In 1959, what's wrong with me pedaling a tricycle?

The next morning, Wang Xingguo did not go to Gaobeidian, but went to the General Hospital of Liberation, found the security personnel, and asked them to inform Nurse Jiang Yue'e.

Now he has no food, the food in his space is not ripe, and the little food he has left is not much.

Secondly, the price of eels has been driven up. Although you can make a profit by buying them for a few cents, you need a lot of capital to start a business.

A hundred kilograms would cost several tens of yuan, and Wang Xingguo didn't have much money, so he gave up on the eel business.

However, that doesn't mean he's not prepared to help his people; he plans to raise the price he'll pay for their fish!

The production brigade also caught fish and sold them to the aquatic product company, but the price was... well, let's just say it was expensive.

With fish prices so high now, Wang Xingguo plans to raise the purchase price so that they can get more money at the end of the year, and then secretly buy things from the Wang clan at higher prices.

According to Wang Changshun, the Wang family has about two thousand members, accounting for more than half of the production brigade's population.

Not long after, Jiang Yue'e, who was just about to leave work, received a notification and came to the door with some confusion. When she saw Wang Xingguo, she realized that it was this opportunistic guy who was looking for her.

She smiled and asked, "Hey, you pedicab driver, what do you need me for?"

Wang Xingguo said with a grin, "Sister Yue'e, I'd like to ask you for a favor. Can we talk in private for a moment?"

Jiang Yue'e nodded and followed Wang Xingguo to the side of the door. She asked curiously, "Are you asking me to help you sell fish?"

Wang Xingguo explained, "Yes and no. I'd like to ask you to help me ask the purchasing agent at your hospital's cafeteria if they need eels. They're only one yuan per pound, cheap and plentiful, and guaranteed to be live eels."

Jiang Yue'e only recently learned that eels are edible; she had no idea before. Her family cooked them once, and they were quite delicious.

So she couldn't help but ask, "Comrade Wang, how many eels can you get? Is it really one yuan per pound?"

Seeing an opportunity, Wang Xingguo quickly replied, "Of course it's true! And whatever the hospital needs, I can get it for them—even a thousand or eight hundred kilograms wouldn't be a problem!"

Jiang Yue'e was a little surprised, but considering the guy's skill in catching fish, she wasn't surprised.

After thinking for a moment, she said to Wang Xingguo, "Our hospital's food supplies cannot be purchased from outside. There are specialized farms that supply food to the hospital. You can sell your products to patients' families, but it is impossible to sell them to the hospital."

Upon hearing this, Wang Xingguo's face showed disappointment. He had thought that Jiang Yue'e, coming from a cadre family, would definitely have influence and might be able to help him sell a batch of eels to recoup some funds. However, he did not expect that the hospital's food supply was handled by the farm, so it was indeed impossible to sell to the hospital's purchasing staff.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yue'e continued, "However, I can ask my second brother for you. He's the deputy director of the Second Brewery, and he's in charge of logistics and procurement. Their factory also needs nutritional supplements for the workers. How about this, come here to wait for me tomorrow morning around this time, or before 7 p.m. If my second brother needs this, I'll let you know."

Unexpectedly, the hospital was not an option, but someone in Jiang Yue'e's family needed help. This was truly a stroke of good luck!

Wang Xingguo nodded happily, then ran to the bucket in the car, grabbed a nearly five-pound silver carp (actually a bighead carp), and gave it to Jiang Yue'e so she could have it as an extra dish.

Jiang Yue'e was quite happy; such a large mandarin fish was relatively rare in the capital.

It's not that they don't exist, but they are relatively rare. There are relatively few of the four major freshwater fish farmed here, and the supply is limited, so it's rare to have the opportunity to buy such a large bighead carp.

However, apart from fresh carp and crucian carp, other fish were not as popular as sea fish in the entire capital.

In general, the most popular fish is always the crucian carp, followed by fresh carp, then yellow croaker and pomfret. These fish all belong to the top tier.

The second tier consists of grass carp, silver carp, black carp, and frozen ribbonfish, while the last tier consists of grass carp, silver carp, frozen mixed marine fish, and mixed freshwater fish.

Wang Xingguo happily left the area, and when no one was around, he put the bucket into his spatial storage. Then he rushed to the entrance of Xiehe Hospital to prepare to sell some fish today.

When they were almost there, Wang Xingguo brought out three more buckets: one bucket contained crucian carp, another contained a mixture of carp, black carp, and silver carp, and the last bucket contained eels.

As soon as he arrived at the location, he was spotted by the people lying in wait and they immediately surrounded him!

Wang Xingguo was startled. One of the older men spoke up, "Young Wang, why did you take so long? You wait here, I'll go get something to exchange for the fish!"

After saying that, the old man turned around and ran towards the hospital. Only then did Wang Xingguo realize that the people surrounding him were people waiting for him to come and sell fish!

Seeing the old man run off to get his things, the others remembered Wang Xingguo's rule and left him a message telling them to leave the fish behind. Then they ran off to the hospital to get their things.

Only one man, a bespectacled man in his thirties, secretly slipped a large ten-yuan note to Wang Xingguo, smiling broadly, and said, "Young comrade, could you give me two fish?"

Wang Xingguo thought to himself, "This fish must be given to such a sensible and understanding person!"

So I gave him a two-pound black carp, two crucian carp weighing at least four ounces each, and a carp weighing over a pound.

The middle-aged man with glasses thanked him repeatedly and happily carried the fish into the hospital, as he needed to quickly put the fish in a bucket to keep it alive.

What rules or regulations?

That's just for show. Isn't he exchanging things just to sell them for money?

So be sensible and don't blatantly slip money in front of others. It doesn't matter whether you take something or not!

Seeing everyone's enthusiasm, Wang Xingguo quickly and secretly added more fish to the bucket, hoping to get as many as possible.

A short while later, the first old man who ran back came out carrying a bucket of water, followed by several old women. It was probably because the old man had notified them to run out together.

The items exchanged for fish were varied; some people even traded two dried yellow croakers weighing over a pound each for four crucian carp...

Salted fish isn't expensive because it's so salty that you can't eat too much of it, so you can buy it without a ration coupon.

This was the easiest meat for ordinary people to buy during difficult times. Low-grade stinky salted fish was readily available, while high-grade salted fish, though expensive, was still achievable.

But salted fish is really a useless thing.

Because it's really salty, it can only be used to eat with porridge; it's impossible to eat it as a dish.

Like the dried yellow croaker that Wang Xingguo received, he cut off a section, fried it first, then crushed it, and cooked it with vegetables. The taste was also on the salty side.

However, dried yellow croaker is considered a high-end salted fish. It tastes much better than ordinary stinky salted fish and is considered a top-grade salted fish. It is also more expensive, costing about five or six cents per pound.

If he were to exchange four crucian carp for them, he would definitely lose out, but he set the rules himself, so he'll accept the loss.

Besides, while he lost money on this side, the eels on the other side made a fortune!