly promoted in a short time, and large yellow croakers were caught in large quantities..."

"In 1974, Zhoushan in Zhejiang Province conducted a super-large-scale fishing spree, which almost caused the large yellow croaker to go extinct. In recent years, wild yellow croakers have basically been hard to see in the market..."

"Dad, do you think you have this luck in this life?"

This is harder than winning the lottery!

The boat left by his grandfather was only a small boat of more than ten meters, which could only go to the near sea and couldn't go too far. Being able to catch this net of large yellow croakers was truly the ancestral grave smoking with blue smoke.

The family members listened to his endless, spitting words and were stunned.

Third Son... when did Third Son know so much...

Knock-fishing... only Ye Fu had heard of it among those present. After all, their family didn't have a large boat to go to sea for operations and relied on beachcombing, making nets, and working to maintain their livelihood, so they didn't pay attention.

Now information is not circulated, and even the eldest and second brothers hadn't heard of it. Third Son actually spoke about it in an organized way, which immediately made the parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law present look at him with new eyes.

Perhaps... Third Son is not that useless...

Lin Xiuqing was also stunned. It was the first time she discovered that her husband looked quite... quite what when he spoke seriously?

That brilliance between his brows is the confident light emitted when talking about familiar things, right?

Or, her man is not that worthless?

Ye Fu also put away his contempt for his third son and asked seriously for once: "How do you know about the knock-fishing method? How do you know about the things that happened in 1954 and 1974?"

Ye Fu had only heard of the knock-fishing method and didn't know about the major fishing events that happened in the twenty years from 1954 to 1974. After all, the internet is not developed now, and information is not circulated.

Ye Yaodong actually heard other crew members talk about these things when he was running large ships in later generations.

Otherwise, based on his waste of a first half of his life, being lazy and eating soft rice, he wouldn't have paid attention to these.

But he couldn't reveal the bottom line.

Looking at everyone's expressions, he also knew that he had managed to restore his image a little, which was a good thing, so he couldn't help but straighten his back.

Having lived in a daze for half his life, he only grew up and matured in the last dozen years and had a little sense of responsibility.

Starting over, he didn't want to be a waste. Although he still didn't have much ability, at least he could work, could beachcomb, and if he was diligent, he should be able to support his wife and children.

He never wanted to rely on his wife to support him with her life again.

But change also takes time, otherwise he was afraid of being treated as if he were possessed by a ghost.