Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 93 Getting to work
"It's the money for fishing. Yanyan caught a 40-jin silver carp yesterday, and there was also a black carp." The black carp made the four of them spend all their money last night.

"I know, little bastard, tell me everything next time."

"How much did that carp sell for?" Qin Dahe was a little curious. Who would buy such a big carp?

"It's sold for two yuan, and if it's smaller, twenty kilograms, it can be sold for at least five yuan." The old man felt depressed when he thought of this.

Scar Uncle asked several stalls for him, but none of them were willing to accept the price. Finally, he sold it to a vendor at the vegetable market for only two yuan.

"That's fine, I can make a few dozen bucks, hey!"

"I went to Jiangxi's house and don't have time to chat with you." He replied and went out. He had so much to do.

"Brother, this kid wants to build a tiled house. I don't know what he's thinking. As a father, I'm not incapable of building a building."

At the old carpenter's house, Qin's father started bragging again.

He talked about how rich his family was and how many things his mother had left behind.

When Qin Dahe's great-grandfather was young, the Qin family was divided into four branches. Their second branch had been the only child for two generations since their grandfather, so many things from their ancestors were passed down.

But his college expenses were a bit high. He spent more than 60,000 yuan in two years, and now he actually has nothing left.

In the 90s, the price of fish here had not risen yet, and the old men didn't make much money from fishing. Now they are just trying to make a fortune.

This is how marriage is discussed. We absolutely have to exaggerate a little bit. As long as it's not outrageous, marrying the person into the family is considered a victory.

"It's okay to have a tiled house. How many buildings are there in the village now?" The old carpenter didn't really care about this. What he cared about was the choice of son-in-law.

"By the way, Dahe also drew a blueprint himself. I can't understand it either. Come and take a look, old brother." As he said that, the old man handed over the blueprint he got from his son.

This is also a way of showing off. Being able to draw house blueprints is also a skill. It is enough to set up a small contracting team and take jobs in the surrounding area.

The old carpenter took the drawing with great interest and looked at it. He found that it was different from other tiled houses and was quite nice.

"Dahe also knows this?"

"He knows a lot of things, not to mention fishing and shrimping. I taught him that." Qin's father didn't care about the facts. He taught his own children. He continued, "He can also weld, cut, and draw. He welded my car."

"Yeah, I've become a different person after going out."

Thinking of Qin Dahe's naughty appearance when he was a child, the old carpenter smiled slightly. At that time, his carpentry tools were often damaged.

"Well, let me show it to Yanyan. She knows more than me."

The old man smiled and nodded in agreement. He came here today to show Yanyan the drawings.

In the room, Yanyan was listening to the two people talking with her ears perked up. When she knew someone was about to come in, she quickly went to the desk and pretended to read a book.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Yan Yan, come and take a look at the blueprints Da He drew. Even an old guy like me can't understand them."

"I'm coming." He couldn't wait to reach the door, but then he remembered that he had to be reserved, so he waited for a few seconds to open the door.

I went out and said hello to my grandfather first, then took the drawings.

I couldn't take my eyes off her after taking one look at her. She was so beautiful, especially the balcony on the attic above.

There is no need to dry clothes on the balcony in the countryside. It would be wonderful if you put a tea table on the balcony and eat some snacks.

They can also go up to the roof and chat under the moonlight. This design really touches her heart.

"It's great. Is this attic also what my brother wanted?" No matter how much she liked the house, she had to be reserved.

"Yes, the drawings have just been completed." Qin's father smiled slightly. As a shrewd person, he could tell at a glance that the girl was satisfied.

"By the way, Dahe asked you to go divide the money, and bring Erhu and the others along as well."

"Okay, Grandpa, I'll go now. I'll take the drawings with me." She was a little reluctant to return the drawings to Qin Dahe, so she asked him to redraw them later.

As soon as she walked out the door, her heart immediately flew up and she walked with bounces.

I would glance at the drawings from time to time and smile, thinking that my brother was very capable and the house he designed was so beautiful.

Ten minutes later, the five people met in the Qin family's yard. Qin Dahe took out the money and began to divide it among them.

The scene is similar to when we were kids, when five of us would go out to pick bird eggs and put them together before dividing them at night.

"After deducting the money for bait and food, there are still 400 left. Let's divide this up first. Yanyan won't get any of this."

"I didn't catch it, so I definitely can't tell them apart." The little girl was in a good mood at the moment, and she looked at Qin Dahe with much more favor.

"There are still 2200. Let's divide it among the five of us. That's yuan each. I'll ask my mom for a -yuan bill." All he had in his hands were green banknotes that he couldn't tell apart.

As he said that, he was going to the kitchen to find his mother.

"No, we've agreed. You take the lion's share. Grandpa still needs to burn oil to go to Jiuzi, and you're the one who's been busy with the fishing gear. We've been making bait all night." Erhu stopped him and said, "You take 600 yuan, and we'll each take 400 yuan."

Hanwaer and Tiedan also nodded, they had already discussed it.

"Isn't that how you calculate it? How much do these things cost?"

"Just listen to us, otherwise we won't come if you call us next time," Tiedan added.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Qin Dahe was teaching them skills.

As for Yanyan, they didn't consider her at all. Judging from the behavior of these two dogs yesterday, they guessed that they would get married after the New Year.

"Okay, then I'll shamelessly accept it, but these things are just gifts for you."

Qin Dahe didn't dwell on this. Instead, he took out a few bags containing complete sets of fishing gear, lines, and floats, one set for each of the other three people.

"Kid, is the 0.4mm thread tied?"

"Almost." The kid said embarrassedly.

When he is free during the day, he has to go to the fields to turn the soil and prepare to plant rapeseed, and he can only do a little at night.

"After tying it up, the four of us will split it up and go catch big crucian carp in the winter."

Several people's eyes lit up. Qin Dahe said that they wanted to catch big crucian carp, so he must have an idea.

In previous years, they also caught big crucian carp in winter, but the harvest was average. Occasionally, they would catch only about ten pounds.

Crucian carp is very valuable now. A pound of crucian carp costs eight or nine yuan, which is twice as expensive as half a pound.

"Then it's settled. You guys go back first. I'll go see Yanyan off."

Divide the money among yourselves, take the things, and there will be no problem.

It's almost nine o'clock now, and he is worried about Yanyan going home alone.

People in the countryside turn off the lights early. At this time, except for the convenience stores, most people's homes have turned off the lights, and the streets are pitch black.

"Okay, stop bullying people secretly." Erhu teased, and then the few of them separated.

"Let's go. What are you looking at? Have you never seen a handsome guy before?" Qin Dahe looked at the silly woman holding the money in a daze and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"How shameless, and he's such a handsome guy." Yanyan turned around and walked out with a red face, fearing that she would be discovered by her brother.

She was indeed a little infatuated just now. On the one hand, Qin Dahe had teased her several times today, and on the other hand, she really liked this drawing and couldn't help but feel that Qin Dahe was her perfect match.

On the way, Yanyan put her hands behind her back and walked in small steps, still struggling in her mind whether to ask him to draw again.

The meaning of taking the drawings is too obvious, but I am reluctant to give them away.

"Yanyan."

"Um?"

"Have you seen the blueprint? What do you think?"

“.” She wanted to say that it was great and that it was really what she wanted, but she felt embarrassed.

"If you like it, then it's settled. I'll build you a yard and raise some cattle later."

"Get out of here! Who wants to herd cattle?" Yanyan glared at him unhappily. The brother's words were becoming more and more incoherent, and he hadn't even started yet.

"Besides, why don't you raise chickens and ducks?"

"My mom raised it. What's hers is mine. If you want to eat it, just grab it."

His homestead is right next to the small pond, and his old house is just a few steps away. He can just catch whatever he wants to eat, instead of going through the trouble of raising fish, which is very dirty.

"No." Yanyan answered sullenly, but everyone knew the underlying meaning.

"One of the rooms on the second floor can be used as a study. Ask your father to help set up a tea table on the balcony. Every day, you can sit on the table, drink tea, and read a book after logging on online."

"Ah."

"In the other room, there's a bed on the balcony. In the summer, when the room gets hot, we put up a gauze curtain on the balcony so we can watch the stars while sleeping at night."

"Ah."

"I'm raising a cow for you to herd. You won't be afraid of losing one."

The little beauty raised her head. Her brother was so mean. He asked her to herd cattle every day. Why did she have to herd cattle?

"You're just kidding. If you're not allowed to herd cattle, we can just raise two sheep and let our son herd them."

"Bad guy."

Yanyan had never seen such a scene before. The pancakes came one after another and she was a little overwhelmed.

But when he thought about his future life, the smile on his face never stopped.

"We're here, let's go in." It was half the distance to the village, and even if the two of them deliberately slowed down their pace, they had arrived by now.

"Brother, that blueprint." The little beauty pinched the blueprint in her hand, but didn't want to hand it over.

"Here, I'll go repaint it."

He smiled faintly, turned around, and left.

The next day, the weather was still gloomy, and the four brothers went to Weimin Supermarket together to prepare to go to work.

The flower-making factory has suddenly become very busy recently, and they were recruiting people right at the entrance of the village this morning.

When Silly Kid went to sign up alone but no one wanted him and he stuttered, he called Qin Dahe and the others to sign up together to make money.

The elders in the family also felt that they couldn’t let the children rest at home, so they let them go.

At this time, on the tricycle, Qin Dahe was telling a story with saliva flying everywhere.

"Speaking of Zhao Zilong, he entered and exited Changban Slope seven times, possessing thirty-six techniques with his silver spear. He was incredibly ferocious, and he routed the entire Changban Slope army. He truly deserves to be called a great general."

"Haha, Zhao Zilong, I like him too." An uncle who was listening nearby knew which play it was and thought that Qin Dahe really knew everything and could even tell a few stories.

Just as he finished speaking, he continued: "But that Changbanpo is no pushover either. She's as pretty as a flower, and she's the top girl in Yihong Courtyard..."

Everyone couldn't hold back their laughter. It was the first time they heard this new version.

"Ce, this kid is really divine gold."

"Oh my god, this is the first time I've heard that the one who performed at Changbanpo was a woman."

The laughter in the car suddenly couldn't be stopped. Some people laughed so hard that their faces turned red, and they were obviously choking.

"I'm bored this morning, don't mind if I tell you something funny." Qin Dahe smiled and took a sip from his water cup.

After everyone gathered, he had to drive. It was already eight o'clock, and the owner of Weimin Supermarket was still calling people with a loudspeaker. He was responsible for recruiting people.

Today, there is also a fare for sending people. It costs one dollar per person for a round trip. To send the person there, he has to work for a day, and then send the person back.

Including wages, I can make 80 yuan today. Of course, I can only earn that today.

Except for the first time I went to work, I went to work by myself afterwards. There was no car to pick me up.

After a while, seeing that there were twenty people, the owner of Weimin Supermarket came over.

"Please sign your names and leave your contact information. We'll call you first if we need anyone later." As he said that, he handed over the notebook.

"The salary is the same, 60 yuan a day, from 8:30 to 4:00, with lunch included."

These working hours are shorter than the nine-to-five work in later generations, but it is still really tiring.

A large bag of unprocessed cotton weighs seventy to eighty kilograms, and the compressed cotton spindles weigh more than two hundred kilograms. It is all done purely by manpower.

The owner of Weimin Supermarket owns an 8% stake in the flower-making factory, making him one of the major shareholders. His son is also the deputy director of the factory. The flower-making factory in Cangtou has more than a dozen deputy directors.

After everyone signed, Qin Dahe started the engine and headed towards Cangtou.

There is no need for anyone to look after you. They are all familiar people near your home, so there will naturally be someone to greet you when you go there.

Even the signed book was handed over to Qin Dahe, and he just had to go to the factory and give it to the corresponding factory director.

Drive all the way south, pass the gate, go to an intersection, turn a corner and run three kilometers, and you will reach the flower-making factory.

This cotton-tying factory is probably the largest one in the vicinity, with six workshops producing cotton spindles, and mountains of cotton waiting to be processed outside.

It was truly piled like a mountain, with cotton piles six meters high and fifteen meters long lined up for hundreds of meters, containing hundreds of thousands of kilograms of cotton.

"Fuck, that's a lot of cotton! My family only produces 4,000 kilograms a year."

People who come to the cotton factory for the first time open their eyes wide. It would take them a lifetime to pick so much cotton.

Qin Dahe parked the car in a place where it would not be in the way and took his men to the security room at the door.

Following the instructions, I went to the factory director's office. There are only a few offices here.

Rural enterprises do not have so much pomp and circumstance. With dozens of shareholders watching over them, all deputy factory directors are responsible for recruiting workers and inspecting cotton harvesting. When it is busy, they have to carry the bags themselves.

"Grandpa, this is today's list of people at the village entrance. Everyone is here." Qin Dahe saw the factory director and stepped forward to hand him the notebook.

The factory director here is not a very high-ranking official, it's just a village-run enterprise on a larger scale.

It is said to be a village-run enterprise, but it is similar to a private enterprise. The village collective only provides land and holds a small share.

"Where are you from? Where is Qin Er's father?" Qin Er's father is the owner of Weimin Supermarket and also his relative.

"Third Master should be busy. My father is Qin Xiaolou." Qin Xiaolou is the name of Qin's father, but few people know it. Everyone is used to calling him Qin.

They have many distant relatives with the surname Qin, and there are at least four or five third uncles, and even more people who call them uncles, but they don’t interact with them very often.

"Qin Xiaolou? Whose house is at the entrance of the village?"

"Qin Da." He said it in a low voice. As a son, he couldn't say his father's nickname, but there was obviously no other way.

"Oh, you are from the Qin family, haha, I will go and arrange work for you." The factory director raised his eyebrows, obviously knowing the Qin family who was famous in the surrounding area.

When we got outside, a team leader came down from the factory, and a total of twenty people started looking for a cotton pile to pick up cotton.

"It's best to finish forging all the five cotton piles here today. If you work slowly, you won't need to come next time." The factory director was busy himself, so after arranging things, he went back to the office.

Although the salary here is fixed, everyone works very hard. Sixty yuan a day is not a low salary.

The team leader called out the names and began to distribute tasks. Two people were assigned to a group. One used a fork to pick up the cotton, and the other opened the snakeskin bag, filled it up and threw it down.

Two people were left behind to put the cotton onto the cart and then push the cart to the production line.

Qin Dahe was in a group with Hanwaer, and Tiedan and Erhu were in another group. The four of them took a ladder and went straight to the cotton pile to start working.

(End of this chapter)