Chapter 223: The Audacity

Da Yun Restaurant...

After some discussion, the restaurant agreed to help them process the bluefin tuna.

The skipjack tuna was sold directly to the restaurant.

Sun Yaotong also ordered other delicacies, including Australian lobster and king crab—seafood unavailable locally.

Yun Jiao sat at the table, her eyes lighting up as she stared at the king crab with its exceptionally long legs.

"Where did they catch this big crab?"

’Why don’t we have them here?’

It was an eye-opening experience for Yun Linhai and the others, and the price was shockingly high.

’Why don’t we have crabs this big around here? It’d be amazing to catch one and sell it.’

"This? This is a king crab, the largest known species of crab. They live in the cold, deep waters of the Arctic Ocean and Antarctica. The seas here aren’t suitable for them."

Yun Jiao declared, "I’m going to catch these big crabs when I grow up!"

Sun Yaotong chuckled. "Right now, our country’s ships can’t go there. These all have to be imported from abroad, which is why they’re so expensive."

This one alone cost over a thousand yuan.

And you needed connections just to be able to buy one.

Yun Jiao thought to herself, ’When I grow up, I won’t need a boat. I can just follow the killer whales and swim to other oceans.’

When it was time to eat, the crab leg meat was huge, firm, and had a fresh sweetness. One satisfying bite was all it took for Yun Jiao to fall even more in love with the big crab.

’It’s big and delicious.’

The tuna meat was brought to the table. After being professionally prepared, the fishy smell was no longer strong.

Yun Linhai and the others found it delicious.

’If it’s this good even like this, I can’t imagine how much more delicious bluefin tuna would be if it were bled properly right away.’

It was such a huge fish; there was no way they could eat it all.

In the end, Yun Linhai divided up the remaining meat for everyone to take some home, but even so, they still had seventy or eighty pounds left for themselves.

"We’ll take it back, smoke it, and we can eat it slowly over time."

Smoking was the only way to preserve it.

They took the car back again, only this time there was a birthday cake with them.

Wang Yun had ordered it—a small but exquisite and beautiful birthday cake.

The flowers piped with cream on top were especially pretty.

"Happy birthday, Jiaojiao. I hope you’ll be happy every day from now on."

Yun Jiao was beaming, her eyes crinkling with a smile. Today had been a wonderful day.

Not only did she get to go out on a yacht, but she also received so many gifts and red envelopes her hands went soft, and she got to eat sweet birthday cake too.

Upon returning to the village, the first thing Sun Yaotong did was check on the Golden Thread Cod.

The fish maw of the Golden Thread Cod had already been removed.

"Boss, the fish maw is a little over three pounds, and the remaining fish meat weighs 115 pounds."

And that was after removing the fish maw and internal organs.

Sun Yaotong had someone store the fish maw carefully.

"Jiaojiao, the fish maw is over three pounds. How about this? For the maw and the rest of the fish, your godfather will give you a price of forty thousand yuan."

Mr. Mu glanced at his old friend beside him. Seeing him nod, Mr. Mu knew that this man, Sun, hadn’t cheated Yun Jiao; in fact, he had quoted a high price.

The fish maw of a Golden Thread Cod was expensive. Even after being dried, when its weight would shrink to just over a pound, its price would be even higher than it was now.

However, processing and drying the fish maw of a Golden Thread Cod was a technical skill that required immense patience.

Furthermore, the longer it was preserved, the more valuable it became.

Therefore, the price Sun Yaotong was offering now was more than fair.

Yun Jiao didn’t know the price of fish maw, but her intuition told her that her godfather wouldn’t cheat her.

She nodded decisively.

Little did she know, the members of the Yun family who overheard the price were already stunned.

Forty thousand, forty thousand, forty thousand...

The two words echoed endlessly in their minds.

However, they snapped out of it quickly this time.

After all, they had already been floored by the multi-million-yuan price of the ambergris.

Sun Yaotong certainly didn’t have that much cash on him.

He would have to go to the bank with Yun Jiao and her family tomorrow to deposit the money into her passbook account.

Sun Yaotong only took half of the Golden Thread Cod’s meat, leaving the rest with the Yun family.

It was getting late, so Sun Yaotong and his party left with their bountiful harvest.

In the end, the Yun family also shared their portion of the Golden Thread Cod meat with Mr. Mu, his friend, and Yun Sui’s house.

The sky had already darkened, but the lively atmosphere at the Yun family’s home hadn’t died down.

They set up a pyre of pine and cypress branches in their yard, hanging strips of fish meat on a rack above it.

That’s right—they were preparing to smoke the fish.

And at this time, most of the idle villagers had wandered over to their house.

A barrage of curious questions followed.

"Was that Yun Jiao’s godfather and godmother? What’s their background? How did you meet them?"

"First the large yellow croaker, now tuna... how much money did you make today?"

"I heard you went to eat at Da Yun Restaurant. How much does a meal there cost?"

Most of the villagers had no sense of boundaries with their questions. At that moment, some of them wished they could dig into the entire family history of Sun Yaotong’s ancestors.

This was a family that could afford a yacht, after all!

Granny Yun and the others skillfully fielded their questions.

"We’re not too sure about their background either, only that they’re in business. My Jiaojiao just really hit it off with their family.

"It was really fate. Jiaojiao helped an elderly woman a while back, and who would have known that woman was her godmother’s biological mother.

"You see, Jiaojiao’s godmother was abducted by traffickers when she was very young and suffered a lot out there.

"It was Jiaojiao who unintentionally helped them reunite, so their whole family is incredibly grateful to her. That’s why they decided to become her god-relatives."

"We did earn a little money, but the large yellow croaker wasn’t just ours; we had to share some with Jiaojiao’s godfather’s family. We didn’t sell the tuna—see, the meat’s hanging right there. The fish we ate at the restaurant was from that same catch.

"What money for a fancy meal? We just happened to catch the fish. It was already dead when we pulled it up, so we couldn’t bleed it. The meat isn’t as good, so it wouldn’t have sold for much anyway."

One woman seized the opportunity, pulling her son forward. "You’ve really struck it rich! Since Yun Jiao’s godfather and godmother are business owners, they must need workers, right? We’re all family here, Lin Hai. You have to help your nephew out. Get him a job with Yun Jiao’s godfather. A family that can afford a huge yacht like that can surely pay a salary of a few hundred yuan a month, no problem!"

As soon as those words were out, the expressions on Granny Yun and the others collectively soured.

’Where did she get such nerve? The thickness of her skin is truly something else!’

’What kind of relative is she? We never saw her being this friendly on a normal day. Back when our family was poor, she was the one who looked down on us the most, always sucking up to the powerful and stepping on the weak behind our backs.’

The mother-in-law and daughters-in-law immediately formed a united front against the outsider.

Granny Yun shot back, "Listen to you. Which university did your son graduate from? How come I never heard that Shanzi got into college?"

The woman’s face immediately fell. "If my Shanzi had gotten into college, would I need to beg you?"

Wang Mei retorted sarcastically, "Is that you asking for a favor, Sister-in-law Ma? I thought you were ordering our family around. If you know your son’s situation, how can you even say something like that?

"Even my husband doesn’t have the nerve to ask Jiaojiao’s godfather for such a good job. A salary of a few hundred yuan a month? He couldn’t even afford to pay a few yuan for a job like that!"