Chapter 164: Inquiry
Jiang Xia did not respond to Tian Caihua's words. She smiled and called sister-in-law, walked out of the yard without being rude, and went to the next door.
Grandma Tai and He Xinghuan are dividing the dried fish. They don’t have to go to school today. Zhou Zhou also came over early in the morning to help divide the dried fish with Zhou Jie. This is the dried fish received yesterday.
Now we can collect twenty or thirty kilograms of dried fish every day.
Jiang Xia handed the large stack of dough to He Xinghuan.
He Xinghuan was shocked: "So much?"
The great-grandmother smiled and said: "Did you earn so much in total?"
Jiang Xia laughed: "No. , a total of five hundred and thirty-nine, each person made two hundred and sixty-nine and a half, can you count it?"
He Xinghuan's hands shook as he held the stack of money: "This is too much. "More! Are you really making so much money?"
Jiang Xia said with a smile: "Fortunately, we have just started selling, and there are no customers. We only sell to dealers. It will be better when the market is opened in the future." . When fish becomes more expensive at the end of the year, you can increase the price and earn more.”
He Xinghuan understood immediately after hearing this: "I will take advantage of this period to collect more dried fish."
It is cheap to collect dried fish now. In winter, the weather will get colder and there will be fewer ships going to sea, so the price will go up.
Jiang Xia smiled and said yes, and then told the station attendant that he wanted to buy dried fish.
He Xinghuan smiled and said: "Just in time, I exchanged some oil stamps with others yesterday and bought twenty kilograms of oil, sesame seeds, salt and sugar. I bought them all back. Let's make the dried fish today. "
My grandma said with a smile: "You go ahead and do it! I'll share the dried fish."
In less than ten days, I made more than two hundred yuan, two dollars a day. It costs more than ten yuan, which is comparable to someone who owns a boat.
My great-grandmother never thought that her family would also have a period of "making money every day".
Zhou Jieren said: "You all go ahead and do it! Leave all the dried fish to me and Zhou Zhoufen!"
Everyone laughed.
Jiang Xia smiled and touched their heads: "If you divide the dried fish well, I will reward you with little fish larvae!"
The two kids are more serious!
Jiang Xia and He Xinghuan went into the kitchen to make dried fish.
It takes a whole morning to make several flavors of dried fish.
Because it is deep-fried, there is a lot of fumes, high temperature, hot and tiring, and it is really hard-earned money.
Every time Jiang Xia finished cooking, she couldn’t even eat rice because she smoked too much oil smoke, and she had no appetite.
Next door
Tian Caihua couldn't help but ask Zhou's mother again: "Mom, how much money should I share with my great-grandmother's family?"
"The money from selling dried fish, Xiaoxia Didn’t you work together with your great-grandma’s family to collect dried fish? They sold the dried fish yesterday and distributed the money to their family!”
Tian Caihua’s expression changed: "Partnership? Isn't it just asking their family to work?"
"No, it's a partnership."
Tian Caihua was unhappy. Since it was a partnership, why did he find an outsider instead of her sister-in-law?
"How much can you make by collecting dried fish and reselling it? How much can you make per pound?" She seemed to have heard more than two hundred yuan!
You have only been collecting dried fish for a few days, and you have made more than two hundred yuan?
Seeing that the eldest daughter-in-law’s face had changed, Zhou’s mother said, “I didn’t ask so clearly. But Xiaoxia spent a lot of money collecting dried fish, and I gave her more than a thousand yuan. "Your great-grandmother's family also collected a lot, and probably invested a lot of money."
The eldest daughter-in-law is a petty person, and Mother Zhou dare not say too much to her.
Mother Zhou couldn't help but said: "It's very troublesome to collect dried fish. The fish collected must be divided. When the fresh fish is received, it must be killed, dried, and divided again. You have to go to sea. , and you have to take care of Ah Hai and the others, so how can you have time? Your great-grandmother doesn’t have a boat at home, so they have a lot of time to spare. Moreover, when there was a fire in the kitchen, they tried their best to help us put out the fire. We must cherish this kindness!”
When Tian Caihua mentioned that the kitchen was on fire, she felt guilty and didn't say anything else, but she was still unhappy.
If you partner with an outsider and don’t partner with her sister-in-law, don’t you know who is close and who is distant?
She put down the freshly picked vegetables and went back.
Because Zhou's mother helped her with housework and cooking when she was at sea, she helped her cook even when she was not at sea, lest Zhou Chengxin would be unhappy and say she was unfilial.
Tian Caihua came home with a dark face and looked at Zhou Chengxin who was holding a mask and a welding rod in the yard, welding the iron frame in a bunch of "cracking" firelight. He kept saying: "You help your brother work when you have time. You treat your brother as a younger brother, but your brother treats you as a fool! When people make money, they don't want to partner with you. They just order you around and treat you as free labor. That’s all.”
This iron frame is used to make the support for large cages. It was used by Zhou Chenglei, but it was not Zhou Chenglei who asked Zhou Chengxin to weld it.
Zhou Chengxin saw his dad there yesterday. It’s done at home. Anyway, he doesn’t have to go to sea today and has nothing to do. He just took the initiative to do it.
Zhou Chengxin heard Tian Caihua’s strange words and said in an equally strange way: “I just like to help my brother with work. You can help me.” Your brother, I help my brother, what do you care about me? I didn’t ask you not to help your brother!”
Tian Caihua: “…”
It’s weird again! !
Tian Caihua thought of Zhou Chengxin's neglect a while ago and did not dare to say anything more.
Forget it, forget it, lest Zhou Chengxin gets crazy again and doesn't go to sea. I've been lucky recently. I can earn a hundred or dozens of yuan a day when I go overseas. I'd better seize my luck and make more money.
Jiang Xia is already a household worth 10,000 yuan. Since her family was separated, she has only been able to go to sea these two or three times, otherwise she would not even have saved 1,000 yuan! Others are about to start building a two-and-a-half-story house.
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At noon, Jiang Xia and He Xinghuan prepared hundreds of kilograms of three-flavored fish larvae.
Because Zhou Zhou and Zhou Jie were so good, they sat there and shared the dried fish all morning. When Jiang Xia saw that her grandmother had washed lotus leaves at home, she used the lotus leaves to fill a little sauce each. Give them small trash fish to eat.
The two children happily took a pack of small fish and went out to play with the children in the village.
Children in this era are too short of material resources. Unlike modern children, they have all kinds of snacks and drinks.
Children of this era are very happy to buy a cup of sunflower seeds for just one or two cents, and then become the envy of their friends in the village, surrounded by everyone like stars.
Zhou Jie is a smart person. Recently, he has heard too much about Jiang Xia talking about taking the fish cubs and giving them away to open up the market. So after Zhou Jie got the dried fish, he took Zhou Zhou and ran to find his friends under the big tree in the village. He also wanted to help sell the small fish!
I have to say that the fried fish is very attractive to children. Zhou Jie and Zhou Zhou were suddenly surrounded by a group of children.
Some adults saw it and thought that the dried fish looked delicious at first glance, so they asked Zhou Jie for one to try, and found that it was really fragrant and chewy, making it delicious. I still want to eat it.
She asked: "Zhou Jie, is this dried fish made by your family? It's so delicious! Does your family collect dried fish to make this dried fish and sell it? How much does it cost per kilogram?" ”
Although Zhou Jie was smart, he was not scheming enough. He thought she wanted to buy it and said: "Yes! Third aunt, do you want to buy it? Then you go to my mother or my nephew's wife, who is Zhou Zhou's little aunt! You have to go quickly. Buy it, otherwise my nephew-in-law will send it to the city to sell it!”
The villagers were curious when they heard this, and gathered around, asking each other what they said.