Chapter 891 - 890: Buying a Fish for 20 Yuan

The uncle took off his straw hat and looked at them.

"Two hundred."

Guan Yu: "One hundred fifty."

Uncle: "Two hundred."

Mu Qiu: "One hundred sixty. When doing business, it’s important to make a good connection, at worst you charge us one hundred sixty per person and the three people behind you charge two hundred forty per person, wouldn’t that still match your average of two hundred per person?"

Guan Yu and Shu Ran looked at her with admiration; bargaining actually has this format, sacrificing others’ interests to lower one’s own costs—truly high.

The uncle seemed a bit tempted, and the quick-witted Guan Yu took advantage of Mu Qiu’s words and kept persuading.

"Make it one hundred sixty, it’s a lucky number, and the three of us are light, in terms of volume and weight, we really are only sixty to seventy percent of the people behind. Charging us at a lower price and them at a higher price is only fair. Just one hundred sixty, I’m paying, Uncle."

After speaking, she turned around and waved at Mu Qiu, who carefully pulled out four hundred yuan to give her, keeping the remaining one hundred in her pocket.

"Four hundred yuan, what’s left is twenty yuan to buy one of your fish and also take care of your other business." Guan Yu generously handed over the money, then squatted beside the foam box containing the fish to grab the biggest one.

Everyone present was a bit shocked.

The uncle hadn’t expected such shamelessness, using twenty yuan to grab a four-pound fish from him! And that fish was bought as a prop!

Mu Qiu and Shu Ran were shocked that she could find such a blatant way to make change.

Mu Qiu: "Sister Guan Yu, why are you buying a fish?"

Shu Ran: "To release it?"

Guan Yu: "Spending twenty yuan to buy and release it? I might as well release you! Aren’t we supposed to bring ingredients? Isn’t it better to buy a fresh fish right on the spot?"

It seems, it seems a bit reasonable. Only they didn’t expect to buy a fish on the way there...

"Wait, who will cook the fish after you buy it? You will cook it?"

Guan Yu found a bag and packed the fish with water inside, speaking naturally, "Of course not me, should the one providing the ingredients also provide labor? Can Brother Cheng make fish soup?"

Mu Qiu: "...Don’t you have any shame?! Spending my money to buy a fish so Brother Cheng can cook?! And you still take the credit!"

One person spends money, another cooks, making such arrangements for both of them is truly clear.

Guan Yu lifted the fish, touched her nose, and said, "Just adding a dish, don’t fuss too much. Uncle, can you start the boat?"

Uncle: I clearly never said I would sell that fish.

But young people are too good at persuading; sweet words pour out without cost, praising Uncle for being manly, complimenting the yacht and the rubber dinghy, saying his yacht-driving skills must be good, and even praising the fish he caught, saying it must taste delicious.

They’re practically praising him to the skies.

Uncle accepted the four hundred yuan and graciously connected the inflatable dinghy and the yacht. Another uncle fixed the inflatable dinghy on the side of the stilt house for them to board.

After wearing life jackets, three people could just lie down in the oval-shaped inflatable dinghy, squeezed together, gripping the side handles tightly.

The phone was entrusted to Guan Yu’s assistant.

Mu Qiu carefully lay down on the far right, trying different ways to grip the handle, hoping to find a more stable position.

The lightest, Shu Ran, lay in the middle, and on the other side was Guan Yu... and the fish.

Guan Yu took off her floral shirt and added an extra protective layer to the fish bag, holding the top of the bag tightly against herself.

"You’re taking this fish over the sea surface, aren’t you? Holding the handle is not enough, and you’re still gripping the fish. Once the speed picks up, the fish along with your floral shirt might end up dropping into the sea halfway," Shu Ran said, looking at the fish.

"If a fish hasn’t experienced ocean waves, how can it be a good fish? Once we’ve successfully flown over the ocean surface, it’ll surely taste better. Better to care about yourself; grab tightly and don’t scream later."

Mu Qiu: "I should be saying that; don’t scream too loudly later."

Guan Yu lay down steadily, causing the inflatable boat to tilt to the left.

Guan Yu: "...Mu Qiu, you hold this fish."

"No way! If I’m careless and let go later, the fish might smack right into my face twice! Either you release it or take it... or let Sister Shu Ran hold it."

Shu Ran: "Keep away! Don’t even think!!!"

Finally, for balance, the fish was placed between Mu Qiu and Shu Ran’s shared handle. Both of their arms went through the sleeves of the floral shirt, suspending the fish in the middle of the shirt, with the pocket held by Mu Qiu.

"I’ll say it again, this fish for twenty yuan, if it still falls in such a manner, well, it means it wants to escape to the sea, nothing to do with us."

Guan Yu lay back and looked at the sky: "Don’t worry, whether we can eat it depends on fate. Let’s go, Master! We’re ready!"

Mu Qiu immediately gripped the handle tightly.

The rope behind the inflatable boat was untied, floating on the sea, while the yacht ahead serving as traction started to move.

The yacht accelerated rapidly, and the inflatable boat instantly followed, gaining speed rapidly. The waves stirred by the yacht caused the inflatable boat to sway, up and down, sometimes feeling airborne.

Then the yacht began to turn.

The inflatable boat tilted right!

Mu Qiu instinctively grabbed the handle and closed her eyes tightly, hearing two screams from beside her.

Shu Ran: "Ahhhhh, why is there a turn?!"

Guan Yu: "Flying! It’s about to fly!!! Oh no, the wave got in my mouth!"

Closing her eyes amplified her other senses. Mu Qiu heard the sound of waves stirring at the front of the inflatable boat, felt the splashes landing on her face, neck, and the icy sensation on her body, the impact when her lower body lifted and dropped heavily.

Then she opened her eyes, joining the screaming crowd.

"This boat’s riding too wild! The fish is getting motion sick!"

Guan Yu: "Hold my fish tightly!"

Shu Ran: "Aaaaahhhh!"

Mu Qiu: "Master! Slow down!"

Guan Yu: "Darn! It’s really flying now!"

The yacht was so fast that the towing inflatable boat tilted and stood up directly in the waves!

"My upper body has ascended!"

"Did it fall away?! Did it?! How’s this different from a rapid descent?!"

"My brain feels like it’s on a drop tower... how is it flying again?!"

Constantly flying up and down, rising and falling, on the water’s surface for a long time, the yacht’s speed finally slowed down.

Mu Qiu closed her eyes as if reborn, calming her racing heart.

"My hands are all red."

Guan Yu cautiously looked outside the inflatable boat, they’d arrived in the shallow sea area, stepping down should reach around thigh height.

The uncle driving the yacht shouted back, "We’ve arrived! Everyone can get off now, hold the handle and get off slowly!"

Only then did Mu Qiu let go of the handle, her palm marked with red impressions. She wiped her face and got up, soaked.

"Fish," Guan Yu took over the floral shirt, "The fish is already dizzy, later we don’t even need to stun it with a knife."