Chapter 55

Having been granted the afternoon off from labor, Qiao Qingqing stayed at the Educated Youth Point for an hour to tally the earnings from the day's sales. All the eels, ribbonfish, and sea perch were sold out. Excluding the sea perch given away as a gift, the earnings came to fifteen yuan and sixteen cents. Half of the squids and octopuses were sold, bringing in two yuan and fifty cents. Thirty-five out of forty catties of the king razor clams were sold, bringing in five yuan and twenty-five cents. All eighteen catties of ordinary razor clams were cleared out, bringing in one yuan and forty-four cents. Forty-eight out of sixty catties of large sea prawns were sold, bringing in fourteen yuan and forty cents. All forty catties of ordinary sea prawns were sold out, bringing in six yuan. Twenty out of thirty-five large swimming crabs were sold, bringing in eight yuan. All forty-five catties of ordinary swimming crabs were sold out, bringing in nine yuan. To sum it up, today's total income reached sixty-two yuan and nineteen cents! If anyone else were to find out about this figure, they would surely turn green with envy! Shi Jingye's monthly salary was only sixty yuan, yet her earnings from a single morning already exceeded a whole month of his pay.