Chapter 46 Some Cry, Some Rejoice
When Li Long drove the carriage away from the black market, Tao Dayong and Tao Daqiang rushed to Xiaohaizi together, while their father Tao Jianshe was making a sled at home.
Everything has a traceable path, they just need to continue doing what Li Long did.
I don't feel any difficulty at all.
Even when they arrived at Xiaohaizi, Tao Dayong did not make a separate hole in the ice, but used the one that Li Long and his team had made. As a result, after more than an hour, they only caught less than ten kilograms of fish.
Tao Dayong simply went to look for the ice hole of Wang's family again, but several people from Wang's family arrived half an hour later and drove him back.
Tao Daqiang advised Tao Dayong:
"Brother, why don't we dig a hole in the ice ourselves? There are too many fish in this hole, so no more fish will come."
"How can fish be that smart?" Tao Dayong disagreed. "We just fish here and there. We can catch at least 30 to 50 kilograms a day."
Thirty to fifty kilograms of fish is a lot. Tao Dayong felt that he was not greedy. Even if he sold a kilogram of fish for fifty cents, he could still get more than ten or twenty yuan - he had already learned the price of fish sold by Li Long from Daqiang.
Two pieces for the big fish and put the small fish in a pile, how convenient.
It turns out that making money is so easy!
The two men did not return for lunch. Tao Jianshe brought them cornmeal cakes on a sled. After eating the cakes, the father and his two sons continued working until dark, and they caught less than 40 kilograms of fish.
After returning home, Tao Daqiang asked them to keep the very small carps and silver carps weighing less than one kilogram at home, but Tao Dayong was unwilling to do so:
"We can sell this at least for a bit of money if we take it to the county, so why keep it here? If we want to eat fish, we can just go get it from the ice hole."
He forgot that the scoop net was borrowed from someone else.
The fire in the fish can indeed make people forget themselves. When Tao Dayong was talking, he was already thinking about how he had made a lot of money, bought a bicycle, and held his head high in the team, in front of his wife, and at his mother-in-law's house.
Therefore, he got up early the next day, cooked cornmeal porridge, heated pickles and pancakes, ate a few mouthfuls in a hurry, and ran to his father's yard. Then he urged Daqiang to eat quickly and go to the black market in the county together.
When they arrived at the black market, it was still dark and it was bustling here. As soon as Tao Dayong set up his stall, he immediately attracted some people.
After knowing the price of the fish sold by Li Long, he secretly decided to lower the price so that the fish could be sold faster!
So when he said, "Big fish is one dollar and fifty cents, small fish are twenty dollars," the few people who were originally hesitant immediately started picking up the fish.
In less than half an hour, Tao Dayong had earned ten yuan and fifty cents, and he was very proud!
If he had known that money was so easy to make, he would have come a long time ago!
Tao Daqiang originally wanted to wait at a distance, but Tao Dayong saw that half of the fish on the stall were sold, so he hurriedly waved to Tao Daqiang to come over and get more fish.
After Tao Daqiang came over, Tao Dayong criticized him:
"What are you afraid of? Didn't you see that no one else cared? Now let go, no one will care!"
They don’t know yet that Gu Ermao has been arrested.
When it was almost dawn, the people nearby started to pack up their stalls. Most of them knew that the joint defense team had come to arrest people yesterday, but they tacitly did not mention it for fear of attracting the attention of those who were buying things.
Seeing many people closing their stalls, Tao Daqiang felt something was wrong. He noticed that some people closed their stalls after only selling half of their goods, so he reminded Tao Dayong:
"Brother, those people have closed their stalls, should we do the same?"
"What are you collecting?" Tao Dayong had just received one dollar and was counting happily, "In just a moment, I have earned yuan. I didn't expect to make so much money. I will sell for a while longer. Now I have only sold more than half of the fish..."
Tao Daqiang always felt something was wrong, and he became more alert.
Sure enough, within ten minutes, chaos broke out on the west side of the black market, with someone shouting:
"Don't run! I'll catch you if you run again!"
This shout made things even more chaotic!
Tao Daqiang is tall. He was startled when he saw two people wearing red armbands arresting people. He turned around and said to his brother: "Brother, someone is here to clean up the stall! Let's go!"
There are only a dozen or so stalls left in the black market now. Although the other stall owners have not left, most of them are prepared. As soon as they see someone coming to catch them, they immediately close their stalls and run to the alleys.
Tao Dayong's confidence was gone now. He packed up his stall in panic, and called out to Tao Daqiang:
"Help me load the fish onto the sled!"
"Why are you pretending? Don't even take the sled!" Tao Daqiang remembered Li Long's words and pulled his brother to run. However, Tao Dayong was reluctant to part with the fish and the sled and insisted on pulling them. Then they were separated by the crowd.
When Tao Daqiang rushed out of the alley, his brother was no longer visible.
He naturally didn't know that Tao Dayong was pulling the sled. Although he was only about meters tall, a head shorter than his brother, the sled was a big target and was immediately spotted by the joint defense team members, who then caught him while running.
At this time, he wanted to abandon the sled and run away, but it was too late. He was caught along with three or four other stall owners.
Tao Daqiang didn't find his brother in the county town, so he had to go back in despair.
By the time he learned that his brother had been arrested and fined fifty dollars, it was already dawn.
……
Li Long took a deep breath, a little nervous, then turned his head to look at Halimu.
Halimu was also looking at him and raised five fingers.
Li Long understood that this was agreed upon beforehand: after counting to five, he would shoot.
Turning around, I saw through the gap in the crosshairs that the wild boars had calmed down, grunting from time to time as they ate grass roots in the snow and fallen wild fruits and pine cones.
He put the sow wild boar into the crosshairs again, took aim, and pulled the trigger according to the method Xu Chengjun had taught him!
"boom!"
"boom!"
The crisp sound of gunfire rang out almost at the same time.
Li Long didn't care whether he hit the target or not. He adjusted the muzzle of the gun slightly, aimed at the next wild boar that he had planned to catch long ago, and then pulled the trigger.
At a distance of seventy or eighty meters, after two shots, the surviving wild boars had already fled in all directions. Li Long was startled when he saw the largest wild boar rushing towards him. He quickly took aim and fired a shot at the opponent!
The gun went off and the wild boar fell down - only then did he realize that he was sweating, not sure whether it was because of nervousness or excitement.
Harimu stood up with his gun in hand, and said with a smile:
"Okay, two wild boars, that's great!"
As he said this, he walked towards the place where the wild boars were at the foot of the mountain.
Li Long clearly saw more than one bloody wound on the body of the largest wild boar. After a while, a large area of red blood spread across the ground.
He then realized that Halimu must have attacked this one first. This is probably what it means to capture the leader of the thieves. If we can get rid of this wild boar leader, the rest of the wild boars will be in a short time.
Then Li Long looked at the first wild boar he aimed at. It was now lying in the place where it had just been arching, twitching occasionally, but it was not dead yet.
Li Long smiled.
(End of this chapter)
