The folding fish pond I bought online has arrived home more than a week ago.
But during this period, Qin Suyun was always preoccupied with other things and did not go to buy fish fry. Even Hei Dou was eating cat food at home during this period.
Qin Suyun had heard the fishmongers blaring from the speakers and decided to buy some fish. If nothing else, at least she could treat her furry friends. These days, she'd been busy running around collecting supplies, grabbing a few bites at small restaurants or stalls, leaving the big black beans at home without much care.
Now that the Chinese New Year is almost here, she has to give these furry kids some extra food. It's also a good opportunity to take advantage of the fact that the whole world has not yet experienced the most brutal natural disasters. She should eat as much fish and meat as possible. Although she has collected so many supplies, she cannot guarantee that her living standards in the future will be the same as now.
But before she could even get to the fish truck, she saw that it was surrounded by people buying fish.
Qin Suyun's eyelids twitched, and she didn't plan to buy fish here. She thought of waiting for two days to marinate the meat on hand, and then driving to the city to buy fish.
The market in the town is different from the one in the city. There are three fixed stalls selling meat on the whole street, but there is no fixed stall selling fresh fish.
She didn't know whether it was because people thought that fish and shrimp could be caught in the river and it was not cost-effective to buy them home to eat, or because it was troublesome and inconvenient to set up a fish stall, but in all these years, she had never seen a fixed fish stall.
If people in the town or village want to buy fish, they either have to go somewhere else or wait for the market every three days. Only at this market will one or two fish sellers come here in small trucks or carrying fish buckets to sell fish.
Qin Suyun walked all the way here today, and this was the only place on the entire street where she could buy fresh fish.
But she didn't expect there to be so many people... She was completely unable to do it, so she had to give up.
However, she had just given up and hadn't even reached the fish stall when she saw that the situation there was tense and about to lead to a conflict.
Qin Suyun took a look and didn't want to get involved in these things, so she followed the shop owner's footsteps and walked towards the street and storefront. "Okay, let's go that way."
It was said to be walking through, but in fact it was more like squeezing together. In such a cold winter, Qin Suyun was sweating profusely before she had walked more than ten meters.
In just a few steps and a few minutes, the tense atmosphere at the fish stall beside the road seemed to ease.
The young man who had collected the money earlier put the money from the last fish into the bag on his waist, turned around and blocked his brother's way, "Alright, alright! Harmony brings wealth, harmony brings wealth. It's New Year's Day, there's no need to get angry over others!"
The young man turned around and raised an eyebrow at the old man selling fish at the stall next to him. With a half-smile on his lips, he sneered, "Old man, I know you're jealous of our business, so you're deliberately looking for trouble... But these days, if you want to deliberately cause trouble, you have to have some skills and confidence. With someone like you... I don't think you can do it! It would be bad if you hunt geese and get pecked in the eye instead..."
When this young man spoke, it seemed as if every word was squeezed out from between his teeth. Although there was a smile on his face, his tone made people feel that his voice was gloomy, as if he had crawled out of hell.
The fishmonger next to him was so frightened that his face turned pale!
At that moment, someone in the crowd suddenly said, "Hey, aren't these the two brothers from the Fan family in Jiangtian Village? Why are they selling fish here?"
"The two Fan brothers from Jiangtian Village, are you talking about the two Fan brothers who were just released from the police station outside?"
Just two hasty words caused a commotion among the crowd.
Released from the police station? What's going on?
Now everyone stopped watching the fun and wanted to leave. These days, not every fun can be watched! They didn't want to cause any trouble! How could someone released from the police station be a good person? They, the common people, couldn't afford to offend!
The fishmonger had already been sweating profusely. He was already a little scared because the two brothers were tall and strong. Now that he knew that they were released from the police station, he was even more frightened. He was afraid that the man on the opposite side would punch him and hurt him.
He is so old, what if something goes wrong?
The fishmonger swallowed his saliva and was a little afraid to look the Fan brothers in the eye: "I'm old and my eyesight is not good. I didn't see clearly just now... You guys sell the fish over here, I'll go to the other end..."
After the fishmonger finished speaking, he picked up his fish bucket and ran out of the crowd. His speed was as if he was being chased by a dog!
The parties involved had already left, and the people around naturally dispersed faster. Qin Suyun and the shop owner stood in the corner of the wall next to the shop, for fear of accidentally colliding with someone. The bags in their hands were full of sharpened knives. If they accidentally bumped into someone and got scratched, a broken knife would be a small matter, but it would not be cost-effective to take the person to the hospital.
Therefore, in just ten minutes, before Qin Suyun and the shop owner left, most of the people around them had already dispersed.
The Fan family's fish stall, which had been bustling with activity, was now completely deserted. The area around it seemed to have become a vacuum zone. Everyone regarded the two brothers of the Fan family and their stall as dangerous and contagious items. Many villagers would rather take a detour than go to their stall.
"Let's go too. You lead the way." Seeing that the exit of the street market was right in front of them, the shop owner relaxed his brows and said when he saw that most of the crowd had finally dispersed.
Unexpectedly, just sending the person out of the market gate would delay him for nearly 20 minutes. The shop owner was really unhappy.
Qin Suyun's sharp eyes naturally noticed the shop owner's unpleasant expression. She thought about it and decided not to waste his time any longer. Her car was parked not far away, and she could carry all these things by herself. "Boss, just take me here. You can go back. I'll carry these things myself."
"Okay, I'll be leaving then!" The grocery store owner didn't hesitate at all. He simply dusted off his hands, put down the knife, and left. He smiled as he left, saying, "Next time you want to buy a knife, come to my house. I'll definitely give you a good price."
Of course, the boss said this, but he didn't really think so. This woman bought so many knives at once, she wouldn't be able to use them all even if she lived her next life!
Everyone says that the quality of things these days is not as good as it was a decade ago, but even if the quality is not good, this knife cannot be damaged by just cutting vegetables.
Thinking about how he had just given the woman next to him a whetstone, the boss nodded with satisfaction and felt that he was a really good boss.
Qin Suyun looked at the grocery store owner's back as he left, and found his anxious pace a little funny. But when she thought about it, it was not a comfortable thing for her to be outside in such a cold weather for more than 20 minutes.
After a short delay, the streets here have returned to their original state, and are even more deserted than before.
One could easily guess that it was all because of the incident between the two Fan brothers. Qin Suyun looked at the fish stalls of the two brothers across from her, then at the things in her hands, and finally decided to carry her things and walk out of the market.
Although there were no other customers at the other stall at this time, she didn't have a bag to buy fish.
The car was parked on the street not far from the market. Qin Suyun saw her car not far away. She quickened her pace and walked out, wanting to put her things in the car and drive home.
The two brothers from the Fan family in the market saw that the old man who had caused trouble had left and no one came to buy fish. After glancing around two or three times, they saw that the people around them shrank back and avoided them because of their gazes, so they stood together and whispered something.
Perhaps he felt that he could no longer sell fish here today, so he packed up his things and prepared to drive away.
Therefore, Qin Suyun's people had not yet gotten into the car. Just as they stuffed the things in their hands into the back of the truck, they saw the fish-selling truck of the two brothers of the Fan family wobbling out of the market, and the big loudspeaker tied to the roof of the truck was still ringing.
Qin Suyun's eyes lit up. Looking at the two brothers' expressions, she knew that they were planning to drive directly to the village to sell their goods.
Here, vendors who do not have fixed stalls, in addition to going to the markets in surrounding villages and towns, sometimes drive small trucks to various villages to sell their goods.
"Hey! Come here, I want to buy some fish!" Qin Suyun immediately called the person over as soon as she saw the car passing by her.
She didn't care about what she had heard at the market before. If she had been a little wary of these things, she might have tried not to have anything to do with them out of the principle of less trouble is more trouble.
Now, after this period of change, her ideas are very different from before. She only thinks that saving time, effort and money to buy the most supplies is the best way!
The reason why so many people gathered around the other party’s truck before must be because the other party’s fish was good and cheap. Country people don’t care about anything else, they just talk about reality.
Don't think that there were so many people before because they were the only one selling the most varieties of fish in the market, so their business was so good. Now there are more than 20 days until the Chinese New Year, and people are not too anxious to buy New Year's goods. If the fish is really sold at a high price, other people are not fools and they will definitely not buy anything from the stall of the two brothers of the Fan family.
They will definitely take advantage of this time to go to other markets to buy New Year's goods. There are so many people in the whole town, there is more than just this one market.
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