Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 289

"For me?" Zhang Mingzhu widened her eyes and stared at the copper coins on the table.

Just as she finished washing the bamboo tube and wooden barrel, Zhong Ruyi gave her fifty cents, saying that this was her wages for today.

She was a little embarrassed, but she honestly put the copper coins away and said happily, "I want to buy a wooden box and put all my money in it!"

Hearing this, Zhong Ruyi went to the room and found an empty wooden box for her. "Here, here you go. See how much you can store in it."

Zhang Mingzhu happily ran away holding the wooden box.

A figure flashed past the door.

Zhong Ruyi was sharp-eyed and immediately went into the backyard to get a basin of dishwashing water left over from Zhang Mingzhu's washing of dishes. When she reached the door, she poured the water out in the basin.

It's already afternoon, there are not many people in the store, and there are fewer people on the street.

A basin of dirty water fell accurately on the old lady Jiang who was sneaking at the door, soaking her to the bone and making her feel cold and scared.

Old Lady Jiang screamed, pointed at Zhong Ruyi's nose and came up to hit her, "Who are you? How dare you splash water on me? You uneducated little bitch!"

Hearing the noise, Sun Taowei, Zhang Mingzhu and others ran out immediately.

Zhong Ruyi dodged and smiled with an embarrassed look on her face. She wrinkled her nose innocently and said, "Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't see you. But this water is much cleaner than your mouth. It's just right to help you wash your dirty and smelly mouth."

Fortunately, she was in the store today, otherwise the old woman would probably come into the store again and refuse to leave.

Sun Tao and Wei had told her several times before that the old lady always ran in when the store was busy and no one was paying attention to her, and shoveled the leftovers or food that the customers were still eating into her mouth with her hands, and she drove away several tables of customers for this.

She was so angry when she heard that, but she never encountered that every time she came.

Since they happened to meet her this time, they had to teach this old lady a lesson, lest she thinks they are easy to bully.

Upon seeing this, Old Lady Jiang fell to the ground and started crying loudly, slapping her thighs while crying, "Come and have a look! Help me judge! My heartless daughter-in-law has disowned me after getting rich! How can you let an old woman like me be bullied like this? It's really unfair!"

There weren't many people on the street to begin with, and after hearing the noise here, the few passers-by soon gathered around and looked at Old Lady Jiang curiously as she fell to the ground and cried.

A passerby watched for a while and said, "It's a loud cry, but there are no tears! This is fake crying!"

The other passers-by who were standing with him watching the fun took a look and saw that, yes, the old lady only had a loud voice but there was no trace of tears on her face except for the age spots.

"Fake crying? Then what is she doing?"

"Didn't you hear what she said? Her daughter-in-law is working here. I guess she did this to get her daughter-in-law's salary."

Zhong Ruyi burst out laughing. She didn't expect that these passers-by were so sharp-eyed that they could see through the old woman's tricks at a glance.

She crossed her arms over her chest, and Sun Tao and others behind her couldn't help laughing.

Mrs. Jiang couldn't pretend anymore. She got up from the ground and spat at the onlookers, "What does this have to do with you? I came to ask my daughter-in-law for money and you still care? If you like to meddle in other people's business, why don't you go and be a judge and solve cases?"

Passersby were furious, stepped back in disgust, and started to curse at her, "Didn't you ask for help to judge the matter? What? Are you angry because you were exposed?"

He had come to watch the fun, but he didn't expect to be spit on by this old woman. The clothes he was wearing today were new! It was really infuriating!

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He looked around and saw half a basket of rotten vegetable leaves at the door of the restaurant. His clothes were already dirty, so he didn't care whether they were clean or not. He went up and grabbed a handful of rotten leaves in his hand and stuffed them directly into Old Mrs. Jiang's still mouthful of food.

Everyone present was stunned, and after they realized what was happening, they couldn't help but applaud and laugh.

Old Mrs. Jiang was so angry that she rushed forward and started to wrestle with the passerby.

But how could an old lady in her sixties beat a young and strong passerby?

Soon she was pushed to the ground, cursing, "You beast! How dare you do that to an old man like me? You black-hearted ghost! Sooner or later you will get your comeuppance!"

The passers-by around had already stayed away when he spit, and now seeing her relentless look, they were even more afraid to come forward, for fear of getting into trouble.

The passerby who was spat on reached out to brush off the dust on his clothes, looked at the old lady Jiang who was still cursing with disdain, turned around and walked away. He was unlucky today. He went out to watch the fun and ended up being spat on.

Zhong Ruyi asked Sun Tao and others to go back, saying that it was almost time for Wei and Xie Hai to get off work, so they should stop arguing with this unreasonable old lady.

After Wei and Xie Hai got off work, Sun Tao immediately closed the door. Jiang Qin was in the martial arts hall and probably wouldn't be back until the evening.

Old Mrs. Jiang was left lying on the ground alone, watching the people leave. The shop door was closed. She got up with a blank look on her face, but no one paid any attention to her. In the end, she could only leave in hatred.

On the second day, Zhong Ruyi made some adjustments to the bamboo tube rice she had prepared. Yesterday's shredded potatoes were the first to be sold out, followed by the cold rabbit. There were only five left out of the twenty dishes of stir-fried pork with green peppers.

So for today's dish, prepare ten servings of bamboo tube rice with stir-fried pork and green peppers, and twenty servings of the other two.

After preparing the pickled radish, sauerkraut and bean sprout soup, the two pushed the cart to the place where they had set up their stall yesterday.

While no one came out yet, Zhong Ruyi gave Zhang Mingzhu eight cents and asked her to go across the street to buy the steamed cake she had been longing for.

After they finished eating the sweet and fragrant steamed cake, someone soon came out from the dock.

Maybe because he had been here yesterday, Ji Jiang was the first one to come here. He smiled on his face which was a little darkened by the sun, "Girl, I still want a shredded potato rice."

"Okay." Zhong Ruyi lowered her head slightly and handed him a bamboo tube filled with shredded potato rice.

When Ji Jiang came over just now, his steps were a little fast. She didn't notice it yesterday, but today she realized that there was actually something wrong with this man's feet, but it wouldn't be noticeable if he walked slower.

Zhang Mingzhu took the money and handed the chopsticks to the customer. She thought of what Zhong Ruyi had promised her today: he would pay her fifty cents a day as long as she followed her to set up the stall here for a while!

This is such an unexpected surprise!

She had always thought that she was eating, drinking and living for free at the Zhong family, and that she could barely make up for the loss by helping out with some chores every day. She had never expected that she could actually get paid for helping to set up the stall and collect money!

If she runs this stall for a month, she can earn fifty cents every day, and she will be rich soon!

Zhong Ruyi, who was standing by, was busy serving meals to the guests who came one after another. Seeing the guests paying, Zhang Mingzhu was slow to accept the money.

Turning around, I saw this person grinning for something unknown.

Xiao Hai slapped the silly guy awake in annoyance and quickly came over with two of the people who had been there yesterday.

He was holding the wooden barrel he had borrowed yesterday, and the bamboo tubes and chopsticks inside had been washed clean.

"Thank you, young lady. We have already washed the food here. You just need to rinse it with water. Please help me get twenty rabbit meats."

"Okay." Zhong Ruyi lowered her head and took out the cold rabbit, and said casually, "We also have shredded potatoes, which are cheaper than rabbit meat."

"Shredded potatoes?" Xiao Hai looked at his companions and said, "I want five shredded potatoes, too."

Anyway, there are a lot of people on their boat, so we don’t have to worry about no one eating them if we buy them back.

In this way, twenty cold rabbits and five shredded potatoes were sold.

There was very little bamboo tube rice left, so the two of them sat on small stools and waited for a while.

Ji Jiang came over to make soup after dinner.

At this moment, a shrill laugh suddenly came from behind, followed by a male voice.

"Hey, isn't this Ji Quezi? Why are you here?"