Chapter 139: The radio appeared, but what if I can't buy it?

Seeing the other party hesitate, Li Long turned and was about to leave.

"You give me another big fish, and I'll sell it!" The stall owner gritted his teeth. Piglets were not easy to sell. The previous piglet stall owner finally couldn't hold on and left. He felt he could still hold on.

Eight yuan is eight yuan, at least it's not a loss—after all, this sow of his gave birth to eight piglets, one for eight yuan, and the money for one big pig came out.

Li Long agreed very readily:

"Okay."

He quickly returned to his stall. A middle-aged woman was already frowning and looking for the stall owner, feeling that if she waited for the stall owner not to come, she wouldn't buy it.

Li Long explained with a smile, and then skillfully weighed the fish for her. This woman also knew how to eat fish, only wanting palm-sized crucian carp, four, adding up to about one kilogram. Li Long collected eight cents from her.

The piglet stall owner carried the basket over directly, and then stared at the basin containing big fish, soon pointing to the biggest fish in the basin:

"I want this one!"

Li Long sighed, another one who doesn't know how to eat.

He persuaded:

"Old fellow, this silver carp is actually not easy to cook deliciously..."

"I want this one!"

This silver carp weighed nearly three kilograms and was the biggest fish in the basin at the moment.

"Okay, then I'll take it out for you. Look, although this fish is dead, the gill cover is still red, indicating it's fresh." Li Long picked the gill cover and said to this person.

Bighead carp and silver carp will die shortly after leaving the water, not as easy to live as crucian carp and carp.

The two tied piglets were placed in a sack by Li Long, and he continued to sell fish.

The sun rose, and people would come to buy fish from time to time, but not many people bought each time.

Li Long guessed that there should be more people selling things in the morning market, so there could be choices. And now refrigerators hadn't been popularized, and there was no way to store them if he bought too many, so those who bought fish usually bought a few cents or one yuan, or bought them one by one.

Fifty kilograms of fish, sold for more than an hour before selling out. Li Long felt that if he sold fish again tomorrow, it would be better to go to Shicheng.

There were too few people with consumption power here.

The last few kilograms of fish, Li Long almost sold them half-sold and half-given. Fifty kilograms of fish sold for more than forty-one yuan.

Tidying up the things and putting them on the bike, he saw the other fish seller still sitting there.

There were still some fish left on the stall in front of him that hadn't been sold.

Li Long rode the bike with a blank face toward the big courtyard. He had to put the things down first, and then go to the big meat canteen to eat—finally, he handled the remaining fish in a hurry, also because he was hungry.

Seeing that it was mid-morning, Li Long simply ate breakfast and lunch together, ordered a bowl of mixed noodles with oil-fried meat, added a noodle, and ordered a bowl of free noodle soup, paid money and grain coupons, and then began to peel garlic.

After the noodles were served, Li Long poured the added noodles directly into the plate, and then poured the oil-fried meat dish onto the noodles and mixed them.

After the noodles were mixed, one mouthful of noodles and one mouthful of garlic, eating happily.

After eating the noodles, Li Long felt much more comfortable, burped, walked out of the big meat canteen, opened the bike lock and rode to the department store building.

Going to the department store building regularly to see if there were new things had become Li Long's habit. He arrived at the department store building, went in and turned around, and sure enough, found new things.

Radio! Shanghai brand two-band semiconductor portable radio, one for forty-six yuan, using four No. 1 batteries.

There were also plug-in radios, also produced in Shanghai, but they were Red Lantern brand, costing ninety-two yuan.

Li Long wanted to buy it at that time—but the salesperson's sentence "Do you have a ticket" directly made him helpless.

Where did the ticket come from.

Coming out of the department store building, Li Long thought about it, and suddenly thought of Li Xiangqian. Should this Section Chief Li have a ticket?

Go find him!

Li Long rode the bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperative. Old man Li who watched the door was basking in the sun outside.

"Hey, isn't this the young man who sold the goat," Old man Li still remembered Li Long, asking with a smile, "Are you here to find Li Xiangqian?"

"Yes, uncle, I'm looking for him to handle something."

"Okay, you go in, he is in the office." Old man Li waved his hand.

Li Long pushed the bike in, put the bicycle in the bike shed, locked it and entered the door, finding Li Xiangqian's office.

Li Xiangqian was answering the phone. Li Long waited for a while. After he finished the call, he knocked on the door and entered.

"Yo, Little Li is here." Li Xiangqian saw it was Li Long and said with a smile, "I was just looking for you, come, come, come, sit."

Greeting Li Long to sit down, Li Xiangqian asked what he had.

"I want to ask you to get a few industrial tickets. I saw a radio in the department store building and want to buy one."

"This is simple!" Li Xiangqian pulled open the drawer, took out a stack of tickets and handed them to Li Long: "Take them and use them, I don't have much use for them."

"Then thank Section Chief Li." Li Long was not polite either, "I'll go buy it now."

!.

"Wait, sit down first, I have something to tell you."

"You say." Li Long saw Li Xiangqian was still quite solemn, so he listened carefully.

"The matter of the part-time forest ranger you asked me to handle, I inquired, it can be done, but it needs a process." Li Xiangqian said:

"They are also just forming now, can't take care of our side for a while, so I thought, first get you a part-time procurement officer for our supply and marketing cooperative here, issue you a certificate, and get an introduction letter, you should be fine entering the mountains."

"That's fine too." Li Long was really not picky, as long as he could enter the mountains openly.

"Also, I have a job here, see if your side can take it. You are in the production brigade, you can take it, this is good for both of us."

"What job?" Li Long asked curiously.

"Our supply and marketing cooperative purchases a batch of carrying poles every year. This job is available every year and needs to go into the Southern Mountains to do it. In the past, this job was given to related households.

This year I thought about whether your side can take it. If you can take it, I will give it to you. You can also enter the mountains. If your side doesn't take it, then I will give it to others."

"Carrying poles? How many? How much is one?" Li Long was immediately interested. He didn't want to do this job, but the people in the village definitely needed this kind of job.

"I don't care how much money you tell your brigade. If I collect it, I will give you six yuan each—of course, it's a unified price. Actually, they were collected by grade in the past, three hundred in total.

It's just to be honest, even if they are collected by grade, we sell them to those units for eight yuan each, and we don't divide them by grade, as long as the carrying poles you weave meet the standards."

"Six yuan, so expensive? Then this job can be done!" Li Long was happy, "I will call you back tonight, it is highly likely that it can be done."

"No need to be so urgent, tomorrow or the day after is fine." Li Xiangqian said with a smile, "It's fine if it can be completed in May."

Li Long calculated, one person can weave one to three carrying poles a day. If the side business group in the brigade sends ten people, it's more than ten a day, and it will basically be completed in twenty-some days. This job is easy!

"Little Li, we are our own people, I tell you," Li Xiangqian said again, "Don't be a good person, it's best to tell your brigade a lower price, and you take money in the middle—

Don't be a big good person, even if you don't earn a cent, if the words spread, others will think you took money. Instead of explaining hard, it's better to take money directly. You should be clear that if there were no you, this job would definitely not fall to your brigade."

Li Long nodded slowly.

Yes.

Good people are not easy to be.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 140 =====