"Brother Shuiwa, we can work from tomorrow."

"Lin Wazi, have you thought of what to do?"

Shui Wa was pleasantly surprised.

After coming to Lancheng for nearly a week, only 700 of the 1,200 yuan brought by the two spent on it, of which 360 yuan was used for rent.

While the water baby is distressed, she is also worried about when she will start making money.

Now that Pang Xuelin finally began to move, he suddenly became excited.

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "There is a way, but you have to go to the next bowl of ramen first, I'm a little hungry, let's talk while eating later." ”

In the past few days, Shuiwa thought it was too expensive to eat out, so she decided to cook by herself at home.

Pang Xuelin's cooking skills are average, limited to the level of cooking food, but the water baby's skills are good, and he can also pull out a good hand.

"Okay."

Shui Wa ran to make stoves and noodles with great interest, while Pang Xuelin took out a notebook, which was densely packed with some things he had observed near Lanzhou University in the past week.

Half an hour later, the water baby came up with two bowls of ramen.

Pang Xuelin covered the bowl with a yellow poached egg, and the water baby's bowl was only floating with green onions, coriander and white radish.

"Brother Shuiwa, I said it all, don't give me ** eggs or anything like that."

Pang Xuelin said helplessly.

Shui Wazi said with a smile: "Lin Wazi, I don't like to eat eggs, you are the time to grow your body, eat eggs to replenish your body, and we have bought these eggs, if you don't eat them, they will be spoiled." ”

Pang Xuelin was a little helpless, he knew that this was Shui Wa's excuse, but he couldn't stop Shui Wa from adding an egg to her every meal.

"Lin Wazi, you just said, thinking of work, what are we going to do?"

Pang Xuelin said: "Brother Shuiwa, I have been busy during this time, and I have thoroughly explored Lancheng University and his surroundings inside and out, do you think that there are many students who enter and leave Nancheng University every day?" ”

Shui Wa nodded and said, "Many, indeed many, I counted that day, and the number of students who entered and exited the school from five o'clock in the afternoon to ten o'clock in the evening exceeded three thousand."

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Then do you think the food in the school cafeteria of Lancheng University is delicious?" ”

"Well......" Shui Wa hesitated for a moment and said, "I thought it was okay at the beginning, but after eating it for two days, I felt quite average, it was all a big pot of dishes." ”

Pang Xuelin smiled: "Then how about we set up a night food stall in Lancheng?" Every day at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the stall only sells ramen, a bowl of clear soup ramen, plus five cents of fried egg, and two pieces of beef. When the time comes, let's get some beef and pork bones, boil the broth, and add the kind of spicy sauce I made two days ago, and you say that there will be more people who will eat it. ”

Shui Wa was slightly stunned, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she clapped her hands and said: "Lin Wazi, you still have a way, if we really support such a stall, the cost of clear soup noodles is at most five cents, sell one piece, and sell thirty bowls a day, which is equivalent to our previous income from shoveling in the coal yard." ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Don't worry, it must be far more than that, you have to be prepared to sell more than a hundred bowls in one night." ”

Shui Wa couldn't help but be taken aback and said, "There are so many? ”

Pang Xuelin said: "Didn't I take you around in the past two days? Although there are some restaurants in the area at the entrance of Lancheng University, most of them are for the teachers of the school. There are no five or ten yuan for a meal, and it can't be served at all. We can only set up such a stall, just so that students who don't have much money in their pockets and want to change their tastes can come and try it. ”

Shuiwa nodded again and again: "Yes, this idea is good." Lin Wazi, I don't know how long your head is, you can even think of this. ”

Pang Xuelin laughed, this kind of small stall at the entrance of the school can be seen everywhere in later generations, but in this era, it is extremely rare.

In fact, these days, Pang Xuelin observed around Landa, and he himself was a little surprised.

Compared with later generations, the catering industry in this era was not developed, and although there were self-employed people, they also sold breakfast near the school, and there were not many at all.

In fact, this is also the limitation of this era.

In this era of high urban-rural polarization, the term peasant worker has not yet appeared, and most of the peasants, who account for more than 80 percent of the country's total population, are still confined to the land.

Most of the urban residents also have their own jobs, and the wave of layoffs from state-owned enterprises has not yet arrived, and the urban civilians who are generally working hard are not willing to engage in these seemingly lowly industries.

It is not to say that the working class is the vanguard.

Even in the later wave of state-owned enterprise closures, many laid-off workers would rather go to the vegetable market to pick up vegetable leaves to eat, rather than engage in petty business to support their families.

Of course, under the tide of the times, no one is immune.

Life will force this ancient and industrious nation to adapt step by step to the highly industrialized era in the future, and it is under this circumstance that China's tertiary industry has developed step by step.

Therefore, those who can stand up and set up stalls in this era will basically not mix too badly.

In another three or five years, it will be very difficult to do this business, and there will be so many competitors that people will doubt their lives.

In the next time, Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa were busy again.

Pang Xuelin first bought five folding tables and plastic benches, and bought two tricycles.

Shui Wa went to get a three-eye coal stove and a one-eye small coal stove.

Later, the two went to the market to buy large pieces of beef, beef bones, pork bones, flour, radish, shallots, coriander, and so on.

On the evening of the third day, at half past four in the afternoon, Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa rode a tricycle to the gate of Lancheng University.

Then, the two of them moved the tables and chairs from the car and set them up, and moved the stove down.

In the pot is the stock that has been prepared in advance at home, and it is served on the stove and put away.

Pang Xuelin erected a sign written in calligraphy on the tricycle next to him - Lancheng Ramen.

In Lancheng, there is only the saying of Lancheng beef noodles, and there is never the saying of Lancheng ramen.

However, Pang Xuelin believes that this situation will soon change.

In the future, Lancheng ramen will be spread all over the country.

From west to east, from south to north, its shadow will appear everywhere.

Lancheng ramen will become a legend in the Chinese catering industry along with Shaxian snacks and yellow braised chicken rice.

Clear soup ramen for one dollar, omelette noodles for five pieces, beef noodles for two dollars.

The whitened bone broth that had been boiled was steaming on the coal stove, and the aroma was overflowing, attracting the attention of many passers-by.

The first time Shui Wa set up a stall on the side of the road to do business, when the eyes of pedestrians turned to him, he looked a little nervous and ashamed.

Pang Xuelin sat calmly on the small bench next to him, his face was very thick-skinned, and he had rich life experience, and setting up a roadside stall to do business was nothing to him at all.

I waited for more than ten minutes, and there was not a single guest.

Shui Wa couldn't help but feel a little uneasy: "Lin Wazi, why hasn't anyone come over to eat until now?" ”

Pang Xuelin took a look at a mechanical watch that he found from the thrift market two days ago, and said with a smile: "What's the hurry, it's only 4:50 now, the time hasn't come yet, and most of the students are still in class, and there will be business after 5 o'clock." ”

Sure enough, after about ten minutes, more teachers and students entered and exited the school gate.

Many people are curious about the small stall that suddenly appeared at the school gate, but no one has taken the initiative to try it yet.

At this moment, only to hear the jingle bell, a man in his early sixties with gray hair and the appearance of an old professor came out of the school gate.

When riding past Pang Xuelin's stall, the bicycle slowed down, and the old man seemed to hesitate, but in the end, he still left Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa's stall.

Unexpectedly, after about a minute or so, the old man actually rode back again, parked the bicycle next to Pang Xuelin's stall, and stepped forward and said, "What do you have here?" ”

Pang Xuelin's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at this somewhat familiar old man a few more times, pointed to the signboard and said with a smile: "The noodle soup is boiled with big bones, with radish, coriander, green onions, and our homemade spicy seeds. ”

The old man hesitated for a moment and said, "Bring me a bowl of egg noodles." ”

"Howler!"

Shui Wa quickly got busy, kneading noodles and ramen, and Pang Xuelin fried a poached egg on a small stove on the side, and in less than 5 minutes, a bowl of steaming egg noodles was delivered to the old man.

The large porcelain bowl is covered with a plastic bag, which saves the trouble of washing dishes.

Chopsticks are disposable chopsticks.

Subsequently, Pang Xuelin sent a small bottle of hot sauce and a bottle of vinegar to the old man, and said, "Old man, add some spicy seeds and vinegar, the taste is guaranteed not to disappoint you." ”

The old man nodded, took the hot sauce from Pang Xuelin's hand, and said, "I don't want vinegar, let's have some spicy food." ”

"Done."

Pang Xuelin handed the hot sauce to the other party and let the other party add it by himself.

The old man directly took out a large spoonful of hot sauce from the bottle and stirred it into the noodles and mixed well, picked up the noodles and sucked them hard, a satisfied expression appeared on his face, and said, "Yes, this spicy sauce tastes good enough." ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Old man, are you from Hunan Province?" ”

The old man nodded and said, "You doll, I've been in Lancheng for almost forty years, and I don't have much of an accent from my hometown, can you hear it?" ”

Pang Xuelin smiled and said: "Maybe I'm a better person, I can tell people from different places and different accents at once." ”

The old man smiled and said, "You doll, your tone is very big." ”

Pang Xuelin smiled: "Not only can I hear your accent, but I also know who you are?" ”

"Oh, who do you say I am?"

The old man asked curiously.

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Sir, you are a professor in the Department of Mathematics of Lancheng University. ”

The old man was slightly stunned: "You doll know me?" ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "I was fortunate to listen to one of your lessons, old man. ”

The old man was taken aback and asked curiously, "Are you a student of Lan University?" ”

Pang Xuelin shook his head and said: "No, my eldest brother and I came to Lancheng to find work, we have been wandering around the vicinity of Landa for the past few days to see what business is better to do, and then we also mixed into the Landa classroom to audit a few classes." ”

At this time, Shui Wa also reacted and said, "Lin Wazi, I remember, isn't this the teacher we went to listen to in Lanta two days ago?" ”

Immediately, he scratched his head with his hand, and said a little embarrassed: "Old man, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you just now, mainly because I fell asleep in class that day." ”

When Pang Xuelin heard this, he almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

But the old man didn't care, waved his hand, and said curiously: "Doll, can you understand what I am talking about in class?" ”

Pang Xuelin said: "Do you want to listen to the truth or lies?" ”

"What is the truth? What is a lie? ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "The truth is that I understand everything, and the lie is that I don't understand it at all." ”

The old man laughed, pointed at Pang Xuelin and said, "You little guy, it's very interesting." Doll, how old are you this year? ”

Pang Xuelin knew that the old man didn't believe what he said, and said with a smile: "Seventeen." ”

The old man was a little surprised: "You came out to do business at a young age, your family can rest assured?" ”

Pang Xuelin said: "I am from Linxiong County, my parents died when I was young, my third uncle and third aunt adopted me, this is my eldest brother Shuiwa." Originally, the three uncles and three aunts didn't let us go out, but we wanted to come out to make money. ”

The old man sighed with emotion: "You guys are so aggressive that you actually went to Lancheng University to set up a stall. ”

Next, the old man asked Pang Xuelin about some things in his hometown, and Pang Xuelin said it all.

The old man was obviously very curious about Pang Xuelin.

The seventeen-year-old boy in front of him showed a conversation and maturity that was completely inconsistent with ordinary people, even in the face of a university professor like himself, he did not fall behind in the slightest.

But soon another guest came to the door, Pang Xuelin went to get busy, and the old man didn't want to ask more, so he left directly after eating.

After having the first and second business, Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa were busy in the following time.

There were a lot of teachers and students from Lancheng University who came to try it, and almost everyone gave a thumbs up after eating Pang Xuelin's ramen.

The water baby smiled even more.

It wasn't until after nine o'clock in the evening that business gradually faded.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the two closed the stall and left on time.

Before leaving, Pang Xuelin carefully cleaned the place where the stall was set up, rinsed it a few times with the clean water he brought, and then left.

When she got home, Shui Wa couldn't wait to pour the gross tickets and coins she received tonight directly from the plastic bag on the table and counted them.

One, two, three......

10, 20, 30......

"A total of one hundred and five dollars and five cents ......"

Shuiwa looked up at Pang Xuelin, a little incredulous.

You must know that they have no rent cost at all, and the cost of the ingredients themselves only accounts for about fifty percent, that is, in one night, the net profit of the two of them has reached fifty yuan, which is one thousand and a half a month.

This is more than three times higher than the exhausting work they worked in the county coal yard.

This was still the first day of business, and many teachers and students didn't know that there was a ramen stall in front of the school.

If this continues, it is not impossible for the gross income to reach 15 per day.