Chapter 56: Tempting Ornamental Fish
"Eighty-one catties!" Yi Chen’s heart skipped a beat. Gu Nan’s words clearly meant he would give her the commission for this fish.
She glanced at the marlin, which was about one and a half meters long including its bill, and estimated it had to be at least fifty catties.
Wouldn’t that sell for several thousand?
From this fish alone, her commission would be over two hundred.
Yi Chen’s big eyes instantly turned into dollar signs. ’I’m rich, I’m rich!’ She suddenly felt like she could make over ten thousand a month.
At that moment, she felt there was one more person she needed to treat to a meal: An Jun.
If it weren’t for his sud... sudden introduction, she never would have found a job with such a high salary.
Gu Nan didn’t head out to fish first thing in the morning because he was waiting for Jiang Tengming to arrive.
He also planned to ask An Jun to come over at noon to discuss the matter of Yi Chen filming videos.
Business in the morning was decent. By nine o’clock, their revenue had already reached fifteen hundred. The shop could basically maintain around three thousand a day now; two thousand was considered a slow day.
Just then, a familiar face walked into the shop. He was holding his phone and appeared to be filming.
But Gu Nan was very surprised, because it wasn’t Jiang Tengming who had arrived, but Kang Ye.
He didn’t know that the man was also a seafood vlogger, so he was a bit baffled when he saw him walk into the shop muttering to himself.
This was also Yi Chen’s first time encountering a customer who was filming a video while buying fish, but seeing that it was a familiar person, she immediately went up to greet him.
When Kang Ye saw the young female employee approach, he proactively turned his camera away so as not to film her.
He knew that having such a beautiful girl working in a seafood shop could attract a lot of viewers to his video, but without her permission, he wouldn’t resort to secretly filming someone.
Both Gu Nan and Yi Chen noticed his action, and their impression of him improved even more. ’This is a man with real class.’
"Are you filming a video?" Gu Nan stepped forward and asked.
Kang Ye nodded, aiming his camera at the fish in the shop. He smiled and said, "Yes, I like to share videos of me preparing seafood in my spare time. I already finished the Black-striped Small Stripes Buri I bought here last time. My friends really loved the taste of that fish."
"The sweetlips I bought last time is almost done aging and will be ready to eat the day after tomorrow, so I decided to come see if you have any other suitable fish to choose from today."
"I see. My shop just got a new batch of fish in, you can take a look." Gu Nan had a moment of realization. ’So the shop has had a vlogger for a customer all this time.’
Then, he glanced at Yi Chen standing nearby. An idea struck him, and he beckoned her over. He then introduced her to Kang Ye, "This is the shop’s clerk, Yi Chen. From now on, she’ll be the one to introduce you to the new seafood we get in."
"Yi Chen is also planning to start her own social media account to film some videos about selling fish. If it’s alright with you, I was hoping she could make an appearance in your video."
"In the future, when you come to my shop to buy seafood, you’ll also be able to get a discount."
Kang Ye’s eyes lit up as he immediately understood Gu Nan’s idea. ’He wants to promote his seafood shop through the internet!’
It was clearly a win-win situation, and he agreed without the slightest hesitation.
Having reached a preliminary agreement, Kang Ye discussed with them how to film the entrance scene and they roughly hammered out a small script.
It wasn’t anything special, really. He would just re-enter the shop, Yi Chen would come up to greet him, and she would naturally introduce the seafood in the store.
Gu Nan, meanwhile, returned to the counter to watch them film.
He might occasionally be in the shot, but as long as he wasn’t directly facing the camera, he didn’t feel uncomfortable.
It was Yi Chen’s first time in front of a camera, so she was a little stiff at first. Thankfully, she adapted quickly and was able to act naturally after just a little while, introducing the seafood to the "customer" just as she normally would.
Kang Ye was very interested in the new Four-star Fish and five-star fish that had appeared in the shop, as he had never filmed them before.
When he heard that the beautiful Blue Star Nine-spine Sea Perch was also found in Taiwan, being from Taiwan himself, he immediately asked for the largest one, which weighed three-point-one catties.
The fish didn’t actually look that big, only about thirty centimeters long. It only had that weight because it was quite plump. In the guidebook, it was marked as "Large," so he figured anything over thirty centimeters must be "Giant."
Kang Ye was also very interested in the giant groupers. He pointed to a few of the scarcer, high-end seafood items and asked, "Will you continue to stock these fish in the future?"
"Well..." As a new clerk, Yi Chen didn’t know the answer either, so she looked toward her boss sitting at the counter.
"Of course. From now on, they’ll basically always be in stock when you come. Besides, you have my WeChat, so you can always ask me in advance."
Gu Nan saw what Kang Ye was thinking and nodded affirmatively.
’Once I redeem the purple-grade set later on, these high-end fish will only become more and more common.’
’They’ll even be bigger than the ones I have now. So if Kang Ye wants to film videos of other types of fish, he doesn’t need to buy a bunch today.’
’It’s better to let the stream flow slowly. One fish at a time. That way, every visit will give the shop more exposure.’
Hearing this, Kang Ye was reassured and decided to just buy the one Blue Star Nine-spine Sea Perch.
"This fish is normally two hundred a catty, but since I said I’d give you a discount, I’ll make it one-ninety. Three-point-one catties comes out to five hundred eighty-nine. Let’s just round off the change and call it an even six hundred."
Yi Chen started packing the fish. After filming the packing scene, Kang Ye came over to pay. When he heard that "rounding off the change" meant six hundred, he was completely stunned.
Seeing him frozen in a daze, Gu Nan burst out laughing. "Just kidding! Five-eighty is fine."
Kang Ye snapped out of it and shook his head with a laugh. "Well, thank you for the discount, boss."
After paying, he asked another question. "I noticed earlier that you also have a lot of ornamental fish, including three types of Stab-tailed Fish. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Lipstick Tang, boss?"
"That one... I can’t say I have. These ornamental fish were all gifts from a friend." Gu Nan shook his head. "The Lipstick Tang, is that a type of Stab-tailed Fish too?"
Kang Ye said, "Yes, and I’d really like to buy a couple. The ornamental fish here are very energetic; their quality seems much higher than at other shops. Plus, Lipstick Tangs are quite expensive, and I don’t quite trust buying them from other people, so I wanted to ask if you could get your hands on some."
"Quite expensive? How much are they?" Gu Nan was getting curious.
When it came to the world of ornamental fish, he was completely in the dark. He truly didn’t understand any of it, which was why he thought two or three hundred for a small ornamental fish was expensive.
"A Lipstick Tang over ten centimeters costs around four thousand. There are even more expensive ones, like Yellow Tangs and Velvet Tangs. You should look into them, boss. If you can get some, I’ll definitely buy them."
*Hiss~* ’Four thousand for such a small fish? And there are even more expensive ones?’
Gu Nan looked at the big "boss" fish on the display stand. ’Look at you. Tens of catties, and you’re worth about the same as a tiny ten-centimeter fish. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?’
Yi Chen, who had been listening with her ears perked up, was even more shocked. At that moment, she was beginning to understand the gap between ordinary people and the wealthy.
"Alright, I’ll talk to my friend overseas and ask him to keep an eye out."
"I’ll have to trouble you then!"
"No trouble at all, no trouble at all. I should be thanking you for your business."
Kang Ye exchanged a few more pleasantries before finally leaving the seafood shop with his fish.