Chapter 132: Want to take advantage? No way!

Li Long didn't go directly to the morning market, but first went to the big courtyard, unlocked the door, entered the room to take two large enamel basins, buckled them on the back seat of the bicycle, fastened them with the back seat clip, pushed them out of the courtyard, locked the door, then swung his leg onto the bike, and rode toward the morning market.

The sky was already bright, and there were more pedestrians on the street, but there were still few people riding bicycles, so Li Long attracted the attention of many people.

Li Long pedaled at the fastest speed and arrived at the morning market like a gust of wind, finding that it was much livelier than before. Many people were already shouting to sell things, no longer as silent as before.

Looking over, there were people selling eggs, selling roosters and hens, selling meat, selling fish, selling large brooms and small brooms, and even some who directly took masonry tools and squatted on the periphery. Li Long guessed these people should be doing odd jobs.

There were forty or fifty stalls selling things, and there were quite a few people buying things, arguing and bargaining, looking like a market.

Among the people coming and going, there were relatively few riding bicycles, so Li Long attracted the attention of many people.

Li Long got off the bike, pushed the bicycle into the morning market and turned around. Although he didn't ask, he heard the prices of the things being sold.

Pork had already risen to one yuan eight or one yuan nine per kilogram, mutton had also risen to one yuan two, eggs were eight cents each, roosters were three yuan each, hens were two yuan five each—this was the average price, slightly different according to the size. Flour was five cents five, rice was six cents five to seven cents—everything had risen in price.

There were two families selling fish in the market, one selling large carp, one yuan one per kilogram, the fish were placed on urea bags, looking like they were no longer alive. There was also one selling small crucian carp, smaller than the crucian carp Li Long brought. Li Long guessed it should be fish caught in small irrigation ditches.

Seeing that there was no empty space in the middle of the market, he simply parked the bicycle on the edge of the morning market, took off the two large enamel basins, took down the urea bags, untied them, and poured the fish into the two basins respectively.

Because there were few people riding bicycles to sell things, Li Long was considered to have a self-contained attraction halo. As soon as he poured the fish, the live fish swam happily in the basin, and the splashing sound immediately attracted the attention of many people.

"Young man, how do you sell this fish?" A short-haired old lady about sixty years old came over to ask.

"Small fish eight cents, big fish one yuan." Li Long said with a smile, "Caught just this morning, all alive, absolutely fresh!"

"Price..." The old lady hesitated for a moment.

"I just looked, you should have asked too. In this morning market, my price is unique." Li Long replied.

"Okay, then weigh me some small crucian carp, come for one yuan."

"Okay." Li Long took the scale and began to weigh the fish.

Although they were called small crucian carp, they were very uniform in size, all palm-sized, much larger than the small crucian carp sold at that other stall, and were the kind that had lived for two or three years. And the fish in the Little Haizi were very beautiful, not pale like that, very good-looking.

With the first business, people immediately came over afterward.

The fish caught by Li Long setting four nets this time was about thirty kilograms. In later generations, he remembered that the Little Haizi experienced several major floods, and after it couldn't store water and fish, setting six three-layer hanging nets, at most catching more than ten kilograms of fish at a time, and the largest was only a five-hundred-gram large crucian carp—the resources now were really rich!

After all, he set single-layer sticky nets!

There were quite a few people asking for prices, but not many people buying fish. An old man came over and squatted by the basin, pulling on the left and pulling on the right, and occasionally grabbed a fish to look at. Li Long couldn't help but say:

"Old Uncle, whichever fish you want, I'll catch it for you."

"I want to catch it myself." The old man said without raising his head.

"If you pull randomly like this, the fish will die in a while, and it won't be easy for me to sell."

"What does it have to do with me if your fish dies?" The old man said angrily.

Li Long was immediately unhappy. Just as a middle-aged man came over to ask about the price of fish, Li Long pushed the old man's hand out of the basin and said:

"Old Uncle, someone is buying fish. If you don't buy, please move aside, don't affect my business!"

Saying that, he said to the middle-aged man:

"Big fish one yuan per kilogram, crucian carp eight cents."

"This crucian carp is really beautiful, weigh me two yuan worth." The middle-aged man squatted down to look at the crucian carp flopping in the water and praised, "Go home and boil soup to drink."

"Expert!" Li Long praised while taking the crucian carp onto the scale.

The old man was pushed aside by Li Long and glared at him angrily. Li Long pretended not to see.

He could roughly guess the old man's mind.

Some people who came to buy fish were more picky, wanting ones of similar size, while some hoped to taste them all, weighing some big fish and some small fish.

Because Li Long's fish were fresh, basically all alive, and there were many varieties, the range of choice was relatively large, so the big and small fish in the basins on both sides were picked away one by one.

A few small crucian carp lost their scales in the basin and were not very lively, falling to the end.

Seeing that the sun had already risen, from setting up the stall here to now, nearly forty minutes had passed. Li Long straightened his waist and looked around. One-third of the surrounding stalls had already left, and the number of people coming to buy things had decreased by nearly half.

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He was a bit unwilling, waited for a while, lowered the price once, big fish nine cents, crucian carp seven cents, finally sold out the big fish, and five small crucian carp were left, about one kilogram.

Li Long saw the old man who was pulling the water at the beginning, wandering not far away, looking over from time to time, and when he found Li Long noticing him, the old man immediately turned his head away.

Li Long sneered, want to take advantage? If you asked directly, maybe I would have given it to you. You have a bad heart, then I won't let you have your wish!

"Selling fish, selling fish, the last five crucian carp, five cents to clear out!" He shouted loudly.

As soon as the old man heard Li Long's shout, when he turned his head, his expression was suddenly a bit panicked.

An old lady was asking about the price of hens not far away. Hearing Li Long shouting here, she hurriedly walked over, looked at the few fish in the basin that were still swimming but not very lively, and asked:

"Just these few, five cents?"

"Yes, five cents." Li Long said with a smile, "The fish are all alive, fresh, just been in this basin for a long time, look, still swimming, five fish together weigh one kilogram, just five cents, cheap, right?"

"Okay, five cents is five cents, I want them!" The old lady smiled and took out a handkerchief bag from her pocket, opened it, took out two two-cent notes and one one-cent note, counted them twice, and handed them to Li Long.

The old lady brought her own cloth bag. Li Long caught the five fish one by one and put them into the old lady's cloth bag. Seeing the old lady leave satisfied, Li Long then poured the two basins of water into the ditch on the side of the road.

He looked up, and the old man not far away glared at Li Long hatefully, turned his head and left.

Li Long laughed loudly. The old man was pulling in the water, just wanting to kill the fish. He probably felt that if the dead fish were left to the end, Li Long would throw them away, and then he could pick them up and leave.

Li Long just wouldn't let him have his wish!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 133 =====