Chapter 969: Transporting Fish Sauce

Both soft-shelled turtles and tortoises are collectively referred to as "Wang Ba" (bastards/turtles), and they both lay eggs in clutches of dozens. Ye Yaodong wanted to see if it would lay more eggs, so he forbade Ye Xiaoxi from reaching out to touch it.

As it turned out, the father and daughter squatted there for a while, but they didn't see any further movement.

"Not laying anymore? Don't soft-shelled turtles usually lay at least twenty or thirty eggs? Sea turtles can even lay seventy or eighty eggs at a time. How come this one only laid one?"

The old lady smiled and said, "It's not big enough yet, and the weather is cold now. It wasn't really the time for it to lay eggs anyway. It should have laid them in the summer, but since there was nothing for it to eat, it probably dragged on until now."

"This egg is edible, right?"

"Edible, of course it's edible. We'll boil it tonight and everyone can have a bite."

Ye Yaodong hesitated for a moment. "Forget it, let's keep it. If the two kids come back and find out the sea turtle laid an egg and it got boiled, they'll cry their eyes out. When the time comes and they ask me to compensate, where am I supposed to go to make it lay another egg?"

"Eat, eat... Daddy... Wang Ba egg... eat, eat..."

"How come I feel like you're cursing me? You little glutton, don't be so greedy. I'll give you some egg custard later. If you eat this precious little treasure of an egg, your brother is going to beat you."

She scrunched up her face and said loudly, "Beat, beat!"

Ye Yaodong patted her little head. "So fierce. Watch this egg, don't let it disappear, and don't reach out to grab it, or your fingers will get bitten off by the turtle later. I'm going to walk around."

The last sentence was said to the old lady.

The old lady quickly responded, "You go do your business, I'll watch her. I'll get her a straw to poke it and play with; it's soft, so she won't be afraid of breaking the egg."

"Ah, right... I need to go transport straw."

The old lady reminded him, otherwise he would have forgotten what he was going to do.

After saying that, he hurriedly pushed the flatbed cart out. Xiao Xiao's family had land, and the straw on the empty lot of his house was stacked like a yurt. He asked him for some to push a cartload back.

It was windy today, so all the young and strong men in the village didn't go out to sea. It was impossible for them to gather to play cards early in the morning, so they were basically all at home. When he went, Xiao Xiao was still lying comfortably in bed, not having gotten up yet.

He hurriedly climbed up at the last minute to help him move the straw.

"Can your family's fish sauce be sold yet?"

"I'll pull a cartload to the city tomorrow to try it out first. I don't know what the situation is. If you want to eat some, go to my place later and get a bottle."

"I'll go get some later. I'll gather all the empty bottles at home and bring them over."

"Is that necessary? Just go get some whenever you finish it."

"Sigh, it's different now. The way you talk has a flavor of being rich and imposing, it really makes people uncomfortable. It's a pity that fish sauce can't be drunk like soda, otherwise I wouldn't have to buy drinks for the rest of my life."

"Then you wouldn't have to buy fish sauce for the rest of your life either."

"That's a big difference. If it were soda, I could let my whole family drink it as water every day. How can fish sauce be drunk as water every day? One bottle can last for a month or two of cooking."

Ye Yaodong curled his lips, too lazy to pay attention to him, only urging him to work. "Move a bit more, stack it a bit higher."

"Your fish sauce cost a lot of capital, right? I see those big wooden barrels, you've stacked a whole row at the corner of your workshop wall. In the last few days, the big vats have been pulled over by the truckload, and the land you just bought is being walled up there. Plus those workers, your expenses must be several thousand. Can you earn it back?"

"You have to have confidence in me. It's hard to say in the short term, but in the long term, I'll definitely be able to earn it back."

Ye Yaodong didn't dare to speak too confidently. After all, it had just been transported to the city, and selling it would take a process. At the beginning, there would definitely be a window period where not many people would ask about it.

It must be a case of "first time is strange, second time is familiar"; buy back slowly, and then the reputation will spread.

However, he also plans to wait until the first batch is delivered to the city and sold slowly, and then immediately contact Boss Zhou.

Sometimes he needs one or two thousand jin, sometimes there's no sound, and sometimes he suddenly pops up asking for four or five thousand jin; however, when he asked for so much cargo before, his inventory was running low and he didn't have that much.

Recently, there has been no sound for two months, and I don't know if he's doing other goods. I saw a lot of fabrics in their warehouse before, so I guess these dried fish are just small things, not taken seriously, just brought along.

Sigh, I still have to rely on his small wholesale shop in the city. Don't look at the small shop; the surrounding traffic is not small, and the people coming and going are all peddlers. Over time, it is also very impressive.

After delivering the goods to the city tomorrow, I will leave two vats by the way and send them to the troops as a free gift.

Throughout this whole year, the troops have also steadily asked for one or two thousand jin every month or two, with various dried fish delivered in turns.

However, the troops later preferred shrimp meat. It's a pity that the Fengshou went to catch jellyfish, and the supply was cut off for a long time. Now it is supplied again.

But it is only barely enough. Shrimp meat is more popular than dried fish and often runs out of stock. After all, the Fengshou's fishing trips are unstable, and the amount brought back is limited. After the new year, when his boat is in hand, there should be no shortage.

"Then how long is long-term? If it's for several years, then you might as well specialize in drying various dried fish to expand sales, earning money faster. If it doesn't make money, then don't bother."

"Sell it first and see. Anyway, it has already fermented. Let's see how it sells in the two months before and after the new year. Since it's already done, we have to sell it first."

Anyway, the capital has already been spent, and the necessary things are almost ready. Now the fish sauce is in large vats, and the wooden barrels are cleared out. After Uncle Pei returns, there will be containers to continue fermentation.

If the sales effect in these two months is good, then order more of those super-large water vats. Open-air fermentation is faster, and the wooden barrels will be moved indoors.

Subsequent costs won't need to be that much. The bulk has already been spent, and he had calculated it long ago.

There are about twenty or thirty tons here. If you wholesale it for one mao per jin, you can sell about four to six thousand yuan. As long as these are cleared, all his capital will come back, and the subsequent fermentation will be pure profit.

It just depends on how long this batch takes to sell. If it sells out within half a year, it is equivalent to him earning ten thousand yuan just by selling fish sauce in the second half of the year. After all, there will be one more boat after the new year, the catch volume will be multiplied by 2, and of course, the output will also be multiplied by 2, and the earnings will of course be twice that of the first half of the year.

For a small workshop, earning ten thousand yuan in half a year is already quite awesome.

Xiao Xiao had nothing to say after hearing him say this, "Alright then, anyway, since you've already done it, you have to sell the goods on hand slowly first."

"That's it, I'll push this cart back first, and come back to pull another cart later."

"I'll walk back with you, and we can chat by the way. Why don't you drive your tractor over? You could pull it back in one trip without having to push it yourself."

"It doesn't need oil? Raising it is more expensive than raising me. Just coming over to transport some straw and having to drive a tractor, it's not like I'm doing anything. If my family finds out, I'll be scolded."

"Tch, it was bought to work in the first place."

"There's no need to pull straw with that. Why use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken?"

Xiao Xiao walked beside him, chatting as they walked, "It seems like I haven't seen you go out to sea during this time. The few times I encountered it, it was your father who went. You seem to be having a good time."

"No need to envy, you can't envy it. Who told me to have so many industries at home? I have to focus on watching them recently. My father is idle anyway, and he can't stay idle. However, I plan to tell him to rest for the new year early. There is only one month left until the new year."

"Then let your father rest for the new year early. Why not just rent out this boat early? Anyway, it's empty if it's left there. Since you let your father rest, it's better to let others drive the boat and let others earn money for you."

"Oh my, you really are the roundworm in my stomach. I told Aqing that last night. It just so happens that it's windy today, and my father is at home. I plan to tell him after I'm done with my work later. I have to deliver goods to the city every three days, so I have to keep him at home to watch."

Xiao Xiao couldn't help but envy, "You are running to the city more and more diligently now. Others have never been there once in their lives, and you go every three days. I have only been there once."

"Just trying to make a living, no choice."

"Isn't that big boat of yours said to be delivered at the end of the year? Do you know when it will be delivered?"

"I don't know. I plan to go to the county town to take a look when I come back from the city tomorrow, and ask by the way."

"I heard that the boat you partnered with A Guang's family has been doing quite well in the last two months?"

"It is quite good. The further out you go, the richer the marine resources are. Of course, the risks are also greater, so don't run too far. After all, the current technology is not very good. It would be troublesome if you lose contact."

"Have you broken even?"

"I broke even after catching a batch of jellyfish a few months ago. What is divided next is profit."

Xiao Xiao was even more envious when he heard this, "Why do all good things happen to you? Why didn't it fall to me? Since your capital has come back, isn't it like getting a boat for free, and you will have money to take continuously in the future."

"That's right, exactly."

"Then how much money can you divide in these two months?"

"Let me tell you this, under normal circumstances, the profit of the Fengshou in one month, as long as one share of the profit, can top the net profit of your trawler."

He widened his eyes, "Then are you two shares or three shares? Doesn't that mean you have the income of two or three extra boats?"

"Yes, I have three shares, and my second brother has one share."

"Oh my, then your eldest brother and sister-in-law must be as uncomfortable as if their hearts and livers were dug out? It seems I heard A Guang say that your eldest brother and sister-in-law felt it was unlucky at the time."

"Hmm, ignore them, personal choice."

"It makes me feel itchy, I want to get one."

"That's also possible, go for it! You can't go wrong. Pay a deposit of a few thousand yuan first. Anyway, pay the balance when the boat is delivered. No need to order too big. The size of the one I have with A Guang's family is about right. It's not safe to run too far now."

He shook his head, "Where is it as simple as you say? If this is set, it's like a big stone pressing on the heart. A boat costs more than ten thousand. Where can I get it? Ten thousand is not a small amount. Although the ten-thousand-yuan households have sprung up like mushrooms in the past two years, it's not that rampant, right?"

"It's not that easy to earn ten thousand yuan. It's just following you to catch jellyfish this year, it's like picking up money in that trench. What if everyone is jealous and goes to drive boats next year?"

"And it's not just our village. Nearby villages must have heard about it too. Those with boats will definitely follow, and there's that group of people in the town. It definitely won't be so easy to earn money next year. Maybe they won't be able to catch anything after a week, and will have to find it slowly on the sea surface themselves."

Ye Yaodong had already calculated it in his heart.

"The boats in our village definitely won't change next year. Everyone can't order boats anymore. The delivery dates of the shipyards in the county are scheduled until the year after next. Let alone next year, they won't be able to buy boats the year after next."

"I heard that the villagers organized more than a dozen people and specifically rented Uncle Zhou's tractor to go to the city. As a result, the ones in the city were even more exaggerated, scheduled until the year after next. Although the scale is a bit larger, it is a big city after all, and the demand is also large."

Needless to say, A Guang ordered four boats. Anyway, just wait until they are driven back one after another and you will know.

His boat is the same, no need to take it out and talk about it, lest it attract hatred. It hasn't been long since this happened, and everyone still remembers it in their hearts. It's not very good to explode it directly.

Maybe someone will come to the door and ask him to share a few boats.

Thinking about it, this is not "possible", but someone will definitely come to the door to moral kidnap.

They must say that he has so many boats, there is no need to occupy so many shares, everyone is a fellow villager, and they must help each other, etc...

He could already imagine it.

The more he thought about it, the more he had to keep his mouth shut. It's better to have one less thing than one more thing. When the boats arrive one after another, he can also say that he ordered them long ago, and those are things for next year or the year after.

They are all in hand, they are all his boats, he can rent them out directly, and moral kidnapping can't kidnap him.

"Then I'll order a fart."

"This twenty-meter big boat doesn't affect it. They have several groups with division of labor. If you have this idea, you can ask your brothers to see. Aren't they still swaying in those small wooden boats?"

"Too expensive, they definitely have no ideas. Where would they have that money? There is nowhere to borrow it. Even if you give them ten guts, they wouldn't dare to order it with empty words. If it's about partnering for a trawler, it's possible. They mentioned it before, but there's nothing to order now, so they can only continue to row."

"Then ask A Zheng? Anyway, you two earned ten thousand yuan this trip. I didn't see you buy anything when you came back. Each of you just moved a TV home, and each bought a mechanical watch. What else? Nothing, right?"

"My wife said to save it. You know, once money gets into her hands, it's hard to take it out. She's as shrewd as anything, sigh."

Ye Yaodong shook his head. Every family has a different wife. His wife is as fierce as Fatty's wife when she gets fierce, but she is not as generous as Fatty's wife.

It should be said that housewives nowadays are all about the same, all stingy, wishing to break one cent into eight petals to spend. Whoever has money holds it in their hands, who is willing to take it out to spend.

"Just let her give birth to another child."

"What do you mean?"

"One pregnancy makes you stupid for three years."

"Makes sense, then I probably have hope. She is already pregnant. I have been extra diligent since I came back from Zhejiang Province, and she got pregnant in the second month. It's been three months now."

"Shh, keep your voice down, there are people."

"I haven't told anyone, it just happened to be this topic, so I'll tell you. Maybe I'll have to ask your mother to help cover it up later."

"As long as the people in the town don't come to check, and no one reports it, my mother and the others won't meddle in other people's business. How harmful to heaven and reason is that."

"Hmm, hope to have a boy in one go. I already have two daughters. I have to hide and give birth to this one another day, and then pay the fine when I come back."

The two of them only mentioned this topic slightly, and stopped talking after entering the village.

Ye Yaodong didn't mention it to his mother either. It's still early, talk about it in a few months.

People by the sea can't do without sons. In the village, many times they turn a blind eye. Basically, it's the people from above who come down to visit. When checking, they accompany them on the side, walking through every household. Usually, they don't care.

However, the checks are tight now. Every month or two, someone goes door-to-door. He has already paid the fine, so Ye Xiaoxi never needs to hide.

Some who haven't been found out and haven't paid the fine can only let the children hide everywhere when people come to check.

As a result, when his mother was eating in the evening, after the children left the table and went out, she whispered to Lin Xiuqing.

"Is Huimei pregnant again?"

The couple was surprised,

"Ah? When did this happen?"

"When did it happen? Pregnant at this time? Did she tell you?"

"No, wasn't it the housewarming meal a few days ago? I noticed something was wrong. Actually, I felt something was wrong last month. I was sure after looking at the village committee today, so I wanted to ask if you knew?"

Lin Xiuqing and Ye Yaodong looked at each other and said with some entanglement: "I didn't see it."

Ye's mother felt relieved, "It's good that you didn't see it. Sigh, maybe it's because she's my own daughter, how could she be any different? I saw it at a glance. Forget it, if she's pregnant, let it be, be careful."

"It's cold now, and you can't see it with many clothes on. According to mother, you saw something wrong last month. By the time spring comes, it will probably be five or six months, and it should be obvious. It's not easy to hide, and she still works at the village committee."

"Sigh, it should be born. A Guang is old, and he doesn't have a son yet. Dongzi already has three children, and the oldest is eight years old. She also has to give birth early. It's just troublesome to give birth early. As long as you don't get caught, nothing will happen..."

"After spring, let her take a long leave. I will send her to the city and let my father-in-law and mother-in-law help take care of her. A Guang will also go to watch the shop for me for a few months. Anyway, just say that the daughter and son-in-law went to help."

Ye Yaodong's first reaction to hearing this was to send her away, lest something like Aqing's happened. What's more, when Aqing's belly was the biggest, the weather was still very cold. Ye Xiaoxi was born on March 3rd, which was considered very timely and very lucky.

"When the time comes, we will pick up Xiaoyu and raise her for a few months, it's good to keep Xiaojiu company. The daughter is not by their side, and she is in a foreign land. Outsiders don't know her, and there is no way to check."

This is the best way to hide.

Ye's mother's eyes lit up, "This is good! Go outside and stay for a few months, and come back after giving birth. People outside don't know the roots and bottom, who knows how many you gave birth to."

"Hmm, it's also convenient to go to the hospital when giving birth, big hospitals are guaranteed."

Ye's mother's heart also settled a bit, "I'll go to her house to find her and chat after I finish eating later."

The old lady sighed, "Amitabha, it's a sin. I hope this one gives birth to a son. I will help them worship more tomorrow and ask Bodhisattva to bless them."

"Eat, eat, don't talk about it. Just keep it in mind, don't go out and talk about it, and don't talk about it in front of the children."

In one day today, he knew about two pregnant women, one was a friend's wife, and one was his own sister, both were close people around him.

It really is, one by one, they were so diligent as soon as they came back. I thought they were just talking at the time. Damn, dog Guang.

Early the next morning, Ye Yaodong asked people to move the large vats onto the tractor.

He spent the whole afternoon rubbing hemp ropes with the straw he pulled back yesterday, and then tied them to the large vats to move them onto the car.

The bottom of the tractor was also padded with thick straw.

Just at this time, A Guang also came to watch the fun. His eyes were not eyes, his nose was not a nose, and he didn't look at people straight.

A Guang touched his nose, feeling a bit guilty in his heart, and could only follow to move and help do more work.

"I'll go to the city with you to take a look, and by the way, rent a house in advance."

Ye Yaodong glanced at him and didn't speak.

"Arranged in advance, so that it can be put on the agenda after the new year. By the way, when I come back in the afternoon, I can go with you to take a look at your big boat."

Ye Yaodong gave him another look, letting him understand it himself.

Anyway, without speaking, A Guang just assumed he agreed.

The workshop was busy and hot. Ye's father and Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua would also come to take a look if they had nothing to do. Early in the morning, they had to move dried fish to the city, and they all came to help move and lift together.

While helping, they took large handfuls of straw to pad the front, back, left, and right to avoid collision.

However, just at this time, uninvited guests came again.

It was his second aunt, a rare guest.

Throughout this whole year, it was basically watching his eldest aunt jump around, and his second aunt was rare to see.

However, he thought it should be looking for his mother, so he pointed her in a direction by the way, letting her go in and talk by herself.

He wouldn't get involved in the various affairs of aunts and uncles.

After the large vats were all moved, he sat on the tractor, and A Guang also sat on the other side of his tractor by the way.

There was already a friend following. When Wang Guangliang hesitated whether to go up, Ye Yaodong beckoned to him, and he immediately sat on the other side of Ye Yaodong again.

The front seat could barely sit together, it's just that they had to hold on well, otherwise it would be easy to be thrown out when turning.

Loaded full, Ye Yaodong was also very careful to slow down when driving to avoid collision.

The people in the village also discussed it when they saw it. The whole village knew that he had been busy filtering fish sauce recently, and was going to start tossing about selling fish sauce again.

Everyone thought he was tossing about blindly. After all, it was only something worth more than 1 mao. He bought land, built walls, and had to buy a bunch of materials like large vats.

He didn't calculate it specifically in his heart, and maybe he wasn't familiar with how many quantities were in the workshop, so he thought it would take him forever to break even. After all, the capital he put in was also large.

This is not as convenient as dried fish.

"Dongzi, your tractor can't pull much quantity in one trip, and liquid things can't be stacked up all the time."

"Hmm, I can only transport a few more trips. Next, I have to deliver goods to the city almost every day. A Liang, you watch it, remember the road more on the way. It won't be long before it's handed over to you to be fully responsible, and I won't follow."

"Dongge, don't worry, I remember it all, especially the fork in the road."

"Hmm, take you to run a few more trips while I have time."

"You should buy a truck..." A Guang said with a smile.

"You want to buy it for me? Then I'll wait."

"Can trucks be bought now?"

"Need a batch strip, right? Only tractors can be bought, trucks are not allowed, need to be affiliated with a unit, right."

"If you get a big Liberation truck and drive it back to the village, that would be majestic."

"Okay, I'm not picky, sending me a big Liberation is also fine."

"Are you not awake?"

He didn't even have a tractor, let alone a big Liberation.

"If you talk a few more times, you will really be full of eating dirt."

A Guang immediately closed his mouth.

"Guangge, have you never thought about doing something like Dongge?"

Before his mouth was closed for a while, he was tempted to speak by Wang Guangliang again.

"Do what? You want to jump ship and work for me?"

"No, hehe, I'm just asking, just heard that you have been at home."

Actually, A Guang also thought about doing something else. After all, seeing Dongzi just got some dried fish, it became popular, done in a decent way, and earned quite well, but he didn't know what to do.

He is also like Dongzi, a fisherman who started halfway, knows nothing, only knows how to fish, maybe the fish he catches are not as many as Dongzi, and the time he has done it is not as long as him.

He can't learn from Dongzi, do the same thing in the same place, sell the same things, and grab his business, right? That's too immoral.

So this trip to the city, besides renting a house to settle subsequent things, he also discussed with Huimei last night, thinking about going around to see if he can do something else during the next few months of coming to the city.

He can't really come here purely to take refuge, that would be too much of a waste of time.

"Yeah, I'm collecting rent at home, very cool, no need to be as hard as Dongzi, he was born to work hard, I was born to enjoy life."

"Roll your sister, you were born to work hard, I am also a landlord, a landlord bigger than you."

"Dongzi, Dongzi... stop stop stop..."

"Dongge Dongge..."

Without the two of them saying it, Ye Yaodong also saw it. Five or six people holding sticks crawled out of the straw pile on the side of the road ahead. He didn't care and continued to drive his car.

Only a fool would stop.

"This road is opened by me, this tree is planted by me..."

Before they finished speaking, the tractor rushed straight over without stopping, scaring them to jump to both sides in a hurry.

"Ouch... damn it, didn't even stop, too arrogant..."

"Go go go, he's not driving fast on the dirt road, hurry up and chase, use sticks to smash and knock those big vats of his, let's see if he's still arrogant..."

"Right, knock his big vats, let's see if he's still arrogant..."

A Guang grabbed the edge of the handrail and poked his head out to look behind, "Chasing up, Dongzi, what to do? Can't drive fast..."

Ye Yaodong stood up to drive, "You all stand up, you look under the seat, I specifically put a 56-semi."

He had several in his hand, and didn't use many bullets when he went to Zhejiang Province. After coming back, he only put one on the boat he drove, and hid all the others at home.

During this time, he often took them back and forth to deliver goods to the city, and thought about putting one on the tractor, just in case.

Every day he went back and forth on a fixed road, and the back of the tractor was full of things, there would always be people who were jealous.

A Guang was happy on his face, "Good good good, give them a shot, scare them to death."

Wang Guangliang also turned from full of worry to excitement instantly, "Dongge, you actually still have a gun! How come I didn't know you put one on the tractor?"

"You are too strong and majestic, too damn amazing, hurry hurry, Guangge, give them a shot and let them look good."

"I warn you, this gun is placed there as a backup, just to scare people when encountering this situation, can't be used indiscriminately, and can't shoot at people."