"Yao Yi, this is for you!" Han Wen took out the exquisitely packaged gift box and said.

"This is too valuable, I can't accept it!" Yao Yi saw the Omega logo and waved her hand in refusal.

"This is for you!" Han Wen didn't expect that his carefully selected gift would be rejected. He stuffed the gift box into Yao Yi's hand angrily and walked straight past Yao Yi into the yard.

"Alas! Han Wen..." Yao Yi didn't know why he was suddenly angry, and quickly shouted behind him.

"Yao Yi, please don't let down Brother Wen. You don't know that Brother Wen bought this watch for you in the provincial capital early in the morning!" Jiang Dong advised, handing over the gift he had prepared.

"Thank you!" Yao Yi sighed, put away the gift, and returned to the kitchen to help Li Mei light the fire and cook.

Today, Li Mei prepared eight cold dishes including pork head, cooked fish and chicken, fried two more vegetables and served the boneless duck soup that she thought she was making. Then she said to Yao Jianguo who was greeting the guests in the room.

Indicate that guests can be seated.

"Today is the day when our family moves into a new home. Thank you all for coming. I would like to thank you all for your support!" Yao Jianguo raised his glass and drank it in one gulp, feeling excited in his heart.

"Today is a festive day and you must drink!" Zhang Quan raised his wine glass and touched it with Yao Jianguo, and drank all the wine generously.

"Xiao Yao! You have settled in Nancheng! Congratulations!" Tang Qi touched it and said sincere congratulations.

"Uncle Yao, I don't know what to say. I just wish you all the best in the future!" Even though he has corrected his evil ways now, Jiang Kuan is still afraid of Zhang Quan. He was so nervous that he forgot the words he had prepared.

Eighty.

"Congratulations, Brother Yao!..."

"Congratulations...!"

Compared with the men's table where people push cups and change cups, the women's and children's table is relatively quiet and warm.

"Sister-in-law, this house is so nice! There is also a four-corner pavilion and a pond in the yard. Isn't it just like a landlord's house in the old society!" Liu Huihui said with envy.

"It's quite big. I never thought I could live in a house like this in my life!" Li Mei looked around and sighed with satisfaction.

"Sister-in-law is very lucky. The man can make money and the children are obedient and sensible. Your luck is behind you!" Liu Huihui praised.

"You are also a lucky one. I heard a while ago..." Li Mei whispered in her ear, asking whether what she heard was true or false.

"Thank you for your gift, I like it very much!" Yao Yi thanked Han Wen beside him.

"Just like it!" When Han Wen heard this, the corner of his mouth raised a high arc.

"It's just too expensive!" Yao Yi continued.

"The gift lies in the heart." Han Wen picked a piece of meat from the fish belly, carefully picked out the thorns and put it into her bowl and said, "Auntie, this fish is very delicious, you can try it!"

"Oh..." Yao Yi obediently ate the fish, and then Han Wen filled the bowl with dishes he thought were delicious.

"Han Wen, you can eat it too, you don't have to keep picking it up for me!" Yao Yi always felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere, but she couldn't feel what was wrong for a while, so she had to politely refuse.

"Then can you share the dishes you think are delicious?" Since Yao Yi didn't let him pick the dishes, Han Wen didn't mind doing the opposite to understand Yao Yi's preferences.

"Ah! Okay!" Yao Yi felt that Han Wen was acting strange today, but he still obeyed and put some food he thought was delicious into his bowl.

The banquet in the hothouse lasted until after two o'clock in the afternoon. Yao Jianguo was completely drunk and burst into hearty laughter. Li Mei helped him into the room to rest.

Yao Yi also sent away Han Wen, who repeatedly wanted to stay and help. He put away the benches, leaving only the four that were usually used at home. He put away the bowls and chopsticks and put them in a big basin to soak by the well. He accidentally swept them away.

Rice and vegetable scraps dropped to the ground.

"Recruit another person?" Li Mei didn't expect that it was just to help Yao Jianguo wash his face. How could Yao Yi think of recruiting someone?

"It's like this. Jiang Kuan needs to supply more glutinous rice and stewed rice. I can help you with the glutinous rice, but the meat in the stewed stew needs to be pinched and cleaned, which requires a lot of effort. In the past, there was less

Fortunately, it’s too late for you to do the supply of five to six hundred kilograms per day now by yourself!” Yao Yi explained.

"But..." Li Mei also knew this, but she just felt sorry for the money to hire someone.

"I see what Jiang Kuan means. No matter how big the quantity is in the future, he can sell it all. We just spent a small amount of money to hire someone, but in the future we will earn more than ten times the money of hiring someone!!" In fact, Yao Yi said the same thing.

Yes, a worker's monthly salary now is only sixty or seventy yuan.

"Okay, I'll ask tomorrow!" Li Mei, who felt that what Yao Yi said was reasonable, no longer felt sorry for the tens of dollars in salary, and decided to cut through the mess quickly and get the matter done.

With Han Wen's reminder yesterday, Yao Yi went to the spicy hotpot stall today and ordered a bowl.

"How do you feel?" Han Wen asked.

"It's basically the same as my stall, but maybe in order to reduce costs and compete with my stall, her soup base doesn't include a whole chicken, and there are very few bones, so the soup is a bit bland!" Yao Yi picked some vegetables to add to the soup.

He put it into a small bowl, took a sip of soup and commented.

"This meat is a bit old without sauce!" Yao Yi took a bite of the meat slices and frowned.

"Really! How can a business like this last long?" Han Wen frowned and judged.

"Try it and see. It's possible that I ate too much at lunch and my taste buds have gone awry!" Yao Yi was afraid that his judgment would be biased because of his family's business, so he took another empty bowl and asked Han Wen to evaluate it.

"The soup is a bit bland, but it's very fresh!" Han Wen took a sip of the soup and tasted it in his mouth before swallowing it.

"The meat is not as tender as yours! But overall there is nothing wrong with it!" Han Wen concluded.

"Yes! I looked over there and there are already a lot of customers there!" Yao Yi also knew that whenever similar things appear, most people will subconsciously choose the cheaper ones.

"Don't worry too much, the taste of food is everything! Maybe you will be attracted by such a small bargain at the beginning, but as time goes by, you will know what is good!" Han Wen can't think of any way to solve the problem now.

question, he could only console himself.

"Thank you, I'm fine!" In fact, because Jiang Kuan had increased the amount, Yao Yi didn't particularly care about the small number of customers missing from the Malatang stall. It just reminded her that since there are people

It's hard to guarantee that no one will be able to imitate Malatang, so they came up with the idea of ​​glutinous rice and braised rice.

Before closing the stall in the evening, Jiang Kuan came over on time to hand over the funds. Yao Yi called out to him, who turned around and left after taking the money.

"How much can you sell at most that day?" Yao Yi decided to sell a large amount of braised pork in exchange for cash before counterfeiting appeared.

"What's going on?" After hearing this, Jiang Kuan realized that something had happened, and he quickly asked.

"Have you seen that stall?" Yao Yi asked without answering.

"What about the Malatang stall?" Jiang Kuan didn't understand what this had to do with him.

"Today someone is imitating Malatang, then soon there will be people imitating glutinous rice and braised rice!" Yao Yi affirmed.

"What...what should I do?" Jiang Kuan now basically earns fifty or sixty yuan every day. Hearing this, he felt anxious.

"I plan to sell in large quantities before those people start, so I can win the market and earn money at the same time." Yao Yi explained.

"Okay, I'll find some more people tonight!" Jiang Kuan also knew that time was of the essence, so he said immediately.

"It won't take more than a day and a half, and it will officially start the day after tomorrow!" Yao Yi planned to go back tonight and urge Li Mei to find two more people, hoping to make more money before someone imitates it.

When Yao Yi mentioned this matter when he returned home, both Yao Jianguo and his wife knew the seriousness of the matter and immediately said they would recruit someone by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

When he went to school the next day, although Yao Yi kept thinking about it, he knew that no matter how anxious he was at school, it would be useless and he could only suppress the restlessness in his heart.

"Have you been recruited?" Yao Yi asked as soon as he entered the door.

"Don't worry, I found them! One is Duoduo's mother and the other is Zhang introduced by your Uncle Tang!" Li Mei said.

"That's good, where's my dad?" Yao Yi looked inside the room and didn't see Yao Jianguo, so he asked curiously.

"Your dad went to see your Uncle Li and Uncle Zhu and wanted him to send the things over directly in the near future!" Li Mei explained.

Yao Yi knew the Uncle Zhu and Uncle Li mentioned by Li Mei. One of them sold pork and the other sold soy products, so she didn't ask any more questions, filled the rice and started eating.

Early the next morning, when the moon was still hanging on the branches, Yao Yi heard someone knocking on the door. She took her watch and took a look at it. It was only half past four. She got up and listened carefully and heard Li Mei say a few words, and then

It was the sound of moving things into the yard.

"Mom, who is it!" Yao Yi shouted.

"Your Uncle Zhu and Uncle Li brought something here!" Li Mei replied, and then whispered something to the people around her.

By the time Yao Yi came out after washing up, Uncle Zhu and his wife had already packed up and left.

"Why don't you sleep more?" Li Mei felt sorry for her daughter who had to go to school at such a young age and had to worry about the family's livelihood. She was always cautious every time she got up.

"Get up when you wake up!" Yao Yi stretched out his body, looked at the pile of pig heads and pig feet pushed by the well and said, "Mom, go make some glutinous rice rice first!"

Yao Yi filled the basin with water, turned on the light in the yard, took a pig's head and washed it, and then carefully pinched off the pig's hair with tweezers.

Yao Yi shook his wrist, which was a little sore from exerting too much force, but he was still glad in his heart. Fortunately, the pigs in this era were slaughtered when they were fatter and had less soft hair, otherwise they would be like this

A pile of pig heads and pig feet, let alone two more people, it would be too late to add two more people.

"Jiang Kuan has been working hard for you since today!" Yao Yi said solemnly with a serious expression as he waited for Jiang Kuan to put the three baskets containing glutinous rice into the tricycle.

"Don't worry, it's all for money!" Jiang Kuanli replied matter-of-factly.

"Well, come on, I wish we can all have a lot of money and make money every day!" Yao Yi was amused by his words, so he smiled and sent his blessings.
Chapter completed!