Earn money to support your family in ancient times

Now everything in the store is on the right track, and Father Hu can take charge of the cooking. There is no need for Tang Yuan to watch over there. He simply walks around in various markets to see if he can find materials or inspiration for making new dishes.

Although the business in the store is still booming, Tang Yuan still has a sense of crisis and plans to launch a new product every month to attract customers. After a long time, with word of mouth and fame, the time for launching new products can be extended, and It doesn't take much thought.

Tang Yuan strolled leisurely in the bazaar. This bazaar was the one where he bought honeycomb dregs before. The bazaar was very large and sold everything.

As he walked and watched, he stopped when he passed a stall selling flowers and plants.

"My little brother, I have very good-looking flowers and plants here, and it took me a lot of effort to raise them! Do you see if you like them? I'll give you a cheaper price!" The stall owner is a young man. Tang Yuan stopped in front of his stall and immediately stood up to greet him.

Tang Yuan didn't know the appearance of the flowers and plants, he could only tell that the flowers and plants were really pretty, but what he was looking at was not the flowers and plants, but a lemon tree.

The lemon tree was relatively short, only reaching Tang Yuan's knees, and there were a few golden lemons the size of a child's fist hanging on it. Tang Yuan also carefully identified it before confirming it.

"How do you sell this?" Tang Yuan pointed to the lemon tree and asked.

"Ah?" The young man was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Tang Yuan to buy this, he hesitated, and said, "Let me tell you the truth, I don't know what this is, it was when I bought the seeds, The businessman who sold the seeds mixed it with other seeds and sold it to me. I was reluctant to throw it away before raising it. If you want it, you can just give it eight cents.”

"Okay," Tang Yuan was here for so long, and it was the first time he saw lemons. The price was acceptable to him. He took out the money, handed it to the young man, and asked, "This is a lemon tree, do you still want it?" Have it?"

Lemons can be used to make honey lemonade, and lemon black tea is a drink that most people like, but there are only five or six lemons on this lemon tree, which may not be enough to make drinks and sell them.

"Lemon tree, do you know it?" The young man looked at Tang Yuan in surprise. Hearing what Tang Yuan said meant that he wanted to buy it, he nodded quickly and said, "Yes, there are, but there are eight more at home."

The businessman who sold the seeds made him miserable. The seeds sold to him contained a lot of seeds of this lemon tree. He was reluctant to waste them so he took the trouble to raise them. There were more than ten seeds and nine trees were supported.

But he was afraid that no one would buy it, so he only brought one to try his luck.

Tang Yuan nodded: "I want them all, please send them to Tang Ji Restaurant tomorrow."

Although it is still a bit small, it is better than nothing. Since this man can raise lemon trees, he can also talk to him about business in this area.

"Tang Kee Restaurant?" The young man must have heard of Tang Kee Restaurant, and asked, "But the restaurant that sells skewers?"

"Yes," Tang Yuan picked up the lemon tree, "That's the one, please send it over early tomorrow."

The young man thought that the eight lemon trees would be smashed into his hands, but now he sold them all at once. He was very happy and nodded repeatedly: "Success! I will deliver them tomorrow morning!" Seven or eight days of flowers and plants!

"By the way," Tang Yuan looked at the young man, "Do you still have the seeds of the lemon tree? Can you grow some? I want to buy the fruit it bears."

"This fruit also looks good, but it's sour." The young man had obviously tasted it, looked at the lemon with disgust, and saw that Tang Yuan insisted on buying it, thought for a while, and said, "I don't have any lemon tree seeds at home. I have to go to a merchant who sells seeds to buy them, and it will take three months to grow the lemon tree to bloom and bear fruit. If you can afford it, I can plant some more."

Most of the food sold in Tang Ji Restaurant is food that he has never heard of. This lemon is so sour that he eats it. Maybe it will be delicious when it is in the hands of others. It's none of his business when he regrets it.

However, if he is asked to plant dozens of lemon trees, it must be negotiated in advance, and he will lose a lot if he doesn't want them at that time.

Drinks made of lemons can be sold all year round. Tang Yuan replied, "I can wait. You can plant [-] trees first. If you are worried, we can sign a contract tomorrow."

Hearing what he said, the young man was immediately happy, and patted his chest to assure him: "No problem!"

As soon as the lemon tree was hugged, Tang Yuan couldn't go shopping anymore. Anyway, he had seen most of today's market, so he just went back.

Su Nuo was checking out the bill for a customer, when he saw him walking in with a lemon tree in his arms, he said with a smile, "Brother Tang, what did you buy, why is it not blooming, but still bearing fruit?"

"This is a lemon." Tang Yuan wiped his muddy hands on Su Nuo's fair little face maliciously, and then quickly ran away, "I'll go and make a drink!"

"Brother Tang!" Su Nuo wiped his face with his sleeves, puffed up his face and stared at Tang Yuan's back, turned his head and saw several guests looking at him, quickly stopped talking, lowered his head, and counted money nimbly with his fingers.

Tang Yuan took the jar of honey to the shop. He picked the lemons from the lemon tree and prepared to try simple honey lemonade.

He fetched a basin of clean water, and put a pot of salt beside him, and rubbed the skin of the lemon with the salt, which could better clean off the dirt and wax on the skin of the lemon.

After cleaning, Tang Yuan wiped the lemon dry with a clean rag, cut it in half with a knife, cut off two slices of lemon, and picked out the core inside.

Take out a small stone mortar, put the remaining lemon in it, mash the juice, pour it into a porcelain pot, scoop up two spoonfuls of honey, pour it into the cold water, and then put the lemon slices in and stir a few times.

Simple and delicious, unlike the sweet and sour taste of sour plum soup, honey lemonade has obvious fresh fruity aroma and delicate sweetness of honey. One sip seems to return to the shaded summer.

Tang Yuan shook the white porcelain jar in satisfaction, picked up a spoon, and prepared to scoop out a cup for Su Nuo to taste.

But as soon as he put the spoon in, Da Zhuang ran in in a panic.

"Brother Tang, Xiaohua's mother in the village is crying outside our shop, saying that you wronged her and fired her for no reason, making her unable to survive! Now there are a lot of people gathered outside!"

Tang Yuan pursed his lips tightly, put down the things in his hand, and walked to the front quickly.

"Mother Xiaohua, you are considered an elder. Why do you have the nerve to make trouble here when you do such a sneaky thing?!" Su Nuo was so angry that his face turned red. What happened, I never expected that Xiao Huaniang would have the face to come here to make trouble.

"Bah! That's your unconscionable mother who wronged me! I'm here today to discuss an explanation with Tang!" Xiaohua Niang sat on the ground, patted the ground, and cried, "Poor me, I don't have a son , The man is useless again, I am the only one in the family to earn some hard money! I will be accused of stealing things like this! This is forcing me to death! I might as well die!"

Seeing her crying pitifully, people around started talking about it.

"This aunt is crying so pitifully. Usually, I think Boss Tang is pretty good. Why..."

"Hey, who knows what he is like behind his back!"

Su Nuo wanted to rush up and argue with everyone, but there were so many people, and he couldn't shut them all up, his eyes were red with anger.

Little Hua Niang was even more proud, and cried louder.

"Which family is this where the dead people cry so sadly?" Tang Yuan said to Huzi with a sullen face, "Brother Huzi, I think this aunt cried in the wrong place, so you should do a good deed and send this aunt back Bar."

Huzi had been gearing up for a long time, and after hearing Tang Yuan's words, he immediately went forward to pick up Xiaohuaniang.

"Bah! Someone died in your family!" Little Hua Niang kept struggling, staring at Tang Yuan and cursing fiercely, "You black heart! Let this little bitch's mother wrong me! You want to Kill our family!"

As he spoke, he burst into tears again, with a lot of snot and tears.

Tang Yuan frowned in disgust, pulled Su Nuo behind him, and said in a cold voice: "You were wronged? You stole things while working, and the people who worked with you can prove it. If you don't believe me, you can ask them!"

Little Hua Niang poked her neck and shouted: "They are all your buddies, of course they are facing you, and they will do whatever you say!"

She rolled her eyes and cried loudly again: "My life is miserable! I met such a black-hearted person!"

Tang Yuan's face sank, and just as he was about to let Huzi take him away, he saw Aunt Zhou grabbing a girl's hair, walked over aggressively, and threw the girl into Xiao Huaniang's arms: "Bitch! How dare you run here Noisy! You stole something from Brother Tang’s house to make these rotten noodles, and let your man and daughter come out and sell them under the name of Brother Tang. How dare you say that you have been wronged?!”

She was afraid that Little Hua Niang would play tricks, so she paid special attention to their house today!That's why she got caught!

Aunt Zhou tore open the noodles wrapped in oil paper twice, revealing the gray and crooked noodles inside, and signaled to everyone: "Look, everyone, this is the noodles that she stole from Brother Tang's house, although the quality is not as good as that of Brother Tang's house. It’s good, but it looks like it’s made in a certain way! Some of you must have bought genuine products, and you’ll know it at a glance!”

As she said that, Aunt Zhou pointed to the little flower with disheveled hair and said, "This is the daughter of this bastard. Just now she and her father were selling noodles under the name of Brother Tang, and I just caught me. If you don't believe me, I will You can ask the person who was almost cheated just now to come and explain it clearly!"

Aunt Zhou's words were clear and clear, and there were evidences. When everyone heard it, they gradually believed it in their hearts.

"No need to ask someone to come over! What is unclear about this! It seems that this person is unwilling to be resigned, so he came to make trouble!"

"That's right! Don't you just want to use the big guy to force Boss Tang and ruin his reputation? Pooh!" The person who spoke for Xiao Huaniang just now felt that he was cheated and was extremely annoyed.

Xiao Hua's father quietly shrank back, not daring to make a sound, but when Xiao Hua's mother saw that something was wrong, she pulled Xiao Hua and wanted to slip away.

"You want to leave after the trouble?" Tang Yuan sneered, stopped in front of her, and took a look at Huzi, "Brother Huzi, please ask someone from the yamen to come over."

Xiao Huaniang's expression changed instantly, and she stammered: "You... what do you want to do?!"

Aunt Zhou stepped forward to pull Tang Yuan, and said in a low voice, "Brother Tang, let's just teach her a lesson and make trouble at the Yamen...not very good."

Ordinary people are not willing to go to the yamen, no matter how important the matter can be resolved in private, even if Aunt Zhou's man is a fast catcher, she thinks the same way.

But Tang Yuan was determined to send Xiao Huaniang to the yamen: "She stole my things and even pretended to be me, I will definitely go to the yamen to ask for an explanation."

The main reason is that Xiaohuaniang dared to fake his alkaline noodles. If he didn't act more ruthlessly, wouldn't it make some people's minds flutter.

Aunt Zhou saw that she couldn't persuade him, so she stopped talking.

The people from the yamen came very quickly, and after asking about the matter, they brought him over.

This time, Xiao Huaniang didn't even dare to cry, she could only follow the arresters tremblingly.

On the way to the yamen, Tang Yuan quietly stuffed a piece of broken silver the size of a pinky finger to the head of the policeman, and also talked about his relationship with Aunt Zhou's husband.

The chief arrester seemed to have some friendship with Mrs. Zhou's husband, and took Tang Yuan's money. In addition, Tang Yuan was responsible for this matter, so he immediately assured Tang Yuan that the county magistrate would definitely have a fair trial!

So, very smoothly, Xiao Hua Niang was sentenced to three months in prison by the county magistrate.

Although the time was not long, the people who were imprisoned did not know who they were, but some of them suffered from crimes, and their skin would peel off even if they did not die.

"Master County Magistrate! I don't dare anymore! Just let me go!" Xiao Huaniang cried and climbed up the high platform, begging for mercy at the top of her voice.

The county magistrate patted the hall wood and said sharply: "Bold! How dare you roar in court, give me ten blows!"

After ten blows with the board, Xiao Huaniang screamed, and finally lost the strength to scream, and was dragged down after the beating.

Tang Yuan complimented the county magistrate, and hurried back to the store to deal with the rest of the matter after leaving the yamen.

The author has something to say: Generally, lemon trees take two to three years to bloom and bear fruit. The article is empty, so everyone should treat it as another species~

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