Chapter 550: Selling Dried Fish

When the wind blows, we can't go to sea for seven or eight days in a row, which makes people who live by the sea especially uncomfortable. The villagers have no choice but to go to the pier to carry sandbags when they are free to make ends meet. The pier is not afraid of running out of work.

The women in the village also took advantage of the windy and sunny days to dry fish.

Every autumn and winter are the best seasons for drying fish in coastal fishing villages. This has become a living habit of the fishermen on the seaside. Without the harassment of mosquitoes and flies, the howling northwest wind only takes less than 3 days to dry the fish. Cut into seven parts.

Walking casually in the village, you can see bamboo poles and fishing nets drying out every few steps, as well as dried fish strung up with ropes. This is also a unique scenery of a seaside fishing village.

The sky has been beautiful these past few days and there has been no rain. The weak sunshine and the northwest wind have made the fish dry very quickly.

Ye Yaodong sun-dried nearly 4,000 kilograms of toad fish and miscellaneous fish. After drying for four or five days, they became hard and elastic, exuding a faint salty smell and the smell of sea breeze.

He put everything into sacks, and the sacks were sorted and stacked neatly.

After collecting everything this morning, he went to borrow a large scale to weigh the sacks of dried fish.

He used a wooden stick to pass through the rope opening on the wooden scale, and then he and his father lifted up the sack containing the dried fish, while Ah Qing adjusted the scale and weighed it.

After all the bags of dried fish were weighed, Lin Xiuqing weighed and added up the dozen bags of dried fish.

She was writing and drawing with a pen and paper. Ye Yaodong also leaned over and stretched his head to look at it, "It seems that the writing is no better than what I wrote?"

Lin Xiuqing gave him a blank look, "You think the number you wrote is more beautiful and correct than the number I wrote, right? After calculation, the total is 1,056 pounds and 6 taels."

"That's quite a lot. The fresh ones cost less than 130 yuan. If you can sell them for 40 cents, you can sell them for more than 400 yuan. After deducting the salt and labor costs, you can still earn 2/3..."

Ye Yaodong clasped his fingers and made a rough estimate, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Got it!"

"Are you thinking too well? How can we sell everything at once? 1,000 kilograms, how long will it take to sell?" Lin Xiuqing is not so optimistic. She thinks that if she can sell 1/3, it will be good to get back the money. .

"Think better, let's give it a try!"

"You made it, see for yourself!"

Father Ye also looked at him and said: "When do you plan to send it to the market to sell? Do you want to wait until after New Year's Day when the new wholesale market is completed, and then put it in the shop after the store is obtained?"

"No, that's too late. Today is only the 10th, and there are still 50 days before New Year's Day. If you haven't sold these, how can you continue to show them? There is no place to pile them up, and they haven't sold them, so I don't feel confident. I don’t know if I should still dry it. By then, wouldn’t these 50 days have been wasted? Half of winter will be over.”

"Then are you planning to send it off at night?"

"That's what I think. I'll go to the morning market at night. There will be a lot of people coming and going during the morning market, and I'll see if I can be lucky enough to encounter a bad guy. It's best if I can clear them all in one go."

In his previous life, he had always heard that this era was the best golden age. You could make money by doing anything, you could sell anything, and people wanted everything. This time, he could try it out for himself and see if the dried fish sold well.

The old lady quickly raised her head and interrupted, "Then ask your father to go with you. He has nothing to do anyway. If you two go together, you will have a companion. If you are undecided about anything, you can discuss it."

Father Ye looked at his old mother who had made the decision for him, and shook his head helplessly, "Well, I will go with you that night, and take a look at where the store you bought is. You three brothers spent so much money, and I also Didn’t even look at it.”

"casual."

"Then he shouldn't have brought them all, right?" Lin Xiuqing was a little undecided and didn't know what his plan was.

"Then I'm sure I won't take them all. If I can't sell them, I have to bring them all back. What if it rains? Everything will be wet. Bring two or three hundred first. If it sells well, I'll take it all with me on the next trip."

"Well, let's carry it into the house first, and then we can carry it into the car before we leave in the evening."

"OK."

The house was not big enough to pile up more than a dozen sacks, so Father Ye and Ye Yaodong put the sacks in the corner of the main room, placed them horizontally against the wall, and then stacked them one by one. Those that could not fit were taken to the children's room. Stack them high for now.

"I put the dried fish in your house, you are not allowed to eat it secretly?"

It just so happens that today is the weekend, and all the children, big and small, are at home. Seeing their adults busy there, they also come around to watch the fun, and follow those in front and behind, wanting to join in the fun.

Ye Chenghu said disdainfully: "I won't eat it. It's so salty. It's not like I haven't eaten anything."

Ye Yaodong turned his head, chuckled, and flicked his forehead, "Huh? Are you looking down on him so much? It seems that he has eaten a lot of delicious food during this period, and his mouth has become full of food. In the past, he even wanted to taste salt. Taste what it tastes like.”

"No way. I just wanted to taste sugar before, but I didn't want salt. It's obvious that you teased me with salt on purpose."

"I have a good memory, I didn't expect to still remember it."

Ye Chenghu hummed twice, but in an instant he rolled his eyes and immediately greeted him with a smile. He pulled his sleeves to please him and said, "Dad, I have helped with the work for many days. If you go to the city, yes Can’t you bring me a reward?”

The others also looked at him with bright eyes.

They were not biological sons, so they were embarrassed to ask for it. The adults at home had taught them many times, but when Ye Chenghu asked for it, everyone inevitably looked at it hopefully.

Ye Yaodong refused mercilessly, "What do you want to eat? Do you want a reward for doing a little work? Isn't it right to help the family? You don't have much to eat during this time? Whenever a hawker passes by with a load, you It’s not missed.”

Lin Xiuqing also glared at Ye Chenghu, "It's okay if you don't get a beating, but you still want a reward? I was passing by the popcorn a few days ago, and when I was not busy killing fish, you all secretly grabbed a handful of rice to exchange for it. , don’t think I don’t know, I just can’t spare my hands to hit people.”

Ye Chenghu immediately shrank and did not dare to speak. He hurriedly ran out, for fear that his mother would settle the score.

Others also ran away quickly, fearing that Chi Yu would be harmed.

Lin Xiuqing watched everyone run away, then looked at Ye Yaodong, "Don't bring anything back this time, everyone is used to it. Other people's children are not as happy as they are. They can eat whatever they want. But we can’t get used to it anymore.”

"knew."

He said so, but when he went to the city and saw the vendors setting up stalls selling everything around him, he was itching to buy something for his children.

In the past, he had no conditions and had no money. Now that he has some money, he always wants to give it to his children at home.

Nowadays, children have nothing to eat.

No, I saw the stall next to me selling boiled peanuts. The dried fish in front of him hadn't even opened yet, but he had already spent 50 cents on a large paper bag.

He held a large newspaper in both hands and handed it to his father, "Try it? It smells very fragrant, and every particle looks quite full."

"Why are you buying so many? You've already spent money before they even start selling." Father Ye picked up two shells at random.

"Bring it back to the little one at home later."

"Didn't Ah Qing tell you not to buy anything?"

"Don't this smell good? It's just a bag of peanuts." He would never admit that he was also greedy. He was bored squatting on the ground and waiting. He could also pass the time by peeling some peanuts and eating them.

The father and son started squatting at the entrance of the market before dawn, with sack after sack of dried fish in front of them and behind them. The strong smell of salted fish didn't need them to shout, and someone could smell it from a distance.

Among the many breakfast aromas, the smell of salted fish stands out.

Therefore, the morning market has just begun, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going in front of their stall, but they are all casually weighing a few pieces, and the most is not more than ten pounds.

The father and son don't choose, as long as someone buys it, no matter how much they buy or how little they buy, they can still sell a little, and they can sell it at a higher retail price. It's easy to sell for 40 to 50 cents. Occasionally, he just likes something he likes. Let me tell you another minute or two.

For this reason, Ye Yaodong was shameless and gave all the peanuts he just bought to the stall owner next door to eat, and also borrowed his small scale by the way.

He was not fully prepared and had no experience. He only had the wonderful idea of ​​meeting the bad guy and weighing everything together for others to take away. He even brought a large scale with him, but the reality was that he was selling scattered pieces of a few kilograms and a few pieces...

Moreover, he didn't even prepare any change, so he exchanged it with the person next to him.

Sure enough, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.

But for the father and son, a pound is worth a pound.

Don't underestimate retail sales. People nowadays have quite strong purchasing power, especially for food and clothing. The dried salted fish can be stored for a long time. Before dawn, the father and son had already sold two big bags.

Ye Yaodong was afraid that his frequent borrowing of scales would annoy the stall owner next to him, so he took advantage of his free time and brought him ten salted fishes. Regardless of his polite refusal, he put them into the basket next to him without any explanation.

"You're welcome, Angkor. We're destined to meet each other. What's more, you're a very kind and generous person. You've been lending me scales frequently. I just wanted to express my feelings. Take them, don't be polite. They're all your own fish." Come on, it’s not worth the money, let’s just make this friend.”

The middle-aged man known as Angkor looked like he was in his early 40s, but his weathered face was not much better than his father's. People nowadays look quite old because of their hard work.

His stall sells dried shrimps, and he doesn’t know where they got them. There are a lot of them. There is a large nylon bag on the trolley behind him, which is full of dried shrimps. According to his visual inspection, there should be hundreds of kilograms of them there.

There were two baskets in front of him. There was a round bamboo plaque on each basket, and there were piles of pointed shrimp skins on them. As long as someone took some and left, he would grab a lot more from the bottom basket. Fill.

The business was also very good, and it was super easy to sell. A scale was passed back and forth between the two of them.