Beloved Concubine

Chapter 76 Returning to An County
The carriage stopped at the entrance of Chunji Snack Restaurant.Erlong is watching the shop.Seeing Cao Yong driving the car, he hurried out to meet him.

"Huh, you guys came back so soon?" Erlong was a little surprised.

Fang Yu and Chen Xiao got out of the car one after another.

Chen Xiao asked: "Is the store okay these days?"

"pretty good."

Liu Qiao's mother and daughter got out of the car and looked around the strange county.

Cao Yong went to return the carriage, and Chen Xiao and the others walked into the backyard.

"Where's Chunhong?" Chen Xiao asked Erlong.

"She went home to collect peppers."

"When did you go?"

"yesterday."

"Did she say when she'd be back?"

"It's two or three days."

At this time, there are customers in the store, and Erlong goes to greet them.

Along the way, Chen Xiao was thinking: Where will Liu Qiao's mother and daughter live?
Let's live with Chunhong, there can't be three people sleeping in the warehouse;

Spare her room for the three of them to live in. Could it be that she is going to sleep in the warehouse?
Of course, she can also sleep in the warehouse, but they go to the warehouse to get things early every morning.She usually sleeps in the space at night, does she have to get up early every day to create the illusion of sleeping in the warehouse?Just thinking about it makes me feel tired.

How exactly do you adjust the room?
There are four main rooms and two side rooms in the small courtyard, one side room is the kitchen and the other is the bathroom room.As for the toilet, a hole was dug in the corner of the courtyard wall and a grass shed was built.

After much deliberation, why don't we just leave the bathroom? ——The weather in South Vietnam is hot, and South Vietnamese people like to take a shower.Those who are more particular, have a special room like them; those who are not particular, build a thatched shed outside.

Chen Xiao said to Fang Yu: "Let's build a bathroom in the yard and turn this bathroom into a living room, shall we?"

Fang Yu: "If we live in the same room, we can free up a room."

Chen Xiaobai glanced at him.

Fang Yu said again: "I don't want to be seen while taking a shower."

The straw hut bathroom of the South Vietnamese, the head and feet can be seen from the outside.

Chen Xiaodao: "If the room is completely closed, you can't see it." She also doesn't like being seen while taking a shower.

Fang Yu knew that it was impossible for her to live in a room with him.Even though it was impossible, he kept mentioning it repeatedly, in case she agreed to it one day.

It was agreed, and Chen Xiao said to Liu Qiao: "Tonight, you will sleep in Chunhong's room first, and later we will change the bathroom room into your room and Zhao's brother's room."

After speaking, she took Liu Qiao to give a general introduction to the small courtyard, introducing Erlong.Liu Qiao knew that they had a female buddy, so she went home to collect peppers.

Liu Qiao didn't expect that there were all boys and girls here.She thought there was an elder or something in their family, but the oldest one was Mr. Fang, and Mrs. Chen was in charge.

Seeing Mr. Fang and Mrs. Chen living in a room each, Liu Qiao understood that they were not husband and wife.But why do they call themselves husband and wife?
In addition, she was also puzzled: According to the deed of sale, she sold it to Xiao Shitou. At first she thought that Xiao Shitou was Mrs. Chen's younger brother, but after getting along with her for a few days, she knew that Xiao Shitou was Mrs. Chen's buddy.

In short, she is currently at a loss and can't figure out the relationship between them.But she understands one thing: Mrs. Chen is in charge of the house.

At dinner in the evening, Erlong told the shopkeeper that he had come to find Chen Xiao before.

"What did he want from me?"

"Originally he wanted to buy peppers from you. Chunhong said that she also had peppers at home, so she asked the shopkeeper to buy them from Chunhong."

Chen Xiao didn't have enough peppers, so it was okay for him to buy from Chunhong.

Erlong said again: "Master Xiang still had a meal here. He brought a few guys over, and Chunhong made green pepper fish, green pepper chicken, and green pepper smoked meat for them."

"Why would he eat here?" Chen Xiao wondered.Tangtang Ruyi Lou Shao shopkeeper, do you want to experience farmhouse fun?

Thinking of the word "Nongjiale", Chen Xiao suddenly had a flash of inspiration.I have been thinking about finding a shop to open a restaurant before, why not open it as a "farmhouse"?
Of course, this is not a metropolis, it is surrounded by farmhouses, and no one cares about "farmhouse fun", but there is another meaning of "nongjiale", "one-stop".

While Chen Xiao was thinking, Xiao Shitou suddenly got angry and said:
"What does Chunhong want to do? Eat the inside out!"

He knew that the peppers in Nangou Village were not enough, and he thought that Chunhong's family also grew peppers, so they would harvest them together.Unexpectedly, she sold it to Gao Xiang.

In addition, he suspected that Chunhong had sold the green pepper recipe in private.Otherwise, why would she make green pepper fish and green pepper chicken for Gao Xiang.

Erlong said: "You are not here these few days, she left me to look after the shop alone, and went back to Kaoshan Village twice."

"Go back twice?" Chen Xiao roughly guessed why she was going back. Since she sold peppers to Gao Xiang, she must go back to pick them.

Xiao Shitou said displeasedly: "Sister, you have seen that, as long as we are not here, Chunhong will show her true colors."

The relationship between him and Chunhong has always been bad.Once there was a quarrel at Mrs. Shen's house, and when Xiao Shitou went to "Chun Ji", Chunhong wanted to borrow money from him and treated him better.When she didn't need to borrow money from him, she changed her face again.

Usually when we get along, we just maintain a superficial harmony. If something happens, he believes that Chunhong is the fastest runner.Of course, he will not sacrifice his life to save Chunhong.

Chen Xiaodao: "Why don't you show your true colors? It's normal for the boss to be absent and the guys to be lazy." She used to be the boss of the company, and she knows all kinds of employees.

Erlong hurriedly said: "Boss, I'm not lazy! I open the door every day at dawn and close the door at night, just look at the daily bookkeeping and you'll know."

Chen Xiao smiled at him and said nothing.

Chunhong has some little tricks, she has already discovered it.For example, if four or five people come to eat rice noodles, Chunhong will remember one bowl less.She didn't keep an eye on it all the time, and didn't know how much Chunhong would spend, but usually there were at least two people in the store most of the time, and Chunhong had no chance.When checking out every day, how many bowls are sold is also very reasonable, so even if she is ignorant, there are not many ignorant ones.

Chen Xiao is not a caring person, she is very tolerant to her subordinates.As long as it is not excessive and does not harm her fundamental interests, she can tolerate a little trick.

In addition, Chunhong has made a great contribution to the opening of "Chunji Snack Restaurant". If she is not busy, there will be no Chunji Snack Restaurant.

Xiao Shitou said: "Sister, I suspect that Chunhong has sold our green pepper recipe to Gao Xiang in private."

Chen Xiao also had this suspicion.Even though Chunhong secretly sold recipes, it would have no effect on them, but it would be unethical to do so.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was a little dull for a while.

Chen Xiao changed the subject and said, "Let's not talk about Chunhong anymore. I thought of something just now."

She said to Xiaoshishi: "After harvesting the peppers in Nangou Village, they need to be dried in the sun. It rains a lot this season, so we need to find a place with a roof and ventilation. Let's just find a warehouse. You ask Tell me about the friends who work in the warehouse, which one has a suitable empty warehouse, we will rent one."

Little Shitou said: "There are so many peppers spread out on the ground to dry, how big a place do I have to find!"

Chen Xiao smiled and said, "You don't need to spread them on the ground, weave them into strings, and hang them vertically."

This kind of pepper string is very common in rural areas.But the people here have never even grown peppers, so naturally they don't know how to dry peppers.The little stone thought it was spread out on the ground like rice drying.

Of course, this was because the peppers that Chen Xiao took out were packed in baskets, which gave them this illusion.

Here's her chili from modern times.Modern peppers are dried using automatic dryers, and the drying of dozens or even hundreds of tons of peppers is no longer natural drying.

However, at this point, it falls back to the original method.

(End of this chapter)