Someone soon came over to ask the price of the meat. Li Long said:
"One yuan fifty a kilo. It's wild boar."
He was selling the wild boar meat for less than domestic pork, mainly because he wanted to sell it quickly.
"Is it really wild boar?" The middle-aged woman asking the price sounded doubtful.
"It really is." Li Long smiled. "Anyway, you won't go wrong treating it as pork."
"Then weigh out two kilos for me-I want pork belly."
People preferred fatty meat these days, so Li Long simply chopped off a piece for her. It weighed four and a half kilos, but the woman didn't quibble. She paid six yuan seventy and carried it away.
The fish seller beside him was quite envious. Even selling several fish might not bring him six yuan.
"I heard members of the Joint Defense Team come around checking. Is that true?" Li Long asked when no customers were around.
The stallholder waved a hand:
"They checked before New Year, but nobody's checked since. Haven't you noticed more and more people coming to sell things? The restrictions have been eased. Otherwise, who would dare come?"
Li Long knew the restrictions had indeed been eased, but those below had ways of getting around policies from above. He still had to see how they were actually enforced.
After half an hour there, he had sold all the twenty-odd kilos of pork belly he had brought, along with two legs. Only two kilos of ribs had sold, though.
Looking at the dozen-odd kilos of ribs and two legs still on the plastic sheet, Li Long thought, Good thing I didn't bring all the meat. If I had, I'd have to haul most of it back later.
"Hey, young fellow, how about trading some of your meat