Ye Zhan and I finished half a barrel of draft beer. No one mentioned going back to Beiyuan. We kept talking about happy things. In the end, we were both drunk and unconscious. We didn't know how we got home to sleep. The next day, I saw Ye Zhan off and went back to the store to work. More than ten days passed like this. The weather became hotter and hotter. The summer night activities in Dongguan Town became more and more active. Residents were willing to come out for a drink after dinner and chat with two or three friends. Business naturally increased steadily, and Xiao Zhishan's commission also increased. When I was free, I did some calculations for him. The income of a whole summer was equal to the total income of the other three seasons.

After the calculation, I shook my head and smiled bitterly. Their business is too easy to make money. They just walk around the farmers' market a few times every day, and their wallets are full. I don't know how happy they will be when they go back. One day, I was greeting other guests, and I looked back and saw that Xiao Zhishan and his brothers had occupied a table. Seeing this, I immediately called out: "Mom, hurry up and serve Brother Shan wine and food." Then I walked over and unexpectedly found that Xiao Zhishan was actually frowning, Mao Xiaoqiang and the others also looked unhappy. A bunch of people sat there sighing, as if someone owed them money and didn't pay.

"What's wrong, Brother Shan?" I asked curiously, "You drink a little wine every day and make money, why do you still look like this?"

"Brother," Xiao Zhishan said, "this money is so expensive. Every day you earn it, you lose it."

I was even more puzzled: "What's going on?"

"King Kong has said that he wants to end things with me in the next few days, and asked me to prepare well."

"Hey, he's just trying to scare you. This is psychological warfare. He's deliberately trying to make you feel the pain, so that you will lose without even fighting!"

"I've been in this business for so many years, how could I not understand this?" Xiao Zhishan said painfully, "But I know I can't do it anymore. King Kong is young and energetic, and he is determined to win regardless of psychological warfare or not."

"Brother Shan, don't encourage others and destroy your own prestige. What's wrong with him being called King Kong? He just has a nose and a mouth. When you were out there, he was still nursing his mother!" This is the only way I could encourage Xiao Zhishan.

"Alas..." Xiao Zhishan sighed: "Now...now...I can't scare people even without a gun."

"Brother Shan!" The man who was selling spicy hot pot across the street also came over and asked in surprise, "I heard that King Kong is going to replace you and take over the farmers' market, and you have to give him 20% of the profits in the future?"

I gasped. Xiao Zhishan was collecting 10% of the protection fee here, and he, King Kong, wanted to collect 20% right after he arrived? We are all small businesses, and it is not easy to make a little money. King Kong took away 20% at once. Is he going to let us live?

Xiao Zhishan nodded with a painful look on his face, and Mao Xiaoqiang and the others also sighed. The man was anxious: "How can this be? Brother Shan, you must not hand over the farmers' market to him." When he shouted like this, the vendors around gathered around. They also got the news and said one after another: "Brother Shan, you can't leave." "Brother Shan, you have to defeat King Kong." "Brother Shan, although we often scold you in private, you are much more tolerant than King Kong, and you haven't raised the price for so many years!" "Why do you scold Brother Shan? It's not like he took the money and didn't do anything. He usually protects us, right?"

Over the years, in addition to paying the government sanitation fees and management fees, vendors in the farmers' market also have to pay Xiao Zhishan 10% of their income. The key is that when there is a quarrel between vendors, the government never intervenes in this matter, and Xiao Zhishan has to come out to help everyone settle it. It can be said that although everyone usually scolds Xiao Zhishan for eating bones and not spitting out the residue, they still habitually go to him when something goes wrong. Now there is news that King Kong will be replaced to take over the farmers' market. In the legend, King Kong is a cruel and tyrannical bastard. If he comes, everyone will definitely not have a good time, so the vendors in the market are a little anxious.

If Xiao Zhishan is a dog that bites people, then King Kong is a wolf that eats people. It is better to continue to be bitten by a dog than to be eaten by a wolf. The key is that this dog can also play a role in guarding the house. I think this is everyone's mentality now.