Self-cultivation of Male Supporting Role - Chapter 362

The brothers of Xu Laowu were very surprised when they saw Shi Yan closing the stall early. They did not forget that today was the day when Shi Yan’s rice noodle shop opened.

It’s just that they are not optimistic about Shi Yan’s business from the bottom of their hearts, thinking that they are going to catch up with lunch at this time, just to support Shi Yan, so as not to appear neglected.

And they have their own considerations, and they know how popular they are on the whole street. If they go early, let normal customers see them in Xu Laowu’s store, I am afraid that they are people who want to enter the store and try new things. All stay out of the way and ruin the business.

Thousands of choices have waited until now, and I never thought that the two sides would meet halfway.

Shi Yan didn’t explain too much, handed the prepared rice noodles to the other party, and briefly warned him that he was too lazy to walk, climbed into the ox cart, and walked home with Erbo Liu.

After walking far away, he couldn’t see the other person’s figure, Liu Erbo said to Shi Yan with a heartache: “Master, that’s tens of pennies!”

Giving it to a group of scoundrels who are delicious and lazy, it hurts my heart just thinking about it.

Besides, Erbo Liu still has his own worries: “You know who those people are. If they eat well today, what if they go to the store to eat and drink for free in the future?”

Shi Yan admits that Liu Erbo’s words are justified. Those people’s moral bottom line is extremely low. If they eat well, they will keep daily journals and never give money. On the bright side, they call you brothers and sisters, and they look like they are taking care of your business. Suffering words.

If something goes wrong, it is normal to bring people to make trouble at the door of your store every day, so that your business cannot go on.

Maybe others will be afraid of these tricks, but Shi Yan is not.

Not only is he not afraid, but he also wishes that those people would get dizzy and bump into them on their own initiative.

It’s too early to say these things now. With the money in his pocket, the first thing Shi Yan has to do is to invite a gentleman to his house to teach him how to read and write.

According to the trajectory of Xu Laowu’s life, he is a peasant who does not know big characters. Before, he reluctantly wrote a price tag, and it can be deduced that he learned from the shopkeepers on the street.

But more is not enough.

For Shi Yan, if he can’t read and write, it is not very convenient to do the right thing.

But this kind of thing is not something that can be done with money. Nowadays, the acquaintances in the private school are all acquaintances in a circle who introduce children from relatives and friends to each other. When people play, they have a fixed circle and do not accept outsiders easily.

Just like the vendors selling vegetables on the street have their circles, and if others want to go in and get a piece of the pie, they are bound to be collectively opposed and suppressed by them.

This can’t be rushed.

Shi Yan thought about it carefully in his heart and came up with an idea. The ox cart had already wandered into the alley, and he met many acquaintances along the way. Seeing that Shi Yan was back at this moment, he jokingly said:

“Xu Laowu, I just heard from your mother-in-law that you only go to the store when the sun rises three times a day. You are coming back just now when the sun is empty. Did you make a fortune on the way?”

Liu Erbo said in his heart that he just made a fortune! But he understands the truth of making a lot of money in silence. When the boss is silent, he can be a driver with peace of mind.

On the other hand, Shi Yan, with his hands folded in his sleeves, sat on the ox cart, smilingly responding to this man’s words: “I have a good word for you, I made a small fortune!”

The person who spoke was choked hard, and walked away cursing, and when he was far away, he could hear the man and others muttering: “Oh, the dog can’t change to eat shit, he promises the fifth to make a fortune, and my rhubarb can sit there. Raised in the yamen!”

Others followed the ox cart and asked Shi Yan unwillingly: “Xu Laowu, I think you should know that your family’s rice noodle business can’t continue, right?

Go back and talk to your mother-in-law, rent your shop to me, and I will give you three taels of silver a year for the rental fee. No matter how little mosquito legs are, it is still better than losing money in your hands.

Brother Xu, are you right? “

Shi Yan glanced down on the ox cart, snorted coldly, still acting like a rogue: “What you said is interesting, my rice noodle shop is at the top of Shuangjing Street.

I’m not willing to spend thirty taels a year, three taels of silver, how on earth can you say it? “

The man wasn’t annoyed, he raised his head and glanced at Shi Yan with a smile, followed the bullock cart a few steps slowly, and whispered, “Thirty taels of rented silver, how much can you put in your pocket?

The three taels I mentioned are all for you, Brother Xu. As long as you can be the master, whether it is three taels or ten taels, we can all discuss it. “

After he finished speaking, he gave Shi Yan a meaningful look, with confidence in his eyes.

Shi Yan waved his hand, looking very disdainful: “Thirty-five taels of silver is not enough for a few brothers to go out for a drink, so you are too embarrassed to take it out and say it?”

The disdain and anger on the man’s face disappeared in a flash, and he quickly showed a smile. After leaving a sentence, “I’ll give you two days to think about it,” he flicked his sleeves and strode away.

The back is the confidence that the inkstone will finally agree!

There are neighbors in the whole alley, and almost no one believes that Shi Yan can do business well.

It was different when they got home. The two children in the family had inexplicable trust in their father. Ever since they tasted the food made by their father, they firmly believed in their hearts that no one in this world could resist the temptation of their father’s craftsmanship.

The two of them had been waiting at the door for a long time, and when they saw Shi Yan coming back, one of them held Shi Yan’s hand and jumped very lively. Ayun looked at Shi Yan with bright eyes.

Xiaobao was more direct, raised his head and asked curiously, “Dad, have you made any money? Are there many customers? You must be very busy, right? Rush Xiaobao and sister to the store tomorrow to help you entertain the guests!”

Shi Yan led the two children through the hanging flower door with a soft face: “Well, there are not many customers, I made some money, and I’m not very busy. I don’t need your help for the time being.”

Ayun also blushed and said, “Daddy has worked hard to make money to support the family!”

“Hmph, you came back in less than two hours after going out, and it’s still hard work? If you can make money to support your family like this, the businessman who wakes up every three hours and sleeps five nights will be rich long ago!”

Madam Miao was holding an embroidery stretcher in her hand, sitting under the porch, half-squinting her eyes and embroidering through the sun, she snorted coldly when she heard the words.

From the beginning, she didn’t trust this son-in-law, especially when Liu Erbo said that he picked up the Miao family rice noodle signboard and replaced it with a big bowl of rice noodles, and she felt even more unhappy.

People had to bow their heads under the eaves. She didn’t say much at that time, but in her heart she hoped that he would make some achievements. Dad has a bright future, which is always good for his grandson.

The results of it?

It’s really disappointing, and if I knew earlier, I shouldn’t have expected this person to be promising.

Shi Yan didn’t care about the old lady’s opinion. Seeing that the two children were overwhelmed by what they said, he rubbed the heads of the two to comfort them, and took the two children’s hands to the direction of the garden.

Between him and the old lady, many things can’t be explained clearly in one or two sentences, and they don’t even think about explaining them. Let’s just leave it at that. In the future, if you can understand it, you will understand it.

It doesn’t bother him with a single finger.

Just keep the surface peaceful and don’t cast a shadow of childhood on the two children.

“Yesterday I agreed to make paper kites for you. Today, I have all the materials ready. Tell me what you want? Huh? The weather has been fine these few days, so I can just take you to the countryside to put paper kites.”

Sure enough, the two children were very happy when they heard it, and urged Shi Yan to hurry up.

Soon the corridor was filled with tools and materials for making paper kites. Ayun gestured with his hands: “Daddy, I want a butterfly, it’s so big, it can fly so high!”

Not to be outdone, Xiaobao gestured with open arms: “Daddy, I want an eagle, how big! Bigger than my sister!”

Shi Yan was sitting next to him and slicing bamboo with a knife. He answered lightly, and the two children happily squatted by the side to help him pass things, their faces full of anticipation.

Shi Yan stuffed the two of them with the colored paper that had been prepared earlier, and let them cut and play by themselves.

Not far from his back, Liu Erbo was dancing happily like a two-hundred-pound child, telling Mrs. Miao and Second Aunt Liu about the opening this morning.

Liu Erbo’s words flew from his mouth, his expression was enthusiastic, and he cooperated with his actions like a liar who jumped a big rope.

The audience, Mrs. Miao and Second Aunt Liu, showed disbelief on their faces, and wrote “I’ll listen to your bragging quietly” all over their faces.

After Aunt Liu and others finished speaking, they complained in a low voice: “I said the boss, why did you go out with the boss, you have learned this trick too, it makes you feel uneasy when you look at it.”

Liu Erbo felt wronged and defended: “What I said is absolutely true! Don’t you think the owner’s rice noodles are delicious? Why don’t you believe that he can do business well?”

Second Aunt Liu said confidently: “It’s delicious, even the best rice noodles I’ve ever eaten in my life! After all, isn’t it still a bowl of rice noodles?

Can he turn into a bear’s paw?

Also a bowl of rice noodles eight taels of silver, you can take it easy!

Do you know how cheap rice noodles are in Bai’an County? People who eat rice noodles are not rich in the end, and the owner’s rice noodles will eventually be sold to these poor people! No matter how delicious it is, it will increase by a penny at most!

It has risen too much, and those who are willing to eat rice noodles can’t afford it!

People who can afford it, what’s not good to eat, eat rice noodles every day? Isn’t there something wrong with this? “

Liu Erbo scratched his head in distress. This is the truth, but he has a secret recipe for his boss, and he doesn’t take the usual path at all. How can he not explain it clearly?

Aunt Liu put down the dishes in her hand, glanced at the father and son under the porch, and whispered to persuade: “Master, go back and tell the master well, he is definitely a good recipe, as long as you take it steadfastly, The day will surely pass!

Hurry up tomorrow, you go to the store earlier and come back later, the hard work must be hard, but raising a family is definitely not a problem, maybe you can rely on this craft to marry Xiaobao in the future! “

The figure of the one hundred taels of silver notes suddenly appeared in Liu Erbo’s mind again, and with a complicated feeling that only he could understand, he turned around and packed up the things that he would use in the store tomorrow.

I really experienced the feeling that everyone was drunk and I woke up alone.

But soon Liu Erbo would no longer have this sweet burden. Following Shi Yan’s short time of opening the store, he thought he had seen a big scene. He was no longer the honest and honest Liu Erbo of the past.

The mother-in-law didn’t believe everything he said?

No, it doesn’t exist.

In less than half a month, no one in the entire county knew about the existence of a big bowl of rice noodles, which was the kind of rice noodles that the young son of the county magistrate’s family could watch every day.

It is well known that Young Master Liu neglected Miss Yingying for a bowl of rice noodles.

Even if the mother-in-law doesn’t walk out the door, there are some nosy people who will pour news into her ears.

He Liu Er never thought that one day, he would be respected by many people for selling rice noodles with the owner, and even the young son of the county magistrate’s family would politely nod and say hello to him when entering and leaving the store.

For a while, it felt like life had reached its peak.

Who doesn’t want to taste the fairy taste of a big bowl of rice noodles, it can fascinate people, love rice noodles but not beauty!

It’s a pity that the owner of this shop didn’t know what to think. He opened the shop for at most one hour a day, made a lot of rice noodles, and received at most ten tables of guests.

Very casual.

“Xu Wu, seriously, can’t you learn from others and reserve a seat for me? It’s okay to ask the servant next to me to come and pick it up!

You don’t know that these days, I’ve been running to your house every day at this hour, plus the money in my pocket is quickly spent, my father thought I ran to the brothel Chu Pavilion again.

I almost can’t go out today, I’m going to miss this meal! “

The county magistrate rubbed his stomach happily, and he did not know how many times he suggested that Shi Yan make a separate reservation for him.

“Fifteen flavors, it will take half a month to taste them one by one…”

Shi Yan said in his heart, after tasting the fifteen flavors, there will be surprises waiting for you! My determination to empty your wallet is beyond your imagination!

In order to empty your wallet, the hard work behind my back is more than you can think of!

But what he said was: “Since I have charged you eight taels of silver, it is natural to make you feel that it is worth the money. This kind of rice noodles is the best to eat and cook now. It is very important to control the heat. .

You can’t let your eight taels of silver be worthless, and you can’t smash my signboard! “

Okay, if it weren’t for the entire county, or even the prefecture, the rice noodles made by Shi Yan surprised him every day, and he would not tolerate Shi Yan’s messy rules.

But who makes it a seller’s market now!

Getting up and putting down the two broken silver coins, Young Master Liu narrowed his eyes and left with a few greedy drooling servants with a satisfied face.

Shi Yan watched the other party leave, and sighed in his heart: If it weren’t for the fact that this person is so disciplined here, some people would have been unable to hold back if they wanted to come to the dark place?

As soon as he turned around, he saw Mr. Liu coming in from the same alley with his hands behind his back, hesitating for a while, then said to Shi Yan, “Come here for a small sour and spicy bowl.”

Small sour and spicy means Wuwenqian hot and sour powder.

The method of categorizing rice noodles into upper, middle and lower grades according to the price is only applicable to the chaotic scene of the opening on the first day. Since the second day, the store has changed the description of large, medium and small.

The big hot and sour rice noodles is not a big bowl of hot and sour rice noodles, but the hot and sour rice noodles of eight taels of silver.

Shi Yan asked the old gentleman to sit, and went into the back kitchen and served a bowl of the medium sour and spicy that Mr. Liu used to eat. At first glance, Mr. Liu didn’t see any problem, but he knew it when he ate it in his mouth.

The old man was also very open-minded, and he continued to eat after being stunned for a moment.

Since he passed by here by chance half a month ago and stepped in, the speed with which his purse was shriveled once made his wife suspect that he had raised a baby outside, causing a family conflict.

Half a month passed, even if his wife didn’t say anything, he knew that he couldn’t eat his favorite hot and sour food every day without restraint.

But eat as much as you want, and it’s not unaffordable to eat two meals a day.

After eating, he put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth, the old man took out a total of 15 coins from his purse and handed it to Liu Erbo, but Shi Yan refused to accept it: “They are all neighbors in an alley.

Listening to my mother, my Fenghua was also enlightened by your old man when I was a child. What is the point of asking you to eat a bowl of rice noodles? Don’t be polite to me. “

The old man refuses to accept anyone, even if he is a scholar, he can’t do the act of pulling with others, so he turned to Shi Yan: “I remember your two children are about to reach the age of enlightenment, right?

Back to the old man’s house. “

This old man is known far and wide for his high requirements. He has to be five years old to receive enlightened children, and he has to pass his test. It is indeed a great favor to say that.

But Shi Yan shook his head directly: “To tell you the truth, my two children are less than three years old. The younger generation wants them to play happily for two years, and I will talk about reading when they can see their temperament.”

While the old man admired it, he was hesitant.

Shi Yan continued: “Since this matter is mentioned, this junior has a request here and I hope you will grant it. You also know that this junior was born in the field, and he doesn’t know one big character.

Now that the situation at home is improving, I want to study with my husband. The requirements are not high, and I can understand the ledger so that I won’t be fooled. I wonder if you have a recommendation for this kind of person? “

This request is simple, and Mr. Liu felt relieved when he heard it, and his appreciation for Shi Yan was a little more.

In my heart, I said that the prodigal son will return the money, and it really makes sense. In the past, people hated dogs and hated people. After they started to live and support their families, they looked like they were, and they also knew that it was good to be motivated.

Touching his beard and pondering for a moment, he said, “Old man, there is just one person to choose. You can decide for yourself after listening.”

The person Mr. Liu mentioned was surnamed Zhou, twenty-eight this year, and was an apprentice he accepted in his early years.

Eight years ago, when he was 20 years old, he was admitted as a scholar, and he was a well-known young talent.

It’s a pity that the family is ordinary, and it sounds like a family heirloom.

The whole family and even the whole family were excited for him to pass the exam at a young age. As a result, in the next few years, his grandfather, grandmother, and parents died one after another. Once he kept his filial piety, it was nine years.

For nine years, he couldn’t get married, couldn’t take the imperial examinations, and he was completely delayed.

In recent years, there have been rumors that his life will be hard to kill six relatives. Seeing that he is about to show his filial piety, the matchmaker does not dare to come to the door, and the clansmen dare not approach, for fear of being killed.

Mr. Liu said with a heavy expression: “That child is having a hard time these days, the old man is thinking of helping him out, but he doesn’t want to, and he is very stubborn.

I don’t want to implicate others, and now I make a living by copying books for bookstores.

The old man does not hide this from you. If you think it is suitable, the old man will talk to you in the middle. “

What can Shi Yan not want?

The family is ordinary but talented, self-respecting and self-loving, does not accept charity from others, and insists on self-reliance. Such a person said that Shouxiao has not continued to study for these years, he does not believe it.

If it wasn’t for this, it wouldn’t be valued by Mr. Liu.

Next year’s filial piety was just in time for the academy examination, and it was impossible to say that he would be able to obtain fame and fame. At that time, he was only twenty-nine, young and promising. For Shi Yan, being strong like this was beneficial and harmless.

Shi Yan glanced at the old man with a half-smile, and was noncommittal about his prudence.

Since then, all the days when Shi Yan didn’t open his shop, he followed Mr. Zhou to read and read. His diligent study and great progress shocked everyone around him.

In just a few months, even the ruffian temperament on his body disappeared.

People put on robes and go out, that is, serious scholars, elegant and easy-going.

When Mrs. Miao looked at Shi Yan like this, she was sometimes in a trance, and said to Second Aunt Liu in private, “Looks like that’s more serious than his fourth son who killed a thousand knives!

If he had been like this earlier, my Fenghua would still be obsessed with Xu Laosi? Have a good time with him! What are you talking about! “

Second Aunt Liu glanced at Shi Yan, who was patiently making tops for the two children, and pouted, thinking that you can do it.

Looking at it alone, it is indeed a character, but when put together with the current Xu Laowu, it is an embroidered pillow with a fake appearance! Where can you compare with the owner?

That girl in your family is unlucky. For the sake of Xu Laosi’s face, she treats Xu Laowu as a human being! Who would have thought that today would come?

But he said: “Old sister, take it easy! It’s not like you don’t know, how many people have left me here to inquire about the owner’s marriage recently?

Several golden-flowered daughters are willing to take dowry for your two children to be stepmothers! What are people drawing?

Don’t you just want your son-in-law to be able to be good, to be good to your two children, to be good to your old lady, to be affectionate and righteous?

Such a good son-in-law is willing to stay in your house, let’s have fun, what else is there to be dissatisfied with? “

“Contentment? In this regard, Brother Xu, don’t be so easy to be contented. My husband always says that I am gifted in reading, but I see you as the most gifted one!

If it weren’t for the delay… But it’s not too late to catch up now, Brother Xu, I believe that with the speed of your progress, there is absolutely no problem with being a scholar! “

Mr. Zhou saw Shi Yan spinning around the stove, hated him for not fighting, and tried his best to comfort him.

Shi Yan was very salty: “I just want to make the most delicious rice noodles in the world, so that everyone can feel happy. Come on, Brother Zhou, try my latest flavor!”

“Brother Xu, listen to me, don’t change the subject!”

“Hey!”

“Hey, it’s delicious!”

Shi Yan: In life, who can escape the Law of True Fragrance?