Chapter 154: Not a Sister, But a Fiancee
Inside the tavern, everyone was temporarily cleaning up the debris in the backyard and carrying it out directly from the back door. The renovation of the front hall had not yet begun, and Song Jinsheng and Xu Qingye were arranging the tables and chairs in the front hall.
Suddenly catching a glimpse of the naive look of the scholar outside, Song Jinsheng couldn't help but smile.
"My Tang'er is quite likable." He turned to look at Xu Qingye, who still looked calm, "Don't you have any ideas?"
Xu Qingye said nothing and looked at him in confusion.
Seeing this, Song Jinsheng frowned and said, "Tang'er is your soon-to-be wife. Other men are so attentive to her, and you are not nervous? Xu Qingye, do you look down on our Tang'er?"
Xu Qingye suddenly remembered that Song Yuntang asked him yesterday whether he was nervous about the upcoming wedding date.
He was wondering why there was a look of disappointment in her eyes after she asked him the question. So, was she actually testing his attitude at that time?
Having never been with a woman before, his reaction was indeed a little slow in this regard.
Thinking of this, he handed the thing in his hand to Song Jinsheng.
"I'll go help Tang'er."
Looking at the thing in his hand, Song Jinsheng was almost laughing out of anger.
"Well, now I have to do all the work. I'm really shooting myself in the foot."
Song Yuntang was receiving the second customer. Just as he collected the money, he saw a hand reaching out from the side, holding a cup of sour plum soup and handing it to the scholar.
"Here is your sour plum soup. Take care."
The scholar originally wanted to say a few words to Song Yuntang, but after being interrupted by Xu Qingye, he felt embarrassed to stay any longer and left with the sour plum soup.
Song Yuntang looked at the man beside him.
"Aren't you helping your second brother in the house?"
"His business is almost done." Xu Qingye collected the money from the third customer, picked up a bamboo cup, filled it with sour plum soup and handed it to him. "It won't be too late to help him after you finish selling your sour plum soup."
Song Yuntang smiled and said nothing more.
After all, there are only two buckets of sour plum soup, which can only hold fifty cups at most.
There are a lot of people in the morning, so it doesn’t take long for the tickets to be sold out.
If we can't sell all of it, there won't be much left. I'll just share it with everyone when the time comes. Today was originally a test day.
Next, one of them collected the money while the other was responsible for filling the sour plum soup. They worked together quite well.
With Xu Qingye's joining, many women flocked to the stall, and soon the sour plum soup was gone.
"Sir, is the girl next to you your sister? She's so pretty." A woman who was buying sour plum soup asked with a smile.
Xu Qingye answered seriously, "She's not my sister, she's my fiancée."
"Oh, the young master actually has a fiancée." The woman looked in Song Yuntang's direction again, and quickly changed her attitude, "She looks just like that."
Xu Qingye looked at Song Yuntang, pursed his lips and said, "Everyone has their own preferences. I think she is very good like this."
Seeing this, the woman took the sour plum soup, glanced at Song Yuntang, and left.
Song Yuntang smiled as he watched the woman's receding back.
"I'm afraid she won't come in the future."
Xu Qingye shook his head calmly. "The food tastes good, so she will come again. But if her original intention is not for the sour plum soup, then what's the harm in not coming in the future?"
Song Yuntang nodded, "That makes sense."
The sour plum soup was sold out in a short while.
The two men packed up the table and moved to the backyard. They helped out in the tavern for a while, then went home with the bucket of sour plum soup.
After dinner, Song Yuntang sat at the table counting money.
"I made two hundred and thirty-five coins this morning. It seems pretty good to get this much profit from testing the waters."
Xu Qingye continued making lanterns on the side.
"We can prepare more tomorrow."
"That's for sure. Tomorrow is the moonlit night. After we clean up the debris in the backyard of the tavern, we should be able to use the stove tomorrow. If there is not enough sour plum soup, we can make it directly there to save the trouble of picking it up. But the mountain spring water heats up quickly, so I'm afraid we'll have to use a mule to carry it back and forth several times." Song Yuntang looked at him, "How many of these lanterns have you made?"
Xu Qingye looked at the place where the lanterns were placed and said, "There should be about forty or fifty of them."
"Is that enough?" Song Yuntang asked.
Xu Qingye said as he was working on his work, "After finishing the remaining ones, we should be able to make about 70 of them. It will be great if we can sell them all."
Just then, there was a knock on the gate.
"Miss Song, there is an order from the county."
Song Yuntang quickly got up and opened the door. "Which store is this order from?"
Mu Dong looked excited.
"The orders from the grocery store and Furongju were sent to us by Furongju. The grocery store ordered 200 cans of shampoo, and Furongju ordered 500 cans, for a total of 700 cans." Mu Dong said as he handed the silver to Song Yuntang. "Both stores paid in full this time. Here is 21 taels of silver. Miss Song, please count."
Song Yuntang had a smile on his face. It seemed that the two shops had tasted the sweetness.
Now only her long black hair is left.
I don’t know what’s going on with Wan Qingsi.
But after thinking about it, their selling price is high to begin with, and they ordered a quantity of 1,000 cans last time, so it might take some time to sell them all.
"Does anyone from Furongju have anything else to say?"
Mu Dong said, "They said that if nothing unexpected happens, they will place orders with us twice a month, 500 cans each time. The grocery store didn't ask Furongju to convey any message. I guess they should place an order with Furongju if they need it, and then ask about it during the next delivery."
Song Yuntang nodded, "I understand. When the shampoo on the farm is ready, I will have to trouble you and my second brother to go to the county town."
By then, we should be able to go there by our own mule cart, thus saving the expense of hiring a horse carriage.
Come to think of it, this mule was worth buying.
…
In the evening, Song Yuntang went to the tavern. In addition to checking the progress of the renovations, he also informed Song Jinsheng of the order from the county and asked him to keep a close eye on the people on the farm.
The tiles on the roof of the tavern have been taken off and stacked in the backyard, and the beams have also been removed. Starting tomorrow, we can build the stairs and add another floor.
Song Jinsheng said that at that time he might transfer a few more people from the farm.
After hearing this, Song Yuntang hurriedly said, "Second brother, I'm afraid we have to leave a few people on the farm. There's an order from the county for 700 cans of shampoo."
Song Jinsheng was stunned.
"Why at this critical moment?"
The repair of the tavern cannot be delayed. Fourteen taels of silver for half a year is equivalent to more than two taels a month, which means more than seventy cents a day.
Plus the cost of selling and repairing the shop.
If you calculate it carefully, it is not a small amount.
Unfortunately, the orders from the county town cannot be delayed either.
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