I am a Good Man

As the night deepened, the chirping of insects outside became louder and louder. She was immersed in the book, sometimes frowning, and then slowly relaxing.

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"Three cents to a catty, here it's one catty to one tael, count one catty to one catty, just give me three cents."

"You have it."

"Four cents, too much? Okay, okay, then three cents is just right."

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Ji Yang set up a stall on the black market and was the only one selling bean sprouts. Soon someone came to ask about the price.

"What kind of fish is this?" After buying the bean sprouts, the old man pointed to the fish on the ground and asked, "Grass carp?"

"Yes, they are all river fish caught first this morning. They are absolutely fresh. I will buy one back, make fish head soup, fry the fish meat and fry some bean sprouts. It will definitely be enough to eat." Ji Yang smiled enthusiastically.

"How to sell it?" The old man put his hand behind his back and looked at him and asked.

"This fish is big. You can eat two meals per fish. Seafood is sold for one dollar per catty. My river fish is 45 cents per catty, which is less than half the price." Ji Yang pointed at it and lowered his voice, "This one is It’s only eight pounds. Uncle, you also bought bean sprouts from me. If you want one, Qimao will put it on for you.”

The old man did the math and found that eight cents per catty was eight cents per catty, and seven cents per catty was about thirty cents per catty. It was indeed a good deal.

Pork costs 60.21 pounds, and fish can also be boiled into soup or fried.

"Then put it on."

"okay."

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After earning a piece from the old man, Ji Yang put the money away and looked at a woman in worker's clothing with a naive smile, "Sister, would you like a pound of bean sprouts? Thirty cents per pound."

The woman looked at the bean sprouts and the fish he put aside, "How can I sell this fish?"

"Forty-five cents a pound."

Upon hearing this, the woman frowned a little, then focused her attention on the bean sprouts, "Forget it, give me a pound of bean sprouts."

A fish weighs more than a pound and is gone for just one dollar. It is not as durable as bean sprouts.

"Sister, don't you have a small family? If you are young, here is a small fish. This one is one pound and twenty taels. Look at this. I charge you six cents. I will give you another pound of bean sprouts. I will make fish soup, stir-fry the bean sprouts, and fry the fish. Three dishes are enough. Come out." Ji Yang said, catching the fish, "This meat is very fresh."

The woman hesitated for a moment, it was indeed very tempting, and finally said, "That's it."

"Okay." Ji Yang weighed a pound of bean sprouts and added a small handful, "I'll give you some more. Come back if it's delicious."

The woman was very satisfied and took it with a smile.

Next, Ji Yang used this marketing method, mainly selling fish. When the sun is too hot, the fish will die and appear stale. Besides, the fish has no cost, but the price is high. One pound of mung beans can produce eight or nine pounds of bean sprouts. , the cost is very low.

Today he brought a total of eight fish, of different sizes, but these eight fish helped him earn 4.8 yuan.

I bought about 20 kilograms of bean sprouts, excluding the half-sold and half-free ones when selling fish to go with it. I actually bought 14 kilograms of bean sprouts and made a profit of 4.2 yuan.

A total of nine yuan was credited.

I took a walk to the scrapyard and generously gave my uncle 50 cents today. Books are easy to find, but exercise books are not easy to find. After searching for a while, I managed to find a chemistry exercise book, but it didn’t have a cover.

He put it into the bamboo basket, just reluctantly.

Then he went to buy three chicks. This time he was not as lucky as last time. The last mung beans he bought cost one pound per pound.

After haggling for a long time, even if I bought it all, I couldn't save much. Four pounds cost 3.6 yuan.

Then he bought some noodles and rice. The food he bought home last time was too little. As long as it was lower than the market price, he would buy some without hesitation.

After all, these are necessities.

Back in the village, Sun Miaolan looked at him carrying the chicken and said in a sour tone, "Yangzi, do you have enough money to buy a chicken? My parents and we have almost run out of food recently."

As he spoke, he wanted to look into his bamboo basket, wondering if there were any other good things, but he couldn't see them.

In her opinion, Ji Yang and his wife would be happy if they just followed them.

"There's nothing we can do. We originally wanted to ask mom to give us another old hen. We don't know how long it will take for the chicks to lay eggs, but mom said we should keep it and exchange it for milk powder tickets." Ji Yang sighed again as he spoke. , quite helplessly, "Sister-in-law, you and your eldest brother should be kinder to your parents. For the sake of the two children, your parents must live frugally, but if they can't even eat, that's too much."

These words made Sun Miaolan choke. She looked at the people coming and going and said, "I didn't say that they couldn't eat. Besides, those are their grandchildren!"

"Sister-in-law said just now, why didn't you say it again now?" Ji Yang caught her words and became a little more serious, "Then do my parents have food to eat? If not, I won't let my parents go hungry. , must be dealt with.”

"Why is there no food? If we have something to eat, we won't starve our parents!" Seeing more and more people coming over, Sun Miaolan raised her voice, for fear that others would think that she and Ji Dachao were abusing the two old immortals and came before leaving. He said, "I think your wife is in trouble. She is tired after work, so go and have a look."

She dislikes those educated youths from the city the most. Each one is more squeamish than the last. In her opinion, they are just pretending!

"My wife is definitely not as capable as my sister-in-law. I can only do more, but that doesn't matter." Ji Yang didn't care.

Sun Miaolan's face turned green, she couldn't argue with him, her chest hurt from holding it in.

Ji Yang returned home and tied up the fence in the corner first, then put the chickens in. He looked at it for a while, thinking about building a nest inside to avoid getting wet when it rained.

Before Ye Jiao reached home, she heard the sound of banging inside. When she went in, she saw him repairing an old wooden cage with some wood chips beside it.

"Did you buy a chick?" When Ye Jiao saw him, her eyes were filled with smiles. She walked over and looked at the chicks that were chirping in the fence, and her eyes were filled with smiles.

The chickens will lay eggs when they grow up. The eggs are very valuable, and there is hope for such a life.

"Yeah." Ji Yang held another nail, aimed it, and knocked it down with a brick.