The happy little days of the Ye family

In the evening, Uncle Tang came to Ye's house and informed Ye's father that the shelves and furniture for the two shops were finally ready.

When the doors and windows were completed before, they had already been sent to the shop for installation.

The current batch of furniture is mainly shelves, tables, chairs and beds for small rooms.

Father Ye brought Ye Xilin and Tang Xiaojing to Uncle Tang's house.

There were so many things that the large shelves in the grocery store alone were filled with two donkey carts from the Ye family and an ox cart from the Tang family.

The three of them made two trips before transporting everything back to Ye's house.

When Ye Donglin returned home, he was very happy to see that all the shelves in the store were ready.

Back in the house, Ye Donglin pulled out another list, which was densely packed with goods that the grocery store was preparing to buy.

Most of them are things that are easy to use in daily life, ranging from pots and pans, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to large clay pots and iron pots.

The two shops are near the academy. Although most of the people living nearby are scholars from the academy, they usually have their families or have maids and servants to wait on them.

Therefore, Father Ye thought it was right to buy more daily necessities.

As for reading supplies, Ye Donglin currently prepared some ceramic pen holders and bamboo pen holders, as well as some old books that Ye Qingqing bought before.

Ye Donglin inquired at the dock for a long time, but still could not find a suitable merchant to supply him with pens, ink, paper and inkstones and other reading supplies.

In fact, there are also pens, inks, paper and inkstones on West Street, and they can also be wholesaled.

But Ye Donglin checked it out, and found that the quality was average, and the quantity Ye Donglin wanted was small, and the price wasn't much cheaper than the county bookstores, so there was no profit.

The only bookstore in town is on North Street, a bit far away from the inner academy. Ye Donglin thinks there is a market for cheaper paper and brushes.

However, the cost of pens, inks, paper and inkstones was high, and Ye Donglin was afraid that he would spend money on them but not be able to sell them.

Therefore, Ye Donglin has never been able to make up his mind whether to buy a batch of pens, inks, paper and inkstones to sell.

The next day, Ye Donglin stopped setting up a stall on the pier. Early in the morning, the Ye family and his family came to two shops in the town.

The Tang family's father and son also drove their own ox cart to help transport things to the shop.

The first haul was all stuff from the grocery store.

A grocery store is basically those tall, sturdy shelves, a counter, and two chairs that go with the counter.

In addition, there is a large bed placed in a small room for resting.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a cash counter. The counter is not big, but there are four large drawers inside, and they are all locked.

In addition to keeping money, some valuables can also be locked inside the counter at night.

Ye Donglin ordered a total of 8 large shelves, and placed two shelves directly in front of the counter, which Ye Donglin had planned to use to store things for scholars.

In the larger area on the other side, there are 5 shelves, which are prepared to store various groceries.

There is also a small open space left in the corner, which is intended to be used for storing food.

Father Ye has already gone to Li Dazhu in Lijia Village and ordered several large pottery jars, intending to use them to hold grain.

Now the Ye family has more than 50 acres of paddy fields and more than ten acres of dry land. The food produced every year cannot be eaten by the family.

If the price is relatively low if the grain is sold to a grain store, it is better to sell it slowly in your own grocery store.

Dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, red dates picked from the mountains, and even vegetables, fruits and wild vegetables grown at home can actually be sold in grocery stores.

Ye Donglin divided the grocery store into three areas. The largest area is definitely for selling groceries, with 5 shelves.

In addition, there is a shelf and a small empty space in the corner, which is dedicated to selling grains, dry goods and other household products.

There are also two shelves directly in front of the cashier, which were previously planned to sell reading supplies.

After the shop was decorated, Father Ye took a few strong men and went to the small house to set up the big bed.

Mrs. Ye took Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing to the well room shared by the two shops.

The three of them built several short shelves, which were specially used to hold things.

Ye Mu also brought two buckets and two large wooden basins from home, which were used to wash the pots and pans of the braised butcher shop.

The small room at the back of the grocery store can be used to rest or take a nap.

If you can't make it home in the evening, you can still sleep here.

It took the group a whole morning to arrange everything in the grocery store.

Seeing that it was getting late, Mr. Ye took a group of people to have lunch.

Mr. Ye originally planned to go to a restaurant to treat everyone, but when he walked to the alley, he was greedy for the newly opened noodle restaurant, and no one wanted to leave.

This is the small shop that Ye Qingqing bought before. He didn't expect that the person who rented the shop would open the noodle shop so quickly, and the business would be so good.

The shop is not big, but it is full of people, and the fragrance is constantly wafting from the shop.

The people who were already hungry became even hungrier.

Ye Xilin swallowed and said, "It smells so good. There are so many people in this noodle shop, so it must taste good. How about we try the noodles from this restaurant?"

Father Ye originally planned to sell both braised pork and braised pork rice like he did at the pier before, but he didn't expect that the noodle shop next door was doing so well.

Father Ye also wanted to try how the noodles in this noodle shop tasted, so he decided to eat noodles instead.

The shop is only 30 square meters, and a small kitchen has been added, making the inside of the shop even smaller.

There were only 6 small tables inside, and several people waited for a while before they found an empty table.

Ye Qingqing looked up at the menu posted on the wall. There were not many dishes, only egg and vegetable noodles, sliced ​​meat and vegetable noodles, shaved noodles, and egg fried noodles.

The price is a bit expensive, the cheapest egg and vegetable noodles cost 11 cents a bowl, the sliced ​​meat and vegetable noodles cost 13 cents, and the shaved noodles and egg fried noodles both cost 12 cents.

Father Ye felt better when he saw that there was no braised pork noodles here. At least it had no impact on their braised pork shop.

Ye Qingqing and Ye Xilin were chattering at the dinner table, discussing what noodles they wanted to eat.

The last group of people ordered 4 bowls of pork and vegetable noodles, 3 bowls of shaved noodles and 2 portions of egg fried noodles.

These noodles taste really good, no wonder so many people come here to eat them.

While Ye Qingqing and the others were eating noodles, a lot of people came over, including students from the academy and ordinary people living nearby.

Father Ye saw that the shop was so small and people were queuing up outside. It would be possible to open a braised meat shop.

Ye's father's braised pork rice tastes good, and the price is about the same as the noodles here. If there are a lot of people queuing up at the noodle shop, there will naturally be many people running over to eat the braised pork rice.

Moreover, people in the south still eat a lot of rice, and generally they can’t bear to eat noodles every day.

Therefore, Father Ye is still very optimistic about his braised pork rice.