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

Chapter 57, The Long Line
Sitting on the donkey cart, Xiao Qing looked back at the two huts at home. She wanted to build the house as soon as possible and dig a basement to store grain and eat, so as to withstand the famine in the coming year.

After the mother left, the family continued to work as usual. Qiao Yu and Qiao Cheng went to the mountain to pick cornel fruit, Qiao Yang and Yuan Yuan went to collect firewood, Zhou made clothes, Qin removed chicken feathers, and did laundry to take care of Qiao Er. After all, everything is in order.

At about the end of the hour, Xiao Qing came to the door of Laibin Restaurant with a large bamboo basket of mushrooms on his back.

As soon as she reached the door, she thought she had gone to the wrong door. She walked back and forth outside the line a few times before she realized that she had gone to the right door. The long line at this door was the door of Laibin Restaurant.

Before noon, there was a long queue at Laibin Restaurant?
It's the hour!
She walked to the door and was about to go in when a man in a brocade suit stopped her directly at the door.

"Hey, what are you doing? What are you doing? Why did you just go in? Didn't you see such a long line? Don't even think about jumping in line, go to the back line, but we came to the door and waited in line before dawn. Don't even think about jumping in line!" The nobleman in brocade clothes urged her away.

Xiao Qing was pushed to the door by several people, and when she turned her head, she saw the long line without end. If she lined up according to the line, she might not be able to deliver the chili powder noodles in the afternoon, and the fresh mushrooms would not taste good. Not enough chilli either.

"I'm not here to eat, I'm here to deliver food to the shopkeeper!"

The nobleman in Jinyi sneered: "Stop using these excuses to bluff people. You are not the only one who wants to jump in line with all kinds of excuses these days. You eat so fat and dress like this. Even if you pretend to be a beggar and want to sneak in and beg Get in line, go to the back!"

Xiao Qing: "..."

Fortunately, Zhou Ji in the shop heard the commotion at the door at this moment, so he came out to take a look, which quickly kept Xiao Qing in his sight.

"Qi Guanren, Qi Guanren, this little sister-in-law is here to deliver the food, she can't leave! I'll take her to the back kitchen right now, everyone, just wait at ease, the seat will be vacant later I'll arrange for you!" Zhou Ji blocked Xiao Qing's way, and turned around to smooth things over with Qi officials.

Xiao Qing saw that there were already people eating in the restaurant. Who would come to the restaurant for dinner so early in the morning?

She glanced at the diners in the lobby, and saw that there were no dishes on their tables, and there was only one bowl in front of each of them. Why did they have to wait in line to eat so early?She is curious.

The officials of Qi saw that Zhou Ji was very polite, and the waiter in the Laibin restaurant was quite attentive in the past few days, and heard that the woman in front of him was really here to deliver the food: "Oh! I said Zhou Ji, tell your shopkeeper, hurry up and put the food next to you. After the store is completed, there is no room for such a small store! Look, how many people are there in the back!"

"Yes, the shopkeeper is talking, and we have already talked about it again." Zhou Ji bowed his waist and responded with a smile: "Guan Qi, please wait a moment, I will send my sister-in-law to the back kitchen first, and come back later, ah."

Qi Guanren beckoned him to go.

Zhou Ji took Xiao Qing to the alley next to Laibin Restaurant. On the way, he smiled and said to Xiao Qing: "The shopkeeper just decided to sell some pasta this morning, which is the cornel red oil noodles that my sister-in-law made for us last time. There are already so many people, and when my sister-in-law comes, she can come in directly from here."

Xiao Qing was surprised when he heard that, but he didn't expect shopkeeper Zhou to have a mind for making money. He sells pasta for breakfast, and vegetables at noon and evening. After that day, he makes a lot of money.

"The shopkeeper went to the village two days ago to say that your business is good. I didn't expect the business to be so good!"

Zhou Ji invited her to the corner: "Here, thanks to your sister-in-law's dogwood noodles, if you hadn't brought this taste when the restaurant was facing bankruptcy, the business of this guest restaurant would have been absolutely impossible. It’s hot! The shopkeeper and I, and I still have something to say to you, so thank you very much!"

Xiao Qing smiled and said nothing, she still remembered that when Mou Lao first opened, the people at the door were like this, there was a long queue, and they couldn’t reserve a seat, not to mention the spicy taste that no one had ever enjoyed before. If it is only given to the Laibin restaurant, I am afraid that there will be such a queue every day in the future.

When she accumulates enough steps, she will also increase the popularity of peppers.

"Hey, Shopkeeper Zhou and you guys are too polite. You guys are short of taste and my family is short of money. Isn't that just a word that kills two birds with one stone?"

Zhou Ji smiled and said: "Sister-in-law said, we will have more contacts in the future, kill two birds with one stone, kill two birds with one stone!"

While talking, the two came to the back kitchen.

Zhou Ji stood at the door and called Yu Liu out. When Yu Liu heard that Sister-in-law Xiao had come, he immediately put down what he was doing and ran over in person, saying, "Sister-in-law is here, great, great, wait a while The cornel flour noodles are used up, if they are not delivered, they will be gone! Sister-in-law, you came in time!"

Xiao Qing heard that Yu Liu had one sister-in-law, she was only on the [-]th day of the eighth lunar month, and it hadn't arrived yet, Yu Liu looked older than her and also called her sister-in-law, she... well, sister-in-law is sister-in-law!
She heard the "sizzling" sound of fried things inside, smelled the choking smell in the back kitchen, she knew what Yu Zai was doing, he was frying chili oil, no wonder there were so many people in the lobby, it turned out that it was eating chili sauce in the morning The noodles and steamed buns are spicy.

However, the small buns and noodles are indeed delicious to eat with chili, not to mention very delicious, but it will definitely wake up the anticipation of the day.

"Then you come and weigh it. This is cornel flour noodles, more than ten catties!" Xiao Qing handed a sack of cornel flour noodles to Yuliu, and then pointed to the mushrooms they had packed at home: "Here are mushrooms. , you also find someone to weigh it?"

Yu Liu saw so many fresh mushrooms, big and small, cleaned up very cleanly, lying in the bamboo basket, looking very gratifying: "Okay sister-in-law, I'll let someone weigh it, today I can make fresh mushrooms again Zicai!"

Yu Yu asked a reliable person to weigh the mushrooms, and the weighing results were five catties of small yellow mushrooms, seven catties of bigfoot mushrooms, five catties of brush mushrooms, and not many hazel mushrooms, only three catties and four taels.

This person didn't underestimate, on the contrary, each type of mushroom was overcounted. For example, the small yellow mushroom was only four catties, and he directly counted it as five catties. The foot mushroom was only six catties and seven taels, and he counted it as seven catties, presumably it was ordered by shopkeeper Zhou.

After a round of calculations, Xiao Qing had an idea in his mind, and it was almost 580 yuan.

In the end, Zhou Ji came out and handed Xiao Qing a few taels of silver and several large oiled paper packages wrapped.

"Sister-in-law, shopkeeper Zhou is greeting important guests in front, so I can't get out and give you the money in person. This is the one or two or six silver coins that shopkeeper Zhou ordered me to give you, and here is half a piece of cooked mutton leg. The roasted chicken and the freshly steamed pieces of Dongpo meat are all freshly marinated. I originally planned to invite my sister-in-law into the store to taste it slowly, but the table in the store really can’t fit during the day and night. In the separate wing, my sister-in-law has no time to stay, so I can only pack these things and give them to my sister-in-law, hoping that my sister-in-law can accept them!"

(End of this chapter)