"Everyone, I did indeed find some valuable goods today, and this ship is indeed mine. I built a house next to the Sea Goddess Temple and opened a separate cargo storage room."
"Go see whatever you want to see later. If you want to buy or sell anything, come find me. Everyone, please stop crowding around and go home."
Digging the foundation wasn't difficult. The harvest hut only needed walls and plaster to be usable. It didn't need to be anything fancy; we could always repair it later.
She should take advantage of today to advertise the purchasing points, so she doesn't have to notify each one individually.
Seeing that Mingjing was no longer hiding it, everyone became even more curious.
"What good stuff have you gotten your hands on? Let us see!"
"That's right, Mingjing, you're really smart. Trying to steal business from Lao Zhao, aren't you afraid he'll tear you apart?"
Mingjing smiled and began bending down to pick up the seafood and put it into the fish basket.
Upon seeing the sea fish, everyone craned their necks and squeezed forward.
"So many mantis shrimps, it's a pity they're not very big," the woman said sourly, pursing her lips.
"Hey, that crab is pretty big, Mingjing, how much are you planning to sell it for per pound?" Old Li from the village inquired.
He was fishing at the beach and rarely encountered crabs this big, so he couldn't help but be curious.
"Market price for retail, wholesale price for bulk purchases, Uncle Li, how would you like to buy?"
Old Li waved his hand, "No, no, your crabs are too big and fat, I can't afford them. Where did you catch them? Don't steal other people's territory."
This question hit the nail on the head, and everyone stared at Mingjing.
"Just set up a fish trap casually, Uncle Li. We don't care where the property came from. You're too old to go out to sea. The weather's been bad these past few days, it's quite dangerous."
Old Li rolled his eyes as he listened to Mingliang's words. Who wouldn't want to make more money? If they knew where Mingjing got his hands on it, their whole family would pitch in and make a fortune.
I didn't expect these two little brats to be so tight-lipped; they're really not easy to fool.
Two beeping sounds came from outside the crowd. Ming Dahai drove up, squeezed through the crowd, panted heavily, locked the car, and hurriedly boarded the boat.
The three of them worked together to clear the cargo from the fishing boat.
Everyone was surprised when they saw a basket of tied-up tiger crabs.
"Damn it, there are tiger crabs, damn it, a whole basket of them! Damn it!"
"Such a big tiger crab, Mingjing, you've struck it rich."
"Even one is incredible, so many tiger crabs, how much would that cost?"
"Mingjing, where did you get all these tiger crabs? How come there are so many?"
Ming Dahai smiled but didn't say much. He took the basket of tiger crabs, put it in the truck bed, and didn't dare to leave for a moment, waiting for Mingliang to bring the basket over.
"Dad, send all these goods to the new house. The collection point there is basically set up. I'll call the boss later to ask how much I need and have someone come and pick it up."
Ming Dahai nodded, feeling that this saved him a lot of trouble. He looked up at everyone and said, "If anyone wants any goods or wants to sell any goods, come to me. The prices are absolutely fair."
Mingjing interjected, "Also, we are one family with Uncle Zhao, so don't talk nonsense. Uncle Zhao is our partner. We will receive goods from both sides in the future, so you can go to either one."
As soon as he finished speaking, Mingjing picked up another basket of fish.
"Wow, it's a basket of tigerfish, they're huge! We've made a fortune today."
"How many good items are left?"
"Wow, Fan Yuliang said that Mingjing caught something good at sea, and he was right. Just those two baskets of fish alone are worth several thousand yuan."
"Oh dear, another basket of tiger crabs! This is terrible!"
Mingjing then brought out a basket of tiger crabs, which made everyone's mouths water.
However, everyone was even more shocked when the eels and shrimp came out.
Not to mention the eel's thick wrist, the shrimp was even thicker than a thumb. Even experienced fishermen would question their existence upon seeing this scene.
Everyone crowded around the tricycle, chattering excitedly.
However, when they saw those few yellowish-brown crabs, everyone looked surprised, followed by admiration.
"Butter crab!"
"This must be incredibly profitable! Can you even catch yellow crabs here?"
"My goodness, this thing happens only once in ten thousand times, and you've run into five of them."
Some people were amazed, some made sarcastic remarks, and some flattered him, wanting to buy it cheaply, but Mingjing simply said he wouldn't sell.
Apart from the valuable items, what's left are worthless miscellaneous vegetables, conch, and miscellaneous fish. Fish baskets are piled up and down, filling the tricycle to the brim with the sun.
They moved thirty-two crates before they finally finished.
Good heavens, is there such a huge difference between people?
Such a catch is almost only possible when they go out to sea and use large nets. How could a few fish traps possibly contain so much fish?
"Dad, no, it's not safe to stack it too high. You move some to the collection point first, and let Mom watch over there. Then come back."
Ming Dahai drove home and asked Sun Yunmei to go to the purchasing point to watch over the goods and help unload them.
Then he would come back and make a few more trips, going back and forth several times, until passersby were tired of seeing it.
Anyone who looked down on the Ming family before now wants to slap themselves in the face.
During his free time, Mingjing would ask everyone who had sent them. They all gave the same answer: Fan Yuliang had sent them to mock Mingjing's air force.
I never expected things to turn out this way.
Mingjing and Mingliang drove to the collection point, while Mingdahai stayed behind to clean up the debris on the boat.
When we arrived at the acquisition point, the house was still unfinished, but it didn't affect business at all. The entrance was already packed with people because of the earlier promotion.
“Mingliang, go to your uncle and tell him that the purchasing point has started operating and ask him to come and help.”
When Mingjing unloaded the goods, they were placed at the doorway because there wasn't enough room inside.
"Take two more small blue fish," Sun Yunmei said, taking an empty wooden basket and stuffing two small fish inside.
Mingliang went home and rode his motorcycle to find Sun Yang.
At the purchasing point, many people, upon hearing that tiger crabs were available, eagerly came to take a look.
Mingjing stood at the door, holding his mobile phone, and called several bosses one by one, asking them what kind of fish they wanted, how many kilograms they wanted, and if they could come and pick up the goods today.
Upon hearing that there were blue-tailed crabs and tiger crabs, Dong Li immediately hung up the phone and asked Xie Junan to come and pick up the goods.
"Mingjing, the quality of this batch of goods is really good, especially the tiger crabs. They're big and look great. They're seventy-one catties each. How about I take thirty catties?"
"That woman in blue is alright, she'll give me 85 per jin, I want 40 jin."
Xie Jun'an gave Mingjing a high price out of personal motives. Of course, Mingjing also understood that there was no other store that could offer such a high price. Even if she went to the city to sell it herself, she probably wouldn't be able to make more than 65 yuan.
This thing used to be quite rare, but when it came to her, even the rarest things weren't rare anymore. After all, how could you get hundreds of kilograms of something so rare?
"Alright then, take as many as you want."
"Then I'll just take them. I don't need to pick and choose; they're all good quality items at first glance."
Xie Junan was the first to take the goods. The blue-clothed garment weighed forty catties. Knowing that Mingjing's family did not have a scale, he brought one with him.
Forty catties of small green crabs, eight baskets in total; thirty catties of tiger crabs, three baskets.
After loading everything onto the truck, Xie Junan didn't rush to leave. Instead, he helped Mingjing weigh the remaining items.
The small green catfish were all of uniform size, weighing a total of 930 jin; the tiger crabs weighed 110 jin; and the nine eels weighed 137.5 jin. The remaining miscellaneous fish weighed 52.3 jin; the miscellaneous snails and vegetables weighed 33 jin and 68.1 jin respectively.
The red octopus weighed 21.3 jin. Mingjing originally wanted to keep one leg to make octopus teppanyaki, but the buyer wanted the whole one, so she couldn't do anything about it.
After removing the miscellaneous rotten fish, there were nearly a thousand pounds of seafood, which made everyone gasp in shock.
Good heavens, did they raid the Dragon Palace?
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