Chapter 53052. Someone wants to marry you a young husband or wife
Maybe the model is fresh.
It may also be because the food is of good quality and low price, and word of mouth has spread, attracting more customers. Even some people who are not near the port will come to the port to eat after hearing that a new and delicious fast food restaurant has opened.
Lei Ji Fast Food Restaurant had good business in the next few days, making at least six taels of silver a day, with the highest record being nearly fifteen taels of silver on the fifth day.
A large cargo fleet arrived from the north. The fleet's boss heard about Lei Ji Fast Food Restaurant, tried it, and was very satisfied with the taste. So he booked the restaurant and treated all the crew members and sailors on the fleet to a meal.
A large fleet has three to four hundred people.
This is still considered a small number. The big boss said that the state government’s large fleet has a lot of talent. There are hundreds of people on a ship, and thousands of people are involved in one shipment.
But three or four hundred people plus the original customer base are enough to keep Lei Ji Fast Food Restaurant busy, especially since the boss is not short of money and every employee has one meat dish and two vegetable dishes.
Zhou Yi's arms were really swinging like hot wheels that day, frying one dish after another.
Lei Dashan and Liu Ye'er were so busy serving the food that one of them was sweating profusely and had to wring out his sweat towel several times. The other one was counting the money so much that his brain almost crashed. In the end, he could only roughly estimate how much a basket of vegetables cost.
Lei Li went to buy three batches of meat, including pork, chicken, pork and chicken offal, and pork belly. Fortunately, the butcher and his wife provided after-sales service and came together to help cut and chop the bones.
Even the vegetable seller came three times a day, and almost all the cabbage hearts in the field and the wild vegetables nearby were picked up.
Lei Li also paid a few maids to wash and pick the vegetables, and outsourced the cooking of sweet potato rice to several nearby shops. Otherwise, with the small kitchen and staff of the fast food restaurant, it really would not be able to handle it.
Seventh day of opening.
Suddenly, many fast food restaurants sprang up in the county town like mushrooms after a rain, selling vegetables by the spoon and giving out free soup.
Some shops have even innovatively introduced soup rice. Some shops’ food doesn’t taste as good as Lei Ji’s, so they use lower prices to attract customers.
The big restaurants in the county town haven't changed much.
They may be watching or even disdainful. After all, their main customer group is the landlords in the county. This kind of popular model is just a temporary novelty and is not suitable for their mid-to-high-end route.
Lei Ji Fast Food Restaurant's performance began to decline.
But because of its good taste, it has accumulated a certain number of loyal customers in the past few days. Although there are ups and downs, they are within the controllable range and are just slowly stabilizing.
The daily turnover is about two taels, and it is higher when there are more people on the boat.
Maybe there were too many people in Lei Ji Fast Food Restaurant, and those who wanted to do something tricky were discovered and held down every time they tried to do so.
Especially Zhang Daqiang, who was like a fast food restaurant constable, catching every troublemaker without fail, scaring off other troublemakers.
So the store was relatively quiet.
But what Lei Li and Zhou Yi didn't expect was that the owner of Shanzhen Restaurant, Haiwei, would come looking for them.
"When I heard there was a Lei Ji fast food restaurant with good food and cheap prices, I wondered if it was the Zhou Yi brothers and Lei Li's husband. I came over to take a look—and sure enough, it was!"
The owner of Haiwei was smiling as he lined up with everyone else to get his food. He was almost done eating when Lei Li spotted him and greeted him.
"It looks quite novel. I tried it myself and it's much more interesting. It's also cheap. A meal with meat and vegetables doesn't cost much."
“We drive to the port just because it’s cheaper.”
Lei Li smiled and said, "Most people here are ordinary people. They only make a few dozen copper coins a day at most. How can they afford to eat and drink soup?"
"You'd have to be lucky to meet a big boss who can book the whole place, but you never know, the money he spends on treats might be more than what you'd spend at your restaurant."
"Oh, you make our restaurant sound like it has a bad conscience..."
The shopkeeper Haiwei made a little joke and wiped the grease from his mouth with a handkerchief. "But, after all, there's money to be made. I see you have to clean up the dishes and wipe the table, and even come to mediate when people are fighting. It's really..."
Shaking her head with admiration, she added, "Your husband's cooking skills are excellent. Last time I had dinner at my house, I said I wanted to hire your husband to be the chef at my restaurant. I wonder what Lei Fulang thinks?"
"Of course, it's easier to do things based on money."
Lei Li chuckled and looked at the shopkeeper Haiwei leisurely. "Last time, the shopkeeper gave my husband ten taels of silver a month. I wonder how much he's giving me now?"
"Of course it will satisfy my husband."
The shopkeeper Haiwei smiled knowingly and held up three fingers. "I'll give you thirty taels a month. As long as your husband cooks a few dishes every day, you don't have to wash and select the vegetables yourself, and you don't have to wash the dishes and wipe the table yourself."
"You can stay at home comfortably and earn thirty taels of silver a month. You and the elderly at home won't have to show yourselves in public."
"certainly."
"I won't ask what dishes you make in the restaurant or what ingredients you use, and I won't steal your recipes. Your husband will make the final decision. How do you do that?"
"That's quite generous..."
Lei Li thought about it distressedly, then asked, "Since the shopkeeper is the one who hired my husband, why is he asking me alone? After all, Zhou Yi is the one who will be in charge of the kitchen."
"He is your husband. Whether he cooks or not, whether he agrees or not, is all up to Lei Lifulang's words."
As the shopkeeper at Haiwei said this, he picked up the bowl of free soup and took a big sip, shaking his head in enjoyment. "This soup tastes really good. It's a shame to give it away for free. I think it's worth two taels of silver per bowl..."
"pity?"
Lei Li smiled and said, "Soup is meant to be drunk. It's not a waste as long as someone drinks it."
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There are more competitors.
Although it has squeezed out a part of the market share, it also has an advantage, which is that we don’t have to be so busy and have time to eat during shifts.
In the afternoon when there were not so many people around, Lei Li and Zhou Yi were eating in the kitchen, and Lei Li mentioned to him the matter of Haiwei's boss hiring someone.
"oh."
Zhou Yi nodded, ate meat and rice in big mouthfuls, and nothing else happened.
"Don't you want to go?"
Lei Li asked, "Didn't you say you were busy a few days ago? You said it would be nice if someone could cook for you. There are plenty of people to help you in the restaurant."
"Don't you have the final say on this matter?"
Zhou Yi drank a mouthful of soup and burped. "If you say you want to go, I'll go. However, the lease of this shop will expire in more than two months, and you can make so much money in a day. Given your personality, you will definitely not want to leave."
"So the answer is obvious, no—didn't you reject him too?"
"I don't agree, but if you really want to go, I can't stop you."
Lei Li had an expression that said "I can do anything" and looked at him with a smile, "Just tell me if you want to go or not. If you do, I'll let you go."
“…”
Zhou Yi got goosebumps from laughing.
It's creepy.
It's like a perverted criminal holding a knife, smiling and saying to the victim, "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you", and then turning around and stabbing the victim.
Lei Li asked with a smile, "Why aren't you talking? Is this a difficult choice?"
"no."
Zhou Yi slowly shook his head, "I'm thinking about how to say it so that you won't make things difficult for me..."
"How can you say it's difficult?"
Lei Li's eyes smiled, and he suddenly changed the subject, "But, I heard that you men are all the same. You become bad when you have money."
"If you really go to a big restaurant and he says he gave you thirty taels, and you also say it's thirty taels, but he actually gave you forty or fifty taels, what should you do?"
"You're in the county town, and I'm in the village. We're so far apart, I won't even know how many men and women you've secretly raised, or how many children you've had."
“???”
Zhou Yi was stunned.
How did Lei Li come to this conclusion?
Putting aside the fact that he couldn't possibly cheat, even if he really wanted to, and had the guts to do so, wouldn't he be so unlucky? He'd have a mistress and a few children...
It should be to the extent of being cut into pieces and chopped into meat paste, right?
——What if he is also a fierce person like Lei Li? Zhou Yi couldn't imagine how these people could unite to kill him. One would lure him to death, one would dissect him, and one would dump the body?
By then, this will no longer be a farming article, but a "Special Program on Ancient Society and Law."
"Who knows?"
Lei Li shrugged, snatched Zhou Yi's bowl of soup, took a sip, and said, "You don't even know what people in the village say about you. They say you've done big business in the county town, making dozens of taels of silver a day."
"There are also matchmakers who want to introduce you to a few boys and girls as concubines. They are all sixteen or seventeen years old, fresh and young."
“……?!”
Zhou Yi was confused and shocked.
Sixteen or seventeen?!
Underage?!
These people are so bold!
Aren't they afraid that Lei Li might suddenly sit up in the middle of the night and call them bitches, then rush over with a knife and kill them all? They're afraid of being driven into a car by an ox, so how could they not be afraid of death at a time like this?
wrong!
Someone must be trying to harm him!
Zhou Yi was so excited by Lei Li's laughter that he could hardly sit still. His hair stood on end. "When did it happen? You haven't been back to the village yet, how did you know?"
"Miao Fulang brought us some mushrooms a few days ago, and he told me about it."
Lei Li smiled kindly and patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder, telling him to calm down. "He said a village idiot was working at the port and had come to our restaurant to eat. He saw the owner of a large fleet chatting and laughing with you, so he thought you had connections and were making a lot of money."
"Sanliuzi's mother came to the county town to bring him some rice and vegetables, and he told her about it. His mother is a big talker, so if she knows, then doesn't that mean everyone in the village knows?"
"Gui Fulang dislikes me again. He's spreading rumors about how capable you are, how you earn a lot, how you have a big boss backing you up, and how you know the officials in the county government... Now, some people are willing to sacrifice their lives for your money and want to marry you off to a young husband or wife."
The more Lei Li spoke, the wider his smile grew. "If there wasn't anyone at home, those matchmakers would have already knocked on our door. Why don't you pick a date and go back to the village to pick a beautiful and virtuous woman to marry?"
"Why aren't you talking?"
Zhou Yi: “…”
Does he dare to speak?
He didn't even dare to breathe, and was sweating profusely.
"Or maybe, my husband doesn't like girls from the countryside and wants to choose a wife from the county town?"
Lei Li thought about it and suddenly realized, "I remember that the owner of Haiwei has a daughter, right? No wonder he came here specifically to ask you to do something. It seems that the father-in-law is getting more and more satisfied with his son-in-law..."
Zhou Yi: “…”
My neck is so cold.
It feels like a head has fallen off.
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