My fishing raft will ask for help.

Chapter 76 Choosing to Buy a Boat

However, Zhou Miao only hesitated for a short while before closing her eyes and continuing to sleep.

Having slept less than six hours and with many things to do in the afternoon, he could only put this bothersome matter aside.

Nothing is more important than making big money fishing at night!

Just as Zhou Miao was sleeping soundly, his alarm clock rang precisely at noon, successfully waking him up.

Sleeping for only a short while after staying up all night is definitely not enough.

But he forced himself to get up and rubbed his face vigorously to wake himself up.

After getting up, brushing her teeth, and washing her face, Zhou Miao, who hadn't eaten anything in the morning, was feeling very hungry. She quickly went out to buy lunch and called Lu Xingyu.

"Where?"

"Just stay at home. Come down and eat as soon as you wake up."

"OK."

When I got downstairs, there were several stir-fries on the table, clearly takeout.

"Where's Xiaoxiao? Should we wake her up and have something to eat before she goes back to sleep? It's not good for her to stay hungry."

"She's already finished eating and gone to sleep, don't worry about her."

As Lu Xingyu spoke, he picked up his phone and transferred some money to him.

"All the fish have been sold. The boss you contacted offered a pretty high price: 150 yuan per catty for the threadfin bream, and 180 yuan for the Sichuan snapper!"

"So it's called the River Snapper. The price is quite good, it can actually sell for 180!" Zhou Miao thought of the three vertical stripes on the fish and felt that the name River Snapper was indeed quite fitting.

"The shopkeeper said that fish weighing more than ten pounds are very rare, let alone more than twenty pounds. He had never encountered one in all these years, and it was still alive, so he paid a high price for it."

"A normal chilled one would cost just over a hundred in the market."

Zhou Miao nodded; live fish were indeed much more expensive than dead fish.

But compared to the market price of fresh Sichuan snapper, he felt that the purchase price of 180 yuan didn't seem that high, after all, his snapper was big enough.

"The threadfin bream weighs 127.6 jin and the snapper weighs 21.3 jin. I'll transfer a total of 23,000 yuan to you. You can calculate it yourself to see if it's correct."

Zhou Miao checked the bill on his phone and found he had overpaid by twenty-six yuan: "Why did you overpay by twenty-six yuan?"

"That boss rounded down the price by zero."

"...Give me an integer, just give me an integer. Why round down to zero?"

Zhou Miao rolled his eyes; he almost didn't understand what he was saying.

Lu Xingyu went to bed after finishing his meal. Staying up late last night was okay, but staying up all morning was too much for him.

Zhou Miao tidied up the table and carried the trash downstairs.

Thanks to the development of national science and technology, garbage no longer needs to be sorted, which is indeed much more convenient.

Zhou Miao checked the time and found it was almost 12:30, so he went directly to the dock to wait for the workers to arrive, and also made a phone call to Luo Hao.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm cooking for a customer, what's wrong?"

"Last night we spotted a large number of threadfin bream at Sanshi Reef, and there might be more tonight. I'm thinking of chartering a fishing boat and buying some casting nets to catch them."

"What? Why buy a casting net? Just use a three-layer threadfin net!"

"There are only rocks over there at Sanshijiao, can you still cast nets there?"

"Yes, it's possible, but the waves are big near the reef, so using a sinker net might get snagged. But compared to the fish, this loss is acceptable. By the way, at which water depth did you find that group of fish?"

"In the middle and upper water layers."

"Then use a floating net. But... if you find a lot of threadfin bream, the boat owner might try to cheat you."

"Playing dirty?"

Zhou Miao frowned, but he had considered this possibility before.

If they catch a lot of horse fodder, weighing up to a thousand catties, the total value would reach hundreds of thousands. Which boat owner wouldn't be envious?

Human nature cannot withstand the test.

Every fisherman here is a local, so even if Zhou Miao signed a contract and recorded it, there was nothing he could do about it.

Unless it's "privately run," it won't scare the locals.

But he has a bright future ahead of him, so it's impossible for him to make such a choice.

"Ah Hao, do you have a fishing license? Let's rent a boat and do it ourselves."

"I don't actually have that. But if you offer a discount, some boat owners are willing to accept it."

"How much should we give?"

"I haven't asked for the specifics, so I don't know. But you'll have to give up at least 30%, and maybe 50% if it's more."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Miao immediately laughed: "What a great discount! If you offer this much, I'd rather give up that batch of fish."

Luo Hao on the other end of the phone also smiled wryly: "Money can be a powerful motivator. If there were really as many fish as you say, most fishermen would find it hard to resist the temptation."

"There might be some trustworthy people, but we can't gamble!"

"I'll try to figure something out; if all else fails, we'll go fishing."

Although it seems impossible to fish right now, Luo Hao was very excited because Zhou Miao told him this news, which meant that he would definitely be taken there that night.

(Don't worry, Luo Hao's character has always been very clear-headed. The male lead helps him make money, and even if he can't help, he won't be ungrateful.)

Therefore, he wanted to help as much as possible, but it was indeed difficult to obtain a fishing license quickly.

Moreover, the principle of "vessel and license consistency" is implemented in China, and the corresponding fishing license is issued according to the type of vessel and the method of operation.

Zhou Miao smiled wryly upon hearing this: "I was fishing last night, but I only caught twenty-five fish in four hours. The threadfin bream are too aggressive; it's hard to catch them quickly. And the sheer number of fish made the fish finder go red."

"With so many, even if we buy a whole batch of electric reel-ins, each person can probably only catch a hundred or two hundred. Are you willing to accept that?"

"And this should require a fishing license, right? Without a fishing license, you can only fish alone with a single rod."

Luo Hao was silent for a moment, then gave a wry smile: "It is indeed frustrating!"

"Let me think of something! If all else fails, we can offer a discount; making some money is better than nothing."

"Well, I'll try to think of a way too."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Miao began to consider the suggestion Lu Xiaoxiao had given him that morning.

The key point is whether Yu Muzhou can get him a fishing license within half a day.

When Zhou Miao opened WeChat, he found that his friend had replied to his message, saying that he couldn't go out to sea with him tonight.

He had no idea how heartbroken Yu Muzhou was when he saw this message.

Mackerel, which angler could resist going for them!

Unfortunately, I'm all set for tonight, ready to have a deep conversation with my wife.

No matter how much he loves fishing, he would never neglect his family for it.

He usually goes fishing when his wife is at work and his children are at school, so he never misses any time for family matters.

Zhou Miao didn't know what important matter he had, but she did need his help.

"Brother Zhou, I've discovered an exceptionally large school of threadfin bream, and there are so many of them, that I'm planning to charter a boat to catch them with nets."

"I asked a friend, and he said that if there are a lot of fish, the boat owner will definitely try to cheat. Secondly, he'll have to give up half of his profits."

"This is unacceptable to me, so I want to buy my own boat to go there. But the fishing license application process takes too long, and I might not have enough time. Do you have any way to shorten the time?"

At this moment, Yu Muzhou had just finished eating and was making himself tea in his study.

Seeing his message, I felt a pang of heartache: "Huge? Just how huge is it?"

"What a terrible coincidence!"

However, he also increasingly felt that Zhou Miao was a lucky person.

So many people go fishing at Sanshijiao, but none of them have ever caught a threadfin bream. Yet he happened to encounter one. He's practically the goddess Mazu's favorite son.

For Zhou Miao, it might require using connections to expedite the fishing license process, but for Yu Muzhou, it was just a matter of making a phone call.

It's not like it's illegal. As long as Zhou Miao has a boat and his application materials are complete and valid, getting a fishing license quickly is a piece of cake.

Moreover, there are now services that have been optimized, and some places have fast-track channels that can be completed in just one day.

But that's a large coastal city; it's hard to say for a small place like Nanzhen.