"What good news?"
"Our crayfish sold out!"
"The twenty yuan per jin you just mentioned?" Liu Chunsheng couldn't help but get excited too.
Liu Yifeng nodded vigorously: "Yes, twenty yuan per jin, double the market price."
"This is truly good news. Did they say how much they wanted?" Although Liu Chunsheng rarely ate crayfish, he knew that crayfish usually cost around ten yuan per jin.
Liu Yifeng took a deep breath and told his father to calm down and not get too excited. Then he said: "That boss deals in aquatic products and has many stalls. He sells crayfish every day.
At noon, he bought twenty-five jin of our crayfish. He probably thought it was delicious, and just now he called me saying he wants all of our crayfish."
"What, did I hear that right?" Liu Chunsheng stood up on the spot, barely able to believe what he heard.
"It's true. After dinner, I'll take him to see the crayfish we raised."
Having received confirmation, Liu Chunsheng couldn't help but laugh: "Hahaha, does this mean our family is going to get rich?"
"Dad, I told you to wait and enjoy your retirement!
I calculated conservatively. Even if there are two thousand five hundred jin of crayfish in total, we buy twenty-one jin.
This adds up to..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Tong Tong's voice chimed in: "That's fifty thousand yuan!"
"Yes, fifty thousand. And I only spent fifteen hundred yuan when I bought this batch of crayfish. We've made more than thirty times our investment in just a few days," Liu Yifeng said, his face flushed with excitement.
Fifty thousand yuan, while not a fortune, was earned in less than a week.
It was more than he had earned in two years, how could he not be excited?
Furthermore, after selling this batch of crayfish, he could raise another batch. With this in mind, he could earn at least seven to eight hundred thousand yuan during the crayfish season.
This life, finally, had hope.
Liu Chunsheng trembled with excitement upon hearing that they could earn so much money. He worked hard for a whole year and only made a little over ten thousand yuan.
He never expected that crayfish raised for less than a week could bring in over forty-eight thousand yuan.
Was money really that easy to make? He felt like he was dreaming.
Seeing his father speechless with excitement, Liu Yifeng quickly comforted him: "Dad, don't get too excited. Relax. Our good days are still ahead!"
He didn't want his father to be so overjoyed that he did something foolish.
Liu Chunsheng slowly sat down, his expression suddenly becoming serious: "Yifeng, that person isn't a scammer, is he?
He's willing to buy crayfish for twenty yuan a jin when they're ten yuan a jin on the market? How can he make money then? The price is already double the market rate."
"Dad, don't worry. Our family's crayfish are definitely worth that price.
And we'll be doing cash on delivery, so he can't cheat us," Liu Yifeng wasn't afraid of being scammed. He was afraid his crayfish wouldn't be enough to sell.
As he said before, if Du Ziheng wasn't willing to buy them for twenty-one yuan per jin, even if he took them to the market himself, people would snatch them up at twenty yuan per jin.
Times were different now. People were willing to spend money on food.
Moreover, crayfish were only available for a few months. After that, you could only eat frozen shrimp tails.
"I'll go with you later. Dad has experience, I can tell if he's a scammer at a glance," Liu Chunsheng was still uneasy.
"Okay, then we'll go together later!" Liu Yifeng finished speaking, then turned to his son and couldn't help but kiss his cheek: "Tong Tong, you are truly our family's lucky star."
"Daddy, your oily mouth got on Tong Tong's face." Tong Tong pouted, expressing his displeasure.
But Liu Yifeng couldn't care less: "Hahaha, Daddy is just too happy. Once we make our first pot of gold, I'll buy you whatever you want."
"Tong Tong wants a big, big Transformers. Will Daddy buy it for me too?"
"Yes, even if Tong Tong wanted the moon, Daddy would find a way to pluck it for you," Liu Yifeng said grandly.
In fact, even if he hadn't made this money, he would have found a way to get anything Tong Tong wanted.
It was just that the child was too sensible. Knowing he had no money, he always said he didn't want anything when asked about toys.
Now that he knew he was making money, he finally expressed his wish.
Where could he find such a sensible and obedient son?
He even thought that if he found a wife in the future who couldn't accept his son, he wouldn't marry her, no matter how much he liked her. He'd rather stay single.
As for the child's mother, she clearly wanted to get rid of them, so he wouldn't grovel to her.
Besides, he noticed that Tong Tong rarely mentioned his mother since he had been with him.
This showed that his feelings for his mother were not very deep.
Therefore, as long as the son didn't bring it up, he wouldn't disturb the mother's life.
After dinner, Liu Yifeng checked the time. It was two o'clock, and the sun was at its fiercest. So he didn't rush to call Du Ziheng.
Thinking it wouldn't be too late to contact him at three o'clock, Du Ziheng became anxious. He thought Liu Yifeng had suddenly changed his mind and didn't want to sell the crayfish to him anymore.
Seeing that Liu Yifeng hadn't contacted him by two o'clock, his meal lost its flavor.
He really wanted to call and ask what was going on, but he was afraid of annoying Liu Yifeng.
By half past two, his friends had finished eating, and Liu Yifeng still hadn't contacted him.
He couldn't hold back any longer and called Liu Yifeng. The call was quickly answered, and he asked softly, "Mr. Li, am I bothering you?"
Seeing Du Ziheng's call, Liu Yifeng instantly guessed his intention and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Mr. Du. I saw it was too hot outside, so I thought I'd contact you later. I'm not delaying your business, am I?"
"Not at all, not at all. It is indeed very hot. So, Mr. Liu, when do you plan to take me to see them?" Relieved that Liu Yifeng hadn't backed out, Du Ziheng felt a wave of relief.
As long as they weren't sold to someone else, a little delay was fine.
Just now, he had asked for his friends' opinions.
Everyone had spoken highly of the crayfish, saying that if there were more such crayfish, they would be willing to buy them even at thirty yuan per jin.
This gave him more confidence. He roughly calculated that if he bought all of Liu Yifeng's crayfish at twenty yuan per jin and then sold them at twenty-five yuan per jin, he could still make a net profit of over ten thousand yuan.
This would have taken him ages to earn otherwise!
Ordinary crayfish had strong competition because they were all similar.
But once he bought this kind of crayfish, there would be almost no competitors on the market.