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

Chapter 1318 This matter really cannot be rushed!
"Can't we harvest the fish, shrimp and crabs at the Shijiao Village dock yet? How long do we have to wait? I heard from our father that it will take at least three months or even half a year before we can start harvesting fish, shrimp and crabs there?"

Chen Miaomiao heard Ding Chongshan, Ding Jie and Ding Weijun talk about this. Don't look at the shop that is now open in that place. It mainly collects the fish caught by Shi Jiehua and Shi Zhong for their deep-sea fishing boat. Other fish have not been collected yet, and it will take some time before they can start collecting them.

"Correct!"

"We can't rush this matter. It will definitely take three months. It may even take half a year."

Ding Xiaoxiang nodded. It would probably take at least three months. If it took longer, it might take half a year before they could start collecting fish, shrimps and crabs at the Shijiao Village Pier.

"Why does it take so long? Can't you just open a business there?"

Chen Miaomiao was a little anxious, and she didn't quite understand why it took so long. Ding Chongshan had been staying in the shop at the Shijiao Village Pier all this time.

"If it's a normal small dock, there won't be any big problems. As long as there are people, we can start buying fish, shrimps and crabs."

"Even if there are people collecting fish, shrimps and crabs at these small docks, they don't have any good solutions or they can't do anything to us. Even if they have some means, we can still deal with them."

"But the problem is that the Shijiao Village wharf is different from other wharves. One reason is that this wharf is very large, and the other is that it is a deep-water wharf. Most of the fishing boats going out to sea are large ones. There are small fishing boats, but they are not many."

"As long as the big fishing boats come back from the sea, there are a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs. In other words, there are a lot of people collecting fish, shrimps and crabs in this place."

“There are more people making money here, and they make more money.”

"If our family wants to collect fish, shrimps and crabs at the Shijiao Village Pier, we will be snatching a big piece of cake from someone else's mouth."

"This is really no joke!"

"It's a business worth ten or a hundred dollars. If they rob it, then they rob it. No one will have any big opinions. They just grit their teeth and swallow their anger."

"If it's a business worth hundreds of thousands, it's no joke. Not to mention hundreds of thousands, even if it's a business worth tens of thousands, there will be people fighting for it."

"The fish, shrimp and crab business here at Shijiao Village Wharf is like this. It's very big."

"You have to be very careful. The most important thing is to make sure there are no consequences. You have to take your time."

"If you spend a little longer at the beginning, you won't have too many problems to deal with later on. That's when it will be easier to gain a firm foothold and make money."

Ding Xiaoxiang knew that Chen Miaomiao and Zhang Qi must be anxious because they saw that the family business was very good but there was not enough supply. However, there was no way to be anxious about this kind of thing. If they were anxious, they would indeed be able to receive fish, shrimps and crabs at the beginning, and it seemed that they could solve some problems and make some money, but in the long run it would be very troublesome.

"What should I do? If I do it this way now, it may take a long time at the beginning, but it will save me a lot of trouble later."

"The bottom line is that there are too many fishing boats out to sea at the Shijiao Village Pier, and they catch too many fish, shrimps and crabs."

Ding Xiaoxiang knew very well why her father Ding Chongshan had to do this. The main reason was that the interests involved in the fish, shrimps and crabs at the Shijiao Village wharf were too huge.

"If the fish, shrimp and crab business at Shijiao Village Pier is good, we can earn at least 100,000 yuan a month, or even 300,000 or 400,000 yuan."

"It's a multi-million dollar business a year."

"How could the other people who benefited from the Shijiao Village Pier watch a new person interfere?"

Ding Xiaoxiang knew that Chen Miaomiao and Zhang Qi were both impatient and lacked experience in business, especially in places like the docks. They didn't know how complicated the situation was. It was not possible to open a store and start a business here.

Chen Miaomiao was shocked. She really didn't expect that the business at the Shijiao Village wharf would be so big.

Ding Xiaoxiang said that after starting the business there, her family could earn 100,000 yuan a month, or 300,000 or 400,000 yuan.

There is not only one person collecting fish, shrimps and crabs at a dock. I heard from Ding Jie and Ding Weijun that there are dozens of families collecting fish, shrimps and crabs there.

If you think about it this way, the fish, shrimp and crab business at the Shijiao Village dock is no joke.

With so much money involved, Ding Xiaoxiang wasn't kidding when she said those other people would fight to the death.

"Honestly speaking, if Zhao Dahai hadn't built a fish farm at the pier recently, and if he hadn't cooperated with Shi Jiehua and Shi Zhong for their family's deep-sea fishing boat, it would have been really difficult for our family to do business at the pier."

Ding Xiaoxiang shook her head.

My family business hasn't made much progress over the years.

There is almost no significant difference in the amount of fish, shrimp and crabs harvested every year.

If we don’t get enough fish, shrimps and crabs, there is no way to open up sales channels.

Why is it like this?

The most important thing is that there is simply no place to collect fish, shrimps and crabs.

There are many deep-sea fishing boats at the Shijiao Village Pier, and they catch a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs. If we can collect fish, shrimps and crabs in this place, then the problem will definitely be solved, and the business will definitely grow bigger and bigger.

His father Ding Chongshan is not blind. On the contrary, he is a very good businessman. It is impossible for him not to see this. It is not that he has not thought about this place, but he really has no way to get involved.

This period of time was really an opportunity seized, especially since Zhao Dahai, Shi Jiehua and Shi Zhong cooperated for their deep-sea fishing boat and collected those fish, shrimps and crabs, and then opened a shop in that place. But even so, at this time, no one dared to openly or seriously collect fish, shrimps and crabs from other fishing boats.

"This matter is very important to our family. If it succeeds, the victory will be greatly expanded."

"It is extremely important to the development of our family."

"In fact, it's not about making an extra 100,000, 300,000 or 400,000 yuan a month, but it's possible to make an extra 1 million yuan a month."

"When I said I'd make an extra 100,000, that's at the beginning. As long as you have a foothold, as long as you can stand firm, our dad has plenty of means and methods to slowly collect more and more fish, shrimps and crabs from this place."

"I really didn't know how much money I could make at that time, but it was definitely not a small amount."

Ding Xiaoxiang has been going to Shijiao Village Wharf frequently recently and is very familiar with the situation there. There are so many fishing boats there, and the number of fish, shrimps and crabs returning every day is very large. Once her family can gain a foothold there, they can slowly expand the scale of collecting fish, shrimps and crabs, which is a huge business.

Chen Miaomiao was shocked. He just heard Ding Xiaoxiang say that he could make an extra 100,000 yuan a month, or even 300,000 or 400,000 yuan if he did well, and thought that was a lot. But now he realized that it was not the case at all. The amount Ding Xiaoxiang said was just the amount that could be earned by doing business in that place. Chen Miaomiao finally understood why Ding Chongshan was so cautious and why he spent so much time on this matter.

"There's no need to rush things at Shijiao Village Pier. It's worth spending as much time as possible, even a year."

Ding Xiaoxiang is very sure of this.

"Hey!"

"Xiaoxiang."

"When did you come?"

Ding Xiaoxiang turned around and saw her mother Zhang Li and Zhang Qi walking towards her.

"mom!"

"Second sister-in-law."

Ding Xiaoxiang stood up and greeted her.

"Xiaoxiang has been here for quite a while. She just told me about the shops at the Shijiao Village Pier and the collection of fish, shrimps and crabs."

"what!"

"I forgot to ask Xiaoxiang what she was doing here!"

Chen Miaomiao suddenly remembered that Ding Xiaoxiang had been here for quite some time. She was so busy talking to Ding Xiaoxiang about the fish stall and the pier that she forgot to ask Ding Xiaoxiang what she was doing here.

"Don't you have a lot of things to do recently? How do you still have time to come here?"

Zhang Li looked at Ding Xiaoxiang and found it very strange. Ding Xiaoxiang had a lot of things to do recently, and she didn't expect her to come here today.

"mom!"

"Hasn't the fishing season started? There are fewer fierce fish, shrimps and crabs now. I came here to see how business is going. Also, there is something I need to tell you."

Ding Xiaoxiang pointed at the surrounding shops while speaking. She had been here for such a long time and found that there were definitely fewer people in the fish market. The number of fish, shrimps and crabs on the surrounding stalls were not too many. In this case, what she wanted to say here today was very important.

"The fishing moratorium has begun, and business here has definitely been affected. However, we still have plenty of live fish and shrimp on our stall, so business will not be affected at all. In fact, business has improved by 10% or 20%!"

Zhang Li nodded. The business of the entire fish market has indeed been affected. Once the fishing moratorium begins, there will be fewer fish, shrimps and crabs here, and fewer people will come to buy fish, shrimps and crabs.

The business at my stall was hardly affected at all. On the contrary, although other stalls had less fish, shrimps and crabs, I still had enough fish, shrimps and crabs, so my business was much better.

"It's not that no one is buying things now, but the number of fish, shrimp and crabs we have may not be enough. I estimate that they will be sold out in ten days or so. At that time, it will be a bit troublesome. We can only sell those frozen fish or fish raised in fish racks. Both the price and popularity will be greatly affected."

Zhang Li frowned, then sighed, but there was really no way to deal with this kind of thing. Such things would happen every year during the fishing moratorium, and they had to face such things. But then again, even if she was selling fish fillets or chilled fish, the business at her stall would be better than others, and much better.

"You haven't told me why you came here!"

Zhang Li didn't say much about this matter. In fact, such things happened every year. Ding Xiaoxiang followed her in doing business in the past few years and was very familiar with the situation here.

"There are a lot of fish caught at that fish paddock!"

"But these fish are not too big, most of them are black sea bream weighing about one kilogram."

"There aren't many that are two or three pounds in size. I estimate that only about 10% or 20% of them are big."

"I thought we could just sell these fish at our fish stall. There's no need to go the wholesale route. If we go the wholesale route, the money we make is really too little. There's no point."

"It's the fishing moratorium now, so fish like this are actually very easy to sell, and we can sell a lot of them."

Ding Xiaoxiang talked about the fish farm and how they could catch five to six thousand kilograms of fish a day by putting up nets.

"what?"

“Can you catch so many fish?”

Zhang Qi was shocked. He had heard about the net cages placed at the fish farm, but they were all said to catch fish weighing more than 100 kilograms.

Ding Xiaoxiang is talking about catching five or six thousand kilograms of fish a day.

"Correct!"

“This is something I really didn’t expect!”

"My second grandfather and his friends said it might be related to the start of the fishing moratorium. There were no fishing boats outside to set out their nets, so the fish gathered together and moved to the fish farm after approaching the pier."

"It's not just today that we can catch so many fish. It's possible that we can catch so many fish every day during the entire fishing moratorium."

"If this is really the case, there will be more and more fish of this size in the fish farm. It is impossible to keep all of them in the net cages. You know, if that happens, there will be too many fish."

"I thought about it and discussed it with my second grandfather and the others. We felt that there was no need to keep these fish. Instead, we had to sell them."

"If I sell these fish wholesale to others, it would be a bit of a loss. The price here in the fish market will be higher."

"In the past, if there was no fishing moratorium, it would be difficult to sell so many fish in this place. But now it's different. I think I can still give it a try to see if I can sell them. If I can, I will sell them all here. If I can't sell so many, I will wholesale them to other people."

Ding Xiaoxiang came here to do this, but now she can't say for sure how many fish can be sold at the stall in a day. She needs to estimate it, or try to sell a few to see how many can be sold.

(End of this chapter)