Reborn in 1990, a life of fishing and gathering seafood.

Chapter 045: Selling Seafood

"Ouch!"

"Ah Ba, you caught so much seafood?"

"This must weigh at least two or three hundred pounds, enough for a fishing boat to go out to sea. It should fetch a good price..."

"Tsk tsk tsk~ Those blue crabs alone can sell for tens of dollars. The miscellaneous fish might be cheaper, but the advantage is that there are so many of them..."

"Didn't you see there's another blue melon seed? That's good stuff too... I didn't expect to catch so much seafood with fish traps. I'll set some up next time."

This is the dam and wharf area.

After collecting all the fish traps, Fang Hao and Fang Qiang brought all the seafood over here to sell.

It quickly attracted a crowd of onlookers, many of whom looked on with envy.

The catch from this trap was pretty good.

The forty fish traps yielded two to three hundred catties of seafood.

Although most of them are common miscellaneous fish, there are also some good ones such as grouper, blue crab, octopus, and shrimp.

Selling them all would bring in some money.

After all, what a fish trap catches is not something that can be controlled by humans; whatever it catches is what it is.

"Myna bird!"

"You've caught quite a lot of seafood this time. This blue grouper and these blue crabs are all good stuff..."

at this time.

Wang Mazi was also very surprised.

I never expected Fang Hao to be able to get so much seafood.

It's hard to believe that a hoodlum would go beachcombing and fishing.

Is this a sign that he is preparing to reform and learn a new way?

For a moment, I couldn't help but feel uneasy.

"Will you accept it or not?"

Fang Hao got straight to the point.

They caught so much seafood using fish traps.

Fang Hao certainly couldn't sell them himself, so the easiest solution was to sell them to these seafood vendors.

I sold the rat-spotted rat to Wang Mazi a couple of days ago, so we had a working relationship before. I might as well sell it to him directly this time.

"Take it!"

"If I don't buy seafood, what else would I buy?"

Wang Mazi immediately patted his chest.

He was a seafood dealer.

There's no reason not to do business when it comes knocking.

You know, I made a hundred yuan profit from the last grouper I bought from Fang Hao.

If Fang Hao buys all these seafood items, he should be able to make a profit.

"Then take a look."

"What price can you offer for these seafood items?"

Fang Hao didn't waste any words.

Tell Wang Mazi to hurry up and name a price.

The seafood caught in the fish trap is quite varied.

They have all sorts of things!

We can only make a simple broad category division.

For example, mud crabs, grouper, and shrimp are sold separately, while the cheap, small fish are all put together.

"Alright!"

"This blue melon seed is a good find... although it's not as good as the grouper, it's still worth thirty yuan a pound! As for the blue crab, I can give it to you for four yuan a pound! As for the other miscellaneous fish, they're cheap and worthless..."

Wang Mazi said as he looked at it.

The acquisition price was announced very quickly.

After all, they are professional secondhand dealers who buy seafood from the seaside docks, take it out, and resell it to make a profit.

They don't catch seafood!

They're just seafood porters!

Seafood vendors pay very low prices when they buy seafood directly from fishermen.

Because they need to be resold one or two more times before reaching the customer, each layer needs to earn a profit.

The selling price is usually about two to three times the wholesale purchase price.

"Blue melon seeds are only worth this much?"

"The mud crabs sell for eight or nine yuan a pound in town, and you're only offering four yuan a pound???"

Fang Hao immediately expressed his dissatisfaction.

Wang Mazi's quoted price is a bit of a rip-off.

Indeed, no merchant is without guile!

It seems this guy hasn't learned his lesson from the last time he caught the rat-like fisherman, and still thinks he's just an ordinary fisherman villager trying to make more money.

"Myna bird!"

"Well... I'm just earning a little money through hard work."

"We buy seafood and then wholesale it to others, so it definitely won't fetch as high a price as if we sold it individually..."

Wang Mazi immediately explained with a bitter face.

Market price is market price!

Everyone involved in the transaction makes a profit.

If it were someone else, he would probably offer an even lower price. In any case, he would try his best to lower the price as much as possible, because every penny he lowers is a penny more he can earn.

How can you be a boss if you're not ruthless?

"The prices of blue melon seeds and blue crabs are too low."

"As for those small, miscellaneous fish, we can just let them be cheaper..."

Fang Hao continued.

The seafood caught this time using fish traps was only a few expensive blue grouper and blue crab.

"Well... I'll price the blue melon seeds at 40 yuan per jin and the blue crabs at 5 yuan per jin. Is that okay? I really don't have much profit to make at these prices..."

Wang Mazi felt somewhat helpless.

The price he offered this time was already very reasonable.

It's even higher than other competitors!

On one hand, they were afraid of Fang Hao.

On the other hand, it is for long-term cooperation.

Now that they've learned that Fang Hao actually bought dozens of fish traps to catch seafood, he's a big customer, and they might have to rely on him for business in the future.

After all, the harvest from dozens of villagers going to the beach cannot compare to that from Fang Hao's dozens of fish traps. Maintaining long-term cooperation can still yield good returns.

"OK!"

"Then weigh yourself."

Fang Hao nodded.

This price is quite reasonable.

The price you pay seafood vendors is definitely not comparable to the price you pay at the market.

"Three catties of blue melon seeds!"

"19.1 jin of blue crab!"

"These miscellaneous fish weigh 195 jin and 9 liang..."

Wang Mazi was also very quick.

The seafood was weighed in no time.

Most of them are miscellaneous fish.

"Is this weight accurate?"

"Don't let it turn out to be a fraudulent weighing and meter reading..."

period.

Fang Hao asked casually.

These unscrupulous merchants have absolutely no conscience.

Don't wait to profit from both ends!

They profited from the price difference while simultaneously deceiving customers.

"Myna bird!"

"What kind of language are you speaking?"

"Even if I had a hundred lives, I wouldn't dare lie to you. It's absolutely the right weight..."

Wang Mazi felt a knot in his heart.

Thank goodness I didn't take that suspicious scale.

You should know that he has two scales in his hands.

When weighing someone, observe their appearance!

If it's an older woman or man, they'll just use some trickery to cheat them out of the weight.

If it's a shrewd, hard-to-scam woman or a ruthless character, then they'll give you the exact weight.

They'll definitely rip you off if they can!

"Let's calculate the cost!"

Fang Hao nodded.

It was just a warning and a reminder.

To prevent this guy from doing something unethical.

"OK!"

"Blue melon seeds are 120 yuan, blue crabs are 93.5 yuan, and those fish will be 100 yuan..."

Wang Mazi is quite fast at math.

They don't even need a calculator.

The price was calculated in no time.

"Um."

Fang Hao nodded.

It adds up to a total of over three hundred yuan.

This is equivalent to two months' salary for a city dweller; in the countryside, it's a huge sum of money.

"Myna bird!"

"Here's the money..."

Wang Mazi immediately counted the money and paid the bill.

He promptly and readily gave Fang Hao over three hundred yuan.

Pay in one hand and deliver in one hand.

Let's go!

Fang Hao said to Fang Qiang and Song Yaxin.

The money is in hand.

Then they prepared to go back.

I never expected to make so much money from a single trap; it was quite unexpected, mainly because the blue grouper is more valuable.