Sister-in-law Zhang and Ruixue opened this shop together, so in their hearts, they have always regarded this shop as their own, at this time, I heard that Mr. Zhang's tone seemed to be suspicious of calculation, and he didn't like it, and his tone became more and more light, "Master Zhang, don't joke, the restaurant in the city, it will earn a hundred taels of silver in a month, and we have a small restaurant on the dock, selling some rough food, how can it be compared to a restaurant, but it is just to earn the daily use of the family." ”

Master Zhang obviously didn't believe it, and he had to ask again, but Sister-in-law Zhang was already impatient, and said directly, "Master Zhang, can you order some food?" If there is no other command, the slave family will go out to be busy, and the slave family will not be able to gossip with others every month, and they will not work. ”

"You shopkeeper, but the young woman just now?"

Sister-in-law Zhang thought of the seven-room concubine in Master Zhang's house, and her heart couldn't help but pound, could it be that he took a fancy to Ruixue again? The light in the stove was dim just now, and he might not have seen it clearly, but it was better to break his thoughts.

"Exactly, the husband of our shopkeeper is Mr. Mengxue in the village, who is extremely talented, and the villagers feel that Mr. Dujue will be able to take the big exam next year."

Sure enough, Mr. Zhang's eyebrows moved slightly, and he didn't ask any further, he looked up and glanced at the wooden signs hanging on the wall, mapo tofu, black cabbage, etc., all of which were unknown names, and they were all mountain and wild things, so he said with a little disdain, "The food in your store, pick up the best and cleanest." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang, like a prisoner who had been granted amnesty, immediately responded and opened the door and went out.

Rui Xue was arranging dumplings, and when she saw her coming out, she asked with a low smile, "What did this big family ask about, dragging my sister-in-law for so long?" ”

Sister-in-law Zhang poured a cup of warm tea angrily, drank it in one gulp, and said with some hesitation, "I don't know if I heard it wrong, why do I think he seems to be very interested in our shop?" ”

Rui Xue didn't look surprised at all, and her subordinates continued to be busy, "This old man opened his mouth to free the rent of a field is 'two liters', it can be seen that he must be a very greedy and stingy person on weekdays, and today I can see that our shop is so lively, how can I not be tempted?" ”

Sister-in-law Zhang said worriedly, "What should I do then?" Just now he asked about the income of the shop, and I said that I could earn a daily use for the family, and I don't know if he can believe it? ”

"The dock was newly built, and no one thought of opening a shop here, so we took the lead, so business was good. Today is this big household, tomorrow it may be Li Dahu, Wang Dahu, there will be more and more people with red eyes, this is something we can't stop. ”

Sister-in-law Zhang was destined to be robbed of business after hearing this, so she was a little discouraged, and the face of the bolt and stone was not good, Rui Xue looked funny, raised her arm and crutched Sister-in-law Zhang, and said with a smile, "How can there be a unique business in the world, there is always someone to compete, you don't have to worry too much, the location of our shop is good, and the reputation of the dock is good, and we have taken the lead in opening for a few months, and it is not easy for others to rob us." Don't think about it, what dishes the guests ordered, hurry up. ”

"Oops, I forgot, Master Zhang asked for a few good dishes." Sister-in-law Zhang grabbed the apron hanging on the side of the board with one hand and put it on, pointed to the dumplings on the curtain and asked, "Sister, cook two plates of dumplings for him and stir-fry two more dishes." Speaking of this, she lowered her voice again and said, "This big man is a famous iron rooster, if we don't give money in the end, we will lose." ”

Rui Xue smiled and nodded, "Then stir-fry some mapo tofu and shredded potatoes and serve it." ”

"Okay."

In less than two quarters of an hour, the steaming, white and chubby ingots dumplings, together with two dishes were brought into the South House, Master Zhang had never eaten dumplings, his eyes were full of surprise, but he still pretended to be disdainful and said, "A small shop is a small shop, and there is not even a plate of good snacks, what is this, boiled water." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang was angry in her heart, and she didn't want to solve his doubts, so she reluctantly smiled and said, "It's all from the countryside, Master Zhang will use two mouthfuls." Then he withdrew, causing Zhang Dahu to blow his beard and stare at him, or the little steward was clever, and stepped forward and smiled, "Master, when the little one came to the dock to pick up the goods before, I heard people talk about this food, this is called dumplings, it is the unique food of this riverside residence, and it is breaded with pork and vegetables, which is very delicious." ”

"Have you eaten?" Master Zhang glanced at him, and there was some uncertainty in his gaze.

The little steward's heart is cold, outsiders say that their master is greedy for money and lustful, in fact, they don't know that their master still has the biggest taboo, that is, he loves face, no matter how big or small things are, if he is compared to others and loses face, he will be restless in sleep, and he must always get his face back. Today's eating, if his slave admits that he has eaten first, but his master has fallen behind, then he will definitely not want to have a good life in the future.

He immediately smiled and said, "The villain naturally hasn't eaten it, it's all gossip from the people on the dock, and the villain listens to it, and this plate of dumplings costs sixty yuan, and the villain can't afford to eat it." ”

Mr. Zhang was satisfied, picked up a dumpling and sent it to his mouth, tasted it, and it was delicious, with a faint sour taste mixed with the aroma of meat, not greasy, it was really a rare delicious food.

He quickly sent two plates of dumplings down to his stomach, and he also ate most of the mapo tofu.

Zhang Dahu ate to his heart's content, swept the leftovers on the table out of the corner of his eyes, and felt that it was a pity to stay, so he said with some grace, "Zhang An, you are also hungry, these dishes will be rewarded for you to eat." ”

Zhang An scolded in his heart, the dumplings were all eaten, and only some broken potatoes were left before he remembered me, what he said soundly, I was afraid that I would be hungry, and I didn't think about eating the leftovers, and the house would be able to save a meal, which was really calculated to the bones.

He was guilty in his heart, but he still smiled on his face and thanked the reward, and then with a happy look, he ate a small half plate of mapo tofu and a whole plate of shredded potatoes.

As soon as he put down the chopsticks, he saw the coachman Lao Chen being led in by the bolt, and said, "Master, five or six boats have come down, it should be that Mrs. has arrived." ”

Zhang Dahu immediately got up and instructed Zhang An, "Go and settle the bill." Zhang An responded to the outside, Rui Xue crackled twice, and said with a smile, "Thanks to your patronage, it is a total of one hundred and eighty-six texts." ”

Zhang An was about to take out the silver, but Zhang Dahu came out and said, "It's just some rough things, it costs more than 100 yuan, is this a black shop?" wiped the odds, and Zhang An gave her a hundred wen. ”

The bolt and the stone were originally squatting and brushing the dishes, and when they heard the ruthless method of erasing and erasing half of it, they were a little stunned, and turned their heads to see who this person was, but his brain was not good, or he was joking with the master again?

Rui Xue raised her eyebrows, and looked at Zhang Dahu's eyes with a little disdain, but still smiled, "Our store has a small profit, but it can't withstand such a customer officer." If the guest official is shy, he can clearly say that if the poor villager walks to this dock on weekdays, we will also receive two pieces of dry food. However, the guest officer is dressed richly, so he must be a big family in the city, right? In the past, the small shop also received two old men in the city, who not only paid the bills quickly, but also gave dozens of dollars as a reward. Today's guest officer behaves so differently, I think I'm clumsy. ”

Zhang Dahu heard it, Rui Xue was clearly sarcastic about his stinginess, unlike a rich person, if he didn't give silver, I am afraid that he would be the same as the poor person who came to the door to beg for food to live, he felt that he had been greatly disgraced, his face was trembling with fat, gritted his teeth and said, "Master, my family has a lot of money, how can it be inferior to others, Zhang An, pay her 200 yuan." ”

Zhang An heard his master's voice tremble, he must have felt extremely painful in his heart, and he also felt relieved, so he hurriedly untied his purse and paid two coins of silver, Rui Xue nodded and saluted and thanked him.

Zhang Dahu couldn't see her indifferent appearance, snorted in his nose, and said, "The shopkeeper has been rewarded, and he should kowtow to thank him." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang was originally hiding inside, not wanting to meet the former master again, but when she heard his words, she couldn't help it anymore, and came out and said, "Master Zhang's words are unreasonable, and our shopkeeper is not a slave of the Zhang family, how can we kowtow casually?" ”

Zhang Dahu's eyes widened, "She took my bounty, what's wrong with kowtowing to me." ”

Rui Xue opened the money box, slowly counted out fourteen Wen, threw it on the counter, and said with a smile, "Although I am a woman, I am not as noble as a man, but I have only knelt down to my dead parents in this life, if this guest officer plans to go to Xitian in the next few days, then I will definitely come to the house to mourn, if not, the guest officer should take this reward and leave, our small shop can't afford such a heavy reward." ”

"You, you... How dare you curse me to die early! Zhang Dahu's thick finger pointed at Ruixue, and his face changed with anger.

Rui Xue shook her head innocently, "The guest officer misunderstood, I only knelt for the deceased before, and now the guest officer wants me to kneel to you, so I naturally have to explain it first." ”

Zhang Dahu was about to scold again, but the coachman opened the door again and ran in to urge, "Master, it is indeed Madame's boat that has arrived, and it seems that Uncle and Master are also coming." ”

"Uncle, why is he here?" Zhang Dahu was very panicked for some reason, and he didn't care about fighting with Ruixue, so he turned his head and walked out quickly with his fat body, and when he kicked in and out of the door, he turned around and instructed Zhang An behind him, "Take the copper coin, these things that don't know how to lift." ”

Zhang An responded, accepted the copper coin, and went out after him.

Sister-in-law Zhang was so angry that she kneaded the apron on her body, "Zhang Dahu, who killed this god, really think that everyone in the world is a slave of his family, and you still want to kneel and thank you?" I took out fourteen pieces and asked him to kneel down and kowtow to thank him for a look! ”

The plug and the stone were also very angry, "Next time this person comes, let's buy some croton powder and mix it into the dumplings for him to eat." ”

Rui Xue waved her hand in disagreement, "No matter how much you don't like diners, you can't do anything in the food and smash the signboard, but we suffer." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang saw that she was still smiling and smiling, as if she was not angry at all, so she couldn't help asking, "Sister, he wants you to kneel, so you won't be angry?" ”

Angry, of course angry, but when you open your door to do business, you will inevitably encounter such diners, compared to those bad people who borrowed the opportunity to give tofu in their previous lives and wanted to lock her up in the house and rape her, this kind of stingy ghost who can deal with it with only a few words is still too simple, even if it is angry, it is limited.

"What we do is a food business, and there are all kinds of people we meet, and there are always a few people with bad character, and getting angry with them can only make you sad for no reason, so you still want to open some."

Sister-in-law Zhang nodded helplessly, and it happened that the laborers heard that Lao Wei, who was in charge of negotiating wages in the gang, was greeting outside, and they all went out to unload the boat, and several people began to busy entering the house to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and the matter was revealed.