My Courtyard Refuge

: Reservoir Fish

The north gate where Xu Dong was located was full of sighs at this moment, the drought was related to everyone’s life and future.

No one does not look forward to the early end of the drought.

Only Xiang Xin’s face was a bit complicated, she gave Xu Dong a thumbs up:

“Boss, you are this!”

Xu Dong smiled wryly: “I hope my guess is wrong, but unfortunately things backfired. Your corn hasn’t been sold, right?”

“No, no, fortunately I called back early, and the family stopped in time.” Xiang Xin said happily.

Her father-in-law was going to return the corn to the seller. Although it was only half the price, he could still recover a little loss.

It was she who talked so much that it dragged on for half a day.

“It’s fine if you don’t have any. Remember my words. In the future, unless you have to, don’t sell anything.” Xu Dong specially reminded.

“Understood, I have to thank you for talking about this matter, otherwise our family will suffer a lot.”

“Don’t be so polite, I just mentioned something casually, the key is that you are willing to believe.”

Xu Dong picked up the water glass and took a sip of water. He left in a hurry in the morning and forgot to put in the ginseng tea. He couldn’t do anything this day.

===Section 70===

“Boss, I found that you are very accurate in your speech, and I will always listen to you in the future.” Xiang Xin said with emotion.

Xu Dong said poorly, “Don’t, why listen to me, I’m not your husband.”

“Hmph, I am the master of our family, He Jian has to listen to me.” Xiang Xin said arrogantly.

…

After finally getting off work, Xu Dong, like a general who has won a battle, drove his big Ben to visit Panjiayuan on the way.

Stimulated by the “rain” news, the price of Panjiayuan’s food has dropped slightly, but the price of meat has not fallen much, and there is still a price but no market.

After shopping around, Xu Dong bought some dried seafood, and even exchanged cigarettes for hundreds of catties of dried shiitake mushrooms, and directly wrapped up all the goods in the store.

Just as Xu Dong was about to leave, a middle-aged man sneaked up to him, and he immediately became alert.

“Brother, do you want fresh river fish?” The middle-aged man asked in a low voice.

Xu Dong remained calm: “What kind of fish? Where did it come from?”

Seeing that Xu Dong was interested, the middle-aged man quickly invited him to a corner beside him.

“They’re all fish from the reservoir. They’re from the Guanting Reservoir. We can discuss the price.” The middle-aged man introduced softly.

“Is the source of this fish okay?”

“The source is absolutely fine.” The middle-aged man assured, “The Guanting Reservoir is about to dry up. All we got were small fish and shrimp, and the big fish were pulled away by the top.”

Guanting Reservoir?

Xu Dong took out his mobile phone and searched. He didn’t know if he didn’t search, but he was startled when he searched.

This Guanting Reservoir is not small. It is the second largest reservoir in the capital area, with a total storage capacity of about 2.2 billion cubic meters. It just didn’t expect to dry up so soon.

“How did you find me?” Xu Dong didn’t relax his vigilance.

The middle-aged man was a little embarrassed: “We are going to find a big customer to sell all the fish. It just so happened that we saw you driving a big car, so we wanted to come over and ask.”

“Why not sell them separately?” Xu Dong wondered.

The middle-aged man hesitated, finally gritted his teeth and explained:

“I’m not going to hide it from you. In fact, we are the staff in the reservoir. If this incident becomes a big problem, it will not be good.”

Xu Dong looked at the other party’s work permit, and then felt a little relieved.

“How many fish do you have in total?”

“It’s almost over a thousand catties.” The middle-aged man replied quickly.

“Where is the fish, can you take me to see it?” Xu Dong asked.

The middle-aged man looked delighted: “Of course, you can come with me, our car is parked at the entrance of the east gate.”

There are policemen standing guard everywhere in Panjiayuan, and Xu Dong is not afraid of the other party’s tricks.

The two went out the east gate, and the middle-aged man pointed to a small van not far away and introduced:

“That’s our car.”

The Guanting Reservoir is not close to the urban area. If there is no refrigerated truck, the fish will stink before it enters the urban area.

There was an old man and a young man sitting in the van. The middle-aged man walked over and said a few words to the two, and then the young man opened the door.

Seeing the middle-aged man nodding, Xu Dong stepped forward and looked into the carriage.

1,000 catties of fish sounds like a lot, but in fact it is only three baskets, the kind that are one meter high.

The fish in the basket were indeed as the middle-aged man said, there were no big fish, just some small miscellaneous fish, such as meal sticks, crucian carp, silver floating fish, etc., and some loaches and so on.

Xu Dong nodded in satisfaction, and asked directly:

“what price?”

The middle-aged man stretched out his palm and turned over: “We need to exchange 2,000 catties of rice, or 2,500 catties of flour. ”

“Can’t you buy it with money?” Xu Dong frowned.

“It’s not impossible.” The middle-aged man sighed, “The price is 500,000.”

The fat content of fish meat is low, and the general market price is only one-third or one-fourth of the price of pork.

The current price of pork is about 1,000 yuan per catty. Of course, pure fat meat is usually two or three times that price, which is very close to the price of Xu Dong’s previous life.

If calculated according to the price of 500,000 yuan, the unit price of these miscellaneous fish is already half of the price of meat, far higher than the market price.

But then again, if you just buy it with money, you won’t be at a disadvantage. After all, the meat in Panjiayuan may not be able to be bought with money, and there is not such a large amount.

“The price is too high.” Xu Dong shook his head habitually.

“The price is indeed a bit expensive, but you may not be able to buy so many fish if you have money. We are also taking risks when we come out. You can let us earn more?” The middle-aged man argued.

Xu Dong pretended to repay the price with the other party several times, and finally nodded and agreed, and the price was returned from 500,000 to 480,000.

“You wait here for half an hour, I will be back soon.”

After Xu Dong finished speaking, he transferred 1,000 yuan to the middle-aged man as a deposit.

“no problem.”

The middle-aged man also knew that the other party could not use his luxury car to load the fish, it was only half an hour, and they were willing to wait.

Half an hour later, Xu Dong drove over in his family’s pickup truck, accompanied by Yang Lina, saying that he was worried about her husband coming to trade alone.

After the two sides met, there was not much nonsense.

Xu Dong opened the door of the truck and explained to the middle-aged man:

“Brother Luo, you can just dump the fish directly into the carriage.”

Xu Dong specially kept an eye out and poured out all the fish. If there is something tricky, he can tell it at a glance.

The middle-aged man did not doubt that he was there, and the three of them worked together to transfer all the three big baskets of fish to the other party’s car in less than ten minutes.

Xu Dong saw clearly from the side and found no bad fish or other sundries, so he transferred the money readily.

Finally, before parting…

It was not easy for Xu Dong to see the three people on the opposite side, so he couldn’t help but say something:

“Brother Luo, you should spend the 480,000 yuan to buy food as soon as possible. Don’t be reluctant to give up the money. In the current environment, food is more important than anything else.”

The middle-aged man nodded and said with a smile: “Thank you for the reminder, we have already found a channel here, and we are just waiting for the money.”