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Chapter 56 Cold Noodle Stall
Mrs. Wang thought that there was still a month before the wheat harvest. Since she decided to set up a stall, she might as well scrape together some stall fees and hand in the rent for a month. The official stall will have a lot of traffic, which is better than the corner she was looking for earlier. many.

According to the laws of this era, street vendors have to pay a certain amount of stall fees to the public when doing business along the street.In addition to the Qingming Temple Fair, Mid-Autumn Temple Fair and other larger markets where you can sell freely, Wang wants to set up a stall in the town for a long time. In addition to preparing the stall, he also needs a lot of stall fees.

Mrs. Wang went to the busiest street in the town again, and inquired about several of them. He heard that just for the food stalls, she had to pay [-] Wen to the yamen every month. , is indeed a considerable sum.

Originally, Mrs. Wang thought that if the booth fee was less than [-] Wen, she could still work hard, and borrowed money to make up for it. The price of [-] Wen, plus the eggs at home, could not be sold. Shi was a little bit unmotivated, his own tea eggs are a novelty, if there is no booth, it may be a waste of work.

Chen Tiegui heard his wife's words, and expressed his opinion with a somber face. Since the booth fee cannot be paid, then Mrs. Wang will work harder and get up early every day to go to the morning market. Although there are fewer people in the morning market, the booth fee is It's free, so that Wang doesn't have to set his sights so high, always thinking about eating a big fat man in one go.If you can sell one bowl, one bowl is counted as one bowl. After a long time, someone will know about their own tea eggs.

After a discussion, the couple will do what they say, and the whole family will go out together. Jide is in charge of picking leeks at home with Runsheng and Baozhu, Runze will wash the picked leeks, Chen Tiegui peels garlic, and Wang cooks tea in the stove Eggs, shredded cucumbers.

Jide was just beaten up by Chen Tiegui yesterday, but today he changed his past mischievous temper and did not make trouble, and honestly followed Runsheng Baozhu to pick leeks.

Chen Tiegui slapped Jide's head with a slap, and threatened with a tiger face: "Tomorrow, I will go to town with my uncle, the town is no better than at home, be more honest!"

Jide pursed his lips, wanted to hide but didn't dare to hide, stooped his back and kept silent.

Wang's reproachful voice came from inside the kitchen, "Don't hit the baby on the head all the time!"

Runze followed suit after washing a handful of leeks, "Dongwa bullied Runsheng yesterday, brother Jide met Dongwa only after seeing him, and his head is still a big bag now!"

Mrs. Wang knew that Runze was deliberately looking for an empty space to say good things for Jide in front of his father, so she said with a straight face: "No matter what, it's wrong to fight. Besides, Dongwa's family boss came to your door. Your father It’s not easy to ask in detail!”

Chen Tiegui glanced at Jide, coughed a few times in a muffled voice, raised his hand and rubbed Jide's head, "I seem to have lost weight recently, and I'll sell it for money tomorrow and ask your wife to cut some meat back tonight!"

Wang looked at her husband and smiled, and said to Runze, "Okay, I know you two have a good relationship, don't talk about those useless things, bring the leeks to mother, and get ready before going to bed, and you have to get up early tomorrow!"

Cucumber shreds, minced garlic, and minced leeks were ready in a short while. Mrs. Wang took the noodles out of the pot and put them on the chopping board to dry, then spread a layer of lard on them, and told the children to prepare for dinner. For cold noodles, wait for the noodles to dry for a while before serving.

In the evening, when she was on the kang, Wang saw that Baozhu had fallen asleep with her eyes closed, and said to her husband in a low voice, "I met Zhao's young daughter-in-law at Brother Wei's place yesterday." After a pause, "I still have Baoyun with me."

Chen Tiegui was silent for a while, and asked: "Baoyun baby must be as big as Baozhu, right?"

Mrs. Wang hummed, tried her best to hold back her crying and said, "The name Zhao's family gave is Ximei. The little guy looks very much like you, and his temper is also like yours. He's the same as you. I took it back to the Zhao family."

Chen Tiegui patted the back of Wang's hand, "Don't think too much, it's been all these years." He sighed again, "The Zhao family is pretty good after all, I heard that they have treated Baoyun well these years, and they treat Baoyun as the adopted daughter. on."

After waiting for a while, seeing that his daughter-in-law didn't speak, Chen Tiegui felt anxious, and didn't know what her daughter-in-law was thinking. The daughter-in-law hadn't had the same headache for more than half a year.

On the second day, Mrs. Wang got up before dawn, woke up a few children early, ate some corn cakes hastily, and went to school moistly.

Chen Tiegui set up the ox cart, moved the ingredients to the ox cart and stood it in the yard to wait. After a while, Mrs. Wang got into the cart with three children, Jide, Runsheng, and Baozhu.

Even though I got up early, when I arrived in the town, the better seats had already been taken by others. It was the first time for Mrs. Wang to set up a stall in the morning market. She was not familiar with the place, so she was kicked out after finding a few vacancies. Fortunately, Mrs. Wang was lucky. A cousin from Zhangjia Village was selling pancakes in the morning market, so she invited Mrs. Wang to set up a stall in front of her.

Mrs. Wang quickly arranged the table and chairs, set up a simple stove, and put the pot on the iron tube. The tea eggs were hot in the pot, and the cold noodles on the chopping board were covered with gauze. Cleaned up neatly. Mrs. Wang greeted the three Don't run around, baby, Jide and Runsheng are older, yelling after Mrs. Wang, and Baozhu is watching the stall right next to him.

After a while, a man who looked like a scholar came to the stall. Mrs. Wang greeted with a smile: "Brother, do you want a bowl of cold noodles?"

The man hesitated for a moment, and then there was a louder yell from another cold noodle stall diagonally across the way. Seeing the man heading towards the cold noodle stall diagonally opposite, Mrs. Wang couldn't help feeling a little annoyed. Knowing that it was useless to be discouraged like this, I cheered up again.

After that, Mrs. Wang was still yelling loudly, and when someone passed by, she greeted a few times with a smile. After a while, an older customer finally sat down on the stall. Quickly serve a bowl of cold noodles.

The man stared at the bowl in front of him for a moment, "Yo, big sister is so strange, did she bring eggs?"

Wang Shi responded with a hey smile.

The man asked with some uncertainty: "How much is a bowl?"

Wang laughed, "Four cents!"

"Hey!" The man immediately picked up the chopsticks and began to eat, "That's good, I didn't dare to move the chopsticks before!"

While the two were talking, a father and son sat up again. Mrs. Wang recognized the bearded old man in front of him as the owner of the pawnshop before, and greeted him with a smile. , while asking: "Sister-in-law, this egg is fresh, I don't know how to make it?"

Wang said with a smile: "This is homemade tea eggs, eggs boiled with tea leaves!"

The old man praised endlessly for a while, stood up, and put down the twelve cents neatly, "Pack me another bowl and take it home!"

Mrs. Wang tasted some sweetness, and she laughed even more happily. Suddenly, she heard a few angry voices coming from the side, "Are you kidding! There are eggs in Siwenqian'er's cold noodles! How can we do this?" Is it a deal!"

Wang's heart sank, and most of the previous good mood disappeared immediately.

Hee hee, Grasshopper wishes everyone New Year greetings!
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