Zhou, who stopped his hand, was paralyzed as if his soul had been drained, and suddenly pounced on Chu Xiaolou again, and the mother and son hugged their heads and cried. Although Chu Gang on the kang was silent, anyone could see that his eyes were full of sorrow.

Seeing this, Zhao Yongzhong and his wife felt extremely unbearable, and they persuaded Zhao Siniang to just forget it, so as to let others go.

Oh, my God! Zhao Siniang felt that she was more wronged than Dou E.

Yes, it was she who owed it before, shouting to find someone else's parent theory. But in fact, after coming to someone's house, she didn't say a word about Chu Xiaolou, let alone add a finger to him. He was made so badly, it's all his mother's "credit"! It has nothing to do with her. How did she become a wicked person who was unforgiving and had to embarrass others?

Zhao Siniang felt the need to explain her intentions, but it was obviously difficult to be convinced by the remarks of "Chai He" at this time. If he said that he would no longer hold Chu Xiaolou responsible, it seemed that he had the intention of embarrassing others, and he had to dispel this idea after being persuaded by his parents. In this way, not only does she seem to be calculating, but it also makes people feel that she has soft ears.

It's a shame!

Zhao Siniang, who had a good face, coughed lightly, and was about to say something to support the table, when suddenly her heart moved, and then she fell into deep thought. Then it was like nailing to the Chu family, no matter how Zhao Yongzhong and his wife persuaded him, they just refused to leave.

"Aunt Chu, I heard that you are doing laundry for others, how much money can you make a month?" After Zhao Siniang pondered for a long time, she looked around again and asked.

Zhou chuckled in his heart, and said secretly: What are you doing here? Could it be that people want to find out our family background, so that we can lose money? How can this be born?

Thinking of this, big drops of cold sweat broke out on Zhou's forehead, and he didn't dare to answer.

The husband and wife of the Chu family have the same heart, of course Chu Gang knows what his daughter-in-law is worried about, and to be honest, he is also worried. However, they did take other people's things. No matter how small that thing is, it owes someone an explanation, and now it is very reasonable for people to ask for compensation. This money, you should pay for it!

So Chu Gang replied on his behalf: "Although we have settled in Fucheng. But in the eyes of the locals, they still regard us as outsiders, and they will not hand over any good work to us. Seeing that the family was about to run out of cooking, the child's mother went to Wazi Lane in the south of the city to collect some clothes and come back to wash them. I said that I would pick it up every three days. Give us 30 yuan each time. But those customers always say that we haven't washed it well, either less or late, and even some don't give. In this way, after deducting the cost of sizing, we can earn 200 wen a month. ”

"Although you can't make much money washing clothes for others, you can do this job at home, and you can take care of Uncle Chu anytime and anywhere, right?" Zhao Siniang said tentatively.

Chu Gang smiled bitterly: "Miss doesn't know, where is the salary of thirty wen so easy to earn every time?" The child has to keep washing his hands and feet, from morning to night, so that the clothes will be washed. Again, it is said that it is pulp washing clothes. In fact, I have to do the sewing work with me. Every time I see my child so tired that she can't straighten up, I'd rather she go out and find a lighter job. In fact, the Zhu Craftsman's house, which lives next door to our house, is a very kind family. Father Zhu, who is in charge of his family, knows that the child and his mother are often by the river, and he is afraid that it will be inconvenient for me to be at home alone, so he comes to see me from time to time. With Daddy Zhu here, the child and his mother can go out to work with confidence. But the problem is that we have no way, and we can't find any other job if we want to! ”

When Zhao Siniang heard this, she lowered her eyes and was silent, she always felt that she should do something. After looking down and thinking for a while, she spoke.

What Zhao Siniang said. Not only did the Chu family surprise, but also Zhao Yongzhong and his wife, who came, were also surprised.

Zhou took a deep breath, opened his eyes and asked, "Miss Zhao, you said that you want to open a small restaurant near here." Would you like to hire me to do the work? ”

Zhou, who had been nervous, couldn't believe his ears, after all, his own baby had done such a disgraceful thing.

Zhao Siniang nodded and said, "Not bad." I will get the shop up as soon as possible and try to open it in the near future. ”

She noticed that although the Chu family was extremely simple and the family was wearing overstretched clothes, Chu's father, who had been sick in bed for a long time, was taken care of very carefully, not only with a neat head and face. Even the fingernails were neatly trimmed. So she became more and more successful in her heart, so she said: "Before opening, you come to help clean up." Once you open, you go to the kitchen to help. The salary is paid at 30 wen a day, including two meals. How is it? ”

In the face of such favorable conditions, what else did Zhou have to hesitate, he nodded hurriedly and said yes, and patted his chest and repeatedly promised that he would do a good job.

Seeing that Zhao Siniang said that she would do it, and seriously talked about the details of opening a shop, Zhao Yongzhong and his wife couldn't help but look at each other - is our family going to open a shop again? When did you hear about it?

As soon as they left the door of Chu's house, the couple said in unison: "Siniang......"

Zhao Siniang interrupted: "I know what you want to ask, and I'll talk to you in detail later." At this time, let's hurry up and inquire, which one is the best Chinese in the north of the city? Try to buy the shop before it gets dark. ”

So Zhao Siniang, who was arbitrary and alone, led Zhao Yongzhong and his wife to investigate around.

In fact, it is not difficult to find a well-known Chinese, and Zhao Siniang's family quickly found out where that person lived, but it took a lot of trouble to find a suitable shop nearby.

It turned out that the shops in the north of the city were basically gathered on Tongfu Street, but Zhao Siniang said that she was unwilling to find shops on that street, and insisted on looking for them near Liuzhifang. In this way, it is very difficult for people in the family. You know, this area of Liuzhifang is the most shabby place in the entire secluded capital, not to mention decent shops, and there is not even a solid room, how can he introduce it? directly persuaded Zhao Siniang to change to a slightly better location.

Zhao Siniang is sometimes very stubborn, but sometimes she is willing to listen to persuasion. When she walked around this area for a long time and knew that what the Chinese said was true, she gradually had the idea of moving to Tongfu Street.

At this moment, Zhao Siniang was surprised to find that the area near the city wall in the northwest was messily built with many grass huts, and there was no end in sight.

"Most of these sheds were built by displaced people who fled the famine after this year, and they can also shelter some light rain. It's summer now, but in winter, as soon as the northwest wind blows, Hulala will fall down a large area, and the people inside will definitely not survive until the next spring. Alas, every year, every year, every year, why are there so many homeless people in the world? ”

saw Zhao Siniang staring at the shantytown in a daze. The talkative Chinese man was busy with a introduction.

Zhao Siniang had long heard of a "shantytown" in the north of the city, where the houses were dilapidated and crowded, and they were messy. However, she always thought that the dilapidated thatched hut of the Chu family was a typical shantytown. It never occurred to me that "shantytown" was really what it literally meant, that is, a pure straw shed.

"Uncle Qian, I don't expect to find a ready-made shop around here. Can you help me ask if anyone wants to sell their house? It doesn't matter if it's broken, I'll just buy it and fix it up. Seeing Qian Quan's face, I couldn't understand it. Zhao Siniang explained: "It's not a secret, my family didn't open a shop in this area to make money, but to give porridge regularly to help the people nearby." ”

When Qian Quan heard this, he couldn't help but look at the little girl in front of him again, and saw that she had a firm face, and he was a little moved. So he was born and raised in a serious thought and thought, and remembered that there was a small temple at the foot of the mountain not far away, and he heard the old man in his family say that many years ago, there would be porridge and medicine every fifteenth day of the new year. Although it is now a ruined temple, the basic skeleton is still there. It should be able to be used if it is repaired on the original basis, which is exactly in line with Zhao Siniang's requirements.

Thinking of this, Qian Quan led Zhao Siniang's family to find Lizheng in that area and asked him if he could rent out the broken temple.

Generally speaking, temples should be the property of monks, not local authorities. However, the situation of Yan was special, and it had promulgated a strict policy of "exterminating Buddha". For a time, the imperial court was eager to return all the monks to the laity and confiscate all their estates into the treasury. It was during that time that the temple became local public property. It's just that Buddhism, as the state religion of the previous dynasty, has long been integrated into the people. At that time, no matter how the imperial court destroyed the Buddha, the people would still chant the Buddha in their hearts. Therefore, even if it was empty back then, the people in the vicinity did not dare to divert the sacred temple for other purposes. I even go to sprinkle and sweep it secretly. It was not until recent years that the people in the vicinity became more and more miserable, and the area was even reduced to a slum, where everyone was too busy to take care of themselves to make a living, and could no longer take care of the temple, and the temple gradually fell into disuse.

But. Although the temple is dilapidated, it is not an empty temple, and now there are some homeless scoundrels living in it. Zhao Siniang was very worried that they would stand up and oppose it in order to keep this position, and even jump out to make trouble.

As soon as she thought of this, Zhao Siniang's scalp was a little numb, and she thought that this matter was not easy to do, and even if it could be done in the end, it would take a lot of time. But she didn't expect that the next thing would be surprisingly smooth, and soon she bought the temple and the mountain from that piece of the house at an unexpectedly low price.

Yes, it's not renting, it's buying!

When Li Zheng heard that someone was willing to spend money to rent a dilapidated temple, his heart immediately became alive with money. After rolling his eyes twice, he tested whether Zhao Siniang's family was willing to buy the temple directly. When he found out that her family was quite interested and generous, he boldly offered to sell the entire mountain to her family.

The mountain in the city is naturally not a lofty mountain, in fact it is reluctant to call it a mountain. Because it is never more than 30 zhang above sea level, for Zhao Siniang, who has seen the mountains, it is actually a small hill that is not high. Rao is like this, Zhao Siniang still thinks that spending five hundred taels of silver to place a mountain in the secluded capital is simply the price of cabbage.

As for the scoundrels that Zhao Siniang was worried about, as soon as Li Zheng, who had a high prestige in this area, gave an order, they immediately rolled up and left, and they didn't mean to be "nail households" at all.

So Zhao Siniang, who had no worries, waved her hand and bought it.

Zhao Yongzhong and his wife found that the speed of their little girl's defeat was increasing day by day, and they didn't know what to say. However, later, when they learned about Zhao Siniang's specific plan to open a shop, they began to feel that the little girl's defeat was worth it and her defeat was justified.

It's a long story, since Zhao Siniang's family came to Youdu to do business, there will be a lot of leftovers in the shop every day. A small portion is sold and more is eaten by customers. It's not that the guests dislike Zhao Siniang's food is not delicious, in fact, the guests are basically quite satisfied. However, Youzhou is not a poor and remote place like Jiangjiatan, and the east of the city is a rich and noble town, and people here are used to going to restaurants more. Although the local tyrants have not reached the realm of "eating a plate, watching a plate, and leaving a plate to pour out", few people can "eat as much as you want".

In the face of so many leftovers, even Zhao Siniang's family couldn't finish eating it with all their might. So the thrifty Jiang ignored Zhao Siniang's strong opposition and insisted on raising a few piglets near the new workshop outside the city to solve the leftovers.

Until today. Seeing Chu Xiaolou who was robbing food with the dog, Zhao Siniang was quite touched.

At the beginning, Zhao Siniang also wanted to leave a little leftover food for Chu Xiaolou every day, as Jiang said. Think about it. If there is one Chu Xiaolou, there may be a second Chu Xiaolou, and it is estimated that in a few days, the back alleys of their homes will be crowded with poor people who have heard the news and come to receive food. Zhao Siniang's family may not matter, but the neighbors may not be willing, to be honest. Most of these neighbors to the east of the city are not very friendly.

In order not to quarrel with her neighbors in the future, Zhao Siniang thought of hiring someone to be responsible for delivering leftovers to the north of the city every day to help the poor. But after thinking about it, since you did it, you can simply do it. Instead of aimlessly messing around, it is better to be more formal and help more people who really need help.

So, Zhao Siniang, who is not bad for money now, had a whim in Chu's house and planned to open a love canteen to help some poor people who did not have three meals to solve the problem of eating.

Such a casual plan. If it is placed in a normal person's house, it will definitely not be possible. But it happened at Zhao Siniang's house, and even the most basic feasibility was not demonstrated, and it was unanimously approved.

With the help of her family, the preparations for the canteen went very smoothly, and even the manpower problem that Zhao Siniang once felt was thorny was properly solved. In less than ten days, everything was ready.

Today, the restaurant called "Baiwei Tang" has been in business for more than a month, serving breakfast and lunch every day. Although the restaurant looks no different from others from the outside, those who have used it will know that it only sells staple food for a penny.

compared to other places. The price of Fucheng Youdu is slightly higher, and a penny is enough to buy a small black-faced steamed bun outside. At Baiweitang, the staple of a penny is sometimes two fragrant sesame coarse grain scones, and sometimes two fluffy and delicious vegetarian buns. Sometimes it's a big bowl of porridge over an open flame...... The menu of Baiweitang often changes, but what remains the same is that no matter what kind of staple it is, the price outside will never be less than three cents. In other words, when you eat at Baiweitang, what you eat is what you earn.

And that's not all. Once you've purchased a staple food, you can make soup for free. There are also many types of soups, and most of them are with oil flowers, and the three most common ones are radish bone broth, loofah egg drop soup, and tofu miso soup.

In addition, a variety of delicacies can sometimes be eaten. Most of these dishes are leftover from the morning or lunch market of Zhaojiapu, and a small number of them are taken down by customers who basically do not use chopsticks, and are transported from the east of the city twice a day. Even though it's leftovers, it looks like a new dish.

Such a cheap and delicious food shop was very popular as soon as it opened. Since its opening, if there is any dissatisfaction with Baiweitang, it is that it has implemented strict purchase restrictions.

It turns out that Zhao Siniang has a good heart, but it is very limited. In her opinion, the cause of poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation, even if the Yan Imperial Court comes forward, may not be able to accomplish it, and her family's limited ability can only do their best. The area around Baiweitang is a slum to put it mildly, and there are too many poor people here who don't have enough to eat, and her family will definitely not be able to help it on her own, and she can only help part of it.

So Zhao Siniang decided to restrict the object and the restricted area. The people she chose were the elderly over 60 years old and children under the age of 10, and the area she chose was the precinct where Baiweitang was located, and the three districts immediately adjacent to it. She discussed with the Li Zheng in these four jurisdictions, and they issued a certificate to prove that some elderly people or children in their jurisdiction did not eat three meals, and then after the Baiweitang shopkeeper audited, after the audit was passed, they would issue "meal cards" to those elderly people and children.

The so-called meal card is a free meal voucher, with which you can receive free meals at Baiweitang. However, with such an affordable card, each household can only receive a maximum of two.

Despite the harsh conditions, nearly 100 people were eligible to receive cards in the first month, and by this month it had grown to more than 200.

Normally, Baiweitang only serves 300 servings of staple food per meal, and these staple foods are given priority to the elderly and children who have meal cards. In other words, after they have received it, there are only a few dozen servings of staple food left to sell to the outside world, and it is stipulated that one person can only buy one, which makes ordinary customers feel embarrassed. (To be continued.) )