Chapter 55: Edamame Served [VIP]
After being examined and treated by the doctors, Maizi was now lying weakly in bed, unable to move.
Chen Yao tore the hot buns into small pieces and fed them to her, then wiped her tears with her sleeve: "But where do you feel uncomfortable?"
Chen Yao lifted the quilt and checked Maizi's abdomen. The entire abdominal cavity was wrapped in bandages and was swollen like a ball.
Maizi was only twelve years old. After her parents died, she was lucky enough to survive because of the care of her uncles and aunts in Wanhe Township and the company of Goudan.
She was able to be picked up from the quarry by Sister A Yao, come to the pharmacy for treatment, and eat hot buns. She thanked everyone from the bottom of her heart and said that she would repay everyone when she recovered.
Maizi swallowed the bun in his mouth with a sob, and refused to eat any more after eating half of it.
Chen Yao put the buns aside temporarily, fearing that she would choke, and fed her water with a spoon, taking a mouthful of bun and a sip of hot water. She coaxed Maizi to finish both buns before letting her have a good rest.
Huang Dongsheng came in hurriedly carrying a load on his shoulder, but before he could even utter a word, he was pushed out of the room by his cousin.
"Cousin, how is Maizi?" Huang Dongsheng took out a bag of hot chestnuts and the remaining copper coins from his arms and handed them to Chen Yao.
The brother and sister sat on the porch, talking in low voices and peeling chestnuts.
Maizi needs to rest for half a month, and then we will take her back to the village after her condition stabilizes.
"Sister, do we go back to our village or Wanhe Township?" Grandma Maizi and the others didn't know about the death caused by the quarry collapse.
"I asked Maizi, she wants to go back to Wanhe Township." Chen Yao opened the lid of the medicine cup and poured the boiled medicine into the bowl. Not long after, the medicine boy in the front yard came to get it.
Huang Dongsheng handed the peeled chestnuts to his cousin and said, "It would be nice to go back and be with my family."
Chen Yao looked at her cousin's calm demeanor and glanced at the empty basket beside him. "Why are you back so soon? Are all the edamame sold out?"
Huang Dongsheng brought a stool and walked up to his cousin with a smile, explaining everything that had happened in detail.
"This Chef Ma is really looking at Lu Dongbin through the crack of the door. He dares to look down on you. You are the one who makes the decisions about our business." Chen Yao chewed the chestnut fiercely. "Cousin, do you have any ideas about the remaining edamame at home?"
Huang Dongsheng knew his cousin would be on his side and defend him, so he was very happy. "Not many people are shopping in the East Market these days. I want to go to the back alleys of the wealthy families and sell my wares."
Chen Yao pondered for a moment and nodded, it was okay not to sell it to the restaurant.
But she was a little worried about selling it from door to door. Not to mention whether the patrol officers would allow it, she was also afraid that the rich people would make things difficult for him.
Huang Dongsheng thought about it and realized that Manager Fang was not easy to get along with. "Then I will ask Officer Liu tomorrow. If he allows, I will try my luck. But be careful."
Chen Yao sat on the bench and looked up at the sky. Then he suddenly said, "Cousin, why don't you rent a shop? Then you can sell agricultural and sideline products in the city and have a place to stay."
Huang Dongsheng listened carefully, but he didn't understand some of the words his cousin said, and rubbed his palms shyly.
"Sister, I've actually inquired about the shops on the street. The ones with better locations charge one or two taels of silver per month, while the ones that are a little more remote charge two or three hundred wen. And they all require three months' rent in advance."
After bringing my father home, my family is now penniless and owes my eldest and second aunts a total of half a tael of silver.
After a few days, he would deliver the tofu to the cooperating shop and receive the remaining half tael of silver to repay the money.
"There are many shops vacant at the end of the year. If you see a suitable one, you can rent it first. Don't worry about the money, we can lend it to you." Chen Yao told Huang Dongsheng her thoughts while chewing chestnuts, and she also understood what he was worried about.
Now Tian Baolai is out collecting dry goods, her father can go hunting in the mountains, and the family grinds tofu, bean curd sheets, bean sprouts, and after the spring, they also have edamame, soybean paste and other agricultural products.
With so many things, it would be impossible for Huang Dongsheng to carry them all to the city to sell them by himself.
"Sister, I can carry it." Huang Dongsheng sat next to her and stretched out his arms to show his strong arms.
Chen Yao slapped him with her hand and said, "Stop making trouble. Listen to me first. If we open a supply and marketing cooperative, we can not only sell our own products, but also help the vendors in the East Market."
"Sister, what do you mean? We want to buy low and sell high?"
"No, we sell our containers. The vendors rent our containers and we sell the goods on their behalf. But you have to ensure the quality of the goods and not damage the reputation of our shop."
After Chen Yao said this, Huang Dongsheng's mind became clear as if it were a mirror.
In this way, their shop is like a small East Market, and can attract more customers to buy.
The vendors also saved money on going into the city and the East Market, but the rental of the container must not be expensive.
Huang Dongsheng is a small vendor himself, so he can naturally put himself in the shoes of others and think about all aspects.
The more he thought about it, the more his mouth corners turned up, and his heart became more excited.
, good location.
Huang Dongsheng's eyes lit up again and again, full of hatred.
"Sister, if this shop makes money in the future, we'll split it in half."
Huang Dongsheng's heart was pounding. Not only did he have to rent a shop, but he also had to learn math from now on and never do things half-heartedly again.
After returning, he asked Wenying how to keep the daily accounts so that if he hired a clerk in the future, he would not be afraid that the clerk would cheat him behind his back.
"Okay." On the day of the winter solstice, Chen Yao knew that Huang Dongsheng dared to think and act and had the courage to take risks.
The brother and sister talked in detail in the corridor about opening a supply and marketing cooperative.
Until she heard Maizi's soft cries coming from inside the house, Chen Yao counted out the wages of each family and gave them to Huang Dongsheng, then urged him to hurry back to the village.
As soon as Huang Dongsheng left, Chen Yao went into the house to help Maizi get up and go to the toilet.
At the same time, Chef Ma searched around the East Market but couldn't find Huang Dongsheng, so he had to leave angrily.
He kept reminding himself in his heart that other than Zhiweilou, other restaurants would definitely not buy these edamame for six cents.
However, the opposite happened.
The next day, something very exciting happened in the city.
After Manager Fang bought Huang Dongsheng's edamame, he urged his wife to make a pair of satin gloves that day, which won him praise and rewards from the old scholar.
The old scholar was so happy that he sent out invitations wearing gloves and that night he hosted a banquet at home to show off to his close friends.
After the old scholar drank two taels of yellow soup, he was inspired to write a poem for the fried edamame and shrimp.
It was also after this banquet that Qingyudou was given the elegant name of "clear and innocent" by these wealthy and "distinguished" people.
Since then, "literati often eat green jade beans, which represents their own innocence and no stain, and their future career will be smooth and successful!"
If a scholar did not have this green jade bean on his table, he would be looked down upon, and this became a topic of conversation among everyone in the city after dinner.
After the banquet, Manager Fang was secretly given money by managers from other mansions, who asked him where the green jade beans came from.
The heavy silver falls on your hand, and even the hardest clam shell can spit out the pearl inside.
The next day, when Huang Dongsheng came to the East Market again with edamame on his shoulder, he felt sad when he learned from the officer Liu that he was not allowed to carry the load and sell them from street to street.
But it didn't take long for him to feel sad, as he was hit by a pie that fell from the sky and was dizzy.
Three managers who claimed to be of high status were competing in front of his stall to buy his edamame at high prices. If Liu Chuang had not come to maintain order, I am afraid the three of them would have started fighting.
It seemed that he was about to offend the three managers.
Huang Dongsheng immediately explained to everyone that he still had some green jade beans at home. He brought less today and would bring more tomorrow.
The three managers were then willing to divide the basket of edamame equally, and each of them got two pounds and left.
Huang Dongsheng looked at the three taels of silver in his hand, his lips trembling from the cold. "Officer Liu, it's okay for me to take this money."
Liu Chuang looked at Huang Dongsheng's honest appearance and patted him on the shoulder. "Take it, it's okay."
This is their usual style.
Liu Chuang said it was okay, so Huang Dongsheng immediately stuffed the silver into his pocket and hid it, then stayed in the East Market for a while.
I didn't expect that Chef Ma would be here.
Chef Ma stood in front of the stall, took a look at Huang Dongsheng's unsold tofu and dried bean curd sheets, and sneered: "Brother Dongsheng, it's so cold, why don't you go to Zhiweilou and sit down?"
Chef Ma originally thought that Huang Dongsheng would reject him, after all, the deal was not concluded yesterday.
Who would have thought that Huang Dongsheng not only did not refuse, but instead quickly packed up his stall, picked up the load and followed behind him.
After entering Zhiwei Restaurant, before Chef Ma could give Huang Dongsheng a chance to show off his prowess, his apprentice hurriedly dragged him into the kitchen. "Master, the guests in the private room are all asking if we can replace the edamame scrambled eggs we sell with edamame and fried shrimp?"
"Change it, why not change it?" Chef Ma stroked his own small teapot. Huang Dongsheng was willing to come with him, so he must be willing to sell it at a low price.
"Master, we are out of edamame."
Without waiting for Chef Ma to say anything, Manager Ren, who had just returned from outside, saw Huang Dongsheng standing in the corridor and happily pulled him to the private room in the building.
This brother and sister are really his gods of wealth.
Huang Dongsheng also came to find out why all those wealthy families were scrambling to buy his edamame overnight.
So when the shopkeeper Ren told the story of the literati writing poems for edamame and looking down on each other for not eating edamame, he talked about it.
Huang Dongsheng felt that these people were really sick.
"When Madam Shen recommended this green jade bean to me, I dismissed it. Now it seems that I was really short-sighted."
Shopkeeper Ren personally poured tea for Huang Dongsheng and treated him very politely: "Please go back and tell Madam Shen that I am willing to buy all the green jade beans no matter how much they cost."
After the waiter waiting outside the door overheard this, he immediately reported it to the kitchen.
Chef Ma raised the teapot in his hand, and the tea splashed all over his face. He was shocked and asked, "Did the shopkeeper really say that?"
"yes."
When the waiter returned to the building, the apprentice immediately came forward with a rag in his hand and said, "Master, is that kid going to tell on you to Shopkeeper Ren?"
"He dares?" Chef Ma wiped his face and cursed with gritted teeth. Huang Dongsheng was really lucky.
But he was also very uneasy, so he took a plate of snacks and was about to send it over to find out.
Who would have thought that this brat would slip away again, but judging from the way Manager Ren treated him, he could tell that this brat didn't complain.
It was because of his own petty mind that Chef Ma was defeated by the brother and sister every time, which made him feel very unhappy.
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