Chapter 550: Selling Fish Jerky

Once the wind started, they couldn't go out to sea for seven or eight consecutive days, which made those who relied on the sea for a living particularly uncomfortable. The villagers had no choice, in order to make a living, they had to take advantage of their free time to carry sandbags at the wharf, the wharf was never afraid of having no work.

And the women in the village also took advantage of this windy but sunny period to dry fish jerky one after another.

Every autumn and winter, it is the best season for coastal fishing villages to dry fish jerky, which has become a living habit of their seaside fishermen, without the disturbance of mosquitoes and flies, the howling northwest wind only needs less than 3 days to dry them to seven percent.

Walking randomly in the village, you can see bamboo mats and fishing nets drying every few steps, as well as fish jerky strung up one by one with ropes, which is also a unique landscape of seaside fishing villages.

The sky was beautiful these few days, it didn't rain, and under the weak sun, plus the blowing northwest wind, the fish jerky dried particularly fast.

Ye Yaodong's nearly 4000 catties of toadfish and miscellaneous fish, after drying for four or five days, all became hard and elastic, emitting a faint salty smell and the breath of the sea breeze.

He packed them all into sacks, classified and piled them neatly bag by bag.

After collecting them all this morning, he specifically went to borrow a large scale, preparing to weigh the sacks of dried fish.

Using a wooden stick to pass through the rope opening left on the wooden rod scale, then he and his father lifted one side each, lifting the sack of fish jerky, and Aqing adjusted the scale weight on the side to weigh.

After the bags of fish jerky were weighed one by one, Lin Xiuqing added up the weights of the dozen bags.

She held a pen and paper and wrote and drew there, Ye Yaodong also leaned over and stretched his head to look, "Doesn't seem to be better looking than the characters I write?"

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him, "Do you think the numbers you write are better looking and more upright than the numbers I write? Calculated, a total of 1056 catties and 6 taels."

"That's not a small amount, this fresh one counts to less than 130 yuan, if it can be sold for four cents, it can also sell for 400+, after deducting salt and labor costs, it can still earn 2/3..."

Ye Yaodong counted with his fingers, roughly estimated, and his eyes lit up immediately.

"There's something to do!"

"Thinking too well, right? Where can all of this be sold at once? 1000 catties, how long will it take to sell?" Lin Xiuqing was not so optimistic, she felt that if she could sell 1/3 and get the capital back, it would already be very good.

"Think better, try it!"

"You fiddled it out, you look at it yourself!"

Ye Fu also looked at him and said, "When do you plan to send it to the market to sell? Are you waiting until after New Year's Day, when the new wholesale market is completed and the shop is in hand, to put it in the shop?"

"No, that's too late, it's only the 10th today, there are still 50 days until New Year's Day, if these aren't sold, how can I continue drying? There's no place to pile them, and if they aren't sold, I have no bottom in my heart, don't know if I should continue drying. By that time, these 50 days in the middle will be wasted, and winter will be half over."

"Then are you preparing to send it tonight?"

"That's what I'm thinking, go to catch the morning market at night, take advantage of the many people coming and going in the morning market, see if I can be lucky enough to run into a reseller, best if I can clear it all at once."

In the previous life, I always heard that this era is the best golden era, anything can earn money, anything can be sold, anything is wanted by someone, this time I can experience it myself and see if fish jerky is easy to sell.

The old lady hurriedly raised her head and chimed in, "Then let your father go with you, he has nothing to do anyway, it's a companion for two people to go together, and if there's anything you can't decide, you can discuss it."

Ye Fu looked at his old mother who had already made the decision for him, shook his head helplessly, "Hmm, then I'll go with you at night, and by the way, see where the shop you bought is, you three brothers spent so much money, and I haven't even taken a look."

"Whatever."

"Then you shouldn't take it all, right?" Lin Xiuqing was a bit undecided, didn't know what he was planning.

"Then I definitely won't take it all, if I take it and it can't be sold, I'll have to pull it all back, if it rains, won't it be finished? It'll all be damp. Take two or three hundred catties to sell and see first, if it sells well, take it all next time."

"Hmm, then lift it into the room, and move it onto the cart when we set off at night."

"Sure."

The room, which was not big, couldn't pile a dozen sacks, so Ye Fu and Ye Yaodong put the sacks in the corner of the main room, placed them horizontally against the wall, and then piled them up one by one, and those that couldn't fit were taken to the children's room and temporarily piled high.

"Fish jerky is in your room, you are not allowed to steal and eat it?"

It just so happened that today was the weekend, all the children, big and small, were at home, watching the adults busy there, they also gathered around to watch the fun, and followed them, wanting to join in every fun.

Ye Chenghu said disdainfully, "I won't eat it, salty, and it's not like I haven't eaten anything."

Ye Yaodong turned his head, chuckled, and flicked his forehead by the way, "Ouch? So look down on it? Looks like you haven't eaten less good food during this time, your mouth has become picky, before you even wanted to taste what salt tastes like."

"Where, I just wanted to taste white sugar before, where did I want to eat salt, it was clearly you guys who deliberately took salt to tease me."

"Good memory, didn't expect you to remember."

Ye Chenghu hummed twice, but his eyes rolled instantly, and he immediately smiled and greeted, pulling his sleeve flatteringly, "Dad, I helped work for many days, if you go to the city, can you bring me a reward?"

Everyone else's eyes lit up as they looked at him.

They weren't his own sons, so they were embarrassed to ask, the adults at home had taught them many times, but Ye Chenghu asked, so everyone couldn't help but look over with hope.

Ye Yaodong refused mercilessly, "Dreaming? Want a reward for doing a little work? Isn't it a duty to help the family work? Have you eaten less during this time? Whenever a peddler passed by carrying a pole, you guys never missed it."

Lin Xiuqing also glared at Ye Chenghu, "It's good enough I didn't beat you, still want a reward? A few days ago, popcorn passed by, taking advantage of me killing fish and having no time to manage, you guys secretly grabbed a handful of rice to exchange, don't think I don't know, I just didn't have free hands to beat people."

Ye Chenghu immediately shrank, didn't dare to speak, and hurriedly ran out, fearing his mother would settle accounts after the autumn.

Others also ran away quickly, fearing being implicated.

Lin Xiuqing watched them all run away, then looked at Ye Yaodong, "Don't bring things back this time, everyone is used to it, which family's children are as happy as them, they can eat whatever they want, can't spoil them anymore."

"Got it."

He responded like this with his mouth, but after going to the city, seeing the peddlers setting up stalls around selling everything, he felt itchy and wanted to buy something for the children to take back.

Before there were no conditions, no money, forget it, now there is a little money in hand, he always wants to bring some for the children at home.

Now children don't eat anything.

This is not, seeing the stall next to him selling boiled peanuts, the fish jerky in front of him hadn't even opened for business, and he had already spent five cents to buy a large paper bag first.

He held a large newspaper in both hands and handed it to his father, "Taste it? Smells quite fragrant, looks like every grain is quite full."

"Why buy so much? It hasn't even started selling, and you've already spent money." Ye Fu grabbed two and shelled them casually.

"Bring it back for the little ones at home later."

"Didn't Aqing tell you not to buy things?"

"Isn't this smelling quite fragrant? Just a bag of peanuts." He absolutely wouldn't admit that he was also greedy, squatting on the ground waiting was also boring, peeling some peanuts to eat could also pass the time.

The father and son started squatting at the entrance of the market before dawn, with sacks of fish jerky in front and behind, that thick salty fish smell didn't need them to shout, people smelled it from afar.

Among the breakfast smells, the salty fish smell was particularly prominent.

Therefore, as soon as the morning market started, people coming and going in front of their stall could be considered endless, but they were all scattered, weighing a few catties or a few pieces, and at most not exceeding ten catties.

The father and son weren't picky, as long as someone bought it, it didn't matter if they bought more or less, at least they could sell a little, and retail could sell a bit higher, selling for 45 cents a catty was very easy to sell, occasionally he looked at those who were pleasing to the eye and gave them a cent or two off.

For this reason, Ye Yaodong even shamelessly gave all the peanuts he just bought to the stall owner next door to eat, and borrowed the other's small scale by the way.

He wasn't fully prepared, and had no experience, just beautifully thinking about running into a reseller, and having someone weigh it all away at once, he even specifically brought a large scale, but the reality was that he was selling it sporadically in a few catties or a few pieces...

And, he didn't even prepare small change, he had to exchange it with people nearby.

Sure enough, the ideal is plump, the reality is skinny.

But for the father and son, selling one catty is one catty.

Don't underestimate retail, people's purchasing power is still quite strong now, especially in terms of food and clothing, and salty fish jerky can be stored, before dawn, the father and son had already sold two large bags.

Ye Yaodong was afraid that his frequent borrowing of the scale would make the stall owner next door unhappy, so he also took advantage of the free time to take ten salty fish and gave them to the owner, regardless of the other's polite refusal, and put them into the basket next to the other.

"Brother Wu, don't be polite, meeting is fate, not to mention you are particularly good, particularly righteous, and have been frequently borrowing me the scale, I'm just expressing my heart, take it, take it, don't be polite, it's all fish jerky dried by ourselves, not worth much, let's just be friends."

The middle-aged man called Brother Wu looked to be in his early 40s, however, his wind-beaten face was no better than his father's, people now look quite old because of diligent labor.

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His stall was selling shrimp skins, don't know where he got them, the quantity was also very large, there was a large nylon bag on the flatbed cart behind him, filled with shrimp skins, he estimated there should be over a hundred catties there.

And in front of him were two baskets, each with a round bamboo mat on top, piled with shrimp skins, as long as someone weighed some away, he would grab a large handful from the basket underneath to fill it up.

The business was also very good, super easy to sell, a scale was passed back and forth between the two. ===== CHAPTER 551 =====