1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 39 The Fishmonger (please read more)

 About five o'clock in the morning.

It’s still dark.

Third uncle Li Zhengfa has already sailed the fishing boat into Sharp Pier.

At this point, there were actually several fishing boats that had arrived earlier than them and were already unloading at the dock.

 Luckily, those few fishing boats were not all fishing for swimming crabs. Two of them were fishing for hairtail. Otherwise, if the amount of swimming crabs was too large, the fishmongers would lower the prices.

 Hairtail production is also very large locally.

 As long as the season comes.

  Often a trawl net can pull up a whole boat.

Hairtail is the strangest of the four sea fishes. Large yellow croaker and small yellow croaker are caught less and less, while hairtail is caught in large quantities every year, but there is no decrease.

 It can only be said that the reproductive capacity is too strong.

After waiting at the pier for almost half an hour, it was their turn to unload. Sharp Pier has a special boom. When unloading, as long as you pay the two yuan berthing and unloading fee for fishing boats, a master will help you pick up the fish. Hang down.

Just after they hoisted all the swimming crabs down, a quarrel broke out between the boat boss and the fishmonger in front.

"There's something wrong with your scale. I weighed it on the ship. It's clear that every load weighs 100 kilograms, but when it gets to you, there's only 70 left."

“Crabs can spit out water, okay? It’s normal for them to fall off the scale.”

"I've been out of water for several hours. If I wanted to vomit, I would have already vomited it all."

 The fishmonger looked down on the spot and said:

“Then do you want to sell it? If you feel there is something wrong with my scale, you can take it to another dock and sell it. If the crab dies halfway and cannot be sold at a high price, don’t blame me.”

The boat boss had a dark face and wanted to punch the fishmonger, but after weighing the situation, he still sold all the swimming crabs to the fishmonger.

 But Li Zhengfa has become accustomed to this scene, even when he was in the fishery team, it was the same. How many kilograms of seafood and whether the seafood was fresh or not all depended on the mouth of the inspector.

 In the past few years after the opening up, the collusion of interests has become more obvious. Since the fishmonger dared to tamper with the scales so blatantly at the dock, it proves that there must be someone behind it.

Fishermen like them have no way to encounter such ground snakes. There is no way to do it. This is not only the boundary of others.

His seven inches were pinched by others.

If you don’t sell it to him and take it to another pier, the swimming crab might die on the way. Besides, no one can guarantee that the fishmonger at the next pier will be better than this person.

 Maybe it’s worse?

As a reborn person, Li Duoyu has no way to deal with this situation even if he has two lives of experience.

 But when he gives up.

But I found that a newsstand near the pier was open so early.

With the intention of giving it a try, Li Duoyu came to the newsstand and asked:

“Uncle, do you have the Rongcheng Daily from half a month ago?”

 “Which day.”

“September 20th.”

 “I’ll look for it.”

The uncle untied the pile of newspapers that had not been sold in time, then rummaged through them and found that day's newspaper.

 “There’s just one portion left.”

 But when the uncle picked up the newspaper and saw the group photo, he suddenly looked at Li Duoyu.

 “Is it you who is the one in this report?”

 Li Duoyu nodded.

"No wonder I felt familiar when I saw you." The uncle continued: "I won't charge you for this newspaper, I will give it to you directly."

 “Thank you, sir.”

 After Li Duoyu got the newspaper, he found that the fishmonger had almost finished the transaction with the boss of the previous ship, and it would be their turn soon.

Hurry back to the cabin and change into clean clothes, wash your face, put on the thick watch, then use scissors to cut out the photo of the leader and put it into a plastic wallet.

 Subsequently, Li Duoyu swaggered to the dock and found his third uncle negotiating the price with the fishmonger.

"You charged him 1.2 cents per pound before, but when it comes to me, it becomes 10 cents."

The fishmonger’s expression shows that he doesn’t want to sell anything: “Whoever comes first will get a higher price. If I charge you so many crabs, I have to bear the risk, okay?”

The third uncle made a sad face: "How about this? How about a compromise, one cent per cent?"

The fishmonger refused on the spot:

“I don’t like to bargain with others. Again, if you don’t want to sell, just move the crab. There are still a lot of people behind you who want to sell.”

"Forget it..." Just when the third uncle was about to agree, Li Duoyu came over.

 “Ahem.”

“Comrade Zhengfa, why didn’t you tell me first about selling swimming crabs?”

Third uncle looked at Li Duoyu in confusion.

　　Since when did this kid change into clean clothes, and...why do you call him a comrade?

 But when he saw the photos of leaders that Li Duoyu showed him behind his back.

 I understood it instantly.

The third uncle smiled flatteringly: "How can I bother you to lead you on such a small matter?"

“I haven’t even thanked you properly. You drove a fishing boat to accompany me to understand the basic fish conditions in Sharp Sea.”

lead?

The fishmonger looked at the young man in front of him puzzledly. He was so dark that he did not look like a leader.

Of the leaders he met, which one was not a ****, white and elegant?

It's a bit dark, but the posture he puts on is indeed a bit similar to the leaders he knows.

For a while, the fishmonger couldn't make up his mind. What if?

 He smiled and handed over a cigarette:

“Hello, comrade, where are you from?”

Li Duoyu waved his hand: "Pai, I don't smoke. I'm from the Fisheries Research Institute under the Rongcheng Fisheries Bureau. I happened to be out with this fishing boat these days to inspect the fish situation."

The fishmonger put his cigarette back in embarrassment. This young man obviously smelled of cigarettes, so he couldn't have looked down upon his cigarettes.

“So he’s a comrade from the Fisheries Research Institute, and your Director Zhang is still from Sharp.”

 Li Duoyu: “…”

 No wonder those honest and responsible boat bosses couldn't fight him. This fishmonger was really too clever.

Had I not been in the reception room that day and read a lot of information about the institute's awards and found out that the director's surname was Zheng, I would have been tricked by this fishmonger.

“Director Zhang, where is Director Zhang? Our director’s surname is Zheng.”

 The fishmonger patted his thigh:

“Oh, look at my memory, yes, it’s Director Zheng.”

The fishmonger saw that the other party didn’t seem to be pretending, so he smiled flatteringly and said:

"Comrade, you should also know that it's not easy to do our job. Every time we collect seafood and take it to the city to sell, most of it may be damaged. If we don't order Xiao Jiujiu, we will lose all our pants. , since you have come forward, I will replace your friend's swimming crab with a new scale, and the price will be the same as home, do you think it will work?"

Li Duoyu said righteously: "I also know that it is difficult for you, but now we are in the early stage of opening up, and we must pay more attention to honest management. Otherwise, you alone will ruin the reputation of the entire Sharp Pier. It’s you Sharp people who will suffer in the end.”

 “I understand, that’s what comrade said.”

At this moment, the third uncle Li Zheng was so shocked that he could not even speak. He felt that the Li Duoyu in front of him had completely changed.

　　Why do you always speak in Mandarin?

Not long ago, Zhu Xiuhua kept telling him that what Duoyu said to the leader was what his uncle Chen Dongqing taught him.

 But when I look at it today, it doesn’t look like it.

 This guy is not only a good talker, he also scares the fishmonger to death.

At this time, my uncle just got off the boat. When he saw Li Duoyu dressed in this way, he thought he had just caught fish all day and was going out to play, so he cursed:

“I’ve only been fishing for crabs for a day. Why do you want to go out and play? We’ll leave soon after we sell out. We can’t wait for you.”

 After hearing this, Li Duoyu and his third uncle Li Zhengfa were both quite embarrassed, and the fishmonger also had a dark face. He found that he seemed to have been deceived.

At this moment, an open plastic wallet fell just beside his shoes, and you could clearly see the photo of the young man taking a group photo with the big leaders.

 “Sorry, I dropped my wallet.”

Looking for further study and investment.

 (End of this chapter)