Chentan's Memories

No.40 back to the young master and the shameful Yushu small restaurant is booming and tiring Lin Lang

Besides, after more than 20 days, Lin Lang and Tang Yushu were gnawed by Chen Tan's suffocated mouths.

Since the middle of the time, there have been people coming and going, and the guests will come again after delivering one crop.Those who didn’t mind the cold weather directly moved the tables, chairs and stools to the porch, shouting: “It’s okay if you don’t sit in the hall to eat!”

Standing at the bottom of the steps and looking up at the noisy and noisy main hall full of fireworks, Lin Lang felt very satisfied—although he fumbled around clumsily along the way, he finally achieved decent results.He couldn't help expressing his emotions, so he was called by the customer to check out. He was busy collecting the bills for several tables, and before he could recover, another customer clamored for more drinks.

The thirty jugs of wine that Ah Ci sent in the morning have been sold out, Lin Lang is about to send Chen Ni to find A Ci to move a few more jars, but he can't find anyone.When he was about to have a seizure, he saw that the boy had already returned to the restaurant with a wooden ox cart, which was carrying more than ten jars of wine.

"You have sharp eyes and quick hands... that's fine!" Lin Lang praised in his heart, and then he sat back at the cashier for a while.

Halfway through the application time, the number of customers in the restaurant gradually decreased.

After a new year, the business seems to be much more prosperous than before.

Lin Lang thought about it carefully: I don't know whether this "prosperity" is due to taking advantage of the time of the New Year, or simply because the business of the restaurant itself has become better-if you can't figure this out, you can't recruit people rashly.

The energy of serving guests at noon today is indeed several times that of the past, and the four of them are in a hurry to take care of the continuous guests one by one.If you are recruiting people, then the business will be as prosperous as it is today; but if the new year is over, people's enthusiasm for consumption will gradually cool down, and the business will not be as good as these days, then the people you recruit will not be able to rest idle with...

Unable to understand the solution, Lin Lang had a headache.

On the other side, Tang Yushu was at the stove, wrapped in a coarse cloth apron, washing the dishes and chopsticks carefully.Lin Lang wanted to discuss it with him, but then he felt that that guy could not understand these logics; at this moment, Chen Ni walked in with a pot of unknown things, found a basin and scooped it out of the water urn. A few ladles of water to fill the pot.

"What's that?" Lin Lang leaned over.

"Chopsticks." Chen Ni smiled: "Juxian Tower has collapsed - I heard that shopkeeper Sun was hated by the townspeople after he poisoned our restaurant, and his business was not as good as it was every day; later he became obsessed with gambling, but his luck was not good. Jia also built the whole store, and now she left the store and ran away; now that the Chinese New Year is coming, the creditors sell the things in Juxianlou to collect debts, I spend a penny for these chopsticks and the two wooden shelves outside the door bought."

Following Chen Ni's words, Lin Lang turned his head and looked out the window to look at the shelves he had brought back—two trembling wooden shelves with peeling paint, dilapidated: "A penny is not money. What are these useless things for? I don’t think this shop is broken enough.”

"It's not broken, what are you thinking so much about?" Chen Ni boiled the pot and used it to clean the chopsticks: "Master, you know what is called 'beautiful' only after you have seen beautiful things. We have never seen those exquisite scenery. , just focus on its actual function. No matter how exquisite and beautiful it is, it is also a shelf, which is no different from the two I picked up. Could it be possible that the carved beams and painted buildings can hold a few more radishes than the tattered ones? ? Don’t you also understand this truth?”

Knowing that Chen Ni is a smart ghost, but Lin Lang didn't catch the meaning behind the smart ghost's words for a while, so he just frowned: "What truth do you think I understand?"

Chen Ni smiled slyly: "There are so many handsome young masters in Jinling City, none of them can fascinate our young master - but it happened to fall on Brother Yushu in the end."

Only then did he realize that this kid was actually trying to make fun of himself, and Lin Lang was so angry that he argued first: "Tang Yushu is not a hypocrite!... No, what a mess—how did I fall on Tang Yushu?"

"If you don't fall on Young Master Tang, how can you still bite him!" Seeing Lin Lang's eyes widening while talking and laughing, he immediately yelled "the guest wants to take care of him" and ran out in a hurry.

Leaving Lin Lang in this room, he complained angrily: "This kid is getting smaller and smaller. He dares to make fun of me now. How can he manage it in the future!" Turning to Tang Yushu for comfort, Tang Yushu saw Yushu snickered over there; Lin Lang, who caught Tang Yushu's expression, was even more anxious: "You...even you laugh at me! What are you laughing at?"

Tang Yushu sniffed, pursed his lips and suppressed a smile: "It's nothing... I just feel that life is going well... Bashi."

Let's say that Chen Ni was empty in that room, so he got some nails and hammers from somewhere to fix the two shelves, and put them under the porch to avoid the wind and sun; he also drained and tidied up the bamboo chopsticks that had been boiled. Carefully placed in the cabinet.

Lin Lang saw him running back and forth to take care of the guests, and also dealing with Shun Er who was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Nezha, appreciation gradually surfaced in my heart.

Originally thinking that no one would like to eat outside in the winter, so Chen Ni put away all the tables and chairs in the yard and put them under the south wall.Unexpectedly, in the evening, the number of guests in the restaurant doubled that of noon.

Lin Lang's eyes widened when he saw the flow of passengers.

On the one hand, I feel that business is as good as the fire that Tang Yushu burned in the yard on the night of the New Year's Eve;So much so that Lin Lang didn't care about the cold in the middle of winter, so he cut some square-sized pieces of red paper and wrote one, two, three, and four as chips, and distributed them to the waiting guests while yelling: "If you are willing to make do in the yard, you can move it yourself." Tables are occupied, and those who don't want to leave - there is no one in the restaurant, so we can't take care of them!"

The original intention was to use "the dining environment is bad" to dissuade the guests who couldn't take care of them, but unexpectedly, after Lin Lang gave the order, everyone flocked to the bottom of the south wall to move tables and chairs, and some even scolded each other, "I'll catch them first." live", "I lifted it first" and broke a table leg.

Lin Lang felt that for the first time in his life, he was a little suffocated because of being too happy.

No, to be precise, it was the second time—the first time was on the fifteenth night of the twelfth lunar month years ago... I don't need to go into details.

No restaurant will exclude business from getting better.

But in order to earn a few more taels... well, making everyone so busy with tens of taels of silver is indeed not what Lin Lang wants to see.

Send away the last table of guests (Note by Tang Yushu: The last table was actually swept away by Lin Lang!) (Note by Chen Nian: Juan, with a Sichuan accent, the meaning of cursing...) (Note by Shun'er: Too tired to press came out...) It is already the end of the ugly time.

His gaze ranged from Shun'er who was dozing off on the threshold, to Chen Ni, whose joints were flushed from the cold while washing dishes, to Tang, whose face was gray and black, and coughed from choking on the stir-fry sauce. Yushu finally landed on himself in the bronze mirror with a sad face in front of him. Lin Lang didn't think this miserable appearance was the beauty brought about by the fiery business, but seemed more like the desolation of being plundered and ruined by bandits... So he was so angry Slap on the table: "Closed tomorrow! Holiday! Take a day off!"

Tang Yushu said: "What's the matter... There are many guests who haven't eaten today, shouldn't we let them come tomorrow?"

Lin Lang willful: "I don't care, it's none of my business if they eat or not, I'm tired anyway!"

Chen Ni said: "Too capricious!"

Shun'er chimed in: "Too capricious!"

Lin Lang was so blocked that he couldn't calm down, and when he cast his eyes on Tang Yushu's face, Tang Yushu also said leisurely: "Too capricious!"

In the middle of the ugly time, the two children went to lie down.

Lin Lang was also sent back to the wing by Tang Yushu, and lay on the couch with the oil lamp, feeling both bitter and happy.It is indeed embarrassing to suffer and suffer tiredness after this day. Being happy in business shows that I have a good vision and invest my energy in the right place...and people.

In fact, there is bitterness on the lips, but the sweetness in my heart is actually something I can't ignore.Now my father has let go of his mouth, letting him do his own business, and the pressure is much less.

Thinking of his father, Lin Lang felt a little guilty again.In previous years, my father was usually not at the mansion during Chinese New Year - the more this season, the more critical time for him to befriend business guests - but the next day when he returned to the mansion with a hangover, he would still call himself into the main hall , while drinking sober tea and rubbing his uncomfortable stomach, he asked his servants to bring in all kinds of rare things in a fawning way, and heaped his brains in front of Lin Lang, and forced him to play the role of a strict father, exhorting: "Although It's a plaything to reward you, but don't lose your mind by playing with it! You must study hard and test your reputation!"

Every time Lin Lang responded with a few perfunctory words, this year's festival is over.

But this year he turned down all kinds of invitations, and when he planned to stay in the mansion to accompany him during the New Year, Tang Yushu picked him up. Thinking about it this way, he can probably understand why his father made things difficult for Tang Yushu.Thinking up to this point, Lin Lang couldn't help but wanted to laugh again - it's really interesting that a merchant predator who runs across Jinling and even the entire Jiangnan now sets up a stupid martial artist as an enemy.

After flipping through it several times, his thoughts let him go to the sky, unable to fall asleep peacefully, Lin Lang simply sat up.Although the restaurant has grown rapidly in a short period of time, but it is busy every day, and the net profit of the twenty or so tables is only three taels of silver per day - it is said that the Lin family makes a fortune every day; the doujin is 500 taels Gold, 5000 taels of silver—how can I catch up, so that I can beat my father's grades...

I really answered the phrase "If you are not in charge of the family, you don't know how expensive the firewood is"... Looking back at the time when I was still a "noble son", I greeted a group of cronies and learned the habits from my parents, and imitated pushing a cup for another One meal can cost more than a dozen taels; while some people have to gamble their lives on the battlefield in order to raise some money for medicine for their sister... Lin Lang only regrets that he did not meet him at that age, and gave him Food and clothing, all for him...

Thinking of Tang Yushu, Lin Lang couldn't sleep again, not knowing what that guy was busy with, so he simply packed up his clothes and came out of the yard.

Tang Yushu was under the eaves of the west chamber. He had carefully poured the fried hot pot base ingredients into the urn, and waited for it to condense into lumps before sealing it up for storage. At the moment, he was carefully checking each one.Seeing Lin Lang running out wrapped in a thin coat, he became anxious: "Go back to the house!"

Lin Lang wanted to say, "If you don't come back, I won't be able to sleep well", but before he blurted out, he felt a little shy, and sulked for no reason: "What are you fussing about!"

Tang Yushu pointed to a row of sealed jars: "I fried some more and saved them, so I won't be too busy tomorrow."

Lin Lang raised eyebrows and raised eyebrows: "The door will not be opened tomorrow!"

Tang Yushu "But..." After a while, he closed his mouth and trotted over here to coax in a low voice: "If you want it, I won't be busy, just lie down!" Walking back, he suddenly laughed to himself while walking back.

Lin Lang was puzzled: "What are you laughing at?"

"Is it because you can't sleep well if I don't come back?"

Lin Lang didn't deny it this time, he just pondered for a moment, and complained in a low voice: "You are... worse than before."