Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 74 Different
After the Hungry Ghost Festival, the Ye Wharf outside Jiangjiaba changed greatly.

The boats by the pier are still there, but they are no longer the seven or eight awning boats, but nearly twenty fishing boats lined up here.

These fishing boats are all poor fishermen nearby. They heard that there is work here, and they come from other places one after another if they can earn money.

On the river embankment near the boat, there are about a dozen pergola propped up with sticks and reed mats, and there are men, women and children sitting in the pergola.Everyone was talking and laughing, busy cutting bamboo to weave eel cages.

There are also several boats carrying bundles of bamboo brought in from afar onto the shore, and stacking them neatly beside the arbor.

Along the entire embankment, whether it is busy adults or children playing, everyone has a happy smile on their faces.

A fisherman is different from a farmer. All his property is a boat, which means he has nothing but a boat.

Those who have fields, as long as they take good care of the fields, they can always get a little harvest and eat more rations.

And the reason why these poor fishermen are poor is because they have to spend money to eat everything except fish, shrimp and crab.

Fish, shrimp and crabs can't be eaten as food, and they have to buy food.

Now, they no longer have to look at the face of God to eat. As long as they are willing to do it, as long as they are capable, the craft of weaving eel cages can be done by the elderly in their fifties and sixties, and children as young as seven or eight years old.

Some of the women in the family even knit faster and earn more than the head of the family.

"Brother Lu, this batch of bamboos may have to be changed after they are cut." It was Li Sixi who had just delivered lotus pods to Lu Yangge who was speaking.

He is in charge of buying bamboo from various places. When he sees a suitable bamboo forest, he packs it up, cuts it back, sends it to the wild wharf, and then each household pays for it according to the number of bundles.

Only Li Sixi and Zhang Sange were responsible for this matter.

Li Sixi's family has a simple population. Both the husband and wife are in their prime, plus their son Li Tantan who is almost grown up, and his youngest son Li Canguan who can sail a boat on the river by himself.

There are three and a half strong laborers in the family.

And Zhang Sange's family has a larger population than Li Sixi's family. In addition to Zhang Sanfeng and his wife, there are three sons who are about the same height.

They are considered to be the two families with the simplest population and the most stable labor force in this wharf of the Lu family.

These two are mainly responsible for purchasing bamboo, cutting and transporting it.

Aunt Li was still reluctant at first, she thought that instead of going out to buy bamboo, it would be better for Li Sixi to learn how to weave eel cages in a serious manner at home.

Even if you can't sell it, you can sell your own long fish for money.

But Li Sixi knew that it was Lu Quan who took care of him.He and Lu Quan grew up together, and Lu Quan has been dexterous since he was a child, and he can make patterns for whatever he holds.

Others weaving reed mats are reed mats, but Lu Quan does not, he will weave various patterns out of reed mats.Although, the pattern is just some squares.

But ordinary people, who have that skillful hand but not that brain, either make a mistake or forget it.

Li Sixi is clumsy, learning to weave reed mats, a normal person can learn to do it in two or three days, but Lu Quan can basically finish it by himself in half a day.And he learned for seven or eight days, and the reed mat he made was not as good as the first one Lu Quan practiced.

Lu Quan asked Li Sixi to collect bamboo. If that's not taking care of him, what is it?
"After all, it's the affection from childhood to adulthood."

Speaking of Lu Quan, that's what Li Sixi said.

Li Sixi really felt Lu Quan's care for his family when they actually started to send the bamboo back one by one.

He calculated that if he brought back two boats of bamboo a day, he could earn about 120 Wen.

If it was fishing in the past, at the best time, you could only earn fifty or sixty yuan, and when it was not good, it was common to have empty nets.

What makes him most happy is that the price still fluctuates up and down.For example, when he estimates a bamboo forest, if the price is lowered, he can earn more.

Also, this is the shipping cost without labor.

If he didn't hire local people to cut bamboo, but cut bamboo by himself, although it was hard work, he could still earn dozens of dollars more.

However, the idea was later abandoned by him.

Not to mention hard work, those poor fishermen are not afraid of hard work, mainly delaying time.

With the skill of chopping bamboo, it's better for the two of you to go out for a run, maybe you can buy one or two more bamboo forests, and send bamboo back two more times.

On the way to transport the bamboo, he can also drop a few eel cages along the way, and collect them when he goes to transport the bamboo in the morning, earning a lot of money.

anyway.

The eel cage business of the Lu family was started in cooperation with shopkeeper Li from Lai Fushun.

Just two months ago, the Lu family made eel cages and caught two buckets of long fish and sold them to Lai Fushun.

This long fish can make more money than the wild fish in Honghu Lake, and the big guy was greedy for a few days.

Unexpectedly, Brother Lu Quan is a solid person, he even taught the big guys the skills he knew, and even found the shopkeeper Li from Lai Fushun.

When shopkeeper Li went to the wild wharf where the Lu family lived, he drank a pot of wild betelwort tea with Lu Quan, and looked at the eel cages they had made. Shopkeeper Li made a decision on the spot that the eel cage business could be done, and he could pay for it. , Lu Quan came out with craftsmanship, and the people on the wild wharf on the side of Lu's house started to weave.

Just like what Lu Quan said, maybe one day, this eel cage will become a special product of Jiangjiaba and can be sold everywhere.

Not to mention that Li Sixi couldn't figure it out, no one at Ye Wharf could figure it out.

Shopkeeper Li, that is the big shopkeeper of Lai Fushun, he condescended to come to Ye Wharf and said that this business can be done.

Could this be the difference between the brains of businessmen and their fishermen?
Every day is getting better and better, and everyone is getting more and more joyful.

Several households have already negotiated with Lu Quan, or they can buy the wasteland on the Dongtan side together. Now that everyone has a little money, they can build houses after buying the wasteland.

When winter comes, those who are drifting on the boat will have a place to settle down.

Lu Quan was naturally willing. His family had wanted to buy land and build a house for a long time, but they couldn't find a suitable one.If they could settle down in Jiangjiaba, it would be considered a stable life for Xiao Si and his children.

After thinking about it, Lu Quan still entrusted shopkeeper Li to inquire, not knowing how much this piece of unowned wasteland can be bought for.

Everyone here is still waiting for the news of Shopkeeper Li, but Brother Zhang San, who came back one step later than Li Sixi, brought bad news.

"What? You said that the Shen family in Nanyang was also surrounded by the government?"

This sound alarmed several people on the shore and on the boat.

This is going to be a big deal!
In March, a fire burned Lujiazhuang, causing countless people to sigh.

The Shen family in Nanyang is a big family in Nanyang County.In terms of financial resources, the Shen family is only slightly inferior to the Lu family.But in terms of status, there is no family that can suppress the Shen family in a radius of tens of miles.

And this Master Shen and Lu Yuanshan's former father-in-law, Shen Xiucai, are cousins ​​of the same grandfather.

The relationship is very close.

Everyone thought that the matter of the Lu family was over, why did it take so long for something to happen to the Shen family?
(End of this chapter)