Upon entering the workshop, one sees rows of neatly arranged bamboo curtains covered with fish of all sizes.
Moreover, most of them are toadfish, and other types of fish are relatively rare.
Since the toadfish are quite large, generally weighing over a pound, a single bamboo mat can't dry many of them.
Ye Qingling and the others were busy cleaning the fish. The quantity wasn't much, only about seven or eight hundred catties. It must have been delivered from those three purchasing points.
We're not getting any fish anymore; even the boat from town has stopped delivering them.
They didn't hire anyone; it was all done by their own people.
Feng Ye and A Can pushed the cart over and unloaded baskets of fish.
Ye Qingling frowned when she saw that there were mostly toadfish and very few other fish: "Why are there so many toadfish again?"
She hates killing toadfish.
This fish is ugly enough, but the worst part is that it's hard to kill.
You must wear gloves when killing toadfish because its slime is extremely slippery and disgusting.
If you don't wear gloves, it's very difficult to catch, and you can easily get pricked by its thorns.
The bones of the toadfish are cartilage.
Therefore, although there are bones in the belly, it is indeed very soft.
When killing it, you shouldn't start from its belly; you should start from its mouth, then switch to scissors and cut open its abdomen.
It's a bit of a hassle to use the knife and scissors alternately.
"There's nothing we can do about it; that's just how it is in winter. These toadfish are everywhere."
Feng Ye helplessly shrugged.
Actually, there were other fish too, but not many, only a little over 100 jin (50 kg), most of which were caught in the two nets that morning.
"Well, dried toadfish sells quite well, but it's a bit of a pain to process."
Ye Qingling sighed and then asked, "How much did you sell the fish for today?"
"Not as much as yesterday, only 1818 yuan, so-so."
Feng Ye calmly took the money out of his pocket. "Here it is."
"Isn't that enough?"
Ye Qingling's eyes widened as she took the money.
The others also cast surprised glances at them.
"Yesterday you caught a big yellow croaker and eight otters. What good catch did you get today?"
Du Guilan asked curiously.
Feng Ye shook his head: "There's nothing good here, it's all common stuff."
"Then how did it sell for so much money?"
Ye Qingling waved the money in her hand and pressed for an answer.
Ah-Can interjected, "We were lucky today. We caught a bunch of 'ghost face' creatures on the net, weighing over 600 pounds."
Everyone else had an "I see" expression on their faces.
Although pufferfish are common and their unit price is not very high, when there are many of them, the money they can sell for can be quite substantial.
Ye Qingling asked in confusion, "What kind of fish is 'Youmianzai'? I've never heard of it."
She wasn't from the coast, so even common seafood items were unfamiliar to her.
There are many fish you haven't heard of.
Feng Ye laughed and said, "Ask them. Ah Can and I went to eat, I'm starving."
"The rice is keeping warm in the pot."
"knew."
After Feng Ye and A Can finished unloading the goods, they washed their hands and went to eat.
The dining area was located in a corner of the warehouse, with a table set up.
They took the food out of the pot and put it on the table, and the two began to wolf it down.
When they were halfway through their meal, Ye Qingling ran over and said, "Aye, we've run into a problem and we'd like to ask for your opinion."
Feng Ye put down his chopsticks, looked at her, and asked, "What's the problem?"
"We're getting more and more orders, but our production capacity can't keep up, especially for those cheap dried fish, which are in high demand."
"How could that be? Although we didn't dry much ourselves, the whole village and the whole island were drying theirs, weren't they? Isn't that enough?"
"That's where the problem lies."
Ye Qingling said, "Fishermen don't dry much fish themselves, and it's all scattered. They only bring it over when they've accumulated a certain amount."
"Those who buy fish to dry don't dry the cheap ones, apparently because fish prices have gone up."
"Even miscellaneous fish now costs seven or eight cents a pound, reducing the profit from drying them into dried fish."
"They all went to dry the fish that had higher profit margins."
"I see?"
Feng Ye frowned.
He really didn't know this, and it was beyond his expectations.
Ah-Can stopped eating and asked, "Sister-in-law, have you thought about what to do?"
“We discussed it this afternoon. Since no one is willing to dry the fish, we will buy them from the county and dry them ourselves.”
Cheap goods have low profit margins, but high sales volume.
As long as they can maintain the supply, they can still make a lot of money, so they can't afford to give it up.
"Will it be sunny enough?"
Feng Ye shook his head, clearly not optimistic.
"It's difficult, but isn't there no other way?"
"Why is there no other way?" Ah-Can said, "Just have them buy fish and dry them."
Ye Qingling said helplessly, "Well, they have to be willing to accept it."
"They don't want to? That's not up to them."
Ah-Can chuckled and said, "If anyone is unwilling, then we won't take the dried fish he makes; let him sell it himself."
"this……"
Ye Qingling hesitated and said, "Isn't that too offensive?"
"We have to do it, even if it offends people, otherwise how will we complete our orders?"
Ah-chan said firmly, "Since they make money off us, they have to listen to us."
"Ah Ye, what do you think?"
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