Girlfriend's Fortune

Chapter 104 Chapter [-]: Opening

Of course, watermelon tastes delicious only if it has red meat and sweet juice. Song Qiu didn't hesitate, so he just picked the one that cost five cents a catty, and picked three. As long as you don't cut it, you can put it for two days.

This way, avoid coming every day.

Three watermelons are weighed together, a total of 95 catties, five cents per catty, that is [-] cents.

Good guy, I used up another hundred texts at once.

This hasn't even started making money yet.

Song Qiu caught up with the mule cart, turned to the small road in the slant, and went onto the official road outside.

Arriving at the bank of the Changhe River first, the old Yuan Shi, who also got up very early, cooked sweet mung bean soup at home, and has already moved out almost everything with a basket on his back.

Song Qiu unloaded the ice mirror and watermelon, and drove the mule cart home to pull tables, benches, stoves and so on.

After a busy work, when the tables and benches are all set up, all the things that should be placed are put in the ice cream to freeze, and the tea characters embroidered by old Yuan's are hung up facing the sun, it is almost time (ten o'clock).

Song Qiu sat down to rest for a while, watching her grandma watching over the small stove to boil the water, then soaked the picked mint leaves, the big clean wooden barrel was filled to the brim, enough to drink a lot of bamboo tubes .

Everything is ready, just waiting for the visitor.

At Sishi, the sun has risen very high, hiding in the thatched shed, unable to bask in the sun, with the river wind blowing, it is cool.

Zhang Lihua took a wooden bucket to the river and filled two buckets of water and put it there, waiting for the meeting to collect the bowls and bamboo tubes for cleaning.

Waiting is the hardest thing to bear, and it is also strange, obviously, there are people passing by the official road at any time, but today, no one has been seen passing by.

Sometimes, when you are most eagerly waiting, it is often rare to wait for someone to come.

Song Qiu looked and looked in three directions, feeling a little worried, but seeing that Nai Nai and Li Hua were more nervous than her, and their eyeballs were coming and going, they were dizzy, so they didn't feel anxious at all.

Take your time, she can't act messy.

Anyway, I have experienced ups and downs in business.

Song Qiu touched a rag and came out, took charcoal, and wrote down all the accounts, how much money was spent, how much money was sold, and when it was paid back and when it made money, it was clear at a glance and he knew it well.

She started by recording all the money she spent to start the business, that is, expenses.

From buying a mule cart to buying watermelon and ice cubes today.

After writing them down one by one, most of the rags were filled.

Song Qiu thought that it would not be easy to keep accounts with rags. Next time, he would buy some cheap paper. It would be more convenient to sew a small book with needle and thread.

As soon as the rags and charcoal pencils were put away, I heard the sound of Lihua stamping excitedly from behind.

She looked up and saw a convoy coming from Xiangzhou Mansion on the official road to the east.

From a distance, you can see a flag tied up in front of the convoy, with a big dart on it.

Looking at the uniformed escorts, this is a convoy of escort agencies.

Coming from the east, the nearest town over there is Jingyuan County. If you calculate the distance, if you set off early in the morning, you should arrive here at this time.

Song Qiu was sure that they should stop to rest, after all they had driven such a long way.

Sure enough, as soon as the convoy got on Daguan Road, they saw a tea stand in front of them, so they came straight here.

There are a lot of tree poles specially inserted outside the thatched shed, which is the most convenient for harnessing horses and chariots.

When Song Qiu saw someone approaching, she hurried forward to greet her. She was used to the catering industry, so she didn't notice anything, she was very proficient.

"Please, objectively, it's too hot today. Are you tired from traveling all the way? Are you thirsty? Come in and have a rest. We have ice drinks in our tea shed. It's the best way to cool off in summer!"

Zhang Lihua also has a personality, so she quickly followed Song Qiu to say hello.

In a convoy, apart from the leader of an escort, there were seven other escorts, all of whom sat in the tea shed, which happened to fill up two tables.

"Little girl, this is a rarity. We walked here the first time, but we didn't know that there are ice drinks for sale in your land. What kind of ice drinks are there? We happen to be very hot, and there are ice drinks to drink. , I'm not "happy to drink that tea!" "The leader of the escort looked at Song Qiu and asked.

Seeing that this tea shed was an old lady with two little girls, and the waiter was also a little girl, although it was strange, she didn't say anything.

They walked this way for the first time, thinking that the tea shed had been there for a long time, how could they know that this was the first time they had seen it?
Song Qiu brought over the board with the small bamboo sign on it, pointed to it and introduced, "So that the guests know that the ice drinks in our tea shed include iced mung bean soup, iced cold shrimp, iced fermented glutinous rice, and most importantly iced watermelon." Lie! I wonder what the guest officers are ordering?"

Although the characters carved with a knife on the bamboo plaque were crooked, after Song Qiu's introduction, he could barely recognize them.

Hearing this, the escort head glanced around the bamboo sign again, and said curiously: "I've had iced mung bean soup, iced watermelon, and fermented glutinous rice, but what is this cold shrimp? Shrimp can be eaten iced? What’s the point?”

Song Qiu smiled: "I want the guest officer to know that the cold shrimp is not the shrimp in the river. It is the specialty of our tea shop. This is the only one. You can't eat it anywhere else! Would you like to try it, guest officer?" Look?"

When the head of the escort heard this, he was really interested. Only this family's stuff came here, so of course he wanted to try it.

"Then here's this cold shrimp! A bowl for three pennies, right? Let's have eight bowls for the eight of us! And this iced watermelon, I haven't eaten it for a few days, my mouth is very greedy, and each of us eats it." One piece! Hehe, five cents for one piece, you sell it here more expensive than other ice drink stalls.”

Song Qiu said: "Good guest officer! Eight bowls of cold shrimp and eight pieces of iced watermelon, come right away!"

Then he went to the table where the ice mirror was placed and got busy. First, he took out the watermelon that had been cut in half and cut it. He raised the knife and cut eight watermelons of the same size.

Although it costs five cents a piece, Song Qiu is not stingy, this piece of watermelon is no smaller than the ones sold in the town, and if you cut out eight pieces of watermelon, this one watermelon is not bad.

Song Qiu hurriedly put another watermelon in and chilled it.

Zhang Lihua hurriedly delivered the cut watermelon to the table for the guests.

Here, the old Yuan family helped to hold the bowl and the spoon. Song Qiu quickly filled the cold shrimp in the clay pot in the ice mirror, one bowl and a half spoonful, and then scooped in a large spoonful of boiled brown sugar water goes in.

The black and red color diffuses into the white and fat cold shrimp, which is very beautiful.

The three of them started together, and quickly brought eight bowls of cold shrimp to each guest.

The head of the escort was munching on the iced watermelon, and he only sighed comfortably.

Song Qiu went up and said, "How is the guest officer? Is the watermelon ice in our tea shop sweet? Is it sweet? There are no shops in front of the village or in the back. The watermelon can be pulled twenty miles before dawn! Is there any ice cubes? It’s not easy for our small business.”

After eating the watermelon in two bites, the head of the bodyguard also nodded his head when he saw this strange cold shrimp. There are no ice drinks sold in other official roads. These things are usually found in cities and towns. Ice is not easy, so it is reasonable to be more expensive.

(End of this chapter)