When the meal was almost ready, Zhong Ziqi went to the vegetable garden of Wang Cuihua's house to pick some cucumbers, and by chance met Wang Cuihua, and seeing Zhong Ziqi, he said sarcastically, "Oh, Brother Qi, aren't you Have you made any money? You still need to eat my food, buy it yourself."
Zhong Ziqi didn't expect that the public opinion would spread so quickly. He glanced at Wang Cuihua and said slowly: "It was agreed when we separated. I can eat vegetables from our garden."
"Have you planted it? Why don't you plant it and still eat my vegetables?" Wang Cuihua said with her hands on her hips. He didn't like the fact that this person lived a happy life even after the family split up.
"If you have any objections, go to the village chief. I don't have time to waste time with you." Zhong Ziqi glanced at him disdainfully. He really doesn't have time to grow vegetables now, and he doesn't have the money to buy seeds. When the business stabilizes, he Planning chores at home.
After picking the vegetables, Zhong Ziqi left in a hurry. Until he was far away, Zhong Ziqi could still hear what Wang Cuihua said about hooking up with men and being shameless. He thought a little angrily, those who said bad things about him behind his back had the ability not to demand it on him.
Back home, Zhong Ziqi didn't say anything, cut up the cucumbers she picked, put salt, sesame oil, vinegar, coriander, and sugar to make a small cold dish. And the shiitake mushroom stewed in the pot was just ready to be cooked, and he brought them to the table in the main room.
"It smells so good." Zhao Ning moved his nose and ran to the kitchen to help. When the meal was brought to the table, they were ready to eat.
Zhao Ning and Zhao Sheng let go of their bellies and ate in big mouthfuls, saying indistinctly, "It's delicious."
Zhong Ziqi smiled. He originally wanted to make spicy pork slices. All three of them can eat spicy meat. The spicy pork slices were not enough last time, but the spicy pork slices are too irritating to the throat. Zhao Sheng and Zhao Ning are fine. Zhao Zhengan's throat would definitely become inflamed after eating it, so he simply cooked other dishes.
Zhao Zhengan was already hungry. Even though he had a sore throat, he still ate big mouthfuls. Zhong Ziqi kept paying attention to him. Seeing him frowning, she rushed over and asked, "Does it have a sore throat? Eat slowly, there is still room in the kitchen, don't talk to him." They rob."
Zhao Zhengan slowed down obediently, but his brows were still frowning.
After eating, Zhao Ning and Zhao Sheng were going back after a short rest. Zhong Ziqi coaxed Zhao Zhengan to sleep, got up and said, "I'll go back with you. Didn't your family grow a lot of vegetables this year? Me and Zhao Amu Let’s talk about grocery shopping.”
"Oh, okay." Zhao Ning didn't know much about business, so he didn't ask much.
At Zhao Ning's house, Zhao Amu saw the three of them coming back, and hurriedly said, "I was going to visit your place, but you came back, how is the business?"
The three of Zhong Ziqi laughed, and Zhao Ning couldn't hide what was going on, chatting with Zhao Amu about the situation in the morning: "...we couldn't even sit in the booth, so we sat next door. When we left, there were still many people waiting. "
Zhao Amu was also very happy when she heard that, but soon her face became serious: "Brother Qi, earning money is a good thing, but what I want to tell you is not this, when you came back, did you tell others that you are in business?" This matter?"
Zhong Ziqi understood what Zhao Ah said: "Yes, I can't hide it from the left and right, so I just said it. Zhao Ah, someone in the village said something?"
Zhao Ama sighed, and said with some concern: "It's not a big deal, many people are talking about you now - anyway, how can you say it is ugly, hey, don't pay too much attention to it, it's all passed on by jealous, small-minded people, It’s not good to see people.” After a pause, Zhao Ama said again: “But you have to pay attention, it’s always bad if you spread too much, not to mention that you’ve earned money now, so what if people play tricks on you.”
Zhong Ziqi thinks about it too, there are a lot of people with bad intentions, he has to take precautions, not to mention that their family still lives in such a remote place, it is not convenient to call someone if something happens, Zhao Ahma reminded him Only then did he realize how unsafe his home was: "Ah Zhao, I want to raise the wall of my house higher, can you find two people for me?"
Zhao Ama heard it: "That's right, your wall is too short, if someone enters, they can climb over the top of the wall, and I'll do it for you."
"Well, Ah Zhao, does anyone in our village have a dog? I want two larger care homes."
Zhao Ama thought for a moment and shook her head: "There are few people in the village who keep dogs, but there is a family over there where my natal family raises a few dogs. Let me ask for you."
"That's really troublesome Zhao Ah. In fact, I came here today to discuss something with Zhao Ah." Zhong Ziqi rubbed her nose in embarrassment. It was really troublesome to him too much, and he couldn't bear it.
"What's the matter? Tell me."
"It's like this. I need a lot of cucumbers and persimmons every day, so I want to buy some from you."
"Okay, I have a lot of vegetable gardens, and I can't eat them all, but buying from my house is not enough, right?" Zhao Amo said.
"It's not enough. I don't know if Ama Zhao is willing to help me buy it. I will pay you two fen per catty. You can buy it for me. I don't care about the price. I will pay you after I deliver it every day. How about it?" Zhong Ziqi asked the market The price has been figured out clearly, and as long as Zhao Ama is not stupid, he will figure out the benefits. He doesn't mind letting others take advantage of some small advantages, so he has to ask others to help him, and it can't be done in vain. He also doesn't want to owe others favors, trouble!
Zhao Ama was taken aback when she heard the words, then fell silent, her eyes flickered, he is also shrewd, he can think of all the twists and turns in a blink of an eye, the price of vegetables in the market is only three pennies, and not all of them can be sold, especially this one. It's the time when vegetables are ripe. Except for the rich and noble, ordinary people will not buy them. If they buy them in the village, he can definitely buy them at a slightly lower price. There are so many vegetables at the moment, many people can't eat them, and they even rotten. They are already in the vegetable field, so they are happy to earn money without them going out, and he can earn the rest of the money. He doesn't talk nonsense and asks straightforwardly: "How many catties do you need every day?"
Zhong Ziqi stretched out her palm: "Ah Zhao, buy me fifty catties first, thirty catties of cucumbers and twenty catties of persimmons. I will bring them to the pier tomorrow. I will order according to the situation, but it must not be much less than this Some, so you give me fifty catties a day, more cucumbers, less persimmons."
"That's fine, I'll get it for you right now." Zhao Ama couldn't sit still after hearing so much, and went to see if she could pick so much from her own garden. Of course, good things come first, but you can do it yourself.
Zhong Ziqi stretched out her hand to stop her and said with a smile: "Ah Zhao is still impatient, that's how it is. The houses you buy, Ah Zhao, go to those with better character first. If you can't do it, you can go to Lincun."
Ah Zhao laughed, why didn't he know what Zhong Ziqi was up to, let those people break their mouths and push the God of Wealth away: "Okay, listen to you, there are so many tricks."
After the work was done, Zhong Ziqi was about to go home. Before leaving, she told Zhao Ning and Zhao Sheng to go to his place for breakfast at that time tomorrow.
After Zhong Ziqi left, Zhao Ning and Zhao Sheng went to help Zhao Ama pick vegetables.
"Mum, today Ziqi gave me and my brother 15 cents each." Zhao Ning happily boasted that this was the first money he earned, which meant a lot!
Ah Zhao is a person who has been here. How could he not know that the money was too much, and asked with a frown, "Why so much? How much does Ziqi earn a day? At the beginning, it was said that the money was too much."
"Ziqi earned two hundred and seventy wen today, so many people came to eat, and she was too busy." Zhao Ning excitedly chatted about today's details to Zhao Amo.
Zhao Ama obviously didn't expect to earn so much money, no wonder he wanted so much food all at once, brother Qi is still like his father, even his mother is smart, but how could their child be a fool? Yes, I don't know if the Zhong family and the Zhao family will regret what they did so badly if they find out.
"Brother Qi is very promising, since he is willing to take you with him, you should follow him well." Zhao Amo said with a serious expression, not aware of the inappropriateness of letting the man in the family follow a younger brother. He knows how to read people, and he just thinks that Qi Geer is really extraordinary now.
Of course, Zhao Ning and Zhao Sheng would not refute, and they were happy to follow Zhong Ziqi, especially Zhao Sheng only felt that planting an acre of land at home was not interesting for doing business. He didn't know how much his thinking at this time changed him later.
Here, when we got home, Zhong Ziqi went into the bedroom to look at Zhao Zhengan, and found that he was fast asleep and showed no signs of waking up, so he tiptoed to the corner, put the basket on his back, went out and locked the door, facing the mountain go.
He planned to dig some more bamboo shoots. Last time he did not have many sour bamboo shoots, so he would use them up in a day or two. Zhong Ziqi's memory is still good. The last time I wandered around the mountain, I remembered all the places I could go and the places I couldn't go. It would be no problem for me to go alone.
There are a lot of bamboo shoots on the mountain, and this thing is still very heavy. Zhong Ziqi has to carry most of the basket with difficulty. In addition to looking for bamboo shoots, he also needs to find some fungus, which is also delicious in cold noodles.
But fungus is not easy to find, it doesn’t grow anywhere like mushrooms, Zhong Ziqi didn’t plan to go deep after finding some, there happened to be many fruit trees around, he picked a bunch of pecans, pears, apples, and hurried down the mountain He was worried that Zhao Zhengan would not be able to find him when he woke up. At this moment, Zhong Ziqi didn't realize that she was gradually unable to let go of Zhao Zhengan.
When she got home and opened the door, she didn't hear anything unusual. Zhong Ziqi breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that Zhao Zhengan hadn't woken up, she knew he was exhausted. Without waking him up, he sat in the yard by himself and peeled the bamboo shoots one by one and cut them into small strips. After frying, the water was still sealed and placed in the corner.
There were only some fruits and fungus mushrooms left in the bamboo basket. Zhong Ziqi dried the mushrooms in the dustpan in the yard, and soaked the fungus in water and put them aside. Looking at the remaining fruit, Zhong Ziqi planned to make some canned fruit to take with her tomorrow, and when Zhao Zhengan and the others were thirsty, they would eat something to moisten their throats.
The method of canning fruit is very simple. He has done it before. He is rather strange. Even that person said that he likes to eat small food. Unhygienic and unhealthy food like roadside stalls, delicacies from mountains and seas are not like to eat.
Zhong Ziqi smiled when he heard this, he felt that the ones at the roadside stalls had the taste of food, and eating those delicacies from mountains and seas was like a cow chewing peonies. So he can cook a lot of weird food, but if there are any high-end dishes, he will be depressed, not because he can't but because he is not good at it.