Otherworldly Days

Chapter 120

The carriage stopped at the entrance of Yipinzhai, and Fang Ziye, who had been away for an afternoon, came back. The person entering the door glanced at the stall on the side, gave Ershun an order, and went into the building.

After changing into clean clothes, Cao Xiangnan went to the box to meet Fang Ziye. There was a barbecue on the table, and the people sitting there were eating.Fang Ziye saw Cao Xiangnan coming in, "It tastes good," he said.

Recently, he found that his appetite is particularly good, and he wants to eat everything he sees. He used to prefer light taste, but now he especially likes this kind of food with strong taste.

"It's fine if you like it, but don't eat too much of this stuff, it's easy to get angry, and I'll ask Er Shun to make you a cup of chrysanthemum tea later, so you don't get angry." Cao Xiangnan sat down on the chair, seeing Fang Ziye's delicious food, he also Grabbed one and ate it.

When he was grilling just now, he tasted and tried a few skewers, and now he will sit and eat with Fang Ziye, and suddenly miss those days when he went out to barbecue and drink beer with his friends.

After coming here, Cao Xiangnan never thought about those people and things in his previous life.After his parents divorced, he just lived with a grandma. Although the relationship is not considered close, she is also his grandma after all, and she is not good to him, but there is nothing to feel sorry for him. Later, when his grandma left, his In fact, I also felt sad and depressed.

It's just that birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws, and no one can escape this circle.

Even if he is gone, his irresponsible parents will not care about his life or death.He didn't have many friends since he was a child, and only after he went to university did he meet a few classmates and friends who were considered good friends.He probably knew that he was gone, and his friends would feel sorry for him. Thinking of this, he felt a little sad.

"Xiangnan." Seeing Cao Xiangnan eating in silence, Fang Ziye didn't understand why there was a sadness on his body.Hearing Fang Ziye calling him, Cao Xiangnan said "ah", and asked him what he wanted to say with his eyes.

"What were you thinking just now?" Fang Ziye asked.

"I remembered something." The corner of Cao Xiangnan's mouth showed a smile, and the haze at that moment just seemed to have never appeared before, "Yes, I have an idea here, let me tell you."

"Well, tell me." Fang Ziye nodded and asked Cao Xiangnan to continue.

"I think we can open another night snack stall, that is, a barbecue stall like ours today. Let's find another place to open it. It happens that the weather is hot now. We just need to have a place, spread out tables and chairs, and sell barbecue at the same time. While selling porridge and noodles, as long as the food is well prepared, someone will definitely come..." Seeing that Fang Ziye was interested, Cao Xiangnan continued to tell Fang Ziye his idea.

Those who come to Yipinzhai are all rich young masters. These people are not short of money in their pockets, as long as they eat happily.The supper stall he is going to open now is for the common people, and ordinary people here in Nanyang have some money in their pockets, so naturally they will be willing to spend some money to go out for supper with three or five friends.

Don't look at this kind of supper stall. The food is not expensive, the business is good, and there are many people who come to eat, that is money.

The current business of Yipinzhai is good, but from morning tea in the morning to supper in the evening, the business will gradually become saturated, and there is not much room for development.Besides, the workers in the building are busy from morning to night, and everyone is very tired.This three-story tube building is said to be large compared to the houses here. There will be guests staying upstairs. If the downstairs is too noisy day and night, it may affect the rest of the guests.

Shopkeeper Fang was called up. Hearing what Cao Xiangnan said about the barbecue stall, his eyes became brighter the more he listened.

"Now Yipinzhai's business is very good, so we will do it separately and won't attract the jealousy of others." This is also a consideration. Don't put all your eggs in one basket from the beginning, it is better to separate several baskets , When every basket is filled with eggs, it will be spectacular.

Cao Xiangnan also asked if they should find another shop that specializes in barbecue and hot pot. At that time, they can open one in all the major casinos in Fengchao.Yipinzhai takes the route of high-end restaurants here, and serves morning tea and lunch and dinner. He also has a lot of special dishes here, and will introduce some new dishes every once in a while.

The reason why he considered setting up a supper stall in Nanyang was also based on some basic conditions of the city. For example, in Fenshui Town, there are basically no people outside the street at night, even if you set up a stall, people come. eat.But it is different here, there are quite a few people visiting the night market at night, if they are doing supper stalls, the business must be very good.

After a lot of discussion, they decided to open another night snack stall. As for the special barbecue and hot pot restaurant, they will put it in the back.

There was the shopkeeper Fang, and he quickly found a place for supper.The location is close to the pier, so it's not considered a central location, but the advantage is that the place is large and there are horses on both sides. Cao Xiangnan followed him to see it, and felt that the location was considered good on the ground.

After learning about the price of shopfronts in Nanyang City, Cao Xiangnan realized that any ordinary shop here would cost four to five hundred taels, and a place as big as this would not be worth thousands of taels.

This time, Fang Ziye counted [-]% for him at the supper stall. Now that he has some money on hand, Cao Xiangnan willingly gave him a share of the money.This little money was nothing to Fang Ziye, but to him it was a matter of principle.

As soon as the location is determined, preparations for the night snack stalls are in full swing.

The pavement is ready-made and can be used after simple decoration. The outside is surrounded by bamboo and a row of lanterns are hung outside.There are tables and chairs inside, pillars stand on both sides of the aisle, and lanterns are hung on them, so even at night, so many lanterns are enough for lighting.

Three days later, the supper stall opened smoothly. 6 As night fell, the lanterns were lit up, and the whole supper stall was lit up. There were two big lanterns hanging at the door, and there were two words written on the lanterns: Good! Wei, this is the name of their supper stall.

The night snack stall is the same as the original idea. This stall is mainly engaged in barbecue business, plus selling porridge and noodles.

The porridge is a special casserole porridge. The cooked white porridge can order whatever porridge the guests like to eat. After ordering, it will be cooked in a casserole, so it is called casserole porridge.As for making rice noodles, this is his forte, but it is just a simple pork rice noodles, not too complicated.

The barbecue stall outside was set up, and the charcoal fire on the grill was hot, and there were special people responsible for the barbecue. The two boys were specially trained by Cao Xiangnan in the past few days. Chicken wings and chicken legs, which are difficult to cook, are roasted first."

He asked the meat to be grilled first, so if the smell wafts out, is it afraid that no one will come?

Yipinzhai is already busy enough, and shopkeeper Fang can't get out, so the people here are all arranged by shopkeeper Fang.In addition, a steward was arranged to take charge of this side. He was about 40 years old, and he was safe in doing things. As soon as he accepted it, he arranged things in an orderly manner, and he didn't need to worry about anything.

On the first day of opening, shopkeeper Fang also came over in person, and invited some of his old acquaintances, and those who were invited all came here with dignity.Cao Xiangnan greeted the guests with Shopkeeper Fang at the door, and Shopkeeper Fang introduced his old acquaintances to him. Shopkeeper Fang was there, and these people were kind to him, an unknown boy.

There is a little boy guarding the door, and when guests come to the door, they will be taken inside, "Several guests, please come inside."

As soon as the smell of barbecue wafted out, someone came to the door smelling the smell. The three or five men who came to the stall looked at the meat being grilled on the rack, and this was the smell, "What do you cook here for food?"

"Guest officer, we have barbecue here. There are meat and vegetarian dishes. The meat ones cost ten copper plates and four skewers, and the vegetarian ones have five copper plates and four skewers."

"Here is casserole porridge, white porridge for five copper coins per pot, boiled meat for two copper coins per pot, you can choose by yourself. In addition, there are pig offal rice noodles here, ten copper coins for large bowls, and eight for medium bowls Copper plate."

These are the prices negotiated by Cao Xiangnan and the shopkeeper Fang. Compared with the food prices in Fenshui Town, these prices are twice as expensive, but compared to the food prices in Nanyang here, these prices are relatively cheap and not expensive. , Ordinary working men can come to have a supper.

And don't look at these strings, a small portion of a small portion, in fact, the amount is not much, so the net profit calculated in this way is frighteningly high.

When the men heard it, they summed it up, and it was done. A meal for a few of them cost [-] copper coins each. After ordering, they found a seat and sat down. Take care of your brand, and someone will deliver the things to you later." Cao Xiangnan took Steward Zhou behind him, and explained to him all the things here.He doesn't plan to come here to live now, at most he just comes to see it every once in a while.

He has been away from home for a few days, and now every night when he goes back, he thinks about the evening breeze and the children at home, and thinks about handling the affairs here, so he goes home and can't wait to go back to see his wife and children first.

On the first day it opened, the business of the supper stall was pretty good. Gradually, a lot of people came later, most of them were ordinary-dressed men. Pot of wine and have a drink with friends.

There were a lot of people eating earlier, but later in the night, the number of people coming gradually decreased, the people who left left, and when the last table of guests left, they also closed the stall and closed the door, hanging lanterns They were all put away, leaving only two bright red lanterns at the door.

I went back and took a shower. I went to bed too late last night. After sleeping until dawn the next day, Cao Xiangnan woke up.Hearing the lively voice downstairs, lying on the bed and looking at the top of the bed, thinking that this trip was not fruitless, a smile appeared on his face, and he rolled over and got out of bed.

"How was the business last night?" Fang Ziye asked after seeing him while sitting in the box having morning tea.

Cao Xiangnan sat down opposite Fang Ziye, and told Fang Ziye what happened at the stall last night.Now there is nothing that Fang Ziye needs to do in person, all the things are ordered to be done by the people below, so he knows how lucky he is to be able to meet Fang Ziye.

The encounter between people is actually destined and a kind of ingenious chance.