A 50-year-old man is reborn and becomes a complete slacker, leaving his scumbag children completely

That evening, Zhang Zude and his parents went out and spread the word that they would also be buying fish the next night, and that they would pay the same price as Hu Dahai.

Sure enough, some people from their neighborhood came over the very next evening with fish, wanting to sell them to them.

Although it's not much, it can still weigh several dozen kilograms in one night.

They didn't have a fishpond like Hu Dahai's, so they brought out all the basins, foot basins, and buckets in their house to raise fish.

I plan to take it out and sell it the next morning.

The family was incredibly excited as they looked at the fish scattered all over the ground.

"With so many fish, if we sell them for three cents a pound tomorrow, we can make several tens of dollars!"

"Yes, that's tens of yuan a day, that's hundreds a month, and thousands a year! Soon we'll be a ten-thousand-yuan household!"

That night, all four of them slept very soundly, dreaming that they had become small business owners.

However, when they got up in the morning...

Everyone was stunned.

On the floor of their house lay a whole bunch of fish. Some were still jumping, while others were dead beyond any hope of survival. There were only a few fish left in the basin.

"How...how could this be?!"

The four people were dumbfounded when they saw the fish scattered all over the ground.

"What are you still looking at! Hurry up and put the fish back in!" Zhang's father roared and immediately started picking up the fish. The others then realized what was happening and rushed over to pick up the fish and put them back in the bucket.

After all the fish were collected, more than half of them were found belly-up in the buckets and basins, leaving only about 10 to 20 pounds of fish.

If Hu Dahai were here, he would probably laugh. The fish in the river are very active. If you put them in such a shallow basin and don't circulate the water, the fish will naturally jump out when there isn't enough oxygen in the basin.

"We only have this many live fish left, what should we do?"

Zhang Zude had been hoping to make a fortune today, but he was dealt a heavy blow on the first day. He was immediately discouraged and looked at Zhang Yuzhen and her parents: "With so few fish, are we still going to sell them?"

"Sell! Of course we should sell! We'll pickle the dead fish and eat them ourselves! We'll sell the live fish." Mr. Zhang said, looking at his disappointing son, "Go and get familiar with the environment first. Practice makes perfect!"

So, under coercion from his father, Zhang Zude had no choice but to carry the fish alone and arrive near Hu Dahai's house early in the morning, following Hu Dahai and his group into the city from a distance.

Hu Dahai and Bao Yuanshan pushed a cart to the food factory and unloaded most of the fish there.

Just as they were about to leave, Zhang Zhaoxing approached them with a smile.

The smile on his face was the kind that even an AK47 couldn't suppress.

"Director Zhang, you're smiling quite broadly today," Hu Dahai couldn't help but tease.

"Hehehe, speaking of which, I should thank you. I sent our fish tofu to various places to promote it, and it was very well received," Zhang Zhaoxing said with a grin.

"Everyone who tried it loved it and placed orders one after another. We now have enough orders to keep our machines running 24 hours a day for a long time!"

"If this continues, let alone making up for the losses in three months, we'll have to buy new machines and expand production!"

Hu Dahai nodded: "It is indeed worth expanding. I will also send more fish over."

Zhang Zhaoxing looked at Hu Dahai: "Speaking of delivering fish, why do you need to deliver fish yourself? Just ask your relatives or something to help deliver them. Why do you need to do such tiring work yourself? We trust you."

No, Zhang Zhaoxing's words did remind Hu Dahai that he was currently busy delivering fish, and it was one thing for people to follow him to the market to sell fish, but what if someone with ill intentions used his name to sell fish at the food factory?

So he reminded him, "Director Zhang, you need to tell the people in your factory that our products are food and there can't be any safety issues. So for now, I will personally handle the delivery of your fish to ensure its quality."

"I will let you know in advance when I stop delivering fish myself. Please do not let those people who use my name to sell fish in here. If they send in some inferior fish, it will cause problems."

Zhang Zhaoxing was very clever and immediately understood what Hu Dahai meant. He immediately replied, "Okay, I will pass on the notice right away. We will pay attention to this issue."

After both parties said goodbye, Zhang Zhaoxing returned to his office. Just as he was about to pass on the information, he suddenly received a call from the government above, asking him to attend a meeting.

"I should be able to notify you when I get back tonight." Zhang Zhaoxing thought it shouldn't be anything serious, so he went to the meeting first.

After Hu Dahai and his group left, they arrived at the entrance of the food factory.

Zhang Zude stared intently at the food factory. He watched as Hu Dahai and his group came out, and at least 70% of the fish on the cart was gone. He immediately realized that this was where Hu Dahai and his group sold the most fish; they didn't sell them at the market at all.

"Hmph, I almost fell for your trick! I didn't expect my brother-in-law's father to have connections in the food factory!" Zhang Zude thought to himself, and soon he came up with a plan.

After Hu Dahai and the others left, he didn't chase after them to see where they went to sell fish.

Instead, he quietly waited by the food factory, intending to find a way to establish a relationship with the factory.

He waited from morning until almost 1 p.m. before finally carrying the bucket to the gate of the food factory.

"Who are you?!" The gatekeeper immediately stepped forward to stop him when he saw the appearance of Zhang Zude.

Zhang Zude smiled and said to the gatekeeper, "Hello, Uncle, I am a relative of Hu Dahai. My sister is Hu Dahai's eldest daughter-in-law. He said he couldn't collect the fish by himself, so he wanted me to help deliver them."

"I found out late today, and this is all the fish I have left. I thought I'd send it over first, and I'll send more fish over tomorrow."

The gatekeeper looked at Zhang Zude suspiciously, then looked at his bucket; it was indeed filled with fish.

Thinking about how Hu Dahai had been coming and going from the factory recently, and also recalling that he had recently heard that Zhang Zhaoxing was about to be harmed, but Hu Dahai had helped him and even helped the factory find a new way out.

Immediately, the gatekeeper became more polite to Zhang Zude: "Oh, Hu Dahai sent you here. Come in then. I'll take you to the purchasing department."

In this way, Zhang Zude successfully sold the fish he had to the food factory for three cents a pound.

Because of the incident where Hu Dahai made fish tofu in public that day, the factory's senior executives all knew about Hu Dahai, and everyone knew that their food factory was still able to operate because of Hu Dahai. Therefore, out of affection for Hu Dahai, they were also very polite to Zhang Zude.

The purchasing agent generously told Zhang Zude, "Your fish are good, we really need them, we'll buy them for 3 mao per jin!"

Hearing the purchasing agent's words and their enthusiastic attitude, Zhang Zude was overjoyed. Now he could confidently go and buy fish.

Zhang Zude excitedly took the money and left the food factory, wanting to go back and tell his family the good news.

On the way back, Zhang Zude's mouth never stopped. With this connection he had today, he could foresee that he would become a big shot and a rich man in their neighborhood in the future.

He'll have bicycles, big color TVs, big refrigerators, big houses, watches—all of that will be his possessions eventually.

Thinking this, Zhang Zude even looked down on his fiancée. Who did she think she was, daring to ask him, the future big boss, for a dowry of 500 yuan?

He was furious when he thought about all the contempt his fiancée had shown him and the difficulties she had made for his family.

At the same time, he realized that if he wanted to buy fish, he would need enough cash and enough large buckets to hold them.

Enraged, Zhang Zude stormed into his fiancée's house and unleashed a torrent of abuse on her entire family. Being the kind of idle, carefree person he was, his insults were exceptionally vile.

"I'm announcing the engagement today! Give me back my betrothal gifts!" Zhang Zude said to his fiancée's family after he finished cursing.

However, in rural areas, if you simply break off an engagement, you can't get all the betrothal gifts back. In the end, after a long argument between Zhang Zude and his fiancée's family, the farce ended with his fiancée's family returning 200 yuan.

Although he lost 300 yuan, Zhang Zude didn't care at all. Now that he had a way to sell fish, 300 yuan was just a few days' worth of income. If he earned 100 yuan a day, he could earn it back in three days.

He bought many large buckets in town, preparing to go home and properly develop his fish-collecting business. Of course, he kept the remaining 200 yuan.

When Zhang Zude's parents saw the money and the large bucket he brought back, they were both pleased and suspicious. They were pleased that the fish could indeed be sold, but suspicious of where Zhang Zude got the money to buy the bucket.

“Don’t worry about it. Just help me collect the fish. I found a very big client in the city through Hu Dahai. He values ​​me a lot. He will buy as many fish as I send over.”

"I bought them all for three cents a pound!" Zhang Zude couldn't help but boast, "They really like our fish, and these buckets were a gift from them."

With Zhang Zude's assurances and upon seeing the buckets, his parents were overjoyed.

"Great, great! That way we'll earn enough money right away, and then we'll build a three-story house! And you can go and marry your wife!"

Looking at her dilapidated house, Zhang's mother no longer wanted Zhang Yuzhen's house and was thinking of building her own three-story house.

Upon hearing his mother's words, Zhang Zude's expression turned slightly strange, but he quickly composed himself: "Father, Mother, I'm going to the surrounding villages to collect fish. I'm determined to collect a thousand catties of fish today!"

After saying that, he went outside without even eating, intending to get his old cronies to help him collect the fish. Although he was a frivolous person, he had plenty of friends, didn't he?

“Wait a minute, we definitely can’t compete with Hu Dahai in buying fish like this!” Zhang Yuzhen said just as Zhang Zude was about to leave.

"Then do you have any ideas?" the three members of the Zhang family asked Zhang Yuzhen.

“There is one, it just depends on whether you’re willing to take it.” A ruthless glint flashed in Zhang Yuzhen’s eyes as she said, “We can certainly raise the price to buy the fish.”