Zhang Baiqiang offered ten yuan more per jin than Liu Quantian. The three of them agreed on the price: mantis shrimp and slipper prawns were priced the same, females were 150 yuan per jin, males were 80 yuan per jin, and prawns were 70 yuan per jin.
Based on this, Liu Quantian further reduced the price of shrimp by 10 yuan per jin and the price of fish by 5-8 yuan per jin, since he mainly buys commercial fish, so the price adjustment is not significant.
After agreeing on the plan, the two had their people carry their water tanks onto the boat, and they started selecting from them, weighing each tank as they went. The group worked together, some picking out prawns, others picking out fish, and with so many people, they moved quickly.
Seeing that there were so many people—twelve in total, not counting herself and Yu Yang—Chen Hong told Aunt Guo and Yu Yang's grandfather to take the children home to cook. There would be at least eight people eating, and Zhang Baiqiang and Liu Quantian certainly wouldn't stay for the meal.
Besides, it's getting dark and the temperature is dropping; we don't want them to catch a cold. Chen Hong told them to take the two fish and the bucket of shrimp home first, and told Aunt Guo that there was meat, ribs, steamed buns, and dumplings in the freezer, so she could cook whatever she wanted.
She asked the village chief to help her weigh the shrimp and fish while she went to select them. In an hour, they finished selecting Zhang Baiqiang's catch: over 800 jin of mantis shrimp and slipper prawns (both male and female), 180 jin of prawns, and for fish, they chose red snapper, grouper, golden croaker, red snapper, and a few yellowfin tuna and sea bass.
Mantis shrimp and slipper prawns cost a total of [amount] yuan, prawns cost [amount] yuan, and fish cost [amount] yuan. The total is [amount] yuan.
After the transfer, Zhang Baiqiang immediately took his men and left with the goods, leaving only Liu Quantian's. His three types of shrimp totaled 100 yuan, live fish 7500 yuan, and dead fish 5250 yuan, for a total of 100 yuan.
Overjoyed, Liu Quantian immediately transferred money to Chen Hong. Chen Hong wanted to transfer it back, but he laughed and said he had gotten a great deal today, refusing to let Chen Hong transfer it.
Seeing his reaction, Chen Hong didn't say anything more. He had indeed gotten a good deal; the goods sold to him weren't much smaller than Zhang Baiqiang's, yet he was charged ten yuan less per pound. He knew this all too well.
After selling the fish, everyone worked together to clean up and wash the deck.
When they saw that Chen Hong had sold over 100,000 yuan worth of goods in just one day, Uncle Village Chief and Uncle Erhu and their families were dumbfounded. This was incredible! She was making way too much money!
If they hadn't personally selected every single shrimp and fish, no one would have believed their eyes. If everyone had Chen Hong's skills, who would need to work away from home? Even office workers couldn't earn this much money!
The village chief asked the question that had been on everyone's mind: "Chen Hong, did you go online today?"
"Yes, the catch from casting nets is much better than fishing one by one. If we didn't use nets, we wouldn't make more than 10,000 yuan today. We couldn't have caught these 1,000-plus kilograms of shrimp with fishing rods."
"I'm just wondering, how do you manage to both steer the boat and cast the net all by yourself? How did you do that? I'm so old, I've never heard of anyone being able to steer a boat and cast a net at the same time. You don't have two hands, do you?"
Chen Hong smiled and let the village chief and Uncle Erhu follow her into the driver's seat, where she gave a detailed account of her amazing driving skills.
The village chief and Uncle Erhu were dumbfounded. Could this really be done?
Uncle Erhu said, "This works? How come no one thought of this before?"
The village chief nodded and then shook his head: "This can be done, but most people can't. First, you have to calculate the angle of the steering wheel to make sure it can turn into a perfect circle. If it goes off course even slightly, you either won't be able to close the circle or you'll end up in the circle and get tangled in the fishing net. Most people really wouldn't dare to do this."
"Chen Hong's boat-driving skills are truly unmatched, I can't compare, I really can't compare." Uncle Erhu had originally wanted to buy a boat to try it out, but after hearing this, he realized there were quite a few tricks involved.
It's easy for something to go wrong if you make even the slightest mistake. That won't do. My son and I aren't that brave. It's more reliable to work for someone else.
The village chief laughed and said to Chen Hong, "I don't know where you get so many tricks up your sleeve. You really dare to think and act. Aren't you afraid that the boat will get tangled in the fishing nets and you won't be able to get it back?"
Chen Hong laughed, "I've been thinking about this for several days. The fishing boats of other people have already cast their nets and are catching a lot of fish. Even though the price has dropped, it hasn't affected their income. But I'm not like that. I'm still catching the same amount of fish, but I'm selling at least two or three thousand less every day. It hurts me, but I can't stop the price from falling, so I can only try to catch more fish."
Finding more people to board the boat wouldn't work; I'm a single woman, and I can't stand the gossip. I thought to myself, this boat is so easy to navigate, you could joke around, hang a pancake on it, even a dog could steer it. So I started thinking about a solution on the steering wheel, and it wasn't difficult at all. And sure enough, it worked today!
The two old men looked at each other and smiled: "That's really true, it's difficult for those who don't know how, but easy for those who do! They've really mastered the art of sailing this boat."
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