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523. Get up early to go to the fish market (3/5)

After having a genuine Japanese seafood dinner, Qin Shiou returned to the hotel to prepare for tomorrow's auction.

The auction was held at 8:30 in the morning. Before dawn, Qin Shiou was called by Takata Tezuka. When he left the hotel, Nishimura Ryo drove over to pick them up.

Looking at Nishimura Ryo, who was dressed neatly and meticulously, Qin Shiou secretly sighed that his mother was just a desperate job in Tokyo. Although he could get up at six o'clock every morning to run and exercise, he would definitely not be able to bear to work such a high-intensity.

After going to Tsukiji Market, the east was just bright, and the paper lanterns of the Aohe Shrine swayed in the wind, emitting a white light.

Nishimura Len introduced to Qin Shiou that these lanterns are of particular importance. The lantern with whose name is written on it is lit, indicating that this store is working in the market today. If it is extinguished, it means that they have no seafood for sale today.

Qin Shiou remembered Butler's words and said in surprise: "Will there be more than 800 lanterns outside the market?"

He remembers that there are eight major seafood merchants and more than 800 middlemen in Tsukiji Market.

Nishimura Len smiled and said, "Qin Sang, you guessed it wrong. In fact, there are 1,062 lanterns here. In addition to seafood merchants, there are also vegetable and fruit merchants, and they also have lanterns here."

Nelson and Bird admired that St. Johns did not have such a farmers' market.

At the end of the introduction, Nishimura Ryo said proudly: "The longer the lanterns are lit continuously, the more seafood the family has, the longer the continuous stalls are. So far, the lanterns of our Kiyomura Co., Ltd. have been lit continuously for 4,228 days and nights!"

After entering the market, many stalls and vendors are selling breakfast, and their targets are naturally seafood merchants and housewives who come to the market early.

Qin Shiou looked at it and saw that there were stalls such as takoyaki, soba noodles, tempura, tooroyaki, Nagasaki cakes, etc. in many places. It was the same as the morning market.

The auction of bluefin tuna was near the Shengang Gate of the market. The area had been cleared before. Qin Shiou and his group walked over and saw all bluefin tunas.

There are at least tens of thousands of square meters of bluefin tunas are placed. Qin Shiou roughly estimated that there may be a thousand!

Only when you get here can you understand where so many bluefin tunas caught on the sea every year!

Qin Shiou sighed: "This is really big."

Nishimura Leno said proudly: "Qin Sang, it's not me that I boasted. This is the largest tuna auction market in the world! And this is not the largest. Today, the auctions are all fresh tuna, with relatively small numbers. The tuna auction held on the sixth day of the New Year every year is the largest, because it is frozen tuna that has accumulated for a month or two. For example, this year's post-New Year auction, a total of 2,842 bluefin tunas totaling 1,852 tons were sold!"

Katsuki Gate is the largest entrance to Tsukiji Market, adjacent to Katsuki Bridge, and nearby are the "Fish Popularization Center Archives", "Tsukiji Market Welfare Club", and "Shengkiji Bridge Archives" within the market.

Nishimura Len introduced to Qin Shiou that the so-called archives are actually tourism centers. Except for accepting 140 tourists at 4 a.m. every day, the market does not allow tourists to enter the venue. When tourists come, they go to the archives to watch and take photos.

After following Nishimura Ryo, Takata Tezuka, wearing blue work clothes and water boots, rushed over and bowed when he saw Qin Shiou. He said, "I'm sorry, Qin Sang, I'm not taking good care of you! Today our club has a lot of fish, so I have to lead the team to check in person. I hope you will be more grateful!"

"President is so polite. Please do it first. Mr. Nishimura was very well entertained. I learned a lot from him. He is such an excellent young man." Qin Shiou said quickly. He has never been right for this guy's politeness, and he has a conspiracy.

When Tezuka Takata heard him say this, he smiled at Nishimura Ryo and praised: "Nishimura Jun is an excellent newcomer trained by our club. It would be great that he can satisfy Qin Sang. Tomorrow I will prepare a family dinner at home to entertain Qin Sang and Butlersang, and Nishimura Jun will come too."

Hearing this, Nishimura Len was immediately excited. He put his hands on the edge of his trousers, and he bowed ninety degrees like a piece of paper, shouting: "Hay, President, Nishimura is very grateful for your appreciation!"

Tezuka Takata patted Nishimura Ryo's shoulders and hurriedly left with his subordinates, almost trotting.

Nishimura Ryo, who was patted by Takata Tezuka's shoulder, looked excited. He turned around and bowed to Qin Shiou again, saying, "Thank you for your good words, Qin Sang, Nishimura is very grateful!"

Qin Shiou smiled bitterly, "You are so polite, don't be so polite. If you bow back and forth like this, can you still have fun together in the future?"

Tuna auction was officially held at 5:30. Now is the busiest time. Market workers are busy marking tunas, while buyers preparing to participate in the auction are busy checking the meat of the tuna that they are interested in.

More than a thousand tunas are enough for buyers to work hard, but most buyers don’t watch every fish. The meat quality of tuna is not that big. What they need to pay attention to is the fish they are particularly interested in, such as the Golden Gun Overlord.

There is no doubt that the Golden Gun is the absolute protagonist of this auction. It can even be said that no matter what year it is placed, it is the protagonist.

In order to protect the fish, the market sent two young and strong security guards. The security guards stood beside the fish with their hands on their backs. They would stop anyone if they wanted to touch the fish. In addition, if someone stayed here for a long time, they would also reach out and ask them to leave.

The tail and fins of the tuna that were about to participate in the auction were cut off, so just look at the flesh from these places, but only the Golden Gun King is not allowed to touch it, and other fish can be watched at will.

Although there are many tuna here, there are not many bidders, and those participating in the bidding are all first-level agents in the fish market.

They will send capable personnel to form a fish test team, and the team leader is often the most experienced tunic fisherman. For example, the team leader of Kiyomura Co., Ltd. is an old man in his seventies.

Xicunlei prepared a small hook and flashlight. Qin Shiou saw that this was the standard configuration for fish testers, so he followed him to watch it. Experts looked at the tricks and watched the fun.

But soon, his fake guy was exposed because he was very amateur in testing fish. A security guard immediately came over to ask him to leave. There were several rules in the Tsukiji Market. The first is that non-bidding personnel and VIPs should not touch the fish.

When the security guard was about to drive people away, Nishimura Ryo put away the humility he had when facing Qin Shiou and Takata Tezuka. He glared at the security guard and shouted: "Baga! This is a distinguished guest of our Kiyomura Co., Ltd. and a friend of President Tezuka. Do you dare to drive him away? Don't you want to work here anymore?"

After seeing Nishimura Len's work permit, the security guard bowed repeatedly. Winnie pulled Nishimura Len and said that it was nothing. The security guard then left in a cold sweat. (To be continued)
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