Chapter 237: Prosperity but not Children
Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin carried loads of fish to the purchasing office.
The fish they have lined up there seem to be more than what the purchasing office has received so far.
Zhou Bingqiang had finished selling the fish, but he didn't leave. He stood aside to see how much money Zhou Chenglei and his brother could make today.
Watching the two brothers carrying loads of fish, he could imagine how proud Zhou Yongfu would be if he were here! Although Zhou Yongfu was not here and no one was showing off in front of him, Zhou Bingqiang felt even more aggrieved and uncomfortable.
Because Zhou Yongfu was away because he was driving a large ocean-going ship out to the open sea!
It has always been his dream to sail a large ship for deep-sea fishing, but he has never been able to do so.
He originally thought that he had three ships and would be able to book a large ship by the end of next year at the latest.
But the current shipping is so bad that it makes people feel creepy!
He doesn't even know when he'll be able to buy a large ocean-going ship.
Thinking of this, Zhou Bingqiang couldn't help but remind Zhou Guohua: "Starting tomorrow, you are not allowed to fish for those two stones. The right way is to trawle the net and make money."
Anything like being able to predict the future or dreaming about other people's fortunes are all fake.
What belongs to you cannot be taken away by others, and the right thing to do is to do your own thing well.
Zhou Guohua nodded: "Okay."
He felt that the two stones in Wen Wan’s dream should be the jade giant clam.
Although there is a slight difference between one piece and two pieces, it is normal to have a slight difference after all.
Since Zhou Chenglei had already picked it up, he didn't want to waste his efforts.
The floor slab was just poured yesterday. The steel bars, cement, sand, stones and labor costs amounted to thousands of dollars. All the money from the division of the family has been spent. If I don’t make good use of the nets to make money, I can forget about building the second floor.
Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin sold the fish and shrimp under the envious gaze of the whole village.
The price of fish is indeed much higher today.
The moonfish that Jiangxia caught was rarely seen in decades, so the purchasing office gave it three yuan and ninety cents per pound, and the whole fish was sold for 156 yuan.
Yellowfin tuna is also a rare fish. Although it is not as valuable as bluefin tuna, it is also a very precious fish.
Moreover, this fish is big enough, weighing 60 kilograms. The purchasing office charges 3 yuan per kilogram today, so this fish was sold for 180 yuan.
Someone couldn't help but envy and said, "Alei, you guys are so lucky. You even caught a moonfish and a yellowfin tuna. The money from selling those two fish is more than what I made in half a year!"
Then Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin replied in perfect sync: "My wife/my sister-in-law caught it."
The tone is exactly the same, and there is a bit of Zhou's father's shadow in it.
That person: “…”
Someone else spoke up: "Not only those two big fish, the white shrimp and red-billed bream that A-lei caught today are also rare fish."
White shrimps are not the most common shrimps in their sea, but Zhou Chenglei and his team actually caught more than 300 kilograms, which is unprecedented!
This is incredible luck! The red-billed bream is also a famous fish in another sea area, and they can occasionally encounter a few here.
But hundreds of fish at a time? If you don’t know, you might think they went to other seas to fish! When everyone else’s harvest was low, they caught a bunch of rare and expensive fish. How could this not make people envious?
Today's white shrimps are one yuan and fifty cents per pound, and the total sales amount is three hundred and seventy-five yuan and sixty cents.
There are 556 kilograms of yellow croaker. Normally, the price for such a big one is 40 cents per kilogram, and the price for smaller ones is only 30 or 20 cents.
Zhou Chenglei and his team had just caught a net of yellow croaker, which was very fresh. The purchasing office was charging 45 cents per pound today, for a total of two hundred and fifty yuan and twenty cents.
It's a small improvement.
Then other miscellaneous fish, including the mackerel caught in Jiangxia, were sold for a total of 76.66 yuan.
Uncle Dong also sold it for sixty-five yuan and thirty cents.
All the fish I bought from my family were sold for a total of one thousand,038.46 yuan!
This does not include the more than one hundred red-billed sturgeons. Those red-billed sturgeons are relatively large, each weighing at least ten kilograms, so there are more than a thousand kilograms there.
Today, the price for red-billed sturgeon weighing more than ten kilograms is 2.80 yuan per kilogram.
Because one pound of fish produces one pound of isinglass, the price of this type of fish, which is famous for its isinglass, weighing more than ten pounds can differ quite a bit between that weighing less than ten pounds.
After all, fish maw is priced according to size, and different sizes have different prices.
Zhou Chenglei weighed the red-billed sturgeon.
A total of 1,306 kilograms, which can be sold for 3,656.8 yuan.
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Everyone in the village silently calculated in their hearts how much money Zhou Chenglei and his brother earned today!
I found out it was more than 4,600, almost 5,000.
Pass your life!
Another five thousand dollars.
Add to that the jade giant clam, and he became a millionaire in just two days.
Zhou Chenglei makes a lot of money every day, and it's unclear how much money he makes.
The Zhou Chenglei brothers earned in just one day a sum of money that most people thought they could never earn in their entire lives.
It's really a drought that kills the fish, and a flood that kills the fish! Mother Zhou pushed the cart over and urged the two brothers to bring the red-billed sturgeons back home with a smile.
Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin loaded the fish onto the cart.
A few women gathered in the distance and whispered, "Is Alei's wife pregnant?"
"It's normal to be pregnant. We've been married for so long! I got pregnant in the second month after I got married!"
"I also got pregnant with my son Awen in the third month of my marriage."
"Even if she's not pregnant, she's probably preparing for pregnancy. I just saw Jiang Xia bring two lobsters, two kilograms of white shrimp, and a few big blue crabs home to eat. Who would be willing to eat like this if they weren't preparing for pregnancy? A meal costs more than 10 or 20 yuan! I also heard that Jiang Xia eats a sea cucumber every day."
"The Zhou family is really generous to this daughter-in-law!"
"How can you not be generous? What is her status? Besides, Zhou Chenglei is so old. If he wants to have a son soon, he naturally has to take good care of his wife."
"Jiang Xia looks blessed, and her figure looks like she'll be able to bear children easily. It will probably be easy for her to get pregnant, and she won't have to worry about not having enough milk to feed the baby in the future."
Zhou Bingqiang's wife pursed her lips. Jiang Xia looked blessed, but her figure showed that she couldn't give birth to a son. She would bring wealth but not children! "She has a good figure, but I think her figure is very similar to my sister-in-law's when she was young. She is the kind of figure that is good at giving birth to daughters. Zhou Chenglei also looks like a father-in-law. I guess they will have to give birth to several daughters before they can give birth to a son. It's getting stricter now. We'll have to line up to be fined in the future!"
A few people looked at Zhou Bingqiang's wife and knew that she was jealous of Zhou Chenglei's making so much money, but it was too cruel to say that she couldn't have a son! A few people didn't respond to her and changed the subject: "By the way, how much is the fine for having one more child now?"
"Every commune is different! In our town, the fines are not much, maybe a few hundred yuan. People in the city are fined more! The city is stricter."
"So it's better to have a daughter as the first child, and a son as the second child. Then you don't have to be punished for having both a son and a daughter."
"That's good! The problem is that you can't just give birth to whoever you want..."