Chapter 342: Militia will have a competition

Li Jianguo's stall had just been laid out, Li Long was moving fish for Li Anguo and the others, and the market management personnel came over.

"Are you all together?" one of the management personnel asked.

"Yes." Li Long felt this person looked familiar, handed the fish bag to Li Junshan, stepped forward and said, "How much is the management fee? I'll pay it."

"For your horse cart, pay one yuan. For the others, one dime each—after all, they are also going to occupy stalls, right? When we change shifts later, if asked about you guys, just say you paid it to Old Guo."

"Alright." Li Long took out money to pay. This was quite humane—like the stalls of his eldest brother and the others, one dime each was actually quite cheap.

After the management personnel left, Li Anguo and the others also went to set up stalls. Except for Li Junshan's position, which was relatively far, about sixty or seventy meters away, the positions of the other few people were less than forty meters from the horse cart, quite close.

Li Jianguo had already called out over there:

"Selling fish, freshly frozen wild fish, selling fish cheaply!"

At this time, there were clearly more people than when Li Long first arrived yesterday. Some people wandered to the front of the stall, and some people walked over when they heard the call.

Li Junfeng also followed and called out, which made quite a few people quite surprised. There are quite a lot of people selling fish.

The scope of the old street is still larger than that of Maxian, and there are many people, so it can accept more goods. In less than ten minutes, all five stalls opened.

Although there were not many people surrounding, everyone made at least one transaction, a good start.

Then an acquaintance came to find Li Long.

"Little fellow, the fish on your horse cart is also for sale, why not put it out?"

"Put it out, definitely have to put it out." Li Long said with a smile, joking, idle is also idle, how could he not sell it?

Took a bag of fish down from the horse cart, then spread out the plastic cloth, poured the fish on it, and the person picked it up:

"Little fellow, I've been eating your fish since summer, eating until winter. Is this fish not from the same place as the fish in summer?"

"Yes." Li Long didn't hide it, "The fish I sold in summer was from a small sea, now this fish is from a large reservoir. This fish is not as fat as the one in summer, so it will be a bit cheaper."

"Eighty cents, right? I heard from my neighbor, you sell it for eighty cents a kilogram—weigh me two five-striped black fish, this one, and this one."

"Alright." Li Long put the two five-striped black fish on the scale for the old lady, and said while weighing, "Auntie, you are an expert, five-striped black fish eat small fish, the meat on the body is all garlic-clove meat, very delicious."

"That's right!" The old lady was very happy, "Eat often, ate out the experience, how heavy?"

"Four point seven kilograms, count it as four and a half kilograms, four eight thirty-two, five eight forty, three point six."

"Good, little fellow can calculate accounts."

"Hahaha, it's also that saying, often calculate and get used to it."

The old lady paid, put the fish in a cloth bag, and carried it away.

There were five stalls set up nearby, there were not many people here at Li Long's place, he was not in a hurry, squatted down and slowly arranged the fish neatly, carp in a row, crucian carp in a row, five-striped black fish in a row. Looking down like this, there are the most carp. Actually, there are many crucian carp in the big sea, but they are mainly small crucian carp, the number of large crucian carp is not as good as carp, and there are a small number of grass carp. Silver carp itself is also quite a lot, but Li Long and the others collected few silver carp, and most of the silver carp were taken home by the locals.

Anyway, it's meat, right?

The first to sell out was Chen Xingbang. In less than an hour, his bag of fish was sold out. He came to Li Long's place excitedly and proudly:

"Little Long, give it to you, twenty-eight!" Chen Xingbang counted the money to Li Long, "I'll move another bag."

"Alright." Li Long collected the money and helped Chen Xingbang move another bag of fish with a smile.

Deserving of being a person who could make business big with some old bottles in the previous life, the brain is very flexible. Li Long looked over and saw that as soon as his fish bag was poured, people immediately surrounded it.

He couldn't guess why Chen Xingbang sold fish so fast, but he didn't have time to guess, because people also came to his place.

And quite a few.

Li Long raised his head and looked towards the station, and found that two long-distance buses had stopped there.

His horse cart had a big target, and the fish on the stall were arranged neatly, which immediately attracted people.

Li Jianguo called out again.

Then when Li Long's second bag was moved, Li Jianguo's second bag was also moved away.

The second bag was actually the first one Li Long sold out, and at this time, Li Junshan's second bag still had a large half left unsold.

His fish sold slowly. One reason was that the stall was relatively far, and the second reason was that he wouldn't call out, couldn't shout, and wouldn't take the initiative to attract customers.

There is no way, after all, human nature is like this, fortunately it is stronger than Tao Dachiang. If Tao Dachiang were here, he might not even be able to calculate the accounts clearly.

When a horse cart of fish was sold out, it was already noon—today Li Long and the others pulled sixteen bags of fish. Li Long, Chen Xingbang, Li Jianguo, and Li Junfeng all sold three bags of fish, and Li Anguo and Li Junshan each sold two bags of fish.

Actually, Li Long was still leading too much. The target here at the horse cart was large, and the flow of people was constant. If it weren't for the fact that he pulled less, it wouldn't be impossible to sell four bags.

"Go, let's drink some milk tea first, eat some naan to pad." Li Long pointed to Ke Youmu's milk tea shop and said, "Wait until we return to the county to eat a good meal."

"Hey, drink what milk tea!" Chen Xingbang earned more than twenty yuan today (he sold it cheaply), very happy, "Go, let's eat a good meal. Shicheng is so big, there must be a big restaurant."

Li Long looked at the others, saw that they were also looking like they wanted to eat full and well, so he said with a smile:

"Alright, let's go, let's find a place to eat a good meal."

Li Long really didn't know much about the restaurants in Shicheng in this era, so he simply went to the milk tea shop to ask Ke Youmu.

"You mean to eat a good meal?" Ke Youmu thought for a while and said, "Go to Xingfu Road, there should be a canteen there."

Li Long and the others followed the direction Ke Youmu pointed and went to Xingfu Road.

Walking along the road, they really found a canteen without a name—the reason they knew this was a canteen was that although the sign was removed, they saw people coming in and out, and could smell the fragrance of food.

"Just here, put the scale in the bag, put those bags for fish together and take them in." Li Jianguo greeted, "Don't leave anything on the horse cart, otherwise it would be bad if it gets lost."

"Uncle, I'll stay and watch the horse cart." Li Junshan said, "I'm not very hungry yet, I ate full in the morning, wait until Junfeng finishes eating and then change me."

"Right, right, right," Li Junfeng also said, "The horse cart is outside, someone has to stay."

"Alright, Junshan, you wait outside, we go in, order food first, and then change you." Li Jianguo didn't insist, took the lead and walked in.

The dining hall was quite large, with a round table and several square tables. The square tables were full, so Li Jianguo and the others sat at the round table, while Li Long walked to the blackboard where the dishes were written.

The waiter originally wanted to say something, Li Long looked at the blackboard and said:

"Bring one portion of everything on this," then turned his head and asked Li Jianguo and the others:

"Do you eat rice or steamed buns?"

"Rice."

"Steamed buns!"

"Then bring rice in a basin. Steamed buns ten..."

"Rice is calculated by the basin." The waiter's expression eased a bit. One of the dishes on the blackboard was braised pork knuckle. Those who could afford this dish were not ordinary people, so let them sit at the round table in the middle.

"Then bring a basin first." Li Long said, "Are there buns?"

"No."

"Then let's do it like this first."

"Please pay first. Thirteen yuan seven cents two, plus three jin two liang of grain coupons."

"Can xj grain coupons be used?" Li Long asked while taking out money. Today, more than five hundred yuan was collected just from fish money, and his pocket was bulging. Fortunately, he had change in another pocket, otherwise, taking out a large stack of big unity would be revealing wealth. "Yes." The waiter saw him take out two big unity directly, and his face eased even more.

The dishes were not served fast, but the portions were very sufficient. Every time a dish was served, Li Long gave Li Junshan an empty plate to leave a portion. Li Junfeng ate very fast, two bowls of rice down, wiped his mouth, stood up, and went to change Li Junshan.

Li Junshan outside came in, clearly feeling that it was still quite cold. Actually, walking all the way from the team wouldn't make one feel cold, even if the eyebrows and beard were white, one wouldn't feel cold. One wouldn't feel cold when selling fish either, at that time there was only the happiness and tension of calculating accounts and collecting money.

But standing guard outside for this half an hour, Li Junshan felt like he was about to be frozen through.

This is completely different from the feeling of walking.

It was warm in the room, but his hands holding the chopsticks were shaking. At first, he couldn't pick up the rice and dishes at all, so he simply held the bowl and shoveled it into his mouth, and it took a while to recover.

After eating, when walking back, several people got on the horse cart. Li Jianguo had pulled sugar residue here, was familiar with this road, and he also said that more than ten years ago, before he was married, he ran here to sell coriander and such, a small handful for five cents, selling it at the gate of the family courtyard.

Li Long was very surprised to hear it. Eldest brother was actually the master of running to Shicheng to make money—selling coriander so early—at that time, five cents was more valuable than five cents now.

"Is there anyone selling?" Li Long was very interested and asked.

"Yes, coriander was not planted much here at that time. There are quite a few people from Yu Province here, don't they have to put some coriander when eating soup and rice? If it weren't for no seeds, I would have planned to plant some Jingjie to sell."

!.

Good, catering to their tastes!

Amazing!

"Little Long, this meal is not cheap, let us share some of the meal money..." Chen Xingbang suddenly spoke.

"Don't share, share what?" Li Long hurriedly waved his hand, "I earned quite a lot, this meal should be my treat. As long as you don't think I earn too much. Selling fish later, lunch is definitely my treat. I am not here, eldest brother is here, just pay from the fish money, this will be the standard in the future."

"Hey, Little Long is generous!" Chen Xingbang blurted out, "Eating like this every day, wouldn't you eat yourself into a fat person?"

"Hard work, so eat something good." Li Long said with a smile, "This money is spent on one's own family, that's worth it."

Originally, Chen Xingbang had a little bit of unfairness in his heart, but now it vanished directly. He actually figured it out, Li Long has that ability, has that capital to do this business. If it were himself, at that time knowing there were fish in the big sea, even if he could think of selling fish, at most he would borrow some money to hoard a few hundred kilograms.

Dare to hoard ten tons like this?

And when the fish came out, the basic pricing was directly set, and the rest was whatever each person sold, they set it themselves, then at this time it was the eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing their magical powers.

Chen Xingbang has ability, so he takes more money. Li Junshan is clumsy and his brain is not so flexible, so he takes less money.

At this time, not distributing equally, but making everyone feel that this is right.

Having ability to eat meat is happy, not having ability can also drink soup, and not complain.

When returning to the team, the sun was about to set, Li Jianguo simply parked the horse cart in the horse corral. They were not idle, unloaded the horse and led it into the circle, and after the cart was propped up with benches, began to load fish onto the cart.

After sixteen bags, Chen Xingbang also hugged two bags up, and finally had to use a rope to bundle it.

"See if we can sell a few more bags tomorrow." Chen Xingbang said with a smile, "Sell one more bag, then earn ten more yuan."

"Then load a few more bags." Li Long said with a smile, "Anyway, it's tied with a rope, no one sits when going, it's fine to load more."

Li Long spoke, Li Junfeng immediately went to hug the fish bag.

It was only noon when the fish was sold out today, so it was completely possible to sell for a while longer, sell a few more bags.

Finally, twenty bags of fish were loaded, piled quite high.

After being tied with a rope, everyone entered the room.

Old Luo Shu had already cooked the soup, everyone drank it, and then rested.

Li Jianguo returned home, washed simply in the room aisle, and Liang Yuemei brought rice porridge.

"How is it today?"

Li Juan and Li Qiang in the room also looked at their father.

"Earned thirty yuan." Li Jianguo took out the money, took out twenty and handed it to Liang Yuemei, "You collect these twenty and save them. I'll keep these ten first."

"Not little." Liang Yuemei happily collected the money.

"Maybe more tomorrow." Li Jianguo said, "Little Long said I will be in charge when selling fish later. Then I will distribute the fish bags to them, and I can sell them myself, earning forty or fifty a day."

"Really not bad!" Liang Yuemei nodded.

At this time, the Li Jianguo family had no psychological burden about earning money from Li Long. At the beginning, Li Jianguo had a bit of resistance, but now, it's gone.

What is that bit of resistance? Is money fragrant?

Father is following him to earn money, now younger brother, brother-in-law are the same, he can also earn.

Living a good life is normal!

On the third day, Yang Yongqiang joined the team of earning money. On this day, there were twenty-two bags of fish pulled on the horse cart. Yang Yongqiang sold two bags of fish that day.

After all, the market is only so big, there is competition, so the person sells less.

And on the fifth day, when Tao Dachiang wanted to join, the time for militia training assembly arrived.

Li Long joked with Tao Dachiang:

"Dachiang, you are still newly married, don't blame me for not calling you. If I call you, your wife won't blame me."

"She won't." Tao Dachiang said with a smile, "She knows my situation with you, and told me to find you early a few days ago." Tao Dachiang said with a smile, "She said, she manages things at home, I just need to earn money."

"Alright, as long as you are supported." Li Long said with a smile, "Then wait until the militia training is over, then you follow my eldest brother and the others to sell fish. One bag of fish pays twenty-eight yuan, and the rest is your own. That bag of fish is forty or fifty kilograms, how can you earn it back. Two days ago, Yongqiang earned ten or eight yuan a day."

"I heard, it was he who told me, so I thought about coming to find you." Tao Dachiang was a bit embarrassed.

Li Long didn't say anything, this is very normal. Newlyweds, everyone has a time when they are happy and forget to return—by the way, should he also get married.

Although he is an old man in thought, his body is still very young, it is not that there are no wild thoughts, but many.

But this, no matter how fast, has to wait until after the New Year.

On the afternoon of the first day of training, Xu Chengjun came to find Li Long specially.

"Little Long, this time the township let each village organize training, but after training, there is a militia competition. I think you shoot the most guns in the team usually, do you have to participate? We have to win an honor for the team, right?"

Li Long hurriedly waved his hand:

"Captain, my hunting, I hit animals, it's different from target shooting. That wolf, wild boar, how big is it. That target is so small, it's different..."

"That's still stronger than others." Xu Chengjun said with a smile: "How can you say you hit more than others, I heard there is hidden target shooting, you just hit that when the time comes. How about it?"

Since Xu Chengjun said so, Li Long had to agree.

Fortunately, Xu Chengjun also said that now economic construction is the center, and militia training has been changed to half a month.

Very good. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 343 =====