Chapter 548: Lin Shu Also Has Ideas

Ye Mu looked at the baskets full of toadfish in the open space, feeling a bit conflicted, this meant hiring more people again.

"Dongzi, are you sure these fish can be sold after being dried into fish jerky? If it were just a few dozen or a hundred catties, we could set up a stall, but this quantity is too much, isn't it?"

"Are you sure you want to continue drying them? These 1000+ catties, if ten catties dry into two or three, that's three or four hundred catties, plus so many more to be dried tomorrow, the quantity is even more, how to sell seven or eight hundred catties? The quantity is too much, right?"

"If they can't be sold, what to do? They'll be stuck in our hands, and there's no place to pile them."

Lin Shu, who was lifting a basket onto the scale nearby, was surprised to hear this, "You guys are keeping these toadfish to dry yourselves? No wonder you said just pile them in the open space at the door, I thought you were afraid the collection point couldn't hold them and it was too crowded."

Ye Yaodong shrugged and spread his hands, saying helplessly, "It's only 3.5 cents a catty, Lin Shu, how can I sell this? It hurts my heart to sell them, they're cheap to the point of being ridiculous, these dozen baskets can only sell for forty or fifty, they're too worthless."

Acai chimed in to supplement, "The quantity is too large, no way, everyone is at this price."

"Hmm, that's why I thought of taking them to dry and selling them as dried goods myself."

Lin Shu also fell into deep thought after what he said, "Are you sure someone wants them? Are they easy to sell?"

"Not sure, don't know, I haven't sold them before, but if they're this cheap, I'd like to try, what if they sell well? If they don't sell well, it doesn't matter, I won't lose much, giving them to friends and relatives is also a favor."

Ye Yaodong felt rich and powerful, thinking that with his current self, he could afford to lose one or two hundred yuan.

"So I plan to take two or three days of goods to dry first, go out to sea to work for another day tomorrow, and rest for two days the day after tomorrow to dry the nets. If there are dried ones, I'm thinking of taking advantage of my free time to transport two or three hundred catties to the entrance of the wholesale market and set up a stall to see."

Acai chimed in again, "I think it's feasible, it just depends on whether your luck is good and if you can run into a reseller. If your luck is bad, I guess you can sell a little bit sporadically, there are many people coming and going in that market."

"Hmm, we'll see, anyway, keep these today and continue drying them."

Lin Shu couldn't help but say, "If you dry these and they sell well, remember to notify me, let your uncle share the light, earn more money, and have another way to make money."

"Sure, easy to say, I usually rely on Lin Shu's care, if these toadfish sell well after being dried, I'll definitely tell you the first time."

"Good, good, good, then uncle will wait for you to lead me to get rich."

"You're too kind, don't know what it'll be like yet..."

Ye Mu listened to their back-and-forth conversation and felt that they seemed quite optimistic, so she couldn't help but feel that it shouldn't be too bad.

Then hire another person tomorrow!

Lin Fu was also reluctant to sell after what he just said, and after hesitating for a long time, he still crossed out the toadfish that had already been weighed.

Acai's eyes widened, "You've already weighed them, and you're crossing them out?"

"Hehe, don't you also feel it's too cheap? Let's dry these goods today into fish jerky first, and eat them ourselves to taste, we haven't dried fish jerky this year, let's dry some ourselves first."

Acai rolled his eyes, could he not know what this old thing was planning?

Ouch, big loss!

If he had known, he wouldn't have told that kid Ye Yaodong that fish jerky sells well and how much money it can make.

Seeing that the quantity of goods he collects is about to decrease, and everyone is going to keep them to dry into fish jerky, won't he earn much less?

Although it's cheap and earns little, it's small profits but quick turnover, and with a large quantity, he can still earn money.

Damn, damaging oneself to benefit others.

Sigh, he is just too honest and treats people too sincerely, if he were a bit more black-hearted, he wouldn't have said that, he lost a lot all at once, and it might lose even more later.

If Ye Yaodong really manages to sell them at a price, this kid will drag his aunts and uncles to dry fish jerky together, or collect goods himself to sell.

Damn it! Big loss!

Ye Yaodong also understood Lin Shu's plan, he should be thinking of drying some in advance and keeping them there, just in case he can sell them for money, they can immediately follow up.

Ye Fu smiled and helped speak, "Take advantage of the cheapness and the good weather recently, it's good to dry a bit more, if you want to eat, you have it anytime, who knows if there will be good weather later? If there's no good weather, there won't even be vegetables to go with the meal."

"That's exactly what I'm saying."

Acai said unhappily, "Alright, crossed out is crossed out, if crossed out, then move your toadfish away."

"Hurry and drag Adong's goods over to weigh them, we've been waiting here all night, haven't even eaten, hurry and finish so we can go back to eat, it's so late, it'll be hard to arrange the carts later."

"Alright, right away."

Ye Yaosheng patted his shoulder, "I'll push that cart of toadfish home for you first, then come out and push again."

"Sure, go ahead, grab two for yourself to keep and cook, let my mother go back with you, let her push it out later, you go back to eat early too."

"No need, no need, you hired me to work, I must finish the work for you before I can leave."

"That's good."

Ye Yaodong felt that this cousin of his was really quite good, a good shoot from a bad bamboo, his second uncle was a person who wouldn't get up early without profit and was very cunning, but the Asheng he raised was a good shoot, just with bad luck.

Today these goods sold for 162.3 yuan exactly, he also took the opportunity to borrow Acai's scale and weighed those toadfish again, it was indeed a bit more than yesterday, after deducting the bamboo baskets, it was 1420 catties.

Ye Fu's old face wrinkled into a chrysanthemum with a smile, hearing Lin Shu's constant praise, he hurriedly explained.

"Didn't I say, a part of it inside is goods collected from longline fishing, Dongzi put out 1000 hooks, that's why it's so late today, otherwise we could have come back earlier."

"There won't be so much tomorrow, those hooks have all been collected, tomorrow I guess we can only sell for a few dozen or a hundred yuan, and we can't go the day after tomorrow, we have to collect the nets and clean them."

"Dongzi is becoming more and more capable, he has a future. He's bold, and wants to do more than others, and earns more."

Ye Fu hurriedly said modestly, "What future, what future, there are many in the village more capable than him, don't praise him, if you praise him he'll become arrogant, and if he doesn't work later, I'll blame you."

"Hahaha~"

The two groups moved their respective goods onto their own flatbed carts, and it took several trips to finish moving them.

Ye Yaodong transported two more trips than them, he not only caught more toadfish than them, but he also had ten baskets of longline hooks.

He waited at the wharf to watch the goods until the last trip was transported, and then he went home with them.

After returning, before stepping into the courtyard gate, he saw rows of bamboo mats leaning against the wall in the open space in front of his sisters-in-law's doors, covered with toadfish of all sizes, the whole entrance was full.

"Quite a lot, are they all dried?"

Ye Mu said, "Your courtyard is even fuller, no way, the quantity is too large, it really couldn't fit, so we piled them at the door of your two sisters-in-law's houses. Otherwise, it's not safe to pile them outside, I'm afraid some wild cats will jump out and steal the fish."

"That's easy to handle, set up a few bamboo poles in the courtyard, pull a few more lines, hang them higher, after the fish are killed, take a line and thread them through to hang them up to dry, this saves bamboo mats and we don't have to worry about them being dried too low and dragged away by wild cats."

"Hmm, we can do that tomorrow, hang them up to dry, there's no place to dry them now."

They talked while walking into the courtyard.

Lin Xiuqing hurriedly greeted them, "Are there so many toadfish again tonight?"

She was a bit afraid of killing them, although she had to kill a lot of fish every time they came back in the past, it wasn't as much as today.

Holding a kitchen knife for a day, she felt her hands shaking a bit, and this was while she was breastfeeding the child and cooking and resting from time to time.

Just washed her hands, she felt there was still a heavy fishy smell on her body, she must take a bath later.

She had to continue killing so many tomorrow, and heard there were even more today, she couldn't help but feel her scalp tingling.

"1400 catties, one or two hundred catties more than yesterday, if you can't handle it, hire another person early tomorrow morning, mother said just hire a neighbor."

Hearing about hiring another person, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief, she had carried Ye Xiaoxi on her back all day today to work, otherwise she couldn't have worked at all.

As the months passed, the child became more and more active, only seven months old and already able to crawl, it wouldn't work without someone watching her in the room.

When Ye Yaodong was speaking, he also saw the baby carrier wrapped around her body, and hurriedly took a big step forward to look at her back.

"Why carry her? Not putting her in the room in the middle of the night?"

At this time, there was no such thing as a special baby carrier, but a very large and long piece of wide blue coarse cloth.

Directly wrapping the whole child and placing her on the back, letting the child stick close to the adult's back, then the adult takes the coarse cloth strip and wraps it around the neck, then wraps it around the waist, and ties a knot.

"Just finished working, didn't rush to take her down, it's convenient to carry her while doing things."

"Put her down, she's already asleep."

Lin Xiuqing tilted her head to look behind her, and only then discovered she was asleep, smiling and saying, "It's better to sleep while being carried, she doesn't cry, doesn't make a fuss, and doesn't look for me."

"Hmm, just pile these fish in the courtyard, cover them with a rag, kill them tomorrow, some ice cubes were just sprinkled inside."

"Good." ===== CHAPTER 549 =====