Ji Huai was holding the engine with one hand and drinking a Coke in the other hand as he leisurely drove the boat to the place where the nets were put.
Ji Ziqing was also sitting on the boat, drinking the lactic acid bacteria she bought in the morning, looking at a large pile of mussels at her feet, wiping the sweat from her face, feeling extremely satisfied.
When the boat arrived at the place where the net was placed, Ji Huai stopped and began to prepare to pull the net. Ji Ziqing also stood up and was moved to the other side by him. He said to his daughter, "Grab the net and pull it up together."
"Yeah." Ji Ziqing nodded vigorously.
The father and daughter each stood on one side. Ji Huai leaned forward, reached into the water, and pulled up one end of the fishing net first. He held the fishing net with both hands and gave his daughter a demonstration.
Ji Ziqing was a quick learner, and soon she was holding the fishing net with both hands.
"One, two, three, just pull up!" Ji Huai said.
"Um."
"One, two, three!" He raised his voice, shouting and laughing at the same time. He reached out and quickly pulled the fishing net up. The kid didn't have much strength. Although he looked relaxed on his face, he used a lot of strength in his hands. This would give him a lot of strength. She saves effort.
Ji Ziqing also tried her best to keep up with his pace.
After just two pulls, a small fish surfaced and was struggling on the net. He said in surprise, "There is a fish, pull it quickly."
Ji Ziqing stared at the fish, her eyes widened, and her little face turned red with so much exertion.
Soon, the little fish was pulled onto the boat. Ji Huai saw his daughter breathed a sigh of relief with a sense of accomplishment. He deliberately said, "Such a big Shi Jiugong weighs more than a hundred pounds. It's good luck." really not bad."
As soon as he said that, Ji Ziqing glanced at the reddish-brown fish several times.
so expensive.
"Quick, quick, keep pulling." He brought Ji Ziqing back from his thoughts and continued to exert force on his hands. He saw fish emerging, "Yellow croaker, one, two, three..."
"Not bad, and what kind of crab is there?"
When Ji Ziqing heard that there were crabs, she worked even harder. She pulled them up and saw that they were one big and one small, an orchid crab and a red flower crab.
Pulling back intermittently, yellow snapper appeared, as well as two small octopuses.
The first net was not a great harvest, but it was decent.
He hung the net on the bamboo pole and continued to collect the net.
Ji Ziqing is a small person. He pulled up two nets, and his forehead was covered with sweat. In addition, he had used a lot of effort to pry the mussels, so the force of the nets became weaker and weaker.
"That's the last net. We'll go back after collecting this one." Ji Huai drove the boat to the third net, pulled up one end of the net, and said to her.
Ji Ziqing braced herself up.
She has an easy-going temperament, can still endure hardships, and is somewhat resilient.
Ji Huai: "The first two nets didn't catch many fish. Let's see if this net can catch fish and sell more."
Ji Ziqing looked at the fish hanging on the two nets, and also focused on the last net.
There must be a lot of fish.
She was thinking in her heart, while Ji Huai shouted out with his mouth, pulling the net while shouting, "There are a lot of fish, come quickly, come fish, come more fish!"
"Hey, a stone crab!"
"Not bad, it's another Shi Jiugong, pull it quickly, pull it quickly."
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Ji Ziqing also put more effort into her hands and quickly pulled the net.
The fish tangled in the net will also break free. No, the big yellow croaker broke free and ran away.
Ji Huai said "Hey", "I'm so angry that I let him run away!"
Ji Ziqing was also very angry when she saw the fish running away. Her little face wrinkled up, feeling very distressed, and then she quickly pulled the net.
The fishing net was pulled and pulled, but there were fewer fish. Not a single small fish was seen. She was a little disappointed. She was still thinking about the fish that had just escaped, and her interest also dropped a lot.
The three nets didn't seem to catch many fish. It was hard for her father to be so diligent, but he couldn't make more money, and a large yellow croaker ran away. She felt a little sad.
Suddenly, Ji Huai's high-pitched voice suddenly came, "What kind of fish is that? Big guy!"
She heard the sound and went away.
"Grouper!" Ji Huai stood up straight, with uncontrollable excitement in his voice, "Hurry, hurry, pull, it's a grouper, don't let it run away!!"
Although it was Ji Ziqing's first time going to sea, she had been born here since she was a child, and she also knew that grouper was expensive compared to other fish.
"It's so big, pull it out quickly!" Ji Huai's voice still came.
Ji Ziqing almost held her breath and used all her strength to cooperate with her father to pull the net on the boat.
The grouper was getting closer and closer. It was big, so it flipped very vigorously. The fishing net swayed with it, and it was still struggling.
She was afraid that the big grouper would run away. As long as the other party struggled harder, she would be extremely anxious, "Dad, don't let it run away, catch it quickly!"
What a big grouper.
"Okay, okay, pull quickly." Ji Huai responded repeatedly.
The big grouper was still struggling. When it approached the side of the boat, it was discovered that it was bigger than expected, but it was not easy to pull it up. It was close to Ji Ziqing's end, and once it struggled, she could not catch the fishing net in her hand.
"Dad, dad, come on!"
"Come quickly!"
She stamped her feet and called Ji Huai, not daring to let go. She was so anxious that she almost cried.
"It's coming, it's coming." Ji Huai ran to her side, grabbed her small hand with his big hand, shouted "one, two, three", and the two of them worked hard together.
The fishing net was picked up and dropped on the boat together with the big grouper.
The big grouper turned violently, and the fish nets wrapped around it were distorted by it. After tumbling several times, it waited quietly, its fins moving.
Ji Ziqing lowered her head and looked at the big grouper, with a big smile on her sweaty face.
Ji Huai picked up the big grouper and said, "It's so big, I'm afraid it must weigh six or seven kilograms."
She looked at her father with round eyes.
"It's close to three hundred and one kilograms now. Just this one. I'll calculate how much it will cost... I'm afraid it's two thousand yuan."
"Two thousand yuan..." She took a breath.
It's hard for my mother to earn two thousand yuan, but this fish can be sold for two thousand yuan in a long time.
"That's right! This trip was in vain." Ji Huai smiled broadly, untied the grouper from the fishing net and put it in the bucket.
With this grouper, the father and daughter were very happy. Ji Huai played a cheerful song on his broken mobile phone and drove back.
The crab pots have been there for most of the day. When I go back, I have to put away the crab pots first.
Three crab pots were pulled up, filled with crabs and shrimps.
"Would you like to eat Pipi shrimps?" Ji Huai asked his daughter, and then said, "Pick some big Pipi shrimps and let mom cook them for you. You can also pickle them. There are also big crabs, so leave them as well." On."
"It's better to keep it and sell it for money." Ji Ziqing was sitting on the boat untying the fish from the fishing net. Her movements were not skillful, and the fish would bully her. As soon as they untied it, they would run out of her hands.
But she is not timid. When she thinks that these fish are valuable, even if they break away from her hands, she can still get up, walk over without changing her expression, catch the fish with her bare hands, and then throw it into the frame.
Ji Huai: "Don't we have large groupers? How much can we sell these? There are also mussels. I will leave a few kilograms for my mother later, and sell the rest. We will pry them tomorrow."
Ji Ziqing was moved by his words.
When he arrived at the shore, Ji Huai quickly grabbed the crabs out of the crab pot and untied the big crab from the fishing net. He skillfully wrapped a rubber band around the crab twice and tied its pliers.
He and Ji Ziqing first brought some fish, shrimps and crabs ashore.
There were still many people waiting on the shore, and Ji Huai quickly sold the big grouper.
Wild grouper is so big and very valuable. Although it didn't sell for 2,000 yuan, it still sold for 1,800 yuan, which is pretty good.
The other party directly scanned the QR code to pay for him. Ji Huai took out the payment code. After the other party paid, he hung the payment QR code around Ji Ziqing's neck.
She was thin and small, and the long rope was hanging down. Ji Huai also tied a knot at the back to make it look better. He said, "Dad has to untie the fish on the boat, so you go to the stall first." Sell on the market, otherwise the good stalls will be robbed and they won’t be sold out.”
Ji Ziqing nodded in confusion.
Ji Huai arranged for her to sit at the stall where he usually sells things. He became familiar with the old man next to him and asked him to help him look at it. He put the electronic scale aside and told Ji Ziqing: "The big Pipi shrimps must be sold." Thirty, the small ones are sold for 20, stone crabs are sold for 58, mussels are sold for 18 pounds, Shi Jiugong is sold for 185, and..."
He rattled off a bunch of prices and asked Ji Ziqing if she remembered.
She nodded.
"Repeat it to Dad." He was worried.
Ji Ziqing didn't think about it and repeated it to him sternly.
Ji Huai snapped his fingers and said, "Yes, let's sell it like this. If others want to reduce the price by a few dollars, they can sell it. Dad is on the boat."
There are dozens of kilograms of mussels on the boat waiting to be brought ashore, and fish in the fishing nets waiting to be harvested.
Before he left, he gave her the change in his pocket. There are many old people who come here to sell things. They don't know how to pay online and they all use cash. You have to have money to make change. Electronic scales are used to weigh things, and money comes out after inputting the price. She is smarter than children of the same age, so he is not worried.
Ji Ziqing was sitting at the stall, with a payment QR code hanging around her neck and a stack of change in her hand, looking at the people coming and going.
Looking at a pile of mussels, some people started to stop, and an old lady asked her, "How to sell mussels?"
"Eighteen pounds." She paused and whispered back.
"So expensive?" The other person muttered as he knelt down to pick and choose.
Ji Ziqing didn't know how to reply, so she looked back at her father. Ji Huai was loading mussels into buckets on the boat, preparing to take them ashore.
Xu was a child when he met her. The old lady bargained hard, "I sold it for 12 yuan."
"These are all wild," she said urgently.
"Twelve yuan." The other party did not give in.
She was silent for a moment, shook her little head, and mustered up her courage, "Sixteen yuan. I picked it up from a far away place. It was very hard work."
Dad said he could only reduce the price by a few dollars, not more.
The old lady still muttered, picked up the big one and put it aside, without saying whether she wanted it or not. Ji Ziqing looked back at her father, who was walking over with a bucket of mussels. She prayed that her father would walk faster, and then faster.
The uncle next to him hinted to Ji Ziqing to take out the plastic bag quickly. Although she was timid and shy, she was not stupid. She hurriedly took out the plastic bag, kneaded it awkwardly with her little hands, and placed it in front of the old lady.
The old lady threw it into the bag and said, "Sixteen yuan is too expensive. Others sell it for twelve or three yuan. I don't know if there is meat or not, and it's very heavy..."
Ji Ziqing listened to the old lady's words and stayed in place without speaking. She didn't dare to look back, hoping that her father would come over quickly.
Ji Huai came over with a bucket of mussels and poured them aside. He heard the old lady's mutterings, but he pretended not to know and turned around to leave.
"Dad!" she called anxiously.
Ji Huai turned around and said, "There are still fish on the boat. Dad will go and bring up the remaining mussels first."
As soon as she finished speaking, she left before she could speak.
Ji Ziqing could only bite the bullet and continue to look at the old lady, nervous and embarrassed.
The old lady picked up half the bag and put it directly on the electronic scale. Ji Ziqing followed her father's instructions and pressed the unit price of sixteen yuan, and the price immediately appeared.
Sixteen yuan a pound, a little over two pounds.
"Thirty-six yuan," she said to the old lady.
"What's thirty-six? Where's sixteen yuan a pound? I'm too lazy to bargain with you, thirty." The old lady said and put thirty yuan in front of her.
"Sixteen pounds." Ji Ziqing suppressed her blushing, and then she said a word. The old lady had already picked up the bag manually, "No one sells sixteen pounds. If you sell it cheap, I will give you thirty. I'll leave the money with you. That's it." Thirty years old, let’s go.”
"Can't sell it..." Ji Ziqing was timid and timid. When she said this, the old lady had already walked away.
Those who do business, especially those who set up stalls, must be quick-tongued and thick-skinned, otherwise they will not succeed.
She looked at the figure of the old lady and then at the thirty pieces on the ground. She felt a little at a loss and instinctively looked at Ji Huai.
Ji Huai had been paying attention to her, and when she looked over, he quickly looked away.
Ji Ziqing is too timid and afraid of getting into trouble, so she needs to work hard.
In this line of work, if you don't speak boldly, you will suffer a loss.
When Ji Ziqing saw that her father was not looking at her, she didn't know what to do. She was missing a lot of money. When she was in a hurry, another uncle came to ask her how to sell Pipi shrimps.
"This is thirty, this is twenty." She pointed to the big one and then to the small one.
Be smarter this time and know to pull the bag first and give it to the other party.
"The little **** counteroffer.
"Okay, but it's the lowest." She emphasized.
The other party bought two kilograms and counter-offered thirty-five. She spoke harder and in a childish voice, "Thirty-five, which is the lowest. I can't sell it."
In the end, the deal was settled at thirty-five dollars, and the other party gave him fifty dollars. She smiled and found fifteen dollars.
Seeing that it was still early, Ji Huai deliberately slowed down the speed of unpacking the fish and observed her. From time to time, he deliberately sent some fish to the shore to listen to what she had to say. He had also already greeted the uncle next to him and asked him to help keep an eye on it so as not to be deceived.
Ji Ziqing is still young after all, so she will definitely not be able to play with this group of adults. It doesn't matter if she loses a little. The main thing is that she has to learn to communicate with others and seek her own benefits. She must speak boldly, refuse boldly, and bargain boldly.
If you suffer a loss, you will become smarter.
She has followed Yin Cai since she was a child. She is very careful about her budget and loves her mother very much. She will never let go of an opportunity to make money. Furthermore, practice makes perfect, and as you speak, you will become bolder.
When Ji Huai brought the last basket of fish, Ji Ziqing had already sold half of the mussels and a lot of fish. She was counting a small pile of change in front of her.
Seeing someone coming to ask how to sell crabs, she put down the money in her hand and grabbed a crab in the water. The crab was bigger than her hand. It was tied with pliers with a rubber band and moved in her hand. She looked at it with clear and bright eyes. He looked at the woman and said softly, "This big crab costs sixty yuan a pound."
Her father told her fifty-eight, but those uncles, aunts, grandparents always wanted to counter-offer, so she said it was more expensive.
"Fifty-five." The woman felt a little amused when she saw her like this, but it didn't stop her from making a counter-offer.
"Fifty-eight." She stepped back and pushed the big crab forward again, clumsily selling it, "It's very fat and delicious."
In the end, she sold the big crab for 60 yuan. When she received the money, she felt so fulfilled that she became more courageous later on.
"This is eighteen yuan."
"Pippi shrimps this small cost twenty."
"Auntie, let me install it for you."
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When Yin Cai rushed to the pier after work, he saw his daughter's little figure sitting in front of the stall, holding a plastic bag unskillfully to select fish for customers, with her little hands still holding the fish, while Ji Huai sat leisurely. On one side of the bank, I put my feet up and smoked a cigarette.
When Ji Ziqing saw her mother, she was holding a QR code to scan and pay for a beautiful aunt.
Yin Cai gritted his teeth and glared at Ji Huai. When he saw her, he restrained himself a lot and quickly put his feet down. Then he looked at the cigarette in his hand, took two deep puffs hurriedly, threw away the cigarette butt and stood up.
"Mom." Ji Ziqing was in a good mood and smiled at her, her voice much louder than usual.
Yin Cai looked away, his eyes fell on his daughter again, and he looked at the mussel next to her, "Where did this come from?"
"I went to the island with my father and picked it up. We also caught a big grouper and sold it for 1,800 yuan." Ji Ziqing's eyes widened and she was full of excitement when she spoke.
One thousand eight hundred yuan, a lot of money.
She knows that their family is short of money, so she will be happy when she makes money.
Yin Cai was also a little surprised. Ji Huai also came over at this time and said, "Today's harvest is good. There are some mussels on the island. You can go there tomorrow. I picked up more than thirty kilograms today."
Hearing this, Yin Cai looked at the small pile left on the ground, and then at the pile of money in Ji Ziqing's hand. It seemed that a lot had been sold.
“Is this mussel wild?”
While the family of three was talking, someone came over to ask again.
"Yeah, my dad and I went to the island to pick it up." Ji Ziqing nodded.
The visitor bought three kilograms, but there was a lot missing from the small pile. Ji Ziqing quietly said to Yin Cai, "Mom, I left a lot of big mussels for you to cook at home."
Yin Cai looked at her little face that was slightly red from the sun, and felt a warm current in his heart. He stretched out his hand to touch the top of her head and sat next to his daughter.
With her mother here, Ji Ziqing seems to be a lot more courageous, and she can also bargain, although she is not yet proficient.
Yin Cai seemed to have found this to be a good way to exercise her, and stayed with her quietly. When Ji Ziqing was bargaining or making change, Yin Cai didn't intervene and would only give a few words of advice at critical moments.
Ji Huai looked at the mother and daughter, silently sat back on the shore, put one foot on the rocks on the shore, and looked at the fishing boats, large and small, that kept coming back in the distance. He occasionally peeked at the mother and daughter, with some tenderness in his eyes.
As the night gets deeper and deeper, the number of stalls on the pier is also decreasing. Everyone is closing their stalls one after another, and the prices they shout out are getting cheaper and cheaper.
Today's green-mouthed clams were particularly popular, and the last few kilograms were sold out.
Ji Huai stood up and looked over. There were only a few fish left, and he said to Ji Ziqing, "No, no, no, go home and eat."
"Oh." Ji Ziqing nodded.
He walked over, put the fish into the bucket, and quickly packed everything away.
Ji Ziqing held a stack of money in her hand and looked at Ji Huai and then at Yin Cai, not knowing what to do.
She wanted to give it to her mother, but her father caught the fish.
Just as she was hesitating, Ji Huai asked her, "How much cash did you receive? Did you count it?"
"Now there are 934 yuan." Ji Ziqing said.
"How much did I give you?" he asked again.
Ji Ziqing: "One hundred and thirty-six yuan."
Ji Huai: "What's nine hundred and thirty-four minus one hundred and thirty-six?"
"Seven hundred and ninety-eight."
When she said it, Ji Huai's eyes widened.
Is it coming out so soon
Ji Ziqing looked at him without changing her expression, "I've already counted it, we made seven hundred and ninety-eight yuan in cash."
She doesn't know how to calculate this. She uses a stupid method to remove the money her father gave her and then counts again.
Ji Huai was happy and took the payment QR code off her neck. "That's so smart. Dad will give you all the money. You have to save it carefully."
"Really?" She stopped moving and her voice was surprised.
Yin Cai also looked at Ji Huai, his brows furrowed, as if he was also judging the authenticity of what he said.
He nodded, "Of course, you will also have a share of the money sold today. Dad took the money paid online and gave it to you in cash."
He is poor and lazy, but not stingy.
"Can I give the money to my mother?" she asked again.
"Mom..." Ji Huai also looked at Yin Cai, their eyes met. He felt a little guilty, quickly looked away and coughed twice, "Dad will transfer some money to mom."
"How much?" Ji Ziqing asked.
"...Five hundred!" The online payment was nearly three thousand, but he had never been generous to Yin Cai, so naturally he wouldn't give too much.
"Okay." Ji Ziqing said nothing.
When Yin Cai received the money he transferred, he thought the sun was actually rising from the west.
Naturally, she would not be polite and accept it directly, otherwise she would be saving money for his friends.
On the way back, Ji Huai walked in front, Ji Ziqing and Yin Cai followed. Ji Ziqing took the money her father gave her and wanted to give it all to Yin Cai. Yin Cai didn't want it, but she insisted on giving it. In the end, she only accepted it from her daughter. of large-denomination banknotes, three one-hundred-dollar notes and six fifty-dollar notes.
Ji Ziqing also said, "Mom, I can go to sea with my father. We can make a lot of money by prying mussels."
She looked at the light in her daughter's eyes and couldn't tell what she felt in her heart. She just felt like cotton was blocking her throat.
But Ji Ziqing was very happy. She smiled and continued, "There are three big crabs in the bucket, as well as big shrimps. I also left a big mussel for my mother. I also want to eat octopus tonight." I want to eat them..."
Yin Cai's heavy heart was suppressed again, and he nodded, "Okay, mom will do it for you."
When I got home, the atmosphere was more lively than before. The family was busy. Ji Ziqing was very energetic today. She was washing mussels, brushing them clean, and washing crabs.
Ji Huai is handling the fishing nets, and Yin Cai is lighting the fire. You don’t need to add too much to cook mussels. She likes to add some ginger to remove the fishy smell and season it a little, and that’s it.
She cooked all the mussels, enough to make a small pot. Then she cooked shrimps and crabs, and used the small octopus to stir-fry leeks. The leeks were cut from the ground in the garden.
There was too much seafood, and the mussels had to be packed in pots, so I didn’t stir-fry other vegetables.
When Ji Huai went to bring the mussels, Ji Ziqing pointed to where Yin Cai was sitting and said, "Put it here, mom likes to eat it."
"Okay, okay." He placed the small basin of mussels in front of Yin Cai's seat.
After the meal was ready, the family gathered together in an unprecedentedly harmonious atmosphere. Yin Cai ate mussels and listened to Ji Ziqing's words.
Her voice was still very small, but she clearly had an unprecedented desire to share and was in a very good mood.
"There are a lot of mussels on the island, so many that we can't finish them all."
"The grouper is so big, I'm afraid it might escape. A big yellow croaker escaped before."
"Mom, the sea is so beautiful. Can I still go there tomorrow?"
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"You have dance class tomorrow." Yin Cai reminded her.
Ji Ziqing's face changed. She buried her head in eating crabs and said in a dull tone, "I don't want to take dance classes."
Yin Cai also stopped moving and wanted to talk to her daughter, but was interrupted by Ji Huai, "I've been taking dance classes for so long, so it's okay to skip a day or two. I'm going to put out shrimp nets and eel pots tomorrow. Let her go play for another day and relax."
Seeing his daughter's expression of curiosity and longing, Yin Cai couldn't say any objections. In the end, he just asked Ji Ziqing to put on sun protection clothing to avoid getting sunburned.
With her mother's permission, Ji Ziqing was happier than before when she gnawed on crabs. She also peeled off a shrimp and put it in Yin Cai's bowl. Then she looked at her father, peeled another one and put it in his bowl.
Ji Huai seemed stunned, but he didn't know how to express it. Instead, he looked away and opened a bottle of beer.
"Dad, you're drinking again!" Ji Ziqing said to him.
"Just have a few sips to sleep well at night." Ji Huai made excuses for himself.
"You already have a beer belly!" Ji Ziqing pointed at his belly, and Yin Cai also looked over. He looked down at his slightly protruding belly, with embarrassment on his face, and silently put down the beer bottle again.