The two brothers thought what he said made sense and stopped talking. After all, it was his money and he was the one who was messing around with it.
Adong is not a man who would listen to advice. Even when his father comes, nothing he says is of any use, so they are no longer disliked.
Lin Xiuqing really wanted to say something, but there were people around her, and she couldn't offend him in public.
And from what I heard from him just now, he had already greeted others on the boat a long time ago.
This has been agreed upon, and we cannot go back on our word. People are already there salvaging, and we are all from the same village. If we go back on our word and make them work for nothing, we will be punished severely.
She glanced at him and had to swallow the words that were on the tip of her tongue. She would go outside to see the quantity first. If there weren't many, she would just take them. She knew how to deal with them anyway, and she could find a way to sell them later.
When the six of them hurriedly pushed the cart and almost reached the dock, someone was already pushing jellyfish to deliver it to his house and had walked a short distance away.
Ye Yaodong took a look at the three full baskets on his cart, which was still quite a lot, so he quickly asked him to push the goods to Acai and prepared to borrow Acai's scale.
Anyway, the fishing boats have just sailed out of the safe harbor today, and there are very few that can catch anything. Most of them have just cast their nets, and will have to wait until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to catch the fish. Ah Cai is free there, and it won't disturb his business.
Seeing that he really intended to collect these jellyfish, Acai couldn't help but admire his courage.
"Aren't you afraid that if you take it back, no one will want it after you've dealt with it?"
"What are you afraid of? It's not expensive anyway, so just give it a try! By the way, have you contacted them for me?"
"I went to the village committee and called several people, and they all said that there are no processing plants around our city. We have to send the products to the border of Zhejiang and Fujian, which is the production area. But it is too far from here, and the transportation is not convenient. They won't do it unless the quantity is large."
"Oh my god..."
The old man who was checking whether the jellyfish was dead or alive nearby became nervous, "Ah! Don't tell me you don't want it anymore? I've been fishing for it for a long time, I was afraid it would be dead, so I rushed to bring it up before I finished fishing. What I caught is worth four or five dollars..."
"Oh, no, no," Ye Yaodong explained quickly, "Yes, yes, I keep my word and won't let you work for nothing. Let me check it first, and weigh it first. Once it's ready, take it and kill it quickly."
"That's good, that's good... I'm still alive..."
"Brother Cai, please keep a record for me. One pound is one cent. His three baskets weigh 522 pounds in total. Give him the bill and ask him to come to my house to collect the payment later. Our whole family is busy killing the pigs right now and has no time to settle the bill or pay the pigs."
"Okay, I'm free anyway, and I just happened to accept your favor last time, so I'll help you out today."
"Thank you very much."
After having work to do again, the two couples felt full of energy.
Ah Cai and the man just now also watched them dividing it curiously.
"You guys are just going to do this openly in front of everyone? Aren't you afraid that someone will learn from you?"
"What's the use of learning it? We don't have jellyfish here, so it's of no use. Besides, these things have to be killed while they are still alive." Ye Yaodong hurried to help kill them while the fishing boats on the shore hadn't come up yet.
"Right."
Before they killed a few people, someone else came up from the shore. Seeing Ye Yaodong there, he quickly carried him over without even putting him on the cart.
Ye Yaodong was surprised to see that there were quite a few of them. If there were so many for just one or two of them, then the others should not be any less.
"Are there a lot of jellyfish in the sea? When I left earlier, it took everyone a long time to find one or two."
"It's not bad. There are still a lot of them, but there are too many boats. There are more than a dozen boats fishing there. Each person can probably collect about 30 to 40. When I left, there were not many left. Everyone should have rowed back by now."
Unexpectedly, after he left, the number of jellyfish on the sea increased.
Ye Yaodong calculated in his mind, if each fish weighs ten to twenty kilograms, and there are thirty to forty of them, then basically everyone can catch more than five or six hundred kilograms. If they are lucky, maybe they can catch more
His heart was burning with excitement again, and he looked straight at Ah Cai, "Please ask for me later, if there are 8,000 to 10,000 kilograms of jellyfish, and they are all cleaned up and broken down, is there anyone who would come to collect them specially?"
Acai also did some mental calculations and felt that the number was not small. 8,000 kilograms was considered a large amount.
"Okay, I'll ask again later."
Now, not only Ye Yaodong was hoping for a larger quantity, but even Lin Xiuqing no longer felt bad and began to hope that everyone would send as many quantities as possible. If there were more, it would attract customers to come and collect the goods and save them the trouble.
Boats came to the beach one after another, carrying baskets full of jellyfish.
Acai not only helps him weigh, but now he also helps him pick and take out the dead jellyfish. People from the purchasing point nearby also come to watch the fun and help pick, since they have nothing to do anyway.
With help from others and enough manpower, Ye Yaodong simply joined the division.
He is very skilled and can handle one quickly in about a minute.
His brothers and sisters-in-law became more and more skilled at killing, but they also became more and more anxious, fearing that there were too many of them and they would die before they could kill them.
The others who had sold their goods did not leave but gathered around them, watching with great interest and learning how to cut the goods into pieces.
"They know a lot, and they would actually kill us. We don't know how to deal with it..."
"I don't know how much they can sell the meat for if they kill it this way..."
"It's not certain whether anyone wants it or not. We won't accept it at the dock. It's not fish. As long as it's fresh, people will want it. If it dies, it will go bad."
"Hush~ I heard that if the quantity is too small, people won't come to collect it, and they don't want to pay a lot of money to send it somewhere else..."
"Several thousand kilograms of this is still too little? No way? What if we can't sell it?"
"Hush~ Anyway, it's none of our business. As long as we can make money, it's fine. There are so many people here, and our fellow villagers can't scare us. How much did you sell for? Who sold the most?"
"Five or six dollars, not bad. We haven't been busy at sea for long, so I don't know who sells the most..."
People around were whispering, but it had no effect on Ye Yaodong. Sweat was dripping down his forehead, but he didn't raise his arm to wipe it off, just letting it drip.
After all the jellyfish were collected and no more fishing boats came ashore, Ye Yaodong looked at the baskets all around him on the ground. Almost half of them were processed, and only half were left. He breathed a sigh of relief.
At the rate of one per minute, he could process 30 in half an hour, or about 400 to 500 kilograms. If the six of them divided them together, the rest could be finished in less than an hour.
"Brother Cai, can you use an abacus to calculate how many pounds there are in total?"
“Well, probably around 8,000 to 9,000 kilograms, let me do the math.