Chapter 132 Want to take advantage? no way! Li Long did not go directly to the morning market. Instead, he went to the big yard first, unlocked the house, took out two large enamel basins, buckled them on the back seat of the bicycle, used the clip on the back seat to lock the door, pushed it out of the yard, locked it, then jumped on the bike and rode to the morning market. The sky was getting brighter and there were more pedestrians on the street, but there were still few people riding bicycles, so Li Long attracted a lot of people's attention. Li Long pedaled as fast as he could and rushed to the morning market. He found that it was much more lively here than before. Many people were shouting while selling things and were no longer as silent as before. At a glance, there were people selling eggs, roosters and hens, meat and fish, brooms and sweeps, and some were even squatting on the outskirts with bricklaying tools in their hands. Li Long guessed that these people were probably doing odd jobs. There were forty or fifty stalls selling things, and quite a few people buying things, clamoring and bargaining, making it look like a market. Among the people passing by, there were relatively few who rode bicycles, so Li Long attracted a lot of attention. Li Long got off the car and pushed his bicycle into the morning market and took a look around. Although he didn't ask, he could hear the prices of the things being sold. Pork has risen to yuan per kilogram, mutton has also risen to yuan, eggs are 8 cents each, roosters are 3 yuan each, and hens are yuan each - this is the average price, and there are slight changes depending on the size of the chicken. Flour is 55 cents, and rice is 65 to 70 cents - the price of everything has increased. There were two fish sellers in the market. One sold big carps for yuan per kilogram. The fish were placed on urea bags and looked dead. Another sold small crucian carps, which were even smaller than the ones Li Long brought. Li Long guessed that they were fish caught from a small ditch. Seeing that there was little space in the middle of the market, he simply parked his bike next to the morning market, took down two large enamel basins, untied the urea bags, and poured the fish into the two basins.
Because there were not many people who came here on bicycles to sell things, Li Long had his own aura of attraction. When he poured the fish, the live fish swam happily in the basin, and the crackling sound immediately attracted a lot of people's attention. "Young man, how much do you sell these fish for?" An old lady in her sixties with short hair came over and asked. "Small fish are 80 cents, big fish are 1 dollar." Li Long said with a smile, "Just caught this morning, all alive, absolutely fresh!" "Price..." The old man hesitated. "I just checked, and you should have asked too. My price is unique in this morning market." Li Long replied. "Okay, then weigh me some small crucian carp. One dollar each." "Okay." Li Long took the scale and started weighing the fish. They are called small crucian carps, but they are well-proportioned, the size of a palm, much larger than the small crucian carps sold at another stall, and they are the kind that have lived for two or three years. Moreover, the fish in the small lake are very beautiful, not pale and miserable, very nice to look at. As soon as the business started, more people came. Li Long used four nets to catch about 30 kilograms of fish this time. Later, he remembered that after Xiaohaizi experienced several major floods and could no longer hold water and fish, he used six three-layer hanging nets, but at most he could only catch a dozen kilograms of fish at a time, and the largest one was only 500 grams of large crucian carp - the resources are still really abundant now! After all, he used a single layer of sticky net! There were many people asking for the price, but not many people buying fish. An old man came over and squatted by the basin, pulling the left and right, and occasionally picking up a fish to look at. Li Long couldn't help but say: "Uncle, I'll catch any fish you want." "I'll catch it myself." said the old man without raising his head. "If you keep messing around like this, the fish will die soon and it will be hard for me to sell them." "What does the death of your fish have to do with me?" the old man said angrily. Li Long was immediately unhappy. Just then a middle-aged man came over to ask about the price of 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, please move aside and don't affect my business!" Then he said to the middle-aged man: "Big fish cost one yuan per kilogram, and crucian carp costs eighty cents." "This crucian carp is really beautiful. Give me two yuan." The middle-aged man squatted down to look at the crucian carp floundering in the water and praised it. "Go home and make soup." "You're an expert!" Li Long praised as he took the crucian carp to the scale. The old man was pushed aside by Li Long and glared at him angrily. Li Long pretended not to see it.
He could roughly guess what the old man was thinking. Some of the people who come to buy fish are more picky and want fish of similar size, while others want to try them all and weigh both big and small fish. Because Li Long's fish are fresh, basically all alive, and there are many varieties, so there is a wide range to choose from, so all the big and small fish in the basins on both sides were picked away one by one. A few small crucian carps lost their scales in the basin and became less active, falling to the back. The sun has risen. It has been nearly forty minutes since Li Long set up the stall here. He stood up and looked around. One third of the stalls around him have been occupied, and the number of people coming to buy things has decreased by nearly half. He was somewhat unwilling to give up, so he waited for a while and lowered the price again, to 90 cents for a big fish and 70 cents for a crucian carp. Finally, all the big fish were sold out, and there were only five small crucian carps left, which weighed almost one kilogram. Li Long saw the old man who had been fetching water with Li Long at the beginning, wandering around not far away, looking over here from time to time. When he noticed that Li Long had noticed him, the old man immediately turned his head away. Li Long sneered, "Want to take advantage? If you ask directly, I might give it to you. But if you have bad intentions, I won't let you do as you wish!" "Fish for sale, fish for sale, the last five crucian carps, sold for fifty cents!" he shouted loudly. When the old man heard Li Long's shout, he turned around and his expression suddenly looked a little panicked. An old lady was asking about the price of hens not far away. When she heard Li Long shouting, she hurried over and looked at the fish in the basin, which were still swimming but not very active, and asked: "Just these few, fifty cents?" "Yes, fifty cents." Li Long said with a smile, "The fish are still alive and fresh, but they have been in this basin for a long time. Look, they are still swimming. Five of them weigh one kilogram, and fifty cents is cheap, isn't it?" "Okay, fifty cents is fifty cents, I'll take it!" The old lady smiled and took out a handkerchief bag from her pocket, opened it, took out two two-cent notes and one one-cent note from it, counted them twice, and handed them to Li Long. The old lady brought her own cloth bag, and Li Long caught the five fish one by one and put them into the bag for the old lady. After seeing the old lady leave with satisfaction, Li poured the two basins of water into the ditch on the side of the road. He looked up and saw the old man not far away glaring at Li Long hatefully, then turned and left. Li Long laughed out loud. The old man was pulling the fish in the water, just to kill them. He probably thought that when there were only a few dead fish left, Li Long would throw them away, and then he could pick them up and go away. Li Long wouldn't let him have his way! (End of this chapter)