The second semester of the second year of junior high school passed in the blink of an eye.

While Jiang Tian was busy grabbing land and making money, the seniors in the third year of junior high school were also making the final sprint for the high school entrance examination.

At this time of year in previous years, the atmosphere in the third grade department was polarized:

Those who hope to be admitted to high school or technical secondary school would rather stay up all day and recite books and practice exercises as soon as they open their eyes.

Most of those who have no hope of getting into high school have no mood to review anymore.

Anyway, with their grades, they probably won’t even be able to pass the preliminary exam, so why bother working hard? They might as well muddle through life like this, and when they get their junior high school diplomas, they can go out to work, right?

But this year is different.

The enrollment brochure of "Xiangjun Vocational School" has long been posted in the school's notice board. Those who fail to get into high school but want to learn a skill to make a living can enroll in a vocational school after the high school entrance examination.

Although this school is not large, it is located locally and the tuition is not very high.

Of course, the most important thing is that this school offers so many scholarships!

As long as you can get a higher score in the high school entrance examination, even if it does not reach the general high school entrance examination score, you will have the opportunity to get an admission scholarship.

Now, those who had originally planned to give up no longer dared to lie down. They picked up their books and started to memorize furiously - although they could not get into high school, they could go to military vocational schools and compete with those who were worse at studying than them for scholarships.

Chen Lingli's elder sister Chen Conghui is also in the third grade, but she is a good seedling in the eyes of the teacher and has great hope of being admitted to a medical college.

For the sake of her sister's dream, Chen Lingli worked even harder than Chen Conghui this semester.

She is now beginning to learn how to plan her spare time properly.

After school, I go to Jiang Tian’s fast food restaurant to work for two hours. This way I can earn a few dollars by delivering takeout every day. The store also provides a dinner, so I can save money on dinner.

After eight o'clock in the evening, I go back to school to finish my homework and return to the dormitory to sleep on time at ten o'clock.

At first, Chen Lingli was worried whether this would affect her studies, but later she found that delivering food for two hours after school would not have much impact on her studies.

Even because of time constraints, in order to go back to sleep before the lights in the dormitory are turned off, Chen Lingli is now much more efficient in doing her homework than before.

In the past, she would easily have wild thoughts during evening self-study classes, but now, after delivering the takeaway, her mind is full of homework and she has no time to feel sad.

After one semester, Chen Lingli not only improved her learning efficiency, but also saved more than 100 yuan.

Before Chen Conghui entered the examination room, Chen Lingli used the money she had saved to buy her sister a full set of the best stationery.

Chen Conghui did not disappoint her sister. After the high school entrance examination scores came out, she was admitted to the medical college of her choice.

In fact, with her grades, she would have no problem getting into the county middle school, but the class teacher knew their family situation. Their parents didn't care about the lives of the two sisters. It was impossible for them to earn tuition from high school to college by doing odd jobs on their own!

In comparison, it is better to go to a medical college. After graduation, you can be assigned to a township health center, which is considered a stable job.

However, after the high school entrance examination, the person who gained the most was Jiang Tian, ​​the "part-time admissions director."

In Caoding Middle School alone, more than 80 junior high school graduates chose to apply for Xiangjun Vocational School.

This group of students hasn't even started school yet, but some wealthy sponsors have already made reservations - Uncle Hu's business is growing bigger and bigger, and the demand for professional and technical workers who graduated from vocational schools is extremely high!

In short, as long as these students learn skills well in school, they will be able to find jobs seamlessly after graduation and will not have to worry about finding a job.

Because many people in Jiang Tian's class made money last year, before this year's summer vacation, a bunch of people came to ask her if the store was still recruiting summer workers this year. If so, they would be the first to sign up.

"Don't worry, there will definitely be enough places this year!" Jiang Tian smiled.

Some people are now selling crayfish in the seafood market, but because not many people eat them, the price is very cheap. The largest crayfish only costs 80 cents per pound.

This thing has more shell than meat. The locals now eat it by peeling the meat from the shrimp tail and saving it for cooking. It's really a waste of food.

Jiang Tian decided to prepare spicy crayfish and thirteen-spice crayfish, and sell them in her own barbecue restaurant first. When the time is right, she will open a separate late-night snack shop specializing in selling crayfish.

However, there are still too few crayfish in the seafood market.

She plans to mobilize her classmates to go back to the countryside to fish for crayfish!

This thing is now quite rampant. There was a heavy rain a while ago, and Jiang Tian encountered a few of them on the road when she was going home from school.

Those crayfish had no idea how dangerous the world is. They were crawling around on the roadside in broad daylight.

That evening, Jiang Tian took some chicken innards from the store, broke off a branch from the roadside to use as a fishing rod, tied the chicken innards with cotton thread, and in more than an hour, he caught several kilograms of crayfish in this inconspicuous ditch.

I took it back and made a big pot of spicy crayfish. At first, no one in the family was brave enough to eat it. But after they tasted the first one, they started to eat it up. In less than half an hour, the whole pot of crayfish was eaten up by the whole family, leaving only a little soup.

As soon as the final exams were over, Jiang Tian called all the classmates who wanted to make money with her during the summer vacation to her house to "try the food."

"Tiantian, aren't we going to sell lunch boxes during the summer vacation?" Chen Lingli asked her.

Jiang Tian shook her head: "It's easy for lunch boxes to go bad in the summer. It would be bad if they made people sick."

"I'm going to take you guys and make something else to sell."

As he spoke, Jiang Tian led a group of people into the kitchen and opened the lid of the big pot.

"Wow! It smells so good!"

"What is this? Wait! Isn't this a crayfish?"

Jiang Tian chuckled, "That's right! This summer, let's go catch crayfish and sell them. This will definitely make money. Come, get your own bowl and chopsticks, and try my exclusive secret recipe of spicy crayfish first."

Crayfish is covered with shells, with only a lump of meat on its butt. What's so delicious about it?

A few students picked up two crayfish and put them in their bowls while muttering.

A few minutes later…

"Shashasha~ This tastes absolutely amazing. I'll go get another bowl."

"That's enough, leave some food for us!"

"Tiantian, do you have rice at home? Cold is fine, this thing goes really well with rice."

Of course there was no rice, but Jiang Tian took some iced sour plum soup from the refrigerator for them to drink.

After a bowl of spicy crayfish and a large cup of sour plum soup, I don’t know why, but I felt happy all over.

No matter how envious they were, everyone knew that He Tiantian's family was in the catering business, and the secret recipe for the spicy crayfish must have been figured out by them to make money, so no one had the nerve to ask her how she made this dish.

However, they are now convinced that crayfish fishing can make money.

If this doesn't make money, they will perform a live crayfish swallowing show on the spot!