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Chapter 247: The Fish Seller of Laixi

Liu Xiaomei pouted and said, "He can do favors, so didn't our second brother's mat be sold?" ”

Sanshun smiled: "Why didn't you sell it, but it was just sold to the right person." I stayed in his shop for a while, and found that he was accustomed to looking at people, and always called people to buy things that suited him, and did not deceive people into buying more. Woohoo! That's a good business! ”

Liu Xiaomei was silent.

But she didn't seem to believe the third brother's words, and said in her heart that the gluttonous guy was so capable, Zheng Changhe smiled: "Come to Xi, it's a spiritual one." That baby is good, more agile than his brother. ”

Zhao San said with a smile: "He can treat people honestly in business, and people will believe him; Some people are shallow-eyed, greedy and cheap, and people will not come after being fooled once or twice. ”

Zhang Dazhuan glanced at the boy in the courtyard and said, "There is also a trick to doing business." Some people are also honest with this person, but he is too honest, and he can't make money; Although this Lai Xi is a clever person, it is rare that he has a good heart, and he has all the two things, so he does it so well! ”

Everyone nodded again and again, saying that this was indeed the case.

Chrysanthemum and Aoki looked at each other and smiled—it was useful for them to keep it. If nothing else, those shops are entrusted to him for rent. Laixi patted his chest and said that he must help his cousin find good tenants and never let people spoil these shops.

After a while, the fish was also weighed, a total of more than 130 catties.

The Zheng family all smiled with satisfaction, because all the fish they caught were big fish, and they put a lot of them back, even the yellow eels and loaches only left a few catties, and the rest were all put back into the fish pond. You can imagine what kind of harvest it will be next year!

After eating, the helpers dispersed, and the family got busy and began to divide the fish. Separate the sale and the gift, and use the bathing big wooden barrel to put the live fish in the water and raise it and fill it with some lotus roots, and early the next morning, Zheng Changhe and Aoki drove the ox cart to the market together.

Waiting for the car to stop at the door of the Fuxi grocery store, Laixi hurriedly came out of the shop and asked in surprise, "Uncle, cousin Aoki, why did you come so early?" As he spoke, he looked into the car and couldn't help but shout, "Ouch! So many fish? You're here to sell fish? ”

Zheng Changhe remembered Sanshun's theory of this kid, and couldn't help laughing: "Aoki went to send fish to my grandmother and uncle, and I came to sell fish." Come to Xi, my uncle is going to count on you today, even Liu Sanshun from our village said that you can do business, you helped your uncle sell this fish earlier, and there are still a lot of things to do at my house. ”

Laixi smiled brightly, and said to Zheng Changhe: "Don't worry, if the shop doesn't do business today, we will also help my uncle sell this fish." ”

Aoki laughed when he heard this, picked up the basket he had prepared, and said to Laixi, "Then I'm going to trouble you today, I'm leaving." ”

Laixi hurriedly reassured him, and said, "Cousin Aoki, you go to my house and ask my mother to cook some fish, and you can bring it for me." I can't eat such fresh fish, and I am not at home; When I go back, I'll have to eat pickles. ”

Aoki nodded with a smile, turned and strode away.

I didn't do business here, closed the door of the shop, and wanted to go with Zheng Changhe to sell Zheng Changhe Seeing him coming, he asked with some hesitation: "You closed the shop, what should people do if they want to come to buy things?" ”

Lai Xi smiled: "If it's not in the way, you can see it." ”

As he spoke, he walked to the shop next door that sold daily groceries, and said to the middle-aged shopkeeper: "Uncle Yu, it's hard for you to help me look at some shops, I have something to go out for a while, and I'll come back after breakfast." If someone comes to buy something, tell them that if they are in a hurry, they will go to work on other things first, and then come back to buy them; If you're not in a hurry, let them go to the shop next to you and buy it! ”

The middle-aged shopkeeper hurriedly agreed: "Hey! Come to Xi, you just have to go and get busy, Uncle Yu will help you watch. In this cold day, people will not come so early, and if they come, they will also have to go around the set, and they will not delay your business, so rest assured. ”

Lai Xi turned his head to Zheng Changhe's ox cart and said to him with a smile: "Uncle, let's go to Qinghui Restaurant first and ask them if they want fish." ”

Zheng Changhe listened to his answer to the shopkeeper and praised him for arranging.

The current shopkeeper of Qinghui Restaurant is surnamed Jin, and Zheng Changhe often comes to sell eggs, so he recognizes this gold shopkeeper. The shopkeeper Mao manages the restaurant there in Qinghui County, and he doesn't come back on weekdays, so he will be in charge here.

When the shopkeeper saw Zheng Changhe coming, he thought he was here to deliver eggs, but he unexpectedly brought out a large bucket of fresh fish, so he said happily: "Such a big fish? Why haven't you reached the end of the year, and you've got a fish pond? ”

Zheng Changhe said with a smile: "I was afraid that it would not be easy to sell at the end of the year, so I started selling fish early." Do you want some for the gold shopkeeper? ”

Before the golden shopkeeper could speak, Lai Xi smiled and said: "Such a big fresh fish, it's still alive, why don't you buy it?" If you can't sell it out in a day, it's better to keep it with water than to buy it from the market every day. It is also cheap to buy from fishermen on the set, but it is not very even, sometimes there are large ones, and sometimes you can only buy small ones. ”

The golden shopkeeper nodded approvingly: "That's the case." Fishermen don't have good fish every day. Brother Zheng, I'll buy twenty catties of this fish. ”

Lai Xi asked in surprise: "Only buy twenty catties?" Isn't that just a few? This fish weighs more than four pounds. ”

When the golden shopkeeper thought about it, he smiled and said: "You little ghost, I said it, I'll buy ten, and it doesn't matter how much you weigh." Eight catties, you go to the vegetable market and tell Uncle Zhang, you can buy fish today. ”

A handsome junior in the lobby agreed, came out and smiled at Lai, and went to the end of the street.

After weighing the fish here, the golden shopkeeper let the account be settled, and Zheng Changhe drove the ox cart to continue to the back streets of the market town, and sold fresh fish at the door of those big households.

Because when the fish pond was raised, all the smaller ones were put back, and whether it was carp or crucian carp, it was a big fish. For example, the crucian carp is generally only a few taels of big ones, but the Zheng family's several taels are still raised in the fish pond, and the ones that are caught are all six or seven taels, of course, they are easy to sell.

At the end of the sale, the remaining fish is good, but it is dead, and the price is lower.

Most of the people who buy fish are very talkative, and there are also those who are difficult to insert, such as this aunt in a silk jacket, and I don't know whose housekeeper is the lady, or the comprador in the kitchen, frowned and pointed to the fish in the basket, and said: "They are all dead, and they still need sixteen yuan a catty?" Isn't this a trap? ”

As he spoke, his hand kept turning in the basket, picking it up and throwing it down; Another one, and another one, and another throw.

Zheng Changhe was angry when he heard this, and before he could speak, he saw Lai Xi jump up and shouted at the mother-in-law: "Oh! I said this aunt, look at you like this, you know that you are working in a big family - what haven't you seen on weekdays? This fish is so bright and so big, although it is dead, but it depends on how it died. ”

Aunt Hua was dumbfounded: "Why are you dying?" ”

Even Zheng Changhe was dumbfounded. Lai Xi said: "If the weather is warm and you catch it and raise it with water, can it die?" It's not alive yet. But on such a cold day, one should not take care of it, so it will freeze? In fact, the meat is still very fresh, don't believe it, look at the gills. Besides, there is a difference between this dead fish, can a dead fish on a hot day be compared with a dead fish in winter? Can a fish that has been dead for several days compare to a fish that has just died? Of course, it can't be compared - the difference between dying early and dying late is huge! ”

He said a set of theories of life and death, squinted at Aunt Hua, and looked like, "Why don't you even understand this". Aunt Hua was dizzy by him, and early in the morning, I heard him say for a long time, "Die early and die late,

Aunt Hua was dizzy by him, and early in the morning, I heard him say for a long time that "die early and die late, die in winter and die in hot days", and it was also taboo, and when she saw many people around, she endured her anger and said: "Okay, okay, give me two." Sensei, early in the morning, dead and alive, said half a basket! ”

Laixi started to weigh the fish, and said in his mouth: "Such a good fish, you should be able to buy it casually?" If you don't die, can you sell it for this price? Just now, Qinghui Restaurant bought more than 40 catties of live fish, carp 20 wen a catty, grass carp and crucian carp 18 wen a catty, and they didn't pay back the price. He couldn't use those fish in the restaurant for a day, thinking that it would be difficult to meet such a big fish again, so he specially bought them and raised them to use them slowly. If there are many people fishing on hot days, or if there are many villages with fish ponds from the end of the year, then it is easier to buy fish; Now you go to the vegetable market and take a look, where can you find me such a good and cheap fish? What do those two heavy fish have to eat! ”

The people around nodded again and again, and many people came up, you weigh one, he weighs two, which makes the flower aunt very hesitant, thinking about whether to buy some more miles? The master's family is not well-off, and it looks bright from the outside, and this day still has to be calculated. This fish is just dead, and it is very fresh, so you don't need to buy it if you buy more. So, she weighed two silver carp - silver carp only cost 14 wen a catty.

Looking at the empty barrels and baskets, and then at Laixi who cleaned up the plate neatly, Zheng Changhe was stunned for a while, and then smiled at him and said, "Laixi, you are really capable!" Let's go, my uncle invites you to eat steamed buns. ”

Lai Xi smiled and nodded, "Hey! Then let the uncle break the bank. So the two of them drove the ox cart to breakfast.

The two went to the noodle stall, asked for two bowls of wontons, bought a few steamed buns, and sat down to eat.

Zheng Changhe ate the steamed bun and thought it tasted good, thinking that he would buy some later and bring them back for Chrysanthemum and her mother. Just thinking about it, Lai Xi said, "Uncle, you can't sell fish like this in the future." ”

Zheng Changhe hurriedly swallowed the bun in his mouth and asked strangely, "Why?" Isn't that a clean sale? ”

Laixi took a sip of wonton soup, took a comfortable breath, and said to Zheng Changhe: "It's also a coincidence, these two days are not good, and there are fewer fish sellers." This fish is big and good, you should use a net to sell it every now and then, and raise it with water, and it is easy to sell it at a high price. In the winter, when the fish pond is cleared, there are not many large ones left, so they sell less, and it is not easy to touch a piece of the fish pond people. ”

Zheng Changhe nodded after hearing this and said, "Hey! It's an idea. It's good to sell live fish. This year, the fish pond is still small, so I caught so many fish, if I catch too much, I am afraid it will not be easy to sell. On weekdays, we use nets to send some big fish to Qinghui Restaurant, and we don't have to pull the fish around like this. ”

Lai Xi smiled: "That's it." ”

After eating, Zheng Changhe asked the seller of steamed buns to bring two cages of steamed buns, and then left with Laixi.