In the Ke family, Mrs. Min locked the courtyard door and invited Ke Da and Ke Tuo to eat.
She didn't prepare dinner for Ke Chu and Brother Mu, so naturally she had to finish the meal before the couple came back.
Ke Tuo asked while eating: "Mom, have you hidden the things in the kitchen?"
Min said, "Don't worry, I've hidden everything!"
Ke Tuo was afraid, "What if brother gets angry? I'm afraid he will hit me."
Ke Da glared at Ke Tuo fiercely, "You're a loser. You don't eat less meat than him. Why are you so afraid of him?"
Ke Tuo shrank his neck when he was scolded, "I eat a lot of meat, but I do less work. He has been working since he was a child, and his body is hard. I hit him with my fist. I don't know if it was my hand that hurt or something. His flesh aches.”
Ke Dayi slapped the table, "You can still make sense if you work less?"
Mrs. Min hurriedly said peace, "Stop arguing and eat quickly. Otherwise, when Ke Chu comes back, none of us will be able to eat."
The three of them ate all the food in a hurry. When Ke Chu and Brother Mu came back, they could tell they had eaten by smelling the smell that had not dissipated in the yard.
Seeing that there was nothing left in the pot, Ke Chu planned to cook it himself, but unexpectedly, he searched the entire kitchen and found not even a grain of rice.
Ke Chu's face darkened slightly, "Mom, where's the rice?"
Min sat on the chair with his legs crossed, obviously well prepared, and said: "Ke Chu, your father and I have discussed it. You only have to pay three hundred coins a month. How can that little money be enough for you two to eat and drink? , we are old, we have to save some coffin books for ourselves, and we don’t want to do this loss-making business, so from now on, you have to prepare your own food and drink."
Ke Da snorted: "If you have meat, you can eat it yourself, but if you don't have food, you still want to ask us for it. How can there be such a good thing in the world?"
Ke Chu had a dark face and said nothing, pulling Brother Mu out of the door.
They went to Li Zheng and bought two kilograms of rice and a few heads of cabbage. While Ke Chu was cooking, Brother Mu was cooking. They didn't eat until after dark.
Mr. Min was sitting in the room, smelling the aroma of rice, and muttered with an ugly face, "If I had known, I should have hidden the firewood just now."
Ke Tuo opened the door, took a look, and whispered, "Mom, he didn't turn off the fire. He seems to be boiling water for a bath."
Mr. Min stood up suddenly, walked out and pushed the water tank over.
Ke Chu turned around when he heard the noise, looking at the overturned water tank and the water spreading on the ground, his eyes were frighteningly cold.
He just wanted Brother Mu to take a hot bath.
He closed his eyes and suppressed the anger in his heart.
It's late at night, Brother Mu needs to rest, he can't make trouble with Min at this time.
Mrs. Min stood by the water tank without explaining anything, just waiting for Ke Chu to get angry.
Ke Chu stepped closer to Min. For some reason, Min was a little scared and she stepped back unconsciously.
Ke Chu's pace suddenly quickened. She turned around subconsciously and wanted to run, but she didn't notice that there was a wall behind her. She hit the wall and screamed in pain.
Ke Tuo opened the door and stood in the room, not daring to come out. He spoke with great force, "Brother! How dare you hit your mother! You are being unfilial."
Ke Chu poured the remaining water at the bottom of the vat into the pot. Hearing this, he looked up at him expressionlessly, "Who hit my mother?"
When Ke Tuo heard Min's cries of pain, he shivered and did not dare to say a word.
When Min was applying medicine in the room, Ke yelled at Min for being stupid. Min was so angry that she said, "Ke Chu did it on purpose!"
"Mom, what will happen if he never separates?" Ke Tuo thought of the way Ke Chu looked at him just now, and his whole body became hairy.
"Not dividing the family?" Min said through gritted teeth, "He scores points even if he doesn't divide the family!"
Ke Da looked at her, "Do you have another idea?"
Min raised his chin slightly and said, "Of course."
In the thatched house, Brother Mu cleaned himself and lay in Ke Chu's arms, "Husband, I really hope someone in the county is selling grapefruit candies."
Ke Chu gently stroked his back, "It will happen."
Brother Mu buried his head in Ke Chu's arms and said in a low voice, "I want to separate the family as soon as possible."
Ke Chu rubbed his earlobes, his eyes deep, "Be good."
The next day, Brother Mu wanted to make porridge with yesterday's leftover rice, but unexpectedly all the rice they left yesterday was gone.
He pursed his lips and held back his anger to confront Mrs. Min, "Mom, where is the rice we put in the kitchen?"
Mrs. Min said confidently: "What kind of rice? That's my kitchen. If you use my kitchen to cook food, don't you have to pay some rent?"
Brother Mu gritted his teeth and said, "Then let's move out."
"Don't even think about it!" Mrs. Min said sternly, "You can't even think about moving out unless we separate."
Brother Mu was furious, "If you don't let us move out, and you don't let us use the kitchen, how will we live our lives?"
"Now you don't separate the families." Min said in an innocent tone, "It's not our fault that we can't live well."
"We can't tell the difference." Ke Chu walked out of the thatched hut, "The more you force us like this, the more we can't tell the difference."
He took Brother Mu's hand and said, "Let's go, Brother Mu, let's go into the county town. There is a lot of food in the county town."
Min's face twisted, "Food in the county is so expensive, don't you think it's a waste of money?"
Ke Tuo hid in the room and said, "Yeah, you might as well buy it for me to eat."
The implication is that good things will not go to waste only if they are eaten by him.
Ke Chu glanced at Min, who had a look of approval, and felt it was ironic.
When they arrived at the county town, Ke Chu and Brother Mu first went to a stall to eat wontons. After eating and drinking, they came to the teahouse.
There were more people waiting at the door of the teahouse than last time. They struggled to squeeze in. The waiter rushed to them and shouted, "The bamboo tubes are here."
Ke Chu was startled, but Brother Mu reacted quickly and handed the waiter a bucket of ice cubes and a can of white sugar grapefruit jam, "If you want to drink here, please wait in line. If you want to take away, please queue up."
The waiter reacted immediately. He took the grapefruit jam and ice cubes and walked inside, asking for help in making grapefruit water.
The preparation of grapefruit water is simple. The waiters are responsible for the dine-in customers, while Ke Chu and Mu Geer are responsible for the take-out customers.
The queue was so crowded that Ke Chu ran into the teahouse and took out the bamboo tube before he could ask too many questions.
After Liu Xi heard that grapefruit water could be taken away, she asked, "How much does it cost to take away grapefruit water? Is there any honey grapefruit water?"
"The grapefruit water you take away is twenty-one cents per bamboo tube. If you bring your own jars and bowls, you don't need to count the bamboo tube fee for this cent." This is what Brother Mu had thought about early in the morning. "There is no honey grapefruit today." It’s water.”
Hearing the next sentence, Liu Xi was a little disappointed, but still said: "I want two bamboo tubes."
Hearing this, Ke Chu handed him two freshly prepared grapefruit water in two bamboo tubes. After Liu Xi took the grapefruit water, he ran into the teahouse without looking back and shouted: "Bring me a bowl of sweet grapefruit water and a plate of peanuts." A plate of melon seeds and a plate of grapefruit candies.”
Brother Mu was stunned, "Did he drink so much by himself?"
The customer smiled kindly and said, "Little boss, you don't understand. He brought it to his classmates."
Brother Mu suddenly realized.
The five cans of grapefruit jam were sold out in less than three hours. Ke Chu looked at Brother Mu's face that was flushed by the heat and thought that he could not continue to sell like this.
He found Chenle who was drinking grapefruit water and said straight to the point: "I want to buy a shop."
Chen Le smiled, "It's easy to say, I have so many empty stores."
Ke Chu: "..." Unexpectedly, Chenle was also a landowner.
Chenle asked him, "What kind of store do you want to rent? If you want to rent it and sell grapefruit water, I suggest you not rent the store near my teahouse."
If Ke Chu's grapefruit water is sold in a teahouse, customers will more or less order some food from the teahouse when drinking grapefruit water, which can also add some income to the teahouse.
But if Ke Chu's grapefruit water is sold near the teahouse, the teahouse will not only gain little benefit, but also lose business to Ke Chu.
After all, the tea house sells tea. If there is grapefruit water, who will buy the tea?
"The place doesn't have to be too big, but the entrance must be lively enough." Ke Chu paused and said, "My store only does takeout."
Chen Le straightened up, "What if someone doesn't want to take out?"
"Then come and eat at your place." Ke Chu didn't beat around the bush and said bluntly: "I'll sell you grapefruit jam for one tael of silver per jar."
If they sell grapefruit water themselves, they can earn two taels of silver per jar.
