The next morning, after breakfast, Chen Wang asked his wife to find two sacks and put the half roe deer meat that he had received yesterday into the sacks, as well as seventy or eighty kilograms of wild rabbit meat that his wife had pickled and smoked.
There is too much meat at home and we can’t finish it. It would be nice to take some out and sell it to make some money.
Just as I finished packing, Chen Dazhuang came over on his bike, with a bulging sack tied to the back seat.
After saying goodbye to Lin Xiuqin, the two rode their bicycles to Old Man Lu’s home in the next village.
The door was open and Old Man Lu had been waiting for them.
After inviting the two men into the house, Old Man Lu pointed to the two large water tanks.
"You can pick your own, and leave the ones you don't want for me."
"Then I'll weigh it directly. Brother Zhuang, go get me the scale and the empty sack."
Chen Wang said to Chen Dazhuang.
Since they often went to the town to sell things, both of them carried that kind of beam scale.
Chen Dazhuang nodded, turned around and went out, taking the scale and sack from the bicycle.
"Old man, do you have any paper and pen? Since we are doing business together, it's better to record it."
Chen Wang said to Old Man Lu.
"Wait, let me look for it."
After Old Man Lu finished speaking, he turned around and went to find paper and pen.
"Are these all the fish that Grandpa caught? There are too many, right?"
Chen Dazhuang looked at the fish in the two tanks and said in surprise.
"The old man is pretty good at fishing."
Chen Wang smiled, looked at the old man and asked, "Grandpa, there are a lot more fish. Did you go fishing again yesterday?"
"Yes, since we can sell them, it would be better to catch more. I went there early yesterday morning."
Old Man Lu answered with a smile.
"You can fish, but don't get yourself in trouble. The weather is getting colder."
Chen Wang gave a concerned reminder.
"I know, I know. It's okay."
Old Man Lu agreed with a smile and brought a notebook and a pen.
"Then start weighing. Can you write numbers?"
Chen Wang asked.
Old Man Lu smiled and nodded, "Since he has been to elementary school, it should be fine."
"Okay, then I'll be in charge of weighing them. Dazhuang, you help catch the fish and throw them into the sack after weighing them. Old man, you'll be in charge of recording the weight of each fish. Just write a number, and I'll do the count at the end."
"Okay!"
"OK."
After everything was ready, the three of them divided the work and started working.
Chen Dazhuang first caught a carp, and the tail of the struggling fish almost hit him in the face.
"Be careful."
Chen Wang reminded with a smile.
"It's okay, it's okay. I didn't expect this fish to be so strong. What should I do now? Even if I hang it directly on the hook, it won't work!"
Chen Dazhuang asked in surprise.
"Yes, look at my brain, I forgot about this. Old man, do you have that kind of net bag?"
Chen Wang looked at Old Man Lu and asked.
"Net bag? Yes, there are."
Old Man Lu nodded repeatedly and quickly went to find a net bag.
Chen Wang took the net bag and asked Chen Dazhuang to put the fish in it. He said, "Then catch two more and weigh them together!"
Chen Dazhuang nodded, grabbed two more fish from the water tank and put them into the net bag.
"Okay."
Chen Wang hung the net bag on the hook and moved the weight on it until the beam balance was balanced.
"This is 15.6 jin, please take a look, old man."
"It's okay, no need to look, I believe you."
As Old Man Lu spoke, he wrote down the number 15.6 in the notebook.
Chen Wang didn't say anything. He took down the net bag, poured the fish into a sack, and then handed the net bag to Chen Dazhuang.
Chen Dazhuang continued to put fish in, Chen Wang weighed it, and then the old man recorded the numbers and poured the fish into the sack.
After becoming familiar with the entire process, the three of them divided the work and cooperated with each other, and their efficiency was quite high.
In about half an hour, the sack was basically full.
I found another sack at the old man's house and filled it up. Then there were not many fish left in the two water tanks, only a few small fish.
Chen Wang took the notebook from the old man and added up the numbers, the total was 245 jin 7 liang.
"Let's say it's 246 kilograms, 50 cents a kilogram, that's 123 yuan, is that right?"
While asking questions, Chen Wang also wrote down the numbers 123 in the notebook, and also wrote down the year, month and date on top of the numbers recorded today.
In this way, the data of each fish purchase will be clear at a glance.
"Yes."
"I don't have that much cash on hand. We have to go sell the goods first and come back to pay you in the afternoon."
"It's okay. It's what I should do."
Old Man Lu nodded with a smile.
"Well, as I told you last time, if you have anything you want to buy, I'll bring it back for you."
"It's nothing. Just buy me some rice, flour, grain, oil, some meat, vegetables, etc. Just anything."
"Okay, I'll buy it then."
Chen Wang smiled and nodded.
Then, the old man helped and tied the two sacks of fish to the bicycle.
The 28-meter-long bicycles these days are very capable of carrying people and cargo.
In addition to the back seat, sacks can also be tied to the front bar.
You know, Odebiao, the banana-puller, was a strong man who could pull 400 bananas on a shabby 28-inch bicycle at a maximum speed of 70 kilometers per hour.
Chen Wang and his companions were naturally not that strong, but they could still pull one or two hundred kilograms of cargo without any problem.
"Okay, old man, let's go first."
Chen Wang sat on the bicycle and said goodbye to the old man with a chuckle.
"be safe!"
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