"Yingying... Oh, you mean that candy seller, Ms. Liu?" Ye Qingyuan asked slowly.
"Yes, didn't you take several packets of winter melon candy from me last time to take back to your mother?"
"Here, try these freshly delivered fries and chips..."
Bai Mudan smiled and skillfully picked up a French fry and stuffed it into Ye Qingyuan's mouth.
After tasting the fries and chips, Ye Qingwan couldn't help but give Liu Yingying's cooking a thumbs up in his heart. However, he was always reserved and usually didn't show his emotions too much.
Even so, it couldn't escape Bai Mudan's eyes. She asked with a smile, "How is it? It's really delicious, isn't it?"
"Hmm!" Ye Qingyuan nodded, thinking that the business of his candy and snack shops had declined sharply in recent months.
The reason is that many customers complain that they are eating the same few things over and over again, and there is no improvement in taste.
Furthermore, malicious price-cutting competition from rival shops directly led to the closure of the two worst-performing shops...
Ye Qingyuan had no choice but to acknowledge Liu Yingying's skill.
It must be admitted that the things she made tasted far better than the candies and snacks in her own shop...
Bai Mudan sat on his lap, smiling as she spoke for him, saying what was on his mind.
"Don't you always complain about how bad business is at your snack shops? Why don't you let Yingying give you a hand!"
Ye Qingyuan picked up his teacup, took a sip, and considered her suggestion in his mind...
The next morning, Liu Yingying chartered Uncle Da Niu's oxcart and, together with Zhao Di and Lin Cuicui, went to the county town to deliver goods to the Longfeng Theater.
Bai Mudan wasn't at the theater, but she did give instructions to have the manager settle her bill directly.
This time, I earned a total of five taels of silver and six strings of cash.
Liu Yingying put the money away and did the calculations. Excluding labor costs, the net profit in just a few days was more than five taels of silver.
This amount of money is enough for an average family to live on for more than half a year...
After delivering the goods, there wasn't much else to do today. None of the three of them had eaten anything when they came out.
Liu Yingying, "What would you two like to eat?"
Lin Cuicui felt a little embarrassed that she was always eating for free from her, saying, "One fried dough stick is enough for me."
Zhao Di was also a very sensible child; "I'm just like Cuicui!"
"Why are you eating fried dough sticks? They have no nutritional value at all!" Liu Yingying reached out and lightly poked one of them on the forehead.
"How about we go to a noodle shop?"
The three of them went to a noodle shop by the roadside.
Early in the morning, a long queue had already formed in front of the noodle shop, which shows that business is good.
Lin Cuicui tugged at her sleeve and whispered, "Aunt Liu, this kind of noodle shop is very expensive. Let's not waste our money, shall we?"
She always felt that Liu Yingying worked hard to earn money, and she also had to pay everyone's wages.
She had heard people say that a bowl of noodles at such a noodle shop in the city cost twenty coins.
This is far too extravagant for her!
"What's the point of wasting money! I earn money to spend, otherwise, am I supposed to save it to be buried with me after I die?"
As Liu Yingying spoke, she grabbed one child's hand and strode across the street...
On the wide road, a rather impressive carriage was slowly passing by.
Recently, a gang of thieves has been rampant in Furong County, causing great distress to many families.
I heard that last night, the calligraphy and paintings collected by the wealthy Liu family in the city were completely stolen, which made the wealthy Liu so angry that he suffered a stroke on the spot.
His two sons had sounded the appeal drum at the county government office early this morning, so Magistrate Shen was rushing to hear the case right now...
Perhaps because he was feeling down, Shen Shangxu slightly lifted the curtain of the window to look outside.
That's when I spotted a familiar figure walking into a Qin's Noodle Shop, holding the hands of two girls.
It's her!
But how did she end up here?
As far as Shen Shangxu knew, Qin's Noodle Shop was quite expensive, far beyond what someone like Liu Yingying could afford...
Perhaps I misread it!
Just then, Cheng Zhuo's voice came from outside: "Sir, you haven't had breakfast yet. Would you like me to pack you some noodles to tide you over?"
"No need, matters at the yamen are more important!" Shen Shangxu said calmly, pulling himself out of his thoughts and lowering the curtain.
Qin's Noodle Shop is quite large, with two floors. Liu Yingying and her two children found a window seat in the lobby on the first floor.
"What would you three gentlemen like to eat?" the waiter asked with a smile.
Liu Yingying: "What's the best noodle dish in your shop?"
"Wow, there are so many!" The waiter then rattled off a long list of dishes as if they were his own treasures, "Our restaurant's specialties include mushroom and shredded chicken noodles, assorted lamb offal steamed noodles, braised noodles with golden flower sauce..."
"Alright, alright..." Liu Yingying felt like she was listening to a crosstalk performance by Deyun Club, and rubbed her temples; "Then give me one of each of the three types of noodles you just ordered!"
"Alright, please wait a moment, you three!" After pouring them tea, the waiter turned and ran into the kitchen...
While waiting for her noodles to be served, Liu Yingying looked around Qin Ji Noodle Shop again.
She was thinking to herself that once she had saved enough money, she would open an even bigger restaurant than this one, and make it a nationwide chain...
The lobby on the first floor was full of people. Those who were willing to spend money to eat a bowl of noodles here were basically people with a little money, which could be seen from their clothes.
It was originally just a casual glance around.
But Liu Yingying suddenly noticed something was off about the guests at the table in the western corner of the hall...
She remembered that the two people entered the store after them.
And from the moment he entered, he was darting around, looking furtively at all the customers in the store...
Their clothes looked rather awkward; although the fabric was of decent quality, they didn't fit them at all... as if they had stolen someone else's clothes...
Thinking of this, Liu Ying's expression suddenly changed, and she thought to herself, "Could those two be thieves?"
However, she had no evidence, and perhaps she was just overthinking things, so she stopped paying attention to it.
Just then, the waiter finally brought the noodles from the kitchen to the table; "Your noodles are ready, please enjoy!"
"Cui Cui, Zhao Di, which bowl do you want to eat? Choose for yourselves." She didn't care what she ate anyway.
In the end, Zhao Di chose braised noodles with golden flower sauce.
Lin Cuicui chose the mushroom and shredded chicken noodles.
The two children deliberately left the most expensive bowl of mixed mutton offal noodles for Liu Yingying.
Since it was their filial piety, Liu Yingying did not refuse. After finishing the noodles, she paid the bill, which came to eighty coins.
When Zhao Di and Lin Cuicui witnessed Liu Yingying take out the eighty coins and put them on the table, they both wished they could immediately spit out the noodles they had just eaten.
That's too expensive! It's way too expensive!!
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