I want to embrace the moon for nine days

Chapter 52 Return to the leader
Cangshui County is prosperous, and many people are from well-off families, so they don't hesitate to go out to eat out.

Especially in late autumn, many mountain products are on the market, and hunters and mountain people from nearby counties will come to Cangshui County to do business.

When locals meet someone they are related to, they will inevitably treat them to a meal while talking and laughing.

Therefore, Zhou's restaurant has been very busy recently. Even after the usual lunch time, in the afternoon, some customers still came to order.

More than half of the tables and chairs in the lobby were occupied by guests, chatting and laughing, drinking and garnishing food, and it was very noisy.

"Guest officer, your dishes are ready."

Zhou Zifan brought over a plate of braised eel segments, held the tray under his arm, and turned around to enter the kitchen.

In the large kitchen next door, more than a dozen people are still busy. They only came to change shifts at noon and they still have plenty of energy.

The fires under the three or four large pots were not extinguished. Some were boiling water, some were cooking vegetables, some were putting on steamers, some were mixing meat fillings, and some were rolling out dough and making dumplings.

The dumplings at Zhoujia Restaurant are excellent, and every guest who comes here will almost always order a plate, so you should prepare more in advance.

The curtain door on the other side of the kitchen was rolled up and tied up high.

When people enter the kitchen, they can directly see the scenery of the yard.

Those junior brothers and sisters with weak legs and feet sat in the yard fetching water, washing vegetables, and killing fish and marinating meat.

The junior brothers who had broken their hand tendons in the past due to the Yunxiu Sword Technique, and whose hands were shaking so much that they could no longer exert their strength, cooperated with others, hung a rope around their necks with iron hooks on both sides, hooked it to the vegetable basket, and carried the vegetables from the yard into the kitchen.

"Qingqing."

Zhou Zifan walked to the second junior sister Liu Qingqing who was adding firewood, bent down and said, "Let me do it. You have finally gained an appetite recently. Don't be too smokey and unable to eat."

Liu Qingqing was also a tall and strong beauty back then. She didn't like rouge and gouache, but she loved buying clothes and boots. When practicing, she looked like a female leopard.

It's just that she was hit in the leg by Wang Hulou five years ago and her stomach was shattered. Although it healed later, her appetite became very small. She would easily vomit if she ate more. She lost weight quickly, with a yellow complexion and protruding collarbones. , the arms are as skinny as bones.

Those big, charming eyes looked a bit scary on her thin face.

In the past month, everyone has secretly practiced Rama Mind Technique, and everyone has made some progress.

Liu Qingqing not only ate a little more, but even if she ate two pieces of greasy food such as braised pork, she would not vomit it out.

Zhou Zifan was ten times happier that his injury had improved, and he unconsciously wanted her to take better care of herself.

"I've been burning for five years, so I'm used to it."

Liu Qingqing pushed him gently, "You should wait for the food to be served. If you are not in a hurry to serve the food, just go to the door and have a look."

In their restaurant, there are only a few people who can serve the diners without disturbing their appetite.

Zhou Zifan was the most eloquent among the few people, so he not only had to serve the food, but also stood at the door when he had some free time to see if he could attract more customers.

"Okay, I'll go later."

Zhou Zifan took a bowl, scooped out half a bowl of hot water and blew it on, preparing to drink some to moisten his throat.

Liu Qingqing picked up the firewood in the stove, her face turned red by the firelight, and she raised her head and said, "Today is the second day of Qiu Lie. I don't know what happened to my junior brother and the others."

"Do not worry."

Zhou Zifan knelt down and whispered, "Junior brother can already run and jump. With his skills, he should be not much inferior to people like Huang Qianli and Liu Qifeng."

"I estimate that our record this year will be several times higher than last year. If we are lucky, we may be able to break into the top three."

Liu Qingqing said worriedly: "But after all, those people are several years older than my junior brother. Some are even more than ten years older than him. Their skills are equal to those of him, but their experiences in battle are also very different."

Zhou Zifan smiled and said: "Junior brother's goal is to show that our Songhe Martial Arts School has hope of revitalization. He is targeting prey, and he is not going directly to seek revenge on those people. What are you afraid of?"

He blew the hot water again, drank a few sips, scooped out half the bowl, placed it next to Liu Qingqing, then left the kitchen, walked through the lobby, and went out the door.

There are still many pedestrians on the road now.

But Zhou Zifan looked at their swaying steps and knew that many of them had just eaten, so he didn't get in the way of those people.

In Lao Huang's Restaurant across the street, there were not many people in the store. The shopkeeper and waiters were squatting outside the threshold.

Seeing Zhou Zifan coming out, the shopkeeper smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Zhou, business is so good today."

Zhou Zifan smiled and said, "Thank you."

"Hey! How can I be so lucky?"

The restaurant owner sighed, "If I'm lucky, there won't be no one in the store. Hey, tell me, does he have a very good feng shui in your store?"

Zhou Zifan just smiled and stopped talking.The restaurant manager got up and walked into the house. As soon as he turned around the door and reached a place where no one outside could see him, he took a deep breath.

"A bunch of damn cripples are robbing me of my business. Those people are not afraid of these cripples' food. They are unclean and will die after eating it."

The shopkeeper cursed a few times, turned to the waiter and said, "Where is the Feng Shui master I asked you to hire?"

The waiter said: "You have invited all the Feng Shui experts around here."

Just as he was talking, another waiter came running from the kitchen.

"Shopkeeper, there are still some leftovers from the batch of buns delivered to Mr. Huang's martial arts school two days ago. I'm afraid they will go bad if they are left out any longer. Please bring them back to us tonight."

"Bring back?"

The shopkeeper's eyes widened, "As long as it's not moldy or smelly, it can be sold. One by one, do you think my wages are less than yours? You just want to take advantage of the restaurant."

"Why don't you learn from the guy across from you? A bunch of cripples are more diligent than you!"

The waiter complained: "Without customers, our diligence is useless."

"Humph!"

The shopkeeper snorted, "The autumn hunt is almost over. When the disciples of our Huang family return victorious, we will definitely have a few more grand banquets."

"Ask the chefs in charge of the dishes to think about it, prepare some good dishes, and deliver them when the time comes. Wouldn't this make a lot of money again?"

The shopkeeper is a relative of the Huang family. Although he is just an inconspicuous relative in the branch, there are some benefits.

For example, when Huang's martial arts hall invites a large restaurant to host a banquet for his family, these relatives take the initiative to send food and wine, even if their host family does not like it, they will accept it and reward them as much as they say it is worth.

The Huang family has a big business anyway, so they don't care about small expenses.

The shopkeeper felt quite proud when he thought of this. He walked a few steps in the lobby and looked at the Zhou Family Restaurant opposite.

"If you think about it carefully, it's not easy for Shopkeeper Zhou and the others."

The shopkeeper smiled at the waiter and said, "You see, they have such a frame of mind, working from dawn to dusk for a month, and what they earn in the end may not be as much as what we earn from a few banquets."

The two waiters nodded secretly and followed the shopkeeper's words.

The shopkeeper's sharp eyes saw a cousin who was working as a busboy in Huang's martial arts school walking by on the street. He quickly shouted: "Six Butlers, where are you going in a hurry? This guy is sweating profusely. I'm in trouble right now." A bowl of sour plum soup, would you like to try it?"

He quickly sent the waiter to bring the cold sour plum soup.

The sixth housekeeper was really tired. He rested on his knees and was helped in by the shopkeeper.

"Ouch, don't hold me back, I, I, I'm in a hurry!"

"What's the matter? It's so urgent. You are a respectable person, Butler Six, so how can you be so careless about your safety? If it's not a big deal, just tell me and I'll ask the guys in my store to handle it for you."

After hearing what he said, the sixth butler sat down in the shop and took a breath and said, "I've been to several white goods shops, but I'm afraid it's still not enough."

"Ask the clerk in your shop to go around and see how many golden boys and girls, paper figures, paper horses, wreaths and white flags there are. Buy them all and have the shop deliver them to the Huang Family Martial Arts School."

The shopkeeper was shocked: "What, the Huang Family Martial Arts School is having a funeral. An old man has passed away?!"

"Which one? It's that group!"

The sixth housekeeper looked around, pulled the shopkeeper over, and said in his ear, "Both the two young masters of our host family died in Qiuye!"

This news shocked the shopkeeper and he was speechless for a long time.

When the waiters heard the news and ran out of the restaurant in a hurry to find the white goods shop, a tall and burly man in black walked to Zhou's restaurant with more than 20 people.

"Big Brother."

Su Hanshan greeted with a smile, "Qiu Lie has been finished. My second uncle said that for safety reasons, you have all moved to the martial arts hall recently."

Su Tieyi waved his hand and said boldly: "Yes, everyone, let's celebrate tonight!"

"Junior brother, senior uncle, it's not even three days since the autumn hunt. How could it be..."

Zhou Zihan took a few steps forward and asked in surprise, "What happened? How is our record this time?"

"There are some changes. We will discuss it in detail tonight. As for the results."

Su Tieyi chuckled and raised one arm high, surrounded by the excited voices of other disciples of Songhe Martial Arts School.

"This time, we are number one!!"

(End of this chapter)