The boatmen on Xu Lao's fish transport boat all knew Zhou Chenglei and knew that Zhou Chenglei was the grandson-in-law of Mai Lao. Someone saw him on the boat and shouted, "Brother Lei, do you have any seafood for sale?"
Zhou Chenglei nodded: "Yes, I found a lot of good stuff online today, do you want to buy it?"
"Collect, why not? I'll go down and see what good fish there are! Find a place to park the boat."
Now they are queuing up to dock, and they don't know when the queue will end, so they might as well find a place where there are no other boats to dock and collect Zhou Chenglei's fish first.
So several ships left the dock again.
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After selling all the fish on the boat, it was already seven o'clock in the evening.
On the way back, Tian Caihua sat under the light and counted the money one by one.
I really made a lot of money today!
A boatload of fish was sold for more than ten thousand yuan.
It is estimated that each family will get more than 5,000 yuan.
Tian Caihua had never tried to earn more than 5,000 yuan a day by going out to sea to fish.
Fish and mussels previously in the cages do not count.
I made 110,000 yuan selling mussels in mid-April!
She was so excited that she couldn't sleep at night for a whole week.
Tian Caihua counted the money and found that it was correct. She put it aside and said, "From now on, we will send the fish from our boats to the city dock and sell them to Mr. Xu!"
Jiang Xia shook his head: "This is not good. Once or twice is fine, but if it happens more than once, it will be taking advantage of Mr. Xu."
Father Zhou also said, "That's right. When Old Xu's boat goes to our inland dock to collect fish, he also charges according to the local price. He also wants to make a profit from the price difference. Otherwise, why would he spend so much money to buy a fish transport ship? His imported fishing boat costs more than 10 million!"
Today, Mr. Xu bought their fish at the Hong Kong Island price. Large hairtail with complete silver scales (length over 60 cm) was four yuan per catty, while the city dock was only one yuan and thirty cents per catty.
Mr. Xu charges 2.80 yuan per pound for small hairtail, while the city dock charges 70 cents per pound.
Today, the hairtail on their boat was sold for 1,742 yuan.
Mackerel is more expensive. There is a song in Hong Kong in this era that goes "A beautiful mackerel costs only 20 yuan per kilogram", which shows that mackerel is more popular in Hong Kong Island. However, it is the white-bellied mackerel, and not all mackerels are the same price.
It just so happened that what they caught today were white-bellied Spanish mackerels, and there were many white-bellied Spanish mackerels in the sea here.
A catty of white-bellied Spanish mackerel weighing more than five kilograms can be sold for fifteen yuan; three or four kilograms can be sold for eight yuan; and those weighing one or two kilograms can be sold for four yuan per catty.
The boatman on Mr. Xu's boat said that this year, due to the opening of self-operated fish exports, the supply of white-bellied Spanish mackerel to Hong Kong increased by 150%, an increase of 8,000 tons! The wholesale price has dropped to 15 Hong Kong dollars per catty, while the wholesale price was 22 yuan per catty last year.
Tian Caihua felt pain in her heart for three seconds after hearing this!
But today they sold their mackerel for 6,440 yuan!
The price of croaker is cheap, and the price of big croaker has also dropped this year (body length > 20cm). The wholesale price is 80 to 1.2 yuan per catty.
They had a lot of balang, a total of 1,083 kilograms, of which 656 kilograms were large balang and the rest were small balang.
Moreover, their croaker is very fresh and has clear eye membranes, so the purchase price is 1.2 yuan per pound, and the purchase price for small croaker is 70 yuan per pound.
The croaker was sold for a total of 1,086 yuan.
The purchase price of smoked fish (＞5 kg) is between RMB 1.80 and RMB 2.50 per catty. They have 3,000 catties, but not all the fish are larger than 5 kg, and there is no time to sort them out. The boat captain sees that most of them are relatively large, so he buys them all at RMB 1.70 per catty.
A total of 2,968 kilograms of smoked fish were sold for 5,045 yuan.
There were not many grouper fish, only about 100 kilograms, and we still gave them the New Year's price, for a total of 800 yuan.
The red snapper was sold for four hundred yuan, and the yellowfin tuna was more expensive, twenty-five yuan per pound, so the total sales were one thousand four hundred yuan.
There were also more than ten kilograms of squid, eight or ten kilograms of shrimp, more than ten kilograms of large yellow croaker, and more than forty kilograms of small yellow croaker, which also sold for several hundred yuan.
All in all, I made a lot of money today.
But this is because the boatman gave the purchase price of the Hong Kong Island terminal, and the purchase price they gave at the terminal here is not this price.
If they want to sell at this price, they need to sail their fishing boats to the Hong Kong Island Pier.
So how can Jiang Xia have the nerve to transport it here and sell it to Mr. Xu every time?
However, there are also many fishing boats here that secretly sell fish to that side. But this year there is a new policy, so they don’t have to sell it secretly anymore. They can sell it there after getting a license.
After the policy was introduced, Zhou Chenglei ordered two fish transport ships during the Guangzhou Trade Fair, and in the future he would specialize in collecting fish from the sea and selling them to Hong Kong Island.
Fish transport ships have relatively high technical requirements. Zhou Chenglei did not order one from a shipyard in this city, but from a shipyard in Shanghai, with a carrying capacity of 500 tons.
One is a domestically produced refrigerated ship, and the other is a joint venture. One costs 5.8 million and the other costs 12 million.
It takes 14 months for a domestically produced ship to be delivered, while a joint venture ship can be delivered in 10 months. If you buy a purely imported ship, it can be delivered in 8 months, but there is no subsidy for buying imported ships.
There is a 30% purchase subsidy for domestically produced ships.
Anyway, he used all the money he earned from the Guangzhou Fair to book ships.
She plans to use part of her earnings to invest in electronics factories and container terminals, and part to build factory buildings.
The implication is that the money will be spent as soon as it arrives!
It took Tian Caihua almost half an hour to count all the money, a total of 17,500 yuan. She removed the decimals and confiscated them.
Father Zhou only wants one thousand yuan; he has more money than he can spend now.
So each of the three families received 5,500 yuan.
This is just the money their ship earned today. The other ships also earned one or two thousand yuan each.
Zhou Chenglei's other two ships made a combined profit of 4,800 yuan, Zhou Chengxin's ship made 1,600 yuan, and Zhou Chengsen's ship made 2,000 yuan, all after deducting the decimals.
Father Zhou said with a smile: "This time we not only made money for the wedding banquet."
It costs less than a thousand yuan to hold a banquet in the village.
When they got home, it was already half past eight and the triplets were all asleep. Zhou Chenglei called home at the dock, so his mother was not worried.
Mother Zhou asked Ruan Tang again: "Xiao Tang, what time will my in-laws and mother-in-law arrive tomorrow? How many people will come?"
Ruan Tang's family will come to visit tomorrow, so Zhou's mother has to go shopping for groceries and cook early tomorrow morning.
Ruan Tang: "My parents will get off the plane at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. My parents and grandparents, my uncle's family of six, and my aunt's family of four, a total of about fourteen people."
Then we will have to prepare enough food for four tables.
The next day, Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin went out to sea in a small wooden boat at four o'clock to fish and go to Abalone Island to collect some abalone in preparation for lunch.
Zhou Chengsen got up at five o'clock and went to the town to buy pork and pig's trotters to stew braised pork and make pork knuckles with sand ginger. Later he and Ruan Tang would go to the city to pick someone up.
Zhou's father and mother killed chickens and geese at home.
Jiang Xia, Tian Caihua and Ruan Tang washed vegetables and prepared cold dishes.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Jiang Xia guessed that Zhou Chenglei should have returned from sea. She and Tian Caihua went to the dock to see what fish Zhou Chenglei and his crew had caught, and to see what seafood they wanted to buy.
The types of fish we catch at home are definitely not complete.
Our own fishing boat didn't catch any shrimps today, and there are not many shrimps on every household's fishing boat today.
Jiangxia collected shrimp from several fishing boats and only harvested ten kilograms.
Someone saw them buying so many shrimps and asked, "Xiao Xia, Ah Hua, what's a good day today? Is it your grandfather's birthday? Are you going to have a birthday party?"
Tian Caihua loudly said: "No, today my second brother and sister-in-law's family came to see the family tradition."
Li Xiuxian happened to be at the dock to buy fish, and was stunned for a moment after hearing Tian Caihua's loudspeaker's words. (End of this chapter)
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