Gourmet: Midnight Vending-Chapter 300 - 281: Xiao Jiao’s Team Gets Poached Again!

Chapter 300: Chapter 281: Xiao Jiao’s Team Gets Poached Again!

To elementary school students, the summer breeze and endless ice cream are all they need for happiness.

When each of the five elementary school students on the ice cream truck had eaten an average of four ice creams, the vehicle finally came to a slow stop by the roadside, arriving at their summer camp location—Divine Dragon Bay.

Divine Dragon Bay is considered a decent travel spot in Jingzhou; it is a small village, but the scenery is exceptionally beautiful.

If you walk to the outskirts of the village, on one side is the Divine Dragon Bay residential area, and on the other side is the vast and slow-flowing Shenlong River, which is extremely beautiful.

On the other side of the riverside is Jingzhou City’s fairly well-known small scenic area, Wanglong Mountain!

Due to its unique scenery and comfortable climate, this place has become the go-to spot for citizens of Jingzhou City for outings and barbecues during the hot summer. Probably because all the primary and secondary schools in the city are starting their holidays, Divine Dragon Bay is exceptionally quiet today, with no other tourists apart from the summer camp from the Experimental Primary School.

After Chen Mo parked the car, the five elementary school students rushed out. At this moment, Jiang Wenqing had forgotten that he had been an isolated loner for an entire semester. The friendship forged through four ice creams was very strong, quickly integrating him into his group.

When the five first arrived, they agreed to go fishing together once they reached Divine Dragon Bay.

Jiang Wenqing, leading his four team members, started looking for tree branches that could be used as fishing rods. After just a few steps, they were enticed by the delicious aroma of meat.

"What smells so good? It smells like starch sausage to me."

Li Jingyi sniffed, "It also smells like grilled skewers. Where is it coming from?"

"Look, Wu Jun’s group is barbecuing!"

The five students looked over and, sure enough, Wu Jun’s dad was already setting up a barbecue grill by the riverbank, with his music blaring from his Land Rover while he basted the skewers with oil.

Wu Jun, along with his four team members, stood by the grill, eyes fixed on the sizzling, oily skewers of grilled meat and starch sausages, their mouths almost watering.

At the same time, the parents in the group gathered together; two mothers were handling the vegetable skewers, while two fathers were helping to set up tables, install cartridge stoves, and prepare seasonings.

"They’re even having hot pot!"

"Barbecue hot pot, huh... I love fish tofu the most."

Jiang Wenqing watched as his four teammates were practically drooling, feeling a sense of crisis.

Even his closest desk mate, Li Jingyi, couldn’t help herself and, like her "auto-navigation" feature, she was heading toward Wu Jun, with the other three members following slowly.

Jiang Wenqing stood there, anxiously at a loss.

He couldn’t just give them ice cream again, right!

Moreover, his dad, Jiang Fei, often told him during their chats that relationships built on material things are quite fragile. He advised Jiang Wenqing not to attempt to use material things to please anyone as he grew up.

"Forget it, it’s not like I haven’t been isolated before..."

Jiang Wenqing bent down, picked a blade of foxtail grass, put it in his mouth, found a shade under a tree, and took out his "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."

Chen Mo, lost in delight.

He had long forgotten why he came here in the first place.

Surrounded by four mothers, in a daze, "Hey, even though I don’t have kids, it doesn’t stop me from learning how to communicate with children in advance."

"Exactly! I also believe that elementary school students now should have quality education. We can’t rely solely on exam-oriented education like we did when we were young; focusing on physical well-being over academic performance is a good approach."

"Oh, by the way, I have some questions regarding how elementary students can improve their physical abilities. I’m really busy today, so why don’t we add each other on WeChat and chat later?"

Tsk.

Chen Mo scanned the code to add four moms on WeChat. To be fair, Prime Minister Cao sure has some ideas.

Mu Mu is too much of a love-struck fool, and Lu Yingqiu’s university friends are a bit immature—sometimes not only uninteresting but also a bit troubling.

But these young parents are quite intriguing.

Occasionally, they’d throw a sarcastic joke, and these parents wouldn’t blush or feel their hearts racing; they might even reply with an even more sarcastic one.

Love it!

"Hey, look over there, why is there a crowd?" Jingyi’s Mother pointed toward a spot by the river.

"It seems like Wu Jun’s dad is grilling. Didn’t he say in the group chat on the way here that he’s already started grilling skewers?"

"Oh my! We should hurry up, too. It’s already past mealtime and we haven’t started anything yet. Soon the kids will be hungry."

Chen Mo squinted at the crowd, smoke rising.

Indeed, they were having a barbecue, and once those skewers were ready, Wu Jun generously shared not only with his group members but also called over members of other groups, offering each a skewer.

Li Jingyi and her group lined up as well.

When it was Li Jingyi’s turn, Wu Jun grinned, "How about it, Li Jingyi? Skewers are better than ice cream, right? I told you to join my group, but you didn’t listen—regret it now?"

Li Jingyi thought that Wu Jun’s dad was the one who invited them over, but now that Wu Jun said such a thing, she mumbled a few words, "Then I won’t eat your skewers."

Then, with a pout, she left the queue to sit with Jiang Wenqing.

The other three elementary students couldn’t resist the temptation of delicious food and defected to Wu Jun’s side, each winning a grilled lamb skewer.

Chen Mo noticed this scene.

Turning his head, Chen Mo said to Jingyi’s Mother, "As we just discussed, if this summer camp is just about parents cooking and kids eating, I think it completely loses its meaning."

"In that case, why don’t we let the kids also get involved in making the food, how about it?"

Jingyi’s Mother pulled back her dress with both hands, outlining a graceful curve, and sat down on the freshly unfolded camping chair, "Of course, I agree! Unfortunately, I only brought some simple ingredients, so it might be a bit tricky for them to get involved."

The other three mothers also expressed that this indeed seemed a bit difficult.

The ingredients they brought were basically flour, meat, and simple vegetables.

Considering that the group leader would bring cooking utensils, they hadn’t brought much else.

Chen Mo just smiled, thinking, can’t you see this big food truck I’ve parked?

But it didn’t matter.

Initially, Chen Mo planned to make some fries, hamburgers, and fried chicken for these kids, because at their age, they do love these things.

Just like a few years ago, when Chen Mo returned to the village for the New Year, he told a nephew from his hometown that he was so tired of eating KFC that he felt like vomiting at the sight of fried chicken and hamburgers.

At that time, the nephew was dumbfounded.

He asked, "Is there really someone in this world who eats so much KFC that they don’t want to eat it anymore?"

Chen Mo seriously nodded and told him it was true, especially when working overtime, the boss would order all kinds of family buckets, making him nauseous from eating so much.

Later, when Chen Mo was in the city, his mom even called to ask what he had said to his nephew during the holiday, because the kid seemed downcast recently.

After preparing these things, he planned to use the new oven to bake some cakes, bread, and egg tarts, and then the summer camp activities would be considered complete.

But now, Chen Mo had changed his mind.

First, he saw Jiang Wenqing looking lonely at the Experimental Primary School gate and felt sorry for the kid, thinking maybe this event could help him get along better with his classmates like before.

Secondly, as Chen Mo had mentioned earlier, what’s the point of adults cooking and kids just eating? Everyone might as well join in together!

"I heard Wenqing and a few others discussing wanting to go fishing when I got out of the car. In my opinion, we might as well take them fishing, and whatever we catch, we eat."

Jingyi’s Mother looked surprised, "But what if they don’t catch anything! My kid loves fishing and used to come home with a big fish every day. I thought he was so skilled!

Later, I found out he was afraid I wouldn’t let him go fishing, so he would buy a fish at the market on the way home. That’s why his pocket money went so fast during that time..."

"Stop it; mine’s the same." Liu Shuai’s Mother looked exasperated, "Mine is even worse. Others don’t catch anything and just have fun, but he!

One day, he caught a broken bottle and told me it might be a relic. A few days later, he brought back a broken safe, and it cost quite a bit to open it, only to find a brick inside! Seriously, they call it fishing, but how come they catch everything but fish?"

Chen Mo was astounded.

Fishing wasn’t among his hobbies, but hearing about the fishing antics of these families’ men completely amazed him!

Of course, Chen Mo’s suggestion of fishing and cooking on the spot wasn’t unfounded.

For that, he had to thank the system.

"System, so this fishing thing doesn’t give me any special skills, but just improves the quality of the bait?"

[You’re really something...]

[Master, please reassess yourself and me. I am a proper food truck and food truck system, not all-powerful!]

"But don’t you also put chess games in my head?"

[...]

"So today, if I want to fish, and want to hit the target every time, can’t you reward me with an all-purpose fishing rod or something?"

[Cannot reward that.]

"Then what can you do, tell me!"

[I can offer you a recipe: Universe Super Invincible Fish Bait]

Chen Mo’s lips curled into a sly smile. It seemed the food truck was still pretty reliable. Although this method was a bit ordinary, it would at least solve his current problem.

So, Chen Mo called Jiang Wenqing over.

"Get your group members and find me some straight tree branches, as long as possible."

Jiang Wenqing’s eyes lit up, "Uncle Xiao Chen, what are we doing?"

"Fishing of course. We can’t have you go hungry on the first day of summer camp, can we? We’ll be self-sufficient, eat what we catch, and whoever catches the most, eats the most!"

Jiang Wenqing nodded vigorously.

"Alright!"

Chen Mo, under the curious gaze of the four beautiful mothers, dived into the food truck.

Luckily, I bought plenty of ingredients today. Let’s see what this Super Invincible Fish Bait is all about!