In the Li Family courtyard, Tao Daqiang and Li Qingxia sorted out the nets. Going by Li Long's generation, he should call Li Qingxia uncle; going by Li Jianguo's, he should call him grandpa. Forget it-he would go by Li Long.
"Uncle Li, do you think we should take our catch to Stone City to sell?"
"Hey, I was just thinking that!" Li Qingxia had indeed had the same idea. Hearing Tao Daqiang suggest it, he immediately agreed. "We can't get a good price in the County Seat, and the fish don't sell well either."
That morning, they had collected over thirty kilograms of fish and gone to the County Seat together to sell them, arriving at the market before sunrise.
But by noon, they still hadn't sold all thirty-odd kilograms and could only head home. Fish prices were still fluctuating. Plenty of people caught fish in summer, so a kilogram fetched only seventy or eighty cents, and even then, customers picked and chose.
The main problem was that Ma County's market was too small to absorb so much fish.
Stone City-only Stone City's market could absorb that much fish, and the price probably wouldn't be low.
They had both gone to Stone City with Li Long and knew the prices there were higher, the fish sold quickly, and the customers weren't as picky.
"It's just a long way," Tao Daqiang said. "Uncle Li, it's over twenty kilometers. Do you think you..."
"It's only twenty-odd kilometers, about fifty li. When I was young, I walked dozens of li to sell ginger. Now we have bicycles, so what's there to worry about?" Li Qingxia was full of confidence these days, and his health really was good. "We'll haul the fish in early, put them in Urea Sacks with some water, and