Ye Yaodong put down the basket he and Ah Cai were carrying and looked at the goods at the purchasing point that were already piled all over the floor.
He pointed and said: "Do you know how much these toad fish can be sold for? Brother Cai said that one pound is three and a half cents. Here it is about 1,200 to 1,300 pounds, so it can only be sold for about 40 yuan."
"It's more than 40 yuan. A product of 1,200 to 300 kilograms can only be sold for more than 40 yuan. When I heard the price, I felt heartbroken. How can I sell this? How can I sell it?"
Father Ye and Mother Ye looked at each other in confusion. Although they knew that the fish had always been cheap, they also felt a little distressed after doing the calculation.
If this was any other fish, it would be worth more than 100 yuan if it cost eighty-nine cents and a dime, and they wouldn't feel bad about it.
Father Ye frowned and asked him, "Then what are you going to do?"
"Stay here and ask someone to dry them tomorrow. It just so happens that there has been no rain in the past two days and there is sunshine in the north wind. It will be dry after a little blowing and drying."
He just made a rough calculation in his mind. One kilogram dried in the sun is considered to be 4 cents.
Toad fish has a lot of water. If it can be dried into a pound of about 5-6 pounds, he can still earn half of it. The labor cost is very cheap. Just hire one or two people to do it, and each person only costs more than 1 yuan a day.
Then the 1,200 to 1,300 kilograms here can only be sold for about 40 yuan. If you dry it yourself, it will be worth 80 or 90 yuan. This is what he underestimated. If he had calculated a little more, 100 would not be a problem.
And this is just the harvest from today's trip. What if there are this amount every other time?
That's a lot worse.
Ye Mu didn't dare to gamble, "What if after all the hard work of drying, no one wants it? This fish is so cheap to begin with, and the fresh fish is worthless. Can anyone want the dried fish?"
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"Dried fish is delicious, can be stored, and is easier to transport than fresh fish. Fresh fish is not yet transported to other places, so this kind of dried fish is just right."
As he spoke, he patted his thigh. Originally he just blurted it out, but now he felt it made too much sense.
Why didn’t I think before that fresh products are not easy to transport, but dry ones are easy to transport?
Father Ye also echoed, "That's true. Dried ones are more convenient than fresh ones. Fresh ones can't be transported too far. Seafood can easily stink if you're not careful."
Ah Cai also said: "That's the reason, so you guys have also taken a fancy to the dry goods market."
"It will indeed be easy to sell, but you have to go through a few more processes, you have to kill and dry it, you have to transport it to the city yourself, and you have to sell it yourself, which is more laborious."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "This is simple, just hire someone. Anyway, the shops in the city are ready."
He was also very decisive in making decisions. After thinking about it in his mind and figuring it out, he decided to stay and show off by himself.
Just ask his elder sister-in-law tomorrow, and the second sister-in-law will kill him and show off.
As the saying goes, wealth should not flow to outsiders; if you have money, your own family will earn it first.
If you go to sea once, you can earn an extra forty or fifty yuan. If you go to sea ten times, you can earn an extra four or five hundred yuan. If you leave Chun for three or four months, if you can go a few more times, you can earn an extra thousand yuan.
And he doesn't necessarily have to wait until the store is completely delivered before taking it to the market to sell it.
When he sees that the quantity is almost there, or when he can't fit it in at home, he can find a day that is not suitable for going to sea, take the time to sell it, and just put it at the door of the market.
In a short period of time, he had already figured it out clearly in his mind.
Seeing that he had made up his mind, Father Ye also thought that it would be good to make twice as much money. He would not just go out to sea today, but there would be a steady stream of profits in the future.
"Okay, if you want to stay and dry it yourself and sell it slowly, then you can keep them all. Just ask your two sisters-in-law to do it, and you don't need to invite outsiders. Your mother has to go to work and she has no time, otherwise she would still have to call
She helped with some of it."
Mother Ye opened her mouth to speak but stopped, then took it back, "Then dry it yourself. If you don't have enough bamboo sticks, move it to your hometown, or borrow some from your elder sister-in-law or second sister-in-law."
"I know."
"Then you go and weigh these dozen baskets of toad fish first. Your mother and I will move aside first, carry a few baskets to the car, and push them back first. It will definitely take two trips to pull them out."
"Well, you guys have to figure it out. Let's push it back first." Ye Yaodong agreed without looking back. He was helping Ah Cai lift a basket of sole fish and weigh it.
In addition to the toad fish, this sole fish is the second largest, weighing 260 kilograms, and can cost almost 30 yuan.
Other goods are also being loaded onto the scale one after another.
When all the goods were weighed, Ye Yaodong's stomach growled and he yawned again.
After all of Ah Cai's gains were recorded, he took the list and said goodbye to him while reading it. He had been busy from morning to night and was really exhausted.
However, as soon as he took two steps out, he immediately stopped and said, "No, why the hell is it only 112 yuan, 3 cents and 2 cents? The toad fish was not sold, and 40 yuan was deducted. It shouldn't be 167 yuan."
Ten yuan is right..."
"Brother, please don't blackmail me. How can there be so many?"
Ye Yaodong immediately slapped his forehead with the palm of his hand, "Damn, there are three otters tied up and put in the cabin. I forgot about this."
At that time, because these three kept barking and were too noisy, he threw them directly into the cabin and forgot about them when he got off the ship to carry the cargo.
No wonder he felt that the price was wrong when he just looked at the receipt. He had already roughly estimated that today's harvest should be over 200 yuan, and after deducting the cost of toad fish, it would not be only more than 110 yuan.
"Otter? What otter?"
"Just wait, there are still goods on the boat." After saying that, he quickly folded the list and put it back in his pocket, and trotted towards the fishing boat.
When Father Ye and Mother Ye came back after delivering the things, they saw him hurriedly running onto the boat again.
"What are you doing? Are the goods sold out?"
"There were three otters left in the cabin, and I forgot to take them down."
"Ah, yes! I almost forgot about it too. There was too much cargo on the ship. I spent so long moving it around that I completely forgot about those three."
Mother Ye was surprised when she heard that there were three otters, "You can forget about them even if you put them on the boat. What the hell are you thinking?"
"Isn't this too much life? After dark, we have been hurrying and hurrying, and we have long forgotten those three."
Ye Yaodong went to the boat to catch the three guys and put them in front of Ah Cai. Ah Cai was so surprised that he quickly reached out to take one, held it in his hand, and looked at it from left to right.
"You did a good job catching otters today! Someone is collecting otters there recently."
"Well, is it because of its fur and liver?"
"Who knows, but I seem to have heard that someone is going to study how to raise this."
"That's okay. How much do you want to give me for these three?"
"It's easy to say, there is no need to weigh this. It only counts the money. One is 20 for you, and 3 are 60 yuan. How about that? Am I fair enough?"
Ye Yaodong pursed his lips, no matter how righteous he was, he still had to make a fortune from him.
Chapter completed!