"Don't ask, little ones!" Faced with Douzi's curiosity, Li Zhang glared at him directly.

"Big brother, tell me about it, and let me learn some skills from you, so that I won't be afraid of Hou San's playfulness in the future!" Douzi is a two-skinned face, and at this time he pestered Li Zhang, there are not many people on the dock now, and the coolies who work are generally reluctant to buy meat to eat, so their stall has not officially opened, and Douzi also has time to pester Li Zhang.

Li Zhang was reluctant to say it at first, but then he couldn't help it when he was entangled by beans, and finally nodded in agreement, in fact, the reason why he didn't tell the truth to Lu Wu just now was because what he said to Hou San was really not like what a child could say, so he was afraid of arousing Lu Wu's suspicion again, and as for the beans, he didn't have to worry.

"Big brother, say it quickly!" Douzi saw that Li Zhang agreed, and he couldn't wait to ask again.

"Actually, it's very simple, I just told Hou San that maybe one day I will also go to the restaurant to eat, and then the leftover dishes will become the baskets he sells!" Li Zhang smiled and whispered.

"That's it?" Douzi was confused when he heard this, and couldn't understand why Hou San was frightened by this sentence and retreated.

"Of course, I also told him that I have a very bad habit, that is, after eating, I like to pour arsenic into leftovers, and arsenic will kill people when it eats in the stomach!" Li Zhang smiled again and spoke.

"Arsenic?" Douzi was still a little confused at first, but he quickly reacted, and said in ecstasy, "Good way, let's poison the leftovers, and then be taken away by Hou San, and then eat people to death, and the yamen will naturally arrest Hou San and ask for guilt!" ”

"Do you think that's a good idea?" Li Zhang stared at Douzi with a serious expression at this time.

"Of course, big brother, you are a fool, and if someone dies, you will come to the autopsy, and then let Uncle Wu arrest someone, and then Hou San will wait to go to death row!" Douzi said excitedly again, Hou San robbed their business, and he naturally wanted to kill the other party as soon as possible.

"Have you thought about it, although this method took revenge on Hou San, but how innocent is the person who was poisoned by us, and how sad will his family be?" Li Zhang tried to guide at this time, although he came up with this method to threaten Hou San, he never thought of actually implementing it.

"This ...... I...... It's good if I can take care of myself, but where can I take care of others? Douzi first hesitated when he heard this, and then he also said a little stupidly, he is an orphan, usually suffers humiliation in order to survive, and there is no one to guide them, so orphans like Douzi generally have some psychological problems, such as indifference, loneliness, etc.

After this period of getting along, Li Zhang has long understood the psychology of these orphans in Douzi, no one taught him before, but now that he is here, he naturally can't let them grow up so savagely, so he patted Douzi on the shoulder and said seriously: "Douzi, for those who bully us, we can find a way to retaliate, but we must not hurt other innocent people, you have to understand this, remember?" ”

Although Douzi has other psychological problems, he has an advantage, that is, he knows how to be grateful, especially when Li Zhang saved his life and took him in, which made Douzi always regard Li Zhang as his own big brother, and he was also omniscient about his words, so he immediately nodded at this time and said: "I remember!" ”

Although Douzi said that he remembered it, Li Zhang knew that it was not an overnight thing to completely change Douzi's three views, and it was necessary to go through a long period of education, but unfortunately the conditions did not allow it now, maybe when he stopped running for his livelihood in the future, he would personally teach Douzi these children, at least let them have a complete three views.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and there were more and more people on the dock, running, shop guys, stewards, small traders, etc., these people were the mainstream of the dock crowd, and these people were also the main customers of Li Zhang's new business.

"Fresh brine, free to taste!" They shuttled through the crowd with clean plates to sell beans, and the plates were full of marinated water cut into small pieces, after all, if a new food wants to be accepted, it must let people know how it tastes, and free tasting This method commonly used in supermarkets in later generations has now been borrowed by Li Zhang.

Things that don't need money are always the most popular, as soon as they heard about the free taste, the beans were immediately surrounded by people, of course, most of them were reporting the psychology of taking advantage of the taste of the taste, but Li Zhang didn't care, after all, doing business always has to invest some capital, as long as the reputation can be played out in the shortest possible time, these costs can be recovered soon.

"Da Lang, you don't need money to make people eat, this is not the way to do business!" At this moment, a middle-aged man next to Li Zhang who was selling cooking cakes suddenly persuaded him, this middle-aged man's surname is Liu, because the cooking cakes are strong and sufficient, so he is called Cooking Cake Liu, and he is also famous in the area of the dock.

Before, they sold folding baskets of beans, and most of the coolies who came to eat were working on the docks, and they had a large amount of food, so they could eat two cooking cakes with a folding basket, so later the cooking cakes Liu put the stall next to the beans, which was also convenient for trading.

"What Uncle Liu said is, but no one has eaten my braised water before, and people don't know what it tastes like, and I'm afraid I can't attract guests just by shouting, so I can only use this method of losing money." Li Zhang explained to Cookcake Liu with a smile that people have no relatives and no reason for him, and it is also a good intention to remind himself at this time, and it doesn't matter if it's right or not.

"That's right, but it's not easy for you kids, the lucrative business was robbed by a splash like Hou San, and he took up your stall just now, but a small trader like us can't afford to mess with him." When Liu said the end, he also had an embarrassed expression on his face.

During this time, Li Zhang's folding basket sold well and cheaply, so that the coolie had more money to buy his cooking cakes, so he also took the opportunity to make more money, but before Hou San robbed Li Zhang's business, he didn't dare to stand up for Li Zhang, which made him feel a little guilty.

Li Zhang also understood Liu's thoughts at this time, but he didn't care about it, after all, Hou San's kind of sloppy head is indeed not something that ordinary people can afford to provoke, so he also casually relieved a few words, and then diverted the topic to other places, such as chatting about business, and some rules on the dock, etc., Cooking Cake Liu has been doing business on the dock for half his life, and he is simply clear about all aspects here, but Li Zhang has asked about a lot of useful things.

But soon Li Zhang can't be idle, because the effect of free tasting has appeared, I have to say that the brine water made by Li Zhang is really delicious, the most important thing is cheap, in the words of later generations, it is super cost-effective, even if one of the ten people who tried it is willing to buy, there are many guests for a while.

Ugly Niang and Tanuki and a few other girls stayed behind the stall and were busy cutting meat and weighing money, but they were still in a hurry, the most important thing was that the accounts could not be calculated, the brine water and the basket were not the same, the basket was a penny a spoonful, very easy to calculate, but the number of catties for each guest in the brine was different, and the price was naturally different.

It's not yet noon, and a few pairs of marinated water yesterday are about to be sold out, and noon is the peak period for eating, many boaters, shop guys and the like are reluctant to go to the store to eat, and buying a cooking cake with brine is a delicious lunch, so Li Zhang hurriedly asked the beans to run to buy the water, wash it and then send it, the brine in the stall is boiled, and it can be cooked and sold.

Sure enough, as soon as noon arrived, Li Zhang's business was better, most of them were from people who had bought in the morning and said that the water here was delicious, this kind of word of mouth, coupled with the cheap price, the reputation also stood up all of a sudden, and the cooking cakes next to Liu also followed suit, and the cooking cakes that could only be sold out in one day were now sold out before noon.

"Da Lang, you are really amazing, you can make money by doing anything, and your uncle will be stained with your light in the future!" Cooking cake Liu praised Li Zhang while counting the money happily, he can see that although Li Zhang is a few years younger than his son, his ability is really not small, especially when he tasted the brine sold by Li Zhang just now, the taste is really good, no wonder the business is so hot.

"Haha, Uncle Liu, your cooking cakes are also delicious, and they are a perfect match for our sewer, but you'd better steam more tomorrow, otherwise you'll sell baked cakes on the other side." Li Zhang also laughed at this time, although he guessed that the brine water would be popular, but he didn't expect the business to be so hot on the first day, just now he roughly estimated that today's profit is much stronger than that of the basket.

"Don't worry, I'll send more noodles tonight, and let my kid follow me to sell cooking cakes!" Liu immediately laughed, and then counted out a few copper coins and handed them to Li Zhang, "Cut half a catty of marinated large intestines for me, and bring it back to the family to taste!" ”

Li Zhang agreed at the moment, took the money and gave the cooking cake Liu Wei braised his sausage, and let the tail be raised high, which was regarded as giving the cooking cake Liu a discount, which made the cooking cake Liu a little embarrassed, and after taking it, he said that he took advantage of Li Zhang, and he would give him a few cooking cakes tomorrow, Li Zhang also smiled and agreed, and did not refuse the other party's kindness.

After noon, there were finally fewer people buying braised sausages, Li Zhang also asked the beans to buy baked cakes, and then ate them with their own braised water, and by the way, he took a break by himself, anyway, there were few people at this time, and he could cope with it alone.

"Cut two taels of pork belly and sandwich it in the baked cake!" At this moment, suddenly a voice familiar to Li Zhang's ears said, and when he looked up, he saw an unexpected person standing in front of him.