Seeing that the officials from the government office grabbed Shi Laoba, Yao shi couldn't help but look at Xu Qinyu.

Xu Qinyu glanced at her and said to her, "Don't talk about the disputes between the shops, the shop will be rented next year, now since I don't rent, the contract will expire, and there is no need to wait until next year, now Mrs. Yao can Take the shop back and sell it to the outside world. But he slandered my food for adding addictive things. This kind of slandering my reputation, I can't let him go and let him talk nonsense to the outside world. It will ruin my reputation. Reporter, right and wrong will be decided by the county magistrate of the yamen. This kind of slandering people's reputation is very serious in itself. Besides, I am still a foodie, and I don't prove my reputation. Trust me and continue to come to the restaurant to eat?"

Yao shi glanced at Shi Laoba in disbelief. He couldn't believe that he ran to Xu Xiaoniangzi's restaurant to say such a thing.

Everyone knows that Miss Xu's food is delicious. That's because she is good at craftsmanship. After all, she has eaten in her restaurant for three years. If there is anything addictive, her body should be broken.

She couldn't help but apologize to Xu Qinyu, hoping that Xu Qinyu could let Shi Laoba go.

"We naturally know how good your craftsmanship is, Miss Xu. Of course, it's impossible to put something in the food. He is just talking nonsense, and I asked Miss Xu to give him a chance."

Xu Qinyu shook her head, "Other things can be done, but this can't be done."

Otherwise, someone who is jealous and jealous of her good business in the future will say that she has a problem with food, and there will be two.

Shi Laoba was still shouting, "I'm just talking about it casually, how can you be serious, so serious, is it because of you..."

Seeing that he couldn't spit out the ivory from his mouth again, Yao Shi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and turned around and slapped Shi Laoba in the face, "Shut up, how can you still have the face to say it! If it weren't for you, I would be with Xu Xiao. Niangzi will not make such a fuss. Rent increases and rents go up, you are thinking about the money every day. If you really have the ability and the heart to make money, you can’t go out to make money yourself, and you eat and drink mine all day long. , and also caused such a disaster with me, thinking about taking advantage of it directly all day long, the world will fall pie..."

She also endured it for a long time, and now she suddenly vented, and the strings in her heart suddenly loosened, as if everything was cleared away and the sun was shining.

Yes, all this is obviously hers, why should she bear it?

In the end, the yamen took Shi Laoba away, because it was Xu Qinyu who sued him, and she had to go with him. Fortunately, the back kitchen was already busy with most of the work, and the rest was handed over to Chef Wang and Dong Qian. .

After Yao Shi vented, he couldn't ignore him and followed him to the yamen.

Shi Laoba didn't know if she was stunned by her beating. On the way, without making a sound, he was pressed by the yamen to the yamen.

When he arrived at the yamen, the county magistrate interrogated him first, but he didn't even try.

The county magistrate patted Tangmu, so scared that Shi Laoba shrank his head, and said everything with a sad face.

He also said that he was jealous of Xu Ji's good business and wanted to increase the rent. Xu Qinyu disagreed and moved out. With a grudge in his heart, he went to the restaurant to make trouble and talk nonsense, saying that the food Xu Qinyu made was put in the food. It is also his nonsense that people are addicted, and there is no such thing.

Magistrate Yang was a little helpless, so he beat Shi Laoba and let him go back.

Xu Qinyu also returned to Xu Ji and continued to work.

The guests who ate the morning meal did not have any influence, but felt that watching a play was quite enjoyable.

As for what Shi Laoba said about the addictive things in the food made by Mrs. Xu, they knew it was impossible after thinking about it carefully. They were all Xu Ji's old customers.

Now that Shi Laoba himself admitted that it was nonsense, it's even better.

...

And Yao's side.

Even the buttocks of the ten big boards would not feel good. Shi Laoba was pulled back by Yao shi with a donkey cart.

After pulling it back, she threw the person on the bed and ignored him, and even told him, "Shi Laoba, you will do all the cleaning, cooking, washing, washing, and laundry in the house. Don't interfere, if I find out that you are meddling in this kind of thing again, and come to the door to mess with the little lady Xu, we will leave!"

Shi Laoba raised his head in disbelief and looked at Yao Shi, "You, what did you say? You, you dare!"

"Why would I dare not!" Yao shi said with red eyes: "Now that your affairs are known to everyone, who would dare to rent my shop, or if the business is good, you will ask them for twenty taels of silver. For one month's rent, I don't know if the shop can be rented out, anyway, if there is such a thing in the future, we will divorce."

"You dare!" Shi Laoba struggled to the ground, wanting to teach Yao Shi a lesson, "You were still beating me in the restaurant just now, you, you shrew, who did you learn from? You used to be a gentle and gentle person."

"It's not forced by you."

Seeing that Mr. Shi was limping and wanted to hit her on the ground, how could Yao shi allow him to do so? Taking advantage of his pain, he pushed him down, then rode on him, and beat him again. Lao Ba was injured and couldn't resist, so he was beaten up by Yao Shi and screamed.

After Mrs. Yao beat him up, he went back to the kitchen and put a kitchen knife into Shi Laoba's hand, "If you want to beat me, kill me with one knife, otherwise..."

Seeing that she even took out the kitchen knife, Shi Laoba scolded: "Are you crazy? I didn't hit you. You hit me. Put the kitchen knife back quickly, don't hurt yourself."

Yao shi didn't listen to him, raised his kitchen knife and slashed at Shi Laoba's head.

Shi Laoba looked at the kitchen knife that Yao slashed in horror, but luckily the kitchen knife wiped his face in the end.

Shi Laoba tremblingly said: "You, what do you want to do? Do you still want to kill me?"

Yao Shi was also furious.

She pulled out the kitchen knife that was on the ground next to Shi Laoba, raised the kitchen knife and told Shi Laoba, "Since you dare not kill me, you will live with me in the future, and you will do all the work at home." , or we will make up, if you still want to continue to fight, it is okay for us to die together, now I am not afraid of anything."

Shi Laoba looked at Yao shi in a daze, seeing the sternness on her face, he was a little afraid to speak.

In the next few days, except for the first three days when he was recovering from his injuries, Yao shi made meals for him to eat. Later, when he was able to move, Yao shi asked him to cook meals and wash his own clothes. He was not happy, Yao shi It was also very straightforward, if he didn't eat for him, he would eat for her and the two daughters, and only starch and wash their clothes, completely ignoring Shi Laoba, and even told him that he wanted to reconcile.

She really didn't want to live with Shi Laoba.

She experienced a marriage once and gave birth to a daughter with her deceased ex-husband. Her family property was left to her by her parents, and her ex-husband also recruited a son-in-law, so the daughter took her surname.

She never thought about remarrying before, but it was Shi Laoba who chased her fiercely, came to fetch water and cook for her, and after half a year of obsessing her, she agreed to marry him.

Unexpectedly, after getting married, he gradually changed. Not long after they got married, she and Shi Laoba gave birth to a little girl.

She has experienced a person with a daughter, and it is not bad.

Because the law and order in Yuanbao Town is good, the county magistrate is also a good person, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, so there is not so much right and wrong in front of the widow's house.

She went to the yamen to sue, and the county magistrate would also decide for her, so she felt that it was really impossible, and it would be good to live with two daughters by herself. Didn't the Lin family of Xu Ji live with two daughters by herself?

Yao's heart is indeed ashamed now, and she also told Shi Laoba truthfully that she is too disappointed, she doesn't want to continue living, and wants to make up.

Only then did Shi Laoba start to panic, knowing that what Yao said was true.

He also began to honestly cook meals, take care of his young daughter, and when the injury on his buttocks was almost healed, he also started to wash clothes and clean the house.

Instead, Yao Shi was taken aback.

But Yao shi didn't take it too seriously.

She is doing whatever she wants now, anyway, she has a house, a shop, and money, and it's not like she can't live without a man. Even if there is no Shi Laoba, she might as well buy two maids by herself, and the maids will do all the cleaning and cooking at home. At the beginning, I also thought about saving, so my family didn't buy it. Later, the number of people in the family increased, and I thought about buying a maid, but Shi Laoba refused.

He is very frugal, and he treats the two daughters equally. When he goes out, he really wants to buy some pastries and a nodding rope. Both daughters have them, they are all the same, and they are not partial. That's why Yao Shi is willing with him.

Now Yao shi is thinking about it too.

If Shi Laoba doesn't want to do it, and she doesn't want to live, she will reconcile with Li, buy two more maids and come back, and she will be happy at leisure. She has a thousand taels of silver in her hand, plus she has a shop and house, which is enough for her to live. Be comfortable and comfortable, there is no need to live a miserable life.

Now that Shi Laoba is willing to work, Yao shi doesn't say much, and he doesn't thank Dade as before, so he just doesn't thank him every day, as if it's only natural for him to do these things.

Yao Shi really thinks so, she has money, a house and a shop, even though she is married to Shi Laoba, but he should eat her and drink her, and do something, why should she be grateful.

So this day went on, Shi Laoba didn't even have any complaints at all, he worked honestly every day, stopped going out for a stroll, and played with his little daughter at home all day long.

Even if he worked all day, he didn't want Yao Shi to buy a maid, and he felt bad for silver.

On the other side of the shop, it was as Yao shi had expected, because the things that Shi Laoba did spread in Yuanbao Town. After others found out, even if Xu Ji rented this shop, they didn't want to come. Rent, otherwise, like Xu Ji, the business will be good in the future, what should the owner do if the lion opens up?

However, Yao's attitude towards the shop is relatively peaceful.

She still has 2,000 taels of cash in her hand, and there is a house in other places that is also rented out.

...

On Xu Ji's side, the restaurant was gradually on the right track, and the number of daily diners was three or four times that of the previous restaurant. Although he was busy, Xu Qinyu didn't feel very tired when the chefs helped more and more.

What's more, as long as you teach Donglaiju's original chef to help cook, it will be much better in the future.

The days went by very fast, and in a blink of an eye, it was more than a month, and it was the twelfth lunar month.

Xu Qinyu also ordered 1,500 hams with Butcher Tian. After thinking about it, he directly ordered 2,000 hams. Even if he couldn't finish eating them by then, he could put them away and put them in the standard that they could be eaten raw. Mrs. Lu's caravan helped to transport it to other prefectures, and it was very easy to sell.

Once you have tasted this thing, you will know how delicious it is, and you will not worry about not being able to sell it.

Tian Butcher naturally doesn't have so many pig hind legs. He knows many pig farmers, so he naturally ordered with them.

It is impossible for these hind legs to be sent to Xu Qinyu at one time, and they are all sent one after another within a month.

And Xu Qinyu also successively marinated the two thousand hind legs of pigs in the twelfth lunar month.

It took another 1,000 taels to pickle the hind legs of these pigs. She still had more than 20,000 taels left on her body, and she didn't know if it would be enough for the construction of the restaurant in Raozhou City.

However, the money for most of the materials has been paid, that is, the wages of the craftsmen behind, and the wages of some furniture and kitchen utensils have not been paid.

And since Xu Ji moved to Donglaiju, his monthly income has doubled several times! In addition to the 30% allocated to the Dong family, she still gets about 3,000 taels of silver every month.

Therefore, it is also estimated that the remaining money, plus the income of the next few months, should be enough for the restaurant in Raozhou City.

The small workshop that bought to store the hams is obviously not enough. There are more than 900 hams in it, and there can be more than 1,000 at most. The remaining 1,000 hams are directly borrowed from Mrs. Lu's in Dagu Village. The big winery is stored, the winery is relatively large, and there are many spare rooms.

Even she was reluctant to keep Heiyu and Baiyu watching the ham on both sides, so she specially invited two honest and responsible people to help guard.

This is the person introduced to her by Xia Yuanzhi, the husband of Wu's family in Buzhuang. He used to follow Xia Yuanzhi to make a living in Buzhuang. Later, when he was old and his strength was not as good as before, he went home. Everyone was honest and helped to see the workshop. Still no problem.

Xu Qinyu moved to Laixi Lane. Although she was relatively close to the Wu family, she was too busy on weekdays and did not visit often.

However, there are always times when they meet each other on weekdays, and they often walk around during New Years and festivals. The better the relationship between the two, the better.

Brother Shao from Wu Wan's family is also seven or eight years old this year, but he is much stronger than the thin and small brother Shao whom he met three years ago when he wanted to rent a house in Yuanbao Town.

Brother Shao has a good relationship with Brother Feng and Sister Qian.

Now the three of them are still studying in a private school, and they go to school together on weekdays.

Brother Shao's temperament is also different from three years ago. Now he is a lot more solid and talks a lot, and he knows how to protect Feng Ge'er and Sister Qian.

The person Xia Yuanzhi introduced, Xu Qinyu must be relieved to use.

Moreover, the workshop and the winery, one is in the town and the other is in the village. If there are thieves, they can know by calling someone, as long as someone is guarding them.

There are two people who help guard the workshop and the winery.

Xu Qinyu did not let Bai Yu and Mo Yu continue to go to the workshop, and told them that a new restaurant was being built in Raozhou City, and there was a mansion, a big mansion in Wujin, and a big garden. , they will have a place to run in the future, and it is said that the garden leads to the back mountain at the back, and they can walk to the back mountain from the garden on weekdays.

Since told Bai Yu and Mo Yu about this, Xu Qinyu had not seen them in the past few days, and suspected that they had gone outside Raozhou City to see the restaurant and mansion built.

After the ham is cured, it will almost be New Year's Eve this year.

After the new year, the restaurant will be able to be built almost, and she will definitely go to Raozhou City to get busy.

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, the restaurant closed.

Xu Ji usually has a New Year's Eve dinner with the guys in the restaurant.

This year is no exception. This year is the first year he moved here, so Xu Qinyu naturally pays more attention to it. On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, only the morning meal was served, and the diners were not received in the afternoon, so the people in the back kitchen made three large tables. meals.

In the past, one table was enough, but it was also full of people. This year, there are many more staff and cooks, and three tables are full.

Today even the Dongshi is here.

At dusk, Xu Qinyu said a few words as usual, she stood up with a glass of wine and smiled: "Every day in the restaurant is the credit of the big guy. At the end of the year, everyone has worked hard. At that time, the restaurant will have a New Year's dinner, everyone eats the New Year's meal, and after the New Year's meal, take a good rest for a few days, and have a good New Year."

After she finished speaking, she smiled again: "Xu Ji's man, in addition to the monthly payment, there will be a red envelope during the Chinese New Year. Now everyone is Xu Ji's person, so naturally they have it."

Originally, the guy who ran the hall in Donglaiju was only 800 pennies a month, but since Xu Qinyu came over, he gave each person a tael of silver, because Yuan Shi and the others had already raised their wages to a tael per month.

And these guys are also old people living in the east, they have stayed for many years, and they are diligent and responsible.

Xu Qinyu naturally treated them equally, and gave them a tael of silver.

Just the monthly money of one or two silvers per month has already made the guys who run the hall not happy.

These guys, like the Yuan family, not only run the hall, but also wash the pots and pans in the back kitchen, and work quickly.

In fact, 800 pennies are quite a lot in Yuanbao Town, but didn't expect that the new owner would give more, so worked harder, and heart went directly to Xu Qinyu.

Fortunately, although the two companies merged, Xu Qinyu usually only cares about the kitchen, and Dongxi is in charge of purchasing and other matters.

Dong Shi and Dong Xi have absolutely no objection to raising wages for the guys.

Now even Dongxi is following Xu Qinyu to learn cooking, and she should be called a master with respect.

They even felt that Xu Qinyu was righteous.

These guys didn't think much of it when they heard that they were going to give the red seal.

Only Yuan Shi and the three of them looked at Xu Qinyu, their eyes lit up a bit.

The guys around couldn't help but think, how many red seals can there be? Why do they look so excited?

They thought that the red envelope was not a red envelope for the New Year, just like the red envelope given by the elders in the family to the children during the Chinese New Year, with a few pennies in it.

When Brother Cheng came over with a wooden box, Xu Qinyu opened the box to reveal the silver inside.

Seeing this white silver, everyone was a little stunned.

Xu Qinyu said with a smile: "The guys running the hall have worked hard. In previous years, the red seal was only 10 taels of silver per person, and the same is true this year."

"Ten, ten taels?" Someone couldn't help but exclaimed, "Dong, Dongjia, are you not mistaken?"

Xu Qinyu said with a smile: "Don't worry, you can't go wrong, so I ask everyone to work hard in the future. If you do well, the wages will still increase."

As long as the employees work hard, she will not treat her employees badly.

The waiters were stunned, and gradually, they became like Yuan Shi and the others, with agitated expressions and flushed faces, and couldn't help but straighten their backs and sit upright.

There used to be eight waiters in Donglaiju, and Xu Qinyu took eighty taels of silver and distributed them to them. They were all ingots of ten taels of silver, which were heavy to hold in their hands, but everyone didn't dislike them at all, and they didn't realize it. He smiled so much that he showed two rows of white teeth.

Xu Qinyu took another thirty taels and gave it to Yuan Shi, Chen Shi and Lin Shi.

In addition, Cheng Geer, Da Niu, and Xu Feng and Xu Tiao.

After all, they are still apprentices, and they haven't been officially in charge of cooking, but they help a lot every day, and each of them is also a red seal of ten taels of silver.

The younger Erniu, Xu Yu and Xu Shun also have three taels of silver.

As for Gong Geer.

Brother Gong has been busy supervising work at the construction site in Raozhou City these days, and he can’t even come back for the Chinese New Year. Brother Gong’s ten taels of silver, Xu Qinyu asked Brother Cheng to take it back with him. Give it to him when he comes back.

The rest is the helper and chefs.

Xu Qinyu gave each of them a red seal of forty taels of silver for helping the cook.

The chef is eighty taels.

Xu Qinyu's red envelope is almost the same as the year-end bonus, but she earns a lot, and what she gives is almost equivalent to a year's salary.

Even the helpers and chefs didn't expect that they had so many red envelopes, and thought that all red envelopes were the same, and they were also ten taels.

Their salary as cooks is much higher than that of ordinary craftsmen. A helper chef earns three or four taels of silver a month, and a chef basically starts with seven taels of silver, but these dozens of taels of silver are not considered to them. Xiaoqian, of course, was also warm in heart, and thanked Xu Qinyu.

I also feel more and more in my heart that although Xu Ji's boss is young, he is honest, and he has made money by himself, and he has not treated them badly.

In the future, if the monthly payment is high and the red envelope is added, to be honest, they are not willing to open restaurants and eat food stalls by themselves. There are a lot of worrying things, how good is it that An An lives with Xu Dong's family? In this way, the help of the cook is almost a hundred taels a year, and the chef has nearly two hundred taels of silver, so why bother to worry about so much.

It's just that Dong Shi was a little surprised, and didn't know that Xu Ji would give everyone so many red seals.

After all, there is no restaurant or shop owner who will give a red seal like this, and after the door opens on the fourth day, each person will give a few tens of pennies.

But Xu Qinyu was generous to everyone, so of course Dong would not stop her.

All the red envelopes add up to hundreds of taels of silver, which is a lot, but Xu Qinyu earns more, so naturally she is willing to give it to her employees.

After sending out the red envelopes, the big guys began to eat the New Year's dinner.

Because of these red envelopes, everyone is in a happy mood, and they are happier eating and drinking.

They are so happy.

When they returned home with the red envelopes, they showed the red envelopes to their family members, and told them how generous Xu Ji's employer was.

The big guys were also very surprised, and said, "No wonder someone asked Xu Ji how much the waiters were, how much they paid each month, and they said 800 Wen, which can really be concealed. The monthly money, plus the red seal, my god, there are twenty-two taels of silver a year, my god, this Xu Dong's family is really kind, you have to work hard, don't steal and play tricks, there will be someone in the future Ask your monthly money, and remember not to talk nonsense to the outside world, so as not to be jealous and bring trouble to yourself and Xu Dong's family."

"Save it, save it."

The principle of not revealing wealth is applicable in ancient and modern times.