Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 208: Being taught a good lesson!
Because of these ditch fish, Li Long's fish sold very quickly. In one hour, all the fish were sold out. Even the remaining dead fish were bought by a Corps employee who was in his forties.

According to him, he hasn't eaten such loach for some years. It looks delicious and reminds him of the taste of his hometown.

Li Long didn't expect that those big fish were not as popular as these small ditch fish.

The fish was sold out and Li Long was starving, so he gathered his things and put them on the back seat of his bicycle. Before he could leave, two people rushed over and started arguing about it.

One of them even wanted Li Long to judge for him. Li Long saw that the man was the one who had intended to compete with him for the stall before, so he ignored him and pushed his bicycle to the milk tea shop.

Just now when those three thugs came to pick a fight with him, everyone just watched the fun, and now he wants me to do justice for him? Is he out of his mind?

"A bowl of milk tea, a freshly made naan, a plate of butter, and a dish of honey." Li Long parked the cart and said to the Uyghur boy as he entered the door, "Do you have freshly made naan?"

“Yes, yes, yes.” The young man said with a smile, “Did you really take those people to jail at gunpoint? I heard about it, but I didn’t expect it was you!”

Li Long smiled as he paid:
"Why, you heard about it too? But what's the situation with these second-rate guys?"

"What else could it be? They are people who don't go to school and don't have any jobs assigned to them. Some are children of workers, and some are family members of workers. Job assignments are stricter now, and these people don't want to work in jobs that are too tiring, and they don't get the chance to take easy jobs either - they don't have enough education, so they can only muddle through."

"No wonder..." Li Long shook his head, "He's making trouble out of nothing. If he keeps going like this, something bad will happen sooner or later."

"That... is hard to say. They are different from the previous ones. Most of them have backgrounds." The young man said, "You still have to be careful. These people... are not simple."

As he spoke, he brought Li Long naan, honey and ghee.

"Your honey is good." Li Long dipped his naan in the honey and took a bite. It didn't have the coarse granular texture of honey that can be tasted from sugar. It was delicate, sweet with a slight sourness, and fragrant. It was very good.

"Well, it's pure honey collected from the beekeepers of the 143rd Regiment. They got the honey from the bees in the mountains last year. It's very good."

"Do you have any extra ones? Sell some to me." Li Long asked.

"I don't have any here, but I can ask for you." The young man said, "How much do you want?"

"Of course, the more, the better."

Li Long earned about 60 yuan from selling fish today, of which more than 6 yuan was from his father's money from the ditch fish. After deducting Tao Daqiang's money, he was left with about 50 yuan.

He estimated that at this time honey was only two or three yuan per kilogram, so the more the better.

If you can afford it, you are so arrogant!

"It seems like you really made money selling fish!" The young man said with a smile, "Okay, come over in a couple of days and see for yourself."

After Li Long finished his breakfast and was about to leave with his bicycle, he felt that he was being followed.

He had no gun in his hand, only a scale, and Li Long himself was not sure if he could deal with three people at the same time.

Just now at the stall, Li Long held a scale in one hand and a scale in the other, and his main strategy was to take advantage of his rest and catch the opponent off guard.

The situation now is different from before. The opponent must have been prepared. If he continues to confront him like this, he will be seeking death.

So Li Long walked slowly, looking around for an opportunity.

As they were almost out of the old street, the three men were getting closer and closer. When Li Long looked back, he could see their arrogant smiles and the hard, straight thing hidden in their sleeves.

Then, Li Long saw two joint defense members wearing armbands, who were just checking the stalls on a street and then turned back.

Li Long was overjoyed and quickly pushed the cart over. When he came to the two joint defense members wearing sleeve tickets, he quickly said:
"Comrade, someone is carrying a weapon and wants to kill me!"

His shout startled not only the two administrators but also the three young men behind him!
Damn it, I just wanted some money and taught you a lesson, how did that become wanting to kill you?
"They, it's them! They have weapons in their hands!" Li Long turned his head and pointed at the three young men.

The three scoundrels were not afraid of the stall owners, but they did not dare to confront the joint defense member. When they saw that something was not right, they turned around and left. One of them was a little flustered, and the steel pipe stuffed in his sleeve fell to the ground, making a clanging sound.

"You three, stop right there!" one of the joint defense members shouted.

The three men started running, and the joint defense team quickly chased after them.

Li Long was left aside.

Nothing for me to do?

Li Long was a little surprised. After watching the men running away, he also got on his bike and left.

It seems that next time I come to sell fish, I really need to bring a gun or something else. Otherwise, if I really get blocked by these scoundrels, I will not only lose money, but I may also get beaten and disabled.

These young boys don't care about the severity of their actions.

Li Long didn't feel at ease until he rode his bike to the Ma River Bridge. He didn't recognize the two police officers who were checking at the checkpoint today, so he didn't get off the bike to say hello.

After returning to the county town, Li Long rode his bike to the market.

The flow of people here is obviously much less than that of Shicheng, and the number of stalls is only about half of that of Shicheng. Most of the people who set up stalls here are smart farmers and unemployed county vendors. Their enthusiasm for selling things is obviously not as high as that in Shicheng. Some people are a little embarrassed to solicit customers and just wait for people to come forward and ask the price.

Li Long came to a grain stall and asked:
“How much is a kilogram of rice?”

"Sixty-six cents."

"Where's the noodles? Is this 85% rice noodles?" "Yes, 85% rice noodles, 37 cents."

"50 kilograms of rice and flour each." Li Long looked at the flour and rice on the stall and said, "Can you make it cheaper?"

"I have two bags. The rice weighs 45 kilograms, and the flour weighs less than 40 kilograms." The stall owner pointed at the two bags in front of him and said, "Do you want both?"

"I want them all. Give me the bag too."

"Okay, I'll give you a one cent discount on rice and two cents on noodles, how about that?"

"Weigh it."

There was still rice and flour at home, but Li Long didn't want his parents to eat corn flour.

To be honest, the elderly have all suffered through hardships, especially my mother Du Chunfang. Why do they only eat so little every day? It was because she saved a bite for her children during the famine years, and her stomach became smaller due to hunger, so she ate less and could not digest it.

Li Long guessed that his mother probably had stomach problems.

So no matter how long he lives here, Li Long still hopes that his parents can eat better.

My family is used to being frugal. It’s not that they don’t want to eat well, but it’s mainly because they have been poor for so many years and now when there is something delicious, their first instinct is to be frugal so that they can still eat it if something happens later - with the mentality of saving every penny.

But Li Long has lived two lives, and he knows that life will get better and better. Now he can earn money and eat good food, so he might as well eat it first, because there will be better things in the future.

Their generation, including Li Jianguo's generation, is actually the one who can most feel the country's strength and the improvement of people's lives. On the contrary, people born in the 1990s and 2000s do not feel it as deeply.

After all, Li Jianguo and his generation watched the country go from being extremely poor, or the uninhabited area in northern Xinjiang to being fertile with crops. If Li Jianguo had not died unexpectedly early in his previous life, he would have been able to live to receive dividends from the cooperative like Li Long, travel around without working, and catch fish, shrimps, and crabs as a pastime.

If you tell them now that in the future every household will have a car, and more than one, they will not be able to believe it - let alone every household having a car, even every household having a bicycle is an unattainable dream in their eyes.

He tied the bags of rice and flour together and placed them on both sides of the bicycle, then put the basin on the back seat and rode back to the compound.

The reason he came back early was that he also found some scoundrels hanging around in the market. Although he didn't see anyone trying to extort money, the atmosphere was not very good.

After Li Long put down the basin and scale in the big yard, he went to the house where the jade was kept and took out the stones, and piled them casually under the tree.

If these stones are not looked at by experts, after being covered with a layer of dust, no ordinary person would regard them as jade.

The trouble was still the seed materials. Li Long thought about it, put the seed materials into bags, and stuffed them into the main house that was full of old furniture.

There's dust everywhere here, so no one should care.

We’ll tell you where to hide it later.

After leaving the yard, Li Long rode his bicycle to the department store again. He bought five meters of blue cloth, gray cloth, floral cloth, etc., folded them together, and carried them out of the building.

When he went out, Li Long could feel someone was watching him.

Without looking back, he put the cloth on the bicycle, tied it up, and rode back to the compound.

There was no food to eat when he returned home today, so Li Long simply left his bicycle in the yard and walked to the big meat canteen.

Zhong Guoqiang was not at home, so Li Long did not order mixed noodles today. Instead, he asked for a bowl of rice and two stir-fried dishes, and ate leisurely by himself.

It would be even better if there was a bottle of beer.

But thinking that he would have to ride his bike home after eating, he decided not to do it. Although it was a bicycle, it was still drunk driving. Life is the most important thing, stay away from drunk driving, Li Long thought he should be careful.

What a beautiful day this is, he hasn’t lived enough.

After dinner, Li Longhuang returned to the compound, took out his bicycle, locked the door, got on the bike and rode back.

When he was halfway to the township middle school, he slipped into Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory. The door was closed. Li Long guessed that she was probably taking a nap, so he quietly rode away on his bike.

Teacher Wang saw it and told Gu Xiaoxia about it when she woke up.

"Why didn't he knock on the door?" Gu Xiaoxia was a little angry.

“I guess he’s worried that you won’t get enough rest.” Wang Qihua said with a smile, “It’s not easy to meet such a considerate person. Look at my husband. Whenever he comes over, he bangs on the door no matter what I’m doing.”

"Hehe," Gu Xiaoxia felt a little proud after hearing the comparison, "He should come again tomorrow, right? Then I'll tell him... Teacher Wang, your guy has a more straightforward personality, right?"

Teacher Wang shook his head and said nothing more.

When Li Long returned home, Li Qingxia and the others had not returned yet, so Li Long put the rice and flour away, and placed the cloth next to the sewing machine in the spare room.

Liang Yuemei can make clothes, not as well as a tailor, but she can make them.

Li Long's idea was to make one for his parents, and at the same time make one for Li Juan and Li Qiang.

As for the remaining cloth, it depends on my sister-in-law's own ideas.

(End of this chapter)