Chapter Nineteen Evil Boy
In the morning, at the fishmongers in the south fish market in Poyang, fishmongers shouted loudly to the pedestrians to attract business. There were containers of large and small on the tables of various fish and aquatic products in them.
The so-called "living the mountains and water" is the water. There is Po water outside Poyang City and it is not far from Pengli Lake, so it is rich in aquatic products and low prices (relatively), and ordinary people can afford fish.
For the people in the south of the Yangtze River (south of the Yangtze River), the diet is just about rice and fish soup. This has been the case since ancient times, and Poyang is no exception, so the fish market is very popular.
In addition, there are many merchants coming and going to Poyang City, and the business of diners inside and outside the city is good. Although they are not as good as the three Jiangzhou cities of Xunyang, Fengcheng and Nanchang, Poyang City is also quite prosperous and has a great demand for aquatic products.
Therefore, Poyang Chengnan Fish Market is basically "opening" every day throughout the year. There are many fishmongers selling fish in the fish market, and there are also endless people coming to sell fish.
Li Li, who is currently setting up a street stall in the fish market, is considered a frequent visitor to the fish market. When his second brother was still there, he often brought him to the fish market to sell fish.
Yuliang official provides the government with a fixed quota of fish harvest every month. In addition, the extra aquatic products are usually sold at the fish market. Therefore, it is not surprising that Li Li appears in the fish market, nor is he afraid that the official "Wu skin" will come to find fault.
However, now there is a group of people coming to find fault.
A teenager who was about fourteen years old, surrounded Li Li's stall with a few boys of the same age.
The man pulled Li Li's hand with his right hand, and held a fish in his left hand and waved it, shouting:
"Quickly, hurry up! Sell or not, give me a message, don't be like a little lady!"
The boy had dark skin and a big mouth. He was stronger than Li Li, had a fierce face and a loud voice. Most of the people watching recognized this person:
This person's nickname is 'Da Niupeng'. Because he has a big mouth and a nickname "Da Niupeng Cat", he is a small thorn in the fish market.
Li Li knew this person, and in his opinion, Da Niu Peng was a "little gangster". Of course, there was no word "gangster" in this era. The common word is "evil boy" or "rogue".
Now, he sells yellow buds in the fish market, and is taken by Da Niu Peng and others to "forcibly buy them".
Li Li, surrounded by the evil boy, was not afraid at all. He looked at the other party with an expressionless face. Wu Xiang, who was blocked by the two evil boys, had a red face and stared at him with a squinting eyes, looking like he was trying his best.
The big catfish Peng spitted everywhere when he spoke, and he was close to him, which made Li Li’s face covered with a lot of saliva.
When Li Li was in business in his later generations, he had never seen any scenes before. After the other party finished speaking, he calmly said: "I said Da Niu Peng, this yellow bud is not small in size, and it is fair to sell twelve cents at a time. You bid five cents and get iron coins. What does it mean?"
"Da Niu Peng" continued to shout: "What does it mean? You sell the dead yellow sperm and you have the honor to sell a twelve cents!"
When they heard that someone was selling dead fish as live fish, the onlookers looked at the yellow berry (yellow croaker) squeezed in the wooden basin on the ground, and then looked at Li Li.
"First of all, I said this is three-day fish, which means that it is at most three days of life..." Li Li said lightly, "Secondly, no one in the fish market sells one-day yellow buds that have been caught. It is about the same size, and it is very expensive for a twelve cents to be a tail?"
Big Niu Peng sneered and showed the fish in his hand to others.
Huang Yading's three fish fins were full of poisonous stings. If he didn't know how to grasp, he would easily get stabbed. The wound swelled and the pain was unbearable. However, this person was skillful in catching fish and could tell that he was a good player.
After a moment of display, Da Niu Peng looked at Li Li: "You fish are vomiting blood! You dare to say that you live two more days more than others in one day's fish!"
Li Li retorted: "You pinched it, and the fish intestines are almost spit out by you."
"You are still quibbling! What kind of person I am, how can I frame you!" Da Niu Peng raised the fish in his hand and shouted loudly. When the people around him saw it, they thought it was going to be bad.
This kid's family is a bit famous. Aye is a famous fish owner. There are also fish shops in his house. There are many brothers and many relatives. He gathered a few evil boys to do business in the fish market, and he was always whispering.
When you meet a weak fish seller, you often rely on the large number of people to surround the other party, buy the other party's fish at a price, and then sell it.
Although this thin boy has a companion, he is obviously at a disadvantage compared to Da Niu Peng's gang. Now Da Niu Peng has found a reason to refuse, and everyone thinks that these two boys are going to suffer.
When Li Li saw that Big Niu Old Peng talked about the fish, he smiled and looked at the onlookers and said, "I, but as soon as I put the fish out, I made it clear that this was the fish I caught."
"If I have a ghost in my heart, why do I say it?"
"You have no ghost in your heart?" Da Niu Peng also smiled: "Who doesn't know that the yellow yadian caught has its stomach that has been broken by fish hooks? It doesn't live long. Why do you say that these fish live one or two more days than the fish caught by others?"
"Why?" Li Li still smiled and pulled out a bamboo stick from his waist, which was as big as a bamboo chopstick, and there seemed to be an iron hook at the top.
Da Niupeng thought Li Li was going to take action, and was about to clench his fists to fight, but he saw Li Li lifting the bamboo stick and showing to others: "Look, this is my tool for taking the hook. You can take out the fish hook, but it does not hook the yellow buds' belly."
After saying that, he reached out to a small bucket and skillfully caught a yellow bud: "Let's see how I get the hook."
"When fishing for Huangya Ding, the impatient Huangya Ding will swallow the bait and hook directly into the stomach, and then the intestines are hooked by the fish hook. It is very troublesome to take the hook. After taking it out, Huangya Ding's belly will also be damaged."
"Since my belly is hooked, I will naturally not live long."
When others heard Li Li say this, they nodded silently. Indeed, anyone who has caught Huangya Ding knows that Huangya Ding will swallow the fish hook into his stomach instead of hooking it on his mouth.
No matter how you take the fish hook, the hook will inevitably rot Huang Yaoding's belly.
Li Li first showed everyone the yellow buds in his hand. People found that there was a piece of thread in the yellow buds' mouth exposed outside. It seemed that he cut the fishing line after taking the hook, and the fishing hook carried a piece of thread in Huang buds' belly.
This is a method that people often use to extend the life of the hooked yellow budding, so that the hook with a piece of thread will remain on the fish belly, with a small wound, so that the yellow budding can live longer, and then take out the hook when selling the fish.
Li Li shook the homemade "hook picker". People could see that the iron hook at the top of the "bamboo chopsticks" was very special, curved and with a gap.
Li Li put the "hook picker" along the fishing line into Huang Yaoding's mouth.
He moved his wrist and then pulled out the "hook picker" that looked like bamboo chopsticks, and there was a fish hook with thread on it.
"Everyone saw that there was not much blood on the hook and the fish did not vomit blood. My hook picker could easily remove the hook, but it would not suck the yellow budding's belly."
"So, the yellow yadeng I caught can live a little longer."
Everyone looked at the "bamboo chopsticks" in Li Li's hand and nodded suddenly: "So that's it, no wonder they dare to say that this is the 'three-day fish'."
Li Li handed the fish to Da Niu Peng: "Hey, it doesn't matter if you have little knowledge, don't yell everywhere!"
Da Niupeng looked at Huang Yaoding, who had no blood on the corner of his mouth, and listened to the discussions of the people around him, his face turned blue and white.
I felt a loss of face, my hand holding the fish trembled slightly, panted, and stared at Li Li fiercely.
He acts like a whine on weekdays, but in fact he feels very guilty.
He was taking a few teenagers in the fish market and bluffed people by bluffing. Now that the inconspicuous Li Li said "no knowledge", he felt an evil fire.
Big Niu Peng raised his hand and was about to smash the fish in his hand into Li Li's face. Li Li suddenly burst out and rushed forward, pinching the other person's throat with one hand, and cursing loudly:
"Bastard! I handed the fish to the county party. If I handed the fish up, I didn't even say much. You are just a big mouthful of cats!"
The sudden change caught Da Niu Peng off guard and wanted to wield his hands to hit someone, but Li Li walked behind him and strangled his neck with his hands.
The other teenagers were so shocked that they saw the thin Li Li dared to act like this. Wu Xiang picked up the shoulder pole placed on the ground, stared at the evil teenagers with wide eyes.
Li Li believes that most evil young people are timid and bully the weak and afraid of the strong. When they meet such people, the softer they are, the more they suffer.
This is the case with the gangsters in later generations, and the evil boys in ancient times would not be wrong. Li Li knew the reality of Da Niupeng, so he was not afraid of turning against him: "Make a fuss! If you don't give me an explanation today, I will give you an explanation!"
Da Niu Peng struggled but couldn't break free. When the onlookers saw this thorn and met the nemesis, they all felt energetic and wanted to see what big Niu Peng would suffer.
Li Li pushed Da Niu Peng away without waiting for the other party to pounce, and picked up a knife to kill the fish: "Big mouth catfish! Either buy my fish with a ten-money copper coin, or fight me with a knife. If you don't stab me to death today, I will stab you to death!"
This is a forced sale and a forced purchase. If you don’t agree, you will stab each other with a knife.
Others looked at Li Li and couldn't help but be amazed: This kid looks thin but is a cruel person!
But Li Li's "forced selling" price is very reasonable. After looking at the yellow buds in his pot, everyone thought that they would buy them at a price of ten cents per head at this size, and then resell them at a price of twelve cents per head, and they would not have to worry about selling them, and they would earn two cents per head at a price of two cents per head.
After hearing Li Li's words, Da Niupeng's face turned red, his mouth opened and closed, and he wanted to speak but didn't know what to say.
He had seen Li Li several times before, and Li Li in his memory was a timid boy. In the past, when he came to the fish market, he was yelling loudly and immediately became as obedient as a kitten.
Now he has become a different person, becoming more like an evil boy than him.
The big cat Peng has always bullied the weak, and he is the only one who forced himself to buy. He has never encountered a "forced sell". He relies on his reputation as a family, and on his bluff.
But now when he meets someone even more fierce, he won’t be able to get angry. After all, he is a fish seller, not a lifelong man.
Li Li began to urge: "Yeah, okay, please feel better! Don't be like a little lady."
When Da Niu Peng heard Li Li say this, he looked around and saw that his previous momentum had long disappeared. Of course, he did not dare to stab each other with a knife, and he earned two cents with one fish. This deal was still a good deal.
But just like Li Li's wish, he felt unhappy: "Who wants to fight you alone is unlucky!"
Seeing that the thorn was softened, Li Li said to the onlookers: "Everyone testified to me, I decided to make a deal with him, a yellow bud and ten cents of copper coins, the price is fair, right?"
Someone wanted to echo "Yes", but saw Da Ai Peng staring and didn't say anything, but some people whispered loudly regardless of the person's gaze that was about to kill, "Yes!"
"Da Niu Peng, whether to buy it or not, please feel better!" Li Li looked at Da Niu Peng, and Da Niu Peng also looked at him, panting, and after a moment, he said, "Okay."
Li Li threw the knife and patted the man on the shoulder: "Hey, the deal is settled. I have more than 200 yellow yadians here, totaling more than 2,000 yuan. Please give me money."
The angry Da Niu Peng was surprised when he heard the "more than two hundred tails". He didn't bother to be angry, looked down at the wooden basins on the ground and counted.
I felt that my fingers were not enough, so I made a estimation with a bitter face.
After a moment, I felt that there were not so many, so I looked at Li Li again: "Where do you get so many Huang Yading? Could it be that he was painted?"
Li Li smiled and said, "Drawing? Are your eyes working? There are many wooden barrels on the cart behind me, and the fish are all in the barrel!"
Da Niu Peng looked at the many wooden barrels in the cart and the many yellow articulates in the barrel, and he was a little unconscious. He probably knew Li Li's background, but he was just a poor family member.
There is no adult male at home and no helper, so he doesn't think that Li Li has the ability to get so many yellow buds himself.
But there are indeed many fish, so I am secretly happy: I have made a fortune, I have made a fortune, there are many such big yellow yadians. Even if I earn two pennies per tail, I can make a lot of money in total. Aye will praise me!
Da Niu Peng was happy, but he couldn't hide his troubles on his face, and he couldn't help but laugh. When several evil boys saw this, they walked aside reluctantly.
They just came to help the scene, and the ones who took the lead didn't care, so why bother to sway themselves?
The evil teenagers looked at Li Li, remembering Li Li's fierce appearance just now, and they couldn't help but feel awe in their eyes.
Li Li asked Wu Xiang to prepare to hand over the fish quickly. The transaction was completed today. Although the price was a little lower than his expectations, it was within the acceptance range. The most important thing was to clear the goods and cash them out. This was the most important thing.
When ordinary people do business, they are most afraid of being entangled by gangsters because they can't afford it. Li Li knew that he was weak and it was boring to continue entangled with Big Niu Peng, so he stopped when he saw the opportunity.
While I was busy, I suddenly heard a voice in my ear: "Huh? Li Li? What are you doing here?"
The voice was very familiar. Li Li looked up and saw that it was Liu Pan standing in front of him.
Beside him was a servant, a middle-aged man, an official, and several followers behind him.
The official is still the master of the school, and this "appearance lineup" is exactly the same as the restaurants that come to the restaurants every day.
Li Li confirmed the identity of this "Lu Langjun" from Liu Decai: Liu Pan, the son of Liu Yan, the inner historian of Poyang, but he knew the right amount and did not want to get close to this aristocratic family.
Liu Pan looked at the wooden basin on the ground, then looked at Li Li and the people next to him, and was stunned for a moment, then asked Li Li with some anger: "If you don't go to catch silver carp, what are you doing here?"
Chapter completed!