Chapter 274: As Zhou's father expected, he made a fortune overnight
Jiang Xia heard the whistle, looked out the window, and saw a larger fishing boat approaching their boat.
Zhou Chenglei was also woken up. He got up and looked out the window. He quickly picked up the shirt hanging on the wall and put it on: "I met a fish transport ship. I'm going to go out for a while."
"Are you selling the fish?" Jiang Xia asked.
"No, I will sell it after we get to the dock. The Guangzhou Trade Fair is about to start. The fish we caught today are all good. The price should be more favorable when we sell them at the dock."
They would reach the shore in less than half an hour, and there were fishing boats coming to collect the fish. Zhou Chenglei guessed that they were here to pick up the lost fish.
Zhou Chenglei was afraid that his father would sell the fish, so he put on his shirt without buttoning it up completely, and quickly put on his trousers.
Two ships were approaching outside the window, so Jiang Xia stepped forward and helped him button the top two buttons of his shirt.
Zhou Chenglei fastened his belt, put his hands on her waist, hugged her, and let her help him button up his shirt.
"Okay, get out."
"Yeah." Zhou Chenglei wanted to take the bowl out to wash it, but the aisle was too narrow and Jiang Xia was at the other end of the desk, so he couldn't walk over. So he hugged her in his arms, steadying her body, then leaned over, stretched out his arm and picked up the enamel bowl on the table.
Seeing it in his arms, Jiang Xia said, "I can just take it out to wash. I didn't go out just now because I was afraid of waking you up."
"I know. It doesn't matter whether we take a shower together or not." Zhou Chenglei lowered his head and kissed her before letting her go. "I'm going to go out first. You pack our things. We'll get off the boat in a while."
"good."
Zhou Chenglei turned around, opened the door, walked out, and closed the door again.
Jiang Xia packed up the towels, mouthwash cups and other things they had used.
On the deck, Zhou's father was indeed asking the other party about the purchase price.
Zhou Chenglei came out and after listening to the other party's quotation, he found that the price was a few cents or a dime higher than what he encountered in the open sea. This price was within the normal range, neither low nor high.
He said, "We just went out to sea last night to attend the Guangzhou Trade Fair. There is not much fish to sell now. I hope we will have the chance to meet them in the open sea next time."
When the other party heard that they had just gone out to sea last night and came to participate in the Guangzhou Trade Fair, they knew that they would not be able to get a bargain.
Since the other party is here to participate in the Guangzhou Trade Fair, he is probably engaged in the export of aquatic products.
The boat owner smiled, said a few polite words and let the boat go.
Father Zhou waited for the boat to sail away and said, "The price is not low either. It is 5 cents to 10 cents per pound higher than what we paid in the open sea before, and some are even 20 cents per pound higher. However, the fuel cost is not small when we return here from the open sea. But we can still make a lot of money after calculation. It is estimated that the price will be one or two cents higher when we dock."
Zhou Chenglei: "The Guangzhou Trade Fair will be held in three days. At this time, seafood import and export processing factories will prepare a large amount of raw materials or supplies. We will sell them after we get to the shore to understand the price."
Father Zhou thought it made sense. Why rush? They would reach the shore in a short while.
It was also because Zhou's father had never heard of the Guangzhou Trade Fair before, so he didn't think about it in this direction.
Zhou Chenglei guessed correctly. Twenty minutes later, when they docked at a fisherman's wharf, several purchasing agents and traders from seafood processing factories immediately came up to them and asked if they wanted to sell fish.
Zhou Chenglei asked them about the prices, and the prices they offered were similar. The difference was that some kinds of fish were more expensive, while others were cheaper.
The price of each type of fish is 5 cents to 10 cents higher than that of the Gangyu ship. Some major exporters even charge 30 cents higher per pound.
Don't underestimate it as it's just one or two cents. Small amounts can add up to a lot. That shipload of fish they have contains 100,000 tons.
Finally, Zhou Chenglei sold the fish to a large and reputable seafood company he had heard of, hoping to have long-term cooperation with them in the future.
Now the purchasing offices still collect fish every day, but since the reform and opening up, the purchasing offices may not exist in the future.
Anyway, it is better to be prepared, so Zhou Chenglei asked about the price in detail, but did not bargain much. As long as such a large company purchases legitimately, the price is generally stable.
Jiang Xia had been listening beside Zhou Chenglei and didn't answer. However, when Zhou Chenglei expressed his intention to sell the fish to the seafood company, Jiang Xia glanced at him.
Although Zhou Chenglei was talking about serious matters, he always paid attention to Jiang Xia. When he saw her looking at him, he lowered his head and looked at her, "Do you think it's worth the price?"
Jiang Xia is smart, careful, and far-sighted, and Zhou Chenglei is afraid that he might have overlooked something.
Jiang Xia shook his head: "It's up to you to decide."
She just admired the man's ability to plan three steps ahead.
When the two looked at each other, Zhou Chenglei saw the light in her eyes, the light that only appeared when there was trust and admiration.
Zhou Chenglei raised the corners of his mouth slightly, she understood him.
"Then sell the fish to Section Chief Yang."
Jiang Xia nodded: "Okay."
Then Zhou Chenglei went to drive the boat, and the two ships found a place to pick up the goods.
Hongsheng Aquatic Products Import, Export and Processing Company is not in Guangzhou, and the fish they purchase are also shipped back by water.
There are also local aquatic product processing companies, but Zhou Chenglei did not choose one.
After the two boats were side by side, Jiang Yang and his colleagues quickly moved the fish out of the freezer at the bottom of the boat.
Jiang Xia watched as basket after basket of mackerel were carried up and handed over to the other party's boat. The other party's boatman took them and handed them to another boatman to move into the freezer.
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Yang Youbang, the purchasing section chief of Hongsheng Aquatic Products Processing Factory, saw that some of the fish had not yet frozen solid, but they were shiny and colorful, and looked very fresh. He smiled and asked, "Are these mackerels just caught in the net?"
Zhou Chenglei: "All the fish were not pulled up until five this morning, and only one net was pulled."
Yang Youbang nodded, but then he felt something was wrong. The other party just said that there were more than 3,000 baskets of goods?
Generally, one basket holds 50 jin, which means one net holds hundreds of thousands of jin? Actually, one net holds hundreds of thousands of jin of fish, which is really not a lot for their company.
If one hundred thousand jins of mackerels weigh two or three jin each, there will only be tens of thousands of fish, and they will be gone if you encounter one or two large schools of fish.
Their factory's ships go to the high seas and the real deep sea to fish. They have tried to catch 100 tons in one net. Of course, the factory's ships are much larger than his, they are the kind of fishing boats that are 100 meters long.
His ship of more than 20 meters is still not enough to go to the real deep sea.
But now they are here to attend the Guangzhou Trade Fair, and they cast a net on the way. If they can catch 100,000 kilograms in the inland sea, they are really lucky.
"You are so lucky!"
Zhou Chenglei just smiled.
It took more than an hour to move all the fish to the other boat.
A basket of mackerel costs 45 yuan, a basket of bonito costs 40 yuan, and the more valuable hake costs 80 yuan a basket.
In the end, the net was sold for 101,888 yuan after rounding off.
Just as Zhou's father expected, he made a fortune that night.
Although the Guangzhou Trade Fair has not started yet, foreign businessmen have already arrived. Their factory has received a large order, and Section Chief Yang wants to continue purchasing. He readily paid the money and continued to look for large ships to catch fish.
One hundred thousand yuan is a lot for Zhou's father. He never dared to think that he could earn that much in his lifetime. But for Yang Youbang, the purchasing chief of a large state-owned import and export company, he has to purchase a lot of goods every day, and the money that passes through his hands is far more than one hundred thousand. So he does not think it is a lot because he has seen a lot.
So when Zhou's father heard about the 100,000 yuan, his hands were shaking with excitement, but he was used to it and his expression didn't change at all when he took the money.
Yang Bin and his friends each sold the fish they caught for around three hundred yuan, plus Zhou Chenglei gave them a red envelope of two hundred yuan as a bonus, and their wages would be calculated after they went out to sea.
Everyone is happy!
Zhou Chenglei left 20,000 yuan for his father to refuel the boat and for backup, and then he and Jiang Xia took a taxi to the hotel with a travel bag and a large sum of money.