The concubine wants to farm: the alluring wife raises the emperor

Chapter 161 The Grain Shop Opens!
Xu Yuan briefly talked about the matter of giving out porridge, and the two elders were very happy to be able to help her, so they immediately agreed.

She calculated the number of people who would come tomorrow, and she made the previous publicity a big one, so naturally there would be many people coming tomorrow, and she had to make sufficient preparations.

Xu Yuan went to look for Wuxi again, and asked her how many cooking women she had borrowed. Since there are so many people, she should do more.

After completing these preparations, Xu Yuan went outside Sanxian Pavilion to fly kites with Li Yin and Wanwan, and then went back to the room to rest.

The next morning, everyone arranged by Xu Yuan got up early.

Xu's father and Xu's mother couldn't hold back their emotions, and couldn't sleep before dawn, so they got up early to pack themselves and prepare to help Xu Yuan.

As a result, Xu Yuan came out of the house yawning after dawn, and was shocked when she saw the people waiting outside the door: "Father, mother, why do you get up so early?"

"Didn't I just want to help you? Go and clean up." Mother Xu pushed Xu Yuan to wash up. When she came back, everyone else was ready.

What the boys in the shop should be responsible for has been arranged properly, and even the big men who brought Xu Chi in charge of training were also assigned to be responsible for the order of the scene.

Wanwan pulled Chang Zhu and stood aside, waiting to help Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan didn't realize how big this was, but when she saw a group of people looking at her with unspeakable excitement, her emotions were mobilized in an instant.

After speaking a few impassioned words, Xu Chi led a large group of people to the grain store.

She and Li Yin followed behind, while Xu's father, Xu's mother, and Chang Zhu Wanwan were sent there by sedan chair.

Xu Chi was the first to arrive outside the store, but was taken aback by the crowd outside.

He knew that Xu Yuan had done publicity, but he didn't expect the effect to be so obvious. At this time, there are already so many people waiting in line outside, which is really rare.

He hurriedly asked some women who were in charge of cooking to work in the grain shop. It was the dry pot used by the previous shop owner's family for dinner. Xu Yuan didn't dismantle it during the rectification, and it happened to be used.

"Everyone, don't be impatient, we will officially open at Chenshi!" Xu Chi stood on the steps to appease the agitated crowd below, and followed the rest of the big men to lift out the finished plaque and put it away, and set off firecrackers at Chenshi , and officially hung up the plaque.

The dozen or so servants had already performed their duties and made preparations. It was the first time for them to see such a battle in a shop. It was really strange, but they were even more excited.

Seeing the scene here from a distance, Xu Yuan hurriedly dragged Li Yin in through the back door of the grain store, which would have been crowded to death if he had to enter through the front door.

She entered the grain shop through the back door, gave some instructions to the boys, and then went to the back kitchen to have a look.

The cooking women probably didn't understand Xu Yuan's temperament. There were only a handful of rice in the porridge pot, and the whole porridge looked like a pot of water.

Xu Yuan frowned: "Who asked you to put such a little rice?"

The women shivered in fright from her face, and replied in a bolder voice: "Usually, the porridge is served with this kind of soup, so we thought...follow their order..."

"If you add more rice, what you eat in Sanxian Pavilion on weekdays, you can make it here." She frowned and ordered, before turning around and leaving the back kitchen.

Although the cooking women were beaten up by her, they were not angry.It was the first time for them to see someone who Shi Cong was so sincere. In the past, those people were just trying to get the name of a good person.

Chen Yan continued to explain something to the boys outside. In fact, it was what Xu Yuan asked him to tell him, but he was always afraid that they would forget it when it was critical.

Xu's father and Xu's mother had already arrived outside the door in a sedan chair, walked into the shop with Xu Chi's help, and waited for the opening to serve porridge outside the door.

At Chen Shi, Xu Chi set off firecrackers outside the door, and finally the grain shop officially opened!
He and several big men worked together to hang up the plaque, and lifted the red cloth covering the plaque. "Chunsu" is officially open!

Chen Yan led people to carry the cooked porridge outside the door and put it on the table in the middle of the shop, and Xu's father and Xu mother waited in front of the table with Wu Yao's temporary maid.

After a while, there was a long queue at the table.

The maid lifted the lid, and the aroma of porridge immediately overflowed, and the surrounding area was filled with the aroma of porridge.

Some people who waited in line to buy things at the grain store smelled the aroma and swallowed their saliva. The rice made from this grain is really delicious!
"Start serving porridge!" The maid shouted from the side, and Xu's mother began to take a spoon to serve the porridge in the bowl they brought, and Xu's father beat her when she was too busy.

The shop here is also very busy. Although Xu Yuan assigned one person to take care of the two grain buckets, there were still too many people and it was still too busy.

On the first day of opening, most people came to check out the news, each bought a little bit to see if the food was good, so the amount everyone bought was not too much, but the variety was quite complete.

Some people came out from the exit of the store, and even went to the middle to line up to get a bowl of porridge to drink, and everyone in the store would not refuse to come.

The cooking woman in the back kitchen was cooking porridge non-stop, carrying out one pot after another. Seeing that the big bag of rice was clean after a morning, everyone was very distressed, but Xu Yuan didn't say much. What, in her opinion, the more people, the better.

There have been many refugees in Yonghua City recently, and those who can't eat are counting on it to make a living here, and some people have come repeatedly and lined up several times.

Mother Xu saw that they were all in rags and looked like refugees, so she didn't refuse, and tried to meet their needs.

It's just that Xu's mother was very tired after going out in the morning, and the people in the store were also a little tired.

Xu Yuan had no choice but to make a temporary decision to rest for an hour at noon and reopen the store at noon.

The flow of people actually exceeded her expectations. She did not expect that there were so many refugees in Yonghua City, and she did not expect that the living conditions of the people in Yonghua City were better than she expected. After all, there are not a few people who can afford food. , but there are still many servants who come to buy for their employers.

Taking a temporary break at noon for an hour, Xu Yuan looked at the grain in the barrels, but one morning, several barrels were already empty.

After everyone in the store had eaten, she called for someone to fill up the food and prepare for the afternoon.

Xu's mother was tired all morning, but she still insisted on continuing to give porridge outside in the afternoon.Xu Yuan persuaded her for a long time but couldn't dispel her thoughts, so she had to give up and let Xu's mother go outside to help.

At the end of the day, the busy afternoon began again.

(End of this chapter)