Everyone glanced at the baskets and burlap sacks in their hands, then walked over to him anyway.
"We don't have many pounds here. Why don't you buy ours too?"
"Exactly! You're buying all those hundreds of pounds she has. What difference would our few pounds make? Why don't you just buy all of ours too?"
"Right, we only have a little..."
Ye Yaodong felt a headache coming on. These middle-aged women were too difficult to deal with. He had already said he didn't want any, yet they insisted on forcing theirs on him.
He hurriedly shook his head, lest he really end up being forced to take them.
"I really have enough! I don't want too many mixed fish. I want fish of the same kind. Aunt Lin doesn't have many mixed fish here, so I thought I'd buy those along with the rest."
He had already bought over a hundred pounds of mixed fish from the neighbors earlier. For the military, it was better to have fish of the same kind, with fewer mixed fish. That would make the quality look higher. Otherwise, it wouldn't look good if they opened it up and found nothing but piles of mixed fish.
Everyone looked at their own goods again. They really did have a jumble of all sorts of fish, while the dried fish poured out onto the bamboo bed over there were all the same kind. They looked much nicer than these mixed fish. It was only natural that Ye Yaodong didn't want their assorted goods.
"Well... all right, then..."
"Then we'll just have to eat ours ourselves..."
"What a shame. It would've been nice to sell them for a bit of money..."
"We don't have big boats at home. Where would we get fish like those? All we have