When Tong Xinlan came back at noon, she saw that there were six people eating at the only two stone tables in the hall.

Looking at this costume, there are people from the rivers and lakes, as well as businessmen, and it is quite harmonious.

The shopkeeper was afraid that there would be fine sand on the stone table, so he still found the blue coarse cloth that was originally intended to make clothes as a tablecloth, which made the shopkeeper's father a little painful.

When the shopkeeper saw Tong Xinlan coming back, he pulled Tong Xinlan to the backyard with a look of surprise, and said with a little puzzled expression, "Xin'er, your method is very useful, I didn't expect those guests to lose their temper because we closed the door and didn't take customers, but because I let them in to eat, I am very grateful." ”

Tong Xinlan smiled in her heart, isn't this a strange place for people, the door of the inn is wide open to welcome guests from all directions, and those guests feel that they are God, but in this poor and remote country, there is only an inn, they don't know how to cherish it, and they are making trouble, and now they close the door and don't let them in.

But who wants to continue to eat and sleep in the open if they have a little money? If they can come in, they will naturally not make trouble.

Of course, there is more than that, Dad may not understand how complicated people are, Tong Xinlan simply explained to Daddy, "Reading can be reasonable, these guests must be guests who understand righteousness, they can understand the notices we wrote, naturally understand our difficulties, and they will abide by the terms of the transaction at the beginning." ”

"It would be nice to do that in the future. Daddy sighed.

"But if they see us secretly open the door to receive guests one day, they will definitely come to the door to ask why we don't open the door to receive them, but now the equipment is not complete, and when we have the tables and stools are ready, we can't continue to use this reason to turn away those people in the rivers and lakes." Daddy touched his beard worriedly.

Tong Xinlan comforted, "Dad, I have already figured out how to deal with the future, you can rest assured." ”

Dad showed a wry smile that was still worried, and Tong Xinlan knew that he was still not at ease.

But now she can't tell her father all her plans, Tong Xinlan can only watch her father continue to return to the lobby to greet guests with a heavy heart.

Tong Xinlan came to the back kitchen and saw Chef Luo who was cooking.

Master Luo was introduced to the inn by his father in the county, he is a master, no children and no daughters, relying on technology to eat, not like to talk, basically stay in the back kitchen, cooking skills are also passable, the only requirement is to eat and live.

Originally, Dad still wanted to find a young and strong chef, but those chefs would not come to such a poor place to be a chef, this Master Luo could endure loneliness and had no worries, so he was willing to follow.

In the previous life, this Master Luo did not make trouble, and he also took care of Chen Xin after his father's death, but he was just an ordinary person, and it was impossible to take care of Chen Xin all the time, so he found a job and left.

It can only be said that Master Luo and the Chen family have a general employment relationship, so Tong Xinlan didn't think there was anything wrong with him.

After saying hello to Master Luo, Tong Xinlan dug a pit in the backyard, found a scrap iron pot, threw all the pine resin she found into it, lit a fire, and began to boil pine oil.

In order to make the pine resin on the stone table more adhesive and not sticky, Tong Xinlan added some materials to the pot, which were found in the mountains.

In ancient times, there was no way to refine too pure chemical products, but if they were relatively coarse, Tong Xinlan could also extract some from stone and wood.

This group of guests who ate at noon hurried away after eating, and there was no one to stay.

Generally, guests who want to stay at the hotel come for dinner or knock on the door at night.

When the guests left, Tong Xinlan and the shopkeeper's father and the shopkeeper started to eat, and Master Luo would not come out to eat, he preferred to stay in the back kitchen and did not like to come to the more dangerous lobby.

After eating and cleaning up the table, Tong Xinlan went to the back kitchen, brought in a pot of pine resin boiling over a low fire, and also brought a small stove with carbon to continuously heat the pot.

Tong Xinlan asked the shopkeeper to scoop the pine liquid mixture with a spoon and continue to pour it on the stone table, while Tong Xinlan took a lime board and continued to wipe the pine resin liquid evenly on the table, and after the table top was flattened with pine resin, Tong Xinlan stopped tinkering with the tabletop.

The pine resin that flowed down could just cover some under the stone table, and in other places under the stone table, Tong Xinlan scooped it with a spoon and splashed it on the pillar with skillful strength.

This was repeated so that soon both stone tables were covered in a mixture of pine resin.

When the pine resin dried, the original gray stone table looked as if it was wrapped in a layer of yellow-red glass.

"It's so beautiful, I didn't expect this stone table to be cleaned up by the young owner like this, and it suddenly became like a very valuable spar, those people in the rivers and lakes won't want to come and grab our table." The shopkeeper was surprised to gather around the table, not daring to reach out and touch it.

"If those people really want it, you can, spend money to buy it, and I'll sell it to them. "If you rob it, it depends on whether he can move it or not, and if he really moves away, then there is just another story.

In the next few days, because the door has not been opened, there are no people who are not long-sighted to make trouble in the store, and the life is peaceful.

Tong Xinlan, who had nothing to do, stayed in the room to practice martial arts, or asked her father to learn "literacy and writing".

For his stupid son's rapid learning ability, Dad is full of emotion.

The shopkeeper even patted the young owner's ass without hesitation, and bluntly said that if the young owner had studied like this since he was a child, it would not be a problem to take the top prize now.

Tong Xinlan could only reply with an embarrassed but polite smile, "It's all taught by my father well, and although I didn't understand what my father wrote before, my father also taught me to read and write before, but I couldn't understand it before, but now after my father's reminder, I remembered it all, literacy is still okay, but I still can't participate in the imperial examination." ”

After another week, Tong Xinlan arrived in the city, and the remaining eight stone tables were all transported by the owner of the stone shop and stopped at the place where Tong Xinlan got off last time.

Tong Xinlan had already prepared a sturdy log and rope for the shopkeeper to wait there, colleagues waiting there, and guests watching the excitement.

In everyone's incredulous eyes, it was quite easy to transport the eight big stones back to the inn.

The skinny monkey-like shopkeeper was so excited, he didn't expect that he could move such a big stone.

After returning to the inn, in the same way, in the eyes of the guests, the remaining eight dusty stone tables were also made into beautiful tables as bright and crystalline.