In the evening, a limping man in his fifties, with gray hair, a white face full of vicissitudes, and a leg that seemed to be a little disabled, walked into the Tongchuan Hotel in Tongchuan Town with a young man in his twenties and thirties.

The older man is called Lao Jiang by others, and the young man is his son.

Lao Jiang is a small seafood seller in the town of Guxu in Pingnan City, which is next door to Jiangzhou City, but it is not close to the sea, but closer to the mainland.

Therefore, the seafood consumed in Pingnan City every day is mainly imported from Jiangzhou.

Lao Jiang has been buying seafood from fishermen at various seafood wharves in Jiangzhou City for many years, and then transporting it back to his hometown town to wholesale it to fishmongers in the local market, making a little difference in price.

However, he hasn't been to Tongchuan for half a year, not because he has found any new source of goods, but because he had a serious car accident a few months ago due to fatigue driving, and his leg is still limping and not completely well.

But looking at the hot market outside the seafood market, coupled with the fact that it is the peak season for seafood sales every year, and it is the most profitable time of the year, where is he still in the mood to wait until his leg is completely healed before coming out.

No, as soon as his legs can get off the ground, he will drive out, but his wife at home is not at ease, so he has to accompany his youngest son to come over.

Tongchuan was his first stop this time.

This time he came to Tongchuan, on the one hand, he came to visit a few old comrades-in-arms, and on the other hand, he must be preparing to take the opportunity to buy some seafood and sell it back.

Unfortunately, due to the delay on the way, they arrived a little late, and when they arrived, they found that the seafood on the pier had already been swept away by other seafood vendors.

There are a lot of people engaged in this industry, especially in the current situation where seafood is so sought-after, it is really fast and slow, in the words of the youngest son, the industry is becoming more and more involuted!

Since they've already arrived, they can't go back empty-handed.

So Lao Jiang thought about it for a while, and decided to open a room in the hotel in the town, ask a few old comrades-in-arms out at night, and get up early tomorrow morning with his son and drive to the dock to buy seafood.

Lao Jiang, who has been buying seafood here for a long time, knows that in Tongchuan Wharf, every morning from four or five o'clock to eight or nine o'clock, there will be a small peak of a wave of fishermen returning to the place.

"Boss, please open a room for us!" With ID cards in hand, the two walked into the hotel, and Xiao Jiang said to the front desk of the hotel.

"I'm sorry for the two of you, our hotel rooms have been booked!" The young lady at the front desk replied politely with a smile on her face.

"Ah, forget it." Xiao Jiang said a little depressed, "Then we can only go to other hotels." ”

"I'm afraid all the hotels and guesthouses in the town have been booked out by someone else tonight!" The young lady hesitated for a moment and said, "Since this afternoon, there have been several waves of guests who have not booked a room elsewhere, and they have come to us to ask." ”

Tongchuan Town is neither an economically developed place, nor a tourist mecca, there are only three or four hotels and guesthouses in the whole town, and the scale is not large.

"Has anything happened in town lately?" Hearing this, Lao Jiang couldn't help but ask strangely, "Why did so many outsiders suddenly come over?" ”

The young lady in front shook her head and said, "I haven't heard of anything big happening in the town, and as for why so many outsiders are coming, I don't know why." ”

In the end, Lao Jiang's father and son could only come out of the hotel helplessly, and then went to several other hotels to ask again, and sure enough, they were all full.

The outsiders who came to Tongchuan tonight and couldn't find a hotel were not only Lao Jiang and his son, but some had no choice but to go to the nearby town dozens of kilometers away or to stay in the city.

Many locals in Tongchuan have also clearly felt the sudden influx of foreign tourists, and the business of many hotels and restaurants has suddenly been much better than usual.

So in private, they are also talking about it.

Lao Wei, who opened the restaurant, was sweating profusely, and had just sent away a few tables of guests.

Today's business is much better than usual, and these out-of-town guests are much more generous than the locals, and they don't feel distressed at all when they order a table of dishes for a few hundred yuan.

All this was also seen by Lao Zheng, who opened a cigarette hotel next to him, and the booming business of Lao Wei's restaurant today made him envious.

At this time, seeing Lao Wei coming out to smoke, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "Lao Wei, there are so many outsiders in the town today, do you know what they are here for, haven't you heard of anything big happening in the town?" ”

Lao Wei threw the cigarette butt into the trash can at the door, and then rubbed the index and middle fingers of his right hand.

Lao Zheng understood what he meant, and hurriedly handed over a cigarette and helped him light it.

Lao Wei took a hard puff, then looked around again, and whispered mysteriously: "When I just delivered the food in, I heard them say that they are all drivers, and they all drive over to help the boss pull fish." It is said that early tomorrow morning, there will be a large ship docking, and it is said that there are thousands of tons of seafood on it! ”

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"Thousands of tons of seafood!" Hearing this, Lao Zheng couldn't help but swallow his saliva, how much is this worth!

Now that the price of seafood has skyrocketed, how could they, the locals, not know.

"The boat that can hold thousands of tons of seafood is probably only the fishing boat of the Lao Li family!" Lao Zheng thought for a while and said.

"That must be Lao Li's fishing boat!" Lao Wei took over and said, "Except for their ocean-going fishing boat, the largest fishing boat in the town is only a few hundred tons!" ”

"Alas!" Lao Zheng sighed and said, "Lao Li's family is really rich now, so many seafood can't be tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions!" ”

"That's not hundreds of millions!" Lao Wei nodded with a look of deep sympathy, and then said with a smile on his face, "No matter how much money Lao Li's family makes, we will not be a little bit light." I wish their family could catch so many fish every day, and then there would be so many fish trucks coming to our town to pull fish every day! ”

Lao Zheng also nodded in agreement, although his business was not as prosperous as Lao Wei's restaurant today, he also sold a lot more money than usual.

"By the way, Lao Zheng, this news is what I heard in private, it's not necessarily accurate or not, now the two of us just know, don't spread it!"

"Don't worry, Lao Wei, who is my Lao Zheng, don't you know yet?"

As soon as the two of them chatted a few words, a large number of foreign guests came over for dinner, and Lao Wei didn't finish his cigarettes, so he hurriedly ran back to the store to entertain the guests.

Lao Wei had just walked for less than ten minutes, and Lao Zheng chatted with the neighbor next to him.