, not many weigh more than 1,000 kilograms.

After all, the fishing industry is not very developed now.

However, after the two of them looked around the deck, the dried fish hanging on the boat also attracted their attention. However, they did not see what Ye Yaodong said about hanging the fish to swell the gills, so they had to focus on the deck in front of them.

goods on board.

These are also good things. With such a large quantity, you can make a lot of money by reselling them.

Some people were wandering around, looking at the fish and playing with its gills to see if it was fresh or not.

"It's really ten thousand pounds, I'm not lying."

"The quantities of the two boats are pretty much the same. No problem. We will weigh each boat one by one. I will ask the boatman to carry it directly to the open space on your side."

"Just lift them up together and put them in the open space on both sides. We have enough people and we won't get confused. Now let's take a look at the manta rays. Is it really like what you said? Each one weighs two to three hundred pounds.

"

"They must be that big. Don't worry, I'll take you to the fish warehouse."

"You said you hung it up in the sun until the gills swelled? Where?"

"On the quarter deck."

Ye Yaodong first led them to see the expanded fish gills that he hung for drying. Among the series of fish products that were hung for drying, one of them had a shape that was different from the others and was particularly eye-catching: the expanded fish gills.

The two of them touched the hanging goods and muttered some local dialect. Ye Yaodong was confused. He only heard a few words and realized that he was talking about this product. Such a big gill is rare.

something...

He muttered along with them, and after they had finished reading and were convinced, he took them to the fish warehouse to see the goods.

Father Ye and Father Pei had already arranged for the boatmen to carry the goods, and at the same time left people to look at the goods in the open space.

After looking at the goods on the Dongsheng, the two people went to the Harvest to take a look. After inspecting the goods, the quantities were exactly as Ye Yaodong said, and they followed them ashore with smiles on their faces.

"You guys are lucky this time. How many days have you been fishing? It looks like this product is quite fresh. It shouldn't have been stored for two days, right?"

"We encountered a school of fish. Otherwise, how could it be possible that both boats had netted five to six thousand kilograms of cargo?"

"Is this the first trip to sea after the new year? It's a good start..."

"I'm telling you, the entire dock can handle so much of your goods, and not many people can take them all away. They probably won't even be able to arrange a car..."

"One of your boats is worth three to four thousand yuan, and two boats are worth six to seven thousand yuan. Seven or eight thousand yuan, and you have to settle it immediately. Others who receive the goods have to work together to collect the goods. Our family will not

It takes so much trouble..."

"Our prices are also the most reasonable, and we are also famous for our integrity..."

The two women were talking about selling melons and boasting about themselves.

Ye Yaodong listened to them taking turns to talk non-stop, and nodded along, but did not say anything. When they were almost finished talking, he asked a question.

"We have already negotiated the price of those goods, but you haven't said what price you should charge for those stingrays?"

Father Ye was supervising the boatmen loading the cargo, but Father Pei had been following them and listening after they landed.

He was also curious, how much was such a big manta ray worth? Since the gills were a good thing, they were probably worth more than they were worth.

"Normally, a manta ray weighing dozens of kilograms will cost 60 cents per kilogram when the price is good. Your size is over two hundred kilograms, so we charge it based on the quantity, not the weight. After all, you also know that it has bloated fish.

Gills are a good thing, only one for a fish."

"So how much does a stingray cost?"

A middle-aged man named Ashu stretched out his finger and made a "yeah" gesture, "One manta ray is worth two hundred yuan to you, four here are eight hundred yuan, and the other boat is also eight hundred yuan."

Father Pei's eyes widened in surprise, but he did not dare to say anything and quickly retracted his expression. Fortunately, he never made a sound and just followed and listened.

He is also a veteran, and he knows that Ye Yaodong is a good talker, so he might be able to use his sharp tongue to push him even higher.

I originally thought that I could just sell it directly to the harvesting boat, but I didn’t know that so many golden sea bream were caught later and I couldn’t bear to sell it at a low price, so I thought of trying it ashore, thinking that the extra money from the sale might be able to subsidize the delay.

Time, goods not arriving online, who knows what will happen.

The two hundred yuan was already an unexpected blessing for him.

"You know, if you sell it to a fresh-carrying ship at sea, it might only cost 30 cents a pound."

"You are just lucky. You caught so many golden sea bream at the same time, so you can come back directly to the shore. Otherwise, if you make a special trip with just those manta rays, the extra money from selling them will not be enough for you to make a round trip.

, the loss of time caused by the delay on the road.”

Ye Yaodong smiled and said, while also pulling out two cigarettes for each of them, "For these two to three hundred kilograms of fish, if the harvest boat charges thirty cents per kilogram, that would be seventy or eighty. If it is landed twice, it will be one hundred and fifty."

Mr. Liu has it, but that doesn’t include the value of the swollen fish gills. If you pay two hundred yuan each, then I can cut off the gills and sell the fish meat to you.”

"How can that work? This price is for a whole fish. If you just cut off the gills, what's going on?"

"The gills of this fish weigh three kilograms when cut off, and they weigh one kilogram when dried. It's probably no problem. Do you think fifty yuan is enough to buy a kilogram of expanded gills?"

Father Pei nodded in his heart.

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

Father Pei also thinks so. A fish gill sells for fifty yuan per catty. If I told him before, he wouldn't believe it. Even if he gave it to him, he wouldn't want it. What kind of top-quality ceiling fish gills can sell for fifty yuan per catty?

This can buy hundreds of kilograms of toad fish.

That Ah Shu glanced at Ah Cheng and then looked at Ye Yaodong, "Twenty yuan more, no more. This is because the fish of yours is really big and very rare. Very few fishing boats can catch it."

Such a big stingray."

"280...80 yuan more, is that the price you paid for the gills of the fish?"

Both of their eyes were so wide that they almost bulged out.

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

A fish gill was just said to be 50 yuan, and now it's 80 yuan more, so it's 130 yuan?

Is this inlaid with gold?

"Why don't you go and grab it? If you pay me back 280, you'll suddenly get an increase of 80 yuan..."

"It didn't go up by 80 yuan. Didn't you call it 220? Then I called 280, and it only went up by 60 yuan."

"Only! You're pretty good at talking, and yet it's only increased by sixty."

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

"Then why don't you guys discuss it? We'll talk about the price of the stingray later, and let's weigh the goods we brought up first?"

"Then let's go through the scales first. I only mentioned the price to you because of the devil fish. This is already giving you an advantage. We are very sincere. You should be more sincere and don't ask for prices like this."

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"Let's weigh these goods first, and think about the price..." Ashu also said.

Ye Yaodong shrugged, it didn't matter, it was okay to sell these goods first and then talk about it.

Anyway, he just yelled casually because he was afraid of losing money.

Wait a minute, when such a big fish is brought up, people who know the fish will naturally rush to get it. By then, he will know the true value anyway and bid more. It is better than bidding lower, so as not to regret it.

I originally wanted to call it three hundred, but I thought two hundred and eight would sound nicer and be kinder.

He is an honest man.

They carried the golden-eyed seabream up one basket after another. At first it was nothing, but as the number increased, more and more people were watching, and they were all pointing and pointing.

"Are there so many of these fish?"

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

"Everyone hit a little bit today, but it's not so exaggerated..."

"That's a big ship. Once you go out, you won't come back for a few days. How can a small ship like ours compare..."

"They encountered two large ships docking. They won't accept our bulk cargo. They just go and sell it to others..."

"I've already sold out the goods anyway. It's rare that two large ships docked at the pier today. I just wanted to see what kind of goods there are and see the excitement..."

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

Several middle-aged and elderly men, probably from their own families, were there with happy faces directing the men in their open space, carrying baskets one by one to weigh them.

He and Uncle Pei's goods were weighed at the same time, divided into two sides. The two of them were staring at the scale and watching people counting.

Father Ye, on the other hand, waited for them to be weighed one by one, then collected the bamboo baskets from his home and had them carried to the boat.

The workers moved back and forth. When all the fish on the boat were moved and only a few oversized manta rays were left, they loudly called everyone to help.

Everyone tied up the fish with ropes first, and then used several sticks on the boat to lift it together. After all, it weighed several hundred kilograms, and it was not easy to lift it off the boat.

The crowd was attracted by the goods they kept bringing ashore, and gathered around the receiving point. They didn’t see much of the shore. After all, the sun had gone down, and most of the fishing boats that were supposed to come back had already returned. There was nothing to see on the shore.

, the open space here is now said to be the cargo of two large ships, and it looks quite lively.

After they lifted the manta ray out of the boat, no one noticed it, and then they exclaimed, attracting the crowd on the pier who had not yet left.

"Holy crap? What kind of fish is so big? Manta ray? It's manta ray, such a big manta ray..."
To be continued...