Passing by a stall selling chickens and ducks, he wiped his sweat with a handkerchief that was about to get soaked and asked, "Uncle, what kind of duck are you?" ”

"It's our local white duck, about five or six pounds. This kind of duck is fat and thin, thick under the skin, fresh and moderate, not sour and fishy, and the most delicious. "This white duck is very similar to the Peking duck in the previous life, with full muscles, a wide and long back, large and bulging eyes, and the Peking duck was first domesticated by wild ducks, because the meat is delicious and has become the first choice for making roast ducks.

Qi Ning actually had plans to make roast duck for a long time, but he was too busy for a while to take care of it.

This time, I can give Fang Zibai to Xiao Ji Restaurant, I made up my mind to make roast duck before I went, the lo-mei is a small profit, and the money earned by the four people who are tired and half dead for a year can't afford to buy a big house, the house has now become Qi Ning's obsession, all her efforts are to buy more shops, and live the rice worm life she expects to collect rent, drink tea and bask in the sun.

"How much is a pound?"

"Twenty cents a pound."

"If I want ten a day, and more in the future, will you have enough here?"

"Enough, I am from Yanjia Village, fifteen miles north of the city, and I have been selling these chickens and ducks in the city for more than ten years, and several restaurants in the city have bought them from me. Many families in our village raise chickens and ducks, my mother-in-law raises one or two hundred every year, and my two sons specialize in collecting chickens, ducks and geese in the countryside. As soon as the old man Yan heard that the big customer came, he suddenly came to his senses: "If the girl wants more, the price is negotiable." Eighteen Wen Xing no? ”

"Fifteen Wen, your age is not easy, I am embarrassed to tell you more, I opened a Qijia lo-mei in front, from tomorrow onwards you send me ten ducks every morning, I don't want to be too big and too small as long as five catties of ducks back then, and I will sell well in the future, I will ask for more."

"Okay, just according to what the girl said, I'll send you ten of them tomorrow morning, and you can rest assured that all of them are really happy and fat."

"But the ugly words are ahead, I have made up my mind, no matter the wind or rain, you must deliver it to me every day, you can't cut off my goods at will, you are not the only one who sells chickens and ducks in this market, if you delay me, I will order it from another house in the future. If I don't want ducks one day, I'll tell you a day earlier. ”

Boss Yan looked at Qi Ning flatteringly, and hurriedly agreed.

On the way, Qi Ning passed by the stall that had been sending her firewood, and instructed that there would be no firewood such as elm and willow locust in the future, as long as the branches of fruit trees in the mountains, regardless of what kind of fruit, it would be a fruit tree.

This circle turned down, Qi Ning's qi was almost gone, and when he saw Tie Niu pouting and sweeping the floor at the door, he said: "Close the door, and you can use a bowl to send a bowl to Aunt Wu in a bowl, a bowl to the wine shop next door, and a bowl to the tofu workshop, all in large bowls, and leave some of the rest for us to eat ourselves." Leave a pig's intestine and a piece of pig's liver for Wang Zhutou, and wait for him to eat in the evening. ”

"Huh? Girl! There are so many more, why not sell them? Tie Niu looked at Qi Ning in surprise.

"You just have to go." After speaking, Qi Ning went straight to the backyard. Han Dong, who was washing the dishes, saw Qi Ning with a sweaty face coming in, and hurriedly fetched water from the well for her to scrub.

"Aunt Zhao, the water sent today is washed and made, and tomorrow it will be sent to the neighbors who are familiar with this street, and Uncle Lu's family will send two copies, and tell him that one is for Uncle Lu. The rest is hung in the well and pulled, and we will eat it ourselves tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and give it away if we can't finish it. ”

"Girl, what's the matter?" Zhao heard Qi Ning's command and came out of the shed with his hands pricked.

"In the future, we won't sell lo-mei. Switch to something else from tomorrow. Don't ask, just do what I tell you to do. Qi Ning threw down the towel and said to Han Dong: "You go to Carpenter Lu's shop and ask his third brother Carpenter Lu if he is free in the afternoon, come and help me build two stoves, if you are not free in the afternoon, you can do it tomorrow morning." Han Dong didn't dare to ask more, so he agreed and went out neatly.

After a while, Lu Laosan came back in a hurry with Han Dong.

"On this hot day, I really can't help Uncle Lu to go on a trip, please sit down and drink some tea, this tea is the new tea that someone else gave me today." Qi Ning hurriedly asked Lu Laosan to sit down and poured a cup of tea diligently.

"Miss Qi is too polite, a cheerful person like Miss Qi, as long as she has an order, just send someone to call me." After Lu Laosan finished speaking, he took a big gulp of tea and drank it in one go. Qi Ning hurriedly refilled him.

"I invited Third Uncle Lu to come this time, I want to build two ovens, and Third Uncle will see if he can do it." Qi Ning said and handed over the pattern that had just been drawn and the ink had not yet dried.

"This is the stove? It's weird! ”

"This is not an ordinary stove, third uncle see if he can do it?"

"Haha, it's not me Lu Laosan bragging, as long as there is a pattern, I can do it, no matter if you have a strange-shaped furnace or Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace." Lu Laosan joked.

"Then there's Uncle Laulu."

"It's too late today, I'm still working in the backstreet, and I'll bring my apprentice over tomorrow morning and get it done." Lu Laosan patted his chest and guaranteed the ticket.

A few days ago, he heard his mother-in-law say that the eldest brother and sister-in-law intended to tell the nephew to the girl in front of him, and now he looks closely, Lu Laosan feels that there is no play, this Qi girl speaks fast and fast, and does things very well. However, Lu Laosan still admired Qi Ning very much, and after saying yes, Carpenter Lu drank another bowl of tea before hurriedly leaving.

In the afternoon, Qi Ning took Zhao's mother to dismantle two large pots and stoves under the shed, and fenced the open space in the backyard with bamboo, which was less than half a meter high, and he could walk in with his legs. It's already dusk after cleaning.

Qi Ning fried the braised large intestine with green chilies, finely chopped the pork liver, poured soy sauce and sprinkled green onions, and filled a big bowl of rice. Only then did he send the iron bull to Wang Zhutou.

"Wang Zhutou asked: Why didn't you open the door tonight?" The Iron Bull returned with an empty pallet.

"What did you say?"

"Hehe, I said that the girl wants to do a big business, and when it is done, he will definitely come to enjoy it." Iron Bull wiped his face and replied.

"Well, it's still our iron bull who is clever, do a good job, and let you be the shopkeeper in the future." Qi Ning pinched Tie Niu's little face and boasted.

"Thank you, girl, I'll do a good job." Iron Bull happily went to the backyard with the tray.

Early the next morning, Lu Laosan came with two apprentices, each pushing a cart loaded with masonry, mud and sand.

Qi Ning pointed to the open space that was poured out of the furnace yesterday: "Just press it here." Then let Zhao give a hand, and he took Han Dong and Tie Niu to open the street door and led the old man Yan, who happened to send ducks, into the backyard, and ten ducks, one by one, tied their feet and weighed them and threw them in the fence where they were originally intended to be a vegetable garden. Then he took Tie Niu, Handong wrapped more than a dozen bags into the water, and instructed the two of them to send them one by one to the neighbors who didn't send lo-mei yesterday, and went to the grocery store to buy honey and a dry seasoning, and saw that Wu was not in a hurry or in a hurry to go back, so he sat at the door of the grocery store and chatted.

"Miss Qi, you really don't sell brine anymore? It's a shame that such a good business. Xiao Wu, the proprietress of the tofu workshop, asked curiously. She is also a frequent customer of Qi Ning, and often buys a catty and a half catty for men to drink. Qi Ning sells lo-mei and also buys dried tofu and yuba from her every day, and now she does less business, and Xiao Wu is a little reluctant.

"Hey, people's hearts are unpredictable, who would have thought that I would be kind enough to take them in and cause such consequences today." Qi Ning fanned her fan and looked at the pedestrians on the street in discouragement.

"Yes, you really can't be a good person, the two of them were about to eat, you were making clothes and paying for wages, but I didn't expect that Qi Shi to look honest and be a white-eyed wolf."

Wu took a basket of melon seeds from the house and came out for the two of them to eat: "If you want me to say that you are too good at talking, I will go to the yamen to sue her earlier." ”

"Forget it, but I can teach you how to make lo-mei, and you can make it yourself if you want to eat it in the future." Qi Ning said deliberately.

"Really? It's true? The proprietress of the tofu shop was excited, some time ago, her brother saw that Qi Ning's business was good, and he also learned to do it for a few days, but the taste of the tofu was not good, and he lost a few taels of silver, so he ended hastily.

"Of course it's true, we're all neighbors, since you all like to eat, I'll teach you the recipe, and then you can cook it yourself."

"That, Miss Qi, can I tell my brother? He relied on my mother's dozen acres of land to raise four children, and he couldn't eat meat once for ten days and a half months. Can you let him learn and set up a stall to earn some money? The proprietress of the tofu shop looked at Qi Ning cautiously.

"Of course no problem, I'll write the recipe tonight and give it to you. Aunt Wu will also give you one. But if you make too much of this lo-mei, you won't make much money, you can ask your brother to make it early, and sell lo-mei by the way. ”

Qi Ning's purpose was achieved, and he told the two heads of the Gossip General Bureau that he still had something to do and left first.