Chen Qiu and Chen Dong were sitting in the living room watching TV at this time.
Although they could only receive two TV stations, the Central TV Station and the Zhijiang Provincial TV Station, they were still fascinated by the show and couldn't bear to take their eyes off it.
Chen Xia asked her elder sister to bring the TV from Lin'an.
Now he has no shortage of industrial coupons and money. Thinking that the two little ones will be very bored during the winter vacation, he thought of buying a TV.
Well, actually he felt that the night was too boring, and the night without a mobile phone and midnight snacks was too hard to endure.
It was a 14-inch Venus brand black and white TV, and Chen Xia thought it looked incredibly low-end. He couldn't get a color TV for the time being, so he planned to get a 21-inch color TV when he had the chance to visit Dongguang Province.
Today's hotpot meal completely refreshed the three views of the four female college students.
This was the first time in their lives that Chen Chun, Zhan Aiju, Fang Meizhen and Shen Huishan had eaten so much meat in one meal, and it was precious beef.
Everyone sat together, there was a steaming hot pot in the house, and outside the cold winter wind was howling. The contrast between ice and fire made them feel unreal.
Is this still 1981? Why can't they even have enough food to eat, while Chen Xia's family can't even finish their meat?
No matter how much emotion you feel in your heart, you must not slow down when taking the meat out of the pot.
The next day, busy man Chen Xia was going on another business trip, this time to the Zhoushan Islands.
Chen Dong also insisted on going, but what kind of scenery could there be at the beach in winter? So he didn't agree, only promising to take him to the beach to see bikini beauties in the summer.
If there is a bikini.
This time, two large trucks from the Fourth Hospital went to the Zhoushan Islands together. The driver was squad leader Wei Hongxing, and the other one was named Zhong Guangrong.
Chen Xia and Gu Lin were sitting in Wei Hongxing's car, while "Jinyiwei" Wang Hongjuan and Kong Zhenzhen were sitting in another car.
Zhoushan Islands is about 200 kilometers away from Yuezhou, but the road is very difficult to travel. After a 5-hour drive, the truck arrived at Baifeng Wharf in Yongbo City.
Chen Xia asked Zhong Guangrong to guard the truck and wait in the guesthouse, while he took Gu Lin, Wei Hongxing, Wang Hongjuan, and Kong Zhenzhen on a large ship to the Shenjiamen Port in the Zhoushan Islands.
In later generations, the Zhoushan Islands were connected to Ningbo City by a cross-sea bridge and had the world's largest port. With the help of logistics, tourism and fisheries, the island's economy was very developed.
But Zhoushan was still very poor in 1981. At that time, there was no port logistics, no tourism industry, and the only pillar industry on the island was fishing.
Although the fishery resources were very abundant at that time and even yellow croakers were caught in nets, the problem was that they could not be sold.
In the absence of a developed logistics industry and high-speed network, and before the problem of refrigerated transportation of seafood could be solved, Zhoushan's seafood could only be supplied to a few nearby cities.
Moreover, at that time, most cities did not have cold storage and could not preserve seafood for a long time, so the purchase volume was also very small.
Fishermen can only make dried salted fish out of the large amount of fresh seafood, but the sales of dried salted fish are not very good, so Zhoushan is poor and the people are very poor.
It just so happened that Chen Xia, who was able to solve the transportation and preservation issues, found another opportunity to make a small fortune.
After more than two hours of sailing, Chen Xia and his crew got off the boat at Shenjiamen Wharf.
Along the way, the three young nurses were very excited. They kept running around outside the ship. They were not afraid of getting paralyzed by the cold wind and even forced Chen Xia to take pictures for them.
It is really pitiful for children who have never seen the sea.
Shenjiamen Wharf is the largest fishing wharf in the Zhoushan Islands. As the Chinese New Year is approaching, most of the fishing boats have returned to the port, bringing back boatloads of full warehouses of seafood.
But no one was particularly happy because they still faced the difficult problem of how to sell it.
If the fish cannot be sold, the fishing team will suffer a loss, and the consequence of this loss is that the people in their village will suffer from hunger for a whole year.
Fishermen also need to eat. At the seaside, only rich people can eat meat, and poor people are only worthy of eating seafood.
At this time, on a fishing boat, the captain Dong Dafu was praying that his catch would be noticed by a state-owned processing factory and then sold out before the New Year so that they could have a good year.
It was already evening when Chen Xia and his friends arrived at Shenjiamen Port. They found a hotel to stay in and then went out to look for food together in the cold sea breeze.
Gu Lin and the others were very excited to see so many different kinds of strange and exotic fish. The little girl knew that Chen Xia was not short of money, so she let go and ordered a whole table full of seafood.
While everyone was eating heartily, Chen Xia was busy asking about the prices of seafood here and where to get cheap seafood.
The manager of this state-owned restaurant is the best person to ask.
The restaurant's business is not good at this time. It's almost the New Year and all the outsiders have left. Who among the locals would come to the restaurant to eat?
So the manager was also quite bored, so he took the cigarette that Chen Xia threw to him, and the two started chatting.
"Little brother, if you want to know the price of this seafood, you've come to the right person. No one knows better than me."
The manager’s surname is Ma, he is in his forties, and he goes to the market every day to purchase seafood. He knows the latest prices very well.
"It's almost Chinese New Year, so there are more ships returning and fewer merchants buying. So the prices of seafood have also dropped. For example, a first-class hairtail fish this thick costs 0.2 yuan per jin; yellow croaker, 0.23 yuan; swimming crab, 0.9 yuan; mackerel, 0.12 yuan; pomfret, 0.2 yuan."
Chen Xia was shocked. So cheap? He quickly asked, "Brother Ma, if our company wants to purchase in large quantities, do you have any connections to help introduce us?"
"Is this true? Little brother, you are not here for tourism?" Manager Ma asked in surprise.
"I'm the deputy director of the General Affairs Section of Yuezhou Fourth Hospital. Look, this is my work ID and letter of introduction. I'm here on behalf of our unit, along with a few of my colleagues, to buy seafood for the New Year's gift to distribute to the staff."
"Oh my, what a coincidence! Our commune has a few fishing boats that just came back, and we're just wondering who to sell our seafood to. So, our commune will treat us to this meal. I'll come find you tomorrow morning and take you to see how the seafood is."
Manager Ma is from Yangdao Commune, and this restaurant is also a collective restaurant opened by Yangdao Commune.
There is a lack of arable land on the island, so people live by the sea. The local government also allows the commune to open its own restaurants, fishing boats, etc. Chen Xia is definitely an unexpected surprise sent to them by God.
I made an appointment with Manager Ma to go and check out the goods the next day. In the evening, Chen Xia paid for everyone to go to the movies together. When traveling, you should act like you are traveling.
Chen Xia didn't care about anyone else. He only cared about serving Gu Lin well. He even sat far away from the other three when watching a movie.
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