Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 318

Everyone else was busy these two days, and the fields at home were still waiting for the cotton to burst, so he rested for two days.

Every afternoon when the temperature is high, I take my lure rod to the outer river to catch black fish, and put some eel cages and shrimp cages by the way. I can make money and have a snack at the same time.

Seeing the girl's belly getting bigger and bigger, I have to buy some good things like soft-shelled turtles and old hens from time to time to nourish her body.

The local chickens at home grow too slowly, so we have to wait until the girl gives birth before we can eat them.

The excavator from Erhu was bought back very quickly, spending 255,000 yuan, and it also came with a bunch of spare parts, which will make it easier to repair the car in the future.

We also had a banquet at home with an excavator worth more than 200,000 yuan, and it was a great party.

Everyone was amazed at how rich his family was. They asked around but found nothing.

The other three brothers were very low-key, and no one knew that Hanwaer went to the city to buy a house.

After the banquet, he started to pump water from his fish pond in the afternoon, preparing to clean the pond, and by the way, he taught Erhu how to operate an excavator and how to dig soil.

The kid is still busy, and the carpenter has a lot of things to do in the second half of the year, so he has to leave the fishing behind.

The owner of the fish pond raises crucian carp, which eats a lot and poops a lot.

In addition, the bait sank to the bottom, and over the course of a year, a lot of silt accumulated in the pond.

In the morning, as the water was drained, everyone started to go fishing.

The sun is shining today and it’s a little hot. It’s really fun to go into the mud and catch fish.

"There are several black carps, silver carp and bighead carp." said my second uncle with a smile.

He's here to join in the fun today too, and will be using his motorbike tricycle to bring back two truckloads of silt to fertilize the fields.

"Haha, there are a lot of big carp, just the right time to sell them."

Qin Dahe stood in the middle of the fish pond with a transfer box hanging next to him. Four or five men began to catch fish at the level of their calves.

The main ones are crucian carp, most of which weigh three or two taels, and the largest can weigh one or two kilograms.

These crucian carp are high-back crucian carp. Some of them grow very fast by eating high-protein feed at the bottom of the pond, but they cannot be sold at a high price.

If you take it to the town and sell it yourself, you can get three yuan per catty, but if you sell it to someone else, you can only get less than two yuan.

Even a three-liang native crucian carp can be exchanged for two, fifty or three yuan.

Picking up fish is definitely exciting. You can easily catch big crucian carp in the fish pond, which you rarely encounter when you cast a net.

"Dahe, you have at least a thousand kilograms of fish in this pond. It's a feat you took for granted that you didn't overturn the pond." Uncle San came over to watch the fun.

"Many carp were put in there recently." Qin Dahe said with a wry smile, feeling a little scared.

Such a small pond actually raised more than a thousand kilograms of fish. Fortunately, it was connected to the big lake of Uncle San, otherwise the pond would have capsized.

Catch the fish and send them directly to the city to sell.

I put a transfer box with the small crucian carp and melon seeds aside, and also stored the big carp. There were at least fifteen big carp in it, and anyone who came to do business could buy it directly.

I kept some juvenile silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp and black carp to use as functional fish, and sold all the other fish.

Last year I released a few black carps and they gained two kilograms of weight, so it wasn’t a loss.

Unfortunately, they are all farmed products, and Scar Ye won’t buy them, so they can only be sold to Brother Qiang’s stall.

"Erhu, I'll take the fish to the city first. I'll teach you how to operate the excavator this afternoon. And by the way, help me dig the pond a little deeper."

"Okay." Erhu's eyes showed excitement.

To be honest, several elders were not optimistic about Erhu buying an excavator. It was not that he could not make money, but that it was too unconventional.

If you have money and try every possible way to spend it, this mentality can easily lead to trouble.

Fortunately, Qin Dahe reminded him, and this guy took out the remaining money to buy a house in the city, so no one said much.

Excavators are now considered to be healthy fixed assets, at least they can make money now.

Some people really can't get rich overnight, and Tiedan was also very impatient at the beginning.

However, I have been obsessed with welding these days and my mind has gradually calmed down.

I moved the fish into the car and took some bait with me. They will be shipped to Jinling and Sichuan Province.

Especially in Jinling, they need 500 kilograms at a time, and it wasn’t long since the last delivery.

Silver carp and bighead carp bait is a killer. Now that there is no competition from similar products, many anglers like this bait.

When the fish were sent to Brother Qiang's stall, the price was naturally not high. One thousand kilograms of fish only cost about two thousand seven hundred yuan, of which black carp accounted for the majority.

However, the small pond is still quite profitable overall. The bait used for feeding the fish throughout the year is about 3,000 kilograms, and the cost is just over 1,000 yuan.

Most fish food is made of tofu dregs, bran, etc., mixed with corn crumbs and soybean powder.

But the fish we raise have been sold for about 5,000 yuan. Excluding fertilizers and lime, it is much better than raising pigs.

It's just a lot of work. You have to feed the fish every day. When the fish are small, you have to feed them once in the morning and once in the evening without stopping.

When I passed by the town, I bought a bag of lime and a bag of fertilizer because I had to disinfect the pond again.

It was already twelve o'clock when he got home. Erhu sat on the excavator, but he didn't dare to play around. He just looked left and right curiously.

Qin Dahe went home to eat first and hadn't eaten since morning.

He had boiled fish fillets with lots of chili, but unfortunately, he only had the leftovers.

The other dishes were fine if left over, but the fish fillets fell apart after a while.

Even the fish meat that my mother specially left for him didn't taste good at this time.

I ate a few quick bites and two bowls of rice with pickles before I felt better.

I went to the refrigerator and took out two ice creams. The temperature is starting to rise again. It is the autumn heat. It is about 34 or 35 degrees Celsius at noon.

When they got to the excavator, he gave Erhu a popsicle first. While eating the popsicle, he told Erhu how to operate the excavator.

There was a large operating lever on both sides of the seat. After taking a sip of the popsicle, he began to teach the formula.

"Left pole to the left, the carriage turns left."

"Left pole to the right, the carriage turns right."

"Left pole forward, place small wall."

"Left pole back, retract forearm."

"Right pole to the left, close the bucket."

"Right pole to the right, drop the bucket."

"Move the right pole forward and extend your arm."

"Pull the right pole back and retract the arm."

"This is a set of standard operating instructions. You should recite it twice first." As he said that, he threw over a piece of paper with the excavator instructions written on it.

"And what about forward and backward?"

"That's easier. I'll teach you later. You haven't finished the popsicle yet." He slurped the popsicle happily.

The best time to eat this thing is in winter. In Qin Dahe's previous life, when his stomach was still intact, his favorite thing to do was to eat popsicles in winter.

There is really no trick to learning how to operate an excavator. You need to apprentice to a master, and if the master teaches you seriously and gives you more opportunities to work, you will be able to work on your own in a few months.

Out of curiosity, Qin Dahe learned it temporarily for a while, but he didn't intend to study it in depth.

After eating the popsicle, he asked Erhu to come to the side, lit a cigarette, and started to operate the excavator.

"See these pedals? Press both forward to go forward. Just downshift the throttle when you're working." "Press back to go backward."

He demonstrated it several times, just the basic forward and backward movements.

"There's also a steering system. It has two pedals. Press the left pedal to turn right, and the right pedal to turn left."

An excavator was moving back and forth on the flat ground, and Erhu was dazzled by it.

Even my second uncle, Qin's father, and Erhu's father came. No matter how old they are, men have almost no resistance to excavators.

Yanyan held her belly and watched curiously from the side, but she didn't dare stand as close as Qin's father and the others.

Qin Dahe then began to dig the silt.

"When operating, you just need to coordinate the two rods. Watch carefully and I'll let you do it later." His movements were also very clumsy.

I only learned for a few months and dug two water holes in my own factory, so I am not a master chef.

He hurriedly dug a shovel of mud and put it on his second uncle's tricycle.

He will take the silt back to his own fields to fertilize them later, just in time to join in the fun.

This can't be mastered quickly. You can only hone your skills through box after box of oil, and then as you drive the excavator for a long time, you will naturally develop a feel for it.

This is the only way without a master to guide you. It would be better to have a master who can help you with some simple work.

My second uncle's tricycle and two shovels were full. He drove the excavator forward, turned, and parked it at the entrance of his own field.

"Erhu, come here and try."

"Coming." Erhu's eyes lit up and he ran over happily.

His father and Qin's father have also come. They are all family members, so they will have to go up and play for a while later.

Qin Dahe also found it interesting to operate the excavator. The four of them took turns and soon all the silt in the pond was dug out.

We also caught a lot of eels and two turtles, which are worth at least a few hundred yuan, just right for a snack in the evening.

Invite Erhu and Tiedan’s family members to have a meal together and have some fun.

The next step is to build a slope. The slope of the fish pond must not be a 90-degree angle, otherwise the embankment will definitely collapse.

After the silt was cleared, the bottom became hard, so he drove the excavator directly down.

The two old men played enthusiastically for a while, then left reluctantly, leaving Qin Dahe to teach Erhu how to operate an excavator.

"The slope needs to be compacted a little bit, and it should be as flat and smooth as possible so that it will be easier to get paid when you go out to work in the future. You should figure this out yourself." The operation instructions are very simple.

The next step is to rely on oil to feed the craftsmanship, as he doesn't like to be exposed to the hot weather for an entire afternoon.

"Don't go, I'm a little scared being alone." Erhu said with a sad face.

He was really unsure about operating such a large excavator alone.

"Haha, this is what happens when you first start driving a truck. You'll get used to it." He waved his hand indifferently.

Anyway, we are in the fish pond, so there is no way we can overturn the car.

He was free to do whatever he wanted with the fish pond, and Qin Dahe began to spread the silt with his father.

"Dad, we don't farm anymore, so why do we still have to do this?" He wiped the sweat from his forehead. This job was too hard.

"If the spread is ready, we can get more rent money." The old man curled his lips. "If we spread the fertilizer on the bottom of the pond, we don't have to apply heavy fertilizer for three years. It will save a lot of money."

He felt a little sorry because his own field had been plowed once last year, and this year the cotton fruits were much more than those in the fields next door.

I feel a little regretful that I don’t plant it myself, as I can see that the fields are becoming more and more fertile.

But it's pure nonsense to say that there is a deep love for the land. No farmer has ever thought about it that way.

Who would want to farm if they could make money?

Qin Dahe likes rural life, not the hard life of farming in the countryside.

He had two interruptions this summer, which almost killed him and his whole body was sunburned and peeling.

The father and son were running their business in a rather shady way. They rented out the cotton fields as soon as they finished picking them, and then let the farmers do the repairs themselves when the time came.

It was already six o'clock when we finished the work, and the excavator in the pond was still moving back and forth against the slope.

"Aren't you tired?" Qin Dahe asked him to get out of the car with a helpless smile. The two lit cigarettes and chatted on the side.

At this time, the middle of the fish pond was compacted and cleaner than a gravel road.

"My waist is very sore." Erhu pounded his waist. He had been sitting for four or five hours and even filled up a tank of gas, but his iron waist couldn't bear it.

"Take your time, there's no rush. You won't get any work this year," he said with a smile. "If you're not busy, fill in the reed marsh in front of your house and make a small platform to store your car."

"Also, it's better to build a wall, otherwise people will smash the car windows in the middle of the night."

Erye's house was smashed several times, and finally he had no choice but to build a wall.

Rural people are simple, but also cunning; kind, but also jealous.

When Qin Dahe was in his prime, he came back and was quite proud of himself. He parked his car in front of his house to show off, and his tires were punctured in the middle of the night.

There are good people and bad people everywhere, and big cities just have more surveillance.

"Okay, I'll put it in your yard for the next few nights. You have a big plot of land."

He nodded and said it would be fine if he left it for a while.

"I haven't driven an excavator much, so you should practice more. When we get the contract for Dahu by the end of the year, we can sell silt together."

"Selling sludge?" Erhu was a little confused.

"Haha, let's do this," Qin Dahe repeated his thoughts.

After signing the contract in September, Mr. San will have to clean the pond by November, and it will definitely be drained by then.

It's a good opportunity to clean the pond and modify the bottom of the lake. There must be a lot of silt.

He planned to simply repair the road near San Ye's shack and call all the motorcycle tricycles in the surrounding area to sell silt.

The tricycle was a little higher and sold for five yuan each. They only sold the fields between their village and Xu Village.

It was winter then, and many fields were either empty or had only some rapeseed in them, which was a good time to apply fertilizer.

Apart from anything else, Erhu can earn back the gas money he spent on practicing with the excavator, and he can also earn some hard work pay from those tricycles.

Of course, his pond was cleared, the farmers also benefited greatly, and everyone won.

The silt from the old pond is more powerful than chemical fertilizer. Unless the family is so poor that they can't even afford to eat, if there are tricycles delivering goods to the fields, everyone will need two or three tricycles for every acre of land.

This is much more cost-effective than buying chemical fertilizers.

"Fuck, you still have a way. My family will definitely buy it when the time comes." As he said that, he patted his forehead.

The excavator is his, and he also has a three-wheeled motorcycle. There's no point in buying it.

Dad will definitely pave all the fields at home, and he smiled foolishly when he thought of this.

"We can sell silt for at least ten days, so you just need to practice more."

Qin Dahe didn't even mention finding a master for him. It would be very hard to learn a craft outside now. If he didn't help the master for free for a period of time, he would have no chance of becoming a master.

He is secretive when teaching things, and his apprentices have to be coaxed into learning by giving them cigarettes and alcohol.

It’s enough to figure it out at home and do some small jobs.

　Monthly ticket, please give me a monthly ticket

　　
　
(End of this chapter)