Wow, There's Even Extra Food

Xia Yanchun left her teeth marks on Shen Nian's wrist, leaving a faint trace of moisture. After letting go, she gently wiped it clean for him.

"You bite really hard, you know that?" Shen Nian viciously rubbed her hair, messing it up completely.

"Hope it hurts to death, I don't feel sorry for you."

"The love is gone, Haji-Chun. I order you to shout out a sales pitch right now. If we can't sell these fish by this afternoon, I'll hold you accountable."

"And what can you do if we don't sell them?"

"Beat you up."

"Bleh, I'm not scared of you. But seeing as you worked so hard to catch these fish, I won't hold it against you. Just remember how nice I am to you next time you try to mess with me."

"You always have to have the last word."

Xia Yanchun pretended not to hear him. Taking a deep breath, she started hawking like the vendors she had seen before.

"Freshly caught fish! Super delicious and selling cheap!"

"Handsome, want to buy some fish? Freshly caught! If it's not delicious, it's free!"

When passersby walked past, Xia Yanchun immediately raised her small hand to greet them, looking quite like a proper stall owner.

Who would have thought that such a young girl and boy would be selling fish in the market? Moreover, they had great skin and didn't look like people who would go fishing at all.

The young man who had been stopped by Xia Yanchun was about to leave, but he stepped back in confusion. He blinked at the fish in the bucket, which looked half-dead but were actually very much alive.

"Are you saying these fish were freshly caught?"

"Yep, yep! If it's not delicious, it's free."

The young man squatted down and picked two that weren't too big. The fish, which had looked listless just a moment ago, immediately started thrashing around the moment he grabbed them, slipping out of his hands several times.

He swore never to judge a fish by its appearance again; even the ones lying flat were full of potential.

The young man believed it now. These fish were truly full of vitality.

The moment he grabbed them, the fish would thrash about. They were so slippery he couldn't keep a grip, and in the end, Shen Nian had to help him catch them.

Xia Yanchun beamed with joy. She rubbed her small hands together, making a rustling sound. "I'll get a plastic bag for you..."

It wasn't Shen Nian's first time selling fish. When they arrived at the market, he had bought some plastic bags on the spot for convenience.

"You guys don't kill and clean them?"

"Uh..." Shen Nian and Xia Yanchun looked at each other in dismay.

If you asked Shen Nian to fish, he could easily catch a dozen with a laugh. But if you asked him to kill a fish, he would just laugh and take it to the fish market boss to do it for him.

They charged a two-yuan processing fee per fish. Knocking it out and gutting it took a skilled stall owner only a few minutes. It was a relatively quick way to make money, and many fishmongers were happy to do it.

For an extra two yuan, totaling four, they could even slice the fish. If you bought fish directly from their stalls, these services were complimentary.

After all, they didn't sell fish often and didn't even have their own stall. It wasn't worth it to specifically buy a cutting board and a cleaver to kill the fish, and cleaning up would be a hassle. Most importantly, Shen Nian didn't care about paying the small processing fee.

They didn't even have a scale. These prodigies of the fish world had delicious meat and a springy texture, and they were selling them cheap. What more could anyone ask for?

One bite and you'd be left absolutely speechless.

After putting the cleaned fish into a plastic bag, Shen Nian grinned, "Handsome, that'll be thirty."

"Wait, you guys don't weigh them?"

"Didn't buy a scale."

The young man laughed out of exasperation.

Judging by the weight in his hands, according to market prices, thirty for these two cleaned fish was an absolute steal.

They were more charitable than saints.

So, he had no choice but to reluctantly accept.

"If it's good, I'll come back next time."

"Guaranteed." Shen Nian made an OK gesture.

Xia Yanchun was quite clever; she had already opened her QR code and was waiting on the side. The thirty yuan naturally went straight into her account.

"I feel like we're selling fish so casually. There's no process at all."

"Just going with the flow. Some fishermen like to bring their catch to the market to trade for things. We're just trading for money. I don't really care whether we get a lot or a little; making a few hundred a day is fine."

"That's so casual. We're going to lose a lot of money."

"We're just high schoolers. Making a little pocket money is enough."

Shen Nian said so.

Although he had spent an hour and a half fishing and caught a full bucket worth an estimated three or four hundred yuan, he truly thought this way.

If he didn't consider the sales situation and only estimated based on market prices, if he spent the whole day fishing, he might be able to make two thousand a day.

The only costs were time and a bit of bait.

"If we can't find jobs in the future, we'll just rent a small stall. I'll fish, and you'll sell them. We can spend our whole lives like this." Shen Nian nudged the squatting Xia Yanchun with his elbow. Xia Yanchun almost lost her balance and stumbled.

The floor was dirty. If she accidentally got her hands dirty, Xia Yanchun planned to wipe them directly on Shen Nian.

"You're the one who won't be able to find a job," Xia Yanchun huffed. "If neither of us can find a job, then who can?"

"Who can say for sure? Maybe you'll bomb the college entrance exam, end up at a mediocre university, and go downhill from there. But don't worry, Haji-Chun. Even if you can't find a job and end up delivering food, I won't secretly order cheap budget takeout just to make you deliver it."

"Get lost. If I see it's your order, I'll secretly spit in it."

"Damn, a free meal upgrade."

"..."

Is there absolutely... no humanity left?

This world is doomed.

Xia Yanchun decided to sulk and make Shen Nian guess what was wrong, slightly pouting her upper lip and ignoring him.

Shen Nian found it hilarious. It was obvious Haji-Chun wasn't really angry, so he didn't bother coaxing her.

Not only did he not coax her, he deliberately teased her.

So Shen Nian poked, tickled, and patted her. Xia Yanchun, who had only been pretending to be angry, was now genuinely frustrated.

She decided to get truly angry for Shen Nian to see.

"Hmph, don't touch me."

"I will, I will."

"You're so annoying."

"Hurry up and shout. If you don't shout, no one will come to buy fish." Shen Nian gave her a light smack, bossing her around like a maid.

Xia Yanchun was so mad she almost choked.

But the moment she thought about the money going into her WeChat account, her anger dissipated by more than half.

"Selling fish! Selling fish! Fresh big fish straight from the fisherman! Grass carp, crucian carp, we have it all!..."

Catching fish was easy, but selling them was hard. There were fewer people in the market than expected. It was estimated that the crowd wouldn't pick up until five or six in the afternoon.

After selling for an hour and a half, they had only made a little over a hundred yuan.

For a wet market, it wasn't a small amount, but for Shen Nian, it wasn't much.

That was until a slender, elegant figure stood in front of them.

Stylish platform shoes, a long coat covering her calves, revealing only a hint of black stockings. Her outfit was beautiful and very fashionable. Shen Nian had seen the small crossbody bag on her waist before, and coupled with the familiar long hair...

Wait, what wind blew my Head Teacher Wangzai to the wet market?

Yan Yuzhu bent down slightly, looking Shen Nian and Xia Yanchun up and down. "Why are you two here... selling fish?"

Who could understand the surreal feeling of coming to the market on a whim to buy groceries, only to run into two top students squatting together at the market entrance selling fish?

The fact that two top students were selling fish was one thing, and the fact that they were doing it together was another. More than why they were selling fish, Yan Yuzhu was curious about why they were spending their holiday selling fish together.

Their relationship seemed too good to be just ordinary friends.

"Teacher, it's a long story," Shen Nian said earnestly. It had been a long time since he last bragged about his grand feat of catching a full bucket of fish in just an hour and a half.

Compared to Shen Nian's confident and easygoing chatter, Xia Yanchun looked as timid as a little quail.

Seriously, how on earth did they bump into their teacher at the market?!

To be out here selling fish with Shen Nian on New Year's Day... Even if the teacher didn't say anything out loud, she must have already put two and two together.

She wasn't worried about the teacher broadcasting her business with Shen Nian to the public; Yan Yuzhu wasn't that kind of brainless educator. She was only afraid of Yan Yuzhu's imagination running wild, speculating about her relationship with Shen Nian and how far they had progressed...

"Oh, spending New Year's Day together, are we? I couldn't tell you two were so close back at school."

"They really are a couple, aren't they? They hid it so well..."

Just the thought of Yan Yuzhu secretly dissecting her and Shen Nian's relationship in her head was enough to make her blush with embarrassment.