Although it was Sunday the next day, "Old Saury" woke up Hong Yanwu and the others at only 5:30 in the morning. This was because he learned the rules of the guest house from "Xiao Baizi" last night.
After hearing that the check-out deadline is 12 noon every day, and if the time is exceeded, the fee will be increased, "Old Saury" is afraid that if the negotiation does not go smoothly, he will not receive the sea cucumber, and he will have to pay for it if he comes back late.
So he decided to go out earlier the next day so that he could have enough time to check out in time.
Unexpectedly, things went smoothly. "Old Saury" led Hong Yanwu and the others to leave the guest house at around six o'clock. They visited five houses in a row in the morning. Except for one boy who went to the beach and was not at home, the rest were settled.
Two "Hai Pengzi" stayed at home and cleared all their money and goods on the spot. The other two people went to sell seafood. Although Hong Yanwu and the others were squandered, they later went to "Rongsheng Market" and "Rongsheng Market".
I found these two people at the entrance of Yuhua Market. In the end, they collected a total of more than 60 kilograms of sea cucumbers.
It should be said that the transaction was so smooth mainly due to two points.
First, because "Old Saberfish" has been in this business for too long, has extensive contacts, and knows the situation well. Therefore, the "Hai Bangzi" he took Hong Yanwu to find are all fishing masters who can dive more than ten meters.
Naturally, the goods in the hands of these people are good. The smallest one only costs fifty heads and a catty, and they are all hard goods.
Secondly, Hong Yanwu wanted to show off to the "Old Saury", and he also knew how difficult it was to "touch the sea", so he offered a generous price to these "sea-touchers".
Sea cucumbers cost 24 cents each for fifty heads and one pound, and 40 cents each for thirty heads and one pound. You can pay as much as you want. This is higher than selling it piecemeal in a small market, even in the peak summer season, which is usually
That’s a great price.
So in the end, these sellers were all willing to sell their inventory, and they kept asking Hong Yanwu if he would come to collect it next time, hoping to keep the good goods exclusively for him.
After receiving a positive reply, these people not only offered cigarettes to "Old Saury" and Hong Yanwu diligently, but some even insisted on treating them to lunch. It was completely obvious that they were extremely satisfied with the deal they had reached, and they still owed them all
I received a favor from "Old Saury".
In this way, of course, there was no need to rush out of the guest house room. Therefore, Hong Yanwu and the others did not go back at noon. They filled their stomachs with Bincheng's special food "stewed rice" outside, and continued to run tools with "Lao Yuyu" in the afternoon.
thing.
As the saying goes, "If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools." Of course, you must be equipped with appropriate tools when "touching the sea."
Under normal circumstances, the main tools for diving operations are diving goggles, fins, and net floats, and the auxiliary tools are abalone choppers, fish knives, harpoons, or spearguns.
The first thing that ranks first is to have a pair of diving goggles that fit you. As long as you have this thing, you can open your eyes and retrieve things underwater.
The fins can effectively increase the diving speed and efficiency of the "sea bumper". With the fins, you can save at least half of your effort, and can significantly shorten the time of getting into and out of the water. If you stay underwater for a long time, you can catch seafood.
Naturally, there are more.
Secondly, we have to talk about "Internet drifters".
This thing is composed of a float and a net bag. It can be used to temporarily store marine treasures and can also be used as a lifebuoy.
One thing to note in particular is that although the structure and principle of this thing are simple, there are several types of floating materials. There are gourds, ball bags (football inner bags), oxygen bags (medical) and "small circles"
(automobile inner tube).
Among them, the "small circle" is the most buoyant and carries a lot of cargo. However, although this thing is light and easy to carry, it is difficult for ordinary people to get it.
In addition, it is necessary to have a suitable "戗子". This tool can be made of ordinary steel bars or exquisite white steel rods. It is basically made of a metal rod about one foot long.
The finished product has a wooden handle on one end and a flat blade with a barb on the other, which is used to pick up objects from the crevices of the underwater reef. In most cases, it is used to deal with abalone with powerful suckers, so it is also called "abalone"
"戗子".
As for fish knives, harpoons or harpoons, they are all underwater self-defense weapons. But the difference is that fish knives can also be used to handle sea cucumbers and take out their internal organs. Harpoons and harpoons are mainly used in water.
Hunting fish.
Using a harpoon requires superb skills, and it takes more than ten years to develop real skills/"Old Saury" is a master of this skill. In his life, he has been like "Toothed Fish", "Ox Tongue Fish", "Fat Headed Fish" and so on, weighing ten
Large harpoons weighing seven or eight pounds have been harpooned countless times.
This thing is better for dealing with bigger fish. But nowadays, there are no young people willing to spend time practicing this.
As for the harpoon, because it is an ejection mechanism, it can be used by both novices and experienced people. It is also good at dealing with agile fish, such as "black fish" (jargon, black squid, carnivorous fish) that are difficult to catch with harpoons.
, fish spines, fish fins are poisonous), the spear gun can be easily shot.
But on the other hand, its shortcomings are also obvious. There is only one launch opportunity underwater. If it misses, there will be no backup plan.
In addition, many "sea bumpers" also like to wear red swimming trunks, because according to rumors, this color can prevent shark attacks, so that the price of red swimming trunks in Bincheng stores is more expensive than other colors.
Fifty cents.
However, according to the "Old Saury" who personally slaughtered "Xianggong Shark", this is purely a rumor, and he is quite disdainful of it.
In short, there are many types of professional "sea-touching" tools, and most of these things are not available in stores, so few "sea-touching" people can get this set together. Most people tend to make it according to their own needs.
Make targeted choices based on the actual situation.
For example, the indispensable diving goggles and "net drifters", no matter which "sea bumper", must be obtained by all means, no matter how expensive it is. Because without these two things, there is no way
Working at sea.
As for other things, there is nothing absolutely necessary. For example, "abalone chopper" and "fish knife", if you don't have the ability to go into deep water areas to harvest abalone and fish for sea cucumbers, you don't need to buy them. Harpoons and harpoons are completely unnecessary.
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Fins are a bit special. Indeed, as long as you have them, they are a good tool for swimming or diving, and they are also sold in stores.
But most people can't afford it. To buy a pair would cost a worker half a month's salary. In order to save money, some people have thought of using the conveyor belt on the machine to make their own "earth flippers", but these flippers are hard and abrasive to the feet and are not very easy to use.
, wearing it on your feet is pure suffering.
Therefore, for most "Hai Bingzi", this thing is simply classified as a dispensable "luxury product".
Specific to Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan, they are still basically in a "blank" state. Not only will they soon learn to harvest abalones and sea cucumbers, their ultimate goal is to "defeat tigers and dragons". So according to "
"Old Swordfish" means that if there are conditions to make up for it, these guys will have to make up for it.
Fortunately, they had already won the two most difficult-to-solve diving goggles, and their pockets were not empty. Therefore, relying on the familiar connections of "Old Swordfish", they visited several people working in auto repair shops and machinery factories this afternoon.
Working-class families, through "private customization", basically purchased a complete set of things.
The specific price they paid was two kilograms of thirty sea cucumbers in exchange for two unpatched "Internet drifters". Eighty yuan in cash plus ten kilograms of national food stamps cost a sixth-level worker from a machinery factory
The craftsman agreed to make two spearguns for them. As for the two "abalone choppers" and the "fish knife," the final negotiated price was two pounds and fifty sea cucumbers plus ten yuan in cash.
However, these things take time to make, so the specific delivery time will be at least three days later.
To be honest, Hong Yanwu actually prefers cash transactions, but he did not expect that these workers have a unique preference for sea cucumbers. Therefore, the results of this transaction undoubtedly made him more aware of the true value of sea cucumbers.
So, on the way back to the guest house after finishing everything, Hong Yanwu calmly comforted "Old Saury" and said that he no longer had to worry about the more than 700 yuan they had to pay for sea cucumbers. In view of what he saw and heard this afternoon
, he believed that it was absolutely impossible to drop these collected sea cucumbers into his hands.
Because the market demand for sea cucumbers is so great, from a certain perspective, sea cucumbers are even more useful than currency in Bincheng. Some things cannot be done with money, but sea cucumbers can be done. Therefore, this is definitely a beauty that is in short supply.