Chapter 489: Ludao Ghost Market (1/2)

Hearing that the leader wanted to relax, Li Duoyu quickly said: "I have brought the boat over, and my fishing rods are also on the boat."

"That's even better. The leader has been studying for a year and wants to ride on your boat."

Li Yunpeng also envied Li Duoyu. They had just arrived at Ludao not long ago, and the big leader asked him if he had come.

In his eyes, the leaders were too good to Li Duoyu, so good that even he couldn't understand it.

He was just an ordinary village party secretary, who was lucky enough to raise some kelp and export some eels.

The foreign exchange he earned last year only accounted for about one thousandth of Rongcheng's foreign exchange, and his contribution was not particularly large.

Because of this matter, he also asked Director Huang specifically, but the answer he got made him a little confused.

"Some people are just comfortable to get along with."

Later, he also tried to contact Li Duoyu and found that this person was indeed quite comfortable to get along with.

But he really didn't understand why it was like this, he just felt that he could really open his heart with him.

"Then Director Li, you have a good rest. I will go back and report to the leader. Let's set off at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning."

Li Duoyu's mind instantly flashed the tide conditions on the 20th day of the lunar calendar.

"Yes, the tide will be good tomorrow, and we can still catch fish."

Under the leadership of Chief Li, they checked in quickly. Because there were two people, Li Duoyu was assigned a twin room.

And Zhang Sanming, who followed them all the way, kept listening. The leader mentioned by Chief Li must be Director Huang at least.

But his intuition told him that it might not be that simple. After all, this overseas friendship meeting was led by a big leader.

He also wanted to go fishing with them, but for a while, he couldn't open his mouth.

Zhou Xiaoying was also a person who had stayed at Jinling Hotel. She was no longer surprised by the TVs and various settings in front of her.

Although the appearance was not as good as Jinling Hotel, the facilities inside were not bad at all.

It was just that the service was a bit overdone, which reminded Li Duoyu of his previous life, when his son took him to eat a kind of hot pot.

The waiters inside wanted to stuff the food into your mouth personally. The waiters here didn't seem to be serving guests, but more like serving leaders.

But they were enthusiastic for less than three hours. I don't know where they learned from that Li Duoyu was just a village director. The original enthusiastic smile also disappeared and turned into a professional fake smile.

Li Duoyu is understandable. After all, these waiters are in contact with big leaders, and several of them have taken photos with the top leaders of the country.

Although they smiled on the surface, they must look down on Li Duoyu, who doesn't even have an administrative level.

Li Duoyu wanted to take Xiaoying to Ludao in the evening. It is very close to Ludao University, and there are many ancient buildings near the hotel.

There are also many snacks in the night market near the pier, including shacha noodles, fried oysters, earthworms, and red fish noodles.

"Do you want to go out for a walk?"

But I didn't expect that Zhou Xiaoying was under a lot of pressure these two days. Almost whenever she had time, she squeezed out time to come, wearing headphones, and concentrating on learning English.

She even picked up the room service catalog and looked up the words she didn't know in the Chinese-English translation.

Seeing that she was studying so hard, Li Duoyu didn't disturb her. After all, in this era, if you can learn English well, it is really popular.

If I do foreign trade in the future, I can save a female translator and take Xiaoying out directly.

After sitting on the boat all day.

Li Duoyu was also a little tired. After a simple meal, he went to bed early. Tomorrow he had to go fishing with his leader to relax.

As long as there was no mobile phone around, Li Duoyu was the kind of person who fell asleep as soon as he touched the bed. When he opened his eyes again.

It was about five in the morning. At this time, he was no longer sleepy. Maybe he studied too late last night.

Or maybe he was not familiar with the new environment. Zhou Xiaoying slept with the desk lamp on, and Li Duoyu didn't wake her up.

He brushed his teeth and washed his face quietly, then tore a piece of paper and wrote on it: I went out to accompany the leader to go fishing. Take the room card to the restaurant to have breakfast and lunch.

Because he woke up too early, the Ludao Hotel had not prepared breakfast yet. After Li Duoyu got dressed, he walked directly towards the first pier of Ludao.

Although Ludao is relatively south, it is still quite cold in the first month of the year. Especially when the sea breeze blows, if you wear too few clothes, you will still feel a piercing dampness and cold.

People in this era get up very early. It was just over five o'clock, and there were already many pedestrians on the road.

What surprised Li Duoyu the most was that not far ahead, there were actually many street lights on, and people were crowded.

Ghost market.

When he was teaching in Ludao, he heard Teacher Fang talk about it several times. There was a night market on the street near the pier that only opened at around four in the morning.

And this night market was in the early years of the late Qing Dynasty. Because the impoverished bannermen did not dare to sell their ancestral family belongings during the day, they took advantage of the midnight to trade privately.

As soon as the sun rose, they all dispersed, so it was called the "ghost market".

Most of the things sold in this place are cultural relics, antiques and the like.

But if you want to buy good things here, you need to know some tricks, because the things sold here are both real and fake.

You may spend a lot of money to buy a fake, or you may buy a great treasure with very little money.

Li Duoyu walked over and found that most of the stall owners here were looking down, not shouting or calling you, and the main point was fate.

There were all kinds of things on the ground, including second-hand clothes, snuff bottles, gourds, rusty copper coins, and many kinds of porcelain and bronze wares.

In this era, there are still many people willing to visit the ghost market, and it seems to be the best era for hunting for cultural relics.

It is said that at this time, if you go to Fuyou Road in Shanghai or Panjiayuan in the imperial capital, you can pick up money with a little vision.

It’s a pity that Li Duoyu knows nothing about this, otherwise he can really find some treasures.

After taking a few glances, Li Duoyu planned to leave this place. He thought he had no chance with these stall owners.

But he never thought that there were good things in the ghost market. Some people were actually selling cassettes and magnetic discs from Hong Kong Island and overseas provinces.

The cover was quite revealing. Li Duoyu did not consider himself a gentleman. When he saw this thing, his eyes widened instantly.

When he was in the island country, he watched a lot of them. It was a little comfort in his dark life.

"How much is this?"

"Twenty yuan a piece."

Li Duoyu glared and said, "It's so expensive. Do you think I don't know how much it costs? Ten yuan a piece. I'll buy five pieces."

The stall owner frowned and thought for a while: "Let me suffer a loss. Don't tell others that you bought it for ten yuan. I have a color comic book here. Do you want it?"

Li Duoyu said disdainfully: "I already have cassettes. Why do I still read those comic books?"

Li Duoyu hid the five newly bought cassettes in his arms. The action movies of this era are still relatively conservative. Most of them are based on the plot, and the action shots are not long. In many cases, only the upper body is moving, but for Chinese people who have never been exposed to such things, this thing is definitely an "opium" level existence.

And now it happens that video halls are popular. The late night slots are often crowded, and the majority of citizens are very keen on night classes.

Now that he had the cassette, Li Duoyu still needed a player, preferably one that could record, so that he could record what was being played on TV.

After leaving the ghost market, Li Duoyu came to the dock, where there were several bright halogen lamps.

Although it was still dark, many fishing boats had already docked at the first dock.

The first month of the year happened to be the season when hairtails were the most plump, and baskets of hairtails were pulled to the dock.

These hairtails were pulled up by the trawl net, and their appearance was relatively poor. Many of them had bulging eyes and broken bellies.

Most of these poor-looking hairtails were taken away by the Ludao Aquatic Products Processing Factory at a relatively cheap price. Most of these hairtails would be made into canned hairtails, and the rest would be made into salted hairtails and sold to cities and villages that were not near the sea.

Those with good appearance would be picked up by fishmongers and sold at the morning market.

In addition to this type of trawl boat, the most common thing at the dock was a variety of small fishing boats, most of which were still mainly sampans.

These small fishing boats catch some small seafood, which is the favorite of Hong Kong people.

Fishermen on Ludao often say: If you want to eat seafood, you should eat those caught by sticky nets, not those dragged up by large nets.

They have some reason to say this, because most of the seafood caught by trawl nets are not very fresh.

Seaside cities like Ludao are much more picky about seafood than inland cities like Rongcheng.

Their pickiness is even worse than that of Dandan Island. As soon as these small fishing boats dock, many fishmongers will surround them.

Some of these fishmongers are shop owners in the fish market, and some are suppliers of some hotels.

Since Ludao was designated as a special economic zone, Ludao has been favored by Hong Kong investors, and they have set up many seafood restaurants.

While investing, they also brought many eating habits to Ludao, and it is precisely because of these seafood restaurants.

The price of seafood in Ludao is getting higher year by year.

Li Duoyu came to the dock so early not to compete with the fishmongers for seafood, but to buy live shrimps and sandworms.

When you go fishing with your leader, you have to prepare the bait first, otherwise you won't catch any fish, which will be embarrassing.

Li Duoyu doesn't think he is a good fisherman, but as a fish farmer, he knows very well what marine fish like to eat.

Fishing with live shrimps can at least guarantee that you won't catch any fish, while fishing with sandworms can guarantee that you will catch more fish species.

Li Duoyu first went to his fishing boat, took a bucket, and properly placed the five "cassettes" he had just bought.

His fishing boat was parked at the dock, which was quite expensive, and he had to pay a parking fee of five yuan per day.

Li Duoyu carried a bucket and imitated the fishmongers to talk to the fishermen.

"Uncle, do you have any live shrimps?"

A fisherman replied: "My boat has no water tank, all dead shrimps. If you want to buy live shrimps, you have to find those with water tanks."

"Okay, thank you, uncle."

The last time he came, Li Duoyu discovered that the sampans here in Ludao have live water tanks.

Maybe this is related to the environment of Ludao, which is originally by the sea. The fishermen here prefer to eat fresh seafood.

Li Duoyu also likes it. As a fisherman and a cook, he knows better, even if the freezing technology is good.

In terms of freshness, there is still a big difference between frozen seafood and live seafood.

Li Duoyu asked several fishing boats in a row.

"Uncle, do you have live shrimps?"

Finally, he asked him and met a fisherman who specialized in selling live shrimps.

After looking Li Duoyu up and down, the fisherman said, "I told you in advance that live shrimps are more expensive and are usually sold to hotels."

Li Duoyu smiled and said, "How much is it?"

"Nine-segment shrimps, live one catty is eight yuan, green shell shrimps, five yuan per catty."

The price is a bit expensive, but it is still acceptable, but Li Duoyu still can't help bargaining: "One yuan off per catty, I'll take two catties of each of these two."

The captain of the boat said, "I can give you a discount of five cents per catty at most."

"One yuan, a discount for the first cooperation, I will come to take care of your business more in the future."

The captain of the boat said disdainfully, "You look like you are from another place, how can there be a next cooperation, forget it, I will sell it to you at a discount of one yuan per catty."

Li Duoyu bought four catties of live shrimps at one time, but he was different from other fishmongers, who would definitely buy the largest shrimps.

Li Duoyu chose to buy the smallest shrimps. Seeing that he only chose small shrimps, the captain felt that he was not at a disadvantage, but he couldn't help but remind him: "Why did you buy so many small shrimps? Big ones are better."

Li Duoyu said: "I'll take them to fish, and these small shrimps are more suitable."

After hearing this, the captain was stunned on the spot, and several fishmongers nearby were also stunned. How could there be such a fool.

Live shrimps cost six or seven yuan per catty, and fish cost only a few yuan per catty. Even the most expensive yellow croaker is not as expensive as live shrimps. This is a pure waste of money.

The captain couldn't help but say: "Young man, you will lose money if you fish like this, or you can think about it again."

"It's okay, I'll just fish for fun."

After Li Duoyu paid the money quickly, he asked by the way: "Uncle, where can we buy sea centipedes at our dock."

"There are none at the dock. You can buy them at the eighth market later."

"Okay, thank you."

Looking at the back of Li Duoyu leaving, the captain and several fishmongers nearby were a little confused and couldn't figure it out at all.

It was not until Li Duoyu jumped on the fishing boat that these people finally figured it out. It seemed that it was prepared for the rich.

After arriving at the fishing boat, Li Duoyu poured the live shrimps into the live fish tank on the boat, and then went to the nearby Eighth Market to buy some fresh sea centipedes.

When he finished these things, it was already dawn.

Li Duoyu, who was a little hungry, did not go back to Ludao Hotel for breakfast, but ate a bowl of noodle soup and a fried dough stick near the pier.

These days, everyone is very eager for the exquisite breakfasts in the hotel, but Li Duoyu prefers street snacks, which feel more fireworks.

As the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone on the pier, Li Duoyu, who ate a bowl of noodle soup and felt warm all over, walked back to the direction of Ludao Hotel. (End of this chapter)