Seed dealers in ancient times

The three tables were soon filled with people. Chu Xian arranged the scattered guests on the long table and recommended different dishes for different guests.

He usually distinguishes guests by their clothes and conversation. On days like New Year’s Eve, most people wear newly made clothes. It’s not easy to tell a person’s background just by looking at his clothes, but he is good at sewing and loves to sew Things, so the fabric is good or bad, and the style of the clothes can be judged at a glance. He also met many high-ranking officials and dignitaries during Fuyuezhai. Combined with the conversation of the guests, it is easy to recommend dishes.

It seems that there are a few customers who can afford the money. Brother Xian recommends individual small stir-fries and big dishes. If there is a single simple customer, he recommends rice bowls, such as tomato scrambled eggs, fungus meat Silk, stewed tofu, kung pao chicken, and so on, he himself felt strange and weird names, and he didn't know how Zheng Jiangting came up with them.

He is good at seeing people, and there is also the advantage of being good-looking. The customers are very satisfied, and most of them listen to his recommendations to order dishes, and the dishes do not disappoint when they are served. They are rare and unique, and the taste is good. Compliments from guests abound.

At the beginning, he was still thinking about how much money he charged, fifteen yuan, twenty yuan, fifty yuan, and sixty yuan. Later, there were more customers who paid the bill, shouting here, shouting there, and the customers who came in looked for places to order. , he kept his feet on the ground in a hurry, and after counting the amount of silver he received, he could only put it in the cash drawer in a hurry, without thinking about it at all.

In the afternoon, the candied haws and dried fruits were all delivered. The customers who came later heard that there were no free things to deliver, and some of them turned back when they arrived at the door. The business was more or less affected, and it was not as popular as it was at noon. After the absence, the three of them became a little looser.

Around Chenshi, it was the time when restaurants and restaurants were busy in the evening, but the ingredients prepared by their food shop had been sold out, Zheng Jiangting had to close early, and it was a pity that the late guests did not eat.

Zou Yun cleaned the tables, chairs and benches, and cleaned up the mess. After a day of exhaustion, she could hardly straighten her back. She missed the business because she didn't receive the guests in the evening. She still felt very distressed.

Zheng Jiang stopped to hang the closing sign on the door, and clapped his hands easily. He had been busy for a day without knowing it. At this time, the hawkers closed the stalls, the streets became wider, and the little dolls played in a circle in the street. Laughing together.

"Today, can you eat candied haws from the small restaurant at the end of the street?"

"I got it, I got it! My mother went to buy it for me specially. The candied haws in the small restaurant are delicious. They are sweeter than ordinary candied haws. There are yellow ones and red ones, and you don't have to spit out the core." !"

Zheng Jiang stopped to hear the clear and crisp laughter of the children, and smiled. The candied haws made from cherry tomatoes really please the children.

There will be no giveaways in restaurants tomorrow. Dried cherry tomatoes are nothing, just dry them, but candied haws have to be filled with sugar. You can't do it if you go down.But if these kids really like it and the market prospect is good, he can do some more when he has time, and he can make a little money at that time.

"What is Brother Zheng looking at?"

Brother Xian helped Zou Yun clean up the shop, and watched Zheng Jiang standing at the door in a daze.

"Nothing." Zheng Jiang stopped and smiled at Brother Xian: "Are you tired today?"

Chu Xian frowned and chuckled, and walked towards the counter, saying: "It's not true to say that I'm not tired, my voice is almost hoarse."

Zou Yun echoed: "Thanks to brother Xian who greeted the guests, I was in a hurry and almost served the wrong food."

The kitchen stove is placed in the shop, with such a big space, Zheng Jiangting can see Brother Xian greeting guests as soon as he looks up, and it’s hard not to see his performance. Sheng, today's opening can be so smooth, Brother Xian really has a lot to offer.

"Brother Xian is smart and good for business."

Chu Xian didn't take his words to heart, he knew how to do business, he wanted to marry, but he didn't care much about business affairs, but it was Zheng Jiangting's affirmation, which was more than usual People's praise should be heard a lot.

He opened the money drawer on the counter and took out all the money he earned today, and the three of them closed the door and settled the money they earned today at the table.

"I counted it, and today I received a total of five cents and forty cents." Chu Xian pushed all the copper coins in front of Zheng Jiangting, and a pile of copper coins spread out to spread out a small half of the table. It was quite shocking at first glance.

Zou Yunguang was so busy with his work that he didn't even have any money in her hands. He didn't know that he had made so much money in just one day: "It's really so much, it's more than I worked at the master's house for a month!"

Her heart skipped a beat, and she forgot about her sore back for a moment.

Zheng Jiangting was much calmer: "We sent out a lot of dried fruit and candied gourds for the opening today, so the number of customers came. The free items alone cost nearly a penny. After deducting the cost of rice, vegetables and meat, the remaining There are not many, and I dare not count the money for buying pots and pans and renting shops."

After hearing the words, Zou Yun and Chu Xian regained some sanity, and their joy also weakened a lot.Zheng Jiang didn't want to hurt the emotions of the two of them, so he said again: "But after all, it's a good start. If there are more customers who come to the opening, there will be more people who turn around to promote it. When the time comes, repeat customers plus new customers will be a big deal. A large wave of customers." If you continue to work hard, you will definitely earn more than before. As for how much you can earn, it depends on how you run.

Zou Yun smiled gently. It is not so easy to open a shop. If you really earn enough money in one day, everyone will be scrambling to open a shop. She is also very satisfied now: "It is good for a family to do things together. , we don't ask for great wealth, as long as life gets better, mother will be satisfied."

Zheng Jiang paused to answer, the days were slow and leisurely, Hehe Meimei was the best: "Okay, I'm tired today, I want to eat something for dinner, just go back after eating at the shop, I'll do it."

The family has already tasted the dishes on the menu in the restaurant, and everyone has their own favorites, but today I am really tired, but I don’t pay too much attention to the food, so I just look at what is left in the kitchen and eat as I go up.

After dinner, Zheng Jiangting had to tidy up the restaurant, and went to the meat market to order the meat he needed tomorrow. The consumption of today's opening probably gave him a reference, and he didn't have to buy ingredients blindly. As for vegetables Yes, you have to get up early tomorrow to buy, so that you can pick the freshest and most affordable ones.

Zou Yun thought about going back to boil hot water to wash up first, so that Zheng Jiang would stop and get busy again, so he and Brother Xian went back together first.

By the time Zheng Jiang finished his work, the sky had already turned gray. On the way back, there was the sound of closing doors and closing doors. Warm yellow lanterns lit up from around him. He turned his head and saw a fructose store. It was about to close, he glanced at the shop, and suddenly remembered something.

"Shopkeeper, wait a moment."

"Hey, objectively want to buy something? But still want some sugar?"

Zheng Jiang bought the white sugar for candied haws from this shop. The shopkeeper has good eyesight, so he still remembers him.

But today he is not here to buy sugar: "Do you have honey? Bring me some."

"Yes, yes! The best wild honey was just sent by Orion not long ago, a jar of forty cents."

Zheng Jiangting opened the jar that could be covered with one hand, and a sweet honey smell rolled into his nostrils. It smells really good, but the price is really expensive.

He joked to the shopkeeper: "A real honey pot."

"That's right, I didn't receive much honey last year, and there isn't much in stock in the shop."

"Okay, pack it up."

After Zheng Jiangting paid the money resolutely, it was already dark when he went out, but during the Chinese New Year, the lanterns on the streets were all lit, so there was no need to walk in the dark.

When he arrived at Qingwu Lane, he was not in a hurry to go back, but knocked on Brother Xian's courtyard door first.

After a while, he heard the familiar coughing sound, the courtyard door creaked open, and a head poked out, followed by a faint fragrance, not like the smell of powder he had smelled before, but also It's not the herbal scent that Brother Xian often carries, it's closer to a refreshing scent after a bath.

He raised his head subconsciously. The young man's black hair was loose on his shoulders, and there was still some moisture in the ends of the hair. A wide cloak wrapped his thin body, and he could faintly see the slender and spotless obscene clothes.

"You..." Zheng Jiang didn't ask what he said after he stopped. He just felt that the wind was blowing at night, and it wasn't cold but rather hot. His protruding Adam's apple slipped quietly. He quickly handed over the honey pot in his hand: "Take it."

Chu Xian caught the stuffed honey pot with both hands, and the cloak slipped back a little. He quickly grabbed the cloak, but he didn't know that Zheng Jiang was already standing unbearably at the wind.

"Honey?"

"Drinking it with hot water can protect your throat." Zheng Jiangting hurriedly said: "After drinking the medicine, you can also drink some to relieve the bitterness... the shopkeeper of the fructose shop said."

The corners of Chu Xian's mouth turned up, and she held the honey pot against her chest. She nodded obediently with lowered eyebrows, and a casual sentence was remembered in her heart. Before she drank the honey, the honey juice seemed to flow in first. To the heart, sweet.

"it is good."

Zheng Jiang paused in response, turned his head and was about to go back, before he took two steps, he paused again, and couldn't help turning his head back: "That..."

Chu Xian tilted her head: "Is there anything else?"

"Don't come out in such thin clothes to open the door at night."

Hearing this, Chu Xian looked down at herself, not a single piece of skin was exposed on her whole body, and even her ankles were covered tightly. Why did she say so thinly, he looked thoughtfully at Zheng Jiangting with a puzzled expression.

Zheng Jiangting looked as if the soles of his feet were on fire, and he felt guilty immediately: "Hurry up and go back to the house. It's cold outside, so I'll go back first too."

After saying that, he walked into his yard with a few strides.