Gu Jiajie and the others flopped down onto the sofa, like they were boneless. Even at this moment, they were still haunted by lingering fears.
Collapsed on the soft sofa, the three of them finally seemed to return to life.
Seeing their post-crisis expressions, the coldness on Gu Jin’s face softened a bit. After all, they were just a group of young men who hadn’t yet experienced society.
Nevertheless, she still had questions: "Gentlemen, tell me, how did you manage to earn seventy thousand in twenty days, and why were you detained?"
She only knew that Seventh Brother detained them and sent them to South Island. She didn’t know how the three got into the seafood trade and made over seventy thousand in such a short time, or even rented a car to resell goods, indicating the volume of goods was considerable.
She also understood that as three young men unfamiliar with Shenzhen, they certainly weren’t aware that such profitable yet local-dreaded trades existed near Shuiwan in Shenzhen.
When asked about this topic, Gu Jiajie, Wu Zhiren, and Liu Pingyuan exchanged glances.
A look of indescribable emotion crossed their faces.
Catching the expressions of the three, Gu Jin led An Mingji, who was sleepy but had a startlingly bright gleam in his eyes, into one of the inner rooms.
After coaxing the child to sleep, Gu Jin quietly tiptoed out of the room.
The three cousins remained slumped on the sofa, with faces full of exhaustion, sleepiness, and a mix of complex emotions that come from surviving a crisis.
"Who’s going to tell me what really happened?"
Gu Jiajie raised his hand and rubbed his bruised face. The pain instantly woke him up a bit.
He sat up straight and recounted the whole incident.
Dealing in seafood was similar to what Maomao and Seventh Brother had said.
The only thing they did not mention to her was that the cousins themselves had been set up.
Or perhaps they were deceived by those fishermen, and Maomao was the middleman. His family and relatives were fishermen from Shuiwan.
Under Seventh Brother’s influence, Maomao’s family and the fishermen who sold seafood to the cousins were oppressed and underpaid, so over time, they schemed a bit.
Especially when they encountered the three outsiders, Gu Jiajie, Liu Pingyuan, and Wu Zhiren, their thoughts became more active.
Initially, the three cousins were selling toys, and after making several trips, they had a lot of money and exposed their wealth. Maomao proactively enticed them, introducing them to the seafood trade.
Not only did he tell them about the famous seafood in Shenzhen, introducing the business to them, but he also directed them to sell to several nearby cities where profits could multiply.
What the fishermen thought was a high price when selling to the cousins was, in fact, incredibly high on the seafood market elsewhere.
The prices Seventh Brother usually told them, along with the seafood prices in Shenzhen, fetched ten times more in neighboring provinces, not just a few times.
So, in just twenty days, the cousins made about seventy thousand in pure profit.
The money was good, but it came with unforeseen dangers.
Such a profitable business naturally attracted attention, and when Seventh Brother got wind of it, he was obviously not happy.
After the incident, the fishermen were fine, but the three cousins almost lost their lives.
Gu Jin glanced at the money bag next to her cousin, filled with hundred-yuan bills from this era.
In less than a month, they made over seventy thousand. Gu Jin couldn’t help but be moved by the profit margins of the seafood business.
But thinking about how far Shenzhen was from Wanhai City, nearly a thirty-hour bus ride, it was simply too far for her to bother with.