Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 1317 Business is so good!
"The annual fishing moratorium is actually a good time to make money, but it depends on who you are looking for."

"People who have fish in their hands are definitely looking forward to the fishing moratorium. If they have fish in their hands and others have none, the prices of fish, shrimp and crabs will become higher, and they can make more money."

Ding Xiaoxiang has been doing business with her family for many years and knows exactly what is going on.

The annual fishing moratorium has begun. There are fish in the fish market, but most of them are fresh-frozen fish. Many times there are no fish at all, not even fresh-frozen fish.

There really is nothing that can be done about it.

If someone has fresh fish at this time, it would be a big deal.

"The fish here at our fish farm will probably not be sold wholesale. Even if we sell them at fish stalls in town, we can still get a good price and make more money."

Ding Xiaoxiang knew very well what price these live and fierce fish could be sold for and how much money could be earned during the fishing moratorium.

Ding Xiaoxiang thought about it carefully, and told Ding Ailian, Ma Baozhu and Zhao Shi that she had to go to the town now to discuss this matter with her mother and see how to do it.

"Didn't Xiaoxiang come? Why is she leaving soon? Isn't she going to eat here?"

Zhong Cuihua walked out of the room just in time to see Ding Xiaoxiang leaving in a speedboat. She had heard voices talking in the room just now and knew they were talking about something, so she didn't come out. But when she came out, the people were already gone.

"grandmother!"

"Sister Xiaogan will go to the town to find her mother to discuss something."

Ding Ailian pointed to the groups of black sea bream in the fish cages and told the whole story.

"There's no need to wholesale these fish. We can just sell them at the stalls in town."

"Don't look at the large number of fish we caught today. It's impossible to have this many fish every day. Just keep them in the net cages here and Zhang Li can sell them."

"How can this fertile water flow into other people's fields?"

"If we normally have this many fish, we definitely can't sell them all in town. We have to sell them wholesale, but now is the fishing moratorium."

“It’s a lot of fish, but it’s definitely sellable.”

"Shouldn't this money-making thing be related to our own people?"

"There are so many fish to sell during the fishing moratorium. Maybe we can retain a lot of old customers! When the fishing moratorium is over, won't these people still have to come to the stall to buy fish?"

Zhong Cuihua made up her mind without thinking and decided to handle the matter this way. Zhang Li was Ding Xiaoxiang's mother and a member of her family.

"Sister-in-law."

"I see that you would rather not make money yourself. You have to give this fish to Zhang Li to buy!"

When Huang Jintao heard what Zhong Cuihua said, he immediately laughed.

"Isn't it true?"

"What's so great about this little bit of fish? If you don't want it, then you don't want it."

"Is it possible that Xiaoxiang is not as good as these fish?"

"If I don't know how to settle this account, how can I handle it?"

Zhong Cuihua smiled and nodded. This was exactly what she thought. These fish were not important at all. What was important was Ding Xiaoxiang. As long as Ding Xiaoxiang came home, anything would be fine, no matter how much she wanted.

"grandmother!"

"This is not just one or two kilograms of fish, but tens of thousands of kilograms of fish. How can you say that this is just a small amount of fish?"

When Ding Ailian heard what Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao said, she laughed and made a joke.

"We have everything we need now, and the most important thing is to have as many people as possible."

"You young people, when you have children in a few years, you must have more children."

“There is strength in numbers, and that’s no joke.”

"If we couldn't raise so many children when we didn't have money, then there's nothing we can do. Now we are all rich people, with enough food and clothes, so we can have as many children as possible."

“Only brothers and sisters are the ones who can really help and can really put your mind at ease.”

Zhong Cuihua glanced at Ding Ailian with a smile on her face. Having lived her whole life, she knew too well how important people are. As long as people are there, everything will be fine.

small town.

Ding Xiaoxiang hurried into the fish market and went straight to her own fish stall.

"Sister-in-law."

"Why are you the only one here? Where are my mother and second sister-in-law?"

Ding Xiaoxiang felt a little strange because she only saw Chen Miaomiao, but not her mother Zhang Lihe and sister-in-law Zhang Qi.

"They just left for something and will be back soon. Why are you here today?"

As Chen Miaomiao spoke, she pulled a stool and placed it next to her.

"The fishing moratorium has begun. How is business? I feel like there are fewer people here."

As Ding Xiaoxiang spoke, she looked around the entire fish market and found that there were a lot fewer people, and there were also a lot fewer people at the stalls. The key point was that there were not many things to sell on each stall.

"Correct!"

"The fishing moratorium has begun, and business here has indeed declined a lot, but our business has not been greatly affected."

"It's just that the timing is not right now, but other businesses have been greatly affected. The business of the entire fish market is indeed different."

Chen Miaomiao nodded. During this period, she and Zhang Qi had been helping out at the fish stall. They were already familiar with the business and knew the situation very well. Before the fishing moratorium, there were more people here, and there were a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs on the surrounding fish stalls, not to mention their own. However, since the fishing moratorium began, the business has been affected to a certain extent. Ding Chongshan and Zhang Li are very experienced and have made preparations. Now that the fishing moratorium has not started for a few days, there are enough fish, shrimps and crabs on the stalls, and most of them are fresh and lively fish, unlike other stalls that mainly sell frozen fish. The business has hardly been affected at all.

"Do we have enough fish at home? I mean, how many fresh and vigorous fish do we have?"

Ding Xiaoxiang sat down. She had not taken care of the family business for a long time. She didn't know how much preparation Ding Chongshan had made for the fishing moratorium, but in her impression, there were generally enough fresh fish, shrimps and crabs to sell for ten days or even half a month.

"At most, it will take about eight to ten days."

"It's not that we don't want to store more fish this year. In fact, we have been thinking about storing more fish since the beginning. But the most important thing is that during the first half of the month of the fishing moratorium, the fishing boats that went out to sea could not catch too many fish, shrimps and crabs."

"There isn't much left except for the ones that we normally have to sell wholesale."

"Another thing is that we are not the only ones doing this kind of thing. There are other people doing the same thing."

"If we need to keep all these fish, shrimps and crabs alive, we can't buy them too far in advance to keep them alive."

Chen Miaomiao spoke while shaking her head slightly.

The situation at home is definitely much better than that of others. Ding Chongshan and Zhang Li are both very experienced people. They have already made preparations for the fishing moratorium. This year they originally wanted to store as many fish as possible, but in the first half of the month after the fishing moratorium began, the number of fish, shrimps and crabs caught by the fishing boats going out to sea was relatively small.

Even if you want to save, you can't save much. It's normal and there's nothing you can do about it.

"Oh?"

"If all these fish are sold, what will we do next? Mainly sell the freshly-frozen fish or the fish, shrimps and crabs raised in the fish farms?"

Ding Xiaoxiang nodded.

In the half month before the start of this year's fishing moratorium, the number of fish, shrimps and crabs in the sea was indeed a little less. There were really not many. It was almost impossible to store a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs. You have to know that your family's business is not just the business in the town's fish stalls, the most important thing is the wholesale business, which means that most of the fish, shrimps and crabs collected every day have to be sold.

The fish, shrimps and crabs here in the town are actually only a very small part. In fact, only those left over from wholesale or those in excess are sold at a positive price.

"I discussed this with my mother. We thought that the business in the town is very good now. Should we get more fish, shrimp and crabs? But there is really not much we can do. We can only get so much fish, shrimp and crabs from other places every day."

"We have to meet the needs of wholesalers, and the remaining amount is very unstable. Sometimes it is more, sometimes it is less."

"When there are a lot of fish, we can sell them, and we can sell as much as we can. When there are few fish, we can't sell them. Many times, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon when the fish market is doing good business and there are many people, there are no fish, shrimps or crabs on our stall."

When Chen Miaomiao talked about this matter, she really felt a headache, but more of it was helplessness.

There are two main areas of business at home. One is the fish in the town's fish market. We can sell a lot of fish every day and make a lot of money, easily making two to three thousand yuan in net profit.

Another business that Ding Chongshan runs is the fish, shrimps and crabs he collects at the dock. This is the bulk of the family’s business and the most profitable.

Most of the fish here at the stall are fish, shrimps and crabs purchased by Ding Chongshan, but the fish, shrimps and crabs purchased by Ding Chongshan must first meet the needs of those wholesalers.

To put it simply, only when all the fish, shrimps and crabs received every day meet the needs of wholesalers, will the remaining ones be sold in the town.

The number of fish, shrimps and crabs collected every day is not very stable. Sometimes there are more, and sometimes there are fewer. When there are more, there is nothing to say. There must be fish for sale at the fish stalls in the town. But when there are fewer, there are not enough fish at the fish stalls in the town to sell, and a lot of money is lost.

Zhang Qi and I wanted to have more fish, shrimps and crabs at the fish stall, but it was simply not possible.

"Sister-in-law."

“There’s nothing that can be done about it.”

"The most profitable business for my family is not the fish stall in town but the wholesale business."

"In this case, these fish, shrimps and crabs can only meet the needs of wholesale first."

"This is not something that just happened now. It already existed before you and your second sister-in-law came to our house."

"Business in our town is really good, and we can sell a lot of fish, but there is really nothing we can do."

"It seems that our wholesale business of fish, shrimp and crab has been doing quite well recently?"

"In this way, we can sell more fish, shrimps and crabs! But it is not possible to get a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs at once now."

"The fish, shrimp and crabs at the fish stall will become even less."

Ding Xiaoxiang hasn't been taking care of the family business recently, but she knows that the family business has been doing much better recently. She heard that her eldest brother and second brother have found a new sales channel. In this way, more fish, shrimps and crabs can be sold, and the fish, shrimps and crabs at the fish stalls in the town will definitely be affected.

"Correct!"

"The wholesale business at home has really improved a lot in recent times!"

"I can earn 20% more money in a month. The biggest problem now is not that we can't sell them, but that there are not enough fish, shrimps and crabs."

"The biggest headache for the eldest and second brothers right now is how to get enough fish, shrimps and crabs."

Chen Miaomiao suddenly laughed. The better the family business was, the better off she would be. The important thing was that this was something that she and Zhang Qi had achieved after they got married. No matter what, it was always a credit to both her and Zhang Qi.

"If we want to get more fish, shrimp and crabs, it is not an easy thing. Now we can get more, but most of them are piecemeal. It doesn't solve a big problem if we get a little here and there."

"We are waiting for the day when our family can settle down at the Shijiao Village Pier and receive fish, shrimps and crabs from people who go out to sea to fish or fishermen. Then there will be basically no big problems, and we may even have a lot more fish, shrimps and crabs."

Ding Xiaoxiang nodded.

Business at home has been good recently, and we have sold more fish, shrimps and crabs, so we need to collect more fish, shrimps and crabs.

But this is really not an easy thing to do!

There are always people collecting fish, shrimps and crabs at every dock. If you want to snatch more fish, shrimps and crabs from other people's hands, it is no different from directly snatching money from other people's pockets. No one will sit there and wait for death.

The eldest brother Ding Jie and the second brother Ding Weijun must have done a lot of things and collected a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs, but they could not solve the problem. The only way was that their father Ding Chongshan could get fish, shrimps and crabs at the Shijiao Village Wharf. As long as they could do this and get enough fish, shrimps and crabs, the problem would be solved and the family business would expand a lot. This was the fundamental reason why their father Ding Chongshan had been staying at the Shijiao Village Wharf recently.

(End of this chapter)