Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 198

However, she thought about Aunt Chen who came to help in his kitchen yesterday and was stunned when she saw the sack of chili peppers.

Why does this thing look so similar to the bonsai in her home?

She didn't give up, so she pulled two out of the sack, asked some people, and then put them in her clothes to take back and compare them to see if they were really the same.

What if they are really the same? Aunt Chen thought, her heart would be broken, and she spent twenty taels of silver to buy this thing that Ruyi said grew in large patches on the back hill of their village.

Aunt Chen wanted to cry.

Zhong Ruyi gave a small jar of chili sauce to the owner of the noodle shop. If you like spicy food, then give her some chili sauce. Maybe she can start a chili sauce business in the future.

At noon, Director Gao and his wife from next door came again, bringing with them a group of martial arts apprentices, including Sijing.

The child can't hide his emotions and his mouth is pouted.

Director Gao was worried that Zhong Ruyi would think too much after seeing this, so he pinched his mouth and said, "Just watch us eat! Just stand by the side!"

"I don't!" Si Jing's mouth was pinched, and he tried hard to utter these two words.

"Then just behave yourself! Stop being so rude! Don't force me to slap you when I'm so happy!"

This child is really spoiled, but it’s not his fault. It’s all the eldest brother’s fault. He dotes on his youngest son and can’t stop him from being treated badly by the eldest brother, who can neither beat him nor scold him.

Si Jing could only reply sullenly, "I know."

The curator's wife ordered seven dishes and sat at three tables.

Rice is sold by the basin, which costs eight cents. There are also steamed buns, which cost one cent each. They are very big and much more reasonable than the prices outside.

Today, Shopkeeper Ding was free to come over. He smiled and said congratulations, "I'm here to take care of your business today, but I think your business won't be bad even if I don't come."

The store is already full of people, all of whom came here to try the free cold rabbit tasting yesterday, and there are also many people coming here to try it today.

Zhong Ruyi noticed that the little girl whose clothes were all patched yesterday came again. She was standing timidly and crowding around with a group of aunts and old women.

Today, the person standing by the table watching the food tasting was Aunt Chen, as my second brother went back to sell braised food.

Aunt Chen is not like my second brother. Some women took it twice and wanted to take it a third time, but were retorted by Aunt Chen with just a few words.

"...If you're not allowed to take it for the third time, then I won't take it! I'll go order one to eat when I take it back!" The woman got angry and went to the waiter to order a cold rabbit to take back.

Aunt Chen didn't expect that her words would lead to a deal for the store.

Now she was very proud and watched even more strictly.

I saw a little girl who had come twice just now and now came again.

She immediately spoke up to stop him, "Hey hey hey! Little girl, why are you here again? Didn't you come here twice just now? You can't take it anymore, or the store will be bankrupted by you."

The little girl withdrew her hand awkwardly and walked away with her head down.

Seeing that her clothes were all patched, Aunt Chen felt a little bit sorry for her after she finished speaking, but she had already said it, and there were so many people trying the food, so she couldn't say anything else.

Zhong Ruyi didn't notice any of this, she was packing things for people with her head down.

There are actually more people coming today than yesterday. Several customers saw that there was no room in the store and asked to take their food away.

She looked at their clothes and their accents, which didn't seem like they were from the local area.

The town's dock has become busy again recently. Many wealthy businessmen have taken their goods to other places to sell them by water, and people from other places have also brought their local specialties here to trade.

Zhong Ruyi thought that they should be the ones, and she was lucky as she happened to catch this wave of outsiders who came into the store to watch the fun, packed up a few dishes and went to other pubs to eat while drinking.

The pub was also curious, why did the guests bring their own snacks?

When we go to their restaurant, we just drink and don’t order any food?

After asking around, I found out about the newly opened Ruyi Restaurant.

The tavern owner thought for a moment and called the waiter, "Since the customers like the dishes in this restaurant, go and pack some for me."

So there were waiters from several pubs among the people who came, and each of them ordered a large portion, so much so that the bamboo tubes in the store were almost not enough.

Jiang Qin quickly went to the backyard to move out some more bamboo tubes and cut a few pieces of thin hemp rope so that they could be strung together for the customers to carry away.

After seeing off a table of guests, Jiang Qin saw a horse-drawn carriage coming towards him.

At first Jiang Qin didn't think that the carriage was coming to the store, until it stopped in front of him, he suddenly realized.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a little boy with red lips and white teeth came down. Two servants were sitting in the front of the carriage, one holding the horse while the other helped the little boy down.

Jiang Qin had seen him before, the young master of the Yu family. Last time when his sisters and Sister Ruyi went shopping, he got food stuck in his throat and it was Sister Ruyi who saved him.

Yu Yunhe smiled brightly and rushed into the store as soon as he got off the carriage. He happened to bump into Shopkeeper Ding who had just come out after eating.

"Hey, little kid, don't walk so rashly." Shopkeeper Ding was bumped into and quickly reached out to steady the little boy to prevent him from falling.

When he looked carefully, wasn't this Mr. Yu's grandson?

Why are you here?

After Yu Yunhe apologized, he started rushing inside again.

"Sister Ruyi!"

Hey!

This person knows Miss Zhong.

Shopkeeper Ding was curious. How did these two people know each other?

He stopped Jiang Qin who was about to go in and asked, "Isn't that the young master of the Yu Mansion?"

Jiang Qin nodded honestly, "Yes, I met Sister Ruyi on the street last time. He happened to have something stuck in his throat while eating, and Sister Ruyi saved him. Later, his family came to thank him, but I don't know why he came this time."

It turned out to be the case.

This is a rare fate.

Shopkeeper Ding stroked his beard, ate and drank his fill, and walked away slowly.

Zhong Ruyi was so busy that she was dizzy. Suddenly, a child's voice exploded in her ears, "Sister Ruyi!"

She responded quickly and saw a child of about six or seven years old hanging on her lap, looking at her eagerly.

"...He'er? Why are you here?"

She was so busy that suddenly a little child came running over. She was also a little bald.

"Sister Ruyi, I'm here to play with you!" Yu Yunhe said crisply.

Zhong Ruyi had just finished looking at the ingredients. There were fewer rabbits brought back today, and now there were only ten left. If it were to be evening, there might not be enough.

She could only ask Jiang Qin to go back and catch more. She didn't expect so many people to order cold rabbit and spicy rabbit meat today.

"He'er, why don't you go play with that sister first? I'll come back to you when I'm done with my work, okay?"

Now all she can do is let Cuicui take care of the child. She doesn’t know why Yu Yunhe suddenly came to find her.

"it is good!"

Yu Yunhe was very obedient and immediately ran to find Cuicui.

The two servants followed him wherever he went.

Cui Cui looked reluctant. She came to help, not to take care of the child, and she didn't even know the child.

She looked at Zhong Ruyi with resentful eyes. Zhong Ruyi could only smile at her soothingly and turned around to continue her busy work.