Seeing the other man hesitate, Li Long turned to leave.
"Throw in another big fish, and I'll sell them!" The stallholder gritted his teeth. Piglets were hard to sell. The other man selling piglets had finally given up and left, but he felt he could hold out a little longer.
Eight yuan it was, then. At least he wouldn't be losing money-after all, his sow had produced eight piglets. At eight yuan each, selling them all would bring in enough money for a full-grown pig.
Li Long agreed without hesitation.
"Deal."
He hurried back to his stall, where a middle-aged woman was already frowning and looking around for the stallholder. She felt that if she waited a little longer and he still didn't come back, she wouldn't buy anything.
Li Long explained with a smile, then quickly weighed out her fish. The woman knew her fish, too: she only wanted palm-sized crucian carp. Four of them weighed almost a kilogram altogether, and Li Long charged her eighty cents.
The piglet seller carried the basket straight over, then stared at the basin holding Li Long's big fish. Soon, he pointed to the biggest one in it.
"I want that one!"
Li Long sighed. Here was another person who didn't know which fish were good to eat.
He offered a word of advice.
"Friend, this silver carp is actually hard to make tasty..."
"I want that one!"
The silver carp weighed almost three kilograms and was the biggest fish currently in the basin.
"All right, I'll take it out for you. Look, although it's dead, its gill covers are still red. That means it's fresh." Li Long lifted a gill cover as he explained.
Bighead carp and silver carp would die soon after being taken out of the water. They didn't survive