Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1162 Sold out

It was already lunchtime when Ye Yaodong came out of the village committee. He went home again under the scorching sun.

But when he passed the path near Linji's home, he turned back towards his home.

His wife was taking care of their two sons while they were eating. After asking a few questions, she found out that he had not been home for the past two months, not even during the Mid-Autumn Festival. He just called back.

When asked when he would be back, he said he didn't know.

Ye Yaodong had no choice but to give up and go home first.

The road to Linji is probably blocked. He seems to be busier than the president. Even his wife said that she hasn't seen him many times this year, and his son almost can't recognize what his father looks like.

After returning home, he told Lin Xiuqing about this matter again.

"Are you sure the machine you want will work? Will it work?"

"If it's the same as the ice water in the summer, then it will be useful. I'll call and ask about it tomorrow. The bag is also key. Let's see if I can ask him to make it for me, and give me the whole 500ml bag specification, and ask him to make it for me."

"Then you decide. If you're sure it works, then buy it. If it costs more, then spend more. The key is that it has to be useful."

"It is definitely useful. New things will always be updated and replaced. Things are created to make life more convenient. Just imagine that all our fish sauces are packed in bags weighing one kilogram. How convenient would it be to sell them? You don't have to carry bottles to get them. It is also much more convenient to transport. You don't have to carry them one by one. It can also reduce the chance of damage. If a tank breaks, more than a hundred kilograms will be gone."

"If the machine is useless after purchase, tens of millions of dollars will be lost."

"Then rest assured, we will definitely try out the products on site after we buy them, and only pay for them if they are feasible."

"Ah."

"Then I'll call and reply tomorrow. The goods will arrive just before the New Year. The large amount of fish sauce fermented in the first half of the year will be filtered out and bagged during the New Year. The amount produced in the second half of the year will also be large."

"I just got my money back from what I sold in the first half of the year, and now I have to invest a large sum again. I don't know when I can get my money back."

"It will pay off. This is a technological innovation, so the investment is necessary."

"Ah."

Lin Xiuqing didn't say anything else, just told him to tell her when he needed the money.

There was nothing to do in the afternoon, and many things were just waiting for results.

After waking up from his nap, he simply called Ye Yaohai to make the final decision. It didn't matter if it was a day earlier or later. However, he explained a lot of details, especially the plastic bag that needed to hold one kilogram of goods. He would try his best to get the whole set for him so that he wouldn't have to look for it everywhere.

After finishing the call, I chatted with two kelp farmers and asked about their current progress.

However, several of his suggestions were immediately rejected, with the answer being that it had never been done before and that they were doing it this way now. He didn't say any more, as he had to wait until next year when the fish were successfully raised.

We are still in the exploratory stage and have not yet successfully grown it. It is not easy to make some changes, so it is better to grow it successfully according to their old method first.

After returning home, he met a relative who came to rent a boat, so he rented out the new boat as well. Now he went to the dock again, pointed it out, and told his younger brother that he had to collect another boatload of goods.

Another busy day has passed.

He had been very busy over the past two days, taking care of all the little things at home. It was not until the third day that he was able to truly relax and take a breath, without having to run back and forth under the scorching sun.

After breakfast, Ye's father also asked him, "When do you plan to go out to sea? You have been resting at home for two days."

Ye Yaodong glanced at him unhappily, "You've been resting at home for two days, but I've been busy running around for two days. I'm exhausted and I haven't even had a chance to catch my breath."

Father Ye was silent for a moment before he said, "Then let's take a day off today and go out to sea tomorrow night?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, it's fine. But I feel like the sky outside is getting a little cloudy. It looks like it's going to rain? When I got up this morning, it was still bright, and it felt like the sun was going to come out soon, but now it feels cloudy. Did the Harvest say when it will be back?"

"How can I know? The ship is at sea, and whether it can return depends on the weather and the harvest."

"Well, let's tentatively schedule it for tomorrow night. We'll see what's next tomorrow."

I don’t know if he was a bad luck person. Just after he finished chatting with his father in the morning, the sky turned gloomy and it started to rain in the afternoon. When he was taking a nap, he could hear the sound of dripping rain outside, and even the air smelled damp.

He got up and opened the window, and sure enough it had begun to drizzle. He had no choice but to treat it as a vacation and rest for two more days.

Just as autumn begins, the weather becomes cooler with each rain.

He rubbed his arms. He had been sleeping shirtless recently and he felt a little cold when he just got up. He took out his long sleeves and put them on.

Originally, only the children wore long sleeves and long pants, while the adults were still wearing short sleeves as usual. The afternoon rain made it noticeably colder.

When we walked out, Ah Qing was also telling the old lady that the temperature had dropped, and that we had to take out our autumn and winter clothes, and put away our summer clothes…

"Sweater! My sweater! My rainbow sweater!"

Ye Xiaoxi was squatting and playing with her doll. When she heard this, she immediately shouted out in inspiration. She suddenly remembered the rainbow sweater she wanted two days ago.

She had forgotten about it at first, but when she heard the temperature was dropping, she remembered the rainbow sweater she had been longing for.

"You look like a sweater to me!"

"Dad said..."

"Then ask him to weave it for you."

Ye Xiaoxi turned her head around looking for Ye Yaodong, and just in time she saw Ye Yaodong standing at the door. She immediately ran over, hugged his feet out of habit, and sat on the back of his feet.

"Dad, Mom said I look like a sweater."

"Looking for a fight?"

"No, my mother asked you to knit a sweater for me, you said it, you said it, you said it..." Ye Xiaoxi hugged his legs relentlessly, shaking her head and acting coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, buy, buy, buy."

He responded casually, thinking that she would forget it again in a moment.

He changed the subject and asked Lin Xiuqing, "It's raining, have you put away all the dried fish in the workshop?"

"Yes, there is not much cargo before the Harvest docks. The boats back home bring back only sundries. Not many of the big ones are dried, and the small ones are fermented. They are all collected in no time."

"This rain should only last two or three days at most."

"Who knows? Let's listen to the weather forecast tonight."

"It's been two days and your father hasn't called me. I don't know how the sales of that batch of lighters are going?" Ye Yaodong asked while sitting down at the table, supporting his chin.

"If you're worried, why don't you give them a call and ask?"

"It's raining. Let's wait until it stops. If you don't call me when it stops, I'll go make a phone call and ask."

This matter was also very important to him. He was worried about where to spend the money he had on hand. He had to hold more than 200,000 yuan in his hands, which made him worried that it would depreciate.

If the product is selling well, he will make another trip to Zhejiang Province to bring back more goods, and by the way, ask Fang Jingfu to invest in it, and bring two people over to look after it.

The whole family was bored on rainy days, but we didn’t dare turn on the TV, so we could only listen to the radio to pass the time.

However, during dinner, Ye's mother came over and brought another piece of gossip.

It turned out that Ye Yaosheng's wife gave birth to a daughter in the afternoon. Aunt Ye Er was so angry that she jumped up and down. Her face turned black as soon as she held the baby in her arms.

"I'm telling you, I heard that if Ah Sheng's mother-in-law hadn't been there, his mother would have drowned the girl in the piss bucket. I don't know if it's true or not, but that's what people say. As soon as the child was born, your second aunt started scolding her in the house."

Ye Yaodong got furious when he heard this. "Damn, how can you be a human being? They are all your biological children. You have two children who are not your biological children at home. It doesn't make sense to drown your biological child."

We always hear about families drowning their children in urine buckets because they had too many daughters. But if it happens to one of their own, we can't just treat it as a rumor; it's too cruel.

Mother Ye sighed, "You don't understand. This is a reconstituted family. They already have two daughters, and Ah Sheng has not had a child of his own yet, so they can have another child, but they can only have one, regardless of gender."

"Now that the baby is born, it will be a girl, so your second aunt is unhappy. If you want to have the next baby, you can either hide it or get caught and have the baby aborted. Your house will be smashed and you will be fined if you give birth to the baby."

"But I think it's just rumors outside. Your second aunt only said it verbally. It's impossible for her to drown the child. Ah Sheng doesn't even have his own child yet. Even though it's a girl, she's the only one he has. At most, she's unhappy and her words are a little harsh."

"Maybe it was because of the harsh words spoken in the delivery room that the rumor of drowning the child spread."

Everyone didn't know what to say now, only the old lady said "Amitabha".

Lin Xiuqing also frowned, "Now that she's born, she's Ah Sheng's first biological child. He didn't have his own child at this age, but now he has one. A daughter is also a treasure to him."

"That's right. He was so happy to hear that the baby was born. But when he heard the scolding in the house, he rushed over angrily, dragged his mother out, and drove her out of the house, telling her not to come to his house again."

"This is too much. If there is no son to take care of him in his old age, that is Brother Sheng's business. Why should she worry about it?"

The old lady said, "Raising a son costs 99 yuan, but worrying about it for years. Your second aunt is also worried that Ah Sheng will not have a son in the future, and no one will take care of him in his old age and see him to the end. If he dies, there will be no one to break the pot."

"When that time comes, you're already dead, so why would you care about what happens after you die? You're already dead, so it's not your business to worry about what happens after you die. That's for your descendants to worry about."

"Second aunt will be the one who takes the lead in the future. How can she care about what will happen to Brother Sheng in his later years? Did anyone break a pot? They are all just bored."

"Raising a son doesn't necessarily mean you can take care of yourself in your old age, and there are many unfilial sons. Why can't you work harder and save more money while you are young? "

"Besides, who says raising a daughter doesn't mean you can't be filial to your parents? At most, the child won't have your surname, which is nothing. If you really want a grandson, then wait for your daughter's child to give one of them your surname and raise it yourself. Wouldn't that make half of her bloodline? Isn't that different?

Ye Yaodong's words were too avant-garde. Everyone present had never heard of the term "dividing grandchildren" and were stunned by what he said.

"Who... who would be willing to share with you a grandchild? No matter how many grandchildren you have, they are your own. Besides, every family can only have one or two children nowadays. Who would be willing to share with you? You are overthinking."

Ye's mother just thought he was too naive.

Ye Yaodong did not refute, because this is how it will be in the future. Because of this policy, many families born in the 80s and 90s have only two sisters or an only daughter, and they all need to share the wealth with their grandchildren.

Father Ye knocked on the table and said, "This is your biological child after all. You have raised other people's children. There is no reason to kill your biological child. This is all just a rumor."

"That's what I said."

"Having more children in the family is a happy thing anyway. At least Ah Sheng is a real father now. He has his own child. You can have another one secretly in two years. If someone from your workplace comes to your house, you have to cover for them. You can't just let yourself be dragged away to get sterilized."

"I understand. As long as the people from this unit step into the village, the whole village will know about it. Except for those who are pregnant, they can't run away and can only hide. Aren't the people in our own village the ones who decide how many people are in a family and how many children they have? Hide the other children, and don't register the newly born ones yet. Just insist that there is only one, and the family will go to the next family. If no one deliberately makes trouble, they won't be caught and sterilized like this."

"What a sin... Amitabha..."

Mother Ye glared at the old lady and said, "Don't say 'you're doing me a disservice' or 'Amitabha'. Nothing has happened to them. You're telling them that as if you're hoping for bad luck for them."

"I'll just say a few Buddhist mantras..."

"Don't you deserve it, Amitabha?"

"nonsense."

"Okay, let's eat. Just listen to other people's affairs. Why are you arguing with them?"

Mother Ye looked at Father Ye like he was a fool. "Were we just chatting? Which eye of yours saw us arguing? You're crazy."

Lin Xiuqing smiled and said, "It's a good thing that the baby is born. We'll pick a day in a couple of days to give the red envelopes."

"Yes, Ah Sheng has just had his first child at this age, so he must send some eggnog over in a few days."

Ye Yaodong changed the subject and asked his father, "Have you been to your uncle's place? We have to go to our hometown in the provincial capital to worship our ancestors around the third day of October. They all have to go, and your cousins ​​have to send two representatives to go with them."

"After you came back yesterday at noon and told them, I went to tell them yesterday afternoon. They all said they knew and would wait until the invitation arrived before they decided who would go."

"When the time comes, we'll sail there and stop at the provincial capital's dock. We'll hire a tractor after we get to the dock."

"Your uncle said yesterday that we could just take your tractor. It's more convenient and we don't have to go back and forth to change vehicles."

He scoffed, "Yes, it's convenient. I can't charge them for riding in my car. If we go out together and ride on the road, they must be worried about sharing the bill. Or they can pay for their own expenses. It's embarrassing to ask a junior like me to pay. It's a good idea."

"Well... then it's really convenient if our family has a car." Ye's father didn't think there was anything wrong with this. As their family had money, it wouldn't be a big deal if they paid a little for the travel expenses.

"I didn't think of asking them to pay. It's enough for us to go together, recognize our hometown, and find the ancestral temple. Riding on a tractor all the time is unbearable for both the buttocks and the body. It's better to take a boat. After docking, I will pay for a tractor to take us to the village. It's not inconvenient at all."

"That's fine too. If you've made up your mind, just do it. They won't pay for it anyway, so you have the final say on how to arrange the people."

"Ah."

When I go to the provincial capital later, I can discuss the filling machine with Ye Yaohai in person. It is always more convenient and detailed than talking on the phone. Besides, he also needs to inquire about the plastic bag.

By then, you will definitely need a steady supply of plastic bags of fish sauce, so find out in advance where to purchase them.

"Oh yes, Ah Hai will have to be brought along when the time comes. He is the eldest grandson."

Father Ye nodded.

"Have the two workers resigned?"

"I quit and replaced them with Xiaowu and Aqiang, the two with sad faces. They insisted that I give a reason, so I told them directly that you don't like people with bad intentions, and then they stopped talking. But they still set their sights on your boat and asked if I could rent the new boat. I just said that I had already rented it out, and then they had nothing to say."

"Well, we have already fired them, so how can we rent a boat to them? It's better to talk it out, so that they know where they are wrong. Otherwise, they will think we are unkind. We agreed to hire them regularly, but ended up firing them alone."

"When we go out to sea in a couple of days, I'll mention this to the others and warn them not to have any evil intentions."

"Ah."

The rain continued for two days before it cleared up.

Ye Yaodong also took advantage of the rainy days to have a good rest at home for two days.

Now that the rain had stopped, he had also agreed with his father to wait for the Harvest to go out to sea together the next day.

The Harvest also returned yesterday, so it’s just the right time to rest for two days and we can go out together tomorrow night.

However, he saw that the harvest of the Harvest yesterday did not seem to be very good. It was said that most of the crabs caught were crabs. For those of them who went far away, the crabs would die after a short period of storage and could only be thrown back into the sea.

Ye Yaodong also knew that crabs were fat in autumn and it was the season for eating crabs, so there was nothing he could do about the large numbers.

The amount of groceries brought back was quite a lot. It happened that the weather was sunny today, so the workshop started working. Moreover, today was the weekend, and the children in the family were very energetic. They all ran to help with the work and earn wages. The efficiency in the workshop was much higher, and all the groceries were dried in the afternoon, so they finished work.

After receiving the wages from Lin Xiuqing, the children ran happily to the village store.

Part-time work doesn't make much money in a day, so just use it to buy snacks for the children. Sister Ye and Sister Ye won't search the money when they see it, unless they work for many days in a row and accumulate several dollars. In that case, adults really won't see their children holding so much money.

These kids have learned their lesson now. They take the money after they finish their work and don’t accumulate it. They buy food immediately after taking the money. What they eat is theirs.

Ye Yaodong also took advantage of the clear weather in the afternoon when the store should not be busy and called Lin's father in the city to inquire about the sales of lighters.

Father Lin couldn't stop laughing on the other end of the phone.

"I called you this morning, but I don't know if it's because of the heavy rain here, the signal is bad. All the lighters you sent have been sold out. And let me tell you, those lighters are all 10 yuan each, and the wholesale price is also 10 yuan each. They were all bought by someone."

He was surprised for a moment, "Didn't you tell people that the wholesale price was 8 yuan?"

"In the beginning, there were some people asking about it, but not many were willing to buy it. Although it was cheaper than the Friendship Store, at less than 10% off, they only asked about individual units. So in the first two days, although there were many people asking, no one was willing to wholesale so many, so we only sold a few dozen individually."

"But yesterday someone came to our door and said he bought our lighters outside and wanted to come over to wholesale. I was cautious and asked him how much he paid for it. He told me not to worry about how much he paid for it and just ask me how much I would pay for wholesale."

"I just told him it was 10 yuan, and waited for him to bargain. He bargained a few words, and then didn't say anything else. He took 1000 and came back this morning to take the rest."

"I was thinking that if he bargained for a while longer, I would lower the price. Bargaining is a back-and-forth process. Besides, when someone asked about wholesale these past two days, I only said 20 yuan for more than 9 pieces, not 8 yuan, so I left a bottom line."

"I felt that the man looked unfamiliar when I saw him yesterday. He wasn't a regular wholesaler in our store. And when I heard him say he bought it from someone outside, I thought he must have paid at least 10 yuan, so I said yuan and didn't rush to give up."

"But I saw that he seemed very anxious. When I didn't give in, he asked me to take him to inspect the goods first. After the inspection, he bargained with me again. I saw that he was in a hurry to leave, and someone was urging me, so I held on tight and didn't give in. He had no choice but to pay immediately."

"His truck was right outside. He moved it right away in less than half an hour."

"Then this morning he brought another large truck over and took away all the remaining 900 items we had."

Ye Yaodong smiled happily, "Dad, you are really good at business. I'm asking you for the right thing. I'll give you a big red envelope tomorrow. You sold all the goods so quickly."

Father Lin also smiled from ear to ear, "It's also luck that I came across this. Otherwise, if I had to sell them one by one, it would probably take a month or two to sell them."

"It definitely won't take that long. We can sell dozens of them in the first two days. Once the reputation gets out, people will naturally be willing to buy wholesale. Everything is difficult at the beginning."

"You're right. Two or three people came this afternoon and wanted to wholesale 20 lighters. I told them that they were sold out and I should wait for the next batch. It's really easy to make money and they're really easy to sell. You should hurry up and get another batch. Don't miss it."

"Really? I told you, at first people just looked at this thing, bought it as a novelty, casually put it on a shoulder pole to sell, or put it in a store to try it out, and when they saw people asking about it and buying it, they would naturally come to us to wholesale it."

"Yes, yes, please check and see when the next batch of goods will be available, so that I can give an explanation to the customers who come to ask about it."

Ye Yaodong pondered for a moment and said, "Just say three or four days."

He originally wanted to go out to sea with the Harvest tomorrow, but it looks like he will have to wait a few days. He has to go to Zhejiang Province tomorrow and bring back several thousand lighters.

You're a bastard who doesn't make money.

This trip can earn you 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, which is much faster and less troublesome than going out to sea to fish.

No wonder so many people are involved in smuggling instead of fishing...

He thought that he had to get a little more this time and sell it slowly, otherwise he wouldn't have the time to go back and forth every few days.

I just don't know how much Fang Jingfu can squeeze out for him first? Damn, the production volume is also a problem, and he can't get as much as he wants.

"Can it be ready in three or four days? Okay, I get it. If someone comes to my house, I'll let them wait three or four days..."

"Hang up first, Dad. I have to make a phone call to place an order, otherwise there might not be much stock in three or four days."

"Okay, then you call first, I'll hang up first."

Ye Yaodong hung up the phone and immediately called Fang Jingfu.

I don't know if he was waiting in front of the phone. He answered the phone the moment I called, and there was no need for a pass on the message, it was just him.

"No need to look for me, I am Fang Jingfu, who are you?"

"I'm Ye Yaodong."

"Ah, brother, what do you think? Do you want to form a partnership? My god, it's so difficult to borrow money."

"Uh...you haven't been waiting for my call?"

"Not really. Some people also call me to place orders for lighters, so I have been basically at the research institute these two days, sitting in front of the phone waiting for calls. Otherwise, when others answer the phone, they will call me Fang Jingfu Fang Jingfu. I have almost monopolized this phone call. My phone rings all day long..."

Ye Yaodong ignored his nonsense and interrupted him to ask, "Can't you apply for a bank loan? Isn't it easy to get a bank loan?"

"Hey, are you afraid of risks? You don't know that just these few days, I heard that someone was disassembling our lighters and comparing them with the ones from the Friendship Store, and they were also researching it."

"I also want to find someone to share the risk with. Who knows what will happen in the future? Now the number of orders is large, but there are also many people who follow the trend. There is no technical content in it. It is very simple."

"If I go to a bank, then I will have to pay back the loan myself, right? If I find someone to share the burden with, I can lower the risk, so I will have to bear less, right?"

"Also, bank loans still require approval, and the approval process is not that fast, and they may not lend me that much."

"Oh, I'm telling you the truth. I'm just worried that I have too much debt and the pressure is too great. I originally only planned to set up a small workshop and do some casual work. Who knew it would be so out of control and the stall would expand so much in an instant. I'm so worried..."

"Brother, you have no idea how much pressure I've been under recently. My hair has been falling out in clumps, and I've even pulled it out a lot. I haven't paid much attention to the money, but I've spent a lot of it. I don't even dare to tell my parents."

"If I were to apply for a loan, they would definitely know about it and would definitely scold me... Not only would I have to invest my family's money, but I would also have to prepare for a loan and owe the country money..."

Ye Yaodong didn't say a few words before I heard him talking like beans pouring. I understood what he said, but I felt that he talked too much.

I quickly interrupted him again, otherwise he would go on and on and on without getting to the point.

"How much do you need?"

"Oh, at least 5. I need to advance the money to buy the materials. If you don't plan to invest, then I can only bite the bullet and apply for a loan. I will do it without asking for permission later. My parents will scold me as they please. There is nothing I can do. I have received the order, but the materials have not been placed, and the previous orders have not been completed..."

"You can call more workers. The materials are ready..."

"No, the materials are being produced. All the ready-made materials have been brought here. I have hired more than 50 workers now."

(End of this chapter)