When Ye Yaodong pushed the trolley to Uncle Lin's house, sure enough, he hadn't come back yet, and Aunt Lin was cooking. The door of their house was also covered with all kinds of dried fish. Whether they were hung with ropes or on bamboo flats, they were all densely dried.
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He glanced at it and walked toward the house, "Auntie is cooking. It smells so good and her skills are so good. Isn't my uncle back yet?"
Aunt Lin turned around and looked at him with a smile, "No, I can't come back until dark every day. Why don't you sit down for a while? Have you eaten yet? Take a few bites here. The food will be ready soon."
"I've already eaten. Your fried dried dragon head fish, no wonder it's so fragrant, it's perfect for drinking."
"Sit down and have a couple of drinks later. There have been too many dried fish of all kinds recently, so I have to eat them in different ways every day. Otherwise, I don't know what to do. I won't be able to sell out all the food in such a large quantity."
"Uncle, do you still want to sell it?"
"Yes, there was a big storm a few days ago, so I was drying my fishing nets at home. When I finished, I saw that there were too many dried fishes at home. There were several sacks, so he took one bag to the town to sell. It was not easy to sell at all. He couldn't sell it in a day.
Not many were sold.”
"The area around our town is full of fishing villages and wharves. Who can live without dried fish? I've been drying it for so long that I regret it to death. I haven't dared to stay in it for the past two days. The ones hanging out by the door are all small ones.
No one wants the trash fish, so we have no choice but to dry it."
"It's been a while. Let's see if we can use a load to carry it to the county town to sell it. There are many people in the county town, so we should be able to sell more. There are piles everywhere at home. There is no place to put them. I don't even think about it.
You know, I actually kept so many fish that could be sold for money..."
"Although it can be sold more expensively when dried, how many kilograms can be sold is already lost. How long will it take to sell..."
Aunt Lin was mumbling to herself while cooking.
Ye Yaodong felt a little guilty as he listened to her words. At that time, Uncle Lin also watched him keep all the toad fish that weighed more than a thousand kilograms, so he wanted to imitate him and see if he could sell them for more money.
Was he really tricked in the end?
How would ordinary people think of taking it to the market to sell? Normal people would be unsure about a strange place, so if they want to sell, they would choose the nearest place.
And because he went back and forth many times, he became ambitious and had more ideas.
If you put this in a nearby town, you can only sell it in scattered pieces for a few kilograms. Where can you ship it as fast as him?
Ye Yaodong said with some embarrassment: "Well, if Auntie wants to sell the dried fish in the house, why not sell them all to me."
"Ah? What? What did you say?" Aunt Lin thought she was hallucinating.
"I said if you want to sell all the dried fish at home, then sell it to me."
She heard clearly now, and in surprise, she washed the pot halfway, threw away the old loofah, and quickly put her hands on her apron to wipe them.
"Are you serious?"
"Really, I came here just to ask you if you sell dried fish?"
"Oh, are you really serious? I thought you came here to see your uncle. What's the matter with you? I have several hundred kilograms of fish at home. I kept the fish for three or four days and it weighed five to six hundred kilograms when dried.
, the quantity is quite large, it piled up a whole wall. I only sold one bag in total in the past few days, and there are still so many. I dare not keep them these days, otherwise there will be more."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "Sell them all to me. Have you sorted them out? If they are all sorted out well, the toad fish will cost 3 cents per pound, the dried dragon head fish will cost 2 cents, and the other miscellaneous fish will cost 1 cent per pound. Look at it.
Do you want to sell it or not? The price will definitely be cheaper than if you set up a stall and sell it yourself. After all, I come to collect it and I have to make money myself. With such a large quantity, it is difficult for me to sell it and I have to take risks."
Aunt Lin's eyes lit up, "Sell, sell, sell. I'll sell it all to you. It will save us a lot of trouble. Besides, your Uncle Lin and I have already settled the account. No one wants those trash fish. How much can we sell them for?"
No matter how much we earn, we can earn a little bit if you charge 3 cents for the toad fish. Also, we put out the sticky nets and don’t have the leading fish. We only have a few here and there, but they are all fried today.”
"That's fine, you can make the decision. I thought I had to ask Uncle Lin."
"You don't have to ask him. I can make the decision. I can just sell them all. There is no room to pile them up. And we can make a profit at your price. I can sell them all to you. It's much better to get the money right away than to sell them slowly at a stall."
, and earn more than the fresh ones. We set up our own stall, and we have to sell it until the end of the Year of the Monkey before we can sell out."
What did Aunt Lin suddenly think of?
"Huh? A few days ago, the village said that you have made a lot of money drying fish. Is it true? I thought it was a rumor. After all, our family can't sell it. We only sold one bag in a few days.
It's a few dozen kilograms, and it's very hard to sell, although you can make a little profit."
Ye Yaodong was a bit dumbfounded. He hadn't even started selling it a few days ago, but he had already started spreading it around.
He has almost become a celebrity in the village now. Whenever there is any disturbance, his legend will come out.
"Don't listen to the rumors in the village. I haven't even started selling a few days ago. How many kilograms of dried fish can I dry in total? If I can make a lot of money with just that little bit of dried fish, won't your family also become rich?"
"That's true. I thought so at first, and just thought it was just a rumor. But now that you want to take away all the hundreds of kilograms from my house, don't you think more about it?"
"I just started setting up a stall to sell a little bit in the past two days. It's very hard and tossing! How much money can I make from 30 cents per pound? My aunt can even calculate it. Where can I make a fortune? I can only make money.
Some hard-earned money."
Aunt Lin nodded while listening. She still knew how much money she could earn.
"Indeed, the main reason is that the sales are slow and difficult to sell, otherwise the profits would be good."
"Let's go...I'll take you to the house, and we'll carry it out together and put it at the door to weigh you."
"The space at home is too small, and there is no place to store the things, so we can only pile them inside the house. Fortunately, several girls in the family have married off, and a room has been vacated, so there is still a place to put them."
"I'm even worried that if it rains and leaks, it will be over. If it rains, the house will leak like a sieve, and a lot of water will accumulate on the ground. It would be best to sell them all to you directly, so as not to worry.
…”
I feel like older women like to talk a lot, and Aunt Lin is the same, she talks a lot while walking.
Ye Yaodong could only listen passively and silently, so that he could follow her to carry all the bags of dried fish outside.
While it was not completely dark yet and there was still light and he could still see, he had to pour it out and pick through it.
Even though Uncle Lin and the others were selling the goods themselves, so there shouldn't be any fraud, he still had to come out and take a few glances and spot-check a few pounds to avoid making any mistakes.
Again, this is going to be sent to the army, so you have to be careful.
"You still have to pour it out and take a look? Okay, then go in and carry out the big bamboo bed at the end of the house, place it on the open space, just in time to pour the dried fish on it."
"good."
Neighbors nearby watched their big movement from their houses and came out curiously to see. Some even came out with their rice bowls to eat and watch the fun.
"What are you doing here? Are those bags of dried fish that were dried some time ago?"
"Oh, you are so old... Didn't you tell me to sell them in the town? Why are there so many of them?"
"If you can't sell it, you will definitely..."
"There's a lot left, hundreds of kilograms, what should I do?"
"Why are you moving out again? What are you doing again?"
"It would be great if we just sell it to the dock honestly. With such a large quantity, what will we do if it rains?"
"Give me, let me..."
Ye Yaodong and Aunt Lin moved the bamboo bed out and saw several people standing in the open space at the door, which was very obstructive. They quickly called everyone to give way and asked them to put the bamboo bed in the open space.
"What is this for?"
"Want to help?"
"No, no, no..."
Aunt Lin waved her hand, and she and Ye Yaodong poured a bag of dried fish onto the bamboo bed, and then watched him rummaging through it, touching this and looking through that.
"This bag is full of dried toad fish. We dried them and carefully selected them when packing them. The dryness is also very good."
Ye Yaodong nodded, and he just checked to see if there were any other miscellaneous fish mixed in. He also randomly checked and selected some to feel the dryness. In just a few minutes, he asked Aunt Lin to pack them.
The villagers who gathered around to watch the excitement also understood what they were doing.
"Hey, Adong is here to collect the dried fish?"
"Oh my god, there is a rumor in the village that you recently made a lot of money from dried fish, is this true?"
"It's incredible. What are you doing now? Lao Lin's family showed off so much and couldn't sell it. I thought it was a rumor in the village, but it turned out to be true!"
"How did you collect these dried fish? I also have some dried fish at home. I will bring them out for you..."
"I have one at home too~"
"I have it at home too~ I'll go get it..."
As the villagers talked, they ran home to get dried fish!
Ye Yaodong kept bending over and busy there, regardless of what the people around him were chattering about. It was human nature to join in the fun.
When he heard that everyone said they wanted to go home and bring dried fish out for him, he stood up straight in surprise. His mouth opened and closed, but before he could speak, everyone disappeared.
"Did everyone react so quickly?"
Aunt Lin smiled and said: "This can be sold for money, who wouldn't be active?"
"But I've had enough! I don't want any more! You're enough for me to sell, and I still have some left!"
He himself didn't expect that Uncle Lin's house would be exposed to so much light without any noise.
However, if you collect them all, you won’t be left with many kilograms, at most a hundred kilograms. It’s a joke.
I originally thought that Uncle Lin would collect it here, and then go to a few friends to check it out and gather it together. Now there is no need to go. Uncle Lin's four or five hundred kilograms is enough.
"That's enough? You don't want anyone else's?"
"Yes! The quantity you have here is enough for me to sell!"
Aunt Lin quickly shouted at the top of her lungs: "Don't take it anymore. Yaodong has collected enough here. He only has enough from mine. He said he doesn't want it for the time being."
"Ah? That's enough, no more?"
One after another, women and men were carrying baskets, carrying baskets, and holding sacks. They felt so joyful.
Ye Yaodong smiled awkwardly, "Auntie, the aunties are so anxious. You guys ran home to get them before I even said anything. Aunt Lin's has several hundred kilograms, which is enough for me to sell. If there are more next time,
If necessary, I will tell you again."
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Chapter completed!