Chapter 39 Cautious Fang Aiguo
Lin Qin took the initiative to help them fish, "Look, they are all alive! The supply and marketing cooperative charges 1.6 yuan per pound, and we charge 1.5 yuan. They are clean and beautiful. They are the best for giving birth and increasing milk production!"
"Wow! One dollar and fifty cents isn't cheap! It's so small, not big enough!" Several old ladies began to find fault with it.
Lin Qin explained in a gentle voice, "Grandma, this crucian carp is about this big. If it were bigger, we would have sold out in the city. We wouldn't have traveled so far to sell it, right?
It’s more than an hour’s journey from here to Nanxi! We traveled so far and sold it for 1.5 yuan per pound, so we really didn’t make much money!”
"Can you make it cheaper?" The old lady who asked the price at the beginning was reluctant to argue anymore because Lin Qin was speaking sincerely. She just wanted to bargain again.
After several rounds of heated debate, the deal was finally settled at RMB 1.4 per pound.
The old lady led Lin Qin and Chen Wenjun, and they helped deliver the fish to her home.
On the way, Lin Qin asked casually, "Grandma, what's your name?"
"My maiden name is Huang. I came to Fangshan Community when I was a teenager! The roads in the village are difficult to walk on, so you should go slowly." Grandma Huang said while reminding Chen Wenjun to be careful not to dizzy the fish.
Lin Qin and Chen Wenjun indeed slowed down.
Passing by a large courtyard of a red brick house, Chen Wenjun asked curiously, "Grandma, whose house is this? It's so grand!"
"This is the home of our village chief! So rich! I heard that his daughter married far away and found a son-in-law with extremely good conditions. He is the first millionaire in our village!" Grandma Huang was very proud.
Lin Qin and Chen Wenjun exchanged glances and looked inside.
Lin Qin pretended to be envious and asked, "The village chief's daughter married so well. Is she very beautiful or very educated?"
"What? She's just lucky! She looks okay, but her education level is just so-so. She didn't do well in the college entrance exam, otherwise she wouldn't have married so early. I think it's better for a girl to marry well than to study well. After all, she has to get married after studying well, so what's the point!"
"Grandma, if what you said is true, then girls in your village won't go to college! They will all get married early." Lin Qin teased.
But Grandma Huang nodded seriously.
Lin Qin looked unconvinced.
When Granny Huang saw this, she got anxious and said, "I'm serious! The girls in our village only graduate from high school at most and are all married. What's more, you don't understand. Girls become arrogant because they read too much. For example, there is a girl in our village named Fang Ying.
She didn’t pass the college entrance exam, and her family asked her to get married but she refused. Later, a matchmaker found her a partner, who was willing to give her a lot of gifts. But Fang Ying didn’t know what was good for her and actually ran away.”
Lin Qin was so shocked that her mouth opened wide. "No way! How can a girl run away these days? Don't let anything happen to her outside!"
Grandma Huang shook her head. "Who knows? Our village chief is really a man of integrity. Fang Ying's boyfriend was introduced by the village chief. Later, Fang Ying ran away. The village chief was even more worried than Fang Niufen's family and mobilized all his relatives to help look for her.
Unfortunately, she was still not found. Everyone guessed that Fang Ying was kidnapped by a kidnapper. Fang Niufen and his wife were so angry that they announced to the public that they would just pretend they had no daughter.
So, it is useless for girls to study so much. Look at Fang Niufen and his wife. They have been training for so many years, but they have not gained any benefits. What is the point? "
As they were talking, they arrived at Grandma Huang's house.
On the way, I also met the village chief Fang Aiguo who was preparing to go home.
Fang Aiguo looked at Chen Wenjun and Lin Qin with sharp eyes, and asked slowly, "Where are you from?"
Chen Wenjun grinned and said, "We are from Nanxi. We caught the fish ourselves. We have been selling them for a whole morning and they are still not sold out. Do you want some? We still have some."
Grandma Huang was anxious and said hurriedly, "I want all the crucian carp, village chief, you can't snatch it from me."
Fang Aiguo looked down and saw that there were only crucian carp and carp in the bucket. The carp weighed only 40-50 grams and had too many bones to eat! He frowned and left.
The group arrived at Grandma Huang's house. Chen Wenjun asked her to bring a bag, put the crucian carps in and weigh them. Seven or eight crucian carps weighed only three pounds and seven ounces, with a total of five yuan and eighteen cents. In the end, Grandma Huang cut the price by another eighteen cents, and made five yuan.
Both of them were quite depressed.
Granny Huang smiled from ear to ear, and when she saw Chen Wenjun and Lin Qin continuing to hawk their fish, she happily carried a bucket of fish back to the kitchen.
Chen Wenjun and Lin Qin continued to hawk their wares in the village for a while, and finally lowered the price to one dollar and twenty cents per catty before they sold all the remaining carp.
The couple can finally go back.
Unexpectedly, I ran into Fang Aiguo again when I reached the village entrance.
Seeing him riding a bicycle, the two nodded to him and pushed the cart back home.
Fang Aiguo just kept a distance behind them and followed them.
Lin Qin whispered, "There really is something wrong with that village chief!"
Chen Wenjun hurriedly said, "Don't say it, let's talk about it when we get back."
The two of them went back to the Nanxi fishing boat.
Even after getting on the boat, I could still see Fang Aiguo standing motionless on the river bank from afar.
Chen Wenjun used a bamboo pole to paddle the five-sail boat away from the shore, then took down the traps that were drying on the deck, packed up and prepared to put them down again.
Lin Qin was busy packing things, sometimes carrying a basin to pour water into the river, and sometimes carrying a bucket in and out.
Fang Aiguo stood there for almost half an hour before leaving.
At this moment, Chen Wenjun was already preparing to set up the trap.
He waited until he had finished placing the traps before walking into the cabin and whispered to Lin Qin, "Let's go."
Lin Qin covered her pounding chest and sat down on the ground. "Oh my god! I was really scared! That old man was too cautious!"
Chen Wenjun's face was solemn. "Although this trip was risky, it was not without gain. At least we know that Fang Ying did not return. Also, judging from the reaction of the village chief, there is something wrong with this person."
"Then should we continue to watch?" Lin Qin was still frightened.
Chen Wenjun thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "We don't have to go every day, but we still have to go occasionally. We don't do anything special anyway. We just sell fish. He can't do anything to us. I just hope that Fang Ying will be smooth and nothing will go wrong."
Fang Ying, who they had high hopes for, was still wandering outside the provincial capital's Polytechnic College. In the more than one month since she came to the provincial capital, she came here every day to wait for the principal. In fact, she didn't know who the principal was. The security guard at the door wouldn't let her in, and she didn't dare to tell him the reason why she was looking for the principal, so the situation was stuck in a stalemate.
So much so that during this period many teachers and students in the school knew about Fang Ying's existence.
Today it happened that provincial leaders came to inspect, and the director of the security department immediately thought of Fang Ying, who had been standing outside the gate for a month, almost like a homeless person, and asked the security guards to chase her away.
The two security guards received the order and reluctantly walked towards Fang Ying, "Comrade, our leader has said that you must be driven away. You cannot continue to stay here. It will affect the morale of our school."
Fang Ying cried with red eyes, "I want to see the principal, I want to see the principal! Please!"
She knelt down and kowtowed to the two security guards.
The two of them were scared to death.
(End of this chapter)
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