Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 117 Selling Big Crucian Carp
We also installed glass sliding doors here, each door costing 900 yuan, and three balconies cost yuan to isolate rainwater.

You can smell some pleasant aroma in the pure wooden attic. I guess the old carpenter used a lot of good materials.

I guess the money he earned from carpentry is not enough to pay for the materials. At a glance, you can see some red sandalwood, which now costs several thousand yuan per square meter.

"Your attic is so beautiful." Erhu said enviously.

Once he reached the attic, his eyes were no longer enough. The room was small, but also very stylish, not at all like a traditional tiled house in the countryside.

"The cost is high. If you consider the total cost, it's barely enough to build a building."

"Ce, what a luxury." Erhu was very tempted, he also wanted to have this house.

However, my family has just invested in a cotton mill, so we have to wait until it becomes profitable next year. So we'll just have to make do with living in the bungalow for now.

"By the way, this is the wages for you and Tiedan. Give him twenty yuan later." As he said that, he took out forty yuan.

“How can we?”

"Don't refuse. I'm not interested in welding. I'll take on some work for you two. I can make about 30 yuan per tricycle, and 10 yuan for me is about right."

"Besides, your skills aren't that great either. You still need to practice more."

"I know." After being scolded like that, he felt too embarrassed to return the money.

Qin Dahe had his own considerations. For at least the next ten years, his brothers would have no land to farm and could only do odd jobs and side jobs, so it would be better for him to take care of the business himself.

Every year when it’s not cold, I catch some fish and shrimp, and when it’s cold, I do welding. I can always make some money.

After sending Erhu and Hanwaer out, Qin Dahe and the old man finished their meal and went out with the shrimp cage.

I made an agreement with my kid tonight that he would go south of the water pumping station, and we would go north, passing the water jump near his house.

After being beaten, Xiao Xiang will probably be well behaved for a while. If he dares to steal the net again, I will continue to beat him.

Qin Dahe also figured it out. There was only one person nearby who had the perseverance to come out and steal fish in the middle of the night in such cold weather.

It's really weird. His family is not so poor that they can't even afford to eat. He does this kind of thing and still gets beaten every now and then.

The most important thing is that stealing ten nets in one night only earns a few dozen dollars, and it is impossible to steal all the nets. They place the nets very secretly, and it will take at least a while to search.

If you catch a cold, you have to spend money to see a doctor. Even if you get beaten up, you still have to buy medicine. It's really magic money.

He is the one who sets the net in the water. When the weather is cold, he won’t open the grass nest and will just go a little further.

The demand for river shrimps is still quite high now. Some families are reluctant to eat meat, but they have to provide their children with one or two taels of river shrimps because they are expensive.

In the minds of the country people, the river shrimps that city people pay such a high price for must have nutritional value. After all, buying two taels of river shrimps costs less than ten yuan, which is enough for a child to have a meal.

His legs were numb from the cold after casting the net, so he ran home as soon as he got ashore and changed into cotton pants to feel more comfortable.

"Dad, let's not do it in the winter. It's a pain to earn this kind of money."

"Now you know how hard it was. I froze the money you used to pay for college."

"I know you're working hard. Have a smoke. I'm going out." He threw down a pack of Sheng Tang cigarettes and ran away immediately.

The aftereffects of running back from junior college are still there, and the old guy is still bringing up old things.

"Grandpa, I brought you some small fish." Qin Dahe came to the old carpenter's house as if he knew the place well.

The aunt politely took the fish and asked the father and son to chat in the main room.

"Is the matter with the baby settled?"

"Well, that's what I came here to talk about today." Qin Dahe told the story of how he saw Hanwaer alone in the main room, looking sad.

"Lately, I've been doing some work making wooden beds. I have three beds and I'm waiting for people to deliver the wood." The old carpenter said helplessly.

This is the bad thing about carpentry work. There is little wood in the plains, and after you get a job, you have to wait for others to gather the wood.

This time he used all his own wood on Qin Dahe, and the wood ordered from other places would not arrive for a few days.

Qin Dahe frowned when he heard this. The three wooden beds could be made very quickly, and the people here were not very particular about it.

"Will the material arrive tomorrow?"

"It's tough. Unless the owner goes to buy from someone else, he can only go to Yuncao."

The wood there is difficult to transport, and we have to call a boat. It takes a whole day to select the wood.

"Okay, then I'll take him to town to relax tomorrow." This is the only way.

"By the way, is Yanyan on vacation?"

"Yan Yan will be on vacation next month, so it seems she only works fifteen days this month. You can go ask around yourself."

The grain station is so cool. There are not many people growing crops here, and apart from teachers, no other profession has a vacation that can compare with theirs.

He knocked on the door directly and Yanyan came out immediately. He guessed that she had been eavesdropping on their conversation.

"Yan'er, when is the holiday? I'll take you for a walk on the street."

"We have a holiday the day after tomorrow. We have five days off and then five days of work. It's like this in November and December. We have a holiday in January." Yanyan blushed as she told him about her holiday.

With her parents around, she couldn't say it too bluntly, but her attitude was clear.

"I'll come see you the day after tomorrow morning. During the day, we'll go check out the attic. Grandpa's craftsmanship is truly amazing." He gave the old carpenter a thumbs-up. "He used a lot of good wood."

"My dad also said that all the wages have been paid for." Yanyan smiled innocently.

"Okay, it's okay. I'm going back now. It's too cold."

Her parents are here, so just say a few words. You can't ask her daughter out at eight or nine o'clock.

"Go slowly on the road."

After Qin Dahe left, Yanyan and her family of three were still in the main room.

"Yan'er, you have to be careful. Qin Dahe is a good person, but he can't go wrong before marriage." The old mother said worriedly.

She believed in Qin Dahe's character, but she believed even more in her daughter's beauty and figure.

Looking at how close the two of them are, I guess they have had some intimate contact. I have to ask my daughter to be careful when we go to the attic tomorrow.

The old carpenter also nodded. Since his family was an outsider, he had to pay more attention to his reputation.

"I know." Yanyan stamped her feet. She was a clean person, but the prince was too bad.

The old carpenter couple smiled and shook their heads, not taking it seriously. If something really happened, it would be fine as long as it was not spread out.

The next day, Qin Dahe took his child to the street to sell crucian carp and river shrimps, and he also went to his brother-in-law's house to get the shock absorber spring.

Yesterday, the kid put down twenty shrimp cages. Although it was troublesome, it was okay as long as he could endure the hardship. The Qin family felt it was hard work for two people. It was exhausting to carry twenty shrimp cages by oneself.

He went to collect the cages at around five in the morning. The harvest was smaller, but definitely more than what he got from ten ground traps.

Qin Dahe and his son caught two and a half kilograms of shrimp from twenty shrimp cages, and the child collected a little more than two kilograms, which was considered a small profit.

I found the man who collected the goods at the vegetable market again. Seeing that the two men were big and strong, I gave them a reasonable price, forty-three per pound.

They only sell it for forty-four or forty-five yuan in town, which is much better than what they sell at the stalls.

"Fifth Master."

"Dahe is here. The goods today are pretty good. Are you going to go fishing again?" Taking the cigarette handed to him by his eldest nephew, Uncle Wu asked him to set up a stall on the side as usual.

After chatting with the Third Master for a while, the kid set up the stall on the side.

The native crucian carp is very delicious. As soon as I set up the stall, someone came to ask about it.

"Three ounces to half a catty for five yuan, and more than half a catty for seven yuan." He divided the crucian carp and pointed to five catties in the corner: "This one is ten yuan a catty."

The price of a jin of crucian carp is almost twice that of a 3 liang of crucian carp, which is not cheap.

"It takes at least two years for a wild one to grow to one kilogram. You'll see if you look closely." Qin Dahe said confidently.

The customer didn't mind the dirtiness and simply reached out to pick up the fish and looked at its fur. It was indeed wild and he was very satisfied.

"Two catties of crucian carp, where are the small fish?"

"Eight dollars a portion, four portions in total, no weighing."

The shrimp cage in the morning caught a lot of small fish. I didn’t keep any at home, but took out the good ones like the small angji and whitebait, added some small crabs, and sold them individually.

The kid also has two copies here, and he is helping to sell them.

"When will small fish sell for eight yuan?"

"Look at the merchandise. The big white striped prawns alone are six dollars, and there are also crabs, angji, and a few ground tigers in it. None of them are cheap."

"Take one too." The customer was too lazy to bargain.

Qin Dahe was delighted. It was more comfortable for men to buy vegetables, without even bargaining.

He also understood that selling miscellaneous fish was feasible and would provide him with another way to make money in the future.

There are really not many people selling miscellaneous fish in the entire vegetable market. In the future, if I put more traps to catch miscellaneous fish, I can sell some of them for some money.

"Do you want to kill the crucian carp?"

"Have you processed everything? You'll be exhausted if you go back and kill the miscellaneous fish yourself." The guest said as a matter of course.

Qin Dahe frowned. It was not a good idea to sell small fish. It would be too troublesome to clean them up.

Helpless, I could only start killing fish with the silly kid.

He certainly didn't have the ability to clean up the small fish. He could handle the two big crucian carp with a knife, but the kid took a pair of scissors and quickly cleaned up the small fish.

I saw him cut the fish with a scissors, then hollowed out the belly with his thumb and pricked the gills with the tip of the scissors. He was very skilled.

Seeing this, Qin Dahe knew that the child often killed small fish at home. Well, he loved meat so much, and his grandmother was reluctant to buy it, so he could only eat small fish.

We haven't finished processing it yet, and someone came to ask, saying that wild crucian carp of this size is quite rare.

In less than half an hour, the crucian carp and four portions of small miscellaneous fish were all sold out.

Qin Dahe counted out sixteen pieces and gave them to the kid. He really helped a lot today.

When you get a lot of small fish in the future, just call him to sell them together, or even give them all to him, because he doesn't want to deal with it anyway.

"Come on, I'll take you to get a passbook."

"Yeah." The child nodded innocently. He earned more than 100 yuan today. Grandma should be very happy.

"I'm telling you, from now on you'll be the one to go online in that area. Beat up anyone who comes your way. If you can't beat them, call me. Don't be afraid, okay?"

"know."

Later, the brothers contracted that place and specialized in shrimp cages. It would be so fun for the two families to work together.

The kid is a simple and honest person, but now that he has made money, he dares to beat people up if his elder brother asks him to.

Originally, because he had a grandmother, he didn't dare to cause trouble. Now that his grandmother is gone, his mentality has slowly begun to change.

You can make a lot of money in that section of the Yuxi River. If you do it once a week, you can make hundreds of dollars a day if it rains.

When they arrived at the bank, Qin Dahe took the child's ID card and opened a savings account. After the funeral, he had 1900 yuan left, and he collected more than 2000 yuan from the rent for the land. He helped the child deposit yuan in a fixed deposit.

Adding the money from selling shrimp today, there is more than 900 yuan left.

The children basically don't need this money. The expenses in rural areas are pitifully low. They only have food, oil, salt and firewood, and they grow their own vegetables. Except for the occasional cost of buying meat, other expenses are very small.

In 2000, there were very few people selling vegetables in the rural vegetable markets, and it was difficult to get a high price.

"Let's go to my brother-in-law."

"Yeah." The kid held the passbook tightly.

This little bit of money was saved by him and his grandmother by living frugally because they really couldn't earn any money.

Now that I have my eldest brother to take care of me, my life has gotten better. Unfortunately, my grandma can’t see it anymore.

After returning, he summoned Erhu and others to assemble the motorcycle tricycle together. The reason why it took so long was that there were insufficient parts.

Brake pads, brake cables, wheel hubs and all kinds of things are needed, so Qin Dahe can only buy what he needs when modifying the car.

I even bought a lot of tools and was finally able to install it completely.

Qin Dahe asked the two of them to observe carefully, as this modification was also an important technology.

Install the shock absorber spring, press the drive shaft, and tighten the drive chain.

"Lift the truck bed over here." He wiped the sweat off his face. It was really tiring to do this. He had been bending over for more than an hour.

The car now looks roughly like a finished product. He checked it before installation and it can be started successfully.

Then he drilled holes on the truck bed and fixed it with screws. Qin Dahe used double screws for safety.

Welding definitely won't work. The roads are too bad now. If they shake a few times every day, they will fall apart soon.

After the screws were installed, he also welded a circle of wire around the protruding position so that the screws would not fall out.

Once the cargo bed is installed, the tires are put on, and the screws are tightened, a beautiful motorcycle tricycle appears.

The old man looked at it with great admiration. The car cost only over a thousand yuan and it ran fast.

"Let me try." He sat in the car and started the ignition with the key.

"Dad, be careful. Go slower when turning, otherwise it may tip over easily." In order to fit more things, he raised both sides and moved the center of gravity upwards.

"I know, it's just like the big three-wheeled one."

As the accelerator sounded, the car quickly passed through the gate.

"Daha, this car is great. Get one for me." Erhu was a little envious. He couldn't afford a motorcycle, but he could still think of a way to buy one.

"Go get a broken motorcycle and bring it to me. If the engine is intact, I'll help you fix it." Qin Dahe chuckled. It takes a lot of skills to modify this car. It's nonsense for Erhu and the other man to do it alone.

"Okay, I'll ask around."

Tiedan was also somewhat tempted. He had not yet married, and the pressure at home was not that great.

Then another tricycle was modified. He checked it and sat on it.

Starting and shifting gears was just like riding a motorcycle. He stepped on the gears twice and felt it was quite smooth, so he kicked the accelerator and drove out in a flash.

This old motorcycle doesn't have an electric ignition, so you have to kick it.

Driving from his house to the main road, it was not difficult to go uphill at all, and we drove all the way to the gate.

Now we have to test the speed and stability, taking advantage of the fact that there are fewer cars on the road at this point.

He stepped on the accelerator and could clearly feel the trees on both sides moving backwards. The wind made him squint his eyes.

The speed was definitely over 70 mph, and I could clearly feel the car body shaking. This speed was too fast, and something would definitely happen if I drove it for a long time. I had to slowly reduce the throttle until the car body stabilized.

I stopped at the gate and rubbed my hands. It was so cold.

I stretched my arms and legs a bit and drove back after I warmed up.

(End of this chapter)