While the Li Family sold the sheep offal one set at a time, Li Long and Tao Daqiang had already driven the horse cart to the Big Meat Canteen.
Li Long had Tao Daqiang wait outside, then went in and found Zhong Guoqiang attending to customers.
"Hello, Manager Zhong," Li Long said as he approached. "I've brought the fish and sheep offal. Would you like to..."
"Sure, I'll be right over." Zhong Guoqiang smiled. "Comrade Li, you work fast. You must have gotten up early."
"Well, we're making money. Getting up a little early is nothing." With that reply, Li Long walked out of the canteen.
Zhong Guoqiang followed him to the horse cart and looked at the sets of sheep offal frozen together on it.
"Mm, looks good." Zhong Guoqiang knew his stuff too. Looking over the offal, he asked, "You gave it a basic cleaning, right?"
"Yes. Once it thaws, you'll definitely still need to wash it thoroughly. We cleaned it in the mountains, so we couldn't get it completely clean," Li Long explained. "That's why it's not expensive either. Six yuan a set."
"Six yuan-that certainly isn't expensive." Zhong Guoqiang casually hefted one. "Pretty heavy. That works out to forty or fifty fen per jin, I suppose. All right, I'll take three sets."
Zhong Guoqiang also bought five large Common Carp and paid twenty-eight yuan.
"Come on, let's go to Stone City." Pleased to have started off with a sale, Li Long bought six large meat buns, and he and Tao Daqiang ate as they led the horse cart away.
"Brother Long, why don't we sell fish at our county's Black Market? We haven't been there in ages. We should be able to sell them there, right?"
"No, it's too risky. You wouldn't want both of us