The next morning, the streets were bustling with the cries of vendors.

Lu Xiyi saw that there were many people, so he decided to go to the street to see if there was a wine shop that was recruiting female workers.

The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, and people are beginning to be busy for the festival, so there are more people, and Lu Xiyi's eyes are all spent.

Not far away, an old lady who walked and staggered, with a bamboo basket hanging in her hand, listening to her hoarse shouting, the basket should be filled with zongzi.

Lu Xiyi sighed, looking a little pitiful.

She walked over and patted the old woman's shoulder gently: "Old woman, how do you sell this, can you bring me some?" ”

The old lady stretched out a finger and added, "One penny!" ”

Lu Xiyi glanced at the zongzi in the bamboo basket and said, "Okay, bring me ten." ”

The fresh rice dumplings are all wrapped in a clean lotus leaf.

She took the zongzi, thanked her briefly and left.

She thought that it was raining heavily as soon as she took a few steps, so she hurriedly found a closer place to shelter from the rain.

But this rain is like a doll's face, and it changes when it is said.

She patted the rain on her body and was about to leave, when she suddenly saw a beggar curled up in a corner of the eaves, and looking at his skinny appearance, she knew that she had not eaten a meal in several days.

Over the years, there have been many famines, and refugees can be seen everywhere, but the official uniforms are ignored.

They are all hard-working people, and Lu Xiyi feels uncomfortable when he looks at it: "That's all I can help you." ”

As she spoke, she took out a few rice dumplings and three pennies from her arms and put them in the beggar's porcelain bowl.

The beggar heard the sound and quickly opened his eyes.

When I saw the zongzi in the porcelain bowl, a pair of eyes were shining, and I quickly devoured them without saying a word.

It only took a moment to see the bottom, and even the residue was eaten cleanly, as if it had been washed.

Lu Xiyi saw that he was eating so fast, thinking that he hadn't eaten enough, so he asked again, "Are you full?" If it's not enough, I'll have it here! ”

The beggar was hungry for days, but he was not insatiable.

He waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, but if this zongzi were boiled for a few more moments, it would taste better." ”

Lu Xiyi listened with curiosity, and always felt that this beggar seemed to be unusual: "Big brother, you seem to know these things very well, do you often cook on weekdays?" ”

As soon as the beggar heard Lu Xiyi mention cooking, he immediately became interested.

He patted his chest and said, "Not only have I done it, I think I was the chef in charge of the Piaoxiang Building in Suzhou back then!" It's just that because of the severity of the disaster, the restaurant can't be opened, and I can't find a suitable errand for a while to fall here. ”

"What you said is true?"

Lu Xiyi felt that in the dark, God seemed to have specially given her such a person to solve her urgent needs.

"Of course it's true! In fact, my requirements are not high, I only need to eat and live, and then the salary is almost the same. ”

"But this year's errand is so hard to find, I haven't cooked for half a year."

The beggar looked down and complained.

Lu Xiyi heard that his condition felt that it was completely in line with his requirements, so he asked, "This big brother, in fact, I won't hide it from you!" I've been looking for a suitable cook for the past two days, but I haven't found a suitable one. ”

"As long as you want, I can agree to all the requests you just said, and the salary will be one tael of silver a month."

When the beggar suddenly heard such good news, he thought he had heard it wrong.

"Is everything you just said true?"

Seeing Lu Xiyi nodding, he hurriedly agreed: "I'm willing, I'm willing, if it weren't for your zongzi just now, I guess I would almost starve to death." ”

"Otherwise, I'll fry two dishes for you to taste in a while, and you can see how you decide to use me. As for wages, in order to repay you for the zongzi you just had, you don't have to pay me wages for the first one, how about it? ”

Lu Xiyi agreed without saying a word when he heard this condition, and sure enough, good people will still be rewarded.

"By the way, what do you call it, big brother?"

"My surname is Wang Mingtong, you can just call me Brother Wang."

……

The two of them talked and laughed and walked towards Lu Xiyi's restaurant.

As soon as he entered, Ah Leng came out, and when he saw Wang Tong beside Lu Xiyi, he couldn't help but wonder: "Who is this?" ”

Lu Xiyi patted his head and said, "Look, I forgot to introduce you two." ”

"Brother Wang, this is Ah Leng, he runs this restaurant with me, and you also call him Ah Leng like me."

"Ah Leng, this is Brother Wang Tongwang, the cook I just found."

After listening to Lu Xiyi's introduction, the two nodded to each other.

"Then Brother Wang will work hard for you in the future."

"Where, where! Seeing that the meal is about to be ordered, I just went to stir-fry two dishes for you to taste! ”

Wang Tong is also an honest man, and after speaking, he went to the backyard to find a kitchen.

In the end, he has been a cook for many years, and he is very clear about the layout of the restaurant.

The dishes in the kitchen are simple, just some vegetarian dishes and white rice.

Lu Xiyi also felt embarrassed, so he asked, "Is this dish too little, otherwise I'll buy some more?" ”

Wang Tong took off the kitchen knife and replied: "No need, a good cook will not be picky about these, you go out!" Otherwise, the smell of smoke in the stir-fry will choke you after a while. ”

Hearing him say this, Lu Xiyi left the back kitchen and sat in the backyard with Ah Leng eating the zongzi he bought in the morning.

Lu Xiyi opened the bundle of tight bamboo shoot leaves, sprinkled the thin white sugar on the sweet and soft zongzi, gently rolled the zongzi on the white sugar with chopsticks, and waited for the whole body to stick to the sugar, and then took a bite.

This taste is really incomparable to those delicacies of the mountains and seas.

As the two of them ate, they smelled the smell of food wafting from the back kitchen.

Ah Leng praised: "I can't see that he still has two brushes!" Just asking about the taste makes me feel good. ”

"That's it! You don't look at who is looking for it. ”

As soon as the words fell, Wang Tong came out with two plates of dishes and a few bowls of rice, and put them in front of Lu Xiyi and Ah Leng.

These two dishes are nothing special, just very home-style stir-fried vegetables and shredded potatoes, but the appearance of this dish looks very appetizing, and the aroma of the rice is also mouth-watering.

Wang Tong glanced at the two of them: "How about the two of you?" Taste it? ”

Ah Leng was also hungry, as soon as Wang Tong's words were finished, he took a chopstick and put it in his mouth, and after eating, he hurriedly recommended it to Lu Xiyi: "Taste it, I feel that this is much better than the food in the restaurant last time." ”

Lu Xiyi didn't believe that the two dishes that were so simple were even better than those in the restaurant.

She also tasted it suspiciously, and she didn't know what to say.

A few people finished the meal in front of them in a short time.

In the end, Lu Xiyi took a sip of tea with satisfaction, feeling that the hard work of several days had been eliminated.

She announced: "Okay, Brother Wang, you will be the chef of our restaurant from now on, and the business of the restaurant will depend on you in the future!" ”

Subsequently, several people exchanged some of their ideas.

The three of them hit it off and made up their minds to make the restaurant the most famous restaurant within a radius of several miles.

At present, the problem of the cook has been solved, the problem of winemaking has also been solved, and Lu Xiyi has also used some of the materials around him to make some of his best wines.

This most basic problem has been solved, and now it is that the running hall has not yet been settled.

Wang Tong said that there is a place to recruit workers in the south of the city, and many people will look for errands there every day.

"If Miss Lu wants to recruit a worker, go there and have a look, maybe it will be successful."

When Lu Xiyi and Ah Leng heard the news, they resolutely decided that they must go there to see if there is a suitable one.

Early the next morning, Ah Leng and Lu Xiyi went to the place where Wang Tong said that they were recruiting.

As soon as they arrived there, the two of them were taken aback by the crowd of people in front of them, and they didn't expect that there were so many people waiting for a suitable errand.

Passing through the crowd, the two came to the place where the Zhao Pao Hall was.

As soon as those people saw Lu Xiyi and Ah Leng, they knew that they were here to recruit people, so they all surrounded them at once.

"Recruit me, recruit me, I'm young and strong!"

"I, me, me! I've been running a hall for several years, and I have experience! ”

Listening to the voices of these people, Lu Xiyi felt that his head was about to explode.

She thought to herself, sooner to finish sooner and liberate early, and if she stayed here any longer, she felt that her head was going to explode.

So, she pointed to a stronger man and asked Ah Leng: "Otherwise, it's him, running the hall is also a manual job, and he should be no problem if he is big, right?" ”

Ah Leng glanced at the other people on the scene, and also felt that this person might be the best choice.

He also agreed with Lu Xiyi's point of view and nodded at him.

"Alright then, it's you! Come with us! ”

A lean and tall man, when he saw that he had been chosen, almost grinned at the back of his head.

"Okay, okay, I'll definitely do a good job and not let you two down."

Now everything is ready, and the restaurant is just about to open.

Ah Leng asked an old gentleman to choose a suitable day for the opening of the restaurant, and Lu Xiyi also found a team to play suona.

On a sunny and cloudless day, Lu Xiyi and Ah Leng's restaurant opened lively, and many people came on the day of the opening, and the chef did not leave the back kitchen.

Lu Xiyi looked at everything in the restaurant and the scene full of friends, and couldn't help but sigh: "I never dreamed that I would be able to open a restaurant one day." ”

"Now I look at it and it feels a little unreal."

Her eyes smiled unconsciously into crescent moons.

Ah Leng gently pinched her little face, and said with a smile: "What are you talking nonsense? You can rest assured! The two of us will definitely get better and better in the future. ”

Lu Xiyi replied while looking at the account book, but he didn't expect to make more than a dozen taels of silver on the first day of opening.

I'm happy! A voice suddenly came from the door: "Where did you come from, didn't you see that we just opened?" Don't get in our way! ”