After resigning from the shopping mall, Chén Zhāoyáng and Lín Xiǎotáng put their seafood food stall chain plan—which had been interrupted by the winter job detour—back on the agenda. However, the gap in startup capital loomed like a massive mountain before them. Just as Chén Zhāoyáng was racking his brains, a notice about a spring field trip broadcast over the school PA system made his hand holding the pen freeze mid-air. On the densely covered draft paper, a few drops of ink bled into irregular circles.
"Xiǎotáng, look at this." On the way home from school, Chén Zhāoyáng waved the crumpled notice, the sunset making the excitement in his eyes glow. "The whole school is chartering buses to Qinglong Mountain. One coach seats fifty people, so a dozen buses make..." He deliberately dragged out his ending syllable, and Lín Xiǎotáng immediately picked up: "Over seven hundred people! But with so many people gathered together, are we supposed to hand out flyers one by one?" She still vividly remembered the awkwardness when their pager activity at school was shut down by the teachers last time.
With a mysterious air, Chén Zhāoyáng pulled a cassette tape out of his schoolbag. "No flyers this time. We're doing an immersive roadshow." Seeing Lín Xiǎotáng raise an eyebrow, he pressed play on his Walkman. Cheerful disco rhythms instantly filled the car, mixed with his pre-recorded peddling cries: "Step right up, don't miss out! Freshly unveiled seafood secrets revealed!" Lín Xiǎotáng let…
Chapter 72