Chapter 70 Big Purchasing for the Mountain
This time, Li Long took Tao Daqiang to Laojie Station first.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, the flow of people in the old street has obviously increased a lot. A car parked at the station, spitting out people like tin monsters, and then pulled up another person and whizzed away.
Like last time, Li Long, carrying a urea bag, asked people when he met them:
“Fellow, do you want fish? Fresh big carp and grass carp, caught yesterday, the price is cheap! ”
The words are very simple, but they really work if you say them often. One or two out of ten people will always want to see Li Long's fish, and among the four or five people watching, there will always be one who wants to buy it.
After selling more than 20 fish here, Li Long moved to the farm of an agricultural machinery factory again.
The first time he sold fish in Shicheng was here, so Li Long was familiar with the road. What surprised him was that the concierge actually knew him:
“Young man, you haven’t seen him for a while. I came here to sell fish, is it still the same price?”
“Yes, sir, do you want one?”
"Okay, give me a five-striped black one!"
Li Long chuckled:
"I know the goods, this fish is delicious."
"That's it." , I also caught fish in the Ma River when I was young, I definitely know what kind of fish is delicious.”
After picking out a large five-dao black fish for the gatekeeper, Li Long took two pieces. Money, carry the pocket into the family courtyard.
As usual, Li Long spread the plastic sheet and laid out the fish one by one. Before he could finish the fish, someone came over to ask the price.
Some people have bought it and know that the fish Li Long sells is indeed fresh. When it is melted, it is not the kind of soft "expired fish", so he came over as soon as he saw Li Long setting up his stall.
Someone had never bought one before, so he wanted to ask, but when the person next to him said it, he decided to buy a fish.
What Li Long didn't expect was that all the fish he brought were sold out in just two places, Lao Street and the Agricultural Machinery Factory.
Not even the crucian carp was left. A hunchbacked old lady asked for ten kilograms of crucian carp and said that she would eat it slowly while freezing - this fish is delicious, the soup is milky white, and it tastes good when stewed.
Really knowledgeable.
Li Long felt from this moment on that life was gradually getting better, and everyone could afford fish after the Chinese New Year.
With the one hundred and five yuan they just got, Li Long and Tao Daqiang drove the carriage back. At this time the sun has not yet reached noon.
The fish sold out faster today. Li Long hummed a song and took out a five-yuan note and handed it to Tao Daqiang:
"Daqiang, take it, you have to buy some new year's goods."
"Brother Long, I still owe five yuan from last time..." Tao Daqiang refused.
"Take it first." Li Long said, "I will go up the mountain tomorrow, and when we come back we will sell fish twice. There were a lot of people who wanted to buy fish before the year, so we can earn two more trips. You buy some first Returning the new year's goods also makes Dad happy."
Tao Daqiang took the money and felt a little complicated.
The two drove the carriage to the county seat, and Li Long arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative first.
“You take the carriage first, I’ll buy some things, and then we’ll go to the department store.”
"Okay." Tao Daqiang had no objection.
Li Long entered the sales department of the supply and marketing cooperative and started purchasing. This trip was mainly to buy things for Harimu and Yushanjiang. He bought five wood-splitting axes. Li Long wanted one for himself, and the remaining two were Harimu and Yushanjiang, two each, and the remaining saws , ropes, plastic sheets, sickles, choppers (a farm tool similar to a hoe, but with a round head), etc. I bought a lot.
After buying these things, Li Long did the math and found that he spent a total of thirty-four yuan. not much.
The value of that piece of jade is too far away.
Li Long thought that it would be fine to go to the black market to buy some food before going up the mountain tomorrow.
Seeing Li Long buy so many things, Tao Daqiang was also a little surprised.
"My friends in the mountains needed it. They helped me a lot, and I also brought them some things." When Li Long explained this, Tao Daqiang understood, and felt that Brother Long was really loyal.
Going to the department store, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to go shopping first. Tao Daqiang spent a long time shopping there with five yuan, and only bought half a kilogram of fruit candies and some peanuts - he had to put them out during the New Year. He also bought two bottles of canned food and two packs of sugar cubes, which he planned to leave. Used by relatives.
When Tao Daqiang came out, Li Long walked in again.
There were a lot of people in the department store, and Li Long found that some new goods had arrived, and there were also fruit sellers.
Li Long then remembered that his sister-in-law seemed to have put all the fruits in the spare house, planning to wait until the Chinese New Year to eat them. Although his nephews and nieces were greedy, they didn't get them.
He bought two kilograms of frozen persimmons - this kind of Mopan persimmon is still rare here. There are also two kilograms of apples - at this time, the apples of Aksu are not as famous as the apples of Ili.
Fruits are a rarity at this time, especially in winter. In the summer, there are people on the team who grow peaches, crab apples, plums, etc., and there are also pears, melons, and tomatoes in the fields, but in the winter there is really nothing. It is very rare for a family with good preservation skills to be able to store melons (mother melons with black flat melon seeds, similar to watermelons, but the flesh is not as sweet) to be eaten as fruit in winter.
There is less fruit, so it is naturally more expensive. One kilogram of frozen persimmons costs $1.5, one kilogram of apples costs $1.2, and the price of meat is the same.
After coming out of the department store, when the two of them were driving a carriage to go home, they passed by a grain store. Li Long noticed that the sign outside said, "To celebrate the Spring Festival, our store sells a batch of grain at special prices. No food stamps are required." He immediately asked Tao Daqiang stopped the carriage and held it, and he happily entered the grain store.
"How to sell grain at special price?"
"Rice is 68 cents, flour is 45 cents." The two salesmen chatted without looking at Li Long's direct quotation.
"One hundred kilograms of rice and one hundred kilograms of noodles." Li Long opened his mouth.
“What?” The salesperson was shocked!
There are a lot of people buying grain at special prices in the past two days, but they are all buying in quantities of three to five kilograms, not in quantities of one hundred kilograms.
How much is one hundred kilograms? The largest noodle bag now is 25 kilograms, four big bags!
“One hundred kilograms of rice and one hundred kilograms of noodles, you won’t have enough stock, right?” Li Long asked when the salesperson didn’t speak.
“Of course it’s enough, but do you really want to buy so much?” the salesperson confirmed again.
"Of course it's true." Li Long said with a smile. Those who don't use food stamps these days still sell them to the public, even if they are old food.
Not to mention, it is really old food, and it is more expensive than the average price.
But no tickets required!
When the eight bags of rice and noodles were put on the car, Li Long spent all the money he earned from selling fish today and even posted some.
But he is happy!
At least there is no need to eat whole grains at home or on the mountain for a short time! But don’t buy too much. Food tends to get damp during winter and spring, so just wait until spring begins before buying more.
Covering the rice and noodles with plastic sheets, he drove the carriage and drove home happily. Li Long was already humming a song.
Tao Daqiang followed with envy, wondering when he would be able to spend so much money like Brother Long!
(End of this chapter)