Chapter 138: Fish for piglets?

Li Long rode the bicycle, with sackcloth spread on the back seat. Li Juan sat on it, holding the iron pipe of the back seat tightly, looking at both sides excitedly. Once she discovered a classmate, she would shout loudly.

Li Long pedaled the bike happily all the way to the primary school. After Li Juan got off the bike, he waved his hand and hurried to the middle school.

The middle school hadn't started class yet. Li Long rode to the teacher's dormitory, propped up the bike, carried the things and walked to the door, seeing Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory door open, she was tidying up things inside, so he shouted:

"Xiaoxia."

"You're here." Gu Xiaoxia heard Li Long's voice, turned around and showed a smile, "Why did you get up so early?"

"The morning market opens early, go early to sell the fish." Li Long naturally entered the dormitory, put the basket on the ground, and said:

"This is the fish caught this morning, didn't bring big ones for you, afraid it's not easy to cook."

"I like eating crucian carp slices the most, such fish is just right, it's just too much..."

"Not much, send some to your colleagues." Li Long opened the cloth bag again and said:

"This contains rendered pork and mutton, sealed with oil on top. When you eat, pick a pair of chopsticks or scoop a spoonful, it can be eaten for a period of time, I'll bring you some more in a while. By the way, this is bacon, you also know we are not used to curing this, the salt taste might be quite big, but fortunately it won't go bad, don't add salt when you cook, taste the saltiness, if it doesn't work, wash it well..."

Listening to Li Long's chattering instructions, Gu Xiaoxia smiled and didn't speak.

After finishing the instructions, Li Long said:

"I'm leaving, there's a lot of fish today, I estimate it will take more than an hour to sell out. I'll come see you in two days, take care of yourself."

After speaking, Li Long went out and rode the bike away. Gu Xiaoxia only had time to shout at the door:

"Take care of yourself!"

Li Long didn't look back, waved his hand toward the back, turned and went out of the school.

"Is this your object?" Teacher Wang Qihua asked curiously.

"Not... yet." Gu Xiaoxia said with a slightly red face, but added a sentence in her heart, actually, should it be considered in a while?

There are not many local populations in the Northern Frontier here. Li Long's production brigade has two or three hundred people. Except for the younger generation who are locals, the older generation came from all over the country, so basically there are no old rules and bad habits. There may be preference for boys over girls, but it is not heavy. Girls go to school the same way; boys and girls falling in love freely is also a normal phenomenon.

Of course, everyone is quite persistent about commodity grain. This has nothing to do with habits, mainly because of the difference in treatment.

"He is quite good to you, what does he do?"

"Farmer." Gu Xiaoxia said.

"Then... are you willing?"

"What's not willing?" Gu Xiaoxia asked back, "I am also a farmer, no big difference."

"But you are already a teacher, not a farmer. You earn dozens of yuan in wages a month, he might not earn half of yours all year round, can that be the same?" Teacher Wang Qihua didn't look down on farmers, she was saying this problem from the perspective of life.

"But Li Long earns my monthly salary in one day." Gu Xiaoxia sighed, "Look, his family has bicycles, sewing machines, and horses, horse carts..."

"Was his family a landlord before?" Teacher Wang Qihua was a bit surprised, "How can he be so rich?"

"No, it's all earned by himself. Look, he went to sell fish today, catching forty or fifty kilograms of fish a day, even if it's five cents a kilogram, it's more than twenty yuan a day..."

Wang Qihua didn't speak. Such a young man is really rare! Even if he is a farmer, there must be quite a few girls who want to take the initiative to chase him, right?

Now she was worried about Gu Xiaoxia instead.

Li Long rode the bicycle to the big meat canteen, put the bike outside, lifted the door curtain and shouted:

"Manager Zhong, Manager Zhong!" Zhong Guo Qiang walked out from inside.

"Manager Zhong, do you want big fish? There are ones weighing more than three kilograms, and ones weighing more than two kilograms."

Li Long caught quite a few fish this time, but there were fewer carp than yesterday, more silver carp, bighead carp, and grass carp, and fewer five-way black.

"Want, I want the three-kilogram ones, and give me three more weighing more than two kilograms—how much per kilogram?"

"One yuan." Li Long didn't lower the price because Zhong Guo Qiang was an acquaintance, mainly because selling fish here would delay the time to go to the morning market, but if he went after selling in the morning market, the fish might be dead.

"Okay." Zhong Guo Qiang nodded, he knew the market price.

Four fish weighed more than ten kilograms and less than eleven kilograms. Li Long wiped out the fraction, collected ten yuan, declined Manager Zhong's invitation to eat breakfast, saying he was in a hurry to go to the morning market to sell fish.

Returning to the big courtyard, after taking the scale and basin, he rode quickly to the morning market. Li Long pushed the bike over, finding that there was only one family selling fish today, but there was one more family selling meat.

What surprised him a bit was that there were really people selling piglets, and two families came at once.

He felt not in a hurry, finding that someone selling eggs in the middle of the stall left early, immediately went over to occupy the position, put down the basin, poured the fish, and began to shout.

Some people bought fish yesterday and felt it was good, so they came to find him again today. Some people heard the shouting, asked about the fish price and felt it was cheap, and then surrounded him.

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Coupled with the fact that Li Long's position was good today, quite a few people rushed up at once.

Li Long's experience was rich, while taking fish, he shouted:

"Everyone, everyone! Don't squeeze! Otherwise, if the fish is knocked over, no one can buy it. There are quite a lot of fish, more than fifty kilograms, everyone will definitely have some, one by one—Old lady, you want two yuan of crucian carp? Okay!"

Li Long was considered to be watching six directions and listening to all directions here, while catching fish, weighing fish, and collecting money, he also had to guard against people trying to fish in troubled waters—he saw more than one person wanting to reach into the basin to pull or pinch the fish, so he kicked that hand out without hesitation:

"Too many people, don't pinch the fish, it's my loss if it's pinched to death and not bought, let's understand each other, don't go too far!"

The person who reached out wanted to get angry, but Li Long took the initiative, making him face the anger of many people—buying fish itself is urgent, now someone is making trouble, others are naturally not polite.

Li Long vaguely recognized that the one pinching the fish was the person on the side of the fish stall before.

Was it because his fish price was low that the other party was unhappy, or was it because his business here was too good that the other party was jealous?

Fortunately, the first batch of people buying fish left soon, and there were fewer people behind, so Li Long was able to relax.

This batch of people buying fish bought more than ten kilograms of fish, and the account was more than ten yuan. Li Long felt that his mood became much better immediately.

Next were those buying fish sporadically. Li Long took the opportunity to look at the piglet sellers, finding that one had already left, not knowing if it was sold out or left without selling.

The remaining one was also looking around. Li Long was a bit anxious. He thought for a while, and while no one was buying fish now, he hurriedly ran over and asked:

"Big brother, how do you sell these piglets? Are they male or female?"

"One male and one female, ten yuan each." That person saw someone asking for the price, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Raised at home, too many to raise, so I came to sell. Look, not a nest pad, very easy to raise!"

Li Long hesitated, looked at his fish stall, and then said:

"Big brother, I am selling fish over there, can't stay long, I just ask, are two sixteen yuan okay? If okay, I'll take them now, I'm still selling fish over there, have to go back now."

That person hesitated.

Sell or not?

Thank the book friend Fengye Zhi Lian for the reward. The Yizhao Highway is about to open. Tourism in Yili is really putting in great effort—Duku and Yizhao are both open many days earlier than previous years, really good!

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