In the carriage, Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng were sitting.

They sat side by side.

Chen Laiqing sat in the middle of the carriage, and the three Zhong and his son sat at the rear.

The carriage was wider, and the three of Zhong and his son were squeezed at the rear of the car.

Zhong looked back and said embarrassedly, "It might be okay, brother Chen, your leg is injured? We are too crowded and will touch your legs. Just sit there, it won't fall."

Chen Laiqing repeatedly said that he would not touch his legs, and Zhong still refused to sit down.

If someone refuses this way, and invites him again, it will seem like he is ulterior motive.

Chen Laiqing had no choice but to give up.

Li Jiaoni turned around and smiled at Zhong and said, "Aunt Six is ​​ready to sit down, we're going to hurry up."

"We're ready to sit down, you guys can hurry up." Zhong held Chunbao in his left hand and Chunya in his right hand.

Li Jiaoni shook her head in a funny way.

When he arrived at the tavern at the market, the carriage stopped. Chen Laiqing couldn't help but help him and quickly walked off the carriage.

He looked up at the tavern, nodded with praise and said, "Luo Cheng, when I came to the market before, I thought the location of this tavern was very good. It was close to the main street of the market, and not far from the other side, to the forks of several villages. Whether it was from the county town or the village, I would pass by here. At that time, I was thinking about opening a tavern nearby, but it was a pity..."

It’s a pity that Luo Axiang is too lazy and disagrees.

Opening a tavern is a hard job, and after hearing this, she immediately objected.

Thinking of Luo Axiang, Chen Laiqing's face looked ugly and he didn't want to say much.

Luo Cheng said, "It means to take down this store."

Chen Laiqing was even more sad. Why didn’t he meet a virtuous wife?

Seeing that he looked dark, Li Jiaoniang guessed that she must have thought of unpleasant things in the past.

She smiled and said, "Uncle Chen, come in. Everyone gets up early and doesn't have breakfast, right? Aunt Liu and I go to make breakfast, so you and Brother Luo Cheng will chat first."

Luo Cheng has opened the tavern gate.

"Okay, go in and talk." Chen Laiqing stopped his unhappy look, smiled slightly, and entered the tavern with a cane.

Today is a small market, and there will not be many people coming, but we still have to prepare.

It's just dawn now.

Luo Cheng entered the tavern and lit several oil lamps.

When Chen Laiqing saw the layout inside, he even more praised it, "It's different from the layout before, it's more spacious and tidy than before."

"Jiao Niang said that people who eat should pay the most attention to the environment, so I simply transformed it." Luo Cheng said.

"Okay, okay, so good." Chen Laiqing nodded, thinking in his heart, when will he also run a tavern?

Luo Cheng led him to the counter and said, "Uncle Chen, just sit here, collect money and keep a account."

He knew that Chen Laiqing knew some words, and during the Chinese New Year and the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival couplets from the three-bedroom house of Luo’s family were written by Chen Laiqing.

Old Mrs. Luo did not value the study of her descendants, and Luo Dagui and his sister and their children did not recognize her very well.

When Chen Laiqing was in the early years, he went to school in the village, so he could recognize words. He knew words, which he learned from his grandfather and his parents when he was a child.

"How to keep accounting?" Chen Laiqing sat down, looked at the booklets in front of him and asked.

Luo Cheng opened a book of accounts and pointed to a page and said, "Just write it in this style, write the date here, and write a table of people at the back, what dishes they ate and how much they charged."

Chen Laiqing nodded and said, "This is easy."

Chunbao walked out of the tavern gate as usual, carrying a broom, and swept it up quickly.

The little man of three inch Ding was busy in a serious manner. Chen Laiqing looked at it and couldn't help but smile.

Alas, his daughter was so well-behaved when she was a child, but later...

Later, she was spoiled by her grandmother, Old Lady Luo, and she swept the floor and worked? It didn't exist.

He asked his daughter to sweep the floor, but Luo Axiang would scold her, saying that she abused her daughter.

I don’t know how my daughter married to another county is now.

She can't do anything, will her son-in-law's family dislike her?

In fact, he didn't like that family, but Luo Axiang said yes, so he didn't let him object.

Chen Laiqing sighed and began to flip through the account book again.

What else can I do if my daughter is married?

...

Tavern backyard.

Luo Cheng carries water and chops firewood.

Chunya chooses vegetables, Zhong’s vegetables washes vegetables, and Li Jiaoniang cooks vegetables.

Everyone divided the work and cooperated, and not long after, a table of breakfast was prepared.

I made buns early in the morning and it was too late to deliver noodles, so Li Jiaoniang made meat cakes.

In addition, there are porridge, prawns with oil, dried fish, stir-fried vegetables, stir-fried loaches, and salted duck eggs.

Chen Laiqing said repeatedly, "It's just breakfast, how can it be made so rich?"

His family is poor, so where have you ever eaten such a sumptuous meal?

Every morning, I either eat buckwheat cakes mixed with pickles with clear water, or clear soup and wild vegetable porridge.

As for meat, I rarely eat it.

Li Jiaoni smiled and said, "Uncle Chen is here on the first day, of course he has to welcome you with kindness."

Chen Laiqing felt guilty, and he secretly swore that he must get better soon and help Luo Cheng do things well.

Everyone sat around the table, chatted and joked, and had breakfast.

At this time, it was dawn.

As Zhong was washing dishes, Li Jiaoni began to prepare today's dishes.

Chunya boils water and boils herbal tea, Chen Laiqing follows Luo Cheng and settles the accounts at the counter outside.

Although it was a small market today, some people came.

Five tables of wine and food were set up.

But later, more than a dozen farm men came.

Each of them had a sickle stuck around their waists.

Li Jiaoniang listened to their chat and learned that these people were coming to the market to find jobs to harvest rice.

Because they were the ones who worked as short-term workers, their income was not high, so they only ordered a bowl of plain noodles.

The vegetarian noodle soup made by Li Jiaoniang is delicious and has spread among the villages, and many people come here to see it.

After the group of people left, another group of people came. Today's noodle soup was sold very much.

So, today is another day of earning a little income.

Chen Laiqing helped to keep the bill and said in surprise, "The business is better than I thought. He sold 139 bowls of noodles and seven tables of wine and food." He thought he had an income of three or four cents.

"But it's very hard for a girl." Luo Cheng sighed. Only she can do the things she has.

Chen Laiqing smiled and said, "When my leg injury is healed, I will help you with it. In the past, I was cooking."

Luo Cheng believed in this.

Chen Laiqing not only had to cook at his own house, but also had to cook for Mrs. Luo.

Anyone who can't cook, who meets a picky mother and daughter, who has been cooking for twenty years will become a chef.

"Okay, I'll wait for Uncle Chen's legs to get better." Luo Cheng said.

With Luo Cheng's consent, Chen Laiqing became more confident.

On the second floor of the tavern, there are two rooms, one large one for spare rooms and the other small one. Li Jiaoniang decided to make a bedroom for Chen Laiqing.

"I feel much more at ease with Uncle Chen helping to guard the gate." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile, "We Brother Luo Cheng doesn't live in the tavern, but there are a lot of things here, so we have to install a lot of locks, but we are also afraid that we will last forever. Now that Uncle Chen is here, I won't worry."

Luo Cheng also said, "That's thank you for your hard work in Uncle Chen."

Chen Laiqing smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will guard the pub." In this way, Chen Laiqing lived in the pub.

With Chen Laiqing here, Li Jiaoniang no longer cares about the fish in the tavern and will be destroyed by wild cats.

...

The days pass by calmly, and in a blink of an eye, half a month later.

On this day, Mrs. Luo's three sons and three grandsons were released from the yamen.

In the past, when the Luo family walked in the village, the villagers would say hello to them more or less.
To be continued...