Lion Mountain Farmers Market.
Located in the DC district of Linjiang City, it's not far from the suburbs where he rents a place; it only takes about ten minutes by electric scooter.
Previously, when the company had holidays, he would often go there with his colleagues to buy groceries and then take them to Lao Liu's place for extra meals.
The store has a wide variety of items, including seafood, river fish, wild game, and all sorts of other things.
Especially early in the morning, the area outside the market is filled with mobile vendors.
Some local elderly people set up stalls on the ground to sell the fruits, vegetables, chicken, duck, and eggs they grow at home.
Occasionally, you can see people from the countryside selling things like wild turtles and river delicacies.
Wild rabbits and wild boar meat are often sold there.
However, I heard that you have to go early to get a spot if you set up a stall outside the market.
Generally, you have to close up shop before 8:30 a.m., otherwise, when the relevant staff come to work, they will kick you out, saying that you are obstructing traffic and affecting the city's appearance.
Of course, vendors can also set up stalls inside the market.
Because inside the farmers' market, there is a large, planned open space specifically for independent vendors. However, to set up a stall there, one must pay a sanitation management fee and a stall fee.
Yang Zheng is currently unsure of the exact amount.
It probably won't be very high anyway.
If he finds it too troublesome to sell these wild rabbits himself, he can simply find a stall that sells wild game and sell them all to the stall owner.
Of course, in that case, the price would probably be much lower.
Wild rabbit meat is delicate and has an excellent taste.
Moreover, the supply is becoming increasingly scarce, so there's no need to worry about not being able to sell them.
However, before that, he had to go to the market to find out the situation.
Look at those wild rabbits over there, what price do they usually sell for?
If the price he offers to the shop isn't too outrageous, he'll just supply all twenty-odd wild rabbits to the shop at once.
I'm too lazy to bother with that.
Because selling things at a stall is too troublesome, and I have no relevant experience at all.
It's easier to sell to those wild game vendors.
With a plan in mind, Yang Zheng immediately got on his electric bike and headed towards the Shizishan Farmers Market.
When we arrived at the farmers' market, it was not yet four o'clock in the afternoon.
There aren't many people in the market at this time.
There are usually more people in the morning.
Many people like to go out early in the morning and buy all the groceries for the day.
Because the vegetables are fresher in the morning.
When I went grocery shopping in the afternoon, all I saw were wilted and unappealing items.
Of course, if you're looking for a bargain, go to buy vegetables in the evening when vendors are in a rush to clear out their stock and close up shop, so the prices are usually cheaper than in the morning.
The area outside the market was completely deserted.
Apart from a few farm vehicles selling fruit, there were hardly any mobile vendors to be seen.
Yang Zheng went directly into the market and found a stall selling wild game.
Inside this stall, there were many cages piled up.
The ground was covered with wild animal feathers, and the dark brown ground, although washed, still had an unpleasant stench as soon as you entered the store.
Yang Zheng looked around the store and found that some cages were empty, while others contained wild rabbits, pheasants, and other miscellaneous wild game, but not in large quantities.
According to Yang Zheng's observation, the wild game stall was run by a middle-aged couple.
The man was sitting on a recliner playing on his phone, while the woman was standing at the door, chatting with the owner of a shop next door.
Upon seeing Yang Zheng enter the shop, the male stall owner immediately stood up and asked in heavily accented Mandarin, "Handsome, what do you need? I have wild rabbits, pheasants, and wild goats."
Yang Zheng looked at the rabbits in the cage and found that their limbs were broken and covered in blood. It was obvious that they had been injured by traps.
So he walked up to the rabbit cage and asked, "How much for the wild rabbit?"
The male stall owner said, "Forty-one catties, guaranteed to be live and slaughtered on the spot."
"Forty-one jin?"
Yang Zheng's heart skipped a beat. He secretly thought the price was pretty good, but wondered what the buyback price would be.
Next, he casually asked about the prices of some other wild game.
The male stall owner told him that the large pheasants cost 150 yuan each, and the small ones cost 100 yuan each, adding that stewing them with wild cat meat was very nutritious.
There are no live wild goats or wild boars; they are all slaughtered and kept in the refrigerator. Wild boar meat is 25 yuan per jin (500g), and wild goat meat is 60 yuan per jin.
As for other wild game, prices vary.
Seeing that Yang Zheng was staring at the wild rabbits in the cage, the male stall owner grabbed the largest rabbit from the cage.
"This rabbit is the fattest, probably weighing over three pounds, and it's only a little over a hundred yuan. Buy it, add some dried chili peppers, and stew it with a bottle of beer. It'll be delicious."
"Don't worry, young man, the wild game here is all genuine, sourced directly from the countryside. I've been doing this for seven or eight years, and I have many repeat customers. You can ask around the neighborhood if you don't believe me..."
To be honest, Yang Zheng felt a little embarrassed by the male stall owner's incessant sales pitch.
Originally, he only came to ask about the price and didn't intend to buy it.
Besides, the little money he had in his pocket wasn't enough.
Just as the male stall owner was about to take the wild rabbit to the scale, Yang Zheng quickly stopped him and handed him a cigarette.
"Boss, I'm not here to buy rabbits."
Upon hearing this, the male stall owner's expression changed slightly, and he appeared somewhat displeased. He also refused Yang Zheng's offer of a cigarette.
But that's normal. Why would you come here asking so many questions if you're not buying anything? It's a waste of other people's enthusiasm and time.
Yang Zheng said somewhat awkwardly, "Boss, I'm really sorry, here, have a cigarette."
"I don't smoke..."
The male stall owner frowned, put the rabbit back into the cage, and turned around to ask, "What's wrong?"
Yang Zheng hurriedly asked, "I wanted to ask if you buy wild animals here?"
The male stall owner paused for a moment, then nodded. "Some I accept, some I don't."
Upon hearing this, Yang Zheng said happily, "I have dozens of wild rabbits. What price would you like to buy them?"
"Now that it's hot, we only accept live wild rabbits, not dead ones, because we can't guarantee that they're not rotten inside."
“They’re alive, all my rabbits are alive.”
The male stall owner casually said, "The price for buying back wild rabbits is fifty yuan each. As long as they are alive, I'll buy as many as you want."
"Fifty yuan each?"
Upon hearing the boss's quote, Yang Zheng frowned slightly.
A normal-sized wild rabbit usually weighs around two or three pounds, and some larger rabbits weigh even more.
They buy them and sell them for 41 kilograms, while a rabbit can easily sell for over 100 yuan. Why is the buyback price so low?
This stall seems a bit shady.
Thinking of this, Yang Zheng smiled and said, "Boss, your recycling price is a bit low. All my rabbits are big ones, I don't have any small ones. Could you add some more?"
The male stall owner sighed, "My price isn't low. If you go to other market stalls, you'll find that the prices are basically the same."
“Young man, business is tough these days. We’re not like you. The rent for this stall is tens of thousands a year. Plus the utilities, sanitation and management fees, and other miscellaneous expenses, I don’t make much money.”
Yang Zheng was not going to take the boss's explanation to heart and continued, "Boss, add some more. Fifty yuan a piece is too low. It's not easy for us to run around in the mountains."
After much haggling, the male stall owner's wife finally returned and said, "Young man, bring your things over for us to look at. If they're generally quite large, we'll add five or ten yuan to each one..."
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