Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 51 Selling Fish in the City
It's just dawn and the temperature has dropped a lot. We are just waiting for an autumn rain.

There were still a lot of people on the road in the early morning. Qin Dahe bought a steamed cake made by his aunt and ate it while waiting for customers.

"Dahe, you're going to get rich today."

"Hey, just a little bit. I haven't found a wife yet. What can I do with this little money?"

"Yeah, I have to work harder. I'm almost in my early twenties."

Next to the car, Qin Dahe was chatting with the owner of Liming Supermarket, both of them had cigarettes in their mouths.

"By the way, uncle, how much is a good electric drill now?"

"About four or five hundred. Mine is newly imported, over seven hundred."

In fact, he doesn't make much money repairing cars. He can't charge people hundreds of dollars for welding iron sheets. Twenty dollars for labor is the maximum. But this is just his hobby.

Just like Uncle Liu and the others going fishing, the money they make is definitely not enough, but they enjoy it.

"Ce, chickens are really expensive. I'll go look for domestic ones later."

"You have a good handle. Next time you have something difficult to repair, come over and give me some guidance."

"Hey, let's study it together." He nodded.

The two families still have some favors to offer, but as for stealing the technology, machining technology has never been used for such a small job.

Drawing is a skill, but cutting and welding are things you will learn naturally over time.

No matter how good a welder is, he is not as popular as a master welder who has his own drawings.

He has quite a few blueprints in his mind, but he's too lazy to tinker with machining anymore. It's fun to fish at home. When he has nothing to do, he drives a tricycle. He wouldn't trade it for anything even if he was given a boss.

After five or six people got on, he didn't wait any longer. The two large boxes of fish in the car couldn't wait any longer. If they died, they would be worth a lot less.

He drove all the way to the town, dropped the person off, and then rushed to the city. He didn't even have time to pick up any passengers along the way.

He just brought a few people with him two days ago. If he brings more, the bus driver will probably find a way to deal with him.

Some key interests in small towns are fought for behind the scenes, and he is not planning to take the route through the city.

Today, Qin's father and Hanwaer pushed a cart to the gate because they had to take a group of passengers on the county road and there was no room for their things.

When he arrived in the city, his first stop was Frozen Street.

"Little boss, how do you pay for these bighead carp and black carp?"

Seeing a young man looking at the fish stall, he immediately went over to him.

Young people care about face and are easy to fool, so they are much easier to deal with than middle-aged people.

"I'm not the boss. I'm here to buy supplies for the restaurant. He just took people to the river to collect fish. I heard there was a nest of white eels. I'm waiting."

"Oh, let's smoke and wait together." Qin Dahe smiled slightly and didn't think about going up to make friends.

The young man was a little disgusted with this red plum, but he had to smoke it according to the rules of the underworld. Not smoking it would mean looking down on others.

The two took a puff of cigarette and chatted with each other for a while.

"I caught all these fish, and their fur is very intact."

"Why didn't you think of selling it to me?"

Qin Dahe curled his lips. Of course, the price of running a restaurant is higher, but it is unstable. If you want stability, you have to spend time and effort to build relationships. He is too lazy to do all this. It is more comfortable to stay in the countryside. It doesn't matter if you earn less.

"Brother, if there's money we should make, we should make it. We can't do business in someone else's store."

"That's right. My name is Qin Guan. I'm currently in charge of purchasing for two state-owned hotels. If you need any special goods, please contact me." The other party took the initiative to introduce his name and handed over a business card. "Qin Dahe, you're from the same family, hey!" He smiled faintly and took the card without saying anything else.

After a while, the boss came back. He was a man in his early fifties with a scar on his face.

"Scar, come and get the goods. I want white eels and some Jiang Pangtou with better fur." The young man immediately became polite when he saw the boss.

Qin Dahe was slightly stunned. This was related to the customer's business. Fortunately, he didn't go up to him just now.

The boss ignored Qin Guan's words and looked at Qin Dahe and asked, "Are you here to buy fish?"

"Hello, Scar Uncle, I'm here to sell fish, a big black carp and more than 200 kilograms of silver carp and bighead carp." He said politely.

"Hmm? Where?"

"Oh, I'm from Wuwei's side."

"I'm asking about the fish. The price will depend on where the fish comes from. Don't say anything nonsense. If the fur is not right, don't buy it." Scar said meaningfully.

Qin Dahe smiled slightly. "They're from Yuxi River. They were caught from the side of the sluice. Go see for yourself. There's even a 60-jin giant bluefin bream."

The boss's eyes lit up. Juqing, it's quite rare at this stage.

He asked Qin Dahe to lead the way and they went to the tricycle outside together, and even Qin Guan followed.

Scar looked at it carefully, even opened the fish's mouth to check, and didn't care even though he was splashed with water.

Then he nodded, saying that the fur was all correct and the fish delivered were full of energy. You could see that two oxygen pumps, one big and one small, had been running non-stop.

"Scar, this bighead carp is good. Let's take it later." Qin Guan was also satisfied when he looked at the fish.

"Yeah, fur is fine."

"Okay, take it. 60 kilograms of black carp stone is worth two cents, so I'll give you 25 yuan per kilogram. The silver carp's fur is good, and I'm too lazy to grade it. The general price is 8 yuan. Do you think it's okay?" He said to Qin Dahe.

"Sure, how many silver carp are there?" There were five silver carp, weighing more than 80 kilograms in total.

"This thing is too cheap. I won't buy it here. Go sell it next door. I'll just say hello later. I won't rip you off."

Scar explained patiently, and it was obvious that he was very polite to him, a fisherman.

"Thank you, Scar." He was in a good mood. Scar's prices were obviously higher than the market price. He would come to his house when he got rare goods in the future.

"Haha, you're welcome. I'll give you a high price for the wild fish I catch next time." After saying that, Scar went into the house to ask the waiter to start weighing the fish.

Bighead carp sells very well here, so just change the shipping box, but you have to be more careful with black carp.

Some bosses who want herring stones will naturally buy the fish as well, and the price difference alone can make them a thousand yuan.

He asked his assistant to bring a large transfer box, fill half of it with water, and then started peeling.

There are special fish bags for taking the fish, which will not hurt the fish. I put them in and weighed them. It was just over 62 kilograms, so Scar Uncle directly calculated it as 63 kilograms.

The silver carp weighed more than 170 kilograms and was sold for nearly 1400 yuan.

Afterwards, he and Scar went next door to sell silver carp. This one was much cheaper, only three yuan per pound, and that was because someone brought it here.

I made more than 3,000 yuan in total, which was very satisfying. This is the charm of fishing for bighead carp. When the fish bites, you can make a fortune in minutes.

In my previous life, I had a fisherman friend who went fishing in the Qingyi River in the middle of the night when fishing was prohibited. He caught 110 kilograms of silver carp in one night and was almost sentenced to jail.

Fortunately, I had some connections, and I confiscated his fishing gear and illegal gains, and fined him, and he was let off.

When he was about to leave, Scar even gave him a business card.

(End of this chapter)