Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 219 Customers Expanded

The man next to him looked at it curiously and realized that the price they paid for the fish was too low. He thought he could sell more by setting up a stall in town tomorrow.

When he was packing up to leave, he remembered that he had someone else's float in his hand.

After hesitating for a moment, he returned the fishing float.

I may have to buy this bait tomorrow, so I can’t just take the fish away with me.

Qin Dahe took the fishing float and nodded. He really had forgotten about the fishing float he had lent out.

At this time, he was holding a five-jin silver carp in his hand, which he had paid for separately from Uncle Chen. He first drove his tricycle to the grain station and gave the fish to the security guard.

"You're so polite." The old man happily put the fish away.

"The girl is young. If you need anything, please let me know and I will send it to you later." Qin Dahe said politely.

"Haha, don't worry, the people in the station are all good."

"Then consider it a taste for you. It's free anyway."

He handed over another cigarette, and the security guard had an even better impression of him. He lit the cigarette with a smile, which was a double happiness.

After a brief chat, he drove back to the gate to get something.

When I got home in the evening, Yanyan had already returned.

Her current job is easy and the webmaster doesn't assign her too many tasks, so she goes to and from get off work happily every day.

Seeing her husband's car coming back, she curiously went over to take a look.

"There are so many fish again." The little girl looked at them with a smile.

"Get out of the way first, don't get your clothes wet."

Mother Qin said something and started to help pour the fish. Erhu and the others had already gone back.

There are a lot of big silver carp today, and my mother rarely praises them.

"How many more days are you going to fish? Isn't Tiedan getting married?"

"Let's fish for another two or three days. We'll get married here at his house, so there's no rush."

"It would be nice to be able to make some money for the family." The mother nodded.

The elders guessed what the little guy was thinking, and Tiedan’s family didn’t come to ask for the money for the fish.

I guess they don’t know how much it is, but after distributing it bit by bit, each person may have received several thousand yuan in these six or seven days.

"Mom, please help me clean up the net. I'll have Dad bring out another one tomorrow morning."

"The price is so low now, let's wait until the second half of the year."

"The temperature is rising soon and the fish pond can't withstand it." Qin Dahe said with a wry smile.

Unless you use an oxygen pump, the fish will definitely turn over. The high-back crucian carp inside are growing meat very quickly. They are probably half a pound at this moment.

"Okay, let's go eat first."

After pouring the fish into the fish basket and washing hands, the family started to eat.

At the dinner table, the old man was still talking excitedly about his mothballs.

They were naturally angry because their nest was occupied. This afternoon, my uncle rode his bike over to take a look. Several fishermen had been sitting there for nothing all day.

"Tell me about any other secret weapons you have. You're really good at fishing."

Seeing his father's boastful tone, Qin Dahe felt depressed. It was just a 133-jin black carp, but he acted as if his skills were better than his.

"There are some secret medicines, but they are not needed now. I will prepare them when I go out to compete in the future."

"What is it? If you are good at fishing, use it." Father Qin said with shining eyes.

This secret medicine sounds powerful, is it 100% guaranteed to catch fish?
"Natural waters cannot have too strong a smell. To catch big fish, you have to use natural bait. It can be fragrant, sour, fishy, or smelly, but it cannot have a medicinal smell, otherwise the fish will die." He explained patiently.

Not only are those small medicines expensive to prepare, they are also difficult to preserve. If they are not needed now, they will naturally not be prepared.

"If you really want to do it, just get some pig feed appetite stimulant and mix it into the bait. It's very effective for catching crucian carp." Qin Dahe said with a smile.

He definitely doesn't want to fish for crucian carp. Who would fish for small fish when they can fish for big fish?

And there is no way to do this, it is too cross-industry. Later, many people in some crucian carp pits used it secretly, and the effect was very good.

"Okay, after dinner I'll go ask Zhang Dazhu. His pigs grow so fast, maybe there is one." Qin's father said happily.

My son knows a lot and can figure out everything.

He may not go fishing for small fish, but knowing this, he can brag about it when he goes fishing with Dabao and Laoliu. Anyway, judging from his son's attitude, it is not some sophisticated little medicine.

There won't be much work to do in the fields in June and July, so he can go out and play.

Ever since his son came home, the old man's addiction to fishing has been completely aroused. Who can stop after catching big fish one after another?

Just as we finished our meal, a large tricycle drove in.

Qin Dahe stepped forward immediately. It must be Xu Jianguo on the phone. They had made an appointment over the phone today.

"Is this the car that needs to be modified?" Qin Dahe looked at the brand new tricycle and was really willing to spend money.

"Well, I just bought it. The cotton-making factory in Xinba will open in the second half of the year, which is just in time for cotton harvesting." Xu Jianguo said with a smile, and scattered a Double Happiness pendant.

He took the cigarette, lit it and took a deep breath.

First, I simply walked around the car and it was indeed the same as my own big tricycle.

Then start drawing and giving design plans according to the other party's requirements.

"Harvesting cotton in Xinba requires going up and down hills. The center of gravity of the cotton is high, so the locomotive may need to be counterweighted, and the diesel engine may need to be replaced. The cost may be quite high."

"I know." Xu Jianguo nodded. "Your car won't be modified? You still have to harvest cotton at the end of the year."

"There's no rush at home. We'll do it in the summer." He said indifferently. He also has a boat at home, which is much more powerful than a car.

I started listing the materials according to the design plan and discussed each item in detail with the other party.

"Iron sheets, steel sheets, angle iron, glass, and so on, all together cost 3,600 yuan, and the diesel engine is the biggest part of the cost. You have to buy it yourself."

Diesel engines are incredibly expensive nowadays, and replacing one would cost a lot of money. He would not deal with this.

And you can’t buy it in town, you have to go to the tricycle factory to get it.

The other party looked at the list of materials for modifying the car, did a simple calculation in his mind based on the drawings, and found the price to be very fair.

"If your car is not urgent, I can spend five or six days to fix it for you. The labor cost is one thousand yuan." He explained that his brother was getting married, which would definitely delay his work.

"If you need it urgently, I can have someone work overtime at night. The hourly rate is 1200, and I can finish it for you in three days."

If I want to finish it in three days, I will have to work overtime and even until midnight because I also have to go fishing.

You definitely can't stop fishing, it makes a lot of money.

However, the old car heads and other scrap metal that were cut off weighed several hundred kilograms, which were very valuable.

"No rush, just focus on it and wait until the second half of the year." Xu Jianguo said with a smile.

"How much did you buy the car for?"

"Thirteen thousand, it's too late to buy it. If I had bought it a few months earlier, it wouldn't have cost more than ten thousand."

"The price of iron has gone up." The two sat in the yard smoking and chatting about some topics related to cotton harvesting.

None of them had harvested cotton before, but they got along quite well when talking about their plans for harvesting cotton in the second half of the year.

"I'm planning to collect in the area near Hualong in Nanxiang and run along Tongjiang Avenue. What about you?"

"There's a main road here, between this place and Phoenix Bridge."

The gravel road on the Xinba side leads to Tongjiang Avenue, not the county road. To get to Fenghuang Bridge, you have to go around from here.

If Qin Dahe wants to harvest cotton, he can only do so when the weather is good and go down from the side of Liming Supermarket, which is a dirt road.

However, harvesting cotton requires strong sunshine. No one will sell cotton if it rains. It is too troublesome.

After chatting for a while and waiting for everyone to leave, he immediately rode his tricycle to Tiedan's house to get the equipment.

I brought back the double-barreled welding machine and acetylene, and next I will do electric welding at home, because Tiedan is getting married and the yard needs to be cleared out for the wedding.

Anyway, Yanyan has to go to work during the day, and hides in the attic when she works overtime at night.

But this is just a temporary measure now. Later, Erhu and others will have to set up a place specifically for welding.

Erhu and Tiedan were asked to work on the tricycle. Since the other party was not in a hurry, there was no need to rush the deadline. He continued fishing.

Anyway, the drawings and design plans have been completed, and Tiedan can do a great job based on the drawings.

Welding and cutting are not difficult jobs. With a dedicated master as your guide, you can become an expert in a few months. Of course, you are only an expert.

Only by devoting yourself to study can you do better.

When I returned upstairs, the girl was still reading a book. When she saw Qin Dahe coming up, she immediately came over.

"Brother, I made a lot of money." The little girl said with a smile.

"Where did you earn it?"

"Subsidies, there are subsidies for pregnancy, and reimbursements. We can get them when we go for checkups in the future."

"So powerful?"

"Yeah," she said proudly, "There are only a few regular employees. Our station manager said that we have a lot of funding approved, and we have to find a way to use it at the end of each year."

Qin Dahe was really envious when he heard this. The welfare benefits of the staff at the grain station were extremely good.

This silly woman chose a good job instead of teaching, which is easy and pays well.

Of course, this is relative. Small grain stations are just empty-handed offices. Apart from these, there is nothing else. The purchase prices are fixed.

If there is any slight change, the station manager cannot bear the risk and it can barely be considered one of the units for retirement.

After chatting for a while, he started to prepare a midnight snack. The girl couldn't eat five meals a day at work now, so she had to eat something every night before going to sleep.

Sang Biao and Fei Fei also looked at him eagerly. The couple ate late at night every day, and the little animals were also greedy.

Seeing this, Qin Dahe went to the warehouse to find bait to feed the two little ones.

In fact, kittens should be fed more meat, but these two eat crucian carp by the pond every day, and their fur is very shiny, so you don’t have to worry about that.

When he arrived at the utility room, he was slightly surprised. So many?
At least seven snakeskin bags of silver carp and bighead carp bait. Although the bait is relatively fluffy, one bag weighs sixty to seventy kilograms.

I am really hardworking and cooked so many ingredients.

I just grabbed a handful and mixed it. The mutton was almost thawed, so I grilled it directly on the balcony.

The early summer night was so comfortable, with the wind blowing gently from the south. He was drinking cold beer comfortably on the balcony, while the little girl was eating greasy food beside him, taking a bite of steamed bun from time to time.

If you don’t know, you might think I didn’t eat dinner.

My mother really dotes on her. After she finished eating the lamb, she went to buy another one. She heard that Zhang Dazhu's family would slaughter a pig the next day, so she went to order some pork belly overnight.

"Brother, it's delicious." Yanyan said with a pout.

"If it tastes good, eat more. If it's not enough, I'll give you more." He smiled lightly and picked up some mutton with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.

Take another sip of cold beer, it feels so good.

After a slight burp, the young couple smiled at each other, feeling very happy.

Of course, the basis of their happiness is that they can earn money. They received a call from QQ informing them that this month's salary has arrived and asked them to write a product experience report and send it over.

Just do it when you have time after fishing, no one will rush you.

It was a really comfortable salary, but Mr. Ma kept urging him to have a good chat online about the company's product development plans.

"Brother, I'm full. I'll go wash the dishes." The little girl happily went downstairs with the food in her arms.

When Qin Dahe heard this, he helped carry it down to prevent it from falling.

"Why don't we move down there in the summer? It's not convenient for you since you're pregnant."

"No, it's more comfortable up there."

"What should I do when the weather gets hot soon?" It's impossible to install an air conditioner now because the voltage can't keep up.

"Let's talk about it when it gets hot." She didn't want to move downstairs. It was so comfortable up there, where she could look at the distant scenery every day.

Although I live in the countryside, it's nice to be able to enjoy this kind of petty bourgeoisie life.

600 kilograms of crucian carp were lifted up from the fish pond using a net and directly wholesaled to Brother Qiang.

Because there were a lot of native crucian carp, the price offered was quite good, at two and a half yuan per catty.

As for whether he took the fish there to pretend it was wild crucian carp or for some other purpose, it was none of his business. Anyway, he had more money to make now, and Qin Dahe was not willing to set up a stall in the town to sell fish.

Fishing continued for the next two days.

Unexpectedly, there were quite a few people buying silver carp and bighead carp bait, and some people even bought it at the price of 20 yuan.

However, it was only the anglers in the town who came to buy the bait. Maybe it was promoted by Uncle Chen or others, or maybe they saw them pulling bait like crazy at the sluice gate, so several people reluctantly paid for the bait.

After all, there are abundant resources in Dazha now. You can earn dozens of yuan by fishing in a day, and more than a hundred yuan if you are lucky.

When they planned to fish for silver carp and bighead carp on the last day, they already saw a scene reminiscent of later generations, with a row of fishermen along the river.

The silver carp and bighead carp resources here are incredible. Yesterday, the four of them pulled up 450 kilograms of silver carp and bighead carp.

I brought a big bag of bait today. Except for the 20 kilograms I used myself, I sold the remaining 40 kilograms.

There were seventeen fishermen on a large strip of land, seven of whom came to buy bait, and six of them were fishing with flour-dipped bait.

The target fish are silver carp and bighead carp, Uncle Chen said with a smile, everyone in the town with long fishing rods has come.

This is not a lie. With the current living standards, it is rare to find thirteen free fishermen in a town with tens of thousands of people.

With so many people fishing, the atomization effect on the water surface is amazing. The water with so much fish smell is like it's boiling. Now what's being compared is the temptingness of the bait.

At this time, the advantages of Qin Dahe's silver carp and bighead carp bait are reflected.

Those who were fishing wildly were all people who bought the bait, including Uncle Chen, and they were all having a great time.

Uncle Liu and the others knew that the price would drop later, so they didn't come over to avoid being envious.

He and Dabao started raising grass carp again in the big bay. The bait was still the melon vines that Qin's mother had planted on the big ridge. They could catch dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of grass carp a day.

"I've never seen so many people fishing." Uncle Chen sighed, it's so lively.

(End of this chapter)