At this time, a small hand took a handkerchief and helped him wipe his forehead.
"Mr. Shi, are you tired?"
Su Youwei stared at him with widened beautiful eyes.
Shi Zhijian shook his head, "I'm not tired, how about you?"
Su Youwei also shook her head, "I'm not tired either. I feel so happy when I think about seeing my grandma and little brother soon."
In the dark, the two of them took a small sampan and headed towards the floating shack where Su Youwei once lived.
After a while, the sampan had arrived at an area of endless floating houses on the sea.
Those floating houses are made of some old wooden boards, tied with thick hemp ropes and connected in a row on the sea.
From a distance, as the water rises and falls, the floating houses sway up and down, like rows of shark backs on the sea.
"Mr. Shi, our home is almost here." Su Youwei suddenly jumped up and pointed to a dilapidated hut not far ahead and said, "That's my home. My mother-in-law and younger brother are there."
Uncle Dahai laughed and said: "Girl Su, do you want me to help call your mother out?"
"No, I want to give them a surprise." Su Youwei also became naughty.
There are bulging fish urine bundles tied up in one area of the hut. The sampan directly leans on it to flatten the urine, and slowly stops it with the help of buffers.
Uncle Dahai quickly moved the sampan closer, threw the rope up, then jumped onto the hut and tied the rope.
Su Youwei has lived at sea for a long time and has long been accustomed to this kind of ups and downs, so she jumped directly over.
However, Shi Zhijian was a little unsure of his center of gravity. When he jumped over with the gift, he might have fallen if Uncle Dahai hadn't stepped forward to help him.
"Aniang, little brother!" Su Youwei knocked on the door and shouted.
"Who is it? Is it Youwei?!" A female voice came from inside the broken house.
"Mom, is my sister back?!"
Creaking, the door opened, and a dark-skinned woman with a haggard look leaned out. Behind her was a little boy hiding, looking out with wide black eyes.
"Yeah, it's sister! It's really sister!" The little boy rushed out from behind the woman and threw herself into Su Youwei's arms.
"Little brother!" Su Youwei knelt down and cried.
"This is Mr. Shi, a good man." Uncle Dahai solemnly introduced Shi Zhijian to the woman, especially the word "good man" was emphasized.
Then he said that Shi Zhijian was Su Youwei's boss and had a factory on the mainland, and Youwei worked in his factory.
When she heard that this was her daughter's boss, the woman hurriedly invited Shi Zhijian into the house.
Shi Zhijian carried the things, and Uncle Dahai helped to carry the things, and the two squeezed into the house one after the other.
The room was very small, lit by kerosene lamps, and the furnishings inside were even rudimentary, not even a table or chair.
Shi Zhijian was a little surprised. You must know that Su Youwei's current salary in the company is not low, and she sends money back every time she is paid. Logically speaking, their family should not be so poor.
How did Shi Zhijian know that Su Youwei sent the money home, but it was a money order.
The woman was illiterate and didn't know what it was, so she kept a large sum of money without knowing how to use it, and her life was still tight.
The woman didn't know where to let Shi Zhijian sit.
In the end, Uncle Dahai was smart and took the rice vat directly, found a wooden board to place it on top, and asked Shi Zhijian to sit on it.
Shi Zhijian was a little embarrassed. It contained rice that was eaten by others. Is it appropriate for him to sit on it?
But looking at the woman's posture and the enthusiastic look of Uncle Dahai beside her, it would probably be even more inappropriate if she didn't sit down.
As soon as Shi Zhijian sat down on the rice vat, the woman brought sugar water over.
This is the highest level of etiquette among their people. When distinguished guests come, they must make sugar water. White sugar is a very luxurious thing for them.
Shi Zhijian took the sugar water with both hands and took a sip. He looked up and saw the woman and Uncle Dahai looking straight at him and smiling at him.
Shi Zhijian had no choice but to take another two or three sips. When he was about to put it down, Uncle Dahai said: "This is very precious sugar water." After speaking, he licked his lips and swallowed, "Only distinguished guests are eligible here."
drink."
Shi Zhijian was stunned for a moment and understood that the other party wanted him to finish the sugar water, otherwise it would be rude.
But Shi Zhijian couldn't drink such a large bowl of super-sweet sugar water.
It happened that there were a lot of voices outside at this time.
"Youwei is back?"
"Hello Uncle Ah Shui!"
"Youwei is beautiful again!"
"Hello, sea urchin sister-in-law!"
Shi Zhijian took the opportunity to hand the Dahai Bowl to Uncle Dahai: "I'll go out and take a look!"
Uncle Dahai was stunned, "Hey----!" Then he looked at Su Youwei's mother-in-law, "How about I drink?"
The woman nodded, and Uncle Dahai happily took a swig from the Dahai bowl, then licked his mouth with his hand and said, "Uh!" and burped.
…
The already small room was packed with people.
Su Youwei's mother Aunt Su, younger brother Su Xiaodi, Uncle Dahai, Uncle A Shui, Sister-in-law Sea Urchin, etc., all looked at Shi Zhijian with wide eyes.
Shi Zhijian felt like an ornamental animal in a zoo being watched by people. He, who had always been calm and composed, was actually a little embarrassed.
In order to resolve the embarrassment, Shi Zhijian said: "Since everyone is here, let's share the gifts, it's a Chinese New Year!"
"Don't worry, let's ask you a few questions." Ashui Bo is the oldest, and he is the most qualified to speak.
"Well, what's the question?"
"What's your relationship with Youwei?" Ah Shui Bo knocked his pipe pot.
"I am her boss and she is my subordinate."
"That's it?"
"Well, that's it."
Uncle Ah Shui glanced at the people around him and said, "What else are you looking at? There's no chance!"
"Hey, I thought Youwei had found a good family!"
"Yeah, it looks like she's still in bad shape!"
"If someone opens a factory on land, how can they really fall in love with Youwei?"
Everyone said something to each other, and Su Youwei could hear clearly from the side.
Originally she was sitting on the ground with her legs crossed, looking shy, but now her shy cheeks slowly turned pale.
Aunt Su glanced at her daughter and said softly: "Be more open-minded and accept your fate. We are from the Dan family and are not worthy of others."
Su Youwei nodded, but she didn't say what she wanted to say, but tears welled up first.
Shi Zhijian, who was sitting on the rice vat, was confused. What did you mean? What did you just mean?
He thought the other party was just asking casually, so he just said a few polite words, but it seemed that he had missed something just now.
"Now, Mr. Shi, are you? The rules of our Dan family are very simple. If you send Youwei back, we can't let you go back empty-handed."
As Uncle A Shui said, he asked Uncle Dahai and Sister Sea Urchin to prepare.
Soon a small boat came over.
A Shuibo pointed at the boat and said to Shi Zhijian: "We, the Dan family, don't have anything valuable. Since you gave us so many gifts, this boat is full of worthless seafood. Just take it back!"
Shi Zhijian was stunned and walked over to take a look. He saw that the cabin was full of sea cucumbers, abalone, shark fins, fish maws, and some valuable groupers, etc.
Is this worthless?
Shi Zhijian is a caterer, and he runs seafood hot pot.
According to the current market price of seafood, the treasure in this cabin alone is worth at least 30,000 yuan!
Shi Zhijian looked surprised. He turned his head and looked at A Shuibo and others, wondering if there was something wrong with these people's minds.
Ashui Bo seemed to see what Shi Zhijian was thinking, and said slowly: "These things are not valuable to us Dan people, and they cannot be sold at a high price in our hands. Mr. Shi, if you have the ability, just sell them all."
Yes, I wish you a fortune!"
It turns out that these Dan people had a humble status and were called untouchable people. They were considered to have bad luck.
Therefore, the sea cucumbers, abalones and other valuable seafood they salvaged will be sold at low prices.
Those who receive the goods are all from the society, and rely on the strength of the society to unite to keep the price down. Often a top-quality abalone worth 300 to 500 yuan can be sold to them for only 35 yuan at most.
These villagers have protested, struggled, and negotiated with the associations responsible for receiving goods, but the result is that no one dares to accept their goods, whether it is sea cucumbers or abalones, they all rot in their hands.
After this struggle, Ah Shuibo and the others also figured out that they were untouchables, so how could they have the right to negotiate with others? If someone accepts something from you, it is alms. The only thing they can do is to fish and sell honestly.
Fish, no matter how low the price is, you have to accept it.
After listening to the narrations of Ashui Bo and others, Shi Zhijian suddenly had a crazy idea.
Before this, he had always wanted to control the supply of raw materials for hot pot restaurants, especially seafood.
Because Shi Zhijian knows that the biggest profit of a hot pot restaurant is actually the supply of raw materials, and the biggest weakness is also the supply of raw materials.
As long as you don't control this aspect for one day, your hot pot restaurant will be controlled by others.
So now, the opportunity has come.
Shi Zhijian smiled at Ah Shuibo: "Are you interested in discussing a business deal?"
Ashui Bo and others look at me, and I look at you.
Shi Zhijian's mind was jumping so fast that they couldn't keep up.
"Business talk? What business talk?"
"Yes, we are all fishermen at sea, what is there to talk about?"
"Of course! You have the goods and I have the demand. This forms a perfect supply and demand chain, so----"
Shi Zhijian smiled at them again, "If you want to get rich, let's come together!"
