Snack Street Tycoon

This afternoon, Fan Yu was accompanied by Chonghou Fang after finishing his work in Caidan Jinwu, and went back to his Dakang restaurant to pick up his car, then said goodbye to him, and walked back inside alone.

He first went back and told his mother-in-law about his account opening in Jinwu.He still likes to tell his mother-in-law about anything, because after all, her mother-in-law has lived in this place for decades, and she is much more familiar with everything than him, and her mother-in-law is an old ginger, and she is also much shrewd about things. .This is generally the case. In Fan Yu's heart, he felt that people will become more refined when they get old.

The mother-in-law was sitting at the table they usually used to eat in the fire room in front of her, helping him pound the husks of the triangle wheat kernels. After hearing what he said, she thought for a while and said, "Use his light to open the account. Just don’t put too much money in it. Think about it, with your current status, in case someone will set up a name one day, saying that you are not in compliance with the regulations here, and you want to use it Everything has been confiscated. The promises made by the owner and you are all verbal, so you can't trust them all, and the laws here can't guarantee your expediency. I think you should hurry up and redeem your life. An urgent matter."

At this time, Fan Yu also took a small and medium-sized thin-walled stone mortar, and finely pounded the triangle wheat kernels in it.The triangular wheat has been exposed to the sun so that the black skin on the surface has turned into a bluish-white color, and the texture is brittle, so when it is finely pounded, it is very easy to take off the husk. Take the thin bamboo sieve made by my mother-in-law in the open space and blow it sideways in the wind, and only the peeled wheat kernels will remain.

He pounded and said, "I didn't think of this until after I finished the account. It's indeed the same thing. Who can guarantee that my money will be fine if it is stored in it." The mother-in-law said: "And don't you tell the man Be on guard against him, but still be vigilant. What do you think he is doing to you for no reason?"

Fan Yu also understands that after all, it means that he has nothing to attract people's attention, except for some novel foods that people make.It's not that he doesn't understand the reason for this, it's just that he also needs that person's protection, so that he can increase the chances of traveling with him and create more illusions that he is protected by Dakang Restaurant. a favorable thing.This is what he drew.

How could he fail to understand the entanglement involved, to put it bluntly, they were just using each other.Another thing is that he thinks that Hou Mian is a good person, at least he should not be a villain, narrow-minded.When some people ask for help from others, they are very kind to others, even a little weird. Once they find that they can't count on them, it depends on how that person barks at them.And people like Chonghou Mian, although they are very kind to others when they ask for something, but if one day they find that they can't count on them, they will not lose their tolerance.This is the difference between big men and men with small noses and small eyes who are not men at all.

It is also because of this level that even if Fan Yu knows that there is such a state of mutual benefit between him and this Houhou, it is not because he likes him because he cares about and helps him. But he is still willing to make friends with him, because it is worth it, and it is also beneficial to him, and if the cooperative relationship fades in the future, he should not be too afraid of any retaliation from that person.

He said to his mother-in-law: "Don't worry, I know. I can't avoid him. I keep avoiding him. He also said that you don't give face, and I can use him. I have some ties to their Dakang Restaurant. Outside People on the street dare not bully me casually." The mother-in-law said, "Yes, yes."

He asked his mother-in-law: "Mother-in-law, I have to rent a house in the city in a hurry these two days, and I have to buy some children. Would you like to go and see with me?" I also told my mother-in-law about the ten semicolons I told him, and my mother-in-law asked him to buy some children to help with processing. He said that my mother-in-law would take care of it and teach everyone to make gray wheat buns together, and rent a house to buy someone He came to buy all the things, and then [-]% of the money from selling the ten semicolon ashes would be given to the mother-in-law. The mother-in-law laughed and said at the time, I didn't expect that I would make a fortune when I was old. .

But last night, they didn't come to any conclusion on the matter of buying people, because he really didn't want to use children who were only ten years old. In his concept, it was against the law and it was child labor.At that time, my mother-in-law didn't understand his concerns, and thought it was because he didn't want to buy ten-year-old children because he thought ten-year-old children were weak, so he wanted to buy only fifteen or six-year-old children.

At this time, the mother-in-law asked him again: "Have you decided what kind of person you want to buy?" He replied: "I'd better buy those who are fifteen or six years old. I really can't use children as young as ten years old. It's too pitiful." When the mother-in-law heard it, it was because of this that she persuaded him: "You think, you don't want to, when they are bought by others, they still have to suffer, and most of them are like this here. You put They bought it, at least they can eat and clothe themselves here, and they don’t have to do heavy work.” Fan Yu thought about it too.

That afternoon, he and his mother-in-law went into the city and rented a house in a secluded place a little behind the market in the east of the city. Although it was a bit shabby, it was spacious and cheap.There are three main rooms on the north side of the house, a large room with a smaller side room on each side, and two opposite wing rooms at the corners of the main room—the east wing and the west wing. There are three side-by-side rooms in the east wing. In addition, there are three rooms connected side by side in the west wing.The middle courtyard is also large enough, and there is a well in the courtyard.

In addition, the main house in the north is covered by a back room, and the courtyard cannot be seen immediately after entering the front door, but the house door is opened on the south side, and there is a row of inverted houses facing the street beside the house door.When you enter the gate of the house, you will first see the screen wall, turn left from the screen wall, you can see an arch, and then enter the courtyard through the arch.In this way, the whole house is quite hidden.

This house is in the east of the city, just behind the market, but behind a very lively place, it is very secluded and unobtrusive.To be precise, this area is in the northeast corner of the city, not in the east. This area is a slightly poorer place for commoners to live in, and the rent will not increase.Unlike those places in the south of the city, a small house would cost a lot of rent.

After they rented the house, they went to the market to buy people.It was the first time for Fan Yu to see such a scene with his own identity. Although he still remembered the scene when the body itself was waiting to be bought in the market, he could see it with his own eyes once again. When he saw such a scene, he was a little bit tongue-tied, and the feeling was not much better than when he was buying donkeys and horses in the market in the east of the city.People here are very cheap. He bought four children who were only ten years old and were sold by the family, and then bought four children who were released because the original owner cut down the business and did not need so many people. For children of different ages, two strong men were hired.

Men cannot be bought or sold, they can only be hired.Those children and older children were all named under the mother-in-law's account. In the future, they will all be under the mother-in-law's account just like Fan Yu and Zu Xin.And those two men were also hired in the name of mother-in-law.

Fan Yu didn't expect to buy eight people, plus hiring two people is such a quick and convenient thing to do, compared with the human resources department he knew before, it would take more than ten days to choose one person The situation is completely different.

He and his mother-in-law took these ten people to his newly rented house in the east of the city, followed her mother-in-law and told them what they were going to do the next day, and asked them to put the house, the house they would live in and the The venues and rooms to be used for work should be cleaned up properly.Afterwards, the men followed Fan Yu into the market in the east of the city to buy bedding and bowls and chopsticks, and helped carry them back to their house.There is no room for them to fire, so the mother-in-law is responsible for three meals a day, and the mother-in-law also has to direct these people to do some work of kneading, kneading and pulling dough, and then enter the city from the mountain outside the north gate of the city. It won't take long to turn into the house behind the city's east market, and it doesn't mean that it's as far away as walking along Daqi Street to a brothel or Dakang Restaurant to deliver goods.

After returning home in the afternoon, the mother-in-law made dinner earlier on purpose. After it was ready, she put all the food the three of them wanted to eat on the stove, and gave the rest to the gray wheat buns and some vegetables and meat. , all installed, let Fan Yu rush down the mountain to see her off first.Because Zu Xin wanted to go out for activities, he asked Fan Yu if he could go with him, saying that he wanted to go out and walk around.Of course, Fan Yu would not say no, so the two drove the mother-in-law's donkey and the cart that the mother-in-law used to deliver goods on weekdays to send the food down the mountain.

The group at the bottom of the mountain seemed to have never eaten in ten lifetimes, gobbling it up, completely ignoring how ugly it looked.

When they were eating, Fan Yu didn't leave right away, mainly because he was afraid that the older one would bully the younger ones, so he robbed the food and only cared about them eating.Although the people he picked at the beginning were all honest and conservative based on his intuition, and then bought after the confirmation of his mother-in-law, but he was afraid that there might be some mistakes.But the situation is okay, although everyone is a little anxious to eat, but there is no competition among each other.

While they were eating, he first went with Zu Xin to see how the house was being cleaned, and then he looked at the size of each room, thinking about how to divide the process and who should be responsible for which process.

When they had almost finished eating, they collected the baskets of wheat bags and the wooden barrels of vegetables, told them to lock the door of the house at night, and said that Grandma Tian would come down to see them and take care of their work, and also take care of their work Be careful and serious.

Then, he took Zu Xin away, and the two hired men carefully locked the front house.The two men Fan Yu chose were particularly strong, even stronger than the guards in the brothel. With them, besides kneading and throwing noodles, they could do some strenuous work for children. , there is another great use, that is, it can be used as a town house.

After they left, a few kids got together, and one of the ten-year-olds asked a sixteen-year-old, "Didn't you say that if you were bought away, you wouldn't have a good life?" I can only eat two or three hard gray wheat buns every day, why are the gray wheat buns eaten here so delicious, and there is meat for us to eat.” The sixteen-year-old couldn’t answer, so he could only mutter: "I... I don't know either."

Another ten-year-old boy asked: "Tomorrow my mother-in-law will come again and teach us how to make this delicious gray wheat bun. I'm so nervous. If I don't make it well, I don't know if I will be scolded by my mother-in-law." Another There was a fifteen-year-old boy who was very intelligent, turned his eyes, and said to the group of people: "Can't you see? The one in charge is Fan Yu, and the mother-in-law is just put in front of him."

As soon as he heard him say this, another ten-year-old asked: "Is the mother-in-law doing nothing? Can I stop listening to what my mother-in-law says?" The 15-year-old patted the head and said, "I don't want to live anymore, be careful. When doing things, my mother-in-law told Fan Yu, kick you out, I don’t think you can eat meat, you can’t even eat wheat buns, how will you live then?” The ten-year-old shrank his head, and didn’t even dare to say anything In other words, he was afraid that someone would come and drive him out.

The next day, Fan Yu went to Daqi Street to do croaking business as usual, while her mother-in-law sent some ingredients and production materials down the mountain with a donkey cart according to the procedures Fan Yu had divided last night, and then told Fan Yu The uncle who sold the mill bought three mills.Because it is a standard type of dry grinding with a large grinding disc, there is no need to spend time waiting for an order, just buy it now.After buying it, the man in the house helped to transport it back to the house one by one, and then put it away.Started some preliminary division of labor processing.

With the backing of the shrewd old lady at home, Fan Yu didn't have much to worry about. He just let his mother-in-law go to the house and arrange it according to what they discussed last night, while he started business with peace of mind.

On this day, before 15:[-] p.m., all the quacks in the two vats he brought were sold out. He counted the number of remaining paper bowls, and then reckoned the amount he brought out today. It sold about [-] bowls.Calculated in this way, I have to fill four bowls of this quack for people every minute, and that is two bowls every half a minute. Not only do I have to put this quack into the paper bowl, but I also need to use a long spoon to put the seasoning into the bowl, and I can't go wrong.That is to say, every [-] seconds there are nine to twelve actions of poking with a spoon, plus money is charged.

When Fan Yu was selling, out of a passion for making money, he didn't feel the pain caused by the high speed and lack of rest. After everything stopped, he realized that his arms seemed to be sore. , Still thinking: No wonder my arms feel so sore these days.

He held the right shoulder with his left hand, and then turned his right arm well, drawing a circle from front to back with his elbow bent, spinning idly like turning a wheel bearing with his hands.I plan to loosen my right arm for a while, and then eat the bowl of gua gua reserved for myself. After eating, I will buy a meat bun and eat it, and then I will exchange money.

But the arm was only half loose, when I saw a person standing in front of me, I took a closer look, hey, it was the friend of the fat man, what was his name, I forgot, I only heard Zu Xin mention it once, and I didn’t remember much with.He only remembered that he and Chonghou Fang were deadly rivals, but he never thought that these two rivals would get involved in a war that would bring him harm. If you fight, the fisherman will benefit." Therefore, these two people can fight as much as they like, and he will not let them have a chance to hurt himself, but only thinks whether the fight between the two will produce something that he can use. thing.

The man asked him if he had croaks for sale, and he said they were sold out.The man turned to leave, and he happened to take out a bowl of gua gua reserved for himself to eat. As soon as the man smelled the smell, he turned his head and asked him if they were all sold out?He said it was lunch for himself.The man said that he had been waiting all morning, and there were too many people to buy. He softened his heart, so he gave this bowl to this man, and took four coins from him, because what he left for himself today was a medium bowl. amount.

The man gave the money, and he was closing the stall, and he was still busy closing the stall, because his stomach was empty, so he wanted to close the stall quickly so that he could buy meat buns.Seeing that he was in such a hurry to harvest, the man asked him what he was doing in such a hurry.He asked the man if he bought something and he didn't take it away to eat, and he came to ask him what he was doing.The man shrugged and left.

He closed the file, found a steamed stuffed bun shop in this section of Daqi Street, and bought two steamed stuffed buns.This section of the road is in the south of the city, and things are more expensive than those in the north of the city, but they are also more refined.After he bought it, he turned into an alley, saw that it was a dead-end alley, and there was no one around, so he sat on the edge of the cart, took off the oil paper and gnawed.

After eating, I went to exchange the money, and on the way back, I went to the house in the east of the city to inspect it. Seeing that the operation was normal, I explained a few details, and remembered some things in my heart to be subdivided After finishing the process, he pushed the cart and walked back.

While walking, before he left the market, he heard someone call him, and saw that he was an uncle who sold mills. The uncle said hello to him, and said that his mother-in-law came to buy mills from them in the morning, and said that his mother-in-law had mentioned him, Only then did he realize that the mother-in-law was his boss.He also said hello to the uncle, chatted a few more words, and then pushed out of the market.As he pushed, a feeling arose in his heart that although he didn't live near this market, he would come here often just because he rented a house here now, and Gradually getting acquainted with the uncle who sells mills and the oil paper maker, unexpectedly, I have a feeling that I now have neighbors, and I feel that these neighbors get along quite well with each other.This feeling is no better than the feeling of living on the top of the mountain with my mother-in-law. I feel particularly lonely, as if I can't find a second family on the mountain for a hundred miles around.

It was different now, these neighbors gave him a sense of reassurance that his rented house was not so lonely.

On the second day, he went to sell croaks again, and Zu Xin helped to process croaks at home. The mother-in-law went down the mountain to teach the children in the house how to do things with the two men, and to teach some details that Fan Yu was optimistic about yesterday. The improvement in the matter is also told to everyone in the house at the foot of the mountain.These people eat and live here. Not only do they eat fine and delicious food, but they also have meat for them to eat. They can live in such a good house, and now it’s the cold season, and they have thick quilts. , and the mother-in-law brought the newly bought padded clothes for winter, and they all cherish the job in front of them.

Those who were fifteen or six were thinking that it's a good thing that the previous owner's business collapsed and shrank, otherwise they wouldn't be able to get out, and they wouldn't be able to stay where they are now; while the ten-year-old just came out to work The few of them were thinking that fortunately they were going to be sold when they were ten years old. They never thought that being sold was such a good thing. They were crying all the time during the few days when they were about to be sold. Sitting at home, crying but not daring to cry aloud, afraid of being scolded by his parents, only dared to bear it with tears in his eyes, and was wronged there.

This day, Fan Yu had dozens of dials and a few actions to collect money every minute. At last, that person came again yesterday.Fan Yu saw that this person was always in such a hurry, and only came when the business was done and the stalls were closed.He said it was closed, and the man asked him if he had saved another bowl for himself, and he did, so he just nodded, the man said he would buy it, but he said he would not sell it, and today he insisted on eating his own homemade gua gua When making lunch, the man brought out a food box, which contained a roasted duck leg, evenly cut into pieces, with a red-flavored sauce, and spread it on white fragrant rice.Rice is an expensive grain in this place, even more expensive than flour.Fan Yu hadn't eaten rice for a long time, and when his family occasionally cooked porridge made with white rice, it was just a handful of rice, so watery that it couldn't be tasted like it was boiled with rice.

The man said to exchange this with him, and he looked at it twice.If you want to eat but feel that you will not be rewarded for nothing, this person must have no good intentions.The man put the boxed lunch and duck legs under the tip of his nose, he sniffed twice, couldn't help it, and agreed.

So he ate the duck leg rice at the back of the cart, and thought the taste was not bad. He thought it might be because he hadn't eaten such a thing for a long time, so he felt that this bowl might be a common thing for him before. At this moment It looks so delicious.

And the man stood in front of his cart and ate croaks.

However, before the two of them had eaten a few mouthfuls of food, Xunhou Mian appeared, grabbed the piece of duck meat that Fan Yu was muttering in his mouth, pulled it back, threw it out, and snatched it again. With the box of lunch in Fan Yu's hand, he asked the "strong tofu man" next to him: "Would you like to eat what he has eaten?" The strong tofu man nodded: "What's the matter, I'm familiar with him, and I often eat from a bowl. "Xonghou Fang said: "Then you eat." The tofu warrior happily took it, because the box of lunch, including the duck leg, had not been touched by chopsticks, and he happened to have not eaten, so it would be better to eat now Something for lunch.

Chonghou warned: "You have never eaten, why do you eat what anyone gives you?" Fan Yu saw that the rare bowl of rice was gone, so he chewed the aftertaste in his mouth Chew, swallow, and say, "I haven't eaten for a long time."

The strong tofu man next to him also felt embarrassed after eating, so he asked if he wanted to give him back the rest. He waved his hand and said that he didn't want to eat, and he just bought something to eat later.

Chonghou asked him to push the cart and follow him, and said, "Go to my restaurant today, you can eat as much as you want, don't act like someone who has never seen the world all day long, and being taken away by others is worthless. You can fool me with this little thing, and you will lose everything in your mind." While talking to Fan Yu, the two passed by Xia Houyi who was standing with a quack paper bowl.