Chen Xiao was wearing a power suit and his hair tied into a high ponytail, standing at the door of the store, looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the street.

Fang Yu looked at her heroic appearance, pleasing to the eye, and her eyes were full of liking.

"How did you come up with this coat style?" Fang Yu asked.

Chen Xiao's strong outfit is pants, long-sleeved short clothes, a half-sleeved long shirt on the outside, and a wide belt around the waist, imitating the style of ancient costume women in film and television dramas.

Her pants and mid-coat are somewhat similar to the styles worn by Fang Yu before, but the outer garment is different, and the belt is tied up like a skirt.

"Does this look like a military uniform?"

"Not really."

"Can you wear it on the street?"

"Hmm...... It's easy for you to attract bees and butterflies. ”

Chen Xiao glanced at him. Fang Yu often has a sense of substitution when he speaks, "they are boyfriend and girlfriend".

At this time, a woman in her twenties walked towards the store with a vegetable basket.

"Wenxiu sister-in-law!" Chen Xiao greeted him with a smile.

"Congratulations! The opening is a good one. Wenxiu said, handing over a red paper bag.

This is a red envelope specially prepared by her, with 200 yuan in it.

Wenxiu came to Nanmen Street almost every day to buy vegetables, and the day before yesterday, she met Chen Xiao, and when she heard that they were opening today, she went back to talk to her mother-in-law. Aunt Shen asked her to wrap a red envelope to congratulate her.

Before, Chen Xiao and the others lived in Aunt Shen's house for nearly half a month, and they got along very happily. It's just that once he met Shen Feng, the son of Aunt Shen, and he saw Fang Yu wearing his clothes, and his face was very ugly. After that, Fang Yu returned the clothes to Aunt Shen and asked her to make new ones for him.

When Chen Xiao first saw Shen Feng, he was a little surprised to see that he was much younger than Wen Xiu. Later, I learned that Wenxiu was the child daughter-in-law of the Shen family, four years older than Shen Feng.

Shen Feng is twenty-one this year, eighteen years old in the examination, and is currently preparing to take the exam. He was opposed to his family opening an inn, but the income from the cloth village alone could not afford him to go to school.

Chen Xiao took the heavy red envelope, knowing that it contained money, and said with a smile:

"Thank you! Come in and taste us. ”

Wenxiu was not polite, walked into the store, and asked, "What is the name of this one you sell?" ”

"Rice noodles."

"How to eat?"

Chen Xiao called Chunhong hot bowl rice noodles.

Because of the special tools for making rice noodles, they made them in the backyard, put them up one by one, and put them on the stove in front of the store. When a guest asks for it, pour it into a colander and blanch it again in boiling water, then add the secret soup and scoop the toppings.

"The toppings include stewed pork, braised pork, braised chicken, and spicy chicken, which one do you want?" Chen Xiao asked.

Braised pork and braised chicken are not spicy; Braised meat, spicy chicken, the taste is a little spicy.

Looking at the red and bright tempting toppings, Wenxiu wanted to taste everything, but felt that it was too greedy, and said:

"Can you recommend one to me?"

When she tried the dish before, Chunhong liked spicy chicken, and she thought it would be more popular.

Chen Xiaodao: "Then eat spicy **!" ”

After saying the three words "eat spicy chicken", Chen Xiao suddenly felt that the name had to be changed, otherwise it would sound like "eating garbage".

"Okay."

Chen Xiao scooped a spoonful of spicy chicken, then brought it to the spice table, and said:

"There's a variety of condiments here, and you can add whatever you like."

"How do you add this?"

There are more than a dozen small clay pots on the spice table, and a dazzling array of condiments makes people a little confused.

"Leeks, fragrant willow, minced ginger...... Sister, you can cook too! Do you still need me to teach you? Chen Xiao said with a smile.

Wen Xiu taught Chen Xiao some Nanyue cuisine, and her cooking skills are also very good.

"Oh, then, how much can you add?" Wenxiu asked.

"Feel free to add. Add whatever you think is delicious. ”

Wen Xiu added a few of them according to his preferences. Brought it to the long table and took a pair of chopsticks.

She took a few bites, her eyes lit up.

"It tastes very good!"

Chen Xiao smiled happily.

The chili peppers in the spicy chicken are the dried chili peppers she brought from modern times. She first made chili peppers into chili peppers, and then stir-fried chicken with chili peppers. She boiled this with water because she was making toppings. Otherwise, she is "glutinous spicy chicken".

Although there are a lot of chili peppers brought, if you open a store, it will not be enough for a long time. She had already left the pepper seeds and planted some of them in the space, and some of them in this small courtyard. After that, she plans to find a plot of land to grow chili peppers.

Wen Xiu took one bite after another, so delicious that he couldn't stop, and finally drank all the soup, then looked up and asked:

"This rice noodle is made of rice?"

"Yes." Chen Xiao nodded.

"How?"

"Ground the rice into flour, steam it and press it into strips."

The rationale is so, but it's not quite. There are many ways to make rice noodles, some of which are cooked and can be eaten directly; There are also those that are made raw, and they need to be boiled before they can be eaten.

Chen Xiao didn't tell her what she really did, because it was related to tools. They're all still figuring out how to modify the tool, and that's not the case with a different tool.

Wenxiu didn't ask in detail, she knew that this was someone's secret recipe. When Chen Xiao told her about the method of braised meat, people didn't plan to open a store at that time. Now that I have opened a store, I am afraid I will not tell her the details of the method.

"By the way, how much is a bowl of rice noodles?"

"Thirty Wen."

Wenxiu took out her purse and prepared to pay.

Chen Xiao held her hand: "You give me a big red envelope, how can I still charge you money for eating a bowl of rice noodles." ”

"No, today is your opening, and this money must be collected."

Wenxiu wanted to give money, but Chen Xiao had no choice but to accept it.

"Okay, it's auspicious, thank you!"

"You're welcome, I'll come back to eat in the future."

Wenxiu still had to go grocery shopping, so he didn't stay long, and said goodbye and left.

Chen Xiao handed over the thirty yuan to Chunhong and asked her to keep it.

Chunhong drew a "one" on the wooden board behind her.

This is the "positive" word counting method taught by Chen Xiao, selling a bowl to draw a stroke, and it is good to know how many bowls are sold every day.

With rent and material costs, they have to sell at least 80 bowls a day to keep their capital. What will happen to the business in the future, Chen Xiao has no bottom in his heart.

Chen Xiao said to Chunhong: "In the future, spicy chicken will be called spicy **!" ”

"Why do you want to change it?" Chunhong was puzzled.

"Because 'eating spicy chicken' sounds like 'eating garbage.'"

"What's wrong with eating garbage?" Chunhong is still puzzled.

"Rubbish! Litter. ”

Chunhong was puzzled because they didn't have the word "garbage" here. The corresponding words are "waste" and "waste residue", and there is no such thing as garbage.

Chen Xiao couldn't explain it to her, waved his hand, and forgot it. Spicy chicken is spicy**.

In the morning, Nanmen Street is very lively, and most of them come to buy vegetables. Someone came to the store smelling the scent, just asked and left. In the morning, only four bowls were sold, one of which was still eaten by Wenxiu.

Towards noon, the vegetable sellers were basically gone, but other vendors came. Most of these people walked from nearby villages and towns, and even if they went out at dawn and walked ten or twenty miles, it was almost noon when they arrived at the county seat.

In addition to this, there are also horse-drawn carriages that come from further afield. Just like when Chen Xiaofangyu came to the county seat from a town more than forty miles away.

At the end of the day, they sold forty-six bowls. It's half the 80 bowls a day, but it's not bad to be able to sell that much on the first day of opening.