Farming with Taobao - C52

Chapter 52 Nameless Dining Hall (2)

On the eighth day of April, the twenty-first year of Yongning, a day so ordinary that it could not have been more ordinary, yet on such a day so ordinary, a “little thing” so small that it could have been ignored, happened, and it was this very little thing that, on the shoal of time, left behind the first footprint of the giant as he walked.

It was on this day that Li Yannian’s nameless restaurant opened.

As early as three days ago, renovated storehouse street facing door board, hang “immediately open, welcome to” vermilion wood plate. The laborers who were working on the dock had received the news early and were waiting for the restaurant to open for the fun of the day. He did not want to wait for the restaurant to open, but wanted to see the owner’s true colors and see which restaurant raised such a fool.

Borrowing from the conversation they had with Li Yannian with the Qi Laosan, all of the laborers at the dock knew that the cloth-shop storage room would soon become a restaurant for business. Just like the Qi Laosan, none of the workers on the dock were optimistic about the business, they were all waiting in the dark to see the boss of the restaurant make a fool of himself. As a result, as soon as the restaurant’s opening sign was posted, the news quickly spread across the dock.

Gu Mingyuan was naturally no exception.

He had already asked his big brother Gu Mingde about it. This month, the Xuan Paper Bookstore had asked for 11,600, and the Li family had even handed over their goods without batting an eye. Zhao Cai and Jin Bao had been paying attention to the movements of the Li Family these past few days. The two were either busy with the opening of the new shop, or holed themselves up in the Li Village, not moving at all. They had never seen them get goods from anywhere, nor had they seen any convoy from other families enter the Li Village.

Where did they get the paper that was given to the Bookstore?

Moreover, her restaurant was about to open up, and he hadn’t heard of the Li family asking for rice.

There were too many mysteries in the body of the Li siblings.

Or to be more accurate, there were too many mysteries on Li Hong Dou’s body … Gu Mingyuan couldn’t help but be curious. If they hadn’t been in the kitchen, how would they be able to cook white rice with empty hands?

“What?” A single coin for one to eat one’s fill? ” Gu Mingyuan lost his composure and suddenly sat up in shock, “Is she crazy? How could this price be made? Can’t I just die from loss? ”

Zhao Cai and Jin Bao, the two brothers, looked at each other. Finally, Zhao Cai stood out and said, “Third Young Master, the little ones are not sure. It’s like watching them bring out the steamer at noon, and the slogan is to eat till you’re full with only a single coin. ”

Jin Bao added, “It’s just for today or two. When the day after tomorrow comes, the price of the rice in the restaurant will return to the price of the Three Coins.

“External tape?” A meal? ” Gu Mingyuan chewed on these two unfamiliar words, and started thinking.

Zhao Cai quickly explained: “You are not allowed to bring out food, you can only say that those who eat in the hall can only sit in the shop. Third Young Master, how can the Li Family bear such a way of selling? “Those who work hard are all bottomless rice buckets. They can eat two or three catties of rice just from eating.”

Jin Bao smacked his lips: “I can’t understand either, who would be so happy to give away money in a business deal like this?”

Gu Mingyuan really could not understand the reason why the Li Family Restaurant was so cheap, so he grabbed a few points and asked: “How many people are in their restaurant right now? What kind of rice do you sell? Do you have any grains of sand mixed in with it, or something else? ”

Zhao Cai glanced at Jin Bao, and swallowed his saliva before carefully replying: “There are a lot of people here to watch the commotion, at the beginning, they were still unwilling to believe, but I was afraid that if I went in to eat, I would need more money, but I can’t handle the young lady from the Li Clan. “To be honest, Third Young Master, you asked the two of us to find out about the third young master. We wanted to ask you about the rice in the restaurant, so we didn’t mind spending some money in the Li family’s restaurant to try a night’s worth of rice …”

Gu Mingyuan did not pursue the matter of spending money at another restaurant as members of the Gu family. Instead, he asked calmly: “How much rice is there?”

He was certain that the Li family’s food store was selling for a cheap price. It seemed like they were just taking a piece of the cake.

Zhao Cai subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and carefully considered his reply: “100% of the white rice, not a single piece is aged, and not a single grain is mixed …”

This time, Gu Mingyuan was truly shocked. “How is this possible?”

Jin Bao said: “Third Young Master, it’s true. The little ones’ words were true, not a single one of them was deceiving you. “That Li family’s restaurant sells real, genuine, white rice. In terms of appearance, this little one reckons that the quality of the rice here is on par with the best quality rice in our rice shop …”

Zhao Cai still thought that he did not believe him and suggested a rotten idea: “Third Young Master, if you do not believe me, why don’t I go back to their store tomorrow and secretly hide a lump of rice for you to see?”

Gu Mingyuan glared at him: Can’t I go by myself? You still have to be a thief? ”

Zhao Cai felt a bit wronged, this lowly one was worried that the labourers would attack the Young Master, I was just being ungrateful and did not have the heart of a donkey.

“Alright, you two go down first. I’ll take a look at the situation first. If you have any orders, I’ll summon you.”

Zhao Cai and Jin Bao responded as they turned around and left, leaving Gu Mingyuan alone in the study, pondering over the situation. In his heart, he secretly made up his mind that after the first three days of their business, he would take some time to visit the Li Family Restaurant. Maybe, Li siblings had set this plan first, then another.

On the side of the pier, Li Yannian, Black Bean, Zhang Bao and the Aunt Zhang who had been bashful for a few days, finally agreed to come to the Li family store to help. With a total of four people, on the afternoon of the eighth day of April, they steamed more than two hundred kilograms of rice, and they were so exhausted that their waists almost broke.

The reason was because there were too many people eating in the restaurant.

In the beginning, it was only Qi Laosan and the rest who came to watch the show, but Li Yannian forced them to come in and eat. When the onlookers at the back saw them eating so happily that their chopsticks flew up to their bowls, they were extremely moved. “Isn’t it just a single coin, I can still afford to eat it?”

The power of example is infinite. Soon, the eating army grew bigger and bigger. Soon, even the residents of three or four streets away heard the news and came to eat. A single coin for good rice was enough to fill one’s stomach. For commoners who only had a few coins on hand and couldn’t even afford a large piece of rice, this was a small luxury that could be easily reached. The combat strength of the people eating in the front was astonishing, they did not put down their cutlery, and the people squeezed in from behind, after two punches, there were still more rice to be eaten, but the cutlery that Li Yannian asked the system to buy was not enough.

Although Li Yannian could definitely ask the system about the dishes and chopsticks she bought now, but looking at the crowd of people in the shop who already no longer had a place to stay, she decided on the spot and apologetically said to the other customers: “My uncles, sorry for the inexperience today, the dishes and chopsticks that the shop has just opened are no longer enough. As you can see, the first batch of dishes inside have not even come out yet, the bowl probably won’t be empty for a while either. The price of the store will still be the same at noon tomorrow. Why don’t the uncles come back tomorrow? I’m really sorry. ”

The others looked at each other, then one of them stood out and said with a slightly red face, “Don’t worry, we’ll just wait for the rice to be sufficient.”

Looking at their clothes that were patched up and washed white, Li Yannian suddenly understood something, “I’m afraid we will have to wait for a long time. Back Chef still has a fresh plate of rice, if my uncles don’t blame me, can you make do with me and go to Back Chef with me to get a rice spoon to eat? There is only one concubine in Back Chef who is a chef in our shop, he is only responsible for cooking. The uncles should all be close neighbors, right? ”

The middle-aged man who had just come out to speak blushed again, understanding that the young lady in front of him was considering things for them. Eating in Back Chef, not only would allow them to immediately fill up their stomachs, it would also avoid the obvious awkwardness in front of others.

At once, he nodded his head and said, “Lady is right, we are all employees of the workshop. Miss is right, we are all employees of the workshop. “I’ll listen to you. We can eat enough with a tray of rice.”

Li Yannian smiled as she took the money from them. She called Black Bean and had him watch the place from the front as she led the group towards the direction of Back Chef.

When the Aunt Zhang who was busy cooking saw her, she subconsciously wanted to stand up, but Li Yannian quickly held her down: “Aunt, busy yourself. Since there are no seats outside, I brought these few people over to you.”

As he smiled at them, he said, “Uncles, if you don’t greet me well, it will be hard for you to sit over here. For the sake of apologizing, I’ll send a plate of soy sauce to our host, it’s not worth much and will be treated as a small token of goodwill. Uncles, please don’t blame me.”

As he said this, he took out a plate of pickled vegetables with half a pack of Fuling pickled vegetables, two small packets of Xiao Shan jerky, and five or six pieces of red oil curd and put it in front of them.

The middle-aged man in the lead said embarrassedly, “Then I’ll have to thank you, my lady.”

Li Yannian nodded at the few of them: “I’m busy outside, the boss has not invited many people, I will not greet them here, if there’s anything you need me for, I will be fine.”

“Eh …” The man replied, he watched as Li Yannian pushed open the door and walked out, and turned to look at her comrade, sighing: “This lady is truly kind, not only did she leave us face, she even gifted us with some salted vegetables.”

Another person sighed and said, “A silver coin business is like a silver coin business. The owner of this shop can really bring people.”

The oldest of the five said, “Let’s not talk about that and hurry up and eat.” After the meal, the shop was still waiting for work to begin. If we’re late, the boss will have to pay us back. ”

At the mention of their boss, everyone’s faces were slightly displeased. Perhaps they were truly afraid of their wages being deducted, so they did not say anything else. With their mouths agape, they began to eat with their spoons out of their mouths.