Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 291

After Boss Wang finished eating an apple, Wei came over with a plate of food. She was stunned when she saw someone sitting at her boss's table.

"Mrs. Wei, please leave this table. Boss Wang and I have something to discuss."

There were two plates of red dishes on the table. Boss Wang, who had just finished eating an apple, felt a little scared when he saw the two dishes.

Oh no, I didn’t find out what kind of cuisine Miss Zhong’s restaurant sells before coming here, and the color looks quite scary.

Zhong Ruyi smiled and said, "Boss Wang, please eat first. We can talk after you finish eating."

She pulled Zhang Mingzhu and asked her to go to the store to find Cuicui. The three of them were going back to the village in the afternoon, and she went to the braised food store.

Outside the stewed food shop, Liu stood at the door and tried to get in, shouting, "Mother-in-law, I'm free now and came to help you, please let me in!"

When she saw Zhong Ruyi coming, she smiled even more enthusiastically and tried to follow her into the store.

Mother Zhong leaned her hands on the door frame, looking impatient. She had no good face at all for the man who shamelessly wanted to take advantage of her family. "Are you going to leave or not? If not, I will not be polite!"

Liu choked. She had thought that since the two families were so close, it would not be difficult to get a prescription. However, Liu Yu Niang refused to give it to her, and she was scolded by her husband and parents-in-law. The children at home did not understand her, especially the two older ones. They always said that she was daydreaming and just wanted to pick up the fruits of other people's labor, which made her so angry that she gritted her teeth.

Don’t they think about who they are doing it for?

Haven’t you seen how good Liu Yu Niang’s life has been since she got this braised food recipe given by her sister-in-law?

During the Chinese New Year, she gave her three sons red envelopes weighing three taels in total, with a piece of silver inside each red envelope!

This is two months' salary for her husband Liu Gang!

She, Liu Yu Niang, gave it out so easily?

Zhong Ruyi found her greedy look annoying and she didn't know how to hide her thoughts at all. The prescription hasn't even been found yet, but she's already started imagining a wonderful life in the future?

"Mom, close the door."

The door slammed shut, leaving Liu outside dumbfounded.

Aunt Chen from the shop next door held a handful of peanuts and ate them while watching the fun. But since everyone was locked outside the door, there was nothing fun to watch, so she simply went back to the shop.

"Mom, does she come here often?" Zhong Ruyi picked up the teacup on the table and poured herself a glass of water.

Mother Zhong was also very annoyed. This person was her daughter-in-law's sister-in-law. She could only say a few words with a cold face. She couldn't hit or scold her, so she had to endure the anger!

"He comes here every day, it's annoying!"

The second sister-in-law also knew about this. Liu Yu Niang went back to her parents' home and talked to her parents and eldest brother several times, asking them to keep Liu in check and tell her not to bother her mother-in-law and husband anymore, but Liu didn't listen at all.

A few days ago, Liu Gang pointed at her nose and scolded her, "Do you think I don't know what you are up to? Don't you just want to get the recipe from my sister's store and give it to your brother from your mother's side? Don't lie to me with the excuse of doing good for us. You'd better behave yourself. If you bother my sister again, I'll beat you up!"

But the next day, Liu came to the braised food shop as usual and continued to show her courtesy, which was very annoying.

"Forget it, let's not talk about her. By the way, my dear, didn't you ask me to help you find a plasterer with better skills last time? I found two, but their prices were not easy to negotiate. They were one cent more expensive than the previous plasterer. They also charged 15 cents for a trip to the village. I think it's not suitable. If you think it's okay, I'll take you to have a look."

I originally thought that it would be difficult to find a mason in the nearby villages, but it would be easier to find one in the town. However, I didn't expect that people would be unwilling to do so when they heard that I had to deliver the goods to their doorsteps.

The only two who were willing to do so charged quite a high fee.

Although Zhong Ruyi has money now, it doesn't mean she can spend it lavishly.

When she heard that door-to-door delivery would cost ten cents more than the previous mason, she still shook her head and said, "Forget it. My sister-in-law told me a few days ago that they also have a mason in Taohua Village. I will go and see him when I go back."

Boss Wang in the restaurant was going to talk about apples and grapes after dinner, but his mouth became swollen and spicy, so he said he would come to see her tomorrow, but she had to go back, so the two could only make an appointment to meet in the restaurant five days later to discuss it.

Two days after returning to the village, the workshop happened to be on holiday, so Li Guihua took her to Taohua Village.

They first went to Li Guihua's parents' home. Her elder sister-in-law's parents were very easy to get along with, and there were several children in the family.

Zhong Ruyi saw the cousin who bullied Cuicui and made her cry during the Chinese New Year. She had a small round face and big, twinkling eyes. She was two years older than Cuicui and had two dimples when she smiled.

As soon as she saw there were guests at home, the little girl ran to pour water and called her aunt and sister sweetly, "Have tea."

Soon the mason that Li Guihua mentioned came over. During the conversation, Zhong Ruyi found out that the mason was the father of Shitou's classmate Li Zhi.

"Oh, it's really fate that our two children are studying in the same school!" Li Guihua laughed heartily.

When asked about the monthly quantity, Li Zhidie was a little surprised, "Do you need so many?"

"Why didn't you settle with them before?"

Zhong Ruyi smiled faintly and explained, "His company raised the price, it's a bit too high, so we didn't continue the cooperation."

She didn't say how much the price had increased, she just said the price was unacceptable to her.

Li Zhi's father didn't know how high a price to quote, and after a long while he managed to say, "I don't know what the market is like outside, so I'll set the price at one cent each. Miss Zhong, look at this..."

Seeing her shaking her head, Li Zhidie's heart rose to his throat, and he heard her next sentence, "Let's go with the previous price of the mason, two cents each, delivery to the door, five cents per trip."

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Two cents each?

Although Li Zhidie was a plasterer, he only did his work occasionally and most of the time he went out to find work.

After ordering one thousand jars for the Yu family and two thousand jars for the Fang family this month and paying half of the deposit, Zhong Ruyi and her partner politely declined the invitation to dinner from Li's father and mother as well as Li Zhi's father.

Hurrying back to Xinghua Village.

Before I got home, there was a knock on the gate.

When she opened the door, she saw that the person was someone she didn't recognize. She asked with some caution, "Who are you looking for?"

The mason's wife was smiling. When she saw that the person who opened the door was a little girl of about eleven or twelve years old, she pretended to be kind and wanted to reach out and touch her head, but Cuicui dodged her hand.

Cuicui had been told many times by her aunt about the examples of human kidnappers abducting children. Now, when an unfamiliar aunt knocked on the door and tried to touch her, she became even more alert and suspected that she had encountered the legendary human kidnapper.

She closed the door and ran into the house, "Dad! Dad! There's someone outside!"

Boss Zhong, who was sleeping in the room, heard his daughter say in a daze that there was someone he didn't know outside, so he immediately got up and went out to check.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw a woman he didn't recognize standing at the door. He asked calmly, "Who are you looking for?"

This is not the fault of Boss Zhong and Cuicui. Both of them have never seen a mason's wife. In the past, the jars were sent to the workshop.

Today happened to be the day off for the workshop, and the mason's wife didn't know where to find Zhong Ruyi and Li Guihua. After asking around and arriving at the Zhong family's yard, a little girl slammed the door shut on her, and she almost pinched her nose.

Finally, she saw a man coming out, with a ferocious look on his face. She said in a trembling voice, "I'm here to look for Ruyi and Guihua. Do they live here?"