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

Chapter 1566 Once again, no one visits the temple without a reason.

Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao found it very strange that Ding Xiaoxiang wasn't worried about this matter at all.

"Grandma, Second Grandma."

"If ordinary people, especially those without connections, come to the dock to do business, they will definitely encounter a lot of problems."

“But my dad, or my older brothers, do business here, and it’s not like that.”

"The fishermen at the dock can choose not to sell their catch of fish, shrimp, and crabs to us, but if they decide to sell to us, especially if we offer a good price, they won't dare to cheat us."

Ding Xiaoxiang smiled.

That's the gist of it. If someone else were doing business at the dock, especially someone without experience, the boat captains would definitely not miss such a good opportunity to make a lot of extra money.

But my family's situation is really different.

One is that his family has always been in this industry, but they didn't do business here at the Shijiao Village Wharf before; they did business elsewhere, but their business was quite successful and very large.

More importantly, his family is not some nobody, especially Zhao Dahai, who is now a significant figure at this dock.

Look at the Buddha's face without looking at the monk's face.

These boat captains may not sell fish, shrimp, and crabs to their own families, but once they do, very few of them would dare to cheat or swindle.

Is there anyone who would do something like this?
It's entirely possible that someone might actually do something like that!

But if someone actually does such a thing, then don't blame me and Zhao Dahai for turning the tables on them: no matter what kind of fishing boat captain really wants to do such a thing, they have to think it over carefully.

Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao burst into laughter. Neither of them had expected this. Only after Ding Xiaoxiang mentioned it did they realize that it was true.

For ordinary people, doing business here would definitely not be easy, but for Ding Jie and Ding Weijun, there is no need to worry about this. To put it bluntly, it's because their backers are strong enough, or Zhao Dahai has a lot of influence.

It's fine if you don't want to sell fish, shrimp, and crabs, but you would never dare to resort to such underhanded tactics.

"The fishing boats are back!"

"It looks like we received quite a lot of crabs today."

Ding Xiaoxiang saw a large fishing boat heading towards the fish farm. From a distance, she saw Ding Ailian standing at the bow of the fishing boat. She said something and then walked towards where the fishing boat was moored.

Ding Ailian waited for the fishing boat to stop, then immediately got off and onto the fish raft. She shouted loudly to the people on the fishing boat to get to work, unloading net after net of crabs and taking them directly into the pre-arranged net cages to keep them alive.

"How many crabs are on the fishing boats at the dock today?"

Ding Xiaoxiang waited for Ding Ailian to walk up to her and immediately asked.

"Not as many as yesterday, but it doesn't look like there's much less."

"Even if it's not 40,000 jin, it's definitely at least 30,000 jin. Some of the crabs that came back today were from small fishing boats, but most of them were from the larger fishing boats."

As Ding Ailian spoke, she wiped the sweat from her forehead. She had been busy since early morning. This was the first fishing boat to bring crabs back to the fish farm, carrying about 8,000 catties of crabs.

Ding Ailian had a bright smile on her face. This was the third day she had been harvesting crabs here, and the quantity was still quite impressive. Ding Xiaoxiang had said yesterday that they could harvest 200,000 to 250,000 catties of crabs in eight to ten days, and it seemed that this was not too difficult.

"Sister Xiao Xiang".

"Something's a bit strange."

Ding Ailian took a sip of water and remembered something that she needed to tell Ding Xiaoxiang about, and also asked her what exactly happened.

"Oh?"

"What's going on?"

Ding Xiaoxiang felt something was strange, wondering what Ding Ailian had discovered.

"The price of crabs today is exactly the same as yesterday, which is not strange in itself. What is strange is that the prices offered by other shops at the docks are exactly the same as ours, and most of them are even a little lower than ours."

Ding Ailian discovered this when she arrived at the dock early in the morning. She thought that others would offer higher prices to compete for the crabs at the dock, but to her surprise, the vast majority of people did not offer a higher price than her uncle Ding Chongshan.

Ding Ailian really couldn't understand what had happened or why things were like this.

Ding Xiaoxiang was stunned for a moment. She hadn't expected such a thing to happen. It was really strange. She thought about it carefully for a while and suddenly realized that it was very likely that the other fish, shrimp and crab buyers at the dock had simply given up buying crabs.

"No way? Why would they do that?"

Ding Ailian was very strange.

Crabs have always sold very well, especially the larger ones.

The other fish, shrimp, and crab buyers at the dock couldn't possibly be unaware of this.

We should definitely collect as many crabs as possible to have a chance to make money.

"Most of the crabs are in our hands! Market prices are mainly influenced by us."

"The price of crabs is definitely going to go up next."

"As long as you have crabs, you're guaranteed to make money, and a lot of money at that."

“The other buyers are not unaware of this, but they are very clear that if we offer a high price, they will offer an even higher price. Another thing is that even if they can buy some crabs, they can't keep them on the fish rafts like we do. They can only sell them on the same day, or at most they can only keep them for one day before they have to be sold.”

"In that case, it's actually not easy for them to make money."

"Considering all the circumstances, the vast majority of people are unwilling to offer higher prices, especially when they see others offering higher prices to snatch crabs."

"In addition, we now only accept crabs and not other fish and shrimp. Our peers know that we have an unspoken agreement not to make money from other fish and shrimp."

"These people simply gave up competing with us."

Ding Xiaoxiang knew that Ding Ailian didn't quite understand the matter, so she simply explained it to her directly.

Ding Ailian nodded repeatedly; it really was true.

Even if other buyers manage to acquire the crabs, they have to sell them by the next day at the latest, otherwise the crabs will likely die because they have nowhere to be kept.

Crab prices may rise, but no one can say for sure, or even when they will actually rise.

In this situation, other buyers who want to hoard goods and sell them when prices rise face a very high risk of making a profit.

Who knows, if the price of these crabs doesn't rise, they might die or lose weight.

Uncle Ding Chongshan didn't necessarily want to make a clean profit—he didn't just buy crabs but also other fish, shrimp, and crabs; on the contrary, he only bought crabs and made money solely from them. Seeing this, the other buyers simply stopped buying crabs or saw that the prices were too low, so they would only buy what they could get and not bother if they couldn't, focusing their attention or using their available funds to buy other fish and shrimp.

Offering a higher price than Ding Zhongshan to buy crabs from the dock would be asking for trouble and suffering, and in the end, it might not even be possible to make a profit.

"laugh!"

"This is absolutely the best thing that could be happening to us. We'll make a lot of money from all these crabs we caught this time."

Ding Ailian was quite pleased with herself. As things stood, this was exactly the case, and she had a good number of crabs on hand.

With so many crabs in hand, just as Ding Xiaoxiang said, the quantity of crabs in the market will definitely be affected, and the impact will be huge, and the price will definitely rise.

The more crabs you have, the more money you'll make.

"Who would have thought we'd make so much money this time?"

Ding Ailian couldn't help but laugh as she spoke.

She knew very well that at the beginning, her uncle Ding Chongshan and her cousin Ding Xiaoxiang did not think about making money. They just wanted to start a business here and collect some crabs.

Things suddenly turned out this way; not only could you make money, but you could make a lot of money. It was like a windfall.

"That's just how doing business is. No one can guarantee how things will turn out. We can only respond according to the situation."

Ding Xiaoxiang smiled and nodded. This matter was truly beyond her expectations.

Who could have imagined it would turn out like this?

But I seized the opportunity.

"correct!"

"Did my dad negotiate the deal for those crabs on the big fishing boat today, or did he go with my brother to discuss the business?"

Ding Xiaoxiang remembered this matter.

Ding Ailian pointed in the direction of the dock shops and told Ding Xiaoxiang that most of today's business would be conducted inside the shops.

"At this time of day, there are several fishing boat captains drinking tea and discussing business in the shop."

"After the deal is settled, Brother Weijie will go to the fishing boat to check the goods. If there are no problems, they will weigh them, and then Sister Baozhu and I will bring them back on our fishing boat."

Ding Ailian explained it in detail.

Ding Xiaoxiang smiled. Everything was almost exactly as she had guessed. One was that today's business negotiations would take place in the shop, not at the dock or on the fishing boats of the boat captains. The main point was that the negotiations would be completed in the shop before going on the fishing boats to inspect the goods.

One is that his father, Ding Chongshan, is now giving his two older brothers opportunities to do things so that they can accumulate business experience more quickly and effectively.

"quick!"

"Everyone, hurry up!"

"I know everyone has been very tired and had a lot of heavy work these past few days, but that's just how it is in our line of work!"

"Hurry up and get to work! There are still lots of crabs waiting for us to pull up at the dock!"

"Once we're done with these few days, we'll definitely give everyone a break so you can get a good night's sleep. Also, everyone's salary will double this month."

Ding Ailian shouted loudly at the people working on the fishing boat.

Ding Xiaoxiang smiled. Ding Ailian was much younger than her. Although she had helped her family with chores since she was a child and even helped her second uncle with his business, she still had relatively little experience.

But recently, things have been going very well at the fish farm.

That's how it is right now. In just a few words, these people who are genetically predisposed to be incredibly fast, but after saying those few words, their speed immediately increases even further.

This is because Ding Ailian already knows what's going on and how to deal with these people.

This is the situation she most wanted to see, and that's the main reason Ding Ailian came here to work.

Ding Xiaoxiang walked back and sat down in front of Zhong Cuihua and Huang Jintao.

"There are so many crabs here! Looks like we'll be able to catch a lot of crabs today!"

"Luckily, the fish here are big enough, otherwise it really wouldn't be good!"

Golden Peach pointed to the fishing boat that was letting crabs rest on the fish rafts, and then pointed to the fish cages on the rafts.

"Second Madam!"

"You don't need to worry about that. Our fish raft is huge! Let alone tens or hundreds of thousands of catties of crabs, even if there were twice as many crabs, we could fit them all here."

"Besides, Yang Qin and Wu Weimin have already taken away more than 15,000 catties of crabs from the fish farm every day."

Ding Xiaoxiang spoke of this with a sense of helplessness. She had originally wanted to persuade Yang Qinhongyun Restaurant and Wu Weimin's private kitchen not to sell so many crabs, but it was to no avail.

Hongyun Restaurant was doing incredibly well, and Wu Weimin's private kitchen was doing just as well. As a result, no matter how much they tried to control it, the two of them were taking away 15,000 catties of crabs every day.

"Hey!"

"Speak of the devil, and he shall appear!"

"Is Yang Qin planning to come here and get even more crabs?"

Ding Xiaoxiang saw a speedboat heading towards the fish raft. In the blink of an eye, it was right in front of her. The person driving the speedboat was Yang Qin. Coming here at this time of day could not be anything good. If she guessed correctly, she definitely wanted more crabs.

Huang Jintao and Zhong Cuihua both laughed.

"Xiao Xiang".

"Yang Qin is clearly only here when she has a reason to come!"

"Instead of sleeping at home and busy with the Hongyun Restaurant business, you came here so early in the morning."

"They definitely want to get more crabs!"

Zhong Cuihua smiled and pointed to Yang Qin, who had parked her speedboat, boarded the fish raft, and was walking briskly toward her. There was no need to ask; she was definitely there for the crabs.

(End of this chapter)