Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 304

After half a month, Chen Dongzhi hurried back to the town one morning with the goods he brought back. He originally wanted to take the goods back to the escort agency to count the quantity and then speed back to the village.

It happened that Sun Tao opened the door of the restaurant and went out to buy vegetables. When they met, he told her that Zhong Ruyi was now in the small courtyard he bought.

This time, he turned and went to the small courtyard.

He didn't have the key, so he could only wait at the door, but fortunately he didn't have to wait long.

Zhang Mingzhu and Cuicui got up early and made egg cakes and were ready to go out to sell them. When they opened the door, they saw someone sitting at the door, which scared them.

After seeing clearly that the person was Chen Dongzhi, he let him in.

"Cousin-in-law, Ruyi sleeps with us in the west wing." Zhang Mingzhu told him, fearing that he would not be able to find her.

Chen Dongzhi nodded hurriedly and went in.

When she woke up, Zhong Ruyi found a dusty man beside her bed. She was pleasantly surprised. "Why did you come back so soon? Didn't you say you would be back for at least a month?"

Without waiting for anyone to answer, she remembered that she had just woken up with messy hair and hadn't washed yet, so she wanted to chase the person out and got up to wash.

Chen Dongzhi refused to leave. The two of them had been sleeping in the same bed for more than a month. He had seen everything. What was there to be shy about?

After cleaning up and sitting at the dining table, Zhong Ruyi picked up the freshly cooked scallion oil noodles and began to eat them with slurps.

Seeing that he was eating without even raising his head, I knew that he must have had a hard time outside for the past half month. This is how escorting goods works. If you can find a family to stay with while escorting goods, you can make do for one night. If not, you can only sleep in the wild.

The pork jerky and meat floss that I brought for him before leaving were probably all eaten up, so he could only eat the dry flatbreads and steamed buns that I bought on the way.

After finishing a bowl of noodles, seeing that he was still not satisfied, Zhong Ruyi stood up and got another half bowl. "Don't eat too much. Go and have a rest after you finish eating. I'll make you something delicious after you wake up."

After breakfast, Chen Dongzhi was taken to the main room to sleep.

He had only seen this yard once, when he bought it, so now that he saw that the yard was very different from the first time he saw it, he felt quite guilty.

This yard is not small, and cleaning it is not an easy task.

I was the same. I thought I could just sit back and do nothing after buying a yard. In fact, I was just adding burden to Ruyi. I didn't think that there would be a lot of things to deal with after buying the yard.

The more I think about it, the worse I feel.

Zhong Ruyi didn't notice his expression, otherwise she would have laughed at him.

She didn't think that money makes the world go round. She was not poor, so she hired Grandma Ji and Xiaoyu for 100 coins a day, and also asked Cuicui to come and clean up. It took a total of three days, and less than one or two taels of silver, to clean the whole yard.

As for furniture, you can just find the carpenter who has ordered cabinets for you before and buy ready-made ones. Why worry so much?

My biggest worry is that the yard is too big and there are too many rooms. I would never dare to live here alone.

There was already a bed and pillows in the main room, and Chen Dongzhi fell asleep as soon as he lay down on it. They had rushed back overnight and did not dare to rest, because on the carriage were glass products that the owner of Nanzhou had spent a lot of money to transport from the capital.

The purpose of transporting these things back is because Yunzhou is close to foreign countries. If these things are transported to foreign countries and sold, the price will be more than doubled.

It was so precious that they didn't dare to stay there for too long. The round trip that would have taken a month was squeezed into just half a month.

Seeing that he was fast asleep, Zhong Ruyi gently closed the door, went out to buy some vegetables, and came back to make something delicious for him at noon.

I went to Boss Zhu's pork shop and wanted to buy two big pork elbows, but unfortunately I went a little late and there was only one left.

Boss Zhu's wife was carrying a one-year-old child on her back and was cutting a piece of pork belly for a customer.

Zhong Ruyi took a look and thought the pork belly was not bad, so she ordered one weighing more than two pounds, plus a pork elbow, and also bought two ribs.

Passing by a small stall, she saw someone selling egg cakes, which looked exactly the same as the ones she taught Zhang Mingzhu and Cuicui to make.

She narrowed her eyes, walked up to the vendor and asked, "Did you make this yourself, bro?"

Looking closely, this guy looked somewhat familiar. He seemed to be the foreign guy who sold peppers as potted plants.

The young man introduced her with a smile, "Yes, these are all made by me. I use eggs, sugar and fine flour. They are soft and sweet. You can buy some to bring back for the elderly and children at home to try. One piece is only six cents."

Although they were exactly the same, Zhong Ruyi was not sure that these were the ones made by Zhang Mingzhu and Cuicui, so she left after asking. Anyway, if she wanted to eat it, she could make it herself.

When we got back, Chen Dongzhi was still sleeping. It seemed that he had been very hard during the past half month and had lost some weight.

Even after she had prepared the meal, he still hadn't woken up. He would be starving if he continued sleeping like this.

"Brother Dongzhi, get up. If you're still sleepy, eat before going to sleep."

Chen Dongzhi woke up when she was about to shout a second time, and the sleepiness on his face quickly dissipated.

After washing up, Zhang Mingzhu and Cuicui had not returned yet. Their egg cake stall has been very popular recently.

According to the two, there are already three small stalls selling the same egg cakes as theirs on the same street, but their business is still better.

The ones made by others are always inferior to those at their two stalls. Once you have tried their egg cakes, you will know the difference when you try others’.

We had dumplings for lunch, the filling was shepherd's purse and pork. When we went to the market in the morning, there were people selling them on the roadside carrying a load on their shoulders.

It looked so juicy, and Zhong Ruyi thought that she hadn't eaten it for a while, so she bought some to make dumplings.

While we were eating, Zhang Mingzhu and Cuicui came back in a hurry.

"What about eating? I'm hungry too. Is there anything left in the pot?"

After Zhang Mingzhu asked, she ran to the kitchen without waiting for anyone to answer.

Cuicui called out "Uncle". Chen Dongzhi, who had been thinking Zhang Mingzhu was crazy, relaxed his brows and took out two dolls from his arms.

When I looked closely, I saw that they were two smiling old men with long beards.

He put one of the dolls on the table, laid it flat on the table, and pushed it with his hand. He thought the doll would fall down, but it just tilted a bit and then bounced back to its original position, as if the tilt just now was an illusion.

It was the first time that Cuicui had seen such a peculiar doll. When she learned that it was brought back by her uncle-in-law, she was extremely happy and said, "Thank you, uncle-in-law!"

After taking it, she curiously put it on the table and fiddled with it. Every time she fiddled with the doll, it would fall over, but would quickly bounce back.

Zhong Ruyi knew this, she was a tumbler, and seeing Cuicui having so much fun that she didn't even eat her dumplings, she still urged her to eat, "You've been busy this morning, you must be starving, go get yourself a bowl of soup and fill your stomach before playing again."

Cuicui was very obedient. She put the two tumblers into her lapel and seemed to treasure them very much.

While everyone was jumping into the kitchen to get the dumplings, Chen Dongzhi glanced at the door and saw Zhang Mingzhu was still in the kitchen, and it wasn't known when she would come out for a while.

He whispered to his wife, "I didn't bring a gift for your cousin. She always rolled her eyes at me before, so I didn't want to bring one to her."

Zhong Ruyi was about to burst out laughing. Could she say that Zhang Mingzhu wasn't rolling her eyes but was actually flirting with her?