Chapter 132 Want to take advantage? No way!
Li Long did not go directly to the morning market, but went to the big courtyard first. He unlocked the door and took out two large enamel basins. He fastened them on the back seat of the bicycle and used the clips on the back seat to push them out of the yard. I locked the door, got in the car, and rode to the morning market.
The sky has brightened and there are more pedestrians on the street, but there are still few cyclists. Li Long has attracted a lot of people's attention.
Li Long pushed his speed to the fastest speed and arrived at the morning market at full speed. He found that the place was much livelier than before. Many people were already shouting and selling things, and they were no longer as silent as before.
At a glance, there are those selling eggs, selling roosters and hens, selling meat, selling fish, selling big brooms and small brooms, and some are even squatting on the outside with wall-building tools. Li Long I guess these people are doing odd jobs.
There are forty or fifty stalls selling things, and there are also many people buying things. They are noisy and bargaining, and it has the appearance of a market.
Among the people coming and going, there were relatively few people riding bicycles, so Li Long attracted a lot of people's attention.
Li Long got off the car and pushed his bicycle into the morning market and walked around. Although he didn't ask, he heard the prices of the things sold.
The price of pork has risen to 1,81,91 kilograms, mutton has also risen to 1,20 yuan, eggs are 8 cents each, roosters are 3 yuan each, and hens are 2 yuan, 50 yuan each - this is the average price. They vary slightly depending on their size. Flour costs 55 cents, rice costs 65 to 70 cents - everything has increased in price.
There are two fish sellers in the market. One sells large carp, one piece weighs one kilogram. The fish is placed on a urea bag and looks dead. There was another shop that sold small crucian carp, which was smaller than the crucian carp Li Long brought here. Li Long guessed that it was a fish caught in a small ditch.
Seeing that there were no empty seats in the middle of the market, he simply parked himself at the edge of the morning market, took down two large enamel basins, took off the urea bags, untied them, and poured the fish into the two basins.
Because there are very few people riding bicycles to sell things, Li Long has an aura of attraction. When he dumped the fish, the live fish swam happily in the basin and crackled. The sound immediately attracted the attention of many people.
“Young man, how do you sell this fish?” An old lady in her sixties with short hair came over and asked.
“Eight hairs for a small fish, one piece for a big fish.” Li Long said with a smile, “I just caught them this morning, all of them are alive, absolutely fresh!”
“The price… ..." The old man hesitated.
"I just saw it, and you should have asked me about it. I am the only one with the price at this morning market." Li Long replied.
"Okay, then weigh some small crucian carp for me for one dollar."
"Okay." Li Long took the scale and started to weigh the fish.
It is said to be a small crucian carp, but it is very well-proportioned in size, about the size of a palm. It is much larger than the small crucian carp sold at another stall. It is the kind that has lived for two or three years. Moreover, the fish in Xiaohaizi are very beautiful, not pale and miserable, they are very beautiful.
As soon as the business is opened, people will come immediately behind.
Li Long caught more than 30 kilograms of fish in four nets this time. In later generations, he remembered that after Xiaohaizi experienced several major floods and could no longer store water or fish, he lowered six three-layer nets and only caught a dozen kilograms of fish at most at one time, and the largest was only a 500-gram giant crucian carp. There are so many resources now!
After all, what he laid was a single-layer sticky net!
There are many people asking about the price, but not many people buying fish. An old man came over and squatted on the edge of the basin, pulling on the left and right, and grabbing a fish from time to time to look at it. Li Long couldn't help but said:
"Uncle, which fish do you want?" Catch it for you."
"I want to catch it myself," the old man said without raising his head.
"If you mess around like this, the fish will die soon, and I won't be able to sell it."
"What does it have to do with me if your fish dies?" the old man said angrily.
Li Long suddenly became unhappy. Just then a middle-aged man came over to ask about the price of the fish. Li Long pulled the old man's hand out of the basin and said:
"Uncle, someone is buying fish. If you don't want to buy it, please give way. Don’t affect my business!”
Then he said to the middle-aged man:
"One piece of big fish is one kilogram, and crucian carp has eight hairs."
"This crucian carp is so beautiful. It costs two yuan to weigh it for me." The young man squatted down to look at the crucian carp flopping in the water and praised, "Go home and make soup."
"Expert!" Li Long praised as he took the crucian carp and put it on the scale.
The old man was pulled aside by Li Long and stared at him angrily. Li Long pretended not to notice.
He could probably guess what the old man was thinking.
Some people who come to buy fish are picky and want fish of about the same size, while others want to try them all, weighing both big and small fish.
Because Li Long’s fish are fresh, basically alive, and there are many types, so the range of choices is relatively large, so the large and small fish in the basins on both sides were picked out one by one.
A few small crucian carp lost their scales in the basin and were not very lively anymore, falling at the end.
Seeing that the sun has risen, it has been nearly 40 minutes since setting up a stall here. Li Long straightened up and looked around. One-third of the stalls around him were gone. Those who came here to buy things Nearly half of the people have been reduced.
He was a little unwilling, so he waited for a while and lowered the price once, to 90 cents for the big fish and 70 cents for the crucian carp. Finally, the big fish were sold out, and there were still five small crucian carps left, which were almost a kilogram.
Li Long saw the old man who was pulling water at the beginning, wandering not far away, looking here from time to time, and when he found that Li Long noticed him, the old man immediately turned his head.
Li Long sneered, trying to take advantage? If you just say it directly, maybe I will give it to you. If you have bad intentions, then I won’t let you do that!
“Sell the fish, sell the fish, the last five crucian carps are worth 50 cents!” He shouted loudly.
As soon as the old man heard Li Long's shout, he turned around with a panicked expression.
An old lady was asking about the price of hens not far away. When she heard Li Long calling here, she hurriedly came over and looked at the few fish in the basin that were still swimming but not too lively. She asked :
“Just these few, fifty cents?”
“Yes, fifty cents.” Li Long said with a smile, “The fish are all still alive and fresh. , it just took a long time to put it in this basin, you see, it is still swimming, five pieces weigh one kilogram, it’s only fifty cents, isn’t it cheap?”
“Okay, it’s only fifty cents, I want it!” The old lady smiled and took out a handkerchief bag from her pocket, opened it, and took out two 2-cent pieces and one 1-cent piece from it. After counting them twice, she handed them to Li Long.
The old lady brought her own cloth bag. Li Long caught the five fishes one by one and put them in the cloth bag for the old lady. After seeing that the old man left with satisfaction, Li Long poured the two basins of water on the roadside. In the ditch.
He looked up and saw that the old man not far away glared at Li Long bitterly and turned away.
Li Long burst out laughing. The old man was in the water and pulling, just trying to kill the fish. He probably thought that Li Long would throw it away when the dead fish were left at the end, and then he would be able to pick it up and leave.
Li Long refused to let him have his way!
(End of this chapter)