Lin Dan sent these children home and repeatedly told them to tell their parents about the extortion at school to prevent the situation from getting worse. She could send them once or twice, but not every day. When children lack the ability to protect themselves, the best way is to seek help from parents, teachers or even the police. Do not be patient, as that will only encourage bad people.
Kang Shaojie and Shen Jiayi felt very complicated as they watched Lin Dan send the children home one by one and patiently taught them how to protect themselves. How low-class did they have to be to enjoy bullying others!
After working as a bodyguard, Lin Dan went to the wholesale market and bought a sack of raw sunflower seeds and a sack of raw chestnuts. After returning home, he fried them until fragrant, and packed them in small plastic bags. He sold them at the school party the next day. He sold the two sacks for three yuan a bag, and more than six hundred yuan. After deducting the cost of seventy-seven yuan, he made a net profit of more than five hundred yuan, which made Kang Shaojie and the other two envious.
However, this was not the end. After the party, she asked the cleaning lady for the job of cleaning the auditorium and charged her 30 yuan as a fee. She packed the melon seed shells and chestnut shells she swept up into sacks and took them home to smoke bacon. Good bacon not only needs to be carefully marinated, but also carefully smoked. Just as roast duck is roasted with fruit wood, top-quality bacon must be smoked with wood that contains special aroma, such as fir tree branches and leaves, air-dried grapefruit and orange peels, melon seed shells, chestnut shells, etc.
When the villagers heard that she was going to make bacon, they bought raw pork and sent it to her house, asking her to help smoke it. She charged eight yuan for each piece of meat, and earned more than a hundred yuan in a blink of an eye. In her eyes, every aspect of life contains hidden ways to make money, and it would be unfair for her not to get rich!
Kang Shaojie secretly asserted to his two friends: "The little girl will definitely be the richest person in Taohua Town in the future."
Whether Lin Dan will become the richest person in Taohua Town remains to be seen, but she has given the three young men hope of returning home. On the first day of setting up the late-night snack stall, their business was booming! At first, several photographers surrounded their stall to take pictures, making passers-by afraid to approach. After all, this is just a small county town, and people are not very accepting of being filmed for television and are not very brave in facing the camera. After waiting for half an hour without getting any business, the three teenagers strongly requested the photographers to withdraw and just install a few fixed cameras in the shed.
With this arrangement, more people lingered in front of their stall. Lin Dan immediately took out twenty skewers of mutton, put them on the grill and heated them over a low fire, coated them with sesame oil, and used a spray bottle to spray a thin layer of roasting sauce on the skewers. When he moved them to the rapid fire area, the roasting sauce on the surface began to burn. The mutton's mutton smell disappeared in the strong aroma of the liquor, leaving only the surprisingly strong burnt aroma. After that, Lin Dan dipped the skewers into the thick spicy sauce, sprinkled a little cumin and some chopped green onions, placed them in the low fire area to slightly absorb the sauce, and placed them on the plate.
Her grilling movements were as graceful as flowing water. As the flames lit high and the aroma spread, the diners who were still watching from the stalls all gathered around and shouted, "Boss, give me twenty skewers of lamb!"
"I want one too, hurry up!"
"I want twenty skewers of beef and twenty skewers of kidney!"
The people from the program crew were also greatly stimulated by the rich aroma. They pretended to be customers and sat at three tables in a row, almost buying all the ingredients purchased by the three teenagers. They were tempted by Lin Dan's cooking skills every day, but they could only see it but not eat it. The pain was simply indescribable. Now that they have a legitimate reason, why don’t they take full advantage?
When they were closing the stall, the three young men were so tired that their calves were shaking, their hair was full of the smell of barbecue, and when they ran their hands through it, two pounds of oil could be shaken out. But when he poured out the money in the box and counted it carefully, it was three thousand eight hundred, and all his fatigue disappeared in an instant!
Lin Dan quietly put away her own portion, gave the rest to the three young men, and then helplessly watched them hug each other and cry with joy.
Lin Dan's seasoning technique is unique. Setting up a stall in a small county town is really a great use of small talents. Within a week, her barbecue restaurant became popular. Every day, there are diners who come here to eat. If you don't come early, you have to wait in line for a long time. There are also people from other counties who drive here specifically to buy barbecue. They can buy hundreds of yuan of barbecue at a time, so Lin Dan has to limit everyone's spending. Even so, it only took one month to earn 15,000 yuan. When they were settling the accounts on the last day, Kang Shaojie and the other two checked the account books again and again, their eyes reddened.
They have been tired, suffered, and struggled, but in the end they found themselves grown, more stable, and calmer. They handed the money to the director, who counted it and returned it to them, allowing them to spend it as they pleased.
They walked around the market and didn't buy anything for themselves, but they bought wolfberries, walnuts, dried red dates and other health supplements for their family. They pooled the remaining money together and planned to buy some tutoring books, an electronic dictionary, and a learning machine for the little girl after returning to the city. If Liuxing Village could get an Internet connection, they would also buy a computer for the little girl. In short, the little girl must have everything the city kids have.
Kang Shaojie put the remaining 10,000 yuan into his backpack and said with a wry smile, "My dad used to always scold me for being a spendthrift. I got really angry and argued with him, saying that you earn money for me, right? Now I understand that the money is not mine, but the hard-earned money of my parents. They work hard outside to give me the best living conditions, but I don't take their efforts seriously. Now that I can earn money myself, I finally understand how hard it is to earn money and how hard it is for my parents. No one's money comes from the wind. You have to spend what you should spend, but you also have to save what you should save. Don't take your parents' efforts for granted. You have to cherish them and be grateful."
The photographer captured the repentant expressions of the teenagers and felt inexplicably shocked. It only took them two months to go from rebellious to mature, from naive to hard-working. This is unprecedented since the program started and is a true spiritual baptism.
There is one last part before the end of the show, which is to invite rural children to the city to play and let them see the vast world outside. Originally, the candidate was undoubtedly Zhou Cuicui, but the three teenagers insisted on taking the little girl back, otherwise they would go on strike.
In fact, there was no need for them to make a fuss. The director thought the same thing and had gone to the Lin family to discuss the matter a long time ago. Lin Dan didn't want to go because she thought it was too troublesome. Lin Shuanzhui now listened to his granddaughter in everything, so naturally he was unwilling to give in. The director quickly took out a contract and pointed to the clause regarding remuneration. Lin Dan took a closer look and immediately picked up the pen to sign. Eighty thousand yuan is enough for a trip to the city.
Zhou Cuicui would naturally go as well, after all, she is still the little protagonist of "The Metamorphosis" on the surface.
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At the same time, Zhou Fang, who was far away in the city at Kang's house, was sitting in front of the TV with Kang's father and mother and Herbalife to watch the latest episode of "Metamorphosis". The Kang family had not been able to see their son for dozens of days and could not get through to him on the phone. This was the only way to comfort their longing for him.
When the first episode was broadcast, Zhou Fang knew that Lin Dan would not be in a good situation. Sure enough, the program team played the scenes of her smashing the Zhou family's glass and chopping Zhou family's cabbage. They also arranged interviews with several villagers, using everyone's mouths to restore Lin Dan's true image from the side: a barbaric, vulgar, and uneducated orphan. The scene of throwing feces was too explicit and was cut out in post-production. However, the footage was enough to arouse heated discussions among the audience. Compared with the two excellent children in the Zhou family, Lin Dan's image was really unbearable.
Even Kang's father and mother sighed: "What's wrong with this dark-skinned little girl? Does she often cause trouble for you and your sister?"
Zhou Fang smiled helplessly and did not answer, but his expression was enough to explain everything. Kang's father gave him a smartphone. He would often hide in his bedroom after the filming to secretly watch the show's broadcast results. Once he saw people criticizing Lin Dan and praising himself and his sister in the comment section, his eyes would radiate with joy.
However, he had no idea that there is a method of praising someone called first criticizing then praising. The program crew first created an extremely unbearable image for Lin Dan to arouse the audience's disgust, and then gradually resolved the misunderstandings and highlighted her nobility and loveliness, and her popularity naturally increased.
So in the later episodes, Lin Dan's righteousness, intelligence, simplicity, cuteness, and shrewdness were fully displayed. Even with the bad impression from the first episode, the audience's favorability towards her continued to rise uncontrollably, with more and more people talking about her, and in the later stages, some people even claimed that they watched the show just to see how far this tenacious little girl could go.
She was trapped in poverty but she was self-reliant. She built her life up bit by bit and lived the life that everyone aspired to live. At this point, the program team played a few more interview shots, using the villagers' words to explain why she was targeting the Zhou family. As a result, the audience's impression of her changed completely, and this little girl even became a hot topic for a while, while Jiao Xiao'e and Zhou Cuicui became increasingly unlikable in comparison with her.
Because she was so popular with the audience, the technical emperor edited the shots in which Lin Dan appeared into a special feature, including shots of her being helpful, cooking, and reading. Every shot was a classic, and the click rate was getting higher and higher every day. She was actually made into the national daughter. Some people even compiled her daily cooking scenes together and made a documentary video called "The Metamorphosis of Food". Once it was released, its popularity was almost as high as the popular food program "A Bite of China".
Because of Lin Dan's unexpected appearance, this season of "Super Girl" actually set a new high in ratings, but the Zhou brothers and sisters had nothing to do with it. They were completely marginalized.
Zhou Fang tried desperately to win the favor of Kang's father and mother, but found helplessly that they liked Lin Dan more and more. Seeing Kang Shaojie grow up step by step under Lin Dan's guidance, they cried with joy. For the first time, Kang Shaojie faced up to his bullying behavior and apologized sincerely. For the first time, he finished his homework seriously and decided to study hard after returning home. For the first time, he realized that his parents had given a lot for him and knew how to respond...
Kang's mother cried with heartache when she saw her son busy at the night market stall. Later, she couldn't help laughing when she saw her son counting a handful of banknotes. She found that her son was apologizing to them in front of the camera. She cried and laughed, and her heart was filled with emotion.
Kang's father, who never showed his emotions, couldn't help but shed tears and praised, "Good, good, they are all good kids. It's the right decision to go this time. I have to call the director and ask him to bring the little girl from the Lin family back. I want to thank her in person. If possible, I would like to adopt her, help her finish college, and even start her own business."
Kang's mother naturally agreed with it, but Zhou Fang lowered his head, suppressing the resentment in his heart. This should have been his chance.
Herbalife, who was sitting on the other side of the sofa, glanced at him with a slight gleam in his eyes.
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