Chapter 97
In the blink of an eye, it was September, and the weather was slowly getting cooler. 【Latest chapter reading. At this time, in the mountains, it was already a little cold in the early morning, but the birds on the mountain were crisp and beautiful. It's less noisy and hot in summer, but it's a little more agile.
Since he started to be busy with the work of the tea shop and the workshop, Zhang Manchu has also been trained by his daughter-in-law to be more active, and his horizons have been broadened a lot. There are some businesses that the daughter-in-law is reluctant to run, and he talks about it.
Lin Baozhu is not worried that his man will not be able to talk well, it is good to try more left and right, the big man's family will feel sorry for her and accommodate her, and after a long time, it is inevitable that he will be dissatisfied. Besides, if she has to control the doorway to earn money at home everywhere, she will be tired to death.
So after teaching her own man some negotiation skills and the way of tea, she was very relieved to drive people to a nearby town to find a way to sell. After coming and going, Zhang Manchu can really be on his own.
And Shi Dayong and Zhang Xiuniang are still in charge of the snack workshop, and whenever there is a new trick, Shi Dayong will also go to some nearby restaurants and Zhuangzi to sell it. Although he doesn't have so many flowers, he has been running around for many years, and he still has connections. In addition, Lin Baozhu not only set the price, but also set a price space for him to make concessions and do favors, so after selling a few times to eat, he almost learned it.
During this period, he thought that the two workshops would develop in two lines, so Zhang Ji bought another mule cart. usually pulls goods, and when Zhang Manchu or Shi Dayong talks about business, they will not waste their physical strength all the way to the dust. And the delivery is also much more convenient, if you encounter any family in the village who has difficulties and wants to borrow it, Lin Baozhu is not stingy.
As the business gets better, Lin Baozhu hires more and more people, and with Aunt Tian and Aunt Ma and Xiuniang's sister-in-law in charge, she usually goes to help her occasionally, and then keeps accounts.
In October, Zhang Ji began to make winter tea. Because when it comes to the slack time, the manpower of every household is also idle, so compared with the beginning, there are more and more people who go to Xunlin Baozhu to ask if they want to pick tea.
Although the tea workshop is still in operation today, the tea that can be made is still unsalable. Fortunately, when building a new house, Lin Baozhu specially drew the drawings of the tea storage house and asked the master mason to help pick it up. Therefore, I don't have to worry about the fact that there is no place to collect the prepared tea.
As for the snack workshop, business is still booming. Since beating the bean curd and spicy section, Lin Baozhu has made many other snacks. Not to mention that the later sausages look a little similar to the fat cake, but in fact the cake is softer and fluffier and more delicious, that is, the water steamed bun with crystal clear, fragrant taste and smooth taste, has now become a fresh snack sought after by many people.
Not to mention, making water steamed buns as a food business is actually an unexpected move. Speaking of water steamed buns, Xu is a rare person in this era to listen to and look at the novelty, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is a Japanese-style cool pastry. To put it more clearly, it is more sweet and mellow than sticky bean buns, and the appearance is more beautiful and shiny.
But to say that it is really that delicious, it is not so much, but the big guys have never seen this kind of crystal like eating now. Look at the exquisite, good-looking tight.
It is also because of this that it has really set off a wave of steamed buns in the town. Of course, here Lin Baozhu gave it a more elegant name, called Linglong Cake. It sounds emotional, looks chic, and in this way, not only the Xinglong Tavern began to order, but also brought a lot of restaurants to gather with the rich and noble.
However, Zhang Ji didn't open a shop to sell goods, so there were few sporadic purchases, but after a few landlords and nearby squires came to buy them, Lin Baozhu had the idea of going to the town to open a shop.
Now, of course, it's just an idea. What the hell is going on, we have to wait for Zhang Manchu and Shi Dayong to talk about business and come back.
Because the business on both sides is still profitable, and although the small food workshop is not as profitable as the tea shop, it can accumulate a lot of money and make a lot of money. Therefore, the Zhang family paid off the remaining debts early, and now, it can be said that they are the richest family in Peachtree Bay.
At the beginning, Lin Baozhu still wanted to be low-key and low-key, for fear that people would cause trouble if they were red. But Zhang Manchu doesn't care at all, he is such a character, as long as he provokes him, he will not be embarrassed to tear his face if he encounters a god and a Buddha and a Buddha.
It's been a little while, Lin Baozhu has also turned around, and it is fair and honest to make money by himself, so why worry about the sour words of others?
But in fact, she thinks too much, how many people in Pactive Bay are working in Zhang Ji now, plus Zhang Li is getting a lot of benefits, and he is also respected by people because of a workshop in the village. Even Lizheng, who was familiar with each other from all over the country, saw him and began to call Brother Zhang eagerly. Even Lizheng, who is ten miles away, thought that Zhang Erbao's incident had not happened before, and he couldn't be eager to meet him.
Therefore, it is said that someone is looking for fault and wants to weigh Zhang Manchu's fierce man, even Zhang Lizheng is not allowed.
It is also a loss that most of the people in Taoshuwan Village are surnamed Zhang, which is easy to manage, and it is quite united when encountering problems. Otherwise, it's really hard to say whether there will be jí pǐn making trouble.
Because Zhang Manchu and Shi Dayong both went out, Lin Baozhu would call Zhang Xiuniang and Zhaodi early when he had dinner these days. A few people eat together, sometimes they will stay here, eat and drink and chat for a while from time to time, and they don't feel that there are fewer people at home, and they live quite easily.
But the first and second days were okay, and when he didn't see his own man come back on the third day, Lin Baozhu remembered it in his heart. Not to mention being depressed, I will often wander and lose my spirit because I think of that man.
For this, I was teased by Zhang Xiuniang several times.
During this period, Lin Baozhu thought about teaching Zhang Xiuniang the method of water steamed buns, so that she could learn more, and if she didn't work together in the future, she could also have a head. She didn't think about driving people away, but the world is unpredictable, maybe one day the two families will be separated because of something?
Although she was grateful to Lin Baozhu for her kindness, Zhang Xiuniang rejected her kindness again and again. After all, the recipe for water steamed buns is rare, and now no matter how skillful a woman is, she can't imitate it, this is the way for Zhang Ji to make money, and he doesn't have to let himself go in vain.
was rejected, Lin Baozhu was not discouraged, thinking about Xiuniang's sister-in-law's help and neat energy, and remembering that Shi Dayong had never complained when he went out to work, so he thought about waiting for his own man to come back and discuss it to see if he could give the Shi family a dividend.
Of course, that's another story.
Because the work in the workshop is on the right track, even Zhang Xiuniang can take a break for a while, so every time she gets off work, she will take a sewing and thread to find Lin Baozhu to chat. plus Zhao Di, a few people had eaten, cleaned up the inside and out, and got together to talk for a while.
Until another three or four days passed, Zhang Xiuniang went back with the sleepy and somewhat dozing Zhao Di, and Lin Baozhu looked at the dark and rumbling, and wanted to rest. There was a banging on the door outside, and she hurriedly put on her clothes and went out of the house, and as soon as she reached the yard, she saw the big wolf grinning on the ground. At that moment, my heart tightened, and I touched a sickle and clenched it tightly.
"Who?"
There was a sobbing sound outside, and then I remembered Zhang Xiuniang's voice: "Baozhu girl, hurry up and save Zhaodi."
The miserable shouts and cries came, which directly made Lin Baozhu chuckle in his heart, and he didn't bother to ask more, threw down the sickle and hurriedly opened the door. As soon as I opened the door, I saw Zhang Xiuniang who was in embarrassment, dragging her with a panicked face, and asked her to rescue Zhao Di.
After seeing it clearly, Lin Baozhu took a breath of cold air, which is not a human thing with such a heavy hand, seeing that the back of Zhang Xiuniang's neck is full of blood marks, someone has always smashed the back of her head.
Lin Baozhu was horrified, but he didn't dare to delay time, and he didn't even have time to let her enter the house, so he directly helped her and frowned and asked, "Sister-in-law, you make it clear, what's wrong." ”
Zhang Xiuniang saw Lin Baozhu as if she had seen the backbone of the heart, endured the pain on her head and said: "At that time, I took Zhao Di back to the workshop, and I was suddenly knocked unconscious with a big stone at the fork, and when I woke up, I found that Zhao Di was gone." ”
At the fork in the road, Lin Baozhu knew that there was a big locust tree that two people couldn't hold, and if someone had the evil heart to hide behind and sneak attack, it would really be impossible to prevent it.
"Sister-in-law, do you see people clearly? Or can you hear them? ”
Seeing Zhang Xiuniang shaking her head and holding back tears, Lin Baozhu frowned, thought about it and asked, "How long have you been unconscious?" ”
"For a while, but it wasn't too long, and when I woke up, I seemed to hear someone talking."
Zhang Xiuniang also knew that now was not the time to cry, and she didn't dare to show cowardice to interrupt Lin Baozhu's train of thought, so she could only endure the pain and fear and try her best to recall.
After asking about the general situation, Lin Baozhu hurriedly shouted at the big wolf to come over, and then didn't care much to knock on the door of Master Liu and Master Dong who lived in the workshop behind, and asked them to help chase people.
She didn't think that this was done by the people in the village, and Zhaodi was a sensible child, and she usually only interacted with Xing'er more, and she was not annoying. Second, Zhao Di came from outside, and he couldn't say that he had a grudge against the villagers.
Thinking of the previous incident of the old couple of the Shi family, she had a bad premonition in her heart, could it be that the old couple of the Shi family still didn't give up, and actually used this kind of subordinate means?
With this thought in her heart, where did she dare to waste time to appease Zhang Xiuniang, she went directly to the house to find the copper hot pot that Zhang Manchu had specially asked people to beat, and found a piece of wood while beating and calling someone to help.
Most of the people in the village were asleep at this time, but when they heard someone shouting that there was a bad man, not to mention which family was in trouble, they all put on their clothes, kicked their shoes and ran out. When they went out, they didn't forget to copy a handy guy, or a flat pole or a shovel, anyway, they couldn't let the wicked commit murder in Peachtree Bay Village.
The people who have dogs at home also dragged their dogs out of the house, and a group of people got together regardless of whether they were close or estranged, or if they didn't talk to each other.
It was at this time that Lin Baozhu truly realized what it means to be a distant relative who is not as good as a close neighbor.