As the sun rose, the temperature of the air rose slightly. After finishing his work, Li Long straightened up and looked around, but there were still not many people.
The first group of people who bought the fish were quite satisfied with the fish. After all, they were all specially selected. They were large in size, relatively uniform, not small in size, and they looked beautiful.
But the number of people was still a little small. After selling a bag of fish for more than half an hour, there were still a few fish left.
Li Long knew that he was actually a little greedy. After all, he used to bring two bags of fresh fish to sell. At that time, the fish were alive and comfortable to look at. Now it's frozen fish. Although it looks pretty, it's definitely not as good as fresh fish.
Besides, most of this bag was sold, which can be considered a small gain. Just at this rate, these ten bags of fish may not be sold out in one day.
I'm a little sad, it's not the same as I imagined.
Did you come early? Will you come again in a while?
He took another bag of fish from the carriage and poured it on the plastic sheet, separated several fish that were frozen together, arranged them neatly, and continued to shout.
No. 76 felt the shaking of the carriage, raised his head that was eating grass, turned to look at Li Long, and then continued to look back, lowering his head to eat grass.
Li Long took a rest and waited for a long-distance bus to come. After the passengers got off the bus, he immediately started shouting loudly again.
This shout attracted many people. They gathered around the stall to watch the fish, pointing and picking them. Anyway, the fish has been frozen now, and Li Long is not afraid of them raising any problems. Whichever one you want is weighed. The price of fish was cheap, and these people were very happy. One bag of fish was not enough, so Li Long hurriedly took out another bag of fish and dumped it on the stall for customers to pick.
In this way, more than half an hour passed, and by the time everyone had basically dispersed, one and a half bags of fish had been sold, and the speed had obviously accelerated a lot.
Some people closed the stalls and came to Li Long with rolls of cloth and baskets. These people made money and wanted to buy a fish to stew for their families.
“This fish is really good, but it has many thorns.” A man bought a Wudaohei and said as he put it in his basket.
"I'll bring some pork to sell in the next two days." Li Long joked, "I don't think there are many meat sellers in this market."
"If you can bring meat, you will definitely buy a lot." The stall owner was about to leave with the basket, but then he made up his mind, "Someone came to sell pork two days ago, and it was also frozen meat. There was less than one It was sold out within an hour. In this winter, I basically had two bucks on my hands. , there are many people who want to buy meat. If you can get a pig, it will be sold very quickly!”
“Do you have any pigs at home? If so, just kill them in the next two days. You won’t gain weight even if you keep them in the winter, it’s just a waste of food.” Another person also commented.
"Okay, I'll kill the pigs and bring them over in the next two days." Li Long said with a smile, "There are several pigs at home."
"That's good, I'll just wait. It’s over.”
After everyone left, two market managers came over and asked Li Long to collect a dollar management fee.
Li Long didn't argue with anyone. His stall was big, occupying two or three stalls, so he should charge more.
Right now, nearly three bags of fish have been sold out, costing almost 100 yuan. Excluding the money for collecting fish, not counting my own labor and horse power, the net profit is sixty or seventy, which is very good.
After that, Li Long basically waited for a bus to unload passengers, and would shout a few times to attract people. Often a wave of people would come and buy half a bag to a bag of fish.
The sun has risen in the morning and it has become a lot warmer. There are more people in the market. You can see that many local old men and women who do not need to work, and some housewives are shopping around to buy what they want. .
At this time, Li Long did not need to shout, and there were always people in front of the stall. When it was almost noon, the last few fish were rounded up by a man who claimed to be a small restaurant owner.
Li Long was a little confused, should he give up the private restaurant now?
The man smiled and said, in fact, it’s not open. He cooks at home, there are many houses in the yard, and there are regular people coming to eat, that’s fine.
Li Long was relieved. This restaurant is different from that milk tea restaurant. After all, there are ethnic policies here, and they understand the urgent needs of the ethnic minority people who make naan and sell milk tea.
But at this time, eating out was basically in state-owned restaurants, and there were still very few private restaurants, or they were just starting to get started.
It will slowly let go.
After selling all the fish, Li Long let out a sigh of relief and closed the stall. At this time, he felt hungry and cold.
He led the carriage to the milk tea house, and the Uighur young man Keyoumu poked his head out of it with a smile:
“Fellow, I’ve seen you a long time ago, what are you doing this time? That’s great! You’re making a lot of money today by driving a carriage and selling fish, aren’t you?” The Uyghur faces really feel festive and make me want to laugh.
Tie up the horse and enter the milk tea shop with a bag containing a scale. Li Long said:
"A bowl of milk tea, a naan, some honey, is there any jam?"
"Yes, yes. There are new ones this year. My friends in the mountains brought them here. They said the wild fruits in the mountains are very good this year. ——"
Keyumu quickly brought Li Long naan and milk tea, and poured honey, jam, butter and so on in several small dishes.
"Oh, you still know how to eat it. This butter tastes great, but most Han people are not used to it. I think you eat it very delicious."
"That's right, I also have friends in the mountains." Li Long said with a smile, "Ghee, horse breasts, I can get used to these things."
"You can get used to horse breasts? That's really extraordinary!" Keyumu looked at Li Long in surprise, "Then most people are not used to it." "It's sour and a little bitter. Sometimes you need to add some sugar. But it's good for the stomach." Li Long tore off a piece of naan, dipped it in some honey and said as he ate it.
"I see it's quite quiet in the market recently." Li Long glanced outside, and while looking at the carriage, he was also looking at the market, "There's nothing causing trouble."
"Hey! You don't know." Seeing that there were no other guests, Keyumu moved a stool and sat next to Li Long and whispered. , "It's not that simple. I caught a batch a few days ago. Those gangsters are so annoying. They collect money from stalls to make trouble while the management staff is not around. Many stalls are afraid to come.
Management from the back It would be better if they come here and take some away. But I heard that they can only be detained for a few days, but they can be released after about ten days.”
Li Long thought to himself, then he would really have to ask his second brother and his brother-in-law to come together, and they would have to bring them with them. Otherwise, if one or two people came over, they would just be giving money to others.
Would it be better to bring a gun or some cold weapon?
Isn’t it a bit illegal to use a gun here?
Forget it, just get some sticks or something. Four young men, even if they encounter seven or eight gangsters, they should be able to resist for a while.
It seems that I still have to come less often.
After eating, Li Long paid the money, said hello to Keyumu, went out, put the bag on the carriage, untied the rope, and led the carriage to get ready to leave the market. Then he stopped.
He saw a puddle of horse dung behind the carriage. It should have been pulled by No. 76 just now.
He was a little embarrassed, turned around and tied the reins again, and then went into the milk tea shop.
Kyoumu saw Li Long coming back and thought he had left something behind, so he looked at where he was sitting. Li Long hurriedly said:
"Use your broom, my horse I pooped outside your store..."
"Hahahaha, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I'll clean it up when I have free time." Keyumu waved his hand, "You hurry up and leave. We still have two hours to go back. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I'll clean it up myself."
< br>Li Long didn't see the broom, so he had to apologize awkwardly and turn around to leave. It seems that next time I bring a carriage over, I need to bring a broom or something to clean up the horse manure. It would be fine on the road outside, but in the market, Li Long still felt a little ashamed.
After exiting the old street, turn north and walk a few hundred meters to the main road. There will be some cars passing by on Wuyi Highway from time to time. The roadbed is a two-lane road, but the area covered by passing cars is only one and a half cars wide. Li Long occasionally has to lead the carriage into the snow and wait for the big truck to pass before walking back to the main road.
When we were approaching the Mahe Bridge, there was a man in front of him who was bending down and carrying a bag and slowly moved forward. When Li Long's carriage arrived, he saw an old man in profile, so Li Long stopped the carriage. He said to the man:
“Fellow, where are you going?”
"Let's go to Liangzhou." The man stopped and turned around. He was an old man in his sixties, with a dark face and a not-so-thick cotton hat on his head. The hat and the beard on the man's face were covered with white hair. , this is caused by the breath being frozen.
Liangzhouhu is the name of another township in the county, not far from the county seat.
"Then get in the car." Li Long pointed to the back of his carriage, "I'll give you a ride. I can take you to the intersection of Liangzhouhu."
"That's great. The old man smiled, "Thank you, little fellow."
"Thank you, come on."
Li Long and other old people got on the carriage and continued to drive the carriage forward. The old man asked:
"Are you going to the old street to sell things? This car is actually carrying fish?"
"Yes, I brought some fish to sell there."
"Then you can sell a lot. Are you... from the red flag side?" The old man looked at Although he was weak but his thinking was very quick, he asked, "Some time ago, I said that the water in a reservoir over there was drained, and there was a sea of fish in it. Are you..."
"Yes, that's the place. . "Li Long didn't expect that the fish in Dahaizi had spread so far in this era.
"There is a daughter in my village who married there," the old man explained with a smile. "When I went back to my parents' home, I brought a bag of fish over, but it looked so fresh and bad to us."
Li Long remembered Liang Liang. Fruit cultivation has been vigorously developed in the back of Zhouhu, and there are many peach orchards. Later, some people from Wucheng drove here to buy peaches.
There is relatively little land here, but the specialty planting is still very good.
The journey for two people is always more lively than that of one person. We arrived at the county while chatting.
Li Long went to the intersection and put the old man down, then led the carriage away. When he walked back to the big yard and unloaded the carriage, he discovered that there were a few sweet potatoes on the carriage.
This should have been placed by the old man. Li Long quickly took this back to the house, not knowing whether it was frozen or not. Based on two lifetimes of experience, sweet potatoes are still very afraid of freezing.
If it was not frozen, Li Long thought about keeping one until spring so that he could grow some sweet potato seedlings. Although Li Jianguo was injured and didn't like eating it, others liked it.
For example, myself.
In the afternoon, Li Long returned to the village - business was important. (End of this chapter)