Chapter 149 Selling Fish

Chapter 149 Selling Fish

Chapter 149 Selling Fish

Over there, Brother Li had already docked the boat at Tuxia Bridge Pier, and the fish in the live hold had been scooped out and put into rubber buckets.

When Brother Li saw Li Changle picking out several tunas and saying that they were going to be taken home to eat, the corners of his mouth twitched with heartache. He thought that it would be enough to leave three or four cents a pound of green tuna and yellow tuna to take home to eat.

Li Changle thought that he was reluctant to eat it when it was expensive in his previous life. Now that it is only a few dimes per pound in this life, if he is still reluctant to eat it, will he wait until it grows to dozens or hundreds of pounds before eating it?

Ignoring his frequent glares, she happily put the fish into the bucket. Even though the fish had been bled, they were still dead, so not as clean as live fish. He didn't want to sell them to restaurants and sell their own brand.

The pomfret, sole, water bream and other miscellaneous fish that Hu Zi caught had about 20 kilograms of dead ones.
The green and yellow mullets caught by longline fishing weighed about thirty to forty kilograms, and they could only be sold for a few dimes. He was too lazy to sell them, so he kept them in the live tank and killed and dried them at home to make mullet heads.

Li Changle also picked out a black sea bream and a yellow-finned fish weighing four or five kilograms to give to A Kun, and also picked out a red sea bream and a yellow-finned fish weighing four or five kilograms to give to Boss Gu.

Brother Li and the other two agreed with this. They also knew that their catch still depended on the Gu family. As they were big bosses, they had to give them good things before giving them away.

After putting the fish into the rubber bucket, Li Changle went ashore and hired a cartman to take the fish to the Phoenix Restaurant. It would take more than ten minutes to walk from the dock to the restaurant empty-handed, and at least half an hour to carry hundreds of kilograms of catch.

There was no way for him, Li Erge and Chen Yongwei to deliver the hundreds of kilograms of catch.

The man pulling the cart helped several people lift the fish onto the cart. Brother Li learned that it would cost fifty cents to transport a cart of fish to the Phoenix Restaurant. Thinking of selling more than ten kilograms of fish, he decided to bring the tricycle next time to save the money of hiring a cart.

After lifting the catch onto the cart, Brother Li jumped back onto the boat. There were still catches, fishing gear and longline fishing gear in the cabin. Although the control has been strict in the past two years, there are still many petty thefts.

Now, they don’t dare to steal big items like engines, but they will show no mercy if they see the fish catches and fishing gear.

Li Changle and several others helped the man who was pulling the cart to push the cart. They walked very fast all the way. The journey that should have taken more than ten minutes was reached in just a few minutes.

As soon as the cart stopped, A Kun came out of the revolving door and said to Li Changle with a smile: "I saw the curly-haired guy pushing the cart inside and he looked a bit like you. It turned out to be you, kid."

Li Changle stroked her fluffy curly hair that was messed up by the wind, took out a cigarette and handed it over, "Uncle Kun, my curly hair is natural, not trendy!"

"Haha, it's better to bring your own. It saves a lot of money on perming!" A Kun took the cigarette with a smile, "How was the catch on today's maiden voyage?"

"Not bad, it's a good start!" Li Changle was not modest and pointed proudly at the rubber bucket on the cart, "These are today's catch."

Ah Kun walked over to the cart and took a look. The fish in the rubber bucket were still alive. The bamboo baskets were filled with tuna. His eyes widened immediately. "Fuck, so many tuna, did you encounter a school of fish?"

"We were planning to go to a deserted island to fish after longline fishing. We saw a few killer whales fishing. The scene was so shocking that I said hello to them in excitement..."

Li Changle was still a little excited when he thought about the situation at that time, and he gestured with his hands and feet, "Maybe it was a coincidence. It swept its big tail and the fish in the sea fell onto the shore like rain."

"We were all stunned at the time and thought our eyes were playing tricks on us!" Brother Li also said with a smile.

The honest man Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly to prove that his brother was not bragging.

Ah Kun, several restaurant employees, and the man pulling the cart were all stunned. Looking at the expressions of those people, they didn't seem to be bragging. They just thought it was too strange. Could a sea beast understand human language?
After a moment, A Kun laughed and patted Li Changle on the shoulder, "Good boy, it's amazing, even killer whales are willing to get close to you."

"That's right, this young man must be very lucky."

"It's just a coincidence, just a coincidence!"

"No one has ever encountered such a coincidence." A Kun thought about telling his boss about this rare thing.

A few people walked to the back kitchen door and unloaded the rubber bucket. Li Changle smiled and handed the money for pulling the cart to the cart driver, and a few people carried the fish into the back kitchen yard.

When Ah Kun saw the red snapper and the red snapper in the rubber bucket, his eyes lit up and he quickly waved to Ah Sheng inside, "Hurry up and bring out the scale to weigh the fish, and put the fish in the fish pond with oxygen."

Then he turned to Li Changle and said, "Ah Le, the seafood you sent me before was always this kind of fish or that kind of fish. I need to tell you that the price of a big fish is different from that of a small fish, and the price of a dead fish is also different from that of a living fish."

"Uncle Kun, don't you and I believe it?"

"As the old saying goes, you should talk first and then talk about it. I am also saying it in advance."

"Uncle Kun is a very honest man." Brother Li smiled and put the fish into the bamboo basket to weigh it.

"We are all real people, so we can get together."

"One red snapper, 15.6 jin, 6.5 yuan per jin." A Kun recorded the account and reported the number to Li Changle and the others.

Brother Li and Awei were so happy that their mouths were crooked with smiles. Li Changle's lips twitched, thinking of the wild red snapper in his previous life. A live fish weighing only a few pounds could cost over a hundred yuan per pound. Compared with that, six dollars and fifty cents was just a drop in the bucket.

There were three red snappers, the largest one weighed 12.6 jin, and the other two weighed 4.7 jin and 3.8 jin respectively. The big one was 3 yuan per jin, and the small one was 1.5 yuan. The shad eventually died, but the price exceeded the three people's expectations. They bought it at 5 yuan per jin, and sold 5 jin and 2 liang for more than 20 yuan. One fish was sold for the price of several other fish.

There were five big yellowfin croakers, weighing a total of 18.6 jin, or 2.8 yuan per jin. There were six small ones, weighing a total of 11 jin, or 1.5 yuan per jin.

Fifteen black sea breams weighed a total of fifty-six pounds, at eighty cents a pound. Yellow croaker, cuttlefish, blue-spotted Spanish mackerel, conger eel, and sea bass weighed a total of one hundred and fifteen pounds, all at sixty cents a pound.

Brother Li and A Wei helped carry the fish into the kitchen. A Kun turned around and saw the fish in the bucket. "There are still a few here."

Li Changle smiled and said, "Uncle, these four fish are reserved for you and Boss Gu. I'll give you an extra dish."

"Okay, I won't be polite with you. I'll take it in and raise it. I'll bring it to my boss when I get home from get off work." Uncle Kun paused, then said, "Our two families live next door to each other. We grew up playing in the mud together."

Li Changle smiled and flattered: "So Uncle Kun and Boss Gu are childhood friends. No wonder Boss Gu trusts you so much."

Ah Kun said with some pride: "The guy wearing glasses last time was the boss's cousin. He was always competing with me and wanted to take the position of chief purchasing officer, but the boss didn't even look at him."

"Uncle Kun is a good person, reliable and trustworthy." After interacting with him for a period of time, Li Changle also got to know A Kun. He was a little greedy, but he never falsified the things he bought for the restaurant.

"I like to hear that." A Kun sighed, "To be honest, without the boss's support, I, A Kun, would either be selling prostitutes on the street or pulling carts. We have to do things in accordance with our conscience."

Li Changle felt that what he said was very right. Although the current conditions were not very good, there was still basic trust between people. Life would get better in the future, but many people had lost their conscience for money.

"A Le, do you want those tuna Uncle Kun has?" Second Brother Li asked, coming out with a bucket.

"That depends on whether you have bled these fish?" A Kun said as he walked towards the bamboo basket.

"Don't worry, they've all been bled." Li Changle stepped forward and opened the fish's gills. "Look, they've all been bled, so they're guaranteed to be fresh."

Ah Kun looked at the incision and nodded with satisfaction, "We don't want the ones that haven't been bled out. Some people who fish offshore don't know this."

"My brother and his friends all sailed overseas. They knew that big restaurants would sell sashimi, so they bled all the live fish."

Li Changle took away a few small fish weighing four or five kilograms from the surface and said, "Look, there is also a bluefin tuna weighing forty or fifty kilograms."

"Hey~ this one is good, it's this big..." A Kun thought for a moment, "I'll charge you one yuan per pound, and the rest will be sixty cents per pound."

For such a big fish, a few pounds of fish fillets can make back the investment. Those nouveau riche like to learn from those people in Hong Kong and Taiwan. If you ask me, what's the point of eating it raw? Why aren't you afraid of getting diarrhea?

"Thank you Uncle Kun for your care." Li Changle said gratefully.

When Brother Li and Chen Yongwei heard that the big fish could be sold for one yuan per catty, they excitedly went over to help weigh it.

The big fish weighed exactly 45 kilograms, and the total weight in the bamboo basket was 176 kilograms. Hu Zi gave them 150 kilograms with just one tail.

Together with the 330 yuan he earned from the live fish, he made 480 yuan from the maiden voyage, a very auspicious number.

After paying the bill, it was already dark. The three of them thought of their families who were still waiting for them, so they hurried to the dock carrying rubber buckets and water buckets, jumped on the boat, and Brother Li started the fishing boat and hurried back.

From a distance, I could see Zhou Ruonan, her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as Grandma Chen and the children standing on the dock, craning their necks to look at the sea.

When the sun went down, Zhou Ruonan and Li Xiaoyang rode their tricycle to the dock to wait for them to return. They watched the fishing boats returning one after another, but there was no sign of them.

When she asked people she knew, they all said they hadn't seen them. As it was getting dark, they still hadn't returned. Zhou Ruonan was getting nervous. Soon, Li's mother, daughter-in-law, and Grandma Chen also arrived.

Everyone was waiting anxiously, worried that something bad might happen to them, or that they might be hit by a big ship...

Li Xiaoyang had sharp eyes and saw lights coming from afar. He stared for a while and saw Li Changle and Awei standing on the deck.

Pointing at them happily, "Mother, look over there, my father and uncle are back."

"Where?"

Zhou Ruonan and the others turned their heads to look in the direction he pointed. When they saw the two people standing at the bow, their hearts suddenly settled down.

Li's mother looked at the direction they were heading back and said, "It looks like they took the fish to Tuxia Bridge and sold them before returning."

"I'm back, I'm back." Grandma Chen lowered her head and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, looking at her grandson who was grinning at her with satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)