Chapter 327 If you want to do it, do it big
Chapter 327 If you want to do it, do it big
"That's enough, that's enough!" He Zhenhao said, grabbing him and whispering with a cunning look on his face, "Did you find pirate treasure when you went out to sea?"
"Go! How can you have such a rich imagination!" Li Changle smiled and patted him, "I just told you that the fishing boat was built by four families working together, and we also borrowed some from my mother-in-law and the manager of the Phoenix Restaurant."
"No wonder! You are worthy of being brothers. If we want to do something, we should do it big!" He Zhenhao said happily, "I will order the fish, shrimp and crab for my wedding banquet from you. They must be the freshest!"
"Absolutely!"
"I originally planned to stop by the seafood store at the pier today to check out some fresh produce. Now I can get it at wholesale prices, and it's the freshest, first-hand goods."
"Give me the order in advance. Even if I can't get enough here, I can ask other bosses to prepare it for you."
"I'll send it to you once the chef has finalized the menu." He Zhenhao added, "You're busy today, too, so I won't keep you any longer. We'll get together again when you're done."
"Fuck, you're being polite." Li Changle smiled and patted him, "Hurry up and get on the boat to pick up some fresh food to take back."
"Come next time." He Zhenhao pointed over there secretly and winked at him, "Your mother is here, she'll curse at me again when she sees me!"
Li Changle then saw Mother Li walking towards them with a dozen women, "Don't worry, I'm the captain of the ship now, and I'm a respectable person, she won't scold me."
In the past, whenever Li's mother saw his bad friends, she would scold them. Except for the shameless Wang Mazi, He Zhenhao and others never dared to come to her house to play with him.
He also didn't dare to go to He Zhenhao's house to play because he was not welcome by the adults!
"Ah Le, why don't you invite your friends to sit on the boat for a while?"
"Hello, Auntie!" He Zhenhao turned his head and smiled flatteringly.
"Hey!" Li's mother looked at him for a few seconds, "Are you Ah Hao? You've changed a lot, I can't recognize you."
"Hey!" He Zhenhao laughed, "Yes, I saw him when Ah Le held his wedding."
"Ah Le will be moving to a new house in Nanshan soon. It's spacious there. Come visit us when you have time."
"Okay, I must go."
Mother Li said to Li Changle again, "You too, when Ah Hao came, you didn't even bring him upstairs to sit for a while! Bring some fresh food back to eat."
"Let's go, don't block the road!" Li Changle winked at him and led him towards the boat.
"Hey! Whose family is this young man from? He is dressed so stylishly."
"Friends in Ale Town."
"The trouser legs are so big, it takes so much material!"
"That's right, the places that should be narrow are not narrow, and the places that should be loose are stretched too tight. Look, my butt is about to burst the fabric!"
"Haha!" Li Changle smiled awkwardly at He Zhenhao, "Country people are like that."
"It's okay!" He Zhenhao whispered, "I heard it all the way into the village!"
"You're really a bit of a show-off!"
"You are an old-fashioned person and you still call me a show-off. Go to the city and see how people dress like this now."
"You don't understand, this is called returning to basics!"
"I believe you ghost!"
The two chatted and laughed as they went to greet Li's father and Zhou Ruonan. After a few polite words, Li Changle took him to have a look around the boat.
He Zhenhao patted his shoulders in admiration, "Kill Jia! Kill Jia! I never dreamed that you would be able to buy a big ship so quickly, and become the captain of the ship."
Li Changle cried poor, "I still owe a lot of debts, how can I compare with you who eats government food!"
"Being a government employee is just a nice way of saying it." He Zhenhao shrugged. "As a temporary worker, I have to do more work than regular workers, and I only get paid about 20 yuan a month. If it weren't for Xuefei, I wouldn't bother to go."
"Work hard. They can't go even if they want to. Besides, it's not like temporary workers can become regular employees." Li Changle patted him on the shoulder. "If you want to do something good, I'll have someone to protect me from now on."
"Yes!" He Zhenhao patted his chest with a proud look on his face, "As long as I can do it, just come to me."
"Row!"
"I'm going to go to Jin Xing Deng to invite people to a wedding banquet. We can play together someday when I'm free."
"okay!"
It was very busy over there, so Li Changle didn't keep him. He picked some hairtail, pomfret, yellow croaker, shrimp and crab for him and sent him off the boat.
With the help of Li's mother and those women, the sorting and packing process became much faster.
After Ge Changfa and Li Changshui went out to sea, Uncle Li and his wife and Afa's wife came to help after hearing the news. Even Agen's wife, who bought the boat, came to help. The boat was suddenly crowded.
Mother Li hurriedly asked Li Xiaoyang to take his younger brother and sister-in-law back to the old house to take out the dried fish, put the last batch in, and clear the area to dry the dried fish left over from today.
Li Xiaoyang agreed and said to Xiang Xiaoyu, "Ayu, are you going to go fishing today?"
Xiang Xiaoyu nodded, "The tide will not recede until twelve o'clock, I'll go after lunch."
Li Xiaoyang: "After lunch, let's go together."
"Okay, I'll call you after dinner." Zhou Ruonan took over and said, "Ayu, bring your brother to the old house to play, and have lunch here."
Seeing that he was hesitant, Li Changle said to him, "Xiaoyu, listen to your teacher Zhou and help Xiaoyang and the others dry the fish jerky. We will eat it here at noon. Bring some crabs with broken claws, fish and shrimp back to eat later."
"Okay, Uncle Le."
Li Changle and Li Erge hurriedly carried the two younger ones to the shore, gave them a few more instructions, and then went back to work on the boat.
Sardines and miscellaneous fish were sorted out first. Chen Dong said that the price of fish had dropped a bit after the festival, and the price of sardines, fat-eye herring and miscellaneous fish could be given a maximum of two cents.
Li Changle also asked Ge Changfa and A Shui about the market conditions in the past few days, but he didn't tell him much. He led his men to move baskets of fish to the shore and started weighing them.
Fourteen thousand kilograms of sardines and two thousand four hundred kilograms of miscellaneous fish, at two cents per kilogram, sold for a total of 328 yuan.
Next came the saury, totaling 327 kilograms, kilograms of water bream, kilograms of mantis shrimp, and kilograms of green prawns, which together sold for yuan.
The mackerel, not counting the large ones weighing more than ten kilograms, had a total of 6900 kilograms in the three grades, and was sold for a total of yuan.
Golden threadfish is 108 cents per pound, 420 pounds, a total of yuan, and sea bass has dropped by cents, averaging cents per pound, pounds, a total of yuan.
A total of 1670 kilograms of blue crabs, swimming crabs, orchid crabs, red flower crabs, etc. were sold for a total of 3600 yuan. 900 kilograms of hairtail were sold at an average price of cents per kilogram, for a total of yuan.
A total of 3200 kilograms of golden pomfret, cuttlefish, and squid were sold for a total of 960 yuan, 168 kilograms of silver pomfret were sold for a total of yuan, and a total of kilograms of several types of shrimp were sold for a total of yuan.
These goods were sold for a total of 12359 yuan. There were still fish and shrimps left on the boat for drying in dried fish jerky, as well as more than kilograms of good goods and several thousand kilograms of deep-sea fish that had not been weighed.
Chen Dong gave the order to Li Changle, "Brother Le, wait until they come to see the goods and weigh all the remaining large and good goods, and I will pay you for them together."
"Okay, let's sort out the rest."
Chen Dong got off the boat and took his men to deliver the goods to the warehouse for freezing, while Zhou Ruonan and Li's mother were busy going home to cook.
Mrs. Li, her sisters-in-law and Brother Li pulled fourteen baskets of large and small yellow croakers and spring fish, and took the women who helped them back to Nanshan to kill the fish and dry the dried fish.
There were also cuttlefish, silver pomfret, saury... golden threadfish, mantis shrimp, eagle claw shrimp left in the cargo hold to dry as well as bream heads and fish jerky.
The total weight of the cargo in the cargo hold was more than 3,000 kilograms. The sky was gloomy and the wind was howling at the dock. Li Changle did not dare to stay any longer, for fear that the weather would change and affect the quality of the fish jerky.
Fortunately, most of the fish jerky in the house have been dried and stored in the warehouse these days. The old house, Chen’s house, and the Nanshan site are all vacant. We can only pray to God for help and not let it rain, even if it’s windy every day.
Seeing that they were almost done with their work, Uncle Li's parents-in-law, Li Yufang, A Xiu and A Gen's wife also said goodbye and went home.
After thanking them, Father Li said to them, "I will not invite you guys at noon as I am busy. Come to my house for a drink in the evening."
Uncle Li smiled and said, "You can drink wine any day. You've been tired for a few days. After you sell the fish, take a good rest for a day."
Li Xiu also smiled and said, "Uncle Tang, you should take a good rest for two days. I will come and drink with you when Ah Fa and Ah Gen come back."
Li Changle thought that there was still a lot of fish and shrimp to be caught in the afternoon, "Uncle San, sister-in-law, let's wait for Ah Qing, Ah Fa, and Ah Gen to come back tomorrow night and tell them."
"Okay!" Uncle Li agreed with a smile.
Father Li and second brother Li also gave the family some crabs with broken claws, hairtail fish, and silver pomfret, and sent them off the boat.
After they left, Li Changle thought of something, "Brother, Dad, how much bonus do you think is appropriate for Ah Cheng this time?"
"My elder brother and I work on a boat in the south bank. Every time we get off the boat, we are given at most 20 to 30 kilograms of fish. We have never been given any bonuses. I don't know how much is appropriate to give."
"Acheng is a hard-working kid, and he's also your sister-in-law's cousin. You can decide how to give him the bonus. Give him some hairtail, pomfret, shrimp, and crab, and give him some to take to your uncle."
"Okay!" Li Changle thought that the monthly salary was only 90 yuan, and if he gave him too much, he would worry that his appetite would grow. "Then I'll give him a bonus of 30 yuan. What do you think?"
Father Li and Brother Li both nodded, "It's enough. The monthly salary is only ninety."
Li Changle smiled and said, "It's not every time we encounter a school of big fish. This time, let's consider it as an extra bonus!"
"Okay, let's go back and eat first. You and Awei stay here and come over after we finish eating."
"Ok!"
The father and his two sons turned around and walked towards the boat, only to see Chen Yongwei and Wang Xincheng leaning against the side of the boat, chatting with their eyes narrowed.
"Thanks to everyone's help today, if it weren't for us, I don't know how long we would have been busy."
"Yeah!" Wang Xincheng also wilted, "I don't even want to move a finger now."
"Acheng, let's go home for dinner." Father Li and second brother Li put the seafood into buckets and called Wang Xincheng to get off the boat.
As soon as the three men left, Chen Dong came towards the boat with seven or eight bosses.
Chen Yongwei whispered, "Brother, Adong has brought people to the boat to check the goods. Uncle Kun hasn't arrived yet. Do you want to take out the hairtail, sea cucumber, sea urchin, and big abalone?"
"Don't take it out yet. Wait until Uncle Kun comes." After saying this, Li Changle took Chen Dong and several bosses to look at the goods.
Everyone was so happy when they saw the groupers, black fish, red snappers, and big deep-sea fish.
(End of this chapter)