An acquaintance of the diners joked: "Well, Mrs. Zhao will still be embarrassed, tell her quickly, and we will all benefit from the new customers. Let's listen again."
"Go, go!" Madam Zhao waved her chubby hand, took Xu Ling's bowl, and asked her man to add another bowl of hot soup.
Xu Ling saw that her hands were red and swollen from the cold, and he knew that setting up a stall would not be easy.
Madam Zhao talked about the past with a sense of nostalgia.
Her maiden name is Xu Xingliu, and people around her call her Xu Liuniang. When she was seventeen years old, she got married, not to the current Zhao Dalang, but to another man from the same village as Zhao Dalang.
After two years of marriage, she gave birth to a son and a daughter, and her life was going smoothly. Zhao Dalang also had a wife at that time, and he also had a son and a daughter. Originally, the two of them would not have any intersection.
Who knew that her man fell into the river and drowned while working, and she became a widow.
When Zhao Dalang's wife gave birth to her third child, she did not pass through the gate of death. The child left without her mother as soon as she was born.
Xu Liuniang said while squeezing wontons: "She is much more beautiful than me. She is a good person and has a good heart. God is really unkind."
Xu Ling drank the hot soup and listened to her continued story.
Zhao Dalang's wife also left. His little girl was born without a mother and howled with hunger. At that time, Xu Liu's mother raised more than a dozen goats at home, and Zhao Dalang came to her door to ask for some goat milk for her children.
As the two went back and forth, they actually saw each other.
However, they were a widow and a widower, and they both had children. If they were together, the villagers would drown them in their saliva.
Neither of them dared to say anything at first, but when Xu Liuniang took care of her late husband's mother until she died, her mother-in-law persuaded her before she died that Xu Liuniang was pathetic and Zhao Dalang was a man of rules. If the two of them live together, their lives will pass quickly. Well, why care about what others say.
He actually supported his daughter-in-law to remarry and live with another man.
Thanks to her persuasion, Xu Liuniang and Zhao Dalang soon got together. As expected, there was indeed a lot of gossip in the village.
Later, Zhao Dalang separated from several of his brothers, sold land, took his children and Xu Liuniang's two children, and the two of them went to the town to set up a wonton stall, and life got better day by day.
Now the eldest child of the two is fourteen years old. He is a boy and works as a waiter in Deyue Building. Xu Liuniang wants to take advantage of his young age to send him to study accounting for two years.
When Xu Ling heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt her with a smile: "Is there such a coincidence in the world? The business I want to do is related to Deyuelou."
Xu Liuniang asked in surprise: "What kind of business do you do?"
Xu Ling said: "I deliver cabbage to Deyuelou, and sometimes sell other vegetables."
"You actually provided the cabbage in their building?" Zhao Dalang laughed. "My son came back from a break last time and mentioned it to us. He said that the vinegar cabbage in Yuelou is more delicious than other places. I didn't expect it to be you. Sent."
Xu Liuniang also became interested and stopped squeezing the wontons. She dried her hands and sat next to Xu Ling. She asked with a smile: "Brother, do you have more food? If there are more, Deyuelou will not be able to use them all. Give us some here too.”
Other diners also cooperated: "Deyuelou has recently produced several good dishes, including cabbage. Madam Zhao, if you can buy this guy's cabbage, you might be able to make the stall bigger, and you don't need to Come to the night market!”
Xu Ling shook his head and refused.
"I signed a contract with Deyuelou, and the cabbage can only be sold to their family. But if Liu Niang needs other vegetables, you can talk to me and I'll see if I can provide you with some."
"Brother Xu, what other vegetables can you bring?"
Xu Ling mentioned several types in succession, including cabbage and radishes that can be grown in autumn and winter, and vegetables that are only available in spring and summer.
Xu Liuniang smiled and said: "Don't make fun of me. Where can you find beans and cucumbers at this time? It's not summer!"
"Don't worry about this Liu Niang. Since I said it, there will be a way to grow it. You have never seen it. In order to eat summer vegetables in winter, some rich people build houses with colored glaze and burn charcoal all day long. What kind of Not coming out?"
"Ah, isn't that kind of food rarer than gold?"
Who can afford it?
Xu Ling added: "If you don't build a glazed shed and go to the far south, where the weather is spring and summer all year round, there is not even snow, how can you still be short of food?"
Everyone listened carefully and agreed: "I have heard of it, but it was frozen to death when it was shipped to us, right?"
Xu Ling smiled naively, "Who knows, I'm just a vegetable seller."
It was a pity in my heart. If the Zhao couple really wanted to open a restaurant and ask him to serve food, Xu Ling could really come up with dishes that were out of season, but it would definitely attract a lot of prying eyes and suspicions.
If the crime of possessing a jade was really brought out, Xu Ling would be like a five-year-old kid holding onto gold in the market. He really didn't know what trouble he would cause.
At this time, Xu Ling suddenly thought of the scalded man's invitation.
If he could get on the Scalded Man's boat, wouldn't some things be easier to explain?
But the Scalded Man is really not a good boat, just a member of the Caotai team. Dozens of bandits relied on the stolen boats to make a living. It was like a makeshift leather company with no future in sight. It would be in vain for him to join the gang at this time.
Zhao and his wife just thought Xu Ling was joking, and joked: "When the two of us save more money, if we really open a restaurant, we have to ask Mr. Xu to provide food for our restaurant."
Xu Ling naturally agreed.
After chatting at the wonton stall until the sky was slightly bright, Xu Ling said goodbye and left.
After leaving the city, it took a long time to walk to a deserted place. Xu Ling went into the space to load the food on the cart. He thought that when he had money in the future, he would buy a small and remote yard to avoid having to run so far outside the city again.
On this day, Xu Ling tried his best to deliver food to Deyuelou twice. Each cart weighed 200 to 300 kilograms, making a net profit of four taels of silver.
After finishing the work, he immediately left the city, took the opportunity to enter the space, and started working with a hoe.
He could never find a chance to enter the space at home. Xu Ling hadn't opened up space for several days and his hands were itching unbearably.
Some of the cabbages planted earlier were already old, so Xu Ling simply took out the seeds from the old cabbages and stored the seeds on a wooden rack.
Pick the ripe cabbages and stack them together. Tomorrow, he will send two carts to Deyuelou, and then he should go home.
In addition to cabbage, radish, shallots, coriander, and gourds, lentils, and broad beans, Xu Ling bought and planted vegetables in his free time.
These dishes are not limited to autumn and winter. Xu Ling can't find a suitable reason to take them out, so he can only pile them in the space.
Anyway, as long as the vegetables are picked, they won’t spoil. You can still make money by stocking up more and selling them one or two months early next year.
Inspired by the cabbage elder's ability to harvest seeds, Xu Ling left some of the other vegetables unpicked, hoping to save seeds later.
I don’t know if the mature vegetables in these spaces will change if they are planted outside, so Xu Ling plans to give it a try.
