Chapter 208: Being taught a lesson!
Because of these ditch fish, Li Long’s fish were sold very quickly. Within an hour, all the fish were sold out. Even the remaining dead fish were sold to a man in his forties. Corps employees bought it.
According to him, he hasn’t eaten loach fish like this in some years, and it smells delicious just looking at it, reminding him of the taste of his hometown.
Li Long did not expect that those big fish were not as popular as this small ditch fish.
After all the fish were sold, Li Long was also very hungry. He gathered the things and put them on the back seat of his bicycle. Before he could leave while pushing the bicycle, two people rushed over and started arguing about it.
One of them also wanted Li Long to give him a review. Li Long saw that the person he had planned to compete with for the stall was the one he had planned to compete with earlier. He ignored this person and pushed his bicycle to the milk tea shop.
Everyone was watching when those three gangsters came to pick a fight with me. Now you want me to do justice for him? Is your brain flooded?
"A bowl of milk tea, a naan, freshly made, a plate of butter, and a plate of honey." Li Long set up the car and said to the Uyghur young man when he entered, "There are new ones. Naan? ”
"Yes, yes." The young man said with a smile, "You really took those people to jail with guns? I heard about it, but I didn't expect it was you!"
Li Long said with a smile while paying:
"Why, you've heard about it too? But what's going on with these second-rate people?"
"What else can happen? People who don't go to school and don't have a job. Some are children of workers, and some are family members of workers. . Nowadays, the work arrangements are stricter. These people don’t want to work in jobs that are too tiring, and they don’t have the right to do light jobs—they don’t have enough education, so they can only hang out.”
"No wonder..." Li Long shook his head, "Much trouble over nothing, sooner or later something will happen if you keep hanging around like this."
"Then...it's hard to say, they are different from the previous ones, most of them have backgrounds. "The young man said, "You still have to be careful, these people... are not simple."
As he said, he brought naan, honey and butter to Li Long.
"Your honey is pretty good." Li Long dipped the naan bread into the honey and took a sip. He felt that it didn't have the rough texture of honey that can be obtained by feeding sugar. It was delicate, sweet and slightly sour, and then the fragrance was very good. good.
"Well, the pure honey collected from the beekeepers of the 143rd Group, the honey they got from the bees on the mountain last year, is very good."
"Do you have any extra? ? Sell me some." Li Long asked.
"I don't have any here, but I can ask for you." The young man said, "How many do you want?"
"Of course, the more, the better."
Li Long got a total of about 60 yuan from selling fish today, of which more than 6 yuan was his father's fish money. After excluding Tao Daqiang's money, he was left with about 50 yuan.
He estimated that honey at this time would cost only two or three yuan per kilogram at most, so naturally the more the merrier.
You can afford it, so you are so arrogant!
"It seems that you really made money selling fish!" The young man said with a smile, "Okay, you can come over and see in two days."
After breakfast, Li Long pushed When I was about to leave on my bicycle, I felt that I was being followed.
There was no gun in his hand, only a steelyard, and Li Long himself was not sure about dealing with three people at the same time.
When he was at the stall just now, Li Long was weighing steel rods with one hand and weighing lumps with the other. His main focus was to wait for work and catch the opponent off guard.
Now is different from just now. The other party must have been prepared. If he confronts him like this again, he is seeking death.
So Li Long walked slowly, looking around for opportunities as he walked.
As they were about to leave the old street, the three people were getting closer and closer. When Li Long looked back, he could see the other person's arrogant smile and the hard and straight thing hidden in his sleeve.
Then, Li Long saw two joint defenders wearing armbands. They were looking at the stalls on a street and then turned back.
Li Long was so happy that he quickly pushed the car and rushed over. He walked up to the two joint defenders wearing sleeve tickets and said quickly:
"Comrade, someone with a murder weapon wants to Kill me!”
His voice made the two administrators startled, and the three young men behind him were also startled!
What the hell, I just want some money and teach you a lesson. How come I want to kill you?
"They, it's them! They have weapons in their hands!" Li Long turned and pointed at the three young men.
Those three idiots were not afraid of these stall owners, but they did not dare to resist the joint defenders. When they saw that something was wrong, they turned around and left. One of them was a little panicked, and the steel pipe stuffed in his sleeve suddenly fell on the ground. On the ground, there was a sound of "crowling".
"You three, stop!" one of the joint defenders shouted loudly.
The three people started running immediately, and the joint defense team quickly caught up with them.
Li Long was left aside.
Is it okay?
Li Long was a little surprised. Seeing a few people running away, he also got on his bike and left.
It seems that if you come to sell fish in the future, you will really have to bring a gun or something else. Otherwise, these second-rate people would be stuck in a jam, and not only would they lose money, but they might also be injured or disabled.
These half-assed thugs are of no importance.
Li Long finally felt at ease after riding on the Mahe Bridge. Li Long didn't know the two police comrades checking here at the checkpoint today, so he didn't get out of the car to say hello.
Back in the county town, Li Long rode his bicycle to the market.
The flow of people here is obviously much less than that in Shicheng, and the stalls are only about half of those in Shicheng. Most of the people who set up stalls here are flexible farmers and unemployed county vendors. Their enthusiasm for taking the initiative to sell things is obviously not as high as that of Shicheng. Some people are a little embarrassed to solicit customers and just wait for people to come up and ask. price.
Li Long came to a food stall and asked:
"How much does rice cost per kilogram?"
"Sixty-six cents."
"Where's the noodles? Is this 85 kilograms of rice noodles?" "Yeah, 85 kilograms of rice noodles, 37 cents."
"Fifty kilograms of rice and noodles each." Li Long looked at the flour on the stall Rice said, "Can it be cheaper?"
"My two bags contain 45 kilograms of rice and less than 40 kilograms of noodles." The stall owner pointed to the two bags in front of him and said, "You want both?"
"Both of them. I want it. Give me the bag too.”
"Okay, I'll give you one cent cheaper for rice and two cents cheaper for noodles. How about it?"
"Weigh it."
We still have rice and noodles at home, but Li Long doesn't want to Let mom and dad eat corn noodles.
To be honest, the elderly have endured hardships, especially my mother, Du Chunfang. Why do you only eat so much every day? Isn't it just that during the famine years, I saved a mouthful for my children to eat? If my stomach becomes hungry, I will eat less in the future and cannot digest it.
Li Long guessed that my mother probably had stomach problems.
So no matter how long he lives here, Li Long still hopes that his father and mother will eat better.
My family is used to being thrifty. It’s not that I don’t want to eat well. It’s mainly because I’ve been poor for so many years and suddenly something delicious is available. My first thought is to save a little bit in case anything happens later. You can still eat it - with a steady flow of water.
But Li Long has lived two lives, and he knows that life will get better and better. If he can make money and eat well now, he should eat it first, and there will be better things in the future.
Their generation, including Li Jianguo’s generation, is actually the most able to feel that the country is strong and people’s lives have improved. On the contrary, people in the 1990s and 00s did not feel it deeply.
After all, Li Jianguo and his generation watched the country go from poverty to nothing, or in other words, they watched northern Xinjiang become desolate and finally had crops. If it hadn’t been for his unexpected early death in his previous life, Li Jianguo would have lived like Li Long. Received the dividends from the cooperative, traveled around without working, and regarded catching fish, shrimps and crabs as a pastime.
Tell them now that every household will have a car in the future, and there will be more than one. They cannot believe it - let alone a car in every household, even if every household has a bicycle, that is an unattainable dream in their eyes.
Tie the rice and flour bag mouths together, put them on both sides of the bicycle, then put the basin on the back seat, and Li Long rode back to the compound.
The reason why he came back early is that he also discovered some second-rate people wandering around in the market here. Although I didn't see anyone extorting money, the atmosphere was not very good.
After Li Long put down the basins and scales in the big yard, he went to the house where the jade was kept, took out the stones, and piled them randomly under the tree.
If these stones are not seen by experts, no ordinary person will regard them as jade after a layer of dust falls.
The troublesome thing was the seeds. Li Long thought about it, put the seeds into bags, and stuffed them into the main room filled with old furniture.
There is ashes everywhere, no one should care.
We’ll tell you where to hide it later.
After leaving the big yard, Li Long rode his bicycle and went to the department store. He bought five meters of blue cloth, gray cloth, and floral cloth. After folding them together, he carried them out of the building.
When he went out, Li Long could feel someone watching him.
Without looking back, he put the cloth on his bicycle, tied it up, and rode back to the compound.
There was no food at home today, so Li Long simply put his bicycle in the big yard and walked to the big meat restaurant.
Zhong Guoqiang was not here, so Li Long didn't order noodles today. Instead, he ordered a bowl of rice and two stir-fried vegetables, and ate there leisurely by himself.
It would be better if there is a bottle of beer.
But I thought about riding home after eating, so forget it. Although it is a bicycle, it is also a drunk driving. Life comes first. Stay away from drunk driving. Li Long thinks it is better to be careful.
This day is so beautiful, he hasn't lived enough yet.
After dinner, Li Longhuang returned to the courtyard, pushed out his bicycle, locked the door, pedaled and rode back.
On the way to the township middle school, he sneaked into Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory. The door was closed. Li Long guessed that she was taking a nap, so he quietly rode away again.
Teacher Wang saw it and told Gu Xiaoxia about it when she woke up.
"Why didn't he knock on the door?" Gu Xiaoxia was a little angry.
"I'm probably worried that you won't get enough rest." Wang Qihua said with a smile, "It's not easy to meet such a considerate person. Look at my house. Whenever I come over, no matter what I'm doing, it's all bang bang bang. Smash the door.”
"Hee hee," Gu Xiaoxia felt a little proud when she heard the comparison, "He should come again tomorrow, right? I'll tell him then... Teacher Wang, the one in your family has a more straightforward personality."
Teacher Wang shook his head and didn’t say much.
When Li Long returned home, Li Qingxia and the others hadn't come back yet, so Li Long put the rice noodles away and the cloth next to the sewing machine in the spare room.
Liang Yuemei can make clothes, not as standard as a tailor, but she can do it.
Li Long meant that he could make one for his parents, and by the way, he could also make one for Li Juan and Li Qiang.
As for the remaining cloth, it depends on the sister-in-law’s own thoughts.
(End of this chapter)