Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 102

There were two large bowls of braised pork ribs, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, a plate of spicy and sour shredded potatoes, a pot of egg drop soup and a fish on the table, and the rice was pressed solid.

After everyone sat down at the table, Zhong's mother told everyone to eat quickly, and pointed at the fish and said, "I bought this fish at the dock after finishing my business this morning. When I got there, many fishmongers had closed their stalls, and this was the last one I caught. I didn't expect the fish near the dock to be so inexpensive!"

Zhao Zhongsheng and his friends sometimes buy things from the small stalls near the dock. The things sold at the stalls near the dock are much cheaper than those sold at the market, which may also be because the vendors at the dock are all crew members on the ship.

They would also bring things from other places to sell. The same thing would be much more expensive if sold in the town, but they were usually only a few cents more expensive and cheaper than in the town, so naturally more people bought from them.

Zhong Ruyi also said that she would go to the pier with Zhong's mother tomorrow to see if there was anything she liked and buy it back for Cuicui to play with.

After dinner, Zhao Zhongsheng and the others lay on the table to rest, but Chen Dongzhi secretly went to the yard to find Zhong Ruyi.

Zhong Ruyi was just around the corner of the yard. When he saw him coming, he quickly waved at him, "Brother Dongzhi! Over here!"

Chen Dongzhi heard the voice and walked over, "Why don't you take a nap? Aren't you sleepy after getting up so early in the morning?"

Chen Dongzhi had asked her before what time she got up every day to sell the braised goods. When she heard that she had to get up so early, she felt very distressed. Fortunately, the braised goods were sold out quickly in the morning, and she could take a break at noon, otherwise she would be very tired.

Zhong Ruyi said with a smile, "I'm not sleepy yet. I'll go to rest when I get sleepy. Let's not talk about this for now. Look at the handkerchief I fixed."

She handed the handkerchief to him. It took her more than half a month to finally finish the handkerchief.

After embroidering the handkerchief, she gave up her previous decision to make a set of clothes for Chen Dongzhi. She decided not to make things difficult for herself and decided to go to the store to buy ready-made clothes for him.

She had looked at it last time. The ready-made clothes were also very nice. She didn't have to make them herself. The price was only a few hundred coins more expensive than the cloth. Since she had the conditions, why should she make things difficult for herself? She didn't know how ugly the finished product would be.

Chen Dongzhi was holding the handkerchief. It was a light blue handkerchief with a yellow flower embroidered on it. It should be a flower, as it had the shape of a flower.

But he couldn't tell what the specific pattern was. The handkerchief also had many traces of being taken apart and then re-embroidered, and it was a little wrinkled.

He held the handkerchief and asked curiously, "What kind of flower is this? A chrysanthemum?"

Zhong Ruyi was a little annoyed, "How can this be a chrysanthemum! This is clearly a wintersweet!"

There is such a big difference between chrysanthemum and wintersweet, how did he make a mistake? Or did he really embroider it like a chrysanthemum?

Seeing that she was angry, Chen Dongzhi hurriedly comforted her, "I have been to the border for many years and have forgotten what our wintersweets look like. There are many wild chrysanthemums at the border. I just saw that it was yellow and guessed it was a chrysanthemum."

"You said it was a wintersweet. I think the more I look at it, the more beautiful it looks. It is indeed a wintersweet-style handkerchief."

Although Zhong Ruyi knew that what he said was exaggerated, she still liked to hear it and couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth.

"Since you like it, I'll give it to you!"

Chen Dongzhi was also very happy. It didn’t matter what kind of flowers were embroidered on it. The most important thing was that it was given to him by the girl he liked.

The two were sticky in the yard.

Zhong Laosan drank too much soup at noon. He just closed his eyes and took a nap when he was awakened by the urge to urinate. He got up in a daze and looked for the toilet.

As a result, he saw a man and a woman in the yard, getting closer and closer. He looked carefully and found that they were Brother Dongzhi and his little sister.

These two people were hugging each other in broad daylight! Did they pretend that everyone in the room didn't exist?

"Cough cough!" He coughed loudly twice, trying to scare the two people and make them pay attention.

Chen Dongzhi finally mustered up the courage to hug his beloved, but it was ruined by some unknown person.

He turned his head and saw that it was Zhong Laosan.

Zhong Ruyi also looked over and asked her third brother, "Third brother, what's wrong with you? Is your throat uncomfortable? I have some wild chrysanthemums that Brother Dongzhi gave me. I'll give you some to make some water!"

Zhong Laosan didn't expect that his people were still here. The two of them were still hugging each other and refused to separate. The world is going downhill!

But he said, "Yes, my throat has been a little uncomfortable recently. It may be because I got up in the morning wearing too little and got caught a cold. I have a bit of a cold."

Upon hearing this, Zhong Ruyi and the other person separated. She went to her room to get the wild chrysanthemums that Chen Dongzhi had given her last time, leaving Zhong Laosan grinning at Chen Dongzhi. Chen Dongzhi looked puzzled, not knowing what was wrong with him.

Soon, Zhong Ruyi came out with a wild chrysanthemum that had been cut in half. "Third brother, this is for you. Soak a few in water and drink it every day. If the condition gets serious, go to the back of our house and break off a few mulberry branches and ask your sister-in-law to boil water for you. Drink it a few more times and you'll be fine."

Zhong Laosan took the small cloth bag of wild chrysanthemums handed to him by his younger sister, and seeing her concerned expression, he was deeply moved.

The little sister of Meng Lang just now seemed to have disappeared in an instant, and the well-behaved and lovely little sister in front of him remained.

The two of them had not said a few words when Zhao Zhongsheng called them from the store in front.

"Winter Solstice! Good luck! It's almost time to go back to work at the docks!"

When Zhong Laosan heard this, he hurried to the toilet. He said that he felt like he had forgotten something and then he remembered that he came to the toilet. It was all because of Brother Dongzhi, who made him forget everything. Now he just felt like his stomach was upset.

Most of the time had passed, and Zhong Ruyi had originally planned to say a few words to him and then let him rest for a while, but time passed in the blink of an eye.

She took several people's water bags and filled them all.

She filled the water bags for Chen Dongzhi and Third Brother with honey water. There was still some honey left from what Chen Dongzhi gave her last time, so she simply rinsed it all off with water and poured it into the bags for the two of them to drink.

After saying goodbye, several people hurried towards the pier. Chen Dongzhi waved to Zhong Ruyi and Zhong's mother who were standing at the door of the store.

"Mom! We're leaving first and will come back tomorrow!" After saying hello, Zhong Laosan quickly followed the person in front of him.

After everyone left, Zhong Ruyi was still thinking about going to the cloth shop to see if there were any ready-made clothes suitable for Chen Dongzhi.

The second brother suddenly remembered something and said to her, "When I went to pull the pigs into the water this morning, I didn't see the guy from before. The guy who was with him before said he was fired."

Fired? She hadn't even gone to complain to Shopkeeper Ding and asked him to scold the young man yet, and he was fired so soon?

"It was the guy who worked with the fired guy who went back and told Manager Ding about it. Manager Ding felt that the guy had bad morals and fired him."

So that's how it is. That's good, it saves her the trouble of going and complaining. She also doesn't want to meet this annoying guy every time her second brother goes to pull the pigs into the water in the future.

What she didn't know was that the waiter who was fired had just been there for a short time and didn't know that the restaurant also sold braised food. Since they sold braised food, they also needed to buy pig offal to cook it.

That day, he and his companions bought the amount of meat needed by the restaurant and saw many wooden barrels on a donkey cart in the backyard of the restaurant. Before he got close, he smelled the stench of pig offal that he had just smelled in the pork shop.

He asked the waiter who was with him out of curiosity, and was told that the boss he had just spoken rudely to had a cooperative relationship with the restaurant.

Upon hearing this, his face turned pale. He thought of what he had just said and begged the people who were traveling with him not to tell Manager Ding about this. He had worked so hard to find this job and he couldn't lose it.

The man didn't want to say anything at first, but by chance he was overheard by Shopkeeper Ding who came out. When Shopkeeper Ding asked him questions, he had no choice but to say it.

He was frightened by the look in Shopkeeper Ding's eyes, but he also felt that Shopkeeper Ding would not do anything to him for such a small matter. He had only said a few unpleasant words, and he had not done anything that would enrage God or man.

But he didn't expect that Manager Ding would be so ruthless and fired him just like that. He also fined the person who was with him.

"When you first came here, didn't I tell you all that to work in our restaurant you have to be sweet-talking and know how to read people's expressions? Even if you're a little dumb, as long as you have a good heart and don't say anything that offends the customers, it's fine."

"But you, you've only been here for a few days and you dare to speak like this to the boss of our restaurant. Even if you don't know, you can tell that you have bad character. Here's half a month's salary. Take it and leave. Don't come again!"