This wind can not go to the sea for seven or eight consecutive days, which makes people who rely on the sea to eat, especially uncomfortable. The villagers have no choice but to carry sandbags at the pier in order to make ends meet.
The women in the village also took advantage of the windy and sunny days to dry the dried fish one after another.
Every autumn and winter are the best seasons for drying fish in coastal fishing villages. This has become a living habit of their seaside fishermen. Without the harassment of mosquitoes and flies, the whistling northwest wind only takes less than 3 days to dry. Seventy percent dry.
Walking casually in the village, you can see bamboo flats and fishing nets drying in a few steps, and dried fish strung together with ropes. This is also a unique scenery of seaside fishing villages.
The sky has been beautiful for the past few days, and it hasn’t rained at all. In the weak sunlight, coupled with the northwest wind, the fish dries especially fast.
Ye Yaodong’s nearly 4,000 catties of toad fish and miscellaneous fish also became hard and elastic after four or five days in the sun, exuding a faint salty smell and sea breeze.
He packed everything into sacks, and the bags were neatly stacked by category.
After collecting everything this morning, he went to borrow a large scale to weigh the sacks of dried fish.
Use a wooden stick to pass through the opening of the rope left on the wooden steelyard, and then he and his father lifted up the sack containing the dried fish, while Ah Qing adjusted the weight on the side.
After all the bags of dried fish were weighed, Lin Xiuqing weighed more than a dozen bags of dried fish and added them up.
She was writing and drawing with a pen and paper, and Ye Yaodong leaned over and stretched his head to look at it, "It doesn't seem to be any better than what I wrote?"
Lin Xiu gave him an innocent look, "You think the numbers you wrote are better than mine, right? Well, it's 1056 catties and 6 taels in total."
"That's not a lot. This fresh one is less than 130 yuan. If it can be sold for 40 cents, it can be sold for more than 400 yuan. After deducting the salt and labor costs, you can still earn 2/3..."
Ye Yaodong snapped his fingers, made a rough estimate, and his eyes lit up immediately.
"There's something wrong!"
"Isn't that a good idea? How can this be sold all at once? 1000 catties, how long will it take to sell?" Lin Xiuqing was not so optimistic. She thought that selling 1/3 would be a good deal. .
"Think better, give it a try!"
"You fiddled with it, you can see for yourself!"
Father Ye also looked at him and said, "When are you going to send it to the market for sale? Do you want to wait for the completion of the new wholesale market after New Year's Day, and put it in the shop after you get it?"
"No, that's too late. It's only the 10th today, and it's only 50 days until New Year's Day. If I haven't sold these, how can I continue to post them? There is no place to pile them up, and I haven't sold them, so I don't know what to do. I don’t know whether to dry it out or not. By then, wouldn’t the 50 days in the middle be wasted? Half of winter will be over.”
"Then you plan to send it at night?"
"I think so, go to the morning market at night, take advantage of the crowds during the morning market, and see if you can be lucky to meet the bad guy, and it's best to clear everything in one go."
In his previous life, he always heard that this era is the best golden age. You can make money by doing anything, sell everything, and have people wanting everything. This time, he can try it for himself and see if the dried fish sells well.
The old lady quickly raised her head and interjected, "Then let your father go with you. He has nothing to do anyway, and there will be a companion when we go together. If you are undecided about something, you can discuss it."
Father Ye looked at the old mother who had already made decisions for him, and shook his head helplessly, "Well, I will go with you that night, and take a look at where the store you bought is by the way. You three brothers spent so much money, I also Didn't take a look."
"casual."
"Then you didn't take all of them, did you?" Lin Xiuqing was a little undecided, not knowing what he was going to do.
"Then I definitely won't take all of them. If I take them and can't sell them, I have to bring them all back. If it rains, it will be over. It's all wet. First, bring two or three hundred Let’s see if it sells for a catty, and if it’s easy to sell, I’ll take all of them with me on the next trip.”
"Well, let's carry it to the house first, and then move it into the car when we leave at night."
"OK."
The room was not big enough to pile up more than a dozen sacks. Father Ye and Ye Yaodong put the sacks in the corner of the main room, placed them horizontally against the wall, and stacked them one by one. Those that couldn't fit were brought into the children's room. Temporarily stacked high.
"Put the dried fish in your house, you are not allowed to steal it?"
It happened to be this weekend, and all the children, big and small, were at home. Watching their adults busy there, they also gathered around to watch the excitement, and even followed each other, wanting to join in all the excitement.
Ye Chenghu said disdainfully: "I don't eat it, it's not too salty, it's not like I haven't eaten anything before."
Ye Yaodong turned his head, chuckled, and patted his forehead, "Hey? Are you looking down on me so much? It seems that I haven't eaten less delicious food during this time, and my mouth has changed. Before, I even wanted to taste salt. Taste what it tastes like."
"I have a good memory, I didn't expect to remember it."
Ye Chenghu groaned twice, but turned his eyes instantly, and immediately greeted him with a smile, and pulled his sleeve fawningly, "Father, I have helped with the work for many days. If you go to the city, yes Can't you bring me a reward?"
Others also looked at him with bright eyes.
They are not their own sons, so they are embarrassed to ask for it. The adults in the family have taught them many times, but Ye Chenghu asked for it, and everyone inevitably looked at it hopefully.
Ye Yaodong refused mercilessly, "Want to eat farts? Do you want rewards for doing a little work? Isn't it right to help the family? You don't eat much during this time? Whenever there are hawkers passing by, you I didn't miss it."
Lin Xiuqing also stared at Ye Chenghu, "It's fine if you don't have a beating, and you want a reward? A few days ago, when I passed by with popcorn, you all secretly grabbed a handful of rice to exchange for it while I was killing fish. , don't think I don't know, I just can't spare my hands to hit people."
Ye Chenghu flinched for a moment, didn't dare to speak, and ran out in a hurry, for fear that his mother would settle accounts after autumn.
Others also ran away quickly, for fear of being affected by the fish in the pond.
Lin Xiuqing looked at Ye Yaodong after watching everyone run away, "Don't bring anything back this time, everyone is used to it, other people's children are not as happy as they are, they can eat whatever they want, You can't get used to it anymore."
"knew."
He said so, but when he went to the city and saw the hawkers selling everything around him at the same time, he felt itchy to buy something for the child back home.
In the past, there were no conditions, and it was fine if he had no money. Now that he has some money, he always wants to bring it to the children at home.
Now children have nothing to eat.
No, seeing the stall next to him selling boiled peanuts, the dried fish in front of him has not even been opened, and he has already spent fifty cents on a large paper bag.
He held a large newspaper in both hands and handed it to his father, "Taste it? It smells good, and it looks like every grain is full."
"Why do you buy so much? You've already spent the money before they start selling." Father Ye grabbed two shells at random.
"Take it back to the little one at home later."
"Didn't Ah Qing tell you not to buy anything?"
"Doesn't this smell delicious? It's just a bag of peanuts." He never admits that he is also greedy, squatting on the ground and waiting is boring, and peeling some peanuts to eat can pass the time.
Father and son started squatting at the gate of the market before dawn. There were sacks of dried fish in front of them and sacks behind them. The strong smell of salted fish could be smelled from far away without them shouting.
Among a bunch of breakfast aromas, the salted fish smell is particularly prominent.
Therefore, the morning market has just started, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going to their booth, but they are all idle and weighing a few catties, at most no more than ten catties.
Father and son are not picky, as long as someone buys it, no matter how much you buy or how little you buy, you can still sell it, and the retail price can be higher, and it is easy to sell for forty-five cents. Tell others about one point and two points.
For this reason, Ye Yaodong still had the cheek to give all the peanuts he just bought to the stall owner next door to eat, and borrowed his small scale by the way.
He was not that well prepared and inexperienced. He just thought that if he met a bad guy, he would weigh them all together. He even brought a large scale. The reality is that he is selling a few catties and a few strips...
Moreover, he didn't even prepare change, so he exchanged it with the person next to him.
Sure enough, the ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny.
But for the father and son, a catty that can be sold is a catty.
Don’t underestimate retail, people’s purchasing power is quite strong nowadays, especially for food and clothing, and dried salted fish can be stored. Before dawn, the father and son have already sold two big bags.
Ye Yaodong was afraid that his frequent borrowing of the scale would offend the stall owner next to him, so he took ten salted fish for him in his free time, and put them in the basket next to him regardless of his polite refusal.
"Angkor, you're welcome. It's fate to meet you. What's more, you are very kind and generous. You have been borrowing my scales frequently. I just want to express my heart. Take it, don't be too polite, it's all dried fish by yourself. Do it, it's not worth any money, let's treat it as a friend."
The middle-aged man who is called Angkor looks like he is in his early 40s, but his weathered face is not much better than his father. Nowadays, people look old because of their hard work.
His stall sells shrimp skins, and he doesn’t know where he got them, and there are a lot of them. There is a large bag of nylon bags on the cart behind him, which is full of shrimp skins. According to his visual inspection, there should be hundreds of catties there.
In front of him were two baskets, each with a round bamboo plaque on top of which were piled with sharp shrimp skins, as long as someone told him to leave, he would grab another handful from the bottom basket. Fill.
Business is also very good, super easy to sell, a steelyard is sent back and forth in the hands of two people.