A small yard, very small, a few more steps will step on the vegetables on the ground, run a few laps, and if you get dizzy, you will hit the wall.

Next to the small yard are three small houses, and the houses are also very small, so you don't need to put other superfluous things if you can basically live in them, because the place is small.

There was still a faint candlelight in one room, and when I walked into the house, there was a square table, and there were three people around the table, around the candlelight, talking softly.

"Girl, did you really buy that restaurant by the Moon Lake?" Chen Lan couldn't believe that living in this place, and having the powerless Yuan Qing could buy the restaurant, or the restaurant that everyone coveted in Yuehu Fat.

Yuan Qing nodded slightly and did not give any other explanation.

"Girl, can Xiaolan help you do something?" Chen Lan is a delicate person, Yuan Qing is a life-saving benefactor in her heart, and she is the master she can't betray in her life, Chen Lan doesn't ask Yuan Qing too much.

"Xiaolan, your cooking is delicious, would you like to go to the restaurant to help?" Yuan Qing said lightly, for her, she doesn't like to force anything.

"Of course I do." didn't hesitate for a moment, but suddenly Chen Lan was a little embarrassed, "It's just, girl, Chen Lan will only cook some home-cooked side dishes, the dishes in the restaurant, Xiaolan is afraid that she will not be able to do it......"

"Nothing is innate, you can learn slowly, Xiaolan, now the restaurant is in great need of manpower, I hope you can help me."

"Girl, you are Xiaolan's life-saving benefactor, and you are also Xiaolan's reborn parents, the girl's business is Xiaolan's business, what the girl wants Xiaolan to do just ask, Xiaolan has no reason to excuse herself." Chen Lan was almost on her knees in front of her.

"Don't say that, I just want you to be sincere with me, that's fine." Yuan Qing held her and said.

"Well, Xiaolan will never betray the girl." The tone is resolute, and the eyes are firm.

"......" Yuan Qing didn't know what to say, "Thank you, I'm busy tomorrow, go back to sleep." ”

"Yes, girl, you go to bed early, too." Chen Lan, this girl who is only fourteen years old, used to have bitter and sweet, and her life was also bitter and sweet, she may really make up her mind to follow Yuan Qing's side, so she will be like just now.

"Yes." Yuan Qing nodded slightly, looking at her departing back, until she disappeared by the door, Yuan Qing slowly got up, and said to Yuan Bao, who was sleepy at the table: "Xiaobao, you can go back to sleep too." ”

Blowing out the candles, the lights went out, and the room was silent. The moon is hanging high in the sky at the moment, and the cool moonlight shines into the house through the small window, blurry, and the eyes are silent.

The next day, early in the morning, on the shore of the Moon Lake, on this large open space, there is only one building, the breeze supports the willows, the branches of the xiasa are scattered, the distance of 100 meters, the willows and the building are opposed, and the distance between the lake shore and the restaurant is 100 meters.

In the morning, there were not many guests in the restaurant, Yuan Qing, Yuan Bao, and Chen Lan came to the Moon Lake Restaurant.

The restaurant has three floors, the first and second floors are used for guests to eat and drink, and the third floor is used to live, where guests can pay and the important people of the restaurant can also live. The so-called important people are like the shopkeeper of the restaurant.

In a wing room on the third floor, of course, this room is used for errands, and ordinary idlers are not allowed to enter. Yuan Qing came to this wing room, the wing room is also very quiet and elegant, there are no strange furnishings, it makes people feel very comfortable, this should be the shopkeeper's office.

As the shopkeeper of this restaurant, Yuan Qing is very satisfied.

Xiao Er brought her tea, she drank leisurely, and after a while, a person by the door walked in the middle-aged uncle who was next to the shopkeeper Hu yesterday, he is the second-in-command of the restaurant, and he is responsible for the financial income and expenditure of the restaurant, and does the accounting and calculating the money.

"Uncle Lian, you're here." Yuan Qing saw him with a smile on his face, "Come and sit." "This middle-aged uncle is called Ge Yulian, and Yuan Qing calls him Uncle Lian.

"Shopkeeper, you've arrived." Ge Yulian was also full of smiles, after all, Yuan Qing was already his boss, so he still had to be polite.

"Uncle Lian, how long have you been in the restaurant?" Yuan Qing asked.

"Count the days, it's five years." Ge Yulian had a kind face as if he was looking back on the past, with a solemn and meaningful expression, "I came out to do things at the age of fifteen, and at the beginning I was just a chore, and then I ran a hall, and I got to my current position step by step, but now that I think about it, this life is worth it." ”

"Hehe, Uncle Lian, some people have been juniors all their lives, and they are still good......"

"Shopkeeper, I don't mean anything else, really." Ge Yulian felt that he had said something wrong, and hurriedly explained.

"I know, okay, from now on, I am the shopkeeper of the restaurant, you are the second master of the restaurant, we have the responsibility to do a good job of the restaurant, you say?" Yuan Qing said with a smile, yes, she is young, but her youth does not mean that she does not have the strength to run this restaurant well. Joke, Yuan Qing was a businessman in his previous life, how could he not be capable?

"Yes, I know." Ge Yu nodded again and again.

The opening time of Moon Lake Restaurant has been 100 years, which can be regarded as a century-old store, during which there have been four shopkeepers, Yuan Qing is the fourth, and the first female shopkeeper, or a young shopkeeper. Her appearance is still a little difficult to convince the public.

However, everything will change, Yuan Qing is already the shopkeeper, this is a fact that no one can change, since it can't be changed, then it can only adapt.

Fortunately, this group of guys is adaptable.

Up and down the restaurant, there is one cook, one person who helps the cook, one person who does chores, one thug who supports the façade (that is, the fierce man), and there are three people who run the hall, that is, there are three people in the second child, plus the bookkeeper Ge Yulian, there are eight people. The shopkeeper is gone.

The restaurant owed 430 taels of silver, and the debt collectors came to the restaurant twice in three days to ask for money, and Ge Yulian and the former shopkeeper couldn't stand this, so they sold the restaurant at a low price. Being forced to ask for money all day long, who can put it on it? The restaurant's top priority is to raise money to pay off the debts owed.

"How much silver is left in the restaurant?" Yuan Qing asked.

"Shopkeeper, the restaurant has no money, and the little money left has been taken away by the former shopkeeper, and the restaurant is now an empty shell." For such an irresponsible behavior of the former shopkeeper, Ge Yulian dared not speak out.

"So, how much rice is there for the restaurant?"

"The food is a contract signed with other families, and they supply a year's worth of food, and it will expire in half a year, so don't worry about the food, the rice in the restaurant is enough to eat for two months." Ge Yu said.

"Well, are those subordinates reliable and capable?"

"They are all buddies in the restaurant, and they are all dedicated to the restaurant, this shopkeeper can rest assured, if they can't do it, they won't stay in the restaurant for so long." Ge Yu is also very confident in these guys.

"Oh, really? So that guy didn't look like a little second yesterday no matter how he looked. Yuan Qing expressed his suspicions, the guy with a lot of personality and arrogant attitude yesterday was not suitable for the second child who greeted guests in the hall no matter how he looked at it.

"Oh, you're talking about Hu Gongzi, he's not the second child of the restaurant, he is the youngest son of the Hu shopkeeper, he has been very favored by the Hu shopkeeper since he was a child, and he is used to this temperament, yesterday's matter, the shopkeeper don't go to heart." Ge Yu said repeatedly, yesterday's arrogant Xiao Er was a temporary cameo by the son of the shopkeeper Hu, because yesterday a Xiao Er was sick and couldn't work. Let him serve others as a junior, no wonder he looks faintly disdainful.

"It's fine." Yuan Qing waved his hand and said, "Who makes the dishes in the restaurant?" ”

"It's Chef Li, he is over 60 years old, and the dishes he used to cook tasted very good, but in recent years, his tongue has slowly lost his sense of the taste of the dishes, so over the years, the taste of the restaurant's dishes has deteriorated day by day." Ge Yu said.

"Then why not make a substitution?"

"Master Li and Shopkeeper Hu are in-laws, and their relationship is quite good, so Shopkeeper Hu can't open his mouth." Ge Yulian was quite helpless. The most important thing in a restaurant is that the food is delicious, and the taste of the food is good, so there will naturally be more customers. "I have also persuaded the shopkeeper Hu many times, but he still did not speak."

It's really tiring. In many cases, whether a thing can be done or not has little to do with the ability of the person who does the work, and the most important thing to pay attention to is these personnel. Where there are more people, there will be more struggles, and the fewer things can be done in the end, but there are relatively few people and there are not so many open and secret fights, and the more things can be done.

"For the sake of the restaurant, then Master Li, let's send him away." Yuan Qing sighed.

"I have long had this intention, so the person in charge, the shopkeeper is there a candidate?"

"Yes, don't worry about that." Yuan Qing originally wanted Chen Lan to be in charge.

"That's good." Ge Yulian said with a smile, he had a hunch that the good days of the restaurant were coming. "By the way, shopkeeper, tomorrow the concubine will come to our restaurant, saying that she is coming to hold the final selection of the servant and to compete in our restaurant." This concubine thinking is not something he can understand.

"Tomorrow, the concubine is going to come to the restaurant to hold a servant selection competition?" Yuan Qing tried to digest his words word by word.

"Yes, the news from the palace this morning, the shopkeeper, do we have to make any preparations?"

"This preparation must be done...... so Yuan Qing said the preparation to be made.

This day is the first day that Yuan Qing officially became the shopkeeper of Yuehu Restaurant, as the so-called three fires of the new official took office, Yuan Qing's three fires did not burn out, and the most important thing at the moment is to understand the situation of the restaurant, from funds to miscellaneous matters.

The most important thing in a restaurant is to eat, after all, people come to the restaurant to eat, so the chef of a restaurant is very important. That Chef Li is the chef of the Moon Lake Restaurant, but he is getting older and his sense of taste is gradually declining. A chef has no sense of taste, just as a composer has no sense of hearing. Unless you're a genius, you're either mediocre or worse. After all, there was only one Beethoven.

Chef Li has no genius skills, so his dishes are becoming more and more unpalatable.

In the kitchen, all kinds of ingredients are very fresh, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy is busy burning the fire and chopping wood, an old man wields a knife to cut vegetables, his knife skills are very good, and the dishes are cut neatly by him, not messy at all