Boss Xia's Lobster Restaurant

The next day, Mother Xia rode her family's bicycle, with Xia Qingyang sitting on the front bar, and the 20-jin lobster strapped to the back, and went to town early.

Because it is not a big market, there are not many people in the town that day, only one resident shop is open on the street, and there are a few stalls selling vegetables and meat on the roadside, and there is still a smell of big meat floating on the street The aroma of wontons.

Xia Qingyang, who hadn't eaten breakfast, couldn't help swallowing...

"Good boy, Yangyang, let's go find the boss and sell the lobster first, and when you come back, mom will take you to eat wontons." Mother Xia touched the top of the furry head of the eldest son in a funny way. Are you reluctant to buy wontons for your children?

When Xia Qingyang took Xia's mother to find the lobster vendor Pan Yongfu's house, the guy had just woken up and was standing outside the house beside a mud pot to heat steamed buns. The woman came over, still holding a plastic bucket in her hand, and suddenly remembered that the child must have brought his family to sell lobsters.

"Little friend, let's meet again! Have you had breakfast yet?" Pan Yongfu smiled and dragged out a bench from under the shed for the two to sit and rest.

Xia's mother parked the bicycle and unloaded the plastic bucket containing the crayfish. She was worried that the lobster would escape, so she covered it with a straw mat.

"Hello, Uncle Pan! This is my mother. We are here to sell lobsters today! Look, we just caught them yesterday. They are big and fresh! They are all alive!"

"Yo~! It's really good!" He stretched his head to look at the lobsters in the plastic bucket, and sure enough, all of them were shiny black.

"Let me see~~" Pan Yongfu brought out a plastic basin from the room, poured all the lobsters into it, picked it up with wooden chopsticks, and nodded with satisfaction, "Oh! Not bad! There are only a few green shells, forget it I won’t take it out and weigh it separately, it’s all three yuan and five pounds for you!”

Even so, when weighing the lobster, Pan Yongfu still deducted half a catty from the plastic basin. Looking at the plastic basin, which was only about two or two in weight, Xia Qingyang curled his lips secretly: he really is a treacherous one!No wonder I abducted Cheng's mother in my previous life...

"Look! It's a total of 24 catties and 25 taels. It's your first time here, and you are from the village. Let's count it as 87 catties! Three yuan and a catty, a total of 87 yuan and fifty cents. Wait, I'll go in and get the money for you !" Pan Yongfu took the basin in, turned around and took out a handful of odd bills, counted [-] yuan and handed them to Mother Xia.

Mother Xia didn't intend to leave immediately.

"Boss Pan, right? I'm Cheng Qiuyue from Xiahe Village. It's like this. There are many ditches and crayfish near our village. I want to do a long-term business with you. Is it convenient to talk now?"

Huh?

interesting!

Pan Yongfu took a careful look at Mama Xia. This woman didn't seem to be from the village, but she seemed to have stayed in the city.

"Hehe~~Yangyang's father and I used to set up a stall in the provincial capital to sell vegetables. Last year, his father had a car accident and our family moved back. Now the family has nothing else to do, and the two children have to go to school again. He Dad also needs money to see a doctor, so I can't help it..." Mother Xia explained euphemistically.

"Ah? Oh! I understand~understand~~" Pan Yongfu scratched his head embarrassingly, and looked at Mama Xia with more sincere eyes. Didn't he do the same when his old mother was paralyzed in bed?

"Then, big sister, tell me! As long as my old Pan can help, feel free to speak up!"

"Brother Pan, don't say that. Actually, I just want to ask, can I set up a crayfish collection point in Xiahe Village, and the lobsters I receive will be handed over to you, so that you don't have to go to the market every day to set up a stall to collect them. Good thing, I can also earn a difference from the middle, pay tuition fees for the children and so on, you see?"

"Hey! What did I think it was? This is a good thing!" Pan Yongfu laughed and patted the crumbling table, "It happens that my old lady is paralyzed on the bed alone and has no one to take care of it. If you can help me collect it in the countryside Crayfish, that will save me a lot of trouble! However, since it is collected on behalf of others, then our price cannot be calculated like this..."

"Ah?!" Mother Xia's heart skipped a beat. Doesn't this mean to bargain?

"Hey~~ Big sister, don't think so wrongly, I didn't mean that." Pan Yongfu touched his nose, and said embarrassedly, "That's it~~ I don't want to be rich and expensive, I just collect lobsters. If you want to earn some money, my mother really can't do without people. In this way, if you can guarantee to provide me with a hundred catties of crayfish every day, then I will not accept other bulk goods in the future, and I will return every catty of lobster You mention fifty cents. But it can’t be less than one hundred catties a day, and if it’s less, you can only pay the original price.”

"One hundred catties..." Mama Xia hesitated for a moment.

"Mom! Promise! One hundred catties is fine." Xia Qingyang secretly winked at Xia's mother.

"Uh~~Boss Pan, it's like this. I have to go back and make up the sum with my family. You see, tomorrow is the big market. I'll come back tomorrow morning to answer you?"

"Tomorrow then! I'll wait for good news from you, big sister! By the way, you guys are so early in the morning, have you eaten yet? Why don't you have some at my house?"

"Oh, no, Boss Pan, there is a patient in my family who can't go away, we went to the street to buy something and then went back, see you tomorrow!" Xia's mother saw Pan Yongfu glanced at the cauldron shyly, and said Knowing that the breakfast at this man's house must be messed up casually, he refused.She also knew that for a big man with a paralyzed old lady, it would be good if he could make breakfast, and it was probably to save money, otherwise he would have gone to the early shop on the street to buy it.

"Mom, why didn't you just agree to Uncle Pan?" Xia Qingyang asked Mother Xia curiously when she reached the corner.

"Oh, my silly son!" Xia's mother scratched Xia Qingyang's nose in a funny way, "You can't do this in business. A hundred catties of lobster is a little less, and if one person sells me ten catties, I get ten." Talent is good, and if more people know about it in the future, it will be easy to accept, but how can it be so easy at the beginning? If you agree rashly but fail to do it, you will lose your reputation."

"What do you mean, mom?" Xia Qingyang had been working as a part-time worker in her previous life, and had never done business at all, and she didn't know the details of it. It was Xia's mother, who had done business in the city after all, and had her own set of behaviors. guidelines.

"Let's go back and find a few people to ask. If we are not sure, we can talk to Boss Pan later and ask him to give us a try for half a month. After half a month, we will collect the reputation If we go out, not only our village, but also people from the surrounding villages will send lobsters to sell."

"That's right! At that time, one hundred catties a day will be easier to handle!" Xia Qingyang looked at his mother with wide eyes adoringly. In her previous life, her mother was overwhelmed by the burden of the family, and no one would help her, so it would be better now Although the family is still poor, my mother has not given up her efforts.

This is so good!

"Mom, let's go eat wontons! After eating, bring back big meat buns for father and younger brother!" Looking at his still young mother, Xia Qingyang instantly felt that the future is so beautiful!The anxiety and worry since rebirth seemed to have faded a lot.

"Yeah! After eating the wontons, I'll go buy a pair of pants for you and my brother! The ones of yours are almost up to your knees, and kids grow up fast!"

"Mom, don't buy it for us yet. It's still early in autumn, and it's not cold in the morning and evening! We have to save the money for the lobster sale, right?"

"Hey! My son knows how to settle accounts! Not bad!" Mother Xia patted her son's little shoulder with a smile, "Then listen to our little man! I'll buy you better ones when I make money!"

After Xia's mother took Xia Qingyang to eat the hot big wontons, she bought 6 big meat buns for Xia's father and Xia Qingmiao. I went home with my bicycle.

When I got home, Xia Qingmiao was squatting at the door to play with the puppy. When she saw her mother and brother came back, she jumped up for joy: "Brother, did you bring me meat buns yet?"