Chapter 70 Recovering the Money
Li Tong glanced at a nearby vendor before hesitantly saying, "The skinned fish from that stall were returned by someone who makes grilled fish fillets in the city. The ice melted on the way back, and a lot of the fish are no longer fresh. I heard they gave him compensation, but the vendor can't bear to throw them away and plans to find another buyer. However, I'd like you to go to that stall and take a look at the skinned fish and find any problems. Otherwise, he'll have a fight with me."
Now Chu Xuan knew what was going on.
To avoid a quarrel, Chu Xuan went back to the vendor and explained, "I just tried to comfort Li Tong privately. After all, he's been supplying me with goods. He said he didn't have that many skinned fish anyway, so he didn't mind me buying from your stall."
The vendor was delighted. "I knew Boss Li was generous! My name is Min San. I'll weigh you right away!"
"Wait a minute. Don't rush to weigh it. I need to check the quality of the fish first. My family's grilled fish fillets must use fresh, skinned fish." Chu Xuan lowered his head to look through the basins of skinned fish. "Why does it smell bad? Boss, are your skinned fish freshly landed?"
Min San was stubborn and said, "Of course we just landed. It's normal for a few fish to die out of the sea."
"These aren't just a few dead ones. Most of them are not fresh. I won't buy them!"
Chu Xuan turned and left.
Min San was so anxious that he stamped his feet. Chu Xuan was the only one here who could buy skinned fish in large quantities. Now that she refused to take it, he could only take it home and dry it into dried fish.
Just let it go like this?
no.
He had to find a way to sell it.
His eyes fell on Li Tong's stall.
Aren't they only accepting skinned fish that have just landed? At worst, he could find someone to bring this batch of skinned fish to the shore again.
If it can’t be sold to Chu Xuan, then sell it to Li Tong.
When Li Tong got busy, he didn't have time to check them one by one.
He shouted, "I need a boat to throw these fish back into the sea. Can anyone help me?"
His good friend's boat had just landed and sold its catch. "Use my boat! But you have to drive it yourself."
Li Tong was puzzled. "If you take it home and dry it into dried fish, and then eat it at home, wouldn't that save you some food?"
Min San pretended to look disgusted and said, "My family never eats skinned dried fish. Throwing it into the sea will surely attract a large number of fish to eat it. Then I'll cast my net and maybe catch a big catch."
Li Tong said nothing more.
Ten minutes later, 1,500 kilograms of fish were transported to the boat.
Min San personally drove the boat away.
Finally found Chu Zhi.
Chu Zhi was sitting leisurely in the boat fishing.
The two hit it off immediately, and after the deal was done, Min San gave Chu Zhi 10 yuan as a thank you fee.
After all, if all 1,500 kilograms of fish are sold, they can be sold for 60 yuan.
Chu Zhi went out to sea after lunch, so he could have waited until dark to go ashore.
At around 3:00 p.m., Chu Xuan arrived at the county town carrying 40 kilograms of grilled fish fillets.
First, I went to the flour mill’s family building to do business. I had already made an appointment yesterday.
Easily sold 20 kilograms.
She carried the rest to the factory's staff quarters and called out, "Come and buy grilled fish fillets... Grilled fish fillets that cost ten yuan a pound outside the city are now only two yuan and fifteen cents a pound. Come buy them all! There aren't many left..."
It soon attracted a lot of people.
Try before you buy.
I sold another 18 kilograms, ate one or two ounces for tasting, and had one kilogram and nine ounces left.
At 5:30 in the afternoon, Chu Xuan saw a familiar figure. It was Dr. Zhang, the old Chinese medicine doctor who treated her.
He immediately packed up his stall and ran after him, wanting to give Dr. Zhang the grilled fish fillets weighing less than two pounds.
Doctor Zhang accepted it and bought it with his own money.
Chu Xuan felt a little embarrassed, feeling that he was forcing someone to buy something.
After chatting, I found out that Dr. Zhang's niece Zhang Feifei lives here. She applied for medical retirement due to a work-related injury and wanted to start a small business. She can't walk very well, but she can ride a bicycle.
Chu Xuan suggested that Zhang Feifei buy grilled fish fillets from her home and set up a stall to sell them.
Doctor Zhang said he would discuss it with his niece and would give a reply the next time Chu Xuan went to get the medicine.
At around seven o'clock in the evening, Chu Xuan and Widow Niu arrived at Li Tong's stall pulling a cart.
Li Tongzheng sighed.
Chu Xuan stepped forward, "Boss Li, what happened?"
"I went home for dinner, and my son brought me 1,500 kilograms of stinky skinned fish."
Li Tong is a man of conscience and will not sell this pile of rotten fish to Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan always felt that things were not that simple, "Who sold it to your family?"
"My son said it was Chu Zhi."
"Tell your family not to buy Chu Zhi's goods anymore. He's a worthless person. But why does the number 1,500 kilograms sound so familiar? What about Min San, the guy selling skinned fish? Chu Zhi can't be that diligent."
"He's gone. Could it be that he's in cahoots with Chu Zhi?"
"This needs to be investigated. How about this? You continue to collect fresh, skinned fish until you have 1,500 kilograms. I'll help you recover the losses from that previous batch of rotten fish."
After Chu Xuan gave his instructions, he left quickly.
Go straight to Chu Zhi's house.
"Chu Zhi, come out!"
When Chu Zhi heard Chu Xuan's voice, the fear of being thrown into the tree last time immediately came back to him. He hid in the bedroom and refused to go out.
"I'm not going out. Just tell me what you want to say!"
His parents were not at home at the moment, and he was alone, so he was no match for Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan also guessed that Feng Chunhua was not at home, otherwise she would have jumped out long ago.
"Chu Zhi, I'm only telling you this once. Go to Li Tong's stall right now and take away your 1,500 kilograms of skinned fish!"
"Chu Xuan, why are you meddling in other people's business? I didn't sell it to you!"
"Li Tong collected it for me! Do you want the whole village to know your secret?"
"No! I'll find someone to take you away right away. Don't stand outside, go home and wait for news."
"I'll go to the dock and wait for news. If I don't see you within an hour, you know what will happen!"
Chu Xuan turned and left.
Only after confirming that she had gone far away did Chu Zhi walk out of the bedroom and lock the gate.
Just then, Min San from the next village came over.
"Chu Zhi, where's the money from selling fish?"
It was he who hired Chu Zhi to sell skinned fish.
Chu Zhi became more cautious. "I haven't got the money yet. Li Tong wasn't here just now, but his son was. I was just about to go get the money. How about you come with me?"
"I'll be waiting for you at your door. Go quickly."
"good."
Chu Zhi hurried to the dock.
After seeing Li Tong, he readily returned the sixty yuan to him, borrowed a cart, hired a strong laborer, and left with 1,500 kilograms of smelly skinned fish.
Li Tong looked at the money in his hand and then at Chu Xuan. He didn't expect that the money would be returned so soon.
Li Tong knew how difficult Chu Zhi and his mother were.
From this moment on, Li Tong was full of admiration for Chu Xuan.
I became more determined to help Chu Xuan collect fresh skinned fish.
When Min San saw Chu Zhi and his men pulling in 1,500 kilograms of smelly skinned fish, he cursed, "Chu Zhi, what the hell? How do you do your job? Why didn't you sell any fish?"
Chu Zhi knew he was in the wrong, so he didn't respond to the scolding. Instead, he looked nonchalant. "You hired me, but did you pay me? No! Remember to pay this strong laborer two cents. Min San, take your stinky fish away now, it's stinking me up! Don't come to me for this kind of thing again!"
Min San wanted to argue with him, but when he saw Feng Chunhua coming back, he immediately chose to shut up.
If I don't leave quickly, Feng Chunhua will spread the news everywhere and even exaggerate the rumors.
He called on a strong laborer to pull it away.
Feng Chunhua looked at Min San's back and asked Chu Zhi, "Xiao Zhi, why did that guy come to our house?"
Chu Zhi didn't want to talk about those embarrassing things with Feng Chunhua. "You came here to sell fish, but I chased you away. Where's my dad? Why did you come back alone?"
"He's staying in the yard he just bought in town tonight."
"Mom, did our family really buy a yard?"
“That’s it!”
"Have you prepared the betrothal money for Xiaoli?"
"I'm ready."
"Mom, where did you get so much money?"
(End of this chapter)
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