kingnovel Chapter 905 Black Clothes Stand Out
Chapter 905 Black Clothes Stand Out
It will be dawn in an hour, and some people who got up early will start setting up stalls on the street.
Two men dressed in black were walking on the street, leading horses and holding whips. Anyone who saw them from afar would try to avoid them.
Zhou Guo looked down at her black clothes and recalled Zhang Lian's expression when he first saw her. She wanted to laugh.
Er Pang said, "Master, why do we have to dress like this? Look at these people. Every one of them will look at us a few more times when they meet us. I think it will be more eye-catching."
Zhou Guo couldn't help laughing and said, "Doesn't this make us look like we are doing something big? Wearing all black obviously means we have a secret. How exciting."
This is a sequelae from watching too many TV dramas in the previous life.
She turned around and looked at Er Pang, who was dressed similarly, and said, "Actually, apart from being a little eye-catching, I think he still looks pretty good. He's so handsome, like a mysterious man, a great martial arts master."
"What hands?" Erpang didn't understand.
Zhou Guo said, "Who cares? Let's go to the stewed food store first. They should be up by now. Let's go eat something."
After spending so long at the government office and coming all the way from far away, Zhang Lian didn't even treat her to a meal. I don't know if he didn't like her.
Zhang Lian was pacing back and forth in the study room at this moment, tapping his palms with the backs of his hands excitedly. He had no idea that Zhou Guo left on an empty stomach.
What he thought was that Zhou Guo had food in his hands, and as long as they transported the food over safely, it would be a great achievement.
By that time, the empire will be initially settled, and most of the general's subordinates will be generals. There won't be many civil servants like them. They should be able to get a better position in the court, right?
The opportunity to bring honor to the family is right in front of you, and you won’t even notice that you are hungry.
Zhou Guo had long been forgotten by him.
The duck shop wasn't open yet, but people were already there. Erpang went to knock on the door, and it opened in a moment.
Seeing Er Pang, he was very surprised. When he saw Zhou Guo, he was even more surprised, "Master, why are you here at this time?"
Zhou Guo said: "Let's go in and talk."
Erpang led the horse to the backyard.
At this time, several people got up, three of them were preparing things to sell today, and one was preparing breakfast.
When he saw Zhou Guo coming, he was surprised and frightened, not knowing what had happened.
Zhou Guo said: "You guys do your thing, we are just passing by and came in to take a look."
Erpang finished feeding the horse and came over and said, "Master, I'll go prepare breakfast for you."
As someone close to Zhou Guo, I need to learn more skills.
They have to be able to work in the living room and in the kitchen. After all, the master knows everything. When they are away from home, they can't always expect the master to cook for them, right?
Zhou Guo nodded, "Go ahead."
She moved a recliner, covered herself with the cloak, and planned to close her eyes and take a rest.
I closed my eyes and fell asleep in a short while.
When the busy people saw this, they immediately slowed down their movements and dared not make any loud noises.
When Erpang came out after helping to prepare the meal, he saw that Zhou Guo had fallen into a deep sleep.
It was almost dawn now.
Today's braised roast duck is also on the shelf and will be ready for delivery as soon as the door opens.
Erpang didn't dare to disturb her. He found a clean quilt from the house and carefully covered her with it.
Zhou Guo woke up as soon as she moved. She opened her eyes and looked at Er Pang who was covering her with a blanket. She glanced around and asked, "Is it daybreak? Is the door open?"
Er Pang said, "Master, why don't you sleep for a while."
Zhou Guo shook his head and stood up from the recliner. "After dinner, go back to sleep. Sleeping here will affect your business."
He sat down at the table and invited everyone to eat together, "Come, everyone, come and eat. After you finish eating, you can sell your goods and I should go back."
Everyone came over with their bowls in hand and smiled happily.
In the morning, we had white porridge, steamed buns, meat patties, sauerkraut, eggs, and braised roast duck, all on the table.
These steamed buns and meat patties were prepared by Erpang, who knew that Zhou Guo was not used to drinking only porridge in the morning and would like to eat something dry.
Zhou Guo drank a mouthful of porridge, ate a bite of meat pie, and then ate a piece of braised duck. After running around all night, he was really hungry.
Seeing that they didn't like braised food, she said, "Eat it, why not?"
Several people nodded quickly, "Eat, eat, eat, we are all eating."
Zhou Guo said: "We sell this at home. If you want to eat it, just eat it yourself. There are so many every day anyway."
One of them said with a smile, "Master, don't worry. We ate all the leftovers that were not good quality. We ate a lot, so we ate everything."
"Yeah yeah."
They seldom eat these things early in the morning.
Zhou Guo nodded, as if he was not reluctant to eat it, and asked about what happened during this period.
Everyone was laughing and saying, "It's pretty good, especially the newly-made braised duck. We could only sell eight or nine a day before, but now we can sell thirty a day. Some people want more and buy one at a time. If there are more customers like this a day, we'll sell it out faster."
"I guess they'll sell even better during the dog days of summer, maybe 40 a day?"
"This way, together with the roast ducks next door, we can sell more than a hundred ducks a day."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "The dog days are here, and it's hot. Braised duck is easy to sell, but roast duck won't be so easy to sell. The two are almost the same."
"Yes, roast duck sells better when the weather is cold."
Zhou Guo ate three big bowls of porridge, and also a few steamed buns, meat patties, a lot of braised dishes, and a braised duck. She finished half of it by herself. Her good appetite tempted the others sitting next to her to eat an extra bowl of porridge. Everyone had a full belly and almost had to hold their stomachs to leave.
She laughed and pointed at their backs and said, "You can't eat so much, but you still eat so much."
After she finished eating, she took Erpang back to her own house.
This is a three-story house that was purchased not long ago.
She thought that since she came to Yunzhou quite often every year, it would be inconvenient to stay in an inn every time, and it would be difficult to discuss business, so she bought this one.
There was a group of servants guarding the house, and the house was kept clean. Zhou Guo was too lazy to go into the backyard, so he just slept in the study.
Before falling asleep, she asked Erpang to send someone to write to Wu Jiang and Hu Zi, asking them to come to Yunzhou.
When she opened her eyes again, it was already afternoon.
Erpang hasn't woken up yet.
She changed her clothes into a white gown, tied a headband of the same color around her head, and went out, waving a folding fan.
It had been a long time since she had walked around by herself. She wandered around the streets and alleys, watching all kinds of people coming and going around her, and giving a few coins to beggars she met.
In fact, there are not many beggars in Yunzhou. In the past two years, many people have come to the village, including refugees and beggars, and now everyone can support themselves.
Last year she brought back a few beggars to work in Song County. However, many of them couldn't stand the hardship and ran away after working for a few days, and went back to Yunzhou to resume their old jobs.
Er Pang got angry when he talked about this. "Working to earn money and eat is tiring, no wonder these people become beggars, they deserve it. I think they won't even bother to beg for food, they will starve to death!"