Chapter 186: When can I become a ten-thousand-yuan household?

Eight nets, compared to yesterday's, Li Long felt today's fish could reach eighty kilograms—one four-finger net was hung with at least seventeen or eighteen kilograms of big plate crucian carp!

Did he poke a fish nest today? He didn't remember big plate crucian carp liking to swim in groups?

Of course, regardless, this was all a good thing!

Li Long was very excited, but also very careful. He had to try hard to maintain the balance of the tire so as not to be dragged down by the three urea bags dragged behind.

Now Li Long already regretted it a bit; he should have come back once after retrieving four nets, and then retrieved again. Being too greedy makes it easy to have accidents.

It was hard to paddle to the bank. Before he could speak, Tao Daqiang, while helping to drag the fish onto the bank, said excitedly:

"Brother Long, I found another water rat nest, shall we come over to dig it in the afternoon?"

"Sure." Li Long smiled and said, "Wait until I retrieve the fish, then we'll dig for water rats. This time when the water rats are dug out, we'll split the money from selling the fur in half."

"Great." Tao Daqiang said with a happy smile, "There are quite a few fish today too."

"There are quite a few, big plate crucian carp are also many, later after cleaning the fish, you take a few back, big plate crucian carp stewed are delicious!"

"Great."

The two carried the fish and the tire back to the Li house, and without resting, they started cleaning the fish.

This time, more than half of the fish on the net were crucian carp. Among the crucian carp, there were more than twenty kilograms of big plate crucian carp over five hundred grams, looking too beautiful. Even Li Jianguo couldn't help but say:

"First time seeing so many big plate crucian carp, this fish looks really beautiful!"

"Pick out some for Daqiang to take back, and some for Juan and Qiangqiang to send to their grandfather's house." Li Long said, "This fish is good, must benefit our own family first."

Besides picking out those for others and those left for themselves, Li Long divided the rest into two bags. With Li Jianguo's help, he placed them on the back seat of the bike. Today he didn't need to send Li Juan, so he went directly to Shicheng himself.

Li Long felt the fish sold in Maxian were too slow, so he planned to go to the county market to sell fish again when he caught fewer fish.

The township middle school was also on holiday on the weekend. Gu Xiaoxia should have gone home yesterday. Li Long glanced at the direction of the middle school dormitory and continued pedaling the bike. Earn money, work hard to become a ten-thousand-yuan household, then building a house and marrying a wife would be easy to talk about.

The old street in Shicheng was still lively. Li Long came early this time, chose a good spot, set up the fish, and started shouting.

Quite a few people had an impression of Li Long's fish. After seeing him come over, they gathered around.

The station was a mix of fish and dragons. Once Li Long saw people gathering, he immediately became vigilant, while weighing fish for old customers, he shouted loudly:

"Everyone don't squeeze, don't rush, if you lose things by squeezing, it'll be troublesome, and this hand reaching into the basin, my fish are all alive, if you stir them dead, others won't be able to buy fresh ones, then you'll have to be blamed... talking about you, that hand, pull it back!"

Li Long, while weighing and collecting money, vigilantly observed the crowd, ignoring the hands reaching out to hand over money, weighing fish for each person in order.

"Hey, hey, hey! That brother, your hand be disciplined, don't touch randomly, don't touch into others' pockets—everyone keep an eye on your wallets..."

"Ouch! My bag... damn, who touched my bag! Almost took my money!" someone exclaimed in the crowd. Li Long smiled and continued weighing fish.

However, he had already become vigilant in his heart. It seemed the plan had changed; he couldn't come here tomorrow. Were thieves now daring enough to pick pockets so openly?

Hearing there were thieves, the crowd immediately dispersed a bit. Everyone touched their own bags, and only after touching them did they feel relieved.

The old street had a large flow of people, so it was natural to value this place, which wasn't strange. However, there would be a crackdown next year or the year after, so it should be better by then.

Li Long continued selling fish. Big plate crucian carp looked a bit like carp and were very beautiful, so many people wanted them. In less than half an hour, the big plate crucian carp in the basin were sold out, and at a price of one yuan per kilogram, which made Li Long quite happy.

For the remaining time, there weren't so many people. Fortunately, there was still plenty of time, so Li Long wasn't in a hurry.

After the first wave of people dispersed, a small person sneaked over, looked at Li Long with a gloomy face, and said:

"Kid, from out of town, right? I advise you to mind less business, otherwise..." His eyes revealed a murderous intent.

Li Long sneered, took out the long knife Li Jianguo gave him from his waist, played with it in his hand, and said:

"Otherwise, what do you plan to do?"

That small person didn't expect Li Long to be so ruthless, holding a hard weapon in his hand and still resisting hard. He looked left and right, left a harsh word:

"You're ruthless, let's see!"

Li Long watched this guy blend into the crowd and disappear, then put the knife away.

At this time, the real order hadn't been established yet, and everyone, including those above, was groping, so it was normal for some dark things to appear.

Shicheng was a corps city, overall it was a bit better. On his side of the county, in a few years, young guys fighting on the street, holding a dagger in their hands would be too normal. When really chased by the police, the knife would just be thrown away. Such things for young people were considered commonplace.

Another car entered the station, and twenty or thirty people got off. Li Long immediately shouted loudly, attracting some people again to ask for prices and buy fish.

At this time, every day when he sold fish, he would cut a handful of reed grass by the roadside. This stuff was very tough. Threading it through the fish's mouth and out through the gill cover, it could just be held.

After more than an hour, Li Long had finished selling the fish. He packed up his things, looked around vigilantly, didn't find the small person, and went to the milk tea shop he had been to that day.

That Uyghur young man with an authentic Henan accent still remembered Li Long and greeted him with a smile:

"Old fellow, you finished selling your fish?"

"You saw me selling fish?"

"I not only saw you selling fish, but also saw that scum go to threaten you. Well done, for such cowardly goods, you can't bow your head to them."

Listening to this accent, and looking at this face, Li Long wanted to laugh, but didn't:

"That's right, can I bow my head to them?"

"But you have to be careful next time you come, they have quite a few people."

"No problem, next time I come, I'll bring my gun, if he dares to move me, I'll beat him like a dog!" Li Long said seriously.

The young man glanced at Li Long, not knowing if he was telling the truth or not, but still gave a thumbs up:

"You're the one! We are locals, don't dare to provoke them, they generally won't come to find us..."

"No problem, I'll just drink a milk tea, and I'll leave in a while."

"Then you're not making fun of me!" The young man was unhappy, "I just said I couldn't help you, but while you're here, you can sit as long as you want. If they really block you, then you can come to my shop too. At worst, I can call a few people over!"

"Great." Li Long joked, "Bring a bowl of milk tea, with milk skin. Bring another naan, do you have vegetables here?"

"Stir-fried potato shreds, do you eat?"

"Bring a portion."

After breakfast, Li Long left the shop, looked around, still didn't see the small person, felt slightly relieved, and rode his bike away from the old street.

This time he didn't take the original road, but detoured toward the city, and detoured out from the city.

Although he had a knife in his hand, if three or five people really blocked him with sticks, he really didn't have much of a way. It seemed he really had to bring his gun next time.

Bringing a gun to sell fish, is it considered making a fuss?

At this time, at the Little Haizi, Ma Jinbao was showing off to Xu Jianjun:

"See? This is the burrow Li Long and Tao Daqiang dug that day. They said they were digging for water rats, don't know what's good about that thing, isn't it just a big rat? Meat can't be eaten, fur doesn't look good, not as good as a rabbit's..."

Xu Jianjun heard Ma Jinbao mention Li Long and Tao Daqiang digging something in the Little Haizi when chatting at the store last night, so he came specifically to ask. He deliberately expressed disbelief. As a result, Ma Jinbao, who couldn't be provoked, not only brought him here today to point out the position, but also told him about the situation of what Li Long and Tao Daqiang dug at that time.

Although Xu Jianjun looked down on Li Long, he was very clear about Li Long's ability to make money.

Since Li Long and Tao Daqiang could dig this, it meant this thing was definitely valuable.

So he said to Ma Jinbao:

"Old Ma, don't tell anyone else about this..."

"What's there to fear, I went out yesterday, no one cared anyway." Xu Jianjun was Xu Chengjun's cousin, Ma Jinbao still had to give some face.

"No problem, just don't say it again." Xu Jianjun handed Ma Jinbao a Snow Lotus cigarette, "Then can you see if there are any similar burrows nearby?"

"There should be, right?" Ma Jinbao happily took the cigarette, smelled it in front of his nose, tucked it behind his ear, reluctant to smoke it. He thought for a moment and said, "I remember there should be a few such burrows... shall I take you to see?"

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"Sure." Xu Jianjun was overjoyed.

Ma Jinbao took Xu Jianjun and walked for a while on the east bank of the Little Haizi, stopped, and pointed to a burrow:

"See if that's it?"

Xu Jianjun looked at a grass mound there, it seemed there were indeed traces of something crawling underwater, so he wanted to see what was going on.

"Don't get too close, that thing's teeth are so long, biting people must be very fierce!" Ma Jinbao hurriedly reminded, he saw the water rat's teeth yesterday.

Xu Jianjun was startled, immediately retreated, thought for a moment, and went back to get an iron shovel.

Ma Jinbao looked at Xu Jianjun's back and was a bit puzzled:

"Is this thing really valuable? Worth so much effort?"

Xu Jianjun returned home, took the iron shovel, and went to the Little Haizi. His wife shouted from behind:

"What are you going for?"

"To earn money." Xu Jianjun said a bit proudly, "Wait until I get something good, sell it for money, and come back to buy you a flower headscarf!"

Xu Jianjun's wife was happy when she heard it. She also became diligent at home, looking forward to wearing a flower headscarf tomorrow.

Xu Jianjun was still calculating while walking to the Little Haizi.

Since you, Li Long, have work in the autumn and don't plan to take me, then can't I earn money myself?

He guessed Li Long and the others dug this thing, not for meat but for fur. The possibility of meat wasn't high, so it must be fur. When the time comes, peel the fur and ask at the acquisition station, and he would know.

Xu Jianjun arrived at the Little Haizi and dug along the burrow entrance.

He didn't know that water rats would have several burrows. He dug the entrance open with effort, saw a grass nest not far inside, and the grass on it was very fresh, so Xu Jianjun became happy. It seemed there was goods inside!

It's just that he dug for a full half hour, but found there was nothing in the burrow!

He dug to the nest again, but the nest was empty. He clearly felt there was something inside, but he dug until the sun passed noon and slanted west, his whole body was soaked in sweat, three or five meters of the main passage and branch passages were all dug open, but he didn't see anything.

When he dug to a branch passage that entered the water, Xu Jianjun knew that this thing had a dark burrow!

It was too late to regret.

Walking home listlessly, his wife had already cleaned the house spotlessly. Seeing him return, she immediately ran over full of hope and asked:

"What good thing did you get? Did you hide it?"

"Didn't get anything." Xu Jianjun was exhausted, "Talk about it later, pour me a glass of water, I'm thirsty to death."

"Then you ran for nothing?" His wife was unhappy when she heard it, "Ran for nothing and lied to me? Pour the water yourself!"

The flower headscarf was gone, and she wasn't happy either!

When Li Long returned home, it was just past noon. Li Jianguo and the others were resting, and the food was left in the pot, but Li Long wasn't very hungry.

"Daqiang fixed the nets, are you going to set the nets in the afternoon?" Li Jianguo asked.

"Yes, fish have been selling quite well these two days." Li Long said, "After a while, Dad and Mom are coming over, and my brother's side can't fit them. I'll move to the old horse corral side, clean up a room to live there, and Dad and Mom can live in my house."

"Fine." Li Jianguo nodded. He had also thought about this matter. If his parents were coming, the place to live would be a big problem. Fortunately, there were many empty rooms on the old horse corral side. Although they looked a bit dilapidated, cleaning them up, whitewashing them, and adding some furniture, to be honest, it was more spacious than at home.

"The furniture in your township should be almost done, go take a look when you have time." Li Jianguo said, "When you have time, pull it back or pull it to your mountain side, otherwise it's not good to leave it there."

"Yeah, I'll pull a cart of wood over in two days, and make the furniture for the house on the horse corral side." Li Long said, "Better early."

In the future, the team will build a set of houses, there will be a house on the horse corral side, then there will be a big courtyard on the street, and a wooden house in the mountains, how good!

He was very happy, waiting until Tao Daqiang came over, and then the two carried the iron shovel together, took the nets, the tire, and the bag, and walked toward the Little Haizi.

Arriving at the Little Haizi, Li Long put down the nets and said to Tao Daqiang:

"Time is still early, let's dig for water rats first, then set the nets."

"Great." Tao Daqiang took Li Long to find the water rat burrow he saw.

"Eh?" Looking at the traces of fresh digging there, Li Long didn't speak, Tao Daqiang was a bit stunned.

When he reacted, he immediately turned his head and said stutteringly to Li Long:

"Brother Long, I didn't dig it, it wasn't me who dug it..."

He was afraid Li Long would suspect that while Li Long was selling fish, he had dug up the water rats.

Seeing Tao Daqiang's nervous look, Li Long smiled.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 187 =====