"Today I saw all the fish I have never seen in my life." Li Anguo took the steamed buns and said while eating, "This is the first time I see the bottom of this reservoir. There will be so many fish..."
"Brother Long, did we catch two tons of fish this time?" Tao Daqiang asked.
Because there were so many people, we divided them into two groups to eat. There are a bunch of Li Long and young people here, including Tao Daqiang, Yang Yongqiang, and Li Junshan.
"Yes, but it's still far from enough." Li Long said, "For the fish at the bottom of this sea, we have to get seven or eight tons. It would be better if we can get ten tons."
Of course, just thinking about it, getting two tons of fish in one morning is already very good. In fact, not only that, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang didn't care about the fish beside the car.
People from the village passed by one after another, most of them carrying a bag of fish, intending to take it back and have lunch on the way.
Running around in the slush to catch fish, I didn’t realize it at the time, but when I stopped I realized how exhausting it was.
"Xiaolong, I see you are collecting fish from the people in the team below. How are you collecting them?" Someone couldn't help but ask Li Long.
Li Long took the steamed buns and said:
“One kilogram and one hair, I want big fish. I don’t want small crucian carp.”
"Oh." After hearing the price, the person who asked the question stopped talking and went back with the fish on his back.
"I feel a loss." Yang Yongqiang whispered, "The team sells fish for 70 or 80 cents, but we only receive 10 cents, so they must be at a loss."
"Maybe now, Someone will go to the market to sell fish by tomorrow morning. Then they will know that even if they go all the way to the market, they will not be able to sell it for even 30 to 50 cents. "
Zhen Ruli. Long said that there are already people carrying fish on their backs and rushing to the market.
The price of fish in the market, which used to sell fish, has increased slightly. Because the winter is cold and it is difficult to catch fish, the price of fish has risen to one yuan early in the morning.
I just didn't expect that when it was almost noon, seven or eight fish sellers came out of the market. The price of fish immediately dropped. These people were still eager to sell fish. If you call me eight cents, I will call you six cents. , the other is directly fifty cents.
These people carry bags with 30 to 40 kilograms of fish. They look beautiful, so some people buy them.
But when I saw it was falling, I decided to wait if I wanted to buy something. Then, in the end, it dropped to 20 cents.
It would be pointless to drop it any further.
The first fish seller was shocked and hurriedly grabbed the one who had sold out all the fish to ask about the situation. The first person didn't say anything, and the second person didn't have any idea of secrecy.
"The water in Dahaizi has been drained. Think about how many fish there are. I thought I would come here earlier and sell the fish for some money, but I didn't expect there are so many fast ones. If I had known better, I wouldn't have sold them..."
The person who fixed the stall immediately realized that there was a big place selling the goods!
As soon as he hurriedly closed the stall, he thought about going to Dahaizi to collect the goods. After all, this is faster than catching fish by yourself, and the resale business is very profitable.
It turned out that the fish sellers knew that Li Long and others were collecting fish, and they thought that the price charged by Li Long and others was too low, so they came to the market to sell them.
I didn’t expect that there were so many fish sellers in the market, and the fish couldn’t be sold at a high price. If I had known, I might as well have sold them to those young men.
So in the afternoon, the news came out that Li Long and the others were collecting fish more smoothly than in the morning. It turned out that the fish that several stalls had not planned to sell to them were sold to them at a cheap price.
So all afternoon, several people were picking fish. In one afternoon, Li Jianguo pulled back the fish three times, and Tao Jianshe also pulled back twice. Yang Hua only had a pushcart, and he took Trouble with him. When it got dark at the end, he followed him and pulled back a carload of fish.
Back at Laoma, Li Long said to Tao Daqiang:
"Daqiang, today you and Uncle Jianshe collected fourteen bags of fish, totaling 450 kilograms. Including the freight for your donkey cart, I’ll give you eighty yuan, okay?”
“Okay, okay.” There’s nothing wrong with Tao Daqiang. Although it was an approximate calculation, he felt that Li Long calculated too much. Of course, he also contributed a lot, so he felt comfortable taking the money.
"Yongqiang, you and your dad collected ten bags of fish, plus this cart, I'll give you sixty yuan." Li Long counted the money and went out, "How about it?"
Yang Yongqiang naturally also No comment. He paid 10 cents out of his own pocket. Some fish were really paid for 5 to 8 cents. Now that Li Long was paid 15 cents, he would earn 20 to 30 yuan each time. Why don't you want to bring back a bag of fish?
After the two sides of the Tao family and the Yang family left, Li Long said to his relatives:
"They took the capital themselves and resold it to me. My family all took the money, Then I will give you a bonus. My brother-in-law received the most fish today, and everyone else got a bonus of fifteen. Is that okay?”
“Win.”
"That's definitely no problem."
"It's fun to hold this money!"
Catching fish is already a great pleasure, and you can still get money later, which is better than what you got from working before. There's plenty of money, just twenty a day. It's so refreshing to make this money!
When Li Long distributed the money to everyone, everyone couldn’t hold back the smiles on their faces.
We had rice for dinner. Although it is a bit unconventional to eat so heavily at night, everyone is obviously hungry, and they are quite excited at this time and have a good appetite. What I drank was fish soup. Although after smelling fish for a day, I was a little tired of the fishy smell, but the fish soup still felt fresh.
After Li Jianguo finished eating, Li Long went to see him off and gave him a wad of banknotes on his way out. "Brother, take this, and let the fish go back to the house." There was a bag of fish on the carriage, which was taken back to eat.
"Okay." Li Jianguo was also polite. Both brothers knew it, so some things were tacitly understood.
Li Long took a deep breath and went to the warehouse to take a look. Half of the beds in the warehouse were already filled with fish. It seems like we have to find a place in advance for tomorrow’s fish.
Fortunately, there is an empty house, but Li Anguo and the others live next door to it, so the house is still a little warm.
Not quite suitable. But I couldn’t find a good place for a while, unless I transported it directly to the big yard in the county town. There was a lot of space there, many houses were empty, and most of the houses did not have fires.
In fact, Li Long himself planned to send the fish step by step to the big house in the winter, so that it would be much easier to sell the fish and deliver them from the big yard to Shicheng.
We haven’t gotten to that point yet, it just depends on whether it will snow in the next few days.
The next day we still had breakfast early. The few people who were so tired that they fell asleep after dinner yesterday became energetic again in the early morning, and they were all very energetic.
"Today I will follow my uncle's example and look for those children to buy fish. I will definitely buy the right one." Li Junfeng joked while eating.
"We have to be careful today," Li Long said as he ate the corn noodle pancakes. "There will definitely be people competing with us to buy fish today. Then we should try our best to buy in groups and buy all the fish for one person at once. It is best to It's a big pile. After buying it, a few people will pack it up and bring it to the south bank. "
"Why?"
"If someone is arguing, the price may be raised. If someone is new, they may not know the situation very well and want to buy the big one. If we buy it in a group, they will definitely be willing to sell it to us." Li Long Explaining, "Our goal now is to buy as much as possible and stock up on more fish. Anyway, it's starting to freeze now, so don't worry."
After dinner, we set off. When Li Long and others arrived at the south bank of Dahaizi, they found that Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang had already arrived, and a bag of fish was already placed next to the Tao family's donkey cart.
“You came very early.” Li Long smiled and greeted Tao Daqiang. Tao Daqiang was rushing here carrying the second bag of fish. He put down the fish and said: “Brother Long, there are others Come to collect the fish, but the price is not high..."
"Then listen to me." Li Long repeated what he told Li Anguo and the others in the horse account. Since it is a business and it is generally or will be in a seller's market for a long time, then stock up more goods. It's definitely no problem. The worst case scenario is to take them directly to Wucheng to sell them. Li Long is definitely not worried about not being able to sell these fish this winter.
Only worry about not having enough fish and not making enough money.
After all, there are so many people sharing it. Unlike before, you can make money by yourself, and at most you can add Tao Daqiang, who works part-time.
Li Jianguo is still guarding the car here, and Li Long carries the bag and goes over. This time he doesn't even bring the net, and there is no need to bring it - now the genius has just dawned, and there are already people in Haizi. Hundreds of people.
The piles of fish here and there are Li Long’s goals.
Soon, Li Long saw another family coming to collect fish. That person looked familiar to Li Long. He should have seen him in the market.
Li Long listened to him talking about the price to a young man guarding the fish stall:
"Hey, the price I gave you is already very high. Your team members go to the market. Fish is only sold here for 20 cents per kilogram. I’ll pay you 10 cents for a big fish like yours, but Is that enough? It doesn’t take much effort for you to pick up these fish. You can earn half a month’s salary from others in one morning, which is enough!”
Li Long thinks this person is either mentally ill or something. He only called him that when he got tired of bargaining with this young boy.
Sure enough, before he finished speaking, the young man stared directly and said:
"Don't sell it! Stay where it's cool (qi)!"
"If you don't want to sell it, you won't sell it. See those fish rotting in your house, go ahead and cry!" The man collecting the fish cursed and left. Go to another stall to collect the fish.
The pile of fish next to the boy was the largest in the area, so Li Long also walked over.
"One cent per kilogram, big and small, okay, young man?" Li Long asked.
"Okay." The young boy agreed happily, "My sister said, these fish are almost more than 80 kilograms, and there are some small crucian carps. You just need to pay eight yuan."
Li Long happily took out the money, and then called out to Li Junfeng who was nearby. The two of them pretended to be fish. While pretending, Li Long asked:
"Young man, why don't you sell fish to that person just now?"
"He's a coward - he thinks we can't sell so many fish... The price is too high, such a person can't sell!"
Okay, these ten One or two-year-old boys are also understanding people.
Li Junshan came over to help. Li Long gave him the bag he had, then took the empty bag in his hand and continued to collect fish.
There were a lot of people today, and some of the water tanks were quite deep, with a lot of fish in them. Now the fishermen are mainly concentrated there. The fish in the shallows were almost collected yesterday. There were still some fish in the center of some large puddles, but people needed to wade into the middle to net fish. It is not so easy to catch fish now.
But the overall harvest has been increasing because there are more people.
At lunch time, Li Jianguo sent two more fish back. Li Long predicted that he could collect more than four tons of fish today.
Very good. (End of this chapter)