It was actually Wang who volunteered!
Lin Yan really didn't expect this.
She thought that Madam Wang would be like Madam Xie, someone who valued rules above all else.
I didn't expect her to be so different...
She was happy that someone had signed up.
She wanted them to help her in order to take care of them.
After all, it's not hard to find a shopkeeper in town!
Seeing that Lin Yan remained silent, Madam Wang assumed that Lin Yan looked down on her status as a concubine and hurriedly tried to explain herself:
“Young lady, my children are all grown up and can take care of themselves. I can manage even if I'm alone in town. Besides, I write quite well and can do math; my master taught me both…”
"Of course! I'll come pick you up in a few days to go to the shop."
"Thank you, young lady!"
After seeing Lin Yan off, Wang couldn't contain her excitement.
These days, she sees other women earning money through embroidery, while she can only farm and take care of her children.
This stark contrast made her very sad...
But things will be different in the future!
She can earn money on her own now!
...
These past few days.
Lin Yan was as busy as a spinning top!
She had to prepare all the hot pot ingredients needed when the new store opened.
Nowadays, there are many meat options available, including lamb, pork, rabbit, chicken, duck, goose, fish, and occasionally beef, as well as various kinds of wild game.
However, the vegetarian dishes were much more monotonous, since only seasonal vegetables were available. Fortunately, enoki mushrooms have been around since ancient times.
She can then cultivate enoki mushrooms in large quantities!
Otherwise, a hot pot without enoki mushrooms just doesn't feel like it's missing its soul!
At that time.
They are intently calculating the cost of ingredients needed for their hot pot restaurant.
Suddenly, Xie Muqing pushed his wheelchair past her from behind.
Normally, she would have noticed it long ago.
However, she was too focused on the moment and didn't notice in time.
She only realized it when she heard his voice behind her:
"What are you writing? These are very strange characters."
Xie Muqing had never seen such strangely shaped characters before, and he couldn't help but start to let his mind wander:
Could this be some kind of ancient hieroglyphic script?
Could this woman really be a witch possessed from ancient times?
Or perhaps a demon like Daji?
No, no!
Her words and actions were nothing like those of a female demon.
She's more like an empress!
"These are Arabic numerals, which make bookkeeping much easier."
Lin Yan focused all her attention on writing, and spoke without thinking.
When she looked up and met that probing gaze, she suddenly realized that she had said the wrong thing.
He promptly corrected himself:
"I stumbled upon this in a miscellaneous book, and I found that this way of keeping accounts is particularly clear at a glance."
"I see."
Xie Muqing lowered her eyelids.
His eyes, however, were enigmatic.
He had read many miscellaneous notes before, but he had never seen such words before...
However, since she didn't want to tell the truth, he naturally wouldn't be so tactless as to press her for details.
After all, everyone has secrets...
Five days passed in the blink of an eye...
Because a lot of preparation work needs to be done in the early stages of opening a store.
Before dawn, Lin Yan packed hot pot base and a basket of chayote, and took Wang Shi to town.
Worried that their daughter wouldn't be able to handle everything, Mr. and Mrs. Lin sent their two children to the wolfberry garden and then went there together.
It took the four of them a full hour to thoroughly clean the house.
The timber shop owner and the blacksmith shop owner also delivered the goods in time.
It seems like a truly auspicious start.
When Lin Yan passed by a butcher shop, she was surprised to find a cow that had already been slaughtered.
The butcher was using a knife to trim the fat off the cow.
Nowadays, only cattle that are used for herding or die of old age or disease can be slaughtered.
Because cattle cannot be used for plowing, and there are fewer cattle herders than plowing cattle.
Therefore, a large town might only slaughter one cow a month.
"Boss, do you sell the fat from this cow? How much per pound?"
Butter has a certain smell.
It's not as fragrant as lard, so many people don't like to eat it, and the price is naturally cheaper.
The butcher glanced at the woman in front of him.
Seeing that her clothes were clean and without patches, she seemed to be in good condition and didn't look like someone who couldn't afford lard.
However, he didn't show it on his face and responded enthusiastically.
After all, as a businessperson, you can't turn your customers away.
"Six coins per pound, how much would you like, young lady?"
"Give me all of it, and cut me another thirty catties of beef. Boss, if you slaughter a cow in the future, can you sell me all the fat? I live at the newly opened Lin's Hot Pot restaurant at the end of West Street."
"sure!"
This cow has twenty pounds of fat on it.
After paying, Lin Yan happily carried the meat home.
It was also close to noon at that moment.
After a busy day, the group was hungry, so they had a simple hot pot meal.
"Honey, this hot pot smells amazing! It's so much tastier than the hot pots we used to eat! With this broth, I'm sure this hot pot restaurant will be a big hit!"
"Indeed, Miss Lin is amazing. I've never had such a delicious hot pot in the capital!"
The group ate with great relish and praised it highly.
Although people from Northwest China can eat spicy food, Lin Yan makes a half-and-half hot pot to cater to customers who can't handle spice.
The spicy broth is made with hot pot base, while the non-spicy broth is made with a three-delicacy mushroom base.
The mushrooms were also picked from the back mountain.
Because they deliberately chose a table that was close to the store entrance.
Not long after.
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