"Haohao was very lucky. He stole the supplies from the person who bought him in Tianjin and headed to Beijing, intending to come back to find his father. Little did he know that his father had tacitly approved of his being sold."

After Dr. Dai finished speaking calmly, a murmur of dismay filled the room. Even tigers don't eat their cubs, yet this man sold his own son.

"Where is Hao Hao's father now?" Wang Jing asked.

"I don't know," Dr. Dai said.

Because the child was weak and the doctor had to go to work, the group did not stay long and said goodbye.

"Dr. Dai is so pitiful. How could she have married such a person?" Wang Jing said angrily on the way back.

"Dr. Dai is devoted to her career. I heard that she was introduced to her husband by a relative and they got married after knowing each other for only a few months. After marriage, she was still busy with her career. I guess her husband and colleague didn't suddenly get together, but Dr. Dai just didn't know," Aunt Ning said.

“Mom, you know a lot,” Zheng Ming said.

"I casually mentioned it when I was chatting with Dr. Dai before. Isn't this what we middle-aged and elderly women ask when we chat?" Aunt Ning said frankly.

"What other gossip do you know?" Zheng Ming began.

"I also know that you were bedwetting when you were 8 years old, and that when you were 13 you secretly passed notes to female classmates and were found at school by their parents..." Aunt Ning recounted these details with great familiarity.

"Stop, stop, stop! Who asked you to gossip about me!" Zheng Ming quickly pulled Wang Jing aside to explain.

Zheng Ming's family of four, along with Sun Wei, went to work together, while Xu Lin, Zhou Pin, Li Jingjing, and Aunt Wu walked home together.

"Xu Lin, do you still have any bees at your house?" Li Jingjing asked.

"There's one more beehive." The others have been stored in my spatial storage.

"I'll get you another beehive in a bit," Li Jingjing said.

"No need, one is enough. I'll eat it myself anyway. I have a shop to run, and I won't be able to handle more than that," Xu Lin quickly refused.

"You want to open a shop? In the trading market?"

"Yes, sell seafood. You can also consign your honey for sale in the future."

"That's great! We'll give you a cut. It's inconvenient for us to go to the trading market every time." Li Jingjing was very happy.

"Let us know if you need any help," said Grandma Wu.

“Yes, let us know if you need anything,” Li Jingjing said.

"Okay, thank you in advance," Xu Lin said.

The group parted ways in front of Sun Wei's house, and Xu Lin and Zhou Pin went home.

"Let's plan out the seafood restaurant," Xu Lin said.

"You tell me, I'll write."

"First, we need to prepare trucks to transport seafood back and forth. On the way there, we can pick up other goods and on the way back, we can pick up seafood."

"We can't start too big at the beginning. Let's not hire anyone for now. Just the two of us. You transport the seafood, and I'll watch the shop."

"Actually, the best way is for me to transport the seafood, because the space can keep it fresh."

"How about we hire someone to watch the shop and the two of us do the shipping?" Zhou Pin was worried about Xu Lin doing it alone.

“That would increase the cost,” Xu Lin said.

“We weren’t originally in it to make money,” Zhou Pin said.

"How about this, our shop will open every other day," Xu Lin said.

“This doesn’t foster good customer loyalty, and you also have to resell the honey,” Zhou Pin said.

The two decided to hire someone to handle daily cleaning and sales, while Xu Lin and Zhou Pin would go to Jinshi to purchase goods and the store would sell other items on their behalf.

Once the process was finalized, all that was left was the renovation. Actually, there wasn't much to renovate; we just needed to prepare the shelves and seawater. Selling seafood wasn't exactly a high-end store.