Chapter 160: Setting Sail Back to the Village
In Liang Caiming's astonished gaze, the boat moved!
She had not expected that this gentle-looking young man could single-handedly operate a fishing boat of this caliber.
If it had been her, she would have needed at least half a day to figure it out, and her movements wouldn't have been as smooth as Xia Liu's.
Following the satellite map in the cabin, Xia Liu quickly found the right course.
He set the autopilot and began discussing salary with Liang Caiming.
"Caiming, how much did your previous boss pay you a month?"
"It depends on the hours worked, but generally, there was a base pay of ten thousand yuan per month, plus a few thousand in bonuses if the haul was good,"
Liang Caiming sincerely replied.
"So that's just over ten thousand yuan a month," Xia Liu said lightly, nodding his head, "In that case, I'll start you at a base of thirty thousand yuan, with bonuses in the thousands if the haul is huge."
"What!!!"
Liang Caiming looked at Xia Liu in disbelief; she thought she might be hallucinating.
Xia Liu actually said thirty thousand as a base, with bonuses in the thousands; that was practically sky-high.
Xia Liu, impatient, repeated himself.
After confirming that the salary was indeed that high, Liang Caiming suddenly felt a shiver.
She thought that Xia Liu wasn't asking her to be a captain, but that there was a bigger scheme at play.
"Boss Xia, isn't this money too much?" Liang Caiming could no longer dare to call Xia Liu by his name, as she felt they were simply not from the same world.
"Not at all; in our village, a day's salary can be tens of thousands, so don't worry about there being no money,"
Xia Liu said seriously, and when they got home,
he was going to distribute the profits from the medicinal liquor, sharing sixty million among everyone.
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Counting Zhang Xiaoxue, Zhang Qing, and Gu Fangxia, there were about forty or more people, roughly fifty in total.
Each person could get one million two hundred thousand; it only took a few days from producing the medicinal liquor to getting the money in hand.
"Boss Xia, what exactly does your village do?" Liang Caiming felt a chill on her back.
She couldn't think of any ordinary industry that was so lucrative.
Her mind suddenly raced to that direction: drugs, gambling, trafficking!
"Currently, not many industries; gather some seafood, make some medicinal liquor," Xia Liu answered accurately.
"Is seafood that expensive?"
"Seafood isn't expensive, handling it through our own restaurant, in this way, each villager can earn a few thousand a day."
"I believe that, but what about the tens of thousands a day you mentioned?" Liang Caiming knew the luxury of the seafood market.
If they were lucky, they could catch several tons of fish a day, then the boss could earn tens or even hundreds of thousands.
"That's the medicinal liquor; I previously asked everyone to invest, and the first batch of profits has already come in,"
Xia Liu didn't explain much about this, because soon after arriving at the village, this girl would understand.
Hearing Xia Liu say this, Liang Caiming calmed down, eager to quickly reach Xia Liu's village to see if it was as miraculous as he described.
The fishing boat traveled on the sea surface for about two hours and finally reached Hejing County.
About ten minutes later, the fishing boat entered a vast expanse of open sea.
On the shore, there were countless majestic peaks.
Behind these peaks were several natural canyons, exceptionally picturesque.
One spot was particularly striking, with rugged cliffs on both sides of the gorge, where the surging sea continually crashed against the rocky reefs.
The canyon was several hundred meters wide, and after crossing it, another vast sea area appeared.
As she passed through the canyon in an instant, Liang Caiming felt a bit tense at the sight of a small distant place.
There, the continuous smoke rose straight to the sky, clearly indicating a village.
As the fishing boat drew closer, an even more astonishing sight unfolded before Liang Caiming.
She saw, atop a cliff, a huge green net surrounding what was undoubtedly a towering structure under construction.
And beneath the cliff, countless green nets could be seen.
A glimpse of a protruding building revealed its true nature.
It turned out that within these green nets, villas were being constructed!!!
"Boss Xia, what are those?" Liang Caiming's mind was filled with towering questions, and she dared not speculate further, so she asked Xia Liu.
"Those are the villas under construction, fifty units, one for each household in the village. I will live in the one on the cliff," Xia Liu said with some pride.
"Wow! Boss Xia, your village really is wealthy!"
"Just so-so," Xia Liu said modestly, touching his nose.
It was noon, and the villagers were all fishing for oysters in the sea.
The roaring sound of the fishing boat had been echoing around ever since they entered the canyon.
This caused everyone to stop their work and look out towards the distant fishing boat.
"Old Li! That looks like a salvage team!"
"What looks like it, it clearly is! Everyone go back and grab tools, if they dare to cast nets, we'll confront them harshly!"
"Everybody calm down, I'll call Brother Xia Liu to check, he knows a few leaders in the county. If anyone dares to salvage in our waters, they're definitely courting death."
"Dazhuang, then you better make the call fast!"
Hearing Li Dazhuang say this, the villagers felt he made sense, which somewhat calmed their agitation.
With Xia Liu, Li Zhong, and Chen Jin's connections, any salvage team daring to operate here was definitely courting death.
Just as Li Dazhuang was about to call Xia Liu, a villager pointed towards the fishing boat and shouted, "Look, they've cast a net!"
Everyone followed the direction of the fishing boat and indeed saw a slightly larger object being thrown down from the boat.
"Damn! Dazhuang, keep calling, everyone else follow me home to grab tools!"
"Dad, don't panic, that doesn't look like a net, it's a speedboat, no, a jet ski!" Li Dazhuang, having watched calmly for a while and seeing the object steadily approaching the shore, immediately urged.
"Damn! Bring the fishing boat here, they even dare to come ashore, brothers, get ready, we won't let them leave alive!"
"I'll go find some big rocks, to make sure they don't return!"
Seeing the jet ski approaching quickly, everyone became excited; after a heated discussion, they all began searching for weapons nearby.
"Xia Liu, are they all people from the village?" sitting behind on the jet ski, Liang Caiming clung tightly to Xia Liu, because of the high speed and his occasional abrupt stops.
Her chest had even started to hurt from the impact.
"That's right," Xia Liu, while enjoying the unusual massage from behind, answered with relish.
For some reason, Liang Caiming felt like she was a wife visiting her in-laws' home, her face gradually flushed with blush.
When Xia Liu steered the jet ski to the shore, the villagers were all momentarily stunned.
The 'weapons' in their hands started falling to the ground.
What the hell! The fishing boat was actually Xia Liu's ride!
And what surprised them was the fact that the girl clinging to Xia Liu... they had no idea from where he may have picked her...