Li Yutong smiled and stopped talking.

On the first day of opening, not only Yang Xiaohui was so tired that she couldn't straighten her back, but everyone else was also very tired.

Finally, the last two tables of guests left. Zhao Xueyan went to collect the dishes and chopsticks, then sat down on the stool, unable to get up. "Take a break, take a break."

Liu Lanxiang felt that her brain was not enough this morning. She didn't even dare to think about how much money was in the drawer.

He just locked the padlock with a click and tied the key securely to his wrist with a red rope.

"Are you all hungry? You can choose between porridge and buns." Mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying came over and said to her daughters-in-law.

"Okay, Mom." Yang Xiaohui had been craving for food for a long time. She immediately dropped the unwashed bowl in the basin and went to get some buns from the steamer in front of her to eat. She also scooped herself a bowl of eight-treasure porridge with the most ingredients.

The porridge they cook is made with red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, sesame seeds, red beans, etc. It is thick and delicious.

When there were only a few bowls left, Chen Xiaoying collected the stainless steel bucket and kept it for her family to drink.

The whole family sat at the table. Li Yutong took the initiative to take care of Li Yumeng. She wrapped a towel around her chest and let her drink the porridge with a spoon by herself.

Li Yutong is five years old and will be able to go to primary school tomorrow.

"I didn't expect it would be so difficult to open a breakfast shop. I didn't do anything but exchange money for people. Sometimes there were so many people that my brain wasn't enough." Liu Lanxiang couldn't help herself.

Li Hongwei was also very happy today. Not only was the store full of people, but many people also bought food to take home. He owns half of the store, so how could he not be happy? "Me too. There are too many people and I can't remember them all. Sometimes I have to give them the buns even though I've already given them to others."

His mother Chen Xiaoying also nodded: "There are too many people, that's how it is. I'm just not used to it now. Once I get used to selling, it will be easy to remember what they look like and I won't make the wrong sales."

It was the same when she first started her business. She couldn't recognize other people's faces. But after seeing more people, she could recognize people. She knew what this person wanted, what that person wanted, how much to charge this person, and how much to charge that person.

Zhao Xueyan and Yang Xiaohui were both very happy. They thought that if the breakfast shop made money, they would certainly benefit from it.

After dinner, we washed all the dishes and put the tables, chairs and benches away, and it was noon.

The rice sold in the store at noon is different from that sold in other places. It is called barbecue rice.

Li Yutong prepared various seasonings in advance, marinated the chicken, pork, etc., coated them with starch and fried them, then chopped them into cubes, and served them with two stir-fried dishes, such as tomato and egg, spicy and sour potato shreds, or cabbage and tofu, etc., and sold them for one dollar and fifty cents, or two dollars per serving.

There are many young people coming to eat, while older people basically just eat the prepared dumplings or wontons.

No matter how many guests there are, mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying and her three daughters-in-law Liu Lanxiang, Zhao Xueyan, and Yang Xiaohui can always handle it.

All day long, until dark when it closes.

They all returned to the house that Li Hongwei and his wife had just bought, and Chen Xiaoying held a meeting for them.

"Hongwei, tell me, do you and Lanxiang want to continue farming, or stay here and open a shop?"

"Xiaohui, what do you think?"

Li Hongwei was a little hesitant and wanted to go back to farming. He found that doing business was indeed easier than farming and he could earn more money. However, he was a farmer and was used to farming. He felt lost and uneasy away from the land.

Liu Lanxiang only looked at Li Hongwei. She didn't want to farm. It would be much better to stay in the county and open a shop. It would be less tiring and she could earn more. But if she stayed here, who would cook and wash clothes for her at home?

The couple didn't speak.

Yang Xiaohui said, "Mom, I do want to stay, but it's too tiring for me to wash the dishes alone. Can I take turns with my third sister-in-law?"

Zhao Xueyan didn't want to wash dishes either, but it was not her turn to be picky about the work in the shop, so she went to see her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying.

Both of them are daughters-in-law, one is the third daughter-in-law, the other is the fourth daughter-in-law. She doesn't want to favor either one, but she said to the fourth daughter-in-law Yang Xiaohui: "Xiao Meng is only five years old, and you let her stay in the store?"

A five-year-old child is old enough to run around in the village, squat in the sand pit with his friends, dig holes and build houses. But it would take him a long time to be trapped in this shop with Yang Xiaohui all day long.

"What can I do? I also want to make some money," said Yang Xiaohui.

Chen Xiaoying said: "It's not that I don't want to call you, it's just that the child is still young and needs your care."

Don't think she can't see that Yang Xiaohui had to come to help, in fact, she just wanted to see how much money she could earn in a day so that she could make money from her.

In the past, she was able to take away the old man's little money, but she had cheated him out of it with all kinds of excuses.

Either Xiao Meng was sick, or they wanted to enroll her in a preschool class and the school asked them to pay the tuition in advance, and so on, all kinds of reasons.

The old man was cruel, but Yang Xiaohui was able to cry and make a fuss, and kept scolding the fourth brother for being a coward who couldn't make money or support the family. She asked how she had been blind to marry him in the first place, and now that she had fallen into this fire pit and couldn't survive.

In order to keep his ears quiet, old man Li Pingwang would also give some secretly.

Yang Xiaohui felt that it was relatively easy for her to coax the couple into giving her some money.

Yang Xiaohui thought for a moment and said, "There are preschools in the county town. Why not give Xiaomeng some tuition? She goes to school there and I help out here?"

"How much is the tuition? Do you have it?" Chen Xiaoying asked her.

Yang Xiaohui was stumped by the question. In front of her eldest sister-in-law Liu Lanxiang and third sister-in-law Zhao Xueyan, she certainly didn't dare to say that she wanted her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying to pay for her child's tuition.

"Think it over carefully first. If this store is successfully opened in the future, there will be more than one. It will still be in time for you to come and do business then." Chen Xiaoying also wanted to buy a house in the county town.

However, the third son’s house in the village has not been built yet, and the money that was promised to subsidize the other two families has not yet been provided.

According to her idea, after the breakfast shop is opened, they can open other places.

The county town has a large population, and the flow of people here is the largest, but they actually have other places they like, such as near the county hospital and railway station, which also have a large flow of people and small restaurants doing good business.

Yang Xiaohui's child was still young, so she couldn't let him go. She could only nod gloomily: "Okay, but, Mom, if you open a shop again in the future, you must ask me to work there. I will definitely work hard for you."

She will try to get her mother-in-law to hand over the store to her. Then, she can hire two people and won't have to do anything and can happily be the boss.

Mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying doesn't know that the fourth daughter-in-law Yang Xiaohui thinks this way. She just thinks that seeing the store making money, Yang Xiaohui, who is too lazy to do anything all day and sleeps until lunch, also plans to make progress.

Zhao Xueyan had no choice: "Mom, I'll work here. That's right, we still have to hire someone. I can't clean the tables and wash the dishes by myself."

I'm so tired.

"Where is Lanxiang? What do you want to do?" Chen Xiaoying asked the eldest son's wife Liu Lanxiang.

Liu Lanxiang just looked at her boss Li Hongwei.

Li Hongwei said, "I think we have to spend a lot of money to buy vegetables every day. Why don't we go home and grow some crops? In addition to growing crops, we can also grow some vegetables and save some money on buying vegetables."

He still didn't want to stay in the county town. He wasn't used to it at all. He was busy from morning to night all day and didn't even have time to smoke a cigarette. He was trapped in the store and felt bored.

Liu Lanxiang was a little disappointed, but when she thought about it, growing vegetables at home would save her some costs, so she was willing to do it: "Okay, Mom, let's go back and grow vegetables."

After the inventory was completed, only the mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying and the third son's wife Zhao Xueyan were left, and the store could no longer operate.

We really need to hire two more people.