Looking at this big fat fish, Old Chen was stunned for a second, then reacted, and quickly refused. You know, a fish is worth a lot of money, not to mention that this fish looks big. How dare he ask for it!
"Uncle, didn't you say that I caught fish and brought it here and made fish soup for me?" Wei Mingyan had already guessed that he would refuse, and with an innocent look, he insisted on stuffing the fish into the hands of Old Chen, "Myself And I don’t know how to start a fire, even if this fish is given to me, I can’t get it, my aunt is good at cooking, I still remember that she brought me a bowl of fish soup when I was young, it was delicious.”
Speaking of this old Mr. Chen felt sour. At that time, the family was poor, and they could not bear to put any salt grains. How could the fish soup be delicious? It was not because his father refused to eat it. The hungry children were digging the earth to eat, but old Chen couldn't see it, so he asked his wife to bring the fish soup.
Hearing that the child devoured his drink, he even said to his wife who was a little bit reluctant, "This child can be regarded as the child we grew up with, and if he can help, maybe he will thank us and help us in the future." Woolen cloth."
Old Aunt Chen was still not happy, that fish is so precious, their family can't eat enough, and they gave it to an outsider, "You said it lightly, I want to see if this kid will help us!"
That being said, she is also a hard-spoken and soft-hearted person, and she usually takes care of her from time to time.
Although the bastard is bad, he is okay with these neighbors who have raised him since he was a child. What is okay means that he never steals their eggs, and he will say hello when he meets them.
Everything else is gone.
But Wei Mingyan became him, and if he wanted to marry Yi Zhilan, Hunzi's original image would no longer be good.
His little bench has already been set up, Wei Mingyan took the bench, stuffed back the one dollar that Old Chen insisted on paying back, wobbled, and walked home with the bench.
Several neighbors who were enjoying the shade began to mutter again when they saw it.
The village is quite big, but everyone usually likes to gossip, and the news that the bastard caught a sack of fish spread almost quickly.
When this kid used to go to other people's houses to eat and drink, he said that he would pay back when he was rich, but they didn't take it seriously. This is a bastard.
But looking at this matter today, how is it true.
Several people discussed and discussed, and decided to go to old Chentou’s house to ask. Old Chentou’s son was working in the city, and only one grandson was left to go to school in the town. He is doing well, although he is lame but likes to walk around, he can be regarded as the kind of old man who has a better life in the village.
When the neighbor knocked on the door, old Aunt Chen was happily stewing fish soup. Old Chen was smoking his dry cigarette, and said triumphantly as he smoked: "I told you that at the beginning, I just said this." Remember the child."
"It used to be that he was too poor to eat, but this kid used to either stay at home or go to the town. Why did he think of fishing?"
"Grow up, he is already twenty-one, he should have a baby at this age."
"makes sense."
While the two were talking, there was a knock on the door, and Old Chen laughed, "It must be Lao Zhang and the others who came to look for me. These people can hear the ants moving."
"I'll go and talk to them carefully, so that they don't always treat that kid like a monster. It's been so many years, and they say he's a bastard, but I haven't seen him really bullying the villagers."
Not knowing how old Chen was trying to excuse himself from his neighbors, Wei Mingyan wandered into the town with a sack on his back and a small bench in his hand.
The town must be more prosperous than the village, there is a special place to sell things, Wei Mingyan put down the bench, sat there, took out the fish from the sack and started to play with it.
Nowadays, fish are still rare. He produced so many fish that soon attracted passers-by to stop and watch.
Seeing that Wei Mingyan had sorted everything in order of size, an old lady asked tentatively, "Young man, how much is this fish per catty?"
Wei Mingyan clapped his hands, "I don't weigh by the catty, but sell by the piece."
"The big one is seven or eight catties, five yuan, three in total, the three or four catties here are two yuan, the small ones are one yuan, and the smallest one is fifty cents."
The onlookers looked at each other in blank dismay.
Now the price of fish in the market is generally one or two yuan per catty, so they must make a profit by buying this way, but people now believe that there is no pie in the world, and suddenly the small bench is full of people, But no one dared to go forward to buy it.
With so many people watching and whispering, the naughty man sitting on the small bench was not in a hurry, and slowly began to scrape the scales of a big fish with a knife. Seeing that the scales of the fish were about to be scraped off, some people couldn't bear it. Stop asking.
"Young man, why are you scraping fish scales?"
Wei Mingyan's subordinates kept answering, "After scraping the fish scales, the fish will be sold for 4.9 yuan. If no one buys it, I'll take it home and eat it myself."
The eyes of the few people who were hesitating just now suddenly lit up. A dime less is still money!
Immediately, someone stood up and said, "Can I buy half of it?"
Nowadays, people's families are not very rich, especially in their small town, they only buy fish and meat during the festivals. If the fish is not too cheap today, they would rather be greedy than buy it.
Wei Mingyan nodded sharply, took a small knife to cut the belly of the fish, and cut it in half, "Here, half, I'll give you a small change, two yuan or four cents."
You can save another five cents!
The man looked at the big fat fish, happily counted the money in the small cloth bag, handed it to Wei Mingyan, and happily left with the fish.
The people present are all regular grocery shoppers, and they know that the things are about a catty in their hands. This time they definitely made a profit.
The first person started the game, and others also came forward to buy fish one after another. When the last big fish was left, Wei Ming said that he would close the stall and not sell it.
His pockets were bulging with money, few dollars, most fifty cents, and some pennies.
After all the calculations, it should be about 30 yuan. This amount of money does not seem to be much, but in this small town, a strong laborer can only earn 30 yuan after working for a month. Rich.
He was carrying the last fish in the sack, and when he was about to go home, he looked up and saw Brother Long leading someone coming from the opposite side.
Wei Mingyan smiled at them.
Long Ge hardly hesitated, turned around and left with the people.
His only advantage is his knowledge of current affairs, and he also knows very well that what he relies on to show off in this small town is his ability to fight. Now that he has been beaten to the ground, he would be stupid if he didn't hurry up.
Seeing him slip away, Wei Mingyan went back with the fish, and knocked on the door of Old Chen Tou's house again.
"Uncle Chen, where is Aunt Chen? I want her to do me a favor."
twenty minutes later
Aunt Yi's eyes widened in surprise, "What? The bastard wants to marry my Lanlan?"
no! How can this work!
Her family, Lan Lan, is a college student!
How can you marry a bastard!