Chapter 232 Barbecue Street, Golden Shop, Here I Come
Hu Jianguo is working diligently to develop and expand his construction company.
The other members of the Hu family were not idle either.
In order to speed up the progress of the provincial road widening project, the road is divided into sections and demolished and repaired at the same time.
Jiang Tian previously told county leaders that she wanted to turn Fang Jie Fast Food into a well-known fast food chain. Isn’t this the opportunity?
While the bigwigs were competing for large businesses such as provincial road construction projects, earthwork projects, and procurement, Fangjie Fast Food had quietly contracted the canteen at the project site.
The shop assistants at the main store initially thought that they would be temporarily unemployed after the main store was demolished.
Unexpectedly, before the house was demolished, Hu Qiongfang had already found new jobs for them.
Although cooking in the construction site canteen is a bit more difficult than working in a restaurant, it also has one advantage: they can meet their families more often.
There is no other way. The provincial road widening project requires too many workers. The construction company that is responsible for the project cannot bring so many workers from other places at once, so it is inevitable to recruit a large number of workers locally.
Now, it was the turn of the towns and villages near the provincial roads to get excited.
These days, it’s hard to find a job at a construction site close to home!
Now, with such a big project suddenly coming out, they can find jobs near their homes for at least two years.
The sisters-in-law who worked in Hu Qiongfang's restaurant were the first to learn about the recruitment of workers by the Provincial Highway Construction Company. They immediately sent someone to send a message home and asked their husbands to come here to find work.
Unexpectedly, the men in their family just found a job, so they also followed them to the construction site canteen.
With the profits from the construction site canteen project, Jiang Tian can finally do another thing.
In the winter of 1988, Han Jisong used the money he earned from selling dried fish and trading local specialties to fence off a piece of land by the provincial road, hang up a simple iron sign, and set up a small seafood trading market.
The local area is rich in river fish. In the past, whether it was fishermen or fish farmers, they would sit at home and wait for fish collectors to come and buy their fish.
From now on, they can bring their own fish and shrimp to this aquatic product trading market to find customers.
Don't underestimate this small change.
When someone comes to your door, the price of the fish and shrimp is decided by the other party.
But when they got to the trading market, there were so many fishmongers coming and going, and if this one offered a lower price, they could just ask a few more.
Han Jisong spent money to build this seafood market, not just to collect the stall fees.
At least, as long as he has the management rights of the aquatic product market, along the provincial roads, no matter whether it is the breeders or the fishermen, whoever gets any good stuff will definitely have to go to him.
Didn’t Tiantian’s mother just happen to open a big hotel?
Those who could book a private room on the third floor could get wild eels as thick as arms, wild turtles as big as soup bowls, and wild loaches as thick as two thumbs... For any good stuff that was to be delivered that day, Han Jisong would have someone notify Hu Qiongfang's hotel first.
Only when the future mother-in-law no longer wants you, will it be someone else's turn to pick you up.
Hu Qiongfang felt like both being angry and laughing.
Does she look like some unreasonable old fogey?
Han Jisong has been thinking about her daughter for a long time.
The whole family could see it, except for Tiantian, who was obsessed with money all day long and didn't notice Xiao Han's pretense at all.
However, even though she was quite satisfied with Han Jisong, Hu Qiongfang had no intention of taking the initiative to help this kid break this window paper.
Her daughter is still young!
When Hu Qiongfang was young, she married blindly for love and took the wrong path. Now it's her daughter's turn, and she wishes she could keep her daughter until she is 20 years old before getting married!
Once a girl gets married, she won’t live as comfortably as she did in her parents’ home.
It's a good opportunity to take advantage of these few years to observe this kid Han Jisong carefully.
If Xiao Han is unreliable, or if his business has grown and he can't stand the temptations of those little girls outside, her precious daughter must not marry such a man!
etc!
Where is her baby daughter now?
Jiang Tian scraped together some capital from her mother and rented three shops outside the seafood market. After connecting them up, she hired a few people and opened a barbecue restaurant.
The restaurant’s signature dish is, of course, grilled fish!
After all, this store is located outside the seafood market, and the freshest fish and shrimp can be obtained within a few steps. If the store did not have grilled fish as its signature dish, wouldn’t it be a waste of such a good resource?
However, the reason why Jiang Tian decided to open a barbecue restaurant outside Han Jisong’s seafood market was mainly because he had his eyes on the night market business here.
As we all know, the busiest time in the aquatic product wholesale market is not during the day, but from midnight to dawn.
In addition to individual fishermen, aquaculture farmers have to catch the farmed fish, shrimp, loach, crabs and other species, pack them into boxes and transport them to the seafood market before the vendors set out to purchase the goods.
This process must be done as quickly as possible to ensure the freshness of the seafood.
We set off in the middle of the night and arrived at the seafood market around 1:00 a.m. We unloaded the goods, set up the stall, and connected the oxygen supply. By the time we finished all this, it was already past 2:00 a.m.
However, the barbecue restaurant opened by Jiang Tian is not aimed at these fish farmers who come to sell fish - these fish farmers and fishermen are reluctant to spend money on grilled fish.
Her target customers are actually the fishmongers who come to the seafood market early and wait to grab the first batch of "best goods".
In her previous life, when Jiang Tian worked in a construction site canteen, she heard from vendors in the market that in order to grab the "hottest goods", they often had to squat in the seafood market in the middle of the night.
If you go too late, you can only pick up what others have left.
When it comes to aquatic products, the heavier they are, the more valuable they are. Instead, the rarer they are, the more valuable they are.
If you are lucky, you can grab the rarest "hottest goods" on the market. Often, the money earned from one deal is equivalent to what others would earn from half a month's hard work.
Therefore, in order to grab the daily "best goods", some of the experienced old fishmongers even squat at the market entrance in the middle of the night.
Once "hot goods" appear, the owners may not be able to enter the market and will be surrounded by fishmongers outside the market.
And during this long waiting process, we can't just sit there and wait, right?
In her previous life, outside the seafood market in the city where Jiang Tian worked, there was an entire street of "late night snack shops".
Barbecue, hotpot, and crayfish are so popular that they are even more well-known than the seafood trade in the market.
I heard that the "Night Snack Street" was originally opened because someone discovered that the fishmongers squatting here in the middle of the night had no place to eat, so they opened a grilled fish restaurant.
Later, more and more late-night snack shops opened, and not only fishmongers but many locals also liked to go to the entrance of the seafood market for late-night snacks.
Later on, this street even became a local "food business card".
When many tourists from other places travel there, the first thing they do is take a taxi to the seafood market for a midnight snack.