Chapter 60 Spending Money Like Water
Early in the morning, Guoxing Hotel was already open for business.
Breakfast is simple, like fast food, and the dishes are all prepared uniformly.
Since no one ordered any food, Zheng Guoxing had a good time to count the bill.
He had just calculated half of the account when he caught a glimpse of Chen Wenjun out of the corner of his eye.
Zheng Guoxing looked surprised, "Brother! You don't have to work so hard so early in the morning! Did you catch fish overnight?"
Chen Wenjun waved at him, "Come and take a look. See if you are satisfied. If not, I will sell it in the market!"
"What a mysterious thing." Zheng Guoxing said as he walked out.
When Zheng Guoxing saw the fish weighing more than ten kilograms on the cart, he jumped up and shouted excitedly, "It's so big!"
All the people eating in the restaurant looked over with curiosity. When they saw the over ten kilograms big fish, they instantly became excited and rushed over to watch the fun.
Some people also asked about the price.
Zheng Guoxing was startled and said quickly: "Someone has already ordered this fish. I'm sorry!"
He kept apologizing and coaxing the customers away, fearing that someone would come over to ask about the price again. He immediately wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and asked someone to carry the big fish to the back kitchen.
"What are the others?"
Chen Wenjun opened them all and said, "These are all river eels. I picked the big ones to send to you. I still have quite a few at home. If you want them, I'll send them to you. If you don't want them, I'll have to ask other restaurants. I caught too many this time, so I have to sell them quickly.
I still have several buckets of river shrimp at home, and I can’t bring them all over at once.”
"Hiss!" Zheng Guoxing gasped, "You've taken down the eels' nest! Send me another cart of eels! I want all the river shrimps! Let's weigh them first and pay together when the next batch arrives, how about that?"
"no problem!"
Chen Wenjun's movements were very efficient. After all the eels were weighed, they weighed 56 kilograms. The big fish weighed 16 kilograms. Zheng Guoxing took the receipt, wrote down the weight, and gave the ticket to Chen Wenjun.
Chen Wenjun immediately returned to Nanxi and first loaded two large buckets of river shrimps and two large buckets of fish, and only delivered the river eels on the third trip.
These things were piled up in the kitchen of Guoxing Hotel, and even the waiters were envious.
"Boss, who said that the Tanka people have a hard life? I think it's too easy for Chen Wenjun to make money! He has saved up more than ten years' salary in just a few months!"
Zheng Guoxing retracted his gaze and shook his head, "That's because you didn't see the hardships he suffered behind the scenes. Look at his legs and feet, they are almost rotten. And he worked so hard to buy land and build a house, and there's not even a sign of the house yet!
You have fields and land, why do you envy them? Besides, he is the only Tanka man I have seen who is good at fishing. If other Tanka men rely on fishing alone, their whole family will starve to death!"
The waiter touched his nose with a wry smile, thinking that this was really the case, and immediately he stopped being envious.
Zheng Guoxing muttered a few words before going to the cashier, recording the number of the last batch of eels, and then gave Chen Wenjun a cigarette.
"Let me see that big fish weighs 16 kilograms. This thing can definitely hold its own. I can also promote it. I'll give it 40 yuan. How about that?"
Chen Wenjun nodded, "Okay!"
"Great!" Zheng Guoxing secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "There are a total of 102 catties of river eels, all of which are quite fat. According to the price of the supply and marketing cooperative, one catty is 2.6 yuan, so a total of 265.2 yuan; 83 catties of river shrimp, 150 yuan for you, and the other fish, 85 yuan.
All together it's five hundred and forty and twenty cents, do you think it's right?"
Chen Wenjun watched Zheng Guoxing settle the accounts, so he naturally had no doubts, "That's it."
After paying the bill, Chen Wenjun said to Zheng Guoxing, "Please tell Boss Zheng and Boss Huang that I need ten tons of cement and a batch of red bricks tomorrow."
"No problem! I'll tell him when he comes over later that I'll send you to the South Stream in the afternoon. You have to find a way to get to the deserted island yourself."
After the two of them agreed, Chen Wenjun took the huge sum of money and quickly rushed home.
When he returned home, Lin Qin also came back from the vegetable market.
He hurriedly took Lin Qin to the rear cabin and asked, "How are sales today?"
Lin Qin didn't say anything, and directly opened the purse. "Yesterday, there were not many people setting up stalls in the vegetable market, but today, there are people everywhere! Although there are many people selling fish, there are also many people buying. All the ones I brought over have been sold out. Here is the money. What about you? How much did Boss Zheng take?"
Chen Wenjun took out the five hundred yuan and forty yuan and twenty cents, "The big fish sold for forty yuan, the river eels weighed nearly one hundred kilograms, the river shrimps weighed more than eighty kilograms, and there were other scattered fish. I bought all of them, and the total was five hundred and forty.
I asked Boss Zheng to help pass on the message that cement and red bricks will be delivered this afternoon, and we can start work tomorrow."
Lin Qin was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "In that case, we have to go to Shanglin Village and ask Uncle Qingxiang to find a skilled worker. We can't handle the rest of the work!"
Chen Wenjun nodded, he also planned so.
After Lin Qin finished the accounts, the two of them had earned a total of 607.36 yuan for half a day.
Although this is a lot of money, it has to be spent immediately once the cement and red bricks arrive in the afternoon.
Lin Qin said self-deprecatingly: "Are we spending money like water now?"
More than 600! It's not even warm yet!
Chen Wenjun laughed, "It's okay. It's summer, so it's bound to rain! Next time there's a big flood, we'll go and fence again. I'm sure we can make some money."
Lin Qin shook her head regretfully, "How long do we have to wait? I guess I'll have to help with cooking in about ten days!"
"Cooking only takes half a day, it won't affect anything!" Chen Wenjun made clear arrangements for Lin Qin.
The couple put the money away and went out to eat.
The afternoon sun is particularly strong.
It’s as if the heavy rain yesterday and the day before yesterday never happened.
Lin Qin had nothing to do, so he planned to pick up some wild duck eggs.
This time she made the right choice. The pile of rocks was full of wild duck eggs, and she actually filled a bucket and a half of them.
She was surprised but also worried. When she got back to the fishing boat, she whispered to Lin Yi, "I wonder if these eggs were damaged by the rain?"
"Just beat two eggs and see! It's just right for making fried eggs for the kids!" Lin Yi said happily.
Lin Qin was a little surprised, "Dad! When did you become so generous?"
Lin Yi's face turned unhappy. "What nonsense are you talking about? When did I become stingy? If I wasn't worried that you wouldn't be able to make ends meet, would I have to be so frugal?"
Liu Yaya whispered, "Mom, Grandpa is so generous because he is going to start building the house tomorrow!"
Lin Yi was exposed by the little girl and glared at her angrily, "Do you still want to eat? If not, I will eat it myself!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Grandpa is the best! I love him the most!" Liu Yaya's little mouth immediately became as sweet as if it was smeared with honey.
Lin Yi couldn't do anything with her, so he turned around and picked up two duck eggs and knocked them into the bowl.
Seeing that the duck eggs were good, he hesitated for a moment and knocked two more, asking Lin Qin and Chen Wenjun to add some as well.
(End of this chapter)
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