Chapter 1624 - 1583: Discussing Marriage Arrangements (Part 3)

Adan saw so many orders and smiled as she calculated how much money was made. Sold 400 crabs at 9.9, another 200 orders at 29.9, and was immediately stunned. Did they really make 39,000 in total?

Sold more than 1600 crabs? Adan froze for a moment, quickly took the crabs off the shelves, then dropped the pen, thinking there’s no need to design those vouchers. How long would Marcus have to catch these over 1000 crabs?

Adan quickly went over to count the crabs, then called Uncle Irving to help tie up the crabs.

"Miss Adan, your store is really amazing, you’ve sold so many crabs in such a short time?" Uncle Irving said with a beaming smile.

Of course, the money from selling crabs counts as Holiday Village’s revenue, so Uncle Irving’s family gets 20%. In the blink of an eye, they earned 8,000 from the village’s unwanted crabs, how could Uncle Irving not be happy?

Uncle Irving immediately felt that Marcus and Adan are a perfect match, one has strong initiative and is hardworking, the other is clever and knowledgeable, their pairing is excellent.

"Our goods are good, we have lots of return customers. Food is something consumed daily, so it sells fast. Uncle Irving, do we have 1600 crabs in this pool?" Adan looked at the dark water pool bottom, almost full of green crabs.

The wild crabs raised in this beautiful mountain and water environment are much better looking than those farmed in lakes.

"Uncountable, these crabs. Once we work overtime to tie them all up, then Marcus can count how many are in each basket when catching them, we can then calculate how many crabs there are," Uncle Irving smiled, then called Aunt Irving over to help tie the crabs.

"Alrighty," Adan followed Uncle Irving and Aunt Irving, learning how to tie the crabs together.

Very soon Marcus returned, followed by Irving Spencer and two panting old men.

"I can’t run anymore, this isn’t crab catching, it’s life-threatening, going up and down the mountain and into the river," Old Man Ol put a basket of crabs on the ground, gasping for air, sat down to rest, and complained, "Marcus, we worked for you all day, shouldn’t you cook a few dishes to reward us tonight?"

Old Man Ol and Oliver Zolotov, in Holiday Village, all consumption besides accommodation is free, even accommodation was half-priced, all research funds reimbursed, clearly they spent nothing, yet the two old men become more childlike the older they get, craving Marcus’s culinary skills. Catching crabs all day for fun, also to tease Marcus into cooking a meal.

"You two rest, I’ll cook tonight," Marcus agreed without a second thought, immediately everyone in the yard was full of smiles, happy to eat well tonight.

When Marcus cooks, not only is the cooking skill excellent, but the dishes are ones you can’t eat outside, just two words: "Fresh."

Adan was tying crabs, she and Uncle Irving and Aunt Irving had already tied quite a lot of crabs, piled on one side. Upon seeing Marcus, she immediately laughed, "Marcus, I’ve already sold 1600 crabs, can you count roughly how many are in a basket? I’m afraid we don’t have enough to sell."

"I’ve counted, roughly 60 crabs per basket," Marcus heard Adan wanted to sell crabs, he paid attention and specifically counted how many crabs fit into a basket, around 60 fills it up, then asked how many baskets each person caught, quickly calculated they went 8 trips, at least 4 baskets each trip, roughly caught 2000 crabs, should be enough to sell.

"No more crab catching today, I’ll help you tie the crabs, sell these then catch more. From now on catch as many as we sell," he placed the basket aside, reached for the rope in Adan’s hand, saw several small red dots on her delicate finger, his gaze paused and quickly seized her hand, asking in a low tone, "What happened to your hand?"

"At first I didn’t know how to tie crabs and got stung several times. It doesn’t hurt anymore," seeing his worried expression, and Uncle Irving’s family, Old Man Ol and Elder Zhou all chuckling, Adan suddenly felt her cheeks warm and tried to draw her hand back.

The man’s face slightly sank, without a word he used a gourd ladle to scoop water, carefully cleaned her hand, then applied ointment, said tenderly, "You’re not allowed to do these things anymore, I’ll do it, you just rest."

Everyone: "..."

"Cough cough cough cough—" Old Man Ol nearly coughed out a lung, others also pursed their lips and chuckled stealthily.

Adan sweetly replied, confidently ignored their teasing about her and Marcus, then sat beside Marcus, watching him quickly tie a crab, immediately full of admiration, her man is really amazing!