The beauty of the lady

Chapter 39
"Mom, write down some menus, and they can order from the menus when they come in."

Mrs. Zhao sat by the bed, and when Mrs. Li helped her to the table and sat down, she looked up at her daughter and asked, "What are you writing?"

"Just write cabbage and fresh meat dumpling ears, fresh fish meat dumpling ears, and mushroom fresh meat dumpling ears..." Afterwards, Zhou Mei said while Mrs. Zhao wrote slowly beside her. It is very beautifully written.

After finishing writing, Zhou Mei looked at the eight small wooden signs in front of her and nodded with satisfaction.

"Are we only selling dumplings?" asked Zhao.

"There are a few side dishes, but we don't have the kind of troublesome fried dishes here. After all, our dumpling ears are still sold in Xiankeju, right? If that's the case, we can't compare with others. It's better to only sell dumpling ears , and then make some other meals, let’s just make pasta, which saves time and is convenient.”

"I thought you were going to make a big deal." Zhao said with a smile.

"Our family has few people in the first place, and being too busy may not be a good thing. This is good. There will be a long time in the future. We won't be too late when my brother grows up."

After a few days of busy work, I tidied up all the shops in front, and then decided to wait until the end of the month to open.

And shopkeeper Li is not bad, because the income of Xiankeju these few days is very good, it must be more than the previous month's income, and he doesn't care about promoting the Zhou family.

So people come and go, Zhou's noodle shop has not opened yet, and many people have heard of it. Although it is in Erdao Street, it is also very convenient. After all, the neighbors are also shops. , and after all, Yuzhou Mansion is a prefectural city adjacent to Yanjing, and it is also the only way to go north and south, so it has always been a prosperous and noisy place. Even if the shop is not opened on the central street, it must not be too deserted.

And even if the business in the shop is not good, there is still Xiankeju, where customers come and go every day, it is very lively, and there is never a time when the business is slow.

So the first day the shop opened, it was very lively. After all, the dumpling ears have already gained popularity in Xiankeju. Besides, a plate of dumplings alone is much cheaper than in Xiankeju, which is a very luxurious restaurant. , is not accessible to ordinary people.

But Zhouji Noodle Shop is different. The cheapest one is only [-] yuan for a serving of cabbage and fresh meat dumplings, and the most expensive one is only [-] yuan for a serving of salted fish meat. It is good to have a meal once in a while.

The kitchen was very busy, and all six mothers came to help, but they were still too busy to turn around. In addition to dumpling ears, there were also four small cold dishes, and there was also cold spinach. This dish was in short supply, only because Zhou Mei mashed the dried peanuts in a garlic jar and mixed them with spinach.

After the end of the first day, Zhou Mei counted and made a profit of seven taels of silver. After excluding the cost, she also made a net profit of more than five taels. This is after counting the whole afternoon yesterday, otherwise it would not be enough to sell on the first day. of.

And in the future, we will be supplying Xiankeju dumplings, so we can only work very hard.

As for adding another person, Zhou Mei doesn't have that plan yet.

Besides, this is only to alleviate the current situation. She never thought that she would make a fortune just relying on this kind of shop. In this era when food is the most important thing for the people, it is more cost-effective to open a grain shop.

But if you want to return to it, you still have to examine it carefully before making a decision.

She doesn't want to go to the restaurant, there are so many restaurants in the world, why should she go to share a piece of the pie, it's not that it's embarrassing to hinder Xiankeju, the main reason is that many dishes can't be prepared without seasoning, if this is the case, she won't go Got that idea.

Day by day, Zhou Mei spent most of her time in the backyard with Zhao and Zhou Tang, and there was Zhou Zhou Zhuang in the shop. Although he was illiterate, he had no problem counting money.

Mrs. Zhao also asked people to go out and buy pens and paper. Most of the time was spent teaching her daughter how to read. To her surprise, her daughter was really good. After one pass, she could completely remember it, which immediately made Mrs. Zhao seem to see a rough jade that needs to be polished, and put all her thoughts on her daughter.

Sometimes when she saw her daughter writing over there, she would regretfully sigh in her heart, if her daughter was born as a man, she would definitely be named on the gold list in the future.

"Ma'am, miss is really amazing." Mother Li hugged Zhou Tang, looked at Zhou Mei who was practicing calligraphy on the table over there, and whispered to Zhao Shi.

Mrs. Zhao nodded with a smile, "Yes, it's just a pity that I gave birth to the wrong daughter."

"You can't say that, Madam, the young lady is so smart, and the young master will be no different." Li's mother said with a smile.

"I hope so."

Zhou Mei knows most of the traditional Chinese characters in the book. Even if she doesn't understand a little bit, she can know what the characters are by following the words before and after. It's just that her calligraphy is not so good, but it doesn't look like the first one at all. She picked up a pen to write once, but she didn't want to hide her clumsiness, anyway, she didn't go out to work, so what if she was smarter?

After one month, Zhou Mei held a brush in Zhao's room and calculated the accounts in front of her. After one month, after excluding those costs, she made a total of 120 taels. Zhou Mei was still very satisfied with this figure, although she was quite satisfied. Compared with Xiankeju's six or seven hundred taels a month, this amount of money is not much, but it can be regarded as her first pot of gold.

"Mother, we earned more than 100 taels this month, and there is an extra three cents." After finishing speaking, he looked at Mrs. Li and said, "Mother Li, here is 16 taels, which is also your first month's wages. You can give it away." .”

Mother Li looked at the silver ingot and felt that it was very heavy when she took it in her hand. She said that 16 taels of silver was not light at all.

"Thank you, miss." Each person is two taels a month, which is 24 taels a year. With this money, they can live a good life, and their food is also very good, steamed buns and vegetables, dumplings, and stews with meat , although the food at the former master's house is not bad, but the money is only one tael. Only the big maids around the young lady, the favored maids and mothers around the old lady can get two taels of silver a month, and she was later given It was sold because she offended the big maid next to the old lady, was planted and stole things from the young lady's side, and was beaten for 40 boards and then sold. She is over [-] this year, and the [-] boards were almost gone. her life.

Now I actually got two or two months' money, and I didn't feel too tired this month. Although I usually spend most of my time with my wife and young master, I would go to the front shop to help out when I was free, and sometimes I would Her shoulders and neck hurt because of making dumplings, but she likes this kind of life very much when she sleeps with a thick quilt on the soft big kang for one night, and the next day the fatigue disappears.

(End of this chapter)