Early in the morning, as soon as Liu Mingxiang and her sister pushed the cart to the entrance of the alley, they saw Zhou Cuilan already there.
Zhou Cuilan changed her equipment and set up a cart, which gave off a charming aroma of stewed food. There were several people standing in front of the stall.
Did she change from selling tea eggs to selling braised eggs?
The two sisters quickly set up their stall. Eggs are the best seller in the morning, and they don't want Zhou Cuilan to steal their business.
"Tea eggs, tea eggs, tea eggs for 9 cents each."
Although the Liu Mingxiang sisters were shouting very hard, people who got up early to go to work were still attracted by the aroma of the braised eggs.
"Aunt Zhou, why are you selling braised eggs and braised dishes?" asked an old customer.
Zhou Cuilan said loudly: "I'm selling tea eggs to learn from others, so I'm selling braised food instead. Would you like to try a braised egg?"
"Come on, this braised lotus root looks quite tasty, but there's nothing to put it in."
"It's okay." Zhou Cuilan pulled out a long skewer from the bamboo tube. "Braised lotus roots are two cents each. If you want to buy some, just put them on the skewer. You can also put braised eggs on it and eat them with the skewer. It won't get your hands dirty."
She cut the lotus root very thickly, one piece was as wide as a thumb.
"Okay, then give me two pieces of braised lotus roots and one braised egg."
Zhou Cuilan originally thought that her stewed dishes would sell better after get off work, but she didn't expect them to sell better in the morning.
Especially the lotus root, mutton and dried tofu, people buy them together with braised eggs.
Without the opening soup giveaway, there were fewer people at noon today than yesterday, but the business was still not bad.
A customer who doesn't live here and comes to eat dumplings while on business wants to buy some raw dumplings to take home for his family after eating, but he doesn't have a lunch box for dumplings and the store doesn't provide them, so he has to give up with regret.
However, this gave Li Shuping the idea of ordering a batch of freshly made boxes.
The box can be made of paper or plastic, but the plastic products are more expensive.
Moreover, factories producing paper boxes and plastic products would not accept such a small order for her store.
So she was thinking, should she make a small-grid wooden box, not a disposable one? If she wanted to use the box in the store, she would have to pay a deposit of fifty cents or one yuan, and she would get the deposit back when she returned the box.
Li Shuping is a person of action. After finishing her work at noon, she went to the end of the street to find an old carpenter who opened a carpentry shop with his son after retirement to do a custom job.
The old carpenter listened to her idea while smoking a leaf cigarette and exhaled a puff of smoke. "It can be done. The labor and materials are one dollar each, and half of it is a deposit."
"Okay, I'll make two for you first."
Li Shuping paid a deposit of RMB 10.
There were a little more people in the store in the evening than last night, and many of them were old customers bringing in new customers.
Qin Ye came back earlier than yesterday, at 4 o'clock.
At 4:30, the store reached the peak of class time, and Lin Xiaoyu, who was reading in the backyard, came to help.
At the entrance of Lihua Alley, Liu Mingxiang looked at the only customer at the stall, then looked at the people queuing across the street to buy Zhou Cuilan's braised dishes, and she lost her composure completely.
She had vowed yesterday that Li Shuping's dumpling shop might not do well in its opening business and it would not affect her, but she never thought that she would be slapped in the face so quickly.
Liu Mingli frowned, "Why are there so few customers today? If we can't sell all the dumplings, they will go bad overnight."
Liu Mingxiang was very anxious. It was already half past eight and there were still few customers. There would be even fewer customers at seven o'clock.
"We push our products outside the furniture factory and sell them. The furniture factory is working overtime to rush the goods and doesn't get off work until after 8pm every day."
"Workers are tired and hungry after get off work at this time. If they see dumplings being sold at a dumpling stall, they will definitely buy some."
So, as soon as the customers who had finished eating their dumplings at the stall left, the two sisters urgently changed seats.
I have to say that Liu Mingxiang is quite smart, but there are many people with the same brains as her.
When they arrived at the furniture factory, there were two stalls outside, one selling spicy soup and the other selling hand-rolled noodles.
As soon as eight o'clock arrived, workers from the furniture factory came in one after another and instantly filled up the stall.
After a hard day's work, people are tired and hungry. Many of them can't even hold on until they get home for a midnight snack and all want to have a fresh, hot meal.
Sister Liu Mingxiang was busy all the time, with smiles on their faces.
By the time we finished selling and closed the stall, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.
There was no one on the road at that time, and halfway through their journey, the two sisters were robbed at knifepoint by two thugs.
All the money on her was robbed, even the silver ring that Liu Mingli bought for her wedding was taken away.
Fortunately, the man only wanted money and did not rape or hurt anyone, so the two people who were scared to death returned home safely.
"Creaky." At around nine o'clock in the evening, Qin Ye pushed open the door and returned home. The room was dark. He didn't turn on the light, but groped his way to his bed and lay down.
"Ye Gou heard that you found a job?" Qin Dashan's voice rang out in the darkness.
Qin Ye froze and suddenly became nervous.
There are so many big mouths in Courtyard 23, and he knows that it’s only a matter of time before he can reveal the fact that he works in Aunt Li’s store.
It seemed that Qin Dashan knew about this store after it had only been open for two days.
"It's the Li's Dumpling House on the top of Changning Street, right?"
"What do you want to do?" Qin Ye sat up.
"Hehe..." Qin Dashan laughed, "I don't want to do anything. As long as I drink every day, I won't do anything."
Qin Ye clenched his fists, "Okay, drink. I'll let you drink every day from now on! But don't blame me if you die from drinking."
"This is your good son, don't worry, your father is a wine immortal, he can't die from drinking."
The next day before going to work, Qin Ye put seventy cents on Qin Dashan's bedside, just enough for him to buy a bottle of wine.
"Aunt Li, this is for you." As soon as he arrived at the store, Qin Ye handed Li Shuping the refrigerator ticket he got from Cui Yushu last night.
"What is this?" Li Shuping wiped the water off her hands, took the ticket and looked at it, her eyes suddenly widened.
"Fridge tickets!"
"This is the fridge ticket, where did you get it from?"
This refrigerator ticket is very difficult to get. Where did he, a kid, get it?
Qin Ye was afraid that Aunt Li would think the worst and suspect that he had obtained the money through illegal means, so he told the truth.
"I helped a student from No. 1 Middle School some time ago. His father works in the Commercial Bureau, so I asked him to get me a refrigerator ticket."
This child took his words to heart.
Li Shuping looked at Qin Ye with a touched expression, "You can't buy this refrigerator ticket outside. It's very expensive. Aunt Li will buy it from you."
She doesn't take advantage of other people's children for nothing.
"No, this refrigerator ticket is free."
Li Shuping said angrily, "You didn't spend any money, but Aunt Li won't take advantage of you for nothing. So, Aunt Li won't give you too much. Five yuan will be fine, right?"
If I were to sell this refrigerator ticket, it would cost at least two hundred yuan.
Qin Ye insisted on not taking it, but Li Shuping insisted on giving it to him.
In the end, Qin Ye said to leave the money with her and he could come to her for it if he needed it in the future, so she gave up.
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