The street was deserted and deserted, with the cold wind blowing up the discarded objects thrown by people during the day and swirling past, Xu Rong and Shen Jiyao hid at one end of the street, while Wang Baoer and Zhang Yongzhang Goudan hid at the other end, waiting for the mischief The person in charge showed up, while Wang Yue'er stayed in the inn to take care of Xiao Doumi.

The five of them had been waiting here for a long time, and Xu Rong was always in a state of turmoil, fearing that if no one came, the troublemakers would be taken advantage of in vain.

After waiting impatiently for a while, there was still no one on the street. Xu Rong was really worried, so he asked Shen Jiyao: "Brother Shen, do you think that person will really come? If he doesn't come tonight, we will Stay overnight? Why do we have to come at this time, how do you know he will come at this time. "

Shen Jiyao said softly: "The people in Snack Alley opened later than ours, but it was only about a quarter of an hour later. I think so. They can't come with a bucket of dung when they come to open the door for business, so they have to Find an opportunity to splash it first. There are no people on the street at this time. It is the best time to start. After finishing it, you can go back to sleep and get up early in the morning to continue doing business, and the dung water I saw in the morning is almost dry. , so it’s about the same time, don’t worry, I think that person will definitely come.”

Xu Rong saw that his analysis was clear and logical, and it was the same reason after thinking about it carefully. He couldn't help admiring Shen Jiyao again in his heart. He didn't say any more, but waited patiently.

It was really uncomfortable for the two of them to hide behind a small stall. The cold wind blew straight at night. Fortunately, there was a place to block the wind. Shen Jiyao began to feel sleepy after squatting for a long time. He buried his head in his knees and was fainting While sleeping, a figure suddenly came into sight of the two of them with something on the other side of the street.

Xu Rongben was also dazed, but when he saw the figure, he patted Shen Jiyao excitedly, pointed at the figure and said softly: "Brother Shen, look quickly, is it that person?"

Shen Jiyao cheered up and looked around, only to see that there was indeed a figure in front of him. The figure was getting closer and closer, and he held a bucket in his hand, and said, "It's probably him, go out when he is about to do something, and grab it." It’s better to be present, and I don’t know if Bao’er and the others will make mistakes, I hope they will remember what I have explained.”

Xu Rong stared at the figure and whispered: "Don't worry, Big Brother Shen. Although Bao'er can't speak, he has a calm and reliable personality. With him around, there will be no mistakes."

Shen Jiyao nodded, staring at the figure who was getting closer and closer in front of him, and when he was more than ten feet away, Shen Jiyao finally saw the face of that person clearly. Shen Jiyao gritted his teeth and watched the woman who sold cooking cakes across the door from them as she walked into the snack alley.

Shen Jiyao said, "Follow me."

Xu Rong responded, and cautiously went out to hide behind the woman.

The woman walked straight to Shen Jiyao's shop with a bucket of dung and stopped. When she raised the bucket of dung and covered it with one hand and was about to splash it, Shen Jiyao suddenly shouted: "Stop!"

The woman screamed, and the dung bucket in her hand fell to the ground with a clatter, splashing her all over.

Shen Jiyao and Xu Rong rushed up a few steps, and Wang Baoer and others also rushed over there. Seeing that she was caught, the woman turned around and wanted to run, but was blocked by Wang Baoer.

Shen Jiyao walked behind the woman, and a stench hit his face. He looked at the panic-stricken woman and said coldly, "I didn't expect it to be you. I'm so blind. I treated you to something last time."

The woman looked ruthless but trembled all over. She didn't know whether she was wet with feces or she was angry. She said, "Bah! I don't care for food, you insisted on giving it to me."

Shen Jiyao nodded indifferently, and said: "That's right, the biscuits I made are so shabby, I really don't want to eat something better than your biscuits, I guess even if people don't say that your biscuits are not as good as my egg pancakes, you I also secretly know how to make comparisons, am I going to drive myself to death? It’s a good idea to find other people’s bad luck when the quality of what I make is not up to standard.”

"You're shameless!" the woman scolded, "Everyone in this alley sells only one dish, but you can make seven or eight dishes in one go! We take care of all breakfast and lunch! You've taken away our business, you What are we going to eat?! What’s wrong with your family, what can you do, you stinky shameless brother!"

"Oh, that's how it is." Shen Jiyao said with a dazed look on his face, "Then I'll focus on making pancakes in the future. I haven't tried many ways of pancakes yet, but you reminded me today." , I can’t stop stealing other people’s business, I’ll start making all kinds of pancakes tomorrow.”

The woman gritted her teeth angrily when she heard the words, she looked at Shen Jiyao viciously, and was so angry that she couldn't help scolding him for being shameless.

Shen Jiyao took the time to listen to her scolding for a long time before he said unhurriedly: "There are a lot of shameless people out there. Compared with people like you who do tricks behind the scenes, I'm a small person. Tell me what should I do?" If I settle this account with you, I will lose at least three taels of silver a day, so you should pay for it."

The woman's expression changed, and she shouted, "Dream!"

"Okay then." Shen Jiyao said: "You don't have to pay, let's go to the supervisor's hall to find two supervisors to judge and see whose fault it is, and then we will do whatever he wants us to do."

The woman panicked at once, if the supervisor really knew about her behavior, she might take the shop back, the woman trembled even more, she clenched her fists tightly and did not speak.

Shen Jiyao snorted coldly and said, "Now you know you're afraid? You made me lose a whole day's business in just one thought, but it's only a few taels of silver, not much, but I can ruin your reputation with one thought, and you can also fix it If you can’t stay on this street, I can still tell you clearly, look for my bad luck, no matter what food you sell in the future, I can make something better than yours to steal your business, Do you believe it?"

The woman looked at him with a pale face and didn't speak. How delicious Shen Jiyao's cooking is, how strange she can see it, and this man's thoughts are not ordinary, how can he calculate it with his own thoughts? That's why he was easily caught by him. The more the woman thought about it, the more afraid she became, and the more she hated Shen Jiyao. She didn't want to bow her head to him at all, so she bit her lower lip tightly and looked at him fiercely without speaking.

Shen Jiyao originally said it on purpose to let her take the initiative to admit her mistake and solve the matter. Seeing that she refused to admit her mistake, she said: "If you have a temper, then let's see you at the monitoring station tomorrow. They will decide what to do with you. Xu Rong, put her first." Take it back, let’s catch the stolen goods and get them, but don’t let them go.”

Xu Rong stepped forward and grabbed the woman's clothes and said, "Let's go."

Only then did the woman realize that she was afraid, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Brother Shen, it's all my fault if you do well, I don't dare to do it again, please don't send me to the prison, we are a big family You still rely on me to support you, please, I will kneel down for you, as long as you don’t send me to the prison, I will do whatever you want, please do me a favor.” The woman thumped as she spoke. He knelt down on the ground, still begging for mercy.

Shen Jiyao's face softened a bit, what he wanted was for the woman to admit her mistake, even if she confessed her mistake verbally, he could accept it, although this woman was indeed very annoying, but now she would be reaping the consequences if she spilled dung on her body , Now that I have admitted my mistake, he doesn't need to do too much. After all, he is not the only one who wants to make money to support his family, but it is naturally impossible for Shen Jiyao to let her go so easily, so he said: "It's easy to let you go." , go and clean the floor outside my shop, I don’t want to see it still like this when I come tomorrow morning, and please don’t bother me in the future, otherwise I won’t make you feel better even if I can’t hold the evidence, You are not the only one who can play dirty."

Although the woman was reluctant to hear this, she still nodded gratefully, and Shen Jiyao told them to go back to rest.

Several people let out a sigh of relief here, but Lan Qianjue, who was alone in the village, was extremely worried.

The few people who were going back on time suddenly didn't go back, and no one came back in the middle of the night, how could people not be worried.

The oil lamp in the granary was swayed by the wind blowing in from the gaps around it. Lan Qianjue sat on the bed with his elbows on his knees, hunched over and hugged the first class, and waited until the third watch was almost past and still no one was waiting. Come, he was terribly confused, afraid that something happened to them in the town and they couldn't come back.

I haven't seen Shen Jiyao for six or seven days. Xu Rong told him about the situation between him and Xiaodoumi. Now neither of them has come back and there is no news. This makes him restless all the time, for fear that the two of them will be bullied in the town Let's go, I hate that the old man always pretends to be sick and stay at home these days, making him unable to get away.

Lan Qianjue became more and more uneasy. Any movement outside the house would make him get up and open the door to look. After waiting for a while, he couldn't wait for anything, so he had to go back to the house disappointed again.

Heidan seemed to have sensed Lan Qianjue's irritability. He was lying obediently on the ground, but now he followed Lan Qianjue's feet and turned around. Now Heidan has grown into a half-grown black dog. He is very clever on weekdays. He is very loyal to Shen Jiyao who always makes good food for him to eat. It's been a long time since he saw Shen Jiyao, and he has been much more gentle than usual in the past few days.

It circled around Lan Qianjue's feet for a long while, then suddenly raised his head and barked loudly, which scared the anxious Lan Qianjue back to his senses. Lan Qianjue clenched his fists and thought for a while, then suddenly said: " Let's go to the town to find Ji Yao."

"Wow, woof, woof!" Heidan raised his neck and yelled three times, then ran a few steps to the door and stood up to scratch the door, looking impatient.

Lan Qianjue got up and let the black egg out of the house. It was pitch black outside, and the sky above his head was faintly light blue. After adapting to the darkness, he could roughly distinguish things. The mountain behind the house was full of shadows, quiet and lonely. Wanting to see Shen Jiyao, he stepped forward and knocked on the door of the main house.

After a while, the old man's impatient voice sounded in the room, saying, "Here we come! It's midnight, hurry up."

As soon as the door was opened, Lan Qianjue pushed open the door and went in. The oil lamp was not blown in the room. The old man enjoyed it extravagantly. He still lit the oil lamp while sleeping. Lan Qianjue didn't care about these little things with him. He walked to While going to pack the old man's clothes, he said: "You go back to live in your yard now, and I will pick Ji Yao and the child back. You are here, but he doesn't want to come, so I have to wrong you."

"It's best not to come." The old man said with disdain: "I won't leave, can't I stay at my son's house, I'll drag you up, who dares to say no more."

Lan Qianjue turned his head to stare at him coldly, and said, "I can't help you."

He put away the old man's clothes a few times, grabbed the key, walked to the old man's side, and said without any ups and downs, "Go, I'll take you back to the house."

The old man turned his head and glared at Lan Qianjue, and shouted: "You unfilial son, I'm still sick, I won't go back! I gave birth to you and raised you, so I can't live here for a few days?"

Lan Qianjue frowned, grabbed the old man's arm and dragged him out of the house without saying a word, while the black egg beside him growled and also came up and bit the old man's trouser leg and dragged him out.

The old man was furious at Lan Qianjue's attempt to kick him out, so he kept scolding him for being unfilial, evil, etc. Even so, he was still dragged out of the house by Lan Qianjue.

Lan Qianjue pulled him out of the yard, then stuffed him with his clothes, ran back a few steps and locked the door, Heidan walked around the yard excitedly, saw Lan Qianjue approaching, and ran out immediately Go, Lan Qianjue followed a few steps, but was blocked by the old man just as he got out of the yard.

He roared angrily: "Don't recognize me as your father after you dare to leave!"

"You can do whatever you want." Lan Qianjue said, "You are a father, and I am also a father, but I love my son more, and you, just for your own face, want to impose your own ideas on others. You are satisfied, you praise, you are not satisfied with what you do, but you never tolerate, you only care about yourself, but I will never accompany you in such behavior in the future, I want to live for myself, not for your face. "

After Lan Qianjue said a few steps, he jumped onto the surrounding road ridges and left without looking back.

Angrily, the old man sighed fiercely on the spot, annoyed that he was manipulated by a brother, so he had to go back to his home in the dark angrily.

Lan Qianjue hurried out of the village all the way, the surrounding was blurry, the black egg was pitch black, only the sound of its panting could be heard, and it couldn't be found without looking carefully.

One person and one dog hurried to the town, Lan Qianjue stood in front of the clean but stinky shop door, vaguely knowing in his heart that something must have happened to Shen Jiyao, Lan Qianjue's heart was seized instantly For fear that Shen Jiyao had been bullied, he went straight to the inn that Xu Rong and the others had mentioned.

It's almost four o'clock now, the street is quiet, occasionally a stray cat sprang out, Heidan saw it barking and wanted to chase it away, but Lan Qianjue yelled to stop it.

The inn in the town was only open until midnight, and now it is closed. Only two lanterns were left hanging under the eaves, illuminating a small area. After standing outside the door for a while, Lan Qianjue sat down on the stone steps, intending to wait When Shen Jiyao came out, he didn't know if the group of them were still in this inn, but he had nowhere to go, so he could only wait here.

Heidan was circling around excitedly, and when he saw Lan Qianjue sitting down, he also ran over and curled up beside his legs.

The street was dark and extremely quiet. Lan Qianjue's impetuous heart gradually calmed down. After a while, he sat on the stone steps and slowly fell asleep.

The watchman went around the whole town, and it was already five watch when he went outside the inn again.

Lan Qianjue was awakened by the sound of the gong. He raised his hand and wiped his eyes to look up at the sky. This time happened to be the time when they set off from home to town. It's here, it seems that Shen Jiyao and the others are coming out soon, thinking about this, Lan Qianjue can't help but feel very excited.

Half an hour later, the door of the inn was opened.

Lan Qianjue immediately got up to look, it was the shop waiter.

The waiter gave him a weird look, and said, "It's early in the morning, don't block the door, block our God of Wealth, can you afford it?"

Without saying a word, Lan Qianjue walked to the opposite of the inn and stood under the eaves, and Heidan also ran over.

The inn gradually brightened up. Xiao Er was setting up tables, chairs and benches. Lan Qianjue stared at it for a moment. After a few breaths, Heidan suddenly barked and ran towards the inn wagging his tail vigorously. Lan Qianjue In an instant, he knew that it should be Heidan who knew that Shen Jiyao had come down, so he also ran over.

Shen Jiyao and his group happened to go downstairs and walked out the door, and saw a black dog running into the inn. Shen Jiyao stared and asked doubtfully, "Black egg?"

"Woo, woof!" Heidan sobbed excitedly and went forward to thump around Shen Jiyao.

"It's really a black egg?!" Xu Rong said, "How did it come here? Could it be that Big Brother Lan is also here?"

Shen Jiyao was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he looked up with a feeling, and Lan Qianjue was standing outside the door.

Seeing that he was fine, Lan Qianjue instantly felt relieved, and he shouted tremblingly: "Ji Yao."

"Qianjue." Shen Jiyao was taken aback for a moment, and then ran towards Lan Qianjue a few steps with Xiao Doumi in his arms. Before he could stand still, Lan Qianjue hugged him into his arms. Empress Lan Qianjue was very excited and screamed, Heidan came running around the two of them, jumping up and picking Shen Jiyao from time to time.

The few people over there watched inexplicably with their eyes burning, and they all stood aside and watched.

……

You come to the restaurant again.

After Shen Jiyao prepared all the ingredients for breakfast, he took out the rice washing water and rinsed the place where the feces were splashed, and the smell gradually faded away.

Xu Rong and the others told Lan Qianjue what had happened in the past two days. Lan Qianjue held Xiao Doumi with a pensive look, obviously very upset that someone bullied him like this, but Shen Jiyao had already decided to settle the matter. I can't have any thoughts anymore, I just secretly decided that I will never leave him alone again.

It was getting brighter, and customers came to the store. Before Shen Jiyao and Lan Qianjue had a good word, they were busy. They didn't have time to talk in the kitchen until noon when there were fewer people.

Lan Qianjue gave Shen Jiyao a portion of fried rice and dishes, and said, "I've already sent it back, old man. You can take your son home with you."

"Okay." Shen Jiyao stir-fried the vegetables and said, "But all the bedding and sheets at home have to be washed. I'll buy a new set later and use it first."

Naturally, Lan Qianjue had no objection, and felt at ease.

After this turmoil, the two became more and more tired. They both understood how uncomfortable and uneasy being separated, and now they just want to be together every day.

The days began to be quiet and peaceful again, as if nothing had happened before, and the weather gradually improved.

Xiao Doumi's body has also grown, and the fetal hair that has been shaved several times is now growing very well, which complements his small white face and big black and white eyes, which is very attractive.

In March of Yangchun, the grass grows and the warbler flies, when everything is recovering.

Everything in the family is on the right track, and the land deed issue has been settled. For this reason, Shen Jiyao specially invited Yang Sanzhen to have dinner at home, just to ask him to keep the matter of the land a secret for them. They can't tell anyone where their land is. People, if they are really discovered, it is also to prevent people from destroying them quietly in the future.

Fortunately, Yang Sanzhen was straightforward and kind, agreed to them, and there were no problems after the land deed was drawn up, which made Shen Jiyao feel at ease.

Shen Jiyao's business is getting better and better, so good that a restaurant wants to come and accept one of his breakfast recipes. Shen Jiyao then sells the mushroom chicken porridge and fish slice porridge he just wanted to make to the restaurant at a high price of 100 taels. He didn't want to, but Shen Jiyao only tried to buy fish porridge once that day, and he made three taels of silver by selling this kind of porridge. The shopkeeper of the restaurant immediately bought it without saying a word.

All the restaurants in the town knew that Shen Jiyao sold a porridge at a high price of 100 taels. His peers were jealous of this, and the diners flocked to the restaurant to try it. It is said to be delicious. Although the price is a bit expensive, people love to eat and are willing to spend money to buy it. The business of the restaurant has been booming for many days because of these two porridges. This makes colleagues in the same restaurant envy. It also caught Shen Jiyao's attention.

Other restaurants wanted to invite Shen Jiyao to cook at a price of one hundred taels per month, but Shen Jiyao refused. Seeing that they couldn't invite him, they wanted to buy him another food, but Shen Jiyao refused to say anything. The restaurant where the family bought two kinds of porridge was very happy, and invited them to sit and eat in the restaurant from time to time.

As for the matter of selling recipes, Xu Rong and the others were very puzzled. Why did they sell the recipes to restaurants?

Shen Jiyao said: "It doesn't matter, anyway, I still have a lot of porridge. Later, we will buy duck eggs to marinate preserved eggs to make preserved egg and lean meat porridge. I think that porridge will be more popular."

"So that's how it is." Everyone looked suddenly enlightened.

Shen Jiyao smiled and said, "Tomorrow, I will rest. The vegetables that were sprinkled last time should be taken care of. When the weather warms up, I will collect all the vegetables in the field, and then I can grow vegetables such as peppers and cowpeas."

Several people nodded after hearing the words, but when they got together in private, they began to wonder where Shen Jiyao got so many weird vegetables. When Xu Rong heard this, he slapped Zhang Yong on the head who said this, Said: "Why do you care so much, we will plant whatever Big Brother Shen asks us to plant, and you should stop thinking about these things."

Zhang Yong looked sad, and no one mentioned this matter again after that.

Early in the morning of the second day, a group of people went to the field to take care of the vegetables all over the ground. After taking care of the vegetables in the ground, they were too tired to rest at home the next day.

Shen Jiyao sat on the bed with bare shoulders and counted the coins. Lan Qianjue was woken up by the sound of the coins jingling. She came to put the clothes on him, leaned up to kiss his cheek very naturally, and said, "Are you counting silver?"

"Yeah." Shen Jiyao put the small box in front of Lan Qianjue for him to see, and said with a smile: "Including the two porridge money sold the day before yesterday, we made a total of more than 300 taels, are we half rich? gone."

"Forget it." Lan Qianjue hugged Shen Jiyao from behind, pulled him into his arms, and said with a smile, "After we save a few more months of money, let's go to the town to buy a small yard and live in the town. You don't have to run back and forth, and it's much more convenient to do business, you've been tired and thin recently."

Shen Jiyao put the money into the box one by one, and said: "Store for a few more months, and when my vegetables come out, I plan to buy an inn or restaurant to make them. I'm making this snack now because I don't have any ingredients, so I keep making it." It’s not a way, as time goes by, there will be no novelty, I plan to open a restaurant, and I will cook both breakfast and stir-fry, what do you think.”

Lan Qianjue kissed his ear, and said, "It's all up to you."

Shen Jiyao squinted his eyes and enjoyed his kiss, and said softly, "Is there anything you want to do? Now that we have capital, we can do it."

Lan Qianjue whispered, "I just want to be with you and my son."

"I'm talking about doing business." Shen Jiyao said, "Did you ever plan to do business before?"

"No." Lan Qianjue said, "with you here, can I think of any profitable business to do?"

"That's true." Shen Jiyao said honestly and bluntly: "Follow me, and I guarantee you will make a fortune."

Lan Qianjue smiled, noncommittal.

In the past few days, Shen Jiyao often does business for a few days and then rests for a day, fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. There is no other reason, but he is taking a few people all over the mountains and mountains to find chuncai and wild vegetables. I plan to use it to make cold dishes and sell them in the store. Anyway, these wild animals do not cost money, and one more dish is a piece of money.

In just a few days, Shen Jiyao collected fresh bracken, toon vegetables and all kinds of wild vegetables that had just been mossed on the mountain. With a little processing, there were all the side dishes for fried rice at noon.

Shen Jiyao also has a little experience in making cold dishes. After blanching, fern vegetables that are torn apart and soaked in rice water are delicious for cold salads. Toon vegetables are used for scrambled eggs or boiled cold salads. Wild vegetables are mostly used for cold dishes. Mainly, the people who come to the store are attracted by the aroma of Chuncai. When they come to eat fried rice at noon, no matter how expensive these wild vegetables are, they will order one to try. Using these cold dishes with fried rice is simply indescribable tasty.

It's just a pity that there is no tempeh in the bracken. If there is tempeh, it will be more delicious. Thinking of this, Shen Jiyao suddenly thought of a food that he will make in the future, so he took out his homemade notebook and wrote tempeh on it. Even better, after the vegetables in the field are cooked, you can start growing soybeans and peppers. Shen Jiyao is looking forward to this very much. As long as he grows a batch of vegetables, he will be able to open a restaurant. At the same time, in his heart Another plan has gradually taken shape, and it will be implemented as soon as the restaurant opens its business.

The days were planned by Shen Jiyao in an orderly manner, and it would be better if a few people followed them, but after getting some money, they became more and more envious of the villagers.

This day, just as Shen Jiyao cooked the last guest, he heard Xu Rong shouting outside: "Brother Shen, Brother Su is here to look for you."

When Shen Jiyao heard the words and went out with the rice, just as he saw Su Ye looking at him with a smile on his face and a little shy, Shen Jiyao smiled and greeted him first before serving the fried rice to the diners.

Shen Jiyao came over and asked with a smile: "Seeing that you are in such a good mood, did something good happen?"

Su Ye nodded, dawdled for a while and said, "Brother Zhang and I are getting married."

"Ah?" Shen Jiyao was stunned. He stared at Su Ye in a daze for a while before he digested the words. It took a long time before he came back to his senses and said with a little surprise: "Really? That's really great, your grandma." I finally agreed, and we will get married someday, and then we will go to congratulate you two together."

Su Ye nodded with a smile and said, "Just ten days later."

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