Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 225

After hiring a person, Zhong Ruyi didn't have time to watch over the restaurant. She was in the convenience store, making pork jerky and meat floss for Mrs. Yu.

Her hands were so sore that she walked out of the kitchen, shaking them.

Jiang Rong was cutting a watermelon for a customer. Recently, more and more people came to buy watermelons. It was also related to the weather. The hot air in June was distorted.

After taking a walk outside, people will become a few shades darker.

Suddenly, Zhong Laosan's voice came from the door, "Little sister! We are back!"

Zhong Ruyi turned around in surprise and saw two tanned men walking in.

She happily went to meet him, "What took you so long? Escort Master Duan and the others are back, but you haven't come back yet."

There were red marks on Chen Dongzhi's face from being sunburned. After not seeing each other for such a long time, the longing for him surged in my heart like waves.

"I was supposed to be back in a few days, but they happened to be looking for someone to escort the goods to Nanzhou. Escort Master Hu took over and we left together, so I came back a little late."

He took out a white object from his arms. Zhong Ruyi looked closely and found it was a porcelain doll with a smile on its face. There was a lotus leaf on its head and a lotus flower in its hand.

"Wow! It's so beautiful!" She took the porcelain doll and exclaimed, "Isn't the workmanship so good? There is no flaw at all!"

Seeing that she liked it, Chen Dongzhi took out another one from his arms. It was obvious that they were a pair. One of the big-eyed porcelain dolls had a bud that had not yet opened on its ear, and the lotus flower in its hand had turned into a lotus pod.

Zhong Ruyi was so happy to receive the two porcelain dolls that she took them in her hands and played with them carefully.

"I bought this in a small town when I passed through Nanzhou. There were a lot of lotus flowers in that town. They were in bloom when we arrived. I heard from the people there that they would bloom until September."

Chen Dongzhi told her bit by bit everything he had seen and heard along the way. When he saw her eyes lit up at a certain point, he said a few more words.

"...There are a lot of fruits and vegetables in Nanzhou. I also ate their watermelons, which were not as sweet as the ones we grow ourselves. There is also a kind of red fruit that needs to be peeled. After eating it, my mouth, tongue and hands are all red."

Zhong Ruyi knew what he was talking about, it should be dragon fruit.

The two were standing at the door talking. Zhong Laosan came in, said hello and left.

When he was talking until his mouth was dry, Zhong Ruyi pulled him to sit down, handed him the watermelon that Jiang Rong had just cut in half, and gave him a wooden spoon.

"Eat something quickly to moisten your throat. We'll continue our conversation after you finish eating."

Zhong Ruyi sat opposite him, holding her chin and watching him take a bite of watermelon, then scooped out the middle piece with a spoon and put it to her mouth.

She smiled sweetly and glanced at Jiang Rong who was standing in front of the counter unconsciously.

belch!

Jiang Rong didn't know what was going on, he suddenly burped and his stomach felt a little bloated.

Today, there were only her and Zhong Ruyi in the store, and Jiang Yun went to the restaurant to help.

Now, looking at the two of them sitting face to face and talking affectionately, she didn't know what was wrong with her, but suddenly she felt a warm feeling, as if her head was glowing.

Shaking her head, she went to the backyard to find water to wash her face.

Zhong Ruyi didn't want to let Chen Dongzhi do anything out of line while there were people else in the store, so the two sat and chatted for a while, and then Chen Dongzhi said he wanted to go back.

"I also brought some other things and left them at the restaurant. You'll see them if you go back."

Before leaving, Chen Dongzhi suddenly remembered and turned to tell Zhong Ruyi.

The main reason was that the things he brought back were quite mixed, including food, daily necessities and toys. At first I thought she was at the restaurant, but when I got there I realized she was here on Anning Street.

He didn't bring all the things here, he just brought two smaller porcelain dolls, and left the rest for her to see herself when she returned.

"Okay, go back and have a good rest. You've become thinner and darker."

Chen Dongzhi touched his face. Was it much darker?

He couldn't see his own face without a mirror, but by looking at Zhong Laosan and others he could tell that he wasn't that white.

When he returned home, as soon as he saw the looks in Chen's mother and Xiaoxue's eyes he knew that he would be much darker this time than when he went to the fields to harvest wheat.

Mother Chen went to wash the rice and rinse the water, "I heard that drinking the rice washing water will make your skin whiter. I'll find a cup to pour it for you to drink. Drink one cup a day, and your skin will turn white sooner or later."

Will drinking rice water make your skin white?

Chen Dongzhi had never heard of this statement, but he could give it a try. If it didn't work after drinking it, then forget it.

He listened to Chen's mother and drank pork jerky for six or seven days, and he was still drinking it until Zhong Ruyi returned to the village.

When Zhong Ruyi came to find him, he saw him drinking something and asked curiously, "What are you drinking? Bean paste?"

Chen Dongzhi shook his head and put the cup under her nose for her to smell.

She wrinkled her nose and sniffed, and smelled the scent of unhusked rice.

"Is it...rice water?" she asked hesitantly.

Chen Dongzhi nodded seriously, "Yes, my mother said that drinking rice water will make you whiter."

Zhong Ruyi was silent. If rice water could really turn the skin white, everyone in modern times would have a cup of it.

She had heard that rice water could be used to water flowers, but it had to be fermented and diluted, otherwise the seedlings would easily die.

"Why don't you stop drinking? I see that you haven't become whiter. What if you drink too much and get sick?" Zhong Ruyi advised him tactfully.

Chen Dongzhi touched his face, looking a little confused, "Didn't it turn white?"

"Really not! Look if you don't believe me!" Zhong Ruyi took out the small mirror she carried with her and put it in front of him.

Looking at the red marks on his face from the sun, Chen Dongzhi finally believed that he had been drinking rice water in vain for so many days.

He put the cup down in frustration, and some of the rice water inside splashed out because of his action.

"The sun was too strong. I wore a straw hat but still got tanned."

Zhong Ruyi patted his hands and said, "You are still lucky. Look at my third brother. He didn't even wear a straw hat. Now the red marks on his face are gone and the skin has started to fall off."

She looked at it carefully for a moment and said, "It's not serious. Don't take it too seriously."

"really?"

"Really! I'm not lying to you!"

The two were talking in the yard. Mother Chen went to the backyard and picked a basket of green vegetables and a few cucumbers. "Ruyi, take all these vegetables with you when you go back. Last time I went to your house, your second sister-in-law said she wanted to eat cucumbers, but they weren't grown at home."

Zhong Ruyi took it, thanked him and went back.

Mother Chen looked at her back as she walked away, then turned around and said to Chen Dongzhi, "Ruyi is becoming more and more capable. She is the one who sells the watermelons in the village. Otherwise, we villagers would have to spend time going to the town to sell them. Now it's so much easier!"

"You must treat her well in the future, otherwise, not to mention your Aunt Zhong, I will not let you off easily!"

Chen Dongzhi responded sullenly and poured the rice water under the grape vines.

"Hey, kid, didn't you want to become white? Why did you fall again?"