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Chapter 384: Big Loudspeaker Sells Little Black Blind Dog Cheap
Late at night, the two little black blind cats were full of energy, and Li Fuqiang was so angry that he locked them in the west room. But the little black blind cats were always curious and wandered around, sometimes pulling down the thermos, sometimes biting the door curtain to play. Yang Shuhua asked him to throw the little black blind cats into the empty tank in the lower room, and then they fell asleep peacefully.

The next day was April 1984, 4, only seven days away from the beginning of summer.

Xu Ning didn't get up until after seven o'clock. As soon as he washed his face, Wang Biao, Jiang Qiuer, Liu Tianen, Jin Yumantang and Xu Feng went to school together.

After he and Wang Hu had a quick breakfast, they pulled two small sleds towards the west entrance of the village. They had a lot of things with them, including four guns, two old I-shaped air guns and more than a thousand lead bullets, one 56-and-a-half rifle, one old round-handled rifle, and more than a hundred bullets.

In addition, there are various daily necessities, such as clothes, shoes, socks, pillows, bedding, and a lot of food, such as eggs, fish, bear oil, etc.

It can be said that the two of them went to Dongshan to live. With so many things, they would have to live in Dongshan for more than half a month.

When the two passed by Li Fuqiang's house, they happened to see Liu Daming and Lao Jiang unloading a pig. They were keeping the pig for themselves to eat and sharing it among several families.

"Erning! Take some meat before you go." Liu Daming called out.

Xu Ning dropped the sled rope, stepped into the door, and said with a smile, "Okay, where's the little black blind man?"

Yang Shuhua stood at the door, wiping her hands with a rag, and said, "Don't mention it. They were so busy last night that I asked your eldest brother to throw them into the tank."

"Hahaha...it's normal for these two little guys to be a little curious about our world since they just opened their eyes. It's okay, I'll send them to my brother today and let him arrange for the sale."

"Row……"

Lao Jiang cut the ribs and pork leg meat, looked up and asked: "What if we can't sell them? Guoxing and I are from ordinary families, and we can't afford to support them at all."

"If they can't be sold, just throw them away at my house. My mom is just saying that, but she's soft-hearted... When two little lives come into our house, will my mom still ignore it?"

Lao Jiang waved his hand and said, "Stop causing trouble for my sister-in-law. How about this? The three of us will take turns to support her until you come down the mountain."

"That's okay too."

Liu Daming took the ribs and pork leg, threw them on the sled, and waved: "Hurry up, you two, we still need to build a shack in Dongshan."

"Okay, if you have any urgent matters, come find me at Dongshan."

"know."

After Xu Ning and Wang Hu left, Lao Jiang and Liu Daming were not idle either. They delivered the unloaded meat to each family. The most pork and fish were sent to Lao Xu's family, because Liu Daming wanted Liu Lizhen and others to make fish balls, and then he could give some to Da Laba and Lao Jiang to try.

Afterwards, the two men threw the remaining four wild boars, a sack of fish and two little black bears onto the sled and pulled the sled to Taiping.

It is not easy to pull the sled now, because the snow on the ground has melted, and the exposed dirt road is full of potholes, and the mixture with snow and water has turned into mud...

When we arrived at the door of Da Laba's house in Taipingtun, Da Laba and Zhang Guifang came out to greet us.

"Uncle, Brother Jiang! Come in and have some water before you get busy all morning."

Liu Daming put down the sled and said, "It's not that great. It depends on you how much you can sell later."

The loud speaker patted his chest and said, "No problem. I came back last night and studied for a while. I wrote down everything I told my brother."

"You're quite diligent." Lao Jiang said with a smile, "There are more than ten households that order meat from us now. It's really difficult for us to sell all four pigs in one day."

"The hardest things to sell are the two little black bears."

Loudspeaker nodded: "It's okay, I won't say anything, just do your best. If you can sell it, that's even better. If you can't sell it, just keep it at home."

Zhang Guifang walked to the sled, opened the sack and took a look at the little black blind cats, then closed the sack and went into the house and said, "These two little black blind cats look silly, but they are quite cute."

Loudspeaker tilted his head and scolded: "Can cuteness be eaten?"

"Ah? I didn't say anything, why are you arguing with me?"

Zhang Guifang rolled her eyes. It was only because Liu Daming and Lao Jiang were in charge that Da Laba Qing would be punished. Otherwise, Da Laba Qing would be the one who would be punished.

Liu Daming joked: "Now Guoxing's family status has risen."

Zhang Guifang curled her lips and said, "You've made a lot of money these days, so you're always showing off to me, especially when there are people at home."

Lao Jiang smiled and said, "Guifang, then don't indulge him. Cut it when it's time to cut it."

Big Trumpet grinned and said, "Hahaha, uncle, I just want to show off. After you leave, she will definitely tickle me."

Zhang Guifang rolled her eyes and said, "I'm too lazy to tickle you. Have you seen me scold you recently?"

Da Loudspeaker thought: I didn’t scold you, but I was sleeping soundly in the middle of the night for the first two days, and you got up and slapped me twice…

"You stew two fish for lunch, and Uncle and Brother Jiang can eat them here."

"Guoxing, don't..."

Liu Daming was about to refuse, but Zhang Guifang said hurriedly, "Uncle, Brother Jiang, let's eat here for lunch. I'll just stew two fish and nothing else."

"...Okay then. Guoxing, let's go quickly."

"Got it."

Afterwards, the three men came to the courtyard, unloaded two wild boars from the sled, and only dragged the two wild boars to sell.

But Da Laba released the two little black blind cats from the sack, tied them up with ropes, and led them out the door.

"Brother Jiang, what do you think about me taking them for a walk around the store?"

"Okay, we can just go to Old Min's house across from the store to deliver the meat."

The three of them each pulled their sleds and led the little black blind boy out of the yard. Just after they walked more than thirty meters, they met a villager who was shoveling ash with a shovel.

When the villager saw the two little black blind kids, his eyes lit up and he asked in surprise, "Hey? Where did these two little black blind kids come from?"

Da Loudspeaker said with a smile: "Brother Tang, I caught this on the mountain last night. Can you take a look at it?"

"It looks good, are you going to raise it as livestock?"

"Why raise them? I was thinking of selling them. These two little guys will grow to over 300 kilograms in a year and a half. By then, the bear gall will be worth 3,000 yuan..."

It is nonsense to say that a black bear can grow to 3 kilograms in one and a half years, because it takes 4- years for a black bear to grow up, and it only weighs more than kilograms when it grows up.

But the loudspeaker has to exaggerate in order to attract attention. When it comes to selling things, how can you sell them if you don’t exaggerate?

"It's worth three thousand dollars? Why would you sell it? It would be better to keep it yourself."

"Brother Tang, I am a mountain hiker. I raise livestock in the mountains. If you keep them at home, it will cut off my source of income. It's easy to make a mistake."

Old Tang was stunned: "Is there such a thing?"

"Why not..."

The loud speaker boasted a lot and then said, "We just killed six wild boars yesterday, picked up a sack of fish, and two little black blinds. This luck... Oh, it's going to be amazing."

Old Tang glanced at Liu Daming and Old Jiang. They smiled at him. He pointed at a sack of fish and asked, "Are you selling fish too?"

"Sell it. This thing is cheap. Thirty cents a piece, fifty cents a pair."

Old Tang asked, "Are there three scales?"

"No, they are all silver carp, carp and crucian carp."

Old Tang pointed at a whole wild boar and asked, "How much is this pork?"

"The front ribs are seven cents, the ribs are eight cents, the pig's trotters and pig's heads are five cents...Brother Tang, this meat doesn't need a ticket like farm pork, and farm pork is so expensive? One pound is 1 yuan, who can afford it?"

Old Tang nodded: "Then you wait here for a while, I'll go into the house."

"to make."

Old Tang came into the yard carrying a shovel. Liu Daming looked at his back and said with a smile, "Guoxing has learned a lot. His tongue is even more eloquent than before..."

"Indeed, she is full of lies."

Dababa laughed and said, "I practiced at home for a while last night, and asked Guifang to practice with me this morning. This book is full of clichés!" "It's a good idea to do this..."

Old Tang walked out of the house quickly and said, "Pick me four fish and cut some pork for me."

"Okay, which piece of meat do you want? The front rib and the back rib are the same price, the ribs are a bit more expensive, eight cents..."

"Cut half a rib and some front rib. I'm selling so much, why don't you give me a discount?"

The loud speaker laughed and said, "It must be cheap. I'll give you a discount later."

Lao Jiang and Liu Daming bent down to unload the pig. After a while, they cut half a rib and the front trough. They weighed them on the scale and it was exactly 2 yuan.

"Brother Tang, just give me 2."

"Row."

The price of wild boar meat is very low. I only make 1 yuan by selling more than 8 kilograms of meat. This is because I have no capital. If I had capital, I would not be able to earn more than 10 yuan after working hard for a whole day.

However, Liu Daming, Lao Jiang and Da Laba are very content. After all, they can only earn a little over 1 yuan a day by doing odd jobs in Lengchang.

After walking around the village twice and selling a pig and half a sack of fish, they arrived at Lao Hu's house and Da Laba brought Lao Hu six fish and more than ten pounds of pork. Lao Hu wanted to invite them into the house to sit for a while, but Da Laba said that he had to go to Qing'an for a walk in the afternoon, so he didn't go in and just chatted for a while at the door.

When Lao Hu heard that Xu Ning had gone to Dongshan, he asked, "When will Er Ning come back?"

"It will take more than half a month."

"Ah, you want to sell these two little black blind dogs too?"

"Sell! But no one in our village can raise one..."

Old Hu waved his hands: "Why can't anyone raise it? Can't Old Fang raise it? He has sheep at home, and the little black blind can also drink sheep's milk, right?"

"Yes! Oh, how could I forget about Lao Fang. Uncle Hu, let's go to Lao Fang's house."

"Let's go, Brother Hu."

"Go ahead. Come in and sit down when you have time."

"Hey, that's good."

When the three of them walked near Lao Fang's house, they deliberately slowed down their pace and shouted loudly through the loudspeaker: "Selling fish! Cheap! Shredded and rotten! Selling wild boar meat! Cheap! Selling live black bears..."

When the neighbors on both sides of Lao Fang's house heard this, they came out and asked, "What kind of fish is this?"

"Silver carp... big ones cost 30 cents, two for 50 cents, small ones cost 20 cents, three for 50 cents."

Da Laba pushed Lao Jiang's back and motioned him to walk towards Lao Fang's door. Lao Jiang and Liu Daming strode forward a few steps and stood motionless at the door of Lao Fang's house.

People from several families on the left and right gathered around, and the noise made Old Fang, Fang Min, and Fang Daquan, who were inside the house, stick their heads out. The old lady and her daughter-in-law lay under the window and looked out.

"What are you selling outside our house? Why is it so annoying?" said the old lady with a pout.

"Just showing off, selling two broken fish..."

Before his daughter-in-law finished speaking, Lao Fang said, "I'll go out and take a look."

"Master, I'll go with you." Fang Min said.

Now Fang Min's injuries have healed, but there are still scars on his face.

He has not dared to go out during this period, for fear that people in the village would gossip about him. What if they give him a nickname?
If he was called Scarface or BigScar, wouldn't it cause indelible pain to his young heart?

"Can you go out?"

Fang Min took out a piece of cloth from his pocket, wrapped it around his face and said, "This way no one will see me."

"Let's go."

Lao Fang and Fang Min walked out of the house and arrived at the gate of the yard, where they saw three or four people picking fish.

“How do you sell fish?”

"..."

The loud speaker looked up and replied.

"It's so expensive... These fish can be picked up for free in the mountains, why are you still spending money to buy them?" Lao Fang said.

Lao Jiang frowned and looked at him, saying, "If you are not afraid of leopards, go into the mountains and pick one up."

"Hey, Brother Jiang, we are not the same as him." Liu Daming advised.

The loud speaker stared at Lao Fang and said, "I didn't offend you, did I? You said your sheep was killed by a leopard, and I went to great lengths to find someone to help you. I didn't ask you for a penny, did I? What? Are you trying to cut off my source of income now?"

Lao Fang was stunned when he heard this. "What are you talking about? I didn't say anything."

At this time, Fang Min pointed at the two little black blind dogs at the feet of the trumpet and pulled Lao Fang's arm and said in surprise: "Master! Little black blind dogs!"

"What the hell? Where did you get this?"

Da Loudspeaker said angrily: "It's free to pick it up on the mountain. If you have the ability, you can also go up the mountain to pick it up."

"Guoxing, my uncle was a bit harsh, why are you still holding a grudge?"

Da Laba picked up two fish and handed them to each of them. He looked up at Lao Fang but didn't say anything.

Fang Min came up to him and squatted down to touch the little black blind man, but Lao Jiang scolded him: "Don't touch it! If you bite it, we will have to patch it up!"

Fang Min was so frightened by Lao Jiang's shout that he took two steps back and sat down on the ground. Seeing this, the neighbors on both sides laughed.

Lao Fang walked over and helped his grandson up, and said, "What are you yelling at my grandson?"

"I just shouted, what can you do about it?" Lao Jiang tilted his head and stared at him with a smile.

Originally, Lao Jiang had a bad temper. He would only smile when he was with people like Xu Laonian. He would look gloomy with others, making others feel that he was difficult to approach.

"Hey, you..."

The loud speaker looked up and said, "Uncle Fang, that's enough. We're not blocking your way. Why are you arguing with us?"

At this time, the people who came to buy meat and fish had already left. They never spoke to Lao Fang from beginning to end. Why?
Because Lao Fang is not popular. His neighbors think he is troublesome, stingy, and has body odor...

Because of raising sheep, Lao Fang often quarreled with his neighbors, and they almost got into a fight last summer.

"You're selling things at my doorstep, why don't I come out and take a look?"

The loud speaker said, "You can take a look, but you can't cut off my source of income. What did you say just now? What do you mean by this fish is found for free in the mountains? Why do you need to spend money to buy it? I call you Uncle Fang, why are you talking so much? So many people are listening, what do you mean?"

Lao Fang was speechless after being asked by the loud speaker. He looked at the fish and pork on the sled and said, "Uncle was wrong. I apologize to you, okay?"

"Forget it, since you are old, I don't like people who are the same as you."

The loud speaker pulled the little black bear's rope and said, "Big Bear and Little Bear, let's go quickly. I'll find a good buyer for you..."

Fang Min asked, "Is this little black blind cat also for sale?"

“For sale, but your family can’t afford it.”

Lao Fang frowned and said unhappily, "What are you talking about? What do you mean my family can't afford it? How much are you selling it for?"

"five hundred!"

Suddenly, Lao Fang's arrogance dropped by half, and his stretched neck shrank back, "That... is quite expensive."

(End of this chapter)