Chapter 38

"How to sell this big variegated carp? Looking at the size, it must be ten kilograms, right?"

"Eight yuan for this one," Li Long said with a smile. "Other big fish, carp, five-striped black, grass carp are two yuan each, silver carp is one yuan and five jiao each."

Having the experience of selling fish yesterday, this time the fish Li Long took were all quite uniform in size, looking about the same size, and it wasn't easy to have disputes.

Quite a few people looked at the big fish with envy, but no one offered a price. Instead, two big carp were sold quickly, and someone who knew the goods picked out the only three five-striped black fish at the stall.

Then there were many people watching, but few buying. Li Long took the opportunity to glance around and discovered that the people selling tickets and cards were still there, and there were quite a lot of people at the meat stall, probably because it was almost New Year's, and every family wanted to weigh some meat.

There were also people selling grain, and there were fewer people at the stalls selling other things.

After more than half an hour, the sky was already a bit bright, more than half of the big fish at the stall were sold, and there were people around, but they pointed at that big variegated carp, just no one bought it.

"Little brother, this variegated carp of yours is too big, I can't eat it even if I buy it, can you just sell me a fish head?" Someone opened their mouth. "Anyway, the fish head doesn't have much meat, will you sell it to me for two yuan?"

"That won't work," Li Long hurriedly refused. Unlike silver carp, the variegated carp's fish head is big, and it's very good for soup. This person was bullying him for not knowing? "The fish head is a good thing, if you take it away, it won't be fragrant for others. Of course, if you want to add money, it's not impossible, five yuan for the fish head."

This big variegated carp's fish head was three or four kilograms, and Li Long's asking price was also quite ruthless.

That person gave a "tsk" and didn't offer a price again.

After a while, someone else came over to buy a carp and a silver carp, and only that big variegated carp and two silver carp weighing more than two kilograms were left at the stall.

Seeing people start to disperse, Li Long knew it was about the same here.

There were few people in the county town, and even fewer people who dared to come to the black market to buy things. The purchasing power market was just this big, he thought for a while, simply rolled up the fish, carried it, and left.

Arriving at the horse-drawn carriage, he said to Tao Daqiang, who was walking back and forth to warm up:

"Let's go, go to the Big Meat Canteen."

A total of seventeen yuan and five jiao were sold. Li Long bought six meat buns at the Big Meat Canteen, and the two of them ate while rushing toward Shicheng.

Tao Daqiang was still a bit hesitant while walking:

"Brother Long, why not just find a family courtyard in the county town and sell it like yesterday? Going to Shicheng, we are blind..."

"No, just go to Shicheng. The family courtyards here all have connections, if you run into someone with bad intentions, one report, and we will be caught along with the fish.

There are many factories in Shicheng, and the factory's family courtyards don't care about this, and the workers have money, it's easy to buy fish, it's just a bit far."

The road was indeed far, and when they arrived at Shicheng, it was almost twelve o'clock.

Li Long looked at the slightly unfamiliar, yet somewhat familiar city, just sighed secretly, and drove the horse-drawn carriage to the Agricultural Machinery Factory family courtyard.

Although the Agricultural Machinery Factory was also unified purchase and unified sales at this time, it seemed that it would still do some subcontracting, repairs, and other work. Anyway, money was definitely not lacking.

He still let Tao Daqiang park the horse-drawn carriage outside the family courtyard, and he carried the urea bag and broke in.

The gatekeeper was an old man. Seeing Li Long breaking in, he hurriedly stopped him. Li Long said with a smile:

"Grandpa, I'm sending some fish to my uncle..."

"Fish?" The old man's eyes lit up when he heard there was fish. "Are these all fish you're carrying?"

"Yeah," Li Long put down the urea bag and spread it out for the old man to see. "All big fish."

"So many? Who are you sending them to? Sell me two, it's almost New Year's, it won't be good if you don't have fish for the New Year's Eve dinner."

"Two yuan for one," Li Long heard it and hurriedly climbed up the pole. "Silver carp is cheaper, one yuan and five jiao." "This price... it's okay." This old man's heart was also blooming with joy, actually it was already very cheap. Although the factory had already issued benefits, how could the hairtail frozen in ice cubes compare to this big carp with red head and red tail?

He took out money to buy two carp, and the old man exposed Li Long:

"Young man, you're just here to sell fish, right? Alright, go in, just don't go to the building."

"Thank you, Grandpa!" Li Long had a sweet mouth and hurriedly carried the bag and walked in.

The family courtyard wasn't big, two buildings, two units each, and there were a few children in the courtyard playing with old cows, looking curious when Li Long came in.

Li Long regretted not bringing a few fruit candies, but he had to coax them hard for now. He walked to the children, spread out his bag, and said:

"Children, do you want to eat fish? I have big fish here, if you want to eat, go home and tell your family to bring money to buy, this fish is cheap!"

Some children were half-believing, and a little boy suddenly shouted:

"I want to eat, I'll go find my mom!" After finishing, he dashed into the building.

Two other children also followed and ran, and the remaining ones didn't know if their family didn't lack it, or if they weren't interested in fish, just took a look and continued playing.

Li Long waited there. At this time, someone came in from outside the gate. Li Long saw it was a middle-aged man. He knew that in this day and age, basically women did the cooking, and men rarely managed kitchen matters, so he didn't go up to greet him.

But the man took the initiative to come over and ask:

"I heard Grandpa Li say, you're the one selling fish?"

"It's me," Li Long looked at this person with slight vigilance.

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"Let me see what kind of fish." The man leaned over.

Li Long saw that this person was at least a cadre, worried that the other party wanted to deduct him, but thinking that with his youth and strength, at worst he wouldn't want the fish, so he spread out the bag for him to see.

"The fish is not bad, quite fresh," the man picked at the gill cover of a fish. "What's the price?"

"One yuan and five jiao for silver carp, two yuan for others," Li Long said.

"This price is quite high," the middle-aged man said. "The person who came to sell fish two days ago, about the same size as yours, one yuan each, your selling price is high."

Li Long sneered. There was a Ma River near Shicheng, and it wasn't certain if one could catch two or three fish a day by breaking ice holes in winter. Then the nearest reservoir was forty or fifty kilometers away from the city, further than his own home. If someone really caught fish to sell here, one yuan each? Three yuan was not very possible!

This person was full of nonsense!

However, he didn't expose it, and said with a smile:

"My fish is fresh, caught yesterday. Secondly, this big carp with red head and red tail is rare, it looks festive, how good it is to put a plate on the table for New Year's. Thirdly, I earn hard-earned money, breaking a meter-thick ice takes two or three hours, waiting for the fish to come takes half a day, and you can't catch a few fish a day..."

"Yo, you're quite reasonable," the middle-aged man didn't expect Li Long to speak so logically, and was just surprised, when a child pulled his mother's sleeve down and came to Li Long's side:

"Mom, I want to eat this fish!"

Seeing that there really was fish, the woman looked and asked:

"How to sell the fish?"

"One yuan and five jiao for silver carp, two yuan for others."

"By kilogram? So expensive?"

"By piece."

"That's really cheap, give me two!"

Alright, opening again!

(End of chapter)