Blissful Days After Widowhood

    Ten children each wear a cloth strip around their necks, a wooden box is attached to the bottom of the cloth strip, and a small quilt is covered on the wooden box.

    Song Pomegranate is the largest, but she has not been in the city for a long time. This is the first time she has encountered such a big battle, and she has been entrusted with a heavy responsibility. She is so nervous that her legs are fighting.

    "You two young masters...you have to follow me closely, don't get lost."

    Although Gu Yin later returned the deed of prostitution to her, Song Shiliu felt that she was their maid, but she refused to change her title.

    Before he finished speaking, Gu Ye had already divided the people into two groups, "Team No. 1, go to the left. Team No. 2, go to the right... After they are sold out, go back to the stall to make up. "

    He pointed with his small hand, and those who were pointed in the direction immediately acted.

    In the end, there was a team of Gu Ye and Song Shiliu. Gu Ye led her into the crowd.

    "Good and cheap iced drink...cool and sweet!"

    "Icy cold ice drink! It's delicious and not expensive!"

    The children's vigorous shouts spread through the crowd.

    "You shout." Gu Ye pouted at her.

    Song Shiliu took a deep breath, and followed suit.

    The people on the side of the canal are shoulder-to-shoulder, and the weather is sultry this day, many people are dizzy and dizzy, but they can't let go of this annual grand occasion.

    Suddenly hearing a child beside me selling, many people will ask what they are selling.

      Endured the heat, but was reluctant to let the child suffer, and the two cents in the cup could be exchanged for two cents, so many people began to pay for money.

    "It's sour, so icy!" The customer who bought the sour plum soup took a sip first, sighed, and hurriedly handed the cup to the child.

    The child said that his teeth were sour after a sip, but he did quench his thirst.

    Those who are as clever as Gu Ye will say, "Plum soup is sour, mung bean soup and milk tea are sweet, buy another one."

    The crowd began to sigh one after another, "It's so cold, so cool", and the children's business is getting better and better, and they will run out of the crowd when they sell out ten cups in their boxes. Go to Gu Yin's stall to restock.

    Before the dragon boat race started, half of the five hundred cups prepared by Gu Yin had already been sold.

     Chef Xu hurriedly put back some of the empty cups he had taken back for washing, turned his head to prepare the ingredients for Gu Yin, and brought back the ice drink that was boiled by the shopkeeper Zhou.

    At noon, before a lively dragon boat race was over, the 500 cups on Gu Yin's stall had already been sold, including drinks.

    It was really hot at this time, Gu Yin was busy until dawn, and couldn't wait any longer, so she called her own employees to go back first, and replaced Chef Xu's two apprentices Carrying freshly frozen drinks to sell, but there are no cups with straws, so they just bring some empty bowls for customers to drink at the stall.

    The group returned to the store, all sweaty.

    Gu Yin hurriedly took a bowl of iced milk tea to drink, and the hot dishes of the shopkeeper Zhou were also ready and placed on the counter.

    After the weather is hot, the stores of this era have neither air conditioning nor fans, and people sit next to each other, only hotter. In summer, people's appetite is also poor, and it is not a problem to deal with two casualties at noon, and the business of the lunch market in the store is deserted.

    On this day, because of the dragon boat race on the canal, there was no one in the store except for the food-oriented guys.

    But Gu Yin did not rest, she gasped for breath and immediately went to the kitchen to start making cold noodles.

    She kneads the dough first, then adds salt to the dough, after kneading, cover it with a damp cloth, let it sit for a quarter of an hour, then put water in the basin, put the dough in, and repeat like washing clothes Scrub.

    When the water shows a white luster, filter it into another large basin, add water and then wash the white and filter out. Until the wash water is clear and yellowed gluten remains. After the gluten is washed, it is steamed in the pot, and it is full of muscles.

    Then there is still filtered water, which takes more than an hour. During this period, she shredded wild vegetables and cucumbers, and chopped peanuts into pieces.

    During this period, shopkeeper Zhou and Mrs Wang heard that she was busy in the kitchen, so they all came in to help.

    After a lot of work, the batter water also settled. Scoop off the top clear water, stir the remaining slurry with a spoon, and then put it on a large flat plate that has been brushed with oil and steam it in hot water.

    Just like this, Gu Yin took them to make a hundred or ten pieces of Liangpi.

    At this time, noon was over, and the lively dragon boat race on the canal was over.

    People who bought iced drinks usually go to the booth to return the cups, but the two little apprentices of Chef Xu at the booth, although their hands and feet are also very fast, but they have to exchange cups, and To sell sour plum soup, it is obviously impossible to do both.

    It is rare to enter the city, and few people will just rush back at noon, and most of them will still go shopping. And Wencheng Street, where Shiweitian is located, is actually a bustling area in the center of the town.

    At the intersection of Wencheng Street, you can see the magnificent plaque from a distance.

    Even if you are illiterate, you can find it with a little inquiries.

    When I entered the store, the first thing I felt was cold - there were ice basins in the corners of the store, and then I smelled all kinds of vegetables, and I felt hungry all of a sudden.

    Inquire about the prices in the store again, five cents per spoonful of large meat, three cents for half meat, two cents for vegetarian dishes, and the same price as outside, but a little smaller Steamed buns and rolls are the staple food. In fact, it is not much more expensive than eating at a small stall.

    And they all ate the ice drink made by Gu Yin. Although the food in this store is a little more expensive than the one sold at the stall, but the taste is good and the ingredients are solid. Would love to try something else.

    Afterwards, Gu Yin and the others also brought up the prepared Liangpi, clearly priced at five cents for a large bowl. That thing is not hot. It is mixed with the sauce prepared by the shopkeeper himself last week, and then added with gluten, chopped peanuts, shredded cucumber, and shredded wild vegetables. It is not suitable for eating in hot weather.

    Guests only came to return the cups at first, but most of them chose to stay for dinner.

    There are more and more people in the store, and for a while, there is a grand occasion of just opening. There were also regular customers from the town coming over, but they didn't panic when they saw the crowd. Anyway, they could take out bento and just return the bento box.

    When other out-of-town guests who have never bought cold drinks go around Wencheng Street, they will find a new store opened.

    This is not new. What's more fresh is that although other nearby food stalls and shops will have more people than usual due to the Dragon Boat Festival, they will not be crowded like this.

    I don't want to know this, how can it be considered a trip to the city?

    As soon as you understand, the cheap and dazzling dishes will probably keep people.

    Seeing a lot of people, the shopkeeper Zhou went to the back to fry new dishes, while Gu Yin went on to make cold skin and steamed steamed buns.

    The afternoon market followed the evening market, and there were no vacant seats in the store until it was dark, and people who were not in the town rushed back, and the number of talents gradually decreased.

    Xu Shi and others were put back to rest first, while Gu Yin, the shopkeeper Zhou and Wang Shi left the accounts.

    Gu Yin is the busiest person in the store, Mrs Wang and the shopkeeper Zhou did not let her move, they helped to count the returned cups and count the bills

    In the end, only 20 of the 500 cups were not returned, but because the price that Feng Carpenter asked for was low, it was not a loss.

    Among the three cold drinks, milk tea sells the least, selling 100 cups. However, milk tea is expensive and easy to stale. Gu Yin also makes the least.

    400 cups of sour plum soup and mung bean soup were sold. Later, two apprentices of Chef Xu sold more than 200 cups on the dock.

    The gross profit is about two or two.

    Gu Yin originally thought of the idea of ​​relying on cold drinks to divert traffic to the store, so the profit of cold drinks is only a small amount, and the business of the store is the big one.

    The shopkeeper Zhou finished his calculations, and the gross profit of the store's business was about fifteen taels. It can definitely be regarded as the hottest day of business since the opening.

    Hearing these profits, Mr. Wang and Mr. Zhou had a smile on their faces, and it was not a waste of everyone's busy day.

    Gu Yin is also happy, not just for the income of the day, but because this is a successful publicity!

    Siweitian has gained some popularity in the town since its opening, but to customers from other places, the name of Shiweitian is still unfamiliar—relying on the "Grandpa Wen Porridge" "Although the trend has attracted a lot of foreign customers, there are still very few people who can buy a bowl of porridge specially, and now that trend has passed, and no one knows about it.

    But this time, just relying on the drink cups, 500 people were promoted, not counting the non-local guests who followed the trend.

    How many potential customers these people can radiate...It makes me happy to think about it!

    When they finished the settlement, Gu Ye ran back from outside.

    Gu Yin was about to look for him, and when she saw him, she said, "I'm about to give you my wages, and your friends? Their wages are all calculated."

    "It's all outside, I'll send it." Gu Ye pocketed the copper coins in his robe, and held in his mouth a list of how many cups each person sold and how much wages should be paid by shopkeeper Zhou. .

    These children were recommended by Gu Ye, and Gu Yin also let him go. She helped Wang with the final cleaning work, and just wiped the table twice with a rag, She thought something was wrong - this kid has never read, can't read or count!

    She put the rag and followed to the street outside the store, and saw several children of different heights, shorts, fats and thins quietly lining up.

    Seeing Gu Ye passing by, they shouted "Brother Ye" one after another.

    Gu Ye nodded with an expressionless expression, then put the copper coins on the ground, gave the list to Wu An, and asked Wu An to help him read the list and count the coins.

    Song Shiliu was No. 1, Gu Ye was No. 2, and Wu An was No. 3, so they started shouting from No. 4.

    Every time a child's code name is called, that person will come forward to receive the copper coins.

    They can get one penny for every two cups they sell, and the most sold can get 30 cents, and the lesser can get about 10 cents.

    You can earn so much money by working part-time for half a day. It is really a super happy thing for children.

    I kept shouting until number ten, when a short, chubby child half a head taller than Gu Ye came up with his hands twisted.

    On the list, this little fat man on the 10th only sold ten drinks in the morning, and he should be divided into five cents.

    But Gu Ye took Wu An's hand and said, "No. 10, no wages."

    The little fat man's face collapsed all of a sudden, and he started to cry.

    Gu Ye was unmoved, and continued: "You steal ice, eat a box, and have no wages."

    These ices melted from morning to noon, but the ice tray in the box is sealed, water will not spill out, it is still inside.

    When they returned the boxes, Gu Ye looked at them one by one. There was a layer of water at the bottom of everyone's boxes, and only Fatty No. 10's box was empty.

    The little fat man's face was flushed red, and he was embarrassed to cry.

    Gu Ye put his hands behind his back like a little adult, and glanced at everyone in the row with his eyes, "My mother said, ice can't be eaten, I told you."

    The ice cubes are of course edible, but they must be mined in places with absolutely clean water sources, and the price is naturally expensive. If there really needs to be that kind of good ice, Gu Yin will not only use ice as a supplement for freezing, but can make many desserts with ice itself.

    The ice that Shiweitian is using now was hoarded by Mr. Wen Er before. Needless to say, he is a man. If he really wants to hoard ice that can be eaten, it must be a very expensive cost. . And there are few people in this town who can afford that kind of ice. If you want to earn the difference, you have to transport it to inland places. In addition to the transportation cost and the loss during transportation, it is not Wen Tie that Master Wen Er has the courage. Chicken up!

    So he hoarded the cheapest river ice, which people dug on the frozen canals in winter. This kind of ice is used, and it is easy to eat bad stomach.

    Gu Yin told these children not to eat ice, and Gu Ye also emphasized that, so he continued: "If you eat a bad stomach, my family will not lose money."

    "I have a good stomach and I won't eat bad." The fat man argued in a low voice.

    In fact, he really didn't want to eat it at first, but when a customer asked for sour plum soup, he was not curious about his small wooden box, reached in and touched the ice tray underneath, and the sour plum soup in his hand was also dumped Some of the above.

    He smelled the sweet and sour taste and his saliva was drooling. He knew that the other drinks in the box were several pennies. Before I knew it, I only cared about eating ice, and even forgot about going back to the stall to replenish the drinks after they sold out.

    "You won't be here tomorrow." Gu Ye finally added.

    Gu Yin made so many cups and small boxes, definitely not only for the Dragon Boat Festival, but to hire children to help her walk the streets in the future.

    The little fat man couldn't hold back his tears when he heard it, and begged for mercy: "Brother Ye, I was wrong! I don't dare anymore, don't let me come woo woo woo..."

    Little Fatty cried out of breath, and some of those children had a good relationship with him, and when they saw him, they said, "Brother Ye, Little Fatty is just greedy for food. It's actually quite reliable…”

    Gu Ye looked up and the child immediately closed his mouth.

    But in the end Gu Ye still said: "Fortunately, you know that you can't steal iced drinks. Then forgive you once."

    "The salary is still not paid," Gu Ye counted two coins from his salary to him, "hard work."

    The little fat man blushed even more with the two-cent money that belonged to Gu Ye, and immediately assured: "Thank you Brother Ye, I will definitely not do this next time!"

    Gu Ye nodded in satisfaction, waved them away, and asked them to come back the next morning.

    Gu Yin was stunned to watch the whole process, and when only her own family was left, she came out and said, "Xiaoye, why do they call you Ye Ge?"

    The youngest fat man on the tenth among the children is seven or eight years old!

    Gu Ye raised his chin proudly and said, "It's all mine, subordinate."

    He plays outside every day, and naturally he will meet many children.

    Don't think that only adults have fights, and children's fights are also fierce.

    Like the open space at the end of Wencheng Street, where children like to play Cuju and wrestle.

    There are many children and few places, so there must be fights.

    Gu Ye started working near Wencheng Street after Shiweitian opened.

    He is small and new here. The original child king here didn't like to see him at first, and he was allowed to play here unless he called him big brother.

    How can Gu Ye endure this? Just made an appointment.

    Child Wang is ten years old, and he is four years old. He is also small due to malnutrition earlier, so he knows the disparity in strength.

    But Gu Ye didn't fight him head-to-head, he just walked with him.

    He was able to slip Li Zhutou around when he had not learned the kung fu of breathing. He had already learned by then, and it was easy to slip a ten-year-old child.

    The boy chased him for an hour, and everyone was so stupid that they didn't touch a corner of his clothes.

    He suddenly became the new king of children. Of course, there are still some who are not convinced of him, saying that he can only run and has no other skills.

    Afterwards, his mother said that he would hire a few children to help, so Gu Ye volunteered to take over the job.

    How can children in this era have pocket money? It is very generous for the adults in the family to give a few pennies during the festivals.

    As soon as I heard that he could make money, Gu Ye's status was even more incredible. Even the original child king was recruited by him and became the number four in the team.

    The others have played well with him before, and are honest and smart.

    When the team was divided, Gu Ye divided Wu An and the original child Wang into a team to ensure that he would not cause trouble under his own eyes. Fat stealing ice, in fact, as soon as he started eating, Number 9 came to talk to him quietly. He deliberately didn't say a word, and didn't say it in front of people until the final settlement.

    He still spoke slowly, and when he finished speaking slowly, Gu Yin was surprised again: "I only tell you that you should find a few good friends, and let them team up in two groups. Supervise each other, where did you learn the rest?"

    Guang just held his hands and waited until the settlement time to settle the account with the No. 10 little fat man, and then divided his wages to him after the settlement was completed. It can be called a combination of grace and power!

    In front of her, Gu Ye stopped pretending to be a little adult, tilted his head and asked in doubt, "This is still worth learning? Think for yourself."

    "How does this little head look like?" Gu Yin rubbed his little head in surprise.

    He obediently let Gu Yin knead, and after kneading, he said, "You have to give me five cents for the tenth."

    He knew that his grandma and shopkeeper Zhou were the front and back kitchen managers, and their wages were higher than others, so he felt that he should also have more money than others.

    "Give it to you." Gu Yin wanted to hand over the delivery department composed of children to the oldest Song Shiliu, but Song Shiliu was really incomparable to him. This little brat of her own can handle things better than adults, and Gu Yinzhen feels that she will be able to relax a lot in the future.

    Gu Yeduo received five cents, hehe smiled, and gave Wu An another two cents, "It's hard work."

    Of course, he was helping him count copper coins and read lists. Wu An had no obsession with silver coins. Twenty pennies have been distributed."

    "Take it," Gu Ye shoved it into his hand generously, "When I can read and count, it will be gone."

    Wu An accepted it, took his hand and said, "Then I'll go back today and teach you."

    …

    The Dragon Boat Festival is only one day, but the temple fair in the town will be held for seven consecutive days.

    On the Dragon Boat Festival, those who are not interested in dragon boat racing, who are too many people, or who are not in the city due to family matters, will most likely come to the market at this time to join in the fun.

    Before entering the city, they would more or less ask their friends who came to the city on the Dragon Boat Festival, how they played on the Dragon Boat Festival, and they didn't see anything novel.

    Those are the things that come and go in the town, and I don't have much to recommend it, but not this time.

    "You have to try the ice drink that eats for the sky. The sour plum soup and mung bean soup are five cents a piece, and what kind of milk tea is ten cents. Alas, I didn't bring much money, only drank a cup of sour plum soup. It was sweet and sour, and it was icy cold, and it's still exciting when I think about it now!"

    "Isn't it just sour plum soup, there are many people in the village who can boil it?"

      Well, I can't tell you anyway. And you also know that my daughter-in-law is not in good health. Every year, I have to faint for a while watching the dragon boat race. Thanks to the sour plum soup this morning, my daughter-in-law is not uncomfortable! "

     "That's good, my mother can't stand the heat, I'll take him to buy it tomorrow."

    "Alas, it's a pity that I didn't get that milk tea. I heard from the people next to me that it is fragrant and smooth, but the price is expensive. I'll have to try it when I go to the city next time!"

    When we started chatting, we had to talk to people about other food in the restaurant.

    Whether it's white noodles or red noodles, it's really affordable and delicious.

    So the next day, Shiweitian's business fell a bit compared to the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, but it was also several times more popular than usual.

    Especially the takeaway department headed by Gu Ye, also sells cold drinks near the temple fair, and then promotes food for the sky.

    For seven consecutive days, the daily gross profit of Shiweitian fluctuated from 12 to 15 taels.

    After making a small profit, Gu Yin also gave a tael of silver to every regular employee in the store, including Gu Ye, who was in charge of the takeaway department.

    Everyone in the store was happy, but looking at Hanxiang Tower and Wangyue Tower, the atmosphere was not so good.

    Both of them are ready to fight with all their strength, especially thinking about pressing down the budding Shiweitian.

    In the end, Shiweitian didn't want to make a Dragon Boat Festival gift box at all, and only the two of them were left to fight.

    In the past few days, their gift boxes have been sold out, but because of the low price, there is not much profit at all.

    Of course, the two of them had more guests than usual on the Dragon Boat Festival, but Hanshan Town is the largest town in the county, and there are really not many rich people in other places, so the business is better than usual Two or three percent.

    In order to attract VIPs who deposit silver, the two companies have offered various discounts on a la carte dishes, and they are already losing money.

    But when it comes to this, no one dares to stop, nor can they stop, they can only grit their teeth and boil it down.

    Li Cheng, the small manager of Wangyuelou, was also scolded by Wang Dafu because of this incident. The second of the running hall is not counted, and he pointed at him and scolded: "People Shiweitian didn't make the Dragon Boat Festival gift box at all, it's just that you are full of bullshit, and you lied to me to lower the price of the gift box!"

    If the price of the gift box is not reduced, how much more money can be made, Wang Dafu is heartbroken and dare not imagine!

    Li Cheng accompanied the smiling face to beating and scolding, and assured: "This time, it is indeed the little one who took the wrong wind, and it is also the fault of the carpenter Feng who was cunning and deliberately induced the little one! Next time..."

    Wang Dafu ignored him next time and let him go.

    Then Li Cheng put the account on Gu Yin's head and waited for an opportunity to make it up.

    And on Shiweitian's side, because there is a takeaway department led by Gu Ye, very organized, and no one needs to worry about it, Gu Yin is already thinking of other ways to make money.