My fishing raft will ask for help.

Chapter 156 Inviting Customers to Play on the Fish Raft

However, this was not so favorable for Zhou Miao, because he did not have a trawler.

It's not cost-effective to buy a trawler just for this batch of flounder.

Zhou Miao's fishing boat can only use nets and cages, not trawling, so he has to use other methods.

After looking at how longline fishing is done abroad, he realized that he could only set up a batch of multi-hook rigs for now.

However, if the fish are small but numerous, using a multi-hook rig is not very efficient, and it's uncertain whether a fish trap will be effective.

Zhou Miao suddenly had a whimsical idea and couldn't stay at home any longer.

He immediately got up and went downstairs to the fishing tackle shop to buy some shrimp bricks. Then he went to the fishing raft, took the fish traps, and set off for the location where the intelligence indicated a large number of flounder were located.

Zhou Miao was setting up a cage to conduct an experiment, while Luo Qianqian and Lu Xiaoxiao were facing questions from their older brother.

The two older brothers had very mixed feelings. They had originally thought that Zhou Miao would choose one of them, and they were mentally prepared.

But to everyone's surprise, Zhou Miao achieved what most men envy – having women on both sides of his body.

However, Luo Hao was in a better mood than Lu Xingyu because Luo Qianqian had not yet had a physical relationship with Zhou Miao, and she was still hesitant and had not made a complete decision.

"Brother, what do you think I should do?"

Luo Qianqian's question stumped Luo Hao.

He wanted his sister to leave Zhou Miao, that scumbag, but when he thought about the money he had earned by going to sea with him during this time, he just couldn't bring himself to say it.

In the end, I could only smile wryly and say, "Qianqian, this is a decision you have to make yourself. No matter what, I will support you unconditionally."

"But if you ask me, I really can't tell you. A-Miao helped me earn more than 200,000 yuan, which allowed me to successfully pay off most of my debts."

"Besides, you'll only earn more if you follow him. How am I supposed to answer that?"

Luo Qianqian sighed as well: "Yeah, you can make money with him. If I follow him, at least I won't have to worry about daily necessities."

"If I leave him, I might not find someone better."

Compared to Lu Xiaoxiao, she considered things in a more realistic way.

But precisely because of this, she found that she didn't have a better option.

Her family is of modest means; her parents and brother used to be fishermen, and now her brother only has a half-dead fishing raft.

Everyone says business will improve next year, but the future is uncertain, and even if business improves, what does that have to do with her?

Luo Qianqian's only advantage is that she is still young and beautiful, and can find a blind date with a family background of about middle-class level in the matchmaking market.

However, it's uncertain whether the other person is handsome, and a good family background doesn't necessarily mean that the blind date is also outstanding.

In comparison, Zhou Miao seems to have only one flaw: being a womanizer.

As Luo Qianqian thought about it, she suddenly realized that this shortcoming wasn't so unacceptable after all.

Zhou Miao had no idea that while he was setting the trap, Luo Qianqian had already won him over.

He put the cage in place and went home to rest and sleep, then went to collect the cage at five in the morning.

Blue crabs need to be tied up, so it needs to be done earlier, but flounder doesn't need to be tied up.

Finding the float, Zhou Miao, as usual, first manually pulled up a fish trap to feel its weight.

However, the light feeling made his heart skip a beat. Had he looked in the wrong place, or was the ground cage not working?

This time, instead of using the net machine, Zhou Miao quickly pulled up the ground cage himself.

Looking at the dozen or so flounders thrashing about at the end of the trap, he didn't know whether he should be happy or not.

If there are fish, it means you've found the right location.

Unfortunately, the fish traps weren't very effective; they couldn't catch many flounders.

Moreover, these fish all looked to be only about seven or eight ounces each, with the larger ones weighing only about a pound, so using a multi-hook rig was not really suitable.

It's cumbersome to operate and doesn't yield much benefit; it's a waste of time.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Miao decided that renting a trawler to haul in a few nets and catch all the flounder at the bottom of the water would be the best option.

It's efficient and doesn't take too much time.

But he can't handle trawling alone; even a small boat requires at least three people working together.

It seems we should call on Luo Hao, and also ask Lu Xingyu for help.

If you hire someone else, you'll have to pay them a share and a salary, so it's better to hire the two of them.

As for chartering a boat, Zhou Miao had no such idea whatsoever.

If the number of fish becomes too large, the chances of the boat owner reneging on the agreement will be over 90%.

Once the plan was finalized, Zhou Miao quickly pulled up the remaining fish traps.

More than a hundred flounders were caught, with more than a dozen in each trap, the number being very evenly distributed.

These flounders, weighing around one pound, are already considered large, and their market price is around sixty yuan, which is quite high.

Besides the flounder, there were also a few swimming crabs and some small fish and shrimp in the trap.

The crabs were kept, but all the small fish and shrimp were thrown away.

When we got back to the dock, it was just getting light.

I just bought a new car, so I have to show it off.

Zhou Miao simply found a few boxes, put the fish in them, moved them to the car, and then put in oxygen.

Then I called Lu Xiaoxiao down and asked her to come down to film a video and collect materials.

After she rushed over, she drove to the seafood market in the city center.

For business people, seven o'clock in the morning is already very late.

When Zhou Miao arrived here, he almost couldn't find a place to set up his stall. Finally, seeing that there were cars on both sides of the road and people coming and going, he simply parked his car and sat in the back of the car to sell his wares.

"I just caught some halibut this morning, anyone want some?"

Looking at Zhou Miao sitting directly in the truck bed and Lu Xiaoxiao filming next to him, and then at the small vendors setting up stalls on the roadside not far from the seafood market entrance, many young customers who wanted to buy seafood looked strange.

One old man burst out laughing: "These young people really know how to have fun!"

Hearing the laughter, Zhou Miao looked at the old man and said with a smile, "Uncle, would you like a halibut? It's still fresh, I'll sell it to you for a discount."

"Really cheap?"

"It has to be cheap."

The old man went over to the pickup truck, but even craning his neck, he couldn't see the fish in the box. He immediately became a little annoyed: "Young man, how are we supposed to see the fish with them placed so high up?"

"My bad, my bad, I'll take the boxes down right now."

Zhou Miao had been trying to save time, but now the customers couldn't see the fish. He immediately admitted his mistake, got out of the car, and unloaded one of the boxes.

Immediately, a group of people gathered around to look at the fish.

"How much is your fish?"

"Fifty-five a pound, rounded down."

Zhou Miao knew that the seafood market sold halibut, but it was all frozen and the price ranged from forty to fifty yuan.

Live fish are only slightly more expensive, making it a very good deal.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this is a wholesale market. If you buy a small amount, the price is not much different from the retail price. At most, it might be two or three yuan cheaper per kilogram.

Upon hearing that it was 55 yuan per jin (500 grams), and that they would round it down, the knowledgeable old man nodded: "Not bad, this price is indeed not expensive. Give me a large one."

As soon as he said that, the older women who had initially wanted to bargain because they thought they were young immediately shut up.

I plan to wait and see, maybe I can get a good deal when the fish are almost sold out.