Before Jiang Yue and Gong Yachang reached home, they saw from afar a lot of children gathered at the door of their house. Some of them were carrying buckets of water, while others were carrying snakeskin bags. Tang Ziyang was talking to them.
"Oh no! These kids are bringing crayfish. Sister Jiang Yue, what should we do?" the duck-voiced man asked anxiously.
"What else can we do? Just collect it!" Jiang Yue walked over.
When the dirty kids saw Jiang Yue coming over, they all came over and said, "Sister, we have been catching crayfish for a long time, why are you suddenly not collecting them anymore?"
Since Jiang Yue had great success selling crayfish on the first day, she asked Gong Yasheng to find some children from the nearby villages and told them not to throw the crayfish they caught to feed the ducks, but to sell them to her at three cents a pound.
These rural kids usually go to the river to catch crayfish. They catch a lot of crayfish a day. Some of them take them home to cook and eat, but the taste is not good. Most of them are fed to ducks, but the ducks don’t like to eat them, so they are thrown away later.
It’s not that no one went to the vegetable market to sell it, but basically no one bought it, and gradually no one went to sell it anymore.
Suddenly a pretty lady came to the village and said she wanted to buy a large amount of crayfish. The rural kids were skeptical at first and caught half a bucket and sent it to her. Unexpectedly, the pretty lady really bought it and gave money on the spot. This excited the rural kids so much that they all stayed up all night and went to the fields with flashlights to catch crayfish.
Crayfish are an invasive species with strong reproductive capacity and no natural enemies. People living in rural areas know that this creature is very good at destroying field ridges and crops, especially in the summer, when it is simply a disaster.
There were crayfish everywhere in the fields. During those days, Jiang Yue received hundreds of kilograms of crayfish every day.
Normally no one wants this thing, and the purchase price of three cents per pound offered by Jiang Yue is not low. Some rural kids can deliver hundreds of pounds a day, and earn more than twenty yuan in more than a week. How can this be tolerated?
Today, the rural kids came early with the crayfish they caught, but the second brother of the Tang family said that they would not accept crayfish in the near future, which made the rural kids very anxious.
"Don't worry, everyone! We just encountered some troubles and won't accept you temporarily, but we won't stop accepting you forever!" Jiang Yue comforted the rural children.
She planned to talk to Tang Jingjing about applying for a business license for individual catering businesses soon. At that time, she would definitely have to rely on these rural kids to supply the goods.
"Sister, what should we do with the things we brought today? I worked until midnight yesterday to catch just this small bag!" said a rural kid.
"Me too! I was bitten by a leech!"
"Today's will be collected as usual!" Jiang Yue had not expected such an emergency. According to her observation, Jiacheng had always turned a blind eye to the small vendors. Who would have known that someone would suddenly report her.
"Go back and tell everyone you know not to send crayfish over for the time being. We will notify you when they are ready!" Jiang Yue warned the rural kids, and added, "Even if you send them over tomorrow, we won't accept them!"
"Okay sister!"
The rural kids were very happy to be able to sell the crayfish on hand. Jiang Yue asked Tang Ziyang to weigh them and Tang Jiaojiao to keep accounts. She gave the money. When the last rural kid left, she looked at the account book and found that she had set a record today, collecting nearly 500 kilograms of crayfish.
"Sister Jiang Yue, now the joint defense team won't sell us anymore, so what should we do with all these crayfish?" Tang Jiaojiao had already heard from Gong Yasheng that they were almost caught by the joint defense team today. Now, looking at the several large tanks of crayfish, she began to worry.
Five hundred kilograms of crayfish only costs about fifteen yuan. For the Tang family who have made a lot of money recently, fifteen yuan is not a lot. However, there are so many crayfish at home. If they are not handled in time, a large number of them will die. The money is not much, but it cannot be wasted!
"I'll find a way!" Jiang Yue squinted his eyes and looked towards the river with a thoughtful expression on his face.
Tang Ziyang stood behind Jiang Yue, looking at her slender figure.
"What? Apply for a catering individual business?" Tang Jingjing was stunned when she heard Jiang Yue's proposal. "Can we still do this?"
These few mornings, since Tang Ziyang went to work at the Flower and Tree Commune, Tang Jingjing was worried about Jiang Yue being alone, so she carried Bao Xiaojuan on her back, took Bao Qiang and went to the city with Jiang Yue to sell white jasmine. She had witnessed Jiang Yue's business ability.
Jiang Yue had only been at their house for half a month and had already earned more than 400 yuan. Even if they split it in half with their family, they would still get about 200 yuan, which was unthinkable before.
And since Jiang Yue came, they have had meat almost every meal and their meals can often be improved.
So Tang Jingjing really listened to Jiang Yue's advice and planned to go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to ask tomorrow.
Jiang Yue told Tang Jingjing about her future plans, which made Tang Jingjing stunned. "Open a lobster restaurant? Specialize in selling crayfish?"
Tang Jingjing is a simple housewife with little experience. When she got old enough, she married a soldier. They only saw each other twice a year. She had to take care of her two children by herself. Her parents-in-law lived far away and her parents were not at home all year round. None of them could help. Not only did she have to take care of the children, but she also had to raise her younger siblings. Her life was very hard.
She originally thought that this would be how she would live her life until she met Jiang Yue.
She didn't know how this beautiful and incredible girl had so many novel ideas in her mind.
"Well, you saw me cooking crayfish these days. It's not difficult. I'll write down the recipe for you when the time comes."
At this point, Jiang Yue suddenly thought that she could also teach Tang Jingjing how to make braised chicken feet and sell them with lemon and garlic flavor!
Not only chicken feet, but also pig's feet, were foods that were not eaten much in that era. They were scraps and were very cheap. However, after people invented delicious ways to eat them, the prices of these things began to double.
"Sister Jingjing, those lemon trees behind our house must produce a lot of lemons every year, right?" Jiang Yue's eyes sparkled. She decided to go to the vegetable market tomorrow to find out where to buy chicken feet, and then make lemon and garlic chicken feet when she comes back.
Tang Jingjing didn't understand why Jiang Yue's thoughts jumped to the lemon tree again, but when Jiang Yue asked, she nodded honestly, "It can produce a lot of fruits, but they are too sour, we don't eat them. Every year we want to cut them down, but my second brother won't let me!"
"I'll teach you how to eat it then!" Jiang Yue said excitedly. She has been very busy lately. She takes a shower at night and falls asleep on the bed. She has no time to think about Gu Ye.
After taking a shower, Jiang Yue didn't see Tang Ziyang and Gong Yachang. Tang Jingjing was not there either. Only Tang Jiaojiao was writing on the table. She leaned over to take a look. "Jiaojiao, what are you writing? Haven't you finished your homework yet?"
"I'm writing a letter for my sister to her brother-in-law!" Tang Jiaojiao handed the letter to Jiang Yue, "Sister Jiang Yue, look, my sister mentioned you and praised you!"
Jiang Yue waved her hand, "I can't read the letter that Sister Jingjing wrote to her brother-in-law! You write it, I'm going to read a book, remember to go to bed early!"
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