The happy little days of crossing

Today is a good day for the opening of the county store.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, Lin Baoer and Liu Chengan went to the houses of the households they had agreed to collect chickens and ducks yesterday and put the chickens and ducks into cages. The chickens and ducks they bought this time were 22 in total. After spending 1056 copper plates, there are still 81 taels and 605 yuan left at the public expense.After the two put the chickens and ducks into cages, they put them on the bullock cart.

"Brother Bao, everyone is here, let's go." Lin Chengan sat at the front of the ox cart, and this time he was driving the ox cart.

"Okay, Uncle Village Chief, let's go."

"Then you all have to sit still, let's go~" Lin Chengan waved the whip in his hand, and whipped the scalper pulling the cart. The scalper suffered from pain and started to run while pulling the cart.

This time the ox cart was processed. Because of the cold weather, Lin Baoer asked the village carpenter to make a detachable canopy to resist the cold wind.Since there are many places where money is used recently, the purchase of a carriage has to be postponed.Recently, Lin Baoer and the others have to rely on this bullock cart to travel between the village and the county.

"Han'er, put on your scarf, what should I do if I get cold later?"

Lin Han'er put on the scarf that she had just taken off, "Hehe, Han'er took off the scarf because she felt a little hot."

"It doesn't matter if it's hot. It's so cold now. If you get cold, Grandpa Lin will give you a hard medicine." Lin Baoer nodded Lin Haner's nose affectionately.

Lin Fu stroked his beard with a smile, "Brother Bao is right, if Brother Han is sick, I will let Brother Han take bitter medicine."

"Then Haner, be good, don't let yourself be cold, brother, big tiger brother, and Grandpa Lin, don't let yourself be cold."

"Brother Han, I won't let you get cold. If you get cold, I'll give you the cloak. I'm a kid with a strong body, so I don't get sick easily."

"Tsk tsk, what you said, Tiger boy, I don't know who was sick a few days ago, and after drinking the medicine I prescribed, he kept talking about the medicine in my ear and crying, and almost cried."

As soon as Lin Fu finished speaking, Lin Baoer and Lin Haner burst out laughing with a 'puchi'.

Lin Dahu saw that the three people on the opposite side were laughing at him, and his face blushed, "Hmph, who... who is afraid of drinking bitter medicine, and who is almost crying, I am a kid, you are not talking about me, absolutely not." He But boy, if such an embarrassing thing gets out, his playmates will laugh at him. Where will he lose his face as a "kid king".

When Lin Baoer and the others heard what Lin Dahu said, their faces were full of smiles.

Lin Chengan, who was driving the cart, heard the chatter and laughter in the bullock cart, and a smile appeared on his face, and he waved the whip even harder.

Along the way, the four of Lin Baoer chatted and laughed, and soon came to the back door of the store in the county seat.

After Lin Chengan parked the ox cart, Lin Baoer and the others opened the door curtain and got off the ox cart.

As soon as Lin Dahu jumped off the bullock cart, he went to knock on the door. "Knock knock...Father, daddy, Aunt Lian, we are here, open the door quickly."

"Here we come." The person who came opened the back door. It was a new face, probably a newly recruited worker.The visitor looked at Lin Baoer and the others outside the door suspiciously, "Who are you?"

Lin Chengan stepped forward and said with a smile: "My little brother, we are the other shareholders of the store. May I ask Mrs. Lin Dazhuang, is there another Mrs. Lin Fulang?"

The visitor nodded, "Then come in."

The five of Lin Baoer moved the cages with chickens and ducks on the ox cart into the shop.

The backyard of the store is very large, outside the kitchen and warehouse, Lin Baoer specially asked the workers to surround a breeding room, which is specially used to breed small animals such as chickens and ducks that the store uses for cooking. After all, it is impossible to eat every day Let’s kill the chickens and ducks bought that day and use them for cooking.

The five Lin Baoer and the little brother put the 22 chickens and ducks they brought into the breeding room. After Lin Baoer asked the little brother to remember to feed them, he walked into the shop.

"Brother Bao, you are here, come and sit down, I'm waiting for you to come and open together." Lin Dazhuang watched Lin Baoer and five people come in, got up and said to the five people.

After Lin Baoer and the five sat down, Lin Dazhuang, his wife, and Liu Lian'er told the five people how many people the store had recruited.

"Brother Bao, Uncle Fu, and Brother Cheng'an, there are three cooks in the shop, three helpers, and ten waiters. The monthly payment is set according to our negotiation, and each cook pays one tael per month. , the monthly salary of the helper Ahma's waiter is [-] copper coins."

"By the way, brother Lian and I went to buy charcoal fire yesterday. Because we bought a lot, the charcoal seller gave us a discount. We went for a tael or five cents."

"Also, Brother Bao, I bought the two big lanterns you asked me to buy, and I have asked Da Zhuang to hang them up. I have also bought two strings of big firecrackers, candle holders, and lampshades. The two lanterns have gone to 66 32 copper coins for two strings of firecrackers, 502 copper coins for candle holder lampshade, 600 copper coins in total.” After Liu Lian’er finished speaking, she took all the receipts for the purchase and the rest of the five taels of silver that Lin Baoer gave her. 3 taels of 395 yuan was handed over to Lin Baoer.

Lin Baoer took the receipt and the remaining money that Liu Lianer handed him, and put them into the money bag.He was going to write these expenses into the account book later, so that they would have 80 taels of public expenses left.He is going to go to the blacksmith shop in the county to see if the hot pot he asked the blacksmiths to make is ready. Cold weather is the best way to eat hot pot.

"Uncle Da Zhuang, call the people recruited in the shop, I want to have a conversation with them."

"Okay, Brother Bao, I'll call them right away." Lin Dazhuang stood up and walked towards the kitchen.

After a while, Lin Dazhuang led 16 people into the shop lobby.

Lin Baoer stood up, smiled and said to the 16 people: "Hello, I am the shareholder of this restaurant, that is, the owner, and so are the two sitting here." Lin Baoer introduced Lin Fu and Lin Chengan to the 16 people .

After Lin Baoer introduced their identities to the 16 people, she continued to talk to the 16 people, mainly telling them about the store's employee benefits, hospitality, and the store's menu prices.Fortunately, these employees are all experienced, and there are a few literate people among them, so they know the recipes.

While Lin Baoer was talking to the clerk, Lin Fu, Lin Chengan, Lin Haner and Lin Dahu, who hadn't looked at the shop carefully, went to visit the shop together.

On the first floor of the store, in the middle is a large table for eight people. Behind the big table is the counter of the shop. There are ten tables on the first floor. Except for the big table, the others are tables for four people.Each table has a vertical number plate, a bell, and a bamboo tube for chopsticks.There are small wooden signs hanging on the walls on both sides of the shop, but they are still empty. Later, Lin Baoer will ask Lin Chengan to write down the names and prices of the dishes.

On the second floor of the store, there are five private rooms on each side, and there are also eight tables for four in the hall on the second floor. The table decorations are the same as those on the first floor.The walls of the private room are what Lin Fu and the others are most interested in. Lin Fu, Lin Chengan like the flowers, plants and bamboos and the poems painted on the walls of the private room, while Lin Haner and Lin Dahu like the cute paintings on the walls. Q version villain.There are two other rooms on the second floor that are used for Lin Baoer's shareholders to rest, and they are also very clean and tidy.

At this moment, after Lin Baoer talked kindly to 16 store employees, she asked them to go to the kitchen to warm up and get ready to go.Lin Baoer went up to the second floor, took out the account book, and entered the expenses this time into the account book.

Lin Baoer also used the wood left over from last time to make ten wooden boards, which he planned to use to make menus.Lin Baoer is going to use a piece of paper to write the names of the dishes, and each dish name is marked with a serial number in front of it.Lin Baoer is also planning to make some quill pens after the Chinese New Year, and then use a kind of oil paper that can be written and wiped off to make menus, so that the staff will have one piece of paper and one pen each, and the shop assistants can just write. The serial number of the dish name is enough, so that it is convenient for employees to remember the name of the dish.

After Lin Baoer also shared his thoughts with Lin Fu and the other five, they also felt that Lin Baoer's idea was very good.After Lin Chengan and Lin Fu wrote the names of the dishes, Lin Baoer, Zhang Xiuer, and Liu Lianer used paste to paste the paper with the names of the dishes on the wooden board, and Lin Haner and Lin Dahu took the two menus to the kitchen and pasted them on a prominent place in the kitchen. location.

Lin Baoer took the ten menus with dried ink to the kitchen, and by the way explained the purpose of his menus to the ten waiters.Lin Baoer also took a look at the three cooks who were making preparations, tasted the taste of the finished products they made, and thought it was not bad, and said a few words to several people in the kitchen, and asked Lin Haner and Lin Dahu to serve a plate of French fries Going out, he walked to the well.

Lin Baoer looked around and found that no one was paying attention to him, so he took out a bottle of spiritual spring water from the host space with his thoughts, lifted the well cover, and poured the spiritual spring water into it.After doing this, Lin Baoer took out another can of ketchup he made in the host space, and walked into the kitchen. After telling the three cooks how to use the ketchup, Lin Baoer walked out of the kitchen and walked into the shop lobby.

At three o'clock, after everyone in the shop got ready, Lin Dazhuang opened the door of the shop and hung up two strings of firecrackers.Lin Fulin and Chengan also went out and stood on both sides of the door, each of them pulling the two pieces of red cloth that covered the plaque on both sides of the shop plaque with one hand.Lin Bao'er, Lin Han'er, and Zhang Xiu'er, Lin Dahu, and Liu Lian'er, were holding a stick of incense, and the five of them also walked outside the shop.

The eight Lin Baoer looked at more and more people surrounding their shop and smiled at each other.Following Lin Fu's voice, "The auspicious time has come." Lin Bao'er and the others lit firecrackers, while Lin Fu and Lin Cheng'an tore off the two red cloths.

"Crackling, crackling..." The sound of firecrackers sounded, and Lin Baoer's eight people stood aside and watched the firecrackers go off little by little. Everyone had smiles on their faces, and their restaurant finally opened.

After the sound of the firecrackers was over, the eight of Lin Baoer stood together and said in unison, "Welcome to our store, everyone, please come and join us for the opening of this store."