Chapter 149 Selling Fish
Over there, Brother Li has docked the boat at Tuxiaqiao Pier, and the fish in the live cabin have been put into rubber buckets.
When Brother Li saw Li Changle picking out several pieces of tuna, saying that he was saving them to take home to eat, the corner of his mouth twitched with distress, thinking that he could just save three or four cents a pound of Qingzhan and Huang Zhan to go home and eat.
Li Changle thought about how he couldn't bear to eat it when it was expensive in his previous life. In this life, it only cost a few cents per catty. If he still couldn't bear to eat it, how difficult would it be to wait until it grows to dozens or hundreds of catties before eating it?
Ignoring his repeated attacks, he happily put the fish into the bucket. Although the blood had been drained, they were still dead and not as clean as the live fish. He didn't want to send them to be sold to restaurants, so he put them in buckets.
Own brand.
Of the pomfret, sole skin, water and other miscellaneous fish that Huzi picked up, there were about twenty kilograms dead.
The Qingzhan and Huangzhan caught by longline fishing weighed about 30 to 40 kilograms, and it only cost a few cents to sell them all. He was too lazy to send them to be sold, so he kept them in the live cabin and killed them at home to dry and make fish heads.
Li Changle also picked a black snapper and a yellow-fin fish weighing four to five kilograms to give to A Kun, and also picked a red snapper and yellow-fin fish weighing four to five kilograms to give to Boss Gu.
Brother Li and the three of them agreed with this point. They also knew that their catches had to be taken care of by the Gu family. They were the big boss, so they had to get some good things before they could give them away.
After putting the fish into the rubber bucket, Li Changle went ashore and hired a cart driver to haul the fish to the Phoenix Restaurant. From the dock to the restaurant, it would take more than ten minutes to walk empty-handed. It would take at least half a dozen pounds to carry a catch weighing hundreds of kilograms.
Hour.
Just him and Li's second brother Chen Yongwei couldn't send hundreds of kilograms of catch.
The man pulling the trolley helped several people carry the fish to the trolley. Brother Li learned that it cost 50 cents to bring a trolley of fish to Phoenix Restaurant. He was thinking of selling more than ten kilograms of green zhan, so he planned to bring the three-wheeler with him next time.
, save money on hiring a truck.
After carrying the catch onto the cart and putting it away, Brother Li jumped back on the boat. There were still catches in the cabin, as well as fishing gear and long lines. Although the control has been strict in the past two years, there are still a lot of petty thefts.
Nowadays, they don't dare to steal big items like engines, but if they see catches and fishing gear, they won't show mercy.
Li Changle and others helped the man pulling the cart push the cart, and they walked very quickly. The journey of more than ten minutes took only a few minutes to arrive.
As soon as the trolley stopped, Akun walked out of the revolving door and said to Li Changle with a smile: "I saw inside that the curly hair on the trolley looked a bit like you. It turns out to be you."
Li Changle brushed back his fluffy curly hair that was messed up by the wind, took out a cigarette and handed it over, "Uncle Kun, my curly hair came from my mother's womb. I'm not following the fashion!"
"Haha, it's good to bring your own, it will save you a lot of money on curling hair!" Akun smiled and took the cigarette, "How was the catch on today's maiden voyage?"
"It's not bad, it's a good start!" Li Changle was not modest, pointing proudly to the rubber bucket on the trolley, "These are today's catches."
Akun walked to the trolley and took a look. The fish in the rubber bucket was still alive. Several bamboo baskets were filled with tuna. His eyes suddenly widened and he said, "Fuck, there are so many tuna, you guys!"
Did you encounter a school of fish?"
"After long-line fishing, we planned to go fishing on a deserted island. We saw a few killer whales fishing. The scene was so shocking. I was so excited that I said hello to them..."
Li Changle was a little excited when he thought about the situation at that time. He danced and gestured, "Maybe it was a coincidence. It swept it with its big tail and the fish in the sea fell to the shore like rain."
"We were all stunned at the time and thought our eyes were dazzled!" Brother Li also said with a smile.
The honest man Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly to prove that his brother was not bragging.
Akun, several restaurant employees, and the man pulling the trolley were all stunned for a moment. Looking at the looks of these people, it didn't look like they were bragging. They just thought it was too strange. Sea beasts can understand human speech?
After a while, Akun laughed and patted Li Changle on the shoulder, "What a boy, it's amazing, even the killer whale is willing to get close to you."
"That's right, this young boy must have great luck."
"It's just a coincidence, it's just a coincidence!"
"Such a coincidence has never happened to anyone." A Kun thought about telling his boss about this strange thing.
Several people walked to the door of the back kitchen and unloaded the rubber bucket. Li Changle smiled and handed the money for the cart to the master who pulled the cart. They then carried the fish into the yard of the back kitchen.
When Ah Kun saw the red ampoule and red snapper in the rubber bucket, his eyes lit up, and he quickly waved to Ah Sheng inside, "Hurry up and move the scale out to weigh it, put the fish in and put the one with oxygen in it."
They are kept in the fish pond.”
Then he said to Li Chang Le, "A Le, the seafood you used to send was always one of this kind and one of that kind. I need to tell you that the price of big fish is different from that of small fish, and the price of dead fish is different from that of live fish.
The prices are different.”
"Uncle Kun, don't you and I still believe it?"
"As the old saying goes, speak first and leave it alone. I also speak first."
"Uncle Kun is a real person." Brother Li smiled as he fished the fish into a bamboo basket and weighed it.
"They are all real people, so we can get together."
"One red sweettail weighs fifteen pounds and six taels, six yuan and five pounds." A Kun reported the number to Li Changle and the others while keeping accounts.
Brother Li and Ah Wei were so happy that they both smiled crookedly. The corners of Li Changle's lips twitched. He thought of the wild red sweettail in his previous life. A live fish weighing only a few kilograms weighed hundreds of kilograms. Compared with that, it cost six yuan.
Five means drizzle.
Three red snappers, the largest one weighs 12 pounds 6 taels, the other two weigh 4 pounds 7 and 3 pounds 8 respectively. The big one weighs 3 yuan a pound and the smaller one weighs 1.5 pounds.
The anchovy exceeded the expectations of the three of them. The price was nine yuan a pound, and the five-pound fish sold for more than forty dollars. One fish was sold for the same price as several other fish.
There were five large yellow-fin fish, totaling 18 kilograms and 6 taels, 2 yuan and 81 kilograms, and six small ones, totaling 11 kilograms, and 1 yuan and 51 kilograms.
Fifteen black sea bream, a total of fifty-six pounds, eight cents a pound, yellowtail fish, cuttlefish, blue-spotted mackerel and moray eel, the bass totaled one hundred and fifteen pounds, all at sixty cents a pound.
Brother Li and Ah Wei helped carry the fish into the kitchen. Ah Kun turned around and saw the fish in the bucket, "There are a few more here."
Li Changle smiled and said: "Uncle, these four fish are reserved for you and Boss Gu to add another dish to you."
"Okay, I won't be polite to you. I'll keep it in the house and bring it to the boss when I get back from get off work." Uncle Kun paused for a moment and then said, "Our two families live next to each other and we have played in the mud together since we were young. Grow up."
Li Changle smiled and flattered, "It turns out that Uncle Kun and Boss Gu are childhood friends. No wonder Boss Gu trusts you so much."
Ah Kun said with some pride: "The one who wore glasses last time was the boss's nephew. He has been competing with me to grab the position of general purchaser, but the boss didn't even look at him."
"Uncle Kun has good character, reliable work and is trustworthy." After Li Changle had been in contact with him for a while, he also understood that A Kun was a little greedy, but he never cheated on the things he bought back to the restaurant.
"I like to hear this." A Kun sighed, "To be honest, without the support of my boss, I, A Kun, am either pulling rickshaws or pulling carts on the streets. We must do things worthy of our own conscience."
Li Changle felt that he was right. The current conditions are not very good, but there is still at least trust between people. Going forward, life will get better, but many people have lost their conscience for money.
"Ale, are those tuna fish uncles?" Brother Li came out with a bucket and asked.
"Then it depends on whether you fish have been bled?" A Kun said and walked towards the bamboo basket.
"Don't worry, they were all bled." Li Changle stepped forward and opened the gills of the fish, "Look, they were all bled to ensure freshness."
Akun looked at the edge of the knife and nodded with satisfaction, "We don't want the ones that haven't been bled. Some offshore fishermen don't know this."
"My brother and the others are all traveling overseas. They know that the big restaurant sells sashimi, and they bleed all the people alive."
Li Changle took away a few small fish weighing four to five kilograms on the surface, "Look, there is also a bluefin tuna weighing forty or fifty kilograms."
"Oh~ this one is pretty good, it's such a big one..." A Kun thought for a moment, "I'll give you one yuan per catty, and the rest will be charged at six cents per catty."
With such a big fish, a few kilograms of fish fillets can make back the investment. Those nouveau riche like to follow the example of those in Hong Kong and Taiwan. If you ask him, what's the point of eating raw fish? Why don't you worry about diarrhea?
"Thank you, Uncle Kun, for taking care of me." Li Changle said gratefully.
Brother Li and Chen Yongwei heard that the big fish could be sold for one piece per catty, so they excitedly went over to help weigh it.
The big fish was just forty-five pounds, and the total in the bamboo basket was one hundred and seventy-six pounds. The tiger's tail gave them one hundred and fifty.
Including the RMB 330 from the sale of live fish, the first voyage made a profit of RMB 480, a good sum for good fortune.
After paying the bill, it was getting dark. Thinking that their families were still waiting for them to go back, the three of them hurried to the dock with rubber buckets and water buckets, jumped on the boat, and Brother Li started the fishing boat and hurried back.
From a distance, Zhou Ruonan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as Grandma Chen and her children were seen standing on the pier, stretching their necks and looking towards the sea.
When the sun went down, Zhou Ruonan and Li Xiaoyang pedaled their tricycles to the pier to wait for them to return. They saw the fishing boats returning one after another, but they were nowhere to be seen.
After asking familiar people, they all said that they had not seen them. Seeing that the sky was getting dark and they had not come back, Zhou Ruonan's heart was hanging. After a while, Li's mother-in-law, mother-in-law, and Grandma Chen also came.
Everyone is waiting impatiently, worried that something bad will happen to them or they will be hit by a big ship...
With sharp eyes, Li Xiaoyang saw a light coming from a distance. After staring for a while, he saw Li Changle and Ah Wei standing on the deck.
Pointing at them happily, "Mom, look over there, my father and third uncle are back."
"Where?"
Zhou Ruonan and others turned to look in the direction he was pointing. When they saw the two people standing at the bow of the boat, their hearts suddenly settled.
Mother Li looked at the direction of their return voyage and said, "It looks like they sent the fish to Tuxia Bridge and sold it before returning."
Chapter completed!