The weather is cold, and some of the pedestrians passing by are hungry, and the number of guests who stay on the road to eat hot tea and noodle soup gradually increases.

Mengfan's noodle restaurant sold 21 bowls of chicken soup noodles, 16 bowls of pork rib noodles, 17 bowls of lo-mei noodles, 11 bowls of shredded pork noodles, 7 bowls of fat intestine noodles, and 19 bowls of somen noodles on the first day; This is all the statistics made by Han Xiaolin, this sixteen-year-old boy is serious and down-to-earth, but it's just the same, he can't read, so every time he sells a bowl of noodles, he puts wooden sticks of different lengths in the white apron with a big purse and a small purse.

This illiterate person always has the most primitive way of calculating, and Mengfan only feels that he admires it.

On the second day, the number of children dropped by half, on the third day, the number of visitors resumed, and on the fourth day, it decreased...... On the fifth day, the sixth day of business was generally hot......

After that, the flow of customers is like a convulsion; However, Mengfan is not in a hurry, just what she said, let's earn a copper plate and earn it.

Less than a copper plate of shop rent, a lot of money is saved, right?

Fortunately, she has mountains and forests inside and outside, and there is no shortage of firewood, so she only needs to raise two long-term workers to chop firewood every day, chop firewood, dry firewood, and then help wash dishes and so on, which saves an expense.

Spend money to buy five catties of flour and sell ten catties of flour back, and we will get half of the profit at this point, right? Although the food produced in the space is considered to be of the highest quality, but in the case of a large amount of money to buy wood, can we still pluck the hair on the common people? If you lose, you will lose yourself......

Besides, if it is calculated by the level of food, the better the rice grain, the more it will not reach the mouths of the common people, why should those who are born powerful eat good food? If she had the opportunity to sell the same food to rich people in the future, she would definitely be able to sell it at a high price.

Right now? Never mind......

This day is getting drier and colder, and the tea guests who come to the tip are all drilling into the inside of the tea shop one by one, although the inside of these two shops is open, but the charcoal fire in the brazier under each table is burning vigorously, and the outside is empty.

Liu Shaodong's family rented the last of her remaining shops here, and invited Lang Zhong, so that the villagers in this neighborhood can find Lang Zhong with a headache and brain fever at the door of their homes without going to the town.

Seeing the people of the Liu family, they dared to be the first to rent a shop in such a small place, and the others, who had plans, were still waiting, so in this cold day, there were more people coming and going.

The next day, Daddy Zhang, a widow who weaves all kinds of small objects with rattan, put all kinds of baskets and small baskets that he had woven in his spare time on the ground outside Mengfan's empty shop.

After two days, a lady who often walks here and goes back every time she goes back to buy two buns for her grandson after selling eggs in the market, after asking Mengfan, she put the basket of her eggs on the stone table outside the shop; She also put on the purse handkerchiefs embroidered by her two daughters, pendants, tassels, etc.

Mengfan, the next morning, asked Ling Yaoxuan to move out two benches, put a simple bamboo board on them, and then use a piece of sky-blue coarse cloth to put on a large number of various bamboo utensils, bamboo bowls, bamboo cups, bamboo baskets, bamboo tubes, bamboo scratches, bamboo chopsticks, bamboo pen holders......

With a pair of short legs, Lan Baoer sat on a backrest chair and became the miniature little boss.

Several old people in the tea shop who came to drink a cup of free tea every day, almost on the same day, roared their sons and daughters-in-law to take out all kinds of handmade objects, and then took up a position, and followed the small stall that her Lan Bao'er took care of, and also set up a formation, Ling Yaoxuan also brought them two thin benches and a bamboo board, and then put a sky blue coarse cloth on it. These old people, the sons and daughters-in-law of the family are all capable, and the embroidery is vivid, and there are granddaughters, and the fans and pendants are also put out.

At this time, Meng Fan smiled when she saw it, she immediately asked the little bald head to wrap a lot of fine-skinned dumplings and put them in the noodle restaurant, and then went to hire a carriage with Ling Yaoxuan to go to the county seat, and when she came back, she opened the third shop a day later.

【Miscellaneous Goods Store】

In this grocery store, there must be some oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea that ordinary people need, and the rest, it is some strange things, but she seems to have no manpower, so she has to temporarily top it by herself, and after looking at the store for a few days, she wonders when she will tell her family hundreds of miles away about everything.

This thought, in fact, has been in her heart for a long time, she has always been very entangled, I don't know if her parents in this life will be the same as her former parents, no matter how much effort and time she has spent and how much she has done, at the end of the day, she is still left with nothing.

Thinking too much about this thought is purely to make the heart in the cold winter colder and colder, and the coldness is rising, and you will feel that the palpitations are indescribable; simply, I don't want to; After handing over the grocery store to Ling Yaoxuan, the person she thought was the most appropriate, she went outside with a small copper hand warmer.

As soon as I wanted to come out, I saw a craftsman who would go to the town to set up a stall in every market, and also came to find her housekeeper, rubbing his hands and wearing a patched coarse cloth shirt and pants standing there, and whispered nervously, hoping to occupy a place here to set up a stall on weekdays, saying that he would let his twelve-year-old granddaughter watch here, hoping that Miss Li and Steward Ling could help take care of this little girl's house on weekdays.

Ling Yaoxuan and Meng Fan glanced at each other, then looked at the honest man in front of them, nodded, and said slowly: "They are all from the villagers, they should take care of each other; But do you know all the rules set by our young lady? ”

"I know, I know, I just asked Uncle Liu outside, and he said......, I came here to set up a stall in the new year, and the stall rent is one penny a day, and after the year, from the twentieth day of the first month, we will be charged two pennies a day, and it will be the price of this stall within a year, right?"

"Yes." Ling Yaoxuan nodded, and added: "If there is something at home and you don't go out, I won't charge you a penny." ”

"Then I'll start today, hehe, I brought all the things, just wait for you outside, well, you take it, two cents, this is my family's rent today......"

A sugar gourd seller who went to the village to sell gourds was also entangled and hesitated, occupying a palm-sized place behind the most slugging of these stalls.

Then, Xiaoyun, who has never had much intersection with Mengfan, also hesitated to come to her under the leadership of Uncle Hai Liu, begging her to find something to do, Mengfan didn't say anything, only smiled and looked at Uncle Hai Liu, knowing that he wanted to find someone to replace him in the grocery store, after all, her brother Qingsong had been out for a long time and hadn't come back, this girl's life was really cold, she was not to blame in her previous life, as long as she didn't block her anymore, she wasn't so careful.

said that he would help her look after the shop, and like Xiaozhen, the second girl of the Han family, she would get a monthly fee and 300 yuan a month.

【On the 20th day of the lunar month】

In the morning, Helian Qingtian walked up to Meng Fan, who was just about to cut noodles: "I'll leave tomorrow and go back to the capital for the New Year, what about you?" When are you going to go back? ”

"Go back for the New Year?" Meng Fan took off the flower apron around his waist, turned around and said, "Then tonight, I'll practice it for you!" I'll go and see if there are any fresh vegetables in the field that can be eaten, by the way, you go back and tell Uncle Sun that I will make roast chicken in the evening, and let him come early to help slaughter the chicken, they are all busy. Behind the two, followed by the bouncing Lan Bao'er, they went out together.

Seeing that Mengfan went to Helian's house with Xiao Shiziye, Han Xiaolin, who had just brought two buckets of water, walked into the kitchen of the noodle restaurant and automatically took over the work in her hands. In fact, this was originally his job, Mengfan did it himself, it was to relieve him of work.

"Brother, you take a break, I'll do it!" Fourteen-year-old girl Han Xiaozhen combed two swarthy braids, holding a wooden basin in her hand, she was making preparations before opening the shop, this noodle shop must keep the table and environment clean every day, this is Mengfan explained.

Han Xiaolin is not lazy, he is the eldest brother, and he has to take care of his father and younger siblings: "No, I can still do it, have you finished wiping the table?" Go and see if Dad's medicine is ready, there will be more guests in a while, and you will come to help. ”

Han Xiaozhen poured the dirty water back, put the special wooden basin under the board, straightened up, and said, "The little one is in the big kitchen, he will watch it." ”

"Oh!" Han Xiaolin just responded casually, and suddenly turned around to look at his sister again: "Second sister, how many times have I said it, remember to change your words, don't scream in a small way, Miss will be unhappy when she hears it." ”

"I call my brother, my brother, my brother has been called this name since he was a child, even if he has a big name now, we should be more affectionate with each other; How could Mengfan be unhappy? Han Xiaozhen's voice was slightly raised, and there was obvious dissatisfaction on her delicate face.

"Shut up for me." Han Xiaolin turned around and stared at his second sister fiercely.

"What are you afraid of him doing?" Han Xiaozhen retorted in a low voice, "He's just a subordinate of the Li family, and we ...... "We are different from them."

"Second sister——," Han Xiaolin gritted his teeth, he really didn't know what his sister was stubborn about, and he preferred to do it with him.

Han Xiaozhen approached mysteriously and said, "Big brother, Miss Mengfan is different from others, okay, why?" ”

"Why? It's not that the young lady is kind enough to take us in, give us a place to live, and pay us back. Han Xiaolin shook his sore arm: "In this world, there are not many kind-hearted good people, and our young lady is one." ”

"Big brother......" Han Xiaozhen stomped her feet, why are her father and eldest brother so sincere?

"We can't put our Han family's posture too low, in the future, when the child grows up, she will not be able to raise her head in front of her, when the time comes, how will our family propose to her?"

"Second sister, what did you say?" Han Xiaolin instantly took a breath of cold air......