CHAPTER 214: CHAPTER 214 ORIGINAL SIN 23

Yun Shuangshuang could only explain to everyone who was anxious that she and her mother were not in good health and couldn’t make so many grilled fish. They were already out for today, and people should come earlier tomorrow! The black fish was also limited in quantity, so anyone wanting to buy should come early; it would be gone if they came late.

Although the people who had waited for half the day were not very satisfied, Yun Shuangshuang indeed had no more fish, so there was no use in pressing her. The crowd could only ask clearly about the time Yun Shuangshuang would come to set up her stall the next day, then reluctantly left.

Yun Shuangshuang, in a great mood, started humming a song while packing up the stall. Feng Jinyan helped Yun Shuangshuang with some items she couldn’t carry. Yun Shuangshuang was cautious not to let Feng Jinyan do anything too complex, fearing others might notice something was off.

After returning home that night, Yun Shuangshuang began counting the day’s earnings. Five black fish earned 250 yuan, and the other fish, totaling fifty, earned 1,500 yuan altogether, which added up to 1,750 yuan. After deducting costs such as capital and stall fees, Yun Shuangshuang netted at least 900 yuan for the day!

The most important thing was that the stall hours today were not long. The night market in S City was open until 3 a.m., and the morning market started after that. The most crowded times at the night market were generally from 9 p.m. to midnight.

And by 9 p.m., Yun Shuangshuang had already headed home! Meaning, while others were in the midst of enjoying themselves, she had sold out everything, even more successfully than she had expected!

However, Yun Shuangshuang did not plan to exhaust herself for money. She planned to increase the number of black fish to ten, and other types to ninety. Regardless of business conditions, she would only make 100 grilled fish a day from now on.

Yun Shuangshuang had calculated that bringing in the fish with a tricycle only required getting up early and wasn’t too tiring. Plus, with Feng Jinyan helping her carry the fish, there was no need for her to struggle. Most of the utensils for marinating the fish were stainless steel, which Feng Jinyan could help clean. She only needed to wash a few small porcelain plates used for sampling and rinse the final rinse of items her mother had washed, ensuring everything was clean.

Marinating the fish is a meticulous job, time-consuming but not tiring. The most tiring part is grilling the fish, and Feng Jinyan can’t help her with that. However, Feng Jinyan can help with carrying large items when the stall is packed up, and she herself drives the tricycle back home. The last stretch of carrying items upstairs is just a short distance on the road, and Feng Jinyan can help with that. The rest involves an elevator, so it’s not too strenuous.

After carefully calculating, Yun Shuangshuang confirmed that this workload was manageable for her current child-like body, but any more would be unfeasible.

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Having earned a lot of money today, Yun Shuangshuang decided to have a good meal, so she went downstairs to buy some fresh pork ribs and made a pork rib rice pot. Before eating, Yun Shuangshuang picked off the meat from the ribs for her mother, Feng Jinyan, to ensure she wouldn’t choke on the bones, and only then started eating her portion.

After dinner, Yun Shuangshuang called the fish vendor from whom she ordered the fish and gave them her desired quantity. The fish vendor happily agreed and even took the initiative to say they’d clean the fish thoroughly for her.

Generally, fish sellers clean fish quickly, which often results in scales not being cleaned from the abdomen and some corners, and the intestines not being cleaned well enough. When Yun Shuangshuang brought the fish back and washed it herself, it was inconvenient. If the fish vendor cleaned them for her, it would save her a lot of trouble.

The fish vendor did this to retain Yun Shuangshuang as a big customer, for she alone ordered 100 fish daily, a number not even most restaurants could use.

After all, he had workers specifically for cleaning fish, so it was just a matter of giving an extra instruction! And selling himself well to ensure Yun Shuangshuang kept ordering fish from him was definitely worthwhile.

Early the next morning, Yun Shuangshuang went to buy fish and when she returned home, she carefully inspected them while cleaning. The scales and intestines had been thoroughly cleaned, so she didn’t need to clean them a second time. It saved her a lot of effort, allowing her to move directly on to marinating them with seasoning.

When Yun Shuangshuang arrived at the night market in the evening, while other stalls had no one attending them yet, a long queue had already formed in front of her small stall, which used to be quite deserted; the first in line were the young couple who had come to eat grilled fish the day before.

Apart from the old customers from the previous day, there were those who smelled it yesterday but didn’t buy any, as well as curious people seeing the long line today and joining in.

Seeing Yun Shuangshuang coming, the young couple happily greeted her first, "You guys came quite early, I thought we’d have to wait longer. Do you have more black fish today? We want two."

Yun Shuangshuang also smiled broadly, as returning customers were a good thing, "No problem, I’ve marinated ten black fish today, and it’s one per person limit. Since you’re two people, you can indeed have two!"

Saying this, Yun Shuangshuang stopped the vehicle and started unloading swiftly. By the previous day, Feng Jinyan had gotten the hang of what needed to be done, helping Yun Shuangshuang unload the big items more efficiently, without having to wait for her to instruct him in advance.

Setting up the stall, starting the fire, and grilling the fish, Yun Shuangshuang’s business was booming again today. With 100 grilled fish, Yun Shuangshuang tirelessly grilled and handed the money to Feng Jinyan to watch over.

Because Yun Shuangshuang had mentioned that Feng Jinyan had poor eyesight, the fish eaters assumed he couldn’t see well at night and didn’t find it odd that he wasn’t attending to customers. In order to get their food quickly, they began serving themselves, taking fish and grabbing chopsticks.

Yun Shuangshuang only needed to focus on grilling the fish and collecting the money, which sped up the process. By 10 p.m., all 100 fish were sold out!

Seeing that Yun Shuangshuang was out of fish, those waiting in line were naturally quite disappointed, but there was nothing to be done; when the fish is gone, it’s gone. They could only leave and wait for the next day.

On the way back, Yun Shuangshuang bought another two kilos of pork ribs, planning to make more pork rib rice pot again, mainly because Feng Jinyan hadn’t had enough yesterday and had been talking about wanting more today. Naturally, Yun Shuangshuang wanted to fulfill her mother’s wish.

After eating, Yun Shuangshuang once again counted the money she made, which was even more this time. Ten black fish made 500 yuan, and 90 grass carp and catfish made 2,700 yuan altogether, adding up to 3,200 yuan.

Although Yun Shuangshuang’s grilled fish were priced high, the seasonings used to marinate the fish were of top quality, and these seasonings cost quite a bit, making her costs much higher than others’ grilled fish. But she could still make more than half a profit, with at least 1,700 or 1,800 yuan from the 3,200 yuan being net profit.

Yun Shuangshuang figured she could first work like this for a year, save enough money, and then take her mother to a place with spring-like weather to recover for a few years.

Mainly because her mother was easier to account for, but she herself was difficult; she wasn’t actually suffering from dwarfism and would definitely develop normally. In a short time, maybe no one would notice, but if too much time passed, someone might notice her changes and possibly figure something out, which could cause trouble.