There are many festivals in our country, and after Christmas, the annual New Year's Day will soon be ushered in.

According to the Gregorian calendar, from New Year's Day, it is 2005, and if you don't pay attention to it, Zhou An is 17 years old.

On New Year's Day, the business in his store was booming again, and the turnover of one night exceeded 20,000 again, reaching a height of 22,000.

It's a pity that after New Year's Day, it has entered a period of malaise, more than 1,000 tonight and 2,000 tomorrow night...... After three or four days of this, the turnover gradually recovered.

It's getting colder, and fewer people come out for supper at night.

But the good news is that as the weather gets colder and colder, more and more old men come to his shop to eat mutton, and these old men are rich! Some come alone to nourish themselves.

Some of them were in groups of three or five, and they drank the mutton.

Zhou An, a stinky and shameless one, put a speaker outside the store that repeated the advertisement, and the most shameless advertising slogan was: "Mutton is a man's gas station! A woman's beauty salon! A man eats a youthful glow, and a woman eats nourishing and nourishing ......."

I don't know if those old men came to him to eat mutton, whether they were moved by this advertising slogan, anyway, as the weather gets colder and colder, more and more old men from the age of forty come to him to eat mutton.

And the lamb he had here didn't disappoint the old men.

The fresh mutton that is freshly killed and burned every day can be much better than the frozen mutton used in most restaurants.

It's fresh and tender, and you often can't put down your chopsticks when you eat a piece.

Braised mutton pot boy, the taste is heavy and strong, the white-cut mutton and lamb haggis soup is refreshing and delicious, the pepper and salt lamb trotters and pepper and salt lamb chops are fresh and fragrant, and there is a unique taste of charred outside and tender inside, not only old men like it, but also some women like it.

Of course, there are also bad reviews.

If you want to make any dish with zero negative reviews, it is almost impossible, and Zhou An's craftsmanship is not so good.

There are a handful of people who don't like to eat Zhou An's mutton, and the reason given by these people is: Your mutton is burned to the point that it has no smell, and what you eat when you eat mutton is that smell!

For such a guest, Zhou An can only apologize.

It was difficult to reconcile, he couldn't meet the requirements of every guest, such a heavy guest, he believed that Yinma County had a strong smell of mutton for them to eat.

He insisted on his own way of making mutton, and the mutton made by his hands had all the flavor, leaving only the deliciousness and aroma of mutton.

As it turned out, the majority of the guests liked the taste of his mutton.

What makes him quite proud is that some people who don't eat mutton in the first place have become fond of mutton after tasting the mutton he made.

For example, several waiters and aunts in the store, such as Qu Yanyang.

Zhou An believes that there must be such people among the guests, and he firmly believes that the mutton that removes the smell can open up a broader market.

By the way, the lamb he sells here is also very personalized.

40 pieces of mutton pot and haggis soup, 25 per serving, but white-cut mutton, mutton in white soup, as well as salt-and-pepper mutton trotters, salt-and-pepper lamb chops, etc., are only sold on two and on the other.

White-cut mutton and mutton in white soup are sold at 5 yuan per two and three taels per serving.

Sheep's trotters are sold by one, each at 8 yuan.

Lamb chops are also sold in two, and each two is also 5 yuan, and they are sold at half a catty.

As for the difference between mutton in white soup and haggis soup? Didn't he also put mutton slices in the haggis soup he made?

In fact, if you look at the names of these two dishes and taste them carefully, you can understand the difference.

In the haggis soup, the mutton slices are only garnished, and the mutton slices are only seven or eight slices, and the others are mutton intestines, mutton liver, mutton blood, and so on.

The mutton in white soup is mainly mutton, dotted with a few pieces of mutton blood.

In addition to mutton, the number of customers who come to him to eat pig-killing dishes has gradually increased, but compared with the group that eats mutton, there are slightly fewer people who eat pig-killing dishes.

……

January 21 at noon.

In the rental room, Zhou An sat on the sofa in the living room, calculating how much he had earned since the opening of the new store for a month.

has been calculated three times in a row, and the total revenue figure is more than 280,000.

Because many costs have not yet been paid, such as personnel salaries, suppliers' payments, etc., it is difficult for him to calculate his net profit, and he can only roughly estimate it.

The gross estimate is quite satisfactory to him.

It looks like about 9-100,000.

At first glance, this figure is nothing to be happy about, after all, his old store was so small before, and during the peak season, the monthly profit was often higher than this number, and now his store has expanded five or six times, and he still only earns so much a month, what is gratifying?

At first glance, this is the truth, but ...... Think about what season it is?

The weather is cold, the business of the whole food street is depressed, and the crayfish has long entered the off-season, let's say this month, there are very few customers who order crayfish to eat every night.

According to the laws of the market, lobster shops that are still open in this season are bound to lose money.

In a season like this, he can turn things around, create a few signature dishes, and still earn so much in a month, what reason is he not satisfied?

At this pace, by the time March comes, he will not have to worry about having no money to pay the rent of 150,000 yuan.

As long as he survives the off-season in the past few months, when the spring flowers bloom, his life will not be so embarrassing.

……

The approximate profit for a month was calculated, and Zhou An's heart finally settled down.

After settling down, he finally had the heart to go home and see the new house.

Last week, his mother called to say that the interior and exterior of the new house had been painted, and asked him when he would have time to go back and see.

It's better to choose a day than to hit the day.

Zhou An saw that the weather was good today, although the temperature was not high, it was sunny outside.

So, when Tian Lu set off to go to Zhoujia Village to pick up crayfish and snails, he went back with the car.

He hadn't come back for such a long time, and when he entered the village, Zhou An noticed that almost everyone in the village who saw him looked at him with strange eyes.

How to describe the strange gaze that is not schadenfreude or sympathy?

A little bit of envy and jealousy!

The feeling of looking sideways.

Almost everyone who saw him greeted him with a smile, but Zhou An felt a little rusty from their smiles, and his tone didn't seem to be as natural as before.

For example, Zhou Zhong.

Zhou Chong was basking in the sun and chatting with people at the entrance of the village commissary, and when he saw Zhou An coming back, he was stunned at first, then blinked his eyes, waved his hand a little stupidly, showed a stiff smile, and said, "Anzi, are you back, are you back?"

In the past, Zhou Chong and Zhou An greeted each other, and they were very familiar, and they were a little bit arrogant, but today this guy seems to be a little stage frightened.