In the blink of an eye, it is November, and the cold wind is howling and biting.
In this cold winter, Qin Nian's stew restaurant is ready. The restaurant is in a greenhouse, which faces east.
In the greenhouse, there is a row of stoves on the west side and tables on the east side.
In another greenhouse adjacent to this one, various vegetables are grown. Guests can go in and pick whatever vegetables they want to eat.
If you don’t want to do it yourself, there are ready-made ones. It’s entirely up to the customer to choose.
Qin Nian hired two cooks and two choppers to cook rice, pick vegetables, wash dishes and do odd jobs, which were all done by Suqin, Cuizhi, Yao Hua and Ye Meizi.
Geng Feng, Geng Tian and Gengdi were working as waiters in the front, while Geng Zhenjiang and Geng Zhenhai took Sun Dalei to the mountain to chop firewood.
After asking Qin Nian, the village head also went up the mountain to chop firewood to earn money to buy rice.
Qin Nian said that the weather was getting colder and there was not enough firewood, so he should buy some wood to avoid going up the mountain every day.
But Geng Zhenjiang and Geng Zhenhai disagreed. They said that there was plenty of firewood on the mountain and they could chop it down with a little effort, otherwise they would not be able to save up enough energy.
Besides, if people stay at home all the time, their health will be ruined. We are all capable people and it is impossible for us to be idle.
Qin Nian could only let them do what they wanted. She settled the bills and collected the money.
Everything was ready. With a few strings of red firecrackers that exploded thousands of times, Qin Nian Stew Restaurant opened.
Before this, Qin Nian and Geng Feng posted a lot of advertisements in Yi County.
In the county town, and even in larger towns, many people have heard that a stew restaurant has opened two miles outside the east city gate.
As to why a location so far away from the county was chosen, there are different opinions, and some people are full of curiosity.
On the first day of opening, near noon, a table of eight guests came.
In the warm greenhouse, they chose a seat by the window.
Although the window panes are covered with window paper and you can't see outside, the winter sunlight shines through the window paper, bringing a hazy and poetic feeling.
It was beautiful. There was a lot of fire in the greenhouse, so it wasn't cold at all.
The guests at this table ordered twelve dishes. The tent was very spacious and one could see the dishes being prepared as one walked past the table.
The stew chef and the chopper were both wearing the same simple style of blue coarse cloth clothes, clean and neat.
There are twelve dishes, one is stewed chicken, one is stewed fish, and the other ten are stir-fried dishes and cold dishes.
The staple food is rice.
After the meal, the guests at this table were full of praise for the taste of the dishes.
Next to the door of the shed, behind a tall wooden counter, Qin Nian stood inside with an abacus on the counter.
A man in his teens came over to pay the bill. The total was eight taels and two cents. After deducting the change, he only received eight taels.
"Miss, may I ask, what is the name of the owner of this Qin Family Stew Restaurant?"
Qin Nian smiled and replied: "My last name is Qin, Qin Nian, and I'm the boss here. What can I do for you?"
"you?"
The man looked surprised, then laughed:
"I've traveled all over the country for so many years, but this is the first time I've met a boss as young as you, and the first time I've eaten food that tastes so good.
From now on, your restaurant will be my regular restaurant for entertaining guests."
"Thank you for your praise. As a reward, we will give you a 20% discount and a free side dish every time you come to our restaurant."
"That's great, thank you very much."
The man seemed very happy: "My last name is Zhou Changzhou, and I'm in the jewelry business.
I also hope that Miss Qin will patronize my Zhou Family Jewelry Store when she buys jewelry."
"It's Mr. Zhou. I've heard of your name for a long time. If I need jewelry next time, I will definitely patronize Mr. Zhou's jewelry store."
Zhou Changzhou? In the jewelry business? Qin Nian immediately thought of Su Bi. When he went to the cell for trouble, he injured the housekeeper of the Zhou family.
I was too busy that day and forgot to ask Su Bi how he carried his uncle out of the cell.
Qin Nian smiled and said, "Boss Zhou, I have a picking shed here, and the strawberries planted in it are already ripe.
If Mr. Zhou is interested, he can go pick them himself. But it is very difficult to grow strawberries in this season. You can't light a fire day or night, and you need to burn a lot of firewood to keep the temperature.
Therefore, every guest who enters the tent is charged two taels of silver as an entrance fee. Guests can eat whatever they want in the tent.
If you take the picked strawberries away, it will cost you 200 coins per pound."
After listening to Qin Nian, Zhou Changzhou smiled and said, "Miss Qin, your picking garden is too expensive."
“Not expensive.”
Qin Nian smiled and said calmly: "This picking garden of mine has consumed a lot of time and energy.
To be honest, this picking garden is mainly aimed at wealthy businessmen like you.
Ordinary people really can’t afford it. It’s not that I sell it at a high price, it’s that the input cost is too high.”
Zhou Changzhou is a jewelry merchant. He has earned mountains of gold and silver, so why would he really care about a few taels of silver?
Qin Nian's words made me feel a little vague, and my sense of superiority came out.
“I ate strawberries a while ago, and they were indeed sweet.
OK, then the eight of us will go in and pick strawberries and have some fun. "
When the guests heard this, they were all very happy and followed Qin Nian to the strawberry picking garden.
Mrs. Li was watching in the shed, and was overjoyed to see Qin Nian leading eight guests over.
Each person was given a basket: "The strawberries in the shed are just ripe, bright red, and at their sweetest.
Pick some and bring them back for your family to taste.”
Mrs. Li's words are quite persuasive.
The guests came out more than half an hour later. On average, each person picked five pounds of strawberries, which cost one tael of silver, or eight taels for eight people.
When entering the picking shed, each person was charged two taels of silver, eight people had sixteen taels, a total of twenty taels of silver.
Including the eight ounces for food, the total was thirty-two ounces, which was a drop in the bucket for a jeweler.
Zhou Changzhou was very happy. He carried the stepped strawberries and took his guests back in a carriage.
Qin Nian said that he was the first customer in both the stew restaurant and the picking shed, so he was given two slaughtered cage chickens.
Zhou Changzhou was so happy that he promised Qin Nian before leaving that he would help her promote the product more.
This is exactly the result Qin Nian wanted.
After Zhou Changzhou left, the shed was in an uproar. Unexpectedly, the first customer spent so much money, so Jianshou could be considered to have had a good start.
In the afternoon, two more tables of guests came, each with western seats. They didn’t spend much and none of them went into the picking shed.
But everyone who comes here is a guest, and if they just eat there, then we only make money from the food. Qin Nian does not discriminate against any guest here.
In the first ten days, there were only two or three tables of guests every day, and the income was not that much.
The chefs and meat cutters working here all felt a little uneasy.
I’m worried that business will fail and the store will close, so it’s very difficult to find a job.
But they saw that Qin Nian was cheerful every day, as if he was very confident.
Ten days later, the number of guests suddenly increased and the restaurant was packed.
Geng Zhenhai and Geng Zhenjiang are no longer on the mountain. They and Sun Dalei use a large cart to fetch water from the nearby village every day.
As a result, the people who were blocking it came out.
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