I don't know if the wooden sign erected on the side of the pier has a role, or if the weather is getting colder and everyone wants to eat a hot meal, Ruixue's small restaurant is gradually bustling with business.

The laborers who waited here every day also began to give up the cold and hard dry food at home, and generously spent six cents for two sweet fat cakes, and drank a bowl of snow soup poured with minced meat and bone broth, which was really hot and tender.

Originally, he hated the inconvenience of cross-legged people, and refused to sit at the underground table anymore, rushing to squeeze on the kang, feeling the heat coming from under the buttocks, in this autumn rain, cold and humid weather, it was extremely comfortable.

In the passenger boats passing by the wharf, there were also people who sent little maids to buy some food, or simply a few men sat together on the big kang in the private room, eating and drinking while warming up.

With the increase of diners, various requirements have also followed, only selling snow soup and fat cakes, can no longer meet the needs of diners.

So, Ruixue stayed up for half a night, gathered a few dishes that were simple and easy to make, and low cost, and asked Zhang Dahe to help carve dozens of small wooden plaques, tie red silk and hang them in various rooms.

The staple foods are egg cakes, fat cakes, fire, white flour steamed buns, snow soup, egg custard, stewed dishes include radish stewed beef, chicken stewed mushrooms, stir-fried cabbage with fungus, vinegared shredded potatoes, mashed potatoes with sauce, fried eggs with green onions, and fried mutton with green onions. Although the dishes are compared with the restaurants in the city, it is still too simple, but it is more convenient, many passenger ships are just docking for an hour, and it is absolutely impossible to enter the city, so they simply order some meals in the riverside Curie, and eat a hot meal.

Rui Xue's best thing is to make ordinary ingredients into beautiful and delicious dishes, the previous family was poor, the younger siblings were not sensible, and they were often ridiculed by their classmates because there was no meat in the lunch box, and refused to go to school.

I remember once she carved the tofu into the shape of a flower and fried it, and the golden one was so beautiful that her sister's teachers and classmates all rushed to ask, and her sister was proud for a long time.

Of course, in this life, her craftsmanship has not been lost, those diners came in with doubts, and even a little disgust, but when they left, they were all smiling, and most of them even threw down dozens of rewards, saying that it was not easy to eat such a delicious meal in such a small place.

Rui Xue has been a hawker for many years in her previous life, and she knows the truth of treating everyone equally, although the number of diners received by the South House has increased, and the income is far higher than that of the North House, but she has never been slow to treat those laborers, and she has to boil a pot of bone broth and the like every other day or two, and give it to everyone to drink for nothing, never because they spend a penny to come in to drink tea to keep warm, or spend dozens of dollars to buy wine and food, and treat them differently.

Even if there is food such as hair cakes left every night, she has to give them to a few of them from difficult families, which also makes her have a better reputation in the labor group.

On this morning, the sky changed from gloomy for many days, and finally saw the long-lost sunshine, although there was not much warmth on the body, but it made people feel very comfortable.

Sister-in-law Zhang hummed a small tune while wiping the wine jar on the wooden shelf, reaching out and patting them one by one from time to time, and when she heard a few of the voices, she turned around and smiled, "Sister, it seems that the burning knife and osmanthus wine are about to be sold out." ”

Rui Xue was looking at the bolt and dialing the abacus, this kid is also hardworking, I don't know how much effort he put into staying in the shop at night, but in half a month, he actually dialed it like it.

"Plug has been doing good homework recently, let's go home with your father for one night at night, and when I come back tomorrow, I will go to Yangjia Winery to buy two jars of wine and come back."

As soon as he heard this, his eyes immediately lit up, he did miss his mother and younger siblings a little in the past two days, but thinking of the more and more ingredients and drinks in the store, he couldn't rest assured, and said hesitantly, "Master, I'm not too homesick yet, it's better to go back later." ”

Rui Xue patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Go back, your mother should miss you, you don't have to worry much about the store, just talk to the old money who looks at the treasury opposite, just help take care of it at night." ”

Every night, the people at the dock left, except for a few passenger boats that stayed here overnight, only a few people who were guarding the watch opposite, and the bolt was familiar with them, so he immediately said, "Why didn't I think of this method, I will talk to Qian Bo and them in the afternoon." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang said with a smile, "You don't have to go out of your way to look for it, that old money can't stand the cold at night, so he has to come every night to make half a pot of burning knives to warm up." ”

Rui Xue nodded and remembered this matter, "Since you have entrusted someone to take care of the store, then don't collect today's wine money." ”

"Okay." Sister-in-law Zhang responded, the three of them were talking, and an eighteen or nineteen-year-old offspring suddenly walked into the door, Sister-in-law Zhang wondered in her heart, at this time, it was mostly when the cargo ship was unloaded, why did anyone come to drink tea so early, but she still put down the rag in her hand and stepped forward with a smile, "This little brother, but you want to drink tea to warm up?" ”

"No, no," the latter shook his head hurriedly, but Ai Ai couldn't say what was going on, Rui Xue guessed that he might have something to ask for, so she asked him to sit down, motioned to Sister-in-law Zhang to come over with a bowl of hot tea, handed it to him with her own hands, and said with a gentle smile, "This little brother, everyone is making a living on the dock, looking up and not looking down, if you need our help with anything, just come and listen." ”

The latter glanced at the pen and paper in front of the bolt, his face turned a little red, and he said in a low voice, "Boss, I am from Yuejia Village more than ten miles away, my name is Yue Shun, my brother has been working for a year and has not returned, my mother is worried about it, and she wants to bring a letter to her brother, but... Well... I don't have anyone in my family who can read, and I don't have the time to get into the city..."

"You want me to help write the letter?"

Yue Shun nodded immediately, for fear that Rui Xue would not agree, and took out a few pennies from his arms, "Boss, I'll give you paper and ink money." ”

Rui Xue thought for a while, took two copper coins from his hand, and said with a smile, "Two coins are enough, tell me what your mother wants to bring to your brother." ”

Yue Shun didn't expect Rui Xue to agree to help so happily, and he was a little stunned, but he smiled and stretched out his hand to push him, and said, "Brother Yue, say it quickly." ”

Rui Xue laid out a piece of paper, dipped the pen in ink, Yue Shun reacted at this time, and hurriedly said the words that his mother nagged on weekdays, which was nothing more than that the family was fine, his brother was over twenty years old, and he would come back early to get married, he was working at the dock, and the family was much better than in the past.

Rui Xue wrote them down one by one, then dried the ink and gave it to him, Yue Shun folded it and put it in his arms, and left with a thousand thanks.

Before closing the door at night, Ruixue chopped the minced meat and cabbage, baked a dozen golden pies, wrapped six in fine white cotton cloth and gave him fifty yuan, but the plug refused to ask for it. Sister-in-law Zhang saw that Ruixue really wanted to give it, so she persuaded the bolt and said, "Your master will give it to you, you have been out for more than half a month, why should you buy some gadgets for your younger brothers and sisters when you go home." If you really think that your master is good, you should be more obedient in the future and work diligently. ”

The bolt thought about it again and again, and then he reached out and took it, his eyes were a little red, and he secretly swore in his heart that he must have a good talk with his mother at night, not all the vicious masters in the world.

It turned out that before he came to the dock, his mother had quarreled with his father, because his neighbor's little brother next door was sent to the carpenter's shop to be an apprentice, and he was so thin that he was not in human shape after only one year's work, and it is said that his master asked him to work day and night, and he did not give him enough food, and his mother was worried that he would also suffer, so she refused to let him come out, and he was also worried in his heart.

Unexpectedly, he was so lucky, he met a good master who is rare in the world, never beat and scolded him, and followed him tightly when he had good food, and taught him to read and dial the abacus, and did not hide his selfishness at all. If my mother knew about it, she would be very happy.

Sending away the bolt and Lao Wang's father and son, Rui Xue divided five of the remaining pies to Sister-in-law Zhang, and left four for dinner for her and Zhao Fengnian, and the two also went home.

Xu is Yue Shun is grateful to Rui Xue for his help and the result of vigorously publicizing it at the wharf, but in a few days, the entire wharf knows that there are people who come to ask to write letters every day, but it is just a gesture, and everyone is also very eye-catching, all in the morning or afternoon leisure time, so Rui Xue did not refuse, and everyone who dotted the dots was satisfied and returned. She already has an excellent reputation on the dock, and now that she knows that she is literate and hyphenated, she has won the respect of everyone. Not to mention who dares to rely on a drink money, even if there is no one to say a word of ridicule.

And often many times, people at the bottom who rely on their strength to eat like Ligong are more likely to communicate with each other, and they understand the truth of Entu Bao better, they don't have too many complicated ideas in their heads, they don't have too many greedy desires, and they only feel that others are good to them in their nature, and they naturally want to return two.

The water tank in Ruixue's shop never has to be picked up with a bolt, as long as he goes out with a bucket in the morning, whoever passes by will grab it, push him and say, "Go read to the boss." Then he took a big stride, filled the tank in a few rounds, and ran to the dock with a grin.

When Rui Xue saw this, she often sighed that the people in this time and space are really much more lovely and kind than in their previous lives.

The business in the shop is good, potatoes and radishes are a little insufficient, and Zhang's sister-in-law doesn't grow much at home, so she asked her neighbors a few words, only to know that the Gao family has a lot of savings, Ruixue went to the door to ask, but Gao Fuquan directly pushed two big bags and sent them to her door.

Rui Xue wanted to pay, but Gao Fuquan didn't want to live or die, and said that the neighbors sent some food to each other, how could they ask for money.

Rui Xue remembered that she had just seen Cui Niang unwrapping and washing the cotton jacket for the sunspot, and the cotton was all black and hard and glued together, so she had an idea.

On the second day, I took the time to go to the city, bought some cloth and cotton, and sent them to Gao's house together, saying that I asked Cui Niang to make a set of cotton clothes for each of their husbands and wives, and the rest was the salary.

Cui Niang is good at needlework, she has been doing cotton clothes for more than ten years, how can she not have an estimate, when she saw the twenty catties of cotton and two pieces of fabric, she knew that Rui Xue was giving her a thank you gift in disguise, and she was grateful, so she accepted it quickly.