847: Making money is not shameful
Yu Jiahui looked over the table and saw a bowl of fish noodle soup in the pot. Yu Jiahui poured it directly into the bowl:
"I told Lao Er that I'm on night shift tonight. I'll be here with you tonight."
"Okay, please nail a few more rafts for me. I'm short of rafts now. Build me a few more so I can dry fish on them."
"No problem. We have plenty of wood anyway. We can make a dozen or so."
"Okay then."
Yu Xiaoye watched her parents eating and talking, which was very harmonious. She quietly left the space and returned to the car.
The two returned to their home in the compound, had dinner with Zhou Jingru and Zhuang Huaijian, went back upstairs, locked the door, and returned to the space.
When they arrived at the space, Yu Jiahui and Xu Ying had already eaten dinner and had pulled the fishing net out of the sea.
When they arrived, they saw the fishing nets filled with fish land on the deck of the yacht.
"Wow, it's time for my favorite part again, picking up seafood!"
Yu Xiaoye loves this job the most. It's like shopping on Taobao. You never know what kind of strange seafood you can find. It's fun and eye-opening.
Xu Yingdao:
"Okay, stop working, both of you. Go and have a rest. Your dad and I are here, and that's enough for us."
Zhou Ziheng, who was unable to walk, came over to help pull the fishing net:
"It's okay, we'll just treat it as a game."
"Yes," Yu Xiaoye squatted down and started sorting. "Usually we can't eat all the fish and shrimp, and we rarely have the chance to fish. Now we finally have the chance, so of course we can't miss it."
Seeing the two young people were so interested, Xu Ying did not stop them:
"Okay then, we can't work too late. We'll go back to bed in an hour."
"Okay, just one hour."
Yu Xiaoye brought buckets and began to sort the fish with Xu Ying. Zhou Ziheng helped Yu Jiahui put down another fishing net, and after he finished putting down the net, he also came over to help.
Xu Yingdao:
"Oh, I think I still need a blender. When we made shrimp paste before, we used to chop the shrimp by hand. At that time, we ate only a small amount, so the workload was not too great, so we didn't think much of it. But now, if we want to make shrimp paste to sell, it's too tiring if we still do it by hand. It would be great if we had a blender. We could just dump the shrimp into the blender and be done with it."
Yu Jiahui said:
"That's easy. I've been thinking about this for a long time. Our factory also has a blender mold, but it's too crude. I'm trying to improve it. When the time comes, I'll collect some scrap metal and borrow the mold from the factory to make one for you."
"Okay, hurry up and do it. I'll be waiting for your blender."
Yu Xiaoye also gave some advice:
"Oh, right, we're still short of a grinder. Dad, if you have time, go to the grain processing plant and buy a flour grinding machine. An old one will do, or one that can be repaired. It doesn't have to be too sophisticated. We can use it to dry some shrimp, crab, and fish bones and grind them into powder to make feed."
"For feed?"
"Yes, we often catch some shrimp and crabs, and there will be a lot of fish bones left over from making dried fish. That big tuna, the bones alone weigh several pounds, it would be a waste to throw them away, so we can make some feed for it. If we don't sell it to others, we can sell it to my eldest brother's farm. It's high-quality feed, and the chickens will definitely lay nutritious eggs after eating it."
Yu Jiahui praised:
"You're really good, even plucking your own wool. Okay, I'll go to the grain processing plant someday to see if I can buy a flour-grinding machine."
Xu Ying: "With a flour mill, I can make animal feed."
Yu Xiaoye said again:
"Oh, and don't throw away the offal from the fish and shrimp. We can ferment it and use it as feed. Anyway, now as long as we catch it, we won't throw it away. We can use it and it's all money."
Zhou Ziheng, who was standing by, heard Yu Xiaoye's business acumen and said with a smile:
"You little money-grubber, you can turn anything into money."
"Of course not! Making money isn't a bad thing! In the past few years, we were very cautious, afraid that something would go wrong with our business and bring shame upon you. This year, the social environment has finally become more relaxed, so of course we have to seize the opportunity to make more money. I'm too busy here, I have too much to do, and my eldest brother's business is just starting out, so let Mom and Dad test the waters first. Our family's philosophy is to seek progress while maintaining stability. We don't take risks or be radical, but we must seize the opportunity when it comes."
"Xiao Ye is right. We should strive for steady progress and healthy development!"
The family chatted and didn't feel tired. After a while, they finished sorting the fish in the net.
This net holds about 700 to 800 kilograms of fish, and the catch is quite diverse, including more than a dozen kinds of fish, shrimps, and crabs. The fish are made into dried fish, the shrimps are made into shrimp paste, and the crabs are kept for themselves. The leftovers are made into crab meat paste, which can also be given to family members.
Other scraps can also be dried and used as feed.
There's almost no waste anyway.
After the first net was processed and the second net was taken out, they continued to sort.
Xu Ying urged them to go back and rest, but no one went back. They all stayed on the deck and worked until they finished sorting the second net, which was enough for Xu Ying to be busy for the next few days. Only then did they go back to rest.
We stayed in the space cabin that night.
The next morning, Zhou Ziheng sent Yu Jiahui to the vicinity of the machinery factory, then drove Yu Xiaoye to Peking University and Tsinghua University, and then went to the Military Engineering College himself.
Xu Ying was left alone in the space to deal with the two nets of fish and shrimp caught last night.
Because it was summer vacation, the Military Engineering College was not very busy, so after Zhou Ziheng simply finished his work, he rode his bicycle to Peking University and Tsinghua University to find Yu Xiaoye, and asked Yu Xiaoye to take him back to the space to help Xu Ying make a raft.
Zhou Ziheng's hands-on ability was also top-notch. He borrowed an electric saw, split the logs he brought from the Northeast, tied them together with nylon ropes, and in half a day he made a raft that was fifty square meters in area and very stable.
A rack was also built on the raft to provide more space so that Xu Ying could dry more things.
At the end of the day, Xu Ying filled the raft with dried fish and shrimps.
I also made two jars of shrimp paste.
We worked like this for a few days. The sun in the space was very strong, and soon the first batch of dried fish and shrimps were dried.
It was time for Xu Ying to go home. She took a sack and put the dried fish and shrimp into it. She filled four large sacks and weighed them. They weighed more than 560 kilograms.
Xu Ying had thought about it in advance and decided to sell these things according to the market price.
Dried fish is sold at one yuan per pound, but dried shrimp is rare in the market, so it can be sold at a higher price, such as one yuan and fifty cents.
Xu Ying estimated that if she sold all the fish, she could probably make more than 600 yuan.
More than six hundred, which is half a year’s salary for the Yu family father and son!
She can earn their half-year salary with just a few days of work!
Xu Ying took four large sacks out of the space and went outside to hire a tricycle to take the goods home. Her purchase was successfully completed, and the next step was to find a way to sell the goods.
As for selling goods, Xu Ying did not plan to do business with his neighbors this time. The spending power of those neighbors was also limited. The last time he sold mountain products, he had almost emptied their wallets. How could they afford such expensive dried fish and shrimp?
This time, Xu Ying planned to push his bicycle to the free market in Caishikou to sell the products. He didn't need to set up a stall. His family had wicker baskets, which he tied to the back seat of his bicycle, one on each side. He put dried shrimps in one wicker basket and dried fish in the other, just one on each side, and he would sell them until they were all sold out.
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