Chapter 19: Going to Beihai to buy fish, I met Yan
Chapter 19: Going to Beihai to buy fish, I met Yan
The old man lives in Balizhuang in the western suburbs of the city. His surname is Bai and his name is Bai Laoyao. Needless to say, it should be a name given according to age.
Because the youngest child is the youngest, his parents probably have little education and named him casually.
In fact, this is normal. At the old man's age, naming is very casual.
Next, Li Jiayi went around the entire pigeon market and bought four ducklings and three goslings.
He didn't buy anything else because he didn't need it. He wanted to buy some pork, but unfortunately there was none.
There were some live chickens, but they were quickly bought up and it was not his turn.
Things that don’t require tickets are indeed easy to sell, but if tickets are required, they probably won’t sell at all.
Because if they have tickets, they won’t come here to buy them. They can just go to the market to buy them, and it’s closer.
After coming out of the pigeon market on the Fuxingmen side, Li Jiayi did not go home, but went directly to Beihai.
There are six seas in the imperial capital, from south to north they are the South Sea, the Middle Sea, the North Sea, the Front Sea, the Shichahai, also known as the Back Sea and the West Sea.
If we talk about the place closest to Xinjiekou, it is definitely Xihai, but Xihai is quite far from his home.
Xihai is near Jishuitan, and Li Jia's family lives in Ping'anli, one in the north and the other in the south.
Among these seas, Beihai is the closest one.
He went to the North Sea not for fun, but because there should be a lot of people fishing there, and he wanted to see if he could buy some fish.
Forget about the big fish. Even if it is given to him for free, he won’t take it. Don’t forget, it’s only been a few years since the founding of the country!
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were either Japanese devils or bald people here, and a lot of people died at that time!
So who dares to eat the big fish? Anyway, he doesn’t dare to eat it. Not only does he not dare to eat it, he won’t let his family eat it either.
It’s better to buy some fish that have not yet grown up and keep them in a space. I guess they will grow up in no time.
When Li Jiayi arrived at Beihai, it was already an hour later, and it was around eleven o'clock.
Without a watch, you can only estimate the time by looking at the sun.
Just as he thought, there are a lot of people fishing, the ration of meat is very small, and it is too expensive to buy meat at the pigeon market, so many people think about fishing to improve their lives.
Li Jiayi had no intention of fishing! It was not that he didn't want to, but he was too young. It would be ok if he caught a small fish, but if the fish was bigger, he would probably be pulled into the water.
After Li Jiayi arrived here, he did not watch others fishing, but looked into other people's buckets along the shore.
But he was a little disappointed because most people's buckets were empty, and even if they were, there were only one or two small fish in them.
He wanted it, but it was so little, there was no way he could offer a price. There was no way, it was just too small.
The big ones weigh only two or three taels, and the small ones probably weigh less than one tael.
Now the big fish in the Pigeon Market are only sold for 40 cents per pound, and no invoice is required. How can we pay for these two taels?
If you give a few points, people will think you are here to cause trouble and delay their fishing.
When passing by a middle-aged man, Li Jiayi's eyes lit up, because the middle-aged man had more than a dozen fish in his bucket.
Although they are very small, there are a lot of them! And there are all kinds of fish, silver carp, grass carp, carp, crucian carp and so on.
It’s not that there are no other fish, but he doesn’t know them. He has definitely eaten cooked ones, but has never seen them alive.
"Uncle, are you selling this fish?"
"Do you want to buy fish?" the middle-aged man turned around and asked.
A middle-aged man with a triangular face and wearing a pair of glasses.
In fact, middle-aged people are worried! All the fish caught today are small fish, and the fishery stores won't accept them, let alone the factories. So they can only take them back to eat, but it's a pity to eat them by themselves.
If I sell it, I can buy some coarse grains, enough for the family to eat for several days. Eating this stuff is not even enough for one meal.
"Yes, do you sell it?"
"Sell it, how much do you think I'd like to give?" The middle-aged man put down the fishing rod, stood up and asked.
"How much do you think is appropriate?" Li Jiayi asked.
"How about one dollar?" the middle-aged man asked, adjusting his glasses.
"Huh!" Li Jia was stunned for a moment.
It is simply speechless, because these small fish are not valuable. Even if they are priced the same as big fish, these dozen small fish together weigh less than two kilograms!
If we calculate based on two kilograms, it would only be 80 cents at most, but he just asked for one yuan directly. He was really bold.
At this time, an old man who was fishing nearby said, "Old Yan, this little fish you have is not worth even 50 cents. You're asking the kid for one. Aren't you afraid that the kid's family will come after you?"
"What's the big deal? He buys and I sell. It's a two-way street." The middle-aged man called Lao Yan adjusted his glasses again and said.
"You..." The old man next to him shook his head and said nothing more.
"Uncle, let's do as the old man said. It's fifty cents. If you sell it, I'll buy it. If you don't, forget it."
Although Li Jiayi didn't care about the price, he couldn't suffer such a huge loss. Besides, judging from the way he was dressed, he didn't look like a poor man.
Although his clothes looked old, they didn't even have a patch on them. He was also wearing glasses. You have to know that glasses were not cheap in that era!
The middle-aged man called Lao Yan was very conflicted, but seeing that Li Jiayi was in a posture of "if you don't sell it, I'll leave", he quickly said, "Okay, fifty cents is fifty cents, I'll sell it to you."
Li Jiayi first handed over fifty cents, then took out a net bag from his schoolbag.
He had specifically gone to the supply and marketing cooperative to ask for this before coming here. The supply and marketing cooperative had no shortage of this thing, because many of the things sold in the supply and marketing cooperative needed to be packed in net bags.
Although fish can easily die if they leave water, it is okay for them to leave the water for a short period of time.
Look, after the middle-aged man called Lao Yan took the money, he poured all the fish and water into the net bag that Li Jiayi took out.
Holding the net bag, Li Jiayi said, "You continue fishing. I'm leaving first."
Of course, when he left, he did not forget to thank the old man next to him. After all, the old man helped him.
After walking a short distance, Li Jiayi turned around and went into the grove, then collected the fish into the space and put it into the fish pond.
Then he led some spiritual spring water into the fish pond.
Anyway, the amount of spiritual spring water is always the same whether you use it or not. After using it before, it immediately recovered and was exactly the same as before.
As soon as the spiritual spring water entered the fish pond, the whole pond began to bubble, which surprised Li Jiayi.
Because there are so many fish in the pond, some of the big ones even weigh seven or eight kilograms.
Li Jiayi soon understood what was going on. Half a month ago, when they were fishing in the creek, he collected dozens of small fish into the space.
He originally thought that those were fish in the stream and would never grow up. Now he knows that he was wrong and it was not what he thought at all.
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