Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 32 Discovered
After that woman made the first purchase, several others started to pick fish, all worried that the big fish would be picked away.

These days are different from later times. People choose big fish because there is a shortage of meat.

After the first five or six people picked up the fish, the people behind them became unhappy:

"You only have the small fish left. If you sell them at that price, won't we be at a loss?"

"That's right. Your fish are different sizes. The big one was picked up by someone else. We have to offer the same price..."

Li Long looked at the remaining fish and found that all the fish weighing more than two and a half kilograms had been picked up. He smiled and said:

"Well, don't panic, everyone. The remaining fish are 1.5 yuan each. How about that? One fish weighs at least two kilograms. 1.5 yuan is 70 cents per kilogram. It's cheaper than mutton!"

"What about the silver carp?"

"A piece of silver carp!"

Others immediately started picking up fish. Although department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives also sell fish in winter, they are hairtail fish brought from the coast, which are not only expensive, but also in small quantities.

Who doesn't want to stew a big carp on the table during the Chinese New Year? It looks festive. Besides, fish can be kept in winter, so you can keep one for a long time.

After this group of people finished picking, there was only one old man in his sixties left. He looked at the small fish and said:

"How do you sell these small crucian carps?"

"These four big crucian carps are 70 cents each, and the remaining fifteen small crucian carps are one dollar, but you can't be picky." Li Long said.

Although it is called small crucian carp, it comes in big and small sizes. The big ones weigh three or four taels, and the small ones weigh less than one tael.

"Give me two small ones for two dollars." The old man said cheerfully, "They don't know how to eat them. These small crucian carps are the best! By the way, young man, can you get some loaches?"

"There are no loaches, but there are ditch fish, which look quite similar to loaches."

"That's called a plateau loach, a type of loach - can you get it?"

"It's not possible in the winter. The water is too deep. The thing will lie on the bottom of the water. We can wait until summer."

"Well, okay." The old man took the cloth bag himself, and Li Long put thirty fish in it for him and took two yuan for the car work ticket. This thing will be worth a lot in the future, but it's a pity that this one is a bit old.

Seeing that no one was coming, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang, who was collecting the money, to count it.

"There are six that cost two yuan, eight that cost one and a half yuan, and these are the ones with silver carp. There are two that cost one yuan, plus the last two, a total of..." Tao Daqiang couldn't figure it out, so he started counting.

Li Long calculated quickly and said:
"That's twenty-eight dollars."

"So many!" Tao Daqiang was stunned for a moment and made a mistake again, so he counted again.

Twenty-eight indeed.

Just over half of the fish are sold.

"If we sell all the rest, it will cost more than 50 yuan, right?" Tao Daqiang said excitedly.

The people around looked over.

"That's impossible." Li Long waved his hand. "I guess the remaining ones can't be sold. Didn't you see that the show has already started to end?"

Tao Daqiang turned around and found that there were not many people in the black market. People were gradually closing their stalls, and there were fewer buyers than sellers.

"Then...what should we do?"

"Just take a look at the price. Give me the money and I'll go ask about the price of the item."

Li Long just noticed that there were not only people selling things here, but also people exchanging food coupons, oil coupons and so on. He walked over and the man looked at Li Long warily.

"Hey, buddy, do you have a bicycle ticket?"

"Yes, one fifty."

So expensive!
"Where's the sewing ticket?"

"twenty."

Li Long was speechless:
"What about the vegetable oil coupons?"

"Two cents a pound."

Black! Really black!

But there is no other way. If you don’t have any connections, you can only buy it here.

"Give me ten kilograms of vegetable oil tickets." Li Long did not bargain. He knew that this man had a lot of tickets, so he thought he could buy them when he needed them. As long as he had the tickets, it would be fine!

Although the man was somewhat dissatisfied, Li Long had made a deal after all, so he counted out ten kilograms of vegetable oil coupons. Li Long took out two dollars and handed them over, handing over the money in one hand and the coupon in the other.

After a round, Li Long saw some people selling grain and pork. The pork was 1.7 yuan per kilogram, and there was not much fat, so it must have been cut off by someone.

He ordered two pieces of pork belly, one weighing more than two kilograms and the other weighing more than three kilograms, and spent ten yuan.

When they were walking back, Tao Daqiang smiled and handed him three dollars:

"Brother Long, sell a quack chicken."

"Not bad, not bad!" Li Long smiled, "Okay, let's go, there's no one left."

"Then these fish..." Tao Daqiang was a little unwilling.

"Pack up first and go for a walk." Li Long saw that others had started to pack up their stalls one after another. He knew that they could not set up their stalls anymore, so he quickly packed up and left.

When they walked out 500 meters, they saw people wearing red armbands walking towards the black market.

There's no one there anymore.

Both parties are at peace with each other.

Two people pulled the sled, and Li Long led the way to the state-owned canteen.

Li Long remembered that this place was often called the Big Meat Canteen. Big meat means pork. As the name suggests, this is Chinese cuisine, and meat buns are its signature dish.

"Let's go buy two buns." Thinking of the meat buns, Li Long was a little greedy. After the resurrection, although the food was good these two days, it was still a little bland compared to the later generations. The meat buns nowadays are made of real ingredients, without the leftover ingredients of pancreas and lymph nodes being mixed in. They are made of real pork belly, cabbage and green onions.

"Brother Long, I'm not hungry..."

"Let's eat first." Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to wait outside while he went in and bought four big buns.

Palm-sized, 30 cents each, steaming hot, so affordable!

Of course, if I didn’t tell Tao Daqiang the price, he would definitely say it was expensive.

The two of them each took one and finished it in two or three bites. Tao Daqiang's mouth was full of oil, and he licked it off.

Li Long felt a little uncomfortable and turned his head away from him.

After eating the buns and wiping his mouth, Tao Daqiang felt warm and asked:

"Brother Long, next we..."

"It's right here." Li Long pointed to a woman coming over from a distance and said:
"I'll go ask. You keep an eye on it, and we'll ask if someone comes by later."

As he spoke he walked forward and the woman looked at him warily.

"Hello, sister! My family is from the village. I caught some fish yesterday. Do you want some? They are very fresh and cheap! Big fish cost one dollar each, which is more cost-effective than big meat..."

The woman was moved by what she heard and asked:

"where is it?"

Li Long hurried over and took out a fish from the urea bag on the sled:
"Look, this is carp, there are also grass carp, silver carp, black carp... and crucian carp..."

"One dollar, can it be cheaper?" the woman asked, seeing that the fish was indeed good.

"It can't be any cheaper. This fish is not small. It's less than 60 cents per kilogram." Li Long stretched out his hand to show her, "We earn our money through hard work. It's not easy to break a hole in the ice."

"Okay, I'll buy... two, one carp and one with five black stripes."

Li Long hurriedly took out the fish for her. The woman was a little dissatisfied:
"These five black ones are a bit small."

"It tastes good! The black carp is raised on fish, so it tastes much better than carp. Can I give you two crucian carps?"

"Okay... okay." The woman was satisfied.

Seeing how skilled Li Long was, Tao Daqiang felt that he still had a lot to learn.

And you may not be able to learn it.

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