"Lantern, your skills are truly amazing for someone so young. Even the head chef of Wan Chun Lou can't compare."
Zhao Denglong smiled sheepishly and said modestly, "Each has its own merits. These were all developed under my mother's guidance."
Cheng Ying used to be quiet, but now she's become familiar with everyone.
She gets to eat breakfast, lunch, and sometimes even dinner here every day, and she also gets paid. She's very happy.
So she became cheerful and brightened up. "The food made with lanterns is the best. In the future, I can open a big restaurant like Wanchunlou!"
The group chatted about this and that for several hours, and now they were able to relax.
Around noon, He Shitou and Zhao Xiaohe arrived with a cart full of goods.
These are stoves and ovens that they specially commissioned a blacksmith to build.
He Tiantian had drawn up the blueprints beforehand, and they took them to the blacksmith.
For these things alone, they were charged a full tael of silver.
They said the iron was expensive, and the oven and stove were quite complicated. Originally, it would have cost an extra tael of silver and two hundred coins, but He Shitou negotiated with the blacksmith for a long time before finally getting the change rounded down.
He Shitou jumped off the carriage and shouted into the house, "Sister, sister!"
Everyone inside rushed out, and He Tiantian came out carrying Xiao Mingzhu.
She saw the items on the carriage and went over to examine them carefully.
Yes, the actual item is almost identical to the drawings she made. It seems the blacksmith's skills are quite good.
Zhao Xiaohe took out a foot pedal used for making coal briquettes from a pile of scrap iron. "Auntie, look, we even got a free one from the blacksmith."
He Tiantian's eyes lit up, and she happily took it and looked at it.
"That's great! Now we can make coal briquettes at home. By the way, has Director Song's coal been delivered to our house yet?"
He Shitou nodded quickly, "We're here, we've arrived. We brought a lot over early this morning, and they're all piled up in the yard now."
He Tiantian asked about the specific price, went inside to get the money, and handed it to He Shitou, telling him to pay the silver when he went back today.
The tools for setting up the stall are ready, and after repeated trials over the past few days, the roasted sweet potatoes and tea eggs have been very successful.
People are always very interested in ways to make money.
The tea eggs need to be cooked thoroughly a day in advance, and the sweet potatoes also need to be washed beforehand. They should be slowly roasted over a fire in the middle of the night the next day to make them taste better.
The stall business requires working from dawn till dusk, which means that He Shitou and Zhao Xiaohe may not be able to go home every day.
They need to stay in the city, and they also need a cart, which is only available in the village.
You can't exactly set up a stall everywhere with a horse-drawn carriage; that would be too conspicuous.
This is like delivering takeout in a Maserati – unconventional.
After careful consideration, He Tiantian decided that she should spend money to buy a house.
With our family growing larger, we simply can't fit everyone in a house without buying one.
It hasn't snowed yet, so He Shitou and Zhao Xiaohe can still make do by sleeping on the floor in the kitchen. But when it snows, it will be freezing cold, and sleeping on the floor will be deadly.
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