Fu Xiaojian burst into laughter when he heard it outside, and limped out and shouted,

"What are you laughing at? What's so funny, I'm all like this, you still laugh, do you have a conscience?"

"Who made you eat so many dates, and you don't spit out the pits. Xing Youliang said speechlessly.

"Alas, uncle, now that the revolutionary task needs you, you can't fall, there are three days left before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and a lot of flour is waiting for you to make them into cakes. Xing Youqian laughed.

"Yes, my uncle still has to go buy tea. Xing Youyou said with a grin.

"Why are you squeezing me, you see that my uncle can't sit or stand, and how can he buy tea? ”

"That's not good, the eldest brother and the second brother have to go to school, and the fifth brother and I have to go. ”

Xing Youyou didn't want her brothers to focus on the store, delayed their studies, and robbed her of her work, so she quickly touched Xiao Wu with her elbow.

"Yes, we'll go buy tea. ”

"Okay, Uncle Jiang and Uncle Jiang are making mooncakes and sugar cakes in the store, and Xiao Wu is responsible for taking Youyou to buy tea, and we will open on time during the Mid-Autumn Festival. ”

"Oh, great, it's going to be lively. Xing Youqian clapped his hands happily, full of anticipation for the arrival of the opening day.

Also full of anticipation and hope are all the people in the room, as long as the teahouse has a business, it has a source of income. Not only that, Xing Youyou also put most of his hopes of finding Xing Dafu on this teahouse, so he wants to run this teahouse no matter what.

Xing Youyou was worried that he wouldn't be able to distinguish between good and bad tea, so he called Zhang Xiaochuan to join him, but when the three of them walked to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, Xiao Wu stopped and didn't leave.

"Little Fifth Brother, aren't you going to come in?" Zhang Xiaochuan asked while standing at the door of the store.

Xiao Wu stood at the door of the store and shook his head, but did not speak. Zhang Xiaochuan had no choice, so he walked out and asked,

"What's wrong with you?"

"I don't want to go in, I'd better go back to the teahouse and wait for you. ”

Zhang Xiaochuan didn't want to force him, so he let him go, but Xing Youyou felt strange,

"Brother Chuan, do you think that the little fifth brother is afraid to enter this store. ”

"yes, I don't know, maybe. ”

In the store, Zhang Xiaochuan glanced at the shelves, but did not find any tea for sale, and asked,

"Don't you have any tea to sell here?"

The clerk who sold the goods, a thin black woman, said,

"Yes, yes, but it didn't come out. ”

Xing Youyou was a little strange, crawled on the counter and asked,

"Why? Why not put it out?"

The salesman saw that the two children in front of him looked very likable, so he said a few more words to them.

"Tea is a thing, not many people buy it, especially in the past two years, it is not easy to sell, and most people are willing to take out the tea to entertain the distinguished guests at home. If we meet a customer who comes to buy it, we just take it out and sell it, what, you two want to buy it?"

The salesman looked at the two children in front of him, and it didn't look like he was here to sell tea.

"Well, we're going to buy it, at the intersection ahead, a relative opened a teahouse, let's buy tea. ”

When the salesman heard this, he laughed,

"Hehehe, children, I'm afraid your relatives haven't done the business of teahouses, and those who generally open teahouses don't sell tea here. ”

Xing Youyou didn't get angry, but desperately wanted to dig some news out of her mouth, and asked,

"Where do you usually buy it?"

"Tea market. ”

"Where's the tea market?"

"There is no one in the town, go to the county, there is a tea market there, as long as you have money, you can buy any kind of tea." ”

"In the county?"

Salesman: "Yes, county, do you want this tea?"

Xing Youyou suddenly became worried, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and now I go to the county to buy it, but I am afraid that it will be too late, so I can only talk about the Mid-Autumn Festival first.

"Buy. Xing Youyou said.

"Then I can tell you, we only have Kuding tea in the store, and it is two cents and one tael. ”

"So expensive?" Zhang Xiaochuan exclaimed.

"Yes, for the price, how much do you want. ”

Xing Youyou raised his fingers and calculated, there were 30 people in the store a day, half a dollar per person, and it would cost one and a half catties, three catties in two days, and three catties would be six yuan, just thinking about it made me feel distressed.

"Can the boss be cheaper?" Zhang Xiaochuan looked at Xing Youyou frowning, and knew that he had made another mistake.

"Don't mean it, we don't negotiate here, buy it, I'll install it for you, forget it if you don't buy it." ”

Just because there is only Kuding tea, for such an expensive unit price, and for the attitude of this state-owned enterprise, Xing Youyou doesn't want to buy it, but if he doesn't buy it, how will he open in the Mid-Autumn Festival?

"Buy, how many do you have?"

The salesman searched under the counter for a long time, took out half a brick-like thing, took it and weighed it, and said,

"There is only this half of the yuan left, a total of three taels and four cents per catty, a total of two six cents and eight cents. ”

Xing Youyou felt distressed and felt in his pocket for a long time before handing over the two pieces of six cents and eight cents with zero and whole to the other party's hand.

After leaving the store, Xing Youyou said to Zhang Xiaochuan sadly,

"Brother Chuan, I'm so poor, what should I do?"

Zhang Xiaochuan stretched out his finger and nodded Xing Youyou's eyebrows, and said with a smile,

"You iron rooster, you are still crying poor, and the business will come in two days, and I am afraid that the money will go straight to your house. ”

"But I'm really poor. ”

Zhang Xiaochuan took out a two-yuan piece of money from his arms and handed it to Xing Youyou's hand.

"Take it. ”

Xing Youyou took the money, he was overjoyed, and immediately put it in his pocket.

"Count your help, and pay you back when you make money in the future. ”

"Oh well. ”

When Xing Youyou returned to the store with the tea, Fu Xiaojian was very surprised,

"Why do you just order tea like that?"

"Uncle Fu, don't blame Youyou, this is already all the tea leaves in the supply and marketing cooperative, and there is only Kuding tea. ”

Fu Xiaojian sighed with the tea in his hand and sat on the wooden bench next to him, but as soon as his buttocks were next to the stool, he screamed in pain.

"Uncle Fu, in fact, we also heard a news, it is better to buy tea in the tea market in the county, now we only have less than one and a half catties of tea, but we can use it for the time being, and wait to buy other tea from the county. ”

"It seems that this is the only way. ”

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Fu Xiaojian was busy in the store, mixing noodles, kneading noodles, rolling noodles, wrapping sugar cakes, and baking sugar cakes. In this era, there is no such convenient tool as an oven, all of which are grilled with charcoal, with a charcoal fire under the pot and moon cakes on top, just like ordinary pancakes, the difference is that instead of the usual pot lid, it is a charcoal fire lid. As the name suggests, the lid is concave on the cake, filled with charcoal, and then bolted with an iron lock to fasten the charcoal fire cover, in order to be easy to open and close. Such a special charcoal lid can allow the cake inside the pot to be heated and expanded at the same time.

Xing Youyou had never seen such an "oven", and he was amazed for a while, and felt sincerely admired for the wisdom of the ancient working people.