In this way, Zhong Ziqi's stall became popular, and Uncle Song's stall also became popular. Not only his stall, but also the surrounding stalls that are quite close to Zhong Ziqi have been brought up, and the business has earned tens of pennies more than before.
After noon, Zhong Ziqi had to close the stall. It wasn't that he didn't want to continue, but the supply of ingredients was really short of demand. During this period, Zhao Sheng went out several times. The second vegetable, which has not been served yet, many people like to eat cucumbers and persimmons soaked in ice cold, so they don't hesitate to add more money to let Zhong Ziqi put more. But Amo Huang's family grows enough vegetables for the two of them, and if they buy too much, they will not have much left. Zhong Ziqi thinks this is not a solution, so let's stop here for today.
It took only a long time for customers to come here. Seeing that Zhong Ziqi closed the stall, she was very frustrated. Zhong Ziqi told everyone nicely: "I'm here today. Today is the first time for us to set up a stall. I didn't expect to be rejected by everyone." I like it so much, so I didn’t bring enough ingredients, I’ll definitely bring more tomorrow to make sure everyone can eat enough, okay?”
"Okay, for your sake, I must eat two more bowls tomorrow." Someone shouted.
Zhong Ziqi laughed and responded: "Then we can talk about this uncle, I will remember you." A straightforward person can be liked everywhere, especially a young man who is fair and tender.
Before leaving, Zhong Ziqi specially left a bowl of cold noodles for Uncle Song next door, and thanked: "Thank you Uncle Song today, I have caused you trouble."
Uncle Song has been envious for a long time, and he didn't refuse at this moment: "Hey, I have to thank you for talking about this. I earned a lot more than usual today."
"Then the relationship is good, and I may have to trouble Uncle Song in the future."
"It's good to be like this every day."
Zhong Ziqi's stall closing, some people are happy and some are regretful, the happy people are naturally those who also sell cold products, today basically more than half of the customers were snatched away by Zhong Ziqi who just arrived, now of course the source of customers is slowly recovering after leaving, and It's a pity that the stalls around Zhong Ziqi were brought up, but today's results have already made them laugh from ear to ear.
Zhong Ziqi didn't know about these things, Zhao Sheng helped push the wooden cart into Huang Amo's house, Huang Amo knew that Zhong Ziqi's business was booming, they were close to the pier, and they knew about any trouble, not to mention Zhao Sheng came to buy cucumbers Sometimes he also brought them a bowl by the way, and in the end even he, who has been cooking for many years, had to sigh in admiration.
"Ah Huang, this is ten coins. You can accept today's rent, please." Zhong Ziqi handed over ten copper coins.
Huang Amo frowned: "Why are there two extras? Didn't we decide on eight?"
"You see, we fetch water and buy vegetables, and the threshold is almost broken by us. I feel embarrassed if I don't give more." Zhong Ziqi said sincerely.
"It's not easy for you to make money, and besides, you gave money for buying my vegetables, and I can't take this money." Huang Ama declined. He was not one of those wicked people who are blind to money, and he felt pity for this child from the bottom of his heart. Don't want to take advantage of the kid.
Zhong Ziqi forcefully stuffed ten copper coins into Huang Amo's hand: "Just take it, I earned a lot today, if you don't take it, how dare I bother you in the future."
"Take it, Huang Ah." Zhao Ning also said, with a joyful smile on his face.
"This—alright. Then I'll accept it, you child." Huang Ama shook her head with a smile, full of liking, but it's a pity that she's already married, otherwise...
Zhong Ziqi left everything that could be left behind, such as white flour and seasoning. He believed in Huang Ah and Uncle Huang's behavior, and only a trolley and a large earthen jar needed to be pushed back. Before going back, I went to the rice and grain store and bought more than 20 catties of shredded rice, and bought some more noodles, and sent them to Amo Huang's house.
Then I went to the meat stall and bought a few catties of big bones and three catties of pork belly. On the way back, Zhong Ziqi beamed and said, "Go straight to my house, and I'll cook something delicious for you."
Zhao Ning and Zhao Sheng did not refuse, they also wanted to celebrate and express their happiness in their hearts.
All the way back to Zhaojia Village, I met other villagers who asked them puzzledly: "Where did you go? Why did you push a big jar?"
"It's nothing, I just went to the town to sell some soup and water." Zhong Ziqi didn't intend to hide it, as sooner or later he couldn't hide it, and he had to buy cucumbers and persimmons from the villagers, let alone hide it.
"Hey, brother Qi is amazing, how much did you sell for?" Someone teased, no one believed that a half-grown brother could earn so much money, the business in the town is so easy to do. In fact, people in the village don't usually go to the town, but it is very enviable for someone to work in the town and earn money. People with low status like them are very contemptible, and a careless mistake may provoke people with status. Just like Zhao Zheng'an used to work in the town, which made many people jealous, but now it's a pity that he is a fool, and some of them are more ridiculed and gloated.
But envy is envy, and jealousy has never been less. Seeing that other people's homes are better than their own, some people will spare no effort to slander them. For example, the news of Zhong Ziqi doing business spread throughout Zhaojia Village in a short while. Reasonable people would shake their heads and sigh, thinking that it is not easy for Zhong Ziqi to be a brother, and those who are jealous and watch the excitement are not so virtuous. Women's ways and even more outrageous hooking up with men and other ugly things have been said.
When Zhong Ziqi arrived home, she was not in a hurry to cook. She took out the bulging purse in her arms and dumped the copper coins on the table. The four of them sat on one side of the table, their eyes were all sparkling, Zhong Ziqi, Zhao Ning and Zhao Sheng were definitely happy to make money, and Zhao Zhengan was definitely happy to see them happy.
Zhong Ziqi counted and found a total of 275 Wen, that is to say, about 50 bowls were sold a day today, which was more than the ten bowls he had expected. With a smile on the corner of his mouth, he counted out 30 Wen and gave Zhao Sheng and Zhao Ning 15 Wen each. The two of them helped him for a long time, especially Zhao Ning. No, this is what the two deserve.
"This... this is too much." Zhao Sheng was surprised, and hurriedly pushed back. Even his father's salary for working outside was only seven or eight yuan a day. Now he earned so much more than his father. How dare you want it.
"Didn't you agree, it's for nothing." Zhao Ning said dissatisfiedly, he didn't intend to ask for money at all, his mother said before he left, making money is not the purpose, the main purpose is to come to see the world with Ziqi Learn some things about being human.
"This is what you two deserve. We originally agreed that if Brother Sheng came to help me, I would pay ten cents a day. Thanks to the two of you today, otherwise Zheng'an and I would have been too busy. Ten cents was the original price Let's agree, the extra five cents will be my boss's reward to you, don't refuse to accept it, or my boss will fire you all if I get angry." Zhong Ziqi said with a mischievous wink.
Zhao Ning was amused, and after thinking about it, he accepted it. He couldn't convince Ziqi every time he made a decision, and he didn't waste any more words, but he must help Ziqi work more in the future. Seeing that his younger brother accepted it, Zhao Sheng accepted it with embarrassment.
Only then did Zhong Ziqi nod in satisfaction.
"Daughter-in-law, I'm hungry." Zhao Zhengan's hoarse voice sounded.
As soon as Zhong Ziqi heard his voice, she realized that she had neglected him, and hurried over to ask him, "Does your throat hurt? It's all my fault. I forgot about you in my busy schedule." When he got busy, he didn't notice that Zhao Zhengan was always Shouting, after a long time, his voice became hoarse, and to be honest, he felt a little distressed.
"It doesn't hurt." Zhao Zhengan shook his head obediently, his whole body seemed to be lacklustre.
How could Zhong Ziqi believe his words? He had also experienced such a thing. When he was giving a speech in the company, he had a dry mouth and tongue and a sore throat after a simple speech for more than two hours. What's more, Zhao Zhengan shouted all morning, He patted his head and said distressedly: "You, Brother Sheng and Xiao Ning are waiting for me here, and I will cook." After saying this, Zhong Ziqi thought for a while and added: "Zheng'an is very good today. I'm quite busy."
Sure enough, after hearing this, Zhao Zheng'an looked more energetic, and his usual silly smile appeared on his face again.
"Let me help you." Zhao Ning stood up and said.
"No, I'll be there soon. The three of you rest here." Zhong Ziqi waved his hand and went to the kitchen alone.
He remembered that the last time he went to the mountain, he picked a lot of pears, and he found them in the basket after rummaging through them. Fortunately, they were not rotten. Wash it, peel off the skin, boil some water in the pot, put some pears into the pot before boiling, sprinkle some sugar, boil for two or three minutes and serve it out. Divide it into three bowls and bring it into the house: "Drink some pear water first to moisten your throat."
"Pear water?" Zhao Ning looked at the steaming hot bowl: "Is it boiled? Is it delicious?"
"It doesn't matter whether it tastes good or not, the main thing is that it's good for the throat, listen to me, just drink it cool." Zhong Ziqi persuaded.
"Hey, you feel sorry for your Zhao Zheng'an, right? When you heard that your throat hurt, you hurriedly did it." Zhao Ning teased. Because he and Zhao Sheng didn't use their throats much at all, so there was no problem of throat discomfort.
Zhong Ziqi stared, and nodded Zhao Ning's forehead: "What are you talking about, you don't want to drink, it's all for Zhao Zhengan."
Zhao Sheng hurriedly protected his bowl, but he didn't say anything, he couldn't vent his anger.
Zhao Ning also smiled flatteringly: "I'm wrong, look at my stinky mouth, it's definitely because Ziqi felt sorry for us, I'll tell you to go get busy right away."
Only then was Zhong Ziqi satisfied, and before leaving, she told Zhao Zhengan: "Don't get burned, you know?"
"Understood, daughter-in-law." Zhao Zhengan nodded obediently.
Just then Zhong Ziqi left, where no one was paying attention, his ears were red.
Zhong Ziqi frowned and was dissatisfied with the strange emotions she had, shook her head and drove them out, and started to cook. It was still half rice and half brown rice washed and put into the pot. In front of outsiders, he couldn't eat white rice like this. Unless middle-aged people are wealthy, they can eat white rice. Ordinary people eat brown rice, and white rice can only be eaten during festivals.
After cooking the rice, he started cooking. Three catties of pork belly is enough for them to eat. Wash the meat and cut half of it into slices, and cut half of it into cubes.
In the yard, the shiitake mushrooms he picked in the mountains last time have been dried, and he soaked them.
Heat oil in a pan, fry the sliced pork belly over low heat, force the oil out, add scallions and garlic cloves, then add soy sauce, sugar, rice wine, refined salt, and then add water to cover the meat. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. The name of this dish is Braised Pork. In fact, it is delicious if there is rock sugar, but there is no white sugar here. But still very fragrant. After 30 to 40 minutes, the meat can be out of the pan.
At this moment, the shiitake mushrooms have been soaked, Zhong Ziqi removed the dirty part of the roots, and put the dry water aside. Pour some leftover bone broth from the morning into the pot, put the chopped pork belly in, then put the shiitake mushrooms in, then seasonings, scallions, ginger slices, and star anise, then add soy sauce, rice wine, sugar and an appropriate amount The water simmers for a while.