So, the next day, Zhao Siniang invited a bricklayer to build a tea stall on the south side of her shop.

In order to make room for this stall, Zhao Siniang not only pulled out a lot of wild roses planted outside the wall of the duck farm, but also demolished a long hole in the wall that had just been built, and moved the entire section of the wall back about three zhang long, and made a large vacant space close to the official road. The mud floor was then compacted, then bricks were laid on top of it, and a U-shaped corridor was built against the rebuilt wall.

This corridor is the same as the corridor under the eaves of Zhao's shop, it is covered with blue tiles, and the pillars supporting the corridor are also equipped with wooden planks between the pillars for people to rest. The only difference is that two additional stoves have been erected in the newly renovated corridor.

Don't look at it as just a simple tea stall, Zhao Siniang built it according to the requirements of building Zhao's shop, and it is very durable. It's just that the standard is high, and it is naturally laborious to build, and it took a bricklayer and three or four young helpers to work for three days to complete.

In this way, although most of the materials used were extra when the family built the house, and did not spend much money, but roughly calculated, this tea shed still cost a little one or two silver.

This is only a one-time investment, and it is really expensive when boiling tea later.

Hey, isn't it just boiling water? Zuo is just consuming some firewood, how much can it cost?

That's not the case, you must know that the reason why Zhao Siniang built two stoves is because she has already thought about providing two kinds of tea - even if a small amount of salt is added to the boiling water, it is not worth anything, and the other is not.

It turned out that Zhao Siniang thought that the villagers on the north bank of the dock who could only drink river water were pitiful, but it was their women who were even more unfortunate.

On market days, the docks are crowded with people, and women from the north shore can often be seen in the crowd. Dressed in ragged clothes and carrying heavy bamboo baskets, they were about to go to the market with trepidation. In the bamboo basket, there are some household goods that you want to pawn, or some wild vegetables dug up in the mountains...... Luckily. Able to find buyers in town. But even so, the pace of the return trip is not necessarily very brisk, after all, the money from the sale cannot support the family for a long time. Not to mention some women who didn't find a buyer, but only a few hours. The yellow-skinned face actually added a bit of dead color.

In this world, men still can't eat enough, and women can only earn their lives by drinking soup that can see people's shadows. After walking dozens of miles of mountain roads, regardless of whether they sold their things or not, they would squat down and drink river water when they walked to the river, which quenched their thirst and hunger.

Life is so tenacious sometimes. But sometimes it's so fragile.

After staying on the dock for a long time, Zhao Siniang would always hear that someone's daughter-in-law was sick at a young age......

Since it was decided to provide free boiling water, it was better to prepare some good tea for those haggard women together. So, Zhao Siniang recalled several herbal teas that she had often drunk in her previous life, and chose the most economical one to provide daily.

Although herbal tea is made with Chinese herbal medicine, in the final analysis, it is only a drink, which may be used to replenish physical strength, but it is obviously impractical to rely on it to cure diseases and save people. But Zhao Siniang thinks that if she can do her part, what if she can improve her immunity after drinking this tea? Regardless of the effectiveness, at least she tried.

Although herbal teas are made with the most common herbs. It is also the cheapest brown sugar, but it will be a lot of money over time. However, no one in the family felt that Zhao Siniang was a loser, and they all agreed with this idea. Not only that, the family also showed their support with actions, taking turns to go to the tea stall to watch the fire and add ingredients to ensure that the tea can be served normally.

At the beginning, Zhao Siniang was also worried that opening this kind of love tea stall would affect Zhao's shop's business, especially for fear of causing a fatal blow to the noodle soup business.

However, considering that with the increase in the variety of dishes, noodle soup is no longer the most important source of profit in the shop, and it does not matter if this income is missing. Thereupon. Zhao Siniang still resolutely set up the stall, but after all, she was a little distressed.

However, after trying to maintain it for a month, Zhao Siniang was pleasantly surprised to find that at the end of the month. Noodle soup sales did decrease, but Zhaojiapu's total turnover did not.

Yes, in addition to the villagers on the north bank who can't afford to drink tea, as well as some poor people passing by, there will also be some guests from decent families in the tea stalls, and there are many old customers of Zhao's shop among these guests. Since they used tea at the tea stand. It's unlikely that you'll be able to get some soup from the shop again, which is a big loss.

However, the villagers have always been simple, and they are embarrassed to take advantage of it. Most customers will go into the shop after drinking tea and buy something. Of course, most of these customers are good at living a good life, so they buy very limited things, and they only spend a few pennies. But as it comes and goes, the business of the shop is nothing less.

Perhaps, the love tea stall can't bring profits, but Zhao Siniang once again felt the simplicity of the villagers through it and was full of emotion.

After all, the tea stall is non-profit, that is, the people of Zhao Siniang's family take the time to take care of it, and there are not people all the time.

Even so, the tea bowls on the stall were never lost, and almost everyone took the initiative to wash the dishes with a few buckets of water by the stove after drinking tea - in fact, no one was watching, even if they didn't wash it?

At the beginning, the people of Zhao Siniang's family once mentioned to the people who came to drink tea that light salt water could be drunk casually, and sweet tea was specially prepared for women and children. In Zhao Siniang's view, light salt water is far more suitable than sweet tea for men who do heavy physical work. But people don't know! Salt is not cheap in Youzhou, and many poor families have not been able to eat a meal with salt and sauce for several months. But in comparison, sugar is more expensive, and there are many people who can't eat it for several years. If you let people choose, you must choose sugar water to drink. However, the workers on the docks abide by this unwritten "rule", and even the half-grown child who comes out early to do the work is still at the age of gluttony, and will drink light salt water with the adults. In fact, if a man insists on drinking sweet tea, it won't stop it, not to mention that most of the time no one is watching at the stall, even if he drinks it?

Not only that, but almost every day, you can find a few handfuls of wild vegetables or a few mountain garlic and other fresh wild animals picked from the mountains on the stalls - needless to say, this must be the "tea money" left by honest mountain people. Although things are not worth anything, this heart is touching. In fact, the villagers also know very well in their hearts that Zhao Siniang's family, who opened this kind of tea stall, did not expect a return, even if they didn't give it, what if they didn't give it?

Having said that, the tea stall is under the common care of the villagers, even if the Zhao family shop does not send someone to clean it up, it can run very well - when the fire is small, he reaches out to add firewood, and when he sees that the ground is too dirty, he starts to sweep the floor - except for adding water and materials, basically there is no need for Zhao Siniang's family to bother.

Now sending Yuan Chunhua to see the stall is equivalent to sending her to "retire". But of course, the simple and honest Zhao Sanlang would not tell her, and the rest of the family also turned a blind eye and pretended not to know.

I thought that the work would be easy, even though most of the people who came to drink water were from the north shore, and the local dialect they spoke was a little obscure, but as a fellow countryman, Yuan Chunhua decided that there was no communication barrier, and he was always competent this time, right?

But it backfired, and God once again ruthlessly tricked this poor girl, causing her to suffer a great deal again, who had not yet come out of the shadows. (To be continued.) )