Chapter 108 Chapter 108 Actually Seriously...
Actually, to be honest, this food shop is really good. Although the shop is small, it is decorated in a humorous and elegant way. Walking all the way to the backyard, the place is spacious, the tables are arranged in a staggered manner, and even the bowls, chopsticks, cups and plates on them look quite exquisite.
This made Huang feel better.
Everything was ready, and soon, as time passed, relatives and friends of the Fang and Huang families began to arrive one after another.
Here,
"Su Ji Restaurant, yes, it's right here." A neatly dressed and well-dressed man got off the carriage and spoke while looking at the Su Ji sign. The little girl in his arms clapped her hands excitedly when she heard that.
"I saw my aunt and my little brother."
Both of them were happy to have found the right place, but the young woman who followed behind them curled her lips.
"Why not hold it in the restaurant? It's so small here, I feel like there's not enough room to sit."
"I think this place is pretty good." The man couldn't help but speak to defend his elder brother.
"What's good about it? I don't even know if that thing is clean."
The woman came from a local gentry family. Although she married Fang Laoer, she was still able to live a life of ordering servants and spending money lavishly with her dowry. Naturally, she looked down on this small food shop.
But after all, he is her husband's elder brother, so she still has to give him some face. But for her, her willingness to attend was already enough face, but her expression did not hide the disgust and contempt in the slightest.
Over here, "Second brother, second sister-in-law, you are here." Fang Da enthusiastically came over to greet them when he saw them, while directing the little boy beside him to arrange the carriage and horses.
Behind him, Huang, who had been happily chatting with others, froze when she heard this and reluctantly turned around to greet the visitor.
Fang Da Pian then said, "Come, take our Cheng'er to show his second brother and the others."
Huang had no choice but to suppress her dissatisfaction and held her son over to show the two of them. Fortunately, Jiang didn't like children either. She teased him for a while and then took Fang Er away from the table.
"Daughter, is this your sister-in-law who refuses to live with your parents-in-law? It seems that she is really difficult to get close to." Huang's mother Zhou suddenly spoke after the others left.
"Yes, it's her." Huang nodded, looking at the woman chatting and laughing not far away and the servants standing behind her to serve her, feeling jealous and bitter in her heart.
Originally, Mrs. Jiang looked down on her. After returning from the banquet today, who knows how she would laugh at her behind her back.
Thinking about these unhappy things, her face inevitably looked bad. In Fang Da's eyes, he thought she was not feeling well and frowned with concern.
"Are you feeling unwell? The banquet is about to start. If you are not feeling well, you can go and take a seat with your mother and son. I will entertain you here."
Huang didn't want to sit down, but Zhou's hands were tired after holding the child for so long, so she pulled her to find a place to sit down.
However, as luck would have it, the table chosen by her mother, Zhou, happened to be the one that Huang had hated the most when she was at her parents' home. They were all gossipy women. When she was still a teenager, they would gossip about her behind her back all day long, saying that she had a big mouth and would have a hard time getting married in the future, that she had high cheekbones and would bring bad luck to her husband, etc. In short, from the wedding to the banquet, there was no place that these old women didn't find fault with. Even though their family was extremely poor, they looked down on everything...
"Eldest aunt, third aunt..." Huang was annoyed, but her expression did not change. She greeted them one by one, and was ready to listen to their critical remarks during the meal. However, she did not hear what she expected. Those elders who usually chattered incessantly during the meal were all concentrating on eating today.
"The skin of this elbow is soft and easy to bite."
"What kind of meatball is this? It's as white as snow in the sky."
"This fish is surprisingly delicious, sweet and sour."
Several old ladies with missing teeth had their mouths full of oil from eating, and they praised her even more when they saw her coming. It was the first time that Huang heard them talk about something other than the shortcomings of others, and it was also the first time she heard these rare words of praise from them.
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On the other side, after the meal started, Mrs. Jiang also took her daughter to sit at a women's table. The people at the table were all relatives from her husband's Fang family. When they saw her coming, they kindly made room for her and her daughter. Mrs. Jiang was already accustomed to this and accepted it with peace of mind. However, she did not sit down immediately. Instead, she asked the maid behind her to fetch water and wipe the bench on her side and the table in front of her again, and even washed the dishes and chopsticks. This made the other people at the table have to stand and wait for her to get busy. By the time they finished, other tables had already started eating.
Fortunately, no one objected to this, so a storm was avoided.
"Madam, everything has been cleaned." The maid standing aside reported.
Jiang then sat down with her daughter, and the others followed suit.
However, Jiang had no appetite for the food on the table. She looked around lazily and found that many of the dishes were things she had never seen or eaten before. This piqued her interest. As her daughter was also clamoring to eat, she asked the maid to put some on the plate.
"Eat, my little enemy."
"Be careful of the heat."
The daughter was clamoring for a meatball soup. The meatballs were different from ordinary meatballs. They were snow-white all over and no one knew what they were made of. Jiang asked the maid to help cool them down before giving them to her daughter. She also scooped one up with a spoon. However, her first reaction was not to eat it. Instead, she leaned in to smell it. When she found that she could not smell any other strange smell, she mustered up the courage to take a bite.
Hmm? Jiang savored the taste carefully, took another bite, and finally discovered what it was made of.
It turned out to be fish.
This fish meat is different from other fish meat. It is very fresh and fragrant. It is chewy in the mouth. The meat is firm and tastes delicious. There is no fishy smell at all. It is really good.
I never thought that this small food shop could have such delicious food. Not bad.
Then Jiang went on to try roast duck, roast chicken, braised lamb, mixed wild vegetables, stir-fried winter bamboo shoots, and so on. The more she ate, the more she couldn't stop. Later, the maids behind her were a little surprised. Didn't you say when you came that you would never eat it even if you were beaten to death? How come you never stopped?
The same goes for the young lady. I have never seen her eat so much at home on weekdays. Today, after she finished eating, she kept urging me to pick more food for her. It was really abnormal.
But it wasn't just Jiang. Everyone who came to the banquet today spoke half as little as usual. They all lowered their heads and concentrated on eating. Some of them even started asking how much the meal cost after they finished eating, thinking that if they were to hold any banquet in the future, they would also hold it here.
After the full moon banquet, both the host and the guests were delighted. What Huang had originally thought did not happen. Everyone was very satisfied. Even Jiang did not leave after eating as she did in the past. She rarely praised the meal.
Although it was just a brief sentence, "Today's meal tastes pretty good."
But Huang was very happy in her heart. You know, her sister-in-law was very picky. They had been sisters-in-law for so many years, but this was the first time she heard her praise.
Immediately, she no longer resented her husband for not holding the wedding banquet in a restaurant, and instead felt that her husband was truly far-sighted.
This banquet cost 30 taels of silver, but Fang Da didn't feel sorry at all and was very generous when paying the bill.
For the Su family, this was the first time they hosted a banquet in the county town after opening a restaurant. Money was secondary, the main thing was to accumulate customers.
As soon as the banquet ended, several families came to ask about it, and they booked five tables in a row, which made Su Li and the Su family very happy.
In the following months, the Su family hosted many banquets.
However, there is an increasingly acute problem that cannot be avoided, which is that there are still too few staff in the food store.
Su Li discussed with other family members and decided to let her eldest sister Su Hong and the others stop selling food at the dock. However, as the temperature rose at the dock, the number of merchant ships coming and going increased day by day, and they could earn 3.4 taels of silver a day. It would be more cost-effective to hire a few people.
It happened to be the end of March, and Su Li discussed with her mother and grandparents and decided to give everyone a few days off to have a good rest, and to see if there was anyone suitable.
Of course, before we take a break, there is one more important thing, which is to pay our wages!!!
During this period, Aunt Lu and Aunt Mo were busy every day and helped a lot. At the end of the first two months, they were supposed to get processing fees, but they refused to ask for more. Starting this month, the food store business was on track. Su Li and her mother discussed it and decided to start calculating commissions from this month. The standard for commissions is naturally the business performance of the store. If it is good, they will get more money, and if it is bad, they will get less.
I told this to other people and they all agreed with this idea.
So, Su Li calculated the commission for March. That day, after paying the wages, Su Li asked the two to wait for a while and told them the good news. Chen also took out two hundred yuan from the money box and handed it to the two, "This is your reward for this month."
Chen didn't understand the difference between commission and no commission, so he misunderstood the meaning as a reward.
It took Mo and Lu a long time to react, but they still refused, "No, I don't want it."
"I don't want it either. My monthly salary is already enough."
Both of them were very content, especially after learning that the monthly wages of the shop assistants next door were only 500 wen, they felt that what the Su family gave was already very good. What's more, the Su family provided them with food and accommodation, and they had never been short of food and drink. Yesterday, they even gave them a lot of meat and rice to take back. Putting aside their relationship, where else could they find such a good owner?
What's more, the two of them had a good relationship with Chen and the Su family. The men in the family would come to the Su family every day to get braised meat to sell, and they earned a lot of money from it.
People should be content and be happy. If you cherish your blessings, they will last long.
In short, no matter what Chen said or what the other two said, they didn't want anything.
In the end, Chen had to make some harsh remarks, and after Su Li and the people around her persuaded the two of them to accept it.
"Aunt Mo, Aunt Lu, just accept it with confidence. This is what you deserve."
To be honest, it was only after Su Li opened a food store in this life that she realized how tiring the catering industry was, especially making breakfast. She had to get up before dawn every day and could only rest at night after everyone was asleep. It was really not an easy job, not any easier than farming. So she didn't think that the money was too much or anything. This was what they deserved. Su Li always felt that if you put in some effort, you should be rewarded, so that you will be more motivated to do things.
Later, when the business becomes more stable and more people are hired, she will further improve the employee benefits and resolutely refuse to be a heartless boss!!!
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