155, Department Store Opens

155, Department Store Opens

Three days later, a new department store opened on East Street in Kyoto City.

However, unlike those stores that display a lot of goods for sale, this store called Huoduoduo Department Store only displays a few items for sale, which has nothing to do with the name Huoduoduo.

This store opened so quietly that not even a single firecracker was set off.

On the first day of opening, a customer passing by the store recognized at a glance an object placed in the middle of the store. It was the thing called a fan that Prince Ding had given to the emperor two days ago.

The customer immediately walked into the store, took out a banknote and bought the fan.

Two days later, this fan, which was bought from the store and was the same model as the emperor's, appeared at the 68th birthday party of the mother of the Minister of Rites, and immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Those who had attended the palace banquet recognized it as the same fan that Prince Ding had given to the emperor. Those who hadn't attended the banquet thought this summer breeze-blowing gadget was a novelty. If there was such a fan in the summer, wouldn't they no longer have to endure the summer heat?

Many guests praised the young man for his filial piety by giving such a good gift to his grandmother, and also asked the young man from the minister's family where he got the fan.

After hearing that the fan was bought from a newly opened shop on the street, the guests sent someone to the store to buy the fan after leaving the Minister of Rites' house that day.

The department store, which had been doing slow business for a few days after opening, welcomed a peak in customer flow on this day. Not only did it clear out the store's inventory in less than half a day, but even the few samples displayed in the store were bought by customers at high prices.

“Swish—swish—swish—”

At this time, Lu Mingfei, who was still waving a wooden spatula and frying snails in the yard behind the pancake shop on South Street, had no idea what was happening on East Street.

Zhao Lang had told him about the department store opening a few days ago, but since South Street was a bit far from East Street, he hadn't been there yet to see the new store. So he knew the new store on East Street had opened, but he didn't know if it was doing well or not.

Their fried snails have been loved by many customers since they were launched.

Now they set up a stall in front of the pancake shop every afternoon, and can sell a large plate of fried snails and a large plate of braised food in just over an hour in the evening.

In addition, there are more than a dozen small restaurants and wine shops nearby that also place orders with them. In addition to ordering their braised food, they also order their fried snails.

The total number of orders placed by so many stores is quite large.

So now every afternoon, in addition to braising a large pot of meat, they also have to stir-fry several large pots of snails.

They are worried that the food cooked in one pot will not taste good, so they cook it in several pots.

The weather is hot now, and it is particularly hot to cook in the kitchen, so they built a stove in the yard and moved the pot outside to fry the snails.

He used a spatula to stir-fry the snails a few times to evenly coat them with the soup. Then Lu Mingfei closed the lid and let the snails in the pot cook slowly under the influence of the temperature.

Hot air overflowed from all sides of the wooden lid, and soon the whole yard was filled with fragrance.

The fragrance attracted the three children in the family, each of whom was holding a small bowl in his hand.

This is a habit these guys have developed in recent days.

"Brother." Lu Mingrui looked at his brother eagerly.

Lu Mingcong and Zhang Xiaobao stared at the pot.

"Wait a minute." Lu Mingfei found it funny to see these three guys coming with a small bowl to get fried snails on time every day.

"How long will we have to wait?" Lu Mingrui asked anxiously.

"You can just count from one to one hundred." Since last year, Lu Mingfei has started teaching the children in his family arithmetic.

Hearing this, Lu Mingrui looked at his brother with an expression that said, "You're like this again."

Lu Mingfei gave the boy a look in return. "You want to eat my fried snails without putting in any effort?" "Hurry up and count. If you make a mistake, you have to start over."

"one two three……"

Three childish voices sounded and began counting from one.

Halfway through counting, one of them made a mistake and started counting again from the beginning.

"It's seventy! Why do you always count wrong?" Lu Mingrui was so angry that he taught his second brother Lu Mingcong a lesson for always counting wrong.

At this time, Lu Mingcong did not dare to argue with his hot-tempered brother, and could only bow his head and accept the scolding.

Zhang Xiaobao didn't dare to speak because he had counted wrong himself.

Zhang Qi, who was sitting in front of the stove and setting the fire, looked up at his brother but did not expose his escape.

The adults working in the yard pricked up their ears to listen to one little kid scolding another, and they all found it very interesting.

Xu Yueniang and Liu Sanniang looked at each other, and a smile flashed in their eyes.

However, when seeing her son being scolded, Xu Yue Niang did not speak up for her son or ask for forgiveness from his brother.

Liu Sanniang knew that the two children had a good relationship and the conflict was only temporary, so she did not interfere in the affairs between the two children.

"That should be enough." Lu Mingfei interrupted his brother's scolding at the right moment, successfully drawing the three children's attention to him. "You three, move away. I'm going to open the lid."

After asking the three children to stand further away, he lifted the lid on the iron pot.

As soon as the lid was opened, a burst of hot steam rushed out, and the soup in the pot was bubbling, and the fragrance in the whole yard suddenly became more fragrant.

"Give me your bowls, three of you." As soon as the lid was opened, Lu Mingfei didn't even have time to shovel out the snails from the pot. He took the small bowls from the three boys waiting for food and filled each of them with a small bowl of fried snails.

Seeing this, Liu Sanniang also came over to help. Together with her eldest son, they shoveled out the fried snails and put them into a wooden barrel. She looked at her eldest son, who had already fried a pot of snails, and said, "You put your things outside to sell, and I'll fry this pot."

"Okay." Lu Mingfei was so hot that he gave his seat to his mother, and he and Zhang Qi went outside to set up the table.

Then the fried snails and braised dishes are placed on the table for sale.

After the two pots of snails were fried, they were packaged together with the braised dishes and all moved onto the cart. Then Zhang Qi went out alone, leading the donkey to deliver the goods.

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After Zhang Qi left, Lu Mingfei was alone at the store entrance watching over the stall. After a while, he saw his mother coming out of the store, so he called her, "Mother, come and watch over the stall. I'm going to get something and will be back soon."

"Oh, okay." Liu Sanniang didn't ask her eldest son where he was going. She came over to take his place and stood at the door of the store to sell things.

After handing the stall to his mother, Lu Mingfei left.

I walked into the silver shop I had visited a few days ago. As soon as I walked in, I saw the shopkeeper there. He smiled and asked, "Uncle Zhang, is the thing I ordered from you a few days ago ready?"

"Okay, okay. Wait here for a moment, I'll get the things out for you." They were all doing business on the same street, and the shopkeeper also knew this young man who grew up on South Street.

I remember that the other party came to their store a few days ago to order something, so the shopkeeper asked the young customer to wait in the store for a while, and he went inside to take out the things the customer ordered.

"Look, this is the thing you ordered, take a look and see if it's correct." The shopkeeper took out two boxes and led the customer to the table where the things were placed. He placed the boxes in his hand on the table and then opened one of the boxes to show the customer.

When the box was opened, there was a set of pearl jewelry inside, including a pearl hairpin, a pearl comb, a pair of pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, and a pearl bracelet.

When the second box was opened, it also contained a set of jewelry made of pearls, but the design was slightly different.

After Lu Mingfei carefully checked his things, he nodded and said, "Yes, no problem." The pearls here were the ones he got from Zhao Lang that day. The pearls were not big, but they were just right for making jewelry.

He can do some handicrafts, but the technology of making gold and silver jewelry is a bit difficult. He doesn't know how to do it, and he doesn't have the tools and materials, so he can only bring it to the silver shop for processing.

Just after they had decided on the jewelry, two female customers walked into the store. The young girl immediately fell in love with the jewelry in his hand and said, "This is a nice set of jewelry. I want it."

When Lu Mingfei heard the voice, he could sense a sense of arrogance and domineeringness. He did not refuse immediately, but closed the box calmly, and then looked at the little girl who had taken a fancy to his jewelry.

"I'm sorry, this is something that this gentleman custom-made himself, and it's not from our store. We have a lot of other beautiful jewelry in our store. Would you like to take a look at something else?" the shopkeeper kindly advised.

Unexpectedly, the little girl refused as soon as she opened her mouth, "No, I want the one he has!"

Lu Mingfei looked at the man in front of him as if he were a psychopath. He looked decent, but he was arrogant and domineering. There was also a little girl who didn't understand what he was saying. He was in a hurry to go back, so he took out the bill and gave it to the shopkeeper, saying, "Uncle Zhang, let's settle the balance. I'm in a hurry to go back."

"You are not allowed to leave."

Seeing that he was about to leave, the other party grabbed the box in his hand and wanted to snatch it away.

Miss Sun Er, who was standing behind her, saw her younger sister trying to grab someone else's things, so she hurried over to stop her and said to her in a gentle voice, "Fourth sister! This is someone else's property, you can't just grab it."

"No, this is what I like. I will give you as much silver as you want." Miss Zhang Si raised her little face full of dissatisfaction and looked at the person in front of her who was about to take away the thing she liked.

"..." Lu Mingfei was also convinced. Where did this psychopath come from? ! Author's words: Thank you Bole 9492239 (9492239) for your support. Kisses! To know more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading.