By the time the father and son pulled into port with their ship full of cargo, the dock was already empty.
However, there was still one person holding a flashlight.
"Hey, you two are finally back. We were almost worried to death. You didn't come back so late. We were all scared to death."
"Damn, several purchasing points are closed? Damn..."
"Don't you see what time it is? Who is waiting here so late? I don't know what you are doing. You came back so late. You didn't even come back earlier. The whole family is worried..."
Father Ye said impatiently: "What are you nagging about? Who wouldn't want to come back early? How can you come back when you haven't finished your work or collected the nets?"
"Why are you collecting so late? If you can't finish it, go collect it tomorrow."
"What do you know? Go and call Ah Cai to come and collect the goods. We'll wait here."
"Okay, okay, I'll go right away." Ye's mother didn't bother to ask more questions or look more. As soon as Ye's father urged her, she ran away with the flashlight.
There was no need to sort the goods on the boat. They had already sorted them out when they collected the fish. Now all Ah Cai had to do was come over, weigh them and take them away.
Seeing that they still had to wait here, Ye Yaodong said to his father, "You can stay here and watch. I'll go home first and ride my bike out later."
"Well, then you should go back and report your safety first."
"I'll be out as soon as I get back." He also picked up the small fish and shrimp that he was going to take back with him.
Looking at the small fishing village from the shore, the village was pitch black, with no light anywhere, except for one house by the beach where the lights were still on.
He walked straight towards the light, but before he entered the yard, all the dogs in the house jumped out, jumping up and down at his feet and rubbing against his legs, causing him to trip.
The old lady standing at the door had already seen it. She took a few quick steps and said, "Glad that you're back, glad that you're back. I'll go heat up the food for you."
Then he hurried into the house to burn firewood.
Ye Yaodong moved his feet and shook off all the dogs that were clinging to his legs, then he carried the bucket into the house, "Don't bother, just eat a few bites later. There's no time to eat now. Come back and have a drink of water. We have to go to the dock again soon. The goods haven't been sold yet."
When Lin Xiuqing heard the noise in the house, she hurried out, followed closely by two boys.
"Why aren't you two sleeping yet? Why are you still staying in my room?"
"Hey, Dad, you're back. Mom was worried about you. Why haven't you come back yet so late?"
Lin Xiuqing explained: "I was supervising the eldest child to do his homework. He came back and played like crazy all night. He didn't do a single word of his homework. It was already dark, and he was still playing around in the room with Yangyang."
"Well, let the two of you go to bed early, and you should go to bed early too. I still have to go to the dock to sell goods. Put the rice in the pot for me. I will be back later, so you can do it yourself. You all go to bed. It's already past nine o'clock."
"It's okay. People are old and don't sleep much. Let them go to bed first. I can heat up the food and boil a pot of hot water for you to take a bath."
Ye Yaodong responded casually without bothering to say anything else to them as he had to go to the dock to help.
He pushed the bicycle in the house out. He would never walk if he could ride a bicycle. At most, he would put the bicycle on the cart when he came back and push it together.
As for whether the paint would be scratched off, that was not within his consideration.
After he left, the old lady kept looking at his back and muttering, "It's too hard, Dongzi, it's too hard, he goes out early and comes back late every day, it's already dark, others are asleep, but he still has to go to the dock in the middle of the night."
"Fortunately, you left at six this morning, not two or three." Lin Xiuqing also felt that he had worked hard.
"We've been working all day. Let's buy a pig's trotter and stew it tomorrow to nourish him. We killed a hen a while ago, so let's not kill the chicken. Let's raise it first. Or we can kill a duck in a few days, and dry some radish and stir-fry it."
Lin Xiuqing smiled and said, "Let's take care of them for a while. They are still laying eggs. Let's wait until the beginning of winter to buy the pig's feet. The beginning of winter is just the right time to take supplements. There are still three days left."
"Oh, yes, yes, yes, I'm so confused, I forgot that it's almost the beginning of winter..."
Ye Yaodong was wearing a headlamp and riding a bicycle on the bumpy road. His butt bounced up and down.
I suddenly felt a little regretful. Walking might be faster than riding a bike. I should not have been so lazy.
From afar, the lights in the small hut outside the dock had been turned on. When Ye Yaodong arrived, Ye's father and mother were carrying baskets of fish off the boat.
After he put on the foot brake of the bicycle, he hurried over and called Acai to help lift it.
When I came out earlier, I had thought of asking his elder and second brothers to come over to help, but the lights in their room were off and it was already quite late.
They all went to drag the nets at two or three o'clock in the morning, so they must have gone to bed by now. Ye Yaodong hesitated for just a moment and rode over without calling them.
They have been tired all day and have to go tonight, so let them rest.
Ah Cai called him and had to go up to help, "You're back too late, aren't you? I was already asleep, and you were dug out. I thought you were going to follow the others and drift on the sea for two or three days before coming back."
Ye Yaodong's heart moved, "Who would drift on the sea for two or three days? With a boat like ours?"
"Well, there are two boats from Dongqiao Village next door that are going out for two or three days and then coming back. They bought a lot of ice cubes and put them on the boats. They plan to take advantage of the low temperature during this period of time and stay out for a day or two before coming back, so they can catch a lot more."
"Oh, that's too tiring, and I can't get enough rest."
"It's good to be able to make money. How many times can you go out to sea in the winter? You have to cherish it."
"You'd better help me carry all these off the boat first. There are more than 1,000 kilograms. By the way, what is the price of toadfish now?"
"3.5 cents a pound!"
"Grass!"
Damn it, he worked so hard and caught more than 1,200 kilograms of fish, but he could only sell it for more than 40 yuan
Ah Cai also laughed, "You know, this fish is abundant in winter, and now many of them are collected and made into dried fish."
"What the hell is this?"
"This fish is dirt cheap to begin with. Don't you have several baskets of other fish? The shoe sole fish is eight cents, and the turbot has also dropped in price recently, only twenty cents, the manta ray is twenty-eight cents, the golden pomfret is thirty-three cents, the white pomfret is forty-five cents, and there are others. Let me see what else you have later. Just these are enough for me to see. Not counting the toadfish, these are worth a hundred dollars."
After Ye Yaodong heard the price, he also calculated it silently in his mind. Although the toad fish was not valuable, it should be able to sell for nearly 150 with these goods, and the three otters had not been taken out yet.
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a little more satisfied and no longer disgusted.
"I work from dawn to midnight to earn this much, and that toadfish..."
"Only?" Ah Cai said unhappily, "You can only earn more than 100 yuan a day, and you only earn this much? If other people heard this, they would scold you to death. Others work hard all day and only earn a fraction of what you earn."
"Don't interrupt me. If I dry the frogfish by myself, will it be easy to sell?"
"It's easy to sell. There are so many people doing business outside now. They can sell anything. The traders are also working hard there. Many people collect the dry goods from our seaside and sell them elsewhere. Life was so hard in the past few years. People in the city had money but nowhere to spend it. Everything is easy to sell."
Ye Yaodong also started to think about it. He was not very clear about the current market conditions. He only knew that the environment was getting better and better. If dried fish were easy to sell, he might as well ask someone to dry them and sell them himself, so as to avoid selling fresh fish at a low price. He didn't know how many hands the fish would pass through in the process.
The shop in the market will be delivered by the end of the year, and he will just dry them and sell them in the shop in large quantities!
This market has just been completed, and the surrounding shops will certainly not all be open at once. It will take a long time for it to become prosperous and bustling. If he rents it out, it will definitely be difficult to do business in the first few years.
If you can make use of this, it is definitely better than leaving it idle. After all, there is so much traffic coming and going around, there will always be people who are interested in this useful stuff.
Moreover, those things can be dried and stored there for a long time without having to worry about them piling up.
Ye Yaodong's thoughts only lasted for a moment. After he came up with the idea, he also began to inquire, "If this dried toad fish is dried, how much can it be sold for?"
"What's the matter? Are you really planning to hire someone to dry and sell them? This is very laborious, and it's not as easy as just buying them out like this."
"I only sold a few handfuls of hair for three cents. I worked so hard all day, but in the end, more than 1,200 kilograms were only worth more than 40 yuan."
"It's because of the large quantity that it's not valuable. Don't you have other fish? Other fish are more valuable. If you calculate it, it's not a small amount. It's a lot. The first one in the village has one, which is much more than others."
"How much can this be sold for after it is dried?"
Ah Cai chuckled twice and looked at him leisurely.
I feel that this kid's business is getting bigger and bigger, and he's becoming more and more promising and has more ideas. His brain always works faster than others.
"There are different types of dried fish. For example, this kind of toad fish is only three cents for fresh ones, and it's not that expensive after drying, only a little over 40 cents. If the wholesale quantity comes in large quantities at once, the price will be lowered a little bit. You decide for yourself. If you plan to keep it, I won't weigh it. You can just take it back later."
Father and Mother Ye were carrying things back and forth. Originally, they were just chatting normally. When they passed by him, they heard his words and stopped immediately and asked, "What do you mean you want to keep it? Don't want to weigh it?"
"Yes, there are so many of them, what are we going to do with them? Where should we put them? Why don't we sell them? We have been working so hard from morning till midnight, and the most important thing is to see the money as soon as possible..."