Jiang Tian’s barbecue restaurant is the most popular restaurant this summer because of its spicy crayfish.

Even many gourmets from provincial capitals drive far away to eat her crayfish.

Seeing the long queue outside this store, other late-night snack shops on the street couldn't wait to get going.

Once there was the first one, there were countless others, and soon the whole street was selling all kinds of imitation spicy crayfish.

Some smart shop owners were worried that Han Jisong, who was in love, would make trouble for Jiang Tian's shop. So they cunningly avoided the spicy crayfish and created their own recipes to sell braised crayfish, pickled pepper crayfish, spicy crayfish...

For a while, the whole street was filled with red crayfish. Even the fishmongers in the seafood market smelled a business opportunity and started going to the countryside to collect crayfish to sell.

Because of the shortage of supply, there was even a price increase: the original purchase price of larger crayfish was 80 or 90 cents per pound, but in just half a month, the price increased to 1.23 yuan.

Chen Conghui and her colleagues’ lobster fishing business was immediately threatened.

In every town and village, vendors began going to the countryside to collect crayfish. The rural people were not stupid, and they discovered that fishing for crayfish was quite profitable. Soon, anyone who could move in the village began using fishing rods and scoop nets to fish for crayfish.

Chen Conghui and her friends used to catch dozens of kilograms of fish every day, but gradually, the amount they sold was only 20 to 30 kilograms at most and only 10 kilograms at least.

Although Jiang Tian raised the price for them, and it was still two cents more expensive than what they charged in the countryside, their income still inevitably declined rapidly.

Jiang Tian gave them an idea: Others are fishing for crayfish, you can try to differentiate yourself and go fishing for yellow croaker and yellow eel! There are also a lot of crabs on the river beach this season, so you can get a flashlight and catch some crabs to sell~

Chen Conghui hesitated and said, "Some people buy yellow croaker and yellow eel, but the small stone crabs on the riverbank don't have much meat, so no one buys them, right?"

Jiang Tian smiled and pointed at herself: "No one wants it? I'll take it!"

"The whole street is selling crayfish now. If I don't come up with something new, won't all the customers go somewhere else?"

Soon, all the students in Class 1 of the second grade received word-of-mouth notification: the barbecue restaurant opened by He Tiantian's family, in addition to crayfish, also accepts yellow bone fish, yellow eel, loach, small stone crab, small river shrimp...

Han Jisong was also busy. He found a way to wholesale a batch of fishing gear and fishing nets, charging only the cost price and letting the students buy them directly from Jiang Tian. This way they could save at least a few dollars compared to buying them from a fishing tackle store themselves.

He also knew that many of his classmates' families were not well off, so they worked hard to make money this summer just to leave themselves a way out:

If they really get into high school and their family cannot afford the tuition and living expenses, then the money they earn now may change their destiny!

After asking Jiang Tian about the purchase price, Chen Conghui discussed with her sister and decided to give up on crayfish first, avoid the huge army of crayfish catchers, and earn the money from what Jiang Tian called "differentiated competition."

From that day on, the two sisters slept during the day, and in the evening, together with several other boys in Class 1, Grade 2, they carried large and small bags of fishing gear and walked along the rice fields and ditches on both sides of the provincial road. Before it got dark, they put away the eel cages and shrimp cages that had been prepared in the afternoon.

Walk all the way to the river, follow the river bank, and lower the "string hook" for fishing yellow croaker into the river.

Then I ran to the river beach to catch crabs.

Kangkang, the little crab I caught

This small river crab is afraid of heat during the day and hides in the water. It only crawls to the shallow water area of ​​the river beach to look for food at night.

When I shine the flashlight on the crabs, they lie motionless in the cracks of the rocks and I can catch them right away!

There are not many crayfish on this side of the river. When passers-by heard that they were catching crabs, they thought they were just a few kids playing. They never imagined that these small river crabs with little meat could actually be sold for money, and the price was almost the same as that of crayfish.

In just one night, Chen Conghui and her sister caught half a bucket of small river crabs, and they also caught a lot of snails.

During the more than two hours of catching crabs, they collected the "hooks" twice. In addition to yellow croaker, they also caught more than a dozen crucian carp and small whitebait.

At around eleven o'clock in the evening, several classmates delivered the catch directly to the barbecue restaurant as agreed with Jiang Tian.

The still lively yellow bone croaker and the fresh river crabs crawling everywhere immediately attracted the gourmets in the store.

"Hey! This yellow croaker is quite fresh~"

"This little crab is also good. You can eat it right after killing it. Coat it with batter, put it in a frying pan, and fry it until both sides are golden brown. It's delicious when you eat it with wine!"

"My dear classmate, do you want to sell these yellow croaker and crab?"

Chen Conghui smiled and shook his head: "Boss, these fish and crabs were ordered in advance by the store owner, and we are just here to deliver the goods. We only got this much, if you want to eat some, please go and tell the owner of this store."

As he said that, he directed his sister and other classmates to bring several large buckets of water to the kitchen.

The new manager of the barbecue restaurant was found by Han Jisong on behalf of Jiang Tian. This uncle also has a miserable life. He has two sons and two daughters, none of whom like to follow the right path. He used to run a small restaurant on Provincial Highway 336, but theirs was a black shop that specialized in cheating drivers from other places.

The two sisters were responsible for hailing cars on the roadside. When they saw a long-distance bus that required passengers to get off to eat, they would tell passengers that their food was cheap and delicious, and that a serving of meal only cost fifty cents.

Those who are greedy for small profits will easily fall into the trap. After entering the store, they will find that the "one meal" mentioned in the store is not the "one box lunch" as they thought, but really a bowl of white rice!

If you want to leave now, you can't leave...

They are also very smart. They specifically stop government buses with "such and such passenger transport company" printed on them. The drivers and conductors of these buses are government employees and are afraid of being beaten. Since they are not the ones buying the food, they will give in.

At this time, if the passengers on the bus don't want to cause trouble, they will buy some boxed lunches from the store.

A bowl of white rice cost 50 cents, a vegetarian dish cost 30 cents, and a meat dish cost 80 cents... Later, when the crackdown began and some drivers who had been cheated reported the crime, these four lunch vendors were all sent to jail.

After being released from prison, they wanted to "return to their old ways", but at that time the area around Shuangfeng Town on Provincial Highway 336 was already Han Jisong's territory.

Han Jisong and his men gave them a severe beating, but seeing that they were "gifted", he was reluctant to waste their talents and sent the four of them to be responsible for "after-sales rights protection" in the aquatic product market.

Sure enough, those stall owners and fishmongers who usually liked to be sneaky and use tricks to cheat people were really hit hard by these four people and were beaten up miserably.

It was a coincidence this time that Jiang Tian was short of a store manager, and Han Jisong wanted to help her find someone reliable, so someone recommended the father of the four siblings.

Han Jisong originally thought that the father who could raise these four weirdos must be no easy person to deal with. However, after meeting them, he found out that the father of the four siblings was actually a very honest and kind peddler!

The old peddler had good intentions. He was worried that his four children would not learn their lessons after being released from prison and would be thrown into jail again. So he simply set up his small grocery stall on the roadside of the seafood market and kept a close eye on the children every day!

All I can say is that father’s love was like a mountain pressing down on the four siblings, weighing them down so hard that they dared not even make the slightest move.

Han Jisong immediately introduced this honest and reliable uncle to Jiang Tian.

Now, the uncle sleeps in the dormitory during the day, and next door is the dormitory for four children.

At night, the uncle was watching over the barbecue restaurant. Next door was the management office, which was also the duty room for the four children.

24-hour seamless binding, dad no longer has to worry about me breaking the law o(╥﹏╥)o

Because the four children were not good at studying, the uncle particularly liked the good kids who worked and studied at Caodi Middle School.

As soon as he saw Chen Conghui and the others coming to sell crabs, he went to the kitchen to watch them personally, fearing that the chef would cheat and deduct the hard-earned tuition fees of these children.

How dare the new chef deduct the money earned from selling fish from these students?

Even the cleaning lady in the store knows that these students are the boss's classmates at Caodi Middle School. If they withhold their money, they will go and complain to the boss. How can he continue to work as a chef?