Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 197

After Zhong Ruyi and her daughter finished taking care of Zhong Mei, they clapped their hands and went back.

Mr. Zhong was standing at the door, looking around. When he saw the two of them coming out of the alley behind, he was a little confused, "Why did you two go there?"

And he seemed to have heard someone screaming just now.

Zhong Ruyi smiled and took the arms of Zhong's father and mother respectively, "It's okay, my mother and I just had a few words in private over there."

The three of them walked into the store together and continued to work.

There were fewer customers in the afternoon, but there was still a constant stream of customers coming to try the food.

Fortunately, Zhong Ruyi asked Jiang Qin to bring enough rabbits, otherwise dozens of rabbits would have to be eaten in a day just for the food tasting.

Finally the store closed. It was not yet dark, but there were fewer people on the street.

Zhong Ruyi sent away the last little guest who came to taste the food. She was a little girl whose clothes were full of patches. She felt pity for her, so she gave her two more plates, put them in a bamboo tube and let her take it away.

Zhong Ruyi, who came to help today, asked Zhong Honghong to stay for dinner, but she refused. "We have to go to the next town to deliver goods tomorrow, so we have to go early. I won't stay."

Since it was a business matter, Zhong Ruyi didn't want to delay others, so she took out a bamboo tube and filled it with the extra spicy chicken that Sun Tao had fried today and asked her to take it back.

Zhong Honghong was unwilling to accept it, "No! I said I came here to help you today, why am I taking your things?"

The two of them pushed each other away, and finally Zhuang Yi couldn't stand it anymore, "Thank you so much, sister!"

After saying that, he took the bamboo tube, took his wife over, said goodbye and left.

From a distance, Zhong Ruyi could still hear the couple talking.

"You are such a fussy person. If Ruyi gives it to you, why don't you just accept it? You are still pushing it back and forth. You have to get up early tomorrow to deliver the goods."

"That's not good. This bamboo tube of chicken costs sixty or seventy coins!"

She smiled and turned around to continue arranging other people.

Sister Cuicui will stay and sleep with Zhong Ruyi tonight, since there is always a place for them.

After Jiang Qin and Zhong's father had dinner, they drove the mule cart back to Xinghua Village. They had to deliver goods tomorrow, and Zhong's father would also come to help tomorrow.

You don't have to come when you are not busy. Zhong Ruyi personally saw Manager Ding off from the account office he borrowed. "Mr. Meng, I will trouble you for the next few days."

Accountant Meng bowed and smiled, "Miss Zhong, you don't have to be polite. I want to thank you for letting me receive two wages."

He was loaned here, and Manager Ding promised him that he would be paid according to normal wages. Moreover, when he got here, Miss Zhong also said that he would be paid 150 coins a day, which was equivalent to the two taels of silver he earned every month in Manxianglou. He could also earn an extra sum of money. Why not do it?

My second brother and mother will not come tomorrow. The stewed food store is closed today and has to open tomorrow. We can’t let the business here affect the work over there.

At night, Zhong Ruyi poured out all the money in the cash box, and he and Cuicui sat cross-legged on the bed counting the money.

Cuicui could only count in tens. If she counted too much, she would get confused. So when she counted to ten tens, she dialed to the other side.

The aunt and niece sat cross-legged facing each other. They became more and more excited as they counted, especially Cuicui, who had never seen so much money before.

"...one ten, two tens...ten tens, okay, here are ten tens, which means, one hundred coins!" Cuicui muttered.

She had already counted the copper coins in her hand and was now staring at Zhong Ruyi.

A rabbit costs twenty-five cents, and a chicken costs thirty-two cents.

The money spent on vegetables and meat must be deducted. She counted today's revenue as seven taels and three cents, and then looked at Cuicui.

When Cuicui saw her aunt looking at her, she said crisply, "Here are ten hundred-coin coins!"

That is one liang, a total of eight liang and three qian.

Fortunately, it’s not a loss. After deducting the cost, I can still earn more than six taels of silver.

I don’t know how business will be tomorrow?

She was not sure about opening this store.

But looking at the flow of people today, it feels still okay. I can’t say that I make dozens or hundreds of taels a day, but at least it’s not like the previous teahouse that went bankrupt while opening.

Cuicui came over cautiously and asked, "Aunt, will we lose money if we do business like this today?"

Zhong Ruyi smiled and touched her head. "No, go to sleep quickly. We still have to be busy tomorrow. Our Cuicui has worked really hard today."

The little girl was a little shy, "Aunt, can I come to town and be with you often in the future?"

After receiving a positive answer, the little girl's smile became even brighter.

After blowing out the oil lamp, the two men lay down, talked for a few more words, and then went to sleep.

The next morning, things got busy again.

Zhong Ruyi didn't expect that the owner of the noodle shop she visited yesterday would come again at noon today and ordered five servings of spicy chicken.

She was a little puzzled, "Sister-in-law, why are you buying so much?"

The noodle shop owner smiled cheerfully, "I came here yesterday and ate there, and I packed up a portion of spicy chicken to take back. A few customers came this morning, and I thought spicy chicken would be delicious as a topping to the noodles, but it would be more expensive. I saw that they were well dressed, so I asked them, and they ordered it, saying they had never had it before."

The taste is incredible. The chili oil in the spicy chicken is mixed into the noodle soup, adding a bit of spiciness to the delicious soup and noodles.

It was still a little cold when I got up this morning, but after eating a bowl of hot and spicy noodles, I felt comfortable all over.

Five or six people came, and more than half of a serving of spicy chicken was left. There was nothing we could do. One serving cost more than sixty cents, and we couldn't add so much chicken to a bowl of noodles.

But at least seven or eight pieces of different sizes were added, and the price was five cents more expensive than an ordinary bowl of noodles.

For six people, that would be thirty cents.

If you calculate it this way, a serving of spicy chicken can be divided into several portions and added to noodles to be sold.

The noodle shop owner felt he had seen a new business opportunity.

I want to buy the braised goods from the braised goods store, and I also want to buy the spicy dishes from the restaurant here.

So after setting up the stall early in the morning, the two of them split up, one to buy braised goods and the other to buy spicy chicken.

According to the lady boss of the noodle shop, she adds the spicy chicken to the noodles as a topping and it sells well.

Love spicy food?

Zhong Ruyi thought, aren’t all the dishes in her restaurant made with chili peppers?

Nowadays, more people eat chili peppers than before, mainly because people used to eat it as fruit.

If you pick it and eat it directly, wouldn't it be too spicy?

I never thought I could use it for cooking.

It was after Zhong Ruyi came that people started using chili peppers to cook.

Now only people in Xinghua Village and several surrounding villages use chili peppers to cook.

But the people in the town had never thought about it. Aunt Chen even bought a pot of it as a decoration, and no one had thought of using it for cooking.