Before Wei Cheng set up a stall, he considered finding a fixed stall on the street. Later, he learned that, except for the market fair in the first, middle, and last ten days of each month, all other street stalls had to be rented before they were allowed to set up stalls.
The county stalls are fully rented and the stalls left are ones with high rental fees. He was short of money before and although he has silver taels later, he decided to try to set up a mobile stall near the rich residences first. After he has built a reputation, he will rent a stall.
It took an hour to prepare the materials and put the things on the cart, Wei Cheng took advantage of the morning market as the people in the county came out to buy their breakfast.
Wei Cheng found a place in the affluent area where there was a place where itinerant vendors and itinerant merchants set up stalls, not only selling breakfast but also vegetable vendors.
Steamed buns, white porridge, flatbreads, noodle soup, wontons, and various breakfast food stalls were laid out on the entire street.
Wei Cheng came to inspect and inquire earlier, at the beginning, it was only mobile vendors selling on this street, some people in the nearby houses were not willing to walk far to the food street to buy breakfast, and some are the old and hungry at home who come to buy from here as it is convenient, over time, smart people see business opportunities, they come up here to set up stalls, the breakfast stall street was formed in this way.
Even people in the richer areas will come to buy.
Of course, after breakfast time, if one still set up a stall here, they will be driven away by the city management, otherwise, they will also be fined, and in severe cases, they will be arrested in a cell and locked up for several days.
Wei Cheng’s cart stopped between a food merchant and a vegetable vendor, both of whom are meeting Wei Cheng for the first time.
“Brother, what are you selling?” The vegetable vendor asked.
“Selling cold noodles and jelly.” Wei Cheng said as he put a large pot of cut cold noodles on the cart, cold noodles sauce, side dishes such as cucumber, radish, crushed peanuts, special sesame oil, and chili oil were all placed one by one.
The cucumber shreds were cut by himself, and he had to go to the blacksmith to make some cutting tools for easy use later.
Cold noodles?!
It was the first time they had seen this food vendor, and they saw that the vermicelli on his cart was white and translucent, and they had never seen any food.
Wei Cheng mixed a bowl to show others, looking at the cold noodles with the sauce mixed with oil, his appetite rose when he saw it, and some onlookers wanted to buy some.
“For how much do you sell cold noodles?”
“A bowl is five wen.”
“So expensive!”
The onlookers exclaimed, there was no meat in a bowl of cold noodles, it was all vegetarian ingredients, and it cost five wen, and they all felt that it was too expensive.
“It’s not just a bowl of ordinary dough, but the food stall outside sells a bowl for just two wen.”
“It’s just, five wen is too expensive.”
“Don’t say it, but the sauce on it looks delicious.”
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Wei Cheng didn’t care what the onlookers said, he didn’t shout, he ate a bowl of cold noodles on the spot, and used his actions to show how delicious the sauce of the cold noodles tasted.
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Looking at the bright chili oil, it must be very fragrant, and the customer said, “Yes! Moderately spicy!” It can be seen that he can eat spicy food.
Wei Cheng put the chili oil, skillfully mixed it a few times by hand, and a serving of cold noodles was ready.
Wei Cheng brought out a bowl, and put an oil paper pad on top of the bowl, they can throw away the oil paper after eating and it would not need to be cleaned, chopsticks are more convenient to clean, he has brought water over, enough to clean the chopsticks, if the water is not enough, he can go to the house to fetch water.
The customer took the cold noodles and couldn’t wait to eat them, and the onlookers waited for him to respond, and the man only cared about the delicious taste and ate mouthful after mouthful.
Someone asked, “Is it delicious?”
The customer ate cold noodles and said incoherently, “It’s delicious! It’s delicious!” He asked with a piece of food in his mouth, “Boss, what is this? It’s delicious and very chewy.”
“That’s gluten, made of flour.” Wei Cheng explained.
Some people looked at the fragrant food of the person- a bowl of cold noodles and side dishes are also a lot, the sauce oil is salty and fragrant, smells more fragrant, they can’t help but buy a bowl, and squat on the stone sidewalks with the first customer to eat.
Seeing the people eat fragrantly, everyone suddenly wants to eat and they bought a bowl, Wei Cheng is busy, and people who ate the cold noodles are eating it for the first time, and the cold noodles are both cool and delicious and chewy.
In summer, they don’t feel hot when they eat a bowl.
“These cold noodles are very suitable for eating in summer, it is not hot when eaten, and it tastes delicious!”
“Boss, another bowl!”
Some people buy jelly instead of cold noodles, and a bowl of jelly costs three wen. The crystal-clear jelly is absolutely refreshing to eat. People who eat it feel that it is really refreshing.
“The jelly is sweet and cold.”
Jelly is also popular.
People who came out to buy breakfast, seeing that Wei Cheng’s stall business was good, also followed the trend to buy a bowl, some people also brought their own bowls out to buy breakfast to take home to eat, and Wei Cheng gave them more in quantity, not only a little more cold noodles, jelly is the same, some people’s eyes are sharp, and they have also gone home to follow suit.
Wei Cheng’s side was full of onlookers, and the other food stall owners were a little envious and jealous.
Wei Cheng’s food here is easy to sell, and even the business of the vegetable sellers around him was getting better.
It was sold in less than two hours, and more than a hundred bowls of cold noodles and jelly were sold before breakfast time ended, and it was sold so quickly because some customers bought several bowls together.
The customers were still queuing up at the stall, and some of the customers who bought it at home ate it, and the family said that it was delicious, but it was not enough and they wanted to buy more.
“I’m sorry, today’s food is sold out.”
“Boss, will you sell more tomorrow, we haven’t eaten it yet.”
“Reserve three bowls of jelly for me, the old people and children love to eat them.”
“I want it too, I’ll buy it for the children in the family.”
“I want a bowl too.”
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I’m sorry! Reservations are not accepted!
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Zhou Yuan was at home and looked at the door from time to time. Whenever someone passed by the door and made noises, he thought that Wei Cheng would be disappointed when he came back, but he also thought that Wei Cheng had only been out for a short time, so it should not be sold out so quickly.
He couldn’t calm down even when he was doing needlework, so he just moved a chair and sat at the door of the house to wait.
When Wei Cheng came back, Zhou Yuan saw him and ran over to help.
“Coming back, aren’t you getting tired?”
“Yuan Yuan, the food is sold out!” Pushing the cart into the yard, Wei Cheng said.
“Really?!”
It was really sold out? Zhou Yuan was pleasantly surprised.
“How much was it sold for?” And here he was worried that it would not be easy to sell.
“It’s sold for a lot of money today, let’s go back and count it.”
Wei Cheng pulled the person into the house and poured all the money earned today on the table, the copper coins were scattered, and the two counted the money clearly.
Fifty, one hundred, two hundred…….. A total of more than 700 wen, he was calculated to have earned more than 500 wen when reducing the cost.
“This, in this way, you can earn a few taels of silver a month.” Zhou Yuan was shocked.
The villagers in the village only earn 20 or 30 wen a day when they go out to work, and some can earn 40 or 50 wen a day, or they may not even be able to find work.
His brothers often couldn’t find odd jobs.
His family earns hundreds of wen a day, how could Zhou Yuan not be shocked?
Wei Cheng felt that it was a bit less, a few hundred wen a day, for future planning, this money was still too few, but his wife was happy.
“Yuan Yuan, the money is given to you, and the money in the family belongs to you.”
Ah!?
“I won’t.” The husband asked him to take care of the money, and he was very happy, but could he take care of the money? He can’t.
Wei Cheng said, “It’s okay, your husband will teach you how to manage your accounts.”
“But…” Zhou Yuan hesitated, he was afraid that he would not do it well.
“Yuan Yuan, think about it, if the business at home is better in the future, your husband can’t be busy alone, and I’ll have to manage the money and family affairs by myself, isn’t that very tiring, isn’t Yuan Yuan willing to share the burden for his husband?” Wei Cheng followed the induction.
Yes, how can he not help his husband, manage the family’s money, he will definitely learn, so that he can help his husband take care of the house.
“Well, I’ll learn!”
Wei Cheng looked at him with his fighting spirit and chuckled.
Wei Cheng, “Yuan Yuan, can you read?”
“Yes, my dad taught me, but not much.”
His father could read, his grandfather was a gateway to wealth in the village, his father had read for a few years, and he and his brothers were taught to read and write, and for now, he could barely recognize them.
“Knowing how to read is easy to teach,” Wei Cheng said, “Accounting management and literacy can be taught together.”
“Hmm!”
He can still learn to read, Zhou Yuan was very happy in his heart, he has always wanted to learn more literacy, but his father only learned a bit as well.
Now that he can learn from his husband, he will definitely study hard.
Wei Cheng studied in school for several years and learned literacy. His elder brother Wei Liang studied a few years longer than him, and the family thought about letting his elder brother take the imperial examination, but his elder brother was very poor at studying and could hardly learn to read, let alone take the imperial examination.
So he is also not afraid of anyone knowing that he can read.
However, in order to better cover-up, he still bought more books to read so that he could explain later.
Thanks for the chapter!
Thank you for this chapter🙏🙏🙏
The Cheng family better not expect to receive anything from Wei Cheng after separating him out of the family!
I figured they’ll come pester him when the word gets out that he is making money.
You know that cheap family will always try to take advantage of our boy
I hope they do expect things so Wei Cheng can tell them to F off. Then they can spend the rest of the story sitting around being jealous.
Heeheee I love when that happens
I’m so ready to see them prosper and have a happy family so the Cheng family boils in envy and rage lol
Thanks for the chapters!
Now I’m hungry for noodles! 😭
as someone who has had sun dried tomato pesto can confirm the noodles would be good
Thank You for the new chapter (｡’▽’｡)♡