After selling the popsicles, I had a profit of two dollars. I lost one dollar in the morning, so I finally made back one dollar this time.
Wan Feng didn't leave and kept chatting with these fishermen.
Through some casual chatting, Wan Feng learned a lot about the market conditions of seafood.
The most common fish at the Black Lagoon beach are hairtail, yellow croaker, green croaker and windfin croaker, followed by various shellfish.
Hairtail fish is worth one cent per catty when it comes off the boat, and the yellow croaker, divided into large yellow croaker, is also worth one cent per catty. The green peel and wind-ripened board are relatively worthless, both costing about five cents per catty.
Lobsters are 4 cents each, ordinary shrimps are 2 cents per pound, and some shrimps are 8 cents per pound.
Large crabs are 40 cents a pound.
Clams and oysters are both a few cents per pound, with different varieties varying by one or two cents.
At this time of year, the most common fish in the sea are green-skinned fish and wind-blown planks. Today, both boats are carrying green-skinned fish and wind-blown planks.
The trucks were all loading goods, and more and more cars were leaving the shore. After about half an hour, there was only one car left on the beach.
"Old Yu, I can't take this basket of fish. It's too much. My boss will scold me if I take it back."
"Old Yang, this one basket isn't that bad, right? It's less than a basket and only weighs over 60 kilograms. Why don't you just get away with it?"
"No, no, you handle it yourself, I'm leaving."
A guy named Lao Yang got into the driver's seat and the car hummed away.
"Damn it, can't you just accept this little thing? What a piece of shit!" The man called Lao Yu spat fiercely at the back of the car.
Wan Feng stretched his neck to look at the basket of fish.
It was a basket of green fish. This kind of fish is not very valuable because of the many scales on its skin, but it still tastes good.
Boss Yu saw Wan Feng craning his neck to look and waved his hand: "Go away, kid, go play somewhere else!"
"Boss, how about you sell me this basket of fish?"
Boss Yu looked at Wan Feng unhappily: "Sell it to you? Why did you buy so many fish?"
"I'm a businessman, but I've never sold fish before. My truck is empty today, so I'll grab some fish and sell them on the way home. If I can't sell any, I'll just take them home and eat them."
Boss Yu looked Wan Feng up and down and said, "This basket weighs over 60 kilograms. Can you pull it?"
I carried 60 kilograms of melons this morning.
"no problem."
"Take this basket of fish for two dollars."
Only two yuan for more than sixty kilograms, which is more than three cents per kilogram. It would be a fool not to want it. Wan Feng felt that he had gotten a bargain, and took out two yuan without saying a word.
"Boss Yu, can you find something to cushion my basket? I'm counting on it to hold melons tomorrow. What should I do if it smells fishy after I put it in?"
"You're still selling melons? Damn, you're so awesome."
Boss Yu went to the boat and found two pieces of black plastic and threw them to Wan Feng.
Wan Feng ran to the beach and scrubbed the two pieces of plastic. Only when he felt they were clean did he spread them in his own basket.
The two young sailors poured the basket of fish evenly into his two baskets and helped him push it from the beach to the road.
Wan Feng returned to the other side of the sand again and ordered a bowl of noodles at the supply and marketing cooperative restaurant, which he ate in one gulp.
There are two roads from Shanatou back to Jiangwei Brigade: the north road and the south road.
The northern route is to go west to Wangzhuang Brigade, then north to Huanghui Brigade of Heijiao Commune, and then to Zhoujia Brigade of Jiangwei Brigade.
The southern route goes first to Shenjia, then north through Huangjialing to Huanghui and then to Dashutun.
No matter which road you take, you will pass by Huang Hui Brigade.
Wan Feng decided to take the south route.
When he came out, he brought ten advertisements with him. He posted eight of them at the Blue Farm of Yongshi Commune and Miaoling. Now he had two left, which he posted on the walls of Shanatou and Shenjia Brigade respectively.
Then head towards Jiangwei.
Wan Feng did not hawk his wares in the area around Sandatou. This place is located on the coast and there is no shortage of seafood. Even if he tried to sell it, he might not be able to sell it.
After passing Shenjia and walking six or seven miles north to Huangjialing area of Heijiao Commune, Wanfeng started to enter the village to sell his goods.
This place is far from the sea, so someone should buy it.
"Fish seller, fish seller! Freshly caught, lively green fish, one dime a pound..."
Wan Feng's voice echoed in the village.
This time, there were no children among those who came out following the sound, but mostly daughters-in-law and old ladies.
"Son, your fish is too good! Others sell bigger ones for ten cents a pound."
It’s not that much. A large green fish has about ten heads per pound. He has at most twelve fish. Does that count?
"That's the price for one kilogram. If you buy five kilograms, it's 40 cents. Isn't that a bargain?" Wan Feng had already thought about this problem.
"Who can buy five kilograms of fish at once?"
Is five catties of fish a lot? For a family of five or six, five catties of fish is not a lot, right?
"How about this, I'll weigh it high for you, that should be fine."
The first person to buy it was a daughter-in-law: "Give me three pounds."
Wan Feng weighed out three pounds of fish, and the scale was indeed high.
"Look carefully, the scale is about to tilt up." After finishing this, he poured it into his daughter-in-law's basin.
In fact, Wan Feng's scale only weighs about two pounds and nine ounces, and even if the scale is tilted high, it is exactly three pounds.
He didn't cheat on the scale, but he didn't lose anything. Otherwise, he would have to pay compensation if he didn't cheat on the scale.
He had done a few businesses in his previous life, so he wasn't completely new to the scales, but he wasn't unfamiliar with them either.
The market in this village was not big and only sold about 15 or 16 kilograms of fish in total. Wan Feng went to the next village.
The situation was almost the same in the next village.
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