Ye Qingling and Du Guilan exchanged a glance, both breathed a sigh of relief, and smiles returned to their faces.
"You scared me to death! I really thought someone had dialed the wrong number."
Ye Qingling patted her chest.
Feng Ye said irritably, "It's all your fault. You insisted on saying your name and what you do, and I would have known by now."
Ye Qingling said coquettishly, "How would I know you don't know what someone's name is?"
"Exactly, how can you blame Ah Ling? It's clearly your problem."
Du Guilan also chimed in.
"Okay, okay, it's my fault."
Feng Ye quickly raised his hands in surrender, then asked, "Why did he call?"
"He wants you to deliver 200 jin of dried fish and 100 jin of shrimp to the restaurant tomorrow."
Ye Qingling answered, her eyes sparkling with excitement.
Feng Ye frowned: "Dried fish is no problem, we have over 100 jin at home, and the ones we dried at A-Can's place should be dried by now, but what about shrimp? Let alone 100 jin, we can't find a single shrimp at home."
“Doesn’t Uncle Jun have some? My sister-in-law and I went to ask, and there are about two hundred catties of it.”
Ye Qingling's words made Feng Ye's eyes light up. He was only thinking about his own family and hadn't thought of Xiao Zhaojun's family for a moment.
Xiao Zhaojun's family didn't dry a lot of fish, but they did dry quite a lot of shrimp.
The main advantage is that this stuff is convenient; you can boil it and then dry it.
There's no need to rush to peel them after they're dried. Do it when you have time, or just leave them as is.
Another advantage of shrimp is that it can be a good snack for children.
"Ah Ling, sister-in-law, you two go through the trouble again and bring back all the shrimp from Uncle Jun's house."
Xiao Zhaojun and his two sons all went out to sea, leaving only Sister Wen at home with the children.
There was no man at home, so it wouldn't be appropriate for him to go.
As the saying goes, a widow's door is always full of gossip.
In fact, even in a woman's home where there is no man, there are just as many disputes.
Especially in rural areas, there are many gossipy women, and if someone sees you, who knows what kind of rumors will spread.
Therefore, it's best to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
"There's no need to take it all; they only wanted 100 jin."
"It doesn't matter. We'll probably need it again in the future. Let's take them all to avoid trouble later."
"Alright then," Ye Qingling said, then asked, "What price should we offer?"
Du Guilan had the same question and looked at him curiously.
Feng Ye thought for a moment: "Our own batch is sold at retail for 2.5 yuan and wholesale for 2.2 yuan. A quantity of 100 jin must be sold at wholesale, so we can only sell it for 2.2 yuan. We can only buy from others for a maximum of 2 yuan."
"Earning two cents a pound is fine; we can't work for nothing."
Du Guilan nodded in agreement.
"That makes sense. Business is business. No matter how good my relationship is with Brother Wen and the others, we still have to keep things clear. Two yuan isn't a low price. They might not be able to sell it for that price themselves, or even sell it at all."
"Then let's charge two yuan. I'll go get the money."
As Ye Qingling spoke, she got up and walked into the house.
Du Guilan quickly said, "A-Ling, you can pay for my share first, and I'll settle the bill with you when we get back."
"OK."
Ye Qingling stopped and turned to look at Feng Ye: "I remember you said that A-Can was also involved, so what about his?"
"You can cover the cost first. I'll go to A-Can's house to find him and bring over the remaining dried fish to make it 200 jin."
"Hmm, I'll bring 500 yuan with me, that should be enough."
"You decide what to do."
After Feng Ye finished speaking, he hurriedly went to A-Can's house.
There isn't enough dried fish at home, only 162 jin (86 catties), so we need to get 40 jin (20 catties) from A-Can's house.
He hadn't been to A-Can's house these past two days and forgot to ask, so he really didn't know how the dried fish was doing.
Some of it may be unusable, but it won't all be for nothing.
When they arrived at A-Can's house, they didn't see him, but only Aunt Ling chopping firewood in the yard.
"Auntie, where's A-Can?" Feng Ye asked.
Aunt Ling wiped her sweat and said with a smile, "I went to take a shower as soon as I got back, and I'll be out soon."
Feng Ye nodded and asked, "Auntie, how's the drying of the fish going? I see they're not drying anymore, are they all dry?"
Aunt Ling frowned and said, "It was done, but..."
Feng Ye was startled: "What's wrong?"
"Hey, you'll see for yourself."
Aunt Ling put down the wood-chopping knife, patted the wood chips off her body and hands, stood up and walked into the main room.
Feng Ye followed closely behind, feeling uneasy and having a bad feeling.
Inside the main room, several rows of bamboo curtains were neatly arranged, covered with dried fish, but upon closer inspection, his expression gradually darkened.
Although the dried fish were completely dried, their color wasn't very appealing, much worse than the ones he had at home.
He picked it up and smelled it; there was no strange odor, so it wasn't spoiled.
He asked Feng Ye with disappointment, "Is it always like this?"
These dried fish are fine to eat ourselves, but they're difficult to sell.
After all, the first impression when buying something is that it has to look good.
Aunt Ling sighed: "The larger fish are all pretty much the same when dried, since the weather isn't good. The smaller ones are alright, I picked them out specifically."
After she finished speaking, she went to the room and took out a snakeskin bag of dried fish, then opened the bag to show it to him.
Feng Ye picked it up and looked at it, then nodded and said, "It's dried pretty well, but it's a bit small."
Just then, Ah-Can, wearing only a pair of shorts, came in through the back door and asked in confusion, "Brother Ye, are you planning to sell these dried fish?"
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