After seeing the tractor off, Ye Yaodong happily clenched his right fist and gave himself an excited fist pump.
"Dongzi, you made a fortune on this trip," Ye Yaosheng said enviously. "You really had guts. You actually managed to make some serious money."
His eldest male cousin said excitedly too, "Exactly! Five hundred and twenty yuan! It would take me nearly half a year to earn that, and you made it in one trip. How did you think of buying jellyfish and cutting them up?"
"You bought them for one fen, so you must have only spent around a hundred yuan, right? You brought in five times that! That's so much money," his second eldest male cousin chimed in.
Ye Yaodong beamed. "I'd seen people cut them up before, and I'd caught some myself and done it a few times when I had nothing else to do. I'd also heard people say there was a jellyfish season here. When I happened to come across some a couple of days ago, the idea struck me. Luckily, someone wanted them. I was taking a risk myself, biting the bullet and bringing them all this way."
"That's true," Ye Yaosheng agreed. "Most people wouldn't think of taking that risk, and you had to spend so much money buying them too. More importantly, you had to bring them all this way yourself. Any one of those three things would be enough to put someone off."
"He just loves making work for himself. Other people can't get away from the things fast enough and don't want them, but he has to go fiddling around with them. Luckily, he found a buyer and got a good price. If he'd brought them all this way and nobody wanted them, I'd like to see what he'd do."
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