Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 172

After everyone left, Zhong Ruyi took Jiang Rong and Jiang Yun to the carpentry workshop. She wanted to see how the carpenter was doing.

There were a lot of wood piled up in a mess in the woodworking workshop, and several craftsmen were working with sweat on their foreheads.

"Master Zhang." Zhong Ruyi called one of the masters who was working. He was the old master in the carpentry workshop and the one responsible for making tables and chairs for her.

Master Zhang was working hard when she heard someone calling her. She turned around and saw it was the customer who had paid a deposit a few days ago.

"Miss Zhong! You're here. I went to look for you the day before yesterday but you weren't there. I was thinking of going over to see you again in the next two days."

The two talked and walked into the house.

"Look, this is a set that has been completed. Do you think it's okay? If it's okay, we can rush to finish it in the next few days and it will be ready for delivery in about eight or nine days." Master Zhang pointed to a new set of tables and chairs and showed them to her.

Zhong Ruyi looked around the table and chairs and was very satisfied. She touched them and found no burrs. She then shook the table and found it didn't shake. The table legs were made very flat.

She nodded, smiling, "Master Zhang, that's fine, let's do this. You just said that the goods can be delivered in eight or nine days?"

The customer was satisfied, and Master Zhang was also very happy. He wiped the sweat off his head with a smile and said, "It's like this. My two apprentices were working on other customers' orders, and they have already finished it, so I called them over to help."

"Sure, Master Zhang, when you're done, just send someone to call me at Zhongji." Zhong Ruyi was very happy. If the tables and chairs were ready early, they could be left there to dissipate the smell even if the restaurant wasn't open yet.

When Zhong Ruyi left, Master Zhang gave her two small stools, which were just the right size for her to sit on when making fire.

The three of them walked out of the carpentry workshop and happened to hear noise coming from the market a few streets away. Zhong Ruyi suggested going over to take a look.

When we got to the market, we realized that it was a circus. There was a lot of cheering all around. A man took a sip of water and blew it at a held-up torch. A long fire dragon appeared on the torch.

The people around exclaimed in surprise. Someone was carrying a wooden box and walking past them. Some people saw it and threw a few copper coins or silver into it, while others pretended not to see it.

One of the boys, who was about six or seven years old, actually stretched out his hand and threw a silver ingot down, causing the uncles and aunts next to him to look at him.

But soon the uncles and aunts were attracted by the new acrobatics and stopped staring at the little boy.

The little boy was followed by two servants, who were whispering something to him. The little boy pouted but nodded in agreement.

After watching the circus, Zhong Ruyi took Jiang Rong and Jiang Yun to go back. When they passed by a bookstore, she remembered that Shi Tou and Xiao He would go to a private school next month, so she decided to buy them some paper and pens.

As soon as she entered, a waiter came up to ask what she wanted to buy. Zhong Ruyi thought for a moment and said, "My two nephews will be sent to a private school next month. Can you see if there is anything suitable for children who are just starting to learn?"

The waiter smiled and said, "Then just buy the most basic Hundred Family Names and Thousand Character Classic. We have handwritten copies from a scholar in a nearby village. Each copy costs 500 wen."

So expensive.

Upon hearing the prices, Zhong Ruyi felt that it would not be easy for her elder and second brothers to support her two nephews to go to school.

With the help of the waiter, I bought the cheapest paper and pen.

Four brushes, two ink sticks, a copy of Hundred Family Names and a copy of Thousand Character Classic, and a piece of paper, the total cost was one tael, seven hundred coins.

Sisters Jiang Rong and Jiang Yun didn't dare to look around since they came in, and they were so shocked after hearing the price that they couldn't even breathe.

It wasn't until the three of them walked out of the bookstore that they breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Yun was very surprised, "Sister Ruyi, studying is really expensive!"

Jiang Rong also nodded. Today's trip to the bookstore really scared the two sisters.

Not to mention them, even Zhong Ruyi, who had been mentally prepared, was terribly frightened. When he took out the money just now, he was thinking about how to make more money in the future and make his family rich together.

She sighed, "Let's go back."

Just as he finished speaking, he saw the little boy he had just seen at the circus. He was picking his throat with a red face, and two boys who looked older than him were patting his back anxiously.

As soon as Zhong Ruyi saw the situation, she knew what happened. She thought that someone might have choked on something, so she quickly ran forward.

"Master! Master, please spit it out quickly, everything will be fine if you spit it out!" One of the boys was so anxious that he even wanted to reach out to dig the boy's throat.

When Zhong Ruyi arrived, the little boy's face was a little purple, and the two little brothers next to him started crying.

"What can we do, Master?"

Zhong Ruyi hugged the little boy, put her arms around his abdomen, clenched her fist with her other hand, and began to perform first aid.

She pushed his back quickly and hard for a while, and the little boy suddenly vomited and spat out a candy bean, which fell to the ground.

The two little brothers were already stunned. The little boy finally recovered after spitting out the candy beans. He was choking and crying.

He was so scared that he turned around, hugged Zhong Ruyi and started crying.

There were a lot of people gathered on the roadside, and they all applauded when they saw this scene.

"What's going on?" asked an aunt who just passed by.

Passerby A, who had noticed what happened here early, pointed at Zhong Ruyi and the others and said, "This kid just choked on something he ate. His face turned purple and he almost died. It was this girl who passed by and saved him."

The aunt was surprised. "So amazing? This girl looks so young, could she be a doctor?"

Passerby A said he didn't know, but he did see with his own eyes that she was holding the child and shaking him for a long time, and then the child spit out what was in his mouth.

The two young men cried loudly at first, but now they stopped crying and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhong Ruyi.

"Thank you, young lady! If it weren't for you, our young master would have been in trouble today!"

"Girl! Thank you so much for saving our master! If anything happened to our master, we wouldn't be able to survive!"

Zhong Ruyi was held by the little boy, and she couldn't help the two boys up. She could only wink at Jiang Rong and Jiang Yun, asking them to help the two boys up.

After the two young men stood up, they were still wiping their tears.

Zhong Ruyi was overwhelmed. She pulled the crying little boy away from her and said comfortingly, "Okay, okay, stop crying and go back."

The older one cried, and the younger one cried too, and she cried so much that her head hurt.

The little boy sobbed and raised his tear-soaked face. Zhong Ruyi took a closer look and found that the boy had red lips and white teeth and was very handsome.

"...Burp." He burped while crying, looked at the big sister who saved his life, burped again and said thank you.

Zhong Ruyi had no resistance to good-looking people, so she just touched his head gently and said, "Go back soon, your family must be worried about you."