Galactic Garbage Station Chapter 43-44

Su Jing and Su Liang went out by boat and could see a farm floating on the sea in the distance, which looked like a small island in the distance.

In fact, the real mariculture farms have strict requirements on all aspects, such as shelter, water temperature, salinity, tidal current speed, etc. Otherwise, the survival rate and growth rate of fish will be very unsatisfactory and ultimately lead to a loss. Generally speaking, it is absolutely undesirable to build a sea center like Su Jing, which is very windy, so it makes many neighbors feel strange.

"A'Jing, there is a lot of fish."

"A'Jing, this fishing method is really too good."

Su Jing had just arrived, and everyone welcomed him warmly, looking very excited.

A teenager with short flat hair stepped forward and politely said, "Brother Jing."

Su Jing laughed and said, "A'Hu, you're here so soon. You'll follow me and do a good job and I will not treat you badly."

The teenager was Su Hu, the son of Su Zhenqiao, who deliberately gave Su Jing an army salute: "Yes", which made everyone laugh.

Su Jing jumped onto the fish farm from the fishing boat and looked at it with a smile and satisfaction. The whole fish farm was like a huge boat board, vastly paved on the sea, but there were ten big holes with ten net cages of ten meters in diameter, and nine net cages around them were all entrances to traps that could not be accessed. The most central one was the one. It's a real net cage for farming. According to Su Jing's design, these boards are suspended by floats, half a meter high from the sea. The boards are very thick and strong. Even if sharks attack, they will be safe standing on the boards.

Su Jing walked over from the fish farm and praised him: "You are very good at craftsmanship and construction."

Su Liang laughed and said, "Thanks to Little Lin's study of carpentry, he almost became a carpenter. Of course, his craftsmanship is first-rate."

Su Xiaolin modestly said, "It's nothing, my craftsmanship is still inferior to that of a real carpenter?"

Su Xiaolin's father is a carpenter. He can even make very delicate chairs, sofas, and wooden doors. He is famous for his craftsmanship. Under Su Xiaolin's influence, the woodworking of the fish farm is also very good. Although he is not as good as his father, he has done an excellent job.

Su Jing laughed and said, "Everyone's working hard. Go and collect the fish and sell them to everyone for a bonus."

So, everyone was excited. They came to three net cages with meatb.a.l.l.s, trapped many fishes and began to close the net. Su Jing was shocked when he approached. Perhaps this time, the net was no longer on the sh.o.r.e, but in the center of the sea. It was easier to attract fish from all directions. The net cage with a diameter of 10 meters was densely packed with various kinds of fish. Each net cage had hundreds of Jin at least.

Because there are too many fish, everyone is afraid that the net cages can't bear it. They can only harvest them carefully and use the net to pocket them at the same time. Everyone seems to be laughing and grinning at the same time. They have never harvested so many fishes in their life.

"What is this monster!" Su Hua suddenly screamed and almost lost the net bag. When people looked, they saw a moving "stone" at the bottom of the net cage. It had many tumorous protrusions on its surface, like the skin of a toad. It looked strange and disgusting.

"It's a strange fish, get it quickly." Su Liang and Su Xiaolin ran over excitedly. They didn't know what the fish was, but last time they got the monster-like anglerfish that actually bought them more than twenty thousand yuan. They have an unusual feeling for this weird fish.

"Be careful. This is stonefish. It's poisonous." Su Jing hasn't seen the fish himself, but he has seen it when he watched man vs nature and because it was a strange fish, he remembers it very clearly.

"Come on, no way." Su Liang and Su Xiaolin were shocked and stopped.

"Not only is it poisonous, but it's also deadly." Su Jing rushed to give them science popularization. Stonefish is a highly toxic fish in nature. Its "deadly sting" is described as the most painful sting to humans.

Stonefish likes to hide under the sea or under the reef and disguise themselves as an ordinary stone. If someone does not pay attention to stepping on it, it will immediately respond without hesitation and emit lethal poison. The 12 to 14 sharp backstabs on its back, like needles, will easily penetrate the sole of the shoe and pierce the sole of the foot, causing rapid poisoning and severe pain until death.

"What should we do, let it go?" Su Liang asked.

"Of course, you can't put it. Although stonefish is poisonous and ugly, it is fresh and tender. It has no fine thorns. It has high nutritional value. It has the medicinal effect of tonic and moisturizing the lungs. People with bad skin can eat it. After drying, the fish gizzard is processed into a fish belly for soup and the entrance is smooth and delicious. It can be compared with the fine shark's fin and bird's nest." Su Jing smiled.

"How much is that worth?" Su Liang, Su Xiaolin, and others have bright eyes. Sure enough, weird fishes are not cheap.

"I don't know the current market, but it should be at least two hundred to three hundred per jin. If we sell it to a great restaurant, we should get a higher price." Su Jing said.

"Now be careful and don't let it touch you." Su Liang, Su Xiaolin, and others immediately forgot their fear, this stonefish weight around three or four jin(1.5 to 2 kg), that is to say, It is worth more than six hundred yuan, how could they let it go?

They took the fish cage and net pocket, carefully loaded stonefish in and pulled it up. As the net cage continued to pull up, it was found that there were a large number of stonefish at the bottom, all of which were brought up, totaling 25, weighing more than 40 jin(20kg).

"Hey, what is this snail?" Su Jing found an unknown snail crawling along with the mesh. The sh.e.l.l was beautiful, spiral-shaped, smooth, gray-white, with many orange-red ripples in the rear. Su Jing was curious and took a bucket and put it in it.

It took nearly an hour to catch all the fish in the three net cages, which is estimated to be more than a thousand jins.

The first fishing in this fishing ground was undoubtedly a b.u.mper harvest. It only used three net cages and three meatb.a.l.l.s. If nine net cages came together, it would be conceivable. Of course, not necessarily three times as many, after all, there is always a limit to the number of fishes in the sea.

Su Jing selected several fish and shrimps and threw them into the net cage for breeding in the center. All others were put ash.o.r.e.

Many villagers gathered up curiously. In the past, even if Su Jing caught a lot of fish, villagers would be envious and surprised, but they would not pay too much attention to it. But now it's different. Su Jing fools around with a salary of 5000 yuan a month. Everyone wants to see if Su Jing can make any money and can afford to give that salary. Especially the parents and relatives of several young men who have been working with Su Jing are more concerned.

However, when they saw Su Jing and others carrying several large baskets of fishes, they were completely dumbfounded.

"Wow, how did you catch so many fish?"

"There are a lot of big lobsters, abalones and sea crabs."

"What kind of monster is that stone?"

When the villagers were amazed, Su Liang, Su Xiaolin, Su Hu, and others couldn't help but look up and smug. They chose to follow Su Jing before and some elders were not optimistic. They thought that the monthly salary of 5,000 yuan was a trap. Now See who is right.

Su Jing called Zhao Zhi and Qian Shufeng and this time they did not come in person, but they immediately sent people to collect precious seafood at a high price, while other ordinary sea fishes were sent to the wholesale market.

In this way, the harvest of this fishing was as high as 80,000 and Su Jing was not stingy at all, giving 40,000 to Su Liang, Su Xiaolin, Su Hu, and other eight people, paying a month's salary in advance and giving them 200 yuan each as bonuses.

The parents and relatives of Su Liang Su Xiaolin and others were completely relieved, while the other villagers were envious and wanted to join, but now they had enough hands.

"Is it not a farm built by A'Jing? How come fish are harvested so quickly?" Su Hai soon heard some rumors and asked people who knew it.

"It's said that it's not a farm, but a new technology fishing ground brought back from the outside. I heard that it hasn't been fully built yet. It's just a day's trial. It earned 80,000 yuan. It's really amazing. People with culture and technology are different when they go to college. Even their fishing is better than us. It's a pity that he's not short of hands, otherwise, I would have asked him for a job."

"…" Su Hai was completely dumbfounded and his intestines were almost green with regret. Su Jing promised to let Su Zhenqiao's son join him in front of him. If he had opened his mouth to ask him the same, Su Jing would not have refused, but now it's too late.

"Young man, that snail is pretty, how about selling it to me for two hundred yuan?" When Su Jing was selling fish, some tourists from the beach came to join in the fun, because those stonefish were so eye-catching, but a middle-aged man saw the snail Su Jing had picked up.

"Not selling," Su Jing said.

"One thousand." The middle-aged man thought about it and said.

"Not selling." Su Jing shook his head.

"Three thousand." Su Liang, Su Xiaolin, and some of the villagers around them are watching this calm scene as the middle-aged man tripled the rate all at once. What's the value of this insignificant snail that they neglected? Is it more expensive than lobster?

Unexpectedly, Su Jing still faintly said: "Not selling."

Su Liang and Su Xiaolin both secretly pushed Su Jing, they were all anxious for Su Jing, a snail is worth three thousand yuan and he is still not selling?

"You don't sell a snail for 3,000 yuan. How much more do you want to sell it for? I want to buy it for my wife. She likes strange and beautiful things, otherwise, I won't spend 3000 yuan on this. The middle-aged men complained that Su Jing was asking for a lot of money.

"What do you want to buy for three thousand yuan?" A woman wearing a swimsuit came up and asked.

"Wife, do you think this snail is very beautiful? Do you like it?" The middle-aged man laughed.

"It's beautiful, but 3,000 yuan is too expensive. Don't spend that much money on it." The middle-aged woman smiled. Obviously, her husband was happy to buy her a gift, but she didn't want to waste money. She said, "Boy, how about a thousand yuan for it?" Don't think that you can con us just because we have money. What's the value of a snail? If you don't sell it to us then it will be useless."

"Not selling." Su Jing still shook his head.

"Forget it. Keep it for yourself." The middle-aged woman turned her eyes and pulled the middle-aged man away.

"A'Jing, what kind of snail is it worth so much? You didn't even sell it for three thousand yuan?" Su Liang asked, and Su Xiaolin Su Hu and others looked closely.

"If I'm not mistaken, it should be Nautilus." Su Jing said that as he didn't recognize the snail at first, but after checking online, he found out that Nautilus had a smooth, disc-shaped sh.e.l.l and a parrot-like mouth, hence its name "Nautilus".

Nautilus is an ancient mollusk with a life history of hundreds of millions of years, but its shape and habits change little. It is known as a "living fossil" and has great value in the study of animal evolution. Their ancestors were over thirty different groups of Nautilus, but they were wiped out with dinosaurs in the catastrophe 65 million years ago. A few surviving descendants of Nautilus inhabit the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, leaving "Ponzi Nautilus", "Deep umbilical Nautilus", "Bighead Nautilus" and two uncertain species.

Nowadays, Nautilus is as rare as giant pandas. How can Su Jing sell it for thousands of dollars? In fact, his heart is tangled, he doesn't really care about money as Nautilus are endangered species and comes under National Animal Protection program, If he sold a Nautilus and was reported then he will be in great trouble.

"What snail is Nautilus?" Su Liang asked strangely.

"I will tell you later." Su Jing took Nautilus from the bucket to Zheng Great Seafood Restaurant, Su Liang and Su Xiaolin followed curiously. They knew Su Jing best and knew that Su Jing never lost money. At the Great Seafood Restaurant, Su Jing kept Nautilus in a fish tank. Su Zhenhong and others were glad to learn that Su Jing had made tens of thousands more in the blink of an eye. They thought that the kid had spent a lot of money, but his ability to make money was really good.

"A'Jing, what kind of snail is this? Are you using it as a pet?" Zhao Mengxiang saw Su Jing put the snail into a fish tank. He thought the snail was beautiful and asked.

"I haven't seen this kind of snail," Su Zhenhong said.

"A'Jing didn't sell it when someone just offered 3000 yuan for it." Su Liang laughed.

"Three thousand?" Su Zhenhong, Liu Shu and Zhao Mengxiang were all stunned. Unexpectedly, Su Zhenhong and Liu Shu thought about whether Su Jing was too greedy. Zhao Mengxiang suddenly remembered the purple Sandalwood thing a dozen days ago. She thought that if Su Jing didn't sell it then he must have had a reason for it.

Su Jing took a picture of Nautilus and sent it to the forum of Zhongyun Oceanarium. He did not want to cover it up. The Nautilus was either not sold or sold legitimately and fairly. Otherwise, even if it sold tens of thousands of dollars, it would be worthless to break the law.

Su Jing didn't expect that a phone call came in shortly after he sent the picture and the caller's display was Zhongyun Oceanarium. Su Jing was overjoyed and answered the phone: "h.e.l.lo, h.e.l.lo."

An old and exciting voice came from the phone: "h.e.l.lo, I'm Ye Bo, a paleontologist and doing my research at Zhongyun Oceanarium. Did you send that post about Nautilus on the forum?"

Su Jing said: "Yes."

The voice on the other end of the phone seemed more exciting: "Nautilus is still there, right? Where are you now? I'll go to your place right away. And don't sell or break Nautilus. Keep it safe…"

The old man's voice was worse than the incantation of the Tang monk, and Su Jing was dizzy.

Finally, Su Jing told him his address. Less than an hour later, a grey-haired old man and a middle-aged man came quickly to Zheng Great Seafood Restaurant. Although the old man was old, his eyes were bright. At first glance, he saw Nautilus in the fishbowl and walked up quickly.

"It's really is a Nautilus. It's unexpected that this area has Nautilus, and it's so big." Ye Bo's eyes were bright and he was staring at the Nautilus left and right. Suddenly, his pupil suddenly shrank and burst into a brilliant light. He said excitedly, "This Nautilus must be sent to the aquarium immediately, Little Ming. Come and help me."

"Teacher, You haven't even asked the one who caught it." The middle-aged man was speechless for a while. His teacher was good at what he did but once he got excited, he will forget everything else.

"Oh, who got this Nautilus?" Ye Bo asked.

"Me." Su Jing raised his hand.

"This Nautilus can be sent to the ocean hall. It's a contribution to scientific research." Ye Bo said.

"It's not impossible to send it to the ocean hall, as long as you can afford it." Su Jing smiled and said that he had learned that Nautilus could not be sold absolutely under the Aquatic Wildlife Protection Law, but could be legally sold as long as it was approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and paid only 30,000 yuan for the protection of resources to the state. If sold to private people, it may not be easy to get approval from the Ministry of Agriculture, but it is easy to sell to the ocean hall. All formalities of the ocean hall can be easily completed.

"How much do you want to sell it for?" Ye Bo looked at Su Jing with a smile.

"150,000." Su Jing said and it made Su Zhenhong, Su Liang, Su Xiaolin, and others suddenly open their mouths. It was too expensive, but what was more unexpected was coming in the future.

"Deal, I will transfer the money to you right away." Ye Bo replied very simply without any pause.

"That's all right." According to Su Jing's estimate, the price of 150,000 yuan is much higher. He thought Ye Bo might bargain. As a result, Ye Bo will feel like he was losing money, but what he said was like spilled water, which was not easy to recover.

"The 30,000 yuan resource protection fee…" Su Jing asked.

"You're not selling Nautilus, Zhongyun Oceanarium is state-owned, and submitting an ocean museum is equivalent to submitting a state. I'm not buying it, just subsidizing you." Ye Bo was very serious and gave Su Jing 150,000 yuan.

"…" Su Jing was stunned for a while, but it could still be like this, so that resources protection fees and taxes would be exempted.

"Can I have this little fishbowl?" Ye Bo asked.

"Of course." Su Jing nodded, He had earned 150,000 yuan. It's also right if he took a fish bowl.

"Little Ming came to help, bring this Nautilus to the aquarium as soon as possible. She's pregnant and she's going to have a baby." Ye Bo said, moving Nautilus with a middle-aged man and a fish tank.

"…" Listening to Ye Bo, Su Jing finally understood. No wonder Ye Bo didn't even hesitate to give him 150,000 yuan. Su Jing realized that Nautilus was pregnant. Su Jing realized that he might have really lost. But on second thought, he was relieved. After all, only a few or dozen of Nautilus eggs will be laid and the hatching success rate was not high. It was not easy for people to do scientific research. At most, he should contribute to scientific research. Well, 150,000 worth of it anyway.