Beloved Concubine

Chapter 19 The Second Day of Opening
On the second day of opening, Xiao Shitou brought a few people to "Chunji Snack Restaurant".

"What kind of food does this store sell?" asked the person brought by Xiao Shitou.

These people were wearing the same style of cotton blouses, and they looked like guys from a certain company.

"Selling rice noodles." Xiao Shitou said.

He only heard about Brother Fang and Sister Chen's store opening after hearing from sister-in-law Wenxiu.He works outside all day to make a living and doesn't often go to Nanmen Street.

"Rice noodles?" The man frowned, "What is it?"

"It's made of rice, it's delicious!" Little Shitou said as if he had never eaten it himself.

The man shook his head: "I don't like it, let's go."

"If you haven't tried it, just say you don't like it. Try it!"

"We don't like to eat rice." The man said and left.

Chunhong hurriedly said: "There are also noodles. You can try the noodles."

Before Chunhong was looking for a shop, Xiao Shitou persuaded them to rent the shop of Mrs. Shen's family.After comparison, Chunhong found that the shop rent of Mrs. Shen's family was too expensive.Because of Xiao Shitou's persistent persuasion, the two had a quarrel, and then Chunhong ignored him.

The reason why Xiao Shitou favors Aunt Shen's family so much is because Aunt Shen took him in when he was homeless.

So far, he still lives in Mrs. Shen's house, but he often runs outside, sometimes staying outside for ten days and a half months, or even a month or two.But when he returned to the county, Aunt Shen's house was still where he stayed.

"Noodle?"

The man turned around to see where the noodles were.

When he saw the thin noodles in the bowl, he looked disgusted: "Is this also called noodles?"

Chen Xiao and Fang Yu were grinding rice noodles in the backyard, when they heard the sound of small stones, they came to the front shop.

"Sister Chen, Brother Fang!" Xiao Shitou greeted them warmly when he saw them.

"Coming!" Chen Xiao smiled.

Obviously, Little Stone brought guests here for them.

Chen Xiao said to those people: "What kind of noodles do you like to eat? We can make it."

She taught Chunhong to use a noodle press to make noodles, because Chunhong was not very good at using a rolling pin, and she couldn't roll out a noodle cake for a long time, and the cut noodles were not very good.

"Do you know how to cook our Xiling noodles?" the man asked.

Chen Xiao looked at Fang Yu, Fang Yu was expressionless.

She has never been to Xiling, so she doesn't know what kind of noodles in Xiling.asked:
"You mean... broad noodles?"

There are too many types of noodles, including hand-rolled noodles, pulled noodles, knife-cut noodles, dried noodles, and plank noodles. The shapes made are wide, thin, flat, and round. I don’t know which one he is talking about.

The man chuckled: "Sliced ​​noodles, can you do it?"

"Oh, what a coincidence, it happens to happen."

Chen Xiao signaled Fang Yu to "go up".

Fang Yu sized up these people, and his tone was a little cold:
"How many bowls do you want?"

"Four bowls."

He went to the back kitchen and kneaded a dough.

Holding the noodles in one hand, holding the knife in the other, rubbing rubbing rubbing rubbing rubbing rubbing rub... Several people looked a little dumbfounded.

It’s hard for Fang Yu to say, the common Xiling noodles are hand-rolled noodles.The so-called "knife-cut noodles" were first cut by military officers in the military camp to show off their skills.Even in Xiling, only a few big restaurants can make "knife-sliced ​​noodles", and ordinary chefs can't.In other words, knife-shaved noodles are a kind of "show-off" noodles.

It's just that in Chen Xiao's opinion, it's not surprising that sliced ​​noodles are everywhere in modern times.

After Fang Yu finished cutting the noodles, he stood by the stove and cooked them out.Let Chunhong add soup and toppings.

He said to those people: "Fifty Wen a bowl."

The man froze for a moment, pointed to the wall and said, "Didn't you write thirty cents a bowl?"

"What you want is sliced ​​noodles, and the price is different."

The rice noodles and noodles in their store are all priced at [-] Wen.It's just that the amount of noodles is relatively small, because the flour is more expensive.

"You are a black shop! You write thirty coins, but you want fifty coins?"

"If you order something special, you will naturally have to pay more."

"We don't want it anymore."

Fifty Wen for a bowl of noodles is too expensive for them.

If this is a big restaurant, maybe it won't be expensive, but this is just a small restaurant, which sounds like a rip-off.

However, Fang Yu felt that fifty Wen was already very cheap.A bowl of "knife-sliced ​​noodles" in Xiling Restaurant costs [-] Wen.

"It's all cooked, I'm treating you, I'm treating you!"

Xiaoshi dragged a few people to add seasoning.

Although a few people felt a little angry and felt that they were being slaughtered, they didn't need to pay for it. Besides, they had never eaten "knife-sliced ​​noodles", they had only heard of it.

After Fang Yu made the noodles, he went to the backyard, and Chen Xiao followed him to the backyard, seeing his unhappy face.

"You should tell them how much a bowl is." Chen Xiao said.

"You don't know what they mean when they ask for sliced ​​noodles."

"What do you mean?"

Fang Yu felt a little angry when he thought of how Chen Xiao catered to them just now.If Chen Xiao didn't let him cut it, he wouldn't cut it.

You little bastards, what kind of uncle are you here to pretend to be!
At first, he didn't want to increase the price, but he thought that if they came to eat every day in the future, would he have to cut the noodles every day?
"You mean, what do they mean?"

"You sit on my lap and I'll tell you."

"If you don't want to say it, forget it."

Chen Xiao went back to the front shop again, where Xiao Shitou and a few people were eating.

"I just said their home is delicious, right?"

"Um"

The man's tone seemed very dissatisfied, but the chopsticks in his hands didn't stop. He finished the noodles in a short while and drank more than half of the soup.

At this time, another guest came in, Chen Xiao stepped forward to greet him, and introduced what kind of food it was.

A person at the table suddenly became angry and said loudly to the guests:
"You'd better ask how much a bowl is, don't be like us, who say fifty cents a bowl after cooking, and get slaughtered."

The guest looked at the speaker inexplicably, waved to Chen Xiao and said no, and then left.

Chen Xiao lowered her face and looked at the person who spoke, feeling very unhappy.

"What are you looking at!" The man was angry at Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao wanted to say a few words to him, but thought about it and endured it.

Several people finished eating one after another, patted their buttocks and left.

Xiao Shitou stayed behind to pay, and apologized to Chen Xiao:

"I'm sorry, Sister Chen, I didn't expect them to be like this."

"It's nothing."

Chunhong said angrily: "Did you bring someone here on purpose to make trouble?"

Xiao Shitou ignored Chunhong and apologized repeatedly to Chen Xiao.

"It's nothing, don't worry about it."

Chen Xiao said it was nothing, but in fact he was unhappy.She didn't blame Xiao Shitou, but those people.

When you open a shop and do business, you will meet everyone.It's only the second day since it opened, and some people have such eccentric remarks. If they spread the word around, many people will be influenced by them.

well!It was fine yesterday, and here comes this crop today.

When it closed at night, 67 bowls were sold today, which is better than yesterday.But still less than eighty bowls.

There is a fair every ten days in the county seat, and tomorrow is the day of "going to the market", and there will be ten times as many people on the street as usual.

They stayed in the county town for more than half a month, and they rushed to a market. The crowds were crowded and shoulders rubbed against each other, almost heel to heel, just like going to a temple fair during a festival or a tourist attraction during the Golden Week.

Although it is impossible to predict what the business will be like tomorrow, we need to grind more rice noodles to prepare for tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)