Chapter 192 Getting rich

Chapter 192 Getting rich

Chapter 192 Getting rich

Chen Dong felt that as a fisherman, he was more calculating than a fish seller, so he wanted to agree but was somewhat unwilling to do so. A one-cent increase for every pound would be fine if it was only ten or eight pounds, but this was several thousand pounds, so he would lose a few hundred dollars in profit!
"Brother, how about this, increase the price by 5 cents per pound..."

Li Changle was so tired that he didn't want to argue with him. "Adong, let's be frank. I sell large pomfret weighing more than two kilograms to restaurants for 1.5 yuan. The price I'm asking you for is already 20 cents per kilogram less than sending it to the restaurant."

"The price the restaurant gets from me is a dime cheaper than what they get from you." He raised his hand with difficulty and patted his shoulder, "Brother, you've made a lot of money."

After calculating this, he even wanted to open his own seafood restaurant.

Chen Dong didn't expect that he had understood the market situation so well. He smiled awkwardly and said, "Okay, I'll pay the price you said." Then he added, "I have to make a phone call to inquire about the price of red snapper before I can give you a definite answer."

The price of tuna and mackerel is not bad, but red snapper is several dollars per pound! You have to ask carefully.

"Okay, you're busy!"

Before Chen Dong even got ashore, Old Man Jin called him back, "Ah Dong, we've been working together for a few years, and my fish must be priced the same as Ah Le's. I won't accept favoritism!"

Chen Dong hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Uncle Jin, I promise to give you the same price as A Le's family."

When Old Man Jin heard him say this, he felt relieved and squatted down to continue sorting the fish. Chen Dong also hurriedly went to inquire about the price.

Li Changle sat on the deck and continued to sort the fish. More and more fishing boats returned. Two of them were fishing in the same sea area as them. Both caught three to four thousand kilograms of fish.

The fishing boats that were not operating in that sea area were looking at the fish on their boats. Although they had originally thought that today's catch was pretty good, they were no longer happy.

The happiest ones were Lao Chen and Lao Li. They quickly dropped the work in their hands and went to negotiate the price with their old customers.

Wang Mazi and his father looked at each other, stepped onto the Lai family's fishing boat in two or three steps, and pulled the Lai brothers to whisper.

At this time, Li Xiaoyang came with Li's father.

The old man saw that they had indeed encountered a large school of fish. Looking at the small mountain of fish on the deck, he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. "A Ping, you guys eat first."

"Okay, my stomach is growling with hunger."

Li Changle and others hurriedly took off their gloves, went ashore to wash their hands and opened the rice basket. Only then did they realize that their hands were so sore that they couldn't even hold the bowl. Fortunately, they had a spoon. The four of them put the bowls on the cart, sat on the bamboo basket and started eating.

Lai Laoer came over holding a bowl of rice and asked, "Ah Le, how much per pound did A Dong give you for those big fish?"

Li Changle swallowed the food in his mouth, "Adong said he wanted to ask about the price, but he hasn't given a price yet. What about yours?"

"I caught four tuna weighing 50 to 60 kilograms each, as well as a few swordfish and mackerel. The tuna and mackerel were priced at six centimeters, and the giant swordfish was priced at seven centimeters."

Lai Laoer came forward and whispered, "Your family has a partnership with a restaurant. Do you think this price is a loss or not?"

Li Changle remembered that the tuna his family sold to the restaurant last time was sold for one yuan per pound. The Li family made a profit of four cents per pound, so of course they lost money.

Cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents. He would definitely not tell the truth and make enemies with them. "I have never sold such a big fish, and I don't know the market price."

"You don't know either? I thought you were lucky and had a partnership with the restaurant, so you knew the price of big fish!"

"I've only caught two big rice fish, but I've never caught anything else."

"Lai Laoer, you don't even know how long my Ah Le has been doing this, and he knows even less!" Brother Li Er said with a smile.

"That's right, big fish aren't something you encounter very often."

Lai Laoer hesitated for a moment and then said, "Just now Wang Mazi came to me on the boat and asked me to sell him the big fish. He would add 10 cents to the price charged by Lao Li for each species. I was afraid that his weight would not be enough, so I hesitated and did not agree."

Li Changle smiled and said, "You know the relationship between me and his family. You have to make your own decision on this matter."

"Haha!" Lai Lao Er laughed awkwardly, "Yeah, I'd better go talk to Lao Li."

After Lai Lao Er left, Li Er Ge gloated, "There are so many boats out to sea today, and Wang Mazi's family doesn't even have a fishmonger. I think it won't be long before they have to close down."

"It's better to shut it down!" Li Changle put down the spoon and wiped his mouth, "Go to work!"

More than a dozen people, big and small, young and old, worked together and soon filled twenty or thirty baskets. There was no room left to walk on the boat.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li No. 2 carried a basket of fish onto the gangplank. "Ah Le, we don't have enough bamboo baskets. Your hands are too weak. We'll send the fish to A Dong's house. You stay there and weigh them, then bring the bamboo baskets over."

Li Changle wanted to help, but unfortunately he was powerless, so he had to step aside and said, "First, carry over the ones that weigh more than half a pound and one pound, and keep some of the ones that weigh less than half a pound for drying."

"We know!" Mrs. Li and her sisters-in-law came ashore, and Mother Li and Zhou Ruonan also carried bamboo baskets and walked towards the shore.

The cart was soon filled with bamboo baskets. The mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law pulled the cart to Chen's. Ah San and another worker came to help move the things inside.

Li Changle greeted Chen Dong, called A Kun, and told him that he had obtained a lot of large goods, including a lot of silver pomfret. A Kun asked him to wait, and he immediately went to the dock to take a small sampan back to Tuxia Bridge, and drove to the dock to check the goods.

Li Changle wished he could come and pull it himself, so as to save the money of buying ice cubes to keep it fresh.

Chen Dong waited for him to finish the call, then took out a list and put it in front of him. "I've asked about the price of the big fish. Do you think you're satisfied with this price?"

He hesitated for a moment, then continued, "Several bosses are also interested in your mackerel and those red mullets. Do you want to hear their prices?"

Li Changle shook his head. "No need. I told Uncle Kun last time that if I get any good stuff, I'll keep it for him. People should be honest."

Chen Dong didn't expect that Li Changle, who was always haggling with him, would say something like this, "You're right. Fishermen are very firm in their words."

Li Changle smiled and took the list to look at it. Tuna and Spanish mackerel over 30 jins cost 70 cents per jin, red snapper over 10 jins cost 5.8 yuan, and over 15 jins cost 6.5 yuan...

Li Changle nodded after reading it and said, "Okay, let's take this price."

Chen Dong looked at him in surprise, "Brother, I was about to ask you to call other purchasing points to inquire about the price, but you refused to bargain again."

"I still have to leave you some profit!" Li Changle put the list in his pocket, "Bring me a pen and paper, I'll write down the weight."

Chen Dong found a notebook and gave it to him, then asked Ah San and his assistant Ah Qiu to move the bamboo baskets onto the scale. They stacked ten baskets in a row before starting to fiddle with the weights.

"Nine hundred and eighty-five kilograms, more than one kilogram and less than two kilograms."

Li Changle hurriedly took notes. Then there were five more baskets weighing more than one jin, a total of five hundred and fifteen jin, and then more than two jin...

Ah San and Ah Qiu moved the weighed fish into the freezer for storage, loaded the copied bamboo baskets onto a cart, and sent them to the bow for loading.

A dozen people were busy until nine o'clock before they sorted out all the fish. The silver pomfret weighing more than half a catty and those weighing less than two catties were all weighed.

There were still two baskets of mantis shrimps. Li Changle felt that the price of three cents per pound was too cheap, so he simply took them back, boiled them, peeled the meat, dried them and sold them.

There were two baskets of silver pomfret weighing more than two kilograms, and half a basket of those weighing three kilograms. These were extremely rare and large items, and Li Changle kept them all for A Kun.

A total of 1,200 kilograms of tuna and mackerel were sold for 840 yuan.

One hundred and fifty-six kilograms of red snapper weighing more than ten kilograms were sold for nine hundred and four, and one hundred and twenty-five kilograms of red snapper weighing more than fifteen kilograms were sold for eight hundred and twelve.

There were more than twenty baskets weighing less than half a pound, nearly two thousand pounds. Li Changle sold one thousand pounds to A Dong's family and kept the rest for drying.

There were also crabs, cuttlefish, eels, grouper and some miscellaneous fish caught in the first and last nets, which also weighed about 100 kilograms. We picked out some big ones and sold the rest to Chen Ji.

Chen Dong picked up the abacus and fiddled with it. "Crabs, cuttlefish... a total of four hundred and fifty, and one thousand kilograms of small silver pomfret, a total of two hundred and fifty."

"3,750 catties of medium pomfret over half a catty, 3,000 yuan, 1,500 and 2,028 large pomfret, a total of 8,240 yuan."

He looked at Li Changle and said, "Brother, I received too many good things today. I will write you a note first and give it to you tomorrow after I withdraw the money."

"Okay, you can send it to my house tomorrow." Li Changle made a rough estimate when he was weighing the money. Now that he knew the exact amount, he was extremely happy.

He has earned enough money to build the house today. He can pick out the beads he likes from the house and keep them to make jewelry for Anan in the future.

After hearing the amount of money, Big Brother Li, Second Brother Li, and Chen Yongwei's faces turned red with excitement, and they suddenly felt that their aching hands didn't hurt so much anymore.

The Li family and the Chen family's grandparents were all so happy that they couldn't stop smiling. Li Xiaoyang ran outside happily, "I'll tell my mother and aunt."

The Jin family and the other two families were also very happy. They also had several thousand kilograms of silver pomfret and one or two hundred kilograms of large goods!

The captains waiting for the weighing looked at Li Changle with envy, "Wow, your family still has so much cargo left. This trip will make your family a millionaire!"

Father Li saw this and said happily, "That's good. When Uncle Kun comes to take the fish away and sells the money, you four brothers can share it. Then you will have money to build the house."

"Yes, yes, we are still worried that we still lack a lot of money to build the house. When we passed by the master's temple yesterday, we went to worship a few times and asked for the master's blessing!"

As Mother Li and Grandma Chen spoke, they bowed several times in the direction of the Master's Hall!
Li Changle looked at those envious eyes, rolled his eyes, and pulled Brother Li and said, "Brother, we have sold more than 8,000. Tell me, how much will the two iron boats of the Zhou family and the big boat of the Wang family earn today?"

Brother Li smiled cheerfully, "All I know is that they definitely earn much more than me, at least twice as much."

"It's less than twice. The Zhou brothers are sailing large ships of more than 10 to 20 meters. Your small wooden boat is only six meters long. It's not even on the same level as theirs."

"Boss Wang is far inferior to the Zhou brothers. He still has to use a metal boat. My family suffered a loss today because we don't have a trawl net or a seine net. We have to use the money from today's sales to quickly install a trawl net."

"Yes, we'll set out to load the trawling net tomorrow morning!"

(End of this chapter)