Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 963: Following in the footsteps of Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang
Liu Lei and Yang Qin drove slowly away from the dock, returned to Hongyun Restaurant, unloaded the fish, and returned to the office on the second floor.

"What's wrong?"

"Thinking about the shop at the pier?"

While boiling water to make tea, Yang Qin glanced at Liu Lei. He hadn't said much on the way back and looked like he was worried. Needless to say, he must be thinking about the shop at the dock.

"Ok!"

"Thinking about this!"

"But there's nothing I can do. I really have no money left."

"It's not that we don't have money, but we have to keep some cash in order to run the Hongyun Restaurant. We can't move it. The building we are building will require a lot of funds."

"We really don't have much money left!"

Liu Lei was indeed thinking about the shop at the dock, and he was counting the accounts all the way, but he really couldn't figure it out.

"There's nothing we can do about it! No one can catch so many fish and make so much money like Zhao Dahai. The key is that there is no pressure on costs for making so much money."

"Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang can do whatever they want."

"Ding Xiaoxiang, I am unlikely to do a serious business in the future. I will just collect rent or sell the fish caught by Zhao Dahai. It's not like us. We have to run a restaurant. As long as we run a restaurant, we have to spend money, and there will be cost pressure."

"When business is good, you can make a lot of money, but when business is bad, you have to lose money."

"Ding Xiaoxiang's business is a serious one that only makes money and never loses money."

Yang Qin poured a cup of freshly brewed tea in front of Yang Ge and Liu Lei.

What Zhao Dahai, or to be more precise, Ding Xiaoxiang is doing now is different from running the Hongyun Restaurant or selling fish, shrimps and crabs in the fish market. Whether it is the business on the ninth floor or selling fish, shrimps and crabs in the fish market, there will be cost pressure.

Whether you build a building or buy a shop in a place like a dock, you just need to pay the money and the rest will be free of charge.

The shops in the building are for rent, while the shops at the dock can be used by the owner or rented out to others.

No matter which one you choose, you can collect rent safely and at least you don’t have to pay out any more money.

No one else can do this. Only people like Zhao Dahai who go fishing at sea and catch a lot of fish and have plenty of cash can do it.

"you're right."

"Ding Xiaoxiang will probably go shopping next!"

"No other business will be done at all!"

"A shop in a good location like the Shijiao Village Pier, or a good location like the pier in another village, or somewhere else, like in a county town, as long as it's a shop or something else worth investing in, I might buy it all."

"As long as you have money and enough cash, you will buy more and more."

"Ding Xiaoxiang doesn't need to do anything else. She just needs to manage these things and live in them to eat until her mouth is full of oil."

The more Liu Lei thought about it, the more he felt that what Yang Qin said was right. This was exactly what Ding Xiaoxiang did next.

"What can we do? As long as we go out to sea, we can make money continuously. If we don't do business and run the Hongyun Restaurant, we won't make any money and will just sit back and eat our savings."

Yang Qin sighed. This was not greed, or envy and hatred for seeing Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang making so much money, but she could see that Ding Xiaoxiang did this and it was good for her, but she didn't have the ability to do that.

"Hey!"

"Why can't we do it this way? It's just that we can't do it so quickly!"

"We should keep enough money earned from Hongyun Restaurant for daily use. For the rest, we can learn from Ding Xiaoxiang and Zhao Dahai and buy what we need."

"Especially this building in the center of town. The rent collected from it doesn't need to be used for anything else. It can be used specifically for this!"

"Sister-in-law Xiaoxiang and Brother Dahai can buy ten stores, but we can always buy one store."

Liu Lei felt that what Ding Xiaoxiang was doing was very good. He did not have enough money, so he certainly could not follow her step by step. But he could not stop. He would buy some shops or other assets when he had money. Little by little, he would accumulate a lot. After ten or twenty years, the assets he had could not be compared with those of Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang, but they would definitely be more than those of others, and not a lot more.

"Correct!"

"This is indeed a good idea. After a long time, you can leave a legacy for your descendants. If you don't know how to do business in the future or can't make much money from business, then you can just stop doing business and collect rent."

When Yang Qin heard what Liu Lei said, her eyes lit up. This was indeed a good idea.

"Brother Dahai and Sister Xiaoxiang are both smart people."

"If we don't have such vision or ideas, then we can just follow what Brother Dahai and Sister Xiaoxiang do!"

"It will definitely not be a loss."

Liu Lei was very proud, thinking that the idea he came up with was definitely a good one.

"Row!"

"That's how we can do it!"

"In that case, we really need to hurry up and build this building in the town so that we can rent it out, collect rent and make money!"

Yang Qin thought of the building that was under construction. Zhao Dahai had always wanted to build it as soon as possible. Now, this idea seemed even more important.

"Yes!"

"Anyway, we have to invest money. We must hurry up to build it so that we can make money quickly. This is very important to us."

Liu Lei agreed very much with Zhao Dahai's opinion. They must hurry up and build the building quickly. The longer they delay, the greater the cost.

Langtou Village Pier.

Zhao Dahai, Ding Xiaoxiang and Zhao Shi stayed in the cab.

Liu Lei and Yang Qin had already driven the seafood truck back to the town's Hongyun Restaurant. Shi Guangming left the fishing boat to inquire about the store's affairs.

"Are you two really planning to buy the store?"

Zhao Shi smoked his hookah and looked at Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang.

"Ok!"

"Second Grandpa."

"If you rent someone else's shop, you will definitely have to pay rent every month. The money you pay will just go down the drain and be of no use. You might as well just spend a little more money to buy it!"

"If you don't have money, you can only rent it, but Zhao Dahai can catch fish now and make money, so it's more cost-effective to buy it."

Xiaoxiang nodded.

When Zhao Shi said this, he must have felt that he would have to spend a lot of money all of a sudden and was worried about not having enough money to spend, but this was not a problem.

The four thousand kilograms of grouper I just sold are enough to buy a nice shop here.

"Okay!" "You two have to do the math. You have to keep some money in your hands. You can't just use the money to buy a store or build a building."

"No one can predict when you'll need money, so don't wait until you need money and your hands are full of shops, or you can't get money for other things."

Zhao Shi reminded Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang and stopped talking about this matter.

"Zhao Dahai."

"Will you go fishing tomorrow?"

"What kind of place does the fishing boat have to be parked in?"

Ding Dawen looked at the sea in the distance. The weather was very good. If he didn't go out to sea today, he would definitely go out to sea tomorrow. He had to ask clearly where he should wait for Zhao Dahai.

Zhao Dahai thought about it and told Ding Dawen that he should just wait in the island foam area the next day.

"Uncle Shizhu and I will go to the artificial islands and reefs tomorrow."

"If your main purpose is not fishing but just scouting, you will probably catch fewer fish. It doesn't matter whether your fishing boat goes out or not. But just in case, you might get lucky and catch more fish."

Zhao Dahai will go out to sea with Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin, Lei Da and a few others tomorrow, but their real purpose is not to fish but to scan the spots. In this way, the chance of catching fish, especially catching a lot of fish, is not very high. It doesn't matter whether Ding Dawen's fishing boat goes out to sea or waits for them, but there is no need to stop here at the pier. It is better to go out to sea and there is no need to go anywhere else but the island reef foam area.

Ding Dawen nodded and agreed. His large fishing boat would go to the island and reef foam area early the next morning.

"Second Grandpa."

"Do you want to go back to Langtou Village with me? We have been out for several days."

Zhao Dahai looked at Zhao Shi. He came here today on a motorcycle instead of a speedboat. If Zhao Shi wanted to go back, he would first send Ding Xiaoxiang back to the village and then come here to pick up Zhao Shi.

"Why is it necessary to go through so much trouble? Aren't you going out to sea tomorrow? You can just pick me up and take me back to the village when you come back."

Zhao Shi shook his head without even thinking about it. There was nothing else for him to do in the village, so he might as well stay on the fishing boat. Shi Guangming would definitely come on the boat later, and the two of them could get something to eat and have a drink.

"Row!"

"Then it's settled!"

Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang left the fishing boat, went to the dock, and rode a motorcycle to leave Shijiao Village.

Night falls.

Shi Guangming was holding a bottle of wine in one hand and a few bags filled with braised meat in the other.

"Are the other dishes, especially the fish soup, ready?"

As soon as Shi Guangming got on the fishing boat, he started yelling at Ding Dawen. He basically had not eaten at home during this period, especially at night, when he always fell asleep on the fishing boat.

"what!"

"How could it not be fixed?"

"I put the cages there. Didn't they catch quite a few fish? There were also some shrimps and other things. We'll cook them all tonight."

"There's plenty of fish soup, and some fried small fish or braised prawns. Tonight's appetizers are incredible."

As Ding Dawen spoke, he took the wine and dishes from Shi Guangming's hand and put them down on the deck without going anywhere else. He turned around and went to the kitchen to get other dishes. There were two large basins, one containing fish pond and the other containing braised prawns and other fish. He called a few other people, took chopsticks and other things, and sat on the deck, drinking and eating.

"Hey!"

“This day is really enjoyable.”

"For those of us who have been out at sea all our lives, where can we stay at home? We must be on this fishing boat."

Shi Guangming took a sip of wine, reached out to pick up a prawn, peeled off the shell and took a bite.

"Yes!"

"Ding Dawen, you guys just went to sea and you are not used to life on the sea. You feel that life on the sea is not as good as life on land. But in five or ten years, you will get used to it."

Zhao Shi picked up the bowl of wine and took a sip, then picked up the hookah next to him and took a puff. The sea breeze was a little hot and a little cool.

"what!"

"Second Grandpa."

"Grandpa Shi."

"Going out to sea for fishing or fishing is a bit tiring for the two of you, but it's relaxing to stay on this big ship. You can come as long as you want."

"Anyway, we don't travel too far every day. Big fishing boats are bigger and more stable. We don't need to put out nets or fish. We can eat when we want, drink when we want, and sleep when we want."

"I don't have much to do on this fishing boat. If you two come, you can talk to me, or tell me about the things to pay attention to when going out to sea."

Shi Guangming took a bowl of fish soup and placed it in front of Zhao Shi and Shi Guangming.

"Hey!"

"You have already become a master, there is no need for us two old men to say anything."

"It's just driving a fishing boat, not going out to sea to fish. Why do you need to learn anything else?"

Shi Guangming took a sip of the fish soup.

Ding Dawen didn't need to do anything else but drive the fishing boat to pick up the fish caught by Zhao Dahai and then sell the fish. For Ding Dawen, this job was already very familiar to him. He and Zhao Shi had been staying on this fishing boat for the past month, especially in the past half month, just because they were used to this life. To put it bluntly, it was just to kill time.

"To be honest, I'm a little used to life at sea now. In the past, if I went out to work, it was very tiring, and it was not something I could do. Now it's different. Watching the fishing boats is very relaxing."

"It's very difficult for me to get along with others with my personality."

“This job is the best fit for me right now.”

Ding Dawen is very satisfied with his current job. The salary is not too much, but not too little either. The key is that he can really do it and he does it very easily and happily.

"Correct!"

"This job is indeed more suitable for you. You don't need to deal with others. You just need to do your job well."

Zhao Shi smiled. Some people would think that it is very boring to just go out to sea in a fishing boat every day and then wait, and they are unwilling to do such a thing. But for someone with an introverted personality like Ding Dawen, this is the best job.

"Yo!"

"Why are there fishing boats coming back at this time?"

"Could it be that Shi Jiehua and the others have returned?"

The position where Zhao Shi was sitting faced the vast open sea. He saw the lights of fishing boats approaching from a distance. He did not pay much attention at first, but after taking a few sips of wine and talking a few words, the lights were getting closer and closer. The distance was not too far and he could clearly see that there were five fishing boats lined up in a row. At this time of year, there would generally be no other fishing boats returning from going out to sea. It was very likely that they were Shi Jiehua and his fishing boats.

(End of this chapter)