The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 163 Jinshanzui Fishing Village Exchanges Seafood

Jiang Cheng left Shaoxing, but wasted a lot of time buying rice wine. In addition, he stopped in Qiantang District, Hangzhou, to buy a lot of lotus root starch. It was already past four in the afternoon when he entered Hucheng.

The lotus root powder from Sanjiacun in Hangzhou is indeed a good product, but the main thing is that it does not require a ticket. Even if Jiang Cheng wants black sesame paste, he can't get it.

This lotus root powder is really good to be used as a favor to others. For example, Director Hou of the reclamation farm was very generous to Jiang Cheng. Even if he used things from the reclamation farm as a favor, he didn't have to pay anything. But at least he used his own authority. Others couldn't be generous with things from their own units.

After arriving in Shanghai, Jiang Cheng stopped at a village in the JS district of Shanghai because this time they were traveling along the coastal route.

A place called Jinshanzui Fishing Village. When Jiang Cheng came here, he felt that this was a holy place suitable for him to catch seafood.

This place is called Jinshanzui, entirely because of the terrain, because the sea tides hit the coast all year round, forming a sand spit.

That is to say, there is a large beach in the center of the sand spit, where you can go fishing. However, due to the depth, the fish you catch are usually crabs and small fish.

But at the "mouth" of Jinshanzui Fishing Village, Jiang Cheng found a good deep-water area. Of course, the so-called deep-water area is only relative to the beach. The real deep-water area cannot be reached without a boat.

But even so, even if he couldn't catch any squid or cuttlefish, Jiang Cheng was satisfied.

There was no road to the beach, so Jiang Cheng parked the car 500 meters away from the coast.

At a place at the "mouth" of the sand spit, Jiang Cheng was having fun.

In the sea area near Jiang Cheng, sea water within a five-meter diameter suddenly disappeared, and then the sea water filled the gap with a "splashing" sound.

He fished blindly many times, but the five-meter distance was too small for the sea. Jiang Chengdu lost interest in fishing on the beach.

Jiang Cheng wanted to go into the sea, but his swimming ability was limited. Without equipment, he could only swim along the shore.

In fact, on the way here, Jiang Cheng saw some small boats stranded on the shore, but they were of little use to him. Those small boats were only used to salvage fish and shrimps on the shore. The water was a little deeper, and there were no big enough nets to use.

Jiang Cheng faced the same situation. His spatial function was still useful when the water was seven or eight meters deep, but when the water was more than ten meters deep, his spatial function could not reach the bottom.

If he can't get to the bottom, he will never be able to catch more varieties of seafood. In that case, it is better to fish in some deeper waters near the shore. If he is lucky enough to come across a reef area, he can even catch lobsters.

So Jiang Cheng didn't pay attention to the boat. If he really just wanted to go to a place farther out on the sea, he could get there without a boat. There was a spare inner tube in the car. He could find a place where he could inflate the inner tube. One inner tube was enough for him to wander on the sea.

If Jiang Cheng wanted to get some better seafood, he still had to dive into the sea. At least at that time, lobsters, squids, octopuses and the like could be caught in large quantities.

After fishing for half an hour, he found a place to release all the fish he had caught. After cleaning for a long time, Jiang Cheng didn't want to do it anymore.

There were a lot of crabs, pomfret, yellow croaker, sea bass, mantis shrimp and so on, and it was too slow to sort them out. There were especially a lot of small white shrimps, which were small, delicious and nutritious.

But after Jiang Cheng released it directly to the ground, facing the little white shrimp, it would be a pity not to have it. If he wanted it, it would be tiring even if he used space to pick it up.

Jiang Cheng thought about it, there were still dozens of fishing trips in the space. He had to get a family-killing net. Fishing nets were controlled items in this era and could not be purchased by individuals.

But Jiang Cheng didn't need to use a fishing net to catch fish, he could use other things instead, such as a mosquito net. He couldn't even get into a mosquito net, so why worry that the little white shrimp would slip through?

At that time, I will find a way to get two more mosquito nets and disassemble them. In the future, no matter whether I fish in the sea, rivers or lakes, those small shrimps that cannot grow big can be caught in the net and then put into the space.

Jiang Cheng had previously caught many small shrimps and fish from the lake and river, but he got impatient and simply threw them away, leaving them to die on the shore. They might be seen by birds and feast on them, or they might be seen by ants, bugs, and mice on the shore and eaten.

Jiang Cheng left the coast and drove directly to Jinshanzui Fishing Village. He was going to start receiving the goods.

But if you want to receive the goods in a big way, you can't just say buy, you have to exchange. Barter, no need to worry about being reported.

Jiang Cheng reached a verbal long-term cooperation agreement with Director Hou of the reclamation farm. These days, many people are very firm in their words. There is no messy agreement. In fact, they pay more attention to integrity. It doesn't matter if there is pork hoarding, but there is no need to hoard eggs and poultry. Moreover, eggs are easy to trade and can be priced by the number. So when the Jiefang truck drove into the village, there were more than 200 kilograms of eggs in the back compartment.

This time Jiang Cheng's main plan was to exchange dried kelp. He really didn't expect that kelp was such a hard currency in inland cities. Many people in this era are iodine deficient and have goiter. Kelp contains iodine, which can treat and prevent goiter.

In addition, it can be cut into strips and stir-fried, stewed in soup, or served cold. There are many things that can be exchanged for kelp in the inland area, which is why Jiang Cheng asked Zhang Yang to help exchange food last time, and his leader took a lot of it. Zhu Lan also intervened and took some away.

A car brought five baskets of eggs into the village. As it was time for everyone to rest at home, many people came to watch the fun.

"Master, where are you sending these eggs in your truck? Why are you bringing them to our fishing village?"

"Uncle, I'm from a supply and marketing cooperative outside of town. You know Changcheng, there's no sea there. I brought these eggs here specially to see if you have any seafood to exchange for them. Kelp or dried fish will do."

When Jiang Cheng said this, the people who came to watch the fun were shocked. There was such a good thing. In Shanghai, kelp and seafood were not in short supply, but eggs were in short supply. In other cities, eggs might sell for 60 cents, but in Shanghai, a pound of eggs costs more than 70 cents.

Even eggs that cost more than 70 cents a pound are hard to buy. Shanghai is a big city with many jobs. Even if you don't have a formal job, it's easy to find some odd jobs as long as you are from Shanghai.

So even though everyone’s salary is similar to that in other cities, the living standard here is much better than in other cities.

Therefore, the prices of some things are really high, and local governments are allowed to make minor adjustments to prices. They are not unified across the country, but are basically within a certain range.

Jiang Cheng was not clear about the prices here and what materials were in short supply, because in his opinion everything was in short supply in this era.

So some onlookers asked Jiang Cheng how much the eggs cost, and when Jiang Cheng said six cents each, many people ran away. Some of them did not run away because some of their family members were among them.

Six cents each. If you have kelp or dried sea fish at home, why not run home and get them to exchange? What are you waiting for?

You know, if you sell it on the black market in the city, it costs more than 10 cents a piece. This 6 cents a piece is cheaper than the supply and marketing cooperative. It's a pity that the drivers of the supply and marketing cooperatives in other places don't want money, they only want seafood.

Many people went to get the seafood before asking Jiang Cheng the price, which made him very satisfied. Some people stayed to talk to Jiang Cheng about the price of kelp and fish.

While Jiang Cheng was negotiating the price, a villager and several other people came towards him. The one in the middle looked quite imposing.

When a few people came over, the person who had just discussed the price with Jiang Cheng stood aside without saying a word.

The person walking in the middle and leading the way first looked at the car next to Jiang Cheng. He was a literate person. Unlike the one who asked him where he was from just now, if he could read, he would know by looking at the words sprayed on the car.

"Hello, Master. I am Li Deshun, the head of this fishing village. Are you really from the supply and marketing cooperative?"

"I'm from the Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative. Only those who are not from the supply and marketing cooperative can drive here."

Jiang Cheng didn't expect that the person leading the group here was the village chief. He came over to look at the car, but still wanted to ask him for confirmation.

Li Deshun hurriedly brought people here after hearing the news. If they were outsiders, they would come to buy a little seafood for their own consumption and there would be nothing wrong in trading privately with the villagers.

But a car came directly and loaded several baskets of eggs. This was no small matter. If the number was large and the other party was reselling, and if too many seafood were taken out from here at once, he, as the village chief, would definitely be responsible.

Now that he saw that it was a car from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, even if it was from another place, Li Deshun felt relieved.

"Master, if you want to exchange seafood, can we go to another place to talk? You brought so many eggs at once, if you don't handle one of them properly, there will be trouble." Li Deshun said politely.

"Well~~, okay, I'll listen to you, Village Chief." Jiang Cheng replied.

At this time, someone had already brought things here, but Jiang Cheng listened to what Village Chief Li said and thought that maybe he had not considered something carefully. From what Village Chief Li meant, if he wanted to exchange seafood, he could just talk to him. It was not that he didn't want to exchange, so he agreed.

(End of this chapter)