Chapter 543: Ye Yaodong wants to toss again

When the father and son drove the boat full of cargo to the shore, the pier was already empty.

However, there was still one person holding a flashlight.

"Oh my, you two are finally back. You almost worried us to death. It's so late and you haven't come back, everyone was scared to death."

"Damn, are all the collection points closed? Damn it..."

"Don't you look at what time it is? Who is still waiting here so late? I don't know what you are doing, why you came back so late, and why you didn't come back earlier. The whole family's heart was raised there..."

Ye's father said impatiently: "What are you nagging about? Who doesn't want to come back early if they can? The work is not finished, and the net is not collected, how can I come back?"

"Why did you collect so late? If you can't finish collecting, go collect it tomorrow."

"What do you know, hurry up and call A-Cai to collect the goods, we are waiting here."

"Fine, fine, I'll go right away." Ye's mother couldn't care about asking more or looking more. As soon as Ye's father urged, she ran away with a flashlight.

The cargo on the boat doesn't need to be organized again. They have already classified the fish when they collected them. Now, as long as A-Cai comes, he can weigh them and collect them.

Ye Yaodong saw that he had to wait here, so he said to his father: "Why don't you watch here, I'll go home and check first, and then ride a bicycle out later."

"Mm, then you go back to report safety first."

"I'll come out as soon as I go back." He also mentioned the small fish and shrimp that were to be left behind.

Looking at the small fishing village from the shore, the village was pitch black, with no light anywhere, only one household by the beach was still brightly lit.

He walked straight toward the light, but before he entered the yard, all the dogs in the house rushed out, jumping on his legs, causing him to be tripped directly.

The old lady stood at the door and saw it long ago. She took a few quick steps and said, "It's good to be back, it's good to be back, I'll go heat up the food for you."

Then she hurriedly went into the room and prepared to burn firewood.

After he went out, Ye Yaodong didn't rush to unload the goods and followed into the room, mentioning the bucket to the room. "Don't be busy, just eat two bites later. There is no time to eat now. Come back to drink water, and have to go to the pier immediately, the goods have not been sold."

Lin Xiuqing heard the movement in the room and came out, followed closely by two boys.

"Why are you two still not sleeping? Still staying in my room."

"Hehe~ Dad, you're back. Mom was worried about you, saying why you haven't come back so late?"

Lin Xiuqing explained: "I supervised the eldest to do homework. He played crazy all night when he came back, didn't write half a word of homework, the sky was dark, and he was still fighting with Yangyang in the room."

"Yeah, let the two sleep early, and you sleep early too. I still have to go to the pier to sell goods. Put the rice in the pot, I'll come back later, I'll do it myself. You all go to sleep, it's past nine o'clock."

"It's fine, people are old, sleep less. Let them go to sleep first, I'll just heat up the food and burn a pot of hot water for you to take a bath."

Ye Yaodong responded casually, and couldn't care about saying anything more to them. He had to go to the pier to help.

He pushed the bicycle in the room out. He could ride a bicycle, he would never walk. At worst, when he came back pushing the handcart, he would put the bicycle on the handcart and push it together.

As for whether the paint would be rubbed off, that was not within his consideration.

After he went out, the old lady kept looking at his back and nagging, "It's too hard, Dongzi is too hard, going out early and returning late every day, it's dark, others are sleeping, and he still has to go to the pier at night."

"Fortunately, it was six o'clock in the morning, not two or three o'clock." Lin Xiuqing also felt he was hard.

"Then he worked for a whole day, buy a pig's trotter tomorrow and stew it to nourish him. A small hen was killed a while ago, so don't kill the chicken. Just raise it. Otherwise, kill a duck in a few days, and then dry some radish and fry it."

Lin Xiuqing laughed: "Raise it for a while, it's still laying eggs. Wait until the beginning of winter to buy the pig's trotter. It's just right to nourish at the beginning of winter. There are still three days."

"Ah, yes, yes, yes, senile, forgot about the beginning of winter..."

Ye Yaodong rode a bicycle on the bumpy road with a headlight, his butt kept bouncing up and down, bouncing up and down.

Suddenly he regretted it a bit. Walking might be faster than riding a bicycle. If he had known, he wouldn't have been lazy.

Looking from a distance, the small shed outside the pier was already lit. By the time Ye Yaodong arrived, Ye's father and Ye's mother were lifting fish off the boat basket by basket.

After he set up the bicycle's foot brake, he also hurriedly went over, and shouted at A-Cai to help lift.

When he came out earlier, he originally wanted to call his eldest brother and second brother to help, but seeing that the lights in their room were already off, it was quite late.

They all went to drag nets at two or three o'clock in the night. They must have gone to sleep at this time. Ye Yaodong just hesitated for a moment, and then rode over directly without calling them.

They were also tired for a whole day, and they had to go tonight, so let them rest.

A-Cai greeted him and had to go up to help. "You came back too late, didn't you? I was already asleep and was dug out. I thought you were like others, planning to drift at sea for two or three

Ye Yaodong's heart stirred, "Who drifts at sea for two or three days? With a boat like ours?"

"Yeah, some people from the neighboring Dongqiao Village have had two boats go out for two or three days at a time recently. They bought a lot of ice to keep on the boat, planning to take advantage of the low temperatures during this period to stay out for an extra day or two per trip, which allows them to catch a lot more."

"Oh, that's too tiring, and you can't rest well either."

"As long as you can make money, how many times can you go out to sea in the middle of winter? You have to cherish it."

"You should help me unload these from the boat first; there's over 1,000 jin here. By the way, what's the current price for toadfish?"

"Three cents and five li per jin!"

"Damn!"

Damn it, he worked his fingers to the bone to catch over 1,200 jin, and it can only sell for a little over 40 yuan?

Acai chuckled, "You know, once winter hits, this fish becomes rampant. Most of the current catch is being bought up to be made into dried fish."

"What the hell is the point of this?"

"This fish is dirt cheap to begin with. Don't you have several other baskets of fish? I'll count the sole at eight cents, the turbot has also dropped in price recently to only twenty cents, stingray is twenty-eight cents, golden pomfret is thirty-three cents, white pomfret is forty-five cents, and there are others. I'll check what else is there in a moment. Just what I can see from you is quite a lot; even without the toadfish, these are worth over a hundred yuan."

Ye Yaodong listened to him list the prices and silently did the math in his head. Although the toadfish wasn't worth much, adding these other goods should bring in nearly 150 yuan, and he hadn't even taken out the three otters yet.

Thinking of this, he felt a bit more satisfied and stopped complaining.

"Working from dawn until midnight just to earn this much, and that toadfish..."

"'Just'?" Acai said with annoyance, "You're earning over 100 yuan a day, and you're still saying 'just'? If others heard you say that, they'd spit on you. People work all day, exhausted, and only earn a fraction of what you do."

"Don't interrupt me. If I dry the toadfish myself, will it sell well?"

"It'll sell well. There are so many people doing business outside now; everything sells. Those scalpers are also going all out. There are so many people collecting dried goods from our seaside to sell elsewhere. It was so hard in the past few years, but city people have money and nowhere to spend it, so everything sells very well."

Ye Yaodong started pondering. He wasn't very clear about the current market, only knowing that the environment of the Great Era was getting better and better. If dried fish sold well, he might as well hire someone to dry it himself and sell it, rather than selling the fresh catch for a pittance and having it pass through so many hands.

The shop in the market would be handed over by the end of the year. When the time came, he could just dry them and sell them in bulk at the shop!

The market had just been completed, and the surrounding shops definitely wouldn't all open at once. It would take a long time to become prosperous and bustling. If he rented them out, the first few years would definitely be tough.

If he could utilize it himself, it would definitely be better than letting it sit idle. After all, with such high foot traffic around, there would always be people interested in dried goods.

Moreover, once those things are dried, they can be stored for a long time, so he wouldn't have to worry about them piling up.

Ye Yaodong's thoughts raced in an instant. Once he had the idea, he started asking, "If this dried toadfish is dried, how much can it sell for?"

"What's wrong? Are you really planning to hire someone to dry it and sell it yourself? That's a lot of work; it's not as easy as having it collected directly like this."

"Selling it for three cents is a load of crap. I worked my ass off all day, and 1,200 jin is only worth 40-something yuan."

"It's only cheap because there's so much of it. Don't you have other fish? The other fish are more valuable. If you add it all up, it's not a small amount; it's a lot, the best in the whole village, much more than anyone else."

"Just tell me how much it can sell for when dried?"

Acai chuckled twice and looked at him leisurely for a moment.

He felt that this kid's business was getting bigger and bigger, and he was becoming more promising and thoughtful; every time, his brain moved faster than others.

"Dried fish is also categorized. For this kind of toadfish, fresh it's only three cents, and dried it won't be much more expensive, maybe 40-something cents. If you wholesale a large quantity at once, the price will be pressed down even further. You decide for yourself. If you plan to keep it, I won't weigh it; you can just haul it back later."

Ye Fu and Ye Mu were moving things back and forth. Originally, they were just listening to their normal casual chat, but when they passed by and heard his words, they hurriedly stopped and asked, "What's staying behind? Why aren't you weighing it?"

"Yeah, there's so much of it, why keep it? Where will you put it? Why not sell it? You've been at it from morning until midnight, it's been so hard, seeing the money is the most important thing..."