Chapter 99

Soon someone came over to ask about the price of the meat, and Li Long said:

"One yuan and five per kilogram, this is wild boar meat."

Wild boar meat sold cheaper than domestic pork; he mainly wanted to sell it off quickly.

"Is it really wild boar meat?" The person asking the price was a middle-aged woman, somewhat suspicious.

"It really is." Li Long said with a smile, "Anyway, you won't be wrong if you eat it as pork."

"Then weigh me two kilograms—I want pork belly."

People in this era all liked to eat fat meat, so Li Long directly chopped a piece for her, weighed it, and it was four and a half kilograms. The woman didn't quibble, paid six yuan and seven jiao, and left carrying the meat.

The fish seller next to him was quite envious; he might not be able to get six yuan even after selling several fish.

"I heard that there are joint defense team members who will check, is it true or false?" Li Long asked when there was no one around.

The stall owner waved his hand:

"Someone checked before the New Year, but no one has checked since the New Year. Don't you see that more and more people are coming to sell things? The policy has been relaxed, otherwise who would dare to come?"

Li Long knew that the policy had indeed been relaxed, but there were policies from above and countermeasures from below; it also depended on the specific implementation.

Waiting here for half an hour, the twenty-plus kilograms of pork belly he brought were all sold out, and two pig legs were also sold, but only two kilograms of ribs were sold.

Li Long looked at the dozen or so kilograms of ribs and two pig legs left on the plastic sheet, thinking to himself, luckily I didn't bring all the meat; if I had brought it all, I would have had to drag most of it back later.

"Little brother, how about I trade my fish for your meat? One and a half kilograms of fish for one kilogram of meat—your ribs are half bone, you're taking advantage." The fish-selling stall owner said.

"No trade." Li Long waved his hand, "I'm not short of fish to eat."

"Trade, how about I trade two kilograms for one of yours?" The stall owner also wanted to eat meat; he was tired of eating fish every day.

Besides, that fish meat didn't have much oil; how could it be as fragrant as big slices of fatty meat!

"No trade." Li Long glanced at the fish on the other party's stall and shook his head. It wasn't as beautiful as the fish in the small lake, and it didn't look fat either.

The reason why the fish in the small lake were popular was largely because they were beautiful and fat. Because there were many reeds growing in the small lake, the fish had things to eat. And although most of the fish in the reservoirs now were also wild and naturally grown, there were no plants in the reservoirs, so the fish could only eat plankton; not only were they thin and lean, but they weren't beautiful either.

The sky slowly brightened, and the number of stalls gradually decreased, but there were still a dozen or so left. And the number of people wandering here hadn't decreased; there was even a trend of increasing.

Li Long began to believe that the policy had indeed been relaxed and no one would come to make arrests, otherwise, with the sun about to come out now, the stalls would have long since dispersed.

From now on, this wouldn't be a black market, but a morning market.

After selling for a while longer, he barely managed to sell four or five kilograms of ribs. Seeing that the number of people was starting to decrease, Li Long simply packed up his stall; he planned to go have breakfast.

He had gotten up too early in the morning and hadn't eaten anything, and after squatting here for nearly an hour, he felt frozen through.

Seeing Li Long roll the wild boar meat into the plastic sheet and bundle it up, preparing to leave, the fish seller got a bit anxious:

"Little brother, how about I trade three kilograms of fish for one kilogram of meat?"

"No trade." Li Long waved his hand, "My family is really not short of fish; I have a reservoir there too."

"Alright, then I'll buy two kilograms of ribs." The stall owner had no choice but to take out a roll of crumpled money, "One kilogram..."

"I'll give you one yuan and two." Li Long said, "How about it, that's good enough, right?"

Hearing that Li Long was selling his ribs to this stall owner for one yuan and two, other stall owners immediately crowded around, some wanting three kilograms, some five, and in a short while, his ribs were weighed clean.

This could be considered an unexpected joy. Li Long dragged the remaining two pig legs to the meat canteen.

Zhong Guo Qiang wasn't there. Li Long carried the pig legs inside. At this time, there weren't many people eating, so he ordered four steamed buns, poured a bowl of tea, and ate heartily.

After finishing his meal, Li Long carried the pig legs out of the canteen again, returned to the old house, put the remaining meat and the two pig legs on the bicycle, hung the scale in front, and rode first to the purchasing station.

Chen Hongjun happened to be there, so Li Long took a string of pork belly inside:

"Comrade Chen, this is the wild boar meat I promised you."

Chen Hongjun was overjoyed and said with a smile:

"I thought you had forgotten. By the way, how much is this meat?" "Don't mention money, it's a gift for you to eat." After Li Long finished speaking, he turned and walked out, "I'm still in a hurry to go to Shicheng to sell meat, so I won't say more."

Chen Hongjun carried the meat and rushed out, seeing that Li Long had already ridden the bicycle far away, and shook his head with a smile.

This little Li is really quite interesting.

The bicycle was fast; in less than an hour, he had already arrived at the old street of Shicheng.

What surprised Li Long somewhat was that there were even more wandering vendors on the old street. Besides those selling melon seeds and peanuts, there were quite a few selling local specialties, and there were also two or three selling fish, just like him before, wandering among the tourists with a bag.

Stalls couldn't be set up here; there were management personnel who would drive them away, but they wouldn't confiscate things.

Therefore, Li Long began to push his bicycle and hawk:

"Wild boar meat, fresh wild boar meat, one yuan and five per kilogram, pork belly, ribs, pig leg meat, come and taste it!"

Li Long's shouting immediately attracted quite a few people. After all, most people had eaten domestic pork, but very few had really tasted wild boar meat.

A middle-aged man wearing a green military overcoat and holding a briefcase walked over and asked:

"Little comrade, is this really wild boar meat?"

"Of course." Li Long knew some people were suspicious; he still had a wild boar head rolled up in his bag, so he took it down to show the man:

"See? This was hunted only yesterday, and it's been skinned. Domestic pigs don't need to be skinned at all..."

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"It really looks like it... can it be cheaper? If it's cheaper, I'll take a leg." That person felt Li Long's meat was quite reliable, so he said: "Can it be a bit cheaper?"

"It's already quite cheap. This is wild boar meat; I'm selling it cheaper than domestic pork, and I don't even need meat coupons..." Li Long gave a wry smile, "I'm just earning some hard-earned money, and I even used up two bullets."

"Alright, for the sake of your honesty, I'll take a leg." The middle-aged man took out money, "The scale has to be generous."

"Don't worry, the scale will be generous."

One leg was twelve point four kilograms. Li Long calculated it as twelve kilograms, and the other party paid eighteen yuan. Li Long tied a handle for him with thin iron wire, and the middle-aged man left happily carrying it.

With the first person buying, the subsequent business was much smoother. Tourists coming and going who wanted to bring back some local specialties felt that this wild boar meat sounded and looked good, so in less than two hours, Li Long had sold out all the meat.

Only one old lady muttered:

"This meat... is a bit lean, not fat enough."

Li Long said:

"That can't be compared to domestic pigs; after all, it's wild."

After selling the meat, Li Long rode his bike back, even more determined about his future hunting life.

Once this policy is relaxed, hunting a prey every few days to sell won't be more fragrant than farming?

These two wild boars brought Li Long an income of over 120 yuan; a sewing machine was within reach.

Beautiful!

Li Long returned to the big house to rest, planning to continue into the mountains the next day.

Halimu was still chopping wood, which made Li Long somewhat puzzled. Did they need so much wood?

And he chopped the wood into two or three-meter-long segments; were they building a house?

Li Long didn't ask. As soon as he arrived, Halimu took him to another place in the east where animals were often active.

"There are snow chickens here, in groups." Halimu said while walking, "Occasionally there will be roe deer, and sometimes wild goats will come down."

"Wild goats?" Li Long was a bit strange; were there really wild goats?

"It's the kind with long horns, not the kind with round horns..." Halimu explained.

Oh, so it's an ibex!

An animal that would be very 'criminal' in later generations, but actually, they lived in groups in this area now.

"As soon as spring arrives, they go into the higher mountains; only at this time will they come down. As for snow chickens, they are very thin and don't taste as good as domestic chickens."

Well, comparing snow chickens to domestic chickens, Li Long was speechless.

This thing is actually a type of pheasant—pheasant family, isn't it just in the same family as pheasants?

But besides eating, snow chickens also have extremely high medicinal value, at least that's what's rumored among ordinary people, saying that snow chicken claws can treat rheumatoid arthritis, and snow chicken meat is aphrodisiac, and so on.

As the two were walking, this time Li Long stopped first.

He grabbed the gun he was carrying on his back—Li Long saw that wolf!

(End of chapter)