Late at night, the shop rested.

Douzi and Dongfang Xun helped clean up, sorted out the shelves, and made up for the snacks sold, while Luo Shi settled the accounts on the counter, and the abacus beads crackled.

Excluding the cost, there are now 30 taels of profit on the books, plus the dividends of Sanniang's somen stall and the commission of the spicy dishes supplied to the second meat shop, there is always a gross 40 taels of silver.

Now it is April, and there are still half a year left before she goes back, and she has to earn 200 taels of silver in this half year to exchange 400,000 yuan with the crossing company.

There is also the money for Luo Shi's study, the money for marrying a daughter-in-law, and the money for buying a house, which is enough to save three or four hundred taels to succeed.

Relying on the dividends of the current snack shop and the future teahouse is far from enough, she has to think of some other ways.

After some searching, Luo Shi felt that it was a good idea to use pigeons to convey information and form a delivery team.

She asked Dongfang to ask Yaxing, if there is an old strength bus who is willing to run errands for a long time, he must be familiar with Tongzhou City, and he must be willing to endure hardships and be sincere.

There was a knock on the door, and the pocket went to answer the door.

Luo Shi looked up and saw Edamame coming with five or six boxes of unsold lunches, followed by a mother-in-law, with a square scarf wrapped around her head, carrying a basket of eggs, smiling.

"Mother, why are you here?" Dongfang Xun put down the broom and hurriedly went to welcome the mother-in-law in.

"I met my aunt at the corner of the street, and I was asking how to go to the snack shop, so I brought her over, and it turned out to be the mother of the Oriental brothers, the aunt is good, the aunt is good, I was thinking that you are so good, it was my own relatives."

Edamame put down the lunch box and ushered in the delivery, and it has become a habit for him to smear honey on his tongue, and his words made his mother-in-law smile.

turned his head to settle today's money with Luo Shi, and set the number of boxes for tomorrow, and the edamame left.

Luo Shi locked the cabinet, invited the aunt to come in, and said with a smile:

"The small shop is not well greeted, and there is not even a seat, Dongfang, pour a bowl of tea for your mother"

"Ouch, you don't have to, don't toss him, it's hard to stand every day, hey, who calls my wife I have no ability, his father is gone, there is no money for him to study, and he has to work hard himself......"

Dongfang Niang saw that her son was emaciated, and she was distressed.

Originally, she refused to ask for the job of selling her face, but firstly, the price given by Luo Shi was high, and secondly, after the New Year, there were fewer people who were red, and then she went to the Chenghuang Temple to set up a stall, and she really wanted to drink the northwest wind.

He can't do other heavy work, so it's still the most suitable place for Luo Shi.

Luo Shi smiled, and when she explained her intentions, she said in her heart: Isn't it just to inspect his son's office, and then find out if the boss of the owner has abused him?

Dongfang Niang stuffed the egg basket to Luo Shi and said euphemistically:

"I heard from my boy that the girl wanted to ask Liba to run errands and deliver something, and said yes...... Oh, I said it was called the takeaway team, I don't know if I can accept one, I'm very familiar with the gateway of Tongzhou City! ”

Luo Shi looked at Dongfang Xun with some embarrassment, and saw that he lowered his eyebrows and eyes, and his face was red, obviously the old man at home had already greeted him, although he was embarrassed, but he never disobeyed his mother's will.

"Auntie, this is hard work, don't look at my high bid, but a point of hard work and a harvest, you think, as soon as this pigeon arrives, you have to take the things ordered by the guests to recognize the door, the east and south of the city all rely on a pair of legs, how can you afford it?"

"If I walk slower, then I will take a few fewer orders a day, and your salary will look less than that, how much is a job?"

Dongfang Niang saw that Luo Shi refused, and her heart was a little drumming.

Luo Shi caught a glimpse of her hands, and the honey locust water was soaked roughly, and she must have worked hard to wash clothes for the rich and noble family in the past, or to wash dishes in restaurants. Maybe for the sake of their own salary, even if it is an errand job, I want to give it a try.

"Auntie, I understand your thoughts, but this job is really not suitable for you, I flashed my waist and collapsed my body, and I can't make it the most, if you are really a job to save money, I want to think about it-"

She swept over the boxes of lunches, and then she had an idea, and hurriedly said:

"The lunch box I supply to the teahouse may not be sold out every day, and it is a waste to lose what cannot be sold, so it is better for you to take the Shangtongzhou wharf to sell, the price is cheaper, and the food is all the men who work at the wharf, five or six dollars can eat one meat and two vegetables, who can not be happy?"

After a pause, Luo Shi looked at Dongfang Niang and smiled: "It's also hard-earned money, I don't know if my aunt is willing?" ”

What else is there to say, Dongfang Niang is about to go crazy with joy, and she can't respond:

"Eh, yes! Willing! ”

Luo Shi is not stupid, he can't give it to her in vain, so he said: "This box lunch is cold after all, just for convenience, you can eat it if you take it, in addition to the box lunch, you push a Taiping car again, there are five or six charcoal stoves on it, hot vegetables in the pot, there are meat and vegetarian, come to buy it, you only sell it by the spoon"

Luo Shi paused and continued:

"For example, a spoonful of meat costs two pennies, and a spoonful of vegetarian food costs one penny, and when the time comes, I will give you a few lacquered plates for vegetables, and they will return them after eating, and you will wash them and use them again...... You take 20% of these transactions, and settle the rest with me every night, okay? ”

Dongfang Niang thinks about it, in fact, it is also a great thing, the owner invests money to ask her to cook a business, and there is a profit, sell more and take more, compared to running errands, this is much better!

"The girl is really smart, the big businessman talks about making money, but no one is willing to take care of the dock business, Liba can only gnaw on steamed buns, who doesn't want to eat a mouthful of hot rice!"

Nodding, Luo Shi was also happy in her heart, this is another expense - similar to the canteen cooking model, convenient and affordable, and the target audience is dock workers, so naturally the business will not be bleak.

"I'll go and talk to Niu Changgeng at the dock for you, and ask him to lead people to try it first, eat well, and have a reputation, you will naturally not worry"

"Eh, okay, thank you, girl, thank you!"

After saying that, he kowtowed and wanted to kneel, but Luo Xi was taken aback, and he hurriedly helped people up: "Dongfang, you and your mother should go back first, the hour is not early, I will do the rest of the work myself."

Dongfang Xun nodded gratefully, said goodbye to Luo Shi, and he helped the old lady to slowly pace back.

In the middle of the moon, the road was cold, Dongfang Niang sighed all the way, and also whispered all the way in his ear:

"Son, this girl is a powerful person, she can make money, you see that her shop business is very good, and she has a lot of ideas, you have to get close to her...... It's best to marry her as a daughter-in-law, then you will still worry about the money for the exam in the future."

"Don't be silent, you have to read and read, and your wife has to marry, my mother sees that this girl is born white, but she was a peasant girl, and her identity is cheaper"

"Ouch, no matter what, as long as I can earn you money, my mother will admit it"

……

chattered all the way, Dongfang asked perfunctory, and I didn't know how much I listened.

*

After a few days, Luo Shi was idle, first went to the teahouse to listen to a book, and caught up with the rest of the edamame to have a box lunch, so he planned to take Dongfang Niang to the dock.

Wandering all the way to the wharf, I met the southbound grain ship unloading grain, the wharf was in full swing, and the people were noisy.

It was the time of the meal, and the astringency looked at it, and Dongfang Niang's rice car was very eye-catching. A group of rough men lined up, laughing and talking, while looking at today's dishes.

Niu Changgeng saw that Luo Shi was coming, ran out of the long line, went all the way to her, wiped the sweat on his face with a towel, and said with a smile:

"Why are you here, it's a mess here, you're unloading food?"

"I'm coming to see the rice stall, are you okay eating?" Open a box of lunch boxes and let him eat them first.

"Okay, okay, I'll take my brothers to eat for the first time, in the past, there was no hot food, there was a mouthful of steamed bread and cakes mixed with a full stomach, no one wants to do our Liba business"

Niu Changgeng held the lunch box, found a clean place, and dusted the ashes before letting Luo Shi sit down, he was indeed hungry, so he ate it with it.

"If you don't look down on small money, you naturally can't make a lot of money, and you can add up a lot, isn't this reason obvious?"

Seeing Luo's smiling face, Niu Changgeng was extremely happy, he couldn't stop nodding while chewing rice in his mouth, and replied with a smile:

"Yes, if you are tight, you will order a vegetarian steamed bun, but two Wen, if you are rich, we will call a meat dish to eat, and the lunch box will be three dollars for one meat and two vegetables, how can you get cold rice, there are many people to grab it"

"If you really eat well, you can also save your wallet for dinner, for example, many of you make up a sum of money, for example, it is 100 Wen, and this 100 Wen is paid, I will give you 20 Wen, you go to eat together every day, and you will deduct it in this money, and then charge it after eating, isn't it more cost-effective than you pay a single day a day?"

Niu Changgeng was stunned, looked at Luo Shi and said:

"Luo Shi, you really have a way to make money, I can't even think of this way"

Luo Shi smiled: "The business of the dock depends on your introduction."

"Okay, just wrap it around me, don't worry!"

After a few more bites, he ate a clean lunch box, Niu Changgeng still had work in his hands, and only said:

"It looks like it's about to rain, so I have to grab the grain and carry it into the warehouse, and I'll go to work."

"Well, go ahead"

Niu Changgeng ran to the grain boat, and Luo Xi watched as bags of grain and rice were carried out of the dock and stored in the rice warehouse where the grain was temporarily stored. It didn't take long for several grain ships to be empty, and they turned around and drove to the berth outside.

At this moment, the sound of gongs and drums came from far and near, and it was the honor guard of the government.

The sedan chair driver carried an official sedan chair to the dock.

Luo Xian frowned and looked over, sure enough, it was not that the enemies did not get together - Huo Bald was in a decent official robe, and he got down from the sedan chair neatly, he didn't have time to take care of Luo Xi, but just trotted to the shore and said to the grain boat:

"Drive away, drive away immediately, the official has important guests to welcome, don't stand in the way of the dock"

Niu Changgeng was the leader of the ba, he wiped his sweat, took the lead to come down to see the prefect, kowtowed:

"The grass people have seen the big man, the old man is good, this is the last boat of grain, the day is about to rain, it will be a bad thing if you don't move it down early, the grass people speed up, and they will move the boat immediately......"

"The grain ship is important, and the official is also sympathetic to you, but this guest is coming to the capital, you are in the way, and the official can't afford to bear the guilt, get out of the way quickly, with this talking, the ship has already driven away."

Huo Bald looked very impatient, forgot all the pretentious official tones in the past, and commanded his subordinates to untie the anchor, completely ignoring whether there were still people on the pedal-

As soon as the rope was loosened, the boat retreated a few feet back.

The pedal was withdrawn, and the people above were defenseless for a while, and they fell into the water one after another, and one of them smashed directly on the stone slab on the shore, and his head broke and flowed!

Niu Changgeng stood up and glared angrily at Huo Bald: "Lord Prefect, what are you doing?" ”

"Why, you still want to disobey? I know you kid, if it weren't for the fact that this official had something important to do today, I would have killed you."

When Huo Bald led someone to rob Luo Shi's house, this kid was also there, he waved a rod to beat the officials, and finally called him to be arrested and put in a prison cell.

Seeing that the leader was going to suffer, the men on the dock all stood up and gathered behind him, and the voices of disbelief came and went.

"It's the other way around! It's the other way around! ”

Huo Bald scolded angrily, commanded the yacha in his hand, and trembled his fingers:

"Smash the boat for me, right away, smash!"