This wind can not go to sea for seven or eight consecutive days, which makes the people who eat by the sea particularly uncomfortable, the villagers have no choice, in order to make a living, they can only take advantage of the free time to go to the dock to carry sandbags, the dock is not afraid of no work.

And the women of the village also took advantage of this windy and sunny day to dry the dried fish.

Every autumn and winter, it is the best season for drying fish in coastal fishing villages, which has become a habit of life for their seaside fishermen, without the harassment of mosquitoes and flies, and the howling northwest wind only takes less than 3 days to dry for seven minutes.

Walking around the village, you can see dried bamboo flats and fishing nets every few steps, as well as dried fish strung together with ropes, which is also a unique scenery of seaside fishing villages.

In the past few days, the sky is beautiful, there is no rain, in the weak sun, coupled with the northwest wind blowing, the dried fish also dry very quickly.

Ye Yaodong's nearly 4,000 catties of toad fish and miscellaneous fish have also become hard and elastic after four or five days of drying, exuding a faint salty taste and sea breeze.

He put them all in sacks, and the bags were stacked neatly in different categories.

After collecting all of them this morning, he also went to borrow a large scale, ready to weigh the sacks of dried fish.

Passing a wooden stick through the mouth of the rope left on the wooden rod scale, and then lifting it to the side with his father, the sack containing the dried fish was lifted, and Ah Qing adjusted the weight of the scale on the side.

After the bags of dried fish were weighed, Lin Xiuqing weighed more than a dozen bags of dried fish.

She was holding a pen and paper to write and draw there, and Ye Yaodong also leaned over and stretched out his head to watch, "It doesn't seem to be better than what I wrote." ”

Lin Xiu glanced at him innocently, "Do you think the numbers you wrote are better than the numbers I wrote?" Calculated, a total of 1056 catties and 6 taels. ”

"That's a lot, this fresh one is less than 130 yuan, if it can be sold for four cents, it can be sold for more than 400, deducting salt and labor costs, and you can earn 2/3 ......."

Ye Yaodong snapped his fingers, made a rough estimate, and his eyes lit up suddenly.

"There's a head!"

"That's a good idea, isn't it? Where can this be sold all at once? 1000 pounds, how long does this have to be sold? Lin Xiuqing is not so optimistic, she thinks that it is already good to be able to sell 1/3 of it.

"Think better, try it!"

"You made it up, see for yourself!"

Father Ye also looked at him and said, "When do you plan to send it to the market to sell?" Do you want to wait for the new wholesale market to be completed after New Year's Day, and when the store is in hand, it will be put in the shop? ”

"No, it's too late, it's only the 10th today, and there are still 50 days until New Year's Day, if you don't sell these, how can you continue to dry them? There is no place to pile it up, and it has not been sold, and there is no bottom in my heart, and I don't know whether to dry it or not. By then, isn't the middle 50 days a waste? Half of the winter has passed. ”

"Then you're going to send it in the evening?"

"I think so, go to the morning market at night, take advantage of the morning market when there are many people, see if you can be lucky to meet the fallen master, it is best to clear it all in one wave."

In his previous life, he always heard that this era is the best golden age, he can make money by doing anything, he can sell anything, and everyone wants anything, but this time he can try it for himself to see if the dried fish is good to sell.

The old lady hurriedly tilted her head and interjected, "Then let your father go with you, he has nothing to do anyway, the two of them will have a companion when they go together, and if you can't make up your mind, you can also discuss it." ”

Father Ye looked at the old mother who had already made the decision for him, and shook his head helplessly, "Well, I went with you that night, and by the way, I saw where the shop you bought, you three brothers spent so much money, and I didn't take a look." ”

"Whatever."

"You shouldn't have brought it all, did you?" Lin Xiuqing was a little undecided, and he didn't know what he was going to do.

"Then I definitely won't take it all, if I can't sell it, I have to pull it all back, and if it rains, it won't be finished? It's all damp. Bring one two or three hundred catties to sell first, and if it's easy to sell, bring all of them on the next trip. ”

"Well, let's carry it to the house first, and then get into the car when we leave in the evening."

"Okay."

The house is not big, and there are not more than a dozen sacks, so Ye's father and Ye Yaodong put the sacks in the corner of the hall, put them horizontally against the wall, and then stacked them one by one, and if they can't put them, they will be taken to the children's house and stacked high temporarily.

"Dried fish in your house, you are not allowed to eat it secretly?"

It happened that this weekend, all the children of all sizes were at home, watching them adults busy there, they also came around to see the excitement, and they also came to see the excitement, and they wanted to join in the excitement.

Ye Chenghu said disdainfully: "I don't eat it, it's not that I haven't eaten it." ”

Ye Yaodong turned his head, chuckled, and flicked his forehead by the way, "Yo? So despised huh? It seems that I haven't eaten less delicious food during this time, and my mouth has changed, but I used to want to taste even the salt. ”

"What's the matter, I used to just want to taste sugar, where to eat salt, obviously you deliberately teased me with salt."

"I have a good memory, I didn't expect to remember."

Ye Chenghu hummed twice, but his eyes rolled in an instant, and he immediately greeted him with a smile, and pulled his sleeve flatteringly, "Dad, I have helped with many days of work, if you go to the city, can you bring me a reward?" ”

Everyone else looked at him with bright eyes.

They are not their own sons, they are embarrassed to ask for it, the adults in the family have taught it many times, but Ye Chenghu asked for it, and everyone inevitably looked at it hopefully.

Ye Yaodong refused mercilessly, "Do you want to eat fart?" Want a reward for doing a little bit of work? Isn't it supposed to help the family? You've eaten less during this time? But if a hawker passes by with a burden, you have not missed it. ”

Lin Xiuqing also glared at Ye Chenghu, "It's okay if you don't beat it, and you still want to be rewarded?" A few days ago, popcorn passed by, and while I didn't have time to kill fish, you all secretly grabbed a handful of rice to change, don't think I don't know, I just can't spare my hands to hit people. ”

Ye Chenghu suddenly shrank for a moment, and didn't dare to speak, so he hurriedly ran out, for fear that his mother would settle accounts after the autumn.

The others also hurried to run, for fear of being harmed by the pond fish.

Lin Xiuqing watched them all run away, and then looked at Ye Yaodong, "Don't bring anything back this time, you are used to it one by one, how can other people's children be happy, they can eat whatever they want, but they can't get used to it anymore." ”

"Got it."

But when he went to the city and saw that the vendors around him were selling everything, he wanted to buy something for the child.

In the past, there were no conditions, and if there was no money, he would forget it, but now that he has some money in his hand, he always wants to bring it to the children at home.

Now the child has nothing to eat.

No, seeing the stall next to him selling boiled peanuts, the dried fish in front of him hadn't opened yet, and he had already spent five cents to buy a big paper bag.

He held a large newspaper in both hands and handed it to his father, "Taste? It smells very fragrant, and it looks like it's quite full. ”

"Why do you buy so much? It's not even going to be sold, and you're already spending the money first. Father Ye grabbed two shells at random.

"Bring it back to the little ones at home later."

"Didn't A-Qing tell you not to buy anything?"

"Doesn't that smell good? A packet of peanuts only. He never admitted that he was hungry, and it was boring to squat on the ground and wait, and he could pass the time by peeling some peanuts and eating them.

The father and son began to squat at the entrance of the market before dawn, and behind them were sacks of dried fish, and the strong smell of salted fish did not need them to shout, and someone could smell it from afar.

Among the breakfast aromas, the salted fish flavor is particularly prominent.

Therefore, the morning market has just begun, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going in front of their stalls, but they are all idle and weigh a few catties, and at most they do not exceed ten catties.

The father and son don't pick, someone can buy it, no matter how much they buy or how little they buy, they can sell a little bit at best, and the retail can also sell a little higher, and it is very easy to sell for four cents and five cents.

For this reason, Ye Yaodong was also cheeky and gave all the peanuts he had just bought to the stall owner next door to eat, and by the way, he also borrowed someone's small scale.

He was not so well prepared, and he had no experience, so he thought that when he met the fallen master, he would all go to the scales together, and he also deliberately brought a large scale, and the reality was that he was selling a few catties and a few pieces in a scattered ......

Moreover, he didn't even prepare change, and he still exchanged it with the person next to him.

Sure enough, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.

But for the father and son, being able to sell for a pound is a pound.

Don't underestimate the retail sale, the purchasing power of people now is still quite strong, especially the food and clothing, the dried salted fish can be stored, before dawn, the father and son have already sold two large bags.

Ye Yaodong was afraid that he would make the stall owner next to him unhappy by borrowing scales frequently, so he also took advantage of his free time to get him ten salted fish, and regardless of people's polite excuses, he couldn't help but put them in the basket next to them.

"Angkor, you're welcome, meeting is fate, not to mention that you are very good, especially righteous, you have been frequently borrowing my scales, I am just chatting about my heart, take it, you're welcome, it's all home-dried fish, it's not worth much, let's make this friend."

The middle-aged man known as Angkor looks like he is in his early 40s, but his weathered face is no better than his father's, and now people look quite old because of their hard work.

His stall sells shrimp skin, and he doesn't know where he got it, and there are a lot of them, and there is a big bag of nylon bags on the board car behind him, which is full of shrimp skin, and according to his visual opinion, there should be hundreds of catties there.

In front of him were two baskets, on each of which was a round bamboo plaque, on which were piled with sharp shrimp skin, as long as someone weighed a part of it to go, he grabbed a large handful from the basket under him to make up for it.

The business is also good, super easy to sell, and a scale is transmitted back and forth in the hands of the two.