Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 418

Zhong Ruyi went to the workshop to help out early in the morning. Recently, the Fang family's restaurant opened in the capital. There were many people there, and the business was surprisingly good.

Now that's a problem. The canned food was originally only sold in a few surrounding states, but now it has to be supplied to Beijing as well. The workshop is a little overwhelmed. She discussed with Li Guihua and Xu Ya whether they should recruit more people.

Xu Ya thought for a moment and said, "We have to recruit people, but we also have to expand our workshop, otherwise the people we recruit will have nowhere to stay."

There are more than fifty people in the workshop now, and they have to make three kinds of canned food a day. The most people are responsible for canned meat floss, with a total of twenty people, and the least are responsible for chili sauce. Recently, as the sales of chili sauce have increased, Zhong Ruyi transferred a few aunts over to help make canned chili sauce.

Zhong Ruyi also thought about it and decided that if he really wanted to recruit people, the workshop should be expanded.

But she still needs to think about how to expand the workshop. She prefers to keep the canned chili sauce in the current workshop, and separate the meat floss and pork jerky to build another workshop. The site is next to the current workshop, anyway, there is plenty of open space.

The three of them were sitting at the stone table in the yard discussing something, when Chen Dongzhi came in holding Miaomiao, who was wrapped up tightly.

Li Guihua was sitting facing the door, so she saw it at once and smiled, "Hey~ our Miaomiao is here!"

As soon as Zhong Ruyi turned her head, her nose was filled with the scent of milk in an embrace. Miaomiao giggled and tried to jump from her father's arms to her mother, but obviously failed.

Chen Dongzhi held the child tightly with both hands, fearing that the child would fall down if he was suddenly shocked.

"Ah! Isn't this my darling?" Zhong Ruyi took the child with a smile, held him in her arms and kissed him for a long time before asking how they got here.

"Miaomiao insisted on coming to see you, so I brought her here." Chen Dongzhi remained calm. In fact, he came to call his wife back for dinner, and he had already prepared the meal before leaving.

By talking about Miaomiao, he could avoid being teased by people in the workshop and being called clingy.

The others looked at each other and laughed secretly.

In this case, Zhong Ruyi did not stay for long, holding Miaomiao and preparing to go back, "Then let's leave it at that. Sister-in-law, you go talk to the village chief about buying land, and Sister-in-law Ya, please help keep an eye out for recruiting people."

Both of them agreed. It was also time for lunch, and the people in the workshop put down their work and prepared to take a break.

Although she was only six months old, her arms were still sore from holding her for so long, so Chen Dongzhi took Miaomiao back and held her himself halfway through the journey.

When they got home, she put the child on her special little wooden cart in front of the dining table, and the family of three prepared to eat.

Zhong Ruyi blew on the egg custard in her hand and fed a mouthful to the child.

Miaomiao closed her mouth and shook her head. She pointed with her delicate fingers at the tiger-head dolls lined up on the wooden cart, indicating that her mother should give the dolls to her friends first, and she would eat after her friends had finished.

Zhong Ruyi felt somewhat helpless. She held the spoon and walked in front of the row of five or six tiger-head dolls. She made a gesture as if she was going to feed them before she was done.

When Chen Dongzhi finished eating, the egg custard in her hand was not even half gone, "Let me do it, you go eat."

Miaomiao was holding a tiger-head doll in her hand, and eating the egg custard mouthful by mouthful with her big round, dark eyes open.

Soon, under the coaxing of her father, the bowl of egg custard was finished. Miaomiao had a little residue hanging on her mouth and was smiling happily while holding the doll.

Children's smiles are always innocent and clear, which makes people feel soft inside.

Chen Dongzhi patiently took a wet handkerchief to wipe her face and hands, let her sit in the wooden car and play for a while, and then took her to take a nap.

As soon as Zhong Ruyi finished lunch, she was called away by her sister-in-law. Now she and Zhao Ganwei were measuring the area of ​​land next to the workshop.

Finally, she decided to settle on two plots of land. She decided to build a workshop and the other as a dormitory for employees. After all, she would have to hire more people if she wanted to expand the business. People from other villages would be far away, so it would be okay to provide them with accommodation. The only difference was that the wages would be less than those who did not stay overnight. If they wanted to save some money on the journey back and forth, that was fine too. It all depended on their personal wishes.

After buying the land, Xu Ya also hired a few people. After she interviewed them and explained the rules, she let them stay on for a trial period. If it didn't work out, she could replace them. She couldn't recruit people with ulterior motives just to rush to deliver the goods.

The new workshop and staff dormitories are located on the left and right sides of the old workshop. The reason why the staff dormitories were built so close is that there is someone to notify if something happens in the workshop one day.

The new workshop has already started construction, and there are workers working in the staff dormitory, but there are fewer people. The most important thing is to build the new workshop first.

After two and a half months, the new workshop was officially put into use. Zhong Ruyi sighed that if this was placed in a newly built house in modern times, it would be impossible to live in it without ventilation and odor removal for a year or two.

The workshop was built, and the staff here went to the staff dormitory and started working.

She hired these workers from the town. There was no other way because the villagers were busy growing watermelons and wheat in the fields and had no time to help build the houses.

Mrs. Yu simply introduced a group of craftsmen she often used, saying that they would do the work reliably and assured her.

The weaving that was praised by Mrs. Yu was certainly not bad. The craftsmen worked very efficiently. Once she told them what she wanted to make changes to, they understood immediately and finished it in a few days.

The new workshop still follows the layout of the previous workshop, except that it has an additional reception room, which is used specifically for discussing important matters.

The staff dormitory is similar to a courtyard house, but with some major modifications to allow more space to be used for accommodation.

There are eight rooms in total, and each room can accommodate four people. Although not necessarily so many people will choose to stay here, we still need to make preparations in advance.

After Zhong Ruyi discussed the problem with the dormitory kitchen with the foreman, she planned to go home, but was stopped by several workers.

Several people stood in front of her, hesitating and wanting to say something but too embarrassed to speak out. She was patient and waited for a while before one of them mustered up the courage to ask, "Boss Zhong, I heard that your workshop is hiring?"

Zhong Ruyi nodded. She had mentioned this matter many times to everyone and told the workers that if they had suitable people to introduce to them at home, they could give it a try first. If they were successful, they could stay. Even if not, they would be paid during the three-day probation period.

The leader got a positive response and became even more excited. "Do you need anyone else now? I have a younger sister at home who works very efficiently and doesn't talk much. Can you let her come and give it a try?"

After he started talking, others also started talking, including sisters, wives, sisters-in-law, etc.

When she finished dealing with things here and went back, Chen Dongzhi was already holding Miaomiao and ready to come to see her.

The family of three bumped into each other at the door of their home. Miaomiao stretched out her arms as soon as she saw her mother, wanting Zhong Ruyi to hug her, but was ruthlessly rejected, "Mom hasn't washed her hands yet, wash your hands first before hugging me."

Miaomiao is not old enough to understand what adults say. She only knows that her request for a hug was rejected and she is very sad.

When Zhong Ruyi came back from washing her hands, she only saw a dejected look from her daughter.