The illiterate life in the Northern Song Dynasty

Mrs. Lin is an ordinary citizen on Shuixing Street in Bianliang. What she usually has to do is to buy vegetables and cook for the family. She used to do well, but she just gave birth two months ago, and she has a baby. Children, cooking with children is not going well.

Sometimes when she was cooking at home, the child would suddenly cry and look for his mother. Because of this, several times she failed to finish the meal in time, and there would be nothing to eat when the child's father came back.There is no way, during this period of time, both their mothers can only wait for the child's father to come back to eat outside.

But every time I go out to eat, it is very troublesome. The child's grandpa and the others will come to look after the child, but they don't come often. Sometimes Mrs. Lin really hopes that someone can bring her meals so that she can spend More time to take care of the children.

This morning, Mrs. Lin fed her baby and was about to go out to buy vegetables, but as soon as she went out, she saw many people surrounded by a box not far from the street. She knew that it had been repaired a few days ago, but no one knew what the box was for.

In the first two days, there were still people who paid attention to it curiously, but after two days, few people cared anymore.It seems that the box should have been done, and its function has been released.

Mrs. Lin didn't think about it. She had to buy vegetables for the day. If she went late, there would not be many people in the vegetable market, so she had to buy fresher vegetables.But when Mrs. Lin passed there, she heard the discussion next to her, but she couldn't help but stop.

"Sister Chen, what do you think this is?" Mrs. Lin asked someone standing beside her.

Seeing that it was Mrs. Lin, Mrs. Chen smiled and said, "This is the takeaway box. It says what we want to eat. We can go to the store to order, and then put the list in the box. It only costs two extra copper coins." , someone will come to pick up the takeaway order and deliver the food to us within the specified time."

"I don't believe that we can eat that restaurant's meal by putting a note in." Mrs. Lin didn't believe it very much, she said: "Then how do we pay the money, and how can the restaurant be sure that the dish was ordered by us?"

Mrs. Chen listened, smiled and waved her hands, and said: "Ms. Lin, there is a solution for this. It says on the box that we need to go to the restaurant to pay and place the order in person. We will give the restaurant a meal menu with a cover on it. Our seal, and then the restaurant will give us a list with their seal, we will put that list in the box, and then the delivery person will take the list to pick up the food, so that we don’t have to worry about the restaurant’s failure Make sure we have the money."

Mrs. Lin frowned after hearing this, "This is too troublesome, it's no different from our own trip, and we have to pay two copper coins more, and the food is not so hot."

"Ms. Lin, what you said makes sense." Mrs. Chen nodded, but she paused and continued, "But if you think about it this way, we don't have to cook by ourselves if we give a piece of paper to the restaurant. Like you now In this way, you have to take a child to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, which is very inconvenient."

"You see, we also go to restaurants to eat on weekdays. Some restaurants have a lot of people, and it is very troublesome for us to wait. If we have this takeaway, we don't have to wait there. Although there are two copper coins for the delivery fee, but It saves us the time of waiting for meals, and we don’t eat out every ton, so I think this takeaway is still useful.”

It seemed that Mrs. Chen was very satisfied with the delivery, but Mrs. Lin was a little hesitant. She smiled at Mrs. Chen, and left with the excuse that she was going to buy vegetables.Holding the baby in her arms and going to the street with a vegetable basket, Mrs. Lin has no free hands.

Now that there is nothing in the vegetable basket, Mrs. Lin can still hold the baby in another direction, but after taking two steps, she feels her hands are even more sore.For some reason, she remembered what Mrs. Chen said, and she suddenly felt pretty good.

Unconsciously, Madam Lin stopped, and looked at the restaurant on the street. She saw a restaurant with a name that she was familiar with. She saw it on the takeaway box just now, and it seemed that this restaurant could deliver food.

Mrs. Lin stood by the street, looked at the restaurant for a long time, and then made up her mind and walked towards the restaurant. Today she has to rest and not cook.

"Hello, guest officer, what would you like to eat?" As soon as Mrs. Lin entered the shop, the shop waiter greeted her.

Mrs. Lin rubbed her sore arms, and asked curiously, "I heard that your store can order takeaway, can you order lunch in the morning as well?"

The waiter in the shop heard this, and replied with a smile: "Yes, we provide takeaways at noon and evening. Order at noon in the morning and at night at noon. As long as you order, we will deliver your takeaway at noon."

"Guest officer, do you think you want to try it?" The waiter smiled and introduced the takeaway to Mrs. Lin, and said, "For the first time you order takeout, we will save the delivery fee. If the consumption reaches a certain price, We will also send a stack of side dishes."

Lady Lin looked at the child in her hand, felt her sore arm again, nodded, "Okay, I'll order one."

This morning, Mrs. Lin didn't go shopping anymore. She put the list she got from the restaurant into a box and went home.Back home, the first thing Mrs. Lin did was to sleep. Since giving birth, she felt that she had never had enough sleep.

At noon, Mrs. Lin woke up.For the first time, she felt that life was not so busy. She didn't have to go to the kitchen to cook, and she didn't have to worry about the children being left alone. She had more time to take care of the children.

However, Mrs. Lin was still a little worried about whether the takeaway would come, so she kept looking outside at noon, and when she went to see it, she heard someone knocking on the door.

Mrs. Lin asked inside the door cautiously and curiously, "Who is it?"

"Hi, delivery guy, the food you ordered from Cao's Restaurant has arrived." Someone outside replied.

Mrs. Lin's eyes lit up, and she opened the door immediately. There was a delivery man outside. The man was holding a simple paper food box in his hand. There was also a carriage parked on the street. Seeing that she was in a hurry, she quickly took it. The food box, the food box is still a little hot, she said, "Thank you."

After closing the door, Mrs. Lin took the food box to the yard and opened it. As soon as she took a look, she saw the neatly packed, delicious food.

Her first thought was the fragrance, and her second thought was the convenience!

However, there is still a little inconvenient, that is, every time you eat, you have to go to takeaway in person.But she can do this, go out at noon and order the meal for the afternoon, cook one meal a day and take a rest, the best.

In addition to someone ordering food at Cao's Restaurant, there are also people ordering at Li's Restaurant.

Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng didn't go to the academy that day, they are here to see how the takeaway works.Before noon, the Li Family Restaurant got busy and started making takeaway meals. When the time came, the delivery boy would hurry up and deliver them.

The overall effect of the takeaway is not bad, they just magnify the takeaway of the academy, the difference is that there are servants in the academy to deliver notes, and ordinary people have to deliver notes by themselves, which is very troublesome, but it is not better now There is no way, after all, he can't develop mobile phones.

Wei Shiyi was sorting out the problems he encountered in the rest room, and he solved what could be solved, and left what could not be solved. At this moment, Zheng Shuangcheng rushed in from the door with a happy face.

"Brother Shi, there are ten customers ordering takeout at Li's Restaurant. Just now I saw students from the college coming to get takeout. It looks pretty good." Zheng Shuangcheng said, "It's just that I think there are very few people ordering takeout. Just yesterday I saw at least [-] people in Li’s restaurant who couldn’t eat and went to other places, why did only ten people order takeaway today? And I looked at the street where the experiment was, and there were only about [-] people ordering takeaway on that street.”

It means that today's takeaway order from Li's Restaurant is based on the lost customers on weekdays and the customers on that experimental street. The proportion of this number is too low.

Hearing Zheng Shuangcheng's words, he seemed to be not satisfied with the result.

Wei Shiyi: "Brother Cheng, this result is actually quite good."

Zheng Shuangcheng couldn't hide his disappointment in his words, "Ah, I thought there would be a lot of people ordering takeaway."

Wei Shiyi: "..."

In fact, he could quite understand Zheng Shuangcheng's feelings, and he started a career with great interest, but the result was so-so, and he was a bit frustrated.But in fact, Zheng Shuangcheng didn't understand that it was not bad to do this level of food delivery in ancient times.

It's also his fault that he didn't make it clear to them before.

Wei Shiyi put down the pen in his hand, raised his head, and said to Zheng Shuangcheng: "Brother Cheng, Bianliang has a leisurely life, and there are many restaurants. Many people come out to eat on weekdays. If you can't eat at this one, you can eat at the next one. There are many. choose."

"Moreover, most people usually eat takeaway at home. It will cost more to eat outside than to cook it yourself. Many people are reluctant to bear it, not to mention the delivery fee of two copper coins. So there are fifty Individuals have been pretty good.”

"Is that so?" Zheng Shuangcheng was surprised, and then he said incomprehensibly: "Brother Shi, since you know, why do you want to persuade the restaurant to offer takeout? In this way, there will be very few people eating takeout?"

"Well..." Wei Shiyi pointed at the table, thought for a while, and said to Zheng Shuangcheng: "Brother Cheng, let me tell you this. The group of takeaways we are targeting is the kind that eats at restaurants, but because of restaurants If the scale is not enough, we can only choose customers from other houses, and those customers can already accept eating out, so they don’t care about the one or two copper coins for delivery.”

"Besides, it is these lost customers. We are all thinking of earning as much as we can. The big part is still in the restaurant. The restaurant earns more money from takeaways, and the guests have less trouble to eat. The academy The students can earn a little more money, this is our purpose of doing food delivery."

"This is also the reason why Lin Tiju wanted to expand the takeaway. Otherwise, you would think that he would care about our small business just because of Tiju."

All in all, the takeaway he made is not really making a lot of money, and it is impossible to make it the same as the modern takeaway, but to make it more convenient for the guests and students of the restaurant.

When Wei Shiyi said this, Zheng Shuangcheng finally understood what he meant.

Then he finally figured out why Lin Tiju agreed to their proposal and took over the delivery.He was promoted by the Imperial Medical Bureau. He is an official in the imperial court. The takeaway they made is nothing to him.

Touching his head, Zheng Shuangcheng smiled naively, "It's because I wanted to go left."

"Okay." Wei Shiyi patted Zheng Shuangcheng's head, picked up the paper on the table and said with a smile: "Let's go, go back to the academy, I have to hand over these things to Tiju, and correct some problems that can be corrected. What cannot be changed should be perfected as much as possible.”

"Okay." Zheng Shuangcheng nodded, got up and followed Wei Shiyi away.

Downstairs, Wei Shiyi greeted Sanshu Lin before leaving with Zheng Shuangcheng.

When they returned to the academy, they went to find Lin Tiju. Lin Tiju stayed in the room, and when they heard Wei Shiyi and Zheng Shuangcheng knocking on the door, they hurriedly let them in. As soon as Wei Shiyi went in, seeing Lin Tiju's appearance, Then he knew that he was waiting for them in the academy.

"Tiju, here we come." Wei Shiyi went in and said respectfully.

"Tiju, here we come." Zheng Shuangcheng nodded.

Today is also a big day, and Lin Tiju didn't have the heart to show some etiquette with Wei Shiyi and the others, so he raised his hand and asked Wei Shiyi and the others to sit down quickly, and then asked eagerly, "How is the effect?"

Wei Shiyi also understood what Lin Tiju meant, so he gently explained the delivery situation today.After Lin Tiju listened, he understood that there were not many people ordering takeaway today, and then asked Wei Shiyi to show him the paper on which he wrote down the question.

Wei Shiyi took out the one in his hand and gave it to him, and said as he gave it: "Tiju, the takeaway is not a big problem, as long as we have to prevent the real information between the customers and the restaurant, don't let it happen that I paid but there is no food." , and the situation where customers want to eat food without paying for it.”

"The other thing is to pick up the food from the restaurant and deliver it to the guests in time. Don't let the food get cold in the hands of the guests."

"The last item is to be sure that the food in the restaurant is safe, that is, to ensure that the food in the takeaway restaurant is clean and safe, and the source of the ingredients can be assured."

Wei Shiyi said there, and Lin Tiju was watching.Next, Wei Shiyi talked with Lin Tiju about these issues for a long time. Naturally, there were other issues besides these issues, such as Zheng Shuangcheng said that there are not many takeaways.

But Lin Tiju and Wei Shiyi have the same idea, they just want students to send more takeaway orders, so that restaurants can make more money, and if they can earn more, they can earn more, so he doesn't think there are not many people eating takeaway , but I think it's okay.

After all, most people still eat at home, and there are still relatively few takeaways.

To sum up, this takeaway was quite successful and met their expectations.

In the next few days, they began to do food delivery on other streets. This was Lin Tiju's application to the court, so building boxes on the side of the street did not have much impact.With more and more boxes on the street, Bianliang's takeaway has also begun to grow to a certain scale. Although it is not as modern as it is, it does solve the problem of some people who have trouble cooking or have too little time to cook.

At noon that day, Wei Shiyi took Wei Shihuan to read at the Wei Family Medical Center. It should be Wei Shihuan who was reading. He was waiting for someone. Yesterday he received a message from Master Chen, saying that his surgical instruments were almost ready. , can be delivered today.

While he was waiting, he saw Lin Jinyuan accepting a takeaway. He saw Lin Jinyuan reading a book while eating the takeaway. It felt as if he was back in college, eating takeaway in the dormitory while endorsing a book.

"Senior brother, be careful, don't spill the vegetables on the books." Familiarity is familiar, and Wei Shiyi remembered the incident of eating takeaway vegetables and dropping the books in the past.

Lin Jinyuan laughed, moved the book a little away, and said, "I'll be careful, brother Shi, this takeaway is really good. When I was in the academy, I wondered if the takeaway could be delivered outside the academy, but now it's good , you and Zheng Shuangcheng really managed to come outside, admiration."

"Don't admire me, it's not because of the promotion." Wei Shiyi touched his nose uncomfortably, just at this time he saw Master Chen coming, so he stopped talking about this topic and rushed to greet him.

Seeing people coming, Lin Jinyuan quickly took a few mouthfuls of food, and followed him to meet them.

When Master Chen saw Wei Shiyi, he said, "Brother Shi, I've fixed all the surgical instruments you mentioned. Check if there's anything wrong. I'll take it back and change it."

"Okay, I'll see. Master Chen, sit down first." Wei Shiyi said.

He asked Master Chen to go in and sit down, and asked Xiaoer to make some snacks for Master Chen, and then he started to take stock.

The surgical instruments made by Master Chen are exactly the same as Wei Shiyi's requirements, except for some slight differences in the first set, the others are perfect.That set of Wei Shiyi did not ask Master Chen to rework, because that little difference does not affect the use.

After telling Master Chen that these equipments were enough, Wei Shi left one set in the medical center, and took all the others to Kaifeng Mansion next door.

Tengfu Yin of Kaifeng Mansion had been waiting for Wei Shiyi's instrument. As soon as he came, he quickly welcomed Wei Shiyi in, and then gave him the money he should have after seeing the number of surgical instruments.

When the surgical instruments came, Tengfu Yin immediately found a government official to distribute these surgical instruments. One set was in Kaifeng, some were given to Dali Temple, and some were given to others.

Wei Shiyi watched Tengfu Yin handing out those surgical instruments, and he suddenly saw the future of great progress in surgical research in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Teng Fu Yin was very busy, Wei Shiyi gave him the surgical instruments and left Kaifeng Mansion.Back at the clinic, Wei Shiyi unexpectedly discovered that Master Chen hadn't left yet. Not only that, but Master Chen's expression seemed a bit embarrassed.

"Brother Shi, my master asked you to follow me to the Zhou Mansion, saying that he had something to ask you."

After Wei Shiyi heard what Master Chen had said, he clicked on the words and understood what he meant.

He smiled at Master Chen and said, "I've settled Shi Huan, and I'll go with you."

It seems that Zhou Yun should have reacted to the gunpowder formula he sent up.