"The real price is 10,000 catties, only a little more, that is, can this price be added a little more? I have two boats there, more than 10,000 catties of toad fish, and other goods, miscellaneous things add up to thousands of catties. ”

The man suddenly turned upright.

"Two big boats towing back the goods? Are you chasing a school of fish? This is okay, we are a provincial capital here, the wharf here is large, there are many freight exchanges, and there are many fishing boats that dock every day, all of which catch good goods, and the warehouse is full and just go ashore to sell a wave of supplies. ”

The older man next to him also came over and said, "You take me to take a look, the quantity is fine, and if the goods are fresh, the price must be reasonable." ”

"Let's talk about the price first, your price is right, I'll take you to see it, otherwise I'll be embarrassed to bother you to run for nothing."

When the time comes, I will take people to see it and don't sell it to them, and the money will be earned by others, and it is time to attract people's grudges, and I would rather be annoying now, at least it will not offend people so much.

"So tell me what you have the most?" After knowing that he had tens of thousands of catties of goods there, the recipient was also a little more patient and willing to take the time to say a few more words.

"Two boats of toad fish are the most, there can be about 17,800 catties, nearly 20,000 catties are also possible, I haven't weighed it, I can only roughly estimate one, other small tubes also have four or five hundred catties, sword shrimp also have five or six hundred catties, and other white pomfret pomfret small yellow croaker have some, oh yes, there are 8 manta rays of two or three hundred catties!"

The eyes of the two widened instantly, and the nearly 10,000 catties of alfonsino only surprised them with his receipt, but the two or three hundred catties of manta rays really surprised them.

The young man Ye Yaodong asked at the beginning was shocked and shouted directly, "There are eight manta rays of two or three hundred catties?" ”

Look at their expressions, as if they are rare?

Although Ye Yaodong was also surprised on his face, he still pretended to be calm, "Yes, these are heavy goods, usually dozens of catties can still be caught from time to time, but hundreds of catties are not necessarily, without great luck, you can't catch a few hundred catties, just like the big dragon, you have to hit the luck to catch it." ”

"It's a lot of luck, manta rays are a good thing......"

The older one pushed at the young one, and by the way, he also made a look.

Ye Yaodong suddenly felt suspicious in his heart, and he was tired.

He looked at the two of them back and forth, and answered with a thoughtful smile, "Of course the devil is a good thing, I don't know how thick and smooth it is for hundreds of catties of meat, not to mention the bulging gills on his body......"

"You know the gills !! puffed fish" The other party was surprised.

Ye Yaodong knew in his heart, it turned out that the fried fish gills were very expensive now, no wonder the two of them just covered it up, he thought that the expanded fish gills had not been fried yet, no one knew about it, and he thought that it would not be expensive until later.

The people of the province are the people of the province, and they know more than their countrymen.

That's easy to do.

Money is rolling in.

"Bulging gills are a good thing, how can you not know? I have one hanging on the boat and drying it there. Ye Yaodong looked at them with a smile.

The two immediately looked at each other, thinking that they could pick up the leak, but they didn't expect that there would be someone who knew the goods.

"You killed a manta ray?"

"I happened to encounter a school of manta rays fighting with a school of sharks, and I picked up an injured notch, and I knew that the gills of the puffed fish were a good thing, and they were very expensive, so I specially picked them up and dried them."

The two looked at each other again, but did not immediately say anything for a while.

Ye Yaodong was a little impatient to wait, the two of them were grinding and chirping, and it was going to be dark.

"Do you take it? What is the price of various goods can be said first, I also compare it with others, my father and my uncle went to other people's houses to ask the price, after you said the price, we also have to discuss it, to see who to sell to. ”

Turning passive into active, I just don't know how much I can sell......

He really doesn't know what the price is, this thing is very rare, and I don't know what the price is if it doesn't spread.

"We didn't see it, and we don't know if the manta ray is really as big as you said, and we can only talk about the price after reading it."

"Then you quote the receiving price of other goods, let's compare the prices of other goods first, sell other goods first, and talk about the manta rays when they are brought ashore, probably a lot of people will be interested."

The elder nodded fiercely, "Okay, the price I offer is definitely the fairest......"

"Ah Cheng... Let's take a look at this item...... What are you two doing there? Come and help......"

At this moment, a voice of forty or fifty years old rang out, calling them there.

"I'm not free, I'm busy, you guys over there you will ......take it by yourself first," the name Ah Cheng turned his head and shouted, and then continued to talk to Ye Yaodong.

This is young, and he is the first person Ye Yaodong to question.

The other elder listened to them shouting and called Ah Shu.

The two of them had a manta ray hanging, but they re-quoted the price, the alfonsino gave three cents and five cents, regardless of the size, the toad fish counted as 3 cents and 6 cents, the small tube counted as three cents and three cents, the sword shrimp counted as 4 cents, etc., all gave a good price.

Ye Yaodong was also very happy, and the prices quoted were almost the same as the prices he had just asked outside, and some of them would be one or two cents higher.

Good fish are more popular, they like to sell them in larger quantities, and the more they are, the more they can make even if they sell them. Cheap goods like toad fish, like rice, the price of a dock is fixed, and there will be basically no fluctuation.

Other bidders depend on the quantity and quality of the goods, and the conscience of the person who receives the goods.

"We have such a big receiving point here, the price is very fair, you just said, I asked everywhere in advance, I should also have a number in my heart, my price is the most reasonable, if there is no problem, let's go to the boat to see the fish you said?"

"Okay, the price of these fish goods is decided, if the manta ray, let's look at it first and then talk about the price, if it is suitable, it will be a scale, if it is not suitable, let's talk about it, anyway, those goods are now we will go over and ask someone to move down."

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he took the two of them out.

The two also greeted a few middle-aged people who were receiving the goods in the open space, and then followed him out.

He went to find his father and Uncle Pei first, and met them first.

Father Ye asked Father Pei a few times before returning to the same place, waiting there, but he didn't expect Ye Yaodong to go out and ask for a price, and directly brought people over.

"Don't you compare? How did you bring people over directly? We had to shop around......"

The two of them couldn't understand the local dialect of their county that Father Ye spoke, but they probably couldn't understand the tone.

"No comparison, the price we gave is the fairest, hurry up and go to the boat to take a look, otherwise it won't be dark for a while."

Ye Yaodong also hurriedly explained to his father and Pei's father, and several people squeezed in the direction of the dock while talking.

Approaching dusk, there were more fishing boats ashore, baskets of freshly caught seafood were carried ashore, and people came and went, and several people wore to and fro to the shore.

"Oh, that's still smart, you don't have to squeeze to the front to ask the recipient for the price, just ask the surrounding fishermen, and it will come faster."

"Yes, I inquired, and after I knew it in my heart, I found their receiving point that seemed to have the most people and the most goods, and it would be good to negotiate the price myself."

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he turned his head away like this, and whispered to his father and Uncle Pei about the value of the gills of manta rays, and popularized the gills with them, almost not shocking them.

"Really? Then this fish must be sold for more than a few dozen dollars! ”

"Of course, be quiet, and you'll get a high price later."

At this moment, there was a lot of noise and shouting all around, and they were talking in whispers here, but the people who followed them didn't listen carefully, not to mention that they were speaking the local dialect.

Father Pei muttered: "I don't know that the gills of this fish are so valuable, and the small ones don't know if they are worth it......"

"I don't know if the small ones are small, anyway, aren't they all sold normally when the small ones arrive? It's just that the big ones are rarer. ”

"Fortunately, the first time I caught such a big one, I didn't sell it cheaply, and fortunately, I didn't contact the fresh collection boat, and if I gave the fresh collection boat, it was all according to the price of normal manta rays, and then I received it directly at a discount."

"How do you know, Toko? I see you have one on board! ”

"I knew it was useful, but I didn't know it was so expensive."

"How expensive?"

"I don't know."

Father Ye was choked for a while, and dared to say for a long time, he didn't know how expensive it was and how much it could be sold?

"I don't know, so you keep saying it's expensive and expensive?"

"I'm not going to tempt, huh? Don't talk about it, you'll know later, anyway, it's earned to sell more than expected. ”

Father Pei also agreed, "Yes, it's easy to say if you know that the price is expensive, and a few more people will help carry it later, and if you carry it ashore, those who know the goods will definitely say it." ”

"It's so big, hundreds of pounds, it must be watched, and it's not as common as sharks."

"Don't talk about it yet, take him on the boat first, take him to see the cargo first, get the miscellaneous goods on the ship out first, and then talk about this manta ray."

Ye Yaodong saw that he was about to walk down the steps, and the noise around him was a little quieter, so he asked his father not to discuss it first, so as not to hear it, and it would be bad to know that they didn't know the goods.

Ah Shu and Ah Cheng don't know if they are brothers, anyway, they are ten years old when they look at the age difference, one looks at about thirty, and the other looks at about forty, and the two of them go up to Ye Yaodong's boat one after the other.

The boatmen had already taken out all the alfonsino from the fish barn and put them on the deck, and they saw the red cargo all over the deck on the shore, and they were already smiling when they saw it.

The fishermen on the surrounding shore also saw that their two boats were all alfonsino and had already been pointing and watching for a while.

Big ships like them don't dock every day, they all stop by the way, and they will choose to dock if they are not far away, otherwise it will not be cost-effective, and it will especially delay fishing.

But it's not nothing, at most, of course, it's the same day, the kind of trawler that goes back on the same day, and the small wooden boat, this kind of boat is the most, so the goods received every day are very miscellaneous, and there are few like this tens of thousands of catties, and there are not many more than 1,000 catties.

After all, the fishing industry is not developed now.

However, after the two of them looked around on the deck, the dried fish hanging on the boat also attracted their attention, but they didn't see what Ye Yaodong said that he hung up to dry the gills of the fish, so they had to focus on the goods on the deck in front of them first.

These are also good things, such a large amount, you can make a lot of money by selling them.

Some people wandered around, fiddling with the gills of fish as they watched, looking at whether they were new or not.

"It's really ten thousand pounds, and it's not a lie."

"The number of the two boats is very similar, no problem, we will weigh one boat at a time, and I will let the boatmen carry the open space over there directly from you."

"One piece is lifted up, and it is placed in the open space on both sides, we have enough manpower, we will not get confused, now take us to see the manta rays, is it really like you said, each one has two or three hundred catties."

"It must be that big, don't worry, I'll take you to the fish barn."

"You said you hung up and dried the gills? Where is it? ”

"On the aft deck."

Ye Yaodong first led them to see the gills of the fish that he hung and dried, and among the fish that were hung and dried, there was a shape that was different from other goods, which was particularly conspicuous, that is, the gills of the fish.

The two touched the hanging goods, muttered a local dialect, and heard Ye Yaodong in a fog, only heard a few words, knowing that they were talking about this goods, such a big gills, rare or something......

He also muttered to them, and when they were convinced, he took them to the fish warehouse to see the goods.

Father Ye and Father Pei were already planning to let the boatmen carry the goods, and by the way, they left people in the open space to watch the goods.

After the two of them saw the goods on the Dongsheng, they went to the Harvest to take a look, and after inspecting the goods, the quantity was all the right for Ye Yaodong, and then they followed ashore with a smile on their faces.

"You're lucky this trip, how many days have you been fishing? Look at this product is quite fresh, it shouldn't have been left for two days, right? ”

"I have encountered a school of fish, otherwise how could it be that both boats have netted five or six thousand catties of goods?"

"It's the first time I've been to sea since the end of the year, right? It's a good start......"

"Let me tell you, the whole yard can eat so many of your goods, and there are not many people who take them all away, and people probably can't even arrange a car......"

"Your boat is worth three or four thousand yuan, and the two boats are six or seven thousand, seven or eight thousand, and they have to be closed immediately, and several others who receive the goods have to work together to collect them, so our family doesn't need to be so troublesome......"

"Our prices are also the fairest, and we are also known for our integrity......"

The two of them sold melons, and they kept talking about selling and boasting.

Ye Yaodong listened to them taking turns to talk non-stop, and nodded his head, but he didn't say anything, and only when they were almost finished talking did he ask.

"We've negotiated the price of those goods, but you haven't said anything about the price of those manta rays?"

Father Ye was supervising the shipwrights to carry the goods, but Father Pei had been listening to them since they came ashore.

He was also curious, how much was such a big manta ray worth? Since the gills are a good thing, they probably exceed their own value.

"Normally, a manta ray is dozens of catties large, and when the price is good, it is 6 cents a catty, and your specifications are 200 catties, so we will collect it according to the quantity, not according to the weight, after all, you also know that the gills on its body are good things, and there is only one fish."

"So how much does a manta ray cost?"

The middle-aged man named Ah Shu stretched out his finger and gestured to Ya, "A manta ray counts you two hundred yuan, four eight hundred yuan on your side, and eight hundred yuan on the other boat." ”

Father Pei's eyes widened in surprise, but he didn't dare to make a sound, and quickly withdrew his expression, but fortunately he didn't make a sound, so he listened to it.

He is also an old fritter, and he knows that Ye Yaodong has a powerful mouth, and he may be able to rely on his three-inch incorruptible tongue to raise a little higher.

Originally, I thought that it would be good to sell it directly to the fresh collection boat, but who knew that there were so many alfonsino caught in the back, and I was reluctant to sell it cheaply, so I thought about trying to dock and try it, thinking that the money from selling more would probably be able to subsidize the delay time, and the goods that did not reach the net, who knows what the situation is.

These two hundred yuan are already a great joy in the windfall for him.

"You know, if you sell it to the harvesting ship at sea, it may only cost three cents a pound."

"It's just that you're lucky, and you just caught so many alfonsino at the same time, and you can come back directly from the shore, otherwise if those few manta rays still run on purpose, the extra money from selling them won't be enough for you to go back and forth, and the loss of time will be delayed on the way."

Ye Yaodong said with a smile, and at the same time pulled out two cigarettes for each of them, "These two or three hundred catties of fish, if the fresh boat is three cents a catty, then there are seventy or eighty, and it will be doubled when you go ashore, and there will always be one hundred and fifty or six, but this does not include the value of the puffed gills, if you have two hundred yuan each, then I will cut off the gills, and the fish meat can be sold to you." ”

"How's that going to work? This price is the price of a whole fish, and you just cut off the gills, so what's going on? ”

"The gills of this fish weigh three catties when they are cut, and they can have a pound when they are dried, and there is probably no problem, do you think this pound of puffed gills is enough for fifty yuan?"

Father Pei had already nodded straight in his heart.

In fact, Ye Yaodong didn't know if it was enough, and felt that fifty yuan a pound was enough.

Pei's father also thinks so, a fish gills sell for fifty yuan a catty, and he told him before he put it that he didn't believe it, and he didn't want to give it to him, what kind of superb ceiling gills can be sold for fifty yuan a catty?

This can buy hundreds of catties of toad fish.

That Ah Shu glanced at Ah Cheng, and then looked at Ye Yaodong again, "Add another twenty yuan, it can't be more, this is because the size of your fish is really big, it's too rare, and few fishing boats can catch such a big manta ray." ”

“280… Eighty dollars more, should you buy the price of the gills of the fish? ”

Their eyes were bulging out.

Father Pei also opened his mouth wide, Adong, he really dared to say it?

A fish gills just said that it was fifty pieces, and now there are eighty more pieces, that is one hundred and thirteen?

It's gilded, isn't it?

"Why don't you grab it, it's still 280, and it will rise by eighty yuan when you open your mouth all of a sudden......"

"It's not up eighty dollars, aren't you calling it 220? Then my name is 280, and it only goes up 60. ”

"Only! You're pretty good at talking, and it's only 'only' 60. ”

The young man named Ah Cheng bit the word 'only' fiercely and glared at him angrily.

"Why don't you discuss it? Let's talk about the price of manta rays later, let's weigh these goods first? ”

"Then go over the scales first, at that time, I also saw the manta ray to mention the price to you, this is already to let you take advantage, we are very sincere, you are also sincere, don't ask for the price like this."

"Let's weigh these goods first, and you can think about the price well...... "Ah Shu also said.

Ye Yaodong shrugged, it didn't matter, anyway, it was okay to sell these goods first.

He shouted casually anyway, for fear of losing money.

Wait a while, such a big fish will be brought up, and the goods will naturally rush to ask for it, and when the time comes, he will be able to know the real value and ask for more price, which is better than bidding, so as not to pat his thigh and regret it.

Originally, I wanted to call it three hundred, but thinking about two hundred and eight is more pleasant and merciful.

He's an honest man.

They carried the alfonsino basket after basket, and at first it was nothing, but as the number of them increased, there were more and more onlookers, all pointing and pointing there.

"So many of these fish?"

"I must have hit a school of fish......

"Everyone also hit a little bit today, but how can it be so exaggerated......"

"It's a big boat, and as soon as you go out, you won't come back for a few days, which is comparable to our kind of small boat......"

"When they meet two big boats docking, they don't accept our bulk cargo anymore, go and sell to other families......"

"I've sold out of goods anyway, it's rare that there are two big ships docked at the dock today, just take a look at what goods are available, and look at the lively ......"

"It's not dark yet, let's watch it for a while, and I'm not in a hurry to go home for dinner......"

Several middle-aged and elderly men, probably from their own family, were there with joy on their faces, directing the men in their open space, carrying baskets to the scales.

He and Uncle Pei's goods were weighed at the same time, divided into two sides, and the two of them were also there staring at the scales and watching people count.

And Father Ye waited for the bamboo baskets of his family to be recycled and moved to the boat after the scales were passed one by one.

The workers carried back and forth, and when the fish and goods on the boat were all moved, there were a few oversized manta rays left, and they shouted to everyone to help.

Everyone first tied up the fish with a rope, and then used several sticks on the boat to lift it together, after all, it is not labor-saving to lift it from the boat with a weight of hundreds of catties.

The crowd was attracted by the goods they kept bringing ashore, gathered at the receiving point, and didn't look at the shore much, after all, the sun had set, and most of the fishing boats that should come back had already returned, and there was nothing to see on the shore.

It was only after they carried the manta rays off the boat that no one noticed them, and they exclaimed, attracting the crowd on the pier that had not yet left.

"Holy? What kind of fish is this so big? Manta rays? It's a manta ray, such a big manta ray......"

"Ah, there's such a big manta ray......"

"I thought those red snappers were lucky enough to catch so many, but I didn't expect to catch such a big manta ray......"

"It's so big, it's worth a lot, isn't it?"

"Of course it's worth a lot, this fish weighs a few pounds, and a pound is worth two or three cents, let alone such a big one."

"Then these few hundred catties can't be sold for a hundred yuan? Make a lot of money, and a fish is so expensive. ”

"Some fish are just so expensive......"

After they carried a manta ray, they threw it in the open space, untied the rope, and then continued to carry it on the boat.

Some fishermen next to it were watching there, all of them took their feet, palms or other baskets, flat poles and other things, and gestured there, trying to measure the size of the fish.

It's just that I didn't expect that there was a thing of falling through their glasses, and after a while, another one about the same size came and threw it on top, and the two were stacked up.

"There are two!"

"There are two of them, and they make a lot of money, no wonder these two boats have landed directly, it turns out that they have caught so many good things, and it is a pity to sell them to the fresh harvesting ships at sea......"

"Will there be more?"

"How is it possible, these two are enough......

"Ahh There is also ...... next to it."

Before the words fell, the boatmen on Pei's father's side also carried one down, and they shouted for the crowd next to them to get out of the way and leave a little open space.

"And?!"

"It's from another boat, right? Are the two boats fishing next to each other? How do you get the same goods, all the same? ”

"Is there anything else?"

"Really, look, look, it's up on the shore over there......"

"It's really earned."

"A piece is more than 100 yuan, a few more, so it can't be a thousand yuan?"

"Who told you that one hundred is more? Do you understand the goods? Not only can it be sold for more than a hundred, the gills of this fish are called puffed gills, and the dried one or two are sold for twenty or thirty! That fish gills are the most expensive in the whole fish, and the hundreds of catties of the whole body are not as expensive as the gills. ”

As soon as the words fell, the man walked up directly to the boatman and asked, "Who is your ship's boss?" Did you say that the fish was ready to be sold to their family? ”

"I don't know, the boat boss is looking at the scales over there......" The boatman casually pointed in the direction of Ye Yaodong.

The middle-aged man immediately walked towards Ye Yaodong.

"Little brother, how many manta rays do you have?"

"Eight of the two boats combined, are you interested?"

The middle-aged man slapped his thigh directly and said regretfully: "So much? Is it sold? ”

Ah Shu immediately said vigilantly: "We are talking about the price, the goods in front of him are all received by me, and the fish is waiting for us to negotiate the price." Lao Hai, don't make trouble, you should understand the rules of first come, first served. ”

"This is something that hasn't been sold to you yet, and it's not up to you to decide?"

Ye Yaodong also looked at it with some embarrassment, his goods were still being weighed there, and they were all still settling accounts there, and the money had not arrived, so he couldn't offend anyone.

"We are still talking about the price, and we have not yet negotiated it, and we plan to wait for these goods to be weighed."

"How much are you going to sell?" How much does he pay? ”

"It's none of your business, you go back to your stall, I'm not welcome here." Ah Cheng glared at him angrily, and immediately wanted to drive people away.

"It's rare to come across such a good product, look at the excitement, take a look, ask, it's not okay? I'll tell you, this fish is a loss if it doesn't cost 280......"

Ye Yaodong is happy, this person is estimated to have a contradiction with his peers.

And Ah Cheng and Ah Shu looked at each other with hatred, and they didn't care about weighing the goods, so they hurriedly asked the guys next to him to push him forward.

He shouted as he walked, "That's the puffed gills, one or two or thirty pieces of puffed gills......

The faces of the people in the stalls were blackened.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, I went out to catch the train, and I didn't get to the Shanghai Airport Hotel until nine o'clock in the evening.

Just in the last minute, I copied a small part of the 200 words, and then replaced it immediately, so dangerous, almost a few minutes.

Today has not stopped for a moment, especially rushed.

(End of chapter)