Chapter 63: The price of rotten tofu sold as meat
"Let me take a look." Akun picked up a Wangchao and looked at it. Seeing the big one, he nodded with satisfaction, "Wangchao has four to five cents, three-cornered octopus, eight-cornered river eel, five-cornered sea bass, and green crab. The price that day was one dollar and six."
As he spoke, he calculated the price difference in his mind. A pound of crab was five cents less than what he got from the seafood store, a tide crab was one cent less, and a river eel was two cents less...
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Last time Ale came, not only did he pocket the price difference of more than ten yuan, but he also received praise from the small boss, saying that several friends had dinner yesterday and praised the restaurant's seafood as being more delicious than before.
Li Changle saw that the price was much higher than that of the seafood store. After thanking him gratefully, he happily classified the fish and poured them into the net bag brought by Ah Sheng and began to weigh them.
When Chen Yongwei saw it, he was waiting to be weighed and poked Li Changle, "Brother, how do you fix this cat shark?"
Li Changle thought for a moment, "You mentioned trying it outside the restaurant. If anyone asks, I will sell it no matter how much you pay."
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei walked away carrying the bucket.
Ah Sheng took the scale and started to weigh it. Ah Kun fiddled with the abacus, "Octopus is seventy-five pounds, twenty-two and a half yuan, river eel is eighteen pounds, fourteen and four dollars."
Sea bass costs eight pounds and sixty ounces, four and a half dollars, blue crabs weighs thirteen and a half pounds, and costs twenty-one and a half dollars, crab crab weighs three pounds and three ounces, and costs nine dollars and nine, and Wangtide costs nineteen and three dozen dollars, a total of ninety-two and five dollars. .”
Including the more than 20 yuan sold at home, today's income is indeed over 100 yuan.
Li Changle's heart was filled with joy. If he had this much income every day, he would be able to change his life in two months and have money to build a new house next year.
A Kun thought that the fisherman who brought the fish in the morning only sold it for more than ten yuan, and felt that this guy's luck was really good.
"Ale, there is such a good shipping. Keep up the good work, earn enough money to buy a big boat, and go fishing in big fishing grounds to make money."
Li Changle said gratefully: "Thank you, Uncle Kun, if I ever buy a big boat, I will definitely invite you to go fishing on it."
"Okay, then I'll wait." Akun smiled and took out the money from his pocket and counted it to him.
Li Changle also stuffed the five-dollar benefit into his hand, "Uncle Kun, Chenji Seafood Store is from the same village as me. Don't mention to him that we are here to sell our catch."
A Kun nodded, "Uncle, I understand. Work hard, the restaurant needs good products, and those people are not short of money."
He thought that he would earn more than ten yuan from this order, and wished that Li Changle would deliver good goods every time.
"My brother is still selling cat sharks outside, I'll leave first."
"Go!" Akun turned around and walked towards the kitchen.
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Outside the door of the restaurant, several young people dressed in western style gathered around the bucket and looked at cat sharks, "What kind of fish is this?"
"Cat shark!" Chen Yongwei said with a blushing face.
A young boy wearing gold-rimmed toad glasses knelt down and touched it, then looked up at Chen Yongwei and asked, "Can you support me?"
"I don't know if it can be maintained. It should be easier to use sea water."
"How to sell it?"
"You can give it as you like!" Chen Yongwei responded in broken Mandarin.
After hearing this, the young boy took out a few big coupons from his pocket, took out twenty yuan and handed them to him, "I bought them together with the bucket."
"Damn it, rotten tofu sells for the price of meat!"
Chen Yongwei didn't expect him to give him so much, so he flushed with excitement, nodded and shook his head, wanting to give him back ten yuan but reluctant to do so.
Then I thought again, he gave it to him, not snatched it from him, so why should he return it to him?
The younger student still thought it was not enough, "Why, not enough?"
"Enough, enough!" Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly while holding the money. When he saw Li Changle coming out, he rushed to greet him, "Brother, the cat shark has been sold."
When Li Changle saw the young disciples, he understood immediately. Seeing his face flushed with excitement, he winked at him and said calmly: "Okay, let's go to the hospital."
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei took the basket and whispered, "Brother, he gave me 20 yuan in banknotes and even bought the fish and bucket."
Li Changle looked back at the people walking into the restaurant carrying buckets, "Awesome, I thought you could sell it for three to five yuan at most? Are you shouting for so much?"
"I asked him to give whatever he wanted, and he gave me this much!" Chen Yongwei saw that the fish buyer was leaving, so he happily gave him the money, "I also said, what are you doing with a worthless cat shark? I thought it would become the most valuable thing."
"If you are capable, you will be rewarded with a chicken drumstick!" Li Changle felt that this was the benefit of being an honest person. If it were him, he would definitely not be able to sell it at such a good price.
"I'm not a child. Chicken legs are eaten by people as big as Xiaohai and Xiaozhou!"
Li Changle laughed and said, "How much does a bucket cost? You still have to buy a bucket back."
"Five yuan can buy a load of plastic buckets, and they are lighter than wooden ones." Chen Yongwei said and asked curiously, "Brother, how come they are so rich? They are so stupid, just like prodigal sons."
"From the looks of them, they are probably not from our side. They don't know that cat sharks are worthless."
"No wonder you can't!"
The two chatted while walking, and soon they arrived outside the hospital. Chen Yongwei pointed at the middle-aged man and woman walking in front of the hospital, "Brother, look, sister Axi and brother-in-law."
Li Changle looked in the direction he pointed and saw his sister with two big pigtails and his brother-in-law who was wearing an old, washed-white foreign cloth shirt.
"Brother-in-law, sister!"
My sister is delicate and pretty, but has a very fierce temper. Her brother-in-law has a good temper and has always been very kind to her. He has given birth to two nieces and a nephew. His children are also sensible and obedient. He helped him a lot in his previous life.
Li Changxi, who looked somewhat similar to him, turned around and stopped happily when he saw the two of them, "Ah Le, Ah Wei, it's you!"
"Ale, why are you carrying a basket on your back to paint the bridge?" Zhang Dejin didn't like this third brother-in-law who was just waiting to die, so he was polite for his wife's sake.
"Selling seafood." Li Changle took the cigarette from him, "You just found out today that your father is in the hospital?"
My brother-in-law is a mason, and there is plenty of land in Li'ao Village. As well as his skills, the family's life is pretty good.
He remembered that last year they built two two-story buildings and owed some foreign debts. Now they were saving as much as they could and hoped to pay off the debts in one day.
"I went to town yesterday to sell eggs, and I met my uncle and he told me." Li Changxi complained, "Ale, you are serious. My father is in hospital and you don't even know how to bring me a letter."
Zhang Dejin also complained after her, "Ale, it's not my brother-in-law who told you that you often go to town, but you just walk a few steps more, why don't you tell us?"
Seeing her husband criticizing her younger brother, Li Changxi was unhappy, "Ale has corrected himself now. He is busy scrounging for money every day. Didn't you listen to what my uncle said yesterday?"
"I heard it, I heard it." Zhang Dejin knew that his wife was protecting this unfulfilled brother, so he scratched his head and said nothing.
Chapter completed!