He had a month, so Li Long was in no hurry. He left the Supply and Marketing Cooperative and rode his bicycle to the Free Market.
Whenever he had nothing to do, Li Long liked browsing the market.
It would have been even better if he could regularly browse the Old Street market in Stone City.
Everything sold in the market now was natural, with no chemical trickery or additives-just all-natural produce.
The eggs came from farming households. Poultry farms had yet to appear, and chickens ate grain, so their eggs were naturally safe.
The same went for everything else.
Browsing the market now and then, he could feel the County Town developing.
There were more people selling grain, eggs, chickens, and all kinds of handmade goods. Sellers no longer waited silently for customers to inspect their wares. Not only had they begun calling out, they had developed all kinds of sales cries.
He could tell that many of the sellers were resellers, buying things in the countryside and reselling them here.
Some of them began part-time, gradually went full-time, and later became the first group to get rich.
Apparently, the man who had once been the richest in Northern Xinjiang had started out selling raisins. Naturally, he had not grown the grapes himself either. He had been a reseller.
Li Long bought some more eggs to take home.
Gu Xiaoxia quite liked his steamed eggs. Sister Yang also thought the egg custard was good and had learned to make it.
Li Long felt it was better to make it himself occasionally.
Sister Yang was selling meals. In the depths of winter, she had changed things up, replacing porridge with Spicy Soup Noodles.
Never mind how they tasted-the smell alone whetted people's appetites.
And they were hot noodles. Eating a