Chapter 31 The black market is indeed black
When Li Long got dressed and went out to go to the west room, he saw a big black man wandering outside the courtyard gate. He was startled and shouted: " Who?”
“Brother Long, it’s me.”
Tao Daqiang’s voice.
"Daqiang, why are you so early?" Li Long breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked doubtfully, "I was planning to go to your house to find you after dinner."
"I'm afraid... I'm afraid I'll miss the time." Tao Daqiang scratched his hat and responded with a naive smile.
"Come into the house quickly." Li Long came over to pull him, and then saw that Tao Daqiang's hat was covered with white frost, as well as his eyebrows and eyelashes. He couldn't help but ask:
" What time did you come here?"
"No...I don't remember." Tao Daqiang was speechless.
"Come in quickly! You didn't sleep last night, did you?"
Li Long just made a wild guess, but he almost hit the truth.
Tao Daqiang went back after eating last night and found that there was no food for him at home, so he didn't say anything more and went to bed early.
However, after falling asleep, he was worried that he would not be able to get up in the morning, because Li Long had said that he would leave before dawn.
As a result, he turned over and over, and in the end he still didn't dare to fall asleep, so he simply got up, got dressed, and sat on the kang to wait.
Tao Jianshe fell asleep a long time ago. Tao Daqiang felt that he was done waiting, so he quietly went out and came to Li's house.
As a result, Li Long hadn't gotten up yet, so he waited at the entrance of the courtyard until Li Long got up. He didn't know how long he waited.
Li Jianguo heard voices outside, opened the door and saw Tao Daqiang and Li Long, and immediately called them in.
Liang Yuemei quickly served them Baogu glutinous rice porridge. Tao Daqiang leaned against the fire wall and it took a while to recover.
After washing up, Li Long helped Liang Yuemei carry the bowl and rice. In the morning, it was cornstarch noodles, stir-fried mutton with pickles, rice porridge and the leftover fish soup from last night.
Li Long and Tao Daqiang were not polite and devoured their food. Li Long wiped his mouth and said to Li Jianguo:
"Brother, I have a few croaking chickens in my house. I'll take a few to sell, and you can clean up the rest and we'll eat them."
Tao Daqiang looked at Li Long with envy. Brother Long was so awesome. No matter what you do, there will be enough meat to eat.
Li Jianguo took off the keychain from his waistband, opened the chest of drawers, took out a stack of food stamps, counted out a few and handed them to Li Long:
"Here, is that enough?"
“It’s not enough, get more.”
"Okay." Li Jianguo didn't say anything. Now that his younger brother has the ability, he is naturally happy.
Li Long doesn’t think he is better than his eldest brother. After all, when the vernal equinox begins next year, that’s when his eldest brother will show off his abilities. I have to keep my two acres of land for my eldest brother to cultivate.
With the food stamps, Li Long and Tao Daqiang went out and held the sledge. Li Jianguo put the urea bag containing the fish on the sledge, and Li Long took out the bag of croaking chickens from his house. , took out six of them and twisted them to death one by one and put them on the ground. The remaining five that were still alive were still tied into the bags and put on the sledge. Tao Daqiang pulled up the rope on the sledge and strode out.
This simple sledge is similar to a stretcher, but the front end is tilted up, and thick iron wires are embedded in the two sticks below to reduce friction. The rope is tied in front, tied at both ends, and you can walk by pulling it.
Now the snow on the road has been compressed into ice, and the sledge is sliding on it, pulling it up and flying with almost no effort.
On a whim, Tao Daqiang pulled faster and faster. Li Long looked amused and reminded from behind:
"Daqiang, be careful when you use force, don't throw things off the sledge."< br>
“Well, I know!”
The two people slowly disappeared at the end of the road.
At dawn, Sister-in-law Lu came to Li’s house again.
"Hey, his aunt, is it early for your family to have dinner?" Sister-in-law Lu said with a smile as she watched Li Juan and Li Qiang playing on the kang.
Liang Yuemei, who was picking up the soles of her shoes, nodded and didn't say much.
She didn’t want to say that she got up early because Li Long and the others were going to the county to sell fish. Although the policy is much looser now, it is not good to leave a talking point for others. Besides, Sister-in-law Lu is a talkative herself.
"His aunt, have you heard? Yesterday, the team borrowed three carriages to go into the mountains to pull wood. Only the captain and his team pulled half of the carriage, and the rest didn't pull anything!" Sister-in-law Lu He lowered his voice to convey the news he heard to Liang Yuemei.
"Why didn't you pull it? There are so many logs in the mountains."
"They said they couldn't find a way. People can get in, but carriages can't." Mrs. Lu thought those people were really stupid. In the summer, everyone from the sideline team could get in, but in the winter they couldn't find their way in. "Your Xiaolong is still great. Every time he comes back, the car is full of things!"
"Well, Xiaolong is lucky." Liang Yuemei said vaguely. Said.
"I don't think it's just luck, it's Xiaolong who has the ability." Sister-in-law Lu didn't have the consciousness to say that Li Long was a prodigal two days ago, and started to praise Li Long.
"By the way, his aunt, my niece is nineteen years old. She has graduated from elementary school, can work, and is good-looking. See if you can talk to Xiaolong..."
"Then I have to ask Xiaolong." Liang Yuemei said with a smile, "Xiaolong's vision is not low."
"Hehe, I know, I know, I just want to ask. If Xiaolong wants to agree, let's meet first. "Whether it works or not is another matter."
Li Long didn't know that someone was already planning to invest in his potential stock. When they rushed to the black market, it was dawn.
But here in the black market, some people are already planning to leave.
“Did they come so early?” Seeing someone pushing a bicycle, and the two baskets on the back of the bicycle were already empty, Tao Daqiang couldn’t help but ask, “When did they set off? ”
"They are very close." Li Long said, then found an empty spot, parked the sledge, and started to take out things.
"What are you selling?" Someone came over and asked immediately.
"Fish." Li Long didn't even look up, "There are also croaking chickens."
"Fish? What fish?"
"Carp, crucian carp, grass carp, silver carp There are both Zi and Wudaohei." Li Long looked up and answered seriously, "Which one do you want?"
"What's the price?" It was a man in his fifties, wearing a Chinese tunic suit and looking like a cadre. "I see you didn't bring a scale."
"The argument is, average-sized carp, five black One piece costs two yuan, one piece silver carp costs one five yuan, and ten pieces of small crucian carp and miscellaneous fish cost one piece. The big ones I have are all over one and a half kilograms, they are definitely cheap!"
Li Long didn’t have a scale, and he didn’t plan to bring one with him! . When crucian carp was sold in summer in the previous life, large bowls were used, and one bowl weighed just over a kilogram. Now in winter, the fish is frozen, so we can’t use bowls, so we have to use strips.
"Take out the fish and have a look." The man wanted to buy it, so Li Long took out the fish and placed it on the sledge.
Some people came around to look.
"It looks good, quite big."
"Wudaohei, this fish with garlic clove meat is very delicious!"
"That crucian carp is a big plate crucian carp. "It looks quite fat..."
The onlookers were knowledgeable and looked at each other.
Li Long took out five more croaking chickens and showed one of them:
"The newly caught croak chicken costs three yuan each. It tastes better than chicken and tastes like game!"
There were many people watching, but only one or two were picking out the fish.
Tao Daqiang stared nervously at the people picking the fish, fearing that these people would take the fish and run away.
“Young man, how much does this carp cost?” A woman in her forties asked as she picked up the largest carp.
“Two pieces.” Li Long said with a smile, “This is the biggest one. Look at this red head and red tail, how beautiful it is!”
"When were you caught?" The woman was still hesitant.
"Yesterday, you pulled your cheeks open and took a look. They were red. We smashed through a hole in the ice that was nearly one meter thick. It was not easy!"
"Then I want to Yes." The woman paid.
The first order, completed!
(End of this chapter)