Chapter 63 Door-to-door sales of seafood

(Those who read the above two chapters late at night before 6 a.m. on March 21 may have missed the chapter "Family Portrait in the Storm". You can go back to the previous chapter and refresh it.) The storm came quickly and went away quickly. In the afternoon, the wind stopped and the rain stopped, and everything returned to peace.

As for the losses, the only loss of the Liang family in this storm was three pieces of clothes that were forgotten to be collected and were blown away by the wind. They were later found in the corner of the wall near the village primary school. In other words, they were blown away two or three miles, which was beyond the current range of Liang Xiaohai's daily wandering.

It is said that after the rain, the air is especially fresh. Liang Ziqiang feels this way now.

The main thing was that the night was no longer as hot and stuffy as usual. He made some simple preparations for going to the city tomorrow and went to bed.

He slept soundly and comfortably, without any distracting thoughts.

All distracting thoughts were directed to Liang Zifeng who was on the other side of the bed. That same night, Liang Zifeng couldn't sleep all night, holding three books that were already blurred and unusable.

Early the next morning, Liang Ziqiang got up, washed and dressed, and as usual, was urged by his father to go to the Mazu Temple.

Just like yesterday, we first burned incense, then kneeled three times and bowed nine times.

After finishing this task, he immediately returned home, put the conches, abalone, lobster, large scallops, and a brown sea bass into two of the largest buckets, and carried them to the city.

Without a car, he and Lin Baixian had to carry their own loads and walk all the way from the fishing village to the town on foot.

On the way, Liang Ziqiang asked Lin Baixian how the trip to Xiaolang Village went yesterday.

"It's difficult! My second uncle insisted that the boat had been in good condition and I had to take responsibility for it since I broke it. I guess he will come over to talk about the boat in the next two days." Lin Baixian felt a headache when he mentioned this.

Liang Ziqiang also shook his head after hearing this: "Let's take it one step at a time. When he comes over, call him and I'll go and listen to what he has to say. Today, let's concentrate on selling these goods and try to get a good price!"

The two talked all the way and arrived at the town unknowingly.

There are cars in the town, but they only go to the county town and not directly to Yanghai City.

The two took a bus in the town and soon arrived at the county town. They changed another bus in the county town and got off at the bus station in the city.

At the Yanghai Bus Station, the two asked several people and finally found the bus to Yingbin Road.

It has been open for several years, and Yanghai City is a coastal city, so it has close contact with the outside world. What I saw on the bus was quite new.

Whether it's the newly built buildings, or the bell-bottom pants and flowery shirts of the young men and women on the street, or the wavy hair and frog-eye glasses of some people...

Of course, all this was nothing new to Liang Ziqiang. After all, in the century he had lived through, the buildings in every place he had been to were taller than those today, and people's clothes were more glamorous.

But it was different for Lin Baixian. When he walked out of the fishing village and saw the new urban area, he kept shaking his hands and didn't stop.

He leaned on the car window, opened it, looked out and shouted, and was finally warned by the driver and the conductor in unison and almost kicked off the car.

They arrived at the department store and the two men got off the car carrying buckets.

The moment the car door opened, a unique, beautiful and sweet sound rushed into my ears like waves.

It turned out that there was a small tape store next to the department store. In the store, a sweet female song from Island Bay was playing loudly.

"You asked me how much I love you, how much I love you;

My feelings are true, my love is true..."

“A gentle kiss has touched my heart;

A deep love that makes me miss you till now..."

The melody is like a breeze blowing peach blossoms, so gentle and so pink.

Lin Baixian couldn't move his feet at once:

"What kind of song is this? Is there anyone who sings like this? Can you please stand here and listen for a while longer..."

Liang Ziqiang could fully understand how shocking the sudden sound waves were for Lin Baixian, who lived in the village and had never been exposed to this type of song.

But forget it if he just stood there with him and listened stupidly.

For Liang Ziqiang, these melodies no longer have the initial surprise and excitement they brought. Instead, they bring him a completely different kind of nostalgic mood, as if he were in another world.

It would even remind him of too many distant past events, and Lin Baixian was afraid that he would not be able to understand that kind of mood.

He pulled Lin Baixian:

"Let's go. Who would stand on the curb and listen to music? If you want to listen, buy a boat and earn more money. Buy a tape recorder and a few cassettes like this. Listen to them every day and every night!"

Lin Baixian picked up the bucket and followed:

"You're right, make more money! I listen to it 24 hours a day! By the way, what is a tape recorder?"

"..." Liang Ziqiang realized that there were too many things that he couldn't explain clearly, and he was too lazy to explain them in detail, so he replied directly, "Once you have money, you will know it naturally!"

As expected, Yuehai Restaurant was not far from the department store. The two walked along the road and soon found it.

Yuehai Restaurant doesn’t look big, but its decoration is obviously newer than the buildings next to it, and it appears to be more upscale.

The two carried the bucket into the restaurant lobby, which attracted a strange look from the waiters. When asked, Liang Ziqiang quickly said that he was looking for Manager Du, and then mentioned that he was introduced by Lu Feng.

"Wait a minute, I'll ask Manager Du."

After the waiter left, when he returned, there was a man in a suit, slightly fat, with a mustache next to him.

"Are you the friends from the fishing village introduced by Lu Feng?" the man in his thirties asked as he approached.

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Liang Ziqiang nodded and asked:

"You are Manager Du, right? I heard that you need some uncommon seafood?"

Manager Du nodded. "When I say uncommon, I don't mean the usual pomfret or perch, as long as they are slightly larger. I don't know if Lu Feng has explained this to you clearly?"

Hearing what Manager Du said, it was obvious that he suspected that Liang Ziqiang and the other man had picked some common fish and shrimp and came to sell them.

Liang Ziqiang didn't say anything else. He just reached out and opened the lid of one of the buckets.

Normally, this bucket doesn't need a lid, but this time we have to walk a long way into the city and meet too many people along the way, so in order to avoid attracting onlookers, we deliberately covered the bucket with a lid.

The moment Manager Du opened the lid of the barrel, the expression on his face changed from indifference to surprise, and from surprise to joy, with obvious transitions.

"This is where customers come and go. You two follow me to the back and we'll talk slowly!"

Manager Du quickly made an inviting gesture.

Liang Ziqiang replaced the lid of the barrel, and the two of them picked up the barrel and followed Manager Du, passing through the service staff and customers, and then through a corridor.

When we arrived at Manager Du's office, Manager Du's tone was much more polite than when we first met: "Please take a seat, both of you. I'll pour you two cups of tea."

After pouring the tea, he asked Liang Ziqiang to open the lid of the bucket again.

Manager Du bent down and looked carefully at the brown stripe in the bucket and the pile of snails at the bottom.

"This brown banded spot is more rare than the normal blue spot, but it's not too difficult for our restaurant to get."

As he spoke, he reached out and picked up a chicken claw snail, his eyes became a little shocked: "But this chicken claw snail, to be honest, we can't get this size even if we want to buy it. If you two can still get some, I hope you can come here to find me next time!"

Both the look in Manager Du's eyes and his straightforward words have shown that the size and quality of these chicken claw snails are extremely rare, and they are rare even in a place of the same level as Yuehai Restaurant.

Based on this, Liang Ziqiang quickly calculated and estimated the price in his mind.

"Manager Du really has a good eye. We took a big risk and lost a lot of skin to get these snails. But in the future, since we were able to get them the first time, we will definitely be able to get them the second and third time.

If Manager Du offers a good price, we will definitely come to you instead of going anywhere else!"

After saying that, Liang Ziqiang looked at Manager Du expectantly, waiting for him to quote a price he liked.

He had heard Lu Feng say on the phone that Yuehai Restaurant could offer a high price of twelve yuan per pound for ordinary chicken claw snails.

But the key point is that these snails in his bucket are not ordinary.

Judging from Manager Du’s current reaction, Liang Ziqiang felt that the price must be higher than twelve yuan!

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