"Ten bottles for ten bottles, and bring me another fifty bottles tomorrow. This lobster sauce is going to sell like hotcakes because it tastes really good."
Ding Zhaoshan was optimistic about the lobster sauce, but that was on the premise that the price wouldn't be too outrageous.
Thinking of this, he was about to inquire about the price when the restaurant manager walked over.
"Comrade, could you send some of those two food items to us as well?" The restaurant manager had appeared while Ding Zhaoshan was eating heartily, and now, upon hearing Zhang Liunian's intention to sell food, he stepped forward to strike up a conversation.
Zhang Liunian smiled, stood up, shook hands with the manager, and said, "Certainly, I'll bring some over for you tomorrow afternoon."
"Give me ten catties of braised meat first, and thirty bottles of lobster sauce!" If it was delivered in the afternoon, the manager didn't dare to ask for too much, fearing it might spoil.
The weather was still very hot, and it couldn't last overnight.
"And what's the price?" After agreeing to cooperate, the restaurant manager belatedly remembered to ask for the price. Zhang Liunian leaned into his ear and whispered something.
The restaurant manager nodded with satisfaction, then said, "You enjoy your meal," and left.
Watching Zhang Liunian effortlessly secure another cooperation, Ding Zhaoshan eyed him several times, feeling that Zhang Liunian had deliberately brought him to the restaurant, a truly astute move.
"Director Ding, please eat some more!" After seeing off the restaurant manager, Zhang Liunian sat down again and beckoned Ding Zhaoshan.
The latter waved his hand, "I'm already full."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Liunian glanced at the table behind him and saw that Zhang Qian and Du Ziteng had finished eating.
"Come over and eat something with us!" With five dishes, Zhang Liunian couldn't possibly finish them all. It was better to let Zhang Qian and Du Ziteng eat more.
Summoned, Zhang Qian and Du Ziteng picked up their chopsticks and resumed their battle.
After the meal, Zhang Liunian gave Ding Zhaoshan ten bottles of lobster sauce and received 15 yuan.
On the way home, Zhang Liunian looked at Du Ziteng, then at Zhang Qian, and finally shook his head.
Du Ziteng's gaze made him feel a bit strange, so he asked, "Brother Liunian, why are you looking at us like that?"
Zhang Liunian looked at him and said, "I need someone to watch the store now. From now on, you'll go to the county town every day to guard the store and sell lobster."
Du Ziteng quickly said, "I'm not suited for that. If I have to stay in one place and can't go anywhere, I'll go crazy."
"I know, that's why I'm thinking about who would be suitable." Zhang Liunian knew that Du Ziteng wasn't one to stay put, so he intended to choose someone else.
Someone he could trust, and who could talk and sell things.
Zhang Liunian thought all the way and finally realized that perhaps only girls would be suitable.
But he didn't have anyone suitable among the girls around him at the moment.
As he was thinking, Zhang Liunian suddenly noticed a woman not far away, whose arm was being grabbed by a street hooligan who was dragging her towards a dense patch of straw.
"Bah, you scoundrel, trying to force yourself on a comrade! I'll beat you to death." Du Ziteng had also seen it, spat out a mouthful of saliva, and jumped off the tractor.
Hearing the commotion, Zhang Qian immediately stopped the tractor, looked at Zhang Liunian, and said, "Brother Liunian, you rest here and don't get hurt. We'll go help rescue the comrade."
"..." What did he mean by helping him? Zhang Liunian looked speechlessly at Zhang Qian's retreating back, then thought that since they were taking action, he didn't need to.
Just as he thought he wouldn't need to intervene in this matter of seeing injustice, a few minutes passed, and neither Zhang Qian nor Du Ziteng appeared.
Zhang Liunian, sitting on the tractor, grew anxious. Why were they taking so long?
Two people fighting one, would it take this long?
Worried about the two of them, Zhang Liunian felt his pocket for a small knife, then pulled out an iron rod and tucked it behind his waist, and walked towards the straw patch.
After only a few steps, he saw Du Ziteng and Zhang Qian being stripped naked and hung from a tree, making muffled sounds for help.
Zhang Liunian scanned the surroundings, not seeing any other figures. He felt strange but still approached Zhang Qian and the other.
But before he could step forward to rescue Du Ziteng and the other, there was a "bang," and he fell directly into a deep pit.
Fortunately, there were no sharp objects below, just a simple trap, otherwise, he would have been injured.
Zhang Liunian sat in the pit, looked up, and saw a strange man looking at him with schadenfreude and saying, "I just wanted to sleep with a woman, and you all love to play the hero. Fine, I'll fulfill your wishes and let you all feed the mosquitoes here and leave your fate to heaven."
After saying this, he dragged away a screaming woman.
"Help! Help!"
"..." Zhang Liunian found the voice somewhat familiar, but he couldn't afford to dwell on it now. He had to get out quickly to rescue her!
He pulled out his small knife and began to dig footholds. With a few digs, in less than a minute, he had dug out several footholds and successfully climbed to a height of one meter. Then, he grabbed the iron rod, stuck it into the pit, and firmly wedged it horizontally into the pit wall.
Zhang Liunian stepped onto it, then, using the iron rod for leverage, leaped back to the ground.
"No!"
As soon as Zhang Liunian's body landed, a woman's scream sounded from not far away. Zhang Liunian located the source of the sound and ran towards it.
"Stop struggling, you are destined to be my woman today. After we get married, I'll go to your house to propose tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, you'll be my wife. See how well I treat you!"
After saying this, the hooligan, with a "rip!", completely tore open the woman's clothes beneath him.
"Ah! No!"
"Don't be afraid, I'll be gentle."
Just as the hooligan's large hand was about to reach the woman's chest, Zhang Liunian suddenly appeared behind him and kicked him five meters away, leaving him unable to move on the ground.
He glanced casually at the woman on the ground, and upon seeing her face, uttered "Cousin" from his mouth.
Liu Sanniu, lying on the ground, also screamed "Third Cousin!" upon seeing Zhang Liunian's face, and then tightly clutched her torn clothes.
But her clothes were already torn, and the man had ripped them further. No matter how she tried to protect herself, one part was still exposed.
Seeing this, Zhang Liunian glanced at Du Ziteng and Zhang Qian's clothes nearby, picked one, and threw it to her.
Then he let Du Ziteng and Zhang Qian down and walked step by step towards the hooligan.
The hooligan, caught off guard by Zhang Liunian's kick, couldn't get up now.
"Don't come any closer." The hooligan was shocked and terrified because the pit was dug by him personally, specifically to deal with people who interfered with his affairs.
So he dug the pit very deep, and he never expected that Zhang Liunian, a person with a severed hand, could climb out so easily.
Moreover, he could deliver such a fatal kick that his internal organs seemed to have shifted.
This person's combat power was too terrifying, too terrifying. He was no match for him at all.