Chapter 78 This guy is too cunning

Chapter 78 This guy is too cunning

Chapter 78 This guy is too cunning

For the same 200 jars, the harvest on a typhoon day is greater than on normal days.

Chen Yongwei even said whimsically: "Brother, if the typhoon is not very destructive, it is still a good day for typhoons, and we can catch more fish and more good things."

"You wish!" Li Changle suddenly remembered the snail-shaped jade and took it out from his trouser pocket and handed it over, "Look, I picked up a piece of this."

Chen Yongwei took it, took a look at it, and handed it back to him, "It's pretty good-looking, take it back and give it to Xiaohai and Xiaozhou to play with!"

"Don't give them to play with." Li Changle took it and tossed it a few times, and said happily, "When I have some spare money, I'll find someone to polish it for your sister-in-law to make sample jewelry."

Chen Yongwei recalled that his grandmother often talked about how she sold the golden cloves that came with her as a dowry in order to build a house, and said:
"You too, what's so special about a broken stone? Even my grandma likes gold jewelry. When you have money, you should make some gold jewelry for my aunt. When my aunt wears it, people will know that you have made a lot of money."

"Of course you have to buy gold jewelry, but good stones are more valuable than gold, don't you know that?"

"It's just a broken stone, not pearls or agate, how can it be valuable?"

"If you don't believe me, forget it. Let's get to work!" Li Changle put the stone in his pocket, went over to pull up the fishing rope, and continued to catch the octopus.

It didn't take much effort to empty the last jar.

Li Changle returned to the shore carrying the bucket, poured the octopus in the bucket into the backpack, took out a cigarette from his jacket pocket, lit it, leaned against a big rock and puffed out smoke. Only then did he realize that the tide had receded a lot.

Thinking about what her sister-in-law said about going fishing when she went out, she was worried that Zhou Ruonan would come along, so she hurriedly packed up the catch and waited for Chen Yongwei to come ashore before leaving.

Conches, flower snails, and shellfish were all poured into the backpack together with the sea urchins, and sole skin, yellow croaker, white crab, and herring were put into the bucket.

Looking at the big golden yellow croaker in the bucket, I suddenly remembered that people in the old days called gold bars yellow croaker, and I think this metaphor is quite vivid.

Chen Yongwei came over with a bucket of water, and when he saw the octopus in the basket, he smiled so hard that his mouth couldn't close. "Brother, today is a great harvest. I'll bring all the jars from home to you when I get home.

Six hundred jars of octopus caught, I think I'll need two more sacks to hold them."

Li Changle lit a cigarette and handed it to him, "I'm worried that your sister-in-law might have followed you out, so hurry up and pack up and go home."

"Yeah!" Chen Yongwei nodded happily. Holding a cigarette in his mouth, he covered the backpack with a sack and tied it with a hemp rope to prevent the octopus from escaping.

The two men walked back with backpacks on their backs, a bucket in one hand and a sack of fishing gear in the other. They did not see Zhou Ruonan and her two sisters-in-law along the way.

There were flashlights everywhere on the endless mudflats. There were more people fishing in the beach after the typhoon than during the day.

Li Changle thinks it is more comfortable to go fishing in the sea at night in summer, because the sun is too hot during the day and can burn off a layer of people's oily skin.

"Wow, this big yellow croaker must weigh about 8 or 9 kilograms, right?"

Suddenly, Chen Dong's voice was heard behind them. Turning back, they saw him shining a flashlight into the bucket that Chen Yongwei was carrying.

Li Changle poked his head to look at his bucket, only to see that it was filled with blue crabs, sand crabs, and dragonflies. "What's the use of eight or nine kilograms? They're not as valuable as the big blue crabs you caught."

It’s really frustrating to think about it. A yellow croaker that costs tens of thousands of yuan can only be sold for a few yuan these days.

"How can we compare to you two?" Chen Dong looked at the backpacks on their shoulders. "The backpacks and buckets are full. People who met you while fishing in the sea said that you picked up hundreds of purple sea urchins."

"..."

Li Changle glared, "Fuck! I think tomorrow, someone will say we found thousands of sea urchins."

"The more the better. No matter how many sea urchins you pick up, I can eat them all." Chen Dong said with a smile.

It turned out to be waiting for me here!
Li Changle looked at him, suspecting that this guy had heard the news and was waiting for them here.

Thinking about his cooperation with Phoenix Restaurant, the Chen family would hear about it sooner or later. Besides, the restaurant only wanted good products, and the sales volume was limited.

Take the Tide Watcher and the Octopus for example. Once all the 400 jars at home are put into the sea, there will be a total of 600.

Last time, there were two hundred jars weighing more than seventy kilograms. With six hundred jars, even if we go there every other day, on a lucky day, we can collect at least two or three hundred kilograms of octopus.

The last time I went to sell octopus, Uncle Kun said that next time he would only want 30 kilograms at most, and the rest of the fish would have to be sold to seafood stores.

He didn't know the price of sea urchins, but they had sold Wangchao and octopus in a restaurant once. The seafood store charged 20 cents, while the restaurant charged 45 cents. The price difference between the two was indeed too big. Of course, they had to make a profit in business, but the price they sold to the restaurant was more than 45 cents...

Seeing that he was silent, Chen Dong recalled the rumor in the village that he and A Wei got the snow eel, and he had waited for a long time, but they didn't send it to his house to sell. He also remembered that Li Changle used to be a gangster.

Whenever he has nothing to do, he goes to Panzhen or Tuxiaqiao. He is very different from those ignorant seafood diggers in the village. Maybe he has found another seafood store to cooperate with!
"Ah Le, you know that my prices are the most reasonable. The seven-head one is originally 15 cents, I will give you 20 cents each, and the five-head one is originally 30 cents, I will give you 35 cents."

Li Changle looked at him. "Let's not talk about the sea urchins for now. Let's take Wangchao for example. We sell them to you for 2 cents each. The big restaurants in town and the seafood shops in Haimen pay much higher prices than you do."

Chen Dong shook his head repeatedly, "Impossible, Wangchao is only 2 cents per piece, and all the seafood shops in Tuxia Bridge are priced at this price."

Chen Dong continued, "Ah Le, you are retail investors, so the price you get must be different from the price of the big ships returning home. If you don't believe me, just send it over and ask for the price."

"I know that." Li Changle said with a smile, "To be honest, I sold my catch to another purchasing company these past two days, and their price was more than double yours."

"Of course, you have to make money by collecting and selling the fish, but we work so hard to get the fish, but we can only sell it for so little money. The effort and the reward are not proportional."

Chen Dong laughed after hearing this, "Ah Le, the one who bought the tuna fish for you at a high price, is that the one you went to to sell the snow eels? I tell you, with a few tuna fish, even if others pay double the price, the profit from the snow eels can completely make up for it."

"A few tide watchers!" Li Changle raised the corners of his lips and said to Chen Yongwei who was standing silently by the side, "Awei, put down the backpack and let Adong see it."

"Oh!" Chen Yongwei put down the backpack, untied the rope on the sack on the backpack, and a basket full of octopuses was revealed.

Li Changle said to Chen Dong who looked puzzled: "Adong, look, these are what we just found. There are more than 30 tidal bonito and several dozen kilograms of octopus."

Wang Chao deliberately reported less because he had to keep half for the Phoenix Restaurant.

"It's only been a short time, you two are so good at shipping."

Chen Dong looked at the octopus and kingfish in the basket in surprise. He could hardly believe his eyes. There were so many of them. It didn't look like they were found in the sea. Instead, they looked like they were caught in a fish pond with a net.

Chen Yongwei looked at Adong who had a surprised look on his face and laughed foolishly!
"There will be more in two days. That day we sold them more than 30 sea urchins and more than 60 kilograms of octopus." Li Changle paused, "Of course, we don't expect you to offer the same price as them, but the price you offered is indeed too low."

"Well, Wangchao, I'll give you 22 cents..." Chen Dong looked at Li Changle's slightly raised lips, quickly handed over a cigarette, and changed his words, "Well, I'll give you 24 cents per piece, and 25 cents per pound of octopus. This price can't be higher."

Li Changle took the cigarette he handed over and said, "Adong, you are still not sincere! So, in Wangchao Triangle, I will sell the octopus at the price you mentioned. If you think it's okay, I will send the catch to your house to sell. If not, I will take the trouble to sell it myself."

"Also, we have fresh octopus and octopus. Others don't have as much as we do. I can sell them in town for at least 40 or 50 cents each. Octopus can be sold for 30 or 40 cents per pound."

As he said this, he suddenly felt that this was an easy way to go. There were many nouveau riche these days, and there were also employees in the town who did not have to save money to buy a house or to send their children to extra classes or interest classes, so they were willing to spend money on food and drink.

Chen Dong looked at the octopuses that kept escaping from the backpack, and thought of sending them to the restaurant, selling them for fifty cents each.

If you collect them in triangles, you will earn a dime less for each one, and if you collect dozens of them, you will earn several dollars less. But if you don't collect them, you will earn even less.

But Ale is too cunning. If I agree to his request readily this time, he will definitely ask for a higher price for other goods next time.

He raised his head and looked at Li Changle awkwardly, "Ah Le, if you charge me three cents per pound, I won't make any profit at all..."

"It's not that there's no profit, it's just that the profit is less." Li Changle patted his shoulder, "Just consider the price I mentioned. I have to go back and change my wet pants, otherwise I will get rheumatism in the future. The money I earn now will only be used for medical treatment when I get old."

Seeing the two men picking up their belongings and about to leave, Chen Dong hurriedly grabbed them and said, "Okay, okay, I'll give you the price you said. You have to sell me those sea urchins, right?"

Li Changle put down the backpack and said, "I can sell it to you, but I can't sell it at the price you said. Seven heads are 30 cents each, and five heads are 50 cents. If you agree, we'll send it to your house after we go home and change our pants."

"You guys are asking for too much!" Chen Dong's eyes widened, "No, the price is too high, it's doubled. If this is the case, I won't make any profit..."

"You know whether it's profitable or not." Li Changle glanced at him, "Tomorrow I'll go down the bridge to sell them in small quantities. Do you believe me, I can sell seven of these purple sea urchins for 50 cents each?"

He suspected that Chen Ji had made at least over a hundred yuan from the big flower dragon and rice fish sold to his family last time.

Damn, it’s still easy to make money by doing business these days, and he’s even tempted.

Chen Yongwei's heart was pounding. He didn't expect Li Changle to raise the price so much. He turned his head and looked at Chen Dong excitedly, wanting to see if he would agree.
After hearing this, Chen Dong suspected that Li Changle didn't go to the town to hang out, but went to watch people do business. He said helplessly: "A Le, retail and wholesale are two different things..."

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