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After buying oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Weijun went to the pigeon market in Qianmenlou to buy some quails, pigeons, orange-headed geese, aquatic products such as fish and shrimp, as well as mountain products such as pine nuts and walnuts.

These things are extremely scarce, and you can’t get them without some magical powers.

Only a place like Pigeon City, with such powerful powers, can do this.

"Comrade, my wife is in confinement and is short of milk. The baby is crying with hunger. I was wondering if you have any crucian carp for sale here, preferably a bigger one."

After paying the bill, Li Weijun was still thinking about the big crucian carp. After tying the food up and putting it on the back seat of his bicycle, he turned around and asked the boss if he had any big crucian carp.

The tall man smiled knowingly when he heard this: "The child is crying with hunger. You, as a father, should eat less. We can't take food away from the child."

"You've found the right place today. There's nothing I, Li Wanshan, can't get in this area of ​​Qianmenlou. No one wants fish unless it's a festival. With the money, everyone buys fat meat to make oil, so there aren't many. If you want it, leave your address and I'll send it to you tomorrow."

"Okay, I feel relieved with your words."

Most of the fish circulating on the streets of Beijing are purchased from Taoranting, Tongzihe, Beihai Park, Shichahai, Jishuitan, Longtan Lake and other places.

In addition to department stores and Dongxidan vegetable markets, several public-private joint venture seafood companies will regularly deliver goods.

All of the fish are natural products from wild rivers, caught and salvaged from them. It's not that people have a conscience these days, but that fish fry breeding is still in its infancy, and the four major carps have not yet taken shape, so it's difficult to eat artificially farmed ones.

However, crucian carp, a must-have commodity during confinement period, is hard to come by.

This Li Wanshan probably has connections in the fishery company or the store, otherwise he wouldn't dare to guarantee it.

Seeing that Li Wanshan was confident, Li Weijun was happy to pay half of the deposit after leaving his address, without worrying that the man would default on his debt.

There is no need to worry about being checked. Nowadays, anyone who can hang around in Pigeon City must have some connections. Those who are not capable would have been arrested and handcuffed long ago.

With the current sophisticated intelligence system for screening enemy spies, how could there be a black market in the capital? Do you really think people don't know about it?

Those who have backers are fearless, but those who are caught are the young people who have no backers and no sense of propriety, and who come here foolishly to speculate and profiteer.

After leaving the Pigeon Market, Li Weijun piled all the purchased ingredients into his personal space.

Nanluoguxiang, at the entrance of the courtyard.

Li Weijun was pushing his bicycle and was about to enter the yard, but he didn't expect that the third uncle Yan Bugui was standing in the front yard with a smile on his face.

At first glance, I thought he was taking a walk after dinner to digest the food, but in fact, those little eyes were looking around.

He learned from Third Aunt Yang Ruihua that after Li Weijun went to Beihai Park to fish, he had been watching closely, trying to see if he could catch some small fish or shrimp.

However, unexpectedly, Li Weijun returned empty-handed.

After working so hard for so long, I still ended up with an empty force.

Isn't it just a waste of time to make such a fuss about this matter?

Seeing that Li Weijun didn't catch any fish except for the bamboo pole and the cart, Yan Bugui was stunned for a moment and felt a little disappointed.

He sighed deeply, then comforted Li Weijun with some regret: "Weijun, fishing can't be rushed, slow work makes fine work. In today's world, bad people make fish slippery. It's okay if you can't catch any. Next time, follow your uncle and let's go fishing in the moat."

At this point, Yan Bugui's eyes lit up shrewdly: "There are few people there, but they can't eat fish meat. It makes me sick after eating it. After catching them, I sell them to Sha Zhu and make a little money."

Although he is stingy and a bit cunning, and likes to take advantage of others, he is not a bad person at heart.

It's this love of taking advantage of others that has caused complaints from everyone in the courtyard.

Since he lived in the front yard, whenever others happened to pass by while buying vegetables, Yan Bugui would find ways to pluck some scallions or get a few vegetable leaves.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if a mosquito flies across the front yard, it will be caught and smelt...

Li Weijun was speechless at Yan Bugui's kindness. He couldn't say that he had reaped a lot and piled it all in the space.

I could only smile awkwardly, thank the third uncle for his kindness, and then turn around and go into the house.

After turning on the light, he found that the window paper was a little torn. Li Weijun just picked up a piece of newspaper from the Propaganda Department and pasted it on. Looking at the simple and crude furnishings and decorations, Li Weijun didn't think it was inappropriate.

A small home only needs a bed, a cabinet, and a table, and it can be kept warm and clean.

Without much material enjoyment, it was not difficult for Li Weijun to decorate the whole house magnificently, with mahogany furniture and red curtains.

But the key is not to show off your wealth. A shabby house is not worth wasting money on. Sometimes it is better to be as cautious as possible.

After some time, even if we enclose land to build villas, golf courses, private swimming pools and airports, that will be the real luxury.

After piling the ingredients on the chopping board, Li Weijun prepared to go to Sha Zhu's house for a meal, and headed straight for the central courtyard carrying a two-pound grass carp.

On the one hand, it was because it was late and I was too lazy to go to the restaurant to eat, and I was too lazy to clean up this fishy thing.

On the other hand, Sha Zhu’s cooking skills are really good. He would catch a fish himself, fry a plate of peanuts, make a cucumber dish, and drink a few ounces of liquor.

Drinking a little wine and eating fish, I felt comfortable.

Li Weijun decided to find a bricklayer to build a stove in a couple of days. His family did not have a stove, only a coal stove for heating and boiling water in winter.

When you get married and have a family, you can’t always go out to restaurants.

You have to cook the New Year’s Eve dinner yourself, so it’s easier if you set up a stove early.

After arriving at the central courtyard, Sha Zhu and He Yu Shui were eating around the table. Since they carried lunch boxes to support the Jia family every day, the food was light.

Thin porridge, steamed corn bread, and fried potatoes.

Seeing Li Weijun coming over with a fish, Sha Zhu suddenly perked up and hurriedly took it: "Look, I was just saying why there was so much rain, and you put a pair of chopsticks on the table. It turns out that you are going to have a distinguished guest. Come on, why are you carrying a fish? You are too polite. We are brothers, so we are just friends."

Li Weijun looked at the smiling Sha Zhu and ordered a dish of chopped pepper fish head. As for the rest of the fish body and fish soup, Sha Zhu could cook as he pleased.

Fortunately, Sha Zhu is a cook, and the house is full of seasonings such as chili peppers, onions, ginger and garlic. Otherwise, if it were the third uncle's house, it would be difficult for a good cook to cook without rice.

After receiving the order, Sha Zhu did not delay and quickly scraped off the fish scales with the back of a knife, preparing to take it to the central courtyard to wash. Before leaving, he did not forget to ask He Yushui to get a pound and a half of white wine.