"The goods are really worth 10,000 kilograms, just a lot more. Can the price be increased a little more? I have two boats there, and more than 10,000 kilograms of toad fish. The other goods and miscellaneous items add up to more than a thousand kilograms."
The man suddenly became serious.
"Is this the cargo hauled back by two big boats? Did you catch a school of fish? That's OK. We are a provincial capital here, with a large dock and a lot of freight. There are many fishing boats docking every day, and they all catch good fish.
When the warehouse is full, I will go ashore and sell it for supplies.”
The older man next to me also came over and said, "Take me to see it. If the quantity is OK and the goods are fresh, the price must be reasonable."
"Let's talk about the price first. If your price is right, I'll take you to have a look. Otherwise, I'd be sorry to bother you all."
When the time comes when you take people to see it and you don't sell it to them, and the money goes to others, it's time to make people feel resentful. I'd rather make people a little more annoying now, at least it doesn't seem so offending.
"Tell me, what kind of goods do you have the most?" After knowing that he had tens of thousands of kilograms of goods, the recipient became more patient and willing to take the time to say a few more words.
"The two boats have the most toad fish, which weighs about 17,000 to 8,000 kilograms, and maybe close to 20,000 kilograms. Without weighing, we can only roughly estimate one. The other small tubes also weigh four to five hundred kilograms, and the sword shrimps also weigh five to six hundred kilograms.
There are also some white pomfret, pomfret, and small yellow croaker, and by the way, there are 8 manta rays weighing two to three hundred kilograms!"
The two people's eyes widened instantly. The nearly 10,000 kilograms of golden-eyed sea bream only surprised them at his receipt, but the two to three hundred kilograms of manta rays really surprised them.
The young man Ye Yaodong asked at the beginning was so surprised that he shouted out, "There are eight stingrays weighing two to three hundred kilograms?"
Look at their expressions, they seem to be very surprised?
Although Ye Yaodong was surprised on his face, he still pretended to be calm, "Yes, these are the most important items. Usually, you can catch a few dozen kilograms from time to time, but not necessarily a few hundred kilograms. You won't be able to catch them without great luck.
It weighs several hundred kilograms and is just like a giant dragon. You have to be lucky to catch it."
"You have to be lucky, manta rays are a good thing..."
The older one nudged the younger one and winked.
Ye Yaodong suddenly felt suspicious, something was fishy.
He looked back and forth between the two of them, and then answered with a thoughtful smile, "Of course the devil is a good thing. Hundreds of kilograms of meat are not even thick and tender, let alone the swollen fish gills on his body.
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"You know about swollen fish gills!!!" the other party said in surprise.
Ye Yaodong knew in his heart that the expanded fish gills were very expensive now. No wonder the two of them were hiding it just now. He thought that the expanded fish gills had not been fried yet and no one knew about it. He thought that it would only become more expensive in the future.
People from the province are people from the province, and they know more than people from the countryside.
This will be easier to handle.
Wealth comes rolling in.
"Swelling fish gills are a good thing, how could you not know? I even hung one on my boat to dry it." Ye Yaodong looked at them with a smile.
The two of them immediately looked at each other, thinking that they could pick up the leak, but they didn't expect that someone knew the stuff.
"You killed a stingray?"
"I happened to encounter a school of manta rays fighting with a school of sharks, and I missed an injured wound. I knew that the expanded fish gills were a good thing and very expensive, so I picked them up to dry."
The two looked at each other again, but didn't say anything immediately.
Ye Yaodong was getting a little impatient with the waiting. The two of them were chattering until it was almost dark.
"Do you accept it or not? Let me tell you the price of various goods first. I will also compare it with other people. My father and uncle went to other people's houses to ask about the price. After you tell the price, we also need to discuss it. Let's see.
Let’s see who we sell it to.”
Turn passive into active, just don’t know how much it can be sold for...
He was really unsure. This thing was very rare, and he didn't know what it would be worth if it hadn't been circulated.
"We haven't seen it, and we don't know if the stingray is really as big as you said. We can only discuss the price after seeing it."
"Then you quote the receiving price of the other goods. Let's compare the prices of the other goods first and sell the other goods first. We'll talk about it later after the stingrays are brought ashore. Probably a lot of people will be interested."
The older man nodded heartily, "Okay, the price I offer is definitely the fairest..."
"Ah Cheng... come here and take a look... What are you two doing there? Come here and help..."
At this time, a voice of forty or fifty years old called out to them.
"I'm not free, I'm busy. Over there, you can keep it for yourself..." The man named Acheng turned around and shouted, then continued talking to Ye Yaodong.
This is a young man, the first person Ye Yaodong asked.
Another older man heard them calling him Ashu.
The two of them had manta rays dangling, so they requoted the price. The goldeye seabream was given 3.5 cents, regardless of size. The toad fish was 3 cents and 6 cents, the small tube was 3.3 cents, and the sword shrimp was 4 cents.
Wait, Tongtong gave me a good price.
Ye Yaodong was also very happy. The prices quoted were almost the same as those he had just inquired about outside, and some were even one cent or two cents higher.
Good fish are more popular, so they like to sell them in larger quantities. The larger the quantity, the more they can make even if they are resold. Cheap fish like toad fish are as plentiful as rice, and the price at a dock is
It's fixed and basically won't float.
The price depends on the quantity and quality of the goods, as well as the conscience of the person receiving the goods. People who speak local dialects will not be ripped off, but it is hard to tell if they speak foreign languages. Bullying can happen everywhere.
"We have such a large delivery point here, and the price is very reasonable. As you just said, you have asked around in advance, and you should have an idea. My price is the most reasonable. If there is no problem, we will
Go to the boat and see those fish you mentioned?"
"Okay, the price of these fish products has been decided. As for the manta ray, we will look at it first and then discuss the price. If it is suitable, we will weigh it together. If it is not suitable, we will discuss it later. Anyway, let's go and call someone for those products together.
Move down."
After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he took the two of them out.
The two of them also greeted the middle-aged men who were collecting goods in the open space, and then followed him out.
He went to find his father and Uncle Pei first, and met up with them first.
Father Ye and Father Pei asked about a few houses and then returned to the place where they were waiting. Unexpectedly, Ye Yaodong went out and asked for a price and brought the person over directly.
"Don't you want to compare? Why did you bring people here directly? We have to shop around..."
The two of them couldn't understand what Ye's father spoke in the local dialect of their county, but they could probably get a sense of the tone.
"No need to compare, the price we gave is the most reasonable. Hurry up and go to the boat together to have a look, otherwise it will be dark soon."
Ye Yaodong also quickly explained to his father and Pei's father, and they crowded towards the pier while talking.
As dusk approached, more fishing boats came ashore, and baskets of freshly caught seafood were carried ashore. People came and went, with several people walking back and forth to the shore.
"Oh, you're smart. You don't have to push your way to the front to ask the person who receives the goods for the price. You can directly ask the fishermen around you. It will come faster."
"Yeah, I asked around, and after I had an idea, I found their delivery point that seemed to have the most people and the most goods, and I just negotiated the price myself."
After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he still turned his head away and whispered to his father and Uncle Pei about the value of manta ray's gills. He also gave them some knowledge about the expanded gills, which almost shocked them.
"Really? Then this fish must be sold for more than a few dozen yuan!"
"Of course, keep your voice down and we'll sell it for a higher price later."
At this moment, there were noises and shouts everywhere. They were talking in a low voice, but the people following them couldn't hear them carefully, not to mention that they were speaking in local dialect.
Father Pei murmured: "I didn't know the gills of this fish were so valuable. I don't know if they are worth anything..."
"I don't know about the small ones. Anyway, aren't the small ones sold normally on the Internet? It's just that the big ones are more rare."
"Fortunately, this is the first time I have caught such a big one. I have never sold it at a low price. Fortunately, I have not contacted the harvesting ship. If the harvesting ship is given, it will be collected at the normal price of manta rays with a discount."
"How do you know, Dongzi? I see there is one hanging on your boat!"
"I know these gills are useful, but I didn't know they were so expensive."
"How expensive is it?"
"have no idea."
Father Ye was choked for a moment, and he dared to say for a long time that he didn't know how expensive it was or how much it could be sold for.
"I don't know, so you keep saying it's very expensive?"
"I don't know how to tempt you? Don't say it. You'll find out later. Anyway, if you sell more than expected, you will make money."
Father Pei also agreed, "Yes, it's easy to tell if you know the price is high. I'll need a few more people to help carry it later. If I carry it ashore, someone who knows the goods will definitely tell me."
"Such a big one, weighing several hundred kilograms, will definitely be watched by people. It's not as common as sharks."
"Stop talking about it now, take him to the boat first, take him to see the cargo, and get rid of all the miscellaneous cargo on the boat first, and then we can talk about the stingray."
Ye Yaodong was about to walk down the steps, and the noise around him became quieter, so he asked his father and the others not to discuss it yet, lest they heard it, and it would be bad if they knew that they didn't know what they were talking about.
I don’t know if Ah Shu and Ah Cheng are brothers. Anyway, they seem to be ten years apart in age. One looks to be around thirty and the other looks to be around forty. The two of them walked up to Ye Yaodong one after another.
on board.
The boatmen had already moved all the golden sea bream out of the fish warehouse and put them on the deck. On the shore, they saw the red cargo all over the deck. Seeing was believing, and they were already smiling.
The fishermen on the surrounding shore also saw that both of their boats were full of golden sea bream, and they had already been pointing and watching for a while.
Large ships like theirs don't dock every day. They only dock along the way and when the distance is not far. Otherwise, it is not cost-effective and will especially delay fishing.
But it’s not impossible. Of course, the most common ones are the trawlers and small wooden boats that go and return on the same day. These boats are the most common, so the goods collected every day are very miscellaneous. It’s rare to see something like this weighing tens of thousands of kilograms.
, not many weigh more than 1,000 kilograms.
After all, the fishing industry is not very developed now.
However, after the two of them looked around the deck, the dried fish hanging on the boat also attracted their attention. However, they did not see what Ye Yaodong said about hanging the fish to swell the gills, so they had to focus on the deck in front of them.
goods on board.
These are also good things. With such a large quantity, you can make a lot of money by reselling them.
Some people were wandering around, looking at the fish and playing with its gills to see if it was fresh or not.
"It's really ten thousand pounds, I'm not lying."
"The quantities of the two boats are pretty much the same. No problem. We will weigh each boat one by one. I will ask the boatman to carry it directly to the open space on your side."
"Just lift them up together and put them in the open space on both sides. We have enough people and we won't get confused. Now let's take a look at the manta rays. Is it really like what you said? Each one weighs two to three hundred pounds.
"
"They must be that big. Don't worry, I'll take you to the fish warehouse."
"You said you hung it up in the sun until the gills swelled? Where?"
"On the quarter deck."
Ye Yaodong first led them to see the expanded fish gills that he hung for drying. Among the series of fish products that were hung for drying, one of them had a shape that was different from the others and was particularly eye-catching: the expanded fish gills.
The two of them touched the hanging goods and muttered some local dialect. Ye Yaodong was confused. He only heard a few words and realized that he was talking about this product. Such a big gill is rare.
something...
He muttered along with them, and after they had finished reading and were convinced, he took them to the fish warehouse to see the goods.
Father Ye and Father Pei had already arranged for the boatmen to carry the goods, and at the same time left people to look at the goods in the open space.
After looking at the goods on the Dongsheng, the two people went to the Harvest to take a look. After inspecting the goods, the quantities were exactly as Ye Yaodong said, and they followed them ashore with smiles on their faces.
"You guys are lucky this time. How many days have you been fishing? It looks like this product is quite fresh. It shouldn't have been stored for two days, right?"
"We encountered a school of fish. Otherwise, how could it be possible that both boats had netted five to six thousand kilograms of cargo?"
"Is this the first trip to sea after the new year? It's a good start..."
"I'm telling you, the entire dock can handle so much of your goods, and not many people can take them all away. They probably won't even be able to arrange a car..."
"One of your boats is worth three to four thousand yuan, and two boats are worth six to seven thousand yuan. Seven or eight thousand yuan, and you have to settle it immediately. Others who receive the goods have to work together to collect the goods. Our family will not
It takes so much trouble..."
"Our prices are also the most reasonable, and we are also famous for our integrity..."
The two women were talking about selling melons and boasting about themselves.
Ye Yaodong listened to them taking turns to talk non-stop, and nodded along, but did not say anything. When they were almost finished talking, he asked a question.
"We have already negotiated the price of those goods, but you haven't said what price you should charge for those stingrays?"
Father Ye was supervising the boatmen loading the cargo, but Father Pei had been following them and listening after they landed.
He was also curious, how much was such a big manta ray worth? Since the gills were a good thing, they were probably worth more than they were worth.
"Normally, a manta ray weighing dozens of kilograms will cost 60 cents per kilogram when the price is good. Your size is over two hundred kilograms, so we charge it based on the quantity, not the weight. After all, you also know that it has bloated fish.
Gills are a good thing, only one for a fish."
"So how much does a stingray cost?"
A middle-aged man named Ashu stretched out his finger and made a "yeah" gesture, "One manta ray is worth two hundred yuan to you, four here are eight hundred yuan, and the other boat is also eight hundred yuan."
Father Pei's eyes widened in surprise, but he did not dare to say anything and quickly retracted his expression. Fortunately, he never made a sound and just followed and listened.
He is also a veteran, and he knows that Ye Yaodong is a good talker, so he might be able to use his sharp tongue to push him even higher.
I originally thought that I could just sell it directly to the harvesting boat, but I didn’t know that so many golden sea bream were caught later and I couldn’t bear to sell it at a low price, so I thought of trying it ashore, thinking that the extra money from the sale might be able to subsidize the delay.
Time, goods not arriving online, who knows what will happen.
The two hundred yuan was already an unexpected blessing for him.
"You know, if you sell it to a fresh-carrying ship at sea, it might only cost 30 cents a pound."
"You are just lucky. You caught so many golden sea bream at the same time, so you can come back directly to the shore. Otherwise, if you make a special trip with just those manta rays, the extra money from selling them will not be enough for you to make a round trip.
, the loss of time caused by the delay on the road.”
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, while also pulling out two cigarettes for each of them, "For these two to three hundred kilograms of fish, if the harvest boat charges thirty cents per kilogram, that would be seventy or eighty. If it is landed twice, it will be one hundred and fifty."
Mr. Liu has it, but that doesn’t include the value of the swollen fish gills. If you pay two hundred yuan each, then I can cut off the gills and sell the fish meat to you.”
"How can that work? This price is for a whole fish. If you just cut off the gills, what's going on?"
"The gills of this fish weigh three kilograms when cut off, and they weigh one kilogram when dried. It's probably no problem. Do you think fifty yuan is enough to buy a kilogram of expanded gills?"
Father Pei nodded in his heart.
In fact, Ye Yaodong didn't know if it was enough. He felt that fifty yuan a pound was enough.
Father Pei also thinks so. A fish gill sells for fifty yuan per catty. If I told him before, he wouldn't believe it. Even if he gave it to him, he wouldn't want it. What kind of top-quality ceiling fish gills can sell for fifty yuan per catty?
This can buy hundreds of kilograms of toad fish.
That Ah Shu glanced at Ah Cheng and then looked at Ye Yaodong, "Twenty yuan more, no more. This is because the fish of yours is really big and very rare. Very few fishing boats can catch it."
Such a big stingray."
"280...80 yuan more, is that the price you paid for the gills of the fish?"
Both of their eyes were so wide that they almost bulged out.
Father Pei also opened his mouth wide. Adong, he really dared to say that?
A fish gill was just said to be 50 yuan, and now it's 80 yuan more, so it's 130 yuan?
Is this inlaid with gold?
"Why don't you go and grab it? If you pay me back 280, you'll suddenly get an increase of 80 yuan..."
"It didn't go up by 80 yuan. Didn't you call it 220? Then I called 280, and it only went up by 60 yuan."
"Only! You're pretty good at talking, and yet it's only increased by sixty."
The young man named Ah Cheng bit down on the word 'only' and glared at him angrily.
"Then why don't you guys discuss it? We'll talk about the price of the stingray later, and let's weigh the goods we brought up first?"
"Then let's go through the scales first. I only mentioned the price to you because of the devil fish. This is already giving you an advantage. We are very sincere. You should be more sincere and don't ask for prices like this."
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"Let's weigh these goods first, and think about the price..." Ashu also said.
Ye Yaodong shrugged, it didn't matter, it was okay to sell these goods first and then talk about it.
Anyway, he just yelled casually because he was afraid of losing money.
Wait a minute, when such a big fish is brought up, people who know the fish will naturally rush to get it. By then, he will know the true value anyway and bid more. It is better than bidding lower, so as not to regret it.
I originally wanted to call it three hundred, but I thought two hundred and eight would sound nicer and be kinder.
He is an honest man.
They carried the golden-eyed seabream up one basket after another. At first it was nothing, but as the number increased, more and more people were watching, and they were all pointing and pointing.
"Are there so many of these fish?"
"I must have encountered a school of fish..."
"Everyone hit a little bit today, but it's not so exaggerated..."
"That's a big ship. Once you go out, you won't come back for a few days. How can a small ship like ours compare..."
"They encountered two large ships docking. They won't accept our bulk cargo. They just go and sell it to others..."
"I've already sold out the goods anyway. It's rare that two large ships docked at the pier today. I just wanted to see what kind of goods there are and see the excitement..."
"It's not dark yet. Let's watch for a while. I'm not in a hurry to go home for dinner..."
Several middle-aged and elderly men, probably from their own families, were there with happy faces directing the men in their open space, carrying baskets one by one to weigh them.
He and Uncle Pei's goods were weighed at the same time, divided into two sides. The two of them were staring at the scale and watching people counting.
Father Ye, on the other hand, waited for them to be weighed one by one, then collected the bamboo baskets from his home and had them carried to the boat.
The workers moved back and forth. When all the fish on the boat were moved and only a few oversized manta rays were left, they loudly called everyone to help.
Everyone tied up the fish with ropes first, and then used several sticks on the boat to lift it together. After all, it weighed several hundred kilograms, and it was not easy to lift it off the boat.
The crowd was attracted by the goods they kept bringing ashore, and gathered around the receiving point. They didn’t see much of the shore. After all, the sun had gone down, and most of the fishing boats that were supposed to come back had already returned. There was nothing to see on the shore.
, the open space here is now said to be the cargo of two large ships, and it looks quite lively.
After they lifted the manta ray out of the boat, no one noticed it, and then they exclaimed, attracting the crowd on the pier who had not yet left.
"Holy crap? What kind of fish is so big? Manta ray? It's manta ray, such a big manta ray..."
"Ah, there is such a big manta fish..."
"I thought those red snappers were lucky enough to catch so many, but I didn't expect to catch such a big manta ray..."
"It's so big and valuable, right?"
"Of course it's valuable. This fish weighs several kilograms and is worth two or three cents per kilogram, let alone such a big one."
"Then if it weighs several hundred kilograms, it shouldn't be sold for more than a hundred yuan? It's a huge profit. A fish is so expensive."
"Some fish are so expensive..."
After they brought a stingray up, they threw it in the open space. After taking off the rope, they continued to lift it on the boat.
Some fishermen nearby were watching, using their feet, palms, other baskets, poles and other objects to make gestures, trying to measure the size of the fish.
But they didn't expect that there was something that exceeded their expectations. After a while, another one of about the same size came and was thrown on top, and two of them were piled on top of each other.
"There are two!"
"There are actually two of them. It's a huge profit. No wonder these two ships docked directly. It turns out that they caught so many good things. It would be a pity to sell them to the sea harvesting ships..."
"Will there be more?"
"How is it possible? There are enough of these two..."
"Ah...there is..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the boatmen on Pei's father's side also brought one down. They shouted to the people nearby to step aside and leave some space.
"besides?!"
"Is this from another boat? Are the two boats fishing right next to each other? Why do they catch the same goods, almost the same?"
"Is there more?"
"It's true, look, look, there's something coming up from the shore again..."
"Really earned it."
"One piece costs more than a hundred yuan, but if there are a few more, it's not worth a thousand yuan?"
"Who told you that one fish costs more than a hundred? Do you know the goods? It can be sold for more than a hundred. The gills of this fish are called expanded gills. One or two dried ones sell for twenty or thirty! The gills are whole.
The most expensive part of a fish is the fish's gills. The whole body weighs hundreds of kilograms and is not as expensive as the gills."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man walked up to the boatman and asked, "Who is the boss of your boat? Did you agree to sell this fish to them?"
"I don't know, the ship's boss is over there looking at the scale..." The boatman casually pointed in the direction of Ye Yaodong.
The middle-aged man immediately walked towards Ye Yaodong.
"Little brother, how many devil fishes do you have?"
"The two boats make eight, are you interested?"
The middle-aged man slapped his thigh directly and said regretfully: "So many? Have you sold them?"
Ah Shu immediately said vigilantly: "We are negotiating the price. I will collect the goods in front of him. The fish is waiting for us to negotiate the price. Lao Hai, don't make trouble. You should understand the first-come, first-served rule."
"This thing hasn't been sold to you yet, and you don't have the final say, right?"
Ye Yaodong also looked at it with some embarrassment. His goods were still being weighed and the accounts were being settled there. He didn't even get the money, so he couldn't offend anyone.
"We are still negotiating the price. We haven't reached a conclusion yet. We plan to wait until the goods are weighed before we discuss it."
"How much do you plan to sell it for? How much will he pay?"
"It's none of your business. You go back to your stall. You're not welcome here." Ah Cheng glared at him angrily and immediately wanted to drive him away.
"It's rare to come across such a good product. Take a look at the excitement, take a look, and ask, is it still okay? Let me tell you, if this fish doesn't cost 280, it will be a loss..."
Ye Yaodong was happy, this person probably had a conflict with his colleagues.
Ah Cheng and Ashu, on the other hand, looked at each other with itching teeth and did not care about weighing the goods. They quickly asked the guys next to them to push him forward.
As he walked, he shouted, "Those are expanded fish gills, which cost one to two or thirty yuan..."
The faces of the people at the stall were all darkened.
I went out to catch the train at one o'clock in the afternoon and didn't arrive at the Shanghai Airport Hotel until nine o'clock in the evening. I kept typing on the train and started writing immediately when I got to the hotel. I didn't stop at all.
At the last minute, I was short of 200 words and copied a small part, and then replaced it immediately. It was so dangerous that I almost missed it by a few minutes.
I didn't stop for a moment today, I was in such a rush.
Chapter completed!