Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 292

The two of them were quite fast and returned home before lunch.

But what I didn’t expect was that when I got home I found the mason’s wife was there too.

When he saw them come back, he showed a complaining expression, as if blaming them for coming back so late and making her wait for so long.

Li Guihua gave Boss Zhong a look that said, "Why did you let her in?"

But Boss Zhong didn't realize his wife's hint at all, and smiled innocently and said, "Little sister, this aunt said she came to see you and your sister-in-law, saying that she has something to discuss with you."

After taking a deep breath, Li Guihua put on a polite smile.

Zhong Ruyi sat down next to her. She was just a little surprised to see the mason's wife when she came back, but she calmed down after the surprise and more or less guessed why she came to their house.

It was simply about ordering jars from their family. It seemed like more than twenty days had passed since the mason delivered the four thousand jars she ordered?

I guess they were anxious, so they came to ask.

She did not take the initiative to talk about it, but just smiled and asked the mason's wife if she had eaten and how she was doing recently.

The mason's wife naturally had a smile on her face. She came today just to find out why they didn't come to her house to order the jars.

The topic veered off and on until finally she got to the fact that not many people had come to them to buy jars recently. She sighed as if in distress and secretly glanced at Zhong Ruyi's expression after she heard this.

Zhong Ruyi didn't respond to her words, but just smiled and said, "Aunt, will you stay for lunch? I'll ask my sister-in-law to put more rice in case there's not enough to eat."

The smile on her face was genuine, but the words she said made people feel uncomfortable.

The mason's wife always felt that these words were not an invitation for her to stay for dinner, but an attempt to drive her away.

She came today just for the jar, but it would not be nice to shamelessly stay for dinner. Their two families only had some business dealings, and they were not familiar enough to ask her to stay for dinner the first time she visited.

After refusing with a stiff face, he didn't want to stay any longer, so he stood up and said goodbye.

The polite smile on Zhong Ruyi's face did not disappear until the person walked away.

Liu Guihua came out of the kitchen, poked her head out to take a look, and spat on the ground. "Now that you need something, you just come to me. When you are jealous, you can use one jar to deal with ten people! How dare you?!"

Think about what Li Zhi's father said just now: a jar costs one cent. The mason raised the price to ten cents each. Doesn't that mean one jar is worth ten?

Forget about the mason's wife coming. Zhong Ruyi has no intention of cooperating with her family again. Even if she says that she will not raise the price this time and it will remain the same two cents per piece as before, she will not take it.

Who knows one day her family might hear from somewhere how much money she has made and then raise the price, and she will have to look for other bricklayers again. That would be too much trouble. It would be better to just break off the cooperation. There is no need to cooperate anymore.

"Cuicui, your cousin and Tiedan haven't come back yet?"

It's almost time for lunch, so Zhang Mingzhu took Tiedan to the mountain to pick wild chestnuts, saying that she wanted to eat pork ribs braised with chestnuts.

As soon as he finished speaking, two people's excited voices were heard outside the door.

Tiedan slammed the door, "Open the door, open the door, Tiedan is back!"

Cuicui got up and opened the door.

The two men were carrying backpacks and baskets, with a thin layer of sweat on their faces. As soon as they came in, they threw the backpacks and baskets on the ground and hurried to get some water to drink.

Zhong Ruyi used a stick to pry open the cracked, thorny shell, revealing the small chestnuts inside.

There are many wild chestnuts on the mountain, and they are ripe recently. The diligent people in the village picked a lot of them, made them into chestnut cakes and took them to the town to sell.

There are also those who are greedy like Zhang Mingzhu, who just want to have a taste of the sweet and sticky chestnuts and the salty and fragrant pork ribs.

After lunch, Zhong Laosan, who had just returned from escorting goods for a few days, came over. Would Zhong Ruyi like to stay with him for a few days?

Zhong Ruyi would not go. She was not as tactless as her father. The newlyweds had just gone there to live and had not come back yet.

Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang both moved out to live in their own house. Looking at them and then at her father, she realized that they were indeed a bit immature.

She waved her hands and said, "Third brother, you know I'm not good at sleeping in my bed. I'm sure you won't be able to sleep if you go there."

As the two were talking, Zhang Mingzhu came over and asked them if they wanted to eat the candied chestnuts that had just come out of the pan.

Seeing that both of them shook their heads, she ran away again.

Zhong Laosan frowned as he watched her running away, and whispered, "Little sister, why is she still in our house? Don't you dislike her? Do you want me to chase her away directly?"

Hearing this, Zhong Ruyi was a little surprised, "Why do you want to chase her away? I don't hate her anymore, I think she's pretty cute."

"Is that so?"

Zhong Laosan scratched his face, feeling that the woman's mind was too difficult to guess.

Just like his wife, sometimes she gets angry for no reason and he has no idea what he said to irritate her.

I could only put on a shameless face and speak humbly to her in order to make her smile.

Thinking of his beloved wife, Zhong Laosan couldn't help but smile foolishly, looking so silly that he was simply unbearable to look at.

"Would you like to go to Third Brother's house for dinner tonight? Your Third Sister-in-law recently opened a jar of plum wine. It's sweet and sour and delicious."

"Okay! I'll come over tonight."

After dinner in the evening, Zhong Ruyi prepared to go home with a jar of plum wine.

Huang Ying sent her out and asked repeatedly, "Little sister, are you really not going to sleep here for one night? You have never lived here before?"

"No, no, I'm used to sleeping in my own bed. I'd better go back to sleep." Zhong Ruyi waved his hand and left with the jar of wine.

The next day, people started coming to the workshop one after another, and she took Xiao Huang with her.

At the door, Xiao Huang wagged his tail and refused to go in, snorting from time to time.

Seeing that it was in pain, Zhong Ruyi patted it and said, "Go find another dog to play with. Remember to come back early."

In the workshop, Aunt Tian was muttering while holding a sack. When I got closer, I heard her say that the salt was all used up and she would ask someone to buy some in the next two days.

"Aunt, is there enough for today? If not, I'll ask someone to buy some."

Auntie Tian turned around when she heard the voice, estimated in her mind and said, "It's enough for today, but it can only be used for half a day tomorrow, so we should find someone to buy it back quickly."

"Okay." Zhong Ruyi nodded, thinking that if Jiang Qin came over at noon, she would ask him to buy it and deliver it tomorrow morning.

Canned food uses a lot of salt, and one pound of salt costs fifty cents. It rose to eighty cents some time ago, and only dropped this month.

So she didn't really make much money from selling a can of food for 150 coins. People who didn't know would think that the chili jars, salt and oil in her workshop were free and she was just making money.

Just like the mason, he really thought she was doing some big business and raised the price of the jar to ten cents in one breath, as if her money came from the wind.

At noon, Jiang Qin drove the mule to Chen's house to catch rabbits. Now Chen Dongzhi was out escorting the goods, so the rabbits at home were taken care of by Chen's mother and Xiaoxue.

All the money from selling the rabbits was given to them, and Chen Dongzhi didn't want any. He only raised them for a while in the beginning, and his old mother and sister were the ones who took care of them afterwards.

There was a Boss Wang waiting in the town. After Zhong Ruyi came back and stayed there for a few days, he went back to the town with Zhang Mingzhu following him.

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"How about this? I'll grow them first. Even if Boss Wang doesn't want them after seeing them, I can still sell them to restaurants in our town and other masters' houses."

But she didn't dare to plant too many. After all, looking at Boss Wang's attitude, she didn't know if the crops would be wanted or not.

Before leaving, Boss Wang bought 500 cans of chili sauce from her. "Your sauce is good. Sometimes I go to other places, but they don't have it. I'll take some back and try to sell it."

What Zhong Ruyi didn't know was that Boss Wang often came to the restaurant during this period, and the restaurant was full of people every day.

He was thinking about opening a restaurant like this in Jixiang Town.

Anyway, he has money, and he has gotten used to eating here these days. He also finds the food delicious, so he will open the only restaurant in Jixiang Town when he returns!