Early this morning, Zhou Ji, the shopkeeper, was opening the door and finished moving the wooden planks at the door, he rubbed his eyes and walked to the street, watching people coming and going, stretching his waist, thinking of Zhou's shopkeeper saying that the guest restaurant would be closed in two days, and he would settle their wages for them in the past two days, and he would dismiss him and the remaining cooks, he was depressed in his heart, they came to Yaoshan County with the shopkeeper, but he didn't expect to leave so soon.

Zhou Chuan saw Zhou Ji standing at the door for a while, he came out and called him: "Zhou Ji, go to the various rooms upstairs to clean upstairs, in two days the people of the Chi family and the Qiao family will come, see that the restaurant is clean, then we will ask for more silver to go back to the hometown!" ”

Zhou Ji looked back at the plaque of the guest restaurant, his eyes were full of reluctance, this restaurant was set up by him and the shopkeeper, to say that his feelings for him were deeper than his feelings for his daughter-in-law, and it was not very comfortable to hear that the shopkeeper was going to sell him and sell him.

"Shopkeeper, if you don't think about it again, Yu Liu doesn't want to leave the guest restaurant, we are all coming back with you from Shangjing, and we are bent on doing a good job of this restaurant, so that it will be handed over to the Chi family and the Qiao family, and he and I are reluctant to give up the restaurant we worked so hard to build."

At the beginning, they spent a lot of silver, but now they are giving the Chi family and the Qiao family those bastards in vain, he is unwilling, those people will actually use means to solicit customers, and say that dogwood is a unique ingredient in their Yaoshan, and they want to get a piece of the pie from their mouths, and they are foolish dreams.

Zhou Chuan didn't know what these two people were thinking, they were brothers who had suffered hardships and starved with him, he understood the feelings of the two of them for this restaurant, and he didn't want to, but the strong dragon couldn't fight the head snake, not to mention the Chi family and Lai Yue, the taste of the Qiao family and Yueju was also first-class, regardless of the color and aroma of the dishes, they were stronger than them, and the locally produced dogwood fruit they used for generations tasted better than the boiled meat in other places.

"Okay Zhou Ji, in the last two days, entertain the guests who enter the store well, don't think about other things!" Zhou Chuan said in disappointment and went back to the house.

Zhou Ji sighed and returned to the restaurant.

Here, Xiao Qing took his son and daughter-in-law to the county seat, found an open space on the crowded street, and put the winter dates and pomegranates picked yesterday, as well as mountain pears separately and put them in bamboo baskets to sell.

Qiao Erjing was shy and couldn't scream, she just lowered her head and put the good winter dates and pomegranates up, so did the Qin family, she rarely came to the county seat, and the people she saw the most were also when the villagers were gathering to talk about things in Yaoshan Village, she was embarrassed and didn't dare to scream.

Xiao Qing saw that both of them lowered their heads, and according to the two of them, they didn't want to sell a date a day.

She stood up and shouted: "Passing by the guest officer, take a look, the fresh winter dates and pomegranates on Yao Mountain, taste the sweet and crisp winter dates and pomegranates......

"Big brothers and sisters-in-law, sisters-in-law, come and have a taste!"

"Let's try fresh winter dates!"

Qin Shi saw that her mother was shouting loudly, and the people around her were all looking at her, she hurriedly lowered her head and didn't dare to face people, Qiao Erjing only cared about fiddling with winter dates and pomegranates, and didn't raise her head.

Xiao Qing shouted, his voice was hoarse, and no one came.

She pulled Qin to stand on the side of the street: "Yuan Yuanniang, do you still want to let a few children have enough to eat?" You two get up and shout! ”

Listening to the words, Qin stood up, came to his mother's side, and opened his mouth shyly, but the voice was so small that only she could hear it.

"You learn from your mother!" Xiao Qing cleared his throat and demonstrated to the Qin family: "The guest officers who passed by came to take a look, the freshly picked fresh dates and fresh pomegranates, come and taste them, you don't need money to taste them!" ”

Qin tried to stumble and shout twice, and finally shouted, but it was still stumbling.

At this time, a leisurely old man came over, hunched over with his hands behind his back, and wrapped in a cloth on his head, and he looked at the big and green dates in the bamboo basket.

"Hey, the jujube seller, why do you sell these winter dates?" The old man asked.

Xiao Qing smiled and grabbed a few winter dates and handed them to the old man to taste: "Old man, this winter date is crisp and sweet, it is the date on Yao Mountain, it has been a drought for a few years, this day, it is rare to see such a big and crisp date, the price is the same as the date sold in July before, five cents a catty!" ”

The old man took the winter jujube handed over by Xiao Qing, picked a green one and took a bite, as Xiao Qing said, it is very crisp and sweet, the jujube on Yao Mountain is very famous in Yaoshan County, the fruit is crisp and sweet, the cheapest jujube in July is sold for four yuan a catty, and now the winter jujube is sold for five yuan, Xiao has cleared it, and the price is just right.

"Okay, give me half a catty!" The old man said cheerfully.

Xiao Qing smiled and turned around and picked up the sea bowl, scooped out half a bowl from the bamboo basket, she measured it at home, a sea bowl is almost a catty, and the half sea bowl is almost half a catty.

"Old man, this bowl has been measured at home, a sea bowl is a catty, if you don't believe it, there are scales in the grain store across the street, you can weigh it!" Xiao Qing smiled and said: "Then this half bowl is half a catty, today you are always our first deal, we just opened, and we can't make you feel at a loss, I will charge you four cents for this half bowl, old man, do you think it's okay?" ”

When the old man heard that such a big sea bowl was almost more than half a catty, he was only charged four cents?

Not to mention the drought year here, even in the years when the wind and rain are good, the winter dates in Yaoshan are not so cheap.

He smiled and shook the jujube sent by Xiao Qing with his clothes: "Okay, little woman, you, you are really good at business, and you will definitely get rich in the future!" ”

Xiao Qing looked at him with a smile: "Yo, I borrowed the old man's auspicious words!" ”

The old man put away the dates, took out four coins from his waist and handed them to Xiao Qing.

Xiao Qing accepted it with a smile and watched the old man leave.

When the others left, Xiao Qing gave the money to the Qin family: "See, you two, you have to shout out, so that people can hear it, and you want to sell the fruit!" Let the people who want to buy it hear, you two hurry up and shout, sell these two baskets of dates, and the money will be returned to you! ”

When Qiao Erjing and the Qin family heard that the money belonged to them, their eyes couldn't help but light up, and they asked in disbelief: "Mother, what you said is true?" ”

Xiao Qing coldly skimmed them: "Yes, really!" I said it! Then why don't you hurry up and sell dates and pomegranates! ”

Qin and Qiao Erjing saw the four money, they found confidence on their faces, and they couldn't care less about not being shy, learning from Xiao Qing's words just now, and loudly beckoned people to buy it.

Xiao Qing saw that the two of them shouted in a good way, she looked back at the more than a pound of chili powder noodles in her bamboo basket, she was going to go to the major wine stores to try it.

She handed over the mountain fruits of the two bamboo baskets to the Qin family and Erjing, and carried the bamboo baskets on her back to find restaurants and inns.

Before leaving, she didn't forget to tell them: "You two are selling dates here, I'll go to the inn and restaurant to try our dogwood noodles!" ”

Qin and Erjing reluctantly agreed, thinking that they and their sister-in-law persuaded their mother a few times last night, but their mother never listened, and insisted on grinding the dogwood into powder.