Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 639 I won’t go back

Zhou Guo said, "Why should you worry? My brothers are not incapable of cooking. They will naturally take my aunt back when they come back. We can put her at Aunt Qian's house tomorrow. She won't need to take care of anything. My aunt can help with farm work at her house. Isn't that good? Aren't you tired of going back and forth like this?"

In order to get home before dark, Zhou Guo drove quite fast.

After being shaken a few times, Li stopped talking.

When she got home, she saw her brothers serving Xu and they were happily eating. Nothing had happened at home and everything was in order. She felt that Zhou Guo was right. She was wasting her energy rushing back and forth.

Zhou Mai and the others looked at them in surprise, "Didn't they say the store would be open for three days? Why are you back?"

Zhou Xing smiled and said, "Second Aunt is worried about her family and insisted on coming back to visit."

Zhou Mai said embarrassedly: "We thought you were not coming back, so we didn't cook for you."

Zhou Mi said, "I'll get it done. The steamed buns are ready. I just need to stir-fry two more dishes."

Zhou Guo threw away the whip and waved his hand, saying, "I'm hungry and very tired. I'll eat first."

Zhou Xing followed Zhou Mi and started to work.

Li said, "Let me do it."

Zhou Gu took Zhou Mai to unload the cart and feed the horses.

The old man leaned back on the kang. He was old, and the carriage seemed to be falling apart at the speed it was moving. This carriage was no good and needed to be modified.

Zhou Su and Li Lai brought several sets of bowls and chopsticks and said with a smile, "Sir, sister, we just ate too. You must be hungry. Have a bite first."

Zhou Guo took a look at the dishes on the table, which included meat, vegetables, soup, and eggs, and said with a smile, "Not bad. The cook is not at home, but you didn't wrong yourself or mess around."

The old man nodded, "Well, your mother is still worried that you have no food to eat in the house, it's really unnecessary."

Zhou Su said, "How can we have no food? Even though you are not at home, we still need to eat. So many mouths need food to fill. Brother's fried meat is really delicious, not worse than mother's."

Zhou Guo knew he was talking about Zhou Mai, and said with a smile: "I don't know you yet, as long as it's not hard to swallow, nothing is bad."

Zhou Su said: "It's really delicious, why don't you try it."

He picked up a piece of meat for her and a piece for the old man, "Sir, you must be hungry. Eat a steamed bun first."

I gave him another steamed bun.

The old man took it with satisfaction and patted his head.

They leisurely ate two steamed buns and the meal was ready.

Zhou Mai and others brought freshly cooked dishes and steamed buns into the house, and the whole family squeezed on the kang to eat.

Zhou Mi asked, "How is it going? Is the new opening going well today?"

Zhou Gu laughed and said, "Great, very good. Today we sold nearly twenty strings of coins at half price! Twenty strings of coins!"

Several people were shocked. "Really? I didn't realize that our county could sell so much at once? Are these people so rich?"

Zhou Xing said, "They weren't bought by one family. Why not buy them together? They are all dried vegetables that can be kept for a year. Everyone is thinking that since they are cheap now, they can buy a few more pounds to keep for the winter. When they are soaked, they can be used to make a large pot of soup, which can be eaten for a long time."

Li said, "That's right. These mushrooms are very fragrant. If you drink the soup, you won't need much."

Zhou Guo said: "Well, we can't tell in the first three days after opening. We have to wait until these three days are over. We will know whether it is good or not in a few days."

Zhou Mai smiled and said, "What are you going to do if it doesn't go well?"

Zhou Guo said, "If it's not good, then it's not good. If the business is too good and there are too many people, there are only three of them, and I'm worried that they will be too busy and make mistakes. Take it slow. It's okay if you don't sell much in a day. The main purpose is to train them."

Zhou Mi said: "Other people who do business want their store to be too busy every day, but you don't look like a businessman."

The old man ate a piece of duck meat and said, "You never know. Sometimes you don't get what you ask for, and sometimes you get what you don't ask for."

The whole family laughed.

Zhou Guo said: "Sir, you are too optimistic. There is no such good thing in the world. Our county cannot be compared with the capital. There are only a few rich people."

The old man waved his hand, "Hey, you can't underestimate our county. If it wasn't a good place, how could we be assigned to this place?"

"Really?" Zhou Guo wondered. Is their county very rich?

The next day, several people got up before dawn and went again. The old man thought it was boring to stay in the city and refused to go. He would rather stay at home and tend to his vegetable garden.

That day, Zhou Guo simply took Li and Zhou Xing to stay in the inn and decided not to go back.

Mrs. Li was still worried, "The old man is also at home, how can we not go back? Can he eat well?"

Zhou Guo didn't say anything, Zhou Xing said: "Second Aunt, it's not like the master can't cook. He can just grill some meat and fill his stomach."

Zhou Guo said, "Yes, mother, it's not like Master doesn't have ready-made food at night. You weren't home in the morning and at noon either, so how could he not eat? It doesn't matter if we go back tonight to make him something delicious. You know, it's so long and we have to rush back and forth every day. Let's go to sleep. We have to get up early tomorrow."

Li slapped her thigh and said, "I would have forgotten if you hadn't told me. It's true. We're not home for breakfast and lunch. Forget it, let them eat by themselves. Who knows what delicious food they'll cook at home."

Is making delicious food.

The old man got up early in the morning, had breakfast, and went to the mountains after tending to the vegetable garden.

I couldn't catch any fish, so I ran to a few hills and caught a roe deer. I was drooling at the roe deer because I hadn't eaten one for at least a year.

As soon as I got home, I started to get busy. When Zhou Mai and others got home from school, I smelled a strong fragrance coming from my yard before I even got home.

When I ran into the yard, I saw that the old man had lit a big brazier in the yard. There was half a piece of game on the rack, and the fragrance was wafting from it.

The old man looked up, waved his hand and said, "Let's eat."

A few people cheered, put down their book boxes, picked up bowls, chopsticks and knives, and ate with their mouths full of oil. They didn't even remember Zhou Guo and the others.

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Zhou Guo looked at the slowly quietening street and said, "Let's put up the sign."

She settled today's bill and said to Hu Zi and the other two who were going to stay tomorrow, "Tomorrow these things will be back to normal prices. There will definitely not be as many people coming as in the past two days, at least half as many. The three of you are enough. But no matter what you do, at least two people must stay in the store. I have already informed the two roads on the street, so no one will come to cause trouble.

You just need to pay attention to the shop, learn more, learn how to deal with troubles, how to deal with tricky customers. Remember, harmony brings wealth. For us who sell things, the first thing we put in our hearts is the customers. We must learn to consider problems from their perspective and help them solve their problems. Then the business will gradually get better and better. "

Several people nodded.