peasant girl wedding

Chapter 151 Ginger Soup
"You, at least pay attention to your identity."

The magistrate's wife secretly pinched the magistrate's master, and said angrily.

"Ouch," probably because she pinched hard, the county magistrate felt the pain and cried out in pain.

His appearance made Tong Zhi'er dumbfounded again.

Feeling being watched, the magistrate turned his head and saw Tong Zhi'er's appearance, with a little embarrassment on his face.After all, it was really embarrassing for a junior to see him like this.

He immediately sat upright, with a majestic look on his face, but the water stains on his lips were a bit funny.

Tong Zhi'er restrained her desire to laugh, stepped forward and said, "Master Song, godmother, I'll take you to the box." The one who took her in as a goddaughter was Mrs. Zhixian, but the magistrate called her godfather but it was a little Not used to it, so he called Master Song.

Madam Zhixian's eyes lit up, "Zhi'er, you still have a private room here."

"some."

Madam Zhixian stood up, she really couldn't bear to be seen with such an embarrassing appearance by the magistrate, otherwise, what would happen to his dignified prestige as the county magistrate in the future?
"Why are you still here?" After walking a few steps and finding that the magistrate hadn't followed, the magistrate's wife asked anxiously.

The county magistrate blew his beard and stared, turned his body sideways, and said proudly: "I won't go. As the head of a county, I naturally want to have fun with the people."

What he said was righteous, Madam Zhixian was blocked by him, so she could only apologize to Tong Zhi'er, and sat down on the table again, but her brows did not relax.

Tong Zhi'er thought, this magistrate is also a capricious, arrogant, face-saving person.

She called a clerk over, and after a while, she brought over a screen with a three-fold door.

The magistrate's wife was happy, but the magistrate's master was not happy.

"Zhi'er, what are you doing?" Although he was not happy in his heart, he spoke politely to Tong Zhi'er.

Tong Zhi'er smiled slightly, "Master Song, I know that you love the people like a child and want to have fun with the people, but the common people have a certain awe for the official, and you are also the official. Together with everyone in the lobby, They're afraid they won't be able to let go."

"That's right, sir, you love the people like a child, so you naturally sympathize with the people's thoughts. Today is a good day, and the people come to taste what it's like to barbecue. Let everyone have a good time, and you can also enjoy it in the lobby with everyone, and listen to everyone Wouldn't it be a good thing to talk about it." The magistrate's wife helped, secretly giving Tong Zhi'er a thumbs up.

The magistrate was persuaded by the two.

"Okay then, the screen will be placed here."

Knowing that the magistrate was anxious to see the barbecue behind him, Tong Zhi'er didn't stay any longer, and walked away after talking with the magistrate's wife for a while.

As soon as Tong Zhi'er left, the magistrate couldn't sit still, and immediately turned around to look at the barbecue area behind.

After such a short time, the barbecue in the barbecue area is almost done.The guy put the meat skewers, potato skewers, roasted leeks, and roasted cabbage on a plate, and brought them to the table for two people.

"Lord magistrate and madam, please use it slowly." After the waiter finished his sentence respectfully, he went back to the barbecue area to continue grilling other things.

The magistrate has long been drooling over the barbecue, and now that the food is ripe, he swayed left and right, grabbing a few skewers with each hand and stuffing them into his mouth.

Fortunately, with the barrier of the screen, no one can see clearly, and the magistrate's wife doesn't care about him.

The magistrate ate to his heart's content after this barbecue meal, and his stomach bulged a little under his loose robe.

At the exit of the lobby, Tong Zhixin and Tong Zhi'er were waiting there. Seeing that the magistrate and the magistrate's wife had come out, Tong Zhi'er handed over a food box prepared by the staff to the magistrate's wife.

"Godmother, here are some barbecued meat and baked potatoes. Sister Ruyi couldn't come, so godmother will bring her back to try."

Madam Zhixian took it with a smile on her face, "Zhier, thanks for your thoughtful preparation."

The magistrate called Tong Zhixin aside to speak.

"Boss Tong, your shop is doing well."

Having received the compliment from the county magistrate, Tong Zhixin beamed happily, "Thank you, Master Song."

After talking for a while, Tong Zhixin and Tong Zhi'er sent the magistrate and magistrate's wife to the carriage, watched the carriage leave before entering the house.

The guests left one after another, Meng Liang and others also came out of the box, and they expressed their gratitude to Tong Zhi'er.

When it was getting dark and the customers had almost left, Tong Zhixin closed the shop door.

Tong Zhixin's family, Tong Zhide's family, and Ji Guzi were sitting in the store, and the rest of the staff went back to their homes to rest.

Ji Guzi sorted out today's account books, while Tong Zhi'er did the calculations.

Tong Zhixin and others spoke softly at the side.

"The store is full of business today, and all the chicken, duck and fish we sell are sold out." Tong Zhaoyin said excitedly.He is the steward of the barbecue restaurant, and he counts the goods purchased and the goods sold a day later.

"Everyone has tasted something new, but they just don't know what will happen tomorrow?" Fang Cuiwei was a little worried. After all, barbecue is not like eating, it must be eaten every day.

Everyone fell silent and did not speak.

After a while, Tong Zhixin said: "Now everyone is still fresh, and the weather is cold. It is very convenient to come to our barbecue shop to eat while grilling fire. Although the number of people is not more than today's opening, it will not Much less."

Tong Zhixin's words reassured the worried Fang Cuiwei.

"Forget it."

Tong Zhi'er's voice attracted everyone's attention.

Everyone looked over, Ji Guzi was closing the ledger, Tong Zhier was holding paper and pen in his hand, his face was glowing red with excitement.

"Except for buying shops, ordering barbecue grills, decorating, buying vegetables, and miscellaneous money, although we didn't make much money today, we have made all of it back."

Tong Zhixin and the others were startled.

"Zhier, what do you mean, just today, all the cost of opening the store has been paid back?" Tong Zhixin asked again in disbelief.

Tong Zhier nodded heavily.

Fang Cuiwei was very excited, "God, how did you earn so much?"

"Our store sold a total of [-] skewers today, received twelve groups of customers, and each group sold almost [-] skewers." Tong Zhi'er said, feeling extremely excited in his heart a handful.

She paid back her capital in such a short period of time. This was something she did not expect, and it was really shocking.

"Congratulations really." Tong Zhide and Luo Shi said with a smile.

The two families talked for a while, and then they all got into the carriage, including Ji Guzi.Everyone was busy working all day today, because there were so many people, Tong Zhi'er called Ji Guzi over to keep the accounts, and when he was hungry, he ate barbecue to fill his stomach, but he hadn't eaten dinner yet.

It's getting late now, one restaurant is closed, and the other shops are the same. There is no place to eat, so I can only go home and cook by myself.

Tong Zhixin's movements of driving the carriage became more and more familiar, and it took almost half an hour for the group to arrive home.

After getting off the carriage, the men went into the main room to talk, while the women went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.There are a lot of hands, and the cooking is fast, but the hot meal is ready in two quarters of an hour.

Tong Zhixin arranged the tables and chairs in the main room, and Fang Cuiwei, Luo Shi and others brought the dishes prepared on the stove to the table.

Although it was in a hurry, there were fish and meat, which was quite rich.

"Everyone is tired today, and the preparations are not proper. When I find a good opportunity, we will go to a restaurant together for dinner." Tong Zhixin said with a smile.

Ji Guzi smiled lightly, "Boss Tong is serious. If there are so many dishes, if this is not called richness, Ji really doesn't know what is called richness."

"Everyone is cooking and eating. It's cold, and the dishes will get cold after a while. You're welcome." Fang Cuiwei said with a smile as she placed her chopsticks.Tong Duo'er and Tong Zhi'er, one to add food to the big guy, and the other to put the bowl on the table.

Tong Zhixin was happy that he earned a lot of money today, so he drank two glasses of wine with Tong Zhide, Tong Zhaoyin and Ji Guzi.

This is the first time Tong Zhi'er has seen Tong Zhixin's drinking capacity, it's really...not good?

In normal times, Tong Zhixin at the dinner table would have finished his meal quietly without saying a word.

But today, he kept saying his gratitude to Tong Zhide's family and Ji Guzi at the dinner table, he couldn't stop, he turned into chatter.

It was the first time that Tong Zhi'er knew that Tong Zhixin had so much to say.

Seeing that Tong Zhixin was very drunk, Tong Duoer immediately went to the kitchen to prepare ginger soup.When she came out, Tong Zhide's family had already left, and Ji Guzi had already returned to the guest room to rest.

She poured four bowls of ginger soup, Tong Zhixin was so drunk that he drank three bowls.There is still one bowl left, and I have to send it to Ji Guzi.However, Tong Duo'er is engaged, so it's not good for her to go to the man's room.And Fang Cuiwei had to take care of the drunk Tong Zhixin, so the task of delivering ginger soup fell to Tong Zhi'er.

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Ji Guzi was about to take off his shoes when he heard a voice from outside. After listening for a while, the voice stopped at his door, and then there were three soft knocks on the door.

"Mr. Ji, did you fall asleep?"

Tong Zhi'er stood by the door and asked in a low voice, but she didn't hear an answer, she thought that after a busy day, Ji Guzi probably fell asleep.Turning around to leave, there was a door opening sound behind him.

Turning his head, Tong Zhi'er looked at last Ji Guzi's indifferent face.

There was no moonlight in the sky, and the surroundings were gloomy, but his eyes seemed to have some brilliance, shining with moving light.

Tong Zhi'er was a little lost.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Ji Guzi directly picked up the ginger soup in her hand.

At this time, Tong Zhi'er came to his senses, saw him bring the ginger soup to his mouth, and let out an "ah".

Ji Guzi paused when he drank the ginger soup, "Isn't it for me?"

"No." Tong Zhier replied reflexively, realizing that this was wrong, she immediately said: "This ginger soup is for you."

Ji Guzi pointed out her contradictions, "But you said no before."

(End of this chapter)