After being jilted, the entire neighboring village was filled with deep regret.

After daybreak, the people who came to work at the villa saw that Fish Mountain was even higher than yesterday, and they were speechless.

Everyone took their positions according to their assigned tasks and got to work!
On the last day, Sutai mainly caught squid, octopus, lobster, shrimp, scallops, and sea cucumber.

The fishing boats have special tools for catching these seafoods, which are quite strange to operate and will take her "around".

She felt that the fishing boats were constantly on the move on the last night.

Fortunately, the harvest was plentiful; they caught several thousand kilograms of sea cucumbers alone.

The best way to store and transport this thing is to remove its internal organs, blanch it in boiling water, and then freeze it.

The most valuable part of the scallops is the adductor scallop inside. This time, 8,000 kilograms of scallops were caught, along with many other varieties of shells and conches.

The fishing boats have already screened out the poisonous shells and conches.

What survived was all edible.

She dared not put so many seashells into the conveyor belt; if they all froze, how could she process them again?

The best way is to put them into individual wicker baskets first, and then move them to the kitchen when it's almost time to start cooking and make the fire in the kitchen burn brightly.

The workers hadn't even finished cleaning the bluefin tuna when they saw the dense swarms of sea cucumbers, shells, and conches, and they almost fainted.

Ultimately, almost the entire Zhangjia Village mobilized, along with the tenant farmers in the village and the people from Dongmen Village and Ximen Village.

It took several hundred people a whole day to finally finish cleaning up the seafood in Ah Bie Yuan.

During this time, some people also unearthed pearls, in just the right quantity.
Fortunately, Su Tai had given prior instructions that everyone should work together in groups, and no one dared to hide anything.

After all the seafood was processed, the carriages that Su Chuan had contacted arrived—two hundred carriages in total, almost enough to rent carriages from several nearby counties.

Besides horse-drawn carriages, there were also hundreds of oxcarts.

A caravan of over five hundred people set off from Moshi Town in a grand procession, met up with the镖局 (escort agency) in the prefectural city, and then headed together to the capital.

Along the way, they would stay for a day or two in every bustling place they visited.

When seafood is first introduced, those in the know rush to the front, while those who don't follow suit.

Other well-off families, seeing this, also gritted their teeth and bought some.

As they traveled and sold goods, the caravan's reputation grew.

By the time they arrived in the capital, it was already the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Ke Yunyun brought her daughter to help out at Wo Xi Ji Mixed Food Shop. The child sat in the enclosure playing with toys and was enjoying herself without anyone accompanying her.

As Ke Yunyun tallied the accounts, she glanced at the child, her smile gentle.

After seeing the guests off and tidying up the goods, Xiao Xi glanced around the street, put her hands in her sleeves, and stammered, "Laba Festival has passed, why haven't my brothers arrived yet?"

Ke Yunyun looked up at her with amusement, "Don't worry, maybe they were delayed on the way. Anyway, there are a lot of them, so don't be afraid!"

"That's true!" Xiao Xi muttered to herself, then heard the sound of the convoy. She rushed out and was overjoyed. "You really can't read it! It appears as soon as you do! Sis, they're here!"

Ke Yunyun put down the ledger and followed them out, only to be so shocked by the scene before her that she covered her jaw. "Why are there so many people?"

Xiao Xi was also puzzled.

Su Chuan jumped off the carriage first and rushed into the shop. "This time the goods are seafood, a big batch! You guys quickly bang the gong and drum to attract customers. We have to sell these goods before the New Year!" "Oh, oh, oh," Xiao Xi, who didn't understand what the seafood was, went in to get the gong without even looking at it.

The caravan unloaded the cargo and opened the crates as they went.

Little Xi kept asking for a drink.

Seeing that more and more curious onlookers were gathering, Ke Yunyun quickly took her daughter to the backyard to avoid any accidents caused by the crowd.

This time, Sutai deliberately left a few bluefin tuna unkilled.

When the 300-pound fish was displayed, wow! The whole street erupted in excitement.

The shopkeeper stopped doing business and led his customers and waiters to Xiji Mixed Food Shop. In less than half an hour, the shop was completely blocked.

The capital is the capital; even ordinary people know what seafood is, and even those who have never eaten it understand its preciousness.

The merchants who were doing business tried to rob him without saying a word.

Su Chuan had someone protect the goods, and then showed the bill to Xiao Xi for review.

Xiao Xi looked at the seafood, glanced at the prices, gritted his teeth, and raised the price by one tael of silver, no matter what it was, by one tael of silver.

She was a little nervous when she made the offer.

Unexpectedly, the crowd was very enthusiastic and was not deterred by the price at all.

Su Chuan and a few others helped sell the goods and collect the money, while the others were responsible for guarding the goods and preventing the agitated people from grabbing them.

After seeing off the first wave of people who had surrounded the city, Su Chuan counted the empty boxes and chuckled, "The capital is indeed the capital; it has no shortage of rich people. In just a short while, we've sold eight large boxes of yellow croaker, twelve boxes of red snapper, and about ten boxes of pomfret. Someone just asked about tuna, but we haven't sold it yet. I reckon someone will come to inquire after noon. Let's thaw a few bags and let them try them first."

Su Chuan was quite confident in his products.

Xiao Xi was busy directing them to move the goods into the backyard, and even though she had a lot of questions in her mind, she didn't have a chance to ask them.

Before the goods were even sorted out, someone came to inquire about tuna. The person was dressed smartly and professionally.

He looks like he's in charge, the kind of person who's in charge of a wealthy family.

The moment the other person entered, their eyes were glued to the several enormous tuna. "Shopkeeper, how much are these fish?"

Xiao Xi hurried over to greet them, "Sir, this fish is a deep-sea fish, specially made for eating raw. It's different from other fish. You can try it. If you want to buy larger fish, we have other options too. This mackerel is quite good, weighing twenty or thirty pounds. It's delicious steamed or braised. We also have large yellow croaker, which symbolizes good fortune and wealth, weighing seven or eight pounds each. Red snapper, which is vibrant and beautiful. Oh, and by the way, we also have large lobsters, sea cucumbers, scallops, squid, octopus, and many other varieties."

Some of each type of seafood was displayed.

After examining each piece, the other person tasted a piece of the lean meat and a piece of the belly, and asked thoughtfully, "Where did you get all this seafood from?"

Su Chuan immediately stepped forward and replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, "Qiongzi, our hometown is close to the ice plains, and we also have relatives there. Going to Qiongzi to collect goods is not a difficult task."

The other party was clearly surprised and sighed, "A few years ago, my master also sent people to Qiongzi to collect seafood. The environment there is harsh, and the people do not have good fishing tools. The risk of death when fishing at sea is extremely high. Our people only brought back some small fish and shrimp on that trip. Because they did not know how to eat them, the losses were huge."

I never expected that this unassuming shop would harbor such hidden talents and contain such valuable items!

Su Chuan smiled calmly and said, "It's all up to us. We're close by and know the situation in Qiongzi better. Would you like to take a look, sir?"

The other person nodded. He had originally wanted to buy a whole bluefin tuna, but after tasting the finished product, he changed his mind. "How much is this raw fish?"

Su Chuan took out packets of sashimi. "Three different cuts of fish, three different textures, all priced the same: ten taels of silver per packet." (End of Chapter)