"Little Miss Yu, if it weren't for the opening of your shop, if it weren't for Brother Qian from Zhenyulou, we wouldn't know about it! Our old lady heard about it, so she had to come to congratulate you in person! Master Fang, Miss Yu, congratulations! The housekeeper of the Yao family gave up his hands again and again, smiling, and he didn't know that he thought his shop was open!

"Second sister, second sister!!" A crisp and familiar voice passed through the crowd and into the ears of the grass. Not long after, a small figure wearing an ink-blue student robe and a Wensheng scarf on his head squeezed through the crowd and pierced into Yu Xiaocao's arms like a cannonball.

"Stones? Isn't it a day of restlessness? Why are you here? Skipped class? Yu Xiaocao put her arm around the little guy's shoulders and asked with a surprised face.

Xiaoshi pouted and came out of her arms, looking wronged: "Second sister wronged me!" Am I the kind of person who skips class and is greedy for fun? It's our dean who heard about the opening of our melon shop, and brought me and Senior Brother Yunxi to congratulate him. Besides, when our melon shop opened, I am also half a little master, how can I not come? ”

Yu Xiaocao looked in the direction where the little brother came, and sure enough, Dean Yuan's figure-like figure was like a god-rich jade tree. Behind him is the elegant and handsome little beautiful man Yuan Yunxi. The corners of Xiaocao's eyes twitched - this old man's typical two-facedness, he looked like a person in front of him, and a foodie after him.

"Mr. Yuan, are you here? Hurry inside please! Although Yu Xiaocao was slanderous in her heart, she still warmly welcomed Dean Yuan.

Yuan Sinian stroked his beautiful beard, paced square steps, walked over leisurely, and said with a slight smile: "Xiaocao, I heard that the fruit plate presented by Zhenyulou is your watermelon?" Sweet and juicy, the taste is excellent, but it's a pity that Zhou Xiaozi is too picky, and only a small plate is given at one table......"

The smile on the corner of Yu Xiaocao's mouth was almost uncontrollable, there was free watermelon to eat, and there were few things! It's up to you, Dean Yuan, to make it!

"Mr. Yuan, I will make sure you have enough watermelon today!" Yu Xiaocao asked his godfather to accompany Dean Yuan into the inner courtyard to rest for a while. A few heavyweight guests came, but she didn't prepare anything. Fortunately, I bought a few taels of good tea for my godfather the day before yesterday, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to get the tea for entertaining guests, and it would be a shame!

That's right! The opening family came to congratulate the family, and it is a must to invite a table! Yu Xiaocao smiled and entertained the people who came to congratulate him, and at the same time came to Zhou Zixu, who helped greet the guests, and whispered: "Is there still a spare private room in your restaurant?" I didn't know there would be guests coming to congratulate me today, I didn't prepare anything......"

Zhou Zixu also leaned into her ear and whispered, "Don't worry!" What is our relationship? Your business is my business! I've already helped you keep it, and no matter how many guests come, you can entertain it! ”

Fortunately, the Yu family didn't know many people in the town, except for the table in the yamen that watched Lord Fang's face, Dean Yuan and a few families who bought vegetables from their house, most of those families came to be in charge of things, and the only one who came in person was Mrs. Yao. Two private rooms are enough!

Dean Yuan and Old Lady Yao were arranged to have a table with Wu County, and they were entertained by the house town, and those stewards and the like were personally entertained by Li Li and Wu Yunren.

The opening of a small melon shop actually invited people like Wu County's parents, the official Wu County, and the famous president of Rongxuan Academy, as well as several prominent figures in Tanggu Town except for the Zhou family. It attracted a lot of onlookers for a while.

When the respected Dean Yuan unveiled the red silk on the door plaque with his own hands, a few gilded big characters on it, Tanggu Gugua Shop, made the corners of Dean Yuan's mouth twitch. Good straightforward, easy-to-understand shop name.

There are many people in the store, and the backyard is relatively simple. The house town took the congratulatory people to sit in the Zhen Yu Lou diagonally opposite. Those onlookers, because of curiosity or herd mentality, entered the melon shop one after another, Yu Xiaocao, Li Li, and Wu Yun were so busy in the store that they couldn't wait to give birth to three heads, six arms and ten mouths!

The people in Tanggu Town have very few people who have seen watermelons, so there are many people who see them and ask many people, but they don't buy much!

Yu Xiaocao had already foreseen this, she took out a few trays full of watermelons cut into small pieces, put them at the entrance of the door, and shouted loudly: "Our Tanggu melon shop is a big reward, and all customers who enter the store can taste a piece of watermelon for free!" Please consciously queue up to avoid crowding. If you think it's good to eat, you are welcome to buy it. The big one is five taels, and the small one is only three taels of silver! ”

Tanggu Town has never tasted such a good thing for free, and the crowd that entered the store, you look at me, I look at you, and they all hesitated to be the first person.

"Wow! And the good thing of tasting it for free? I'm coming, I'm coming! Miss Wang's voice is still so energetic. Ignoring the obstruction of the embarrassed young man behind her, she took the lead in front of the watermelons that she tasted for free, carefully picked up a piece, and squinted her eyes and tasted it in small bites.

Wang Chenyang couldn't wait for a crack on the ground to let him get into, so he shouldn't listen to his mother's words and accompany this unobtrusive little sister over. He never expected that his little sister would receive this free tasting in front of everyone.

What made him even more unable to raise his head was that after Wang Yanran finished chewing a piece, she asked unsatisfactorily: "Can one person only taste one piece?" ”

How many pieces do you want to taste? Is it enough to eat everything on other people's trays? Wang Chenyang couldn't wait to immediately gag the little sister's mouth and take this embarrassing guy out of the melon shop.

After learning from Xiaocao that one person could only taste one piece, Wang Yanran's little girl pursed her lips and was full of disappointment. Suddenly, she turned her head to see her eldest brother covering his face, her eyes lit up, and she called softly: "My eldest brother can also taste a piece, right?" Big brother, if you're embarrassed, I'll taste it for you! As he spoke, he smiled and picked up the second piece.

Wang Chenyang looked at the surroundings one after another, pulled his little sister, and almost gritted his teeth: "Didn't you say that you came to pick up the watermelon you ordered yesterday?" I still have something to do, so let's go back as soon as I get it! ”

Yu Xiaocao took the watermelon that had been bundled yesterday with great difficulty, handed it to Wang Gongzi's hand, and said with a smile: "Miss Wang, this is the watermelon you ordered yesterday, please bring the receipt I gave and deliver the receipt with one hand." ”

Wang Yanran looked at the note on the watermelon, and the mark she secretly drew with her fingernails yesterday, smiled and squinted, took out the receipt from her purse, and said loudly: "Miss Yu, your watermelon is the best watermelon I have ever tasted." Even the watermelons in the capital are not as delicious as your home! After a few days, I will buy the monthly silver! ”

Wang Chenyang held the heavy watermelon in one hand, pulled the little sister in the other, and walked out of the melon shop with a gloomy face. After getting into the carriage, he scolded Wang Yanran's little girl. The little girl thought of having sweet watermelon to eat when she went home, and she was not annoyed when she was scolded, and she looked very smiling, which made Wang Chenyang very powerless.

However, when he ate the first bite of watermelon, he could understand why his foodie sister was so keen on the Yu family's watermelon. He has followed his father to do business since he was a child, and it is not that he has never eaten watermelon, but it is the first time he has eaten such a fresh, sweet and juicy watermelon! The price is still cheap, and such a big watermelon may not be able to be bought in the capital, not to mention five taels of silver, even twenty taels of silver.

The head of the Wang family and his wife and concubines and children add up to more than a dozen people, except for the children of the lineage who are divided into two pieces, the other concubines and concubines also taste one piece. Sweet and juicy watermelon, no one doesn't like it. Everyone felt that they could not get enough of it.

Especially the little girl Wang Yanran, she is about to be able to hang an oil bottle on her mouth. knew that the watermelon would be used by her mother to please her father, so she didn't tell her mother, and she took it back and ate it secretly, and she would definitely enjoy it. Getting two pieces of watermelon is not enough for her to stuff between her teeth! Fortunately, her father reimbursed her for the silver she bought watermelon. Hum! Tomorrow she will quietly buy it back, and she will eat it alone!

But said that Yu Xiaocao's melon shop, since Wang Yanran's little girl opened the head of the free tasting, others have also begun to taste one after another, when the expressions of enjoyment of those who have tasted it, and the praise of the tasting, so that more people join the ranks of tasting.

The first batch of people who came in were mostly shopkeepers or proprietors who were doing business nearby. People who can afford to rent a shop on this street naturally have some family background. After tasting the taste of watermelon, most of these people are satisfied with their pockets and buy some for their families to taste.

The second group consisted of customers shopping nearby. This commercial street in Tanggu Town is equivalent to a boutique street in the future, and it is rarely visited by ordinary people. I can't afford to buy it, and I have to be given a white eye by some merchants, who will be cheeky to come back for a second time?

I can't help but say that the location of Yu Xiaocao's shop is really good. Whoever enters the store, almost no one goes back empty-handed. However, like Miss Zhuang, she bought ten out of ten as soon as she made a move, and there were really few of them. Therefore, when the housekeeper of the banker, with a few servants, handed over the receipt, and moved out a bunch of watermelons from the shop one after another, he also attracted many customers for Xiaocao's melon shop.

Yu Xiaocao finally experienced the painful and happy feeling of "counting the money and cramping in her hands". Her melon shop is similar to the supermarket of later generations, where customers go in to select the goods and pay at the door. And Yu Xiaocao, who was sitting on the high chair at the door, kept collecting and looking for money, and said sweetly with a smile on his face: "Welcome to come next time!" ”

The guests all think that this little girl who collects money has a sweet smile, a crisp voice, and good arithmetic, no matter how many watermelons you buy, no matter what price of watermelons, as long as she can calculate the payment in seconds at a glance, and never misses it.

In fact, this kind of arithmetic at the level of the first and second grades of primary school may be a bit difficult for the ancients, and it is definitely a piece of cake for Xiaocao who has learned the ninety-nine multiplication table.

The two truckloads of watermelons that were brought in yesterday were sold out before noon. Later, after hearing the word of mouth from others, other customers who learned that the watermelons in the "Tanggu Melon Shop" were delicious and cheap, came to the store, only to see empty shelves.