I Can Turn into a Fish Chapter 105

"Xiao Xian, the bids will start in two days . Do you have a location in mind?"

After some leisurely chatting, Hong Chenghai broached the main topic .

"I haven't decided . " Chu Xian thought for a moment then replied .

There were some forty or fifty fish farms in the whole sea region near Hai Qing, with some bigger and some smaller . There were many factors that went into making a decision, and Chu Xian didn't really know much about the different farms .

"En . There's no rush . You take these two days to look at the fish farms," Hong Chenghai said . "As long as you find one you like, we can get it for you, but your bid can't be that much lower than the other bids . We've already talked to the different departments, so any fish farm in Hai Qing City is yours if you want it!"

"En . " Chu Xian smiled . "I will take a look . "

"You should take these two days to get the licenses . You need more and more requirements these days to farm fish," Hong Chenghai reminded Chu Xian .

"Alright . " Chu Xian nodded .

With Hong Chenghai's help, Chu Xian got all the required documents that afternoon .

That night, Chu Xian talked to Xiao Ying on the phone for an hour and told her he returned to China and was preparing to rent a fish farm .

The next morning, Chu Xian drove to the fish farms near Hai Qing .

Hai Qing was next to the Yellow Sea, and the plummeting population of fish in public fishing areas resulted in the growth of private fish farms . Chu Xian looked around with a marked fish farm map that Hong Chenghai gave him .

There were actually far more than forty or fifty fish farms in the Hai Qing area . There were over a hundred, but many of them belonged to different villages and towns and were an integral part of the economy of those areas, so they weren't open for bids .

The fish farms he was looking at were mostly surrounded by few people or were located far from any village .

Chu Xian drove to the coast and stopped at one fish farm .

The nets separated an area of water from the sea . The fish farm wasn't deep, and there were lines of fish cages by it . There were more than ten fishing boats in the area, and the whole area was quite large, taking up thousands of square meters . There were many lobsters, oysters, and other seafood .

By the coast were a couple of houses and a group of fishermen drying fish on the beach . In the distance were fishing ships on the horizon with seagulls flying in the sky and the sun shining brightly over the waves .

Chu Xian took in the view and he suddenly felt that this life was very liberating . Maybe when he was older, he could buy a small island and build some houses on it, fishing in the sea during the day and lying on the beach, enjoying the breeze at night… or maybe not . Humans were social animals after all, and although this lifestyle was very relaxing, it could be unbearable in the long term .

Chu Xian walked along the edge of the fish farm . The drying fish on the beach were mostly small yellow croakers and hairtail, two species of fish that were very common in the Yellow Sea .

"Ma'am, what kind of fish does this fish farm cultivate?" Chu Xian walked over and asked one of the ladies who was working .

The woman lifted her head and looked at Chu Xian . "Crabs, jellyfish, lobsters, oysters and so on . The water is shallow here, so we can only farm these things, but we can get a decent amount and we only have to feed them some seaweed . "

"Xiuwen, stop jabbering . Hurry up and finish . You'll be busy when the ships from Nan Shan arrive!" an old man called out from the side .

"En, en . They've been out to sea for more than a week . Apparently, they caught a lot this time!" Xiuwen smiled and returned to her work on the fish .

Chu Xian smiled at the old woman and looked at the fish farm . He noticed seven or eight ships approaching from the distance .

The ships weren't very large and were just small, simple ships . These ships were bare bones and it would be very dangerous for the crew during storms, but if they didn't go out too far, there wouldn't be any major problems .

Some ten minutes later, the ships approached the coast and the women and elderly people working on the beach gathered around .

"How's the haul? Did you catch anything good?" a woman shouted .

"How's the haul? Did you catch anything good?" a woman shouted .

"You want to get something good on these ratty ships? Don't even think about it, but we got a lot of seafood this time . Filled to the brim!" a man shouted in reply .

"Haha, good, good!"

Chu Xian walked over and looked around with curiosity . The ships were filled with many fish, but they were mostly hairtails, small yellow croakers, and tuna . Most of the fish were dead, but it was very difficult for small ships like these to keep anything they caught alive .

Even then, there were three or four tons of fish on each ship with even more on the two bigger ones .

"This time, I think we'll make eighty to ninety thousand RMB!" One of them said happily, putting the fish into basins on the beach .

"There's an albacore . Haha, it's too bad it isn't a bluefin tuna, but it's worth eight to nine hundred RMB . " A man laughed, holding a seven to eight catty albacore .

"Oh, I didn't know we caught a tuna . This guy swims super fast . They're usually very hard to catch . "

Chu Xian approached the laughing crowd and a middle-aged man wearing a leather jacket turned to him and frowned . "Little brother, what are you doing here?"

"I came to see the fish farm . " Chu Xian smiled and offered the man a cigarette . "You guys caught a lot!"

"Ay, it's not bad . Compared to the past, it's a lot, but we can't compare to those big ships that make hundreds of thousands or even a million RMB in one trip . Our small ships go out to the sea and each family can get a couple thousand RMB . We can't go out very often either, so if we didn't have the fish farm, we would've starved long ago!" The middle-aged man took the cigarette and lit it while shaking his head .

"Heh, how's the fish farm?" Chu Xian looked at the fish farm as he asked .

The middle-aged man looked at him with a pause . "It's so-so . There are ten or so families pooling money together to rent the fish farm, and it feeds us . Excuse me little brother, but I have to work!"

The middle-aged man didn't want to say much, but Chu Xian didn't mind . After all, people were making bids in a couple days, and it would be stupid to go around spreading all your secrets .

Chu Xian looked around for a bit before driving to another farm . The farm was similar in a lot of ways, but it was rented by a single person and he wasn't allowed to tour the farm .

The middle-aged man didn't want to say much, but Chu Xian didn't mind . After all, people were making bids in a couple days, and it would be stupid to go around spreading all your secrets .

Chu Xian looked around for a bit before driving to another farm . The farm was similar in a lot of ways, but it was rented by a single person and he wasn't allowed to tour the farm .

"Fish farms here really aren't as good as the ones in the FT area!" Chu Xian thought while driving . The fish farms on the coast weren't very good and couldn't raise many varieties of fish, although they were good at cultivating shellfish, lobsters, and crabs .

"Let's take a look at Hongshan Canyon!" Chu Xian thought and drove towards the canyon .

Hongshan Canyon was another famous region for aquaculture in Hai Qing city, but it was different from the FT area and only farmed seafood .

After a half-hour drive, Chu Xian parked his car and walked inside .

Although the place was called a canyon, it wasn't actually one . Only a few hills lined the two sides of a seven or eight-thousand-meter-long and an over ten-meter-wide river heading towards the Yellow River, forming a large aquacultural area .

There were fifteen fish farms in Hongshan Canyon, and all of them were up for bidding . Compared to those two fish farms on the coast, these farms were larger and had more facilities .

At the entrance of the fish farm were stairs and stone chairs with guardrails and nets separating everything in an orderly fashion . Ships lined the river, and swimming in the water were many large fish .

"These fish farms are good!" Chu Xian looked at the farms in the canyon with shining eyes . The whole place was divided into five large areas with the hill on both sides . Although the location wasn't amazing, it also wasn't bad . The water was deep enough, and there weren't too many limitations to cultivating these fish .

[If I can get one of these fish farms, that'd be nice . ] Chu Xian thought to himself when he suddenly heard a loud noise .

Chu Xian turned to see what the noise was . Down at the bank, some middle-aged men in suits were arguing with fishermen .

"We came here just to look around! Ah? Do you have a problem with looking?" one of the suited men cried out angrily .

"Go look at some other place . Don't come to our farm; we don't welcome you!"

"Who do you think you are? Not letting us check? Who gave you that power?"

"This farm belongs to us, that's why we have the power . Get out of here! Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude!"

"Go look at some other place . Don't come to our farm; we don't welcome you!"

"Who do you think you are? Not letting us check? Who gave you that power?"

"This farm belongs to us, that's why we have the power . Get out of here! Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude!"

"You . . you . . . it's almost time for the bids . We have a right to look now!"

"Heh . We're still raising fish in this farm . You can go where you want, but if you want to win the bid on our farm, think again . Get out of here!"

"Let's compete fairly . Whoever offers the higher price wins the bid . Before that happens, we still have the right to come and look around!"

"Heh, compete fairly? Let me tell you, don't even think about it . We're not afraid of you! Do you have connections? You know someone? As long as we choose to stay here, you better think again!"

The fisherman yelled arrogantly, and the middle-aged men in suits could only turn around awkwardly and walk away .

"People always said there were many secret deals for the bidding and I didn't believe it, but it looks like it's true!"

The middle-aged men approached Chu Xian as one of them spoke angrily .

"It's hard to win the bid, and unless we're willing to spend a lot of money and make the owner give up, we won't stand a chance . "

The group shook their heads and walked away .

Chapter end