Chapter Ninety-Eight: Spring Warmth
"I know you kid is going to work hard."
Yang Shuping was not surprised at all about his late return, but said with a smile of approval: "While I am still young now, I should fight like this for a few years." ”
"Hehe, master, I can save it." Putting down the pole, Sun Chen drew water from the well to wash his face. The second girl was watching in the shop in front, she didn't have time to fetch water for herself, so she couldn't let the master wait for her.
"But don't push yourself too hard, just do what you can." Seeing the tiredness of the little apprentice, Yang Shuping still didn't hold back in the end, afraid that he would put too much pressure on himself.
"The master I know, the days will always go on for a long time, and I still understand it. If you exhaust your body because you want to make money too much, this is not called working hard, it can only be said that the gains outweigh the losses~" Sun Chen wiped the water stains on his face with a cloth towel while reassuring the master.
"Hmm." Yang Shuping nodded, the biggest advantage of this apprentice is not that he is particularly diligent, nor that he is too clever, but that he can always arrange how he should go in the future, and he will not easily change his attitude towards his future because of his good luck for a while.
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The days of repetition always pass so quickly, and before you know it, the 'Sun Family Shop' has been open for more than three months. The heavy cotton clothes have already been taken off, and when the sun is good during the day, you won't feel cold when you only wear a single coat.
It may be that Luo Sicheng made too much noise that day, so the news that Liu Mingxuan helped him break the siege also spread. The gangsters on the street all thought that Sun Chen had some tough backer, and none of them dared to come over and cause trouble.
It's a blessing in disguise.
Erniu has already been tempered in the store like a modern professional woman, neat and generous, and her eyebrows have added a touch of confidence than before, which makes her already excellent face even more amazing.
Fortunately, the people who come to buy things are still measured, and there are usually poplar trees guarding in front of them, and no one who is not long-sighted dares to come to tease.
Sun Chen still walked the streets and alleys of his own dozen villages the next day with a flat shoulder, and developed a lot of his processing households during this period. Gradually, there is no need to buy additional goods from other places, and the raw materials that some farmers have saved in their hands are enough to consume in their shops.
Although the number is not too large, and the money from the farmers is limited, he has made enough good names among the farmers to thank him for helping his family increase some income.
Among them, the Linjia Village, where he is located, of course, has received special preferential treatment, as long as the quality is qualified, he will give the people in his village one or two cents higher than other villages. Don't underestimate these copper plates, it is precisely because Sun Chen takes special care of 'his own people' that his grandmother Sun Yang's several unreasonable troubles ended in nothing.
Often before Sun Yang has opened his mouth to talk about the key place, he will be squeezed away by the villagers who are watching the excitement around him, and she is best at sprinkling and rolling, and before she has time to perform, she will be stillborn. There are too many such situations, so that she has also lost the interest of messing around in front of him, what is the request, no longer go into battle herself, but instead push out Sun Zhou and let him come to Sun Chen.
And Sun Chen opened his mouth to ask the question that he had been hiding in his heart, why the four acres of land that his mother married were only more than two acres in his hands, so that Sun Zhou was ashamed and had no face to come to him, and let Sun Yang's family beat and scold at home, and he would not come over again.
In fact, from Lin Tiezhu's usual chat, as well as Sun Zhou's desire to speak, Sun Chen had already deduced where the two acres of land went.
It's nothing more than that his mother had eaten a few pairs of decoctions when she was alive, and her grandmother Sun Yang has been unwilling to pay Lang Zhong on the grounds that the family has no money, and even when her mother died, she was reluctant to order a decent coffin for her. Father Sun Zhou was reluctant to let his wife, who had worked hard all his life, die and could not rest in peace, so he secretly sold two acres of land behind Sun Yang's back, bought a coffin, paid off the medicine money, and held a decent funeral for her.
When Sun Yang knew, he naturally couldn't help crying, but thinking that this was his daughter-in-law's dowry, even if he didn't sell it, he wouldn't be able to take his turn, so it was better to sell some silver money to block the famine owed by his daughter-in-law, and in the end, it could be regarded as a tacit acquiescence.
However, Sun Zhou felt that he didn't even keep his wife's escort, and this matter might still be known by his son, some of them couldn't open their faces, and there was an excuse that they didn't have the face to come, so they could help Sun Chen block some turmoil, so he simply shrank at home and let Sun Yang toss blindly.
Da Zhuang's roasted sweet potato business can no longer be done. The weather is getting hotter, and it will be even hotter to eat hot roasted sweet potatoes, and gradually no one will want to eat them anymore.
Sun Chen helped him think of one thing, that is, he could take it away as a snack, or he could sit at the prepared small table and eat it with pasta as a dish, which was what he would see on the streets and alleys in his previous life - Malatang.
When the weather is warm, all kinds of vegetables are no longer scarce, and they are scalded with boiling water on bamboo skewers, and then paired with the sauce prepared in advance, it really tastes unique.
The lean pork slices are cut thinly, marinated in advance, and skewered with bamboo skewers, and boiled in the pot for a while, then they can be taken out and smeared with sauce, which is also delicious.
There are also deep-fried tofu cubes, bean skin, dried tofu, bean curd and other soy products, which can be processed and cut into small pieces, skewered in a pot with water, and smeared with sauce.
Don't look at this thing, it's not a big thing, the vegetarian skewers only sell for one penny, and the meat skewers only sell for two pennies, but the profit is not low. This thing is a new thing, and as soon as it was launched in the market, it was warmly welcomed.
In order to experiment with the taste in their memory, Sun Chen and the others ate Malatang for half a month before they determined the specific ingredient list, which can be regarded as the core technology of Malatang.
On the day of the successful opening, Sun Chen specially explained to Da Zhuang, if you want to make your business a little longer, no matter who asks him, don't tell the other party how it is deployed.
Because of the experience of roasting sweet potatoes, Da Zhuang is also very cautious, for fear that he will let another mother-in-law of Pork Jiang learn the same as Sun Chen did that time.
Fortunately, there are many kinds of ingredients in the soup pot and sauce, and Sun Chen specially instructed Da Zhuang to sew all the ingredients in the soup pot with thin gauze, and it is not so easy to learn it.
"Ah Chen, don't worry, you helped me come up with such a good way, I will definitely cherish it, even if someone puts a knife on my neck, I must keep the formula, and treat this formula as my family's heirloom, and pass it on from generation to generation!"
"Fuck off! Don't talk nonsense here! Sun Chen laughed angrily at him, "You must explain if you force you with a knife, a recipe is just worth more than your life?" It's a big deal, let's think about other businesses! ”