Chapter 164 Inquiry
Jiang Xia did not respond to Tian Caihua's words. She smiled and called "sister-in-law", then walked out of the yard politely and went next door.
Grandma and He Xinghuan were distributing dried fish. Since Zhou Zhou didn't have to go to school today, he came over early in the morning to help Zhou Jie distribute the dried fish. These were the dried fish received yesterday.
Now we can harvest 20 to 30 kilograms of dried fish every day.
Jiang Xia handed the stack of unity notes to He Xinghuan.
He Xinghuan was shocked: "So many?"
Grandma smiled and said, "Did you earn this much in total?"
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "No, we made a total of 539, 269.5 cents per person, count it and see if it's correct."
He Xinghuan's hands were shaking as she held the pile of money: "This is too much! Did they really make that much?"
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "It's not bad. We have just started selling now. We don't have any customers and we only sell to dealers. It will be better after we open up the market. When the fish is expensive at the end of the year, we can raise the price and make more money."
He Xinghuan understood immediately: "I will take advantage of this time to collect more dried fish."
It is cheap to buy dried fish now, but in winter when the weather gets colder, there will be fewer boats going out to sea, and the price will go up.
Jiang Xia smiled and said yes, and then told the station attendant about wanting to buy dried fish.
He Xinghuan smiled and said, "It just so happens that I exchanged some oil coupons with someone yesterday and bought 20 kilograms of oil. I went to buy sesame seeds, salt and sugar. Let's make the dried fish today."
Grandma smiled and said, "You guys go ahead and do it! I'll just distribute the dried fish."
In less than ten days, he earned more than two hundred yuan, more than twenty yuan a day, which is comparable to those who own boats.
My great-grandmother never thought that her family would ever make a fortune.
Zhou Jieren said in a very smart way: "You all go and do it! Leave the dried fish to me and Zhou Zhou to share!"
Several people laughed.
Jiang Xia smiled and patted their heads: "If you divide the dried fish well, I will reward you little fish boys to eat!"
The two kids are more serious!
Jiang Xia and He Xinghuan went into the kitchen to cook dried fish.
It takes a whole morning to make dried fish of several flavors.
Because it is fried, there is a lot of smoke, the temperature is high, and it is hot and tiring, so the money earned is really hard-earned.
Every time Jiang Xia finished cooking, he couldn’t eat because he inhaled too much fumes and had no appetite.
Tian Caihua from next door couldn't help but ask Zhou's mother again: "Mom, what are we going to share the money with the great-grandmother's family?"
"The money from selling dried fish. Didn't Xiao Xia recently start a partnership with Grandma's family to collect dried fish? They made some snacks with dried fish and sold them. After they sold them yesterday, I gave the money to their family!"
Tian Caihua's face changed: "Partnership? Isn't it just asking them to do some work?"
"No, it's a partnership."
Tian Caihua was unhappy. Since they were going to be partners, why did they look for outsiders instead of her, the elder sister-in-law?
"Can you make a lot of money buying dried fish and reselling it? How much can you make per pound?"
She seemed to hear more than two hundred yuan!
I’ve only been collecting dried fish for a few days, and I’ve already made more than two hundred yuan?
Seeing her eldest daughter-in-law's face change, Zhou's mother said, "I didn't ask so clearly. But Xiaoxia spent a lot of money to buy dried fish, and I gave more than a thousand yuan away. Your great grandmother's family also collected a lot, and I guess they also invested a lot of money."
The eldest daughter-in-law is narrow-minded, and Zhou's mother doesn't dare to say too much to her.
Mother Zhou couldn't help but say, "It's very troublesome to collect dried fish. The collected fish have to be sorted. The fresh fish have to be killed, dried, and sorted. You have to go out to sea and take care of Ah Hai and the others. How can you have time to do it? Your great grandmother's family doesn't have a boat, so they are relatively free. And when the kitchen caught fire, they desperately helped us put out the fire. We must remember this favor!"
When the fire in the kitchen was mentioned, Tian Caihua felt guilty and said nothing more, but she was still unhappy.
He would rather partner with an outsider than with his sister-in-law. Don't you know who is closer and who is more distant? She put down the freshly picked vegetables and went back.
Because Zhou's mother helped with housework and watered the vegetables when she was out at sea, she helped to water the vegetables even when she was not out at sea, so as to avoid Zhou Chengxin being unhappy and saying that she was unfilial.
Tian Caihua returned home with a gloomy face. Seeing Zhou Chengxin welding an iron frame in the yard with a mask and a welding rod in the crackling light, she couldn't help but say, "Help your brother when you have time. You treat your brother as a brother, but your brother treats you as a fool! He doesn't even want to partner with you when he has money to make. He just orders you around and treats you as free labor."
This iron frame is used as a support for a large mesh cage. It was what Zhou Chenglei wanted to use, but it was not welded by Zhou Chengxin who was asked by Zhou Chenglei.
Zhou Chengxin saw his father doing it at home yesterday. Since he didn't have to go out to sea today and was free, he took the initiative to do it.
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Zhou Chengxin heard Tian Caihua's sarcastic words and said in the same sarcastic tone: "I just like to help my brother with work. You help your brother, I help my brother, why do you care what I do? I didn't ask you not to help your brother with work!"
Tian Caihua: “…”
He's being sarcastic again! Tian Caihua thought of Zhou Chengxin's indifference a while ago, and didn't dare to say anything more.
Forget it, forget it, lest Zhou Chengxin gets crazy again and doesn't go out to sea. I've been lucky recently, I can make a hundred or so yuan a day at sea, so I'd better seize the luck and make more money.
Jiang Xia is already a millionaire. Since her family split up, she has only gone out to sea two or three times. Otherwise, she wouldn't have saved even a thousand yuan! Others are starting to build two-and-a-half-story houses.
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At noon, Jiang Xia and He Xinghuan had prepared hundreds of kilograms of three-flavored small fish.
Because Zhou Zhou and Zhou Jie were so well behaved, they sat there and shared the dried fish for the whole morning. Jiang Xia saw that there were some washed lotus leaves at great grandmother's house, so he used the lotus leaves to fill some small fish with sauce for each of them to eat.
The two kids happily took a bag of small fish and went out to play with the other children in the village.
Children of this era had very limited material things, unlike modern children who have a variety of snacks and drinks to eat.
Children of this generation would be very happy if they could buy a cup of sunflower seeds with one or two cents. Then they would become the envy of their friends in the village and be surrounded by everyone like a star.
Zhou Jie is a smart guy. He has heard Jiang Xia talk about giving away small fish to open up the market. So Zhou Jie took the dried fish and dragged Zhou Zhou to the big tree in the village to find his friends. He also wanted to help sell the small fish!
It has to be said that fried fish are very attractive to children. Zhou Jie and Zhou Zhou were immediately surrounded by a group of children.
When an adult saw it, he thought the dried fish looked delicious, so he asked Zhou Jie for one to try. He found that it was really fragrant and chewy, and made people want to eat more.
She asked, "Zhou Jie, are these small dried fish made by your family? They are really delicious! Do you collect dried fish to make these small dried fish and sell them? How much do you sell them per pound?"
Although Zhou Jie was smart, he was not scheming enough. He thought she wanted to buy it, so he said, "Yes! Third Aunt, do you want to buy it? Then go find my mother or my niece's wife, Zhou Zhou's aunt! Go buy it quickly, otherwise my niece's wife will send it to the city to sell!"
When the villagers heard this, they became curious and gathered around, asking questions one after another.