The strong fisherman in the courtyard

Not to mention that Jia Zhang is not a good person either. She always scolds He Yuzhu in the Central Courtyard for no reason. Now that Jia Zhang is in trouble, He Yuzhu is too happy to wait. It's just a pity for Sister Qin.

"Master, is what this Shazhu said true?" Jia Dongxu still hasn't recovered. He feels like he's been possessed by an evil spirit lately, and nothing good has happened to him from day to day.

Yi Zhonghai nodded and said, "Zhu Zi is right, but don't worry, my sister-in-law will only be detained for 7 days. The security department has already said so."

He patted Jia Dongxu's shoulder again and said, "The most important thing for you now is to take good care of your health."

Jia Dongxu continued to be in a daze. Yi Zhonghai looked at his apprentice, who was devastated by such a small matter. He sighed in his heart, but there was nothing he could do. He had chosen this unlucky thing and he couldn't withdraw his investment now.

He said a few more words to Qin Huairu, asking her to not worry about the children at home, and then took He Yuzhu to the courtyard.

Jia Dongxu didn't react until Yi Zhonghai had been gone for a long time. His eyes were bloodshot, and he clenched his fists in frustration. He said hatefully, "This is all Li Ming's fault. I'll definitely give him a good beating when I get out."

Qin Huairu didn't react when she heard what Jia Dongxu said. He was a loser. He couldn't even win an argument with Li Ming, a boy who was just 18, let alone use his brain.

As for what Jia Dongxu said, let's talk about it after he is discharged from the hospital. Qin Huairu can only take good care of Jia Dongxu, this useless guy. Fortunately, it was not his hand that was broken this time. If his hand was broken, he might have to be transferred to the steel mill to clean the toilet.

In other words, Qin Huairu has not read "Wulin Wai Zhuan", otherwise she would have to make up a long list of Tong Zhanggui's standard inner dramas in her heart, "What If".

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The next day.

The Sangu office of the steel rolling mill.

As soon as Li Ming arrived at the office, he went to the corner and picked up his fishing rod and bucket. He looked around at the salted fish and the fishing section chief who was slacking off, "Is anyone going fishing?"

"No."*5.

Very good, the responses were very consistent. This is one of the few tacit understandings that can be demonstrated among the three comrades.

Li Ming picked up his tools and walked out happily. Today he planned to try whether he could use the locust stone to accurately hit the fish in the water, on the one hand to add some fun to fishing, on the other hand to improve his skill proficiency.

Last night, Li Ming got a large stone more than one person tall from the space and threw it into the assembly line. Now there are so many locust stones in the space that they are countless.

This thing combined with my own portable space is simply invincible.

By the Jinshui River, the old place.

Li Ming set up the fishing rod with ease, hung the bait on it and threw it into the river. He held a rather round stone in his left hand. Now Li Ming always had the urge to shoot something.

After a while, a poor fish bit the hook. Li Ming flicked his left wrist, and the small stone in his hand hit the unfortunate fish's head and knocked it unconscious.

Maybe the grass carp didn't realize that just because of its greed, it would not only lose its life, but also get a beating.

Li Ming was delighted when he saw the locust stone making a contribution.

"I didn't expect this thing to do so much damage!"

"I guess it has something to do with physical fitness. After all, if you are strong enough, bricks can fly far away."

He happily caught the fish and threw it into the bucket, then skillfully hung the fish and continued fishing. He didn't plan to go back to the factory for lunch today. Recently, many stall owners have come to the Jinshui River area, but most of the stall owners also do the work of collecting fish, and many of them are from the countryside who came to the city.

There is nothing wrong with this situation. There is nothing to eat in the countryside, so naturally one has to go to the city to get a meal. Today, Li Ming plans to randomly patronize a small stall for lunch.

"Hey, Xiao Li, you came pretty early today! Isn't today a day off? Are you here to slack off again?"

I have to say that Old Zhang has learned a lot of fashionable words from Li Ming and is now using them very skillfully.

"We in the purchasing department can't receive anything, so we can only come here to fish."

Li Ming opened his mouth and said that as an employee of the purchasing department, he could not get any food, so it was understandable that he came fishing.

"Tsk, you are quite good at talking. Anyway, I don't care about the steel mill, not to mention that what you said seems to be unreasonable."

Old man Zhang familiarly threw a cigarette to Li Ming. Li Ming took a look and thought, "It's a special supply." OK, light it up!

"Old man Zhang, your cigarettes are the best to smoke. I am almost unaccustomed to smoking other cigarettes. They always make my throat irritated!"

"Well, for your own good, I won't share any with you in the future." Old man Zhang said habitually, and started to arrange his "stationery" to prepare for the great fishing career.

Chapter 76: Wang Da and Wang Er's New Mission

By noon, there were already three unlucky fish in Li Ming's bucket, and there was also a bucket of water in Old Man Zhang's bucket. It cannot be said that the old man had no harvest, at least he still harvested a bucket of water.

"I'm going to eat at a small stall today. What are you going to eat, old man?"

Li Ming packed up his stuff and put it aside, then walked over to Old Man Zhang and asked.

Old man Zhang said without even looking up, "Xiao Li, go buy some food."

"Don't delay my fishing."

"Tsk, old man Zhang is so arrogant. Brother Li, buy me one. Old man Zhang will pay for it. Thank you!"

Comrade Li Ming has no idea how to write the word "shame". In life, one should be thick-skinned. Besides, I eat so little now, so what's wrong with me having a big meal at a dog restaurant?

There's nothing wrong with it, it's reasonable and appropriate!

Secretary Li did not refute. He was used to it and just walked out on his own.

Li Ming found a big tree suitable to lean on and refilled his cigarette.

"Life is so good! If only I had nothing to worry about, I could have a wife!"

When Old Man Zhang heard what Li Ming said, he said, "You are horny, why were you not happy when I introduced my granddaughter to you last time?"

"You have a fortune, and I have only clay and bricks. We can't get along!"

"I don't think I can even afford it~" Little Bear spread his hands, Li Ming limited edition.

Old man Zhang shook his head. "That won't happen. My granddaughter is not so spoiled."

"Great, great, great, your granddaughter is the best in the world~~~"

Li Mingcai was too lazy to argue with this old man. Wouldn't it be more comfortable to bask in the sun than to chat with him?

"But, what kind of wife do you want to marry, kid?" Old man Zhang asked with a shy look of curiosity.

"Eyebrows like emerald feathers, skin like white snow, waist like a silk bundle, teeth like holding a pearl."

"My request is not high, Old Man Zhang."

Old man Zhang spat at the shameless man and said, "If you plan to pick a fairy, just say it directly, don't beat around the bush."

"Haha, Old Man Zhang, you are really interesting. You even know about fairies!"

"piss off!"

"Anyway, I have to find a beautiful wife with a nice figure, that would be best."

Comrade Li Ming hopes that his future daughter-in-law will be great so that his journey through time will not be in vain.

"You kid, just dream on. It's more realistic than my plan to catch a 20-jin fish."

After complaining, Old Man Zhang returned to his seat and stared at his fishing rod in a daze.

Not long after, Secretary Li came back with lunch. He left a portion for Li Ming and Old Man Zhang respectively, and took the rest to find his friends.

After finishing his meal, Li Ming stayed by the river for a while, exchanged the fish he caught today with Old Man Zhang, and then walked towards the Bada Hutong with a relaxed mood.

He planned to contact his own Big Bear and Little Bear and tell them something, and then go to the black market at night with Yi Zhonghai's face to sell some things and get familiar with the place. After all, there were a lot of things stored in the breeding space, and it was time to clean it up.

Keep enough for your family's food for a year, and give the rest away, exchanging it for some small yellow croakers, antiques, etc. to enrich your own piggy bank.

The Eight Great Hutongs, the homes of Wang Da and Wang Er.

Li Ming was respectfully invited in by the Wang brothers, and the three of them sat down around the stone table in the yard.

"Brother Li, are there any work arrangements?" Wang Da was extremely excited because he felt that he could be put to good use. As for his younger brother Wang Er's thoughts, that was not important.

"Yes, there must be. I need you two to help me find out the current price of food in the black market."

Wang Da and Wang Er were shocked. Although they were street slickers, they knew that food was hard to buy on the market. But the gentleman in front of them wanted them to inquire about the price of food. What did he mean?

"I have a batch of food that needs to be shipped out, understand?"

"Then, why doesn't Brother Li go to the steel mill?" Student Wang Er didn't understand, so he spoke up.

Wang Da slapped his brother on the head, "Brother Li said whatever he said, where do you get all this nonsense from!"

"Your brother is right. If you two can handle this matter well, I will give you something good."

"The first benefit is that you can participate in my grain business. As long as you do it well, money is not a problem."

"But if you don't do a good job, or if you want to sell me out, that's fine, but you will have to bear the consequences yourself."

After Li Ming finished speaking, he pinched a stone from the space and threw it at a branch in front of the main house door. The branch, which was as thick as a baby's arm, broke with a "crack".

The two Wang brothers were stunned, and then cold sweat began to break out on their backs.

"A pistol is useful, but it makes noise. My hand doesn't make any noise, so it's better than a pistol in some ways."

Li Ming looked at the two of them with a smile, "Do you think what I said is right?"

Wang Da and Wang Er nodded stiffly, "Yes, you are right."

"Okay, I'll leave this to you two brothers. I'll come over this weekend and need to know the general information. Is that ok?"

"no problem!"

"do not worry!"

The two men have lived for more than 20 years and have never seen such a ruthless person. Not only does he have a gun, but his martial arts skills are also amazing. Although the two brothers know that Li Ming is pointing at them, they can also understand it as a threat, but this threat is very scary!

The two brothers asked themselves that the parts of their bodies were at most as hard as that tree branch, and they really couldn't withstand this!

"Don't worry, if you do your job well, I will definitely benefit from you."

"After all, I need someone to run errands for me, right?"

Li Ming smiled and patted the brothers on the shoulders, then turned and left the yard.

After Li Ming left, Wang Er pointed at the tree branch on the ground and asked with a hoarse voice, "Brother, this thing won't hit us, right?"

Wang Da also shivered as he put a cigarette into his mouth, "It shouldn't be a problem. If we do things honestly, there should be no problem."

"So when are we going to find out?"

"When? Let's go today. Didn't you hear that the evil star will know the news this weekend?"

"Let's find out as soon as possible, the more complete the better."

"Okay, let's go tonight."

"That's right. We'll try to visit all the black markets in the city in the next few days. You go and tear off a couple of pieces of cloth, and then we'll hang ourselves up."

"Okay brother, I'll go right away."

Wang Er said this and ran into the house. When he passed by a tree branch, he squatted down to take a good look.

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Li Ming didn't care what the two brothers discussed, as long as they could complete the task. Besides, he also had to go to the black market to inquire, and he could also further determine the real price of food now, to be safe!

Chapter 77: Silly Zhu Finds Faults

"You have to look at me to threaten people. Yi Zhonghai, this old Bidden, always talks about his reputation. Now, his reputation in the steel mill is also bad."

Li Ming walked towards home muttering to himself. Today he planned to go to the black market to broaden his horizons. He had been in this era for so long but had never seen anything there.

Steel rolling mill courtyard, night.

Li Ming quietly got out of bed, put on his clothes, and went out. He did not go out through the front gate. Yan Laoxi was the gatekeeper, and he would inevitably cause trouble if he was seen by him. So Li Ming simply climbed over the wall and left.

Li Ming had found out the place two days ago, which is the pigeon market near Chaoyangmen. It is not far from home and convenient for commuting, and most importantly, the market is not small.

From a distance, I saw a row of lanterns. Each light was smaller than a bean. If I wanted to see something, I had to get my head close to get a general idea.

Li Ming walked around and asked about prices. He asked here and there, and bought the right one when he saw one. At that time, Chaoyangmen Pigeon Market, which occupied the largest area, had a long line of stalls selling old clothes, old shoes and old hats. The better clothes had an old mat under them, and the tattered clothes were spread on the ground.

Before the time travel, Comrade Li Ming was very fascinated by the ghost market in Sijiu City, but after going there several times, he really didn't feel any atmosphere. Unlike today, he felt that he had come to the right place as soon as he arrived.

Li Ming also saw people selling live animals by the moat. There were camels and horses, some with military horse stamps on their buttocks, but they were still selling them. The unspoken rules of the "ghost market" are to abide by them once you enter the market, and never ask where the goods come from. If you want to buy, you ask the price, if you don't want to buy, please leave. If you can't sell them, you will be taken back to the military horse camp before dawn and tied to the military horse trough.

It was like opening his eyes and listening a lot. Recently, more and more people come to the black market to sell grain, but the quantity sold is not large, only about ten or twenty kilograms of goods are placed on the stalls. Li Ming guessed that the bulk transactions are all down there, at least not on the black market.

The price of grain in grain stores has not changed much now. Standard flour is 1.84 cents, early glaze standard two meters is 1.48 cents, and cornmeal is 1.01 cent per pound.

Boneless pork with skin is 82 cents, beef is 69 cents, lamb is 71 cents, and eggs are 70 cents.

But the price on the black market now is completely different. Everyone is trying to get the integer. For example, the standard flour that Li Ming asked about today is only 20 cents. No bargaining is accepted. It’s up to you whether you want to buy it or not.

After hearing many people grumble that the price would probably go up in the future, Comrade Li Ming found a vendor selling standard flour and asked for two kilograms in order not to be conspicuous.