Chapter 322: A battle to become famous, the more fish the better

"Today I saw fish I haven't seen in my whole life." Li Anguo held a steamed bun and said while eating, "This is the first time I've seen this reservoir cleared, there would be so many fish..."

"Brother Long, do we have two tons of fish this time?" Tao Daqiang asked.

Because there were many people, they were directly divided into two piles to eat. Li Long and the young people were in one pile, Tao Daqiang, Yang Yongqiang, and Li Junshan were all together.

"Yes, but it's still far off." Li Long said, "Just the fish at the bottom of this Haizi, we have to get seven or eight tons, it would be better if we can get ten tons."

Of course, it was just thinking, getting two tons of fish in one morning was already very good. Actually, it was more, the fish by the cart side of Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang and the others weren't counted.

People from the village walked past from the side one after another, most of them carrying a bag of fish, planning to take them back, and by the way, go back to eat lunch.

Running and getting fish in the ice mud, he didn't feel it at the time, but knew it was particularly exhausting when he stopped.

"Xiao Long, I see you are collecting fish from those people in the team below, how do you collect?" Someone couldn't help but ask Li Long.

Li Long held the steamed bun and said:

"One mao per kilogram, want big fish. Small crucian carp are not needed."

"Oh." Hearing this price, the person who asked didn't speak, and carried the fish back.

"Feels like a loss." Yang Yongqiang said in a low voice, "Selling fish in the team is seven or eight mao, we collect it for one mao, they definitely lose."

"Maybe now, by tomorrow morning someone will go to the market to sell fish. Then they will know, running such a long distance to the market, let alone seven or eight mao, three or five mao is not certain."

It was really as Li Long said, there were already people carrying fish rushing to the market.

The fish price in the market had risen slightly, because winter is cold, catching fish is not easy, so the fish price rose to one yuan early in the morning.

Just didn't expect that by noon, seven or eight fish sellers suddenly emerged in the market, and the fish price immediately fell, these people were also anxious to sell fish, you shout eight mao and I dare to shout six mao, another directly five mao.

These people were carrying bags of thirty or forty kilograms of fish, looking beautiful, there were still people buying.

But seeing everyone falling, those who wanted to buy planned to wait. Then, in the end, it fell to two mao.

It was meaningless to fall further.

The first one to sell fish was shocked, hurriedly grabbed one who sold out the fish and asked about the situation. The first person didn't say, the second person didn't have any concept of secrecy.

"The water in the big Haizi is released dry, think about how many fish there must be, originally thought about coming early to sell fish for some money, didn't expect so many fast runners, if I knew earlier I wouldn't have sold it..."

The fixed stall immediately reacted, it turned out there was a big place to ship goods!

He hurriedly closed the stall and wanted to go to the big Haizi to collect goods. After all, this was faster than catching fish himself, and the resale business was good to earn.

And the few who sold fish originally knew that Li Long and the others were collecting fish, originally thought that the price Li Long and the others collected was too low, so they went to the market to sell.

Didn't expect that there were many fish sellers on the market side, and the fish couldn't be sold for a good price, if they knew earlier, it would be better to sell to those few young men.

So by the afternoon, the news spread, and Li Long and the others collected fish even more smoothly than in the morning. Even the few stalls that didn't intend to sell to them finally sold to them at a cheap price.

So all afternoon, several people were picking fish. And all afternoon, Li Jianguo pulled fish back three times, and Tao Daqiang also pulled back twice. Yang Hua only had a hand-pulled cart, pulling it was troublesome, and it was only at dark that he followed and pulled a cart of fish back.

Returning to the Old Ma Hao, Li Long said to Tao Daqiang:

"Daqiang, the fish you and Uncle Construction collected today have fourteen bags, totaling four hundred and fifty kilograms. Adding your family's donkey cart transport fee, I'll calculate eighty yuan for you, is it feasible?"

"Fine, fine." Tao Daqiang had no reason not to. Although it was an approximate calculation, he felt Li Long calculated more. Of course, he also put in a lot of effort, so taking this money, he didn't feel guilty.

"Yongqiang, you and your father collected ten bags of fish, adding this push cart, I'll give you sixty yuan." Li Long counted the money out, "How about it?"

Yang Yongqiang naturally had no opinion. He collected it for one mao, some fish were really collected for five fen or eight fen, now it was calculated at one mao five, then this back and forth earned twenty or thirty yuan, and still got a bag of fish back, how could he not be willing?

After the people from the Tao family and Yang family left, Li Long said to his own relatives:

"They are their own capital, considered reselling to me. Our own family is collecting, then what I send is a bonus. The one who collected the most fish today is Brother-in-law, bonus twenty, others fifteen, no problem, right?"

"Fine."

"That's definitely no problem."

"Taking this money is satisfying!"

Catching fish itself already had great fun, and turning back to get money, more than the money earned from working before, twenty a day, this money earned, too satisfying!

When Li Long distributed the money to everyone, the smiles on everyone's faces couldn't stop.

Dinner was rice. Although eating this heavy at night didn't conform to common sense, obviously everyone was hungry, and they were quite excited at this time, so their appetite was good. They drank fish soup. Although they smelled fish all day, the fishy smell was a bit enough, but drinking fish soup still felt fresh.

Li Jianguo finished eating, Li Long went to send him off, and when he went out, he stuffed a stack of banknotes to him. "Big Brother, you take this, just put the fish in the idle room when you go back." There was a bag of fish on the horse cart, this was to take back to eat.

"Fine." Li Jianguo wasn't polite either, the two brothers were both clear, so some things were understood without saying.

Li Long let out a long breath, went to the warehouse to look, the fish in this warehouse had already piled up half of the bed. It seemed he had to find a place for tomorrow's fish in advance.

Fortunately, there was an empty room itself, but its neighbor was where Li Anguo and the others lived, and that room still had some temperature.

Not very suitable. But he couldn't find a good place for a while, unless he directly transported the fish to the big courtyard in the county. There was a lot of space there, many rooms were empty, and most of the rooms didn't have fire set up.

Actually, Li Long himself planned to send the fish step by step to the big room in winter, so that it would be easy to sell fish later, from the big courtyard to Shicheng.

It hadn't reached that point yet, just see if it snows these few days.

The next day was still early breakfast. Several people who were tired and fell asleep after dinner yesterday, became energetic again early in the morning, each one was energetic.

"Today I'll learn from Uncle-in-law, specifically looking for those little children to buy fish, that's definitely one buy one right." Li Junfeng joked while eating.

"Today we have to pay attention," Li Long held the cornmeal pancake and said while eating, "Today there will definitely be people competing with us to buy fish. Then we try to buy in piles, buy all the fish of one person at once, it's best to be those big piles. After buying, several people come over together to load the fish and send them to the south bank. Regardless of size, you can bargain."

"Why?"

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"There is competition, then the price might be raised, others who are new, might not be very clear about the situation, specifically want to pick big ones to buy, then we buy in piles, people will definitely be willing to sell to us." Li Long explained, "Our purpose now is to try our best to buy more, and hoard more fish. Anyway, it's starting to freeze now, not afraid."

After breakfast, set off. When Li Long and the others arrived at the south bank of the big Haizi, they found that Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang and the others had already arrived, and by the side of the Tao family's donkey cart, there was already a bag of fish.

"Came quite early." Li Long greeted Tao Daqiang with a smile, Tao Daqiang was carrying the second bag of fish to rush here at this time, he put down the fish and said: "Brother Long, there are others coming to collect fish. But the price given is not high..."

"Then listen to me." Li Long said the words he gave to Li Anguo and the others in the horse station again, since it was doing business, and now it was generally or rather long-term in a seller's market, then hoarding more goods was definitely no problem. At worst, directly pull it to Wucheng to sell, Li Long definitely wasn't worried about not selling these fish in one winter.

Just worried that the fish were not enough, and didn't earn enough.

After all, so many people were sharing it, unlike before, earning money by himself, at most adding a working Tao Daqiang.

Li Jianguo was still guarding the cart here, Li Long carried the bag and went over, this time he didn't even bring the net bag, there was no need to bring it—now the sky was just bright, there were already hundreds of people in the Haizi.

Fish piles east and west were Li Long's targets.

Soon, Li Long saw another family coming to collect fish, that person Li Long was a bit familiar, should have seen him in the market.

Li Long listened to him bargaining with a teenager guarding a fish stall:

"Little guy, the price I give you is already very high. People in your team go to the market to sell fish for only two mao per kilogram, I offer one mao to collect these big fish of yours, is that okay? You guys don't spend any effort to pick these fish, you earn half a month's salary for others in one morning, it's about enough!"

Li Long felt that this person either had a problem with his brain, or he was annoyed by bargaining with this little teenager to say so.

Sure enough, before he finished speaking, the teenager directly stared and said:

"Don't sell! Stay wherever it's cool!"

"Don't sell then don't sell, watch those fish rot at your home, go cry!" The fish collector scolded and left, going to another stall to collect fish.

The fish pile beside this teenager was the biggest in this area, so Li Long also walked over.

"One mao per kilogram, big and small collected together, is it okay, little guy?" Li Long asked.

"Fine." The little teenager actually agreed readily, "My sister said, these fish are about eighty-something kilograms, and there are some small crucian carp, you give eight yuan."

Li Long readily took out the money, then shouted, let Li Junfeng nearby come over, the two of them loaded the fish, Li Long asked while loading:

"Little guy, why didn't you sell fish to that person just now?"

"He is a spoon guy—thinking that we have so many fish and can't sell them... the price is pressed too hard, such a person, can't sell!"

Alright, this eleven or twelve-year-old teenager was also a sensible person.

Li Junshan came to help, Li Long gave the bag in his hand to him, then took the empty bag in his hand, and continued to collect fish.

There were many people today, a few water troughs were quite deep, there were still many fish inside, now the main focus of catching fish was concentrated there. The fish in the shallow shoals were almost picked up yesterday, there were still some fish in the center of some big water pools, but it needed people to wade into the middle to net fish, catching fish was not so easy now.

But the overall harvest of everyone was constantly increasing, because there were more people.

By lunch time, Li Jianguo sent two more carts of fish back, Li Long predicted that today he could collect more than four tons of fish.

Very good. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 323 =====