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Chapter 3 Heartache

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In my previous life, I just had fun with my friends and didn't care what happened at home.
After waking up, he went out to hang out with friends. He came back drunk during dinner. He only remembered catching a large yellow croaker and didn't hear the price, so he went back to the house to sleep in a daze.
Although large yellow croakers are rare these days, people's living standards are limited and they are not that expensive. They are just several times more expensive than ordinary fish.
Unlike later generations, which were speculated to sky-high prices.
In 2022, the price of wild large yellow croaker is about 600 yuan per catty.
The price of wild large yellow croaker is about 800 yuan per catty for 1 catty and 3 taels; for 1 catty and 8 taels, it is more than 1,000 yuan per catty.
If it weighs about 2 kilograms, the price will be between 1,500 yuan and 1,600 yuan per kilogram.
If it weighs more than 2 kilograms, it usually costs more than 3,000 yuan per kilogram.
This is the price directly charged by the fresh-harvesting ship at sea. Once it enters the port, the price of 1-2 pounds of large yellow croaker will double!
If the quantity is large, the price will fluctuate.
Although he doesn't seek advancement and has been a bit mixed up, he is also a native fisherman and still knows his stuff well.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pat his thigh. Damn it, it would be great if he could pull this net in a few decades!
Lost millions of blood!
Everyone in Ye's family frowned and looked at him slapping his thigh strangely, with regretful expressions on their faces.
What's wrong with the third child again?
Mother Ye frowned and couldn't help but ask: "What are you doing, third child? Okay, why are you slapping your thighs so hard? Did you take the wrong medicine?"
"Mom, how much did we sell the big yellow croaker for yesterday? I didn't hear clearly yesterday and went back to the house to sleep."
Ye's mother glanced at Ye's father. The whole family knew it anyway. If she didn't say anything, the third daughter-in-law would tell her when she came back to the house. She simply said directly: "One thousand two hundred yuan! A pound of five yuan was purchased, which is a little bit short.
If you weigh it, the boss will be generous and just calculate it as a round number."
After being taken advantage of, you still praise others for their generosity!?
Ye Yaodong beat his chest and stamped his feet, "Mother, do you know that you have lost money and lost blood?"
Everyone in the room, men, women, old and young, frowned and looked at each other. The boss couldn't help but asked anxiously: "How do you know, third brother, that we have lost money?"
"I hang out outside all day long, how can I know how valuable the big yellow croaker is?"
This is true, even though the third child is a bit of a jerk, he is still the most knowledgeable in the whole family.
I wander around the city with a group of people all day long, meeting a bunch of people from all walks of life, how can I not be knowledgeable?
Ye Mu also felt nervous, "What do you mean? How much does it cost per pound outside? The fish in our village has always been purchased by the dock. The amount we paid yesterday was too large, so the dock directly contacted a boss to come over.
receive."
"If you pack some ice cubes and call a tractor to send them to the county seat, you can double the price!"
Ye Yaodong was extremely heartbroken. In fact, if it doubled, in future generations, more than 200 kilograms would be worth several million!
After hearing what he said, everyone felt regretful and rash...
Double that...
This is only a difference of 1,200 yuan, heartbreaking...
Father Ye's heart was bleeding, and the hand holding the hookah started to shake. One thousand two hundred yuan...
Now the average worker’s salary is only forty or fifty a month. I’m really going to vomit blood!
Father Ye's chest was heaving and he scolded him directly: "You bastard, you wander around all day and don't do anything serious! If you go to sea with us, we won't just sell it for five yuan a pound!"
"It's none of my business. I don't know that you can catch large yellow croakers. If I knew, I would go to the dock in advance and wait! No, I would find a rich boss to wait at the dock in advance!"
I’m really pissed off, it’s more than 200 kilograms of wild yellow croaker! If he had died earlier, would he have been reborn earlier?
Ah...you're cursing yourself!
Father Ye's chest heaved with anger, and in the end he could only sigh, "Forget it, I've sold everything, there's nothing to regret. Maybe our family's wealth is only so much for the time being. We'll gain experience in the future."
I won’t sell it so hastily again.”
Yes, I have sold everything, and there is no point in regretting it now.
The family's good mood ended directly at the hands of Ye Yaodong.
Originally, Uncle Ye and Uncle Ye came to the house and wanted to take a share of the pie, which only made them depressed for a while, but they were still in a good mood.
Now...sigh...
It's just a pity, I could have sold it for more money.
After the family felt heartbroken for a while, they accepted it calmly, and they made a fortune after all.
The most depressing thing was Ye Yaodong, "Dad, do you think the large yellow croaker is Chinese cabbage? You will have experience next time you catch it..."
"Don't you know that the number of large yellow croakers has dropped sharply after being surrounded by gǔ cloths several times, and now they are almost invisible?"
“In 1954, the fishing method was spread from Guangdong Province to Fujian Province. Because this method is very efficient in fishing and has huge yields, it was popularized in a short period of time, and a large number of large yellow croakers were caught in the sea..."
"In 1974, Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province carried out a large-scale fishing operation, which almost led to the extinction of large yellow croaker. In recent years, wild yellow croaker has been basically difficult to see in the market..."
"Dad, do you think you will still have this kind of luck in your life?"
This is harder than winning the lottery!
The small boat his grandfather left behind was only a dozen meters long. It could only go offshore and couldn't go too far. To be able to catch this large yellow croaker was like smoke rising from the ancestral graves.
The family members listened to his gushing and spitting words, and were also stunned by him.
The third child...when did the third child know so much...
Knocking off the law... Only Ye's father heard about it. After all, their family didn't have a big ship to work at sea, so they relied on fishing and netting to make a living all day long, so they didn't pay attention to it.
Nowadays, information is not circulating, and even the eldest and second eldest brother have not heard of it. The third child actually speaks eloquently, which immediately makes the parents, brothers and sisters present look at him differently.
Maybe... the third child is not that useless...
Lin Xiuqing was stunned. For the first time, she discovered that her husband seemed quite... quite so when he spoke seriously.
The brilliance between the brows is the glow of confidence when talking about familiar things, right?
Or maybe her man isn't that worthless?
Father Ye also put aside his contempt for his third son and asked seriously: "How do you know about the Knocking-out method? How do you know about what happened in 1954 and what happened in 1974?"
Ye's father had only heard of the knocking method, but did not know about the major fishing events that occurred in the past twenty years from 1954 to 1974. After all, the Internet is not developed and information is not circulated.
In fact, Ye Yaodong only learned about these things later when he heard other crew members talk about them when he was running a big ship.
Otherwise, he would have paid no attention to this just because he was a lazy, lazy person in the first half of his life.
But he couldn't let it slip.
Looking at everyone's expressions, he also knew that he had restored his image a little, which was a good thing, so he couldn't help but straighten his waist.
After being confused for half his life, he finally grew up and became more responsible in the next ten years.
If he had to do it over again, he wouldn't want to be a waste. Although he still has no skills, at least he can work and go fishing. If he works harder, he should be able to support a wife and children.
He no longer wants to rely on his wife to support him.
But change also takes time, otherwise he is afraid that he will be regarded as a ghost.
The price of yellow croaker is artificially higher than it was then. At the end of Chapter 33, there is a brief explanation.
Chapter completed!
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