Yuehua Lane, where H2 > dim sum is located, is very close to Yuxiu Street and also belongs to the central area. Different from Yuxiu Street, Yuehua Lane is full of small shops, and mainly food and grocery stores. Located at the intersection of Yuehua Lane and Los Angeles Main Street, Dim Sum is the largest shop in the entire alley, twice to four times the size of the other shops.

Originally, the shop had only one floor, but it was divided into two rooms and leased out, but after the repossession, the wooden wall of the partition in the middle was demolished, and the second floor was added, which has become the current dim sum. The first floor of Dim Sum is half a workshop, half is a sales hall, and the second floor is a place for refreshments, and there are even five elegantly decorated private rooms, which not only provide dim sum and pastries, but also a variety of special flower teas, which is a bit like a tea house. It's just that there are no such delicate and delicious pastries in the teahouse, and there are no beautiful and delicious flower teas.

It can be said that the location of dim sum is no worse than that on Yuxiu Street, and it is more suitable for making food shops. Zhiruo also has a dowry shop on Yuxiu Street, signed a three-year lease contract, is to sell antique calligraphy and paintings, and now there is a lease period of more than a year, Zhiruo feels that there is no need to break the contract to compensate, but after the lease expires, it is to be recovered, and he is ready to buy two or three more shops, naturally he will not put such a good shop only to collect rent.

The decoration and layout of dim sum are all designed by Zhiruo, and now they are ready to open a branch, she hasn't seen it herself, and she deliberately ran a trip today to see the run-in effect of her design with this time and space, and what needs to be improved.

Because he was only going to go into the store to take a look around and come out, Zhiruo didn't bring Bai Xue into the store, but asked Ruchun to take it and wait outside the store.

As soon as the two Zhiruo sisters entered the store, the shopkeeper Guo, who was already waiting, greeted them: "Big ...... Young master, are you here, have you had lunch?" "Shopkeeper Guo is one of the stewards who bought back from Kaesong, and he has taken care of two or three shops in the previous master's house, and Uncle Qiang observed him for a while and felt that he had a good character, so he recommended it to Zhiruo, and became the chief shopkeeper of Zhiruo's first store. Guo's shopkeeper's daughter-in-law, Aunt Guo, is now the housekeeper mother of the Twisted Plum Courtyard, and their 8-year-old daughter is the Xi Tao of the needlework room, shy but ingenious.

Zhiruo nodded and smiled: "Well, it's been used, Shopkeeper Guo, you let Rudong take Rudong to the workshop to have a look." "The two female masters in the workshop are both apprentices brought out by Rudong, hehe, but they will be selected because they are both good at making zuò traditional pastries. There were no external staff for dim sum, and all of them were slaves who sold their death deeds, including handymen, men, and bookkeepers.

Shopkeeper Guo hurriedly responded and called a young man to come over and take Rudong to the workshop. There are not many people in the workshop, only two female masters, two apprentice maids, and a fire-burning woman. Who's going to let them have a good snack business? It's in short supply every day.

The Zhiruo sisters were personally accompanied by the shopkeeper Guo and looked around, and there were not too many guests at this point, but it was more convenient. The shopkeeper Guo said in a low voice: "Girl Gaojian, I chose this shop, not to mention the good arrangement of the place, the main street is connected to the official road, many merchants and people passing through Los Angeles will come to try it, and some eat it directly as a meal, and bring a lot of dry food when leaving." Well, six or seven out of ten people from this point here are from other places. ”

Zhiruo smiled: "That's so, that's not without the credit of Mrs. Lin." "I've heard that the guards at the gates of the city often recommend snacks to those who inquire about the way.

"Exactly," Guo agreed, saying that there were people in the court who were easy to do? Businessmen who were rich and powerless usually had to spend money to seek refuge in the officialdom. Isn't the most gossip in Los Angeles recently about the marriage between the wealthy businessman Xu family and the Qingyuanhou Mansion? Although a lot of things have happened in the Qingyuanhou Mansion and the reputation is now very bad, it is still a prince's family? The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse!

Fortunately, several of their own little masters are protected by King Jing and Lin Zhifu, and since the mountain bandits of Mengniu Village folded in Meizhuang on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, all kinds of people who covet Meizhuang seem to have a lot of peace, and there are all kinds of rumors outside, some exaggerate the organs of Meizhuang to the point of incredible, and it is also said that General Yin Zhao and General Qi Wang protect Yin Zhiruo's siblings in the spirit of the sky, and the Yin family father and son and the Qi family father and son are all characters on the battlefield, that is, they are ghosts, and the momentum is enough to suppress the bandits and keep the Meizhuang safe.

Because of these, although the dim sum business has made many people jealous, there has been no incident so far.

Downstairs and upstairs took a turn, listened to the guy make some suggestions, and "inadvertently" heard some comments from customers, so that Zhiruo knew in his heart and sighed that the trip was worthwhile.

Zhiruo went downstairs while discussing the placement of the pastry shelf with the shopkeeper Guo, on this issue Shopkeeper Guo had put forward some different views before, just waiting for Zhiruo to come and see it with his own eyes and decide, at this time the two have basically reached an agreement.

"Okay, it seems that the number of guests is starting to increase, and if there are any problems, we will talk about them when you return to Zhuangzi in the evening. Zhiruo was about to say goodbye, when she suddenly heard a commotion outside, and looked strangely outside the door of the shop, where she seemed to have gathered a lot of people from her current position and angle!

A guy happened to come in from outside the door, and at a glance, he saw the shopkeeper Guo hurriedly coming over: "Uncle Guo, I caught a thief stealing cakes." ”

"Thief, stealing cake?" shopkeeper Guo was stunned, there were many people who came to try to steal the secret recipe, and he always wandered around the door of the workshop, trying to find an opportunity to sneak in and peek. But they were prepared, and they weren't afraid of anyone sneaking in.

Zhiruo walked to the door and saw a woman of about twenty-six or seventeen years old kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, and Bai Xue was still biting the hem of her skirt.

It turned out that the woman took advantage of the fact that the guy was introducing pastries to other guests, quickly took a piece of meat floss cake and stuffed it into her arms and walked out, but she happened to be seen by Rudong, who had just come out of the workshop, and subconsciously shouted "catch the thief", and the woman was so frightened that she ran away.

I don't want to, I don't know if it's because she's the only one running out of the store, or Bai Xue heard Rudong's shout, and rushed up directly to bite the woman's skirt, making her fall to the ground with a "poof", and was caught by the guy who was guarding the door to greet the guests who entered the store.

Rudong asked the mother-in-law who was doing chores to clean up the deformed cake from the woman, but the woman did not defend herself, nor did she beg for mercy, but just kowtowed vigorously: "Give it to me, please, give it to me." ”

Zhiruo looked at the woman, although she was thin and her face was yellow, but the whole person, including the dress that was only three or four percent new at most, was very neat and clean, and even, when she raised her head, Zhiruo saw a resolute temperament mixed with shame and begging on her face, this is a woman with a story. However, how can such a person be so greedy as to steal cakes? To put it mildly, if she is really hungry, it is not impossible to ask for a little scraps from others, and even to ask for a steamed bun at a roadside stall, even if it is to steal steamed buns, it is easier for her to steal things than to steal things from a lofty place like "dim sum", right?

With a flash of inspiration in her head, Zhiruo suddenly asked, "Why did you steal the cake?"

Sure enough, the woman was stunned, and tears rained down: "My son Xiaohu is ...... He's sick and he's sick, he's been eight years old since he was born, and he hasn't eaten anything good, I ...... I ...... "She heard that this dim sum pastry is unique and delicious, and the young masters and girls of large families eat it every day." She was literate, and just now she saw a cake with meat, and when the guy turned around, she gritted her teeth and took a piece and stuffed it into her arms. God knows, their mother and son have not even eaten enough corn residue for many years, and Xiaohu will never have such things as white flour and meat in his memory.

Rudong hurriedly said: "Your son is sick, don't you still give him Lang Zhong to catch medicine to eat?

Zhiruo shook his head, this Rudong is acute, and he thinks simply, looking at this woman's appearance, she must have no money for treatment, seeing that the child is dying, she can only think about letting the child eat a good meal.

Sure enough, the woman cried even more miserably: "Our family can't come up with a penny anymore, and we still owe Lang Zhong the consultation fee, so the people at the pharmacy rushed out when they saw me." Xiaohu has been hot since last night, and Lang Zhong said that it was useless for him to go, so let me prepare...... Funeral...... Woooooooo ”

Rudong was atmospheric: "What kind of Langzhong is this, let people prepare for the future without even looking at it?"

Zhiruo turned his head and asked the shopkeeper Guo: "Is there a wine seller around here?"

Shopkeeper Guo nodded and said, "In the past, there was a grocery store in the two stores, and there were some that sold wine, and it seems that there are quite a few kinds. "Why did the girl suddenly remember the wine, no matter how good the wine outside is, it can't be compared with the wine in their Meizhuang, right? Otherwise, how could the drunkard master of the two young masters come to their Meizhuang to beg for wine in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve?"

Zhiruo hurriedly instructed the guy to buy wine: "The stronger the better, it doesn't matter if it tastes good or not, it must be fast." ”

After the guy took the order to run, she said to Rudong again: "Go in and get some rice, and then take a few pastries, wait for this aunt to go back to take care of her son first, you help her go and ask a Lang Zhong to bring it over, and then see how to help boil some porridge, boil medicine or something, and in the evening you and Guo Shopkeeper will go back to Zhuangzi together." "Dim sum is not like the steamed bun shop is not bright to do dark, generally open the door at two o'clock, close the door at about two o'clock, leaving only two guys who are on duty to guard the shop and a rough mother-in-law, and everyone else goes back to Meizhuang.

As soon as the woman heard that Zhiruo asked someone to help her son invite Langzhong, she began to kowtow again, and thanked her repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you, thank you, if Xiaohu is good, our mother and son will repay Gongzi by being cattle and horses for the rest of their lives." ”R1152