Chapter 343: Lots of Goods, Low Prices

Chapter 343: Lots of Goods, Low Prices

Chapter 343: Lots of Goods, Low Prices
The team leader also said, "Ah Hu, what your Simao did was really unkind. The Ah Yu brothers lost their parents when they were very young. We are all from the same village. I don't ask you to lend a hand, but don't steal their things!"

Seeing this, Chen Ah Hu hurriedly said, "Uncle San, Captain, it was Simao who did something wrong..."

His wife was not happy after hearing this. "The child was beaten like this, and you still say he is wrong. Look at his face, it is swollen from being beaten by the Li brothers, and his body is bruised from being kicked..."

"You have such a foul mouth, you deserve to be beaten to death! You have brought shame to the Chen family. If you don't discipline your Simao, you will regret it one day."

Accountant Chen said, and then said to Chen Ah Hu in a bad mood, "Xiao Yu's face needs to be checked out by Doctor Xiang. You go and pay me. If you don't give me, I'll go ask you for it!"

"I'll give it to you." Chen Ahu agreed and turned to leave. Several members of the Chen family followed him.

Accountant Chen waved to the villagers who were watching, "Stop crowding around, go find the fish quickly, or else even the hairtail will be gone."

"We caught a fish, we caught a fish!" Everyone dispersed with laughter.

Accountant Chen patted Xiang Xiaoyu on the shoulder and said, "Remember to go see your grandpa. You are a good child. Take good care of your brother. If you have any problems, come to the village to find me."

"It's okay, I'm not hurt!" Xiang Xiaoyu said gratefully, "Thank you, Grandpa Dong."

Accountant Chen rubbed his head and said, "Hurry up and find a place to catch fish."

"Ayu, let's go." Li Xiaotao and a few others dragged a bamboo basket and pulled him to look for fish.

"Ah Hu's Simao has been spoiled by his wife. I will go find him after we go back after fishing." Accountant Chen apologized to Li Changle and others.

"Forget it. I don't think Ah Hu's wife will listen to it." Grandma Chen waved her hand and said to Li's mother, "Let's go fishing too."

Li Changle exchanged a few polite words with Accountant Chen, and Li's father and his men carried buckets of water and left with Accountant Chen. He was also busy looking for Zhou Ruonan and Li Xiaoyang.

As soon as I reached the intersection, I saw Li Xiaoyang running towards me breathlessly, "Uncle San, hurry over and help!"

"I just wanted to look for you guys." Li Changle hurriedly followed him towards the pier and found that some villagers had already come here to look for fish.

"When my aunt and I went to the dock, there were so many fish that we picked them up along the way. The tricycle was full, and the net bag was full too. We couldn't even pull the fish when we got to the ramp."

"No wonder you guys haven't come back for so long!"

"I wanted to go to the dock to ask Chen Dong for help, but there was no one there. They all went to the beach to catch fish."

"It looks like there are a lot of people selling fish today. Let's park the tricycle outside Chen's and line up." Li Changle followed him halfway up the slope and saw Zhou Ruonan still looking for fish among the rocks under the breakwater.

"Aunt San, Uncle San is here." Li Xiaoyang shouted at the top of his voice.

"Hey!" Zhou Ruonan hurriedly carried the net bag and walked over here, "Ale, there are so many fish!"

"We've caught quite a few too!" Li Changle took over the net bag she was carrying with a smile, "Wow! Teacher Zhou is quite strong!"

"It's only about 40 to 50 kilograms when fully filled. Xiaoyang can carry it." Zhou Ruonan glared at him in reproach and took out a handkerchief to wipe the rain off her face.

The three of them arrived at the truck and saw that the truck bed was filled with fish of all sizes, and there were five net bags full of fish next to it.

"We originally wanted to catch them and sell them at Chen's, then bring the ice back, but we didn't expect that the more we collected, the more ice we found. In the end, the tricycle was full, and the net bags were almost used up."

"Same, there are people everywhere on the beach, everyone is catching fish." Li Changle picked up the net bag, "Anan, watch the tricycle here, Xiaoyang and I will deliver two bags to Adong's house first."

"Ok!"

Li Changle carried two net bags, holding one in his hand, and Li Xiaoyang also carried a bag and followed him towards the dock.

The rain was much lighter now, but the wind was so strong that it hurt people's ears. The uncle and nephew walked to the dock and saw that the shops were also closed, including Li's and Chen's.

The ships docked at the pier also sailed to the safe harbor. The once bustling pier was now silent except for the sound of wind and waves.

Li Changle placed the net bag at the door of Chen's house and asked him to watch it there. He went back to carry the remaining bags to the dock and walked back.

Standing on the breakwater, he looked at the villagers busy picking up fish on the beach, went downhill, tied the fishing rope to the iron bar of the cart, put it on his shoulders, and pushed the tricycle up the slope with Zhou Ruonan.

It had just rained and the uphill road was slippery, so the two of them had to work hard to push the car onto the dock.

Li Changle took a few deep breaths and pushed the tricycle to the door of Chen's. "Xiaoyang, wait in line here. We'll go back and pull the fish over."

Li Xiaoyang nodded reluctantly, "Go back and replace me."

"Okay, I'll buy you something delicious later!"

Li Changle and Zhou Ruonan walked to the ramp and saw villagers on the beach below, walking towards the dock in groups of three or four, carrying baskets and pushing carts.

Zhou Ruonan pulled him and said, "Ah Le, hurry up. It looks like all the fish here have been caught."

Li Changle stepped up his pace. "The whole village, young and old, has been mobilized. It's good enough that we can catch him now."

"Fish prices have plummeted!" Li Changle looked at the sky. "This time we caught the most Spanish mackerel, and there are several hundred kilograms of green mackerel and eels. The weather is like this and we don't dare to leave them to dry in the sun."

"The weather forecast said it would take a week!" Zhou Ruonan said with a smile, "The price of fish has fallen, so let it go. We just picked them up anyway, so it's better than nothing!" "My wife is really insightful."

"You're such a smooth talker!" Zhou Ruonan rolled her eyes at him, then remembered something else, "I have to go check on the rice later. It's almost yellow. I'm worried that it might be blown down by the strong wind today."

Li Changle thought about the wind and rain in the afternoon and felt that there was little hope that the fish would not fall down. "If they do, we will have to harvest them early and then use the money from selling the fish to buy food."

"Yes, fortunately there are fish to supplement it."

When the two of them were halfway there, they saw Father Li and Big Brother Li pulling a cart towards them, while Chen Yongwei and Second Brother Li were each carrying two baskets.

"You guys came pretty fast!"

"We picked up a lot of small fish in the end, so we didn't send them home for sorting!" Father Li said to Li Changle, "You go with us to the dock, and Anan and I will go back to help sort them."

"Okay!" Li Changle stepped forward to help push the cart. The four of them rushed to the dock and saw long queues forming in front of the two seafood stores.

Baskets, sacks, net bags... all kinds of utensils for storing fish. Everyone squatted beside their own catches, discussing the rain of fish.

The dock, which was deserted a moment ago, became busier than a vegetable market. The children who were helping to catch fish were grinning and asking for money to buy candy, and the adults were in a rare good mood and didn't scold them.

Agen saw a few people coming over and said with a smile: "Ale, I heard that there were a lot of fish in Nanshan. How many pounds did your family pick up?"

Li Changle thought that since everyone was here, even if they kept it a secret, everyone would know when they sold the fish. He estimated and said, "More than 4,000 kilograms, right?"

The villagers in the queue were envious after hearing this, "Wow, how come your family picked up so much?"

"Your family is so lucky, right? We only picked up 400 to 500 kilograms, but your family picked up more than 4,000!"

"I thought eight or nine hundred kilograms was a lot for my family!"

"Ah Le, what kind of luck do you have? Not to mention fishing, now you can even pick up more fish than us?"

"One of the husband and wife earns a salary, and the other earns money by driving a big ship. How can you spend all the money in your family?"

Li Changle's mouth twitched a few times, "Your family has picked up so much. We are a big family, including Awei's family, a total of six families, it's not a lot."

Brother Li took over and said, "We all did it together. After the fish rain, the dams of every household in Nanshanao were full of fish, and everyone picked up a lot!"

After hearing this, everyone felt relieved. "That's more like it. I thought that was all there was in Ah Le's family!"

"We only have a few pairs of hands in our house. The best way would be to poke a hole in the roof and let the tornado pour in!" Li Changle smiled as he carried the bamboo basket into Chen's, and saw Chen Dong's family and two workers squatting there sorting the fish.

The brothers hurriedly put down the bamboo baskets and said, "Adong, there's more here!"

"I'm about to weigh everything, luckily you came quickly!" Old Chen hurriedly lifted the bamboo basket off the scale.

The people in the queue behind him saw that they had brought in so many fish again, and said with a smile that they were faster than them in buying big boats, and even the people in the queue to sell fish ran faster than them.

After a few jokes, Big Brother Li, Second Brother Li and Chen Yongwei hurried home to fetch the fish and weigh them.

Li Changle stood there with his hands behind his back, watching them sort the things, trying to delay for a while so as to avoid having to talk to others later.

"Adong, there is another big red snapper, it looks like it weighs fifty or sixty kilograms." Asan pushed the bamboo basket in front of Chen Dong.

Chen Dong hurried over to check on the fish. When he saw that the fish had burst, he said distressedly, "Such a good fish, it's a pity that it burst!"

"Maybe it exploded when it was sucked up into the sky."

Several families in the queue behind came over and said, "Today's dragon is really powerful. It sucked up such a big fish."

"Any boat in the sea will be sucked up if it encounters a fish. A fish weighing dozens of kilograms is nothing!" Li Changle looked at Chen Dong, "What's the price of the red snapper?"

Chen Dong thought for a moment and said, "The most I can give is 2.5 yuan per pound."

Li Changle glanced at him, thinking that when he came back from the next trip to the sea, the seafood store in the town would be open, and the possibility of the two companies cooperating on the catches in the future would be less. He was too lazy to negotiate the price with him, and pointed to other catches, "What about the prices of those!"

"Today, there are a lot of sea bass, mullet and mackerel. The price has dropped a bit, from 30 cents a pound to 27 cents a pound, and from 20 cents a pound to 16 cents.

Only large items weighing more than 10 kilograms, as well as hairtail, octopus, eel, crab, and shrimp have not dropped in price. "

Li Changle thought of the three or four hundred households in the village, each of which had several hundred kilograms of fish. With so much supply and low prices, it was normal for the price to drop a few cents.

The villagers who were queuing to sell fish felt a little disappointed after hearing this, but then they thought, although the price has dropped a few points, it is still better than selling miscellaneous fish and snails at two or three cents per pound.

They only earn three or four yuan after working hard for an entire afternoon, but it takes them a long time to earn the money from selling hundreds of kilograms of fish.

No one said much, they just urged the two fish shops to weigh the fish quickly. After a tiring afternoon, it was already dark and their stomachs were still empty.

(End of this chapter)