Border Cook

We can let them do more work on weekdays.

After it grows another two years, we can train it properly.

Xia Mingyue thought about this in her mind and smiled. Following Zhao Dahu's suggestion, she made all the hawthorns into bunches of four.

String the hawthorns, boil sugar, wrap them in sugar, let them cool, and stack them.

Because she didn't know the market conditions outside and was also worried that the two brothers would be tired from holding the stacks all the time, Xia Mingyue didn't make too many at first. She only made about ten and let the two men go to the street to try it out first.

Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu were used to seeing Xia Mingyue's trial sales routine when doing business, and they knew they needed to give it a try first, so they didn't want to buy too much and just walked to the street holding the pile of candied haws.

Overjoyed.

"Tanghulu, six coins a string!"

The hawking sounds outside have already started.

"Well, they've started hawking their wares before they even leave the alley." Mrs. Lu held her forehead with her hand and smiled helplessly.

"That's called not letting any place go." Xia Mingyue smiled and said, "Maybe someone in our alley wants to eat candied haws. If we sell them early, business will come."

"Sister-in-law, I'm not exaggerating, but Da Hu and Er Hu are good at business and are better than most adults. From now on, you just sit at home and count money and enjoy your life."

"Thank you for your good wishes, brother and sister-in-law." After hearing what Xia Mingyue said, Mrs. Lu felt much more relieved and no longer worried about the two brothers' first business venture.

After the little episode of making candied haws, although Xia Mingyue and Lu were still worried about Zou Fuquan and Xia Ji's affairs, they were less anxious and focused on doing things in the central kitchen.

Here, the brothers Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu had already arrived at the street and started selling candied haws.

"Tanghulu, six coins a string!"

"Six coins for a bunch of sweet and sour candied haws!"

When someone heard that a string cost six cents, he naturally became interested. He bought a string excitedly and quickly gave it to the noisy child to calm him down.

Some people heard that it was six coins per string, but when they got to the store and found that there were only four hawthorns in the string, they immediately curled their lips and said, "How can you be so dishonest in doing business?"

"What do you mean?" Zhao Erhu raised his chin.

"Other people have eight hawthorns in a string, but you only have four. Isn't this dishonest?" the man frowned.

"But my family only sells it for six cents, and other people sell it for twelve cents. You can't use six cents to buy something that costs twelve cents."

Zhao Erhu said, "Besides, my family didn't tell you that there were eight hawthorns in a string, and we didn't ask you to spend twelve cents to buy a string of four hawthorns. It was always three cents for two hawthorns. How come it's not honest to me?"

"Or do you think you're looking for trouble with us because we're just kids selling hawthorns here?"

Zhao Erhu was eloquent, and his words came out like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube, crackling, without giving the other party any chance to talk back.

The man was stunned for a long time, and found that he had nothing to refute. He just shook his head and said, "I really don't know whose child this is..."

I was taught to be so materialistic.

"Since it's not your child, you don't have to worry." Zhao Dahu also said. "You..." The man was speechless after being told off by the two children. He felt embarrassed and wanted to have a good talk with Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu.

"Hey, are you going to buy it or not? If not, stop talking nonsense here!"

Someone nearby was just thinking of buying two strings of candied haws to appease the child, but when the child heard that the candied haws elsewhere had eight hawthorns, while here only had four, he pouted and started crying again. The adult suddenly became a little annoyed.

Even if you dislike it, we still want to buy it, so don’t make trouble here!
"That's right!" People who had the same idea also echoed.

The man saw that so many people did not think there was anything wrong with the candied haws, but instead agreed with them very much. All the words in his mouth were stuck in his throat. He was so angry that his chest ached. He snorted coldly and strode away.

"Humph!"

Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu snorted at the same time and continued selling candied haws.

The small strings of candied haws were more popular than expected. The dozen or so candied haws on the stack were quickly sold out. The two brothers hurried back home to ask Xia Mingyue and Lu to make some more.

At this time, the sun was rising high in the sky, and the Xia Ji food stall on West Street was already full.

Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Chen were busy serving food at the food stall, each with their own daughter.

Three burly men came over with a swagger. The one leading them had a beard and a face full of flesh, looking very fierce.

Seeing such a person coming to the food stall to eat, the people eating here were all a little scared and couldn't help but move to the side and make room.

But the three men felt that there was not enough space, and the bearded man winked at the people following him on both sides. The people on both sides quickly stepped forward, grabbed the collars of the people who were eating here, and threw them out like chickens.

On the other hand, he was cursing, "Go away, don't you see Master Ma coming? Get out of the way!"

As he spoke, he pushed the wonton bowl that the person who was being chased away had not yet had time to take away!
It was a bowl of wontons that had just been served, still emitting thick hot steam. It flew directly onto the person who was eating next to him. Even though he was wearing a thick cotton coat, the person was still burned and grimaced and screamed.

"Why are you yelling? You've disturbed Master Ma's meal. Can you afford to take responsibility?" The sturdy men on both sides started cursing again and swung their fists to threaten.

Some people who were eating here saw this situation and were afraid that they would be affected, so they didn't even dare to continue eating. They just put their bowls back on the table and left in a hurry regardless of whether they had finished their meal or not.

I don't even bother to pay the money.

Seeing this, Cao was extremely anxious, but she still said patiently, "If you are here to eat, please be quiet and don't disturb others."

"I'm here to eat, not to listen to your lectures. If you keep on talking, I'll take your place!" The bearded man lifted his clothes and sat down, with one foot on the bench next to him. He squinted at Cao and Chen, "Two baskets of steamed dumplings, three bowls of wontons, and two bowls of chicken noodles, no cilantro."

Chen frowned, not wanting to do business with three people.

"What, no business?" The bearded man saw through it and raised his hand to shout at everyone present, "Everyone go away, Xia Ji is not doing business today!"

As he spoke, he lifted up a long table next to him.

All the bowls, chopsticks, spoons and dumpling steamers on the table were knocked over to the ground.

The ground was immediately in a mess, and the diners who were eating there all moved away. (End of this chapter)