Let's go back to 2008, starting with a recreational fishing park.

Jiang Xia didn't close his laptop and leave the office until the last tourist left.

At this moment, Wang Guifen had already cooked the dishes and poured all the cooked food that Jiangxia had bought back into the plate.

Wang Guifen simply put the crayfish into a stainless steel basin used for washing vegetables.

"Brother, is this a crayfish?"

Jiang Xiaobo swallowed hard when he saw it. For young people, the spicy duck heads and necks on the table were far more tempting than many stir-fries.

Jiang Xia nodded. "Yes, it was bought in the city. Have you had it before?"

"No, there don't seem to be many places selling this stuff." Jiang Xiaobo shook his head.

Jiang Xia laughed and said, "Then quickly wash your hands and try it. This stuff is a perfect match with beer."

As he spoke, he walked over to the basin and washed his hands.

Once everyone was seated, Jiang Xia quickly invited his parents and two children to try the crayfish first.

Jiang's mother picked up a shrimp with her chopsticks, looked at it from left to right, and frowned, saying, "Xiaxia, how do you eat this shrimp?"

Seeing this, Jiang Xia realized what was happening and was about to teach the group how to eat crayfish.

Before he could even speak, Jiang Jianguo on the other side picked one up and stuffed it into his mouth.

Then, a series of "crunch crunch" sounds were heard. While eating, he said smugly, "If you can't even eat properly, how can you eat? This thing is like a little crab; you just bite into it with the shell on."

Jiang Xia looked at his smug expression and was a little reluctant to say it, but everyone can't eat it with the shell on.

"Dad, this isn't how you eat it!"

"You didn't eat it like that?" Jiang Jianguo's smug expression faltered. "Then how did you eat it?"

Jiang Xia quickly picked up a crayfish to demonstrate to everyone.

He first put the shrimp in his mouth and sucked on the broth, then twisted off the shrimp head.

He casually tossed the shrimp head on the ground, then held the remaining tail and said, "This thing doesn't have any meat on its head; you only eat the meat on its tail. You see, after twisting the head off, you just need to bite down on this meat and then suck..."

Under everyone's gaze, Jiang Xia simply put one end of the shrimp tail into his mouth, gently sucked it, and the shrimp tail was reduced to an empty shell.

"Wow, so this is how you eat it," Jiang Xiaobo exclaimed. Luckily, he hadn't picked it up yet, or he would have embarrassed himself in front of his girlfriend.

Wang Guifen rolled her eyes at Jiang Jianguo: "What do you mean by eating it like a little crab? Doesn't it hurt your mouth?"

Jiang Jianguo still stubbornly insisted, "Eating it with the shell on provides calcium, but Xiaxia's way of eating it doesn't get any nutrition."

After Jiang Xia's demonstration, everyone started trying crayfish.

There's a slight trick to eating this. Wang Guifen tried several shrimp but couldn't suck out the meat. In the end, she just put the whole shrimp tail in her mouth and chewed it.

Yang Xiaoyue, on the other hand, succeeded on her first try.

Jiang Jianguo, however, stubbornly kept putting the whole thing in his mouth and chewing it, claiming it was for "calcium supplementation!"

But after hearing her son say that the shell of this thing is inedible, she also clumsily began to learn to eat only the meat.

This time, Jiang Xiaobo learned his lesson. He took a case of beer, opened it, and distributed it to the group.

When he finally remembered to open it, Jiang Xia stopped him.

"Don't drink anymore, you still have to take Yueyue home later."

"Huh?" Jiang Xiaobo looked at the table full of delicious food, feeling like crying.

"What? What? You want Yueyue, a girl, to go home alone late at night?" Jiang Xia glared at him and said directly.

"Okay." Jiang Xiaobo sighed and put down the beer in his hand.

"It's okay, brother. I'll go home by myself in a bit. It's not far, I'll be home soon." Yang Xiaoyue protected Jiang Xiaobo after hearing this.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xia glared at him and said, "You two, listen to me. Safety first."

This matter couldn't be discussed with Jiang Xia. He was worried about letting Yang Xiaoyue go home alone, and he was also worried about letting Jiang Xiaobo take her home after drinking.

Seeing the two looking dejected after what she said, Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Alright, you two wait a bit."

After saying that, he took the car keys and walked to the bread truck not far away. Then he took out a few glass bottles of orange soda and handed them to the two of them.

"This is just as good as beer for you two."

Jiang Xiaobo and his companion took the soda, opened it, and took a sip. Instantly, the bubbles burst in their mouths, and paired with the spicy dishes on the table, it was indeed very refreshing.

"How about it? Your older brother hasn't forgotten you, has he?" Jiang Xia rolled his eyes at the other person.

"Hehe." Jiang Xiaobo scratched his head and laughed, "I knew you were the best, brother."

The soda was something Jiang Xia bought on his way to the city in the afternoon. It wasn't just for Jiang Xiaobo and Jiang Xiaobo to drink; he could also have a bottle himself in the hot summer.

You should know that this stuff became incredibly popular in later generations. Countless people who couldn't drink and drive would drink this at gatherings.

……

After dinner, Jiang Xia watched Jiang Xiaobo escort Yang Xiaoyue home.

He then turned around and called Jiang Jianguo into the house to help with the accounting.

Wang Guifen was clearing away the dishes.

Jiang Xia first took out all the money she had collected that day and handed it to Jiang Jianguo to count. Then she opened the account book and began to check the day's income.

There were indeed significantly more tourists today than yesterday.

The ledger records a total of 86 people, most of whom were charged 80 each, because many people had already used their "likes and shares" discounts yesterday.

In the end, Jiangxia calculated that he received a total of 6080 yuan today, and also lost fish worth about 3,000 yuan.

So I should have earned around 3000 yuan today.

After Jiang Jianguo finished counting the money, he matched it with Jiang Xia's, and the total came to exactly 6080 yuan.

On the other side, Wang Guifen, after finishing clearing the dishes, also came over and asked how much she had earned that day.

She was thrilled to learn that she had earned 1000 yuan more today than yesterday.

Fortunately, she had already experienced it once yesterday, so this time Wang Guifen's situation was far less exaggerated than yesterday's.

However, she couldn't suppress the corners of her mouth when she walked.

Not to mention her, even Jiang Xia himself, enjoying the success of his first career after his rebirth, couldn't help but smile from time to time.

……

Jiang Xia finished tidying up much earlier than yesterday, and suggested to his parents that he bring his bedding to the reservoir area and sleep in the house here.

It's already open for business, and it's not good to have no one watching over it at night.

Jiang Jianguo also told him to go home and sleep, and that he would just bring a set of bedding to watch over him.

Jiang Xia waved his hand, telling him to go back and rest.

After a long day, Jiang Jianguo was more tired than I was, having been busy with this and that.

After Jiang Xia brought the bedding from home and made the bed, he realized that the reservoir didn't have any lights on!

Only the rooms and offices have temporary lights installed; the fishing area has no lights.

As soon as he turned off the lights, Jiang Xia felt a strange sense of unease.

It was a dark and windy night, and I was all alone by the reservoir, with barren mountains not far away.

Jiang Xia hugged the blanket tightly, shivered, and dared not think any further.

Sleep, sleep...