Return To 1977 Chapter 168: Private customization
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Although it was Sunday the next day, it was only 5:30 in the morning when "Old Saury" woke up Hong Yanwu and the others. This is because he learned the rules of the guest house from "Xiaobaizi" 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, "Lao Dayu" is afraid that if the negotiation does not go smoothly and he cannot receive the sea cucumber, he will be in vain if he comes back late. Pay a rent payment. 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 around six o'clock. They visited five houses in the morning. Except for one boy who went to the beach and was not at home, the rest were settled.
Two "Hai Bangzi" stayed at home and cleared all their money and goods on the spot. There were two other people who went to sell seafood. Although Hong Yanwu and the others rushed out, they later found these two people at the entrance of "Rongsheng Market" and "Yuhua Market". In the end, a total of more than 60 kilograms of sea cucumbers were harvested.
It should be said that the transaction was so smooth mainly due to two points.
First, because "Old Saury" has been in this industry for too long, has extensive connections, and understands the situation well. Therefore, the "sea bumpers" he took Hong Yanwu to find were all fishing masters who could dive more than ten meters.
Then the goods in the hands of these people are naturally good. The smallest ones only cost fifty heads and a catty, and they are all hard goods.
Secondly, Hong Yanwu wanted to show off to the "Old Saury". He also knew that it was not easy to "touch the sea", so he offered a generous price to these "sea-touchers".
Fifty heads and a pound of sea cucumbers cost 24 cents a piece, and thirty heads and a pound of sea cucumbers cost 40 cents each. 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. This is usually the price.
So in the end, these sellers willingly sold their inventory, and kept asking Hong Yanwu if he would come to collect it next time, wanting to keep the good goods exclusively for him.
After receiving a positive reply, these people not only offered cigarettes to "Lao Saury" and Hong Yanwu diligently, but some even insisted on treating them to lunch. It can be seen that they are extremely satisfied with the deal they reached, and they all owe a favor to "Old Saury".
In this way, of course, there is 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 "Old Saury" in the afternoon.
As the saying goes, "If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools." Of course, "touching the sea" requires appropriate tools and equipment.
Under normal circumstances, the main tools for diving operations are diving goggles, flippers, 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 suit you. As long as this thing is available, "Hai Bangzi" can open his eyes to retrieve things underwater.
The flippers can effectively increase the diving speed and efficiency of the "Sea Collider". With fins, you can save at least half of your effort, and can significantly shorten the time of getting in and out of the water. The longer you stay underwater, the more seafood you can catch.
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" (car inner tubes).
Among them, "Xiaohuan'er" is the most buoyant and carries a lot of cargo. But 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 kind of tool is made of ordinary steel bars or fancy 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 It's called "Abalone Clan".
As for fish knives, harpoons or spear guns, they are all underwater self-defense weapons. But the difference is that the fish knife can also be used to handle sea cucumbers and remove their internal organs. Harpoons and spearguns are mainly used for underwater hunting of 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", "Oxtongue Fish", "Fat-headed Fish", etc. Large harpoons weighing seventeen or eighteen kilograms have been harpooned numerous times.
This thing is better for dealing with bigger fish. It's just that nowadays, there are no young people willing to spend time practicing this.
As for the speargun, because it is an ejection mechanism, it can be used by both novices and experienced users. It is also good at dealing with flexible fish, such as "black fish" (lingo, black squid, a carnivorous fish whose spines and fins are poisonous) that are difficult to catch with a harpoon, which can be easily shot with a harpoon.
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 higher than that of other colors. It's fifty cents more expensive.
However, according to the "Old Swordfish" who personally slaughtered the "Xianggong Shark", this is purely a rumor, and he is quite disdainful of it.
In short, there are many types of professional "Hai Bang" tools, and most of these things are not available in stores, so few "Hai Bangzi" can get this set together. Most people tend to make targeted choices based on their actual situation.
For example, like the indispensable diving goggles and "net drifters", no matter which "sea bumper", it must be obtained by all means, no matter how expensive it is. Because without these two things, there is no way to go to sea.
As for the rest, there is nothing absolutely necessary. For example, if you don't have the ability to go into deep water to harvest abalone and sea cucumbers, you don't need to buy them. Harpoons and harpoons are completely unnecessary.
But flippers are a bit special. Indeed, as long as you have it, it is a good tool for swimming or diving, and it is 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 fins", but these fins are stiff and scratch the feet and are not very easy to use. Wearing them on the feet is just a pain.
So for most "Hai Bingzi", this thing is directly classified as a dispensable "luxury product".
As for Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan, they are still basically in a "blank" state. Not only will they learn to harvest abalones and sea cucumbers soon, their ultimate goal is to "defeat tigers and dragons". So according to "Old Swordfish", if there are conditions to make up for it, these guys have to make up for it.
Fortunately, they have already won the two most difficult diving goggles, and their pockets are not empty. Therefore, relying on the familiar connections of "Old Swordfish", in this afternoon, they visited several workers' families working in auto repair shops and machinery factories, and basically purchased a complete set of things through "private customization" .
The specific price they paid was to exchange two kilograms and thirty sea cucumbers for two small circles of "net floats" without patches. With eighty yuan in cash and ten pounds of national food stamps, a sixth-level craftsman from the machinery factory agreed to make two spearguns for them. As for the two "abalone choppers" and "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, for Hong Yanwu, he prefers cash transactions, but unexpectedly, 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 800 yuan they had to pay for sea cucumbers. Based on 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. So, this is definitely a cool item that is in short supply.