Picking up a fool to farm

Chapter 53

After eating, Yan Chenyi and Sibo didn't leave right away, but followed Uncle Li and his father and son to the courtyard, sat on the straw mat and poured a pot of tea, chatting while drinking tea.

"Xiao Yan plans to buy a house in the county?" Uncle Li tapped on the cigarette rod, lit the fire and took two puffs. Frowning, he sighed and said, "This Sibo looks much smarter than that time."

Yan Chenyi lowered his eyes to look at Sibo, and saw that he didn't respond and was breathing quite calmly, knowing that he had just drank a lot of wine, and now the little wind blows a little bit.

"He's not really stupid at all. You can teach him slowly." He didn't want to talk about Sibo. No matter how nice Mr. Li's family was to him, he didn't want anyone to say anything about Sibo. "I don't plan to buy a house in the county. There are rooms in the restaurant to live in. I usually come back to have a look when I'm not busy. I can't bear to part with the food in that yard." Smiling, he stretched out his hand to pour tea for Uncle Li, Yan Chenyi persuaded him Said: "It's better to smoke this tobacco leaf less, after a few years your body won't be able to bear it."

Uncle Li nodded his head obediently, but Yan Chenyi was speechless for a while after puffing several times.

Uncle Li also shook his head, how could this stubborn old man be so easy to obey.

"Xiaoyan, how is the business of your restaurant recently? Two days ago, your aunt said she would go over to have a look. I was afraid she would cause trouble for you so I didn't let her go."

"I was just about to say, when it's Xiaopeng's birthday, bring him to a restaurant for dinner, and treat him as my birthday celebration." Yan Chenyi raised his hand and smoothed the hair on Sibo's forehead to him. Behind the ears, the action naturally seemed to have been done many times.

Uncle Li was a little dazed for a moment.

Uncle Li's complexion changed, he looked at Yan Chenyi's movement of protecting Sibo's head with one hand, and suddenly sighed, "Little Yan, I don't know if I should say something or not."

Yan Chenyi looked up at him, nodded and said with a smile: "Master, don't say that, you have helped me so much during the half a year I've been here, more care than I received when I was at home, what else can I say of."

"Oh!" Uncle Li sighed heavily again, raised his chin and said, "You and Sibo...is that the relationship?"

Although he already realized what the old man would say, Yan Chenyi was still a little nervous when he really asked.

Stealing a glance at Uncle Li's expression, he saw that the old man was blushing a little bit, which is rare. He chuckled lightly, but he was no longer nervous just now. He nodded his head and answered softly, "Yes."

"You," Uncle Li also shook his head and sighed. He didn't show any radical remarks, but said: "People in the village have been talking about it for a long time. It's not often that you don't hear it in the village. This matter... Sigh! Although I have heard that there are quite a few high-ranking families who are fond of Longyang, but you two... ah!"

Yan Chenyi smiled lightly and shook his head, waved his hands and said: "We are just like this naturally, it's not that kind of dirty relationship, Sibo is not that kind of person, let alone me, don't worry, let's talk about it," stretched out his hand to Uncle Li After drinking tea, he looked down at the sleeping man, his eyes were gentle, "Besides, what others think and talk about is their business, you can't just stop your mouth, you can say whatever you like, my life is getting better and better. The better you attract people to hold grudges, I'm afraid your family will be criticized secretly because of your close relationship with me."

"They dare?!" Uncle Li's face turned pale, and his voice became much higher. "You don't need to talk to those gossips. What Xiaoyan said is right. If your family lives well, you can just ignore those craps."

Uncle Li also nodded, but he still told him: "After all, many people can't accept this matter. You are still running a restaurant to do business. Don't let people run you because of this. Be more careful."

"Well, I know." Nodding his head slightly, Yan Chenyi's eyes became preoccupied.

Looking up to see that it was getting late, Yan Chenyi shook Sibo awake, and the two went home.

……

The days have turned into August, and it’s better sooner or later, the temperature is not too high, but the two hours at noon are really unbearable, the number of guests coming to eat at noon in the restaurant is much less, and the kitchen is even hotter. Master Liu And a few little cooks were sweating profusely.

Two days ago, two young cooks were newly recruited, they were quite clever and young, so Yan Chenyi thought it was good, so he hired them. Now the two young cooks are boiling spicy soup and cooking duck necks in the newly built kitchen. He went out to fill the well water to cool off the heat, but Yan Chenyi was still worried about his blushing face, don't pass out from heatstroke.

"Sibo!" Yan Chenyi yelled twice in the backyard but didn't see the man, he rushed over as soon as he usually said, and he didn't see anyone this morning.

He turned around and didn't even see Yi, so he was even more puzzled.

"This kitchen is too hot. Come out and don't stay in there when there is no one else." I went to the kitchen and took a look, and saw two little cooks lying on the table gasping for air. Yi glanced at Master Liu and the other young cooks who were busy, and sighed, "This can't work, our restaurant business is good, don't get heatstroke anymore."

"That's right, the sun is hot outside, it's too hot." Master Liu wiped the sweat off his face with a cloth towel, and raised his hand to serve the dishes.

"Chenchen~~~Chenchen come out soon~~~!!!"

Hearing the man calling him, Yan Chenyi hurried out to take a look, and saw that the door of the backyard was wide open, and Yi and Sibo were leading people to move in large round watermelons, as well as a lot of bamboo poles and thick bamboo sticks. linen.

He ran over and asked puzzledly, "What are you doing?"

"It happened that someone who sold watermelon bought it and went to the well to cool it down for Master Liu and the others to eat. This shelf can be set up as a pergola in the yard for ventilation and shade, so it can be slow." Sibo greeted the few who ran out when they heard the voice. A little cook helped move the watermelons, and smiled at Yan Chenyi: "I'm so hot, do we still have enough ice cubes in the storage, if not, I'll go buy some more."

"That's enough. The ice cream is selling well recently. My own people can't eat much. It's not bad for you to buy some more. I usually make some ice cream for everyone to cool off the heat at noon." Yan Chenyi said from his sleeve. He took out a small purse from his pocket and threw it to him, "Don't run around, just come back after buying ice, it's too hot today."

Sibo nodded and told the little cooks to find some buckets and fill some watermelons, "Let Ning come over and set up the shelves later, he will."

"En." Yan Chenyi nodded, turned and went to the lobby.

At the moment, there are only two tables eating in the lobby, and there is basically nothing to order. He went to the counter and asked Guang for the bill for the past two days at noon, then frowned and thought for a while and said: "After the guests at these two tables leave Put the sign out of business, and we will hold a meeting to find a way in a while."

Guang nodded, Ning turned to look at Yan Chenyi and whispered: "There are a lot of guests in the past two nights, but there are really not many people at noon."

"Well, I know," Yan Chenyi put down the bill in his hand and said to Ning, "Just now Sibo bought some shelves for you to go over and set up, and it's in the open space in the backyard."

Ning promised and took the cloth towel on his shoulders to the backyard.

Yan Chenyi turned his head to look at Guang, and said in a low voice: "I was thinking that the weather is too hot these days, otherwise we should close the business at noon, since there is no money to be made anyway."

"The people who come here are all here for smoothies, but several other restaurants in the city have also launched smoothies. If we close down, we will lose a lot of customers." Guang shook his head lightly, seeing that he was frowning. Zhan smiled and said, "Don't worry, let's think of a way. Why don't we open a single door to sell smoothies, and we won't sell food at noon. I have an idea, can you listen to it?"

Yan Chenyi nodded and looked at him, "Say it."

"Didn't you be pestered by Sibo to cook a barbecue two days ago? At that time, I remember you said that if it was cooler at night, it would be more comfortable to barbecue and drink in the yard. Why don't we get some to sell at night? This ghost The weather is too hot, why not sell smoothies at noon and barbecue at night, the kind you made on bamboo sticks is easy for them to take away, just set up a stall in front of our store."

Yan Chenyi's eyes lit up when he heard it.

Originally, he also had this plan, but there was no carbon and grill ready-made, so he gave up on this plan, but Guang said so, which means he has connections, reached out and took a pen and paper to draw, and handed the picture to him, "like this Can it be made in a blacksmith shop?"

"Yes, the carbon you mentioned is also sold, and I'll get someone to buy it later." Guang said it easily, but Yan Chenyi believed it.

If he knew that the carbon widely said was specially supplied to the royal family for heating in winter... I don’t know what the reaction would be.

Unfortunately, he doesn't know.

Seeing that the guests at the two tables had left, Yan Chenyi went to hang up the signboard, then cleaned up the counter with Guangjiang and closed the door first, and the two went to the backyard together.

In the backyard, Sibo had just bought two large carts of ice cubes and put them in the freezer. Seeing them coming together, he wondered, "Aren't you doing business?"

Yan Chenyi nodded, reached out to wipe the sweat off his face, saw that his clothes were all wet, and asked with distress: "Are you dizzy?"

"It's not dizzy, it's just hot, as if after taking a bath." Sibo leaned over to hug him and rubbed against him, and the few people had already seen him.

Although at first he was a little surprised when he hugged Yan Chenyi for rubbing, but he couldn't bear to rub it several times a day, and he had to rub it every time he got the chance, and he got used to it after a long time.

"Let's have a meeting." Yan Chenyi asked them all to come out, and Ning acted nimbly, the sheds for the shade had already been set up, and everyone came over one after another, those who wiped their sweat and washed their faces came and sat on straw mats to watch him .

"The weather is getting hotter and our restaurant's business is not very good. If there are too many of those dishes, they will be spoiled. I discussed with Guangzhou just now. We will sell a few cold dishes and smoothies at noon. Here is the list "He handed the list in his hand to Master Liu and continued: "In this case, we will have nothing to do, and then we will wear skewers in the kitchen. In the evening, we will set up a stall outside the restaurant to sell skewers. What do you think? ?”

"Selling barbecue? How much will it cost? We have a lot of people at night." A little cook tilted his head and looked at the list in Master Liu's hand. Seeing the names of many ingredients and meat skewers on it, he asked in puzzlement : "Can these be baked?"

"Yes, we will wear skewers when we have nothing to do in the future. We have to buy some sake for storage. Collect the spirits and sell them after dawn." Yan Chenyi saw Sibo leaning on his shoulder Then he raised his hand and patted him, "Go and cut two watermelons for everyone to eat."

Sibo hummed and stood up to get the watermelon.

Seeing that everyone looked worried, Yan Chenyi smiled and said: "Let's try it for a few days, and if the business is not good, we can change it back."

"Okay, just do what Mr. Xiao says." Master Liu took the lead in answering, he was very optimistic about Yan Chenyi.

That's it. From tomorrow, the restaurant ushered in the summer barbecue season.