Chapter 562: Enthusiastic Villagers

When Ye Yaodong pushed the flatbed cart to Lin Shu's house, sure enough, he wasn't back yet. Lin Shen was stir-frying dishes, and their doorway was also covered with various dried fish, whether hung by ropes or on bamboo mats, they were dried densely.

He glanced at it and went toward the house. "Auntie is stir-frying, it smells so good, your skills are really good. Is Uncle not back yet?"

Lin Shen turned her head and looked at him with a smile. "Not yet, he has to wait until dark every day to come back. You sit for a while first. Have you eaten? Eat a couple of bites here, the dishes will be ready soon."

"I've eaten. You're stir-frying dried dragon-head fish, no wonder it's so fragrant, it's suitable for drinking."

"You sit down and have a couple of drinks later. Recently, too many various dried fish have been dried, we can only eat them in different ways every day, otherwise we don't know what to do. There's such a large quantity, and we can't sell them all."

"Does Uncle take them to sell?"

"Yes, a few days ago the wind and waves were big, so he stayed home to dry fishing nets. After that, he saw that too many fish were dried at home, there were several sacks, so he carried a sack to town to sell, but it wasn't easy to sell at all. He didn't sell much in a day."

"Around our town, this large area is all fishing villages and wharves, who lacks dried fish? They've dried so many, they're regretting it to death. These past two days they haven't dared to leave any, the ones hanging at the doorway are all small miscellaneous fish, no one wants them. No way, can only dry them."

"When there's time later, see if we can use a shoulder pole to carry them to the county town to sell and see? There are many people in the county town, maybe we can sell a bit more. They're piled everywhere at home, no place to put them. Don't know what he was thinking, actually left so many fish that could be sold for money..."

"Although they can be sold for a higher price after being dried, how many jin can be sold? They're all stuck in our hands, how long will it take to sell..."

Lin Shen muttered while stir-frying.

Listening to her muttering, Ye Yaodong felt a bit guilty. At that time, Lin Shu also saw him leave all 1,000-plus jin of toadfish, so he thought about learning from him to see if he could earn more money by drying them?

As a result, he was really pitted by him?

Where would ordinary people think of hauling them to the city to sell? Normal people would choose nearby.

And he, because he went back and forth many times, had a wild heart and many ideas.

Placed in the nearby town, it could only be sold in small quantities of a few jin. How could it be sold as quickly as his?

Ye Yaodong said awkwardly, "That, Auntie, if you want to sell the dried fish at home, why don't you sell them all to me."

"Ah? What? What did you say?" Lin Shen thought she had auditory hallucinations.

"I said if you want to sell all the dried fish at home, then sell them to me."

She heard clearly this time. In surprise, she was halfway through washing the wok, quickly threw away the old loofah, and hurriedly wiped her hands on her apron.

"Are you serious?"

"Serious, I came over just to ask if you want to sell the dried fish?"

"Ouch, you're really serious? I thought you came over to find your uncle for something? My family has several hundred jin, left over from three or four days of fish, dried out to five or six hundred jin. The quantity is not small, piled up against a whole wall. I was free a few days ago and only sold one sack in total, and there's still so much left as usual. These past few days I haven't dared to leave any, otherwise there would be more."

Ye Yaodong nodded. "Sell them all to me. Have you sorted them all out? If they are all sorted out well, 30 cents a jin for toadfish, 20 cents for dried dragon-head fish, 10 cents for other miscellaneous fish. You decide whether to sell or not? The price is definitely cheaper than what you sell at the stall yourself. After all, I came to collect them, and I have to make money myself. With such a large quantity, it's not easy for me to sell, and I have to take risks."

Lin Shen's eyes lit up. "Sell, sell, sell, definitely sell. Selling them all to you saves us a lot of trouble. And your Lin Shu and I have already calculated an account. Those miscellaneous fish no one wants, sell as much as you earn. You collect toadfish at 30 cents, we can also earn a little. Also, we don't have dragon-head fish when setting sticky nets, occasionally a few, today they were all stir-fried in the wok."

"That's fine, as long as you can make the decision. I thought I had to ask Lin Shu."

"No need to ask him, I can make the decision. Selling them all is fine, there's no place to pile them up. And this price of yours, we can also earn. Selling them all to you and getting money immediately is much better than selling slowly at the stall, and it earns more than fresh ones. If we set up a stall ourselves, we'd have to sell until the Year of the Monkey."

Lin Shen suddenly thought of something else.

"Sigh? Oh? A few days ago the village said you guys made big money drying dried fish, is that really true? I thought it was just rumors. After all, our family couldn't sell them, and it took several days to sell that one sack of a few dozen jin, it was so exhausting to sell, although we could earn a little."

Ye Yaodong was a bit dumbfounded. He hadn't even started selling a few days ago, and they were already spreading rumors.

He was now almost a celebrity in the village. As soon as there was any movement, his legends would come out.

"Don't listen to the village rumors. I hadn't even started selling a few days ago. How many jin did I dry in total? With just that little dried fish, if I could make big money, wouldn't your family have gotten rich too?"

"That's true, I originally thought so too, just thought everyone was spreading rumors. But now seeing you actually want to collect all these several hundred jin from my house, didn't I think a bit more?"

"I only started selling at the stall these past two days, and it's also very hard, very exhausting! Collecting at 30 cents a jin, how much money can I earn? Auntie can calculate it herself, how can I make a big fortune? Can only earn some hard-earned money."

Lin Shen nodded while listening. She knew how much money could be earned.

"Indeed, mainly it sells slowly, not easy to sell, otherwise earning is also good."

"Go, go, go... I'll lead you into the house, let's lift them out together and put them at the doorway to weigh."

"There's too little space at home, no place to pile them up, can only pile them in the house. Fortunately, several daughters in the family are married off, and a room was vacated, so there's a place to put them."

"I'm still worried that if it rains and leaks, that would be the end. Every time it rains, the house leaks like a sieve, and a lot of water can accumulate on the ground. Selling them all to you is the best, saves worrying..."

Feeling that older women like to mutter, Lin Shen was the same, muttering while walking.

Ye Yaodong could only passively listen silently, while following her to lift the dried fish bag by bag to the outside.

Taking advantage of the fact that it wasn't completely dark yet and there was still light, he could see, he had to pour them out and pick and choose roughly.

Although Lin Shu and the others dried them for their own sale and shouldn't be cheating, he still had to look at them roughly, spot-check a few jin, to avoid any mistakes.

Still the same sentence, these were to be delivered to the military, so he had to be careful no matter what.

"Still have to pour them out to look? That's fine, then go inside and lift that large bamboo bed out and put it in this open space, just right to pour the dried fish onto it."

"Good."

Neighbors nearby looked at their big movement from the house and curiously came out to watch. Some were still holding rice bowls, watching the fun while eating.

"What are you guys doing again? Are those bags the dried fish dried a while ago?"

"Ouch, really dried so many... didn't they say they were taking them to town to sell? Why are there still so many?"

"Can't sell them, definitely..."

"There's so much left, several hundred jin, what to do?"

"Why are they moving them out again? What are they tossing about again?"

"If they had honestly sold them to the wharf, it would be fine. With such a large quantity, what if it rains?"

"Make way, make way..."

Ye Yaodong and Lin Shen moved the bamboo bed out, only to see several people standing in the open space at the doorway, very much in the way. He quickly shouted for everyone to make way, letting them put the bamboo bed in the open space.

"What is this for?"

"Need help?"

"No need, no need..."

Lin Shen waved her hand. She and Ye Yaodong poured a bag of dried fish onto the bamboo bed, and then watched him flip and pick there, touching this and flipping that.

"This generation is all toadfish dried fish, we dried them well, and specifically picked them when packing, the dryness is also very good."

Ye Yaodong nodded. He just roughly flipped through to see if there were any other miscellaneous fish mixed in, and incidentally spot-checked and picked some to touch the dryness. It only took a few minutes before he let Lin Shen pack them up.

The villagers watching the fun also understood what they were doing.

"Ouch, Adong is here to collect dried fish?"

"My God, the village is spreading that you've tossed about dried fish and made a big sum of money recently, is it really true?"

"It's incredible, whatever you do now succeeds. Old Lin's family dried so many and couldn't sell them, I thought it was just rumors in the village, turns out it's true!"

"How are you collecting these dried fish? My family also has a little dried fish, I'll take it out for you..."

"My family also has~"

"My family also has~ I'll go get it..."

The villagers said while running home to get the dried fish for him to collect!

Ye Yaodong had been bending over and busy there, not caring what people around him were muttering. Watching the fun was human nature.

When he heard everyone saying they were going home to get dried fish for him to collect, he was surprised and stood up straight. His mouth was open, and before he could speak, the people had already run out of sight.

"Are everyone's reactions so fast?"

Lin Shen said with a smile, "This can be sold for money, who wouldn't be enthusiastic?"

"But I have enough! I don't want any more! These from you are enough for me to sell, and I still have some left!"

He hadn't expected that Lin Shu's family had quietly dried so many.

However, collecting all these, there wouldn't be much left, at most a hundred jin, a small matter.

Originally he thought about collecting from Lin Shu's place, then going to a few friends' places to see and gather some. Now there was no need to go. Lin Shu's four or five hundred jin was enough.

"Enough? Don't want others'?"

"Yes! You have so much quantity here, enough for me to sell!"

Lin Shen quickly shouted at the top of her lungs, "You guys don't take them, Yaodong has collected enough here. My family's is enough for him to collect, he said he doesn't want any for now."

"Ah? Enough, don't want them?"

One by one, women and men carrying baskets, carrying baskets, holding sacks, holding sacks, felt like it was all a false joy.

Ye Yaodong smiled awkwardly. "Aunties, you guys were too anxious. I hadn't even spoken yet, and you guys ran home to get them. These from Lin Shen already have several hundred jin, enough for me to sell. If there's a need next time, I'll tell you guys again." ===== CHAPTER 563 =====