Chapter 423: Daughter's Status Depends on Her Father

Jiang Xia and his grandmother were bargaining with the people at the purchasing office. There were two baskets of fish that were too lazy to separate and were packed together, so it was difficult to determine the price.

It was mainly the great-grandmother who was calling, while Jiang Xia was watching with a smile on her face.

Grandma fiddled with the fish in the basket and shouted, "Five dollars and eighty cents!"

Mr. Jin: "Five dollars and seventy cents!"

Grandma: "Why are you asking for less and less? Five dollars and ninety cents, will you take it? If not, forget it!"

If there weren't two or three thousand kilograms of dried fish left to fry, she would have taken them home to dry and made them into spicy dried fish! Grandpa Jin: "You keep asking for more! Okay, five dollars and eighty cents is five dollars and eighty cents, both baskets are five dollars and eighty cents! Is that okay? No, forget it! I'm too lazy to say anything!"

Jiang Xia: "No, that won't work. This basket is obviously a few pounds more. Two baskets cost twelve yuan in total! Is that okay? You see, my family sends you hundreds or even thousands of pounds of fish every day. Most of the time, my husband doesn't bargain. Whatever price you offer is fine, right?"

"Okay, okay, okay, have the groupers you raised grown up? Can we sell them on New Year's Eve? Remember to bring them to the purchasing office then, and don't secretly send them to the city dock."

Because the Zhou family has been purchasing various precious groupers, red snappers and other fish from the villagers and raising them in cages. After collecting them for so long, there are probably hundreds of them!

These fish sell very well on New Year's Eve.

The price can sometimes double or triple.

Moreover, the supply is in short supply, and many people use their connections to find someone to save a good fish for the New Year’s Eve reunion dinner.

What is being sold at this time is not just fish, but also human favors.

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Mr. Jin has already asked for it. When the time comes, tell my husband how many you need. I'll see if I can spare a few for you. Two restaurants in the city have already booked them."

Mr. Jin: “…”

There are even reservations for hotels in the city? Mr. Jin took out a stack of money and gave it to Jiang Xia for settlement, a total of two hundred and sixty-five yuan and sixty-seven cents.

We just caught two nets of fish this morning. The first one sold for a good price because it contained a large red snapper and two hundred kilograms of small yellow croaker. The second one was mostly skinned fish. Skinned fish are not valuable, but even in large quantities they were still sold for over seventy yuan.

The golden pomfret and mussels were not for sale, and the scallops, octopus, and various conchs that Zhou's father and mother picked up from the sea were not for sale either, so having more than two hundred yuan was already a lot.

Jiang Xia: "Mr. Jin, let's round it up to 266. Then the 33 cents is for you to treat grandma and me to candy."

Mr. Jin said cheerfully, "Okay! Remember to send me some good fish if you have any!"

Mr. Jin, who was usually very stingy and would not give even a penny less, directly gave Jiang Xia two hundred, two hundred and sixty-six yuan.

Great-grandmother only kept eight or ten small scallops and one or two pounds of the smallest conchs. She gave all the octopuses she picked up to Zhou's mother, and sold the large scallops and conchs for eight yuan, thirty-two cents.

Mr. Jin: "I'll round it up to 8.30 yuan!"

Grandma laughed and scolded, "You're talking nonsense! What do you mean by rounding off? For me, rounding off is rounding off! Give me the money! Not a cent less!"

Li Xiuxian came over because she wanted to ask Jiang Xia something, but she ended up hearing that Mr. Jin, who always looked down on others, was speaking to Jiang Xia in such a kind manner.

Usually when she met Mr. Jin and greeted him, he would never respond.

Jiang Xia is respected wherever she goes because of her father.

A daughter's status depends on her father!

From now on, Yingying will be the same as Jiang Xia.

She felt even more sad when she saw Mr. Jin counting out a large stack of big unity bills and giving them to Jiang Xia.

When everyone went out to sea together, she earned not even a fraction of what Jiang Xia earned!

Jiangxia's change was more than five yuan! But she also heard that her great-grandmother also sold the scallops and conchs she picked up at the sea for more than eight yuan, so she felt less suspicious of her own family.

My great-grandmother alone earned more than eight yuan, and it was normal for the four of them to earn more than ten yuan when they went to the sea together.

Li Xiuxian came to Jiang Xia and said with a smile: "Xiao Xia has sold the fish. I have prepared the meal. You can go back and eat now."

Jiang Xia greeted her, then looked at where their boat and tractor were parked. Zhou Chenglei and his team had already loaded all the golden pomfret onto the tractor, so she said, "Okay, let's go back. Grandma, you can go back on the tractor too!"

"Okay, I'm too lazy to leave."

It takes more than ten minutes to walk back from the pier.

With her grandmother around, Li Xiuxian didn't dare to ask anything. After all, family disgrace should not be made public.

Zhou Chenglei came to pick up Jiang Xia and took Jiang Xia away on a motorcycle.

Li Xiuxian made dinner. Jiang Xia only then realized that the taste of Li Xiuxian’s food was so indescribable!

Seafood is delicious when blanched, but she cooked the blanched shrimps until they had no taste and were no longer fresh.

The steamed fish was not tasty either, it was too salty and the meat was not tender, it was too tough.

Other dishes were too salty.

Jiang Xia took a few bites and couldn't help but drink a large glass of water.

Fortunately, Zhou Chenglei came back and steamed the scallops and blanched some conchs and spicy snails.

Everyone was scrambling to eat, and it wasn't enough. Apart from the boiled shrimps made by Li Xiuxian, almost no one ate the other dishes.

Li Xiuxian didn't eat either, she just focused on the dishes made by Zhou Chenglei.

After dinner in the evening, Zhou's mother hired someone to kill the fish. The fish were killed in the old house.

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Zhou Chenglei asked Jiang Xia to take Zhou Zhou back to the new house to take a bath and sleep.

He stayed to kill the fish.

Li Xiuxian immediately said, "I'll take Yingying back to take a bath too. The weather is cold, so I'll help her take a bath. I'm afraid she'll catch a cold."

Zhou Chengsen: "Just let Yingying go with Xiaoxia. You and I will stay and help kill the fish!"

Li Xiuxian: “…”

Zhou Chengsen said to Jiang Xia again: "Xiao Xia, take Yingying with you! She can take a bath by herself."

Jiang Xia responded: "Okay."

Then she asked Zhou Zhou and Zhou Ying to go back to the new house to take a shower and sleep.

After Zhou's mother and her family finished killing the fish, it was already nine o'clock. Zhou's mother and Zhou Chenglei planned to clean the yard before going back to the new house.

Zhou Chengsen said to them again: "Mom, fourth brother, you guys go back and take a shower and go to bed! I'll just clean up here. My husband and I will stay here tonight. Anyway, the quilt we slept on before is still here, and we're too lazy to move around."

Li Xiuxian: “…”

Still living in the old house? Wouldn't it be nice to live in a new house? It's troublesome to go to the toilet in the middle of the night here! Zhou Chenglei: "Xiao Xia has prepared the bed and quilt in the room. They are all clean. You can go to sleep directly without moving anything. It's not as convenient to take a shower here as over there."

Zhou Chengsen waved his hand: "It doesn't matter where you sleep. I've just boiled a pot of hot water. It won't be inconvenient! You guys go back! Your sister-in-law can take a shower first, and I'll just clean up."

"Okay." Zhou Chenglei didn't say much and handed the yard to him.

The food tonight was too salty, and Jiang Xia probably wasn’t full. He wanted to go back and stew an egg with milk for her and cook her some seafood noodle soup.

Li Xiuxian: "I'm going to ask Xiaoxia something!"

Then he followed Zhou Chenglei and Zhou's mother back to the new house.

When Li Xiuxian found the second floor, Jiang Xia had just come out of the shower.

Just now she was worried about Zhou Ying, afraid that she would take too long in the bath and catch a cold, or that she would be poisoned by carbon monoxide.

Direct-discharge water heaters have this shortcoming, although she has asked Zhou Chenglei to install it outside the bathroom.

However, in winter, if you take a bath for too long, steam poisoning may occur frequently.

Jiang Xia wiped his hair with a towel and asked, "What does Second Sister-in-law want to talk to me about?"

On the occasion of the New Year, I wish my friends a good year and good health every year!

Happy New Year!