Chapter 1011: Talking about the Fresh Ship (7000 words)(1/3)
"Yes, if you go back and pass the county town, you have to go to the shore and ask. Just be concerned about the progress of the matter. After all, it's you... No, we are also witnesses. We watched the boat sinking at the time. It's okay to ask out of curiosity.
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Father Ye originally wanted to say that he reported it, but he quickly stopped talking. Lao Pei didn't even know that they had already salvaged two boxes that night.
Father Pei interjected: "I think it's possible that they felt it was impossible to salvage the sunken ship, so they gave up, or they also went into the water to search for it, but couldn't find it. After all, it's winter, so the next time it's flooded it won't be easy. This
With just a rough coordinate and no guidance on the sea, it’s not that easy to find a sunken ship on the bottom of the sea.”
"There's no need to guess, just ask."
Ye Yaodong wasn't sure either. Anyway, he was going back to the shore tomorrow. He would ask when he got back.
"It's already dark. It's already past 7 o'clock. Let's have a meal later and drag a final net around. Let's quickly dock in the city. We can deliver all the goods on the ship before dawn.
Sold it at the wholesale market."
Father Ye took a look and saw that the goods had almost been moved and stacked, and he quickly agreed, "Okay, let's not waste time, drag one more net at the end, and then go directly to the city."
"Then let's set off the nets separately..."
"Oh, by the way, uncle, after the goods are sold out in the market, we will sail back directly. The cheap fish on your boat will be left for me to take back to dry as usual?"
Just when he remembered this, he quickly said hello in advance.
"Let's do the same as last time. We'll go to the market later to find out how much each item is selling for. We'll base it on the market price. This will also save us from having to haul a bunch of cheap items to the market to sell, and the tractors on the dock will have to pull several tractors.
If you make more trips, you’ll have to pay for the freight for several more trips, and you’ll also save the market stalls from having to charge buyers and sellers three points each.”
Father Pei nodded and agreed. He would sell it if he took it to the market, and he would sell it if he took it home to dry. The fuel consumption for carrying the load was also lower than the freight and commission of hiring a tractor.
What's more, I have just received benefits from Ye Yaodong. There is no reason why I shouldn't deserve it. They are all relatives.
"If you want to take it back to dry, isn't that just a matter of words? Leave it all to you. The groceries have been collected two days in advance and piled on the deck for you. The entire ship is almost full."
"Feng Harvest, the name of this boat is correct. The Feng Harvest has a good harvest every day."
"hehe……"
Ye Yaodong smiled and said to the boatmen of the two boats: "It's getting dark now. After I sell the goods on the boat, I will give everyone a big red envelope, and then we will go back happily."
Home."
Everyone smiled and said politely.
"No need to worry, no need to worry, we can wait until we get home."
"That's right, take your time, we are not in a hurry..."
"We'll talk about it when we get back. Now get off the net quickly and then get to the shore to get down to business. We'll talk about the red envelope later..."
"After I finish selling the goods in the market tomorrow, I will get on the ship and deliver them to you." Ye Yaodong said firmly, and then he propped up the Harvest with a bamboo pole and moved the two ships a little further apart.
Father Ye also returned to the cockpit to sail the boat.
The two ships also began to move. From a distance on the sea, the two light spots next to each other were seen getting further and further apart, and then they sailed separately, just echoing each other from a distance, keeping a distance that was neither far nor close.
Ye Yaodong also took a look at the boxes that were moved over. Almost every box had been opened. Uncle Pei probably also wanted to make sure what was inside and whether every box was the same.
He also randomly checked three boxes, and there were still only 5 cans of caviar with slightly different labels in each box.
I don’t know if Uncle Pei found it or paid attention to it when he opened the box to check.
There shouldn't be any. If there were, I would have mentioned it when we were chatting just now, why are there so many different cans?
Anyway, it doesn’t matter to him, whether he knows it or not, if all the boxes of goods are packaged for him to handle, he will casually mention them and pick them out.
Again, there were so many people on the boat, many eyes and many voices. Even after returning to the village, some people still liked to brag, saying that they had salvaged the cargo from the sunken ship. He also casually mentioned the value of caviar that night, which must be the same.
Will be taken out to brag.
After Ye Yaodong finished the spot check, he put the canned fish back and placed them neatly. There was no need to check the rest. He already knew that they should all be the same, so he just made sure.
After finishing it, he also went to eat. The food on the ship had been prepared long ago, but he didn't have time to eat, so he let others eat first.
Two people were also assigned to help unload the net bit by bit, and the other two people went to eat first, so they could take turns later.
After Ye Yaodong finished eating, he replaced his father.
Father Ye felt sorry for him because he went into the water several times during the day and did not take a good rest. He was afraid that his body would be overwhelmed and he would not be able to survive the night and would have to go ashore to sell goods in the early morning. After dinner, he went to relieve him and let him go back to the cabin to rest.
He is not being pretentious. He has to go to the wholesale market to sell goods. When he goes to the market to sell goods, they are not sold out so quickly before dawn. He is not in a strong body and needs to rest when he should.
After going to sea a few days ago, he didn't bring the quilt home to dry. Ah Qing asked him to go to the ship to get it back the next day, but he was too lazy to move it on the ship, so he just left it there.
Well, the quilt has been smelling of the sea these days, and he feels a little disgusted with it again.
When he returns to the village tomorrow, he reminds himself that he must remember to take back all the quilts from several beds to dry them.
Just wash it, the workers are not that particular and don't care about cleanliness so much, it would be nice to dry it in the sun.
It was a cold day and there was no washing machine at home. He also felt sorry for his wife. As long as his own quilt was not wet by children, he might not be able to wash it even once in the winter. Why would other boatmen wash the quilt every now and then? What a beautiful idea.
After we go back, if we really want to sell these goods to Lin Jishang, we can go to him to move a washing machine, which is perfect.
He thought about it and closed his eyes when he heard the two boatmen beside him coming back to sleep.
He only slept for more than five hours, half asleep and half awake. He woke up when he heard the other two people making noises like yawning and farting. In fact, he was not asleep at all.
After the two of them got up and woke him up, he also sat up and rubbed his temples.
The roar of the machine, except for the brief moment when he went into the water during the day and communicated with the fresh-picking ship to receive goods, it never stopped at all in the past few days.
He couldn't help but sigh, it's hard to be a hard-working person, and it's still comfortable to be a dead person, but it means suffering for the people around you.
Touching the flashlight placed on the side of the boat, he opened it and looked at the watch. It was already 1 o'clock. No wonder they woke him up. They should be docking soon.
After he got dressed under the quilt and went out, he peed while looking at the brightly lit and busy dock in the distance. The time was stuck very well, and he got up at the right time.
There are not many fishing boats docked at this time. After all, there are only a limited number of boats like his in the city, and they don’t all dock together. However, there are quite a few boats busy preparing to go out to sea to trawl. They all go out at night and during the day.
Returned.
It was a lively and noisy scene with many people coming and going. Some were pushing trolleys, some were carrying baskets and buckets back and forth to the boat, and some were using trolleys to refuel and add ice to the fishing boats.
After their fishing boat docked, they were worried that they didn't see the tractor. They were wondering whether they should temporarily call a few trucks to transport it. But the distance was not close, and the number of trucks that could be pulled in one trip was also very limited, only a few hundred kilograms.
There are dozens of tons of cargo on board their ships. Although they have left most of the groceries to be taken back for drying, it cannot be hauled away in one or two trips by a pallet truck.
He and Uncle Pei walked onto the pier, chatting as they walked, thinking about asking the local fishermen on the pier about tractors, when they heard the sound of a tractor coming from far away, and soon it appeared on the pier.
They also breathed a sigh of relief. Even a tractor might not be able to pull it all in one trip, let alone a small and large truck.
However, just one tractor is not enough. As soon as they saw the tractor appear, they rushed up to communicate and asked for information. There were several tractors behind that would arrive soon.
"We have just sent a few goods to the wholesale market. There was a fishing boat before you that also just docked. Our four tractors sent the full ship of goods to the wholesale market in one trip. Didn't we just come back to the dock?"
"Let me tell you, why didn't you see any tractors on the dock today? It turns out they were all delivering goods to the market."
"Every day since early morning, fishing boats have docked intermittently. Of course I can't let go of this business. They are basically there, unless they go to deliver goods, but they will come back soon..."
When Ye Yaodong was negotiating the price with him, the sound of tractors started to sound one after another, and they all came back. Now he was not afraid that the goods would be unfinished.
After agreeing on the price with them, each of the two ships is assigned two tractors to pull the goods. For one trip, one tractor costs 1 yuan, which is equivalent to 50 cents in gas cost, and the tractor master makes a net profit of 50 cents.
He had accumulated more than 20 tons of goods in three days. There were more than ten tons of goods that could be sold for money. Two tractors would definitely not be able to pull them all if they did not make four or five trips. Fortunately, most of them were kept home, and the remaining two were more valuable.
Two tractor pulls are enough.
This money is easy to earn, equivalent to as long as a fishing boat docks, a tractor can earn about two or three yuan. (He keeps the goods to show off, not counting)
If there are five or six fishing boats docked a day, they can earn more than ten yuan a day, which means three to four hundred yuan a month, and three to four thousand yuan a year.
There is no need to do other work. I just wait on the dock every day for the fishing boats to dock and deliver goods to the wholesale market. This money is enough for the tractor. If I occasionally take on other jobs, a tractor can pay back its capital in one year.
It's easy and decent money to make, except that you have to buy a tractor, which costs a little more, but the returns are also huge. The main thing is that it will be a steady job for the next 20 years, and you will make a steady profit.
As expected, opportunities are everywhere in this era. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can make money in anything you do, which is much better than farming.
You can only make money by farming, but you can make money by everything else. Small money is easy to make, but big money depends on fate and luck.
However, if you can earn a small amount of money now and gradually accumulate capital, you will definitely be able to do so in the future. But don’t be short-sighted and think that you can earn a steady income and provide for your retirement if you can drive a tractor.
Ye Yaodong watched the workers moving goods, smoking a cigarette beside him, having nothing to do, and even calculated an account for the tractor master.
After seeing that a cart was full of goods, he also called to someone and sat at the front with him, and followed the goods to the market.
After arriving at the market, they would move the goods in, and then have people follow the tractor master to the dock to continue delivering goods, while he stayed in the market to sell.
When the last trip came, there were a little more tractors at the dock, and both cargoes were hauled in one trip. Maybe they docked earlier today, and some workers haven't come to the dock to work yet.
After Ye Yaodong entered the market, he was selling goods inside. He didn't have time to go to the shop outside to greet his father-in-law. It wasn't until dawn that the goods were sold out one after another. The harvest number this time will be better than him.
If it's more, it won't sell as fast as him.
He said hello and took his boatman out first, asking Father Pei to find him outside the store after he finished selling the goods.
The lights were brightly lit inside the market, and it was bright outside the market, but there was no sun, and the wind was strong outside. The surrounding area was empty, and there were no buildings to cover it. As soon as I came out, I shrank from the cold wind.
"Oh~ It's already March, and the wind blowing here is still cold. It's freezing to death."
"Haha, it hasn't started to rain recently, and it hasn't started to heat up yet. One spring rain and another warm one. It will probably be hot in just a few days. It's the middle of the month now, and Qingming is coming soon. Qingming is coming soon.
It’ll be hot as soon as it passes.”
To be continued...