Chapter 66 Chapter 66 These people all have strong spending power...
When Huang Xiuhua arrived at their new house, Zhao Ruyue had just finished taking a shower, and it was Ning Shaoming's turn to go in and take a shower.
When the weather gets warmer, the bath temperature doesn't need to be too high, and less hot water is needed. The electric water heater is enough for the family of four to take a bath once.
The two children had washed their hair earlier than them and were sitting at the door drying their hair in the evening breeze.
"Xiaoqiu, where is your father?" Huang Xiuhua asked.
Ning Shiqiu glanced inside: "My dad is taking a shower, mom, my grandma is here."
Zhao Ruyue heard him calling her and came out.
Seeing that Huang Xiuhua looked unhappy, he asked in confusion: "Mom, do you have something to talk to us about?"
If it were her son, Huang Xiuhua would have definitely scolded him.
But it was her daughter-in-law who came out. Facing her, Huang Xiuhua knew that she couldn't treat her the same way she treated her son, because this daughter-in-law's family was not easy to mess with.
She softened her expression and continued, "I heard from Grandpa Xiaoqiu that you guys cooked and ate here today?"
Ning Shiqiu also realized at this time that grandma was here to cause trouble. He often saw grandma scolding his aunt. Recently, his aunt had become tough and the situation escalated into a quarrel between the two of them.
He was worried that his mother would also be scolded by grandma, so he quickly interrupted: "Grandma, can't we barbecue outside the door?"
Ning Shiqiu didn't mention that his father also used the kitchen to steam buns, he only mentioned the barbecue.
"I'm sorry, I asked my parents to make it for me. I didn't know that we couldn't cook in our new home yet. It's my fault, I was too greedy." Ning Shiqiu said, raising his head and looking at Huang Xiuhua pitifully, as if he was about to cry.
Huang Xiuhua was so heartbroken when she saw how pitiful they looked that she didn't even bother to lecture her third son and his wife.
He hugged his precious grandson and said repeatedly, "It's okay, it's not a serious matter. It's normal for you to not know anything as a child. You should blame your parents and your grandfather. Three adults of such old age still don't know the seriousness of the matter."
She was so busy coaxing her grandson that she completely forgot about Zhao Ruyue.
Zhao Ruyue ignored her and picked up her daughter and sat at the door, going to a place with stronger wind to dry her hair.
Ning Shaoming takes a quick shower. After getting his body wet, he washes from head to toe with a bar of soap and rinses himself off. He comes out in a few minutes.
When he came out, he just heard his mother saying, "Xiao Qiu, don't feel bad. It's really not your fault. In a few days, I'll ask your parents to go to the Taoist priest and the witch and have them chant sutras to ward off the evil spirit."
Ning Shaoming was puzzled: "What evil?"
Huang Xiuhua's mood had calmed down by now. Although she was still a little angry when she saw him, her tone was calm.
But when she talked to Ning Shaoming, her words were always filled with accusations: "You adults are ignorant. You haven't invited relatives and friends to have a warm-house wine yet, but you're already starting a fire in the new house. You have to go to the Taoist priest and the witch to ward off evil spirits in a few days, otherwise how can you run this store in the future?"
Huang Xiuhua thought that she was right this time and that things would develop the same as before. She just needed to say a few words and her son and daughter-in-law would follow suit.
But after what happened last time, Ning Shaoming really didn't like this kind of thing.
When he heard that they were going again, he couldn't help but feel annoyed: "If you want to go, go by yourself. We won't go."
As soon as these words came out, Huang Xiuhua, who had been coaxed into calming down by Ning Shiqiu, exploded: "What did you say?"
Ning Shaoming wiped his dripping hair and answered clearly: "I said we won't go."
He didn't believe these things from the bottom of his heart. He just couldn't get over it with his mother before, so he compromised in order to stop her from nagging him all the time.
What's wrong with them starting the fire in their new home ahead of time?
It’s not even the opening day yet, so what if his kids are selling things in advance?
If the store had to be opened on a chosen day, how come his child was able to sell things so easily?
So God, please don’t let them sell their stuff?
Things are selling so well today, which shows that choosing a day is not that important.
Ning Shaoming later came to his senses about the fact that Huang Xiuhua insisted that they go find a Taoist priest and a fortune teller.
She insisted on asking them to find someone to calculate the date. Superstition was only one of the reasons. In fact, it was more likely that she wanted to interfere in his family affairs.
They separated, but she still wanted to find something to demonstrate her presence and control over them, her children.
After all, in his mother's eyes, she couldn't control her eldest brother at all. Her second brother was a teacher and well-educated, and she felt that she was uneducated and couldn't control him.
After looking around, he is the one who is best at handling it.
Just from last year to this year, in just over a year, Ning Shaoming has seen a lot of things clearly.
The decision to open a store and do business was made by him and his wife.
From making the decision to building the house, decorating it, and now preparing to open the store, his mother never came to help.
Since she didn't interfere from the beginning, now all the preliminary preparations have been done, and they are just waiting to open the store. It is impossible for her to interfere and be the boss of them!
Now she is only involved in the opening time of the store and the start of cooking in the new house. What about the future?
If business is good, will she assign more people to the store? Will you ask him to help his second brother? Subsidize his elder brother?
If business is not good, do we have to ask them to give money to Taoist priests and fortune tellers?
Ning Shaoming had every reason to believe that those were things she could do.
Huang Xiuhua acted like the head of the family and said firmly, "No, you must go! Otherwise..."
Ning Shaoming didn't bother to listen to the rest of the conversation and interrupted directly: "No!"
"You, you, you..." Huang Xiuhua pointed at him, "I'm doing this for your own good!"
Ning Shaoming picked up his son and said, "No need."
Ning Shaoming: "I am your biological mother, how could I harm you?"
"I know you won't hurt me, but I know I don't want to go either."
Huang Xiuhua was heartbroken, but she kept saying the same few words: I won't harm you, I have to do this, I'm doing this for your own good...
The words aren't exactly the same, but the meaning is the same.
Ning Shaoming's ears were almost callused from listening to her. In the end, he stopped arguing with her and just said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left.
He has to get up early tomorrow morning to bring back the sheep, slaughter it and clean it up in time for lunch. He has no time to listen to his mother repeating those meaningless words here.
After Huang Xiuhua returned home, she was so angry that she couldn't sleep at night. She secretly swore in her heart that she would never go to the third brother's new house to help tomorrow.
Even if they invited her to dinner, she would never go!
Ning Shaoming didn't care what she thought. He got up in the morning to bring the sheep back. He and a few friends cleaned the sheep and started to make soup.
Today he made mutton offal soup. He cleaned the sheep's head and hooves and boiled them together with the sheep bones to make soup.
Cook two large pots of soup, one for lunch and one for the evening.
Other parts of the sheep are cut, processed and pickled, and used to make other dishes.
I'm going to treat you to two meals today, lunch and dinner, but dinner is the main meal.
The lunch is relatively simple, mainly to provide a meal for relatives and friends who come to help.
In fact, most of the people who came to help when the house was built before were their relatives and friends, and this time Wen Jujiu and his people also came to help.
Ning Shaoming arranged fried rice noodles, or fried rice noodles, for lunch.
Another reason is that the weather is hot now, and most of the rice noodles he used today are freshly made every day by local workshops in the town.
Only a small portion uses dry rice noodles.
In this weather, if you don't refrigerate the fresh rice noodles you buy, they will go stale by the evening. People in this town are used to eating fresh rice noodles and may be picky about this.
The rented large pot was scrubbed clean with hot water and dried.
The pan is hot and the oil is cold. The sliced and marinated mutton is put into the pan, making a sizzling sound.
Slice the mutton very thinly, stir-fry for a while until it changes color, then pour in the rice noodles and stir-fry.
The big pot is burned on a wood stove and the aroma is strong.
Ning Shaoming stir-fried the food a few times with a large spatula, and the aroma of meat mixed with carbohydrates began to spread from the pot.
"It smells so good!" A brother squatting next to him to help light the fire couldn't help swallowing his saliva, "He is worthy of being a chef who learned in the hotel kitchen. His cooking skills are amazing!"
Ning Shaoming said modestly: "I have only learned from you for a few days, I am not a great chef. Fresh rice noodles are already cooked, so this will be ready soon. If you want to eat, you can go get a bowl now, and I will serve you some first."
"That's great. I'll try it for them first." The brother washed his hands and went to get the bowl.
He brought a small bowl over, and Ning Shaoming scooped half of the food into the bowl before he finished saying, "It's just out of the pot, be careful of the heat."
The brother was so scalded that he ate without even raising his head, and quickly ate one third of the food.
Only after he finished all the fried rice noodles in the bowl did he look up and let out a long sigh of relief.
He put down his chopsticks and gave Ning Shaoming a thumbs up: "Delicious! Your cooking skills are amazing! The fried rice noodles you made should be the same as the fried river noodles sold in the county town, right? I've eaten there before, and I think yours tastes better than that one."
Ning Shaoming took the opportunity to ask, "What do you think of me selling this in town?"
The brother said exaggeratedly: "If you sell it, I will definitely come to support you every day in the future!"
Ning Shaoming was very happy to hear this. There is no chef who doesn't want the food he cooks to be popular.
But Ning Shaoming didn't take all his words seriously. His brothers had families to support, so how could they go out to buy food every day?
But he is also very happy if his friends can come once or twice occasionally.
The first pot of fried mutton noodles came out of the pot, and all of it was scooped onto a large tray and brought to the front of the store.
There are tables and chairs ready-made there, so there is no need to set up a large round table for home use.
After putting down the fried mutton noodles, Ning Shaoming went back and brought a pot of mutton soup to the store: "Everyone, eat first if you're hungry. If the fried noodles are too dry, you can have some mutton soup. Don't hesitate!"
Relatives and friends joked, "We never know how to be polite when we come to your place. Chef, please go back to the kitchen and continue cooking, or we will have to eat your pot together."
After saying this, they all burst into laughter at the same time.
Ning Shaoming originally estimated the number of people and planned to make three large trays of fried noodles, namely, fried noodles with mutton, fried noodles with pork, and fried dry rice noodles with pork offal.
Unexpectedly, whether people have eaten it in the county town or not, they all have a high acceptance of fried rice noodles and eat much more than before.
Ning Shaoming asked his son to buy some fresh rice noodles quickly and made two large trays to be enough.
During the process, a student who had bought a hot dog from their house yesterday even came over to see if the door was open.
Ning Shiqiu told them yesterday that he had something going on at home today and would only open for business on Sunday.
But those who didn’t buy hot dogs yesterday have been missing them since they couldn’t eat them.
Seeing so many people eating here, they thought the restaurant was really open, so several people ran in excitedly and asked how much each serving cost, causing a small misunderstanding.
However, Zhao Ruyue, who was in charge of entertaining relatives and friends, was not stingy with the food and gave each of them a portion to try.
These are all potential customers with strong purchasing power.
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