Not everyone wanted to sell their fish to Li Long.
Several more holes appeared in Little Haizi's ice the next day, including one belonging to Xu Jianjun, whom Li Long thoroughly disliked.
Xu Jianjun had caused plenty of trouble the first time he joined Li Long in weaving Taibazi, so Li Long never brought him along again. The fellow knew his place, too. He openly kept his distance from Li Long while secretly keeping an eye on the Li family.
He wasn't stupid. He knew Li Long had ways of making money and wanted to learn them, but his attempts were poor imitations.
Now he had finally settled down. If he couldn't learn, couldn't he copy? Fish sold well, so why not catch fish?
More people on the team had started eating fish over the past two years, and they could tell the difference: Big Haizi's fish weren't as tasty or as good-looking as Little Haizi's.
Even at the market, Little Haizi's fish fetched ten cents more per kilogram than Big Haizi's.
It wasn't that people from other teams or other townships in the county hadn't tried fishing in Little Haizi. But whenever they were discovered, the team's people-even those who didn't fish-would drive them away. Before Xu Chengjun publicly announced that Li Long had contracted Little Haizi, everyone had considered it public property, but only their team's public property.
People from elsewhere could forget about taking advantage.
Now they knew Li Long had contracted it, but since he didn't forbid others from catching fish, everyone naturally protected it. After outsiders who came fishing were cursed at and driven off several times, they gradually stopped coming.
People from the Third Team hardly ever came, which was rather surprising.
Xu Jianjun had his pride. He could catch fish through his ice