For the entire afternoon, Feng Ye didn't go anywhere; he just sat at the door sorting through the seafood he had gathered from the beach stalls.
Starting from three or four o'clock in the afternoon, people began to push carts to the dock to sell their goods.
As time went on, more and more people came to the dock, some by handcart, others by carrying it on shoulder poles.
Each household has quite a lot of goods, and weighing them will take a considerable amount of time.
Therefore, the speed is a bit slow.
Although Feng Jiafa, Lao Zhu, and Lao Lin's three purchasing points were extremely busy, they were still overwhelmed with business.
The end result was that the lines at the three collection points grew longer and longer, estimated to be over 100 meters long.
Moreover, a steady stream of people were pushing their goods over, wanting to join the queue.
Feng Ye and the others watched this scene from their doorway and couldn't help but click their tongues in amazement.
"Wow, there are so many people. By the time we finish and get in line, the line will be incredibly long."
Ye Chenliang shook his head and sighed, "It seems we can't sell it today."
Feng Ye glanced at the five untouched bags of seafood lying to the side and felt a little worried.
It's not that they're inefficient, it's just that there are just too many of them.
The situation was similar for Feng Xuan and A Can next door; they still had a lot of goods that hadn't been sorted.
"If we can't sell them today, we can just take them back tomorrow. It'll save us from queuing. They're mostly shellfish and snails, so they won't spoil even if we leave them until tomorrow."
Feng Ye glanced at the long queue of three people and said, "With the goods of these people now, we may not be able to finish collecting them today, not to mention that more people are coming."
"That's all we can do."
Ye Chenliang nodded helplessly, then said worriedly, "Ah Ye, do you think that having so much stock all at once will drive down the price?"
If we don't get today's price tomorrow, we'll suffer a huge loss.
"Such a small amount of stock shouldn't be enough to affect market prices, right?"
Feng Ye frowned, feeling somewhat uncertain. "If large quantities of shellfish were washed ashore in other places and flooded the market, it might actually be possible."
Why think so much? There's nothing we can do about it.
Ye Qingling pouted, "It's because we have too much stock that we can't sort it out."
"That's true, let's hurry up and sort out the goods."
After Ye Chenliang finished speaking, he buried his head again and continued sorting the seafood.
The others remained silent, each going about their own business.
As evening approached, Feng Ye checked his watch and said, "I'll go check if the tide has gone out."
"Are you going to collect the fish traps?"
"Yes, once the tide goes out, put away the fish traps to prevent anyone from eyeing them and coming to steal them at night."
People dare to steal in broad daylight, let alone in the dead of night.
Even if they put their fish traps on the shore, or even in the sea, there are occasional reports of their nets being stolen.
It was low tide, but there weren't many people beachcombing on the beach.
People are either queuing up to sell their goods or cleaning up their homes; they don't have time to come out and try their luck.
Moreover, based on past typhoon experiences, the tide is not expected to recede much today.
And that is indeed the case.
Compared to the normal third day of the month, the tide doesn't seem to have receded much today.
But compared to this morning, it has already receded a lot.
Even the traps that Feng Ye and the others had set down were becoming increasingly visible, almost about to be revealed.
After looking at it, Feng Ye turned around and shouted loudly, "Brother, A-Can, come out and collect the traps."
After shouting, he waded into the water without waiting for their response.
Upon arriving at the location of the first fish trap, I first retrieved the small anchor, and then pulled myself ashore by the rope at one end of the fish trap.
It's more convenient to collect the clothes while standing on the shore, and you don't have to worry about getting your clothes wet.
Feng Ye pulled on it and immediately felt its heavy weight, which made it somewhat difficult.
Immediately, he was overjoyed: "There's stock, and quite a lot of it."
Sure enough, as soon as the fish trap was lifted out of the water, the fish collection bag connected by the rope was found to contain a lot of fish, shrimp, crabs and conch.
Of course, scallops are the most numerous.
This was also Feng Ye's main target when he used the trap.
As the grid is gradually retracted, you can occasionally see some goods inside.
"Wow, there's even a little green dragon here, that's really great."
Feng Ye was overjoyed and became even more excited.
This little green dragon is quite big, weighing about seven or eight ounces, and it's brandishing its large pincers in a show of power.
Do you have any in stock? Do you have a lot?
Ah-Can came running; his voice arrived before he did.
Feng Ye smiled and said, "Not bad, there's a lot of stock."
Ah Can walked over to the side in a few steps, peeked out, and his eyes lit up immediately: "Wow, so much stuff, and a little green dragon too, not bad luck."
"It's actually pretty good; the trap wasn't a waste of time. You should hurry up and collect it from the other end; don't just stand here."
Okay.
Ah-Can responded and ran to the other side, a few hundred meters away, to start collecting the ground cage.
Feng Ye also sped up the process of collecting the traps, casually tossing the collected trap mesh onto the ground.
It's not too late to empty the fish, shrimp, and crabs inside once the entire fish trap has been pulled up.
As more than half of the traps were removed, he saw even more goods inside the individual grids.
Then they continued collecting, and the various seafood items inside fell into the fish collection bag at the other end.
After the entire fish trap was collected, Feng Ye noticed that the fish collection bag at the back was already full, almost overflowing.
He picked it up, felt its weight, and estimated it to be over 20 kilograms.
Just then, Feng Xuan came over pushing a cart with baskets.
Ah-Can only came alone, without bringing anything with him.
He took a basket down, put it on the ground, and exclaimed in surprise, "The first trap broke! We put in 40 in total. How much cargo is that?"
"If each trap had this many, it would easily weigh one or two thousand kilograms."
As Feng Ye spoke, he untied the knot connecting the next fish trap, lifted the fish collection bag, and poured all the seafood inside into the basket.
They were all crammed into the fish collection bag, making it difficult to distinguish what was inside.
Now that everything has been poured out, everything is immediately clear.
Besides the scallops, which made up almost half of the group, there were a few swimming crabs and mantis shrimps, several sword shrimps, and two oyster snails.
There were some fish, the largest being a bass weighing a little over a pound, and the rest were small fish.
Feng Ye then pulled up the other end of the fish trap and shook it, letting the contents fall into the fish collection bag, and then poured them into the basket in the same way.
The fish in this bag are mostly the same, but there are fewer of them.
The most beautiful of all was the little green dragon.
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