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Chapter 283

~11 min read 2,155 words

The next day, Li Long got up half an hour earlier than the day before. The autumn dew was a bit heavy, and Li Long and Tao Daqiang both wore coats. Such weather is the reason why the fruits in the north and south of Xinjiang are so sweet—cool at night, sugar is fixed, hot during the day, sugar gathers, can't disperse, then it's sweet.

The two drove the horse-drawn carriage to the big sea, Li Long went down to take the nets, and Tao Daqiang waited on the shore.

When the tire slid to the place where there were nets, Li Long hadn't started to take the nets yet, and basically determined that today's ten nets might have fish about the same as yesterday, or even more than yesterday.

Because as far as the eye can see, he could see that some silver carp hanging on the net had already turned their white bellies and floated on the water surface.

More fish were still entangled on the net struggling, seeing if they could escape.

Li Long started to take the nets, he pulled the net rope, the net was quite heavy, dragging him forward, one fish after another left the water surface with the net, very heavy.

Li Long combed the net and collected it into the urea bag, his mood was quite complicated.

More fish is a good thing, but it is not easy to take it back from here, can't harness the horse-drawn carriage to come over every day, right?

Actually, it's not impossible.

Last night Li Jianguo actually wanted to give the money from selling fish to Li Long, Li Long didn't accept it, he said that Li Qing Xia sold fish money before, and he kept it himself, and the big brother here is the same.

It is said that brothers settle accounts clearly, it is impossible to calculate so clearly. Otherwise, if you really want to calculate, how to calculate raising yourself from ten years old to now?

He just wanted to subsidize the life of his big brother's family more, after all, he hoped that his big brother's family would live better after he lived well.

One net after another was collected, this time it was really two nets that had to be sent back once, when collecting the third net, Li Long determined that the fish on this net were really more than yesterday.

There was almost a fish every one or two meters on the net, or even less than one meter, and I don't know if these many fish formed a school of fish and hit the net together, or if there were many fish in this groove itself, and the place was set correctly, so it would be like this.

However, thinking about the situation two months later in the previous life, it is not an accident.

"Brother Long, there are really many fish!" When collecting the fourth net, Tao Daqiang pulled Li Long out of the water and said, "I'll pick the fish here first, it will be easier when we go back."

"Hmm, anyway, there are many bags, you get a urea bag, put some water in it, and pick it first." Li Long knew that Tao Daqiang didn't want to be idle here, so let him pick it.

All ten nets were taken out, it took more than an hour, Li Long knew that although going to sell fish today might be earlier than yesterday, it was still late compared to usual.

It seems that it is better to get up a little earlier tomorrow.

Really tossing people.

Of course, this is what he said, others are too late to envy.

The horse-drawn carriage passed through the residential point again, this time it was much earlier than yesterday, and there were not many people seen. Li Long and Tao Daqiang hurried on their way, some who could greet or not greet, just passed by.

Ask just one word: hurry home—hurry.

Returning to the Li family, the whole family went into battle to pick fish, even Li Juan and Li Qiang who had eaten and carried their schoolbags helped to take basins, take bags, and put stools, and then Li Juan took Li Qiang to school.

Tao Daqiang had already picked more than thirty kilograms of fish on the shore of the big sea, the amount of two nets, which also reduced a lot of words.

"Big Brother, you have to sell fish today." Li Long said looking at the fish that were more than yesterday.

"That... work in the team today..."

"What are those points? I'll go." Liang Yuemei spoke, "You go sell fish. How can Li Long carry this fish alone? Besides, you sell a trip of fish, top hundreds of work, which is light and which is heavy?"

Li Jianguo knew this was the reason, mainly as a veteran in the village, he basically didn't lack big and small things, at this time not working, a bit uncomfortable.

Li Long knew that the big brother hadn't completely transformed from the big collective thought to the small family thought, so he said again:

"Big Brother, our family's contribution to the team is not small, you don't earn this point, others are still happy. Now the collective is about to dissolve, the above calls on each family to find ways to live a good life, you as the villager group leader are also considered to take the lead for the group members."

Li Jianguo nodded: "Then I definitely know."

The matter was settled like this.

Li Long was quite happy.

Sure enough, after the fish were picked, Li Long knew that four bags couldn't hold them.

"Crucian carp can live, put carp, silver carp, five-black these in four bags, put them on both sides of the bicycle. Put crucian carp in two bags, lying flat on the back seat of two bicycles." Li Long said, "After arriving at the place, just pour the crucian carp into the basin, tie the pocket tightly, put some water in it, this crucian carp can definitely live."

"Only this way." Although there are many fish, if you eat fish, put two or three at home, and you can't eat more. Besides, having eaten the fish of the little sea, whether it is the Li family or the Tao Daqiang family, they all look down on the fish of the big sea a little bit.

"Can still leave some, Daqiang take some back, send some to Uncle Lao Luo, send some to Xiaoxia's dad." Li Long said.

"I don't want it." Tao Daqiang refused immediately, "This fish is not as delicious as the little sea's, I don't want it anymore."

"Alright." Li Long didn't force it.

He and Li Jianguo hurriedly ate breakfast, rode their bicycles, carried fish and set off to their respective destinations, while Liang Yuemei went to the threshing floor to work, and Tao Daqiang continued to pick nets.

Five yuan a day, the work is not tiring, Tao Daqiang is very satisfied.

Li Long arrived at Shicheng earlier than yesterday, at this time both the stall and the flow of people were more than yesterday, he went around, found an empty spot, stood the bicycle well, took off the basin, and started pouring fish into it.

Three basins were filled, and there were still fish left in the urea bag. Fortunately, the water in the bag hadn't dripped out, not worried that the fish would go bad. Li Long could even hear the splashing sound of fish inside. He hadn't started shouting yet, when two people wearing Zhongshan suits, wearing armbands, and carrying bags in their hands walked over.

"Comrade, do you plan to sell fish here?" One asked Li Long.

"Yes." Li Long looked at these two people, and had a guess in his heart.

"We are from the Old Street Market Management Office." The person who asked introduced himself, "From today on, you need to pay a stall fee to set up a stall here, please pay it."

"How much money?" Li Long asked, "Is the price of all stalls unified, or collected according to the situation?"

"These fish are all yours? Five cents." The person said, "Not unified, look at the value of the things sold. For example, you have more of this, then collect five cents, and there are fewer, selling out might not even be two or three yuan, then collect one cent... there are tickets."

Speaking quite politely.

"If you set up a stall for a long time, you can pay for a month, a month is cheaper, five yuan." Another person added, "We will open long-term tickets, there is registration."

"I don't necessarily come every month." Li Long waved his hand, "Open by day."

"Then five cents." These two people spoke quite simply, not forcing it.

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"Alright, I'll pay, please open the ticket." Li Long took out money.

Li Long paid so simply, which made these two people a bit surprised, the latter person quickly took out a stack of tickets from the bag, re-padded the carbon paper, and then put it on the bag and started writing.

Li Long took out money from his pocket and counted five cents to hand to the other party.

"Comrade, thank you for cooperating with our work so much. We have people patrolling here, if you encounter anything, you can directly find us to solve it." The person who asked first was very polite.

Li Long guessed that it should be because he paid so quickly, which made these two people a bit surprised.

After all, this stall has been set up all the time, and no money has been collected before, now suddenly collecting money, some people are definitely not happy.

Li Long, who has been a person for two lives, can definitely understand. After all, after these people finish setting up the stall, when the market disperses at night, there is definitely a ground of garbage left here, which definitely needs people to clean up. And setting up stalls on both sides here, the flow of people is large, and it will affect traffic, and it is easy to have problems, so people need to be sent to patrol, and it cannot be one group of people, they can't take care of it.

Since they have started to maintain order, why not push the boat with the current, and directly form a market here, manage it and constrain it, which is better than letting it go.

After a few years, shops were built on both sides of the old street, becoming a landmark building complex in Shicheng.

And here, for a considerable period of time, it was the place with the largest flow of people in Shicheng.

Guiding according to the situation, in Li Long's view, the leaders of Shicheng did very well on the old street.

After paying the management fee, Li Long put the ticket in his pocket, and after the two people left, he started shouting to sell fish.

The voice was quite justified.

The people on both sides looked at Li Long with strange eyes.

On the right was a big sister selling vegetables, and in the gap between Li Long's shouting, she asked:

"Young man, why don't you bargain with them?"

"Why bargain? Can this still be bargained?" Li Long was a bit strange, "Big sister, did you bargain with them just now?"

"Bargained." The big sister nodded and said, "They collected one cent from me, I wanted to make it cheaper."

"Then was it cheaper?" Li Long asked.

"No."

"Hahaha, then that's the end of it, anyway, it can't be bargained down, then what to bargain." Li Long smiled, "Anyway, five cents is less than one kilogram of fish money, I think it's okay."

"But if you bargained, then I could say it again, maybe mine would become five cents..." The big sister was still a bit unwilling.

"Impossible." Li Long waved his hand, "Since the ticket has already been opened, how can people return it?"

He no longer discussed this issue with the big sister, and continued to shout loudly.

The voice was loud, there were many old customers, and he came earlier today, Li Long's fish stall opened quickly, and the first person came over and wanted to buy ten kilograms of big carp directly, which made Li Long very happy.

He guessed that this person should be from a restaurant, but didn't ask. People want money, he just weighs it on his side, talking too much easily causes annoyance.

After weighing ten kilograms of carp, there were many people surrounding here, Li Long skillfully weighed fish, collected money, and gave change, and by the way, he could also clean up those who wanted to take advantage of the situation, and soon, twenty or thirty kilograms of fish were sold.

This speed, not bad! (End of chapter)

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