Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 329

When coming out of Duobao Pavilion, Chen Dongzhi had no expression on his face, but he was holding two cans of food in his hands.

The waiter called out from behind him, "Sir, come back next time!"

Chen Dongzhi complained in his heart: There won't be a next time! I'll expose all the bad things you did when I get back. Let's see if you can still sell so many cans in the future? !

The round trip took six days, plus the time needed to stay in Nanzhou to wait for the master to prepare the goods. After half a month, the White Tiger Escort Agency escorted a batch of medicinal materials back to Liuyun Town in Yunzhou.

After delivering the brought back medicinal herbs to Yu's residence, Chen Dongzhi and Master Duan settled the expenses and then went their separate ways.

Before he reached home, it suddenly started to drizzle. Chen Dongzhi held the thing to his chest tightly and quickened his pace to return to the village.

There was no one at home and the gate was locked. He guessed that his wife should be in the workshop at this time, so he simply made some noodles and ate them before going to the workshop to find her.

Zhong Ruyi directed several aunts to move the jars sent by Li Zhidie to the warehouse and pile them up. "Aunt Niu, please be gentle. This jar is not as strong as Uncle Niu. It can't withstand your strong force!"

The other aunts couldn't stop laughing and started to tease Aunt Niu:

"Niu, if you have so much strength, why don't you use it on your man? You'll have to pay for the broken jar!"

"Not necessarily! If her man was beaten up, Aunt Niu would be heartbroken!"

Aunt Niu did not look shy at all when being teased. Instead, she started talking and laughing loudly with the other aunts.

It was in such a happy atmosphere that Zhong Ruyi saw the man standing at the door. She was so happy that she almost dropped the jar in her hand and ran out quickly.

"Huh? You just got back? Haven't eaten yet? I'll go back and cook you two dishes and cook some rice!"

Holding his wife's waist, Chen Dongzhi gently supported her with a faint smile on his face, "We have eaten. Are you busy? I have something to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Zhong Ruyi pulled him over and sat down at a stone table in the yard. The aunts working in the yard saw the two holding hands and talking, and kind smiles appeared on their faces.

Chen Dongzhi casually put a few cans on the table aside. The cans were already full, and the smell of meat wafted through the yard.

"It's not just the Fang and Yu families that sell canned food in Nanzhou. When I went out with the escort agency people, I happened to come across a store that was also selling canned food. When I had some free time, I went in to take a look. The canned food sold there was exactly the same as the canned food in the workshop."

The same cans?

Zhong Ruyi was a little confused. "Butler Fang said that their canned food is also sold to other vendors. Maybe the store you saw is like that."

Chen Dongzhi shook his head. "No, I've asked around. The boss behind Duobao Pavilion is a wealthy businessman named Zhao. At first, I thought he sold himself to the Fang family and then sold it a second time. But after I stuffed some silver into the shopkeeper's pocket, he told me that these cans were shipped from Yunzhou by the boss of Duobao Pavilion. They didn't sell this kind of cans before, but only last month. The cans that couldn't be sold were sent to Yunzhou, and naturally someone would help deal with them."

As soon as he heard that the boss behind Duobao Pavilion was surnamed Zhao, Zhong Ruyi knew that this person must be Boss Zhao.

But isn’t he from Wuzhou?

How did you end up in Nanzhou and open a Duobao Pavilion?

Before she could figure it out, Chen Dongzhi continued, "The person in charge of delivering the canned food is a boss named Yang. It is said that he came from Yunzhou. These canned food were bought from him."

Zhong Ruyi was confused. Boss Yang?

She didn't know many wealthy businessmen in the town, only Mr. Yu and Mr. Fang, and she had never heard of Mr. Yang.

But next time Butler Fang comes over, you can ask him. He knows a lot of people, so maybe he can know where this Mr. Yang is from.

"Brother Dongzhi, since you even found out this, I guess you gave me a lot of money, right?"

Chen Dongzhi pursed his lips and said, "This time, I divided the goods into twelve taels of silver, and gave five taels to the shopkeeper of Duobao Pavilion."

"So much?" Zhong Ruyi was surprised, and felt sorry for him for having to make this hard trip and paying so much in wages.

"I'll kill a chicken to give you some tonic tonight. You've become so thin!"

Zhong Ruyi gently touched his face. As there were many people in the yard and there were many chattering, the two separated after talking. Chen Dongzhi had to go back to his hometown. He had been away for more than half a month, and Chen's mother missed her son.

In the evening, when they got off work, Li Guihua asked the couple to come over for dinner. Zhong's father was waiting anxiously at home.

"Little sister, brother-in-law, come back with me tonight. Dad and mom are here."

Zhong Ruyi was a little surprised, "Mom is back?"

Li Guihua smiled and nodded, "I'm back. Mom came back to replace my second brother and sister-in-law who went to town. Lanlan and Xiaohe stayed at home, and Mom helped take care of them."

It has been more than a year since Zhong's mother went to town. Lanlan is eight or nine months old now. Liu Yu Niang brought up this matter when Zhong's mother came back last time.

At the dinner table, when talking about this, Zhong's mother was extremely happy, "I am too old to do the work anymore, so you young people should take over!"

"Mom, if you are free tomorrow, can you help me go to town to buy some chicks?" Zhong Ruyi picked up two pieces of bacon for the man next to her and turned to ask Zhong's mother.

Zhong's mother readily agreed, but when her daughter said she wanted to buy fifty chicks, she hesitated, "Why buy so many chicks? Is your workshop going to close down? You don't want to sell canned food anymore?"

"Mom, what are you talking about?" Zhong Ruyi was speechless. "I bought the chicks to raise in the mountains. Sister Honghong has run out of chicken manure for the time being, so I thought about raising some chickens and letting them run around in the mountains. That would be nice too."

"Okay then, I'll go take a look at it for you tomorrow!"

The next day, Mother Zhong came back carrying fifty chicks. Zhong Ruyi planned to raise fifty chicks first and then increase the number slowly later.

For this purpose, she asked a villager to help her raise chickens. She built a thatched hut on the mountain so that they could rest during the day. At night, the chicks were driven into the fence and released in the morning.

When the chicks grow up, they can be sent to restaurants, killing two birds with one stone.

A few days later, Zhong Ruyi heard the gossip that the town's Mr. Fang had divorced his wife. It was Zhong Laosan who told her after he returned from a trip to escort goods.

He was talking excitedly, standing in the middle of the crowd, "Didn't you see how embarrassed that delicate Madam Fang was when she was kicked out? She was crying like a pear blossom in the rain!"

No one knew how bitterly Mrs. Fang cried, but when Huang Ying came over with a sullen face and pulled her husband, who was the center of attention, back to the spotlight, half of Zhong Laosan's ear had been pulled red.

Zhong Ruyi was on guard and asked Jiang Qin to find out when he brought the chickens and rabbits back to town in the morning. Why did Mr. Fang divorce his wife out of the blue?