Chapter 23 – Stall
Bonus Chapter
How can he go to his father-in-law’s house without bringing something?
Because Zhou Yuan was hungry, he woke up very early in the morning. He lay on the bed and waited until he heard Mother Zhou’s voice coming from outside the yard.
The two nephews were on the next bed so he moved very quietly when he got up to avoid disturbing his two nephews.
Mother Zhou was surprised to see her ger get up so early. It could be seen that he didn’t sleep well last night.
“Yuan Yuan, why don’t you sleep some more? You look so tired, you no longer can’t sleep well when you get here?”
“No, I’m just thinking about Muzi. I saw Li Hu’s mother yesterday, and Li Hu’s mother doesn’t seem to like Muzi very much.”
This was Zhou Yuan’s random excuse.
It would be hard for him to say that he was hungry all night so he didn’t sleep at all, looking at the time, it will take a while for breakfast to be prepared, he’ll just wait a little longer.
Before he was married, if he was hungry, he could go into the kitchen to get some food to fill his stomach. After his marriage, when he returns to his natal family, he was regarded as a guest, so he could not do so.
“Don’t think too much. After you get married, the family might or might not get along but you have to get used to it. Which family’s wife hasn’t encountered difficulties from her mother-in-law. When you married Wei Cheng, his family was separated early, so that’s why you get along well and you don’t need to encounter such a thing. As for Muzi, Li Hu is protecting him, and although Li Hu’s savage mother is a bit savage, so at least she can’t be Li Hu’s boss.”
“I know mother.” He married Wei Cheng, so he didn’t have to worry about getting along with his mother-in-law. Now that the family can earn money to live, he was very happy to have married Wei Cheng.
Father Zhou and the others went to the field, and Zhou Yuan’s three sister-in-laws worked to cook breakfast, so he helped Mother Zhou feed the chickens. There were no pigs at home, but a few chickens.
During breakfast and dinner, the whole family ate together as before.
Breakfast at home is coarse grain porridge with a lot of water and less of the grain, a plate of steamed cornbread, and a plate of side dishes without too much oil.
After finally being able to eat breakfast, he realized that he had no steamed cornbread, he only had a bowl of water-like porridge. The complexions of Mother Zhou and Father Zhou suddenly turned dark, and Zhou Yuan’s three elder brothers also looked bad.
Father Zhou’s chopsticks fell on the table with a clatter, and Zhou Yuan’s three sisters-in-law and the children were all shocked. After they got married, they had never seen Father Zhou so angry. The sullen and angry Father Zhou is even more frightening than their mother-in-law when angry.
“Zhou Li, what’s going on here?”
Zhou Yuan’s first sister-in-law, who was named, explained in a low voice, “I cook so many of the same servings every day, and I forgot to make more.”
Zhou Yuan’s sisters-in-law really forgot, they cooked the food while chatting, and cooked according to the amount they used to cook, so they weren’t able to add more servings for one more person in the family.
Zhou Yong said angrily, “Yuan Yuan is at home, didn’t you remember that Yuan Yuan can home?” He can ignore his wife’s little thoughts, but he can’t let his wife not treat his sibling as a family.
Even if the youngest sibling gets married, his youngest sibling is still his youngest sibling.
Zhou Yuan’s first sister-in-law did not dare to answer, while the second and third sisters-in-law lowered their heads and did not dare to raise their heads, for fear of being called out by name.
Mother Zhou was also very angry, but she also knew that the three daughters-in-law of her family didn’t have the guts to secretly play tricks of purposely not preparing her ger’s breakfast, at best they just didn’t care.
Mother Zhou, “Since the three of you forgot to cook, you go to the kitchen and cook another one. When will you finish cooking breakfast?”
Zhou Yuan’s three sister-in-laws looked bad, they didn’t do it on purpose, but because of a missing portion, they were told not to eat any, and they even had to cook breakfast for Zhou Yuan. They are Zhou Yuan’s sister-in-law, his elders, is this to embarrass them?
Zhou Yuan persuaded his parents, “Father, mother, I’m not very hungry, and my sisters-in-law didn’t mean it either, I can just eat the porridge.”
He is a married ger, so it’s not good to embarrass the three sisters-in-law at home because of a bun.
Her ger persuaded her so Mother Zhou let things go. No matter what, they were all married into her Zhou’s family. The family can be noisy, but they can’t be separated.
Mother Zhou has always been in charge of this family, and Father Zhou and the three brothers of the Zhou family listen to Mother Zhou.
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Father Zhou picked up his chopsticks and said, “Let’s eat.”
During the meal, Father Zhou and Mother Zhou wanted to give half of their cornbread to their ger, Zhou Yuan would not accept it, how could he eat his parents’ food?
In addition to evading them, his three elder brothers also wanted to share their cornbread, but his three elder brothers have to do physical work, which is even more unacceptable.
“Father-in-law and mother-in-law, your son-in-law is here to pick up Yuan Yuan.” Wei Cheng shouted from the courtyard.
Hearing Wei Cheng’s voice, everyone in the room looked out, and Zhou Yuan’s eyes showed surprise.
Wei Cheng went to the door of the house, entered through the door, looked at the Zhou family, and said hello to them one by one.
Father Zhou was also happy to see his son-in-law, “Cheng-zi, you came so early, did you have breakfast?”
“You came so early so you probably haven’t eaten yet, I’ll go to the kitchen to cook some.” Mother Zhou got up and went to the kitchen.
“Thank you, father-in-law and mother-in-law, your son-in-law really didn’t have breakfast.” He came in a hurry and didn’t cook breakfast, he even asked Wei Lei to make his own breakfast, rushing to pick up his wife.
Wei Cheng glanced at the breakfast on the table, his eyes flashed for a moment but his expression remained unchanged, “Mother-in-law, you don’t need to be busy, your son-in-law has a lot of baked flatbreads here, you eat first, I will make the flatbreads with sauce.” He turned and went to the kitchen.
“How can you do this? How can you be the one to cook?” Mother Zhou followed after him, “If there are big flatbreads, there is no need to cook them. You just take them out of the basket.”
Zhou Yuan also got up and followed into the kitchen.
“Mother-in-law, I want to add eggs and miso when I make flatbreads.”
Wei Cheng took out the things in the cloth bag, Mother Zhou exclaimed, “Cheng-zi, why did you bring so many things?”
There are seven or eight flatbreads, miso in ceramic jars, and several eggs.
Wei Cheng said, “It’s all my own stuff, not that many.”
Zhou Yuan squeezed in and said, “I’ll help light the fire.”
Wei Cheng glanced at his wife, with longing in his eyes, and Zhou Yuan’s eyes sparkled even more, and the two looked at each other and smiled.
It’s not easy to make intimate moves here with his mother-in-law present, so he can only make eye contact.
Mother Zhou saw that Wei Cheng wanted to do it himself, and she wanted to take over. How could she let Wei Cheng do it? It’s not important to know how to do it.
As for Wei Cheng, since he came to eat, how dare he keep his mother-in-law busy? Forgive the notion of a modern man.
Mother Zhou couldn’t resist Wei Cheng, and stared at her ger who was lighting the fire, “Yuan Yuan, how can you let your husband do anything, you persuade him to go out.”
Zhou Yuan smiled and said, “Mother, let my husband do it. You don’t know how to make this roll of flatbread. Our food stall sells this. You can try my husband’s craftsmanship.” The meals at home are basically cooked by his husband. If the husband wants to do it then he can’t hold him back.
Mother Zhou pretended to be angry and glared at her ger but the smile on her face showed that she was very happy. For a son-in-law to come help cook, looking at the whole Qinghe Village, there was really no one who was like him.
Such a good son-in-law belongs to her family.
Here the son-in-law looks more and more satisfying.
In the future, who would dare to say that her ger is unlucky- her ger marrying a good husband is the best blessing.
“Okay, you can do what you want. As a mother-in-law, I will just wait to eat the meal cooked by my son-in-law.”
“It would be guaranteed delicious!”
Considering the farm’s savings, Wei Cheng used a small amount of oil to fry the flatbread, with eggs and miso. Once heated, the aroma overflowed. No matter whether Mother Zhou or the rest of the Zhou family, they all looked forward to the source of the aroma.
Even the neighbors next door could smell the aroma of the flatbread.
“What is the family cooking this morning? It smells so good.”
“The Zhou family won’t cook meat early in the morning, will they?”
“Isn’t this too gluttonous?”
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Wei Cheng cut up the finished flatbread so that it would be convenient for everyone to eat together and serve it up again.
He made all the flatbreads he brought.
This breakfast was the most extravagant breakfast the Zhou family had ever had.
The flatbread was so delicious that eating the cornbread was unpalatable. Fortunately, the Zhou family finished eating the cornbread before eating the flatbread.
Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan didn’t eat any of the buns, they both ate the flatbreads, and the others who were greedy hurriedly finished their buns before eating the flatbreads.
The Zhou family is satisfied with the food, and the children are even more happy.
After breakfast, the two were going back.
“Cheng-zi, don’t leave until after lunch.”
“There is still a stall at home, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brothers-in-law, we will be going first.”
On the way back, Wei Cheng took Zhou Yuan by the hand and asked him how his relationship with the three sisters-in-law was. Zhou Yuan didn’t hide it, saying that the relationship with the three sisters-in-law was average.
Wei Cheng understood, and he also had his own calculations in his heart.
When he entered the Zhou family’s house, he saw the situation clearly. There was only a bowl of porridge in front of his wife while everyone else had buns.
During breakfast, his wife seemed to be very hungry, and he ate more than he usually did at home, so why would he be hungry when he returned to his natal house? The attitude of the father-in-law and mother-in-law doesn’t seem to treat his wife badly. He guessed that he may have wanted to eat but did not dare not take too much, he probably understands the reason why.
“Yuan Yuan, didn’t you have enough to eat last night?”
After being discovered, Zhou Yuan told him about what happened at the banquet last night. He didn’t eat enough at the banquet, and he was embarrassed to cook again when he returned to his mother’s house.
“Next time, don’t let yourself be hungry. If you come back hungry once, you won’t be allowed to come back for the night.” After returning to his mother’s house, his wife didn’t have enough to eat so Wei Cheng was unhappy. No wonder his complexion was bad. He must have been hungry last night and didn’t sleep well.
Zhou Yuan, who knew he was wrong, nodded obediently.
Back home, Zhou Yuan was rushed back to his room by Wei Cheng to catch up on his sleep.
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Wei Cheng took a fancy to a stall, and the place was huge
The location is on a particular street where the commercial street and the food street diverge. The location is good, but the price is a bit more expensive. Two taels of silver a month is comparable to the rent of a small shop.
Wei Cheng still decided to rent there.
It had a good location, a great place to walk around.
The deposit is two taels, and the lease contract he signed was for half a year.
After signing the contract and paying the money, the stall on the street will belong to Wei Cheng.
Wei Cheng went back to tell his wife the news.
When Zhou Yuan heard that the rent was two taels of silver, he didn’t think it was very expensive, because the family had recently earned a lot of money, so the price was reasonable.
If he didn’t make a lot of money, he might think it was expensive, and he might even be afraid that he wouldn’t be able to earn it back.
Since there was now a stall then there is no need to be exposed to the sun and rain. The stall was large, and there is a lot of space for cooking food, so he can also help.
“What kind of food are you going to sell at the stall? You’re not just going to sell flatbread, are you?”
“How can your husband spend money to rent a stall and only sell flatbreads? There are so many foods to cook.” Wei Cheng listed a bunch of foods, all of which Zhou Yuan had never heard of.
Cold dishes, noodles with fried sauce, iron plate fried rice, white porridge with soy milk, rice rolls, egg pancakes……
Since it was good to hear then it should be delicious to make and eat.
The selling of the flatbreads will be transferred to the stall. Wei Cheng told the customers the news in advance, next month the stall will open at the corner of the street- and besides the flatbread, there will be new food, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, he will make a decision based on the business.
The customers were all looking forward to what new tricks Wei Cheng would come up with.
“Boss, would you still have flatbreads?”
“That’s right, we won’t buy it if it’s not tasty.”
“The boss wants to introduce more delicious food. I like flatbreads, but I also want to change the taste.”
Wei Cheng said, “Don’t worry, it would be absolutely delicious, and it won’t disappoint your expectations.”
The stall needed to be set up, the pots and pans needed to be prepared, and the sauces that need to be used must be prepared in advance. Soy milk needs to be bought and processed to make soy milk, rice rolls must also be steamed, and cold dishes mainly need sauces, cold noodles, and jelly can be added.
The trolley is too small, so a large trolley needs to be custom-made. He can rent a place to store the pots and pans on weekdays, but not the ingredients.
The breakfast stall was closed as there were too many things to prepare. Some customers complained, so Wei Cheng had to apologize. Some customers heard that he will open a stall near the pier. They couldn’t eat breakfast, but they could also go there for lunch.
After preparing things, at the end of the month, he had to suspend the opening of the stall.
Because his eldest brother Wei Liang came to him, and at the end of the month, his grandfather will celebrate his birthday, so he gave him an invitation card, so that he would not forget.
“Grandfather? Husband, did grandfather come when we got married last time?”
“No, he probably asked someone to send congratulatory gifts.” Not only his grandfather, but also several of his uncles and aunts did not come, they all asked someone to send congratulatory gifts, and Mother Wei took those congratulatory gifts.
His grandfather and his uncle lived in the inner part of the county. His uncle was a scholar and his cousin was also a scholar. He had a good chance of being admitted as a Juren, and they were considered a scholarly family.
He had to think about what gift to give.
“Wife, let’s make a few sets of clothes.” They have been busy recently, and the clothes at home are all ordinary, but when they go to his uncle’s house, they have to dress appropriately.
“Ah, why?” Zhou Yuan asked Wei Cheng with a dazed expression. Clothes are so expensive, they can make them themselves.
“We need to attend the birthday banquet.” More importantly, his wife’s quality of clothing needs to increase
“What?”
“Grandfather’s house in the inner county and is a scholarly family.”
As for congratulatory gifts, there is nothing more suitable than longevity peaches.
The mold must be customized, and the gift box must also be customized.
This is not a steamed stuffed bun, but a pastry.
This would save them money and it looks good.
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