Chapter 867: Calculating Accounts

When the three Ye family father and son arrived, they sat down to chat first.

The atmosphere of the entire Pei family was also joyous, and everyone looked happy.

Even A Guang's daughter was standing in the playpen, excitedly holding a rattle and patting the edge, occasionally lowering her head and opening her mouth to bite.

Ye Yaodong saw it, smiled, picked her up, and put her on his lap to play, "Is she teething? Her mouth is itchy? She looks just like Xiao Jiu, haha."

Ye Fu also teased the child happily, "The two are about the same age, they'll have a companion in the future, and can go to school and play together."

Ye Huimei happened to bring out a large plate of cut watermelon and said with a smile, "Eat watermelon first, chat while eating."

Pei Fu also greeted them with a smiling face, "Sit down and talk first, I'll go into the house to get the list, and we'll calculate the accounts when Old Zheng comes."

"Alright, alright, alright."

Except for Ye Yaodong, the others had stayed on the boat for 5 days, and everything was clear.

Ye Yaodong also chatted with his father a few times while eating and knew the gist of it.

"When does Uncle plan to go again?"

"Thinking of taking advantage of the good weather recently, rest for a day tomorrow during the day, and go tomorrow night. As for the missing manpower, call two more tomorrow."

"Then you've worked hard."

It's only the beginning of the month now, and there are no typhoons, so we can go a few more times. Otherwise, when it's the end of the month or August or September, there might be more typhoons. Regardless of whether they pass through here, the sea surface will always be affected.

Even if the sky is clear and the sun is bright, waves might hit his door, and it won't be easy to go to sea by then.

"What's hard or not hard about this? I also follow the workers to take wages. It's just that when I rest, I'm afraid A Guang can't handle it. I want to trouble your father to go with him. See if it's convenient for you?"

A Guang also said, "I lack experience and am not as capable as our father. If I take turns with my father, I'm afraid I won't be able to make up my mind about some things when I'm on the boat alone. Can you let our father follow me for a few trips?"

"Zheng Shu has his own boat. This time he also took time to follow. He won't follow in the future. He said, just call him when splitting money, he won't care about anything else."

Pei Fu also followed closely to persuade, "Isn't one of the boats in your family split with your eldest brother and second brother?"

"Why not just find someone to partner with the other two boats, and keep one for yourself to be relaxed and free? Anyway, I heard from A Guang that your boat can also be delivered by the end of the year."

Ye Fu shook his head directly, "That won't work. The large trawler hasn't arrived yet. I have to keep one in my hand, otherwise, if I'm idle, I'll become lazy again. What should I do?"

Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched, his father really didn't give him face.

"How could that be? There's still dried fish to be sun-dried at home, and the shop, occasionally have to come back and look. Dongzi is already very capable." Pei Fu smiled and complimented.

"Hehe, he is already very capable, but someone still needs to help watch and supervise."

A Guang added, "Then keep one boat in hand, and put another boat out? This way you don't have to be too tired. Originally, the idea of putting our boat out to collect half the rent was also Dongzi's idea."

Ye Yaodong held the child and fed her watermelon, turned his head and said, "Look at my father, you ask my father what he thinks, I'm fine with it. Let him go with you to help control it, anyway, he doesn't need to worry about the boat at home."

"If my boat is put out to partner, I have to wait until the jellyfish fishing is finished. It would be too much of a loss to put it out now."

"Right, right, right! Dongzi is right," A Guang slapped the table, "Father, we were too anxious, didn't think clearly for a moment, and directly rented the boat to the future brother-in-law's brother-in-law."

Pei Fu also felt it was a pity, "I thought of it later too. At that time, I thought people had already begged at the door, so it was hard to refuse for a moment."

"If it hadn't been rented, we could have just left it at the pier without the two months' rent, and waited until jellyfish fishing to hire a few people. By then, we could have earned several times more. Alas, we lost a fortune."

"It's already promised to be rented, so no need to say anything," Pei Fu looked at Ye Fu again, "What do you say?"

"I'm fine, no problem. A son-in-law is half a son. If you need help, just say it directly. I can also gain more experience following A Guang. When Dongzi's boat comes back, I can be more familiar with it, and we can help each other by taking turns."

"Good, good, then no problem. Let's wait for Old Zheng to come over, calculate the accounts, split the cargo money from these few days, and discuss the wages."

Ye Fu nodded and looked at Ye Yaodong again, "Then if I go to sea with A Guang, should the boat at home still be opened by your eldest cousin and Brother Brother Asheng?"

Ye Yaodong nodded, "I know."

He wouldn't move eldest cousin and Brother Brother Asheng. By the time his large boat comes back, if the two are doing well, he will rent his two boats to them.

However, during this period, he was thinking about whether to take that group of teenagers?

Looking at their nature, it's not bad. Who hasn't had a youth.

In youth, plasticity is also strong. If someone pulls them, their situation will be different.

By then, arrange two to take turns in the workshop, and arrange one to help on Brother Brother Asheng and eldest cousin's boat, let them learn first and gain experience.

He could continue to call Chen Shi for his own boat.

Then, the few who watch the workshop could also take turns to chop wood and carry water for his house!

This way, he wouldn't have to be tired to death occasionally, and when he came back, he would have to do these chores. By then, the dry firewood and fresh water needed for sun-drying fish would also have people to do it.

Work during the day, guard at night, perfect!

Leading a group of idle teenagers to be positive and upward, he also has immeasurable merit!

Mazu can bless him even more!

His thoughts drifted a bit, the more he thought, the more beautiful it was, not listening to others discussing, a bit distracted.

It wasn't until Ye Huimei came over and took the child from his hand that he came back to his senses. It turned out Zheng Shu had come over.

As soon as he entered the door, everyone stood up to greet Zheng Shu to sit down.

Ye Yaodong also took out his handkerchief and wiped his hands, which were dripping with watermelon juice.

They had already started chatting first.

"I live far away, and I came late riding a bike."

"Plenty of time, what's late or not late. Eat a piece of watermelon first, let's calculate the accounts, the list has been taken out, it's all here. You also have a number in your heart about how many times the goods were sold on the boat, anyway, there are lists."

Zheng Shu took a piece of watermelon and took a bite, "This is simple, just add up the amounts on these lists, and subtract the money for fuel, supplies, and ice cubes. No need to wait for me, I'm just here to collect money."

"Joking, everyone has a share, definitely have to wait for everyone to calculate the accounts together."

A Guang took paper and pen, pushed the lists to Ye Yaodong, "You read, I'll add and subtract. We all roughly know how much money was sold, you don't know, you can also take a look by the way."

"Alright."

He held a pile of lists on the table, flipped through them, and separated the expenditure from the sales.

Zheng Shu was also constantly praising him, "Dongzi is also literate, really capable. Young people nowadays are amazing, one by one are much more capable than us old guys."

"He also suddenly opened up in the past two years, went to a literacy class for a few days, and learned a few words, otherwise, where would he be literate? He only cared about playing all day long."

"It's good to be literate, it's so convenient, you can go anywhere..."

"Right, recognizing words is so convenient, you can go anywhere..."

The three old ones were chatting while eating melon there.

A Guang and Dongzi were reconciling accounts there, the two were not affected.

In 5 days, goods were sold a total of 3 times, they sold about once every two days.

The first time because it was in the middle of the sea, far from the shore, they directly contacted the fresh-receiving boat. When selling, everyone clearly felt the severity of the price difference. Most of the goods were only about half to two-thirds of the price on the shore.

Look at the value of the goods, cheap ones, the price dropped, and it dropped. For more expensive good goods, the price difference sold was large.

However, they didn't know how many days they would stay at sea at that time, and how long it would take to get ashore. Now the freezing technology on the fishing boat is not good, and they were also worried that it wouldn't be fresh if iced for too long, and the loss would be even worse, so they sold all the goods at once the first time.

Later, after two days, when the fish were full, it happened to be not far from the shore, and it took about 4 hours to go back and forth, so they simply went ashore to sell.

On the last day, the supplies were almost consumed, so they simply returned. On the way, they passed several large piers, asked for prices all the way, and sold directly to those with relatively high prices, and then drove back.

So the price difference between the 3 cargo lists in his hand was very large. One should be the price of selling ashore, and the difference compared to the one with the highest price was more than 1/3, which might also be related to the amount of goods sold at that time.

Another list with similar prices might be sold on the day of return, because there was only one day's worth of goods. Although the price ashore was high, it was not much higher compared to the amount sold to the fresh-receiving boat for two days.

This is unavoidable. The fresh-receiving boat must make money. The fishing boat is in the middle of the sea, and the goods on the boat are full. If it happens that there are many fish goods that day, of course, they are more reluctant to dock and delay time.

One hour of fuel consumption is over twenty liters, one liter is sixty-seven cents, which is about 15 yuan, and it takes several hours to go back and forth to the shore. A difference of one or two hundred yuan in fuel money is inevitable.

And I don't know how long it will take to go ashore, especially delaying fishing time. With so much time, dragging two or three nets might not be enough.

If not necessary, generally will not dock, especially those who only go out for a few days and plan to return.

So if it is too far, it is better to sell to the fresh-receiving boat, unless it is not far from the shore.

Generally, they will also specifically keep the more expensive ones, wait until the voyage is close to the shore, and then sell them ashore together to maximize value.

Ye Yaodong flipped through the list, combined with the situation of selling goods that his father chatted with him about while eating, and knew.

The other lists were all buying diesel and ice cubes. The fresh water and rice and grain brought on their boat were very sufficient, and there was no need to purchase extra.

This trip back was also because the rice, grain, and fresh water on the boat were almost exhausted, and they had been out for about 5 days, so they planned to return, rest, and replenish.

"You read it!" ===== CHAPTER 868 =====