Chapter 357 Selling Fish
Chapter 357 Selling Fish
When the fishing boat arrived at Tuxia Bridge Pier, it was already dark.
Brother Li found a berth and parked the boat, then said to Li Changle, "My eldest brother and I will take Dad to the hospital for treatment. You go to the restaurant to find Uncle Kun."
Li Changle agreed, got off the boat and called a rickshaw. Brother Li and Brother Li got in the rickshaw and sent the old man to the hospital. He also called a rickshaw to go to the Phoenix Restaurant.
When I arrived at the restaurant, the kitchen staff had already gone off work. I told the people in the lobby and then called Uncle Kun over.
"Why did you come back so soon? I didn't hear there was any wind?"
"My father had a cold and was not feeling well, and he also got some big shipments, so he came back early."
"What good stuff did you get?"
Li Changle looked around and pulled him outside. "Two catfish weighing over 100 kilograms, and a moonfish weighing over 100 kilograms..."
"Ah! How many big hairtails and moonfish do you think they are?"
Li Changle glanced at the staff who were looking over here, and said in a low voice: "Two big fish weighing more than 100 kilograms, and a moonfish."
"Kill Jia!" A Kun patted his shoulders excitedly. "You are so lucky, kid. Come on, I'll go with you to see it."
"Okay!" Li Changle thought about it and asked again, "I'm in a hurry to come back. Is my sister's seafood luggage ready?"
"It's still two days away. We said it would be a good time to wait for you to return, but we didn't expect you to come back early."
"Uncle Kun, I have an unwelcome request!"
"you say!"
"I'll give you the big hairtail this time, but I'd like to keep the small one for a few days at the restaurant. When my sister's seafood shop opens, I'll give it there to attract customers."
"Ah Le, Uncle Kun doesn't treat you as an outsider, just tell me what you want to say. If you want to freeze the food or something else, you can keep it for as long as you want.
But I don't agree with you selling hairtail in the shop with great fanfare.
Think about it, a fish costs several thousand yuan, and some people can't earn that much in a year. The idea of attracting popularity is good, but if it is too eye-catching, it is not a good thing.
Just like Adong and his friends, when they receive good and large goods, they will quietly inform the familiar buyers. If they do it as you said, it will be a headache to be targeted by land thugs, not to mention the industrial and commercial taxation. "
After listening to his analysis, Li Changle realized that he had taken it for granted. His old face turned red and he smiled awkwardly: "Uncle, I have never done business before. I thought it was a good thing to catch a big fish!"
"As long as you have large quantities of good products, you won't have to worry about a lack of popularity when running a seafood business." A Kun patted his shoulder, "Wait until your sister's seafood business opens, and I'll introduce some bosses and diners I know to her. You won't have to worry about not being able to open up sales."
Li Changle said gratefully: "Thank you, Uncle Kun, you and Boss Gu are the noble people in my life."
"You're not bad!" Ah Kun said with a smile, "Work hard, and the economy will only get better and better in the future, and there will be more and more wealthy people. Whether it's the dry goods business or the fresh goods business, it will only get better and better."
"Thank you, Uncle Kun!" Li Changle felt that what he said was absolutely right. Nowadays, there are many wealthy bosses, especially in their place, there are many who make a lot of money secretly.
"Don't be so polite to me!" A Kun asked, "What's wrong with your father? I know two good doctors in the hospital."
"This morning..." Li Changle told him about his father's symptoms. "The fever didn't go away, and we felt uneasy, so we just returned home."
"You did the right thing. Your father has sons like you. It's worth their hard work to raise you."
Ah Kun took him to the van and said, "Get in the car. Let's go to the hospital first. I'll ask Doctor Xu to check on your father."
"Thank you, Uncle Kun!"
"It's okay. Old Xu likes to eat big yellow croaker. When you get some good ones, just send him a few."
"We have large yellow croaker this time. We'll pick them out at the dock. Can you give them to Doctor Xu?"
"You really don't plan to sell those big yellow croakers fresh?"
“The yellow croaker is delicious too.”
"Send me some when you're done drying."
"Okay!" Li Changle said, "Do you have Mr. Chen's phone number?"
"Yes, you want him to come to the dock to pick up the goods?"
"We have more than 20,000 kilograms of fish. My sister's fish is not ready yet, so we still need to find a seafood store to collect it."
"There is a Yongfeng Seafood Shop at the dock. The owner is Lin Yongfeng. He also bought from your ship last time. He is the chubby one. His prices are as fair as Chen's. If you don't mind, I can ask him to collect the goods for you."
"If you say it's okay, then it must be okay." Li Changle took out the list of goods and read it to him. "Pick out the ones you want first, and sell the rest to Boss Lin."
"I want red snapper and big mackerel, I want 200 jin of medium mackerel, and I want all the big fish over 20 jin,
Two hundred catties of medium-sized fish, two hundred catties of hairtail, one hundred catties of silver pomfret, fifty catties of grey pomfret, one hundred and fifty catties of crab roe and one hundred and fifty catties of swimming crab each..."
"We have separated the good and the bad goods. Do you want to weigh them first, or should you weigh them for Boss Lin first?"
"Pass it to him first. I'll be watching there. I'll give you a few more points per pound so you can earn more." The small truck soon arrived at the hospital accommodation building. A Kun got off the car and went to a three-story accommodation building. After a while, he came downstairs with a middle-aged man. After exchanging greetings, the three of them got in the car and went to the hospital.
Doctor Xu found the doctor on duty, who said that there was some infection in the lungs. He examined Mr. Li's father and said that there was some infection in his lungs, but his high fever and body aches were due to the sweating caused by being caught in the rain.
Doctor Xu gave Li's father acupuncture needles, prescribed some medicine, and told Li Changle and his three brothers that the fever would subside in two hours. After saying hello to the doctor on duty, A Kun sent him away.
At this time, Wang Xincheng brought Li's mother and sister-in-law Zhou Ruonan to the hospital. Seeing that Li's father was not seriously injured, they were relieved.
"Ah Le, we'll be here to look after your father, you guys go to the dock and sell the fish."
"Okay!" Seeing that their father was in much better spirits, the three brothers Li Changle took Wang Xincheng out of the hospital, and A Kun drove over.
The group went to the pier. A Kun parked the car and shouted at the corner. The chubby Lin Yongfeng came out of the house and got on the Xusheng with him.
When Boss Lin saw Li Changle and his brothers, he smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed and his eyes were invisible. "Boss Ale, I have wanted to cooperate with you for a long time."
"Thank you, Boss Lin!" Li Changle told him about the catch and handed him a list.
"The total is probably around 16,000 or 17,000. I've noted the catch, if you like it, let's talk about the price first."
"No problem, I'll take them all." Boss Lin said with a smile, "Don't you have any other big or good stuff?"
"Ah Lin!" Ah Kun smiled and nodded at him a few times, "I'm bringing you the supply, and you still want to steal my goods?"
"I dare not, I dare not!" Boss Lin hurriedly handed him a cigarette, and after looking at the list given to him by Li Changle, he began to quote the price.
"Gray pomfret is 7 cents a pound for large ones, 4 cents for medium ones, and horsetail fish over 4 pounds is 3.5 yuan, and under 2.3 yuan.
Silver pomfret costs 45 cents per pound if it’s over half a pound, 8 cents if it’s over a pound, large cobia costs 70 cents per pound, medium-sized ones costs 5 cents, hairtail…”
Li Changle thought that it might be because Uncle Kun was here, the price he offered was more realistic than Chen Dong's, so he nodded readily, "Okay, let's weigh it now."
Brother Li and Chen Yongwei went down to the cargo hold, and Boss Lin also called two of his family workers to help move the goods to the seafood shop for weighing.
There were many idle people on the dock at this time. When they saw the baskets of goods being unloaded here, they all gathered around and said, "Damn it, there are so many mackerel. There must be more than 40 baskets unloaded. That must be more than 2,000 kilograms, right?"
"Look, there are still a lot of cobia and pomfret... these must weigh several thousand kilograms, right? Big ships are good, we need to work for a month in the coastal waters to catch these fish."
"Look, there are more! At least more than 10,000."
There were idle people gathered around to watch the fun, and some of them enthusiastically helped to load the bamboo baskets onto the cart.
Someone openly tried to steal the business, "Captain, can you sell me a basket of pomfret to dry in the dried fish head?"
"They have all been sold to Boss Lin. You can just ask him to buy them."
After saying this, Li Changle went to the seafood store and started weighing things with Boss Lin.
There were 760 kilograms of large silver pomfret, which were sold for 756 yuan, and kilograms of medium-sized silver pomfret, which were sold for yuan.
There were 1075 kilograms of gray pomfret, totaling 2660 pieces; hairtail, flounder, pike, sea bass, mackerel... totaling more than kilograms, totaling pieces.
There were 588 kilograms of sergeant fish weighing more than 2625 kilograms, which were sold for 2415 yuan, kilograms of mullet weighing more than kilograms, which were sold for yuan, and kilograms of medium-sized mullet weighing kilograms, which were sold for yuan.
Blue crabs, swimming crabs, shrimps, red snappers and other miscellaneous fish sold for 580 yuan in total, for a total of 11495 yuan.
Lao Lin went into the house, took out the money and handed it to Li Changle. After he counted it, he said with a smile on his face, "Boss Ah Le, come to me if you need goods in the future."
"Okay! We may have a chance to cooperate in the future!" Li Changle put the money into a sack and returned to the boat with Chen Yongwei.
Seeing that Li's mother and sister-in-law Zhou Ruonan had already brought Li's father back, "Dad, why don't you stay in the hospital for a night and observe it?"
Zhou Ruonan took over and said, "Dad said he felt much better. No matter how much he was persuaded, he refused to be hospitalized and came out with the medicine."
"You're all right now, why are you staying in the hospital?" Father Li glared at Li Changle in disapproval, and said to A Kun gratefully:
"Manager Kun, thank you for your help in calling in the doctor. Doctor Xu is amazing. He said that the fever would subside in two hours at most. When the two hours came, my fever subsided and the pain in my body was not as severe."
"His family has inherited medical skills. He can cure difficult and complicated diseases that others cannot cure. He can just give them a few prescriptions or injections."
"That's real skill. When I went there, the doctor told me to get an injection, but he gave me a few injections and I took some medicine powder and it was fine."
While they were talking, Brother Li and Chen Yongwei had already lifted the hairtail, moonfish, and the swordfish weighing more than 100 kilograms from the cargo hold.
A Kun excitedly stepped forward and touched a few big fish, "Boss Li, your A Le is really lucky."
"This kid has been into shipping since he was young. Every time I take him fishing, I always get good catches."
Father Li felt that what A Kun said was right. After decades of fishing, only his third son could get sea beasts to catch fish for him.
After hearing this, A Kun laughed and felt that it was more comfortable to talk to the Li family without having to bother guessing.
(End of this chapter)