Chapter 214: Competition? Not afraid, you don't understand the big pattern of your brother!

Li Qing Xia was still a bit worried, so Li Long agreed to sell the next day's fish in the county market.

Because the market was close, it saved nearly an hour, and when the two arrived at the morning market, the sky was just bright, the sun would take more than half an hour to come out, and there weren't many stalls set up here.

Li Long and Li Qing Xia found a relatively spacious place to set up the stall, looking at the passing crowd, Li Long started shouting.

Although Li Qing Xia had followed Li Long to sell fish three times, listening to Li Long shouting about ditch fish and loach for virility and kidney tonifying here without any embarrassment, he still felt fresh and a bit ashamed.

Of course, the effect was as good as ever.

After bringing people over, Li Long stopped shouting and started announcing the rules.

"Don't reach out to scoop, don't touch the fish, tell me which fish you want and I'll scoop it for you. Rest assured, the scale will definitely be high. If you make trouble, the final loss is everyone's, so please be sure to follow the rules. I guarantee to let everyone eat fresh fish—come, two yuan of ditch fish, the scale is high!"

A few words made everyone consciously point to their fish.

Many were old customers, who would talk to each other about the freshness and benefits of the fish, as well as Li Long's rules, and others listening also felt fresh.

After a wave of guests left, the fish in the few basins were one-third less for the many, one-fourth less for the few, and Li Long poured some more from the urea bag. The urea bag originally had water added, although it was leaking all the way, the bag itself was semi-sealed, plus the water retention of the fish's own mucus, allowing the fish in the basin to maintain basic breathing.

When the sun came out, Li Long's fish had already sold half. At this time, the old stalls in the market were basically almost full. This black market was originally set up on both sides of the road, and theoretically, it could be extended freely for a long way.

But further east was the intersection, and to the west was the office compound of a public department, where it was defaulted that it was impossible to set up a stall.

So the location was basically limited.

At this time, the stalls were full, and the people coming here to buy things reached the most.

Li Long straightened his body and looked at both sides when there were few people in front of the stall, and found that in addition to selling handicrafts, grain, and meat, there were many more selling vegetables.

And the people at these vegetable stalls were the most.

Obviously, the state-run vegetable stores in the county were temporarily unable to satisfy everyone's dining table.

Another wave of people came, and Li Long and Li Qing Xia got busy again.

Wang Cai Mi and Meng Zhiqiang came at this time.

They saw three stalls selling fish. One stall sold only big fish, one stall sold only small crucian carp, which should be caught from some small river ditch. Another stall had both big and small fish.

What made them surprised and excited was that the prices of fish at these three stalls were very high. One kilogram of crucian carp could sell for ninety cents, big common carp sold for one yuan and one, and miscellaneous fish were all one yuan!

The two looked at each other, and then saw the golden light in each other's eyes—this is a road to make money!

Not to sound bad, there are many fish in the Little Haizi. Even those without nets, as long as they diligently slide along the big canal every day, they can catch a few kilograms of crucian carp and miscellaneous fish every day.

Selling them here, that's a few yuan a day!

Who could have thought that this fish would be so valuable!

No wonder Li family's Xiao Long now has a bicycle, a gun, and Li family's horse cart... selling fish day after day, how could he not make money?

Then they saw Li Long's stall.

Compared to the slight coldness of the other two fish stalls, there were many people at Li Long's stall. Watching Li Long and Li Qing Xia receiving tickets one after another, weighing fish for people, and calculating accounts, the two stood there and watched for a long time.

After this wave of people left, Li Long sorted the tickets in his hand and saw Wang Cai Mi with his peripheral vision.

"Yo, Dalu Ge, Old Meng Shu." Li Long smiled and greeted, "Came to the street so early today?"

"Came to see your fish-selling market." Wang Cai Mi knew the matter couldn't be hidden, so he simply confessed, "Heard from others that you make money selling fish, so I thought about coming to see. If it really makes money, we will follow your path and do it together, what do you think?"

Wang Dalu stated the path, this is a conspiracy.

If he was hypocritical here, and went back to secretly take nets to catch fish, it would make Li Long look down on him.

Wang Cai Mi was also guessing Li Long's mind, thinking that if he said it like this, would Li Long be angry from embarrassment?

After all, catching fish and selling fish is so profitable. If it were himself, he would definitely guard this path and not allow others to enter—of course, what kind of method to use to stop it, it's hard to say.

"Alright, why not!" Li Long smiled and said, "There are so many fish in the Little Haizi, it's just right for a few more people in our team to sell fish. Now there are not many people selling fish, and I have seen the fish at other fish stalls, they are really not as good as our Little Haizi.

If a few more of our team sell fish, and the name is hit, the money earned will definitely be more and more—as long as we don't fight among ourselves and desperately suppress the price."

"That shouldn't happen." Wang Cai Mi heard Li Long agree to them coming to sell fish, and his heart immediately relaxed. He didn't have much concept of the brand effect Li Long mentioned, but he was very confident about whether everyone would suppress the price:

"Everyone wants to make money, as long as they can sell fish at a higher price, who wants to sell at a low price? Zhiqiang, don't you think?"

"Right, right." Meng Zhiqiang took Wang Cai Mi's words as the standard for everything at this time.

"This is hard to say..." Li Long shook his head slightly and said, "But selling fish should be early. If you come late, there are few people here, and the price won't go up. And try to keep the fish alive, fresh ones sell well..."

"Right, right, right." Wang Cai Mi didn't expect Li Long to tell his experience, which surprised him. Pushing others by himself, if it were him, it would be good not to secretly trip others, how could he still teach experience?

Li Long said a few words, and someone came to buy fish again, so Li Long interrupted the topic and started weighing fish for people.

Wang Cai Mi watched the price Li Long calculated when weighing fish for people, which was a bit lower than the previous two stalls, and felt a bit disdainful in his heart, thinking you sell cheaper than others, but now you say let everyone not lower the price, hehe.

But seeing through without saying it, Li Long told him so much experience and didn't stop him from coming to catch fish and sell fish. As a market "senior", this favor Wang Cai Mi had to recognize.

"Then Li Shu, Xiao Long, we are going to buy nets, you guys be busy first." Wang Cai Mi watched for a while, watching Li Long continuously collecting tickets, calculating that Li Long's income for this day was definitely more than thirty yuan, his heart was hot, and he was in a hurry to leave to buy nets.

Li Long nodded, Li Qing Xia waved his hand happily, Wang Cai Mi turned and left, Meng Zhiqiang hurriedly followed.

"Xiao Long, you say these two... will they listen to you?"

"Then I won't manage it." Li Long smiled, "Sell fish in the county for two days, and I'll go to Shicheng. The two of us go together, Father, you can rest assured. There are many people who want fish there, the price won't fall. There are many people in our team selling fish here, with their problems, they will definitely lower the price, then... dogs biting dogs."

Li Long knew the nature of these "fishermen" in the team, he didn't have that idea, and didn't have the obligation to manage too much.

He wanted to earn long-term money. Just the distance of going to Shicheng had already screened out most of the "fishermen". Even thirty years later, there were old fishermen in the team riding electric tricycles to the entrance of the residential area in Shicheng to sell fish, which was still very popular.

After all, the water system there determined that it was impossible to eat fish freely like in the team.

Don't say there, even the county can't, but the county is a bit closer, the market is small, and a few big reservoirs satisfy the demand.

So Li Long wasn't worried at all.

Wang Cai Mi left the market in a hurry, first went around the department store, didn't find sticky nets, and then went to the supply and marketing cooperative door shop.

When he intended to buy what size net, he was in trouble again.

"Dalu, do you want to go ask Xiao Long?" Meng Zhiqiang asked in a low voice, "Xiao Long definitely knows what size to buy..."

Wang Cai Mi shook his head and said:

"We can't rely on Xiao Long for everything." Actually, he had money, buying ten or eight was no problem, but this stuff had a cost-performance problem. He was afraid that some net sizes would be useless, wouldn't those few yuan be wasted?

He wasn't Li Long, a few yuan was also of great use!

!.

Thinking for a long time, under the white eyes of the salesperson, he chose three nets of three fingers, three and a half fingers, and four fingers.

Meng Zhiqiang didn't have that much money. After calculating the money for a long time, he bought a three and a half finger net. Wang Cai Mi remembered the favor of him telling him this "intelligence", and borrowed money for him to buy a four-finger net.

The two held the nets and left the supply and marketing cooperative, hurrying back home.

They didn't have bicycles, had to walk all the way back, and when they arrived home, lunch had already passed.

At this time, Wang Cai Mi reacted, to sell fish, you need to get up early in the morning, take the fish, and then walk all the way to the county to sell fish. Walking all the way, can that fish still be alive?

But the net had already been bought, it was impossible not to do it. The two went home separately, agreed to eat lunch, rest for a while, and then go to the Little Haizi to set nets.

Li Long here and Li Qing Xia finished selling fish, looked at the time, and it was about the same time as selling fish in Shicheng yesterday.

"Father, this is your money." Li Long divided ten yuan to his father, he decided that no matter how much he sold later, he would give his father ten yuan.

Li Qing Xia didn't count that much either. He wasn't stupid, knew this was his youngest son being filial to him, and happily took the money, putting it into the inner pocket of his clothes.

"Go, Father, let's also stroll around the market." Li Long poured out the water in the basin, packed up the things and buckled them on the bicycle, saying, "See if there are any good things, let's buy some back."

"Alright." Li Qing Xia had money in his pocket and also nodded very boldly, walking in front.

Those few fish stalls were still set up, some fish were sold, but there was still quite a lot left before selling out.

Li Long glanced at it, and then saw a stall that surprised him a bit.

This stall owner swept a clean place on the ground, spread a black cloth, and placed a stack of silver dollars on the cloth, a snuff bottle, two porcelain bowls, and a few small jade pieces, a gold coin sword woven with a few copper coins tied together.

If it were twenty years later, Li Long would naturally know that this was absolutely an "artwork", and he wouldn't even look at it.

But now, in this place, no one made fakes yet, right?

Then it must be real.

Li Long pushed the bicycle to the stall, supported the car, squatted in front of the stall and asked:

"Boss, how to sell?"

"Don't dare to call me boss." The stall owner was startled, hurriedly waved his hand, "Comrade, which one do you like?"

"Ask about all." Li Long understood the stall owner's caution. Although these things were allowed to be sold in this year, it hadn't been long since a certain big event, and everyone still had some memories of that era in their minds.

"Silver dollars are three yuan each, snuff bottle is ten yuan, porcelain bowls are fine folk kiln products from the end of the Qing Dynasty, eight yuan. That copper coin sword? Don't look at it as all copper coins, but the age is a bit old, ten yuan. The remaining few pieces of jade, five yuan each."

The quality of the jade pieces was very average, and the carving was also average. Li Long put them aside first. He didn't know about silver dollars and didn't touch them, so he picked up the porcelain bowl to look at it first. Sure enough, it was a folk kiln, so he smiled and said:

"Folk kiln, and you dare to ask for eight yuan? Now if you go to the cultural relics store, it's eight yuan, and you can buy an official kiln."

"That's Beijing, right." The stall owner didn't expect this one to be an expert, and laughed, "Then you make a price?"

"If your price is suitable, I'll take them all." Li Long said, "Silver dollars two yuan, this is a porcelain bowl with scrolling branches, right, three yuan? Snuff bottle, one jade one agate, right, five yuan each... copper coin sword? This thing doesn't have any taboos hanging at home, right? These few pieces of jade, you can see it yourself, the jade quality is just like that, treat it as a filler?"

Li Long's price was also ruthless. Those few terms in his mouth were learned from the appraisal columns of his previous life. Although those appraisal columns were mixed with fish and dragons, at least they let ordinary people like Li Long know some basic knowledge of antiques.

Of course, more was limited to learning a few words.

The stall owner's psychological price wasn't high either. After all, he had been setting up for a whole morning and no one bought it. In this year, everyone was not rich, eating and drinking were problems, who had spare money to buy this?

In the end, Li Long spent forty yuan and bought everything on this stall.

He remembered hearing someone say on a video platform in his previous life that there were many cheap antiques in the country's cultural relics stores at this time, but it was a pity that ordinary people couldn't buy them. Otherwise, he could really be impulsive and take money to Beijing or Shanghai to buy some things to save.

Of course, it was just thinking.

Li Qing Xia came over with two bundles of vegetables, saw Li Long happily packing these things—the stall owner even gave Li Long the cloth—and hurriedly said to Li Long:

"Xiao Long, why are you buying this stuff? Can't eat or drink? Can it be returned? Return it quickly, return it, there are many in the hometown... not worth money!"

"If there are really some in the hometown, wait until you go back, Father, I'll bring you some money, you help me collect more." Li Long smiled and said, "This thing will be valuable later."

"Valuable, it's all broken stuff." Li Qing Xia raised the chili, eggplant, and celery in his hand and said: "This is still practical!"

Of course, it was just saying. Li Qing Xia knew his youngest son had decisiveness. Since he had already decided to buy it, he naturally wouldn't return it.

The two left here.

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