Chapter 3: Cutting corners
Tang Muzhou wants to invest in my chicken miscellaneous noodle shop.
He gave me a card with a hundred thousand on it. Seeing that I was a little confused, he said, "This money is lent to you, with a monthly interest of one cent, and you have to pay me back at the end of the year, not a penny less." ”
I smiled: "You are a loan shark?" ”
Subsequently, I asked him to collect the card first, and I still haven't decided whether he wants to invest or not.
Chen San's ghost is capricious, I'm really afraid that Tang Muzhou will be involved.
My dad said that Xia Hong was coming to me and Tang Muzhou, so let me be careful. I'm not really afraid of her, but I hope she'll come soon.
Even if she doesn't come to me, I'm sure I'll find her.
Because this woman is the answer to all my questions for me.
Tang Muzhou followed Liang Yuan to see the mahjong parlor next to him, he also thought it was very good, he said to me: "Tang Xiaofan, your current shop is too small, you can only sell noodles, if you sell noodles alone, you can't make much money at all, aren't you learning marketing?" You have to broaden your mind. ”
I've been following my dad for so long, and I still know the general way of doing this small business.
Didn't my dad sell some crayfish and roasted crucian carp before, the taste was good, and the price was not expensive.
But the people who eat, after all, are in the minority.
Most people who eat late-night snacks still spend a few dollars to eat some noodles.
The environment of our store is only suitable for low consumption.
If you really want to make money, you can't just sell noodles, but even if you take down the mahjong parlor next door and open a shop, add equipment or something, and have to hire workers, it is a big expense.
With my current financial conditions, I simply can't afford it.
So, wait a minute.
Tang Muzhou came to Qingshen County, one was to see me and give me the half of the "Autumn Moon Eclipse List", and the other one, he told me that he also wanted to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors.
"Recently, my grandmother's health has been good and bad, and she often mentioned it to me, saying that the ancestral hall and ancestral tomb of the Tang family have to let me take you to worship, after all, after so many years, the Tang family is just our two descendants, and we can't disperse."
I listened and nodded.
I know my grandmother's thoughts.
Our Tang family, who used to open a silk village in Qingshen County, is a big family and quite rich. Ancestral halls and everything. Later, the family fell into the middle of the road, and everyone dispersed, even my father and my second uncle never entered the ancestral hall.
As he spoke, Tang Muzhou took out a piece of paper and showed it to me.
There were some things like the lines of tree branches drawn on it, and when I opened it out, I found that it was actually a family tree.
The origin of our Tang family in Qingshen County began with a young man named Tang Nobunaga. Back then, when this person came to Qingshen County, he was about to starve to death.
He collapsed at the door of a silk shop, and the boss found Tang Nobunaga when he opened the door early the next morning.
The boss was still unpopular, so after giving him water and getting some rice porridge, Tang Nobunaga woke up. Later, he stayed in the shop.
He is very capable, can endure hardships, and is smart, and he can teach everything as soon as he is taught.
The silk boss observed him for a while, and then married his only daughter to him, and later Tang Nobunaga inherited the silk shop and carried it forward.
Our Tang family has continued from generation to generation.
Later, the family fell into the middle of the road, and when it came to our generation, I was the only one with Tang Muzhou.
The old house before the Tang family was actually quite big, and I heard my grandmother say that at the most glorious time, the family business was equivalent to the current three commercial streets.
Looking back, if I could keep it down, I would still rent this small shop and spend my days so picky and searching?
Sigh to sigh, those glories are all in the past.
My path is at my feet, and if I keep looking back, I can't do anything.
I heard Wang Gang say that he had entered the station once, and in a trance, he did see the ancestral hall or something. According to what you say, the station may really be the ancestral shrine of our Tang family.
Xu Yinyin said that there was a big thing dug up inside, but she didn't know what it was.
I said, "If you want to recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors, you have to pay homage to the ancestral hall, which is estimated to be in that station." Now that the station is surrounded, how can we get in? ”
Tang Muzhou was also at a loss: "Think of a way." ”
At noon, we decided to eat it at the store, and I got a crayfish, which Tang Muzhou thought tasted very good.
I asked him if this craft could be sold if it would be popular, but Tom said that it was still a little worse.
Liang Yuan asked him where he was, and Tang Muzhou said that he was selling his appearance.
"Your thing is too real, a big pot is really full of a pot, people can make a pound of lobster, you have three pounds of this pot."
I picked up a shrimp and pecked at the oil and water on it.
It's big, it tastes fresh, and everything is just right.
Tang Muzhou continued: "You have to put some vegetables, cucumbers, potato chips, celery and onions, etc., you should put more at the bottom of the bottom, and the lobsters on the top are arranged on a plate, one by one, neatly, looking rich and appetizing." ”
I said, "Aren't you cutting corners?" ”
"Tang Xiaofan, this is packaging, you are secretly changing the concept!"
Liang Yuan on the side nodded: "I understand what my cousin meant, just like this boiled noodles, if you put chicken offal under the noodles, it looks like you don't have much appetite." ”
Tang Muzhou nodded: "That's right!" ”
Seeing that the two of them actually hit the same page, I was about to argue about something, when someone entered my chicken noodle shop.
It's noon now, it's not open, Liang Yuan got up and was about to invite the person out, but he heard the person ask: "Excuse me, Tang Xiaofan, are you there?" ”
The voice was very familiar, and when I turned around, I saw that the woman was Lili, a nurse at the hospital.
Lili was wearing a floral skirt, she looked thinner than that day, and her complexion was not very good. When she came in and saw me turn around, she hurriedly stepped forward and asked me:
"Tang Xiaofan, I heard that Hu Dan came to this store last night, and later, he ......"
"Later, of course, he went home."
My tone was stiff.
I don't have a good impression of this woman.
Dr. Hu is a married woman, and she wants to step in, which is really a bit cheeky. However, I can't talk about other people's affairs, but she still thinks wrong about trying to dig something out of my mouth.
"That ......" Hearing my words, Lili's eyes darkened.
Then she looked up and asked me, "What does he eat with you?" ”
I sneered: "I'm selling noodles here, what else can he eat besides noodles?" ”
"He ate your noodles, how did he react?"
Hearing this, my heart suddenly shuddered.
Dr. Hu, last night's reaction was really strange.
Seeing that my expression was not quite right, Lili pulled me aside.
She looked at me almost in a pleading tone: "Tang Xiaofan, I know you look down on me, but I can't help myself in this matter." But now it doesn't matter who is right or wrong, I suspect that something happened to Hu Dan......"