"Are you saying we should take the catch straight to the Aquatic Products Market?"
"Do we rent a stall and sell it ourselves? Do we have to rent one? Can't we just set up somewhere?"
"Isn't that too much trouble?"
"It's getting dark, nearly nighttime already, and we'd have to hire a tractor specially to take it there..."
The brothers from the Zhou and Lan families were all discussing it, feeling it would be a bit too much trouble.
Ye Yaodong shrugged. He had simply remembered that their city had the province's largest Aquatic Products Wholesale Market. He just did not know what year it had been built, so he wanted to ask.
If possible, he really did intend to take everything straight to the market. Who knew how long they would have to wait here at the Pier? If they missed tomorrow's morning market, the price would probably drop again.
"Does everything bought at the Pier get sent to the Aquatic Products Market too?"
Zhou Da considered it. "Probably. I reckon the fish catch from all the towns and villages around the city ends up at the Aquatic Products Wholesale Market."
"Not necessarily," Ye Yaodong countered. "If it's too far away, they'll sell directly to fish dealers they know in the nearby county towns. Taking it all the way into the city is too far and too much trouble. Unless there's a huge quantity like today, with all these scallops. Ordinary fish dealers can't take that much, so it has to go to the city's wholesale market, where there are more customers."
"Right, right. A-Dong has a point. The stuff normally bought at the Pier can go straight to fish dealers around the county town, who sell it at the nearby markets."
"Oh, never mind where other people sell