My fishing raft will ask for help.

Chapter 182 Acquisition of Tingtao Fishing Raft

"Alright, then I'll be busy for a few more days." Lu Xingyu hesitated before continuing.

In the past, he would have pestered Zhou Miao relentlessly to take turns with her.

However, Zhou Miao solved all the difficulties the fish raft faced during his initial disappearance.

Lu Xingyu knew that the reason he didn't kick him out and even gave up 30% of his share was entirely because of the favor he had shown when he lent him money.

Zhou Miao is now taking him out to sea to make money. If he tries to shirk even this small task, he would truly be ungrateful.

"I'll let you know whether or not you need to hire a chef after I've assessed the situation in two days at most."

Zhou Miao knew that asking Lu Xingyu to temporarily act as a chef was putting him in a difficult position, so he didn't plan to drag things out for too long. Tonight, he would go and discuss it with Luo Hao.

In the afternoon, another seven or eight customers arrived one after another, and more than twenty tickets were sold today, which is quite stable.

Zhou Miao went to promote the new project again, but this time he only sold five cages.

It wasn't much, but he was already very satisfied. As long as the new project's daily revenue exceeded one thousand, their daily net income from the fishing raft would double.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Miao led the customers to put away the cages and then came back to see the sea turtles.

Once the sea turtles returned to the water, the large number of tourists prepared to leave in search of local delicacies.

The fish raft pier became lively again, with Zhou Miao driving speedboats to transport tourists to the pier in batches.

After finishing their work, there were no more tourists on the fish raft, and today's work was finally over.

After dinner, Zhou Miao told Zheng Xiaojia to leave work early and go home.

Basically, if there are customers, they will ask her to stay until 8 pm.

If there are no customers, let her have dinner before going home.

If she doesn't want to eat dinner here, she can go home early as long as there are no customers.

After taking her ashore, Zhou Miao didn't return to the fishing raft this time. Instead, he turned a corner and came to the Tingtao fishing raft.

Luo Hao and Luo Qianqian, the siblings, had just finished their meal and were resting when they saw him coming over, which made them a little puzzled.

Because Zhou Miao rarely comes over now, even when he wants to go on a date with Luo Qianqian, he communicates directly via WeChat.

"Hey, what brings you here today, busy man?" Luo Hao teased.

"I want to ask you something."

"What's wrong? Can't I tell you over the phone?"

Are you selling or not?

"Pfft~"

Luo Qianqian, who was rinsing her mouth with water, suddenly spat out a mouthful of water far away. Looking at her bewildered brother, she burst out laughing: "Hahaha, brother, I never thought that a rich woman could take a liking to a man in his thirties like you."

"Brother, don't hesitate, just say yes! My allowance will depend on you from now on!"

"What are you laughing at? Shut up!" Luo Hao scolded his sister, his face darkening, then looked at Zhou Miao with a long face, "You came here tonight just to tease me, didn't you?"

Zhou Miao quickly clarified, "No, no, I'm serious! I want to acquire your fish raft, but I'll reserve 30% of it for you, merging our two fish rafts."

"In the future, your fishing raft will be transformed into a floating food stall, and you will be the chef, while Qianqian will manage the accounts."

He had considered the impact hiring a chef would have on the Tingtao Fishing Raft.

Currently, there are a total of eighteen fish rafts in operation in Nanzhen, but due to income issues, none of them hire a chef.

Therefore, Luo Hao, a chef who has received specialized training, stands out, and now every day a group of tourists come to his fish farm specifically because of this gimmick.

The number of customers is not large, currently only seven or eight or a dozen a day, but business is gradually stabilizing.

However, if Zhou Miao hires a skilled chef and promotes his business online, it will immediately have a significant impact on his business.

His fish rafts will only get bigger and bigger in the future, squeezing out the living space of other fish rafts.

Luo Qianqian was, after all, his woman, and Luo Hao was his brother-in-law. Zhou Miao didn't want to ruin his career and end up with a mountain of debt.

"Why do you suddenly want to buy my fish rafts?" Luo Hao was still a little confused.

"Xingyu wants to hire a chef, and I agree. But once we do, what advantages will you have left?"

"Um... is it worthwhile to hire a professional chef for the profits from your fish farm?"

"We developed a new project today, which involves taking customers to set fish traps. Each trap costs 100 yuan, and they keep everything they catch. The daily income can reach 3,000 yuan, while the cost is less than 100 yuan. Even if the income drops to only 1,000 yuan per day in the future, we can still afford to hire a chef."

Luo Hao's eyes lit up after hearing this: "This project is great! We can do it here too, so hiring a chef won't affect me much!"

Zhou Miao shook his head: "I can guarantee that customers will get something every time, can you? If you don't have anything special, why should customers spend money? How much money can you make by just bluffing?"

Three questions left Luo Hao speechless.

Setting traps in the nearby sea makes it very difficult to catch anything that will consistently satisfy customers.

If customers are dissatisfied with their results and leave negative reviews online, it will seriously affect the profits from setting up fish traps.

If Zhou Miao's side receives only positive reviews and customers continue to make money, the difference will become apparent, and customers will genuinely only choose to go to his side, at least most of the business will be taken away by him.

Others might not understand Zhou Miao's luck, but Luo Hao has already made two or three hundred thousand yuan from it, so how could he not understand?

"Think it over carefully and give me an answer in the next couple of days." Zhou Miao didn't mean to force him; he genuinely felt that the merger would benefit both sides.

"We're all on the same side, and I told you beforehand. My goal isn't just to run a small fishing raft. This kind of small-scale operation is meaningless; a year's income doesn't even equal what I earn from a single trip out to sea."

"I'm definitely going to expand, maybe even start my own company. Even though you only have a 30% share after the fish farm was acquired and merged, you'll only earn more in the future, and you won't have to worry about it too much."

"Okay, I'll think about it tonight and give you an answer by tomorrow night at the latest!" Luo Hao nodded.

He couldn't possibly give up on Zhou Miao, his big fish farm. In fact, he didn't mind that his fish farm was being acquired, since he still retained 30%.

Even if they merge, this will still be their own fishing raft.

What he needs to do now is go back and carefully calculate the total value of the fish farm, and consider how much money would be appropriate.

"OK!" Zhou Miao could tell from Luo Hao's attitude that the matter was almost settled.

After chatting for a while, he got up and left.

"Qianqian, what's your opinion on this?" After seeing Zhou Miao off, Luo Hao returned to hear his sister's opinion.

"I don't get involved in your relationship, and I have no opinion on it," Luo Qianqian shook her head.

One of them is her own brother. Because they are almost ten years apart in age, this brother has always been very good to her.

The other person is her man, the one she'll spend her life with, so Luo Qianqian wisely chose to avoid discussing matters between the two of them, even though she secretly agreed with her brother selling the fish rafts.

After all, this fish raft has been open for more than half a year, and its business is really not doing very well.

Thinking about how Zhou Miao earned three thousand yuan a day developing a new project, Luo Qianqian felt disgusted with her brother's blockheadedness.

Having been a fisherman for over a decade, how come you never thought of making money by setting fish traps for customers?

If he hadn't gone out to learn cooking for a few years, his fish raft business would be even worse now.