"Mom, what about me?" Shu Mingliang also stepped forward to ask for a favor, "The third brother and the fourth brother have a wife, and the fifth brother and the sixth brother can study, do they have to get something for me?"
Mrs. Shu raised her eyelids and looked at him, "What do you want? You are not old enough to have a wife. Why don't I send you to study? Then you go with Lao Liu. My brothers are just companions."
"No!" Shu Mingliang's face collapsed, "I don't want to study. Mother, please buy me two new clothes to wear. We are going to open a shop and become the boss. It's embarrassing to keep wearing old clothes."
Mrs. Shu knew what kind of virtue he had and deliberately made him angry: "No, a mother must have a bowl of water to keep her calm. Your brother has gone to study, so you should go too. Otherwise, what should I do if others say I am partial?"
After saying that, the old lady turned to look at the two daughters-in-law and said, "Do you have anything you want to buy? If not, I will go out and buy some jewelry for each of you. I want it to be silver. Wear it to look good!"
Mrs. Sun quickly shook her head, "You don't need to buy me jewelry. If Mom wants to buy it, she can buy a set of clothes for each of the family members. It just so happens that the restaurant is open and you can wear them."
Mrs. Shu said cheerfully: "We need to buy clothes and jewelry. We are not short of money!"
What Lao Qi said makes sense. Opening a restaurant is different from before. When the boss cleans things up, customers will be happy to come and eat!
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Early the next morning, Mrs. Shu led her daughter-in-law to make two large baskets of steamed buns, one filled with sea vegetables and one filled with pork and cabbage. There were dozens of round buns.
Because they had to do heavy work these two days, Mrs. Shu did not impose any restrictions and allowed everyone to eat as much as they wanted.
This made Shu Mingli very happy. He had two seaweed buns in his left hand and two pork buns in his right hand. In a short time, he made eight big buns, which made him burp.
Mrs. Shu had a headache when she saw him devouring food, "Shu Mingli, forget it in front of your own family. If you dare to do this again when you meet this girl later, I will break your legs!"
Shu Mingli took a sip of porridge and didn't respond, but he was muttering in his heart: When I see that girl, I have to eat like this, whether I can succeed or not.
You can't be deprived of the opportunity to eat a big meal just to get a wife. Is that justified?
Little Black Bean seemed to have heard his thoughts and barked a few times. Finally, he successfully got half a bun from Shu Mingli and ran away happily wagging his tail.
After breakfast, Old Man Shu and a few Ming rushed to the dock to clean the restaurant. Old Mrs. Shu led her two daughters-in-law to visit the matchmaker in the next village and went to town to do some shopping.
A few little ones were not idle either, carrying a small stack of flyers that Shu Mingxin rushed to make yesterday, advertising all over the pier.
When the gong strikes, the dog cart runs away, the turnaround rate is amazing!
“Don’t miss it if you’re passing by. Three days before the new store opens, if you spend over 20 yuan in the store, you’ll get a free side dish. You can choose from spicy kelp shreds and stir-fried giant clams!”
Yan Yan put her hands to her mouth like a trumpet, shouting as she walked, and she could recite the advertising slogans smoothly.
Qing Feng's loud voice also came in handy at this time. When Xiaotuanzi shouted, he followed up, shouting and shouting in his own style:
“Come here and take a stroll here, my side dishes are great, fresh in color and delicious, they will make your mouth water when you look at them;
The squid is fragrant and the sesame seed cakes are crispy, so delicious in just one bite; the fried clams and stuffed prawns make you forget to go home every bite!”
Passers-by heard that his shouting was so attractive that they came over curiously to inquire about the news. At this time, Yan Yan quickly took out a flyer and introduced to everyone: "Our restaurant is open here..."
At the top of the flyer is a simplified topographic map of the pier. Although the picture is simple, it is more concise and clear. You can figure out the location of the restaurant at a glance.
Below the topographic map is an introduction to the restaurant's dishes. Considering that many people are illiterate, only the names of the dishes are written on it, and the rest is done by drawings.
Shu Mingxin's painting skills are excellent, and every dish he draws is extremely attractive.
The bright red salt-baked prawns are decorated with chopped green onion, red with green, and extremely beautiful;
The yellow clam steamed egg is still hot and steamy, as if it has just been taken out of the pot, and the aroma is fragrant...
Everyone's appetite was whetted by the beautiful pictures, and they asked about the opening time and the price.
The opening time is easy to say, but pricing is difficult. Last night Xiaotuanzi and Mrs. Shu lay in bed and studied the pricing of the dishes for a long time.
There are three main types of people at the wharf. One type is the villagers who come to sell goods. These people are so poor that they may not even be able to eat enough. It is difficult to make money from them.
The other type is the workers who carry goods. These people have a little bit of money. After all, with an income of thirty or forty yuan a day, they are still willing to go to a restaurant every now and then to buy two side dishes.
However, it is basically impossible to expect this group of people to make a fortune.
The last category is the bosses who come to Qiongzhou to do business. This group of people are rich, and they are not locals. They usually eat in restaurants, so these people are the best to make money.
Under Yan Yan’s prompting, Mrs. Shu decided to promote two styles of dishes at once.
One is a fast food for workers, which is full of cheap home-cooked dishes, such as cold kelp shreds, stir-fried clams, sauce-roasted dried fish...
The purchase price of these seafood is cheap, and the price of the cooked dishes is also cheap, with vegetarian dishes costing four cents a plate and meat dishes costing six cents.
They couldn't afford white rice, so their staple food was brown rice, which cost one penny and two taels.
The other type is exquisite dishes sold exclusively to wealthy people, such as salt-baked prawns, coconut chicken, sizzling squid...the price of these dishes ranges from tens to hundreds of dollars.
There are also some rare dishes, such as stir-fried sea anemone, garlic abalone, etc. The prices of these dishes vary, depending on the quality of the seafood that day.
Seeing how beautiful the pictures on her flyer were, everyone expected that the price would be very expensive. Unexpectedly, Xiaotuanzi's words dispelled their concerns.
"Have you seen this green kelp shreds? It's sour, spicy, and delicious. A big plate only costs four cents. How about it? Isn't it a good deal?"
Xiaotuanzi pointed out four fingers, raised his eyebrows proudly, and then pointed at the soy-roasted dried fish, "This is dried fish. It's salty and fragrant and goes very well with rice. I can eat two bowls of rice just with it!"
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An aunt laughed at her: "How old are you? You can eat two bowls of rice in one meal. Are you afraid of bursting your stomach?"
Xiaotuanzi tugged at the soft flesh on his face and said, "Really, look at the flesh on my face. I wouldn't be like this even if I ate less than a grain of rice!"
Everyone was amused by her naive appearance, and they all said that if they were free tomorrow, they would definitely go to the restaurant and order two dishes to see if they were delicious.
After successfully attracting the first wave of customers, the little ones became more confident, the gongs beat more cheerfully, and the slogans became more fluent.
“Don’t miss it if you’re passing by. Three days before the new store opens, you’ll get a piece of cake for free if you spend over 20 yuan in the store...”
In less than half a day, everyone in the whole pier knew that a new restaurant would be opening tomorrow. The food in it was delicious and cheap. You couldn't miss it if you passed by.
While all the workers were looking forward to it, some were anxious like ants on a hot pot.
This person is none other than the restaurant owner who collected Shu's crabs last time, Chen Feng.