Chapter 14 A Good Opportunity
Turn heads! Although Xiao Gongzi is a little strange about what this statement is, he also agrees with Qi Ning's statement, it takes a period of time for the customer's evaluation to do it, and when the time comes, there are more of these dishes, and that is really it, I spent five hundred taels to buy a few dishes today, if it doesn't sell well, I will definitely be broken by my father's legs, and maybe I will be locked up at home and not let out.
"Since the girl said so. I hope that the girl will not tell others about the recipe before this, and Xiao will go to the girl to negotiate at that time. ”
Shopkeeper Hu wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and the young owner must not buy anymore now. Although he has been running a restaurant for many years, he is also beating the drum in his heart, because these recipes are too expensive, once they are not sold well, when the old owner asks about the old account, he will be beaten lightly, and he will be kicked out of the Xiao family if he says it is not good, and his mother-in-law and children are in the Xiao family.
The business was negotiated, Qi Ning hurriedly said goodbye, sat in the carriage when he came, and returned to his nest before closing the city gate after dark. Today's things haven't been packed yet, and it's not too early to stew after washing, and I'll have to do business early tomorrow morning. Now that the business is on the right track, you can't just stop for a day, which will lose the customers who have been pulled down with great difficulty.
Qi Ning pushed the door into the courtyard, and saw Wang Zhutou sitting on a bamboo chair in his yard drinking tea leisurely, which was very unexpected, because usually he didn't care about the morning or evening when he came back, he just closed the door in the house, and basically didn't come out.
"Brother Wang, rest." Qi Ning said hello without words, and as expected, it was a hmm.
Thinking that the weather was getting hot, he might be in the courtyard to cool off.
After a busy afternoon, Qi Ning's hungry chest was pressed against his back, and he turned around and went into the kitchen to wash the vegetables. When Qi Ning came out with the plate, only the empty bamboo chair remained, Qi Ning gobbled up the food and put it in his stomach, and then he started cleaning once a day in the bright moonlight, this time he simmered on high heat for half an hour, Qi Ning took a bath and changed his clothes, took them to the yard to wash, and saw that there were a few pieces of Wang Qingyuan's dirty clothes in the wooden basin by the well, and they were also washed and dried together. Qi Ning picked up the dirty water in the basin and was about to splash it on the street, when he stepped on the air and fell from the gate, the basin in his hand gurgled and rolled out of the distance.
"Oops." Qi Ning held her ankle and cried out in pain, and reluctantly stood up on the steps, just about to get the wooden basin that had rolled away.
"What's wrong?" Wang Qingyuan heard the voice come out.
"It's okay, I accidentally fell it."
"Don't move, did you fall badly?"
"It seems to be broken, Brother Wang, can you please help me pick up the wooden basin?" Qi Ning looked at him embarrassedly.
Wang Qingyuan didn't speak, walked in front of Qi Ning and squatted down: "Come up." ”
"Ahh No, no, I can still walk, you can help me with the basin. ”
Wang Qingyuan hesitated for a moment, picked up the wooden basin and watched Qi Ning limp against the wall and slowly return to the courtyard, he closed the door closely, picked up Qi Ning with one hand and left.
"Ah......h
"Sit down, don't move." Wang Qingyuan put Qi Ning on the bamboo chair, threw down the wooden basin and went back to the house to take a porcelain bottle out: "Bone-setting medicine, you wipe it yourself." After saying that, he put the porcelain vase on the arm of the chair and went back to the house.
"Oh, thank you, Brother Wang." Qi Ning was caught in her stomach just now, and then she gasped, isn't the princess hugging the general hero to save the beauty? How did he trap himself like a child. Hey, it seems that the original body, a little body that has never been full, is also a child in his eyes.
Qi Ning took off his shoes and socks, poured out some slimy potion from the porcelain bottle, wiped his ankles, jumped back to the house on one foot, added firewood to the bottom of the pot, and climbed up to the attic with the pain on his body, and fell asleep in less than a cup of tea.
Maybe Wang Qingyuan's medicine was good, and Qi Ning's foot didn't hurt much the next day. Qi Ning pushed open the back door with the basin, and Wang Qingyuan was sitting in the courtyard: "Up?" Let's eat noodles. With that, he got up and walked out of the courtyard.
Qi Ning looked at the noodles in the bowl and a few rapes on it, I haven't seen him cook since he came, hehe smiled, this person! Caring people don't say a good word.
Originally, she planned to cook a few dishes for Wang Qingyuan to put in the yard at night and invite him to eat. As a result, he did not return all night. Qi Ning looked at the already cold food, and sighed: "It's not a good mouth, I knew that I would eat it myself if I knew to cook less." ”
Sunrise and sunset in a blink of an eye Qi Ning has opened this lo-mei shop for more than a month, she opens the door early every morning, closes the door and starts to clean the water when the things are almost sold at noon, and also newly added braised pork skin, braised dried tofu, braised bean curd, braised pork knuckle and other dishes that can be made in one pot. Wait until everything is cleaned in the middle of the afternoon, boil the pot and put it on a low fire, and you can not take a short rest until you go to bed at night, go shopping and buy some necessities, and occasionally chat with Aunt Wu next door. Qi Ning took the time to go to the pharmacy to buy some traditional Chinese medicine, and every other day he chopped up the white aconite, white poria, and angelica angelica and put them in a bowl, added a small amount of water to heat, and slowly fried them for half an hour, and then applied them to his face, and washed them with water after fifteen minutes. On weekdays, I wipe my face with egg whites and honey, and sometimes I use some cucumbers to stick to my face. Every time I wash my face, I can clearly feel that the feeling is getting better and better. I also drank it with red dates and codonopsis stewed soup, and my complexion was much better, my face faded and yellow, and my skin became white and ruddy day by day.
In the afternoon of this day, after Qi Ning waited for the pot to boil, he added a few handfuls of hard firewood, turned around and wrapped the pig's head meat and braised bean curd specially left at noon with oil paper, and walked slowly outside the city gate. There is also a so-called aunt in Youzhuang Village outside the city, Qi gave all his silver to the desperate Qi Ning that day, this love Qi Ning must be repaid, and now he has money in his hand, just return the silver to her, this is the private money that Qi has accumulated for several years. Qi Ning found the old man who drove her into the city that day, gave him five copper plates, asked him to bring these dishes to his aunt, and told his aunt that she had settled in the city, and explained the location of the shop in detail, and asked her aunt to take Erya to play when she was free.
Then leisurely back to the city along the bluestone street while walking, she wants to buy her own shop, perhaps the concept of the previous life, only her own house is the real home. On the main street, Qi Ning didn't dare to think about it for the time being, I heard Wu say that most of the shops here are the merchants' own houses, and even if they are sold, they are very expensive, and Qi Ning's current ability is not able to afford them, so he can only sigh.
Take a shortcut through the alley and return to the familiar West Street, the Wu family of the grocery store is standing at the door eating peanuts and boredly looking at the pedestrians on the street, although her grocery store is not big, but the goods are quite complete, and the price is low, so to maintain a family's livelihood at the same time can barely provide for his son to study, this dynasty, reading is very expensive, so once there is a reader, it is very respectable, because reading a book means that he may be an official in the future, and he will kneel when he sees it. There is no such thing as equality for everyone here, the rich are afraid of being officials, those who are officials are afraid of bigger officials, and the only big officials must be afraid of is the emperor.
"Aunt Wu, you're not busy."
"Miss Qi is back, how can we have a good business like Miss Qi, and we sell out early every day." Wu said and handed the peanuts in his hand to Qi Ning.
"I am a small businessman, hard and dirty every day, barely earning a few catties of coarse grains to make ends meet, which is like your house, the store has a lot of goods, and I can afford to read." Although Qi Ning is a little cold, but when he does business, he will still say good things.
"The store has a big worry, it's hard to get money on credit, and it costs money to buy goods, it's not like I've been worrying about drinking every night lately." Wu's shop is larger than Qi Ning, about 30 square meters, and an attic is also built to stack goods.
"Yes, business is difficult to do, but don't worry, take your time, they are all customers, and it is only a time to give money."
"Well, have you heard? The cloth shop diagonally opposite is about to sell, I'm dealing with the goods these days, I just went to buy a few pieces of cloth, do you want to buy something cheap? Wu whispered and pointed to the opposite side.
"Isn't his family doing a good business? Why are you going to sell it? ”
"You don't know, after their old boss went, the business was not as good as day by day, and now the young owner is a showman, and he will enter Beijing for the exam next year, and he wants to go to the door in advance, and he can't make up the money for a while, so he wants to sell the shop left by his father, and take his wife and children to the capital." Wu's gossip said in Qi Ning's ear.
Hearing this, Qi condensed his thoughts: "Then Aunt Wu, you look at the store first, and I'll go see if there are any cheap things and exchange a few pieces." ”
Wu was busy, turned around and went to the door of the shop selling tofu in the south of her house to continue to spread the gossip, Wu is a kind and good talker, but she fully has the gossip character of most middle-aged women, there is nothing she doesn't know about in Qing'an City, she doesn't inquire, she didn't inquire, she also inquired about Qi Ning's life experience a few days ago, and was taken over by Qi Ning with a few words.