"Are you saying that the seafood buyers in town will no longer accept goods from our Yanlong Village?" Xiang Yang suspected that he had heard it wrongly.
Father Xiang also found it incredible. "Those seafood buyers are not doing charity by buying seafood from our Yanlong Village. They also make money from this. Why do they suddenly stop buying?"
"Uncle, brother, it's true." Xiang Huilian said, "At first, Uncle Cheng dragged 20 to 30 kilograms of sea fish to the town to trade and was driven back. Then a few fellow villagers went to the town to trade and encountered the same situation. After the news came back, I didn't believe it. I immediately went to the town to inquire about the situation. Then I saw that the three buyers in the seafood market had posted notices that they would not accept any seafood from Yanlong Village in the future. People from other villages who dared to help Yanlong Village people bring goods would also be blacklisted."
"Have you found out why this happened?" asked Xiang's father.
Xiang Yang also looked at Xiang Hui, but he already had some vague guesses in his heart.
"Second uncle, second brother..." Xiang Hui hesitated to speak.
Seeing Xiang Hui's expression, Xiang Yang became more certain of his inner guess, and his face gradually darkened. "Just say whatever you want to say, don't be so shy."
"I found out. It's because of you, Second Uncle."
"Because of me?" Xiang's father was obviously stunned.
Xiang Hui said quickly: "The seafood buyers in the town said that since Yanlong Village has its own buyers, they are no longer needed. From now on, Yanlong Village can consume all the seafood by itself."
Only then did Xiang's father realize that his purchase of swimming crabs and lobsters had caused dissatisfaction among the seafood buyers in the town.
"Alas." Father Xiang sighed, "Did they say that as long as I stop buying lobsters and swimming crabs, they will continue to buy seafood from my Yanlong Village?"
"Uncle." Xiang Hui was anxious. Xiang Hui knew how much money his uncle could make every day after purchasing lobsters and swimming crabs. How could he watch his uncle give up such a lucrative piece of cake so easily
Moreover, Xiang Hui himself often used the price difference to go to other villages to buy swimming crabs and lobsters, and made a lot of pocket money. If Xiang's father quit, wouldn't that mean that Xiang Hui's source of wealth would also be cut off
"Stop talking." Xiang Yang said with a gloomy face, "It's been a while since we bought swimming crabs and lobsters. Why did the other party react only now? They didn't come here to buy swimming crabs and lobsters from us. They came here for my big ship."
"Fishing boat?" Xiang's father's face changed and he said in a low voice.
If you tell Xiang's father not to buy swimming crabs, lobsters and other things anymore, he would just sigh slightly.
But if anyone dares to take over Xiang Yang's fishing boat, Xiang's father will definitely fight to the death with anyone.
The catch of Xiang Yang during his first voyage gave his father great confidence. To Xiang's father today, that fishing boat is the hope for the prosperity of the entire Xiang family.
A hint of cruelty flashed in Xiang Yang's eyes, "Dad, don't worry about this matter, I will handle it myself."
This incident must have been partly caused by the fishing boat. The three seafood buyers in the town must be jealous when they see so much catch being shipped out of Yanlong Village.
But the main reason is definitely that Xiang's father's purchase of swimming crabs and lobsters affected the interests of the seafood buyers in the town.
Xiang Yang told Xiang's father that the other party came for the fishing boat because Xiang Yang didn't want Xiang's father to compromise with the other party. Xiang Yang could see that Xiang's father really liked the job of purchasing seafood.
Moreover, there is no room for compromise. If we compromise on the seafood purchase this time, the other party might really go further and set their sights on the fishing boats next time.
"Second brother, what are you going to do with them?" Xiang Hui licked his lips and said excitedly, "Lend me your people, I will go to the town tonight and overturn their stall."
"Lift your head off." Xiang Yang almost kicked Xiang Hui. Isn't it uncomfortable to say such things in front of his father
Sure enough, the next moment, Xiang's father's face changed and he said seriously: "Xiaohui, you two brothers must not do anything reckless."
"Dad, don't worry, I won't let Xiaohui do anything wrong." Xiang Yang first made a promise to his father, and then asked: "Xiaohui, how many people in the village know about this now? What is everyone's reaction?"
"Almost everyone who has been to the town knows about it, and now everyone is discussing countermeasures at Village Chief Zuo's house." Xiang Hui said immediately.
"At Village Chief Zuo's house?" Xiang Yang narrowed his eyes. "Let's go to Village Chief Zuo's house. The most important thing now is to stabilize the villagers first."
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At Village Chief Zuo’s house, a large group of fishermen huddled together with sad faces.
"The seafood buyers in town will no longer accept our catches. What should we do?" sighed an old fisherman while smoking a water pipe.
"How about asking Old Xiang to stop purchasing swimming crabs and lobsters, and then we can go to the town together to say a few good words to those three seafood buyers?" said a fisherman.
"Bullshit, I sold them 300 yuan per pound of lobster for more than 100 yuan, and you still want me to say good things for them? Do you think I look that bad?" A fisherman immediately shouted angrily.
"Your idea is really not good. Regardless of whether Lao Xiang is willing to give up this kind of work, I have tasted the sweetness and I don't want to be ripped off by those three profiteers in town again."
The fishermen quickly rejected the man's suggestion after a few words.
A fisherman took a long puff of his cigarette and said irritably, "What do you say we should do? Are we going to live on swimming crabs and lobsters? How many of those can we catch in a day? If we can't sell the ordinary catch, we'll all be left starving."
The small living room of Village Chief Zuo's house immediately fell into silence, and the atmosphere was terribly depressing.
"Bang!" In this depressing atmosphere, the door of Village Chief Zuo's house was suddenly pushed open.
Xiang Yang strode into the living room of Village Chief Zuo's house, surrounded by Xiang's father, Xiang Hui, and several fishermen he met on the road who had hurried over after receiving the news.
"Xiaoyang, what are you doing?" This incident could be said to have been caused by Xiang Yang, but Xiang Yang was not notified of the meeting. Village Chief Zuo looked at Xiang Yang with some embarrassment.
More than a dozen pairs of eyes in the small living room looked at Xiang Yang.
"Without the three seafood buyers in town, can we survive?"
"My Xiang family buys the fish caught by everyone. Have we ever treated you unfairly?"
Xiang Yang asked two questions in a row. The fishermen present hesitated for a while and then nodded and shook their heads.
Xiang Yang's expression finally eased when he saw this, and he tried to speak calmly: "The three seafood buyers in the town have declared war on me. In fact, I have always restrained myself from doing things too radically, and wanted to leave them a way out. In fact, there is profit in cheap seafood such as scallops, oysters, and cuttlefish, but I have never asked about these seafood. But now they have offended me, and I can tell you very clearly that our Yanlong Village no longer needs those three seafood buyers in the future. From now on, they can't take even a salted fish from our Yanlong Village."