Li Ziyu inserted the wooden stick in his hand backwards as he walked, and accurately inserted it into the bamboo basket. As soon as you step up the stairs on the second floor, you know that the owner behind the Riri Red Wine House has considerable strength. The staircase is carpeted in sandalwood blend, and the handrails are made of pure teak in light brown color, and the staircase is delicately carved between the staircase and the floor. This combination makes people look comfortable and pleasing to the eye.

Wu Fan observed Li Ziyu from the corner of his eye as he walked, and found that this little girl looked calm and calm, completely without the shrinking and panicking he imagined, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised. How did he know that in his previous life, Li Ziyu had been on a mission, had been in and out of various high-end hotels, and was fortunate to have seen the world's top high-end decoration. The daily red wine house was good in ancient times, but in modern times, it is average.

Wu Fan enthusiastically welcomed Li Ziyu into the Winter Snow Pavilion, he couldn't do it if he wasn't enthusiastic. Since the beginning of winter, how many wealthy sons want to eat game, but this game is really hard to find. I hope the little girl in front of him can surprise him and not let him rejoice.

Li Ziyu looked at the decoration of the Winter Snow Pavilion, the background wall was a primeval forest with ice and snow, and in the vast snowfield, a four-wheeled carriage drove away in the wind and snow on its head. Looking at this painting, one can feel the cold of winter and the pleasure of galloping through the wind and snow. In the corner, there is a huge cedar bonsai, which complements the background wall and echoes each other from afar.

In the middle of the room, there is a burgundy oak round table that can make eight people, eight burgundy oak round stools, and a thin porcelain vase painted with a plum blossom on the table is a white plum blossom that still exudes a faint fragrance.

"Well, little girl, how much roe deer meat do you have?" Wu Fan saw that Li Ziyu only looked at the room and didn't speak, so he had to break the silence and take the lead in speaking.

Li Ziyu smiled secretly, if you want to sell roe deer meat for good money, you have to calm down. When she saw Wu Fan asking, she smiled sweetly: "Uncle shopkeeper, I have more than 100 catties here, can you have all of them?" ”

"What? More than a hundred pounds? Wu Fan was taken aback, his face was full of disbelief, he thought it would be about ten catties at most.

It's no wonder that Li Ziyu has never put down the bamboo basket since she entered the restaurant, and she is still full of relaxation. How could a thin, small, teenage girl carry more than 100 pounds of things?

Li Ziyu nodded seriously.

After all, Wu Fan was well-informed, and after being surprised, he quickly calmed down and didn't ask any more questions. He knows that there are many talented people in this world, and everyone has an unknown side. He stretched out his hand to ask Li Ziyu to sit down, and he sat down himself.

Li Ziyu put the bamboo basket on a round stool, sat on another stool, and looked at Wu Fan with a smile.

Wu Fan tapped lightly on the table, and looked at Li Ziyu with gentle eyes: "Little girl, looking at your family background, it's not very good, I'll give you an affordable price, thirty wen a catty, how about it?" ”

Li Ziyu didn't know the true price of roe deer meat, so she quickly calculated in her heart, not counting the fraction, a hundred catties could be sold for three taels of silver. Wow, that's worth it. His heart rejoiced, but his face did not show a little. Although she didn't know how to do business, she knew that she should bargain, so she said in a super innocent tone: "Uncle, I heard that game meat is very valuable. My dad went hunting in the mountains and didn't come today. I don't know what the price is, but my uncle looks at it, and you say thirty wen, it's thirty wen. ”

Wu Fan was stunned for a moment, and then his heart was overjoyed. It seems that her family is a hunter, and there will be wild things in the future. Well, you might as well give her a high price and tie her up in her own restaurant. So, there was a little more real smile in his eyes: "Little girl, look at this, I will give you fifty yuan a catty, and your wild things will only be sold to our restaurant in the future, how about it?" ”

Li Ziyu smiled happily and narrowed her eyes: "Deal!" But uncle, there is no basis for what you say, should we make a contract? “

Wu Fan nodded with satisfaction, this is exactly what he meant, I didn't expect the little girl to know a lot, and she also knew how to make a contract.

So he instructed someone to prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and wrote two contracts, each signed by both parties, and Li Ziyu and Wu Fan each held one copy. Only then did Wu Fan know that the little girl's name was Li Ziyu, and she was actually literate, although she couldn't write well.

After that, Wu Fan took Li Ziyu to the kitchen to weigh it. The kitchen is at the back of the restaurant, and you will get to the kitchen from the staircase on the first floor.

The kitchen covers an area of more than 200 square meters, and there are more than 40 large and small stoves, and the stoves are separated from the operation rooms according to the first floor, the second floor, and the third floor, and hang up the signs. The chef and assistant, plus more than 50 people who do chores, are in good order. The kitchen is filled with all kinds of aromas, and the sound of pots and pans clashing one after another, but it is not cluttered.

When Li Ziyu and the others arrived, it was the peak period of official serving. The little two on each floor wore special clothes to serve the dishes, removed the dishes and plates, and were orderly and not messy at all. Li Ziyu couldn't help but praise in her heart, the high-end restaurant really deserves its reputation.

"Wu Fatzi, Zhao Tou'er! Come out, there's something good. ”

"Here we go!" "Here we go!" As the two spoke, two men in chef's hats each stepped out of their room.

What came out of the operation room on the second floor was the chubby Wu Fatzi, who was in his thirties, he was the son of the Wu family, and signed a death deed. He was originally Wu Fan's little servant, but later saw that he liked cooking skills and was loyal, so he let him go to the restaurant. He was willing to study, worked hard to learn to cook, mastered the art of Hunan cuisine, and took the lead in the second floor as a steward.

Coming out from the third floor is Zhao Tou Zhao Zichang, who is very thin and small, completely out of line with the chef, and is the kind of person who doesn't eat and doesn't gain weight. He is an external chef hired by the restaurant, and he has signed a ten-year living contract with the restaurant. His first-hand cooking skills are superb, and he is good at many things: Sichuan cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Northeast cuisine, etc. It is said that he used to be the imperial kitchen, but I don't know which one in the palace he offended, and he was expelled from the imperial kitchen, allowing Wu Fan to pick up a leak.

"I've seen the shopkeeper." Wu Fatzi and Zhao Zichang saluted Wu Fan together.

"I've weighed it and seen how many catties."

"What's good?" Fat Wu struggled to lower his head and look at the bamboo basket on Li Ziyu's shoulder.

Li Ziyu put down the bamboo basket, and Zhao Zichang also surrounded him. The two looked at the things in the bamboo basket and grinned in surprise: "Not bad, yes, I finally have a new food." ”

Someone had already taken the scale, a total of one hundred and twenty-one catties, fifty wen a catty, a total of six taels and fifty wen.

Wu Fan saw the axe and stick in the bamboo basket, and glanced at Li Ziyu meaningfully.

Wu Fan gave silver on the spot, and all he gave was one or two pieces of loose silver, plus fifty copper plates. Li Ziyu reached out and took it and put it in his arms. As soon as he wanted to leave, he saw the wild camellia that had just been picked out of the roe deer meat, so he asked, "Do you want this?" ”

Wu Fan looked at it and didn't recognize: "What is this?" ”

"Wild camellia, it's delicious."

"I'll take a look," Wu Fatzi leaned up, "This is a good thing, the shopkeeper, take it." ”

"How do you eat this?" When Wu Fan heard that it was a good thing, he hurriedly asked.

"Shopkeeper, you must not have eaten it." Wu Fatzi squinted his little eyes as if recalling, "I ate it when I was a child, and I lost it when I blanched it, and I ate it cold, made dumplings, and steamed buns. ”

"Then you want it. How much is a pound? Wu Fan said and turned his head to ask Li Ziyu.

Li Ziyu smiled sweetly: "Uncle, you look at it, I just went to the mountains to cut firewood and dig it by hand." There's no shortage of vegetables now, I'm just giving you a fresh taste. ”

In the end, after counting fifteen wen and one catty, three and a half catties, a total of fifty-two and a half wen, Wu Fan made up fifty-three wen and handed it to Li Ziyu. Looking at the thin little girl in front of her, who was younger than her own daughter, and came out to run around on a snowy day, her parents were so distressed. Wu Fan specially advised: "The road is slippery on snowy days, go home early." ”

Li Ziyu bent down deeply to express her gratitude: "Thank you, uncle!" I'll go home. ”

Li Ziyu carried a huge sum of more than six taels, and walked out of the restaurant excitedly in the voice of Peanut's enthusiastic "You go well, welcome again". She looked back at the Riri Red Restaurant, standing majestically in the flying snowflakes, looking both romantic and solemn. I said firmly, "I will come again!" ”

Out of the Riri Red Restaurant, Li Ziyu walked forward more than 100 meters and turned left into an alley. This alley is known as West Alley, and ordinary people live on both sides of the West Alley. The Huating Street in front of the Riri Red Restaurant, that is, the street that Li Ziyu just walked on, is a watershed. The east side of the street is inhabited by wealthy families who are either rich or expensive. Most of the shops on West Street are grocery stores, cloth shops, leather shops, grain shops and various snack shops.

Li Ziyu looked at the shops on both sides along the west alley, because it was snowing, the business in the shops was very depressed, and there were only a few people in and out of the shops.

Li Ziyu walked into a shop called "People's Grain Shop", which was in the north of the alley, and the two guys in the shop were chatting listlessly.

"How much does it cost 20 catties of sorghum flour, 5 catties of white flour, and 10 catties of sorghum rice?" Li Ziyu walked around the shop and said a string of words, which made the two guys feel like they had been beaten with chicken blood.

"Sorghum flour is six pounds and one catty, and twenty pounds are one hundred and twenty pounds. White flour 12 wen a catty, 5 catties 60 wen. Sorghum rice is eight pounds a catty, ten pounds and eighty pounds. It's a total of 260 texts. The young man was not ambiguous, and he reported a string of numbers without beating Ben'er, and he was penniless.

Li Ziyu paid the silver, put the grain into the bamboo basket, turned around and walked out of the grain shop. Then I walked into the "hometown grocery store", and bought two wooden basins for fifteen wen, six small coarse porcelain bowls for eighteen wen, five large coarse porcelain bowls for twenty-five wen, five wen for a pair of chopsticks, ten wen for a bundle of hemp rope, and twenty wen for a five-meter oilcloth. A total of ninety-three texts were spent.

Walking out of the grocery store, Li Ziyu walked into a "auspicious cloth village" again. In the cloth village, a woman in her twenties was picking and buying cloth, and the proprietress in her thirties was receiving her. Li Ziyu looked at the colorful and green cloth on the counter, both thick and thin cotton cloth, and all kinds of silk and satin, and was undecided. It was time for their sisters to change their cotton clothes and shoes, and they had to buy beds and quilts, and they had to repair the house Li Ziyu touched the silver in her arms, just now she felt that it was a huge amount of money, but now she feels that it is not enough.

"Little girl, what do you want to buy?" Sister-in-law Xiang walked over and asked in a harmonious voice.

"How much do you have a quilt here?" Li Ziyu felt that picking up the main ones to buy first, the taste of being frozen was really uncomfortable, "I want a big quilt, as big as a kang." ”

Sister-in-law Xiang looked Li Ziyu up and down a few times, and then slowly said the price: "One or two silver." In fact, the proprietress didn't mean to look down on people, she just looked at Li Ziyu's dress, afraid that she couldn't afford the price.

Li Ziyu felt Sister-in-law Xiang's scrutiny, and felt a little uncomfortable, but it didn't affect her to buy things. It's a little more expensive, and no matter how expensive it is, you have to buy it.

"Get me a quilt." Li Ziyu looked at Sister-in-law Xiang and said. She clearly saw the change in Sister-in-law Xiang's face from shock, disbelief to surprise, and couldn't help but laugh secretly.

"Okay, I'll get it for you. Little girl, our quilt is ten pounds, good cotton, good cotton, good needlework. You're good to go, and you promise to buy it again and again. The proprietress said happily as she took the quilt from behind.

The quilt was tied up with a piece of coarse cloth and handed to Li Ziyu. Li Ziyu took it in her hand and tossed it upside down, knowing that Sister-in-law Xiang was telling the truth.

"Boss, how do you sell the cloth here?" Li Ziyu thought that their shoes should be made new, and the new cloth was reluctant to buy, and the cloth should be able to be used to make the upper. They should have scraps in this cloth shop.

"Don't call me the boss, call me sister-in-law. How much cloth do you want? It's just that there is no good fabric, and if you can't make a big one, you can make an upper or something. Others buy seven wen and one sack, and you buy five wen. "The more sister-in-law Xiang looks at Li Ziyu, the more she likes it, she originally looked very shabby, I thought I couldn't afford it, but I didn't expect it to be generous. Unlike some people, they look very rich, and they don't spend money for half a day.

"Get me two sacks, give it, it's ten wen." Li Ziyu paid the money, and remembered that she needed cotton to make shoes, so she asked, "Do you have some broken cotton here, it's not in rolls." ”

"Yes, yes, there is just a bag, about three catties, count you three catties, fifteen pounds, one catty forty-five wen, count you forty wen." Sister-in-law Xiang grinned happily, thinking that it would be impossible to open the snow today, but she didn't expect to catch up with the good weather to make a profit.

Li Ziyu put the quilt, rags, and cotton into the bamboo basket, took out the oilcloth and put it on it, tied it with hemp rope, said goodbye to Sister-in-law Xiang, carried the bamboo basket and walked out of the West Alley, and walked towards the south city gate. As I walked, I counted the accounts, and it cost me 260 wen to buy grain, 93 wen in the grocery store, and 1205 wen for the cloth village, and a total of 12,403 wen today. Selling roe deer meat and wild camellia sold for 62,100 wen, and after deducting today's expenses, a total of 52,700 wen remained. It should be enough to build a house in five taels. Li Ziyu couldn't wait to break it as a penny, she still felt like a rich man when she came out of the restaurant, and she would become a poor peasant again after a while. I obviously feel that there is a lot of money, alas, why can't I spend the money so much? No, you have to go into the mountains, and if you go into the mountains and meet a good prey, you will have everything.

Li Ziyu walked on the way home with gains and losses, looking at the white expanse in front of her, the flying snowflakes kept falling down, the road was empty, only she was lonely and moving forward, and suddenly she was a little confused, where is her own way?

Li Ziyu walked with her head bored, and she didn't come to her senses until she saw Yangcaogouzi Village in the distance. Well, she's a little pretentious. Compared to dying, compared to those sacrificed comrades, she is still alive after all. It's good to be alive.