Chapter 58 Anxious Waiting
Gu Yin and the others spent the entire afternoon cleaning and gutting the fish.
The old lady went to the convenience store and bought spices. She kept stirring them. Gu Shu crushed them and put them in a basin. Gu Yin and Gu Hua put the prepared fish in the basin and rubbed it on. Li Mengxin and the others used very thin bamboo skewers to skewer the fish. Finally, they hung them under the eaves to air dry. They would be ready to eat in about fifteen days.
They didn't finish dealing with everything until evening. During that time, Gu Qinglang and the others called back to let them know they were safe.
The fish were very fat, and there were lots of fish roe. In addition, there were fish maws from more than a dozen fish. The old lady decided to stir-fry the fish roe and fish maws with pickled green beans tonight!
Prepare all the seasonings, wash the fish roe and fish maw, cut the dried chilies into sections, and slice the scallions and ginger into strips or sections. Then, heat oil in a wok, sauté the scallions and ginger until fragrant, add the dried chilies and stir-fry, then add the pickled cowpeas and stir-fry until fragrant. Add the fish roe and fish maw and stir-fry, adding a little white wine to remove any fishy smell, and a splash of water. Once the fish roe is broken up, add salt, sugar, and chicken bouillon powder and stir-fry. Finally, reduce the sauce and remove from heat.
"It smells so good! The green beans smell so sour! My mouth is watering! Grandma, the food is ready, come and eat quickly!" Gu Hua smelled the spicy stir-fried fish maw and roe wafting from the table and urged the old lady who was stir-frying vegetables to come to the table quickly.
The old lady put the vegetables on a plate and added water to the pot in case they were difficult to wash tomorrow. Hearing Gu Hua's nagging, she said irritably, "Hurry up, hurry up, you should eat first, you don't need to wait for me!"
To be honest, she was drooling halfway through cooking it. In the dead of winter, something sour and spicy would be very appetizing!
After everyone sat down at the table, they started eating. To be honest, Gu Yin never liked fish roe, thinking it was tasteless. But now, with fish roe and pickled green beans mixed with rice, her appetite was much better. She could eat half a bowl more tonight!
Normally, there would be people talking at the table during meals, but today everyone remained silent and focused on eating!
Gu Yin ate more than two bowls and then stopped eating. Despite the cold weather, she could see that Gu Le was sweating profusely as he ate. She reached out and touched his stomach, quickly stopping him from asking for more rice.
"Your stomach is already very bloated! Look at it, it's round and full! You can't eat anymore, or your stomach will start to hurt. Listen to me."
Gu Le glanced at the dishes on the table, then patted her stomach and pinched her fingers: "I can still eat a little bit, just a little bit!"
Gu Yin took his bowl away directly: "You can have a late-night snack, but you absolutely cannot eat now."
Seeing that Gu Le was unhappy and looked so aggrieved, the old lady laughed and said, "Listen to your older sister, if you eat any more you'll get a stomachache and have to get a shot. Tonight, Grandma will make you fish roe fried rice, I guarantee it will be even better than this!"
Gu Le's previously aggrieved face immediately brightened: "I want to eat two bowls!"
Gu Hua had just put down her chopsticks when she heard this and raised her hand as well: "I want to eat two bowls too!"
The old lady looked at the others: "What about you? Do you want to eat?" If they ate, there wouldn't be enough food, so she had to prepare food in advance. If they didn't eat, there would be just enough left in the pot for the two children.
Everyone else shook their heads. Gu Yin didn't have the habit of eating late-night snacks either, so the late-night snack was just enough for the two children.
The next morning at eight o'clock, before Gu Yin had even gotten out of bed, Xiao Shiyi called. Grandma Gu answered. That day, she requested an extra 1,000 orders of MP4 players and 500 orders of MP3 players with screens. After Grandma Gu made a note of it, she called Gu Yin to get up.
At 9:30, the call finally came from City S.
Gu Yin answered the phone, and Gu Qinglang's voice came from the other end: "Ayin, have you decided how many units you want?"
“We need 3,000 MP4 players at 100 yuan each, that’s 300,000 yuan. We also need 500 MP3 players with screens, that’s 35,000 yuan. We definitely don’t have enough money. Can you see if you can get the goods from Boss Xia first, and then pay us back after we sell them?” Gu Yin didn’t know how much money they brought this time, but it was far from enough. Gu Yin didn’t participate this time either; it was their own business, and they couldn’t compete with each other.
Gu Qinglang was initially excited, thinking that his entire family only had about 60,000 yuan, while the MP4 alone cost 300,000 yuan. He wondered if Boss Xia would agree.
Boss Xia really didn't expect that the goods they had just received a few days ago would be sold out so quickly. Seeing Gu Qinglang's troubled expression, he raised his voice and asked, "What's wrong, Second Brother Gu?"
Gu Qinglang sighed and said, "We need a lot of goods here, but we don't have enough money. After discussing with Ayin, we still feel that it would be a real pity if we didn't take enough goods back this time. So, Brother Xia, could you let me take the goods first? We'll give you a deposit of 50,000 yuan, and we'll transfer the rest of the money after the goods are sold. We'll write an IOU!"
Boss Xia smiled and pointed to the ledger on the table: "What's so difficult about that? See? This ledger shows all the transactions where you pay after you take the goods! This kind of payment method is commonplace in our electronics street. How much do you want? Just take it!"
Many people have cash flow problems, so they take the goods first and pay later. What? You say it's cheating? This electronics street isn't called that for nothing. Because of this type of transaction, the local street office specifically established a pro bono legal team. The team consists of top lawyers. Besides representing the street's business owners in court, their biggest role is representing big bosses and foreign merchants in lawsuits! So far, they've basically had no losses!
The Gu brothers were surprised that Boss Xia agreed so readily! They excitedly stepped forward and shook Boss Xia's hands: "Thank you so much! If we couldn't bring these goods back, I wouldn't know how to explain it to Ayin. Ayin had people push our orders to schools one by one in the city. We really don't know how to thank her enough!"
Boss Xia waved his hand: "Hey, don't say things like that! You're not taking it for free, I'm making a profit too, okay?! You seem to be in a hurry, hurry up and check the goods! I'll arrange for one of my guys to drive you to the station later."
In addition to those two items, they also took two bags of radios and one bag of tape recorders for each of their own families. This time they took quite a lot of goods. They even signed a contract. After everything was settled, the three of them packed their bags and took the train back overnight.
Xiao Shiyi knew that Gu Qinglang and his group would arrive in Jiang City this afternoon. To facilitate the transaction, her father and sister's dance teacher rented a classroom for the day. Once Gu Qinglang and his group arrived, the representatives would go there to pick up the goods.
The next day at noon, Gu Yin and Li Mengxin set off for the city together.
After arriving at the cultural center, they met up with Xiao Shiyi and the others. The group went to the station to pick up people. There was a lot of cargo, and while some people helped deliver it on the train, it was difficult to carry it all by themselves after getting off. When Gu Qinglang and the others came out of the station and saw Gu Yin and the others, they breathed a sigh of relief.
Without even exchanging pleasantries, the group carried several large bags of goods and hurried toward the cultural center.
The dance studio was large, with a row of tables at the front. After the group arrived, they put their things on the tables. Xiao Shiyi's father took out the order form and told them to pick up the goods according to the order when the others arrived.
They arrived relatively early. Gu Yin looked at Gu Qinglang and said, "Dad, before everyone else arrives, why don't you go and get something to eat?"
“Yes, yes, Brother Gu, you must be tired from the journey. Why don’t you go downstairs and get something to eat first? Anyway, those people haven’t arrived yet!” Mr. Xiao nodded in agreement.
With so much stock, how can we possibly consume it all if we don't sell it?
Gu Qinglang shook his head: "There's no rush. We can go after the goods are distributed! Otherwise, I can't possibly consume all this stock!"
Even Gu Shu, who was so exhausted he was about to collapse, had no appetite for food. That was a 300,000 yuan shipment! If it went to waste, his family wouldn't be able to pay it back even if they sold their house in the village! He hadn't closed his eyes in a moment of worry the whole way there!
Seeing them like this, the others stopped trying to persuade them. Not to mention Gu Qinglang and his group, even Xiao Shiyi and her group were worried, fearing that those people wouldn't come!
The closer it got to the delivery date, the more anxious everyone became. Xiao Shiyi even got up and ran outside to wait.
"Why aren't they here yet?" Gu Shu paced back and forth in the dance studio, looking very anxious.
Gu Yin wasn't in a hurry. It was agreed that even if some people didn't come, it wouldn't be all of them. It wouldn't matter if a few didn't come; the rest could sell them on their own. Right now, this thing is very popular. Mobile phones are too expensive, and many families are reluctant to buy them for their children, but MP4 players are really not expensive for children in the city.
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