Chapter 20

“Sixty cents.” Li Yao said, “Take all sixty cents!”

“No, just 40 cents!”

“What do you mean by 60 or 40 cents? I don’t agree. One dollar a piece! If you want to buy it, buy it. If you don’t want to buy it, forget it!” Ning Jia still insisted on the price.

While a few people were complaining in dissatisfaction, she walked up to An Ye and squeezed her hand.

The tacit understanding between best friends is not nonsense. Ning Jia made a gesture and An Ye immediately understood.

She came to the front and said loudly: “You guys are so rigid. Do you have to sell fish at her house? I have fish to sell too. Come and take a look at my fish!”

“Aren’t you a family?”

“Of course not.” An Ye instructed Li Xu, “Come on, open the bag and show them the fish.”

Those people gathered in front of An Ye and squatted down to look at the fish.

After reading it, he started asking for the price: “What’s your price?”

“Eighty cents a piece!”

“It’s too expensive! Sixty cents a piece!”

An Ye shook his head: “No, it’s too cheap. Fish in the city are only 50 cents a pound! This small one weighs more than two pounds, and the big one weighs more than three pounds! What a huge risk I took to get it back!”

Some people wanted to bargain, so Ning Jia immediately pretended to lose his temper: “Who are you? Why are you selling it so cheap? You are breaking the rules!”

“Hey, if you don’t want to buy it, why are you stopping others from selling it? I’m only selling it for 80 cents, so what?”

“You dare!”

“I dare you!”

“Want to fight?” Ning Jia rolled up his sleeves. “Can you use your brain? If you don’t lower the price and I don’t lower the price, they will have to buy it! You have fish, are you afraid that you can’t sell it?”

“I’m happy to do it!” An Ye waved his hand and said loudly, “80 cents a pair. Buy ten and I’ll give one away! Hurry up and buy if you want!”

“Okay, go ahead and sell it! I won’t sell it! I’ll pay you back with all my strength! Bah!” Ning Jia spat fiercely on the ground, turned his head and ignored him.

When the buyers saw this, they all started to speak up: “Buy, buy, buy! We’ll buy!”

An Ye raised the corner of his mouth and kicked Li Xu: “What are you standing there for? Count the fish and collect the money!”

Li Xu was immediately happy: “Okay!”

An Ye’s bag was emptied quickly. He sold ten bags and got one free. In the end, he sold a total of thirty yuan and forty cents.

Seeing that An Ye had sold all the fish, Ning Jia pretended to be panicked and said quickly: “I’ll sell too, I’ll sell too! I’ll risk it all, I’ll sell at the same price as hers! She’ll give away one fish for every ten she sells, and I’ll give away three for every twenty I sell!”

“Why didn’t you sell it earlier? Come on, we want them all!”

The two bags of fish were sold out in an instant, and the total profit was seventy yuan!

Brothers Li Yao and Li Xu were both stunned. They had been to the black market before, but had never made so much money.

If I sell this fish to them, I can probably only make back half of the money.

“Wife, you are so awesome.” Li Xu was so happy that he hugged An Ye’s face and kissed her without caring that his brother was still around.

Seeing this, Li Yao turned his face away.

It’s too shameful to watch!

Ning Jia curved his lips and divided the money into two parts: “Fifth brother, An Ye, this money will be divided equally between each family! No one can mention this matter when we get back!”

An Ye took the money and snorted, “Got it. If we don’t tell you, you can’t tell either! Whoever tells you is a dog!”

“Okay! Whoever tells it out will get sores on the soles of his feet and pus in his eyes!” Ning Jia also said.

“Yes, whoever tells this will be extinct…”

Li Xu heard his wife talking more and more outrageously, and hurriedly stopped her: “Okay, okay, I’m scared of you! Stop talking, or our ancestors will crawl out of their graves.”

An Ye thought: I’m just guarding against you two brothers, now I don’t have to worry about you telling others.

After we sold the items and divided the money, it was already three or four in the morning.

Li Yao told everyone that it was time to go back, as if they were any later, they would easily be discovered.

“Wait a minute.” Just as they were about to leave, a young man stopped them.

Li Yao took a look at the young man. He was tall and thin, with a handsome face, outstanding facial features, and a gentlemanly aura.

“You looking for me?” he asked.

“No.” The young man smiled at him and pointed at Ning Jia, “I’m looking for her.”

“Looking for me?” Ning Jia was surprised. “Do we know each other?”

In her memory, it seemed that this man had never existed.

“I didn’t know you before, but now we can get to know each other.” The young man took the initiative to extend his hand, “Hello, my name is Chu Songbai.”

Ning Jia shook his hand naturally and introduced herself: “Ning Jia, nice to meet you. Excuse me, what do you want to talk to me about?”

Chu Songbai nodded: “Can I have a word with you for a moment?”

“good.”

Ning Jia followed Chu Songbai and walked a few steps to the side, then stopped.

Chu Songbai spoke first and got straight to the point: “You guys worked very well together just now, and the fish sold well.”

Ning Jia knew he had seen through her, but she refused to admit it: “What do you mean by cooperation? I don’t understand.”

Chu Songbai smiled and said, “I have been observing you for a while and found that you have a good business sense.”

“You’re too kind. What do I, a peasant woman, know? Mr. Chu, if you have something to say, just say it.” She didn’t have time to waste with him.

“I want to make a deal with you,” Chu Songbai said. “I’ll take all the remaining fish you have. I’ll take as many as you have. Just name your price!”

Ning Jia was overjoyed when he heard this.

This means that next time, they can deliver the fish directly after catching them, without having to waste time bargaining with others.

“Seventy-five cents a piece!” Ning Jia said.

“This price is not sincere enough.” Chu Songbai said with a smile, “Lower the price a little more!”

Ning Jia gritted his teeth and stamped his feet: “How about this, I’ll sell it to you for one dollar each, and I’ll charge you half the price for the second one.”

Chu Songbai laughed out loud: “You are such a joker, isn’t it still 75 cents a piece? I am not well educated, don’t lie to me!”

Ning Jia grinned: “70 cents! It can’t be any cheaper! You can only buy so many fish from me! And I will deliver it to you within two days!”

“Okay.” Chu Songbai agreed readily.

“Then the day after tomorrow night, we will still deliver the goods here.”

Ning Jia nodded in agreement and made a request: “You have to pay a deposit.”

“Okay.” Chu Songbai agreed. He touched his trouser pocket and found that there was not much money in it. He took out a pen from his jacket pocket and said, “Here, take a look at it and see if it counts as a deposit.”

Ning Jia took a look and saw, wow, a Parker pen, so expensive!

“Okay.” She took it. “When the time comes, you pay the money and I’ll return the pen to you.”

“make a deal.”

When the two people were talking about business, Li Yao stood not far away and tried to listen hard, but he couldn’t hear clearly what they were saying.

However, the cheerful look on Ning Jia’s face when she was talking to the man and the smile in her lively eyes made him feel inexplicably upset and a little uncomfortable.

“What is your wife talking about with a strange man? She looks so happy? I’ve never seen her so happy in front of you!” Li Xu couldn’t help but say.

Li Yao felt even more irritated, and his heart felt as if he was filled with jealousy and had a sour feeling.

He saw Ning Jia smiling like a flower, and seemed in no hurry to leave. He couldn’t help it, so he clenched his fists and walked towards the two of them.