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

Chapter 1555 is too many? Not enough to sell!

"grandmother!"

"Second Madam!"

"How do these crabs taste this year?"

As Ding Xiaoxiang spoke, she glanced around and saw that everyone was holding a crab, with Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao eating them.

These are all freshly caught crabs, very fresh and lively.

As soon as I got back to the fish farm, I immediately told the people cooking there to pick out 100-200 pounds of crabs, cook them whole, and have everyone eat a little bit.

"it is good!"

"How could such a big crab, especially one that's just been caught, not taste good?"

……

"Correct!"

"This tastes really good!"

"Anything from the sea that's fresh is delicious."

……

Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao slowly ate the crabs in their hands.

These crabs are big, and the meat is very plump and sweet; they're really delicious.

"Ding Xiaoxiang!"

"We need to haul away 5,000 catties of crabs in a little while!"

"It just so happens to be dinner time at Hongyun Restaurant in the evening."

Yang Qin nodded repeatedly as she ate. These crabs were truly a good thing, especially since they were the first crabs of the season after the fishing season opened.

"What's the purpose of this? Why five thousand catties all at once? I think three thousand catties would be enough to sell!"

"Sell less, sell less, there's no need to rush!"

Wouldn't the price be higher if we sold it tomorrow?

Ding Xiaoxiang smiled.

"What utter nonsense!"

"The crabs have returned to the dock. If our Hongyun Restaurant doesn't have crabs to sell, how can we continue to do business?"

Yang Qin shook her head immediately without even thinking.

Today is the first day of the fishing season, so there will definitely be fish, shrimp, and crabs returning. In fact, so many crabs have already returned. If Hongyun Restaurant doesn't have any crabs to sell, that would be a terrible thing.

Regular customers will definitely have a lot of complaints, mainly because they feel that Hongyun Restaurant lacks the necessary strength.

This will have a huge impact; tonight, my restaurant will not only have crabs.

"Five thousand catties might not be enough!"

"I have to tell you this clearly: first, send two thousand catties to Hongyun Restaurant. Once it's sold out, we'll immediately bring in another two thousand catties from here. As long as there are people eating at Hongyun Restaurant today, we have to keep selling."

I'll take as much as they sell here!

Yang Qin was very clear that there would definitely be a lot of people coming to eat crabs today, and even tomorrow, or in the next few days, there would still be a lot of people coming to eat crabs.

It's really hard to say right now how many crabs we can sell tonight, but no matter how many we sell, we'll have to get them from here.

"I'm asking you what's going on here. You just said that tens of thousands of kilograms of crabs are a lot, but if we follow your logic, it's not enough for your family to sell."

"Wu Weimin just called and said that he needs to take away 5,000 catties of crabs at once, and that all of these crabs have already been ordered."

"I don't know how many you can sell here, but if we take 5,000 catties as an example, 10,000 catties of crabs will be lost in one day."

Ding Xiaoxiang was both amused and exasperated.

"I didn't notice it before, did I? I thought it was a lot when I saw that we received so many crabs, but I didn't expect that it really wasn't a lot at all."

Yang Qin felt a little embarrassed.

When we first discovered that we had received 20,000 jin, or even more than 20,000 jin, we only had one thought in our minds: it was truly an enormous amount.

I only realized now that it really wasn't much at all, and I even feel like I received too little.

"I have this feeling that I can only sell the crabs I collected today in about two or three days? This is going to be a big problem, what if we have nothing to sell?"

Yang Qin was initially worried that there were too many crabs, but now she has found that there are actually not many crabs at all; in fact, there are quite a few.

"You're only noticing this now?"

"Tens of thousands of kilograms of crabs may sound like a lot, but for your Hongyun Restaurant business, or for Wu Weimin's private kitchen business, it's really not much at all."

Ding Xiaoxiang twisted off a crab claw, peeled off the outer shell, and took a bite. It was really delicious; the quality of these crabs was truly exceptional.

Let alone 50,000 catties of crabs, even if you had 100,000 catties on hand, you wouldn't have to worry at all.

It will definitely be sold out in just a few days.

Ding Xiaoxiang looked around at the net cages. Some of them were for raising fish, and some were for raising crabs that had just been brought in.

Without this place, we definitely wouldn't dare to collect so many crabs. Now that we have this place, we can definitely collect as many as we can, 100% openly.

"With a lot of fishing boats returning every day from now on, I think we should definitely do everything we can to catch more crabs, right?"

Yang Qin is really anxious now, wishing that Ding Xiaoxiang and Ding Chongshan would take away all the crabs caught by the fishing boats returning from Shijiao Village Wharf.

"We definitely have to buy them, but how much we buy them, what price we pay, and how many crabs we can ultimately buy are not up to us."

Ding Xiaoxiang shook her head, knowing that Yang Qin had already realized that although there seemed to be a lot of crabs, there were actually not many at all, and not even enough to sell.

Now they're actually eager to buy more crabs, and even thinking of raising prices to buy up all the crabs at the dock.

In fact, it's simply impossible to do that.

"We will definitely continue to buy crabs at the dock tomorrow, but the price will be almost the same as today."

Ding Xiaoxiang knew that Yang Qin was thinking of trying to set a higher price so that everyone would come to the shop to sell crabs, but in reality, this was not something that could be done.

At first, I really wanted to do that, but after careful analysis, I realized that my father, Ding Chongshan, would definitely not do it.

"Why? Why can't we do that? We don't buy other fish, shrimp, or crabs, so why can't we raise the price a little and continue to snatch up crabs?"

Yang Qin couldn't understand what was going on. "At the beginning of today, we didn't know if these fishing boats were catching crabs or some other kind of fish and shrimp when they came back from fishing. They were offering such high prices. Even if we knew that most of the fishing boats that went out to sea today were catching crabs, no one had anything to say about it."

"Doing business is all about getting a good price, and we're not selling any other fish or shrimp today."

"But we now know that the fishing boats at the dock are most likely catching crabs, at least the fishing boats that returned a few days ago were most likely catching these big crabs."

"Under these circumstances, we still have to raise prices to buy crabs, especially since we've already received a lot of crabs today, and we'll continue doing so."

"It's 100% certain that it has angered the public."

"No matter what, the profits from the fish, shrimp and crab business at Shijiao Village Wharf are enormous, and it's impossible for our family to take it all."

"Tomorrow we'll buy crabs at today's price, as many as we can."

"Yang Qin".

"Didn't you say you were very worried that you had bought too many crabs and wouldn't be able to sell them? Now you're in a bind, aren't you?"

Ding Xiaoxiang glanced at Yang Qin.

At first, I felt like I had harvested too many crabs, but now I'm worried that I haven't harvested enough.

"Who would have thought we could sell so many crabs in one day! Now we definitely feel it's not enough."

"I really think we can charge more; there's really no need to worry about the people at the dock."

Yang Qin began to encourage Ding Xiaoxiang to raise the price a little.

"What's the point of you saying anything? In the end, you won't be the one doing the harvesting of the crabs, so even if you try to raise the price to 100 yuan per jin, it won't make any difference!"

Ding Xiaoxiang found it a little funny; this was absolutely impossible.

"Ugh!"

"Ding Xiaoxiang".

"Why is it that sometimes you seem very aggressive in business, but other times you seem very conservative?"

"Shouldn't we be more enthusiastic now? How can we be so conservative? We have to raise prices and buy up all the crabs at the dock. Let others starve."

Yang Qin began to urge Ding Xiaoxiang to raise prices to snatch the crabs at the Shijiao Village wharf.

Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao immediately burst into laughter, knowing that this was definitely impossible.

Ding Xiaoxiang has her own ideas about how to do business. Not to mention, there's also the real old fox, Ding Chongshan.

Ding Xiaoxiang, Yang Qin, and Ding Ailian ate a crab and walked over to the place where the crabs were kept.

"sister in law."

"How are the crabs doing?"

Ding Xiaoxiang asked Ma Baozhu, who was busy nearby, about the crabs that had been collected. They weighed about 100 jin (50 kg) and were being kept in net cages.

These net cages are very large and very deep. If they were just laid out like this, it wouldn't be an easy task to retrieve them.

All these crabs are tied up with ropes and kept in net bags. If you keep them like this, they won't die even after a month, let alone ten or eight days.

"There's no problem!"

"The seawater here is quite deep, and the current is fast enough. If these crabs are raised here, some will definitely die, but not many will."

Ma Baozhu has been raising fish at the fish farm for a while now, so she knows exactly what's going on and has a wealth of experience.

All sorts of fish that Zhao Dahai catches, whether they are grouper, sea bass, or black sea bream, can be kept alive as long as they are sent back to the fish raft. Even now, so much time has passed, and very few fish have actually died.

"I have to say, this fish farm is really great. The seawater here is very deep, and even when the weather is hot, it is relatively cool here. As a result, all kinds of fish, shrimp and crabs can be raised here very well. There is no need to worry about the fish dying when the weather is too hot."

"The most important thing is that the seawater here is constantly flowing."

"This is a very important matter!"

Yang Qin is truly admirable.

When Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang chose this place to build the fish rafts, they probably didn't even think much about it.

But this place is really so useful.

"Correct!"

"This place is really great! It exceeded what Zhao Dahai and I initially wanted."

Ding Xiaoxiang had to admit that this place was far better than she and Zhao Dahai had imagined, much better indeed.

"Putting everything else aside, the seawater here is not only deep, but also flows very fast, which is already very good. No matter how many fish you catch, as long as they are brought back alive, they can definitely be kept alive here, and there will be no problem keeping them alive for a long time."

As Ding Xiaoxiang spoke, she couldn't help but feel a little proud. This place was really great. Sometimes, these things really depend on luck. You can't really judge things accurately just by looking at them.

Five p.m.

One net bag after another of crabs were weighed and then sent to the fishing boats that came from the side.

"Do you really want to take five thousand catties?"

"You can't possibly sell all these crabs, right? Why don't you just do what you said at the beginning, take two or three thousand catties first, and come back here to pick up the rest after you've sold them all? It's not far anyway."

When Ding Xiaoxiang saw that Yang Qin had taken so many crabs, she couldn't help but advise her that there was really no need to take so many crabs at once.

“Didn’t I say at the beginning that I would take two or three thousand catties? But just now Liu Gang called and said that it must be at least five thousand catties.”

"They say there are already a lot of people waiting for these crabs. If there aren't this many, there definitely won't be enough to sell. And I estimate that even 5,000 catties won't be enough for tonight."

As Yang Qin spoke, she boarded the fishing boat, waved to Ding Xiaoxiang, and left immediately. She needed to hurry back to Hongyun Restaurant to sell all the crabs, as many people were already waiting to eat them.

After seeing Yang Qin walk away, Ding Xiaoxiang walked over to Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao and pulled up a stool to sit down.

Are there really fewer crabs?

Zhong Cuihua broke off a crab's claw. She had clearly heard what Yang Qin said when she left.

"Correct!"

"Don't be fooled by the 40,000 to 50,000 catties of crabs we've harvested. It's not enough for Hongyun Restaurant and Wu Weimin's private restaurant to sell in just a few days. Plus, there are definitely some people at my dad's place who will take some of the crabs."

Ding Xiaoxiang spoke the truth.

No joke, tens of thousands of kilograms of crabs seem like a lot at first glance, but in fact, it's not much at all.

(End of this chapter)