Of course, watermelon must have red flesh and sweet juice to be delicious. Song Qiu did not hesitate and directly picked out the five cents per pound. He picked three of them. If they couldn't sell them all today, they wouldn't use them tomorrow. Anyway, this watermelon,
As long as you don't cut it, it will still be fine if you keep it for two days.
This way, you can avoid coming here every day.
When three watermelons are weighed, they weigh a total of nineteen catties. Five cents per catty is ninety-five cents.
Good guy, I spent another hundred words in one fell swoop.
I haven’t started making money yet.
Song Qiu caught up with the mule cart, turned out of the path in Xianci, and went onto the official road outside.
Arriving at the bank of the river first, Old Yuan, who also got up very early, had cooked sweet mung bean soup at home and had already moved almost everything out with a basket on his back.
Song Qiu unloaded the ice cubes and watermelons, then drove the mule cart home to bring the tables, benches, and stove.
After a lot of busy work, when the tables and benches were all set up, everything that should be placed was put in the ice cream to chill, and the tea characters embroidered by Old Yuan were hung up facing the sun. It was almost time (ten o'clock).
Song Qiu sat down and took a rest, watching her nurse guarding the small stove to boil the water, and hurriedly soaked the mint leaves she had picked, and filled a large clean wooden bucket with it, which was enough to drink a lot of bamboo tubes.
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Everything is ready and waiting for the guests.
At noon, the sun had already risen very high. Hiding in the thatched shed, I couldn't get any sun, but the river breeze was blowing, which was cool.
Zhang Lihua carried the wooden bucket to the river, filled it with two buckets of water, and left it there, waiting only to collect the bowls and bamboo tubes for easy cleaning.
The waiting time is the hardest, and it's also strange. People usually pass by the official road at any time, but today, no one has been seen passing by.
Sometimes, when you are waiting most eagerly, it is often difficult to wait for someone to come.
Song Qiu looked in three directions again and again, feeling a little worried in her heart, but seeing that her breasts and Lihua were more nervous than she was, and their eyes were darting from side to side, so she didn't worry anymore.
Take your time, she can't act chaotic.
After all, I have experienced the ups and downs of business.
Song Qiu took out a piece of rag, took charcoal, and wrote down all the accounts. How much money was spent, how much money was sold, and when the money was paid back and when the money was made.
She first wrote down all the money she spent to start the business, that is, expenses.
Starting from buying a mule cart, to now buying watermelons and ice cubes.
After writing them down one by one, most of the rag was filled.
Song Qiu thought that it would be difficult to keep accounts with rags. Next time, he would buy some cheap paper and sew them into a small book with needle and thread, which would be more convenient.
As soon as I put away the rags and charcoal, I heard the sound of Lihua stamping her feet in excitement behind her.
She looked up and saw a motorcade coming from the direction of Xiangzhou Prefecture on the official road to the east opposite.
From a distance, you can see a flag tied up at the front of the motorcade, with a big word "dart" on it.
Looking at the escorts in uniform uniforms, this is definitely a convoy belonging to the escort agency.
If you come from the east, the nearest town there is Jingyuan County. Calculating the distance, if you set out early in the morning, you should arrive here at this time.
Song Qiu was sure that they would stop to rest, after all, they had traveled such a long way.
Sure enough, as soon as the convoy entered the Daguan Road, they saw a tea stall in front of them and headed straight for it.
There are many tree poles specially inserted outside the thatched shed, which are most convenient for harnessing carriages and horses.
When Song Qiu saw someone coming, she hurried forward to greet them. She was used to the catering industry and didn't notice anything. She was very proficient.
"Please be objective, it's too hot today. Are you tired from the long journey? Are you all thirsty? Come in and have a rest. We have ice drinks in the teahouse. It's the best way to cool down in the summer!"
Zhang Lihua was also a lively person, so she quickly followed Song Qiu to greet him.
In addition to the leading bodyguard, there were seven bodyguards in a convoy. They all sat in the tea shed, which just filled two tables.
"Little girl, this is strange. We walked back here for the first time, and we didn't know that you still sell ice drinks here. What kind of ice drinks are there? We happen to be very hot, so we have ice drinks to drink.
"Aren't you happy to drink that tea?" the leading escort looked at Song Qiu and asked.
When I saw this tea shed, there was an old lady and two little girls. The waiter was also a little girl. Although it was strange, she didn't say anything.
It was the first time they walked this road and they thought that this tea shed had been set up for a long time. How could they know that this was the first time?
Song Qiu took the board with the small bamboo sign over, pointed to it and introduced it, "so that the guests know that the iced drinks in our teahouse include iced mung bean soup, iced cold shrimp, iced fermented glutinous rice, and the most important iced watermelon
Hey! I wonder what the guests would like to order?"
Although the characters carved on the bamboo sign were crooked, after Song Qiu introduced them, they were barely recognizable.
After hearing this, the escort head scanned the circle of bamboo signs and asked curiously: "I have drunk this iced mung bean soup, I have eaten iced watermelon, and I have heard of fermented glutinous rice, but what is this cold shrimp? Could it be the little ones in the river?
Can the shrimps be frozen and eaten? What’s the point of eating them?”
Song Qiuxiao: "I want our guest to know that these cold shrimps are not from the river. They are the specialty of our tea shop. You can't eat them in this tea shop only. You can't eat them anywhere else! Would you like to try them, my guest?"
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When the escort heard this, he was really interested. This was the only thing from this family, so he sat here, so of course he wanted to try it.
"Then let's have this cold shrimp! Three pennies a bowl, right? Let's have eight bowls for the eight of us! And this iced watermelon, I haven't eaten it for a few days, and my mouth is very hungry, so we all have one.
One piece! Hey, it’s five cents a piece, but the price you sell here is more expensive than the ice drink stalls elsewhere."
Song Qiu said: "Okay, sir! Eight bowls of cold shrimps and eight pieces of iced watermelon will be here soon!"
Then he quickly went to the table where the ice cooker was placed and was busy. He first took out the iced watermelon that had been cut into two halves and cut it. He raised the knife with his hand and cut eight pieces of watermelon of the same size.
Although it was sold for five cents a piece, Song Qiu was not stingy. This piece of watermelon was no smaller than the ones sold in the town. Cut out of eight pieces of watermelon, this one was almost the same.
Song Qiu hurriedly put in another watermelon and chilled it.
Zhang Lihua hurriedly served the cut watermelon to the guests.
Here, Lao Yuan helped with the bowl and spoon again. Song Qiu quickly filled the cold shrimps in the pottery basin with ice in the ice pan, one and a half spoonfuls per bowl, and then scooped in a large spoonful of boiled brown sugar.
Water goes in.
The black and red colors diffuse into the plump white shrimps, which is very beautiful.
The three of them started working together and quickly brought eight bowls of cold shrimp to each guest.
The escort was eating iced watermelon and sighed comfortably.
Song Qiu walked up and said, "How are you, sir? Is the watermelon iced in our tea shop sweet? There is no shop in the middle of nowhere. I have to go more than 20 miles to pull this watermelon before dawn! Still!
Isn’t there ice? It’s not easy for us to run this small business.”
The escort finished the watermelon in two mouthfuls and looked at the strange cold shrimp, nodding his head. There are no ice drinks sold in other official roads. They are usually found in towns. Ice cubes are not easy to come by. It is reasonable to think that they are more expensive.