Chapter 219: Love from rivers, lakes and seas, bound by day and night

The fish meal this morning tasted particularly sour and refreshing.

Wang Xiaokai opened a bottle of Longjingyuan Black Bean and Spring River Fish with Minced Pork, and the four brothers ate it with gusto.

In fact, the taste of Chunjiang Small Fish is very good. The main ingredient, Chunjiang Small Fish, is from the same family as Jiangchuan Dongjiang Fish. It is seasoned with the famous Fangyuan Chaotian Pepper. It is very strong and tastes just as good as the Jinzai Small Fish and Maomao Fish of later generations. The spiciness is even higher, and it is comparable to the fish fillets and fish tails of Weizhiyuan of later generations. The only problem is that it is expensive.

However, there is no way around the high cost.

As for canned meat, the cost is there, and 2 yuan per bottle is the price when consumers buy it, but Longjingyuan really doesn't make much money. After all, there is a sales network consisting of general dealers, distributors and terminal salesmen in the middle. Every time a bottle is delivered, a layer of profit is peeled off.

On the other hand, the living standard of the general public is low nowadays. It's fine to buy this stuff occasionally as a condiment, but it's a luxury to eat it all the time! As for the rich, like the Zhang family, they can't finish the fresh chicken, duck, fish and meat every day. Every now and then, Zhang Yunqi asks his family to get some wild boar, wild turtle, wild loach, wild rabbit and wild roe deer meat to satisfy his tooth. Buy canned food? It's not Tang Monk in it.

In fact, the fate of canned meat in China has always been quite tragic. It was half-dead and relied on foreign trade to survive. In the early 1990s, there was no other way because of the economy and everyone was poor. But in later generations, everyone's living standards have been improved to a certain extent. Even those who are not qualified to be leeks can support canned meat in terms of income, and the pace of life really requires canned meat. However, it was unlucky and happened to coincide with the explosion of the fast food and takeout industry. Naturally, canned meat became useless.

For example, the most famous Fengyang jar meat in Jiangchuan City in later generations is really delicious, but its sales are never very good. Most of the buyers are people like Zhang Yunqi, who are from the hometown and have been living away from home. He misses the taste of his hometown and will buy it online on Taobao.

Wang Xiaokai's luck today is quite good.

He won four bottles in a row, which was only fifty cents per bottle. It was such a good deal. Wang Xiaokai was so excited that he shouted like a monkey that he would go scratch the lottery ticket after school.

Many of the boarding students looked on with envy and, driven by the herd mentality, paid for the canned food. To them, it was not a loss to buy it at the original price. They ate the big pot meals in the cafeteria every day with watery soup, which left their mouths very bland.

Jiangchuan people always like spicy food. They can accept the lack of oil and meat in the canteen pot dishes, after all, the meal is very cheap, but if they can't taste spicy food, it is very unfriendly. The Chunjiang black bean and small fish cans in Longjingyuan can definitely meet this requirement, improving their lives and adding a little flavor. Moreover, if you eat a bottle sparingly, it will be enough for one or two weeks. If you win, you will make a lot of money. The most important thing is that the winning rate is really high, and it is not a gimmick to cheat people. Several students won several bottles in a row. Of course, some people who didn't step on dog shit today didn't win a bottle.

Li Yufei and her friends had originally planned to sell some canned food in the cafeteria at noon, but they only brought two boxes of canned food on their bicycles, and they were all sold out in the class in no time.

Liu Zicheng really didn't expect that a small scratch-off lottery promotion would have such a good effect. Seeing that the two boxes of canned food he had brought with great difficulty were completely empty, he could no longer complain. This small thing even gave this little fool an inexplicable sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that he had never experienced before. Maybe labor is not glorious, but labor with rewards is definitely glorious. He said to Li Yufei, "The last class in the morning is physical education. Anyway, we will have free time at that time. I will find a few people to go to the canning factory and move some more cans over."

Li Yufei agreed.

After the cans were sold out, it was almost time for class.

The students returned to their seats with cans in their hands and chatted about all kinds of things, but during class, there was always a faint aroma of small spring river fish floating in the classroom.

During the break, Zhang Yunqi ran to Chu Jian to ask him help with an English question. The final exam was coming up soon, so he had to work harder to cram. However, Li Yufei and Chu Jian were deskmates, and when he walked over, Wang Xiaokai, Yang Wei, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Xiao Xuemei and several other girls from a small circle were gathered there, chatting about some popular topics in the school.

Zhang Yunqi didn't take it seriously.

I went straight to the side of Chu Jian's desk and asked questions.

When she first saw Zhang Yunqi coming over, she subconsciously put a black plastic bag on the desk into the desk. Seeing that Zhang Yunqi didn't react, she carefully explained the question to him.

Chu Jian has been ranked first in the second grade of the school twice in a row. Many classmates in the class would ask her for help on questions. As a super student and study committee member, Chu Jian never refuses anyone. However, she always seems to be particularly attentive to Zhang Yunqi. Even during the break, she doesn't mind the eyes of others.

The two of them were chatting about the topic. Yu Qingqing, who was chatting enthusiastically on the other end, was always paying attention to the movements here. She glanced at Li Yufei beside her, with no expression on her face, and didn't even look at Zhang Yunqi.

This is a bit strange.

Yu Qingqing thought for a moment, called Zhang Yunqi, and said, "At noon, we plan to go to the school cafeteria with Yufei to sell canned food. Are you interested in going with us? By the way, you have sold handheld game consoles before, so tell me how to sell this one?"

Chu Jian, who was standing next to him, stopped explaining the question appropriately. Her little face was very quiet, but she did not look in Li Yufei's direction. She pursed her lips and took a pen to silently mark and modify some key points of the questions in Zhang Yunqi's exercise book.

Zhang Yunqi said, "Didn't you sell very well just now? There is no experience to talk about this. This kind of sales and attractive activities also cost money. The school can't let you do it in a big way. Just keep it simple and have a good attitude. Find a few agents later."

"To?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "We just let some students pretend to buy canned food to create an atmosphere and attract other people's attention. If a few people buy it, others will definitely follow suit."

Yu Qingqing said bluntly: "Isn't this a lie?"

Zhang Yunqi was not sure what to say. "That's fine too. You can just sell them directly. Or you can make a brand at the same time."

At this point, Zhang Yunqi borrowed a piece of paper from Chu Jian, and quickly wrote on the paper with a fountain pen: "Longjingyuan canned food, delicious and spicy enough to win a prize!"

After writing it, he handed the paper to Li Yufei's desk and said, "How about this sentence? You can write this sentence on a paper sign and put it at the entrance of the cafeteria to attract students' attention."

Yang Wei nodded: "Not bad, simple and clear, I can understand it at a glance."

At this time, Yu Qingqing raised an objection: "I think it's too straightforward and not particularly attractive."

Zhang Yunqi said nothing, picked up the pen and wrote a paragraph on the paper: "Who came from rivers, lakes and seas, but was confined to studying day and night, canned food and love."

“That’s a great sentence.”

Li Yufei was the first to speak.

She even recited it silently and liked it very much. Yu Qingqing also nodded and said it was good and better than the previous one.

Xiao Xuemei looked at the sentence and said, "It's very touching and attractive, and it's to the point. The words "rivers, rivers, lakes and seas" are a double entendre, and "confined to studying day and night" are exactly what we poor students are talking about. "Canned food and love" directly touch the depths of our hearts and products. The words are profound and meaningful. Zhang Yunqi, you are so talented."

Zhang Yunqi just smiled.

Isn't this the fucking literary style of the pain of youth, the same as "Life is not just about the immediate, but also about poetry and the distance", a complaint without illness that can only be cured by the daily necessities of life.

Everyone agreed that this sentence was good and it was decided.

Yang Wei found a large piece of cardboard from somewhere and wrote this sentence on it with a colored pen. Each word was very large, eye-catching, and extremely vulgar, but it didn't matter. As long as the vulgar style could attract the students' attention, it was fine.

During math class, Zhang Yunqi said to Wang Xiaokai, who was sitting next to him, "Kai'er, ask some boys from other classes to go to the cafeteria to buy canned food at noon to create an atmosphere and act as a stand-in."

Wang Xiaokai was stunned: "Didn't Yu Qingqing just say that this is a lie? Why don't we do this?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "I'm not surprised that Yu Qingqing is brainless, but I'm really disappointed that you are brainless."

Wang Xiaokai was quite dissatisfied with this. He said, "Boss Zhang, this is your low level. It's not that I don't want to be a shill. I just fully respect the beautiful woman's opinion."

Zhang Yunqi said: "Yu Qingqing is also considered a beauty? What's going on, Kai'er, you are too hungry to be picky."

Wang Xiaokai's balls hurt: "Even if you are hungry, you still have to eat. I have been single for 17 years, but I have never even touched a girl's hand!"

Zhang Yunqi said happily: "Okay, I'll buy you two chicken feet later, and you can lie on the bed and touch them carefully."

Wang Xiaokai almost vomited blood: "How on earth did I know you, a bad friend?"

"Your family's ancestors are really sorry. I won't waste my time talking to you. Go back and find someone to help you. If you don't, those girls will soon realize the gap between reality and ideal." Zhang Yunqi opened the exercise book and did math problems.

After this matter was properly arranged, he did not intend to intervene any more. As the general commander of the Longjingyuan Canning Factory's large sale of hundreds of thousands of cans, he really had no interest in getting involved in the small promotional activities of selling a few boxes or dozens of boxes in the school.

After school at noon, I went back to the store with Chu Jian to have lunch.

At the beginning, classmates were a little surprised to see Chu Jian and Zhang Yunqi go to Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Meal Shop for lunch every day. They thought that their relationship was not normal. But as time went by, they became numb because they all knew that Chu Jian's mother worked at Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Meal Shop.

As usual, Chu Jian sat in her seat reading a book for a while. When there were fewer people in the classroom, Zhang Yunqi stood up and called her.

When she turned her head and saw Zhang Yunqi was still there, she subconsciously took out the black plastic bag hidden in the desk in front of her, but just asked: "Yunqi, don't you want to help Yufei sell canned food?"

Zhang Yunqi said, "No, let's go home and eat."

Chu Jian glanced at Zhang Yunqi and whispered, "If you want to go, I'll bring you the food later."

Zhang Yunqi was stunned for a moment, then said happily: "What are you thinking about? I don't want to go, I just want to go home with you for dinner."

Chu Jian pursed his lips and stopped talking.

The two went downstairs.

It's winter.

The sky was gloomy, the grass was yellow and withered, and the howling north wind made a sound like a knife cutting. Chu Jian was walking beside Zhang Yunqi, holding the black plastic bag in his hand. He was wearing a plain cotton coat. The fluffy hood of the coat was snow-white, and it surrounded a white, transparent and clear little face.

"The clouds are rising."

Zhang Yunqi turned his head: "What's the matter?"

Chu Jian hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "It's nothing."

Zhang Yunqi thought for a moment, walked up to her, and smiled: "What's wrong? It's the first time we meet, and you look absent-minded. If you have anything in your heart, just tell me directly, okay?"

Chu Jian pursed her lips and said, "I knitted a scarf."

Zhang Yunqi was stunned for a moment and subconsciously looked at the girl in front of him.

"You either?"

The girl's face was already a little red, but she finally handed over the black plastic bag she had been holding in her hand, and said softly: "It's not very good-looking. I just learned it from my mother and asked Aunt Zhang. This is my first time knitting."

Zhang Yunqi took the plastic bag and took out a scarf from it. It was dark red in color, made of thick, soft wool, and covered with countless knots.

In fact, he didn't know how to knit a scarf, but he always felt that it should be very complicated. This was also the first time that a girl knitted a scarf for him. He thought it was really beautiful. Wearing it around his neck, he felt warm and his heart was melting. It also smelled of the hand cream he used when they first met, the faint grass scent that he often thought of inexplicably in cold weather.

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(End of this chapter)