Chapter 426 - 366: Caught 2 Wild Soft-shelled Turtles, Now to Sell Them

Chapter 426: Chapter 366: Caught 2 Wild Soft-shelled Turtles, Now to Sell Them

Now, he was going to the front of the restaurant to sell the soft-shelled turtles.

He hoped he could sell them.

He hurried home.

Coincidentally, he ran into Li Donghai on the way.

Seeing Liu Haibo carrying a Turtle Spear, Li Donghai said, "Lao Liu, back from turtle hunting so early? Did you catch anything?"

Liu Haibo gestured proudly for Li Donghai to come and look inside his bucket.

The two soft-shelled turtles were in the bucket he was carrying.

"A good haul?" Li Donghai said as he walked closer to Liu Haibo and peered into the bucket.

His surprise quickly turned to delight. "Impressive, Lao Liu! You actually caught two this big. Looks like your skills are as sharp as ever."

Liu Haibo laughed. "HAHA, you know it! But I got lucky, too."

Li Donghai said, "Who cares if it was luck? What matters is you caught them. Are you going to eat them yourself? Or sell them?"

"Sell them!" Liu Haibo said. "I’m taking them to sell at Xiaoyou’s restaurant. I’ve already talked to him about it. I’m heading over now."

Li Donghai nodded repeatedly. "That’s great, just great. It’s like I always say, with Xiaoyou’s restaurant, our whole village reaps the benefits. See? Now there’s even a place to sell soft-shelled turtles."

Liu Haibo said, "Definitely. Alright, I’ve got to run. I need to go home and then ride my tricycle over."

"Alright, alright. You should get going."

Liu Haibo nodded, said goodbye to Li Donghai, and continued hurrying home.

Once home, he set down his Turtle Spear and placed the bucket of turtles into the cargo bed of his tricycle.

He got on the tricycle and set off.

On the way to the village entrance, he ran into many acquaintances. Everyone asked where he was headed on his tricycle.

Liu Haibo explained the situation.

Everyone’s eyes lit up. It was a great idea. Now, it was just a matter of whether he could sell them or not.

They were all eager to find out what would happen.

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「Jiulong Gorge.」

A little after four in the afternoon, Liu Haibo arrived at the parking lot on his tricycle.

Li You, who was relaxing in a rocking chair, saw him and got up, heading toward the parking lot.

After parking his tricycle, Liu Haibo grabbed the bucket and started walking toward the restaurant.

As they approached each other, Li You smiled. "Uncle Haibo, you made it."

Liu Haibo smiled back. "I’m here. Xiaoyou, take a look."

With that, he held the bucket out to Li You.

Li You looked into the bucket, and his eyes lit up. ’These two soft-shelled turtles are a good size,’ he thought. ’They must each be around five jin.’

’Wild soft-shelled turtles this big are worth some serious money!’

The bigger the wild soft-shelled turtle, the more valuable it was. One over five jin could easily sell for seven or eight hundred yuan per jin.

’Catching two this big... that’s damn impressive.’

Li You said, "Uncle Haibo, you actually managed to catch two this big. That’s really impressive!"

Liu Haibo laughed. "HAHA, just luck, pure luck. Xiaoyou, you mentioned selling them for 200 yuan a jin. Is that alright?"

Li You quickly waved his hands. "No, no, that’s too low. The bigger the wild soft-shelled turtle, the more valuable it is. These are both around five jin each. Wild turtles this large can easily sell for seven or eight hundred yuan a jin. It’s not out of the question for them to go for a thousand yuan a jin. So... you should ask for at least 600 yuan a jin."

"600?" Liu Haibo was both shocked and thrilled.

’If they really sell for 600 a jin, wouldn’t the two of them together fetch around 6,000 yuan?’

’This... this would be a pretty big windfall.’

’But isn’t 600 too high? Would anyone actually buy them?’

’After all, this isn’t a big city.’

"Xiaoyou, if I can sell them for 600 a jin, that’d be for the best, of course. But isn’t that too high? I’m afraid no one will buy them," Liu Haibo said.

Li You said thoughtfully, "Uncle Haibo, we don’t want to overprice things, but we shouldn’t undersell them either. That wouldn’t do a catch like this justice. We should try to get what it’s really worth. Of course, the chances of selling at 600 yuan a jin are much lower than at 200. But we have to at least give it a shot. That’s just my suggestion, though. Ultimately, it’s your call how you want to price them."

"Well..."

After a moment’s thought, Liu Haibo said, "Alright, I’ll take your advice, Xiaoyou. Let’s try for 600 a jin."

Li You nodded. "Okay. If they don’t sell today, I’ll ask around for you in the group and see if anyone wants them."

"The group? What group?" Liu Haibo didn’t quite understand.

Li You smiled. "A WeChat group, for chatting on our phones. One of my customers started a foodie group with a few hundred people in it. They’re mostly from the county seat."

Liu Haibo roughly understood after that explanation. He thanked him profusely, "In that case, thank you so much, Xiaoyou."

Li You waved it off. "Don’t mention it. It’s no trouble at all."

Liu Haibo said, "I still have to thank you. That’s very thoughtful of you!"

Li You said, "You’re too kind, Uncle Haibo. Come on, let’s go set up."

"Okay."

The two of them returned to the front of the restaurant.

"I’ll go get a large basin. They’ll look better displayed in it," Li You said.

"Okay, okay. Thank you so much, Xiaoyou."

"There you go being too kind again, Uncle Haibo."

Liu Haibo laughed. "HAHA, alright, alright. I’ll stop."

Li You gave a small smile, then went inside the shop. He came back out with a large basin and set it on the ground.

He then added some water.

He poured the two soft-shelled turtles in.

It was a much better presentation.

’Now all they had to do was wait for customers and see if anyone was interested.’

’No, that’s not right. There would surely be plenty of interested customers. The real question was whether anyone would be willing to spend the money.’

’Around 3,000 yuan for one... to be honest, that’s really expensive. There wouldn’t be many people willing to pay that.’

’The Li You from before certainly wouldn’t have been willing to spend that much.’

’Still, a wild soft-shelled turtle this big was worth the price.’

’In fact, this price wasn’t expensive at all. You could even call it a bargain.’

’So, they’d just try selling it at this price for now.’

’They’d see how it goes.’

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