Reborn peasant girl: I became rich overnight by traveling to sea

Chapter 58: Maybe it’ll be cool
Looking at Meng Xia's mysterious expression, Chang Pingning couldn't imagine what the "big business" Meng Xia mentioned would be like.In her opinion, selling sea oysters and sea urchin fried rice now is much better than following her mother-in-law to deliver seafood in the town.

Meng Xia looked at Chang Pingning's confused eyes, smiled, and imitated Liu Qingwan's tone: "Ningning, relax. If you are really worried, let's recruit people to expand the scale first."

Meng Xia's reassuring words were hollow. Chang Pingning planned to expand the stall, but: "Where is the money for recruiting workers?" Chang Pingning was confused.

"Just pay it directly from the account." Meng Xia answered matter-of-factly. Seeing Chang Pingning's uncertain expression, he added, "I'll tell Qingwan later, don't worry."

Chang Pingning nodded, thinking that too, a noble lady like Liu Qingwan would definitely not care about this little money.

Among the three of them, she was the only one who felt sorry for the dozens of pennies used to recruit workers.

The problem of the port stall finally got a solution from Meng Xia. After Chang Pingning left the Liu family, she was thinking about who to find to help her shop on her way home.

The first reaction was her mother-in-law, but she had approached Chang Pingning once before. At that time, her mother-in-law said she was going to the town to deliver seafood, and she also helped her find out what sold well in the town, so she politely rejected Chang Pingning.

Chang Pingning sighed and heard a voice calling her from behind.

"Miss Chang."

Chang Pingning turned around strangely and saw Ruilan.She thought about it. In the village, apart from Meng Xia who would call her that, it seemed that only Rui Lan, who had worked as a cook under Meng Xia, would call her that.

"Rilan, what's wrong?" Chang Pingning responded with a smile, remembering the friendship between the two of them as apprentices and helping cooks some time ago, and thought that maybe Ruilan's temperament could be tested in her stall.

"I heard that you recently set up a stall selling snacks at the port? Everyone said it was very profitable." Rilan looked very interested in this matter, "I heard that there is support from Miss Meng and Miss Liu. ? Can you teach me? - I know Miss Meng's rules. If I set up a stall myself, I will definitely give Miss Meng a portion of the profit."

What Ruilan was referring to was that when she was working as a cook in the Liu family, she followed Meng Xia and learned a little bit about how to cook a seafood banquet.Meng Xia said at the beginning that if they went out to prepare banquets in the future, they would give Meng Xia part of the money.

"I have a small stall, but I earn hard money, and I am very tired every day." Chang Pingning said, "I just happened to be thinking about finding someone to work at the stall. If you don't mind, first Come and try my stall? Not only do you not have to pay Miss Meng any money, but you can also get wages from me."

"Can you get paid? Then you must make a lot of money." Rilan smiled at Chang Pingning, "There have been no happy events recently. If you don't mind me being clumsy, I will go to your stall to help?"

Chang Pingning smiled and nodded, and the two agreed on the salary, which was forty cash a day.The price of making banquet noodles is not as high as that of Ruilan, but fortunately the job is relatively easy - just grilling oysters.

Before they parted, they agreed that Ruilan would come to Guo's house to find Chang Pingning tomorrow morning, and they would go to the port together.

At the port the next day, Chang Pingning brought Ruilan to a small charcoal stove and told her what to pay attention to when grilling oysters and the condiments. He asked her to make one for herself first.

But in the early morning, many merchants got off the boat and came to the shore to eat. Chang Pingning's stall had been set up here for a while, and they all knew that they could get a hot meal here first.

So when Ruilan roasted the oysters and was about to show them to Chang Pingning, she saw Chang Pingning staring at a row of oysters on an iron stove in front of her.

"Okay, the oysters are well cooked." Chang Pingning took a look at Ruilan's craftsmanship and took them to taste, "It tastes right too. - Come and look at this row of oysters. When they are baked, you can Call me second brother, he knows how to serve guests."

Chang Pingning said, motioning Ruilan to look at Guo Zhongzhou who was busy in front of the stall.

Ruilan was thinking that it wasn't too difficult and Chang Pingning didn't need to ask her to do it. She was grateful that Chang Pingning gave her such a simple job when she heard someone shouting from across the stall.

"Ms. Guo, a portion of sea urchin fried rice and three oysters." A customer came to order.

"Okay, please wait a moment." Chang Pingning responded and whispered to Ruilan, "First take out three oysters, then put three raw ones on the barbecue grill." After saying that, he squatted down and took out the oysters. Take out the sea urchin from the bucket and start preparing fried rice. "Barbecue grill?" Ruilan didn't understand what Chang Pingning was talking about.

"This iron frame in front of us." Chang Pingning explained that Meng Xia actually told her this name.

Soon the aroma in front of Chang Pingning's stall attracted more and more customers.

However, Chang Pingning also noticed that Guo Songqing's stall, which was smoking with smoke yesterday, also had smoke from baking things.

Chang Pingning heard Ruilan calling her.

"Ms. Chang, is that also Miss Liu's stall? Why are they grilling oysters too?"

Chang Pingning stir-fried the rice in the iron pot, staring at the people gathered in front of the stall, and replied casually: "They figured it out by themselves. If it's Miss Liu's stall, they won't shout low prices."

"What?" Ruilan didn't understand.

At this moment, a merchant in front of the stall shouted to Ruilan: "A portion of sea urchin fried rice, I'll come over and get it later."

Ruilan looked at Chang Pingning in confusion.

"Go to that store to buy oysters, and come to our place later to eat sea urchin fried rice." Chang Pingning explained, looking at Ruilan's confused expression, he added, "The oysters at that store are a penny cheaper than the ones at our stall."

"Ah?" Rilan felt that this behavior was a bit unreasonable, but also somewhat similar.

"Grilled oysters, only nineteen cents!"

Aunt Yuhua's shouts came from the stall over there.

Chang Pingning couldn't help but roll her eyes. She had heard from a seafood vendor at the town's market that Aunt Yuhua shouted down the price of sea urchins, but she didn't expect that she would encounter him again.

Not long after, everyone who came to Chang Ping Ning's stall only ordered one piece of sea urchin fried rice. They said they would come and get it later, then turned and walked towards Guo Songqing and Aunt Yuhua's stall.

Although Chang Pingning felt helpless, she could only accept it.

"Mrs. Guo, why don't you drop a penny?" One of the merchants looked at the crowds of people crowding around the stall over there. He wanted to take advantage but didn't want to crowd over there. "If the oysters here are better, It’s also reduced to [-] cents, I’ll definitely buy it from you!”

Chang Pingning happened to be opening a sea urchin. When he heard what the customer in front of him said, he unknowingly opened an extra sea urchin and told the customer helplessly: "I know that family, and their family is like this. If I also shouted nineteen cents, they would It will be reduced to eighteen cents. - But you kindly reminded me that if you want to buy oysters from me, I will give you an extra sea urchin in your fried rice."

"Okay, I'll have another oyster." The merchant wasn't the one who was short of a penny. He originally wanted to add oysters, but he didn't want to save money by crowding in the crowd over there.

Chang Pingning fried rice very quickly, and she noticed that after Ruilan became proficient, she also baked oysters very quickly.She reminded Ruilan not to bake so many at once, otherwise no one would buy them.

"Sister-in-law, no." Guo Zhongzhou retorted, "I just stared at Brother Songqing's stall for a while and found that the people there have not changed. But don't fry your fried rice too fast. They may come over later and tell you. It’s getting cold.”

(End of this chapter)