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Since December, the business of rice noodle stalls has become busier, and more and more customers come to eat rice noodles every day.

Because Li Chengzhi and the others have limited manpower, Li Chengzhi had no choice but to stop the dry mixed rice noodles when the number of customers was increasing. Now the weather is getting colder, and the taste of the rice noodles will not be so good after the guests eat them. .

As for the cold rice noodles, Li Chengzhi has stopped since the temperature dropped sharply in early October. It is enjoyable to eat cold rice noodles in hot weather, but the taste will be greatly reduced when it is cold. It is better to hang those who like cold rice noodles. Appetite, wait until the weather is warmer next year before continuing to sell.

Because there are still only two trolleys, there are only two types of soup bases for the three types of rice noodles. According to the tastes of customers, Li Chengzhi decided to sell rice noodles in high soup every day, and rice noodles in fish soup and sour radish and old duck soup on the next day. rice noodles.

The taste of broth is not as distinctive as fish soup and sour radish and duck soup, which is easy to remember after eating it once, but the taste of rice noodles in broth is mellow and neutral, which is more acceptable to customers, and they will never tire of eating it.

After deciding how to sell rice noodles, Li Chengzhi stopped thinking about it, and planned to maintain the business in front of him, to satisfy the customers as much as possible, and to make the reputation of Lijia rice noodles even louder in Changping County.

But just a few days after Li Chengli chatted with his second brother, one night, Li Mingjin had a dream.

Li Mingjin hadn't had a dream for a while, this time he saw himself in the misty county town, he was dazed for a while before he realized it.

Fortunately, he often comes to the county town, and the curfew has been lifted at this moment, and there are already people on the city gates and streets, otherwise he might still be a little scared, even though this is in his own dream.

It was a little boring to stand there, and there was no one he knew nearby. Li Mingjin could only look at the city wall for a while, the soldiers guarding the city for a while, and the people who were getting ready to leave the city in a daze.

As he grows older, after having a lot of prophetic dreams, Li Mingjin has figured out the routines of many prophetic dreams. Taking his current situation as an example, he has to stand still and wait for himself. Or if someone you know appears, you can proceed to the next step and see what happened in the dream.

Because the things he dreams about are related to himself or the people around him, only when someone he knows appears in the dream, can he experience what is about to happen with the person he knows.

After waiting for a short while, Li Mingjin finally found someone he knew - uncle, mother-in-law, cousin and elder brother.

The four of them pushed the trolley through the interrogation of the guarding soldiers and entered the city smoothly. The eldest brother tidied up his hair and clothes and rushed to Mr. Zhang Lao, while the uncle and the others stayed to set up the rice noodle stall.

As soon as the casserole on the trolley was set, and the tables, chairs and benches were put away, a few guests who were about to leave the city after breakfast were ushered in. Bai Xiuhe and Li Caoye hurriedly started cooking rice noodles, and Li Chengzhi continued to arrange the rest of the stall.

Li Mingjin watched his uncle and the others busy, and it was the first time that he learned that it was not easy for the uncle and the others to make money.

Because it was in a dream, Li Mingjin couldn't feel the cold, but from the way the pedestrians huddled their necks and hurried on the road, as well as the cold wind blowing, we could see the coldness of the winter morning.

At this time, the uncle and the others would push the trolley all the way from the village to the county town, and then set up a stall in the county town, busy with work without taking a break.

The uncle and the cousin are responsible for cooking rice noodles for the guests. After the guests have eaten, they have to clear the table and wash the dishes. The uncle mainly goes out to fetch and pour water, and find time to help with other things.

A small rice noodle stand, with two casserole pots burning, there are customers coming and going, the three of them are as busy as tops until noon before they can sit down and rest for a while, waiting for the wave of customers at noon.

In the dream, this passage passed quickly, Li Mingjin watched carefully, and after a while, it was almost time for lunch, and the rice noodle stall started to be busy again, but within a few words, the customers were full of the ones they had prepared Small stools, waiting to eat rice noodles.

The accident happened while he was busy. Li Mingjin had been staring nervously at every corner of the rice noodle stall. He knew that in his dream, something would happen to the rice noodle stall.

At this time, Bai Xiuhe took out the charcoal fire that was about to burn out under the casserole, stuffed in a new charcoal fire and continued to burn the casserole.

The charcoal fire caught by Bai Xiuhe was still a little red, theoretically, it could be burned for a while, but she thought that she would be very busy later and would not have time to change the charcoal, so she changed it out in advance.

The charcoal fire that was taken out was placed in a pot beside it. The pot was leaning on a wooden trolley, not far from the cloth around the rice noodle stall.

It was Bai Xiuhe's idea to set up a circle of cloth around his stall. The purpose is to keep out the wind. It's cold in winter. When customers come to eat rice noodles, the cold wind blows for a few rounds. .

Her idea is indeed not bad, without the wind passing through it, sitting in the rice noodle stall will be much warmer, and the guests will feel much better when they sit and wait for the rice noodles, and they won't complain if they wait a little longer.

But what went wrong in Li Mingjin's dream was the cloth surrounding the rice noodle stall. Maybe a corner of the cloth was blown into the pot by the wind. It was ignited and burned quickly in the dry winter.

If it is just the cloth being ignited, the key problem is that when the cloth was burning, a row of bamboo poles used to fix the cloth suddenly fell into the booth.

The incident happened suddenly, from the cloth catching fire to the fire, and then the bamboo pole fell down and crushed the guests who were eating rice noodles. The whole process was so fast that people were caught off guard and there was no way to stop it.

The bamboo pole is not heavy, the guest didn't hit it with a bamboo pole, but the cloth fell on him all at once, but the bad thing was that the cloth had already burned, and the fire burned to the guest's clothes, if it wasn't for the people around him to react quickly Pull him out and put out the fire. It is very likely that the fire will burn to the hair, and then burn the person.

Fortunately, apart from the cloth surrounding the rice noodle stall, there was nothing else to burn. Although the bamboo poles, tables and chairs were made of wood, they were not so easy to catch fire. up.

But looking at the messy rice noodle stalls, the customers who came to eat rice noodles also lost their appetite. The regular customers were okay, and they left after comforting Li Chengzhi and the others.

Only the guest whose clothes were burned on the back stayed. He didn't stay to eat rice noodles, but to seek compensation from Li Chengzhi and the others. Buy clothes again.

After a lot of fuss, Li Chengzhi finally sent the innocent burned guest away after paying five hundred Wen.

Then, Li Chengzhi and the others hurriedly cleaned up the messy tables, chairs and benches, hoping to restore the business of the rice noodle stall as soon as possible. They still had a lot of rice noodles left to sell.

But no matter how they cleaned it up, the guests who came over could still see something was wrong. After asking a few more questions, they knew that the stall had just caught fire, and those who sat down got up and left one after another, unwilling to stay and eat rice noodles.

Until Li Mingde came back from Mr. Zhang Lao, there were still a lot of rice noodles left, which was completely different from usual.

Li Mingjin, as the only person watching the whole scene, did not do different things like other people when setting fire. It was not an accident that he saw the fire with his own eyes.

It was the person from the stall next to the rice noodle stall who used a stick to move the jar containing the unburned charcoal to the side of the cloth, and then stuffed a corner of the cloth into the jar when everyone was not paying attention. After it started burning, he was also the one who pushed behind, which caused the bamboo pole, which was obviously fixed well, to fall down.

All this happened in the corner, the man's movements were very cautious, he was the first to pull the guest after the cloth burned, so Li Chengzhi, who didn't know it, kept thanking him.

Li Mingjin noticed that when the uncle and the others cleared up the stall before any customers came to the door, no matter whether they asked about the situation here, that person would always mention that the rice noodle stall had just caught fire, with a worried look on his face, It seemed that he was particularly worried for Li Chengzhi and the others.

Li Chengzhi and the others felt a little uncomfortable listening to the people next to him deliberately say that, but they couldn't say anything in front of their guests, so they could only bear it.

It was at this time that Li Mingjin woke up. When he woke up, he clenched his fists tightly, and he was very angry. It was still too early for that person to do something bad. He quickly got up from the bed, got dressed and went to find his mother. Talk about your dreams.

Jiang Zhiyun was also very angry when Li Mingjin told her about his dream. Although the elder sister-in-law didn't pay attention to letting others take advantage of the loopholes when changing the charcoal, this was the second time someone troubled the rice noodle stall. She was also thinking about it while she was angry. Why did such a thing happen, how to avoid it in the future, and how to solve this incident.

If Li Chengzhi was here, he should soon be able to figure out why the people in the next booth did this - jealousy and dissatisfaction.

Today is a year with good weather and good weather. The paddy fields in the south have a good harvest, and the dry land in the north has a high wheat yield. The amount of grain is slowly recovering, and the impact of the drought is gradually weakening. However, follow-up problems have yet to be resolved.

It is not easy for ordinary people to save some money, because of the drought, many people spend the money they have saved with great difficulty. If the price of grain is not controlled at this time, the country is prone to chaos. Still, the price of meat has gradually returned to what it was before the drought.

Therefore, the price of processed food such as rice noodles has also dropped. Li Chengzhi lowered the price of a bowl of rice noodles to nine cents a bowl according to his promise to the guests.

The other food stalls had no choice but to adjust their prices more or less accordingly, causing many people to secretly scold Li Chengzhi for being out of his mind.

Li Chengzhi knew that other people were dissatisfied with his price adjustment, but he had promised to adjust the price at the beginning, so he insisted on doing so.

As for jealousy, it is easier to think of it. The business of their own rice noodles is good, so it seems that the business of the nearby stalls is sluggish.

Everyone is in the food business, they may not say anything on the face, but they must have thoughts in their hearts. The seeds of jealousy germinate silently, and they will grow bigger and bigger during the end of the year. Looking at Bai Xiuhe will still be a little red Set aside the charcoal fire, and bad ideas are born.

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