The market did not cover a huge area, but it was not small either. They had not been here for many days, and now it was fully completed.
Even from a distance, they could see the rows of empty little shops downstairs, without doors.
After arriving, they walked around the place. There was nothing much to look at in the empty space anyway, so they followed the directions given by the person at the entrance and went straight upstairs to pay at the market department.
After paying the balance, they received numbered tokens corresponding to the order in which they had paid their deposits. Then they had to wait until noon to draw lots together for their shop numbers.
Anyone who had not arrived to pay the balance on time would draw later.
With plenty of time to kill and nothing to do, they simply went back to browse the old market.
Because the weather had been cold and windy lately, not many boats were going out. Apart from the larger boats, the small ones could barely get out to sea, and there seemed to be less seafood in the market too.
It was not their first visit; they had been here several times already, so there was nothing particularly new to them. They only took a quick look around. The most plentiful catches they saw were toadfish, turbot, Spanish mackerel, and Bombay duck.
Ye Yaodong had originally only intended to browse, but the sight of so much stock tempted him.
He had not gone out to sea for many days, and he did not know whether the weather would allow it in the days ahead. He was still about a thousand jin short of the goods he had to deliver before New Year.
He considered buying a thousand jin