Chapter 298: Found you after wandering around, Gu Ermao!

Because he was afraid of being discovered, Li Long didn't dare to follow too closely. He watched the person in front carrying a bag, walking in a hurry, looking left and right from time to time, feeling a bit sneaky.

Li Long followed from fifty or sixty meters away, using others as cover to block himself from time to time, so that person wouldn't notice.

However, after leaving the old street, the other party immediately turned into a small alley. Li Long hurriedly chased after him, but when he got inside the alley, he found that the person had disappeared.

There were only a few families nearby. Li Long passed through the alley, and on the other side was a main road with a relatively open view, but he didn't see anyone either.

Li Long turned back, pushed his bicycle, and walked slowly through the alley, listening carefully to each family.

One family had their door locked, and three of the four families were suspicious. One family had the sound of children, so Li Long guessed that this was probably not it.

The other two families were diagonally opposite. Li Long didn't hear any movement when he passed by, and it wasn't good to break in at this time. He walked back and forth several times, felt it was inappropriate, and retreated to the old street.

Parking his bike at the milk tea shop, Li Long analyzed while eating naan.

If this really was Gu Ermao, then what was he doing carrying that big bag of stuff?

Looking at that appearance, it didn't look like he was doing anything proper.

It was just a pity he hadn't followed well and didn't know which courtyard he had specifically entered.

Li Long had originally planned to go into the mountains tomorrow after catching fish today, and leave the matter of catching fish and selling them to his older brother and Tao Daqiang.

But bumping into Gu Ermao today, Li Long felt he still had to persist for two days. If he could catch this guy, he would have to give him a few muffled blows first.

Watching Li Long eating naan distractedly, the young man making the naan brought over a small dish of honey and said:

"Old fellow, what's wrong with you? I saw you running over there just now; are you looking for someone?"

"Yeah." Li Long didn't hide it from this enthusiastic young man, took the naan, dipped it in some honey, took a bite, and said:

"Ran into someone I knew before. He harmed me, and he ran away because he was afraid I'd retaliate. I just saw him enter that courtyard area, but I don't know which courtyard, so I'm worried."

"Hehe," the young man said in a low voice: "If he offended you, wouldn't he have to run? You sent those few hooligans to the slammer; who isn't afraid of you..."

"This one is different. He's from my village. I was selling things, and he reported me for speculation and profiteering. You tell me... is this something a human would do?" Li Long had to explain clearly; he wasn't someone who bullied people casually.

"Then he really needs to be taught a lesson." The young man nodded.

Someone came over to buy naan, and the young man went to pack naan for others, so Li Long didn't pay attention.

Unexpectedly, after a while, the young man sat back down and said in a low voice:

"You're talking about that courtyard area, right?"

He pointed quickly in that direction, and Li Long nodded.

"I know a bit about that area." The young man said in a low voice, "Among those families, one family went back to their hometown a while ago, saying there was an emergency at home. Two families are locals, and three generations of grandparents and grandchildren live in the courtyard, doing some small business. There's also one family that rented out their courtyard; that was just in the last two months. The people who rented the courtyard... um..."

The young man hesitated, seemingly organizing his language:

"The people who rented the courtyard include both men and women, and a woman is the leader."

"A woman?" Li Long was a bit surprised.

"Yeah, a woman around thirty. Dressed quite beautifully. She brought four or five young guys, right, and there's also an old woman who cooks in that courtyard, it's a mess..."

"How do you know?" Li Long was a bit puzzled; did he even know about this kind of thing?

"That woman likes to eat flour-based food. That old woman comes to me every few days to buy naan, and sometimes she even asks me to deliver it to the door, so I found out." The young man said with a smile, "Right, they seem to be doing business. They often carry big and small bags of things back from outside, but they don't set up stalls—as soon as the things arrive, quite a few people go over to them to get stock, and then go out to set up stalls... look, someone is going over there now."

As he said this, Li Long looked in that direction and sure enough saw people going over there one after another. Most of these people were carrying cloth bags, and some simply held a square cloth, planning to make a bundle directly after getting the things?

"What are they selling?" Li Long broke off another piece of naan and asked while eating.

"Not very clear, but it's said there are electronic watches and such. Heard they are very advanced; there are numbers on the watch, and you can see the time without looking at the hands..."

Li Long immediately understood; these should be the kind of electronic products brought in from the south.

They had goods from there so early? This was a bit too exaggerated, right?

"Just heard they aren't sold very cheaply, but no matter how expensive, they are cheaper than the watches in the department store. It's just that there are broken ones; the day before yesterday, I saw someone who bought a watch come to find the stall owner, saying the watch wasn't running, it was broken, and so on..."

Li Long understood completely now. This was a group of backpackers dealing in electronic equipment. In the rebirth novels he had seen before, many protagonists made their first pot of gold this way.

However, it also cheated people. After all, many of the electronic watches at this time were considered electronic waste, or rather, what these people brought over was electronic waste, brought over for a few yuan and sold for ten or several dozen yuan. As a result, they couldn't be used after a few months to half a year.

Wasn't this harming people? How hard it was for ordinary people to earn money now! (Of course, excluding himself. But when he first started earning money, it was also hard-earned money earned in the bitter cold of twenty or thirty degrees below zero)

"These people don't necessarily sell things here. There are few stalls on the old street, and some set up stalls, and they even rush. They let these people who get stock go to surrounding counties or towns and corps to sell." The young man was really quite clear about this, "It's said they can earn quite a lot of money a day!"

"Then why don't you think about doing this?" Li Long asked back with a smile. The naan was finished, and the honey was finished. He drank milk tea, waiting for the young man's answer.

"Actually, I thought about it, and then my dad gave me a stick. He said that work can't be done. Now I can open a milk tea shop and sell naan to earn money, earning clean money.

As long as this old street is here, my stall won't be scattered, so if I keep doing it, I'll always have money. And this money is earned without a guilty conscience.

Following them, you can earn big money, but how long that money can stay in your own hands is hard to say; maybe one day it won't be sold, there will be no money, and then you'll have to run back, so it's better to honestly guard this milk tea shop..."

"Your old man has great wisdom." Li Long said, "This is the right principle. You have such a stall, guard it well, and in the future, you can change it for two apartments for your son."

The old street is considered a landmark building in Shicheng. There is a house at this street entrance, and there is no problem changing it for two apartments when it is demolished in the future.

Knowing the specific situation of the matter, Li Long wasn't in a hurry.

"Have you seen a young guy like this?" Li Long described Gu Ermao's image.

That milk tea shop owner, Ke Youmu, thought for a while and said:

"Seems there is one, others call him something Mao..."

That was it.

Li Long took out money to pay the bill, and the owner took the money and returned one jiao:

"That honey is a gift for you to eat. The honey you asked me to find wasn't found; people brought it back and sold it directly to the purchasing station, so they only left me a few jars."

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Li Long had forgotten about this matter, and he said with a smile:

"I bought it; I ran into beekeepers in the mountains and bought a few jars."

"That's fine, I won't think about this matter anymore." The young man smiled and put that one jiao into Li Long's hand, "Go do your business, I still have to make some more naan here."

Li Long came out pushing his bicycle and took another look at the courtyard over there. Someone had already come out from that side carrying a bag and holding things, clearly having finished the procurement process.

Li Long didn't think about alerting the enemy for now. He pushed his bike, pedaled two quick steps to get on, and rode toward Maxian.

When he arrived at Maxian, when Li Long went to stroll through the market, he saw that there were indeed stalls selling electronic watches.

What surprised Li Long a bit was that Yang Xiulan, who was setting up a stall to sell soup noodles, was asking for the price in front of the electronic watch stall. Next to her was a handcart, the food inside hadn't been sold out yet, and the girl Han Fang wasn't there. Li Long guessed she should be in the courtyard.

Li Long walked over and heard the peddler say impatiently:

"Thirty-five yuan, this is already cheap enough! The watches in the department store are sold for over a hundred, and mine are electronic, look how foreign they are, and they only sell for thirty-five... I'm not earning your money..."

"I know you definitely earn money, big brother, I only have twenty yuan here, look, you have so many, just sell me one..." Yang Xiulan looked a bit persistent, "Look at which one is not easy to sell, and sell it to me cheaply..."

That peddler was a bit impatient, waved his hand and said:

"Go, go, go! I can't even get them for twenty yuan... hurry up, don't delay my business!"

Yang Xiulan wasn't discouraged, pushed the cart and left, and then saw Li Long.

She smiled a bit embarrassedly, pushed the cart to Li Long's front, and explained in a low voice:

"Mainly because I have to get up early every day to see the time to cook and set up the stall..."

"Don't buy it first, that electronic watch has problems, wait a while and I'll find a way for you." Li Long said, "Is your daughter at home?"

"Yeah, I let her prepare some vegetables to sell other food in the afternoon. She said you said to read books well, so she's at home reading those things left behind."

"Okay." Li Long nodded, "Then I'm leaving."

"Big brother, wait a moment, I'll pay this month's rent first..." Yang Xiulan took out a roll of money from her pocket and said, "Earned quite a lot, can't keep owing..."

"Okay." Li Long didn't refuse this time, took the ten yuan, put it in his pocket, pushed his bike, and left.

Knowing that Li Long was going to continue catching fish for a few days, the happiest one was Tao Daqiang. The time for setting nets would be faster, and he could also practice more by himself. Now that the weather was cool, there wasn't much time to practice.

Li Long went to Shicheng again the next day. This time, when selling fish, he was observing over there. Then he saw someone carrying a bag walking toward that courtyard area, and then people poured over like flies smelling manure.

When these people came out, most of them had smiles on their faces, obviously having had a fruitful harvest.

Li Long slowly grasped this matter.

He didn't see Gu Ermao's figure this day, and he didn't stay here long; after selling the fish, he left.

To be safe, Li Long wore a mask these two days. After all, selling fish had a bit of a fishy smell, and others didn't care much.

It was just to avoid being recognized.

Until three days later, the person suspected to be Gu Ermao appeared again, and Li Long knew it was time to act. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 299 =====