"Yes, don't tell anyone about finding the beads and the cave. The only way to make a fortune is to keep silent." Grandma Chen glared at Chen Yongwei, "I will learn from your brother and sister-in-law in the future."
Chen Yongwei scratched his head and said, "I know, I just want to sell it at a good price. I forgot that I haven't gotten all the oysters back yet."
Li's father hurriedly tried to smooth things over, "You'll find out when you do more work later." He said and looked at Zhou Ruonan, "Nan, take the beads and put them away. Ah Le and Ah Wei quickly went to Tuxiaqiao to sell their catch. We continue to open oysters at home."
Li Changle nodded, and after thinking about it, he told Zhou Ruonan worriedly, "Nan, you have to pinch every piece of oyster meat carefully to make sure you don't miss any." "Got it!" Zhou Ruonan glared at him angrily. , took the beads and went into the house.
Grandma Chen smiled and said, "Ale, the oyster meat you pick from these oysters is really good. Whether it is dried oyster meat or sent to the town to sell oyster meat, it can be sold at a good price."
Li Changle's mind flashed and he looked at Father Li, "Why don't you let my mother-in-law sell it?" "Your mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law went to the sea and took several children with them.
Father Li then whispered, "Women are small-minded. It was you who took Ah Wei to the cave to pry open the beads from the oysters. I made a deal with your mother-in-law and not to tell your two sisters-in-law."
He never dreamed that the third child would have such good luck and a bright mind after he embarked on the right path. He would not only catch a lot of fish from the sea, but only two beads were found out of a hundred pounds of oysters.
If I had known about it earlier, I would have asked the boss and the second family to come out with money to form a partnership with him. But now that Ah Wei has partnered with him, it is not easy to ask the two elder brothers to join in the partnership.
If that happens, it will only cause them to have conflicts and estrangement. It is better to wait until later, if there is an opportunity to buy a big ship, and let a few brothers form a partnership.
"Hmm!" Li Changle thought for a moment, "It's good to catch octopus in plastic jars. If my sister-in-law wants to do it, I can buy it for them. Now that we can watch the tide more, we can get a dozen or so octopus in at a time, which is better than when they go fishing every day. powerful."
Li Changle understood what his father meant. It was hard to make money now. The oysters and Buddha's conch shells in the cave could be sold for a fortune. If the two sisters-in-law knew about this, they would definitely think that he would rather take Ah Wei to pick up money. Don't take your own brothers with you
They would not think that with his past behavior, if he proposed to cooperate with the two families, even if the two brothers were willing, they would not agree.
During these days of working with Ah Wei, what struck him the most was that this guy trusted him wholeheartedly and was not afraid at all that some fool would steal his money and lead him into the gutter.
Father Li looked at him happily, "Okay, I'll ask your sister-in-law when she comes back." "Brother, it'll be too late if you don't leave." Chen Yongwei said, picking up his backpack.
"Okay!" Li Changle lifted up the old cotton wool covering the bucket. The ice cubes had melted, revealing the large yellow croaker and three-tailed eagle pomfret inside. There was still a trace of cold air left on the fish's body.
He went out and said to Li's father: "Abba, don't let the children touch the ground cage in the bamboo basket. The gray-blue sea snake is still in the ground cage."
"It's better to kill him first, otherwise it will be troublesome if the children touch him." Father Li said and touched his legs that were still weak. He didn't know how long it would take for them to return to their previous appearance.
"Brother, I'm going to get the pliers.
"Okay!" Li Changle went over and took the fishing rope out of the bamboo basket. He took the pliers handed by Chen Yongwei and clamped the sea snake. The sea snake struggled violently, raised its small snake head, and pulled the snake's tail away. Curl and wrap around pliers.
"I think you are still fierce!" Chen Yongwei chopped off the snake's head with one knife, then took the pliers and clamped the snake's head, and ran quickly towards the latrine.
There was an incident in the village where snake heads were chopped off and bit people. From then on, whenever a snake was killed, everyone would throw the head into the latrine to prevent naughty children from getting into trouble. Li Changle put the snake body in the vegetable basket and said, "Abba, wait for me Come back and peel it."
"Give it to me," Father Li smiled and took the basket. "I can't handle it even if it's alive. Peeling it is not easy. "Okay, then I'm leaving." Li Changle picked up the bucket and basket and started to eat with Chen Yongwei. He left home and walked toward the village entrance.
After waiting on the side of the road for a while, a minibus packed with people drove over. From a distance, I saw that the roof of the bus was full of bamboo baskets. After the typhoon, there were more people than usual selling their catch.
The two people squeezed into the car. The aisle was filled with buckets and baskets. Many of them had come out early to sell goods. The smell of sweat and the fishy smell of seafood was not to mention refreshing. The two people were like two sardines squeezed in with the people driving the car. Together, we walked and stopped all the way. The journey of more than ten minutes ended up taking half an hour.
The two got out of the car and hurried towards the Phoenix Restaurant. When they arrived at the kitchen, they knocked on the door and saw a stocky man in a greasy apron. After asking about the situation, he called Akun.
"Uncle Kun, after the typhoon there are all good things." Li Changle opened the taro leaves covering the bucket, "These are what we got last night. The large yellow croaker and the eagle pomfret were frozen with ice cubes last night. Yes, it’s still fresh!”
"Yes, both are good things." A Kun knelt down and opened the gills of the fish and looked at it. "Good goods! The price of large yellow croaker has increased a bit now, but the price is still not as high as that of eagle and pomfret." He looked at Li Changle with a smile and said, " To be honest, I think yellow croaker tastes better and looks richer, but I don’t know why it just can’t be sold at a high price?”
"It should go up in the future. I heard that even during the fishing season, there are very few fishing boats that catch tons of yellow croaker." Li Changle's heart ached when he thought about the price of yellow croaker in the future.
"I heard from fishermen I know well that there are no fish during the fishing season, and it's all because of the "banging boats."" A Kun shook his head and sighed, "I remember one year, when the yellow croaker fishing boats returned from the fishing season, there was a pile of yellow croakers at the dock. Mountain.
The streets and alleys are full of hawkers selling pounded carp, and they only cost a few cents per catty. My mother-in-law buys dozens of catties at a time. She splits the big ones for drying, and eats them slowly in the small pickling tanks. Later I heard He said that there were still a lot of yellow croakers that could not be sold and had no time to split and dry them, and they were piled on the dock and they all stunk."
Li Changle nodded and said: "I also heard from my father that in our village there are still some yellow croakers that are too late to eat, which are cooked and fed to the pigs." Knocking on bangs - that is, knocking on bangs, the so-called "knocking on bang boats" means Saw the moso bamboo into tubes, tie them to the side of the boat and beat them.
Because there are two massive white stones in the skull of the large yellow croaker - fish brain stones, their function is to receive and detect sounds like radar. Because of these two stones, the yellow croaker is very sensitive to sound.
Large and small yellow croakers were once one of the four major fish species in the Zhoushan fishery in the East China Sea. In the old days, every night during the fishing season, the unique "coo-coo" sounds of the yellow croaker schools could be heard in all the harbors along the coasts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
The fishermen followed the sound and chased them. Dozens or hundreds of fishing boats banged on the bamboo sticks together. When the yellow croaker heard the sound wave transmission, just like Sun Dasheng heard Tang Sanzang reciting the tightening mantra, they writhed and fled in groups on the sea. They either fainted or died. Even the roe and grandsons of the fish were caught in one fell swoop.
"It's better to cook it and feed it to the pigs than to pile it up on the wharf and let it stink." After Akun saw the fish, he said, "yellow croaker is worth one pound per pound, eagle and pomfret are worth one pound and five, sole skin is worth three pounds per pound, sea bass, blue crab, orchid Crabs are all at the same price.”
"Okay." Li Changle smiled and said, "Uncle Kun, there are three tiger eels, dozens of purple sea urchins, and dozens of kilograms of Buddha's hand snails. They are all good goods."
"Let me see!" A Kun looked at him in surprise after seeing it, "Damn it! I haven't seen such a big Buddha's hand snail in many years. There are also sea urchins and tiger eels. You can also get such good things by searching for sea. , I’m afraid your kid is the reincarnation of Master Hai Long’s son!”
"Master Hai Long is just enjoying the meal!" Li Changle smiled and picked up some Buddha's hand snails from the basket on his back, and picked up a few sea urchins. He handed them over with a smile, "Take them back to Auntie to try." A Kun's eyes were full of smiles. He took it and said, "You two are too polite."
Li Changle smiled and said, "You are so polite!"
"Good boy!" Akun patted him and pointed at the largest purple sea urchin, "You can count one piece for this kind, and you can count the smaller one as a corner hand." He thought for a moment, "It's really hard to see such good products. Even if you weigh one pound per pound, the tiger eel counts as six cents."
After hearing this, Li Changle said gratefully: "Thank you, Uncle Kun, for taking care of me!"
"The goods you sent are worth this price." A Kun turned to the kitchen and shouted, and A Sheng walked out carrying household items and a scale.
When he saw the catches placed in the yard, he showed an envious look, "Ale, you are not fishing in the sea. I think you are just picking up money." "..." Li Changle said with a smile. , "The catch after the typhoon is more, but it's not every day that we have such good luck."
"Why don't you pick it up when it's so easy to pick it up?" Akun rolled his eyes at him, "You can't envy Ah Le because of his good luck. How much did the two companies that brought the catch this morning sell for in total? Didn’t you see it?”
Ah Sheng nodded politely, "You see, the two families only sold more than thirty dollars in total, which is the best harvest in the past half month."
"It's over now!" Akun patted him, "There's no point in being jealous, you have to be lucky. Learn from Chef Wang and master the craftsmanship. That's what you should do."
"Oh!" Ah Sheng went to the kitchen.
A Kun thought that Chen Ji had sent some purple sea urchins this morning, but they were not as big as those sent by A Le. Thinking that they were from the same village, A Kun asked, "A Le, did you sell purple sea urchins to Chen Ji?"
"He was stuck on the road last night when I came back from shopping in the sea..." Li Changle told what happened, "We are from the same village, and Awei and his family are still relatives, and we still have contact."
"The people who come to eat and stay at our place are all rich people. The more expensive things are, the better they sell. Good goods are hard to find, so ordinary goods have to be sold to other people." "That's what I think. It's okay. Give him some.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei together took out the net bag containing the Buddha's hand snails from the backpack and put it on the scale. After Akun weighed the scales, he calculated and reported:
"The Buddha's hand snail is fifty-three pounds, one pound is one pound, fifty-three dollars; the large yellow croaker is nine pounds and three ounces, nine dollars and three; the eagle and pomfret is eight pounds and two ounces, and it is twelve dollars and three; the tiger eel is eighteen pounds, and it is ten dollars and eight cents. .
Chapter completed!