When Ye Yaodong pushed the cart to Uncle Lin's house, he had not returned yet and Aunt Lin was cooking. The door of their house was also full of various dried fish, whether they were hung with ropes or on bamboo flats, all were dried densely.
He took a quick look and headed inside. "Aunt is cooking. It smells so good. She's such a great cook. Is my uncle not back yet?"
Aunt Lin turned around and looked at him with a smile. "No, I don't come back until dark every day. Please sit for a while. Have you eaten? Have a bite here. The food will be ready soon."
"I've already eaten. No wonder your fried dried dragon head fish smells so good. It's perfect for drinking."
"Wait a minute, sit down and have a couple of drinks. There are too many dried fishes lately. We have to eat them in different ways every day. Otherwise, we don't know what to do. There are so many that we can't sell them all."
"Uncle, do you still have some to sell?"
"Yes. A few days ago, the wind and waves were strong, so he was drying his fishing nets at home. After that, he saw that there were too many dried fish at home, several sacks, so he carried a sack to the town to sell. It was not easy to sell, and he didn't sell much in a day."
"There are fishing villages and docks all around our town, so who can be without dried fish? I've dried so many of them, and I regret it so much. I dare not keep any of them these days. The ones drying outside the door are all small miscellaneous fish, and no one wants them. I have no choice but to dry them."
"After a while, I'll see if I can carry the fish to the county town to sell them. There are a lot of people in the county town, so I should be able to sell more. There are so many fish piled up everywhere at home that I don't even have anywhere to put them. I don't know what I was thinking, but I brought back so many fish that can be sold..."
"Although it can be sold at a higher price after drying, how many kilograms can I sell? I have them all in my hands. How long will it take to sell them..."
Aunt Lin muttered to herself while cooking.
Ye Yaodong felt a little guilty when listening to her. At that time, Uncle Lin also saw him keep all the more than 1,000 kilograms of toad fish, so he thought of learning from him and seeing if he could sell them for more money by drying them in the sun.
In the end, he really tricked me
Most people would never think of selling their products in the city. Normal people would be unsure about unfamiliar places, so they would choose to sell their products in the nearest place.
Because he had been going back and forth so many times, he became more ambitious and had more ideas.
If this were sold in a nearby town, you could only sell a few kilograms sporadically. How could anyone ship it as fast as he did
Ye Yaodong said awkwardly: "Well, if Auntie wants to sell the dried fish at home, why not sell them all to me."
"Ah? What? What did you say?" Aunt Lin thought she was hallucinating.
"If you want to sell all the dried fish at home, then sell them to me."
She heard it clearly now and was surprised. She threw away the old loofah while washing the pot and quickly wiped her hands on her apron.
"Are you serious?"
"Really? I came here just to ask if you guys sell dried fish?"
"Hey, you, are you serious? I thought you came to see your uncle for something. I have several hundred kilograms of fish at home. I kept them for three or four days, and after drying them, there are about five or six hundred kilograms. It's a lot, and they are piled up on a whole wall. I only sold one bag in the past few days, and there are still so many. I dare not keep any these days, otherwise there will be more."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "Sell them all to me. Have you sorted them out? If they are all sorted out and in good condition, the toad fish is 30 cents per pound, the dragon head fish is 20 cents, and the other miscellaneous fish is 10 cents. It's up to you to sell them. The price is definitely cheaper than if you set up a stall yourself. After all, I come here to collect them, and I have to make money myself. It's not easy for me to sell such a large quantity, and I have to take risks."
Aunt Lin's eyes lit up. "Sell, sell, sell. Of course I'll sell them all to you. It will save us a lot of trouble. Besides, your uncle Lin and I have already done the math. No one wants those miscellaneous fish, so we can make as much money as we can sell them. If you charge 0.30 cents for the toad fish, we can also make a little money. Also, we didn't get any dragon head fish when we put out the sticky nets, so we fried all of them today."
"That's fine, it's up to you to decide. I thought I should ask Uncle Lin."
"No need to ask him. I can make the decision. It's fine if we sell all of them. There's no place to stack them. And we can make money at your price. We can sell all of them to you and get paid right away. It's much better than selling them slowly at a stall. We can also make more money than selling fresh ones. If we set up a stall ourselves, it will take us forever to sell all of them."
What did Aunt Lin suddenly think of
"Hey? A few days ago, people in the village said that you guys made a lot of money by drying fish. Is that true? I thought it was just a rumor. After all, we can't sell them. We can only sell a bag of several dozen kilograms every few days. It's so hard to sell them, although we can make a little money."
Ye Yaodong was a little amused and confused. He hadn't even started selling the products a few days ago, but people had already started spreading rumors about them.
He is almost becoming a celebrity in the village now. Whenever there is a little movement, legends about him will come out.
"Don't listen to the rumors in the village. I hadn't started selling them a few days ago. How many kilograms did I dry in total? If I could make a lot of money from that little bit of dried fish, wouldn't your family also be rich?"
"That's right. I thought so too at first. I just thought it was just a rumor. But now that I see you're going to take all of my hundreds of kilograms, I started to overthink it, didn't I?"
"I've only started selling things at the stall these past two days, and it's very hard work and exhausting! I can figure out how much I can earn from selling at 30 cents a pound, but I can't expect to make a fortune. I can only earn hard-earned money."
Aunt Lin nodded as she listened. She had an idea of how much money she could earn.
"Indeed, it's mainly because it sells slowly and is hard to sell, otherwise the profit would be good."
"Come on, come on... I'll take you inside, and we'll carry it out together and weigh it at the door."
"The house is too small, there is no place to pile them, so we can only pile them inside. Fortunately, the girls in the family are married, and a room has been vacated, so there is still a place to put them."
"I'm still worried that if it rains, it will leak. That would be the end of me. Every time it rains, the house leaks like a sieve, and there is a lot of water on the ground. It would be best to sell it all to you directly, so that I don't have to worry..."
It seems that older women like to mutter to themselves, and Aunt Lin is the same, muttering as she walks.
Ye Yaodong could only listen passively and silently, and then help her carry all the bags of dried fish outside.
While it is not completely dark yet, there is still light and he can still see, he has to pour it out and pick out some.
Although Uncle Lin and his team posted pictures of their own products for sale, they should not be cheating, but he still had to come out and take a rough look and check a few kilograms to avoid any mistakes.
As I said, this is going to be sent to the army, so we have to be careful.
"You still need to pour it out to see? All right, then go in and take out the big bamboo bed from the house and put it on the open space. You can just pour the dried fish on it."
"good."
The neighbors nearby watched their commotion from their houses and came out to watch curiously. Some even came out with their bowls in hand and ate while watching the fun.
"What are you doing here? Those bags are the dried fish you dried a while ago, right?"
"Hey, you really dried a lot of them... Didn't you say you would sell them in town? How come you still have so many?"
"It won't sell, for sure..."
"There are so many left, several hundred kilograms, what should I do?"
"Why are you moving out again? What are you doing?"
"It would be better if we just sold them to the dock honestly. With so many of them, what will we do if it rains?"
"Make way, make way..."
Ye Yaodong and Aunt Lin moved the bamboo bed out and saw several people standing in the open space at the door, which was very troublesome. They hurriedly asked everyone to make way and put the bamboo bed on the open space.
"What is this for?"
"Do you need help?"
"no, I'm fine… "
Aunt Lin waved her hand, and she and Ye Yaodong poured a bag of dried fish onto the bamboo bed, and then watched him rummaging through them, touching this and looking at that.
"This generation is all dried toad fish. We dried them and specially picked them when we packed them. The dryness is also very good."
Ye Yaodong nodded, and he roughly looked through the fish to see if there were any other miscellaneous fish mixed in. He also randomly selected some to test their dryness. It only took a few minutes, and he asked Aunt Lin to pack them up.
The villagers who gathered around to watch the fun also understood what they were doing.
"Hey, Adong, are you here to collect dried fish?"
"My God, the rumor in the village is that you made a lot of money from dried fish recently. Is it true?"
"This is incredible! What can you do now? The old Lin family has dried so many and still can't sell them. I thought it was just a rumor in the village, but it turns out to be true!"
"How did you collect these dried fish? I have some dried fish at home, too. I'll get some for you..."
“I have one at home~”
"I have some at home too. I'll go get it..."
As the villagers were talking, they ran back home to get the dried fish!
Ye Yaodong was busy with his work, bent over, not paying attention to what people around him were talking about. It is human nature to join in the fun.
When he heard everyone say that they were going home to bring out dried fish for him, he stood up straight in surprise. His mouth opened and closed, but before he could say a word, everyone ran away.
"Did everyone react so quickly?"
Aunt Lin smiled and said, "This can be sold for money, who wouldn't be enthusiastic?"
"But I've had enough! I don't want any more! What you have is enough for me to sell, I still have some left!"
He himself did not expect that Uncle Lin's family had quietly posted so many photos.
However, even if you collect all of these, there won’t be many pounds left, at most a hundred pounds, which is no big deal.
I was originally thinking of buying some from Uncle Lin, then visiting a few friends to get some together, but now I don’t have to go anymore. Four or five hundred kilograms from Uncle Lin is enough.
"Enough? No more for others?"
"Yes! You have so many here, enough for me to sell!"
Aunt Lin quickly shouted at the top of her voice, "Don't take it. Yaodong has collected enough. He has enough from my house. He said he doesn't want it for the time being."
"Ah? That's enough, no more?"
The women and men were carrying baskets, some were carrying baskets, some were carrying sacks, and it felt like their joy was in vain.
Ye Yaodong laughed awkwardly, "Aunts, you are too anxious. I haven't even said anything yet and you ran back home to get them. Aunt Lin has several hundred kilograms of these, enough for me to sell. If you need them next time, I will tell you."