My fishing raft will ask for help.

Chapter 201 Taking the gold bars to exchange for money

The following day, Luo Hao's Tingtao Fishing Raft began renovations, and the fishing competition would officially begin the day after tomorrow.

With two days of free time remaining, Zhou Miao decided not to go out to sea.

The fish rafts have reopened, bringing together customers from both rafts, and business is better than before.

More than twenty customers came in this morning, and at least a dozen more will come in this afternoon.

There are about forty people a day, which is close to the saturation point of the Xuan Gui Fishing Raft.

Fortunately, Luo Hao and Luo Qianqian came to help since they had nothing else to do, which gave Zhou Miao a complete break.

Just when he thought he could relax for a couple of days, he received a call from his father.

"Ah Miao, we received the fish you sent. But what kind of fish is this? Your mother and I have never seen it before. How do you cook it?"

Zhou Miao was not surprised to hear this.

Although my parents have eaten seafood all their lives, the market here doesn't sell whole seafood.

Cod is difficult to preserve and spoils quickly, so it needs to be processed before it can be transported to the south for sale.

It needs to be sliced, vacuum-packed, and then frozen at low temperature.

This has resulted in southerners rarely seeing the true appearance of cod, and has also given some unscrupulous merchants an opportunity to sell unwanted oilfish as cod.

"This is cod. It can be steamed or pan-fried. I've never had it braised, so I don't know if it's good or not."

"So this is cod!" Zhou Jiguang exclaimed in realization.

"By the way, these three cod have roe inside their bellies. You can look it up online to see how to cook them."

Zhou Miao sent ten jin (5 kg) of meat to his family, which sounds like a lot, but in reality, it consisted of three fat meats, each weighing more than three jin (1.5 kg) on ​​average.

If they slice it and eat it at home, it will definitely take a long time to finish. However, he guessed that his mother would give one slice each to his eldest sister and second brother.

"Okay, I'll check."

"By the way, Miao, how are the gold bars selling over there? The price has gone up a bit recently, and I can sell them for 1,130 yuan per gram now."

Zhou Jiguang deliberately lowered his voice when he said the last sentence, giving off a feeling of a secret rendezvous.

That makes sense, he didn't need to call specifically about the fish; a few messages would have sufficed.

Elderly people like to send voice messages, and each voice message is at least twenty or thirty seconds long.

Unfortunately, they were speaking in a dialect that couldn't be translated, which made Zhou Miao particularly dislike sending WeChat messages to her parents and prefer to call them directly when needed.

Upon hearing about the gold bars, Zhou Miao slapped his forehead. He had been so busy lately that he had forgotten such an important thing.

But he wouldn't tell his father about what he had forgotten; instead, he would ask his father how he had changed it.

After entering the wooden house and learning about it, Zhou Miao went out to say goodbye to Lu Xiaoxiao and the others, and then went back to his rented room to get the gold bars.

When he returned to Nanzhen, he brought with him a box of silver and ten gold bars.

Each of these gold bars weighed a different amount because he had bought five molds at the time.

He has two kinds of gold bars here: one weighing 200 grams, which has five bars, and the other weighing 150 grams, which also has five bars. The total weight here is 1,750 grams.

The remaining 3,300 grams or so of gold bars were left to his father. These bars were made smaller so that he could sell them more easily.

If the project is too large, every single gold bar must be sold with great care.

Although gold shops may not care about the source of the gold in the face of profit, their output volume is so large that caution is still necessary.

Back in his rented room, Zhou Miao found a cardboard box, opened it, and inside was a lifelike human skin headgear.

Zhou Miao took out the hood and went to the bathroom to put it on.

The silicone was attached tightly to the head and face, and after it was all done, a mixed-race brown-haired man appeared in the mirror.

His facial features are well-defined, making him look very handsome. It's as if he's a completely different person; it's incredibly lifelike.

If you look closely, you can still find the abnormality.

But it didn't matter. Zhou Miao took out a pair of frameless glasses and a black mask and put them on. Finally, he put on a fisherman's hat, so that he could be completely unrecognizable.

It's already November, so it's okay to wear long sleeves, which will also better cover up your figure.

With a tap of the finger, one is instantly transported to the exciting world of Chapter 201, where one exchanges gold bars for money.

So Zhou Miao even changed his clothes, pants, and shoes, so even Lu Xiaoxiao and Luo Qianqian wouldn't recognize him.

He took the silver and gold bars, along with 10,000 yuan in cash that he had withdrawn from the bank a long time ago. He packed a change of clothes into his backpack, went downstairs, and drove off.

You could actually find Zhou Miao through the car, but he wasn't there to commit a crime; he was just there to sell gold bars and didn't want to attract attention.

The pickup truck quickly arrived in the neighboring province via the highway.

It was close by, and it only took a little over an hour.

Zhou Miao parked his car in the small town and then took a taxi to the city center.

He didn't bring all the silver, mainly because it was inconvenient to carry too much, but he brought all the gold.

Based on his father's experience, Zhou Miao didn't go to those large chain stores, but instead looked for small, privately owned shops.

It might be cheaper, but it's safer.

In November, the price of gold had risen to 1,300 yuan per gram.

The price of silver is currently close to 10.5 yuan, but it can only be sold for 10 yuan.

The boss knew it was counterfeit goods, so he drove the price down considerably.

Zhou Miao didn't care about the 10% commission, since the black market could be ruthless and charge 20%.

After touring the city, all the gold and silver he brought had been sold.

Then, carrying a backpack full of cash, Zhou Miao went to a restroom in a shopping mall, changed his clothes there, and quickly took a taxi back to the town.

The gold bars brought this time sold for a total of 2.03 million.

There was too much silver, so I only brought three kilograms. I sold it for a total of 30,000, which was just a fraction of the gold.

All the money was in cash, and it was in my bag.

This money definitely can't be deposited in the bank; it needs to be "cleaned up" before being taken out.

For Zhou Miao, a fisherman, money laundering wasn't difficult; it was just a slow process.

Zhou Jiguang was also able to wash some of the money and continue with the renovations, buying materials in cash, while the landlord made payments directly through bank transfer.

Once Zhou Miao has two million in savings, he can go to Yu Muzhou to ask for investment and order a large ship.

Once the ship is decided upon, even with a hull, it will still require continuous renovations and sea trials, giving him enough time to launder all the remaining money.

This is also why Zhou Miao decisively had his father sell all the gold and silver after he planned to start operating fishing boats.

Back in town, after starting his pickup truck and heading home, he called his father to tell him that he had sold all the gold bars and was keeping the remaining seven kilograms of silver bars to slowly exchange for money.

The total value is at most 70,000 yuan. After a while, when the new clothes and headgear arrive, I can go home and take some gold to sell in other cities. Next time, I'll take more silver.

It was already evening when we returned to Nanzhen.

Zhou Miao arrived at the fish raft just in time for dinner.

"Where did you go? Why are you only coming back now?" Luo Qianqian asked curiously.

Compared to her curiosity, Lu Xiaoxiao was much better; she simply got up quietly and got him a bowl of rice.

"My dad needed to talk to me about something, so I went back to my hometown," Zhou Miao casually brushed it off, knowing she definitely wouldn't tell them about these things.

Luo Qianqian didn't really want to know where he went; she just grumbled because she hadn't seen him all day.

Everyone has their own secrets, and she won't pry into that.

If that really happens, she'll be dumped sooner or later.

Zhou Miao has Lu Xiaoxiao as a backup, so he doesn't lack women.

Even if it weren't for her, there would be someone else, like Pei Yunxi.

Thinking of this woman, Luo Qianqian felt a little puzzled.

She seemed to have seen that woman again today, but she disappeared before she could get a good look at her.

To be honest, Luo Qianqian was still a little worried, afraid that the woman would come back.

She accepted Lu Xiaoxiao, but that doesn't mean she's willing to let others join.

Lu Xiaoxiao is easy to get along with because she doesn't compete or fight for anything, but others might not be.