Chapter 203
The father and daughter called the police, but after all, no valuables were missing from the house, so the police only recorded the confession as per the routine and would not really spend the effort to arrest anyone.
Fugui and the puppies did a great job this time, so the next day they were given a big bowl full of delicious food.
In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, Su Yuanzheng and Su Yu set up a lot of mousetraps on the top of the wall, which not only keep out mice, but also thieves.
The next day, Ali came to the store and found the door closed. Neither of her two cousins came. She opened the door and went in cursing. She saw that the rice had been fermented, but no one was grinding it.
There was no way she could do such physical work and would rather waste the rice.
Xiaoqiang didn't come until noon and took Ali to their home.
When he walked in and saw Daqiang with his right leg wrapped in a thick bandage, he asked in surprise, "What happened to you? Were you in a car accident?"
"Damn! He was bitten by the Su family's dog! He raised such a big dog quietly, and I never heard it barking! When I get better, I will throw rat poison at his house and poison the dog to death!"
Ali sneered, "Ha! You're not smart enough and you still refuse to accept it. It's all your own fault. You can't do anything well! You didn't tell me earlier that you weren't going to open the store today, and you made me stay up all night soaking rice for nothing."
Xiao Qiang said weakly on the side: "Why don't you make less tea, cousin? The taste will get worse and worse, and you won't be able to sell it if you make too much."
These words made the three of them worried. If they continued like this, they would have to close down sooner or later. Even if they sold the store at the market price, they would have lost 20,000 yuan in technology fees in just one month. Ali was also in great pain!
Same method, why does the taste seem wrong?
Su Miao had actually guessed the answer to this question that had been bothering the three siblings.
The fermentation time of rice noodles is actually not fixed. It needs to be adjusted according to the climate temperature. An expert can tell the degree of fermentation by looking at the color of the rice.
Ali obviously doesn't have such ability.
The original owner must have taught according to a fixed fermentation time, so the rice noodles made during those days tasted the same.
It was raining at that time, and the weather was relatively humid and cool, but in the following period of time, the temperature in Nanning rose sharply, and it became hotter day by day.
The hot weather accelerated the fermentation process, but Ali still followed the previous fermentation time, and the rice noodles became too sour.
However, this was just Su Miao's guess. The specific problem could only be fully seen by experts, and it was obvious that the original owner had no intention of passing on all his skills from the beginning.
A few days later, Ali's rice noodle shop reopened, and the price of each bowl of noodles was reduced by two cents. Some diners still went there because of the low price and the fact that the food was not bad.
The business in the store has stabilized, but after deducting costs, it is only a small profit, which is far from the previous expectations. I don’t know when I can make a profit.
Ali, who was soliciting customers outside the store, often looked at the long queues at Su Ji with envy. With such good business, why couldn't they give me some of the people?
The expression of envy and jealousy was so obvious that even the neighbors laughed privately and said that the noodle shop owner couldn't sell noodles and was jealous of other people's good business.
But after two days of laughing, everyone stopped laughing because they found that several customers who had eaten the noodles actually got conjunctivitis!
Su Miao and Ye Jiayin came back from school and stopped in front of the bulletin board to read the notice about preventing acute conjunctivitis. They turned around and saw Ali standing in the empty store staring at them.
Aunt Zhang had just come back from buying groceries. Seeing this, she quickly ran over with her basket and pulled the two girls away.
"Hurry up, hurry up! She's the first one to get pink eye. Don't look into her eyes, you'll get infected if you look into her eyes!"
Su Miao smiled and said, "Aunt Zhang, it's not that exaggerated. Acute conjunctivitis cannot be transmitted just by looking at it from a distance."
"Then how did those people who went to her shop to eat noodles get infected? Wasn't it just because they talked to her greedily and looked into her eyes!"
"It's possible they came into contact with the same set of tableware, or the table and chair rags, and she might not be the first one to get it. Infectious diseases are so widespread now, so we just need to pay attention to this."
"Anyway, both of you, don't get in touch with her. She's very evil."
"Pink eye" is coming in force, and no one dares to go out, which has affected the business of many restaurants.
However, Su Ji is still okay. Even if you don’t want to dine in, you can take it away. Although there are fewer people coming to drink porridge, the business of braised food and pork offal is not affected. Instead, they sell faster.
Since there is an infectious disease spreading, the store’s disinfection work must be done properly, and everyone wears masks so that diners can feel more at ease when they see it.
Many infected patients experience burning, stinging or foreign body sensation in their eyes, increased eye secretions, and when they wake up in the morning, "eye boogers" cover their entire eyes, making it impossible to open them, which is extremely uncomfortable.
This wave of "pink eye" has also spread to schools. There are always one or two students on each floor who are absent from class for treatment. The school doctor also reminds everyone on the radio every day to wash their hands frequently and check themselves more often. If there are patients at home, the items used must be isolated.
If you find yourself having symptoms, you must report to your class teacher and go home to recuperate to avoid infecting other students.
Schools are most afraid of this kind of mass epidemic. As a community with high population density and high contact, once an infectious disease occurs, it can easily cause an epidemic.
According to relevant regulations, as long as the proportion of students infected reaches a certain level, the entire school will be suspended, which will inevitably affect the school's normal teaching plan.
Fortunately, the relevant departments responded promptly and the citizens had a high awareness of prevention and control. The situation was stabilized in less than half a month, preventing the disease from spreading on a larger scale and the number of people infected with the disease dropped sharply.
After this wave of "pink eye", it did leave some positive impacts on everyone. When preventing infectious diseases, we developed good hygiene habits such as washing hands frequently with running water, not rubbing eyes, using one towel per person, and not sharing face-washing water with others. These habits have been well preserved.
Ali's noodle shop, which was rumored to be the "source of the plague", is now completely deserted and was hastily sold before the end of the month.
Ali lost 20,000 yuan in a month and a half, and almost all of her pension money was squandered by herself.
She never expected that the seemingly prosperous businessmen had to work so hard behind the scenes. She didn't want to open another store in her life, so she went back to act pitiful to her old sponsor.
It just so happened that the old sponsor had been having a lot of unpleasantness with his wife recently, and the old lover's obedience made him feel a lot more at ease, so he continued to support her, but ordered her not to appear in front of his wife and not to recognize his son.
Ali was originally looking for a long-term meal ticket. She was happy not having to take care of her son or serve her in-laws, and she honestly worked as a canary for several years.
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