Fisherwoman: After my divorce, I became rich by fishing at sea

Chapter 772 Recruiting troops

Although Fu San was already very satisfied with the transformation of the fresh food collection boat, he was still very happy when he heard Fu Wan's affirmative answer.

"Awan, this is settled, right? Our seafood collection business is about to start up!?"

Happiness came too suddenly, Fu San was a little excited.

"We're halfway there, Uncle San. We still need to hire people, people who can drive the boat, move the cargo, and do the accounting.

At least three people are needed."

In fact, not to mention three people, even four or five people are possible.

But the business hasn't opened yet, so Fu Wan thought about hiring a few people first and then adding more when the business gets going and she's too busy to handle it.

Fu San nodded immediately after hearing this, "Don't worry, I've been thinking about this since a long time ago.

I have a candidate in mind for the captain, Fu Huanghua from our village. As for the other boatmen, I will also look for people from the same village."

"Fu Huanghua, who is that?"

Fu Wan asked in confusion. It wasn't her fault. Very few people in the village called each other by their real names. They all called each other by nicknames or pet names.

There is no way around it. Chinese people like to give nicknames that are easy to understand and tailor-made for them, such as donkey eggs, dog eggs, and dung eggs. The point is that a simple name is easier to keep!

Boss Fu and Fu San don’t have any nicknames because their names are easy to pronounce.

But there are also many people who don’t like to call Fu Lao Da “Lao Da”. People of the same age or elders still call him Gou Wa.

Fu Huanghua is actually a relative of Fu Lao Da and Fu San. Fu Huanghua's grandfather is a brother of Fu San and Fu Lao Da's grandfather. According to seniority, Fu Huanghua should call Fu Lao Da his cousin.

As for Fu Wan, she should call Fu Huanghua her cousin.

After Fu San said this, Fu Wan immediately matched the man with the name.

"Hey Uncle San, why don't you just say Uncle Da Huang?"

It's so formal, why is he still called Fu Huanghua?

Fu San also laughed when he heard this, "Haha, isn't this just to introduce your Uncle Huang's real name to you, Awan? Do you know why he's called Fu Huanghua?"

"What?"

Fu Wan asked curiously, but Fu San tried hard to suppress his laughter.

"Because yellow croaker is valuable, his parents originally wanted to name him Fu Huanghua, but they didn't expect it to be a boy, so they changed it to Hua, haha!"

Fu Wan was shocked when she heard this. It was such a simple and unpretentious reason. He even included yellow croaker in the name.

When Fu San said this, he couldn't help but smile and told Fu Wan the origin of Fu Huanghua's nickname. This man's nickname was Dahuang. His hair was relatively yellow when he was born. When he grew up, he raised a yellow dog. In addition, there was a "Huang" in his name, so everyone just called him Dahuang.

In fact, he was originally called Yellow Dog, but the word "dog" was taken by Boss Fu, and Dahuang has a dog smell, so everyone let him go.

In terms of age, Fu Huanghua was four years older than Fu Sanda and six years younger than Fu Laodiao. He had once been a sea diver on a boat with Fu Laodiao and the others, and later, when he made some money, he wanted to buy a boat. But his father suddenly fell seriously ill, so Fu Huanghua used all his savings to pay for his father's medical treatment and medicine.

Being sick is the most expensive thing, and because his family was poor, he got married much later than his peers. After getting married, he had three more children, the eldest of whom was 18 years old and the youngest was only 7 years old.

For many years, Fu Huanghua had been working as a boatman on other people's ships. It was not until a while ago that the ship owner disliked his age and asked him to leave the boat.

The reason why Fu San looked for him was that he wanted to help his own family members.

Even if the bones are broken and the tendons are connected, you can't write a single character with one stroke.

The most important thing is that when they were diving together in the sea, they had experienced life and death together. Fu Huanghua's experience is more than enough compared to Fu Lao Da.

Although Fu San wanted to help him, the major shareholder of the fresh ship was Fu Wan, so he could only make a suggestion at most.

After hearing what Fu San said, Fu Wan remembered such a person.

If she remembered correctly, Uncle Huang had picked mangoes for her when she was a child.

"Uncle San, I have no objection to looking for Uncle Da Huang, but will he agree?"

"Yes, why not!"

Fu San immediately shouted, "A few days ago, he went to the beach to pick up sea flax and kelp to sell to me. He wouldn't let go of such cheap seafood. Even if you offered him fifteen dollars a month, he would definitely come!"

Fu Wan couldn't help but frown when she heard this, "Fifteen dollars won't do, that's too little!"

"Oh, I'm just speaking metaphorically, metaphorically!"

Fu San laughed twice, "Awan, what salary do you think is appropriate for us?"

To be honest, he has never recruited anyone seriously.

Before, Fu Shi and his colleagues who moved sea goods were paid by the day or the number of times, but Fu San basically settled the bill with them on the same day and never withheld wages.

Fu Wan thought for a moment and said, "It's hard work for the seafood collecting boats to go out to sea, but the seafood collecting boat business hasn't taken off yet, so I can't ask for a high price.

How about this? The captain will start with 45 yuan a month, and the boatmen will get 35 yuan. If business stabilizes after a month, each person can get an extra 10 yuan.

In addition, there are red envelopes during Chinese New Year and other festivals.”

Fu San thought it was a good idea. Forty-five yuan a month was more than what Dahuang earned as a boatman.

"Okay, then I'll go talk to him later."

"Okay, Uncle San, I'm not familiar with Uncle Da Huang and the others, so I'll leave this matter to you.

But I have to tell them that the treatment on our ship is pretty good, but I'm not a sucker. If they want to just get paid without doing any work, I definitely won't welcome it."

"Okay, I'll definitely tell him that."

Fu San went to communicate with the fresh food collection ship, so Fu Wan turned around and went home.

It just so happened that at this time, Boss Fu and Fu Ming had gone to the mountains to cut some bamboo. Seeing Fu Wan coming back from the direction of the dock, Boss Fu couldn't help but ask casually, "Wan, what have you been doing?"

Fu Wan then told him about the completion of the renovation of the fresh food collection boat and the recruitment.

"Dad, Uncle San suggested letting Uncle Da Huang be the captain of the boat. What do you think?"

Boss Fu pondered for a moment and nodded, "That's OK. Da Huang is a down-to-earth person, but he's a little too honest and stubborn.

Actually, he and your Uncle Chen were on the same ship, but he was laid off not long after your Uncle Chen left that ship."

Boss Fu sighed. He had told Fu Huanghua before that one should not be too honest. When his father was sick, there were five sons in the family, but he, the eldest son, contributed the most effort and money.

Later, his father passed away, and his mother simply took the money his father had saved and went to his youngest brother's house.

If it weren't for the help of Fu Lao Da and his brothers in borrowing money, Fu Huanghua would not have been able to get married.

"It's good to be honest. At least honest people won't think too much."

With Boss Fu's evaluation, Fu Wan naturally felt relieved. However, she also planned to see if she could hire a few more boatmen during this period. If the business was to take off, the three people on the boat would not be able to handle it.

And after returning from the last voyage, Fu Wan always felt that there were fewer people on her boat.

"Dad, big brother, do you think there are not enough boatmen on the boat? We are going out to sea again the day after tomorrow. Do you want to ask for a few more people to help?"