Chapter 60

Li Long climbed up before dawn the next day. This young body is good, once the biological clock is formed, it is fixed. Getting up early made him feel exceptionally energetic.

First ate breakfast, then went to the horse yard to harness the horse cart. Old Luo also carefully loaded a bundle of grass.

Coming out of the horse yard, Li Long hadn't gone to call anyone yet, and Tao Daqiang had already followed.

"Ate?"

"Ate, drank fish soup."

"That's fine."

The two talked intermittently, and after returning to the Li family and loading the three bags of fish, the two drove the horse cart and walked out.

Li Long went to sell fish again. This news soon spread in the production team.

"Really not enough, don't believe in evil? Wait until you get arrested and then you'll be honest!"

"This second Li son is really able to toss, not staying at home all day, running out every day, sooner or later he will be arrested and locked up!"

"Is this drilled into the money eye? The team leader also indulges him!"

Some people are also doubting:

"Are people in the city that lacking in fish? Eat two meals at home and get tired of it, how can they eat it every day? Who is that fish sold to?"

"Running every day, must earn quite a bit, right?"

And naturally there are more envious people:

"Since the second Li son dares to run, he must have a way that others don't know. Knowing that Gu Ermao and Tao Dayong were arrested and still daring to run, he's not afraid, is there someone above?"

Sister-in-law Lu came to the Li family to visit and also asked about Li Long going to sell fish.

After seeing Li Juan and Li Qiang's new shoes, new toys, and new school bags, Sister-in-law Lu's praise for Li Long didn't stop, and then she said she would introduce someone to Li Long.

Liang Yuemei still said that, have to listen to Li Long himself, and Li Long doesn't have this thought for now.

This is the truth. She actually took the time to tell Li Long about the person Sister-in-law Lu wanted to introduce. Li Long had an impression of that girl, who also married a young man in the village in his previous life. How to say, not Li Long's dish.

Li Long didn't know that the people in the team said a lot. He and Tao Daqiang arrived in the county after more than an hour, bought four meat buns, two each, and rushed to Shicheng while eating. By the time they arrived in Shicheng, it was around twelve o'clock.

Having a horse cart is faster than Li Long walking by himself.

"Brother Long, still going to that family quarters?" Tao Daqiang didn't remember the road, he asked.

"Change one, go to the family quarters of the August 1st Sugar Factory."

North Xinjiang cannot grow sugarcane, but there is another sugar-making raw material—sugar beet, also called sugar radish. In his previous life, Li Jianguo developed himself into a professional pig farmer, and the most planted was sugar beet. The leaves of this thing can be broken off, chopped up, and mixed with other things to boil and feed pigs.

And after the sugar beet grows, cutting it into slices and boiling it to feed pigs is even better—of course, the best use in rural areas now is to boil sugar syrup first, and then feed the waste to pigs, which belongs to complete utilization.

And Li Jianguo has raised pigs for two years. In order to get pig feed, he has gone to the August 1st Sugar Factory more than once to scoop up their sugar factory waste—after the sugar factory processes the sugar beet, the waste is thrown away directly, and there is no awareness of recycling yet.

So Li Long is very familiar with the road to the August 1st Sugar Factory.

Arriving at the sugar factory family quarters, Li Long let Tao Daqiang lead the horse cart to wait outside, wipe the horse's sweat, rest, and then feed grass, while he carried a bag of fish and walked into the courtyard.

Familiar routine, only this time the gatekeeper old man didn't buy fish, but didn't stop him either.

Entering the courtyard, seeing someone walking around, Li Long unfolded the plastic sheet bought the day before, laid out the fish one by one, and shouted in a low voice:

"Selling fish, fresh big carp, cheap!"

The voice wasn't loud, but soon attracted the attention of those few people.

Two people hesitated and walked over, and two others didn't move.

"How to sell this fish?"

"Where was this fish caught?"

"The fish was caught from the Maxian Reservoir, pure wild fish, look at this carp, the head and tail are red, so beautiful. The price isn't expensive either, two yuan a piece, look how big this fish is, all over two kilograms, less than one yuan per kilogram—"

Selling fish many times, Li Long's script also became proficient. This time, in two days, the "standard big fish" caught by Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang were more than seventy, and there were more than twenty kilograms of "standard crucian carp," which was the most Li Long had sold since he started selling fish.

"Two yuan? Expensive, make it cheaper?" Someone wanted to buy and habitually started bargaining.

"Big sister, it's really not expensive." Li Long shouted grievances, "Now the ice in the reservoir is frozen almost a meter thick, we smashed ice holes for more than two hours in minus thirty-plus degrees, really just earned a hard-earned money. Look at this fish, the gills are red, very fresh, caught yesterday, we walked for four hours to get here... really not expensive!"

"Then... I'll take one, what kind of fish is this?"

"Five-striped fish, this fish is garlic-clove meat, eats small fish, the taste is very good!"

"This is five-striped fish? Then I... one carp, one five-striped fish!"

"Alright, shall I thread it for you with thin wire?" Li Long asked.

"Alright, young man thinks very thoroughly."

Li Long proficiently took thin wire and threaded it through the gills to thread the fish and handed it over. The other party took out five yuan. Li Long pointed to the small fish and said:

"This crucian carp is one yuan for fifteen, almost two kilograms, the remaining one yuan for you to take small fish?"

"Alright. But how do I take the small fish?"

！.

"Small fish are not easy to thread, how about you go back first, take a basin to hold them? I can't run."

"Alright."

One business deal was done, and the next was much smoother.

It's just that the enthusiasm for buying fish in the sugar factory wasn't as great as in the agricultural machinery factory family quarters. Although people came to buy from time to time, more than half an hour had passed, and a bag of fish hadn't been sold out.

By lunchtime, there was no one in the family quarters, and the smell of food drifted in the courtyard.

Li Long decided to close the stall and change places.

He collected the fish and carried the bag out of the family quarters.

The gatekeeper old man saw it and shouted:

"Young man, if you want to sell fish, you have to come in the afternoon, people are in the factory at this time."

"Thank you, old man." Li Long took out a silver carp from the bag and handed it over:

"Gift for you to eat."

"Then I'll accept it." The gatekeeper old man didn't expect that one sentence would be exchanged for a fish, and happily accepted it.

But farming still required transportation tools. Li Jianguo later spent fifteen yuan to buy a small donkey, and spent money to find someone to build a cart frame, and it wasn't until a year later that he barely had a donkey cart.

If the money is prepared now, when the time comes to draw a horse, it can be bought directly, and then it can be used, right?

Near Halimu's winter shelter, it's all cow and sheep manure!

Now Li Long doesn't take Li Jianguo when he goes out to sell things because Li Jianguo's prestige is there, and if the two of them have a disagreement, who should they listen to? Besides, with two men in the family, if something really happens, they can't both be arrested, right? Leaving one is safer.

When Li Long finished eating and appeared in the courtyard, the way those big men in the courtyard looked at him was different.

Look, they are all young people of similar age, all wanting to go out and do business. Some people get arrested as soon as they go out, while others not only earn money but also bring back two wild boars!

These two pigs must weigh at least three hundred kilograms, right? Even if wild boar meat is cheap, at half the price of domestic pork per kilogram, that's 0.8 yuan, so three hundred kilograms is over two hundred!

People are just different!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 50 =====

After another hour, there was only half a bag of fish left on the horse cart.

Li Long couldn't shout anymore, his throat was a bit hoarse.

"Let's go, go eat." Li Long said to Tao Daqiang, "Follow me."

There were still three or four hours before dark. Li Long had confidence that after eating, he could sell out the fish before dark.

(End of chapter)