My Siheyuan Shelter

Chapter 295 Smelly Salted Fish

"At the head of the ferry boat in Qiangang Village, Songgang Street, Funing County."

Xu Dong slowly read out the address.

Boss Wu explained casually: "This is the place. Many private farms usually go to them to process the goods. As long as you can afford the price, you will definitely get something."

"Thank you, Boss Wu."

"You're welcome, it's just a matter of raising your hands, even if I don't tell you, you will find out."

Xu Dong shook his head: "That's not necessarily the case, we don't have that much time to waste, and we'll be back at noon at the latest."

"By the way, I forgot to remind you." Boss Wu patted his head and said suddenly, "If you can get food, bring as much food as you can, as cash is not accepted there."

Xu Dong nodded: "Actually, even if you didn't say it, we already expected it."

"I'm talking too much..."

"You can't say that, Boss Wu, thank you for this anyway."

Boss Wu smiled, turned around and left. The other party was very considerate and gave the office to Xu Dong and his party.

"Old Wang, what do you think?"

Lao Wang frowned: "I know what everyone thinks. I also want to take some yellow croakers back, but there is too little time. If I don't leave at noon, I will definitely not be able to go back tomorrow."

"Why don't you drive all night tonight?" Lao Fang suggested.

"No."

Xu Dong and Lao Wang objected almost at the same time, because it's not worth the risk.

"Then what should we do? We can't come here for nothing, can we?"

Lao Fang was a little disappointed. His wife was pregnant when she needed to supplement her nutrition. During this business trip, he brought out all the old things in the family, but he didn't expect it to end like this.

"Xiao Xu, what do you think?" Lao Wang asked Xu Dong for his opinion.

"I don't think so!"

Xu Dong organized his speech: "Old Wang, we'd better divide our troops into two groups, and you take Xiao Zheng and Lao Gu to guard here, responsible for loading the goods.

Lao Fang and I went to the bow of this ferry to have a look. If you can get yellow croakers, then you can buy them from me at the original price. What do you think? "

"This method is good, no problem." Lao Wang immediately agreed.

Others also nodded.

"Since everyone agrees, it's a deal. After you pack the goods, come and pick me up and Lao Fang immediately. Regardless of whether we can buy fish or not, we have to go on the road at noon." Xu Dong added.

"Okay, keep in touch with your mobile phone at any time."

……

About five or ten minutes later, Xu Dong and Lao Fang took a taxi to the bow of the ferry. There was no hustle and bustle as imagined, but a sense of nostalgia for the long time.

Probably because of the police uniforms on the two of them, the person in charge here soon appeared.

Afraid of misunderstanding.

Xu Dong immediately revealed his identity and purpose of coming, and finally took out the business card given by Boss Wu, which dispelled the other party's doubts.

"Uncle Chen, we came here with sincerity." Xu Dong handed him a cigarette.

Uncle Chen took the cigarette, put it under his nostril and sniffed it.

"Good smoke!"

Lao Fang took out a lighter to help the other party light the cigarette, with a fawning face on his face: "Brother, can you tell me if it will work?"

"The goods are available, but I'm afraid you won't be able to accept the price." Chen Bo said frankly.

"Please tell me the price. If you can't accept it, we promise to leave immediately, so as not to waste both of our time." Xu Dong said bluntly.

"Okay, since you guys want to know, I'll just talk about it briefly." Uncle Chen took a deep puff of cigarette, "We have large yellow croaker and small yellow croaker in stock, which one do you want?"

"Let's talk about the big yellow croaker first!" Xu Dong replied.

"Okay, there are two kinds of large yellow croakers. One is dead fish. It costs 2400 yuan a catty, and the price starts at ten catties. There is also fresh goods. You can exchange grain for this kind of fish. One catty of fish can be exchanged for ten catties of potatoes. , or four catties of rice."

"It's too expensive, isn't it?" Lao Fang asked in surprise.

Uncle Chen frowned: "The market conditions here are like this, there is no bargaining, and if you can't afford it, you don't have to buy it."

Xu Dong tugged on Lao Fang's arm to make him calm down.

"Uncle Chen, what kind of dead fish is it, can you tell us about it?"

Uncle Chen flicked the cigarette ash: "There is no evidence for what you say, I'd better take you two to see it!"

After several turns and eight turns, the three of them came to a small warehouse. Uncle Chen skillfully opened the door of the warehouse, and a stench rushed towards him.

Xu Dong immediately covered his nostrils with his sleeve.

"I'll go, why is it so smelly?" Lao Fang vigorously fanned the air in front of him.

"Didn't you say it was a dead fish? How can a dead fish not smell?" Chen Bo wrote lightly, and then turned on the light.

With the help of the light, Xu Dong could now clearly see what it looked like inside. There were neatly dried salted fish hanging on the brackets in three or four rows.

Uncle Chen randomly picked two salted fish and threw them to the two of them.

Xu Dong carefully looked at the salted fish in his hand. Although the fish meat was very dry, there were still obvious traces of rot, much like the smelly fish and rotten shrimps that were naturally dried on the river beach.

Lao Fang is a ruthless person, he took a piece of fish with great effort and put it in his mouth to chew: "Xiao Xu, the taste is not bad, you can eat it!"

"Aren't you talking nonsense, of course you can eat it."

"Is it okay for people to eat it?" Xu Dong looked at Uncle Chen and asked.

"Don't worry, it's best not to eat it raw. It's absolutely fine if it's cooked. Everyone here eats it like this, and I haven't seen anyone who has eaten it wrong."

Xu Dong shook his head secretly, even if he could eat it, the nutritional content would be greatly reduced.

"How many are there in total on your side?"

"Do you want the little yellow croaker too?"

Xu Dong made a decisive decision: "Yes."

No matter what you say, dead fish is still meat. It is better to have it than nothing. Although I don’t need it at home, my colleagues in the company will definitely rush to get it. It is best to use it as a favor.

Uncle Chen's eyes lit up, and he quickly replied: "That's a good idea, the price of dead fish is the same, and the total is about 850 catties. If you plan to cover all of them, just give 2 million. I don't want a fraction of [-]." gone."

"Okay, 2 million is 2 million, you help me pack the salted fish, and when our car arrives, we will pay for it and deliver it, how about it?"

"Let's do it like this. I'll call someone to help." Uncle Chen went out after finishing his speech, without dragging his feet.

Lao Fang took the opportunity to lean into Xu Dong's ear and reminded:
"Xiao Xu, is more than 800 catties a bit much, how many of us are there?"

Five people share, and one person has to share two hundred catties. After all, it is several 100,000 yuan, and not everyone can easily afford it.

And even if you can take it out, you may not be willing to take it out.

"Not much, not much." Xu Dong waved his hand, and then explained: "Not only us, but Uncle Li and the others also have a share, so we can't tell if it's not enough!"

"So that's how it is." Old Fang suddenly realized.

"Old Fang, you stay and watch these fish, so as not to cheat them, I'll talk to Uncle Chen again." Xu Dong ordered.

Lao Fang patted the gun on his waist, and quickly assured: "Don't worry, we are the police, even if we borrow ten courage from them, they will not dare to play tricks."

"Be careful."

Before leaving, Xu Dong reminded again.

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(End of this chapter)