Chapter 60 The Li Family Boy Goes Out Again The next day, Li Long got up before dawn. It was good to be young. Once the biological clock was formed, it would be fixed. Going to bed early and getting up early made him feel very energetic. We had breakfast first, then went to the stable to load the carriage. Lao Luo even carefully loaded a bundle of hay. After coming out of the stable, before Li Long could call for help, Tao Daqiang had already followed him. "Have you eaten?" "I ate and drank fish soup." "That's okay." The two men chatted casually, and when they returned to Li's house, they packed the three bags of fish and drove out in the carriage. Li Long went to sell fish again. The news quickly spread throughout the production team. "You really can't do enough. You don't believe in evil? You will behave yourself when you are caught!" "The second son of the Li family is really troublesome. He never stays at home and runs outside every day. Sooner or later, he will be caught and locked up!"
"Is he obsessed with money? The captain just indulges him!" Some people are also doubting: "Are city people so short of fish? They get tired of eating fish after two meals at home, so how can they eat it every day? Who will they sell the fish to?" "You must earn a lot running around every day, right?" And there are naturally more people who envy: "Since Li's waiter dared to run, he must have a way that others don't know. He knew that Gu Ermao and Tao Dayong were arrested, but he still dared to run. He is not afraid. Does he have someone above him?" The eldest sister-in-law of the Lu family came to visit the Li family and asked about Li Long's fish selling. When seeing Li Juan and Li Qiang's new shoes, new toys and new schoolbags, Lu's eldest sister-in-law kept praising Li Long and then said she would introduce someone to Li Long. Liang Yuemei still said the same thing, that he had to listen to Li Long himself, but Li Long was not in the mood to do so at the moment. This is the truth. She actually took the time to tell Li Long about the person that the eldest sister-in-law of the Lu family wanted to introduce. Li Long had an impression of that girl. In her previous life, she was also married to a young man in the village. How should I put it? She is not Li Long's type. Li Long didn't know that the people in the team were talking a lot. He and Tao Daqiang rushed to the county for more than an hour and bought four meat buns, two each. They ate while rushing to Shicheng. It was around twelve o'clock when they arrived in Shicheng. With a carriage, Li Long can go faster than walking by himself. "Brother Long, are we still going to that family compound?" Tao Daqiang asked, as he didn't remember the way. "Change to the staff quarters of the Bayi Sugar Factory." Sugarcane cannot be grown in northern Xinjiang, but there is another raw material for making sugar - beets, also known as sugar radish. In his previous life, Li Jianguo developed himself into a professional pig farmer, and the most planted thing was beets, the leaves of which could be broken off, chopped, mixed with other things and cooked to feed pigs. It would be better to wait until the beets are grown, cut into slices and cook them to feed pigs - of course, the best use of this in rural areas now is to make syrup first, and then feed the waste to pigs, which is a complete utilization. In the past two years, Li Jianguo has been raising pigs. In order to make pig feed, he has gone to the Bayi Sugar Factory more than once to collect waste from their sugar factory. After the sugar factory processes the sugar beets, the waste is directly thrown away, and there is no awareness of recycling yet. So Li Long is very familiar with the way to the Bayi Sugar Factory. When they arrived at the sugar factory's staff quarters, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to wait outside with the carriage, wipe the sweat off the horses, let them rest, and then feed them grass, while he carried a bag of fish and walked into the yard. It was a familiar routine, but this time the doorman didn't buy fish, but he didn't stop him either. After entering the yard and seeing people walking around, Li Long unfolded the plastic sheet he had bought the day before, put the fish on it, and called out softly:
"Fish for sale, fresh big carp, cheap!" The sound was not loud, but it quickly attracted the attention of those people. Two people hesitated and came over, and the other two did not move. “How do you sell this fish?” "Where did you catch this fish?" "The fish was caught from the Ma County Reservoir. It's a wild fish. Look at this carp, its head and tail are all red, so beautiful. The price is not expensive, two yuan per fish. Look how big the fish is, it's more than two kilograms, so one kilogram costs less than one yuan--" As Li Long sold fish more often, his words became more skillful. In two days, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang caught more than 70 "standard big fish" and more than 20 kilograms of "standard crucian carp", which was the most Li Long had ever caught. "Two dollars? That's too expensive, can you make it cheaper?" Someone wanted to buy it and raised the price out of habit. "Big sister, this is really not expensive." Li Long complained, "The ice in the reservoir is now almost one meter thick. We spent more than two hours digging holes in the ice in minus 30 degrees Celsius. It's just hard-earned money. Look at this fish, the gill cover is red, very fresh, it was just caught yesterday, and we walked for four hours to get here... It's really not expensive!" "Well... I'll take one. What kind of fish is this?" "Wudaohei, this fish is garlic meat, it eats small fish, and it tastes great!" "This is the five black stripes? Then I... a carp, a five black stripes!" "Okay, I'll use the thin wire to put it on you?" Li Long asked. "Okay, young man, you're very thoughtful." Li Long skillfully passed the thin wire through the gill cover to thread the fish and handed it over. The other party took out five yuan. Li Long pointed at the fish and said: "This crucian carp costs one dollar for 15 pieces, which is almost two kilograms. Can you use the remaining one dollar to buy some small fish?" "Okay. But how do I get the small fish?" "It's hard to wear a small fish. How about you go back and get a basin to hold it? I can't run away." "it is good." Once a business deal is done, the rest will go much more smoothly. However, the enthusiasm of people at the sugar factory to buy fish was not as great as that at the agricultural machinery factory’s staff quarters. Although people came to buy from time to time, more than half an hour had passed and the bag of fish had not been sold out. By lunchtime, there was no one in the family compound, and the smell of food wafted through the yard. Li Long decided to close his stall and move to another place. He collected the fish and walked out of the compound carrying the bag. The security guard saw it and shouted: "Young man, if you want to sell fish, you have to come in the afternoon. Everyone is in the factory at this time." "Thank you, sir." Li Long took out a silver carp from the bag and handed it over: "I'll give it to you to eat." "Then I'll take it." The security guard didn't expect that just one sentence would be exchanged for a fish, so he happily accepted it. Tao Daqiang saw that there was still one-third of the bag left in Li Long's back, so he asked: "Brother Long, the fish are not selling well?"
"Well, the time is wrong, let's go to the old street!" Shicheng Old Street has always been quite famous. There are buses going to several cities in northern Xinjiang, and there are many people coming and going. When Li Long arrived, he changed his bag and asked Tao Daqiang to park the carriage far away. He carried the bag on his back and asked anyone he met: "Fresh big carp, selling at a low price, do you want some?" Only one out of ten people would stop to talk, but Li Long was not discouraged and soon sold one fish after another. Half an hour later, the bag of fish was sold out. Most of the people traveling by bus here are going home to celebrate the New Year. Many of them are carrying large and small bags and have already prepared a lot of New Year goods. They don't care about having one or two more fish. After another hour, only half a bag of fish was left in the carriage. Li Long couldn't shout anymore, his voice was a little hoarse. "Let's go eat." Li Long said to Tao Daqiang, "Follow me." There are still three or four hours before dark. Li Long is confident that he can sell all the fish before dark after dinner. (End of this chapter)