It was said that work started at the very beginning of the day, but Douhua and Mr. Zhang arrived at a quarter past two o'clock.
He didn't dare to knock on the door and call anyone when he came. So when Tao Dongcheng opened the door of the inn, he was almost frightened to death by the two people squatting at the door.
The ingredients for today's opening were purchased yesterday, so there is no need to go to Chunlin Town to buy them early in the morning.
Tao Dongcheng slept until three quarters past nine o'clock, which was not too late.
It was agreed that Maozheng would start work, but he never expected that these two people had been here so long.
After asking clearly, Tao Dongcheng quickly let people in. It was not bright yet in October, and it was cold. After squatting outside for so long, his hands and feet became stiff.
Dazhong first took the charcoal and went to light the brazier in the big yard. The brazier had just been lit and he brought it in. Tao Dongcheng asked Douhua and the two to warm up the fire first and then start working after it was warm.
Song Qiu got up and knew that the two of them had arrived two quarters of an hour early, so he asked Tao Dongcheng to tell them when he got off work today that he should come back at the right time. It would be too early for them to come back.
On this cold day, squatting outside for two quarters of an hour with the cold wind blowing is going to cause problems.
Douhua and Douhua waved their hands at first, saying it would be fine if they came earlier.
Tao Dongcheng said with a straight face that you had arrived early and were freezing. You had to bake for two quarters of an hour to warm yourself up when you came in. Isn't this a waste of time?
The two of them hurriedly nodded in agreement, indicating that it was not too early for Er Maozheng to come back.
This is before work ends.
Douhua and Douhua are now warm and busy in the kitchen.
One made a fire to heat hot water, and the other lit a small stove to sit on the water. It was a cold day, so he had to drink hot water. Therefore, the small stove could be used all day long, and he had to sit on the water at all times.
The bench officially took up its duties on the first day with real weapons and weapons, and I have been nervous since I woke up early in the morning.
Song Qiu didn't plan to let him hold the big spoon today, so he asked him to hold his hands, watch, and cook some side dishes when he was too busy. But even so, he was very nervous.
Song Qiu didn't say much about him. He got busy soon and was so busy that he had no time to be nervous, but Shunzi knew it.
Therefore, Song Qiu was not in a hurry. Seeing that he was nervous, he asked him to get busy, making noodles and cutting vegetables. In short, he would not rest for a while.
Song Qiu took a close look at Douhua and Zhang, and then made arrangements for Zhang to stay in the kitchen to help, wash the dishes, serve dishes, clear the tables, etc., while Douhua went to the tea shed to work with Mian Mian.
Today is the first day of opening. I can’t see how the business is going, and I don’t plan to prepare too many things. Today, the tea shed mainly sells noodles and hot and sour noodles. You can buy the noodles at Fangji Grocery Store in town. Aniseed and other ingredients.
Song Qiu cooked it up last night.
Of course, when a bunch of inns open later, she will form a fleet of her own fleet of bean paste, red oil, dried chili peppers, starch, vermicelli, etc., and will be responsible for delivering these to the bunch of inns, so as not to have to wait all the time.
Fang Ji bought it. Compared with the cost, it cost a lot more money. It used a lot, so it was not cost-effective. It was better to form a fleet to deliver the goods.
But this is something that will happen later. There are still few inns at the moment, and it is not worthwhile to make a trip just to give this little thing away.
In the inn, there are not many things prepared today. There are six chickens, six ducks, and three fish, all of which are large silver carps, each weighing five or six kilograms. There is also a large piece of mutton, and then there is pork belly.
Lean meat.
The fish had to be killed immediately, but three chickens and ducks each were killed first. If there were not enough to sell, they could be killed later. If they could not be sold, the unkilled ones could still be fed. Song Qiu used one chicken to make chicken stewed with mushrooms.
After simmering it, I used a duck to make sour radish and old duck soup and prepared it. Then I cut the mutton and mixed it with rice noodles and other seasonings. When someone orders it, I will steam it. Steam the mutton and steam it for a while.
Just a clock.
Then we prepared steamed buns and rice as staple food.
Steamed buns are steamed in two extra steamers, which can be sold in the tea shed. In addition, mutton is steamed in the tea shed. Song Qiu specially bought a small steamer. He built a small stove and sat the pot at any time, boiling water in the pot. If the customer wanted to steam the mutton,
, just grab it and steam it in a basket immediately.
In the middle of the day, the mist gradually dissipated, everything was ready, and the auspicious time for the opening had arrived.
Before this, the tea shed had already received four guests, all of whom came from Chunlin Town or Qiuling County early in the morning. Before dinner, I saw that there was an inn and tea shed here, so I stopped to have a rest.
, drink a cup of hot tea, or if you haven’t eaten breakfast just now, have a bowl of hot noodles or hot and sour noodles.
Therefore, it is said that this wing is open, but seriously, it is actually already open.
Song Qiu pulled off the red silk with his own hands, revealing the signboard of Daxing Inn.
On the tea shed and the pillars in front of the inn, the cloth flags with the Chinese character Song Ji still fluttered in the wind.
There were no onlookers, so Tao Dongcheng lit up the firecrackers under the watchful eyes of everyone in the inn. The firecrackers were crackling and lively.
The red silk was unveiled and it was officially opened. Not long after waiting, before noon, a group of people came over from the road in the direction of Shouzhou.
There were a lot of people in this group, and they were all carrying swords on their backs or holding swords in their hands.
There were six people riding horses at the beginning, and those walking behind were all uniformly dressed and walked in two columns, totaling thirty people.
As soon as Aling saw this group of people from afar, he whispered to Song Qiu, "Which martial arts sect is this?"
Just this battle, it looks similar.
Song Qiu nodded and looked at Dazhong greeting people outside. The group stopped, dismounted, and headed inside.
Dazhong stayed outside to settle the horses, while Tao Dongcheng came out to greet the guests and take their seats.
There were a lot of people in this group, six people on horseback sat at one table, and the remaining thirty people sat at four tables, making the whole hall instantly full.
It was Tao Dongcheng's first time as a shopkeeper, but he was very skilled at greeting customers. He immediately greeted a table of six people and asked, "What would you like to eat, sir?"
Before the dishes were ordered, Ah Yin and Mrs. Zhang were busy serving tea, bowls and chopsticks to the guests, as well as a plate of all the specialties of the Songji Inn, the strange-flavored beans, for the guests to enjoy while waiting for the dishes.
pastime.
The one who was obviously the leader among the six people said: "The last time we went to Linjiang Mansion and passed by here, there was nothing here. In just a few months, there was an inn here. It is very convenient, and so are we.
It’s my first time coming back to your little shop, why don’t you introduce what kind of dishes they have.”
Giving menus to customers is a unique skill of the waiter. Tao Dongcheng immediately opened his mouth and said: "Today our shop has spicy chicken, boiled fish, pickled fish, steamed mutton, roasted duck with konjac, stir-fried mutton, shredded pork with celery, twice-cooked pork with garlic sprouts,
Stir-fried winter melon slices, sweet and sour Chinese cabbage, mapo tofu, soup including chicken stewed with mushrooms, pickled radish and duck soup, fish head and tofu soup, rice and steamed buns as staple food, what do you want, sir?"
The man listened to the names of the dishes, almost all of which he had never heard of before, and he became interested for a while, "Then let's have boiled fish, steamed mutton, roast duck with konjac, twice-cooked pork with garlic sprouts, mapo tofu, and braised chicken.
The six dishes of mushrooms are the same for every table here. For other tables, just add an extra piece of celery and pork shreds. As for the staple food, we all want rice."