Chapter 99: The Road to Wealth (Medium Cup) (Ch 812650137)

Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, it was early August.
The lychee season is over and longan is coming on the scene.
All departments, factories and farms of Hailufeng Company are also operating in an orderly manner.
Throughout July, the company’s revenue continued to remain at around 158 million.
The Yandunshan Feed Factory, which has been in trial production recently, also completed various tests and adjustments at the end of July, and rectified the problems pointed out by Jiang Miao.
Starting from August 1, some farmers called the purchasing office of Yandunshan Feed Factory to inquire about the purchase of Egyptian catfish.
Yandunshan Feed Factory also took the opportunity to issue an acquisition announcement.
Yancheng Village, which was close to the water and had the advantage of being the first to receive the news that the Yandunshan Feed Factory had started collecting Egyptian catfish.
In a small fish pond in the north of Shiomachi Village.
An old man with a weathered face, who seemed to be in his sixties or seventies, was gesticulating with his hands and feet. Opposite him was a young man who looked somewhat like him.
“Dad, my second uncle called me just now and told me that the Jiang family’s feed factory has closed. Let’s collect the fish quickly!”
“Ah…ah…ah…” The old man could only make ah ah sounds with his mouth and gestured with his hands. It was obvious that he was a mute.
At this moment, a tricycle drove over from the dirt road. On the tricycle was a middle-aged man who looked somewhat similar to the dumb old man. He shouted at the two of them:
“Brother, Aqiang.”
“Ah ah…” The mute old man continued to gesture, and only people who were familiar with him could roughly guess what he was gesturing.
“Uncle San.” The young man Aqiang hurried over.
“I’ve pulled a net over here, and we’ll catch the fish together later, otherwise you and your son won’t be able to catch all the fish until dark.”
Soon Aqiang picked up the fishing net, and his third uncle Lin Taining, wearing a one-piece waterproof pants and long waders, went directly into the fish pond.
The mute Lin Taian took a piece of waterproof cloth and spread it on the back of the tricycle. He also took a bucket and a shoulder pole, scooped a few buckets of water from the fish pond, and poured it into the back of the tricycle covered with the waterproof cloth.
At this time, uncle and nephew Lin Yongqiang and Lin Taining had already gone down to the fish pond and pulled the fishing net down, preparing to force the Egyptian catfish in the pond to the side close to the road.
Lin Taian, who had chosen the water, stood aside with a bucket, a shoulder pole, and a long-pole net bag, catching fish skillfully.
The Egyptian catfish weighing four or five kilograms are very ferocious. If two or three of them are caught in a net, it will be difficult to hold the net. But don’t be fooled by Lin Taian’s appearance as he is actually only in his fifties and in good health.
The fish pond was only seven and a half square meters in size, but after more than an hour of fishing, there were still many catfish jumping on the water. Seeing that the truck bed was already densely packed with catfish, he quickly gestured:
“Ahh…”
“Dad! You guys keep catching them. I’ll send the fish to the feed factory.”
“Aqiang, the car keys are on the tricycle, remember to bring your ID and license plate.”
“Know.”
Lin Yongqiang hurriedly drove his tricycle, carrying more than 500 kilograms of fish to the Yandunshan Feed Factory.
Along the way, he saw many tricycles carrying Egyptian catfish. Some people loaded them directly with buckets, while others used waterproof cloth like his family did.
When we arrived at the gate of Yandunshan Feed Factory, there was already a queue at the door.
Fortunately, we didn’t have to wait in line for too long, and Egyptian catfish are very resistant to low oxygen and do not need oxygen.
Soon it was Lin Yongqiang’s turn.
The tricycle drove into the purchasing room.
The factory employee shouted, “Give me your ID and license plate.”
Lin Yongqiang jumped off the tricycle and took out his ID card and license plate from his waist bag. The female buyer took the documents and inserted them into the recognition machine. Soon a related message popped up on the computer page.
A male buyer wearing a safety helmet opened the side guard of the tricycle. There were several large plastic baskets on the side. As the guard was opened, the fish rushed down with the water and fell into the large baskets.
There is a cart under the big basket. As all the fish fall into the basket, a weigher wearing long water boots pulls the cart over to weigh them.
A few minutes later.
“That’s 273 kilograms in total.”
“Is there any problem?” The male buyer looked at Lin Yongqiang.
“no problem.”
The female buyer looked up and asked, “819 yuan, do you want to pay now? Or do you want to pay after the goods are collected?”
“We’ll tie it up together after we finish collecting it.”
“Okay, I’ll write it down for you. You can take a photo to avoid making mistakes.” The female buyer operated the computer page and printed out a receipt.
Lin Yongqiang took out his mobile phone, took a picture of the receipt, and drove away in a hurry.
Jiang Dafu and Lin Yongqiang from Xinxiang passed each other.
Jiang Dafu looks a little old. Although he is only in his forties, his face is full of traces of wind and frost, and he looks like he is in his fifties or sixties.
Because his wife is paralyzed in bed and his two children’s work is not going well, he can only get up early and go to bed late every day to farm the fields and grow vegetables, but the family’s financial situation is still too difficult.
A few months ago, Jiang Dahai found him and asked him to grow duckweed while contracting a piece of wasteland in the village and opening a fish pond to raise Egyptian catfish.
Today is finally the harvest season.
Jiang Dafu, full of hope, went out alone early in the morning, borrowed a water pump, and pumped water from one of the fish ponds to another.
This was the eighth load of Egyptian catfish he had brought over.
“Dafu! Here you are again?” The weigher, who was also from Xinxiang, greeted him with a smile.
“Yes! After we finish pulling this car, we can take a break at noon, and then clean the pond bottom in the afternoon. I estimate that we can get another one or two thousand kilograms. We will deal with the other fish pond tomorrow.” Jiang Dafu was smiling, completely different from his previous decadence.
“Come on, give me a hand.”
After a while, he weighed his truckload of Egyptian catfish, which weighed a total of 462 kilograms.
“Pay the money!”
“Including the previous eight trucks, the total is 4,068 kilograms, and the payment is 12,204 yuan. Check to see if there are any mistakes.” The female buyer handed him a stack of documents.
Jiang Dafu quickly took a look, then took out a small notebook and compared the numbers one by one. Finally, he calculated and confirmed that there was no problem with the price. Then he said, “No problem.”
“Cash? Bank card? Or scan a QR code?”
“Cash!”
After a while, a large stack of red banknotes appeared in Jiang Dafu’s hands.
His fellow villager quickly reminded him: “Dafu, you have ordered the money and you need to keep it safe. Don’t lose it.”
“I know, thank you.” Jiang Dafu nodded with a smile, and held the money in his hand very tightly. He was counting on this little money to make a living.
The male buyer shouted from a distance: “Drive the empty truck away quickly…”
“Okay, okay.” Jiang Dafu quickly drove away on his tricycle. After leaving the feed factory, he counted the money again on the roadside not far away, and then stuffed all the money into his pocket.
After restarting the engine, the tricycle headed briskly towards Xinxiang.
Along the way, Jiang Dafu’s smile never stopped.
His family dug two acres of fish ponds, and estimated that they could earn 30,000 yuan this time. In addition, the one and a half acres of duckweed are almost ready for harvest, which will be another source of income.
After more than three months of hard work, after deducting the capital, he earned almost 20,000 yuan, which made Jiang Dafu’s originally very tight family a lot more comfortable.
People feel cheerful when they are happy. No wonder he was smiling all the way.
Arrived at Xinxiang intersection.
“Uncle, have you sold the fish?”
Jiang Dafu stopped and saw his nephew Wang Baorui who was refueling at the gas station at the intersection. He smiled and nodded: “Baorui, have you harvested the fish pond?”
“Don’t mention it. I wanted to collect it today, but my tricycle got a punctured tire halfway through the journey. I just repaired the car and came here to refuel. I’ll collect it tomorrow!” Wang Baorui looked helpless.
“It doesn’t matter one day.”
“Uncle, what is the purchase price of the feed factory?”
“Three dollars! I’ve taken all the money.”
“That’s good. Several children are studying and will start school in September. This is just enough for emergency use.”
“Hold on for a few more years! Once Xiaofei and the others are employed, you and Lijuan can relax a little.”
Wang Baorui heard the gas station attendant calling him to pay and scratched his head: “Uncle, I’ll go pay. I’ll come to see you when I have time.”
“Go ahead! I’ll go back and cook too.”
After watching Jiang Dafu drive away, Wang Baorui went to the gas station counter to pay and drove his tricycle back to Jincheng Village.
His home is to the west of Jincheng Village, close to Xinxiang. As soon as he returned home, he saw his mother Jiang Hongmei coming back with her little grandson.
“Mom, where’s Lijuan?”
Jiang Hongmei took her grandson’s hand and said, “She said she was going to your father-in-law’s house to borrow a big net and would be back soon.”
“Xiao Hu! Come here, let daddy hold you for a while.”
“No… your beard is too prickly…” the younger son looked protesting.
At this moment, Fang Lijuan was driving her electric scooter while scolding her second son who was sitting in the back, and soon they arrived at the door.
Wang Baorui helped his wife pull the fishing net off the footrest: “What’s wrong now?”
“This bad boy, instead of learning good things, he went to learn how to swim and even went to the beach.” Fang Lijuan was very angry.
Hearing this, Jiang Hongmei’s face darkened. She had originally planned to persuade her daughter-in-law not to beat or scold the children, but now she was not in the mood.
Wang Baorui’s face turned black as the bottom of a pot. He immediately dropped his fishing net and took off his belt: “Wang Xiaolong, kneel before the landlord.”
“Dad! I don’t dare anymore…”
“Kneel down!” Wang Baorui roared.
The second son, Wang Xiaolong, had a pale face and knelt tremblingly in front of the landlord’s shrine at the side of the door.
Wang Baorui showed no mercy and grabbed his son’s palm by the waistband.
Bang!
Snap, snap, snap…
“Wow, wow, wow…I don’t dare anymore…”
“If I don’t teach you a lesson, you won’t know what pain is!”
The reason why Wang Baorui reacted so strongly was because when he was a child, he did not keep an eye on his two younger brothers, who ran to the beach to swim and ended up drowning.
This incident also stimulated his father. Not long after, he was in a trance and walked to the side of the road, where he was hit and killed by a passing car. At that time, there were no surveillance cameras on the nearby roads, so this incident became an unsolved case.
Therefore, even though his family lived by the sea, they rarely went near it, just to prevent the tragedy from happening again.
After hitting his palms more than a dozen times, Wang Baorui stopped and said angrily: “Next time you dare to go to the beach, don’t come back to this house. Just treat me as if I don’t have a son like you.”
As Fang Lijuan was from the same village, she certainly knew about her husband’s family’s past. If it weren’t for that incident, her husband wouldn’t have dropped out of high school.
People who live by the sea all year round are sometimes more in awe of the ocean because they have seen too many teenagers being ruthlessly swallowed by the ocean.
“Okay, calm down. We still have to collect fish tomorrow. I’ll talk to Xiaolong later.” Jiang Hongmei pushed her son into the house: “Lijuan, you go cook too.”
In fact, the reason why Wang Baorui gave birth to five children was because he was worried that something might happen to himself or his children, so he gave birth to five children in one go. This also led to his family’s financial difficulties. If it hadn’t been for the development of the Jincheng Bay real estate project a few years ago, which provided him with land acquisition compensation, the family would have been even more difficult.
Now he can count on a good harvest of Egyptian catfish from the three acres of fish pond.
Just when Wang Baorui was about to ask the other children to wash their hands and eat.
Two small electric scooters came to the door.
“What’s going on?”
Jiang Hongmei, who was comforting her grandson at the front door, turned around and saw a troublemaker in the village and a strange young man: “Xia Gu, what are you doing here?”
The troublemaker with the nickname of Shrimp Girl said with an apologetic smile, “Aunt Qi, I’m looking for Brother Baorui.”
“Who?” Wang Baorui, who was in the house, came out and found that it was Xia Gu and a stranger. He frowned slightly and said, “Xia Gu, are you looking for me?”
“Brother Baorui, don’t you have three acres of Egyptian fish? I’ll take one acre, how about 15,000?”
Wang Baorui said with a fake smile: “Xia Gu, do you think I’m a fool? Fifteen thousand per mu?”
Shrimp Girl still didn’t give up: “Brother Baorui, the fish ponds in our village have all been harvested today. One acre only yields a little over 10,000 catties. I’ll just earn some hard work money.”
“Go find someone else!” Wang Baorui refused without even thinking, because he knew the situation of his own fish pond very well. For more than three months, his mother had been going to nearby seafood restaurants and food stalls to get leftovers every day. Those Egyptian catfish were raised very big by him. He estimated that there were at least 15,000 kilograms per acre.
At this time, how could he rent out the fish pond to someone else?
“Brother Baorui, is there really nothing to discuss?”
“What the hell are you going to discuss? When are you going to pay me back the two hundred dollars you owe me?”
“Uh… I have something else to do.”
Xia Gu pulled another young man and drove away in a flash on a small electric scooter.
Watching Xia Gu and the other person leave, Wang Baorui was about to go in, but his mother Jiang Hongmei pulled him back: “Baorui, I’d better go to the fish pond and watch over it. Come back after you finish your meal and I’ll take your place.”
“Mom, are you worried that Shrimp Auntie will cause trouble?”
Jiang Hongmei knew the customs in the countryside too well. She was not afraid of people who were jealous of others making money, but she was afraid that someone would secretly put pesticides in the fish pond. “You must be on guard against others. That guy has bad intentions. Our family’s next few months will depend on tomorrow. It’s better to be careful.”
After hearing what his mother said, Wang Baorui also felt that he had been a little careless: “Okay then! Mom, you go over and watch first. Lijuan and I will take turns to keep watch at night.”
Xia Gu and another young man who left Wang Baorui parked their electric scooters at the entrance of the village.
“Shrimp, your idea is unreliable!”
“Tietou, don’t be discouraged! Why don’t we go to a farm farther away?”
“There are very few Egyptian fish raised in farms farther away! I think we should just forget it!” Tietou was already hesitating.
But Shrimp Auntie still didn’t give up: “This is a good opportunity to make money. In a few days, people from other places will know about it, and we will have no chance.”
“Goodbye, I’ll go home and help. If you really catch cheap Egyptian fish, I can lend you my license plate and I’ll charge you a point. Bye.” Tietou then tightened the handlebars and the electric scooter flew out.
Obviously no one is stupid.
As for going to other places to collect fish, Xia Gu thought about it and gave up the idea, mainly because he was not familiar with it and it would be easy to be cheated.
Tietou, who was driving his electric scooter home, entered Changsha Village.
Before he reached the door of his house, he heard angry curses from afar. Tietou approached with a smirk on his face.
“What did you do?”
“Dad, a classmate of Jinmachi’s is looking for me.”
Lin Songjiang said with a straight face: “Jin Ting? Is it that shrimp girl again? Didn’t I tell you not to associate with such people? What can such an idle guy accomplish?”
“knew…”
“I know, I know. You keep saying I know all day long. Do you want to piss me off to death? Don’t learn from your damn brother and get tricked into going to Southeast Asia.” Lin Songjiang vented his inner frustration with a look of disappointment.
When Tietou heard about his elder brother, he didn’t dare to be stubborn anymore, because if he dared to talk back, his father would probably break his legs.
After scolding for a while, Lin Songjiang finally remembered the important matter: “Go to the fish pond this afternoon. If you dare to run out before the fish at home are collected, watch out for your dog legs.”
Lin Songjiang and his family had a hurried lunch at noon.
At a little after one o’clock, he brought his family to the four-acre fish pond he contracted.
One pond had been drained in the morning, but there were still a lot of Egyptian catfish in the mud at the bottom of the pond, so the family divided the work.
Tietou and his brother were assigned to clear the silt in the pond.
Lin Songjiang and his wife took net bags and bait and went to the other two ponds to catch the Egyptian catfish attracted by the bait.
Wearing ill-fitting waders, straw hats, and holding blunt-nosed rakes and buckets, the Ironhead brothers stepped into the mud, digging through it with great effort to find the Egyptian catfish hiding therein.
“Brother, at your feet…”
“Damn, this dead fish is too slippery.”
After digging for half an hour, we finally caught more than 100 kilograms of fish.
“It’s too hot, take a break.”
The two brothers carried the water to the dam and stood under the longan tree to enjoy the cool air.
Tietou picked a bunch of longans at random.
His younger brother was drinking water from a mineral water bottle, fanning himself with his straw hat: “Huh…Brother, these fish should be worth a few hundred dollars, right?”
“You’re wishing. It’s over a hundred pounds, so it’s just over a hundred yuan.” Tietou pressed open a longan and put it into his mouth.
“So cheap? Then there shouldn’t be much money to be made, right?”
Looking at his confused brother, Tietou also understood that his brother was studying in a closed-door school at the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University and didn’t know the specific situation, so he explained: “The price of one dollar and fifty cents per catty is indeed cheap, but Egyptian fish grow fast. As long as someone buys them, there is money to be made.”
“Then how much can our four acres of fish pond be sold for?”
“About 60,000 or 70,000!”
“That’s all?”
“That’s all? When you start working, you won’t say such things. Study hard and try to find a job in the city.”
“Well…”
“Stop burping and eat longan.”
Lin Songjiang and his wife had already caught about 700 to 800 kilograms of fish, so they asked Tietou and the other man to carry the fish over.
Soon, Lin Songjiang drove a tricycle and took away a cart of Egyptian fish.
This scene was happening simultaneously in five or six villages near Magong Town, with many farmers bringing their entire family.
The first batch of farmers who had been raising fish for three months tasted the first sweetness.
Người mua: Newking, 15/11/2024 17:10