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Chapter 80
After leaving Funing County and living in Prefecture City for half a month, Chen Nianguan became extremely anxious when the car approached Yanlai Lane.
This is the first time that I have been separated from Liu Shi and Xuan Xuan for such a long time.
The reason why she was in such a hurry to return to Funing County was because tomorrow was the Dragon Boat Festival, and she wanted to hurry back to celebrate the festival with Aunt and Xuan Xuan.
When she entered the door of the house, she saw that Mrs. Liu was leading Xuan Xuan to draw water by the well, and there were reed leaves in the basin next to it, while old man Xu was cleaning the donkey cart.I'm home!"
"Yo, it's Wan Wan!"
"Sister!" Xuan Xuan flew over and hugged Chen Nianguan's leg, "Sister, why have you been away for so long? People miss you so much."
"I miss Xuan Xuan too."
Chen Nianguan lowered his head, patted Xuan Xuan's head with a smile, and pinched her face again, "Your brother and I bought a lot of delicious snacks and candies from the Prefecture City, Xuan Xuan is so good, I gave them allXuan Xuan."
"Okay, my sister is the best to me." Xuan Xuan laughed, and rushed to Zhang Erlang's side, "Big brother, take me to have some snacks!"
Zhang Erlang took Xuan Xuan's hand and walked to the main room, leaving Chen Nianwan to accompany Liu Shi.
"We've been walking for so long, mother, are you and Xuan Xuan okay?"
"Okay, now we don't need anything. We eat well and live well, of course." Liu asked, "How about the Zhang Erfu exam? Have you passed the exam?"
"I passed the exam!" Chen Nianguan said coquettishly, "Xuan Xuan misses me all the time, mother, do you miss me?"
Liu looked at the eldest daughter, put the bucket aside with a smile, "Thinking, I miss you as an adult, have you learned to take care of yourself? I'm worried!"
"I miss Aunt too, I'm afraid you have no one to take care of Aunt!"
"What's the matter? Your Liu Shan cousin lives next door. There are only five households in the past. If there is anything, I can just call him." Liu said intentionally, "It doesn't matter if we have you or not."
"Auntie!" Knowing that Liu was joking, Chen Nianguan still stomped his feet, then complacently said, "It's not like I can do without me, without me, you can't make so much money."
"Oh, the Prefecture City branch is making money?"
"That's right, I brought back both your share, Auntie and Xuan Xuan, Auntie, please help me save it!" Chen Nianguan said how much he had earned, seeing Liu's shocked expression, secretly proud.
Look, look, without me, where are you going to find ways to make money?
It took a long time for Mrs. Liu to come back to her senses, "This, our store, is really so popular in Prefecture City?"
"Isn't that right? The Prefecture City is so big and there are so many people. Mom, Gai Minger, I'll take you and Xuan Xuan to play in the Prefecture City!" Chen Nianguan rolled his eyes, "Maybe after making enough moneySilver, we can also move to Prefecture City?"
"What are you moving? Our roots are here! You are such a child, people are far from home, do you understand this truth?" Mrs. Liu gave Chen Nianguan a look, "Go as you like, in short, your mother and IJust stay????? in Funing County."
"Understood, mother, just talking!"
Also, if it is not forced by life, most people would not be willing to move away from their hometown, especially in the dynasties with underdeveloped transportation and communication. Since the Liu family didn't like it, Chen Nianguan certainly didn't force it.
After returning to the main room, Mrs. Liu immediately explained the April income of the Funing County branch, and handed over her share to her.
One hundred and thirty six taels.
In other words, the total profit is three hundred and forty taels.
It seems that after the hot sales period, the store's revenue began to decrease, and after it stabilized, it seems that this trend will continue to decline. It is estimated that the monthly profit will be at most 200 taels.
Liu also gave her the 10% bonus from Yueman Building and the franchise fee of the partners who signed up and wanted to join and open a store later.
Well, there are only three people, one hundred and fifty taels.
"Of course. After the excitement is over, there will be fewer people who are interested in our shop. Let's wait. Besides, there are more than 20 people who cooperate with us today. Wan Wan, you should be content."
"Yes yes yes!" Chen Nianguan replied, but he was thinking in his heart that he should take advantage of the excitement of the mansion test and put up an offer in the west store to recruit a partner. Tsk, it was a mistake.
The great opportunity to cut leeks is gone.
So, counting now, she has one main store, one branch store, and 22 other branch stores opened in partnership with others?
Nice!
It seems that I will soon become a rich woman!
Then you can take it easy for the time being, and see how many of these branches opened this month have a survival rate, and whether the money sent is rich or not.
Now I have more than 2,000 taels of silver. When this May passes, I should be able to break through 3,000 taels, right?
Chen Nianguan thought happily.
Do you want to continue to make money and start some business?
If you do, what kind of job would you choose?
The money has to be invested and rolled over to make money and make more and more money!
Otherwise, when will I be able to sit on a million dollars in wealth!
Mrs. Liu saw that her daughter was dreaming with the money, and she was probably thinking of some way to earn money again. She shook her head and patted her on the head before she wanted to say anything.She came in, pawed on her sister's knee, pouting her pink cheeks and said, "Aniang, sister, you don't ask me to count the money now, Xuan Xuan is so angry."
Mrs. Liu and Chen Nianguan laughed, remembering that when the family set up a stall selling fish curd and rice noodles, didn't they ask Xuan Xuan to count the coins together?
Now there is no need to count copper coins, the proceeds from the store are directly deposited into the bank, and the silver is all in their respective accounts!
Unless it is the cash register in the hands of Chen Nianguan in the back, it is also silver ingots or bank notes.
"Xuan Xuan, you don't know, you have saved a lot of silver in the bank today, why do you need to count copper coins?" Chen Nianguan hugged Xuan Xuan on his lap, smiled and nodded her nose.
Xuan Xuan curled her lips: "How wonderful it is to count copper coins. When I count them, there are a lot of them, one by one, piled up into a hill. I am happy to see it."
Liu Shi and Chen Nianguan laughed again.
It turns out that there is also a little money fan here!
"Okay, Xuan Xuan, if you really like counting copper coins, next time you ask the store to leave some copper coins for you to count, okay?"
"Okay." Xuan Xuan nodded in satisfaction, and then said: "But you don't need to give it the same every time, you need to be different. I don't know how much money I have. It's fun to count."
Chen Nianguan promised.
Baby sister wants to play with such trivial things as copper coins, so she must be satisfied.
"Then Xuan Xuan gets so much copper money every month, what is she doing with it?"
"Save to buy flowers, and make a pretty skirt." Speaking of the skirt, Xuan Xuan jumped to the ground, stretched out his little hand and waved in front of Chen Nianguan, "Look, the new skirt that Auntie made for me isIsn't it pretty?"
"nice."
Xuan Xuan covered her small mouth and laughed, then let go, proudly said: "Auntie made a lot of clothes for us, the whole Yanlai Lane, I have beautiful skirts to wear every day."
"Well, of course, Xuan Xuan is the most beautiful little fairy on this street!"
Xuan Xuan giggled and covered her face in embarrassment, "Sister, sister, you also have new clothes to wear. When you put them on, you will be a beautiful fairy like me."
Chen Nianwan smiled and looked at his mother.
"That's right, she's a girl, she wears your husband's clothes all day long, what do you think?" Liu Shi also said with a smile, "I know you're busy, so I went to Jinxiufang with Xuan Xuan to buy it."A few bolts of cloth made some new clothes for the three of us, and put them in your house together with the clothes you asked the tailor to make."
"Then I thank Aunt."
Chen Nianguan went back to the house, opened the cage, and saw several sets of clothes neatly folded inside, all made of high-quality silk and satin, with exquisite workmanship and complicated patterns.
Chen Nianguan knew that since the money in the family gradually increased, Liu tried to find a way to compensate her and Xuan Xuan's two sisters, food, housing, clothing, and use.
It was she who told her that there was no need to give the monthly money, but Liu still insisted on making pocket money for the ten taels every month, saying that what she earns is what she earns, and what A Niang gives is what A Niang gives.Silver is different.
Chen Nianguan knew about Liu's intentions, so he accepted it without refusing.
Of course, Liu Shi made the two sisters live well, but also did not forget to let herself live well.
Since Xu Ahua's mother and daughter both came to the shop to help, she bought three servants from the dental shop, a girl and a couple.
The girl's name is Xiaoyu, and she was bought to serve Xuan Xuan. As for the couple, the woman's name is Aunt Lian, and she is in charge of minor tasks such as washing and cleaning..
With Mrs. Liu as the chief logistics supervisor, the more you live in the house, the more comfortable you will be.
Chen Nianguan picked up those skirts and put them aside, and then took out six sets of Mr. Wang's cotton skirts.
When walking outside, for convenience and safety, Chen Nianguan usually dresses like a gentleman, so when spring is preparing summer clothes, Chen Nianguan asks Liu to go to the cloth shop to pull some dark cloth and make six for himself.Set of clothes for Mr. Lang.
Well, six sets.
Because when working as a social animal in 996 in modern times, Chen Nianguan will prepare six sets of commuting clothes no matter winter, summer, spring or autumn.
There are all kinds of shirts, trousers, and skirts, most of which are basic and can be mixed and matched.
Originally, I work five days a week, so one set per day can complete the five working days a week. As for the sixth set, it is naturally a spare one. In case of accident, you can change it.
I usually wear other casual clothes and skirts when I am not working.
But then it became a six-day shift, and just used the spare set.
After wearing here, this habit has been well retained by Chen Nianguan, except that there is no concept of weekends and Sundays here, and there will be no rest every five days, so she decided that these Langjun clothes should be regarded asOwn commuter clothes.
After all, when going out, the little lady in beautiful clothes is too eye-catching, it is more suitable to dress up as a young man.
She spends a lot of time traveling outside, for example, one main store and one branch store, for example, she can occasionally visit branches in other places, for example, she is about to start a new business.
But tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, so you should dress nicely.
In the end, Chen Nianguan took out a set of water blue skirts that he planned to wear tomorrow, and put them on the hanger. After packing up the other clothes, he went outside to help Liu's make rice dumplings.
Liu’s fillings are traditional salted eggs, dates, minced meat, red beans, lotus seeds, etc. The reason why she prepares so many kinds of fillings is because her family is better off now, so she is willing to buy meat, salted eggs, and other rumored beanscollocation.
In the past, no matter whether they were in the Liu family or the Chen family, the Liu family would not be willing to make such extravagant rice dumplings, they only made vegetarian rice dumplings with beans.
"These are all when I went to the market to buy meat, and I went to the store to listen to it, and then I realized that other people's rice dumplings had to be filled with so much ingredients, and salted eggs were not enough.Put the meat in!" Liu Shi said while making dumplings, tsk-tsk in her mouth, "Today, Auntie will also make meat-filled rice dumplings for you two sisters."
The shape of the dumplings made by Liu's is very good.
Angular, well-packed, and beautiful.
"Ma'am, don't worry, I can make zongzi, and I can also make fillings with different flavors. Ma'am, do you like sweet or salty?" Chen Nianguan immediately raised his hand and asked Liu.
Liu looked at her eldest daughter and smiled.
"Everything Wan Wan cooks is delicious, whether it's sweet or salty, my mother likes it all."
"Okay, then Auntie, just watch and I'll teach you." Chen Nianguan rolled up his cuffs, looked at the fillings Liu's prepared, and planned to straighten them out from the beginning, and then planned to make steamed rice dumplings.
Let Aniang and Xuan Xuan taste the modern rice dumplings, and bring some to the shop to distribute to the shop assistants as employee benefits for the Dragon Boat Festival.
First of all, Dashan was asked to go outside to buy all the missing things, and she first went to the kitchen to light the fire and do the preparatory work: wrapping the mung beans for the stuffing of steamed rice dumplings, marinated pork belly, and except for Liu’sThe prepared lotus seeds and dates, as well as other mushrooms, scallops and so on.
Naturally, Liu's help is needed to do these things.
And Liu's main thing is to soak the mung beans until soft, and then remove the coat.
Chen Nianguan himself is in charge of cooking the pork belly meat that is required for meat dumplings, and cleaning and handling all the first-class fillings.
When she found out the spices for marinating pork belly and frying them, she realized that she was missing one of her usual condiments—Southern milk.
Don't underestimate this Nanru, the rice dumpling meat is delicious and has a unique flavor, it depends on the Nanru that is indispensable when marinating.
However, she has been busy with opening a shop recently, and forgot to try to make milk.
Are you doing it now?
It's too late, so can only find ingredients for making sauce jerky.
So Chen Nianguan temporarily changed course and decided to make roasted meat dumplings.
So changed the prepared condiments a little????? to make braised pork, cut into pieces, then cut other ingredients, mushrooms into pieces, and stir them together with shrimp, scallops, lotus seeds, etc., and finally do the most important step: fried glutinous rice.
That's right, the difference between roasted meat dumplings and ordinary rice dumplings is that ordinary rice dumplings include wrapped steamed rice dumplings. The glutinous rice used is soaked and wrapped in rice dumpling leaves, but the glutinous rice of roasted meat dumplings is wrapped into rice dumplings.Before that, you need to adjust the taste and stir fry.
Although the taste of roasted meat dumplings is similar, the ingredients used when frying glutinous rice are spices and sauces prepared by each household according to the taste of each family that makes the dumplings.
When Chen Nianguan made dumplings by himself, he preferred the taste of 198X, so when he made them, he imitated the taste in his memory, prepared the sauce and fried the glutinous rice.
After Liu's soaked mung beans soften, remove the outer coat and drain the water. When all the fillings are ready, you can start making zongzi!
Put the glutinous rice, ingredients, salted egg yolk and mung beans in order, then cover it with glutinous rice, wrap it tightly with zong leaves and tie it up.
Finally, watch the plump zongzi put into the big pot, add water and cook for a few hours on high heat, the aroma of the meat zongzi will waft out, and then it can be started.
Although it is a salty rice dumpling, besides the sauce, Chen Nianguan also prepared white sugar for cutting and dipping.
What if someone likes to eat salty and sweet?
A family of four, um, including Zhang Erlang, also came to taste the newly opened roasted meat dumplings.
Peel off the zongzi, and you can see the glutinous rice inside is bright red, golden egg yolk, black fungus, red shrimp, yellow mung bean, etc. Dotted in it, stir it, dip it in the sauce and eat it.
Chen Nianguan took a sip himself and nodded in satisfaction.
The glutinous rice dumpling is delicious, and the roast pork is oily and not greasy. It is not bad, but it does not have the full charm of the 198X roast pork dumpling with a history of more than 50 years.
Looking at Liu Shi and Zhang Erlang who were nodding while eating the rice dumplings in their bowls, Chen Nianguan was stunned.
That's right, they have never eaten this kind of roasted meat dumplings, of course they feel delicious after tasting it.
In the early morning of the next day, she immediately got dressed and took Liu Shi, Xuan Xuan and Zhang Erlang to the Chen Family Rice Noodle Shop to distribute benefits to the employees.
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, the county magistrate Huang organized a dragon boat festival on the river, and many people in the city went to the river bank to watch the dragon boat race. There were not many diners in the shop. Seeing Chen Nianwan coming, Liu He and Mrs. Wang came out to greet him.she.
"Cousin, are you back?"
"Sister Chen, did you bring the good stuff from Prefecture City?"
"It's better than what you buy in Prefecture City." Chen Nianguan smiled, and asked Dashan to move in the roasted meat dumplings, "I made the dumplings with my own hands! Everyone has worked hard these days, so I made these specially.Zongzi, send everyone to eat."
"The zongzi made by my cousin? It must be very delicious, right?" Liu He smiled, and was the first to walk to the wooden bucket containing the roasted meat zongzi, calling for the shop assistants to come and share.
"My sister made it, it must be delicious." Xuan Xuan nodded, "We tasted it, and the meat and rice in it are delicious."
"That's right, you must have never tasted the zongzi made by Wan Wan." Mrs. Liu also told Sister-in-law Wang, "You can get some more later and bring them home for Wang De to try too."
"Okay, then I'm not polite." Sister Wang nodded.
The guys in the store basically came to get the roasted pork dumplings with a smile.
Liu Shan and Liu Yun also ran out from the back kitchen, opened two roasted meat dumplings and started eating them.
After taking two bites, Liu Yun looked at Chen Nianguan happily: "Cousin, when will you teach me this?"
"If you have a chance, don't worry."
Now Liu Yun is gradually able to take charge of the situation on his own. It is said that Liu Shan sometimes has a rest, even if Liu Yun is alone in the back kitchen, he can still take charge of the overall situation.
Chen Nianguan was delighted to see his future assistant.
Another chef has been trained, and he is one step closer to his goal of opening a restaurant.
After Liu He finished distributing the zongzi to the shop assistants, Chen Nianguan asked him and Liu Shan to enter the accounting room, and when they talked about the income of the Prefecture City West Store, both of them laughed like pigs.
"Cousin, are we rich now?"
"Should we be considered rich?"
"Tsk tsk, do you think there is a big family with a few mansions and a hundred acres of fertile land?" Chen Nianguan poured cold water on them, "You count the money in your hand, can you buy a mansion house? Or can you buy a hundred acres of fertile land?"
Liu Shan calculated that he could not even afford a house in Yanlai Lane, so he was discouraged.
Liu He glanced at Liu Shan, and then at Chen Nianguan, shaking his head frequently, "Cousin, you are wrong, we still don't earn enough money now, when the time goes by, the shop in Prefecture City will be the same as our shop.The income is accumulated month by month, isn’t it enough?”
"That's right, my cousin just wants to remind you that now everyone has some money on hand, but it's not enough, so we can't relax, work hard, and we will definitely earn three to five hundred taels." Chen Nianguan finished the attackCousins, seeing Liu Shan's expression is wrong, hurry up to save him, "Isn't it easy to buy the house in Yanlai Lane?"
Hearing this, Liu Shan perked up again, and nodded vigorously to Chen Nianguan.
After learning about the recent situation of the store and instructing his cousins, Chen Nianguan went back to the store and found that Mrs. Liu had left early with Xuan Xuan, saying that he was going to take a seat on the river bank to watch the dragon boat.Leave Zhang Erlang waiting for her.
Chen Nianguan quickly followed Zhang Erlang to find him.
There are quite a few people who went to the canal to watch the dragon boat race today. The more they went to the pier, the more people there were.There are people shouting and clamoring, just listening to it, can't help but make people feel excited.
Chen Nianguan saw the people watching the dragon boat race by the river, some in the colorful tents and some standing in front of the fence.
It is probably one of the rare events in a year. All the people, young and old, went out and put on the new clothes that they are reluctant to part with on weekdays. The expressions on their faces were either happy or nervous, and they all looked at the few dogs on the river that were breaking through the waves and anxiously.Ben's dragon boat.
On the impenetrable road, I am afraid that we will not be able to squeeze to the shore.
Chen Nianguan's enthusiasm was not discounted, watching the bustle, he only stood on his tiptoes and kept looking around. Occasionally, he saw the vigorous man on the dragon boat who was tied with colored silk and struggling to paddle, and he screamed from time to time.
Zhang Erlang, who was beside her, couldn't stop smiling when he saw how happy and innocent she was.
When Chen Nianguan finally had enough of watching, Zhang Erlang walked back slowly with Chen Nianguan, and seeing young ladies and Erlang passing by on the street from time to time, talking and laughing at Yan Yan, it dawned on him that the Dragon Boat Festival is also a lover who can meet outside in a fair mannerdays.
The two couldn't help but looked at each other and smiled.
Facing Chen Nianguan's smiling face, Zhang Erlang's heart trembled, and he called out the title: "Guanniang?"
Chen Nianguan was going to see the good-looking lady, but when he heard his call, he turned to look at him again.
"Wan-Niang Wan, me, I have a small gift for you." Zhang Erlang took out a box from his sleeve and handed it to her.
Give her a gift?Jewelry or something?
It seems that he has saved a lot of money recently?
"Thank you, Erlang." Chen Nianguan took it graciously, and said casually, "Then what should I return to you?"
"If Wanniang could embroider a purse for me, that would be great."
Chen Nianguan, who expected to get a sentence, as long as it is from her, can do anything, was stunned, looked up at Zhang Erlang looking at him expectantly, forced a smile and nodded, but subconsciously frowned.
Embroidered purse?
She has never touched needlework since she came here, it was all done by Auntie and Liu Yun, but now it is Auntie and Aunt Lian who let her embroider purses?
After Mrs. Liu heard about this, she looked at the bitter-faced eldest daughter and shook her head helplessly: "You, what's so embarrassing? After getting married, don't you still have to sew his clothes? Your father's clothes used to be, but I sewed them all, this is the duty of being a wife."
"Isn't it good if I go to a clothing store to order clothes?" Chen Nianguan said, "Or, just hire someone to make our clothes."
Good steel needs to be used on the blade, and she is not good at needlework, so why ask for trouble for such trivial matters?Just a waste of energy and time.
"You, when did you become so lazy?" Mrs. Liu had seen her daughter's sewing work, but it was neither better nor worse than others, so she didn't understand why her daughter was so embarrassed.
"Aniang, why don't you help me embroider one for him?"
"How can I do that?" Mrs. Liu shook her head and refused, "Of course you have to embroider the purse for Zhang Er by yourself, and Auntie can't help."
Chen Nianguan couldn't help touching his forehead and sighing.
"Wan Wan, you are not allowed to ask others to help you. If you let Aniang know, I will never let you go."
"Got it, Mommy!"
But Liu Shi was afraid that she would neglect her, so she sent a bunch of fabrics for embroidering purses, tapes, embroidery threads, silver needles, etc. to her room, so she had to learn it like a duck on a shelf, unable to grasp the tricks., had to give up.
Anyway, don't be in a hurry, let her think of a way.
She has more important work to do than this.