Dressed as a vicious stepmother, the whole family is full of wealth

Chapter 47, Anxiety in various restaurants

On the street that the donkey cart passed by, Zhou and Qiao Yu smiled happily from time to time. No matter how tired they felt after making money, they felt happy, and when they saw the cart full of food and touched their bulging pockets, their smiles subconsciously How happy.

"Mother, do you think our family will come to a restaurant in the county town to have a delicious meal in the future?" Mrs. Zhou couldn't help asking.

Xiao Qing lowered his head and smiled, what kind of expectation is this, let alone one meal, ten meals are up to them.

"Will do!"

Zhou agreed with a smile: "Well, I will definitely!"

On the donkey cart, Qiao Yu and Zhou Shi bowed their heads and smiled, and looked up and laughed. Seeing people laughing on the street, they still smiled when they looked at each other. I don't know why they laughed, but they just felt happy.

On the passing street, there were two little beauties in brocade clothes with fluttering skirts. Hearing the laughter on the donkey cart, they couldn't help but look back at the donkey cart.

"Sister, did you just see the donkey cart that passed by? Am I right? It's from the uncle's family?" The person who spoke was Qiao Shuqi.

The two sisters, Qiao Shuqi and Qiao Shuhua, just came out of Xiangyufang, and they laughed loudly when they heard who would be so presumptuous on the street, but they didn't expect to see the uncle's family in Yaoshan Village when they turned around.

Qiao Shuhua looked at the donkey cart going away and the people on it, subconsciously turned around and covered her face, and pulled her younger sister Qiao Shuqi: "Hurry up, don't let that fat man see the two of us, in case If you pester us to go to the restaurant again, mother and father will beat us to death!"

Qiao Shuqi hurriedly turned her back and pulled Qiao Shuhua to trot away.

As they walked quickly, the two complained: "Oh, what a pity, this fat man is haunted, and I ran into them everywhere I went shopping!"

Qiao Shuqi suddenly remembered that there were a lot of things in the donkey cart that Xiao Qing was riding just now, and said suspiciously: "Sister, just now I saw a lot of things in that fat man's cart, maybe he asked for it from the inn again?"

"No, no!" Qiao Shuhua quickened her pace and said, "Father and brother won't give her a penny, not to mention that the business at home has suddenly gone bad for some reason in the past two days, and father and brother are annoying, let's not If you bother them about the fat man, just pretend you didn't see it!"

Qiao Shuqi nodded and said yes, the two ran to Qiao's inn as if they were hiding from thieves.

The two arrived at the door of Qiao's Inn, just in time to meet the elder brother Qiao Maosheng coming back from the outside.

Qiao Shuqi walked to the door and called, "Brother!"

Qiao Maosheng was not surprised when he saw the two younger sisters. Instead, he hummed normally and walked quickly to the inn.

Qiao Shuhua saw her elder brother's serious face, and wondered if it might be because of the lackluster business in the store these two days, and her elder brother was worried.

She followed quickly: "Brother, what happened? You look so ugly?"

Qiao Maosheng didn't answer her, but went directly behind the counter and found their father, Qiao Xiangmin.

After Sister Qiao Shuqi entered the store, she looked at the sparse tables of people in the store: "Sister, brother, why do we only have so few people to eat in our store? Usually, don't we usually sit at the door?"

Qiao Shuhua pulled her, glared at her, told her to shut up, and let her see the faces of her brother and father.

Only after seeing this did Qiao Shuqi realize the seriousness of the matter. Her father's face sank, and he was clenching his teeth and staring at her.

Qiao Maosheng anxiously pulled Qiao Xiangmin to the door of the back kitchen: "Father, not only have the diners in our house been poor in the past two days, but the number of diners in Yueju Restaurant, Chijia Restaurant, and Laiyue Inn have all dropped by more than half. , It is said that there are only three or four tables of diners in Yueju Inn at noon today, and the waiter in the shop can't even pull people in."

Qiao Xiangmin was suspicious. In the past few days in the city, none of the major restaurants and inns had a good business. Now diners are unwilling to enter even if they drag them in. It can be seen that the situation is strange, and there must be a demon among them.

"What's going on here? It's impossible for all the diners to disappear all at once. What do the shopkeepers of these restaurants and inns say?"

Qiao Maosheng looked at the diners at seven or eight tables scattered in the store, and said in a low voice, "Father, I went to inquire, and it was said that there was an inconspicuous Laibin restaurant near the street and the line was lined up at the gate of the city. For two days, because people from the village were blocked from entering and leaving the city, even the county yamen was alarmed, and the princes of the various prefectures, the academicians of the academy, the military commanders, and the state government all lined up at the entrance of the restaurant, and I don’t know if it’s true or not.”

"There is such a thing?" Qiao Xiangmin asked in surprise: "Could it be that all the diners in the city ran so far just to line up?"

Qiao Maosheng said again: "Yes, father, there are even more outrageous things. It is said that the people queuing up to the gate of the city include the family members of the nobles in the city, servants, salt envoys, merchants, shopkeepers, and everyone else. queue."

Qiao Xiangmin was surprised again: "The family members of Hou Men's government are also going to line up?"

Qiao Maosheng nodded with a serious face: "Yes, it's almost unheard of. It's been more than ten years since the restaurant was built, and there has never been such a scene in front of our house. The family members from various prefectures even ran to the street to show their faces and line up."

Qiao Xiangmin asked again: "What kind of restaurant is that?"

Qiao Maosheng sighed and felt ashamed: "Father, my son is incompetent. He only knows that the name of the restaurant is Laibin Restaurant. As for other things, my son has not found out yet."

Qiao Xiangmin looked back at the only five tables of customers left in the store, and was very anxious. They only had these few tables for noon.

Seeing that his father was anxious, Qiao Maosheng persuaded him: "But father, I have been inquiring with other restaurants and inns. It is rumored that Laibin Restaurant has a spicy flavor, which seems to be the spicy flavor of cornel in Yaoshan, but we didn't take it seriously. If anyone is more familiar with this Yaoshan dogwood than we and Yueju Inn, the rumors are just nonsense, I reckon, Laibin restaurant must have produced some shocking taste, which made all the diners go to their house."

Qiao Xiangmin's face was sullen, it seemed that he was going to meet with the owners of several other restaurants.

Yaoshan Village

Xiao Qing asked the coachman to park the donkey cart at the door of the house, and she called Er Jing, Qin Shi, and the children to bring food.

She gave the coachman an extra five cents, and gave him some dates, which was the fare for waiting for her all afternoon.

The coachman smiled: "There will be such errands in the future, remember to call me again!"

Xiao Qing readily agreed.

When Qiao Cheng in the yard heard that his grandma and mother had returned, he dropped the bamboo basket and brought his younger siblings to help carry the food in the car.

The children saw the cart full of delicious food, and as soon as they stood beside the donkey cart, they smelled the aroma, and their eyes didn't know which food to look at.

Qiao Cheng held back the hunger in his eyes, and ordered: "Siblings and sisters, take food home together, be careful!"

The children in the back circled the donkey cart happily, each picked up what they could hold and hugged tightly, took it off the donkey cart, and then ran home quickly, the children laughed like silver bells, It sounds great.

Repeatedly, several children ran back and forth four or five times, cooperating with Qin and Erjing, and emptied the donkey cart in a short while.

After the things were moved, the family gathered around the small table to eat, and leaned on the rice noodles, oil, brown sugar, and salt cloth on the small table, watching intently.

(End of this chapter)