The remaining fish and shrimp weighed about 1 jin each, with shrimp making up only a small portion, totaling only about two to three thousand jin.
The main problem is with the miscellaneous fish, which are troublesome to process. They need to be gutted, their scales scraped off, and they need to be pickled before they can be dried.
In contrast, the shrimp are much easier to handle; just boil them, spread them out to dry, and that's it.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, an afternoon has passed, and the sky is gradually darkening.
The workshop lights came on, illuminating the surroundings.
After a busy afternoon, the group only took a short break during dinner before continuing their work.
The shrimp are all processed, but there's still about half a fish left; it'll probably take until late at night to finish it.
After dinner, Feng Ye didn't go to work in the workshop right away. Instead, he went to Xiao Zhaojun's house with Feng Xuan and A Can.
It's the end of the month, time to reconcile the accounts of Harvest Express and distribute the profits.
In fact, Harvest only went out once this month.
They knew perfectly well how much money they made, even though they went out with them.
When they arrived, Xiao Zhaojun and his two sons were already waiting.
"Damn, you're not even eager to share the money? Do you expect me to invite you guys?"
Xiao Guowen chuckled and made a joke, then gestured for them to sit down.
"You ate too early. We came right after we finished eating."
Feng Ye smiled, pulled out a chair, and plopped down on it.
Xiao Zhaojun poured each of them a cup of tea: "Have you finished cleaning the fish you brought back?"
"It won't be that fast. There's still half left to process. It'll probably take until midnight."
Xiao Guowen asked in surprise, "How much did you bring back? You haven't even finished in an afternoon."
"Uncle Jun, didn't you tell Brother Wen?"
"I don't know exactly how many you brought back."
Xiao Zhaojun shook his head. "I thought you brought back about the same amount as us. Who knew you brought back so much?"
Feng Ye took a sip of tea to moisten his throat: "It's not that much, only about 15,000 catties, all sorts of fish."
"That's not much. The Harvest Ship brought back about 10,000 catties."
Xiao Guowen clicked his tongue. "I hired a few people, and it was all done in one afternoon."
"This is nothing, it's less than a day's worth."
Ah-Can pursed his lips. "Last time we came out, we brought back more than 30,000 catties, but unfortunately it rained, so we threw them back into the sea on the way back."
Xiao Guowen thought for a moment and said, "That makes sense. If we hadn't encountered the typhoon this time, and had fished for another two days, it wouldn't have been a problem to bring back 30,000 to 40,000 catties."
Speaking of typhoons, he couldn't help but sigh, "It's a pity I stayed at home and didn't go out to sea with them."
Otherwise, I would have seen what a hairy fish looks like; I've never seen one before.
"The hairy fish is just so-so, all grayish-brown, not pretty at all..."
"But it's valuable. My dad said that the hairy fish sold for a few dollars, is that true?"
Feng Ye nodded: "President Qin is generous; he did indeed give me a piece."
"That's really true!"
Xiao Guowen couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement, "Goodness, one fish sold for a dollar, more than the Harvest Ship made on this voyage."
"Luck, it just jumped onto the boat by itself, I couldn't stop it even if I didn't want to."
Feng Ye laughed and said, "Actually, the Harvest Ship was quite lucky this time. Didn't it also catch a big croaker and sell it for a few dollars?"
"That's true, but I'm still not as good as you guys."
Xiao Guowen then added with a sigh, "It seems that I can't always stay at home anymore; I'll have to go out to sea more often."
Even if we don't encounter any valuable big fish, it's good to broaden our horizons.
Xiao Zhaojun then said, "Then next time you come out with me, let A-Wu stay at home."
"Sure."
Xiao Guowen said, "Father, A-Wu, how about this? The three of us can take turns, and one of us can stay home each time to take care of things at home."
Xiao Zhaojun nodded slightly: "That's fine, it won't be too tiring that way."
Xiao Guowu wanted to object, but since his father had already agreed, he couldn't say anything more and could only nod silently.
"Brother Wen, I really admire you. It would be so much better to stay at home, where you wouldn't have to do anything. Why do you have to come out to sea and be exposed to the sun and wind?"
Feng Ye sighed, "I wish I could stay at home and be a good-for-nothing, but unfortunately I'm not destined for that. My dad would beat me to death."
"You've got to be right."
Feng Xuan rolled her eyes. "You've been a good-for-nothing for over twenty years, and you've still gotten beaten up a lot. Why didn't we wake you up sooner?"
Feng Ye chuckled: "That's because I was ignorant before. Now it's different. I know I need to work hard."
“Brother Ye is as stubborn as a mule; hitting him won’t work. You have to stroke him the right way.”
Ah-Can chimed in from the side, "If Uncle San had bought Ye-ge a boat earlier, he might have become much more diligent by now."
"You're everywhere, will you die if you don't say anything?"
Feng Ye laughed and scolded, "Don't talk about me, aren't you the same way?"
"I was a good boy, okay? It was all because of you, Wen-ge, and Wu-ge who corrupted me."
After Ah-Can said that, he was not only criticized by one person, but also by Xiao Guowen and Xiao Guowu.
"How did we lead you astray? You've always been this way."
"Exactly, stop trying to make yourself look good. We know exactly what kind of person you are."
"Birds of a feather flock together; people of the same kind group together. How can people who are not the same type of person possibly get along?"
"Slander! This is slander..."
"Tch, don't you have any self-awareness?"
The four of them chatted and joked with each other.
After playing around for a while, Xiao Zhaojun coughed and said seriously, "Alright, alright, let's get down to business."
He took out the ledger and receipts: "You probably already know how much money we made on this voyage."
However, you probably don't know the exact numbers.
"Okay, you guys calculate it first, then we'll talk."
"good."
Before long, the numbers came out, and they were roughly in line with what Feng Ye and the others had expected.
After deducting the costs of diesel fuel, ice, boatmen's wages and commissions, food and drink, and other miscellaneous expenses, the net profit is substantial.
Among them, large croaker contributed 27%.
"In addition, about 10,000 catties of miscellaneous fish and shrimp were brought back. At 5 cents per catty, that's 500 yuan."
Xiao Zhaojun said, "A-Can, add it."
"Um."
Ah-Can nodded and scribbled a few lines on the paper. "That's a piece."
"So, we'll keep the remaining 1762 coins for the next voyage to buy supplies, and the rest..."
At this point, Xiao Zhaojun paused, then suddenly changed the subject, asking, "How did your trip to the shipyard to look at the freshwater barges go? Did you place an order?"
I thought the next step was to divide the money, but unexpectedly they suddenly asked about the seafood collection boat.
This topic change was so abrupt!
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