Chen Yongwei took out the refrigerator containing jellyfish brains, jellyfish linings and jellyfish blood, as well as two buckets.
"Brother, it's all in the box and the bucket. Uncle put it in after weighing it."
Father Li smiled and nodded, "Ale, after the jellyfish brains and jellyfish lining are blanched and drained, they weigh one hundred and ninety-six kilograms and sixty-three kilograms respectively. The jellyfish blood weighs thirty-five kilograms. It is much lighter when dried.
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"There are so few of these things!" Li Changle picked up the account book, and Brother Li stretched his neck to look at it, "Ale, how many did you collect in total?"
Li Changle pointed to the figures compiled by Zhou Ruonan in the account book, "There are one hundred and fifteen triangles, and it cost thirty-four and a half yuan.
Two hundred and forty for two dimes, a total of forty-eight yuan, and three hundred and ninety for one dime, a total of one hundred and twenty-one and a half."
Sister-in-law Li took it over and said: "The average weight of the big ones is thirty-three pounds, the medium ones weigh twenty-four or five pounds, and the small ones weigh eleven or twelve pounds."
Brother Li: "Our family was the first to fish, and the big ones were the most. I estimate that the total number of large and small fish is at least a hundred, and it weighs two to three thousand kilograms."
Chen Yongwei clucked his tongue, "In total, it's 18,900 pounds. After being buried in the sand and dehydrated, it weighed only 12,685 pounds. The shrinkage is really huge!"
"Yeah, it made me feel bad when I was digging for jellyfish." Sister-in-law Li looked at Li Changle, "Ale, if you give these things to restaurants, can they really be sold for one or two yuan per catty?"
"I don't know. I'll have to send it to you to find out." Li Changle pointed to the account book, "Including the sixty-eight yuan spent on buying the water tank, the total expenditure now is one hundred and eighty-nine and a half yuan."
He estimated that with these jellyfish brains and jellyfish guts, he could earn back the cost of harvesting jellyfish and buying a large tank.
"I still have some here!" Brother Li said, taking out two pieces of paper from his pocket, "Uncle Zhou paid us five yuan a load for Haiyan.
We bought fifteen metric tons of salt and ten metric tons of alum, which cost a total of 195 yuan. The sea salt was not enough, and we had to pickle the jellyfish after they were marinated."
"Okay!" Li Changle recorded the account, "Not including labor, we have spent three hundred and eighty-four and a half yuan."
Brother Li nodded, "I'll give Brother and Sister Ah Shui two dollars later."
Li Changle took it and said: "A'Nan, sister-in-law, grandma, dad, and grandma Chen also have to calculate their wages. They help with the work, so they have to leave the work in hand and have to pay their wages.
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"How much does it cost to work for my family?" Mother Li looked at him worriedly, "Ale, the cost is nearly four to five hundred, and that doesn't include your mother-in-law's rent. Am I worried about making money?
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Sister-in-law Li kept saying, "I guess I won't lose money, but I'm worried that I won't be able to sell it and lose my money."
"Sister-in-law, you used to need a ticket to buy anything. Now you can buy whatever you want without worrying about not being able to sell."
"That's true. Some things can be negotiated. The jellyfish won't go bad after it's been pickled."
"Ale!" Brother Li looked at him with some worry, "I used to do it as a sideline business in the village, and even gave it to the cooperative to sell, but in the end I ended up losing money.
When we collect jellyfish, the cost of processing the seafood is higher than theirs, so I worry about being like them.
Ah Le, we have already taken it back if we don’t accept it this time. I say we won’t do it after selling it this time. From now on, we can just go to sea and fish in peace.”
"Yes, Ah Le, listen to your brother."
Father Li knew that the third son of his family had always been ambitious and wanted to make a lot of money since he was a child. Let him try it once. He would know that making money in business is not easy, and he would settle down and work to make money in the future.
Li Changle looked at his father and brother with a worried look on his face, "Abba, brother, let me ask you, were there many people in the village when we went to work in the past?"
Brother Li: "Why are there not many? Anyone who can work must work to earn work points, and we still have to go fishing."
"Then do you think the fields were planted faster at that time? How fast were the households planted? When fishing at sea, did the fish catch more at that time or now?"
"When farming, of course, it's faster to divide it into households. Now we can catch more fish than before, but now most of them use motorized boats. In the past, they were all driven by boats, so the productivity is different."
"Abba, eldest brother!" Brother Li couldn't help but interject, "Ale means that in the past, they had a lot of food, a lot of hard work, and a lot of stuff they put into their own pockets. There were few people who actually did anything, so they would lose money.
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Sister-in-law Li nodded and said, "As Nan said, jellyfish skins and jellyfish heads can be sold for a few cents per catty. You can sell jellyfish of more than a thousand catties at any price without losing money."
Grandma Chen: "The sideline team does something different from what we do at home. The village took care of my family, and I worked there for two years. When work was done, everyone had to take home some dried shrimps, dried fish, shredded squid, etc."
"Yeah, I'm taking it all. If I don't take it, I feel like I'm at a disadvantage. I'll take some of it back."
"When A Gen in the back alley was working, he was the best at working as a laborer. After digging with a hoe, he would smoke a cigarette and urinate. After he came back twice, he would start playing the laborer's trumpet."
"That's right, that guy was like this when he was planting rice. He sat on the rice horse with a cigarette in his mouth and didn't move for a long time."
"It's not just their family, many people in the village do this. Strong laborers are very hardworking, and the difference is nine or eight points, while women only get seven points for cutting grass. No matter how much effort they put in, they still get so much food in the end."
"That was before. If you look at the seedlings in the Agen family's one-acre field after they were divided into households, the two parents-in-law would finish planting them in one day and still work early."
Li Changle waited for them to finish, "Yes, you also know that when there was a collective, everyone was working as a foreigner. Now we work for ourselves, and the money we earn is ours."
"As long as we are united and work hard in one place, it is just a matter of making more or less. Losing money is absolutely impossible."
Brother Li glared at him, "Do you need to say this? You are willing to lead us to do our own business. If we brothers are still interested in our own business, are we still human?"
Brother Li also nodded repeatedly, "Even if you beat me to death, I won't be able to do anything wrong to my brother."
"Big brother and second brother are right!" Chen Yongwei said with a naive smile to Li Changle, "Brother, I will do whatever you say. I can't do it with my brains, but I can do it with my strength!"
Li Changle patted him on the shoulder and put his hands on the shoulders of his two brothers, "I don't know our brothers' tempers yet. If you were that kind of person, I wouldn't drag you together."
"We will use these jellyfish to test the water. If it works, we will have another way to make money, because we will all grow old one day and cannot drift on the sea for a lifetime."
After hearing this, everyone thought the same thing. The older boatmen in the village were suffering from rheumatic bone pain that was getting worse. The better ones could still make a living fishing in offshore boats while the more severe ones had problems even walking.
"Okay, we all listen to you." Brother Li said, "You have a flexible mind, and the second brother's brain can work faster than mine. From now on, I will leave the buying and selling to you, and Awei and I will work hard."
Brother Li smiled and said, "If Al Le didn't tell me, how could I possibly get these things? I'll have to give him some ideas in the future."
Father Li, Mother Li and Grandma Chen looked at the group of people with relief, "You will do things like today in the future. No matter what you have to say, put it on the table and discuss it before doing it, so that brothers and friends will not turn against each other."
"Don't worry, we know it." Li Changle said to several people, "When I come back from selling the jellyfish brains and you buy back the salt, we will put the money together according to the shares."
"Okay, let's do it like before, the three of us have two shares, and you have four shares."
"Okay! Jellyfish brains, jellyfish lining, and jellyfish blood. Among these three items, jellyfish blood is the most expensive. I plan to keep half of it and sell those two items first. I think with those items, we can earn part of our capital.
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Zhou Ruonan took over the conversation, "Ale, I think if it sells well, it should be more than enough. The dried jellyfish blood sells for more than ten yuan per catty! Dad said, after blanching and draining the jellyfish blood, there are still more than thirty catties left, which can be dried in the sun.
After drying, it should weigh about twenty kilograms."
"Yes!" After what she said, Sister-in-law Li looked at the contents in the bucket and couldn't help but grinned, "The jellyfish blood alone can be sold for more than two hundred, and the jellyfish brains and jellyfish linings can be sold for at least more than three hundred."
After the two of them calculated this, everyone suddenly realized that after selling these things, they had almost recovered their money, and even if it was not enough, it would not be much different.
"Yes, the rest is a profit." Li Changle said as he opened the refrigerator and saw that the boiled jellyfish blood looked a bit like boiled beef slices. He grabbed half of the jellyfish blood inside and put it in a bucket.
, and then cover it with old cotton wool.
He also grabbed some jellyfish brains and jellyfish linings and said, "After a tiring day, I made some jellyfish blood as a drink at night. This stuff also has the effect of replenishing blood."
Just as Mother Li was about to speak, Zhou Ruonan snatched her away and said, "We'll eat scrambled eggs and cabbage later, and jellyfish blood boiled in ginger juice."
Aniang will definitely say that Ah Le is willing to eat anything, and earning money is not just for food. Being diligent and frugal is a virtue, but you can't be too frugal.
Besides, A Ledu said that he would help protect his man's face.
Seeing her daughter-in-law speaking, Mother Li didn't know what to say, "It's getting late, A'an and Awei are going to bring home coarse salt, A'le is going to a restaurant to sell goods, and we're going to pickle the jellyfish."
Everyone moved separately. Li Changle took the water bottle, lifted the bucket onto the tricycle, and pedaled toward the Tuxia Bridge.
When we were approaching Panzhen, we were very tired, so we rested for a while and continued moving forward. After more than an hour, we finally arrived at the door of the back kitchen of Phoenix Restaurant.
Ah Sheng opened the door and saw him, and glared exaggeratedly, "Damn it, Brother Ah Le, you are working too hard, a strong typhoon is coming, you want money rather than your life?"
"Money matters as well as life!" Li Changle smiled and pushed the three wheels into the yard, "Is Uncle Kun here?"
"I just came back from delivering fresh goods." Ah Sheng glanced at the bucket on the tricycle and said with a smile, "I know the prices of ordinary things. Uncle Kun taught me."
Seeing his smug look, Li Changle smiled and handed him a cigarette, "It seems that Uncle Kun is planning to train you to be his deputy?"
"Uncle Kun saw that I couldn't cook well, so he took me to buy it several times." Ah Sheng pointed to the bucket, "It's cool, what does it contain?"
"Jellyfish brain, there are about ten kilograms of jellyfish blood inside the jellyfish."
"This thing is not common, I have to ask him to come and take a look!" Ah Sheng said and ran away.
Chapter completed!