Galactic Garbage Station Chapter 31-32

"This fish is so ugly." Su Liang and Su Xiaolin also saw the strange fish.

"Pull up a bit and let's take a closer look." Su Jing said and three of them pulled the net cage up from three corners and the entire weird fish came out of the water.

It looks very ugly, like a monster, its skin is smooth with no scales, the front half of the body flat disc-shaped, tail cylindrical, two eyes on the top of the head, a pelvic mouth as wide as the body, mouth edge with a row of sharp teeth pointed inward, chest has a pair of very wide fins, like arms.

"This is an anglerfish." Su Jing recognized it.

"Anglerfish grew up like this." Su Liang and Su Xiaolin have heard of anglerfish, but they never saw it with their eyes. This kind of fish is rare, even when they were born on the beach, they have never caught it, so they don't know anything about it.

"Don't look at it like this, its weight more than 20 jin(about 10 kg)." Su Jing smiled and smiled.

"So much? 20 Jin? It will probably sell for 3000 or 4000 yuan?" Su Liang and Su Xiaolin are very excited.

"This is still a conservative estimate, a live one may even fetch a higher price," Su Jing said.

Anglerfish, commonly known as stutter fish, squid, sea bream, Pipa fish, etc., is a medium-sized benthic fish, generally living in the depths of 200-500 meters below sea level, carnivorous, with the fins on the top of the head as bait. The thorns on the front of the dorsal fins are like the shape of a fis.h.i.+ng rod. The front end has skin folds that stick out and look like bait. It uses this bait to shake and lure the prey. When the prey is close, it will suddenly bite and catch it and then swallow it.

The anglerfish meat is rich in vitamins A and C. The meat is as tasty as that of a lobster. It is firm and not loose. It has full fiber elasticity and is more delicious than ordinary fish. The collagen is very rich. The tail muscles can be used for fresh food or processing to make fish pine, etc. The fish belly and fish seeds are high-nutrition foods, the skin can be made into glue, the liver can take cod liver oil and the fishbone is the raw material for processing the bonefish powder. It is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and other trace elements, the nutritional value is still relatively high. Regular consumption of anglerfish liver helps protect eyesight and prevent liver disease.

In Kantō, j.a.pan, the anglerfish is known as the best quality food in the world, and it is called "the west has puffer fish and the east has anglerfish".

"Get it up quickly." Su Liang can't wait, for fear that the three or four thousand yuan fish will run away.

"Look, there are two more." Su Xiaolin suddenly pulled the net, shook off some of the miscellaneous fish and revealed two other anglerfish, about 10 Jin(5kg) each. They were motionless and they were probably full of other fish.

The three men were in a hurry and used the net bag to get the three anglerfish up first.

"A'Jing, aren't we going to make farms or keep them to lay eggs?" Su Liang asked.

"I don't know which of the three males or females." Su Xiaolin stared at the three fishes for a moment and found no visible difference.

"Oh, these three are both male and female." Su Jing laughed.

"What do you mean?" Su Liang and Su Xiaolin were stunned.

"Because both the mother and the father are together, most of the body belongs to the mother, this part…" Su Jing pointed to the bizarre ma.s.s on both sides of anglerfish and said, "This part belongs to the father."

Su Liang and Su Xiaolin were still ignorant, so Su Jing had to explain in detail.

When anglerfish is young, males and females are separated. Males are very small, only one-thousandth of females. When they are long enough to mate, they lose their digestive system. In order to survive, male fish must find a female and parasitize on the body of females. Males bite females, release an enzyme that dissolves skin tissue and binds to females.

In this way, the sperm-liquid of male fish enters into the body of female fish and gets the nutrition of female fish at the same time. However, the male soon dies, leaving only a ma.s.s of t.e.s.t.i.c.l.es ready to fertilize the eggs when the female ovulates.

"It's a world of wonder." Su Liang and Su Xiaolin were amazed.

"That is to say, all three can lay eggs?" Su Liang asked.

"In theory, that's true, but it's too difficult to train young fish. If we don't do this, we'll sell them all." Su Jing didn't really build mariculture farms for fish now and is only fis.h.i.+ng. It took months for fish farms to harvest. It was too slow.

The trio fished all the big fish and when they were too small, they returned them to the sea and the harvest was 200 or 300 Jin(100 or 150 Kg).

Su Jing immediately called Boss Zhao of the Jinyu Restaurant, who bought the seafood at the high price last time with the tuna fish. After all, there are so many fishes and his uncle's seafood shop will not be able to use them all. When Boss Zhao heard that there were three anglerfish with about ten Jin and twenty lobsters, he immediately said he would come over. In fact, Boss Zhao was preparing to entertain some distinguished guests and needed fresh wild seafood.

When Su Jing moved two or three hundred jin fish to the Great Seafood Restaurant, they shocked the villagers again.

"A'Liang, Xiaolin, where did you get so many fish?" asked several men who fished with Su Liang and Su Xiaolin the other day.

"I went to catch it with A'Jing. I said that A'Jing was lucky. You still don't believe it." Su Liang laughed and it seemed he was very happy, but he was very careful not to say anything about bait.

Several men were envious, thinking that Su Jing had such good luck. There were no miscellaneous fish and there were lobster, anglerfish and other precious species in the two or three hundred jin, which were estimated to be worth more than 10,000 yuan.

"Good boy, you really have your hands on it." Su Zhenhong also laughed.

"What fish do you want, Uncle? Pick it first. Boss Zhao will come and collect the rest later." Su Jing laughed.

"Good." Surely Su Zhenhong would not be polite to Su Jing. He picked out some fishes that guests had ordered. But he didn't have any kind of water tank so he only chose more than twenty Jin in total.

"What a big anglerfish." There was a loud voice in the crowd. A slightly plump middle-aged man and a middle-aged beauty led a little boy, beside which came a middle-aged man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist.

"Welcome, Mr. w.a.n.g." Su Jing smiled. It was w.a.n.g Zhuo, a middle-aged man with a slightly plump figure. The middle-aged man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist also saw him. His name is Qian Shufeng. After he was thrown out of the western restaurant yesterday, w.a.n.g Zhuo took him to his restaurant for dinner.

"Yesterday I smelled your steamed meat and I got quite greedy, but I wasn't able to taste any of it." w.a.n.g Zhuo laughed, looking in a very good mood.

"When Mr. w.a.n.g comes in person, I won't hide my clumsiness." Su Jing nodded and laughed. He was very fond of w.a.n.g Zhuo's polite att.i.tude, and w.a.n.g Zhuo punished Boss Li and Zhao Jun for him. He was angry for him, even if he invited w.a.n.g Zhuo to eat for free.

"Mr. Su, you aren't going to use this anglerfish?" Qian Shufeng looked at the anglerfish of more than twenty Jin with glaring eyes.

"I am not, I'm going to sell them." Su Jing said truthfully.

"Can this anglerfish be sold to me? My restaurant is desperately in need of such a town store treasure." Qian Shufeng was thrilled.

"Er…" Su Jing was stunned. He naturally wanted to sell the anglerfishes, but he had already promised Boss Zhao. If his Uncle picked one out, it would be reasonable. Boss Zhao would not have any objection, but he Boss Zhao would not like it if he sold it to anyone else.

"How about 10,000 yuan?" Qian Shufeng saw Su Jing hesitation, thinking that Su Jing was worried about the price.

Qian Shufeng's words suddenly caused many villagers to breathe in cool air. Su Liang and Su Xiaolin were also surprised. Before listening to Su Jing, they said that there was more than 20 jin. Such a value of several thousand is already unbelievable. Now someone is actually willing to pay 10,000.

"Boss Qian, it's not a price problem. I first told Boss Zhao that there are three anglerfish. He's also coming here, so it will not be right if I sold them to you."  Su Jing honestly said his difficulties.

"Which Boss Zhao?" Qian Shufeng frowned slightly.

"Jinyu Restaurant's boss Zhao Zhi." Su Jing answered.

"It turned out to be the kid. I will tell him when he comes." Qian Shufeng said.

Su Jing stunned, but it's better if they know each other, I don't have to talk much about it. Let them discuss it by themselves.

In a short while, Boss Zhao, Zhao Zhi rushed in. He had a big belly but he walked very fast. When he saw three anglerfish of this size, his eyes widened. But before he could become happy, he heard Qian Shufeng's rough voice: "Old Zhao, I want this anglerfish. Don't s.n.a.t.c.h it from me."

"Old Qian, why are you here?" Zhao Zhi saw Qian Shufeng and was stunned and then waved. "Don't think about it, I have a good relations.h.i.+p with Mr. Su. I want all these fish. You can't take them."

"What good relations.h.i.+p, I just asked, didn't you only bought fish a single time?  I'm going to use this anglerfish as a treasure of the town store and put it in the store to attract customers. If you rob me, I'll never stop pestering you." Qian Shufeng has a bigger voice as he has been looking for a town store with enough gimmick, but has not found a suitable one. This huge anglerfish is absolutely qualified.

"Whatever Town store treasure I care about, can't I use it as my special dish?" Zhao Zhi made no concessions.

"Then you haven't paid yet, fair compet.i.tion, I have 10,000." Qian Shufeng said.

"I'll pay fifteen thousand." Zhao Zhi thought for a moment.

"I'll pay 30,000." Qian Shufeng is a must-have look.

"Come on, that's not fair." Zhao Zhi scolded but did not increase the price. Thirty thousand yuan has already far exceeded the market price. If it is not really for special purposes, it is absolutely worthless. Although he is annoyed that Qian Shufeng robbed him halfway, it seems that Qian Shufeng really needs the fish and it will not be good to continue to grab with Qian Shufeng, so as not to have a deadlocked relations.h.i.+p, but they are still friends after all.

"Mr. Su, sell it to me for 30,000?" Seeing Zhao Zhi, Qian Shufeng said to Su Jing.

"OK." Su Jing naturally enjoyed it, but he couldn't afford to leave Zhao Zhi alone, saying, "All the fish are left, Boss Zhao, you pick them at will."

"I want it all." Zhao Zhi, as if afraid of Qian Shufeng's grabbing again, bought the rest at a high price, totaling 12,000 yuan.

Su Jing made a quick entry of 42,000 yuan, and then gave Su Liang and Su Xiaolin 1,000 yuan bonuses, which made both Su Liang and Su Xiaolin laugh. If Su Jing didn't make money, they would even be ashamed of their salary. After all, they just worked a little hard, but when Su Jing made more than 40,000 yuan, they were not polite to Su Jing.

Even Su Zhenhong, Zhao Mengxiang, and Liu Shu have to wonder how quickly Su Jing earned money.

"Mr. Su has a good business." w.a.n.g Zhuo, who has been waiting silently, said with a laugh.

"It's thanks to Boss Qian and Boss Zhao for their generosity. Sit down and I'll cook whatever you want." Su Jing said.

"Ok." w.a.n.g Zhuo smiled and sat down to start ordering. Zhao Jun and Boss Li rushed over and wiped the table stools for w.a.n.g Zhuo and poured tea to w.a.n.g Zhuo, they seemed to be good waiters.

"When I heard Zhou Xian boasting about a cook, I was curious. What is the holy place that Venomous Tongue Zhou was so full of praise? Unfortunately, I was busy a few days ago and had no time to come over. It didn't take long for me to learn that Little Rui's anorexia was mostly better because of the chef's delicacies, which made me unable to sit still and try whatever I said. "Qian Shufeng also sat down and laughed.

"The chef who let Zhou Xian praise endlessly is in this seafood shop?" Zhao Zhi was surprised to find that almost none of the delicacies in his hotel had come into Zhou Xian's eyes. Although he disdained Zhou Xian in his heart, he really wanted to make a delicacy that Zhou Xian had to praise, so he knew that Zhou Xian praised a seafood chef in a seafood shop and could not help but care.

"Don't you know, the chef who has been praised by Zhou Xian is this Mr. Su." Qian Shufeng pointed to Su Jing.

"No, that's a coincidence." Zhao Zhi was stunned. In fact, it is not the coincidence that surprised him. Su Jing is too young. In his imagination, the chef who can satisfy Zhou Xian should be at least 30 years old. Zhao Zhi could not help feeling dissatisfied. He thought that Mr. Su was so good at cooking when he was young. Even the chef in his hotel could not compete with him. That Zhou Xian was not an old man with a bad taste. I had to taste it for myself and see how many jins he had.

So w.a.n.g Zhuo, Qian Shufeng and Zhao Zhi ordered several seafood dishes. w.a.n.g Zhuo and Qian Shufeng ordered all high-grade seafood, such as lobster, abalone and sea crab. Zhao Zhi tried Su Jing's cooking skills intentionally and ordered ordinary seafood such as barracuda, ba.s.s and scallop.

"Wait a minute." Su Jing took down their order and went home to do it.

"A'Jing, A'Jing." Su Liang, Su Xiaolin, and several young people followed.

"A'Jing, A'Liang and Little Lin said that you have decided to build a farm?"

"Do you need any more hands?"

They had heard Su Jing talk about building a mariculture farm before, but they had been hesitant. First, they were worried about investment funds and second, they were worried about business problems. After all, Su Jing had never done it, and they did not know whether they could make money or not. But now, they have cast aside all their doubts. Su Jing can make tens of thousands of yuan casually. Su Jing pays a thousand yuan bonus at will. Where can they find such a generous boss?

"I do have a shortage of people. You can join us just like A'Liang and Little Lin. How about five thousand yuan per months?" Su Jing smiled. He planned to build ten net cages with a diameter of 10 meters first, and he didn't plan to do anything personally. Only having Su Liang and Su Xiaolin would not do.

"Well, I'll hang out with you later." Several young people are smiling. Occasionally, they will have a b.u.mper harvest in fis.h.i.+ng, but more often, they will not have a good harvest. On average, 3000 yuan a month is not bad. Of course, the stable salary of 5000 yuan is very satisfactory.

"I have roughly drawn up the list of materials and selected the location. You are responsible for the construction. This is the construction drawings and some requirements. You should take a look at them first." Su Jing said, pulling out a piece of paper from his pocket and handing it to Su Liang.

"Fish farm is so big?" Su Liang opened the drawings and was surprised to find that the farms mainly consisted of a fish farm, float, and net cage. Fish farm was usually just a few pieces of wood that they could walk away with. However, Su Jing's drawings showed that the interval between the ten round net cages was very large. Fishes can play basketball in it and it has exaggerated thickness.

"I want to build a firm and stable fish farm." Su Jing smiled. There are two main reasons why he made such a big fish farm. First, he did not build an ordinary farm. Apart from a net cage for real farming, the other nine were all fis.h.i.+ng traps, so he would not collect them only once a few months. It is estimated that they would collect them once a day. The location of the fish farm is convenient enough for the general meeting. Second, he is worried that meatb.a.l.l.s would attract some large predators. Although the meatb.a.l.l.s are mixed with starch and the smell will not be so heavy, but he can not guarantee that they will not attract sharks. He can only take precautions, or he will regret the loss of lives.

"Why are you building it so strong? Is that a waste of money? Su Liang Su Xiaolin and others did not understand.

"Just build it according to my drawings." Su Jing did not explain much.

"Well, you have the final say. Let's do some research first, and then we'll buy materials in the afternoon. Su Liang said.

"Okay, I'll transfer 100,000 yuan to your account first, if not enough then ask me again." Su Jing left the construction of the farm to Su Liang Su Xiaolin and others and went home to steamed seafood. He was lazy to cook, but he could not entertain special guests carelessly.