Chapter 300: Heard there's also a beauty, right?

After he finished speaking, He Lao Ban's phone message notification rang, several in a row.

Ye Cheng gave a slight smile, "What? Many people are urging for the goods, right?"

He Lao Ban didn't even look at his phone, just shook his head, "No, the wife at home is bored and insists on chatting by message."

This guy, telling lies without blinking, Ye Cheng also didn't call him out.

But speaking of which, should I leave some for Boss Qian? After all, the crayfish are still being sold at his place.

"These are so big, 36 is too low, 40 per catty, I don't want more either, but I want to keep half a box for myself."

"Why keep half a box? You can't eat that much anyway, I'll take it all at 40." Today's crabs are hot items, many people are offering higher prices to buy, he doesn't want to earn less.

"Alright, I said I'll keep half a box, so I'll keep half a box. The rest at 40, do you want it or not?"

"Want! Want!"

Four boxes aren't bad either; he was calculating how to sell to maximize profit.

"By the way, I heard from my elder brother's coworkers that some ocean protection group came today?" While He Lao Ban was weighing, Ye Cheng casually asked.

"Oh, there is." He Lao Ban replied offhandedly, "They said it's a ship from some ocean institute, doing research, a bunch of bored intellectuals."

To us businesspeople, those research folks are just bookworms, what's interesting about them?

If they were doing scientific research, that would be fine; at least it could be turned into productivity.

These environmental protectors, in their view, are just wasting money.

Ye Cheng couldn't be bothered to argue with this traditional notion, but He Lao Ban and the elder brother's coworkers said differently—they said they rented a boat, He Lao Ban said it was his own boat.

He just continued asking, "How did these people end up coming here?"

"Oh, they said someone saw a dolphin, right outside your fishing ground, they came to ask for directions—what's there to research about dolphins, it's not like nobody's seen one before, right?"

"Probably just watching dolphins for fun." Ye Cheng went along with He Lao Ban's remark, then continued asking,

"I heard there's also a beauty, right? They say she's really pretty."

Hearing Ye Cheng ask that, Xiao Hu gave him a disdainful glance; just moments ago he was wondering what was up with Ye Cheng today, why he kept asking about this.

Now I get it, this guy is just here to ask about the beauty—I despise you!

"Yeah, there's a big beauty, she's indeed good-looking, just a bit cold and aloof, doesn't talk much; today everyone's bored, all squatting there to look—how about it? Regret not coming, huh? Hahaha."

Ye Cheng smiled without speaking; this basically confirms it's Yang Liu.

Tch, still talking about taking his own boat, damn it, he turned around and ditched himself to go look for her—so beauties are all heartless.

This batch of crabs weighed 340 catties, sold for yuan, Ye Cheng gave Xiao Hu 3600, and kept ten thousand for himself.

Calculating that way, savings already reached 160,000, and now it's on track to become a big spender.

The remaining half-box, after returning to the village, Ye Cheng called Boss Qian.

On the other end of the phone, as soon as Boss Qian heard there were swimming crabs, he almost jumped up,

"Holy shit! Lao Er, you're my lifesaver—these past two days nobody's gone out to sea, nothing's available, I haven't had crabs for two days myself, I'll come get them right away, you hold them for me."

"Don't worry, I've kept several dozen catties for you, enough for you to sell—should I deliver them to you?"

"No, I'm coming to pick them up now, no need for delivery!"

After hanging up, Ye Cheng also felt it—Boss Qian really is short on stock.

In just over half an hour, Boss Qian rushed over, looking at the half-box of swimming crabs, he happily rubbed his hands,

"Great, this batch is great. I'll give you 45 per catty."

"40 is fine, the crayfish still need you to look after them."

Ye Cheng also didn't ask for more; a price of 40 is already not bad.

Hearing Ye Cheng proactively lower the price, Boss Qian felt a bit embarrassed, "Enough, brother, alright, let's go with your price."

This half-box totals 52 catties, altogether 2080 yuan.

After paying, Ye Cheng casually asked about the crayfish sales volume, Boss Qian quickly gave a thumbs up,

"Lao Er, your stuff is too awesome, addictive—I feel uneasy if I don't come pick some up every few days, and my customers are similar; as they say, sometimes they don't want seafood, they just want to come eat some crayfish, and then also eat seafood at my place."

Hearing Boss Qian say that, Ye Cheng half-joking, half-serious said,

"Then Boss Qian, you should also raise our purchase price."

Boss Qian glanced at Ye Cheng, suddenly understood, he lowered his head to think—he and Ye Cheng have known each other a long time, this guy is honest, never cheated him.

He also has sentiment and righteousness; today he even knew to leave some seafood for himself, and didn't deliberately raise the price.

Moreover, the crayfish's fame is spreading widely; soon other restaurants will likely come looking for Ye Cheng.

If he keeps the price down, any sentiment and loyalty would be useless before profit.

Having figured it out, Boss Qian lifted his head with a smile, "Alright, then let's do 10 yuan per catty."

"Then thanks, Boss Qian."

"Saying that, I should also thank you—everyone wins, win-win, haha."

After seeing Boss Qian off, Ye Cheng checked tomorrow's weather—overcast turning to partly cloudy, not great, but from this afternoon's look, going out to sea should be fine.

The crayfish price has also returned to normal; this good news needs to be told to them.

Ye Cheng walked out, originally intending to go to Jiang Yunxiang's place, but unintentionally ended up at Zhang Guafu's.

Thinking of the bowl of noodles Zhang Guafu cooks, his index finger twitched—damn, why is this noodle so delicious? However, there's a lot of gossip around that widow, so going there isn't good either.

He hesitated at the doorway for a while, finally endured and went over, arriving at Chen Zhangfu's place, and briefly mentioned the price increase.

Upon hearing it, Chen Zhangfu instantly fell to the ground in five-point admiration for Ye Cheng,

"Brother, you're awesome—you said if sales were good you could raise the price, and it really is true."

"That's market law; if he doesn't raise the price, others will come to us instead." Ye Cheng was firm on this.

Actually, what Ye Cheng didn't know was that in Donghai Shi, someone is already inquiring where these crayfish come from.

Chief Liu had been busy all day; just as he sat down, the office phone rang again.

He glanced irritably; it was from the city bureau—damn it! These people just know to assign work to me, or else have me handle things, not at all considerate of me.

"Hey, I'm Chief Liu of the police substation, who is this?" Chief Liu answered the phone in a bad tone.

The other end of the phone fell silent for a moment, then a stern voice came through, "Liu Jin, you've gotten quite capable?"

Chief Liu's whole body trembled upon hearing that voice.

Fuck!

This is Deputy Bureau Chief Li of the city bureau; I'm several ranks below him—I'm screwed—I didn't even notice the caller ID just now.