Chapter 11 First Orders
It is said that Lin Yunxuan took Zhao An out of the Drunken Immortal Tower, and when she saw that it was not early, she hurried to the place where she took the ox cart at the city gate, and she caught up with Uncle Shuigen's ox cart, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief after getting into the car.
If they just can't catch Uncle Mizune's ox cart, they will have to walk back. It doesn't matter if you walk, it's just that you go back too late, and I'm afraid that my family will be worried. When they came out today, they didn't expect to go back so late, they thought they would go back after handing over the goods, but at this time, I am afraid that the family is already as anxious as ants on a hot pot.
The ox cart returned to Gangtou Village, and according to what was said in the car, Zhao An ran home first to report safety after getting out of the car, and Lin Yunxuan hurriedly walked behind.
Sure enough, from a distance, I saw He Cuifang standing at the gate of the courtyard against the big sun, looking forward.
"Mother, we're back." Zhao An waved vigorously at He Cuifang.
When He Cuifang saw them, she finally put her mind at ease, waved her hand in response to Zhao An, and watched him rush towards her with relief.
After a while, Zhao An came to He Cuifang.
"Why did you come back so late? What about my sister? Why don't you see my sister? Is something wrong? He Cuifang wiped the sweat on Zhao An's face with her sleeve while looking up nervously.
"My sister is fine, she's behind. We were afraid that you would be worried, so we said in the car, I will run back first to report safety, and my sister will not be in a hurry, she can walk back slowly. Zhao An saw He Cuifang's nervous face, and hurriedly explained, for fear that she would continue to worry.
When He Cuifang heard this, she relaxed, "It's okay, it's okay." But next time you'll wait for your sister to come back together, it's not bad for a while. You have to protect your sister, you know? ”
"yes, I see." Zhao An nodded heavily, thought for a moment and asked, "Why don't I pick up my sister?" ”
"No need, I saw Xuan'er." He Cuifang saw Lin Yunxuan's figure with sharp eyes.
After a while, Lin Yunxuan finally walked up to the two.
"Next time, let your uncle send fish balls to town, and you two won't go." He Cuifang looked at Lin Yunxuan's slightly sweaty forehead and said distressedly. The two of them came back much later than expected, and no matter how sensible and capable they were, they were still two children, and she was really worried.
Zhao An looked up at He Cuifang's worried face, and then looked at Lin Yunxuan, who was wiping her sweat on the side, opened her mouth and didn't know how to answer, so she simply didn't say anything.
Lin Yunxuan raised her hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead, and said with a sigh: "That's okay, let my uncle deliver the goods in the future, and we'll talk about the rest." “
When the three of them entered the hall, Zhao Dalin and Zhao Yun'er also greeted them, and when they saw that the two of them were fine, they were relieved. Lin Yunxuan caught a glimpse of the food still on the table, obviously untouched, and immediately apologized.
"Aunt Fang, uncle, if we come back late next time, you eat first, don't wait for us."
"Wait a minute, you're all right, you haven't come back, and we don't have the heart to eat." He Cuifang sat down and served Zhao An and Lin Yunxuan vegetables, "Come, eat quickly, you should be hungry." ”
Everyone sat down around the table and listened to Lin Yunxuan talk about what happened in the morning while eating lunch.
”...... So we not only sold the fish balls and fish cakes this time, but also signed a sales agreement with Zui Xian Lou, from tomorrow we will supply a certain amount of fish balls and fish cakes to Zui Xian Lou every day, and the fish balls and fish cakes can only be sold to them, not to other people. “
Discussing the content of the sale and purchase agreement and signing the agreement, Lin Yunxuan talked to the shopkeeper Li alone, and Zhao An didn't know the specific content, so Lin Yunxuan simply didn't tell them about the deposit, for fear that they would leak their mouths, and second, for fear that they would worry.
"From today onwards, we have to work hard every day to catch fish and make fish balls and fish cakes. Aunt Fang, uncle, it's not summer harvest yet, and there is not much work in the fields, so you can also come and help catch and kill fish. This time we are going to go out as a family and make a lot of money together. Lin Yunxuan looked at Zhao Dalin and He Cuifang expectantly.
"Okay, we'll go catch fish after we've eaten." Zhao Dalin is a man of action, and as soon as he heard that he wanted to help, he wanted to act quickly.
"No problem, let's go." He Cuifang nodded and said that she did not forget to praise Lin Yunxuan. "I didn't expect this fish ball and fish cake to sell so well, or Xuan'er is so good that she can come up with such a good way to make money."
Hearing He Cuifang's words, Zhao An and Zhao Yun'er nodded busily while chewing their meals, they very much agreed with Niang's statement. My sister is really amazing and knows so much.
Lin Yunxuan was a little embarrassed to be praised, smiled and modestly lowered her head to eat.
After the meal, Lin Yunxuan asked Zhao Dalin to find a fishing net, they now need to catch more fish than before, it is not enough to catch fish with a few fish cages, and the efficiency of casting nets to catch fish will be much higher.
After half a pillar of incense, Zhao Dalin came back, holding an old fishing net in his hand, which he had borrowed after running to more than a dozen households. There are not many people fishing in the village, and even fewer people fishing with nets.
Zhao Dalin and He Cuifang had never used fishing nets to catch fish before, and they didn't know how to use them, so they were busy for a long time, but they didn't catch any fish. So they divided into two routes, Lin Yunxuan, Zhao Dalin and He Cuifang went to the upper reaches of the creek to cast nets to catch fish, and Zhao An took Zhao Yun'er to the lower reaches of the creek to get fish cages. After the fish cage is set, they go upstream to help. Lin Yunxuan, Zhao Dalin, and He Cuifang studied fishing nets together, and after many practices and summed up experience, they could finally catch fish with fishing nets.
When the sun sets, everyone collects the nets, collects the fish cages, counts the fish caught back, and the harvest is better than expected, and the big fish and small fish add up to dozens of catties.
Lin Yunxuan looked at the sky, it was too late now, the light was not good enough, if she started killing fish now, I was afraid that when she went to the fish bones later, she would not be able to see the small fish bones, and the quality of the fish paste scraped out was not good enough. And everyone has consumed most of their physical strength to catch fish in the afternoon, so it is better to recharge tonight, get up early tomorrow morning to get it, as long as you make it before the time.
At this time, she missed the electric light in her previous life very much. What a beautiful thing it is to be lit up at night.
Lin Yunxuan told everyone what she thought, and then simply divided the work. She and Zhao An sorted the fish first, He Cuifang and Zhao Yun'er went to cook dinner, and Zhao Dalin was responsible for preparing the tools needed for the fish killing and other processes.
The next day, when the morning star was still hanging in the sky, everyone got up and was ready to work.
Since it was not yet dawn and the light was not enough, Lin Yunxuan had to bring the only oil lamp in the house and the oil lamp and candles borrowed from Aunt Zhang's house to illuminate them. She divided the labor for everyone, Zhao Dalin and He Cuifang were responsible for killing fish and removing fish internals, Zhao Yun'er and Zhao An were responsible for cleaning and removing fish lin, she was responsible for picking up large fish bones, removing small fish bones and scraping fish paste and the work behind, and then did it when the light was good at dawn.
A few people are like workers on an assembly line, working in an orderly manner.
About half an hour later, Zhao Dalin and He Cuifang killed all the fish, Zhao Dalin looked at the sky, said hello to He Cuifang and the others, and set off to buy fat meat in the next village.
Yesterday, Lin Yunxuan and the others came back in a hurry, and they didn't have time to buy fatty meat for making fish cakes, and there were no butchers in Gangtou Village, so they had to ask Zhao Dalin to go to the next village in the morning to buy them. Fortunately, the two villages are not far apart, and the time to go back and forth and stick incense is about the same.
After Zhao Dalin left, Lin Yunxuan saw that the sky was slowly brightening, so she sped up her hand movements, and it didn't take long for her to get all the big bones of the fish with He Cuifang. The two then began to go to the small fish bones and scrape the fish paste, while Zhao Yun'er was assigned to prepare green onions and ginger, and Zhao An went to boil water and prepare cold water after cleaning all the fish.
After a stick of incense, Zhao Dalin came back with five catties of fatty meat, and he began to cut the fat meat non-stop and chop it into fat paste for fish cakes.
After the sun jumped out of the horizon, several people were busy all morning, and finally rushed out the fish balls and fish cakes, the fish balls were about fifteen or sixteen catties, and the fish cakes were about ten catties.
Looking at the snow-white fish balls and golden fish cakes, everyone felt a sense of accomplishment, and they didn't feel tired at all.
After having breakfast in a hurry, Lin Yunxuan and Zhao Dalin set off to deliver goods to Zuixianlou. This is the first official order she has received, she has to go to check it, and at the same time say hello to Shopkeeper Li, and Zhao Dalin will be responsible for the delivery in the future.
At this point in time, Uncle Shuigen's oxcart had already set off for the town, and Lin Yunxuan and Zhao Dalin had to walk to the town.
Zhao Dalin often works, even if he walks in front with a burden, his pace is relatively easy, and he walks faster than Lin Yunxuan, who didn't take anything, and Lin Yunxuan has to trot to follow from time to time. Seeing this, Zhao Dalin had no choice but to slow down and accommodate her, even if her feet were almost better, she still had to pay more attention.
Around the clock, the two arrived at the Drunken Immortal Tower.
This time they didn't go in from the main gate, there were obviously more guests coming in and out of the main gate at this time, and if they went in from the main gate, the delivery would be too conspicuous and too unruly, so Lin Yunxuan went directly to the back door of the Zuixian Building, and the goods were to be delivered to the backyard. Before leaving yesterday, she deliberately learned from Shopkeeper Li how and when other suppliers delivered the goods on weekdays, and she also wanted to be the same as other suppliers.
Lin Yunxuan took Zhao Dalin into the backyard of the Drunken Immortal Building, and as soon as he entered the door, Zhao Dalin was a little unable to take a step. Zhao Dalin came to the restaurant for the first time, although it was a backyard, but the layout and style here were the most luxurious houses he had ever entered in his life, and he was a little stage frightened.
Lin Yunxuan looked at Zhao Dalin's expression, and there was some guess in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She stopped a young man passing by and asked, "Hello little brother, where is Lao Zhang?" ”
Seeing that she was so polite and polite, the young man smiled at her friendly, waved his hand at a man in gray coarse cloth who was standing at the kitchen door with his head down and writing in a notebook, and shouted: "Lao Zhang, someone is looking for you!" ”
I saw a man in his thirties with a Chinese face looking up at them. It turned out that this was Lao Zhang, the consignee designated by the shopkeeper Li.
Lin Yunxuan stepped forward and politely greeted Lao Zhang, and after explaining his intentions to him, Lao Zhang quickly began to sign for the receipt of the goods. Lin Yunxuan watched him and Zhao Dalin go through the delivery process, and only after the bookkeeping process did she go to the meeting room to find Shopkeeper Li.